Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1902 — Page 1

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HAVOC OF STORMS

CHEAT DAMAGE WROUGHT AT PITTS. BIRG A.D NEAR-RY l'LACCS. Eleren Chnrchft Partly Wrecked, Some Bein Filled with People Attending Easter SerTlces. SCORES OP PERSONS INJURED EIGHT, INCLUDING A PREACHER, FROOADLY WILL SOT RECOVER. Spire of One of the Churches Struck by Lightning Jost as the Pastor Degan the Benediction. WIND BLEW WITH GREAT-FORCE OnoOFEIJ BUILDINGS. SMASHED WINDOWS, LEVELED DERRICKS. Oroke OfT Telephone and Telegraph roles, Tangled Wires and Left Places in Darkness. DISASTER IN WEST VIRGINIA GAULE OF CHURCH BLOWN IX AM) TWO WORSHIPERS KILLED. Preacher Was Conclndlng n Sermon on the Resurrection, and He Was Seriously Injured. PITTSBURG. March 30. One of the fiercest windstorms ever known In this section struck the city to-day before noon and did tremendous damage to property and Injured many . people, some of whom may die. Scores of houses were unroofed, many trees were blown down, mill stacks toppled over and telegraph and telephone wires generally were disabled. The most serious accident reported up to 9 o'clock to-night was the unroofing of the Knoxville Presbyterian Church. The church was filled with en Easter congregation numbering about six hundred persons. While the minister wa -In -the m'dst of hlä sermon a particularly lirfr.g gust of wir.d blew over the large tmv.ey and lifted a portion of the roof If the building. The bricks from the chimley crashed through the roof and carried I huge piece of th? hardwood ceiling, measuring about A'.x20 feet, down upon the people. A panic ensued and a rush was made for the doors and wirdows. The excitement loon subsided and the work of rescue began. At least forty persons were caught by the wreckage and more cr less hurt. Of this number five may not recover. The more seriously injured are: DR. R. J. PHILLIPS, aged forty years, concussion of brain; may iie. CURTtS P.AY M' KNIGHT, four years, internal injuries both legs crushed, probably fatal. CLARENCE M'NULTY. a seil seventeen. Internal Injuries, badly crushed; may die. FLETCHER BYRON, fracture at base of brain; serious. DAVID SMITH, thirty-two. arm broken, head cut and badly battered; serious. JOSEPH ADAMS. ALBERT SMITH. JOHN MEYER. THOMAS MECHLIN. EVAN JONES. MRS. RACHEL SCHULTZ, all badly bruised and cut. PREACHER FATALLY HURT. A dispatch from Greenville says: "The Easter services being held in tho United Presbyterian Church at Jamestown, this county, six miles north of here, came to an abrupt ending at 12 o'clock to-day. The sky became overcast and a funnel-shaped cloud was seen approaching from the northwest. The tail dipped to the ground Just before tho church was reached. The congregation became uneasy, but the pastor, the Rev. J. M. Jamison, continued the services. Suddenly there was a terrltic crash and part of the south end of the church fell In, burying the minister beneath bricks and timbers. The men of the congregation rushed to the pulpit and when the stricken minüter was removed from the debris It was found he had received fatal injuries. His Jaw was broken and the temporal bone crushed. He can hardly live through the night. The storm was the worst that has occurred In this section for years, and it is thought to-morrow will bring reports of great damage from the country districts. As the Rev. J. W. English, pastor of the Robinson Run United Brethren Church, near McDonald, was raising his arms to pronounce the benediction, lightning struck the church spire and it toppled upon the roof, crushing it and Injuring a number of worshipers, two of whom will die. The injured are: . ROBERT PATTERSON, aged ten years, skull fractured; will die. LEON AVERILL. aged eleven years, . skull fractured; will die. " MRS JOHN PATTERSON, mother of Robert, severely lacerated and bruised about body. MRS. MARY PATTERSON, arm broken and badly bruised. MISS MARY G. WALLACE, badly bruised. MRS. AVERILI. mother of Leon, head and arms cut and bruised. The spire and part of the roof of the United Prerbyterian Church at McDonald was torn off and the building considerably damaged, but no one was injured. The Noblestown Presbyterian Church also mas unroofed but the congregatkm escaped injury. DERRICKS BLOWN DOWN. The Forest Oil Company had between and 3"0 derricks blown down In its McDonald region and considerable damage was sustained by its plpeage sj.tem. The offices of the MonongeheU Connecting Railroad on Second avenue, this city, were destroyed by fire during the afternoon because no alarm could be turned In either by telephone or telegraph. The railreads though they sui4ercd more or less

from broken telegraph poles and crippled service, were in good shape and had trains running by 8 o'clock to-night. More than 2'J) panes of glass in the Phipps Conservatory. In Sehenley Park, were broken and much of the gorgeous Easter flower display ruined. Th Montana apartment house at Fenn f.venue and Fairmont street. East End. and the Idaho building, which adjoins it. were partly destroyed. The damage in the Monongahela and Turtle-creek valleys will reach thousands of dollars, but no specially big Individual losses are reported. Almost the entire east end district of this city is In darkness to-night, the electric lighting system have been made useless by the storm. Th downtown portions were repaired early In the afternoon. The towboat Belle McGowan was blown over in the Ohio river, opposite Sawmill run. and completely wrecked. Her crew narrowly escaped drowning, but all were finally rescued by harbor boats. The corrugated-iron roof of the Union bridge at that point was lifted from its fastenings by the wind and parts of it were carried a distance of a mile. Jones & Laughlin lost fourteen of their furnace stacks. These were blown down, necessitating the closing of a portion of their plant for weeks. The storm which came upon the city very suddenly