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AFTERMATH OF HORROR Deepest Glooni Settles Upon Grief=Stricken Chicago. DISASTER #0! [Hill Death List Not Yet Accurately Known But Total Casualties ot Theatre Holocaust Will Go Above the Thousand Mark. For the first time since Chicago has possessed bells to pea), whistles to shriek and horns to blow, the old year was allowed silently lo take its place In history and the new permitted to come with no evidence of joy at its birth. in an official proclamation issued Thursday afternoon by Mayor Carter Harrison, he made the suggestion that tho usual New Year’s celebration be for this time omitted. The idea found a ready response in tire hearts of the people, and the mayor’s words in fact only gave utterance to llie suppressed thoughts that, had filled them all. Ordinarily, on New Year’s eve the streets of tho city are filled with mer ry-makers, but the only throngs to be found were those; around the morgues; ordinarily, numbers of fashionable res taurants in the heart of the city are filled with light-hearted revelers, who toast the year that is passing and hail tho year that comes. Thursday night these places were comparatively de serted and some of them closed en tirely with doors locked and curtains down. From early Thursday morning until late at night crowds her.iefied the un dertaking rooms and hospitals looking fer tho, dead and injured. Policemen were detailed at nil places where the dead and injured had been carried, to restrain the anxious in n and wo men who pressed in at the doorways and Inquired for their lost friends and relatives. In all the undertaking rooms the bodies were placed, as far as possible, upon cots, and when these were ex hausted stretched in long linos upon the floors', and a constant succession of pale-faced men and tearful women proceeded slowly between (lie lines lifting lho covers from the charred and bruised faces and searching In the clothing of-flio dead for something ‘TTtwavhirh /ttrtTu iujst ones could be rec ognized. In many’ InKtances women fainted when lifting„ «J}ft-Sheot-f¥QBL. some face in which they recognized tho features of a dead child or a beau tiful young gild. Scenes that wore en acted around the bodies of the little children wore pathetic in the extreme. While the crowds of anxious seekers for news besieged the morgues, Ihe telegraph and long distance' telephone offices were almost swamped with the flood of inquiring imyrngos. < Messen ger boys from the telegraph office of tho Postal and Western Union .carried bundles of messages, arid’ tbiefiterrlflc rush of business was still ion. private wires' of stock exchanges and hoard of trade houses were'likewise, loaded down with inquiries and fmg^ejrs. Woe is on Every Side. It is no extravagance oMnrgnage to ■ say that the city. is stuntied by the overwhelming tragedy cnaclud when the theatre which housed "Mr. Blue beard” became a chain her, of horror# indeed. There is the deepest woe in hundreds of homes, deep sorrow in a thousand others, and a pity btiyund the potency of words to convey drt all. The first streak of daylight on, the snow-covered streets Thursday morn ing found the morgues sdill the sorrow haunted centers of many a searcher. There wer? husbands searching for: wives, frenxied parents seeking their children, so many of Whom last their, lives .and in some 'instAhces. wild eyed children, still dazed front the hor ror of their experience, groped dis tressingly about in search of father or mother. The total number of victims involved in the tragedy are estimated at 1.088,- the dead are estimated at 564; the missing are 314. This includes the vast number of people n’hft arc either dead, injured or unidentified which have not as yet been accounted for. One'' , n«fiilred and fifty seven are in the city Hospitals. It is estimated that 53 of th<* injured will die. These fig ures are furnished from a careful sum mary made of the tragedy returns from all seetj/ons of the city. jaelfHiifig the temporary morgues and doctors’ offl ces and private residences and homes is based upon Information returned by the police, aijp news- liKLfjlotivl KOOhEVtLI iNyOkbtD By Georgia Republican State Central Com mittee at Meeting in Atlanta. President Roosevelt himself, and ev erything that he has dona since being in office was endorsed Thursday by the republican state central commit tee of Georgia, which met in the sen ate chamber of the state capitol at Atlanta. Walter H. Johnson, of At lanta, presided over the meeting in the absence of \V. A. Pledger, tho chairman. Pledger is very ill and may not live. J. H. Deveaux, of Savannah, acted as secretary of the committee. Judson A. Lyons, register of the treas ury, was present at the meeting, hav ing come from Washington for the purpose of assisting in fixing the dare of the convention. It was unanimously decided to hold the convention in Atlanta at 12 o'clock of March 23, 1904, for the purpose of electing delegates to the national con vention which meets in Chicago. The following was the resolution fix ing the time of the convention: “Resolved, That a state convention of the republicans of Georgia is hereby called to assemble in Atlanta at 12 o’clock on March 3, 1904, for the pur pose of electing four delegates to the republican national convention to as semble in Chicago on June 21, 1904, and for the purpose of transacting such other business as may come bo fore it.” Tho resolution was adopted without opposition, and the secretary of the meeting will issue the formal call at once in order that all the delegates will have knowledge of it in time. The following resolutions were adopt ed by the committee on the death of