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DEATH IN THE DEEP

For Many a Poor Seaman on Lake Michigan. The Worst Storm Known for Many Years Strews the West Coast with Wreckage. EIGHT WRECKS AT CHICAGO Where Ten Lives Are Known to Be Lost And Many Narrow Escapes Are Recorded As the Result of Rescuers' Brave Work. IN SIGHT OF THOUSANDS Staunch Vessels Are Crushed in the Cruel Breakers And Their Crews Go Down to Their Watery Graves, Or Are Brought Off by the Life Saving Crews. WRECKS AT MILWAUKEE, With a Known Los3 of at Least Six Lives. Two or the Victims Still Lashed to the Masts In Full View of Helpless Thousands on Shore. The Disaster ly the (ijile Tie Mont In I Knnnn for lun en r Wonderful Deed of IleroiMiu Aecomlli!ietl 1- the I.lft Saving Crew und Volunteer HcKcurrn A Hold Svvimmer'.i Itemnrknhle Work Details of the Viirioua Disnnter. CHICAGO. M..y IS. The storm which t."day swept Lake Michigan was the most disastrous of recent y-ars. Eight vessels were drien ashore within the city limits of Chicago. Out of th-ir crews ten men are known to bo drowned, and in evei y instance boat and cargo were utterly lot. One schooner, the Myrtle, was wrecked Just outside ihe government pier r"'iin a half mile of Michigan boulevard, and six men of her crew went down to death in plain view of hundreds of people, who lined the boulevard walks to watrh the. awful storm or peered from the windows of the big hotels which overlook the harbor. The wrecks extended from tJleneoe on the north, where the Lincoln Dall went to pieces, to .South Chicago, a distance of forty miles. Following is the list of wrecks as far as known at 10 o'clock lor.ight: Schooner Lincoln Da'd. 10; ton, diiven ashore at Glencoe, eighteen miles north of Chicago. Schooner Myrtle. 307 tuns, wrecked at the foot of Ilarrison-st. Schooner Jack Thompson of Chicago, 199 tons, wrecked off Twenty-flfth-st. Schooner Rising Star of Milwaukee. 201 tons, wrecked off Twenty-seventh-st.; crew rescued. Schooner Mercury of Grand Haven. 213 tons, wrecked off Twenty-seventh-st ; crew rescued. Schooner J. Loomis. McLnrf of Chicago, 222 ton, wrecked off Twenty-seventh-st. Schooner Italnbow of Milwaukee, 243 tons, wrecked of Twonty-second-st. ; crew rescued. Schooner C. J. Mixr of Chicago, 279 ton?, wrecked off One Hundredth-st.; crew rescued. Unknown schooner ashore near South Chicago. Th fatalities are: ANTON OL'NDI'KSON of Manistee, seaman, schooner Lincoln Dall, drowned while attempting to reach shore. CHAltLDS CAUTLF.R3. cook cm schooner Jack Thompson, reside.l in Chicago, washed from ;t rope while attempting to reach shore. JOSEPH SPOLAN, Sturgeon Day, mate of J. Loomis McLaen. struck and killed by the toA-p -t torn out when the vessel broke awav from a. tug. THOMAS KELSO, fisherman, washed off the government pier and drowned. Entire crew of the schooner Myrtle, elx men. The Fl rat Wreck. The first vessel to go ashore was the two-masted schooner Jack Thompson. The boat came from Garden Bay, Mich., and arrived off the breakwater early in the afternoon without a pump working. A tug made its way to her side and offered her a line, but the captain refused It. intending to sail Into the harbor. The task was too much for him, however, and before he was fairly into the harbor he lost control of his vessel, which crashed into the Italnbow, carrying away the bow of that boat and smashing a great hole under her own bowsprit, and, with her foremast gone, he drifted rapidly south, a pitiable wreck. The anchor was thrown out and for a time held fa-st. but breaking out of the soft bottom of the harbor this only hope proved ineffectual, and again the Thompson swept toward the nhore, broadside on. She struck bottom fifty feet from shore. The men were rescued' by a life line thrown by the life-saving crew. Tlie schooner Mercury of Ludington, Mich., wis wrecked off Twenty-seventh-et. An effort' was made to tow her into the harbor when she neared the breakwater, but the wind and waves were too trong. Th Evesing Star and Jack Thompson were already grinding to pieces on the

