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JiTTBE FWODS.
^tructwn caused by the
!DE8 bothun« waters.
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY APRIL 6, lS86.—TWELVE PAGES.
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Montoomehit, April 3.—Reports continue
to show grent losses of life ind property
Mayor Reese, in view of the situation, has
Morgan* telegram to Senat »rs l>ugh and
•J?*.?, 'S'?. 0 *, 11,c *“,? property from the flood, l„
* U ‘" ls appalling. The retailing dentation
, yhi bflwldpipri'Ml. ItKemi every river <n ai>
, .. Ilinvrrilt Points In Geor*l», b.m»ha.tbe^e record. Can't govermae'St^W
fr ""' “lure and Virginia £ 0 ~- -J& SSS
With llnllrond
‘“‘liaivel in »H
., a April 1.—Advices from
misoium. Alabama show that
Vlr t0V f the freshet are worse even than
iffects ,,f Lfoy. Gadsden reports the
•iltllfll >»Sl _ •, A oal, nti/1 ctill win.
I !! it, highest mark and still ris
alarming reports from
,n .lie railroad bridges
rna d between Ai
ore swept away and a number
G^ fo"the Alabama Great Southern
^"fl ou ho^slde. of Attnlla. The
bomber interest* at Gadsden have
“f “immense damage. The 1’en-
ted Ivor is reported out of Its
rt several points. From Tus-
„n the Warrior river, advices
tlmiiah it is believed the worst
itrioa;, t y 8 h „ uses un oither side of
, we been abandoned, and the
fu running through the doors and
r Some families occupy the upper
dwellings, and skiffs and tlat
°L a for transportation. The vll-
Tvorthport, across the river from
LoVa. is almost submerged now, and
1 ri.Ve connecting the two places
n Vr water at both ends, and fears
feigned for its safety. The
e ? foot deep in the Tuscaloosa cot
* ” . aD ,i work had to be abandoned.
Ere dark the wreck of a small house
t flown tho river and several persons
“ r «d clinging to the timbers,
, parties in skiffs started out in
t iroiu Tuscaloosa and were rapidly
P out of sight bv the current Many
“ urine on the low lands below
Xosa b» 4 t0 b ® r ® souod from ,helr
iScnlation can yet be made of the
Ct of damage to farming interests, to
,1s and other highways. From every
with telegraphic facilities come
5ume reports of no trains and no mails
lloiuluv night. Regular trains on the
l centering here have been discontin-
till farther orders and no work is being
liv the companies’ employes except in
L and construction. Rumors reach
Of l,,SS ot life in tlio Coosa river valley.
Utgomect, April 1.—Tho water ceased
at aliont noon, after reaching the
si point ever known. One thonsand
e 'uostlv colored, had to leave their
s’ to avoid drowning. Ramors of
L dinging to roofs of houses come
dung the river, and rescuing parties
boats' have been bringing in sufferers
J. The river lias falren slightly.
sTooiiEKt, Ala., April 1.—Alabama is
ting a great loss from the disastrous
■t vm and highest flood of the century,
aver here has been on a standstill since
ling and is now beginning to recede,
nine parties in boats have been in the
J. ,1 district to-day rescuing the bome-
and helpless on the plantations up the
•, «nd over many miles of country the
t:..n is heartrending. The people have
n fuy< in trees and on housetops, and
have been swept away and drowned,
the Goodwin place, six miles from
ity, today, a white man named Hnn-
md a negro named Willis were drown-
The negro had taken refuge in a tree,
ion went to his succor in a boat, the
capsized and both men perished In the
n.
ein. woman waa drowned at Murray’s
outlie Tallapoosa river this morning.
;n man fell out of a boat at the foot
amerce street to-day, and came near
ning.
is estimated that several thonsand
ile, mostly colored, have been driven
i their homes by the rush of water,
lion is incalcuable. Many houses hnvo
swept away and linnelredaof farms
tated by the flood.
[tth- and stock of all kinds have periahed
” thousands, and the river is dotted
floating eascasos.
•omefartna the people are in treea
children strapped to tlieir hacks. The
of rescue continues to-night. It will
rend days before the waters recede
1 >e worst of this terrible story can be
T"? or three United Statea^oaU^re’on
the Alabama river and conld be used in dis-
tnbuting supplies and prevent starvation.
I hei situation all over the flooded region ia
deplorable. Many farmers have lost all
their horses, mules, cows, corn and cotton
aeed along the Alabama, Tombigbcc, Coosa
Warrior, Tallapoosa, Cahaba and Chatta
hoochee rivers. The river has fallen about
three feet. The milrood men expect to run
trains to Atlanta Monday,
The Louisville and Nashville people are
ymg to get a boat to transfer from here to
the Alabama river bridge. From here to
Selina the railroad is badly wrecked, and
some days will e.apse before the resumption
of trains will be attempted. It is estimated
that the loss by this flood to Alabama will
amount to $290,000 and possibly several
hundred lives.
