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the Georgia Enterprise.
YGLUMI3 XXI W
Lccurato Diagram of the Upper Conemaugh Valley, Showing the Lake and Heiaivolr, Which Were the Source
[ of the Unperelleled Inundation. -Secured from Pennsylvania State Geological Survey, and kindly loaned
[ ua by the Bulttmoie, Mil,, HERALD - See Key Below,
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- rue vtutti or rue ewemw
:bi '\V Xv J r Mp <q fljujii cr Tee CwNUi
i-4 —Conemaugh Lake and Iteserroir (sea*
eral miles long and 14 miles above Johns •
kMT town), uhoee broken dam flooded the valley.
4 B—Town of South Forks (J.ixD inhabitants).
%(’—Mineral Point (800 inhabitants). E— ;
3 ■>> 4 * bp swept away. D—Town of Conemaugh
1 P—Woodvale (!lflOO inhabitants) G—Large
n mills Tl—Homes of the 5,000 oiorkfngmen employed by iron and steel works at Johnstown. S—Cambria Iron and Steel
t^K p s VV—Cambria City. Johnstown and Cambria Cities a,id Conemaugh borough contained a total population of nearly 30,-
I M— Sheridan (800 inhabitants). T — Sang Hollow , 12 miles below Johnstown, where the railroad operator counted 75 dead
carried down the river. X—Continuation of the river and railroad toward Nineveh, Lockport and Bolivar (see small
which were completely submerged. T r.
picture iu the uppa;- left baud corner shows the City of Johnstown IK miles distant) as photograneo by the Cambria Iron Cos.
•ter the flood.
Scenes in Cone
■augh’s Valley of Death.
•Ivors Witnessed During a Walk
I Along the Torrent’s Path.
Hji'iili'iits of thi‘ Iu mutation
.uli of Death Thirteen Mile*-
l).*a<l Ibxlies and Wrecked
on tin* Ground—Houghs
the Stricken Town—An Es*
|Hute of the Loss of Life.
Jk ®DIT ~-j). n,lviii of tin* Nrw York V.’or.J
among the first to roach Johns
. tCMWLfr. i- the awful disaster, sent the fol
rmKm x v description of what ho saw:
IjPF** just. iMiiii' 1 1*. .it -ii:i*>! -w.i proper,
•fwllrope bridge which was completed this
•ttjßpon. I reached there at 5 o’clock last
tell only what I did see aud do
'll v u a\, , u r
valley on Friday evening cut a
tfVlftp of death thirteen miles long. In its
°we of the most thickly p6pu
centres of the Keystone State,
a few minutes from the
tPUB the dam at Lake Couemaugb
were rolling over one another
ffliad whirl n*> they wore carried by the
waters down the gorge between tie
lolls. At .Johnstown the whole cen
the city was cut as if a mammoth
bad passed over tin* land. At that
large stone bridge of the iVnnsyl
>>i. -a if..
com puny owns. Tim Omemaugh
i** bv it ni an angle. Into tliis
M houses, tTim'S and tVnrcs that i-iunv
the left side f the fixer rushed and
dJlßpil , 'd one on top of another until the
’Ul'i'-r the bridge were closed, tile cur
gj^Bl 1 ! 'e <'. '!!■ itiriu b \\;|s . handed end t!:.
began t<> pile on high ii.itil ral'lcr
. proic. t ••! above i>st-.no. To.on
n •**.id;* all c: .1 (| v ii |ic p! •,
one after another until this terrible
a ten-led a half mile up the si ream.
tell the horror of the shrieks of
who were in the mass ol' tloat-
niter the blockade had formed, the
**^B* ,ll "T*. of tile houses caught lire Mini th.
the railroad bridge became a
jgitiltg furnace. Hundreds of people whe
been drowned oi* crushed in the mad
“stream were burned alive. Their
us the Haines reached them made flu
l,|t hearted wring t! *ir hands in agoi\
inability to render assistance. The
JBgWMew front upstream. The air became
h , th( * F n, .t,ine odors of burning
1 Un *'* atlas: the horrors t ) sighl.
sni d 1 became so great that per
vicinity were forced to leave tin
phtoef IN can while t he greater bulk of houses
had gone down along the right bank. On,
mad Vttsu carried away a portion of the stone
bridge, and then the flood bore down upon
tbe thousands of homes and floated them
farther westward in the Omemaugh.
only a little after live Fridav aft,*r
■Bt when the first, warning came, and as it
raining heavily all day the citizens
Of Johnstown and tla* neighboring hamlets
IlflMgiH that the slowly rising waters only
a light flood. Thus the inhabitants
either grouped in windows or in the
doors, watching what they expected
V 1 ,u; . nM imposing spectacle, but nothing
(> * s,Mme seemed to think it necessary
v should take to the hills, and >■ nil
caught iu the fearful rush.
l*atliotlc Incidents.
y'iJPT Sf, enes will never all be written.
ÜBlady told me of seeing her mother crushed
i Ust before h* r eye*, and the mangled
gjj£ carried off down the stream. William
’■per lost six chihlren and savor! a bal>e
months old. His wife died
three weeks ago. An aged Oormnn, his
flv e daughters floated down on their
point below Ninevah. where the
uas wrecked. The live daughters were
ned, but the old man and his wife stuck
lf tr f e . an(l hung there for twenty-four
■fs before they could bo t a ken off
of the most pitiful sight* of this ter-
H e disaster came to my notice when the
Wy of a young lady was taken out of the
River. The woman was ap.
•ruutljr ~mte young, though her featurk
' temoly disfigured. Nearly nil tho
Hntlnngexeept the shoes was torn otr the
H' 1 1,0 eorpse was that of a mother, for
■’'""‘O' m death the woman clasped a
W' 1111 " male hnhe, apparently not more than
* year oh tighly in her arms. The little ono
HUS huddled close up to its mother's face.