came up through the Ohio valley and passed on eastward. It lasted only about thirty minutes, only Ave minutes of which was the velocity unusually high. In that five minutes practically all of the damage done was accomplished. Belated reports from near-by towns up to midnight show that the wind played havoc at every town in its track. At Belle Vernon. Pa., thousands of dollars will be required to repair the storm damage. The American Window Glass Company s plant was unroofed, several smokestacks blown down and a wall blown in. Several blocks of houses belonging to the coirpany were also wrecked. At Greensburg. Pa., the damage was considerable. Nearly ?.0O0 feet of roof of the Keely & Jones Company plant was carried away and cast Into a fish pond a third of a mile distant. The churches had just dismissed their congregations, and while many of the worshipers were lingering about the First Presbyterian Church doors waiting for the storm to abate the great cupola of the edifice was caught by the wind and toppled Into the street. A heavy fragment of the steeple was carried over several houses and across a vacant lot tnd cast through a window of Zlon Lutheran Church. Fortunately no one was hurt. At Jeannette, Latrobe and New Alexandria a number of houses were unroofed, but no big damage was done. At Washington, Pa., the new bar mill of the Griffith Tin Plate Company was blown down, entailing a loss of $n.or. The plant (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2. COL. 5.J JONES STILL HAS HOPE

WILL XOT CONCEDE HIS DEFEAT FOR nENOMINATION AS SENATOR. James P. Clarke, Ex-Governor of Arkansas, Confident --e Has Won' Victory for Himself. LITTLE ROCK, Arkl. March 30. Additional returns from a majority of the counties indicate a victory for ex-Govcrnor James P. Clarke for United States senator over benator James K. Jones, though his majority on joint ballot probably will not exceed twelve. Complete, returns are not yet in. and in several of the large counties the vote is so close that the official count is awaited. Senator Jones will not concede Clarke's victory. He left this afternoon for his home inHempstead county, but his headquarters here remain open. At Clarke's headquarters if is declared the contest Is settled in Clarke's favor, the only question being a3 to the size of the majority. There are about ten counties which cannot be heard from yet, owing to no wire connection. Partial returns tend to show that Jones has lost Howard and Nevada counties, adjoining his home county. He has also lost Union and Ouachita counties, both in south Arkansas. At Senator Jones's headquarters it is said he is satisfied with the reports received here to-day. Instead of conceding his defeat, as has been widely circulated, he feels that the situation has materially improved. His representatives announce they have received definite information from fortythree counties, twenty-seven of which have been carried by him. Of the remaining number they expect Senator Jones to carry at least twenty. Insuring him between eighty-five and ninety votes on Joint ballet, sixty-seven being necessary for a choice. Positive information Is coming in slowly owing to high water in certain localities and the absence of telegraph and telephone faclltles in others. So far as definitely reported Governor Davis has tarried twothirds of the counties against Col. E. W. Rector for the gubernatorial nomination. WILL CONTINUE STRIKE ACTION" OF CINCINNATI BREWERY WORK.MEX OX SUNDAY. Decision of President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, to Be Disregarded. CINCINNATI. March 30. It was generally expected that the brewery lockout at Cincinnati, Covington and Newport would be formally declared off to-day, but at a largely-attending meeting of the United Brewery Workmen all the propositions of the Brewers' Exchange were rejected, and resolutions were adopted to press the boycott on local beer and ''fight the stationary engineers to a finish." After President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, spent three days here last week and decided that the United BreweryWorkmen did not have Jurisdiction over the engineers and against one craft locking another out, it was announced that all would abide by his decision, and both sides were proceeding on the lines laid down by Gompers for final settlement. Of the 1.5o0 originally out. it was found that there were less than 200 that the breweries refused to replace on account of new men that had been employed and for other reasons. The members of the national executive board of the United Brewers were present to-day and recommended that the local brewery workers reject all propositions, renew the fight on the engineers and continue the boycott on local beer till all of the locked-out men were reinstated. The brewers state that more than half of their old men are already reinstated and that all of the others who are wanted will be at work to-morrow and that the action taken to-day was instigated by those who have been refused reinstatement. Miners Strike Sanctioned. ALTOONA. Pa.. March 30. President Gildea. of bituminious coal district No. 2. United Mine workers, has received notice that the national board of United Mine Workers of America has banctioned a strike of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company's miners on April 1 if the company's president. L. W. Robinson, has not by that time signed the scale adopted at Altoona. last wffk. The national board has appropriated $2M.e0 for the support of Robinson's men If the strike goes into effect and pledges a reasonable portion of the $Jjh, fund in the hands of the Illinois state organization If more assistance is needed. The Rochester and Pittsburg i company employ hmi mine workers and thousands nf other workers would be af- ' fected by the closing of the mines. The ; company held out for concessions not demanded by the other operator who utI tended the Altoona convention.