Selma, April 3.—The river at this point
has ceased to rise, after rising two feet
higher than at any time within the recollec
tion of the oldeBt citizen. The destruction
of property has been great all along the riv-
or and many lives have been lost. The en
tire eastern portion of this city is under wa
ter, including two comprcsaes, the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
depot and shops, the gas works, the Union
iron works and foundry and about 300
dwelling houses.
streot and from the Reed flonBe. If the
fall is as great as expected the next twenty-
four hoars the water and gas companies
will be able to resume to-morrow. Ar
rangements have boen made whereby pas
sengers and mails for tho east, north and
soath will be taken by boat from here to
Charleston, Tenn., there connecting with
the East Tennesse, Virginia and Georgia
railroad.
To-night the first mail which has left
Chattanooga since last Monday was for
warded. The Cincinnati Southern expects
to repair its roads to-morrow and resume
operations. The Memphis and Charleston,
the Alabama Great Southern, and the
Nashville and Chattanooga cannot yet learn
the condition of their tracks.
Outside of the railroads, the heaviest
losers in this city aro Fnyerweather A
Lodew, at whose tannery much damage has
been done to bark; their loss is estimated at
$20,000. Other losses, while aggregating
about $100,000, are small in each individual
case. It is estimated that about fifteen hun
dred houses were innndated.
Advices from points in Tennessee below
Chattanooga report tho river flooding the
country and Bpreading destruction along its
course. Tho situation at Decatur, Ala., is
alarming.
Rome, Ga., April 4.—The river is reced
ing. It was six feet higher than over before
known. The loss will exceed $300,000. One
cotton Arm loat 2,900 bales of cotton.
THE FLOODS IN VIRGINIA.
Part of Richmond Inundated—Ureat Dam
age at Various Points.
Richmond, Va., April 1.—Tho James river
at this point lias been rising steadily all
day, and at this hoar (0 p. m.) nearly all
FIGHTING AT FORT WORTH
BETWEEN STRIKERS and A SHER
IFF’S POSSE.
Several Killed and Wounded on lloth
Side.—The Striker. Declare That no
Train* Shall Move Until Their
Demands are Acceded To.
St. Louis, April 3.-—A number of specials
from Fort Worth report that fighting took
place there to-day between strikers and the
sheriff’s posse, in which several persons
were killed and wounded on both sides.
Winchester rifles were freely used. It is
difficult, from these numerous short dis-
pntches, to state the exact order of events,
bat a Dallas Herald special forwarded to tho
Post-Dispatch says:
At 10 o’clock this morning 1,500 people
assembled at the Missouri Pacific depot to
see Sheriff Maddox send out a train, which
the first fire came from the strikers and
that they were in the grass a short distanoe
from the track. D. L. Stewart, who waa a
witness to the shooting, gives it as his opin
ion that the strikers fired first.
Sheriff Maddox this afternoon organized
two companies of citizens, which Were armed
with Winchester rifles and maroied to the
depot, the avowed determination being to
suppress nil opposition to the law. No
farther attempt will probably lo made to
niovo trains before Monday. The posse
will probably be kept under arnia night and
dny. It is thought tho crisis will pass with
out it being necessary to call or the State
Rangers.
The people are in n terrible atite of ex
citement and appear completely dumb
founded. The breach between tie law and
the strikers has been widened, aid the bit
terest expression can be heard oh every
side. There are hundreda of Knights of
Labor in tho city who do not anear to re
gret the occurrence of to-day.
Edward Smith, engineer of the train,
states that the strikers fired fint. It lias
been learned that the strikon yeatenlay
witn provisions in su directions. Tho I _Tk * ,
steamer Carrier, in the employ of citizens, B ? d ,? lgil *®« n th streets, cutting
has brought in about 300 people, mainly I n ’ cak J° n between the upper an
negroes, picked up from house tops in the , “®. c1 ^ except by
nvesflnudort diui-iJio by going a long distal
kvr-.iWERY, April 3.—The Warrior,
r --ini Tallapoosa rivers arc falling.
JHatiiU of horses, mules, cattle and
I lave been swept away. Corn, cotton
. ’Ll provisions in reach of the flood
I'hitroyed and planters in the over-
N region w ill have difficulty in start-
I A Mi, f boat has brought in a largo
r of people who had been in peril
I without food for three days. On a
1 employing State convicts the water
{pi the quarters. The president of the
■ "i inspectors made his wuy with boats
* ‘“PenUcd places and got them off in
J ” ir s*ports of drowning in various
I, 1 ®* ’’‘ the State foot up nine persons,
pioti-d but one. Four of these were
|‘ a and three children, in a cabin on
T.wulia fiver, it floating off with them.