■ s,le realized tlteir terrihle fate
Had evidently raised the habe to her lips to
Hnprmt upon its little lips the last motherly
Hiss it was to receive in this world. The sight
Hl“ pathetic one and turned many a stout
■<>, t to tears.
Among the miraculous escapes to be re
eon led in connection with the great disaster
is that of George J. Leas and family. He re
kid.-d on Iron street, Johnstown. When the
rush of water came there were eight people
on the roof. The little house swung around
off its moorings and floated about for nearly
half an hour lief ore it came up against the
bank of drift above the stone bridge. A
three-year-old girl with sunny golden hair
and dimpled cheeks prayed all the while that
God would save them, ami it seemed that
God really answered the praver of this inno
cent little girl and directed the house against
the drift, enabling every one of the eight to
get oflT. Mrs. Leas carried the little girl in
her arms, and how she got off she doesn’t
know. Every house around them, she said
was crushed, and the people either killed or
drowned.
Harrowing Story of au Eye-Witness.
A correspondent telegraphs a word-picture
of Johnstown as it, looked after the subsidence
of the flood. He says:
“The point of observation was on the hill
side, midway between the woolen mills of
Wood vale and Johnstown proper, which I
reached after a journey through the por
tions of the city from which the waters,
receding fast,' are revealing scenes of
unparalleled horror. From the point
ou the hillside referred to, an excellent view
of the site of the town can be obtained. Here
it can be seen that from the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad which winds along
the base of Prospect Hill, to a point at which
St. John's Catholic Church formerly stood,
and from the stone bridge* to Conemaugh,
on the Conemaugh River, out twelve houses
by actual count remain, and they are
in such a condition as to be prac
tically useless. To any one familiar with the
geography of the iron city of Cambria
County, this will convey a vivid idea of a
swath averaging one-half mile in width find
three miles in length. In all the length and
breadth of the most peaceful and costly por
tion of Johnstown not a shingle remains, ex
cept, those adhering to the buildiugs men
tioned.
"But do not think for an instant that this
comprehends in full the awfulue6S of the
scene. What has just been mentioned is a
waste of large territory swept as clean as if
by a gigantic broom. In the other direction,
along the course of Stony Creek, as far
as Alexander Kennedy’s, the President
of the town councils, some few
of the houses still remain, but they are up
side down. piled on top of each other, and in
many ways so torn asunder that not a single
one of them is available for any purpose
whatsoever. It is iu this district that the
loss of life has been heartrending. Bodies are
being dug up in every direction.
“On the main street from which the waters
have receded sufficiently to render access and
work possible, bodies are being exhumed.
They are as thick as potatoes in a field,
Those in charge seem to have the utmost
difficulty in securing the removal of bodies
after they have been found.
“At the public schoolhouse the scene beg
gars description. Boards have been laid from
ilesk to desk, and as fast as the hands of a large
body of men and women can put the remains
in recognizable shape, they are laid out for
possible identification, and removed as
quickly as possible. Seventy-five still remain,
although many have been taken away, and
they are being'brought in every moment It
is something horrifying to see one portion of
the huge school taken up by rows and
rows of corpses, each with a clean white
sheet covering it, and on the other side of
the room a promiscuous heap of bodies in all
sorts of shapes and conditions, looking for
all the world like decaying tree trunks.
Among the number identified are two beauti
ful young ladies named respectively Mrs
Richardson, who was a teacher in the kinder*
garten school, aud Miss Lottie Yost, whose
sigter I afterward noticed at ono of the cor
ners near by, weeping as if her heart was
broken. Not a single acquaintance did she
count iu all of the great throng who passed
her by, although many of them tendered i-in
cere sympathy, which was accentuated by
their own losses.'*
A Paul Revere Among the Dead.
A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere
among the nameless dead. Who he is may
never be known, but his ride will be famous in
local history. Mounted on a grand big bay
horse, he came riding down the pike which
passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown like
some angel of wrath of old shouting his por
tentous warning; “Run for your lives to the
hills!” “Run to the hills!” The people crowded
mt of their houses along the thickly settled
street, awestruck and wondering. Nobody
knew the man, and some thought he was a
maniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he
rode, and shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a
few moments, however, there came a cloud of
ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow
alleys, grinding, twisting, hurling, over
turning, crashing, annihilating the weak and
the strong. It was the charge of the. flood,
wearing its coronet of ruin and devastation,
which grew at every instant of its progress.
Forty feet high, some say, thirty according to
others, was this sea, anti it traveled with a
swiftness like that which lay hidden in the
heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider,
aud on and on rushed the wave, Dozens of
people took heed of the warning and ran up
to the hills. Poor faithful rider; it was an un
equal contest. Just as he turned across the
railroad bridge the mighty wave fell upon him,
and horse, rider and bridge all went out into
chaos together. A few feet further on several
cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad tram from
Pittsburgh were caught up and hurled into
the cauldron, and the heart of the town
reached at the hero, who turned neither to
right nor left for safety for himself, but rode
on to death for his townsmen.
A Thrilling Story.
James M . Walters, ah attorney, spent the
night in Alma Hall. Johnstown, and relates a
thrilling story. One of the most curious oc
currences of the whole disaster was how Mr.
Walters got to the hall. He has his office on
the second floor. His home is at 185 Walnut
street. He says he was in the house with his
family when the waters struck it. All was
carried away. Mr. Walters’s family drifted
on a roof in another direction. He jassed
down several streets and alleys, until he came
to the hall. His dwelling struck that edifice,
aud he was thrown into his own office. Alxiut
200 persons had taken refuge in the hall, and
were on the second, third and fourth stories.
