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ST. AUGUSTINE, OLDEST CITY IN U. S., SWEPT BY FIRE
Crippled by Heavy Losses, Gen
eral Velasco Fights Bravely
On in Desperation.
CITY OF CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO,
Apri] 2.—Driven from the main for
tifications of the city by the dashing
attacks of General Villa's Constitu
tionalist troops, the shattered Fed
eral army, commanded by General
Refugio Velasco, is making its final
stand at Torreon to-day. Crippled by
terrific josses and desertions, the Fed
eral commander has put up the brav
est fight ever recorded in the history
of Mexico, but advices received here
early this forenoon from Gomez Pala
cio indicate that the end of the bloody
conflict is near.
The Constitutionalist military
headquarters received word that a
small body of Federals was still hold
ing out at Canyon De] Huarache, on
the south edge of the city, and an
other was surrounded in a fortified
adobe structure in the southwestern
section, but General Villa's alde re
ported that both of these Govern
ment forces were short of ammuni
tion, and that their capture or annl
bhilation was assured.
The greater part of the Federal ar
tillery has been captured. The out
come of the battle was practically as
sured by the daring attack ot Villa's
men on Monday night, when they
captured seven heavy artillery pieces.
These cannon were immediately
turned on the Federals, and their fire
resulted in the forced withdrawal of
Velasco's men from their main posi
tions. The retreat of the Federals
.took place under a rain of shells and
bombs that ripped their lines to pieces,
but Genera} Velasco saved the rem
rant of his army, though he narrowly
e¢scaped death several times,
AN UNEXPECTED DEFENSE.
JUAREZ, MEXICO, April 2.—That
General Villa had found it impossible
to take Torreon bé' storm and that he
had appealed to General Carranza for
aid or permission to negotiate terms of
surrender with General Velasco was a
report in general circulation among
Constitutionalist soldiers to-day follow
ing a long secret conference that the
provisional president held last night
with his chief aide over the telegraph
wire.
The exeitement over the conference
apd the sensational rumors that re
sulted caused Carranza to issue an of
ficial statement.
He said that General Villa had re
ported that the Torreon Federals were
putting up an unexpected defence and
that fierce fighting was going on in the
city and at Canyon Del Huarache, but
that he expected to win a complete vic
tory within a few hours.
According to Carranza, Villa said that
the Federals had strongly intrenched
themselves at the canyon, but that the
forces of Constitutionalists sent to the
eastward under General Herrera had
cut all railroad lines and thus prevented
Federal reinforcements coming to the
aid of Torreon.
One of the humors current every
where throughout the city was that
General Villa had been killed.
HELD AS A BIGAMIST.
SAVANNAE, GA., April 2.—Harry
Sykes, a well-to-do Savannahan, is
held in Logan, lowa, under a charge
of bigamy brought by an alleged wife
in Charlestown, W. Va. A special
agent has gone from Savannah for
him.
Mrs. Ella Dempsey, a wealthy wom
an of Savannah, who runs the Demp
sey House, according to the police,
is one of nis wives, and a woman who
lives near Atlanta, is another. In ali
he is charged with having married
illegally four times. A photograph
has been sent with the agent to pos
itively identify the man held at Logan
as Sykes.
ROB GAMBLING HOUSE.
NEW YORK, April 2.—Five armed
men forced their way into the Merch
ants’ Club, in West Seventeenth street,
early to-day, broke up several lively
poker games and escaped with $5,000 in
cash and fled. There were about 2§
players in the club when the five made
their appearance.
Holding revolvers in their hands the
five ordered the players to hold up their
hands. While two men stood guard, the
other men went through the players,
¥ven the fraternal pins were plucked
from the lapels of the hapless players.
ASKS FILM BAN REMOVAL.
LONDON, April 2.—Prince Henry is
among the 400 Eton boys who signed
a petition to Headmaster Lyttieton
afiainst placing a ban on the local film
theater.