AIHQKE IN PERIL

FIRE BENEATH A THEATER THAT CONTAINED 2,000 PEOPLE. Disaster Narrowly Averted in the Pike Opera Honse. Cincinnati, During a- Sunday Performance. ROOMS BELOW WERE ABLAZE AND TORTIERES IX THE THEATER HAD BURST INTO FLAMES, AVhen Manager Hunt and Staff Marshaled the Audience Out Into the Street Without Injury. BUILDING PARTLY DESTROYED NEW EASTER HATS AND WRAPS LEFT BEHIND BY THE WOMEN'. Performance of ''Sap? Harbor" in Progress at the Time Fire Loss of $350,000 at Guthrie, O. T. CINCINNATI, March 30. The Pike building on Fourth, between Vine and Walnut streets, in which the Pike Opera House Is located, was partly destroyed by fire this afternoon. Standing room had been taken at the matinee, which was proceeding when the flames broke out. The audience retired in good order, but some women fainted after reaching the street. The auditorium is on the second floor, with two stairways leading to Fourth street. There is also a stairway from the stage, leading to Baker alley in the rear. There were about two thousand people at the matinee, and the performance of 'Sag Harbor" by the Pike Stock Company, with Miss Collier and Byron Douglass in the leading roles, had proceeded only ten minutes when the portieres between the corridors and the north aisle were ablaze. The prompt efforts of Manager D. II. Hunt and his staff and those on the stage were most successful In averting a panic. The fire started from some unknown cause in the basement store room of the Adams Express Company and extended up through the first floors of the Adams Express office and Joffee's grocery to the auditorium. The only thing burned in the auditorium was a portiere, but the volumes of smoke indicated a volcano under the audience. This volcano was evidently raging while the people were entering for the matinee. The auditorium was so badly damaged from water that It will not be used any more this season. The Pike stock company was playing its closing week of the season hero, as it opens the summer season at Detroit next Sunday. Manager Hunt had previously transferred his scenery for next week at Detroit from the building, so that it is safe, but he lost $10,000 In scenery that was stored in tho lower par? of the building. The members of the company saved all their costumes and baggage. j When the people reached the street they I found the whole fire department of the city playing on both sides of the building, and it required some time for the officers to force the crowd away. Many were hunting for missing friends, and it took some time to convince the half-crazed anxious ones that there had not been a holocaust. A great portion of the women fled without their new Easter hats and wraps, and the Individual losses will be considerable. Thirty-six years ago the Pike building, on the same site, was destroyed by Are. J The damage to-day was only between $00,000 j and $60,000. of which $1000 is on the build ing owned by the S. N. Pike estate and leased by Powell Crosley. George Joffee, grocer, loses $15.000, and Manager Hunt $10.000. Among the smaller losers are the I.Adams Express Company, Henry Straus, cigars and tobacco, Martin's restaurant and Bellinger's confectionery. FIRE LOSS OF .f..t:0,000. Printing Plant, Hotels and Other Buildings Destroyed. GUTHRIE, O. T., March 30. Guthrie was visited to-day by a $300.000 fire, and as a result the State Capital printing plant, the Hotel Capitol, the St. James Hotel, the Cammack livery barns and the Richey general merchandise store are in ruins. Everything in the State Capital plant was destroyed, including two presses, machines' of every kind, linotype machines, electric and steam heating systems, libraries and a large stock of supplies. Frank H. Greer, the owner, states that the total loss Is $200.000. Not a thing but the mailing lists of the paper was saved. The loss in the other building will make the entire loss to the town fully $350.000. The fire started at noon In the basement of the State Capital and was soon roaring up the elevator shafts. A high wind was blowing and It was Impossible to check the flames. Assistance was asked of Oklahoma City. Perry. Kingfisher and other surrounding cities, but the high winds did the work before help could arrive. Work will commence at once for new buildings for the State Capital. As no work has been in progress at the newspaper buJMing to-day it is believed the fire was of incendiary origin. Many Persons Injured. BARCELONA, Spain, March CO. A fire occurred here to-day in a cinematograph establishment, which was filled with women and children, many of whom were Injured in endeavoring to escape. The building was destroyed. Part of Hoople Bnrned. GRAND FORKS. N. D., March 30. Early to-day fire destroyed the greater portion of the business section of Hoople. X. D., entailing a loss estimated at ?