The men held a ineeting and drew uj> some rules
which all were bound to respect. Mr. Vn alters
was chosen President. The Rev. Mr. Beale was
put in charge of the first floor, A. M. Hart of
the second floor, Dr. Mathews of the fourth
floor. No lights were allowed, and the whole
uight was spent in darkness. The sick were
cared for. The weaker women and children
had the best accommodations that could be
had, while the others had to wait. The scenes
were most agonizing. Heatrendiug shrieks,
sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness.
The crying of children mingled with the sup
pressed sobs of the women. Under the guar
dianship of the men all took more hope. No
one slept during all the long dark night.
Mary knelt for hours in prayer, their
supplications mingled with the roar of
the waters and the shrieks of the
dying in the surrounding houses. In all this
misery two women gave premature birth
children. Dr. Matthews is a hero. Several
of his ribs were crushed by a falling timber
ami his pains were most severe, yet through
all he attended the sick. When two women in
a house across the street shouted for help, he
with two other brave young men climbed
across the drift and ministered to their wants.
No one died during the night, but women and
children surrendered their lives on the suc
ceeding day as a result of terror and fatigue.
Miss Rose Young, one of the ladies in
the hall, wax frightfully cut and bruised.
Mrs. Young had a leg broken. All of Mr.
Walters’s family were saved.
Sleeping on the Ground.
I walked along the hillside and saw hun
dreds of persons lying on the wet grass
wrapped in blankets or quilts. It was grow
ing cold aud a misty rain haul set in. Shelter
was not to be hail, and houses on the hillsides
that had not been swept away were literally
packed from top to bottom. The bare ne
cessities of life were soon at a premium aud
loaves of bread sold at fifty cents. Fortu
nately, however, the relief train from Pitts
burg arrived at 7 o’clock. Otherwise the
horrors of starvation would have been added.
All provisions, however, had to be car
ried over a rough rocky road a distance of
four miles (as I knew, who had been com
pelled to walk it), and in many eases they
were seized by the toughs, and the people
who were in need of food did not get it. It
may sound strange to say much about the
damage to property, but it must be re
membered that tlie living are those who now
suffer and aid is asked for the thousands who
art* left homeless and without a change of
clothing. The damages, including personal
losses, cannot fall short of $40,000,000.
I learned in Johnstown that the Great
Cliartiers Steel Works are swept away with
all the valuable machinery. This alone en
tails a loss of $2,000,000. One million will
not make the Cambria Iron Works whole.
Rich and poor were served alike by this ter
rible disaster. I saw a girl standing in her
bare feet on the river’s bank clad iu a loose
petticoat and with a sawl over her head. At
first I thought she was an Italian woman, but
her face showed t hat I was mistaken. She
whs the belle of the town—the daughter of a
wealthy Johnstown banker—and this single
petticoat and shawl were not only all that
was left her, but all that was saved from the
magnificent residence of her father. She had
escaped to the hills not an instant too soon.
An Estimate of tlie Number of Dead.
Adjutant-General Hastings, whose bureau
at Johnstown is endeavoring to make some
thing like a complete record of the number
of bodies found, sent, to Governor Beaver
on Monday his official estimate that at
least ftdOO deaths would he absolutely proven.
This does not include the large number of
deaths that will never be known of positively,
and General Hastings’s own estimate of tho
total is 8000. .
The loss of property will be far up into the
millions, but no one thinks of that, the
tale of the dead is bad, says a dispatch, but
the tale of the living is bad, too, and it must
have attention. There are as many of
them us of the dead, and they are
hard pressed for food, clothing and all
the necessaries of life. Their necessity
will continue, not for a day, nor tor
a week but for months. They are
as destitute of all that goes to support
life except the bare breath iu their
bodies, ns are the very (load whose half nude
bodies line tlio banks of the Conemaugh for
miles. Their ordinary means of earning a live
lihood are gone, with the rest of the town, but
there is abundant work for every one. But
there must be money to pay the workmen.
Food for the immediate necessity of the
people in Johnstown itself is coming iu from
every side, and there is enough to relieve
their wants.
Toughs Invade the Stricken Town.
Probably fifty barrels of whisky were
washed ashore just below Johnstown, and
those men who had lost everything in this
world sought solace in the fiery liquid. So it
was that as early as 6 o’clock last night the
shrieks and cries of women w ere intermingled
with drunkards’ howls and curses, tvhat
was worse than anything, however, was the
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SHR RVKR )(K RIGHT: RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYf”—JrrKatun,
GOVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNK lil. \MK
fact that incoming trains from Pittsburg
Kroiiirht hun<lr*<ls f toughs who joined with
the Mlhvs ami Bohemian* in rifling thel mm lien,
stealing furniture, insulting wotnen and on
dcavoring Rassunu* control tif any rescuing J
| >ar ties that tric'd to M*>k 11 Ixslies under tin I
I tushes ami in tin* limbs of trees. There wn>
no one iu authority, no one t
akc command of even a citiseus' posst
could it have Imsui organi/.ish A lawicsp
mob seemed to control this narrow nn*k of
land that was the only appnmeh to the city
of Johnstown. 1 saw ]mthorn take watcho
from dead ineii'H jackets and brutally tear
tingcr-rings from the hands of women. Tin* j
ruffians also climbed into the overturned
houses and ransucked the rooms, taking
whatever they thought valuable. No one
dared check*them in this work, and con
sequently tiie scene was not as riotous as it
would liave linen if the toughs had nothud
sway. In fact, they became beastly drunk
after a time and were seen lying around in u
•.tu pur.
Walking in (Tic Torrent's Path.