It was at the instigation of Queen
Mary that the show, which depended on
the patronage of the KEton boys, was
closed.
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RAMMED BY STEAMER,
NORFOLK, VA., April 2—The steam
er Robert M. Thompson and schooner
Augustus W. Snow collided early to-day
in a dense fog off the coast.
The captain of the steamer, wkhich
was bound from New Orleans to Phil
adelphia, reported by wireless that the
gchooner’s bow was stove in and that
the was leaking badly.
DOG WRECKS SCENERY.
PATCHOGUE, N. J., April 2.—A yel
low mongrel dog accidentally locked in
the Star Palace Theater, destroyed $3OO
worth of scenery in its efforts to get
out.
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Definite News of Safety of Party in South Amer
ica Awaited by Miss Willard.
MADRID, April 2.—Dcspite the re
ceipt of encouraging cablegrams re
garding the safety of members of the
Roosevelt expedition in South Amer
ica, a great deal of antiety is felt in
the home of Colone! Joseph E. Wil
lard, United States Ambassador to
Spain, whose daughter, Miss Belle
Wyatt Willard, is engaged to Kermit
Roosevelt.
The young woman has heard no
word from her fiance since the first
report of an accident to the Roosevelt
party. It is a far cry from the luxu
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Baby Winks Over
Grafted Eyeball
BALTIMORE, April 2—With sight re
stored to his left eye through the graft.
ing of a part of a pig's eye on his own,
David Kane, nine months old, now winks
his eye if a finger or a small object is
waved close to the eye.
TO SUMMER AT CORNISH.
CORNISH, N. Y., April 2.—President
Wilson has re-leased Winston Chur
chill's home here and the summer capi
tal will be established here as soon as
Congress adjourns.
Members of the Wilson family will
come here as soon as the hot weather
sets in.
KING SUFFERS RELAPSE.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, April 2.
King Gustav, who has long been ill
of a gastric complaint, suffered a re
lapse to-day and a speclal physician
was summoned from Heidelberg to
consult with the court physician,
ries of the Spanish court and’diplo
matic ¢ircies to the fever-ridden low
lands and -jungles of South America,
and Miss Willard, realizing this, is
keenly distressed over the possibility
of serious harm having befallen the
yvoung man in whem of all men she i 3
most interested.
The latest cablegram received by
the Willards from Para, Brazil, was
signed by George H. Pickerell, United
States Consul, and reads as follows:
“Definite news reporting the Roose
velt party all wel lis expected soon
from Manaos.”
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Flying Teeth Knock
Dserantist Unconscious
BALTIMORE, April 2.—Dr. J. C. Am
menheuser, a dentist, is disfigured and
seriously injured, following tfl; explo
sion of a vuleanizer in which he was
preparing a set of false teeth. Ail of
his frent teeth were knocked out and
his face lacerated. He was found un
consclous.
DEVOURS 3 DOZEN EGGS.
BELLEVILLE, ILL., April 2.—Wil
liam Zinser has broken the local egz
eating record by disposing of three
dozen eggs at a meal. He ate one
dozen scrambled and two dozen fried.
After doing thiz he declared he could
eat half a dozen more without dif
ficulty.
CHICAGO WOMEN MOST SAVING.
CHICAGO, April 2.—Chicago wom
en are more economical than any in
the world, according to experts who,
after an investigation, found that the
garbage is less per capita here than
in other large cities.
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Solid Half-Mile Square in Heart
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of Quaint Old Town Goes
Up in Smoke.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA,, April 2.-
(By Long Distance Telephone to
Jacksonville, Fla.) A solid haif-mile
square in the heart of St. Augustine,
oldest city in the United States and
perhaps the ‘most beautiful city in
Florida, was destroyed by fire to-day,
causing a loss estimated at $800,090.
