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THE COTTRANT AMERICAN.
VOL. XIX.
CALVESTBN IS
STORM SWEPT.
lyiany Texas Towns Are Almost
Demolished
5Y STORM’S AWFUL FURY.
toss of Lives 1500; Loss of Prop
erty $10.000,000- National
Aid to Be Af ked.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. io.~-
The most appalling calamity in
the history of modern times has
befallen Galveston. Everywhere
there is death and ruin and desola
tion. A great commercial city is
stricken with misfortune and her
people appeal to the outside world
for help. ~
Parents mourn their children
and children are made orphans by
the terrible hurricane which swept
all of south Texas Saturday night.
The damage to business and to
residence property is beyond com
putation. The city is almost ruin
ed. The wharf front is entirely
gone. Every ocean steamer is
stranded. The fine steamer Alamo
lies upon the top of the Mallory
wharf, and a big English cotton
laden steamer was driven ashore
at Texas City. Other vessels are
aground in different parts of the
bay, some hopelessly wrecked.
The tug Louise, of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company, is un
der water at Redfish. Two of the
crew were drowned. The remain
der escaped in life boats,
No pen can depict, or even ade
quately describe the awfulness of
the situation. It is simply im
mense, unparallelled, and even
those who went through the expe
rience of the storm and survived
are so dazed they can hardly real
ize the enormity of the loss.
Debris is everywhere. Electric
light and telegraph poles are near
ly all prostrated and the streets
are littered with timbers, slate,
glass and every conceivable char
acter of debris. There is hardly a
habitable house in the entire city
and nearly every business house is
badlydamaged. The school build
ings are all unroofed, such edifices
as the Ball High School and Rosen
berg school buildings being badly
wrecked. The fine churches are
almost in ruin. The elevators and
warehouses are unfit for use the
electric light plant has collapsed
and so has the cotton factory.
From Tremont to P street,thence
back to the beach not a vestige of
a residence is to be seen.
In the business section of the
city the water was from three to
ten feet deep in the stores and
stocks of all kinds, including food
stuffs, are a total loss.
The storm began raging between
9 and io o’clock on Saturday morn
ing and by noon the waters from
the gulf had inundate and the island
as far inland as 12th street. From
f here the waters gradually en
croached further inland, rising
about fifteen inches an hour. At
6 p. m., there was thirty-six inches
ot water in the lobbies of the Tre
mont hotel, the highest point in
the city. Across the street, where
the ground is lower a horse was
drowned. At 9 o’clock the water
on Market street was level with
the seats of the street cars. After
that it gradually receded, but the
wind was a cyclone in its force. It
reached a velocity of eighty-four
rniles an hour and then the instru
ments in the government observa
tory were wrecked.
As soon as daylight came and
the fury of the wind had abated
the work of rescue and searching
for the dead commenced. In one
room the Post reporter counted
•seven dead bodies.
The Tremont hotel was convert
ed into a rendezvous for the living.
Tne women and children slept
the dining rooms and parlors
and the men lay on the floors and
111 the hallways.
The first house to collapse was
anew three-story brick building
known as the Dulitz building.
ex t the Reuter’s saloon, a two
story brick building fell with a
'ash, killing three o the most
prominent men in Galveston —
tanley E. Spencer, agent of the
merman Lloyd Steamship Com
pany; Richard Lora and Charles
'hner, the latter a cotton man.
At noon the big wagon bridge
down with a crash and it is
• 'ought the other bridgesare totally
0r a ‘rnost totally wrecked.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1900.
FELL LORTY
FEETINSHAFT.
Gus Reed, a Young Miner, Meets
With Accident
AT CHUMLER HILL MINE.
Is Drawn Out With Foot and Ankle
Broken and Body Bruised—Am
putation Probable.
Gus Reed, a young miner, fell
forty feet in a shaft at Chumler
Hill manganese mine, yesterday
morning, and was taken out in a
badly mangled condition.
The hands at the mine were
drawing ore from the shaft and
Reed was attending to one of the
buckets. In receiving a bucket,
his foot accidentally slipped and he
slid in the mouth of the shaft and
fell to the bottom. He was rescued
and it was found that his foot and
ankle were both broken, the bones
crushed and the flesh badly man
gled. He was bruised also about
the body.
Dr. Covington was called and
sent for Dr. Alfred Calhoun to as
sist him. The foot and lower leg
will probably have to come on
through amputation.