I walked late yesterday afternoon from
New’ Florence to a place opposite Johnstown,
a distance of four miles. I describe what I
actually saw. All along the wav bodies wort
seen lying on the river banks. In one places
woman was half buried in the mud, only a
limb showing. In another was a mother with
a babe clasped to her breast. Further along
lay a husband and wife, their arms wouuo
around each other’s necks. Probably fifty
bodies were seen on that side of the river,
and it must lie remembered that here the cur
rent was the swiftest, and consequently fewer
of the dead wore landed among the bushes.
On the opposite side bodies could also be seen,
but they were all covered with mud. Neai
Johnstown the wreckage became grand in it*
massive proportions.
The scenes, as 1 neared Johnstown, were
the most heartrending that man was ever
called to look upon. Probably three thou
sand people were scattered in groups along
the Pennsylvania Railroad track and every
one of them had a relative lying dead either
in the wreckage above, iu the river below, or
in the still burning furnace. Not a house
that was left standing was in plumb. Hun
dreds of them were turned on their sides and
in some cases three or four stood one on top
of the other. Two miles from Johns
town, on the opposite side of the
river from where l walked, stood one
half of the water-works of the Cambria
Iron Company, a structure that
had beeu built of massive stone. It was filled
with planks from houses, and a large abut
ment of wreckage was piled up fully fifty feet
in front of it. A little above, on the same
side, could b<* seen what was left of the Cam
bria Iron Works, which was one of the finest
plants in the world. Some of the walls are
still standing, it is true, but not a vestige of
the valuable machinery remained iu sight.
The two upper portions of the works won
swept away almost entirely, and under the
pieces of fallen iron and wood could be seen
the bodies of more than forty workmen.
At this point there? is a bend in the river
and the fiery furnace blazing for a quarter of
a mile square above the stone bridge cams
into view.
“My God!” screamed a woman who was
hastening up the track, “can it be that any
are in there?”
“Yes, over a thousand,” replied a man whe
had just came from the neighborhood, and it
is now learned that he estimated the number
at one thousand too low.
The renes of misery and suffering and
agony and despair cam hardly be chronicled.
One man, a clerk mimed Woodruff, was reel
ing along intoxicated. Suddenly, with a
frantic shout, lie threw himself over the
bank into the flood and would have been
carried to his death had he not been caught
by some persons below. “Let me die ” lie ex
claimed, when they rescued him. “My wife
ami children are gone; I liave no use for my
life.” An hour later I saw Woodruff lying
on the ground entirely overcome by liquor.
Persons who knew iiim said that he had
novel* tasted liquor before.
The Death Score.
The committee at Johnstown in their lasi
bulletin placed the number of lives lost at
eight thousand. Tu doing so they are figur
ing the inhabitants of their own city and the
towns immediately adjoining. But it must bt
remembered that the tidal wave swept ten
miles through a populous district before it
even reached the locality over which this com
mittee has supervision. It devastated a tract
the size amt shape of Manhattan Island.
Here are a few facts that will show the
geographical outlines of the terrible dis
aster: The Hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown,
a massive three-story building of 100 rooms,
has vanished. There were in it seventy-five
guests at the time of the flood. Two only are
now known to be alive. The Merchants’ Hotel
is leveled. How many were inside it is not
known, but as yet no one has been seen who
came from there or heard of an inmate escap
ing. At the Conemaugh round house forty
one locomotives were swept down the stream,
and before they reached the stone bridge all
the iron and steel work had been torn from
7i. TTiT*
great catastrophe to go more into details.
1 stood on the stone bridge at 6 o’clock and
looked into the seething mass of ruin below
me. At one place the blackened body of a
babe was seen; in another, fourteen skull*
could be counted. Further along the bone*
became thicker and thicker, until at last at
one place it seemed as if a concourse of people
who had been at a ball or entertainment, hail
been carried in a bunch and incinerated. At
this time the smoke was still rising to the
height of fifty feet, ami it is expected that
when it dies down the charred bodies will be
seen dotting the entired mass of burned
iebrif _
SERIOUS COMPLICATION.
PATRICK KUAN TO BE RECALLED FROM
THE UNITED STATES MISSION AT CHILI.
Irish circles in New York are full of
the report that minister to Chili Eagan
has been recalled to explain tho refer
ences to his name in the Chicago trial.
John F. Scanlan, who was iu Washing
ton, stopped there on liis way to Chica
go, and it is stated that it was on his
statement that the recall is to be made.
James J. II ’gers. the Brooklyn lawyer,
whose name is signed to the Clan-na-
Gael report as one of the executive com
mittee, has given an interview to report
ers, in which he affects to believe that
Dr. Cronin is not dead at all, and that
the body found was never conclusively
identified as that of the missing man. He
savs there was no reason for Cronin s
death, and adds: “Tho body might
have beeu placed in the catch basin by
men interested in helping the enemies of
the Irish peoplo. There are evidently some
men deeply bent on bringing out to the
public the purposes for which these
moneys were expended. If you have
noticed the reports of tho alleged Cronin
murder in nil tho newspapers the first
three days were remarkably alike as if
inspired by the same set of men. To
me the whole thing looks more and
more every day as the clever work ot
some smart men interested in making it
appear that Cronin was killed. The
doctor, I feel convinced, is still living,
and has been sent out of the way to help
tlie scheme of an alleged murder. He
may not be cognizant of the scheme, but
he is all the same being used skill
fully to help it.” Rogers is an ardent
admirer of Alexander Sullivan, the Chi
cago lawyer, accused of complicity in
the murder of Cronin, and this is tho
latest theory that is said to be now talked
continually inside the circles of the Clan
na-Gad camps.
A HERO.