öo.0. BOY COMMITS MURDER. Kills His Seven-Vear-Old Companion and Hides the Body. TOLEDO, O., March 30. Danny Rosenbecker, thirteen years old, was arrested this morning for the murder of seven-year-old Arthur Shantcau. The parents of the boys reside on adjoining farms two miles from this city. Rosenbetv.er .says that while he and Shanteau were hunting crawfish yesterday afternoon the latter called him a name and attempted to strike him with a club, whereupon he retaliated by striking Shantcau with a butcher knife until he was dead. He then dragged the

body among soine weeds, where It was found by a party of searchers last night. The skull was crushed and the face badly mutilated. Rosenbecker has not shed a tear or made a tremor, apparently not realizing the enormity of the deed.

CARELESS LEGISLATORS. New Jersey Treasury Deprlveil of f 1U.5(KI a Year by an Oversight. TRENTON, N. J.. March 30. The discovery has been mado that the State of New Jersey will lose an annual revenue of J12.S00 by reason of the passage by the Legislature, last week, of the bill permitting the United States Steel Corporation to convert its preferred stock Into bonds. Corporations chartered under tho laws of New Jersey pay an annual tax on their capital stock. This tax is graded and amounts to $50 per million u the $250.000.000 of preferred stock which the steel corporation purposes converting Into bonds. The corporation will not be obhged to pay any tax on the bond issue, and the State, therefore, will lose this money. This point was probably overlooked at the time the bill was before the Legislature, as no suggestion of the State's revenue being Involved was made by any of the members who opposed the measure. HASTY COURTSHIP. J. B. Oitleshy Meets .Miss Ida lingers at s Sen anil Becomes Engrafted. NEW YORK.. March 30. J. B. Oglesby, son of the late Richard J. Oglesby, once Governor of Illinois, arrived to-day on tho American liner St. Paul. When he stepped ashore he announced his engagement to Miss Ida Rogers.daughter of Thomas Rogers, of this city. : The two were Introduced to each other when the steamer was two days out from" Southampton, and the engagement followed on the fourth day. It was formally announced at a dinner given aboard ship Saturday night by Mrs. George A. Wheelock. The wedding will take place, it is said, within a month. NOW READY FOR PEACE RUFIXO, A FILIPINO BEBEL LEADER, WILLING TO. SURRENDER. Has Spent $30,000 in Organizing Natives to Resist American Authority in Mindanao Island. CHAFFEE TO VISIT SAMAR WHERE HE WILL WITNESS THE SUR RENDER. OF GENERAL G LEVA Hit A. Death of the Widow of Col. Pope, Who Was Bringing Her Husband's Body Home on a Transport. ..MANILA, March 30. Rufino, who spent $30.000 In his efforts to Incite rebellion in the province of Mlsamls, Island of Mindanao, now declares he is tired of rebellion and has offered to surrender, with seventyfive rifies, to the native constabulary. General Chaffee will leave Manila April 10 on a tour of Inspection to the Island of Samar. He will visit every port in the Island and will witness the surrender there April 15 of the Insurgent General Guevarra. After this surrender the American garrisons in Samar will be largely reduced. The United States Philippine commission yesterday fixed the government rate of exchange for silver ior the second quarter of this year at $2.27 Mexican silver for onegold dollar. The rate of exchange yesterday at the banks was $2.23 Mexican for $1 gold, but the banks refused to sell gold in large quantities, not having sufficient coin to do so. The banks have notified the quartermaster's department that it i3 impossible for them to cash quartermaster checks. The scarcity of American gold is attributed partly to the banks and largely to Chinese speculators, who always buy American gold at a quotation 2 points higher than the bank rate. This action of the commission in making the government rate higher than the bank rate of exchange has created much discontent among Importers. They are unable to obtain sufficient gold to pay import duties, and must consequently pay these duties in silver at the government rate of $2.27. The employes of the civil government are elated at the new rate of exchange, as it means a considerable Increase in their salaries. It Is the Intention of the commission to endeavor to retain the gold in the archipelago. The bankers of Manila say the monetary situation in the Philippines cannot be ' helped by governmental