breakwater and thousands of people stood on the beach watching them. As the Mercury came near, her crew could be seen huddled together in the bow. They were frantically waving their arms to the people on shore. When the schooner finally struck, an attempt was made, but In vain, to get a line to the crew. Then one of the seamen on board, Tom Thurston, jumped from the vessel to some floating lumber and after several times poing under the heavy breakers, was Unruly taken ashore. Two others took the same chance and Ot safely to shore. A line was finally thrown to the vessel and made fast. The crowd ashore held it taut and one by one the four men, almost exhausted, climbed and slid to safety. The last man, Ed Sterling, was about half way down the line when the rope broke and dropped him into the water and among the lumber floating about near the breakwater. Several persons rushed to his rescue and he was carried to shore amid the wild cheers of the crowd. A Onllaiit Ilesene. The schooner Lincoln Dall of Manistee "was driven ashore at C.lencoe and Ai.ton Oundcrsen, one of the officers, was swept overboard and drowned. After several hours of waiting the rest ofthe 'crew wore rescued by members of the Evanston life saving crew. When the life-saving crew finally arrived the wrecked sailors wer well nigh exhausted. The life boat was dragged down the steeps bluffs, which line " the lake at Ulenc-oe, and the nan brought off. The wreck of the Kair.bow, a lumberladen schooner from Kaohie, occurred late in the afternoon and was marked by the heroic rescue of her crew, when about all hope of paving them had been abandoned. She hal thrown out her anchors and tried to rid out the storm from a position just south of the government pier. Th gale was too strong for her, however, and at 3 o'clock she began to drift rapidly southward, drajrpinar her anchors as though they were nothing but fish-hooks. Seeing that her destruction was inevitable, for she had left but a few tattered raps on (anvas, insufficient to give her steerage way against the gale, the life-saving crew loaded their life-line aparatus on a flat car of the Illinois Central railroad, which runs close to the water's edge, and Kpt pace with the doomed vessel as ;he wind drove her southward. Off the foot of Harmon court the car was stopped, the cannon tired and the life-line missed the boat by thirty feet. At Twelfth-st. another shot was fired with the same poor result. At this point the tug Spencer, whi h had wallowed its way through the riant ie waves, manag-. 1 to run close to the Kair.bow and throw her a line. It snapped like tow, but a second one held and four of her crew of seven men were haulxl aboard the tug The schooner was aow so dose to the breaker? th.it the lug dared follow hei no longer, and steam-vd away. Th" lifesaving crew on th-!r fat car krpt even with the boat as she rolled around and tried again and a rain to throw a line across her, but failed every time. A fn 1 1 ti ii t Swimmer. At Twenty-fifth -st. the sailors cut loose on a small raft they had nude and Willlam H. Haville, a young elvtrical engineer, was held with a line and swam out to thj raft, then about eichty feet fr :n the sh ire. The lumber from the Rainbow's deck ad wis tossing on the wives a.:l the young jVil. -.v, t the inunintiit risk of b-itis brair.ed by aom i! ati:ig plai.k. w.is a iong time in reaching the i art. Tie tinalb mad- M. way to its side Ptd cali to Cap'. John IVw to jump overboard. I'ew o bo you. Haville caught him and the Uvo men were h.tul -d ashore. A negro named 1". J. Wiiiis swam out i:j like manner and saved another mun. This left but one nr.m on the ruft, and Havillo was taken on the ilat car once more and carried two blocks south to where it had drifted and again swam iut and brought off Jacob Knulson. a seaman living i:i Ilacine. Doth men were utteiiy exhausted and were taken to M rcy hospital where Pew, who Is in a critical condition from chill and exposure, had preceded them. The vessel drifted sshore and was ground to pieces. The McLaren was ground to pieces v yards from shore. Her crew, commanded by Capt. K. Johnson, was saved by the life-saving crew, the last of them be!n taken off at S o'clock tonight. Her mate. Joseph Spolan, was killed by the breaking of a tow post. Iiis body is still among the timbers of the vessel. One of the most exciting features of the storm was the imprisonment of twenty-seven men, who were working in the water works nib off Lake View, one mile from shore. Their only shelter was a timber tower, erected on the crib, and until that w.as washed away at 2 o'clock this afternoon the mm were not believed to be in any danger. It was a close question for the", however, after that lime, as the water went over the crib again and again in blinding sheets. Crowds of jvople lined the shore anxiously watching the crib, from which a distress signal fluttered at