By the capsizing of a boat in the har
bor of Providence, K. 1., John Moran,
aged eighteen, James McNiff, nineteen,
and William Ilart, sixteen, were
drowned. James Hamilton, aged eigb'
teen, was saved. McNiff was a good
swimmer and declined proffered assist
uocs ifl favor of Hamilton.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEM. OF INTEREST FROM VA
HIOL 9 POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
AN ITI-Iu; |) A' '( (.UNI U WHAT IS OdiNO ON
IMPOhI vN< E IN Till SOI'TIIKRN HTATIH.
('apt, I.m ien L. Bom, president of the
board of aldermen, of Richmond, Va.,
died Saturday.
The Pullman Palace Car Cos., have
gent a Representative to Raleigh, N.
and will tight the slate tax levy in the
courts. .
United States Senator Joseph K. Brown
is so si|< at Ida home in Atlanta, tin ,
that o|nc politicians arc log-rolling for
his successor.
E. H Davenport, senior member of
the large importing and grocery house of
Davenport & Morris, of Richmond, Va.,
Uiod Sunday.
Bishop Quintard's beautiful residence,
at Suwanec, Tenn., was burned Saturday
night. The bishop's valuable collection
of curiosities was totally destroyed.
Edwin Harris, late deputy collector of
New Orleans, La., has been indicted by
the jury on ten count* for em
bezzlement of sums aggregating nearly
$4,000.
All the laborers at the government
work, on the Warrior river, near Tuska
luosa, Ala , went out on a strike. They
demanded an increase of pay and the dis
charge of the present foreman. The con
tractors refuse to accede to either of theii
demands.
Dispatches report that a severe wind,
rain and hail storm, passed over a large
porti fr.' Of Wostera Missouri Sunday, do
ing eousideratile damage to crops and
buddings. Near Warrensburg a church
was Id nvn down and two persona dan
gerously injured.
Murtin La lrvett, a sporting man well
known in Charleston, Savannah, Gn., Co
lumbia and Greenville, S. C., dropped
dead at 3 a. m. Saturday, lie was engaged
in placing a game of cards when lie was
suddenly attacked by heart disease, and
died in a few hours.
A meeting of the Greenville, S. C.,
Farmers’ Alliance was held there in the
courthouse on Saturday. About one
hundred representatives were present.
Nearly n.l the sub-alliances in the state
were represented. Resolutions were
passed adopting cotton bagging to take
the place of jute.
The Henderson Steel Cos., let the con
tract for the erection of a thirty ton steel
plant, at Birmingham, Ala. The com
pany has hud a small experimental plant
in operation over twelve months, and
the stockholders have become fully sat
isfied of the success of the Henderson
patents which they own. An excellent
quality of steel is made from the phos
phorous iron ore of the section.
One of the most dramatic incidents
ever witnessed in a church in Atlanta,
Ga., took place on the occasion of the
delivery of a Bermon by Judge Howard
Van Epps on Sunday, who acted us sup
ply for Rev. Dr. Morrison of Jhe First
.Methodist Church. The judge’s subject
was the betrayal of Christ, and as he
described the scene and the agony of the
Savior in the garden of Gcthsemane, a
furious storm raged outside, and the
learned jurist’s remarks were punctuated
by flashes of lightning and peals of
thunder.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Ark.,
gives the details of a terrible " cyclone
which swept through that city Sunday.
The Methodist and Baptist churches and
several residences were wrecked, while
the roof of the Arkansas elevator, m
which is located the Missouri Pacific
depot, was blown across the tracks, de
molishing a number of loaded freight
cars. The ouly lives lost were those of
Kate Wrdton, aged 15; Tudy Walton,
aged 9. Mrs. Walton, the mother, was
badly injured, and another daughter,
Lizzie Walton, had a hip dislocated.
All arc colored.
Robert L. Howell, a young man 19
years of age, and Zacli Aleywine, a
night watchman, had a dispute in the
round-houso of the Marietta & North
Georgia Railroad, in Marietta, and the
lie passed between them. The dispute
was about some potato slips sold by
Aleywine to Howell; the latter went off
after a pistol and shot Aleywiue through
the heart. There seems to be some kind
of fatality about the watchmen at this
shop. Almost exactly three years ago,a
negro watchman was murdered while on
duty there, and not the slightest clew
has ever been discovered as to who did
tire crime.
J. 11. Benjamin, editor of the DcLaud
Aeirs, shot and instantly killed C:pt. J.
W. Douglas, at Now Smyrna, Fla.,
Thursday. Douglas is a prominent citi
zen of Daytonia, and a well-known poli
tician. The shooting was the result of
an old fend renewed by recent attacks
by Benjamin in the columns of his
newspaper. Douglas assaulted Benja
min, knocking him off the pier into the
matsh and jumping on him, choking him
and holding his head under the water.
Benjamin managed to get hold of his
revolver, and placing it against Douglas’
body, fired. The ball entered his heart,
and Douglas died almost instantly.
A fight between the strikers and scab
laborers at the Sloss furnaces, Bumiug
hani, Ala., was averted Saturday by the
timely arrival of Sheriff Smith with a
strong posse. 'I he colored coke drawers
at the Sloss furnaces struck Fridsy for
an advance of ten costs per oven in wa
ges. New men were secured and put to
work Saturday morning. A large num
ber of strikers appeared on the scene and,
attacking the new men, drove them from
the ovens. The strikers then surrounded
the ovens and refused to let tiny one work.
The new men were mad. and wanted to
fight. The company appealed to the
sheriff for aid, and soon a strong posse
arrested six of-the ringleaders and placed
them in the county jail.