action, and that a region as Important commercially a3 the Philippine archipelago must affect the world's markets. Senor Valdez, the editor of a local paper, who has been sued for libel by two of the Filipino members of the United States Philippine commission, will subpoena Agulnahlo to appear in court and teEtify In the case. General Chaffee's permission to this step has been obtained. During the last three days there have been ten new cases of cholera here and four deaths from the disease. DIED ON A TRANSPORT. Widow of Lieut. Col. Pope, Who Was Bringing Husband's Body Home. SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. The transI - . T 1 1 .tr.lr orrivarl t n.l 0 v frnm Ma. nila with the Seventeenth Infantry and discharged soldiers, nearly l.oco in number. There were five deaths on the voyage. Shortly after leavirlg Manila. Mrs. B. F. Pope, widow of Lieutenant Colonel B. F. Pope died. Mrs. Pope was bringing the remains of her husband home. The other deaths were those of V. Thompson, corporal of Company D, Twenty-first Infantry; YVilbert 1. Ivcake. private. Twenty-second Infantry; Private M. Stewart. Twentyfourth Infantry, and J. J. Riley, a civilian. BISHOP B0NACUM WON. End of n Long Fight for 1'ossesnlon of Church Propert). TECUMSEH. Neb., March 30. After a fight of four years In the ecclesiastical and civil courts for possession of church property. Bishop Bonacum has won. The doors of St. Andrew's Catholic Church were opened to the public to-day for the first time since the trustees locked them in the face of he priest sent by the bishop to conduct services. The trustees were adherents of the Rev. Father Murphy, who had been removed by the bishop, and they lefused to allow his successor access cur.er ! to the church or to the parish home. The content has resulted tn h tinal triumph for the bishop, and m3ss was celebrated today by a priest of his selection. Father Murphv, who was transferred from Tecumsen to Seward, has since been excommunicated by the bishop.

COVERED BY A LAKE

PORTION OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC TRACK OCT OF SIGHT. Burled Under a Body of Water ThirtyMiles Long, Two Miles Wide and Sixteen Feet Deep. TRAFFIC STILL . BLOCKADED NEW LINE MIST BE CONSTRUCTED AROUND THE WATER. Great Northern Also Unable to Get Its Transcontinental Trains Through Owing to the Floods. HEAVY LOSSES IN THE SOUTH FLOOD DAMAGE IN TENNESSEE NOW ESTIMATED AT 4,000,000. At Least Twenty-Two Lives Were Lost Hurricane in AlabamaConditions In Mississippi. ST. PAUL. Minn., March 30. Transcontinental traffic by the Northern routes continues to be blockaded. The Northern Pacific's efforts to transfer passengers across the lake formed by the overflowing of the sloughs near McKenzie, N. D., have proved futile and but little hop Is held out for a resumption of business In the immediate future. Reports from the Great Northern arc to the effect that their transcontinental trains, which heretofore have been able to get through with only slight delay, are now held up by floods In the western portion of North Dakota. Just where the trouble Is has not been definitely learned, but telegraphic reports say the Mouse river is put of its banks at Mlnot on that line and that numerous bridges have been swept away. The Red river Is also at flood tide at Grand Forks, but so far as reported little damage has been done there. The situation of the Northern Pacific is extremely serious. Reports from McKenzie are to the effect that a lake thirty miles long and two miles wide has formed and the tracks are sixteen feet under water or perhaps entirely washed out. Efforts to transfer passengers across this lake have not been successful. The wind has been so high and the water so rough that much danger has attended the attempt to transfer passengers In email skiffs. It is thought that an entirely new track will have to be built around this gap befo're traffic can be carries! on. Passengera east bound h'" been held at East Bismarck, and no westbound coast trains have been started from St. Paul. As no freight can be moved westward, there Is some fear that a famine in foodstuffs may result In Bismarck, though it 13 possible enough provender could be got through from tho West to relieve the more pressing needs. Some of the Northern Pacific business has been transferred to the Burlington at Billings, Mont., and in that way it is hoped to open an avenue of communication with the north coast cities. The most hopeful railroad officials are inclined to believe that it will be at least ten days before through traffic can be re-established by regular routes. A dispatch from Bismarck. N. D.. tonight says