certain republicans since the last meet ing of the committee: “Whereas, it hath pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to take from us Hon. A. E. Buck, Col. R. D. Locke, Major W. H. Smyth, Hon. P. O. Holt, Captain L. M. Pleasants, Hon. J. J. Hamilton, Hon. Nash Johnson, fellow republicans and honored citi zens; lie it “Resolved, That this committee feels that the state of Georgia and the re publican party has sustained a great loss and extend its sympathies' to ihe families of each of the honored dead.” Tho committee also expressed a great desire that every republican in the state should become a qualified voter, and on this subject the follow ing resolutions were passed: "Be it resolved by the republican state central committee of Georgia that the republican county commit tees of the state are hereby instructed and urged to see uiat every republican possible in Georgia be qualified to vote for all republican candidates.” The most important thing done by the committee, however, was the in dorsement of President Roosevelt. The resolution which brought about the indorsement was introduced by H. A. liucKCr, collector of internal revenue at Atlanta. kaiser bill seeking trouble. Alleged That He is Trying to Buy a Coaling Station at St. Thomas. Information lias reached Washington to the effect that Germany is making a quiet but determined effort to secure possession of a coaling station at St. Thomas, one of the Danisn West In dian islands. The news conies in a manner that requires further information before official notice can he taken of it, as such rumors have not been infrequent in recent years The United States government has offered a fair price for the Danish West Indian islands, which price the executive branch of the Dan ish government consented to accept by the signature of a treaty, even though the latter was rejected by the Danish congress. The feeling in Washington is that the matter has progressed too far to allow any third party to come into the transaction. In other words, Den mark is expected to sell the islands to the United States or to retain them. Wife of Ex-Governor Bead. Mrs. B. L. Conley, wife of ex-Gov eruor Benjamin 1.. Conley, of Georgia, died suddenly at her home in Atlanta Thursday morning. She had been ill only a short time, and it was not thought that her illness was a seriou.?- NINETEEN PL AY IIOISES ARE CLOSED. Chicago’s Mayor Lakes Action Against Vio lators of City’s Safety laws. At Chicago, Friday, Mayor Carter H. Harrison took steps to provide, as iar as possible, against a repetition of ! the Iroquois theatre horror. As a re. ’ suit of an investigation made at his or i dors, nineteen theatres and ntstseoms ! were ordered closed. The ’act. o' - the ; mayor was based on a single f ie’Atie , of the ordinances which are ifitwta| ,to protect the patrons of , This was that every one -of ■ places had omitted to supply arflH ' beVlos curtain. 4 w:- til COMMOfIO.U MiCIIOLSOH OF OUR NAVY RasonuneniJs Pe-ru-na—Otlior Pro minent Men Testify. fjj. 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HIS POSITION. “Well,” said the college president, “I guess we’ll have to add another man to the faculty.” “Where is the vacancy?” “Why. wo need an official surgeon for the football team.”—Chicago Post May Build National Theatre. A Breslau journal announces that Gerhart Hauptmann has a plan of building a national theatre, a la Bni reutli, at Schreiberhau, in the Giant Mountains, where every summer about fifteen or twenty performances of Ger man plays could be given. neafnens Cannot Be Ctirrnl by local applications as they cannot roach the diseased portion of tho ear. There Is only one way to euro deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining o! tho Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound orimper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can bo taken out and this tube re stored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollarsfor any case of Deafnessfcausedby catarrh)that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Wealth of South Africa. The numerous islands of Patagonia archipelago are covered with ever green forests capable of supplying im mense quantities of valuable timber, while the mountain ranges, being of the same geological formation as those of Chile and Peru are probably rich in mineral resources. I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump tion lias an equal for coughs and colds.—J ohn F.Boyek, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. There is nothing sadder than the man who has loved and lost —unless it is the man who has loved and won. No muss or failures made with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Wise is the man who is able to keep his mouth shut when he has nothing to say. Teosinte and Trillion Hollar Grass. The two greatest fodder plants on earth, one good for 14 tons of hay and the other SO tons green fodder per acre. Grows everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yield ing UO.OOO lbs. sheep and swine food per acre. [A.C.L.] - JUST SEND IOC. IN STAMTS TO THE John A. i>alzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.. and receive in return their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. In the United States the sparrow has six broods a year; in England; seldom over three. A Father’s Worry. Your poor wearied wife losing sleep night after night nursing the little one suf fering from that night fiend for children and horror to parents, citour, should have a bottle of Taylor's Cherokee Remedy oi fcSweet Gum and Mullein, an undoubted ■croup preventive atul cure for coughs, cold - I and consumption. At druggists, 25c., 