Very few court attendants are
attending the Woolfolk trial at
Fort Valley, Ga. Many predict a mis
trial. Opinions differ ns to the evidence
heard. Including the mistrial, 393 men
men have been examined as talesmen,
227 disqualified, 111 declared competent,
and four set aside by con
sent. There tre 050 names iu
the jury boxes. Every mime had been
drawn when the twelfth juror was ac
cepted. A majority of the twelve arc
church members, two of them Primitive
Baptiste, eleven have blue eyes, one dark
brown. J. M. Frederick is a grand
father. "Three hours were used in exam
ining two jurors.
Just before sunriso on Thursday, as
Alfred Prioleau, a negro, was going to
his work, passing an unoccupied store
near the railroad track* at Ridgeway*. 8-
he was suddenly fired upon by Cor
nelia* Means, also colored. The weapon
used was a double-barrel shot gun.
Means wq about fifteen feet from liit
victim, and ns Prioleau fell to the
ground lie rushed upon him and struck
him three heavy blows with the butt of
the gun, upon the forehead, breaking
the weapou at the breech. Returning to
the house, in front of which he had fired,
Means Did by his gun and got his pistol.
Then, standing over till now dead body,
he pointed his pistol downward and fired
once, the hall cutering the wooden
bridge on which the corpse lay. Means
was arrested.
The Augusta, Ga., exchange has just
compiled the answers of its correspond
ent, in reply to crop inquiries iu seventeen
counties in Georgia, and five counties in
South Carolina. Sevcuty-six corre
spondents report the acreage as lastyeai;
fortv-Beven report a decrease of tcu per
cent, and six an increase of five per cent.
Seventy-seven report planting as having
progressed favorably, sixty-six report
that it has not. Oniy one correspondent
out of 133 reports the plant up with
good stands. All report bad effect from
:00l nights, retarding growth and pro
ducing lice. The general tenor of all
reports is that the crop is not in good
condition. One hundred aad eight cor
respondents reports the crops from ten
days to two weeks late.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS Elton EVERYWHERE— ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
HUES, AM) HAEEENINOS OE INTEREST.
The Bank of Omaha, Neb., has failed,
with liabilities of $75,000; assets nomi
nal.
Emperor William’s review of the Eng
lish fleet off Spithcad, has been fixed
for August 5.
Eighteen miners at Essen, Germany,
who wore recently on strike, have been
sentenced to imprisonment for terms
ranging from two to six months for
rioting.
Herr Seigel, editor of the Vaterland.
i clerical paper of Munich, Germany, has
been sentenced to six weeks’ imprison
ment for libelling the late Dowager
Queen.
The Germans in Switzerland protest
against.the German official press attacks
upou the Swiss government. Meetings
have beeu culled in Berne to discuss the
matter, and great excitement prevails.
The French cabinet considered favor
ably the request of the American resi
dents for permission to hold a public
celebration in Paris July 4. President
Carnot has consented to unveil a statue
of liberty on that day.
A severe tornado Saturday evening
wrecked many buildings at Danvers,
west of Bloomington, 111. A church was
destroyed, freight cars blown from the
tracks, a tile factory ruined and many
harna and dwellings unroofed.
Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery
Society, in Loudon, England, say that
the Mahdists have made Western Abys
sinia n desert. Whole flocks and herds
have been destroyed, thousands of
Christians have beeu thrown into slavery,
thousands of others have been butchered
and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants
have been taken to Mecca as slaves in
violation of treaties.
On Sunday, Private William Young, of
Company C, Fourteenth regiment N. U.
I'., committed suicide in his tent at
Johnstown, Pa., the scene of the flood,
by shooting himself in the head with a
title. He was a farm laborer. He had
been sick for several days, but nothing
in his manner indicated that he contem
plated taking his life. He was 29 years
if age, and leaves a wife and two child
ren.
In a debate on the educational budget
in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris,
France, the effort of ex Premier Ferry
to address the house caused a great un
roar. A member of the right shouted:
‘■The blood of the Touquin dead chokes
you!” and many similar cries were heard,
be Cussagnac advised the house to sub
mit and listen. “We swallow our dis
gust !” exclaimed Bourgois, deputy for
the department of the Vendee, and order
w.is restored.
FRATERNAL GREETINGS.
UNION RECOMMENDED BETWEEN CONGRE
GATIONALIBTS NORTH AND SOUTH.
At a meeting of the American Home
Missionary Society, held at Saratoga, N.
Y., to decide the condition on which
Southern white churches that have re
cently applieil for congregational fellow
ship shall be aided by the society, after
a very earnest discussion of the present
and future relations between them and
the congregational churches and associa
tions already in that region, the members
of which are mostly colored, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed : “In the full conviction that these
churches are in accord with the princi
ples of this society, and with those held
by the congregational churches which it
represents, Resolved, That we heartily
welcome them to fellowship. We com
mend them to the fraternal sympathy
and prayers of all our people, and we
request the officers of the society to ex
tend them such financial aid as they may
need, as promptly as its treasury shall
permit. Resolved, That this society
rejoices to learn that an effort is being
made to unite the Georgia Congregation
al Conference and the Georgia Congre
gational Association on principles of
equal recognition and the fellowship of
all churches of each body, and trust that
such union shall be accomplished.
Great satisfaction was expressed at the
unanimous adoption of these resolutions,
as at oho time it was feared that there
might ho a serious split on the casta
question."
KANSAS CYCLONE.
The section around Wichita, Kan.,
was vi-ited by a most severe storm Sat
urday. The western part of Sedgewiek
county and eastern part of Kingman
county suffered most, and a space twenty
miles long by live miles wide was swept
over by the cvclone. A farmer named
Rogers and his family were killed, aud
many others ure homeless. A heavy
rain, followed the hail, which laid low
the grain and fruit crops.
DRY^GOODS TRUST.
It is said on good authority that nc
gotiations are now pending which will
result iu transferring to a number of for
eign capitalists some of the largest dry
B g(Tods houses of New York.
