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FOREIGNERS MASSACRED Unverified Reports to That Effect Received In London. STILL FIGHTING AT TIEN TSIN Eight Hundred Americans Said to Have Arrived On the Scene and Are Taking Part. “Eight hundred Americans are tak ing part in the fight at Tien Tsin,” says the Shanghai correspondent of the Loudon Daily Express, cabling Friday evening, “and they apparently form a part of a supplementary force, arriving vith Germans and British after the conflict started. It is impossible to estimate the number of Chinese, blit they had a surprising number of guns. ” Thin information appears to have been brought by the United States gunboat Nashville to Che Foo and tele graphed thence to Shanghai. The Chinese are deserting Shanghai in large numbers and going into the in terior. Reports from native sources oontinuc to reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin. According to these tales the streets are filled day and night with Boxers, who are wholly beyond the control of the Chiuese troops, and who are working themselves up to a frerzy and clamoring for the death of all for eigners. A special dispatch from Shanghai received in London Friday saying it was reported from Japanese sources that 1,500 foreigners liavg been mas- Baerod at Tien Tsin caused great com ment, hut the statement lacked oflicia l confirmation. On June 17 the Chinese shelled the foreign settlement aud the Chinese military college was attacked by a n, ixed force of 175 Austrians, British, German and Italians. They destroyed the guns and burned the college which contained a considerable store of am munition and killed its defenders. The Russians, with their four heavy guns, did excellent service. The British loss was one man killed and five men wounded. The Germans had one killed, the Italians had five men wounded, and the ltussiaus had seven men killed and five wounded. Hear Admiral Bruce, at Taku, telo graphed Friday night the further in formation that at Tien Tsin, June 20th, lighting was proceeding aud re enforcements were required. The consuls at Shanghai still be lieve the foreign ministers at Pekin safe, although Japanese reports re ceived at Shanghai allego that up to Juno 15tli 100 foreigners had been killed in Pekin. It is reported that the British gov ernment will immediately send 1,500 marines to China and possibly, accord ing to some of the morning papers, 10,000 of the regulars now wHh Lord Roberts. MILL SEND TROOPS TO CHINA. A Washington special says: The only news from China laid before the cab inet meeting Friday was a telegram to the secretary of the navy, giving the movements of vessels in Chinese vrate r s. The text of tho message, however, was not made public. That the president and tho mem bers of the cabinet regard the situa tion in China as extremely critical is shown by the fact that preliminary jweparations are being made to send forward additional troops in case of need. A telegram was sent to General MacArthur Friday afternoon asking him how large a force be can spare nhould it become necessary to send them to China. The administration is endeavoring j to stimulate the dispatch of troops and | naval re-enforcements to China to meet | the emergeusy at Tien Tail). Tne | emergency described in Admiral I Kemptf’s dispatches has led the war | department to make an extra effort to kurry forward the Ninth regiment ; from Luzon tc Taku. The war de partment is now determined that this movement shall be hastoned. There is also good reason to believe that the authorities will dispatch at least one other regimeut from Manila to China with the least possible delay. The United States consulate at Tien Tain, which late news advices report to have been destroyed, is situated fur ap on the Meadows road, which runs op from the Pei Ho river direotly through the center of the towm. It is far removed from any of the other consulates and practically isolated from all other foreign buildings. A recent census of Tien Tsiu shows the foreign population to be about 1,000 persons, including 110 Ameri cans. Thns the report from Japanese sources that 1,500 foreigners at Tien Tsin had been massacred would seem to be untrue or grossly exaggerated iu poiut of numbers. JENNINGS IS NAMED Dy Democrats of Florida ai Can didate For Governor. FORTY-FOUR BALLOTS MERE TAKEN. List of Other State Officers Nominated at the State Convention Held In Jacksonville. The Florida state Democratic con vention nominated Hon. William S. Jeuuings as candidate for governor. On the thirtieth ballot a stampede was attempted for Mays, his vote be ing jumped up from 33 to 122£. His strength was drawn from Beggs, My ers and Milton, only 14 votes leaving Jennings in the stampede. Myers dropped out of the race after the thirtieth ballot, though no formal withdrawal was made. On the forty-first ballot Mays with drew in favor of Milton; on the forty third ballot Beggs withdrew, and on the forty-fourth ballot William S. Jen nings received the required two-thirds vote aud his nomination was made unanimous amid a scene of wild en thusiasm. The nominee is a first cousin of Wil liam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. He is a native of Illinois, but removed to Florida in 188 G. He is thirty-seven years old. The following state officers were nominated: Francis Bicar, justice of the supreme court; John L. Crawford, secretary of state; W. 11. Reynolds, com]) troiler; W. B. Lamar, attorney