various times timing the afternoon. The contractors made frantic efforts to get the men away and offered the tug company any amount of money to make the rescue, but the tug men said it would be useless to make the effort, and would result only in the loss of the tug without saving the rr.en. Aj night fell the men on th crib hung up a red lantern, which was burning steadily at midnight, and as the wind is gradually dying down It Is believed that all of them will be rescued early tomorrow morning. The Jljrtle' Loss. The Myrtle, on which the chief loss of life occurred, not a single man of her crew of six escaping, was water-logged when she appeared off the harbor In the afternoon. She attempted to anchor, but was diiven before the gale and struck the schooner Evening Star, which, up to that time, had been safely riding at anchor. The Myrtle's jibooom broke off. and drifting away from the Evening Star she struck the sc hooner (Jlfford and her bows being stove in, she began to sink rapidly. She drifted out to sea, her crew being plainly visible on the cabin. One w's washed away, a heavy wave broke over her again and then only three were visible. One of them Jumped on a plank and floated in close to the breakwater, where he lost his hoM and went

down. The two men on the boat went I down with lur. It is known that the captain of the Myrtle was named Wilson, but nothirg more is known of the crew. The schooner, C. M. Mixer, with a cargo of cedar vies, was driven past Chicagi and went on the beach at One Hundredth-st. The Mixer struck about 3 o'clock and the life-saving crew it South Chicago was immediately notified. There were seven in the crew, and It was dark before the last was rescued. six Ann lost In he Trexenee of Tlionsnnd f Helple Siec utora. MILWAUKEE. May 18. Six persons, one of them a woman, lost their lives In the presence of 6,00) helpless people in Milwaukee bay today. A fierce gale from the north was blowing on Lake Michigan and a tremendous sea swept into the bay. Many vessels sought shelter there. Among them was the schooner M. J. Cummings. laden with gt a In from Chicago. The Cummings entered the bay at about 8 o'clock and dropped her anchors" off Mlchigar.-t., but they failed to hold, and the ve-ssel drifted southward and shoreward until she reached the breakers, when she evidently filled through her cabin and forecastle and went down In twenty feet of water about 8 o'clock. i The crew took to the rlgsring. Tho life-

saving crew at once went to the rescue, but live men and a woman perished before the crew reached the wreck. Tlie men who nerished fell from their

rerches in the cross-trees to the water ! and sank out of sight like pieces of lead. The body of the woman is sttll lashed to the rigging, to which she escaped when the vessel began to sink. The Attempt t IteBeue. Six thousand people lined the piers and the shores on the i?land and main land this afternoon when the tug Knight Templar, towing a scow bearing the lifesavers, left the pier to make the rescue of the crew. One hundred feet of line separated the tug from the scow, and back of the scow was towed the empty surf boat. With bow to the waves, the Knight Templar permitted the scow to drop down toward the wreck. When the surf boat was within fifty yards of the wreck a human figure that had been clinging to the rising ot the inizzen mast was seen to throw up its hands and fall backward Into the boiling waves, being instantly lost to sight. A short time before another of tho.se clinging to the ropes had also let go his hold and perished. A groan went VP from the crowd as eac h body was lost to sight, and then all eyes centered on the surf boat as it dropped back beside the sunken vessel. Two figures slowly descended the mlzzenmast and clung to the lines, but a few feet above the waves. live minutes passed as attempt after attempt was made by the life-saving crew to swing the lifeboat nar the waiting men. A cry went up from the crowd on shore as one figure was seen to leap from the rigging and land in the boat. Two minutes later a man sprang far out, and as the boat ascended a wave it was seen that there were five figures in the boat. Then a cheer that drowned the roaring of the breakers went up from the throats on shore. Slowly the Ions line that held the eurt boat was paid out. and the two rescued men were permitted to drift toward the shore one moment lost to sight in the foaming breakers, and again alive and sure of rescue as the boat rose on the top of some mighty billow. Along the beach at the foot of Jones's island a crowd ran to meet the rescued men. willing hands wore stretched out to reach them, and they were dragged from the boat to a place of safety. From them was learned the loss of life by the wreck which thowed that six were dead. They are: Tlie Demi. Capt. JOHN M'CULLOUGII. Marine City. Mate TIMOTHY X. Y. P.OSOUK. Buffalo, THOMAS TUSCOTT. sailor. Marine City. I'nknown sailor. Marine City. Sailer nam"d "JIM." Marine City. Cook (woman), unknown, Euffalo, N. Y. Those saved were: Itob-rt P.