ALLIANCE DOTS.
SOM: THING FOR FARMERS TV
If FAD AND STUDY ON.
THK HAIUtOAUS FlItM.
At a meeting of the Joint Rate Com
inittoe of tlie Trunk lines and Central
Traffic Association, a vote was taken
upon the application of the Baltimore A
Ohio Railioad for a reduction of the rates
on corn to the basis of 20c. per one hun
dred pounds from Chicago to New York.
The vote stood against the proposed re
duction.
wooi.onowrNo.
President Harrison has received a let
ter from a committee of the National
Wool-Growers’ Association of the United
Slates, dated at Columbus, Ohio, urging
the necessity for an extra session of Con
gress, to Ire convened at the earliest prac
ticable day, for the purpose of enacting
necessary legislation in regard to wool
growing ami other industries of the
country.
BAD CROCS.
Fine raius fell here, but the cool, win
dy weather that has prevailed since that
time has somewhat counteracted till
benefits of the rain aud prevented the
rapid growth of the crops. Farmer!
Mill complain of bad stands of cotton,
late planted corn. The wheat crop will
fall far below the average, and Spring
o its are a total failure. Full oats nrc
fairly good, but the acreage is small.—
Qrtenu'ood, S. C., Paper.
IIP. KAT.B COUNTY, OA.
The Farmers’ Alliances of DeKslL
county bold their quarterly meeting at
Wesley chapel on July 4th, and the fam
ilies of all the members in the county are
invited to attend and have a basket din
ner. It promises to be one of the largest
gatherings of farmers and their families
ever held in the county. There will ben
DcKalb county colt show in Decatur on
the first Tuesday in August. One pre
mium has been offered for the best eolt,
and other premiums will be offered.
There ure some fine colts in the county,
and the day promises to be an interesting
one to stock raisers.
KNCOURAGINO.
Money to move the crops will not bo
needed for two or three months yet, and
until that time conies, gold exports can
go on without exciting much uneasiuess.
But if there should not be enough mon
ey readily available when tliut need be
comes apparent, business will suffer.
Crop prospects still remain good, and all
rumors of anew rate war among the
main lines of railroads have thus far been
shown to be groundless. Indeed, il
crops turn out to be as heavy as they
promise to be, there will tic but little
chance of a rate war at all this year.
The financial outlook, in fact, continues
to be highly encouraging.
POOR OUTLOOK.
Crop prospects in Maryland, Pennsyl
vania and Virginia, have greatly deterio
rated, the recent heavy rains having
prostrated the wheat, anil the damage is
only to be reckoned when it is known
bow much will come up. A wcll-iu
formed gentleman from Frederick coun
ty, Md., one of the finest wheat districts
of the state, says that a great deal of the
wheat was down and would never come
up, and this is a fair indication of the
situation in these three states. When
one considers the brilliant promise of a
few days ago, the present aspect is de
plorable, while every moment of a con
tinuance of rain increases the damage.—
Baltimore Journal.
THRIFTY COLORED FOLKS.
The colored pcoole in the Albany,
Ga., section is gradually becoming more
thrifty. Those who own their farms, if
they will work themselves, aro generally
doing well. Sometimes they pay very
high prices for their land, buying it on
time at almost any figure asked. It is a
struggle for several years to pay for it,
hut when this iscventually accomplished,
they usually make good citizens, having
peace, good order and the welfare of the
country at heart. Said Lewis Davis,
colored, of Dougherty county: “Three
years ugo I bought ltlil 2-3 acres out in
the green woods, for SBOO, on time. I
cleared a portion of the land and went
to work on it. lam gradually paying off
the debt. Last year on the part of the
land which I cultivated, I made 14 1-2
bales of cotton, 280 bushels of corn
and 150 gallons of syrup, which I sold
for fifty cents per gallon. I raise hogs
and have between twenty-five and thirty
head of cattle."
now to no IT.
The eld town of Wethersfield, which
is on the Connecticut River, near Hart
ford, Conn- was for a century at least,
the center of the onion trade in Now
England. Forty years ago it divided
with the town of Bristol, in Rhode Is
land, the honor of raising the hulk of all
the onions consumed in the country.
Forty-five years sgo the cry of “opposi.
tion to monopoly” was started against
the middle men who acted as
and the growers organized for them
selves. They selected three of the bright
est and smartest young men in the
town to go to New' York and manage
their business there. They decided to
stick by the young tradesmen through
thick and thin. The result was more
money for the farmers aud handsome
commissions for the agents. The mo
nopoly was broken down in the end.
The cultivation of onions has been dying
out rapidly for the past fifteen years.
Not one-third of the acreage which was
sowed during the War is now used for
the crop. Tobacco and garlic have sup
planted the popular product ot a cen
tury.
GEORGIA CHOPS.
There are some interesting points in
the crop report for the month of Juno
which is now being issued from the state
department of agriculture of Georgia.
Corn is a little off. The condition of
the crop has fallen from 90 on May Ist to
90, owing to unfavorable weather. The
hud worm lias been destroying stands in
bottom lands. The fields are in good
condition as to culture, the piaut, as a
rule, bus a healthy color, though small.
The prospects of oats has steadily and
rapidly declined since the last report, the
present showing a reduction of 69, as
compared with an average condition,
against 98 one month ago. The small
urea sown iu the Fall has contributed tc
prevent au almost total failure of the
crop. The wheat crop is unusually good,
being 93 compared with au average.