general. W. N. Sheats, superintendent of public instruction. Hon. B. E. McLin, commissioner of agriculture. John L. Morgan, railroad commis sioner. The governor and state officials hold office for four years. Judge George P. Raney, of Talla hassee, was chosen the Florida mem ber of the national Democratic corn tee. This is the last state Democratic convention that will be held in Flor ida for many years, probably, as the platform adopted provides for prima ries for United States senator down. BRYAN OF PLATFORM. Ncbranknn Give* III* Opinion of tlie Re publican Document. When asked his opinion of the Phil adelphia platform, Colonel Bryan said: “The Philadelphia platform is the best evidence thus far given of the de ception attempted by the Republican party. Taking in connection with the speeches made at the convention, it shows that the Republican party’s platform of 1596 was a deliberate fraud as far as the promises of inter national bimettalism was concerned; that the party’s attitude on the trust question is insincere and that the party is not willing to state its atti tude on the Philippine question and invite the judgment of the people.” FILIPINOS WIN YICT 0R Y. An American Detachment Is Forced Rack By the Rebels. A Manila special says: A detach ment of forty men of the Fortieth regi ment, Captain Thomas Miller com manding, left Cagayan de Misamis, is land of Mindanao, scouting, June 13th. During the morning of June llth they encountered a strongly ambushed and entrenched force of the enemy. The Americans’ attempts to charge were frustrated by the Filipinos’ pit falls and troops. The advance line consequently was under a heavy tire in front and on its flanks, and fell back on Cagayau. The American loss was nine men killed and two officers and ten men wounded. CUBAN TKAL'HERS COMING. Bound For Boston. Wliere They Will B Given Instruction. Quartermaster General Ludington received word Saturday of the depart ure of the transport McPherson from Mauzanillo, Cuba, with 250 teachers bound for Boston by way of the eastern ports of Cuba. This move ment makes the beginning of the gen eral movement of about 2,500 teachers from Cuban ports to Boston, where they are to receive a general course of instruction during the summer under the auspices of the Harvard university. DWELLING HOUSE SUBMERGED. Florida Family Had Narrow Kactipe From llelnjf^Jurlod Alive. Sunday night the house of John Cleary, two miles from Ocala, Fla., without warning, but with loud creak ings, sank into the ground up to the eaves. The inmates had a narrow es cape. The house was located in a bowl-like depression, and water had gathered about the house until it was two feet deep. While the family where at meals, a rambling noise was heard aud the house began shaking. The family rushed out aud the house sank immediately. One end was caught on a projecting tree, while the rest -with the furniture, etc., was buried under ground. TRAIN BITCHED; THIRTY KILLED Fearful Wreck Occurs On Southern Railway. CAUSED BY A WASHOUT Loss of Life Greatest Ever Known In Railway Accidents In the South’s History. Passenger train No. 7, on the South ern road, due in Atlanta at 9:45 p. in., ran into a washout over Camp creek Saturday night at 9)30 o’clock one mile and a half north of McDonough, Ga., which is twenty miles south of Atlanta, and thirty-one people were killed outright. The train left Macon on schedule time. It was made up of an engine, No. 804, and three cars. The earnest to the engine was a combination affair, part of it being used for baggage and part of it for passengers. The next coach was a first-class passenger coach, while the third one was a Pullman car. The run from Macon to McDonough was made in a heavy storm which had baen prevailing for many hours. At McDonough the usual stop was made, and the train pulled out for At lanta. One mile and a half north of McDonough was a culvert over Camp creek, which had stood the storms for many years. Either a cloudburst or the heavy rush of the waters after dark Saturday night washed away quite a section, leaving an immense gap. The train rushing along plungsd wildly into this gap, and in a second the tender was piled upon the engine and the cars upon cars in an extrica ble mass-. Immediately after the cars went down fire began to Rpread among them, and what destruction the fall did not accomplish, the flames about t ompleted. Of the thirty-one killed, all except two were lifeless bodies when rescued from the flames, the scalding steam, and the raging waters of the creek, swollen by heavy rains into a torrent. Only nine persons were rescued. None of them are seriously injured. The wreck is said by railroad offi cials who visited the scene to the most disastrous in the history of the state. Only a few moments were required to arouse the people of McDonough to the fact that the most horrible railroad wreck the state had ever known had occurred within two miles of their town. The scene when they reached the place where the accident occurred beg gared description. All that remained of the train was a mass of ruins that in the dim light appeared to bo only a mass of splinters. A number of thrilling rescues were made. The manner in which the only two women were rescued was remark able. Miss Mary B. Merritt is of Boston, where she is a teacher in a school of oratory. She and her pupil, Miss Clara Alden, also of Boston, had been visiting in Macon and were en route to Boston. Both occupied berths in the