Gus Reed is a faithful worker at
the mines and is a very clever
young maa. His home is at the
widow Lewis place.
Chumler Hill is the same mine
where several men lost their lives
last year by the mine flooding and
drowning them. It is nine miles
from ritv.
-L/duas, Texas, cepi. 10 — A spec
ial to the News from Houston,
says:
Additional particulars of the
storm at Galveston show that
about 1,500 persons were drowned
and ten millions of dollars worth of
property destroyed. There is not
a building in the city that was not
damaged to some extent. All the
bath houses on the beach were de
stroyed and their attendants
drowned. The Sealy hospital was
destroyed and most of the patients
drowned. The grain elevators
were destroyed and one ot them
containing 1,000,000 bushels of
wheat. The Ball high school and
the Resenburg school buildings
were destroyed and many persons
who had taken refuge in them
killed. Eight big steamships in
port were all wrecked. All three
of the railroad bridges and the
county bridge across to the main
land at Virginia point were swept
away and the bridge tenders and
their famlies drowned. The loss
of life and property is simply ap
palling. It was the most severe
storm of modern history. The en
tire island was submerged and
water was eight feet on Tremont
avenne. Telegraphic communica
tion will not be restored to Galves
ton for several days yet.
Houston, Sept. 10. —The scene
of desolation and death not only
from Galveston but at many inland
points in Texas, is the condition
presented today, the result of Sat
urday’s storm.
Harrowing tales of the loss of
whole famlies and miraculous es
capes are told by a few suryivors.
Relief trains which arrived here
early this morning are the only
means of communication with
storm swept Galveston.
The cotton and rice crops
throughout the district were de
vasted by the storm, badly dam
aged in many places and in others
totally destroyed.
Reports from Richmond, Texas,
Letitia and Eagle Lake, bring ad
ditional lists of dead and property
losses and many places, cut off
from all communication, are yet to
be heard from.
Washington, Sept. io. —The of
ficers of the national gouernment
have taken steps to render all pos
sible aid to the flood suffering of
Texas. The president this morn
ing sent telegrams of sympathy to
the governor of rhe state and the
mayor of Galveston and promised
to render all possible relief.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin also tele
graphed instructions to Gen. Mc-
Kibbin, commanding the depart
ment of Texas at San Antonio, to
proceed to Galveston and investi
gate the extent and character of
the damage by the hurricane and
to report to the secretary of war
what steps are necessary to allevi
ate the sufferings of the people and
improve the situation.
THE STORY
OF II PRIVATE.
Mr- L- Patrick Tells of His Exper
ience in Philippines.
THE GOVERNMENT IS ROBBED-
Aguinaldo. Deceived by the Admin
istration, Wiil Not Surrender
Before November.
Macon News.
Mr. M. L. Patrick, of the for
tieth regiment, company L, has re
turned to this country from the
Phillippines and tells a story which
if true, and he asserts most posi
tively that it is, is not only terrible
but it is horrible.
He said in an interview with a
News reporter this morning that
the report of Dewey making terms
with Aguinaldo was true and that
everybody who has been to Ma
nila will corroborate it. He says
that Dewey did promise Aguinaldo
the protection of the United States
and that he furnished him with the
very guns that his soldiers are kill
ing American soldiers with.
Mr. Patrick says that the war
in the Phillippines is being prose
cuted solely for what there is in it
for those who have it in charge.
He says that the soldiers in the
Philliopines are only half fed,
while ship load after ship load of
food is sent there. He says that
in the field the array is fed on hard
tack and coffee, while those in
charge are getting rich on the stuff
that is being sold to merchants in
Manila and other places in the
Phillippines.
Mr. Patrick went to Manila Sep
tember 20, 1899, and left there the
15th of May. The life of a soldier
over there is a hard one. It rains
nearly all the time and the soldier#
have to stay in the trenches which
are often filled with water and
mud, and they are compelled to
drnik dirty, muddy water. The
hospitals are always full of sick
soldiers and they die there and are
buried and never a word is said
about it. He says that whenever
a man is too sick for duty he is
asked if he wants a discharge and
he is made to sign a paper in which
he declares that the sickness or
whatever the trouble he may have
was contracted prior to his joining
the army and that he relinquishes
all claims for a pension.