* 1 Cl, miuunication is intact to New Oi
ls Mol,ile, and with New York and
r“. ,m Macon. There is no oommuni
phouth by the Louisville and Nash
t 7° A . Uanto or Selma by the Western
The officials hope to work
““ “f making transfers to-day or to-
I **ter is two feet deep at the union
f from there to the Alabama river
| the South and North road is al-
I ’“'t* "beet of water. Trains
t , 1® 60,1 Macon arrive and depart
I, “ a ‘f a mile or more from the depot.
l .i ro, “. Opelika say* that Johnson
Citizens’ relief committees have been j f Ut P ortio “°* the city known as Rocketts
organized and have gone rapidly to work | «• submerged to a depth of eight or ten feet,
making boats, which have been dispatched ^J® ,*|7 er l 1 ? 8 88 ,° 1BTBded the streeU
with provisions in all directions Tho abo , u i t ^ old “" k ® t between Fifteenth
- - - 1 and Eighteenth streets, cutting off commr.-
and lower part
y boats or
overflood'ed districts. I ? oi , n v? 8 , l ! 0ng an , di8taDC ® “ otmd
Fire broke out in the gas workg to-day I ‘“Y 8 ™ tho north. Tho street cars run
and consumed two of the outhouses, cans-1 onljr do *!“ 88 j 1 ®*? 4 ’- Carles Hcdel,
ing damage of $1,500. It will be two weeks 8 l!!! t8 ’, ’j!
lipforo iViA nitv will a train Iiava 00a. I ^ Bull rising lit tllO TAt6 of BIX
inches per hour, and it is expected it will
TENNESSEE I oon t' nue to do so until 4 or 5 o’clock to-
., ........ „ morrow morning. The precautions taken
Til. Damage Along the Cumberland, Coosa by Urn people generally in the threatened
ana Tenneraee Blvere. dletricti in removing tholr goods to places
Nihiiville, Tenjc., Apnl 1.—The Camber- 0 f safety will keep tho damage down to
landmens nmng an inch per hour here, comparatively small figures. Many fam-
At noon it was four inches above tho danger iliesliving in Rocketts have been driven
line. It will lise slowly till to-morrow. I from their homes and made to seek shelter
Reports from up the river counties tell of elsewhere.
groat damage to farms. From present indications this flood will
Chattanooga, Apnl l.-The Tennessee emml if not surpass those of 1870 and 1877.
nver is now 47 feet and lansing two inches a portion of the gas works is almost wholly
an hour. The fall will not commence he- submerged, and it is probable that the gas
fore morning. No trams aro moving. will have to be out off during the night.
A special from Gadsden reports the Coosa The telegraph wires along the Richmond
•iver higher than for many years, the flood an ,i Allegheny Railroad being nil down,
in places extending four miles. The water nothing can be learned of damage tip the
is in the engine room at the Cooaa furnace James river valley between hero uud Lyucli-
honaes. Rafts, furniture and all kinds I burg. No trains have been Tunning on that
of effects aro constantly passing down the I rolH i since yesterday.
Htream. Saw mills have been washed away. Dispatches from Clifton' Forge and other
The river continues to riso. Gadsden has I points abovo Lynchburg state that tho
suffered terribly in loss of property. Largo wa ter is falling rapidly,
warehouses nre about to float away. Thero Lyncububo, Va., April L—The flood at
ia no railrond communication. A few min- this point measured twenty-six feet at 7
utes after the receipt of above dispatch the g. m . In tho early morning a rapid rise
telegraph lines broke, end communication I took place, and the damage in the lower
with Gadsden is now cut off part 0 f the city is heavy. At this hour
Chattanooga. Apnl 1,—To-night at 8 h P . m.) the river is {affine, Fnllv one-
’clock the Tennessee river ot this point third of the Richmond and Alleghany Rail-
marks forty-eight feet hix inches on the roa d from this point to Buchanan, forty
gouge and is rising at the rate of two inchea n ,Ucs, is submerged, and all tho treslling
per hour. I has been washed away. No estimate of
Advices from abovo justify the prediction the damage can be obtained. Telegraphic
that tho tide will exceed fifty feet bore, ft 1 communication along the line has been de
will reach lt» climax to-morrow. No damage ,t r0 yed and the poles are washed away,
has yet occurred here, bnt several hundred Staunton. Va., April 1.—The water*
families havo been removed from the low- bare been rising steadily all day. Tlie
lands. " North river ia higher than ever known and
Tho greatest inconvenience is from the other large streams overflowing theirbsnks.
total stopping of trains. Only one train The destruction of property is great. Some
has entered the city since Monday night, star routes are practically abandoned and
That train waa on the Cincinnati Southern a ll mails delayed.
railroad, which managed to get through. Richmond, April l.-Night.—At II o’clock
It was forty-eight hours on the road and to-night tho water was within two feet of
brought two hundred passengers, many of I tb e floo r 0 f the bridge across the river near
whom were on the road since Monday. It the Tredegar Iron Works, while in the black-
ia not thought any train will leave or enter , mith M d machine shops of the Tredegar it
ihe city beforo Sunday. I is nearly a foot deep. The rolling world
A special from Charleston says the are still st work. As yet no serious fears
Hiawa.see wsa three inchea higher than a re entertained for tho safety of any of the
ever before known. It u now falling, bridges crossing the river here.