Four large hotels, the Munson, Mag
nolia, Florida House and the Clair
mont, were razed; the Courthouse
is in ruins and many other buildings
of note were viped cut.
It was at first reported that sev
eral lives were lost, buf after the
confusion that followed the fire had
subsided, it was learned that there
had been no fatalities. .
Burns Seven Houses:
The Western Union and Postal
Telegraph offices were burned, and
the only communication with the
outside world was by a few long~dis
tance telephone wires that were
swamped with inquiries from allover
the country from persons whose rela
tives and friends were spending the
tag end of the winter season here.
The fire was declared to be under
control at 9:45 o’'clock, although it
was still burning in parts of the
ruined area. The flames had almost
unabated sway for seven hours.
After the firemen had retired to the
outer edge of the burned district, a
company of ~State militiamen and
citizens who vbdlunteered to aid the
lccal police threw a cordon throagh
the center of the city and Kkept a
rigid guard to prevent looting.
Origin Is Unknown.
The origin of the fire is not known.
The blaze started in the Florida house
on the bay front, and was fanned
by a strong wind. When iL was seen
that many big frame hotels lay In
the path of the advancing conflagra
tion, the work of arousing ' guests
and carrying out personal effects was
commenced, Trunks, boxes and oth
er varieties of baggage were piled in
the streets and placed under guard
of policemen or troops.
The Jacksonville fire depariment
was called on for aid and made a
quick trip here on a special train.
Speed boats here for races were
saved, although the pier and power
boat clubhouse were burned.
Woman Breaks Back.
A woman leaped from the third
floor of the Florida House and was
lemoved to the hospital with a broken
back. She was unconscious and the
doctor said she would die.
Another guest, A Libby, leaped
from the second floor, but escaped
with a broken leg.
The famous Vedder House was to
tally destroyed and with it the price
less coltection of the St. Augustine
Historical Society. Some of the an
tiques dated back to the founding of
this city, the oldest in North America.
But Tor heroic work of Fire Chief
Townsend, also a county commis
sioner, in rescuing the ballots of yes
terday’s good roads election from the
flames in the Courthouse, the élection
would have been invalidated.
Practically every building east of
St. George street to the bay and from
Treasury street to Hypolita street is
in ruins.
HELD IN A. G. S. ROBBERY.
MCNTGOMERY, ALA. April 2,.—
Harry Marks was held in $lO,OOO bond
by United States Commissioner El
more to answer before the Fed
eral Grand Jury for alleged partici
pation in the Alabama Great South
ern train robbed at Blbbville last Sep
tember,
John Williams and Farnk Moore
were previously bound over to an
swer the same charge. J. M. Todd,
the fourth member of the gang, is
held on a charge of transporting ex
plosives from Georgia into Alabama
in violation of the commerce laws.
ASKS $250,000 HEART BALM.
BOISE, IDAHO, April 2.—Helen
Clegg Winters, of Dayton, 0., who two
years ago won a divorce suit filed.by
her husband, Valentine Winters, a
Dayton traction magnate, has insti
tuted suit here against Mrs. Susan
H. Darst for $250,000, alleging aliena
tion of her husband's affections.
OXYGEN IS NEW TIPPLE,
LONDON, April 2.—Soclety has found
a new tipple in oxygen, now more often
inhaled by society women than by in
valids. The smart woman who has teo
endure a good deal of fatigue in keeping
social engagements has come to realize
that a big case of oxygen contains more
invigorating qualities than drugs.
SICKLES REPORTED DYING.
NEW YORK, April 2.—General Dan
iel E. Sickles is at the point of death
in his home here. He suffered a stroke
of paralysis three weeks ago, following
the death of his housekeeper, Miss Wil
merding. His left side is compietely
paralyzed and his memory is gone.
CHURCH GYM BURNS.
RENSSELAER, IND., April 2.—
The new gymnasium of St. Joseph's
Church, recently completed at a cost
of about $25000, was destroved by
fire this morning.