He says that the transport Grant,
on which he came oyer, was be
sides being a transport a supply
ship and that one of the men told
him that on one trip 150 tons cf
bacon had been burned in the fur
naces of the ship in order that it
may tally with a former report of
one of the commissary officers in
regard to a lot of meat being in
spected and condemned, when it
was really sold to merchants in
Manila.
He also said that the list of cas
ualties was always greater than
reported and that men were dying
out there every day and that the
facts were being kept hid.
In speaking of Aguinaldo Mr.
Patrick said that he was a smart
fellow and that he had perfect con
trol over the people of the islands
and that a word from him would
stop the war, but that Aguinaldo
had been so badly deceived by the
present government that he could
not trust anything they told him
and that he was only waiting until
after the election November until
he saw whether or not the demo
crats were successful and in the
event they were the question over
there could be easily settled and
that, too, without bloodshed.
“We can do nothing over there
as long as the republican party is
in power. The democrats must
win in qjder to secure the end of
the war and to make peace with
the Filipinos. They have no faith
in McKinly and any promises or
overtures he may make to them
will be useless. His representa
tives over there have played them
so false that they will not believe
anything he may say or do.” Thus
said Mr. Patrick as he turned to
leave.
Mr. Patrick’s home is in Lyons,
Ga., and he says that he can prove
that everything he has said is true.
He was discharged because of
many wounds received in action.
GREAT REVIVAL
OE RELIGION
Now in Progress at the Methodist
Church.
MANY PROFESSED CONVERSION
Much Shouting Indulged In—Good
Singing—Church Packed at Ev
ery Service.
The people of Cartersville are in
the midst of the most wonderful
revival of religion that has come
upon them for years. It was star
ted at the Methodist church last
Sunday week. The pastor, Rev.
W. R. Branham, has been assisted
by Rev. W. A. Harris, of Rock
mart. and Mr. C. A. Dunaway of
Cedartown.
Mr. Harris and Mr. Dunaway
were fresh from a wonderful meet
ing at Stilesboro, where many sin
ners professed conversion. There
was considerable interest at the
start among the members of the
Methodist church, but it was con
tagious and soon members of the
other churches and the pastors
were giving their attention to it.
There have been two services a
day, an experience meeting, or
more properly speaking, a love
feast, in the morning and a sermon
at night. These morning meetings
have been wonderfully spiritual
and sometimes there have been as
many as five or six on their feet
at one time giving in their expe
rience, telling of the blessings they
had received.
But the power of the spirit of
God has been manifested in a won
derful manner at night. Mr. Har
ris presents the truths of the Bible
in a very forcible way and the
spirit of God seems to be impress
ing them on the hearts of those
who have been looked upon as in
corrigible sinners, Many hard
cases have been converted and all
the churches are receiying new
members. Monday night, so deep
was the interest that the altar was
filled with penitents. Every one
of them professed conversion. Then
the altar was filled up again and
these too professed a saying faith
in Christ. A third time the peni
tents, in answer to the earnest in
vitations of Mr. Dunaway, came
flocking to the front and kneeling
at the altar prayed fox mercy.
Many faithful, workers from the
different churches kneeled, prayed
and talked with them until neady
eleven o’clock, when the last one
professed conversion.
The singing has been spiritual,
uplifting, and has had much to do
in deepening the feeling in the
meeting. Any shouting? Well
yes, some were just so full of joy
that they had to let it out. There
was a mother whose children had
been hard hearted and unconcern
ed. She had prayed for them day
and night for years. When she
saw them, both profess conversion
in one night—well—put yourself
in her place and you would prob
ably have done just as she did —
indulged in some hallelujahs unto
God. Then who could have blamed
that young wife who had a hus
band she had well nigh given up,
if she lifted up her voice in shouts
of glory to God when she saw him
stand up and confess Christ as his
Saviour.
And then there was a father and
a mother and several children, in
fact a whole family, shouting at
the same time and men who have
been taking the name of God. on
their lips only in profanity were
going about singing His praise
and shaking hands with everybody
as they smiled from out of their tear
wet faces.
But best of all.many old grudges
have been wiped out and men who
have not been speaking toeach other
in years are now on friendly terms
and are enabled to say “Behold
how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in
unity.
No time has yet been fixed for
the meeting to come to an end.
It has been one of great power
and its effects will be felt in Car
tersville for years to come.
Fall time is the best
season to paint—Good
PAINTS and cheap
Paints.