These figures are probably below the
real facts. The condition of tlie cotton
crop was critical, though m>t alarming,
even on the first of May, as has been in
timated. Since that date the only re
deeming circumstances have been the
absence of any sudden and overpowering
disaster, guch ss flood or frost, and the
NUMBER 34.
opportunity nlTorded farmers io get en
tirely clear of grain where it was poasi
lile toplow. The dry weather,cold wind*
and low temperature generally, have re
tarded germination aud growth, and eu
oiurmrud insect depredation. It is not
too much to say, that the cotton proa
iKM-t on June 1 was lower than it has
been on the same date within at least ten
years. All of North Georgia, and par
ticularly iu Middle Georgia, there ii uni
versal complaint of poor atnuds, and a
lousy and unthrifty condition of the
plants. In extreme Southwest Georgia
the crop is much better than elsewhere.
The fact that the crops are clean and the
soil generally in mellow condition, to
gether with the recent rain* that have
fallen ovor the greater part of the state,
encourage the hope that even yet the be
lated crops will spring forward and yield
abundant harvests. An unprecedented
yield of fruit is well nigh assured, as no
heretofore known disaster can occur to
destroy tlie crop, excepting possibly
continued and excessive rains throughout
the period of ripeuing.
WASHINGTON, D. 0.
MO VKMENTS OF THK PRESIDENT
AND BIS ADVISERS.
AI-l-OIN 1 UESTS, DECISIONS, AND OTKKB MATTERS
Ol INTEREST FROM THK NATIONAL CAPITAL.
John C. Kelton is now the adjutant
general of the army in place of Gen.
Drum, retired.
President Harrison has ordered that
Sunday morning inspections under arms
shall be abolished, and the inspection
shall consist on Sunday of merely as to
dress and general appearance.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hospital Service, left Washing
ton on Thursday for Johnstown, Pa., te
confer with tlie state board of Pennsyl
vania regarding the sanitary condition of
affairs in the fiood-bhghted district.
Sir Julian Pauncefotc, British minis
ter, called on President Ifarrisou, in
company with Secretary Blaine, and de
livered a message from Queen Victoria,
expressing her deep sympathy for the
sufferers by the recent floods in Pennsyl
vania.
A report of the American consul at
Amoy. China, to the State Department,
furnishes some startling fact* as to the
adulteration of tea shipped from that
country to the American market. Next
to England, this country is the greatest
tea market in the world; and as the sys
tem of British inspection is now very
strict, Chinese merchants are hunting up
other fields to which they may send their
spurious and doctored goods.
Gen. Hepburn, Solicitor of the Treas
ury, has rendered an official decision that
the importation of learned professors
from Europe to teach in American
schools and colleges “would be clearly a
violation of the terms of the alien con
tract labor law." a similar ruling,
the congregation of a church in America
is prohibited from engaging u minister of
the Gospel to preach to them, if he is
not a citizen of this country.
Tiie President ou Thursday appointed,
to be collector of internal revenue, John
B. Eaves, of North Carolina, for the sth
district of North Carolina. William A.
Allen, of Tennessee, for the 2d district
of Tennessee, vice Nathan Gregg, re
moved. David A. Nunn, of Tennessee,
for the sth district of Tennessee. Eaves
is a farmer by occupation. Alien is a
resident of Greenville, and has been in
terested in the manufacture of tobacco
iu Greenville county, and iu Virginia.
Nunn is a native of the state, and lives
at Brownsville.
In the ease of Capt. George A. Armes,
U. 8. A., retired, sentenced by general
court martial to be dismissed from the
service, the President hus commuted the
sentence in consideration of the good
service which this officer has rendered,
and of some mitigating circumstances
connected with the offenses of which he
was found guilty, to confinement within
such limits as the Secretary of War may
prescribe, and to the deprivation of the
right to wear the uniform and insignia
of his rank in the army for the period of
five years. His conduct in connection
with inauguration day parade, and hil
attempt to pull Governor Beaver’s nose
afterwards, formed the basis of the
charges against him. lie was actiDg as
a secret guard to the President at the
time the alleged offenses took place.
SEATTLE’S FIRE.
A careful and diligent investigation
thus far made in Seattle shows no lives
have been lost. While the flames were
raging, a man was seen carrying firebrands
acros an alley. He was setting fire to a
house that had escaped the flames,
when a special policeman commenced
shooting at him. To avoid the shots, he
darted into the house he had fired, and
never came out alive. While the Occi
dental hotel was burning, Officer James
Campbell saw a man attempting to get
into the Puget Souud National Bank by
the back entrance. He ordered him to
stop, when the man drew a revolver, and
the officer fired three shots aud brought
him to a standstill. At a mass meeting
on Saturday night of the people of Port
land, Oregon, if was unanimously de
cided to abandon the Forth of July cel
ebration, and forward the fund raised
for the purposes of Seattle
sufferers. Considering the de
struction of all the hotels, restaurants,
stores, banks, newspaper offices
and telegraph offices, the stoppage of the
liable aud electric railway, the depot and
‘.he wharves and the general demoraliza
uou, there is not a* much inconvenience
is would be expected and no suffering at
ill. Estimates of the local losses range
ill the way from $7,000,000 to $10,000,-
)00. It is safe to say that 25 per cent,
jf the lusses will fall on the insurance
so.mpanies.
GERMANY ANGRY.
The German papers ssv, that unless
the Swiss Bunderath reproves the official
concerned in the Wohlgemuth affair,
Germany will take reprisals by restrict
ing tlie frontier intoieourse with fteight,
postal and passenger service. Wohlge
muth is a German police inspector, who
was arrested in Switzerland on the
charge of bribing a Swiss to act as agent
provocateur, and was expelled from the
country.
cotton.
The total expansion in the cotton area
for all the states has been for several
years small. The changes this season are
a little larger than a year ago. A net
increase over 1888of 2.34 per ccut, bring
ing up the total to 20,309,480 acres ir
1889, against 19,845,430 in 1888,