50c. and SI.OO a bottle. \ A man who is looking for trouble can [usually find it without trouble. EMPLOYEES ARRESTED. A. Day's Developments in Theatre Hor ror at Chicago--Dcatk List Grows Apace. Following is the summary of events as» developed in Chicago during Friday: Estimated dead list, 582; identified dead, 450; unidentified dead, 132; miss ing, about 300; injured, 104; Chief Electrician Bernard is formally charg ed with manslaughter; fifteen em ployes of the Iroquois theatre are un der arrest; Klaw & Erianger guaran tee the presence of all members of the Bluebeard Company at the trial on the charge of manslaughter; major ity of members of Bluebeard company are without clothing, money or lodging and are absolutely destitute; all strik ing drivers at work burying the vic tims; Mayor Harrison requested that all business in the city be suspended for the day; every flag in Chicago is at half mast and black and white cloth is hanging on many doors. A Chicago special says: Archibald Bernard, chief electrician of the Iro quois theatre, was taken into custody by the police Friday and will be held pending an inquiry into tho causes of the disaster. After being closely ques tioned for two hours by the police, Bernard was formally charged with “manslaughter.” Detectives were sent to summon Manager Will J. Davis, of the Iroquois theatre to police headquarters. Detectives were ordered also to make headquarters at the hotels and watch the members of the company, to see that none of them left. Twelve employes of the Iroquois theatre were arrested Thursday night on orders issued by Chief of Police O’Neill. The charge against them is at present that of being accessory to manslaughter. They will be held pend ing the verdict of the coroner’s jury. After being taken in custody by the police, four of the men told Chief O’Neill that they had been requested by people connected with the theatre to leave the city. When asked who advised them to do this, they first re fused to say, but later admitted that the advice was given by Assistant Stage Manager Plnnkitt. They said they were about to follow Plunkitt’s advice, and all of them had their trunks packed and would have been out of the city had not the police arrested them. Pitiless investigation of the fire hor ror during the day divided attention with the burial of the dead. The removal of bodies from the pub lic morgues to private undertaking es tablishments developed a fresh ele ment of uncertainty in computing to tals of dead and missing. More arrests of persons who may be held responsible are not improbable. The City Press Association discon tinued all attempts to keep track of dead bodies at the morgues. Instead of records at the morgues, the issue of burial permits at the coroner’s of fice was substituted as a less unsatis factory method of holding the death count. SFNATOR TILLMAN ON RACE QUESTION. Characteristic Address Made by Carolinian Before an Atlanta Audience. “When southern women ask us to shield them from this black menace we’ll do it, so help us God,” exclaimed Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, as his concluding remark in a lecture at At lanta, Ga., Friday night. The subject handled by the sena tor was “The Race Question,” and he discussed it with his usual vigor. He made several references to the fif teenth amendment, declaring that South Carolina nullified it years ago and that Georgia did it spasmodically whenever it suited her to do so. “We are not going to have any free ballot and fair count so long as that amendment is on the statute books,’ he declared emphatically. He described in detail conditions as they exist at the south, and declared that the remedy lay in the repeal 01 the constitutional amendment which gave the negro the ballot. Georgia, he said, was not much in danger of losing representation in congress, as this state has not enacted any legislation along the line that his state and others in this section had followed. BIG RAILROAD SHOPS BURNED. Disastrous Blaze Occurs at Nashville, Tenn., Entailing Enormous Loss. The Tennessee Central railroac' shops in south Nashville burned Thursday night, entailing an estimat ed total loss of $320,000. The boiler shops, planing mill, blacksmith shop, round house, machine shops, store room and office were almost entirely consumed, and four locomotives, one combination and four box cars destroy ed. The loss in rolling stock is esti mated at $70,00/0, fully insured. It »s said that there was an insurance of but $35,000 cn the plant. fHMiss Gannon, Sec’y Detroit?! Amateur Art Association, tells young women what to do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. “ Dear Mrs. Pixscam : I can con scientiously recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women, I suf fered for months with general weak ness, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. I had shooting pains, and was utterly miserable. In my dis tress I was advised to use Eydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, and it was a red letter day to me when I took the first dose, for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt so elated and happy that I want all women who suffer to get well as I did.” Miss Guila Gasinqn, 359 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art Association s£oooforfeit If original of above tetter proving genuineness cannot be produced. When one considers that Miss Gannon’s letter is only one of the cousitless hundreds which w© are continually publishing in the news papers of this country, the great virtue of Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine must ba admitted by all. 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