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DR. BUFORD ALL RIGHT-
News That Ha Was Drowned
Provad to Be Untrue.
The daily papers of last Satur
day contained a dispatch from
Fort St. Phillip, La., stating that
Dr. O. H. Buford, formerly of this
place, but wuo is now a surgeon
in the United States army and sta
tioned at the above place,had been
drowned during the severe storm
which swept over that section last
Friday. His lelatives and host of
warm friends here were greatly
distressed, and immediate steps
were taken to communicate with
the Fort. Late Saturday evening
a dispatch from Dr. Buford him
self stated that he was all right,
and great relief was felt.
On Monday morning Mr. J. H.
Viviou received a letter from Dr.
Buford dated September Bth, from
which we make the following ex
tract:
“On Thursday night a gentle
man and myself were out sailing
and were caught in the storm. Our
boat was driven on the breakers.
We got ashore with a line, and
they got our boat tied up sate, but
the storm increased until it was
wrecked. We were a night and a
day getting back across the river.
As we did not turn up on time, a
searching party went out and found
the boat and, not finding us, circu
lated it that we were lost. So I
guess the papers will ha\ i it so.
Late yesterday we were seen across
the river, and a boat crew of six
men came for us.
“The lowland of Louisiana are
not as good as the highlands of
Georgia in a storm.”
Dr. Buford’s Cartersville friends
rejoice that the report proved to be
untrue, and congratulate him on his
escape from a watery grave.
M’KNIGHT FOR CONGRESS-
Populist Consrrssslonal Convention
Meets In This City.
The populist congressional con
vention for the seventh district met
here Tuesday. Most of the coun
ties in the district were represent
ed.
The meeting was to have been
held in the noon interim of the
city court and convened promptly
on the adjournment of that body.
Col. John H. Traylor, the party’s
candidate for governor, addressed
the convention and in the midst of
his talk the hour for court to as
semble arrived and an adjournment
was had to one of the rooms on the
lower floor, where the business was
finished.
Dr. S. J. McKnight, of Dalton,
was nominated for congress.
Dr. McKnight being the chair
man of the executive committee of
the district, his nomination made
a vacancy in that office, which was
filled by the selection of Mr. M. A.
Bodenhamer, of Dalton.
DIED FROM WOUND.
Laura Davts. Colored. Accidental)
Shot by Georg* Davis.
Laura Young, a colored gir
about 22 years of age, died Satui
day from a terrible wound receive
in the arm. Last Tuesday after
noon George Davis, a colored mat
went to the home where Laui
lived with her brother and grant
mother, and asked the loan of
shot gun to go squirrel hunting
The request was granted and D;
vis was told where to find the gu
in another room. up tL
weapon, he asked if it was loadet
and Laura, who was in the othc
room said it was not. There wa
no cap on the tube and Davis dre
the hammer back and snapped th
gun. Laura Young had just op
ened the door to step in the roon
The gun was loaded. There wt
a loud report. She received tl.
charge in her arm. The charg.
was squirrel shot and made a tert
ble wound. The flesh was mai
gled, one bone of the arm wa
splintered, the other fractured an
an artery in the forearm was sever
ed. The wound bled profuse]
and those at the house corded ¥
the arm and partially stopped th
flow. Dr. Buford Greene was cal
ed afterwards and removing thv
particles of bone and careful!
dressing the wound, tried to sa\
the arm. The wound did well fc
awhile, but it was so violent an
the blood supply so badly interfe
ed with that gangrene set up Frr
day night. Saturday morning, a
ter a consultation, it was decide
to amputate the wounded arn
The system had absorbed so mac
poison the heart became depresse
and death resulted from the shoe!
The dead girl was a sister of E
Young, who rufis a fruit and sod
water stand on Erwin street, an
was very popular among those o.
her race.
Nice Lump of Scads-
Mr. John D. Trotter is one cf
the best farmers in all this regie
and don’t belong to the tribe < i
pessimists. He philosophises thac
while there is the bad there is tb
good about farming, and takin „
things all together, the good ove
tops.
Mr. Trotter will make eighth
bales of cotton this year, notvvit
standing untoward conditions th; ;
have made the crop short.
He brought in the first bale
market here and on Monday so i
a batch of thirteen bales, for whi< i
he received $691.06. The price! i
got was ten cents per pound. I
had this cotton ready for market
sooner, but held it and saw it
to his advantage.
OASTOniA.
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