railroad officials there hope to have a train through some time to-night. Passengers, mail and baggage to-day were conveyed by wagon to a neck of the temporary lake and there ferried across by a launch. The main part of the lake is so rough boats cannot be used. Ties, rails, etc.. are being rushed to the lake and a temporary track will be constructed as soon as possible. An Immense amount of freight is accumulating at both ends of the washout, and unless this shall be moved soon a great loss will be entailed upon the railroad company In addition to that already occasioned by the delay in traffic. TENNESSEE FLOOD HAVOC. Twenty-Two Persons Drowned and Property Losses of $1,0O0,009. NASHVILLE. Ten., March 30. Reports from the flooded districts of Tennessee emphasize the gravity of the situation. The damage resulting, it is believed, will reach $1,000.000, whila twenty-two lives are known to be lost. Several counties certain to have suffered heavily are yet cut off from communication, and the loss in property and life may go higher than these figures. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad is running a few trains from here to Lynnville, eighteen miles south of Columbia, while the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis has only succeeded In getting through to Murfreesboro. Neither line can resume regular traffic before Tuesday. The section visited by the flood embraces one of the richest portions of the State and damage to farm lands Is a serious item. It includes counties lying between the mountains on the east and the Tennessee river on the west, and between the Cumberland river and the Alabama line. Stone fences that have stood the storms of forty years were washed away In many of the well-known riverside farms of Lincoln county and crops destroyed. Thousands of logs are reported adrift In the upper Cumberland, which stream at Carthage at 5 o'clock this afternoon was ris'ng at the rate of six inches per hour. The bridge of the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad at Lancaster, a G'o-foot span, said to have cost $100.000. went down Saturday night. It was predicted at Carthage that the Cumberland would go beyond the flood tide of 1S2. If such be the case, the work of destruction is not yet over. There is no communication with Linden, in Perry county, or with Lynchburg, in Moore county, but both sections are believed to be seriously damaged. From figures available the following fatalities are given: Iulaskl (11 Houston Conner. Sarah Phillips, John Cole, wife and three children: Slick White, wife and two children, all colored, and negro baby. Lewlsburg 3 Anna Robinson, two children of Joe McCellan, all colored. Murfreesboro Williams (a girl), colored. McMlnnville (5 Mrs. Blevln and three children. Henr$- Madewell. Harriman 2 Unknown. After a perilous night in the top of a tree in the Hermitage district, three men were rescued at an early hour this morning. Conditions In the Emory Valley. KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. March 30. The los by the flood which swept Emory valiVy Saturday may reach nearly $1.000.000 in Roane and Morgan counties when 4fie full story is known. At Harriman th loss will be between $55.O0 and $125. The exact amount will depend on the damage done to the Harriman Leather Company. If this is a total loss the dam-ige to thi3 one plant alone will be $75,000. .At Oakdale the

In Is not more than $13,000. but it is on the farms along the Emory where the greatest damage it is feared has been done. The flooded section of Harriman presented a desolate appearance to-day. Marks of the flood are plainly to be seen and the whole country presents a devastated appearance. The city's light plant cannot be operated for a week or more. The majority of the homeless are housed In tho gymnasium of the American Temperance University. . Hundreds of men worked tr-day, repairing railroad trestles and bridges, and the Southern Railway expects to get trains through to-morrow. On the Knoxville & Ohio branch to-night the Southern was able to send through its trains to Louisville. Hurricane in Alabama. ISBELL. Ala., March 30. A hurricane struck Isbell Friday afternoon about 4 o'clock, blowing down houses, churches, fences, trees and everything in its path. and doing several thousand dollars worth of damage. The Methodist Church and the Baptist Church were wrecked. The residence of Mr. Gaisser was demolished. A cedar tree about twelve Inches in diameter, which stood within two feet of a feed warehouse, was twisted off about five feet above the ground and blown through the house, landing on the opposite side of the street.