Great damage waa done throughout that I All mails are delayed and some are stopped
section. A special from Gadsden says tbe altogether, owing to the track of tho Rich-
entire country has been devastated by the moud and Fredericksburg and Potomac road
floods, and that the county alone will be being submerged at Rutherglen, about
sufferers for many thousand dollar*. thirty-live miles from Richmond. All trains
The freshet this city is now experiencing „n aid road, are temporarily stopped. It
is due to the most extraordinary fall of nun | i-j that they will resume to-morrow. The
ever known here. All mills in the city ex- Richmond and Danville trains aro also in
cept two or three are closed to-day. torrupted by tbe swollen condition ot the
Chattanooga, Apnr»2.—A colored man Staunton river. Moils from that section
was drowned st 10 a. m. Both the gaa como vf a Petersburg. The only fatality re
works are inundated and there will be no ported here to-day waa the drowning of a
gas to-night. The waterworks aro also ncgro in the lower part of the city. While
under water. The supply in the reservoirs driving through s flooded street his team
will he exhausted in twenty-four hours, went down an embankment The driver
The river is fifty-one feet and rising. The was thrown into doep water and nerer came
water at 9 a. m. reached Market and Eighth „p ngsin.
streets. Business is entirely suspended, and 1
relief committees have been organized and
homes and goods are supplied to all the
needy. The damage to the railroads are
he said last night he would do or die in the .
attempt At 12 o’clock un engine with j purchased ten Winchester rifles n' the city,
twenty armed deputies backed into tbe The names of two or three of tin men who
yard to take out a train of twenty cars. ' earned rifles have been learned.
When ready the train pulled out for the I The mayor has issued a prochuiation ap
South and reached the New Orleans cross- pointing seventy-live deputy poliiemen, and
ing, two miles south of the city, atl o'clock, ordering all saloons to remain closed till
Sheriff Maddox and party was there at- Wednesday next. A petition bnt been sent
tacked and a regular battle enatted. to Governor Ireland for State langers and
Three deputies are shot and military. Transportation for troops hns
severiil ot Ihe strikers are supposed to havo been applied for from Receiver Iheldon.
been killed. The names oi the deputies A higli wind is blowing to-nipt, and if a
wounded are Cbarles Sneed, J. J. Tulford riot ocenra the whole town will >e an cany
and Dick Townsend. Sneed will ilie. The prey to the flames. The stfectsSro full of
sheriff's posse numbered thirty men. nrmed men and every precantioi will be tn-
A Fort Worth special to tho Pcat-Dis- ken to prevent such an occnrmce. It is
:h not stating hour of writing says: thought that if to-night is tidodover there
ns are arming on nil sides. A fight is will lie no further danger of m6 violence,
now going on between strikers and fifty as the troops will be here by-to-morrow
mounted police. The strikers nre well night.
armed with Winchester rifles. Everything i Four Wuuiu, April 3.—New is received
Is in an extremely feverish condition. here at midnight that Adjnant-Genernl
St. Louis. April 3.—2:30 p. ill.—Another King and two companies of hate Rangers
Post-Dispatch special from Forth Worth are on their way to Fort Wortlon a special
says: Several hundred merchants and cit- train.
izens are marching down Main street, all | St. Louis, April 4.—The dept and yards
A QUEER PETITION
In Behalrof a Wife-Murderer Whose Wind
pipe I. Artificial*
Indianapolis, April 3.—Preparations will
begin Monday for the exeention on Thurs
day next of Phillips, who ent his wife’s
throat last July in a public alley of this
city, and immediately afterward tried to
out Ilia own, which he so mangled that he
has been living ever since with «n nil tube
in his throat.
A peculiar petition, signed by sovoral
hundred persons has keen presented to the
Governor on his behalf, Aftor reciting tho
circumstances of the murder, it eonclndes:
"If he ia executed by hanging, ns the sen
tence and law requires, the noose necessari
ly encircling his neek above the opening of
the tube will in no wise prodnoe
strangling or in any way interfere
with his respiration, and thus his
death must necessarily ensue from sheer
physical exhaustion, and not otherwise,
unless from decapitation; that such an exe
cution would he an outrage on civilization,
and simply barbarous. In tho interest of
humanity and enlightened civilization, yonr
petitioners would therefore pray for a com
mutation of such sentence to imprisonment
for life.”
Itelur Work at Key West.
Key West, April 4.—The relief committee
of Key West have issued the following ap
peal to the citizens of the United States:
A large portion of our city having been ew.pt
.way by the fl.mew our lndu.trial occupation, en
tirely ruined, uid thour.nd. of our people left In
utter dctltiitlon »ml dletreu, we find oureelvea
compelled to appeal to the benevolenoe of onr
country and reqneat leading paper, to recelv. anb-
icrlption. in onr behalf and forward the name to
M. L. BclUnir, our treaaurer.
Through Ramon River, secretary of tho
Cigaruiakor'8 Union ot Key West, tho chair
man of the relief committee has received
$180, the union having already diatribnted
$901 among distressed members. Tho
steamer Lizzie Henderson brought $1,000
worth of necessary articles, donated by eit-
izena ot Tampa, and 200 barrels of provia-
, , _ r ._ .. - inns have been sent from the United States
armed with Winchester rifles and shotguns, at Fort Worth are guarded hylOO citizens, ' I rigate, l’owliattan. The captain, possen-
Seven men aro now dead and s number are called into service liy the Muyr's nroclama- '
wounded. The gun stores are closed and tion, and thG streets are patmed by armed
under guard. | men. There is great fear of re, and extra
men.