-itterson, Kingston, Ont. Fi Gordes, surfman No C, Milwaukee life saving station. Surfman Oordes as soon as he boarded the schooner proceeded to lash the members of the crew to the rigging, but it is supposed they loosened their ropes to chauge their positions, hoping to escape the force of the blizzard of pelting snow and rain, but were so stiff that they could not make new fastenings and he could do nothing for them. Cap;. MeCuilough was the second man to fall, shooting down Into the water as hundreds of field glasses were trained on the scene from the shore. Tttseott fell first, and the others soon after the captain. , ox mm: iintox. Several Vessel in f J rent Dnnner The Storm Elsewhere. POKT HUlcON. Mich.. May 15. A heavy north gale is blowing. The scno ner William Shupe, owned by Capt. Little of this city, is reported waterlogged off Port Sanilac. The tug Thompson attempted to reach her this afternoon. After steaming against the waves for two hours the captain was unable to reach the schooner till morning. The cie w are in the rigging. It was reported here today that th propeller Colorado, owned by Iol Ford fc Co. rif this city, was lost on Lake Erie with all hands. The Colorado left here Wednesday with grain for Huffalo. Her owners have received no news concerning her loss and discredit the story. I1ATTLH CREEK. Mich.. May IS. Reports arriving from northern Calhoun and southern Harry counties state that the hail storm broke windows in nearly every farm house. Trees were stripped of foliage and crops ruined. HILLSDALE. Mich.. May IS. The hail stoim took in a strip about two and one-half miles wide and ihere is scarcely a pane of glass left in the houses in Its course. Much damge was done to the crops. ST. IG N ACE, Mich., May IS A hard snow with northwest winds prevailed here all da v. WHITEHALL, Mich.. May IS. Snow Is falling here rapidly. The weather is growing colder. OTSDGO LAKE. Mich.. May 18. A high north wind and blinding snow storm prevails here. AI.OX THE SHORE. Vessels Reported Afcround nt MnuI'oluts. CHICAGO, May IS. Dispatches from many points in this section show that the great storm of yesterday and today was general and that a great deal ot mlror damaKe has been done. Along the lake shore, both in Wlscorsin and Michigan, the storm was one of unprecedented severity. It is feared that many serious marine disasters are yet unreported. Michigan City reports two schooners ashore, crews rescued. At Green Day, Wis., the barge Edwin S. Tice was driven ashore, but the crewis safe. Much minor damage was done on shore. A dispatch from Lamolne. la., reported a severe cold wave and probably damage to crops. At Moawequa. 111., the mercury dropped fifty degrees in twenty-four hours and farmers fear much damage to crops. At Springfield and other points in the central division of the state a similar condition is reported. Laporte reports a cyclone near Kingsbury, which did much damage and killed Henry Sprigel; IX THE LAKH HCGIOX. Ilenvlest Sen 1-Jver Known nt Sheho) Klin Modle It ceo ve red. SHEEOYGAN. Wis.. May 20. The wind-storm has been increasing in velocity today and the heaviest sea ever known for this time of year is raging on Lake Michigan. The body of an unknown sailor was washed ashore here today. The Chicago schooner Surprise still lies In a dangerous position, a mile and a half from shore. Her crew can be seen running about on deck and working the pumps. With much hard work on the part of tugs a large Chicago vessel was got safely In port during the day. MILWAUKEE. Wis., May 20. The lifesaving crew this morning succeeded in securing the bodies that were tied in the rigging of the schooner Cummings last Friday when that vessel was driven ashore In the bay. They proved to be those of Mrs. E. C. Palmer, the cook, of this city and James Whitley of Marine City. Mich. Honford'a Arid Phosphate Is vitalizing in It effect on the nervous eye tern.