Pullman. When the plunge was made they found their end of the car almost entirely submerged. Going upon the platform, which was an exhibition of nerve since the water was almost to their chins,they climbed to the roof of the Pullman and walked up the inclined car to the further end, where they stood calling for help. They were the first to be rescued. A rope was thrown, which each in turn grasped and in that manner were carried safely to the point from which the cars had fallen. The list of these killed is as follows: Passengers—W. W. Iparks, W. F. Maddox, George W. Flournoy, W. J. Pate, Jesse Pate, aged 13, sou of W. J. Pate—all of Atlanta, Go. D. C. Hightower, Stockbridge, Ga. J. L. Florida, Nashville, Tenc. The crew—J. Sullivan, engineer of the wrecked train, Atlanta; W. A. Barclay, conductor; H. R. Cress man, conductor of Pullman on the wrecked train; W, H Green, fireman; W. W. Bennett, baggage master. Employees of the road who were on fatal train—J. H. Hunuicut, conduc tor, Atlanta; J. E. Wood, couduotor, Atlanta; G. Y. Griffith, supervisor, Flovilla, Ga.; W. R. Lawrence, fore man, Stockbridge, Ga.; W. O. Ellis, bridgemau, Stockbridge, Ga.; John Brantley, fireman, Atlanta; J. H. Rhodes, flagman; W. I. Morrissette, repairer, Pocahontas, Va.; Ed Byrd, negro fireman; Robert Spencer, negro porter. Unidentified —Bodies of four whit* men; one supposed to be Robert Buchanan, of Atlanta, aud one G. M. Seewall, of Chicago; bodies of five uegro men. CHAFFEE IS ASSIGNED To Command Our Troop3 In the Celestial Empire. GOES WITH SIXTH CAVALRY New* That Ninth Infantry Goes at Once to Taku Greatly Pleases the Offi cials at Washington. President McKinley has assigned General Adna R. Chaffee to the com mand of the American military forces operating in China. The plans of the war department were somewhat clear ed up by th anuouncemeut. General Chaffee was at the war de partment Tuesday receiving instruc tions and will leave for San Francisco in time to sail with the sixth cavalry. This detachment sails on the Grant, which has been ordered to touch at Nagasaki for farther orders. It is probable that the ship will then sail direct for Che Foo, with General Chaf fee aud the sixth cavalry. General Mac Arther, at-Manila, was cabled an order directing the com manding officer of the Ninth infantry aud such other forces as may be oper ating in China by the time of the Grant’s to report to General Chaf fee on his arrival. Unless present plans change headquarters will be es tablised at Che Foo. The news that the Nintt. infantry sails at once from Manila for Taku was received with pleasure at the war department. Gen. Corbin said he reg iment will compare favorably with any similar orgamization sent by any of the other foreign governments iu China. The Ninth has been recruited to its fullest possible limit of 1,170 and is provided with an ample supply of field guns, feuts and complete field equipment. It goes to China prepared for active service and is thoroughly equipped in tho matter of transporta tion and subsistance supplies for a long campaign. The regiment is com manded by Colonel Liscum, one of the bravest and most discreet officers in the army. The trip from Manila to Taku will be made on the transports Logan and Port Albert, the latter car rying transportation outfit aud ma chine guns. MOBILE FLOODED. Over a Foot of Water Fell In the Space of Nine Hours In Alabama City. The heaviest rainfall in the history of the weather bureau of this country was experienced at Mobile, Ala., Tuos day, when 12.57 inches of rain was precipitated in the immediate section. It was merely a local rain extending only a few miles in almost every direc tion, although the Mobile and Ohio railroad announced that they had rain in great volume all along their line to St. Louis. The rain began about 4 o’clock, and the heaviest fall was between the hours of 5 and 7, the record for the two hours being five inches. The rest of the fall was recorded between 7 and 2 o’clock, the entire fall of 12.57 inches being within nine hours. Only once before in this country has this record been uearly equalled, when on September 3, 1893, in Donaldsonville, La., there was recorded a fall of 21.70 inches in thirty hours. The damage done by the fall cannot be estimated. The crops are ruined entirely, and bridges in all sections of the country are either washed away or severely damaged. All of the country roads are impassable. All of the rail roads experienced washouts and there is heavy damage, as the road beds are weakened to a great extent. The section has never before ex perienced such a protracted period of heavy rainfalls, and there is no way of estimating the total amount of damage done. The farmers, according to well in formed cotton factors and commission men, are well nigh rained, and there is no hope for them to recover their losses. The cotton is gone to grass to a great extent, while the other farm products are receiving no attention whatever owing to the impossibility of working the fields in the rain. “INEVITABLE ACT OF GOD” I* Explanation of Railroad Official Re garding Fearful Wreck. Southern railway officials who conld be induced to talk about the wreck near McDonough, Ga., Saturday night, were very guarded in their statements. They claim that the washout was due to no inherent weak ness in the solidity of the roadbed or the trestle spanning the creek into which the train was pluuged. 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