St. Louis, April 3.—Details of the des-1 precautions are taken. One lundred flre-
perato affair at Fort Worth, Toxas, aro men are in waiting at the engie houses for
given as follows in a special to tho Fost-Dis- any emergency, aud Area at lie pumping
patch; The suggestive quiet that marked stations nre kept to a high pmt. Offers of
the passage of the freight train through the aid have been sent from al surrounding
city waa not without its sequel. When the points.
train left the depot it was under the pro- Strikers aro arriving fron various ont-
tcction of a posse of officers commanded side points, and the statemst is made that
by Jim Courtwright. The train proceeded the Knights of Labor havo dtormined that
to the crossing of tho Fort Worth and New I Fort Worth shall lie the poll where trains
Orleans road, when it was stopped, ns is shall bo stopped at all hnzarn and that they
custoranry. Wliat followed is reported by will win their battle. On ill other hand, it
an railrond employe who was on the train, is said Hint citizeus of that ty declare that
He says: When the train stopped the Missouri Pacific trains mil move, even
it was noticed that several men were eon- thongli it costs scores of Ioh to accoin-
gregated on the track in front of tbe train, plisli it.
The posse commander approached the men Foot Wobth, April 4.—To troops here
and asked why they impeded the progress now number 235 men. ztjntant-Oeneral
of the train, to which they replied that they King is on tho ground, bile Rrigadier-
kad nothing to do with it, that they were General A. S. Roberts of ti First Brigade
not armed aud had no intention of interfere of Texas Militia is in inundate command,
ing with the road. As the officers returned Attornev-Gen. Templeton Inspector-Gen.
to the train they noticed several men sitting 1*. Smith and Colonel W. 1 Gains are also
ir lying on the grass a few yards from tho here. Tho railroad ynrdmre lined with
train. The entire posse advanced to- soldier*, and no one uares isolate on the
ward the men in ambush until they railroad property,
had reached a ditch alongside of District Jndge Peckhamras called into
tho track, when they commanded a consultation with tho railtd officials this
throwing lip of hands. The command was morning, the reanlt lieingtbat about 12
obeyed, but as tho bands came np they o'clock a freight train waient South nn-
brought Winchester rifles with them, which I der Guard of the GraysoniiUes and a spe-
belched forth a deadly fire—it Is said with j cial foree of 111 teen eilizn. Another train
fatal effect. Thero were perhaps 100 shots I won made up and tent lrth, also under
fired. After the first tire theposso advanced I guard, and nt 5 o'clock a ird train pulled
and continued firing. Tho ambushera re-1 out, going Sonth.
treated behind some piles of ties, which The railroad yards aro fried by a line of
■roved a most excellent breastwork, and t % ocas and low resorts, Here have been
xom the security of which they poured n ongregated all dny a nniier of desperate
gers nnd crew of the steamer Whitney,
which arrived here to-day from New Or- •
leans, subscribed $70.
Indications of rebuilding appear in vari
ous portions of tho burnt district nnd largo
ordera for lumber have been sent off. Tho
wharves will be first completed.
Ballroad IUcket lit North Carolina.
CHAnizvrrE, N. C-, April 1.—At Lyon to
day, Judge Avery, presiding over tho Supe
rior Court, discussed the injunction sued
out by the Carolina Central Railroad Com
pany against the Massachusetts and Honth-
em Construction Company. Both compa
nies nre building a road from Shelby to
Rutherford, and the Carolina Central
claimed tho right of way under an old char
ter of tho Legislature. The Massachusetts
nnd Southern Construction Company denied
the Carolina Central's claim to the right of
way on the ground that it had been for
feited by lapse of time, and bepu laying
its track side by side with tbe track of tho
Carolina Central. An injunction was then
issued, Tho Carolina Central and the Mas-
siichnsott* Southern tracks will now be laid
sido by side from Shelby to jjuthefford,
twenty-four wile*.
murderous fire into the posse,
this position they wore
From 1 j king men, some of
finally n ed ns Knights of Lab
dislodged and driven beyond the range of ailway employes. Thoniere other* also
the posse’s pistols. The casualties among who heretofore lmve fretted the yards,
the posse were found to be three—Policeman 1 committing numerous deflations.