Thirty Iron Bridges Gone. PULASKI, Tenn., March 30. Further developments show that the recent flood damage in Giles county has been underestimated. Out of thirty-five iron bridges in the county thirty are gone. The covered bridge at Kelly's ford, on Richland creek, was loosened at both ends and balanced on the middle pier up and down stream, where it yet stands. t WATERS SLOWLY RECEDING. . Conditions in the Flooded Districts of Mississippi Are Improving:. MEMPHIS. Tenn., March 30. Advices from the flooded districts in Mississippi tonight are that the waters are slowly receding, and it is believed the worst is over. The damage to railroads, farms and other property will foot up an enormous sum. It is reported that many negroes lost their lives, but the exact number cannot be given at present. Meridian, in the eastern part of the State, has had no railroad communication for several daj-s. Railroad traffic continues paralyzed in that section. Not one of the five railroads entering the city have yet been able to get trains through either north or south. Mall, however, is being transferred on the Alabama Great Southern at Narkeeta creek, where the bridge was swept away. Large forces are at work on all washouts and traffic may be resumed north of Meridian to-morrow. The damaee south of the Northeastern. Mobile & Ohio and the Alabama fc Vicksburg Is more, disastrous than first anticipated, and it is doubtful if traffic will bs resmued inside of eight and possibly tne days. The railroad officials are having difficulty in securing workmen. CROSSED THE DEADLINE SHEEP HERDERS IX WYOMING ATTACKED BY CATTLEMEN. Former Were Pasturing: Flocks on Forbidden Ground Four Men Shot 1,100 Sheep Killed. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., March 30. In a fight yesterday on the range in the upper Green river country, between cattlemen and sheep men, four men were shot, two perhaps fatally; several others were severely beaten, and 1,100 sheep were clubbed or shot to . death. Abraham and Rowen Hill, brothers, sheep men, were dangerously wounded, and when a courier who brought the news left the scene they were in a critical condition. The Hills shot, but did not kill, two cattlemen, whose names have not been learned, and several sheep herders were beaten by the cattlemen. The cause of the trouble Is a dispute between the cattle and sheep men over a division of the range. The cattlemen have been fighting for years to keep sheep out of the New Fork section of Uintah county. No sooner have they got rid of one band of ! sheep then another appeared. At last dead j lines were drawn, about a certain district, which they held exclusively for cattle, and the sheep men were warned to keep away or take the consequences. NEW LINE TO TIDE WATER OPERATIONS OF A SYNDICATE IN THE TWO VIRGINIAS. Railway Under Construction That Will Give the Wabash an Outlet by Wny of Parkersburg. PITTSBURG, March 30. In the midst of the present interest over a new seaboard outlet from Fittsburg'a full statement of the plans and purposes of one of the most Interesting a3 well as the most mysterious of these projects can now be made. This in connection with tho Chesapeake Western Railway. The statement comes from Joseph W. Relnhart, formerly president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fc, who 's now at the head of the syndicate which is furthering this project. Mr. Rcinhart says: "It 13 not generally known, but It is a fact that before the Pennsylvania Railroad Company secured control of the tidewater traffic through the purchase of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio a number of men quietly took up the prujttt for the construction of a line of railway from the Ohio river through the northern West Virginia coal fields and Virginia to the Atlantic coast. This enterprise has been carried forwtard and has now a foundation upon which the whole structure shortly will be erected. This project is known as the Chesapeake Western Railway. It begfns at Gloucester Point, or York Harbor, Va., where a. "large acreage of land for tidewater terminals has been bought. Tne line runs northwestwardly and westwardly, taking in the Chesapeake &. Western Railway twenty-seven miles, built and in operation in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, which is owned by the syndicate, throuch one hundred miles of the coal fields of Wes Virginia to a point near Parket sturg. "Construction work on over one hundred mlle ' of the line westwardly through the She'.andoah and Allegheny mountains into j Wet Virginia is now under wa with four- ! teen miles of track laid and over half of j the entire line has been t-urveed and loj cated. estimates of construction made I thereupon ami preparations are now being .''completed for general construction. The I line is in no sense a parallel road with any existing railway, but opens up new and J prolific territory throughout its length. ; The greatest care was exercised by the j owners to secure an ocean tidewater ter- : mlnal that would be In every fepct suit- ! able for handling the large traffic of a trunk-line railway and Gloucester point i was selected." I It is of much significance that the west ern terminus of this project is at Parkersburg. W. Va., to which city a line Is now being built by the Gould., from a connection with the Wheeling Si Lake Kris at 1 Zaneivllle.