FLOODS !H THE EAST

As a Resultof the Unusually Heavy Rainfall Which Causes Rivers to Encroach Upon Cities. Western New York and Pennsylvania In the Belt. REMINDER OF JOHNSTOWN And the Horrors of the Disastrous Flood of '8. Rivers Show a Rise ofTwentyFive and Thirty Feet, And the Loss to Property Very Heavy. Is In Some riace the ltninfnll Mennre Over Four Inchen Very Heavy Iai to Railroads, Which Are liinble to (et Trains Throuah the Region The West llrnnrli of the Santiuehanna on n "our, Driving the People from Their Home and Destroying nn Immen. Amount of Property. JERSEY SHORE. Pa., May '20. WinJ. rain and storm sre causing grave trouble throughout this entire section. It has rained heavily almost unceasingly since last Wednesday, and tonight there is a twenty-six-foot flood in the west branch of the Susquehanna river, and it is expected to reach a hight only second to the great flood of June, 19, and may even exceed that, as the river is rising at the rate of one foot an hour. The water is now standing on Main-st. in this city. At Renova, Lock Haven, Jersey Shor and Williamsport the resident are moving to the second floors of their homes ami merchants are all busy moving their goods to places of safety. Many families are leaving the towns and seeking safety from the flood by golrg to the hills. At Williamsport therj Is a twenty-three-foot flood, and water is now rising at the rate of untre than a foot an hour. The report from there is that the great boom, which contains 16,000,0o0 gallons of water, will breuk in a flood of twentvfive feet yet tonight. This will be a terrible calamity and the ruin caused by such a disaster cannot be told. All the documents) and valuable paper have been removed from ' county ..C'fliees and taken to places of safety. At Phillipsburg' the water Is already higher than It was in the flood of June, 1SSI. At Clearfield the reech creek railroad is under water, which is higher than it has be; n for many years. General Superintendent Palmer of the P.eech Crek railroad has been out on the road today making an eff it lo protejt the Companys' property. Several bad washouts on the road have been reported. The railroad is blockaded with standing trains, both freight and passenger, anil there has been no travel over the Philadelphia fc Erie road today. Manv people who are seeing their homes damaged and household goods washed away by the water will suffer greatly, as a large number of the poorer classes have not yet recovered from the effects of the flood of four years ago. At Lock Haven this evening water stands four and one-haif feet deep on the main street, of the town and is still coming up rapidly. Church services were abandoned and people have spent their time anxiously watching along the river to see the flood water coming. All telegraph connection with the outside world has been cut off. At Dubois, Pa.. 4.0! inches of water fell in the last forty-eight hours and all of the low lands are flooded. Many people have been obliged to move out of their homes, the first story being flooded. The flat lands at Reynoldsville, Brookville and New Bethlehem are flooded also. SERIOl S AT lilt A DFOIII), Mnny Families Resetted in Skin's Xo Deaths Reported. BRADFORD. Pa.. May 20. The worst flood in Bradford's history is rushing through Tuna valley today. Twenty streets contiguous to the creek are inundated and hundreds of families are in the swim. The east and west branches of the Tuna are both transformed Into good-sized rivers. Below Foreman-st., at the confluence of the two streams, the flood Is a quarter of a mile wide and is high enough to ruin all the carpets in the houses on Hilton and other streets In the lower part of the Sixth ward. The louglass dam is partly torn away. Weaver's Ice house is in ruins. The North-st. bridge is gone and several railroad and street bridges are in danger. The railroad people are holding down their bridges with heavily-loaded cars In the Sixth ward twenty families were taken out of their houses in boats during the night, and on Clarence. River and Hilton-sts. a rescue corps with skiffs rescued as many more. Luckily there were no fatalities. A thlrteen-months-old babe fell into the east branch this afternoon and was being swept away in the current. Thomas Potter leaped into the creek and after a desperate struggle saved the child. The flood from the east branch covers the territory over which runs the Erie railway company's tracks, the Western New York &- Pennsylvania tracks and those of the Bradford, Bordell Äs Kinzua railway. Web?ter-st. is navigeble by boat. Across Corridon to Newell-ave. to Main and then down Davis-st. there is a rushing body of deep water, and skiffs ply from the ftiddell house up and down the streets. At the Henderson house on the ground floor there Is six inches of water. Twenty business houses on Main-st., between Webster and the Erie railway, are In a still worse condition. Sixty feet of the B.. Jl. & P. track Just below the city's eastern line have been washed "ut and the trains of that road come In over the Erie track from Limestone. The fire alarm bell was sounded this morning at 2 o'clock and the firemen were called out to help people from their houses. They did excellent work. A carload of ime in a storehouse near the track about Elm-

ft. became water-soaked and fired the building while undergoing the slacking process, and In the flood to their waists the firemen had further work to do. The rain today and last night feli as if from a cloudburst, but this evening has abated somewhat, and it is believed that the worst Is over. AT YVILHAMSPORT.