Ford, shot through both thighs; Special No further trouble is alclpated in the
Officer Diek Townsend, shot through the movement of trains froithe yards or
left breast near ths nipple, fatally; Special through the city, but ruuri are heard of
Officer Charles 8ne«1, shot through tlie I bridge burning and dynant plots,
heart and jaw. The casualties among the This morning the follosg notice was
ambushera is only a matter of conjecture, I posted nt the postoffice $ prominent
though there seems to bo good grounds for places in tbeneighborhooditho freight do-
saying that three or or more of them were pots:
wounded, probably fatally. The same au- "«.«* do not .aorta™ ye4i«* br bales
thority says there were half a dozen or •*<"•<* ou * on train, by sovNent o«car* or
more noraes visible from the trains that P°^ *
were ambushed which it is behoved be- Lj^a^d on^Vuer^ol^Srehlra
longed to the ambushera. Th(J dMll | )0dy o£ Fmdc Pi4,« striker,
The posse carried the wounded men wu {olmd liaa btt . n broi’tinto town
aboard, the train, which backed into the Th t , who w#ro »; ndcd “»ve
—;—.—. . • _._i„i„„ i The two others who were
union depot, where the wounded were lying U . cu locateiL
when tho Mall reporter saw them.
.J ■ .. ,, „ . i Trouble is looked for in V mnrnins.
From another source the Mail geU. tb« fol- Tbe Htri kers are coming in f\, Ml dir
. lhp determmal on of he ( Attorney-General Teuton, who
■trlkeri that no trains should run over the . . A.llnlunl
Missouri Facifle, Injunetion or no injunc- l .^ authority ‘of the & been
Uo “’ invoked, it shall bo wielded. Gins must
Iron Prom the Hontb.
Philadelphia Record.
. The steamship Dessong, which arrived
great. No trains are running and none arc I here last week from Savannah, brought an.
expected to move before Sundny, Tele- other large consignment of Kontkcrn-manu
graphic communication is cut off in many factored pig-iron. These shipments are by
directions. The rivers shove are slowly I no means unusual. They arrive by the
falling. The flood* are general throughout Ocesn Steamship Company s vessels, which
East and Middle Tennessee, North Georgia ply weekly between this port and Savannah,
and North Alabama. The river st Chatta- The Dessong's consignment inclnded not
nooga st noon was four feet two inches only Alabama pig-iron but a large quantity
lower than the higheat point of 1875 and of the ore (hipped from the Chattanooga
rising an inch per hour. Local rains are works, and carried from the works in Ten-
indicated. At 10 a. m. the backwater has nesseo to Queen street wharf for $4.51 per
reached the Btreet gutter In front of the ton, that sent from Alabama being carried
Times office at a much less rats of freight. A large iron
Chattanooga, April 3.-The river at 11 a. water-pipe manufacturer has just closed a
m. registered flfty-two nnd one-fifth feet, contract for a second lot of 10,000 tons of
snd was stationary. A third person was pig-iron to be delivered here. The prin-
drowned late last night The damage to opal users of the metal are R. D. Wood &
property cannot now be estimated. tlToagh Co., of Glwceeter, N. J.; the Lobdell Oar-
,inthiaci ‘ “ - - -
. oins must
move if it tako tlie whole milly forco of
the State to do it" No nttc| w ill be
made to take ent trains until toyrrow. A
proclamation has lltcn issued,nflng all
saloons and drinking houses livery de
scription until C o'clock on Wcdi|sy next
psss through Fort Worth it must lie
stopped elsewhere. To this cud a num
ber of the strikers had been detailed
to watch the road south of „ auot
I Loon " aDrt -""“ kh ‘ g - h "^
obeying the flag, the strikers next resorted
to throwing the switch. As the men up-1 Holdlara Making Up
'iroaehed and threw the switch they were Passonh, Kansas, April 3.—t.i|compa
red on by tho posse and the Are wu nies of the First Regiment ot Km. tuili-
iromptly returned by men in amhnsh. I tia arrived here lost night nnd teTchuM
The narrator says it wu not the of the Missouri Pacific yards, ,4 nil.
intention of the strikers to resort morning the Kansas National Gng C om-
to violence nnlcu forced to, menced making np trains, the engi being
bnt when they were fired on they retained guarded on each side by thebayonof the
the fire. They were well nrmed and their I soldiers. One freight train has h sent
work shows they were pretty good marks- ont, and it is expected the y« will
men. "One thing may be set down u sot- at once be cleared nf all freight ca The
tied," continued this narrator, "and that I strikers have made no diaturbanbr re
in that no train will bo allowed to pau over sistance, and seem to accept tbe latlon
the Missouri Pacific until the demand of
the strikers for arbitration is seceded to,"
A later dispatch from Fort Worth says:
I inevitable. The compeny is < pi
ing off all men engtge.1 In the st^ .
some of them are feeling rather blit the
— r ...... — __ city it will be quite a large amount—I Wheel Works, of Wilmington, DeL, and
engineer of the construction ; most of it to the railroads and the balance 1 several large stove manufacturers. The
*>-ieh went down on the Tallapoosa divided in small amounts amongthenumer- Ocean Lines steamers running to Boston
ou* factories. There ia one foot of water in | and New York carry equally large cargoes,
front of the Times office, two feet in the
Unionpauenger depot and one foot in the
Read House. The weather i
either way yet
Cuattanoooa, April 3—Night.—The river
The cuualties among Ihe posse wu I prospect of being indefinitely ont i job.