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IT DESCENDED FROM THE CLOUDS DURING A SNOWSTORM, Fired the Home of Christopher Larson in Lake County and Burned His Wife and Daughter. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN HENRIETTA VON PEIN FOUND IN A RICHMOND PARK LAKE. Body of a Cigar Maker. Who Drowned Himself n Month Ago, Taken from. Michigan City Harbor. CITY TICKET NOMINATED CANDIDATES CHOSEN BY 31 UNCI ITS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. Trnde Unionists After Local Offlees Woman's Prayer for Release from Life Promptly Answered. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. CROWN POINT. Ind., March SO.-Early this morning a bolt of lightning, during a rnowstorm, struck the farm residence of Christopher Larson, near this city, and set fire to the structure, which was flestroyed. To-day Mrs. Larson and her ten-year-old daughter Addie were found in the ruins, burned to a crisp, recognition being Impossible. The two bodies were lying on the springs of the bed, the victims apparently not having moved after the lightning struck. The husband is employed in Chicago by Marshall Field & Co., and the wife and daughter were the only occupants of the house. Only one bolt of lightning was discernible in this vicinity, and this no doubt was the one that caused the catastrophe. SUICIDE AT RICHMOND. Henrietta Von Fein Drowns Herself in a Lake at the City Park. Special to the Indlanapoll Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., March SO. Miss Henrietta Von Pcin, aged twenty-four year, a daughter of Matthew Von Pein and well known and highly respected, committed suicide last night by drowning herself in 1 the lake at the City Park. Miss Von Pein was a clerk at one of the large stores. Last night she did not return home, but It was thought she had gone o the home of a , friend. This morning he. dead body was1'' found In the lake. Her Jacket, gloves a.fid hat on the bank furnished the clew. No cause for the suicide is known. MlakVon, Ft In had a good home and had been In usual health. The family and friends wife greatly shocked. Terrc Dante .Man Attempts Suicide. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. March 3). Everett a Baker, of Terre Haute, Ind., former cashier of the bank at Harrisburg, III., attempted suicide by Jumping into the Misisslppi river here to-day, but the Interference o? tho police defeated his purpose. Papers found In his possession and statements he made to the police led them to believe he was formerly connected with McKcen't Bank at Terrc Haute. A dispatch to ihe Journal from Terre Haute says Baker was not connected with McKeen's Bank. A man named Baker, who i was in the restaurant business. left that city last January and has not been heard from since. Body In the Water a Month. ypclal to th Indianapolis Journal. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. March 30. Tha body of Louis Bergfeld, a cigar maker, came to the surface of the harbor to-day after being in the water a month. Bergfeld disappeared about March 1, after threatening to commit suicide. He was In ill health and despondent, and Is supposed to have Jumped Into the harbor. Bergfeld was thirty years old. unmarried and cam e here a year ago from Crown Point, where his relatives reside. MUNCIE .MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. It Nominates Candidates for Mayor, Other City O Glees and Councilmen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., March 30. The Muncie Municipal League, organized by the union labor leaders Irrespective of politics, met In mass convention In the courthouse this afternoon and nominated the following ticket: r"or mayor, Frank Laferty: city clerk. Henry Cawley; city treasurer. George Derrick; councilmen. Firt Ward. Fred Jew. ett and R. T. Winters; Second Ward, George Carpenter and Fred Jackson: Fifth Ward, John Flaherty and John Hosler; Sixth Ward. William Goetz and Joseph Porter. There was presented a resolution indorsing the action of Councilmen Laferty (nominee for mayor), Budd, Wright. Youse and Topp for voting against the gas companies in recent propositions In City Council meetings, but the resolution was tabled. The meeting was expected to leave some vacancies on tho ticket for affiliation with the Democrats, but this was not don. Ir. T. J. Bowles, E. J. Galnor and Dr. W. H. Shurgeon were among the speakers Indorsing the platform adopted by the league a week ago. There were b) at the meeting. Offers Himself as a Martyr. i-'peeUi to the Inilanipolls Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. March 30.Davld Haigh. roller at the Midland steel works, making big wages, to-day tendered himself to the Salvation Army to take part In the Detroit crusade. He was taken from the saloons where he spent most all his earnings a year ago by the 8alatlon Army and has since been a constant worker in the ranks. He is now willing to go to in Detroit and o,ult his gooi position here for the cause that rescued him. Muncie Ment Eaters to Pay More. Fieelal tf th Inilanspolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. March 30. About 03 per cent, of the local fresh meat dealers will on Monday morning Increase their prices about 25 pr cent. Pork will b Increased from V2xt cents to 15 cent. On brf the increase Is 16 2-3 per rent. The loeal butcher organized before taking the step, and g1e as the causs the Increased price for hres and cattle. Patrons say the increase wili' make eggs more popular. Hotel Burned. Special to the In'Ilanapoll Jourr.aL JASPEK. Ind . March 3.). Fire destroyed the Indiana H'use this morning. Ixss, $3..!i' Insured in American Central for $2,). All the Kue?t escaped. This hotel Is In the center of the town, but the firs, company confined the Are to the one build, ing. though all surrounding are badly scorched. Iosses on furniture and cah $1.0. The fire originated in the office. Her Frnjer for Death Answered. Special to the Indiaraivl! Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind.. SUrdi S3. Mrs. Beradlna Rente died to-day at her homt in this city at the age of fifty-eight. Her mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Fdz. died on Frl. dar. &nd l2u&ei&telY Mrs. Bzzit took di