Tirenty-Five Feet of Water and the River Still RUin? ( WILLIAMSPORT. Ta.. May 20. At midnight, with the rain still falling, the river has overflowed its banks in the central part of the city, and the water is rushing up Market-st. and out toThird and Fourth-sts. in the business part of the city, where the cellars are now full of water. The present hight of the flood is twenty-four feet, and it Is estimated that it will reach twentyseven feet from the present rainfall. But as the rain shows no signs of abatement it is feared that tomorrow may bring more elements of danger. Liconing creek, which brings more water from the north, has been in good condition all day, but at this time it is bankful and coming up rapidly. It comes in at the upper end of the city and was the chief source of danger in 1SS9. The hight of the river then turned it out of its course and emptied it in from the north of the city, and it is feared that there may be a repetition of that disaster. 2:30 a. m. It continues to rain and the river is rising steadily. The big log boom did no injury to three bridges below the city in its passage downward, but it is asserted that only a comparatively small part of it has passed the structures. There were 17."..000 000 feetof logs in the boom instead of 150.000.0uo. The J ii ii in tn Fines Twenty-Two Feet. HUNTINGDON. Pa., May 20. Within the past twenty-four hours the Juniata river and the Raystown branch have risen twenty-two feet, flooding the low-lying farms and Imprisoning entire families in their homes, who cannot be reached. Portstown, a suburb of this town, was tloodt?d to the second floors of the houses, and Allegheny-st. in this city was submerged. The gas company's works here have been temporarily abandoned to the rising waters and many residences and business houses are flooded to the second floors. The new iron county bridges at Mapleton, Mill Creek and Texters have been swept away. A landslide near Ryde station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, covered the south tracks for three-quarters of a mile and the tracks below this city washed out. The country approaches to Huntingdon have been closed to travel by the destruction of bridges and washouts. At Stoyertown. Bedford county. Mrs. Jacob Miller, while trying to save some personal .belongings, was drowned. Whole faim3 on the Raystown branch have been practically ruined, buildings and fe-ncing I carried away and crops destroyed. Henvy Loss nt Johnstown. JOHNSTOWN. Pa., May 20. Th heaviest rain storm since the big flood of lSO ceased this morning and early light disclosed flooded streets and alleys and cellars full of water. Merchants here worked all night getting goods out of cellars. About $15.000 worth of timlr belonging to the Conemaugh lumb.r company broke loose and was carried away, tearing two bridges away and causing great damage. Fifty feet of a stone wall along, the Conemaugh rivr was washed away and crops in the vicinity were ruir. !. entailing a loss of thousands of dollars. Reports from Ebensburg at 10 o'clock tonight say that the heaviest rain sinc lvs.'l is falling there and the streets are under water. Bridges across small streams are wept away. The report s:tys that the farm crops arc washed out and everything is a big loss. Tom McFeaters, a lad thirteen years old. was drowned in the Conemaugh rive r today while trying to iHe on a log. Ilenvy Loss to Fnrnrs. ALTOONA. Pa., May 20. Between this city and Mill creek the loss suffered by farmers is very great. Their crops are destroyed and fences and small buildings have been washed away. The washing away of the track south of Williamsburg ! and along the Springfield branch, and the ! destruction of the railroad bridge between Franktown and Flowing Springs has caused a discontinuance of train service on the Williamsburg and Springfield branches. The dam in the Horse Shoe curve, above this city, broke at 11:30 o'clock J last night, thirteen feet of it being car ried away, ine people living in inr bailey had ample time to get out of the way of the rushing waters. If the heavy rainfall continues the rest of the dam will probably be carried away. Altoona gets its water supply from this body of water. At HurrishurK'. HARRISBURG. Pa.. May 20. The iron bridges at Mill Creek, Mapleton and McVeytown were swept away today by the high waters of the Juniata river. At the acqueduct, fourteen miles from this city, the rlvr is rising rapidly and grave fears are felt for the safety of the acqueduct. The people on the other side of the river are moving their furniture to the upper floores. Live stock has been taken to high ground. The Juniata is nearly as high as in the freshet of lS?;i, and at 10 o'clock was rising at the rate of eighteen inches an hour, and people along its banks are moving out of their houses. The Susquehana is also rising rapidly. Higher Thnu in INS!). IIOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa., May 20 The water has reached higher points In Blair county than during the flcod of 1SS3, and the loss of property has been especially great at Frankstown, Gaysport, Williamsburg. Duncansville and Resse's statior. Several county and railroad' brlJges are down and traffic is suspended on the electric and steam railroad lines. Today the Pennslyvania railroad company chartered a line of hacks to convey passengers to Williamsburg. Lake Mont park, the most extensive pleasure resort in this section of the state, is under water. Hundreds of acres of farm land are submerged and crops destroyed. ' May Stop the '"Derrick." OIL CITY, Ta.. May 21. At 1:30 this morning the river is rising three inches an hour with the gauge at 14 feet 4 inches. Specials to the Derrick from Olean, N. Y.. and up river points would Indicate at least two feet more water, as heavy rains are general and river rising steadily. Experienced rivermen claim it is the biggest June freshet rise known In thl3 vicinity. At the present rate the Derrick press-room will be flooded and presses stopped in less than two hours. The railroads and lumbermen are the principal sufferers. No trains will leave Oil City tonight. XOXV ON THE WAXE. XVomt of (he Pennsylvania Flood Is Over. PHILADELPHIA, May 21. At midnight advices from the flooded districts indicate that the storm has spent Its fury and that the waters have begun to fall in those localities where the danger has seemed greatest. Other places further down the swollen streams are threatened, but the worst Is probably known. Sunbury is threatened with complete

Inundation, as the water Is rising veryfast. At Renovo and Lockhaven the flood is rapidly receding and no further apprehension is felt. The same is true ef Shamackln. Duncanon and other points which have been visited by the flood. Railroad communication, which has been greatly impaired, is being restored and unless there is a fresh rainfall of considerable dimensions, the flood in the central portion of the stat may be said to be on the wane.