_jund to he three. Police Officer Folford Tho feeling here is that an cmbargiR be
wu ahot through both thigha. Special hud on trains u soon us the 0iiUtarj urn
Officer Diek Townsend wu shot twice I to their bonu si
J ^K-d after his leg was amputated Six
, 08 tlle lame train had already died
[' a drowned.
sl'.iT'? n ° c,, nnection with the out-
! 1,1 !*y rail.
i.,}, tin,,unhout the State is unpre-
vf, ttacll ing here six feet above the
r ® Ter known. The ice factory,
*"ap works snd gas works,
Inii •!?’ ^rtilizer works, iron foun-
t, f.v' 11 ,?: Liilrond shops nnd freight
, "estsrn and Ceutral railroads,
t' , r j". aI "' lirick yards all have several
Lv »;n l *“*“• In most of them tho
tiv,.. “* confined to machinery. The
gjiminution in the city is by candles
’.mwed off the dome of the capi-
... tJt P® iuk the city, is a lake
'to ‘ke north and west folly ten
‘plate. *
A I'ril 2.—The rirer has
Lgg*tm inches. Boats have
■ u. ,i ' ltln 8 tood all day through the
P«t- .,f the city. tieveraThun-
FP for tw n “°*S y “CH' 0 ®*- •“»« t*e“
rt» oi.Vl 0 .f Dti re days without food.
on the sute fanr , afur a perilous
: , at " td f»om tlieir flooded quart
ifor a mils and eafelvptced
. si .„“ ,la 7 a w «tnmpka. Report*
F,« ''"f P"'“«» near hero traday show
I* ? J* kwi been drowned.
D fk* water-bonnd. It
r w etamfika. ou the Coosa river.
8UNDAY IN BAVANSAn.
is fair. No mails I j,,. yol#t nutnrbe.i by CausMomkto Es-
cltcmenk In Yamncrmw*
. . „ Savannah, April 4.—There was a tremen-
began falling at noon to-day, after reaching dons excitement in Yam screw about noon
through the left breast near tho nip
ple; ne died at 5:30 o'clock. Special
Officer Charlu Sneed wu shot through the
throet and jaw; his wounds are fatal.
The doctors uy Sneed and Fulford can-
8TK1CTLY BUSINESS.
A Murderer Take, up a Collection
Taklnc Ilia ratal Leap.
. Galvshton, April 1.—A special fi
not possibly survive. Only one of tho tin’s says: At noon yesterday YVaah bh-
52 18-1IS) feet—a rise of 39 18-100 feet in to-dav. W. J. Shuman, chief of the county
five days. In the put aevenjjhoara it hu I convict guards, got into • difficulty witn
fallen two inches. Tbe waters are receding William Smith, colored, in which he wu
hourly and it will be several days before the I ent in several places. He fired four shots
ington,' colored, was executed here
presence of 5.UK) persons for the niuj 0 f
The water com- with his revolver at Smith, who ran away,
resume ope- followed after awhile by abont four hnndred
gu I people. Smith wu captured by mounted
the
railroads can be repaired
pony expect to
rations on Monday and _ , . . _
company Tuesday. Five thousand officers and lodged in jsil. Shaman's wound
homeless are well provided for by the local is severe, but not considered dangerous. It
relief committee. It is estimated that the is said Yamacmw liquor is st ths bottom of
damage by high water in this city, other I the difficulty.
than to railroads, will aggregate leu than The subsequent excitement
$100,000. The uw-mill snd lumber dealers by the unfounded report that tho wounded
are the heaviest lours. It is now five days I man wu stabbed while attempting to arrest
strikers, Tom Race, a switchmen, was
wounded. He is said to be _ p _ . f
shot through the proin. About fifty YVilb* Durden a year ago. Tlie coliu
shots were fired in all, when the man confessed his guilt on the scaffol
posse, seeing it was useless to fight said it was right that be should be h
Winchesters with revolvers, placed the He said he was instigated to tho crii
wonnded officer aboard the tram and re- Eph. Durden, a half brother of tho
turned to the union depit. The strikers Eph. Durden
remained at the scene ol the conflict for the strength
some time after the train returned to the *ion. Wa
city, when they secured tho Winchester of J nerve. He rode on bis coffin from „
their wounded comrade and started off for | to . grave near tbe’edge of town, whei
tbe sycamore bottoms, all carrying their scaffold
rifles. Race wu left on the prairie.
immediately arrest
of Washington's
-zhington exhibited
erected. After admol
his largo audience of colored people toi
since mail baa reached this city, and a supposed convict.
it will probably be two days more Cousmptloo cord,
until the railroad* will have perfected ji b old phjalelaa. retired from prattle*, kevtas
arrange Hunts for the transfer of puaen- had plated Is hi* hands bj an lAet India relealoos.
