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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. Word, The Druggist. mg Baking^ Powder. * V Absolutely Pure Makes light, flaky, delicious hot biscuits, rolls, muffins and crusts. Makes hot bread wholesome. These are qualities peculiar to it alone. \ I have found the Royal Baking Powder superior I to all others. —C. Gorju, late Chef, Delmonico’s. \ ttOYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 106 WILLIAM St.. NEW YORK. 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. Bear* the The K“<ll Haw BUC! I T* NO. 48.