IX XEW YORK. Trains Abandoned Owlnic to Dnmn.ne to Ilnllrojid Tracks. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., May 20. All trains on the D. A. & P. railway have been abandoned, owing to the damage to its tracks by the etorm. A portion of the large bridge at Loana Is washed away. There is a heavy landslide covering the tracks for a distance between Falconer and Gerry, and the railroad bridge at Frewsburg is washed out. The waters of the Canadaway creek have risen until the stream is nearly half a mile wide between Loana and Fredonia. In Dunkirk the lower portions of the place are flooded, and the cellars and basements are filled with water. Chautauqua lake has risen several Inches within the past few hours. The outlet is over its banks. No special damage has yet been reported in this city. GENESEO, N. Y.. May 20. The heaviest rainstorm for years, lasting now forty-eight hours, has caused a great flood in the Geneseo river, and an immense amount of damage has been done. The river continues to rise at the rate of eight to twelve inches an hour, and only lacks eih:en Inches of the highest ilood in ten jears. Cellars at HnfTalo Well Filled. BUFFALO, May 20. The steady rain for the last three days sent Buffalo river booming over its banks and down through South Buffalo. Dozens of EtreetB are flooded and hundreds of cellars are full of water. The police of the Ninth precinct have a fleet of rcw boats and have been busy all day rer-cuing people from the second stories and rooffs of their homes. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Provisions Which the Instrument Is Suid to Contain. HONOLULU, May 13, via San Francisco, May 21, per Steamer Gaelic The constitutional convention, the members of which were elected on May 3, will meet on May 30. The new constitution will be presented to the convention for its approval. The Associated Tress has been able to obtain a copy of a portion of it. The new government is to be cailed the republic of Hawaii. The executive power will be vested in the president. The executive council will consist of five members instead of four as at present, a minister of health and education being added. The upper house will consist of fifteen senators. Senators must be thirty years old, able to read and writ English, shall have resided in the islands three years, own property not less than $..ooo Jn value, and have r-n income of $1.200 a year. The assemlily, or the lower house, is to consist of fifteen members, six from Oahu and three each from the other islands. They will serve two years only. A member of the assembly must be a citizen of Hawaii or of any country which has treaty relations with Hawaii and has resided in the islands for at least a year. Members of both houses are to receive $ii for each session. About 3.75 votes were cast at the recent elections. Thero was little opposition in any of tlv islands. The claim is now made that when the republic is declared the natives will make ti. i looked for uprising. FIGHT WITH ROBBERS. Several Men Wounded. One Undly, In nn Oklahoma Rattle. EL RENO. Ok. T., May 21 Two men. supposed to be members of the Dalton gang of train robbers, passed through, El Reno tcday traveling eastward. The sheriff telegraphed to the little town of Yukon to Intercept them. A p tsse was quickly organized and when the train robbers made their appearance they were attacked. The defense was quite as hot ss the attack and a running fight ensued. One Mr. Farish was shot in the groin, the bullet passing entliely through him. He is not expected to live. An old man named Nelson was shot In the forehead, but not dangerously. A number of other persons were wounded more or less in the skirmish, among- them a man named Snyder, who was sh t in the face and will die. One of the robbers was shot off his horse and captured, but resisted to the last and several of his captors boar cuts and bruises on the head, where he welted them with his six-shooter. The other made his escape, but is supposed to be, wounded. The sheriff and deputy marshals left this city to join the pursuers. MERRY TIME IN RHODY. Members of the Leftlslature Ilelus ArrestedThe Fifth t. PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 21. One of the most remarkable sessions of the house of representatives ever held took place today. At 11 o'clock all members present were locked in and writs were issued for absent members and placed in the hands of the sheriff, but it was 3:15 p. m. before a quorum arrived. Members are now being arrested in all parts of the state. As soon as a quorum was present Wheaton Cole was expelled from the seat in the house and Claud J. Farnsworth was substituted as the second representative from Pawtucket. At 4:15 Farnsworth was eworn In. Only four republicans were present during the session. The rest have disappeared from the city to avoid arrest. P0WDERLY FIRED. The "Inrrownrd Kln" Xo Uner a Knight of Old. PHILADELPHIA, May 20. T. V. Powderly, ex-general master workman of the Knights of Labor, or, as he recently termed himself, "The Uncrowned King of the Workingmen;" A. W. Wright of Toronto, ex-member of the general executive board of the Knight, and I. II. Qulnn, master workman of district assembly No. 09, an ardent supporter of Powderly. have been unceremoniously expelled from the Knights of Labor. The letters conveying this information to them are now said to be going across the country by mall.