geraTmsiland express by hosts. AU the rrt^f^an^snmpl.T^HaM.rem^ytqrtb.
roads by Monday wUl bo able to ran within
five muss of Chattanooga. tloes; aleo a poaiute end red leal care for sonrons
Benoit* of the flood at Borne, Os., and debility and all nerreaa roeipSalnU. after kaylnc
.. . , „ it, aa* (ha Uatm liver e—a.li-l I laetad jtawunilrifnlesreHaeiiowawIn tkeaieniidaot
5 d e^r Sift>,e d “ tn ‘ iissssi *-
C^asocoa, April t-Th. rivuhu
s: I w - ^ *-
An toon m the train retebed the city a I the pitfallH which had bronght him
poeee wu formed with Winchceler* end gcarfold, he Mid he wanted hie body td
started in pnnuit of tbe mnrdererH. It in I buried in the adjoining county and ptui
estimated that there were twenty men | kt* around for contributiona to d<-
among the atrikon. but of tbetie only five | the expenaea of tranaporting hie body*
oraix carried Wincheatew. Tom Race, the j gathered $42, for which he heartily tha
wounded striker, waa brought here in » the donora. He took hia place on the
wagon to-day, and aa soon aa tbe officers fold, the noo* waa adjusted and
learned of hia whereabout* be waa aimed I moment hi* neek was broken. Tbe
to jail, where be will ho strongly guarded. I T u given in charge of his friends for buri!
No other arrests have u yet been made.
Tbs Knights of Labor claim that the first ,
■hot wu fired by th* officers, hotthe weight I ihre^ Clans Balt Wresm. hue Sores,
A Card from I'realdant Lirlngaton.
Macon Ga April 1st 1888
Enrron Teleegauii—Tho criticism in your
issue of the 25th March on my visit to At
lanta with a suli-committce, looking to tlie
S eruianent location of the Ktatb fair and
Ir Niabit's card and your criticism in issuo
of March 28th has dons mo an injustics
that I believe yon nre willing to set right.
At tho olose of the lut Fair the Executive
Committee pueed the fallowing resolution
Macon Faib Grounds
Oct 31st 1885
On molion of Col Waddell a commutes
wa* appointed to prepare Prcmlnm* for tho
next Fair, consisting of tho President,
Messrs Waddell. Lyon. McCall. Mobley.
A Hollis. - Said committee wu aleo au
thorized to negotiate with the cities of tho
State in regard to tho permanent location
nf the Fair. At the Colnmbtu meeting
Meura Niohet Powell A Grier were add
ed to'tho committee
The alwwa fa a true extract from ths min
uets of tho Executive Committee.
[Signed] £ 0 Okie*
Secty
At a meeting of the above committee tr- .
ranging Preminms. a anb committee con
sisting of the President, Powell. Mobley
Lyon A Waddell wer instructed to
go to Atlanta aud examine tho ground*
A receive their proposition. This wu dona
on the 23d of Feb 18841. The notion
»e exeentivo committee on Oct 31et
1885 wu made pnblio to tlie city authori
ties of Mncon and Atlanta by myself as
eh. of the committee to negotiate. At
Colnmbns before tbe entire Convention the
question wu asked if either of tho cities
had mi limited a proposition to locate tho
Fair permanently. The chairman answered
that only one proposition, from Atlanta
and that too Indefinite to take action there
on the delegate* from Fnlton returned,
and soon a more definite proposition come
and the sob committee met there simply to
receive tho same and I stated to tbs At
lanta committe that while the sub oom-
mitts then preeent had no power to clou a
contract The original commute niaed on
the resolution Oct 31st 1885 conld do
so and that at once. I also stated at tha
same tima and plaeo that I believed the
majority of the committee with power to
act were in favor of locating at Macon it
wc conld have the chance to do so. Thu
proposition to locate permanently at Macon
wu submited first to the dty authorities of
Macon on the 23d day of rebuary in tha
office of the Secty and they declined to
entertain a proposition uve for 1888
Tho same proposition to locate per
manently at Macon wu submited
on the 11th day of March 1885 which
wu also declined u can be seen from the
record in the Secty’s office. Now Mr
Editor if the city authorities on the 23d day
of Feb 1886 had have accepted tho
proposition from the commute appointed
Oct 3l*t 1885 or at any rime thereafter
before the meeting of the tub com mi tie
on the 23d day of March 1888 in Atlanta,
then the nh committe would not here
gone to Atlanta and the original committe
would have closed a contract with Macon
and there would have been no charge of
stretch of power. My only desire in this
comnnication is to show from the record
that I hare not attempted to inn the Slate
agl Society, nor have I assumed any prero
gative or profonnded any duty connected
with the location of the State Fair not
made encumbent on me. I am only the
servant of said Society, and most respect
fully refer to my associates u to whetner l
have kept myself within proper bounds.
I. have not said one word or did one act to
take away tbe Fair from Macon bnt rnnch
to have it located permanently here.
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mooUlj grand drawing*
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