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The Senato Passes the Lodge Resolution To Probe the Charges of Attempted Bribery, ,In Order to Place the Responsibility. AFTER THE SUGAR TRUST, Which Is Accused of Furnishing Campaign Funds .To Secure the Election of Friendly Legislators. Democrats Begin Continuous Sessions of tho Senats In Order to Foree he. Tarlflt Rill the Front to the Fxeluion of Alt' Other Iluslness The System of Con tiunons Sessions Adopted, Much t the Discomfort of the Republican Who Make ii Hard Klok Ilat JLtl to. .Xo Avail The Heal Struggle Jntt' Iteuun Other Wahliiuutou Xewf WASHINGTON, May Senator Lodee, soon after the senate met todays Introduced a resolution authorizing th3 appointment of five senators to investi gate charges of attempted bribery ct senators in connection with the pending tariff bill, and also the charges, in a lona article published la the Philadelphia Press on Monday morning, containing allegations relating to the influence of' the sugar trust upon tariff legislation' He asked f r the immediate considera-' tion of the resolution, but Senator Cockrcll of Missouri asked that it lia vpon the table until tomorrow. Rumors of the use of mone' to in fluence action one way cr the ether on the tariff bill have b-.-en in i ircjulat'.on here at various tims during tho post few months, but heretofore have received little attenticn. It is learned definitely today that certain senators have received Intimation that a money consideration couid I i ecu red for their votes asiiint lh tariff bill, though whether the alleged briber had any authority frr his promif-e i a matter of seme doubt. The negotiations apparently have g'.ne no f-jrther than Intimations to the clerks of Senators Kyle and Hun ton. These intimati tns can-.e from a North Dakota man who is ki.nn aa a lobbyist of several s-him-js. He was foniit-rly a member of congress from one of the southern states and was ilciuili-d with the so-called carp-t-bag-g.-rs. The amount which, it was intimated they cul l re -five was $14,0') of which $1.0"0 was to be retained by them as a cjmn.i--io:i for ir.akir.g the negotiation. Mr. McFarianl. clerk to Senator Kyle, sail that the matt-r never went any further than intimation. He promptly informed Senator Kyh The latter is now in South D.i k tt i and will return Saturday. The character of the man who is said to have mad the iitima tions stamps the whole affair with th seal of condemnation. It is scarcely possible that a-iy syndicate of persons, who could control the amount of money necessary In order to make an attempt to purchase votes, would entrust it tc the man who mad- the intimation ta the clerks of Senators Kyle and Hunton. It is understood that Senator Kyle haf a record of the alleged briber's conver satlon and proposition. He was approached directly but turned the fellow over to lis private secretary with Instructions to take full notes upon all that he sail. Mr. McFarland, Senator Kyle's clerk, refused to say anything further than to acknowledge that th offers were made and says that when the Investigation is had he will tell all about It and will then give the nama c the man offering the money and what he said. Tlie man told him he represented New York partie?. but whether or not h gav their names cannot b learned. Mr. MeF-arlind refuses to give any name. The person to whom the description of the alleged would-be corrupt ioidst 1 best app!i-s is Maj. J. A. Dultz of liultzville. N. D. He was once a member of congress from South Carolina and iiov,f..llows the ocvupatitn ef farming. II spent consi let-able time in Washington, in recent years lobbying. Ono of his princr-al efforts has been to reopen a, contest ovr tho town site at GreatFalls, Mont. SF.XATOlt IllATOX TALKS, rr(iionl to Fit?' J5U."..imm for the YlrKliil""' Opposition. Senator Hunton talked freely today about the attempt made t: bribe him to vote against the tariff bill. The matter first came to Iiis attention about a month ago, through a letter from 2;is son. dated at Warrenton, Va., the homo of the senator and his son. He immediately laid the matter before six or eitht of lils most intimate friends in the senate, that they might know what was gating on. He tays he never saw the man who offered the bribe, and he declined to give the man's name, but said that all the negotiations, if the proceedings Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. MVS vVlMlM MOST PERFECT MADE re Crape Cream cf Tartar Powder. Ammonia, Alum cr any other a Ju'tc 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.

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