Newspaper Page Text
. THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TITERDA Y MORNTNG. AUGUST 21-TWELVE PAGES.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
False Rumors Set Afloat by
Malicious Persons.
THE LATEST FROM JACKSONVILLE,
Wliat U Being Done in Macon, Savannah
Augusta and Other Places-Effort*
to Kill the Fever Germs bj
the Concussion Test.
Before next Sander morning Macon
will be the cleanest city on the globe.
“With the exception of the lower part of
the city, and small settlements here and
there on the outside of the heart of the
town, Macon is always kept as clean as a
pin. Since early yesterday morning, when
Mayor Price turned his entire street force
over to the sanitary force and instructed
his officers to ferret out all the unclean
places, the trash and garbage and filth has
been raked up from long-neglected lots
and enclosures, and the carts were busy as
bees all day carting away the trash, etc.
A walk orer the lower part of the city
showed that the police had been doing
tbeir duty. On Bridge Row nearly every
one of the lots were cleaned out and tie
trash c irried ont to the middle of the
street to await the coming of the carts.
Sanitary Inspectors Herrington and
Vannucki were busy all day looking up
the neglected quarters and whenever an
unclean lot was found a notice was i,sued
giving three days in which to have it
cleaned np. Inspector Vannucki gave
most of his attention to East Mac n and
he thinks that it will te only a matter of
a few days*to have that section of the city
in spplepie order.
The citizens generally are at work and
trash is being raked from under houses and
cut ui cellars ami iue uuclrau places well
sprinkled with lime. Mayor Price has a
proclamation in this issue referring to this
matter as well as to others.
disinfection.
While on this subiect it may be well to
E ublish the following which has been
anded in by a citiz □ and which was
taken from an article in the July Century
on “disease germs and how to combat
them:”
First.—Co rosive sublimate (mercuric
chloride) sulphate of copper, and chloride
of lime are among one best disinfectants,
the first two being poisonous. At some drug
stores these cannot be bought by the pound.
Second.—A quarter of a pound of cor
rosive sublimate and a pound of sulphate
of copper in one gallon of water makes a
concentrated solution to keep in stocks.
Let us call this “solution A.
Third.—For the ordinary disinfecting
solution add half a pint f “solution A”
to a gallon of water. This, while
costing less than two cents a
gallon, U a good strength for geuerai use.
L'nse in about equal quantity la disinfect
ing cholleraic or typhoid fever excreta.
Fourth—A four per cent, solution of good
chloride of lime or a quarter pint of “solu
tion A” to a gallon of water is used to
wash wood work, floors and wooden furni
ture after fumigation and ventilation.
Cesspools, etc., should be well covered
on top with a mixture of chloride of lime
with ten parts dry sand.
The eolation of mu-nric chloride must
not be placed in a wooden vessel.
TBE REFCOEI3.
There ere a number of refugees from
Jacksonville and other points la Florida
now at the hotels, hut they came in before
the partial quarauliue regulations went
into effect. They are taking things easy
and it is hoped will find Macon a pleasant
refuge.
Yesterday morning four coaches came in
on the Southwestern railroad and eleven
coaches on the FL T, V, A O,, bat none of
them were allowed to stop, having been
warned not to do so by the quarantine
officers at Fort Valley and Cochran. The
refugees were inclined to consider this
setion ss cruel, but finally accented it as a
part of the hardships of refugeeing, and
passed through the city uncomplaining.
It was evident that the majority of
these people were those who were not able
to leave, but did so u the last course. The
J tllow fever was in their city and they
new not when it would overtake them,
and life being sweeter than property they
took up what they could carry and came
on the first train that would Bring them
away.
In the afternoon the train from Jack
sonville by the E. T., V’. AO. railroad
brought In two locked cars containing
obont seventy-five refugees, some of them
from SL Augustine. To those at the de
pot who saw the refugees in their prison
on wheels the sight waa a rare one.
FEEDINGS THE FAMISHED.
Yeste'day afternoon a committee of
Florida gentlemen temporarily residing in
the city, called upon Mayor Price and
through their spokesman, Mr. George W.
Wilson, made a statement as to the pas
sengers going through the city suffering
from hunger. The followins composed
the delegation: Mes-rs. Hopkins, Wieden-
hour, Lesser, McLellan, Royston, Flem
ing, Pearce and Evsds.
Mayor Price thanked the gentlemen for
calling his attention to the fact, and as
sured them that the refugees passing
through would he cared for. He then
ordered the restaurants at the depots to
furnish sandwiches and coffee to every
passenger from Florida, and requested the
railroad authorities to stop the trains long
enough to allow them to eat it.
Accordingly, on the arrival of the train
from Jacksonville at the East Tenn., Ya.
and Ga. depot at 6 o’clock, the squdwickes
and coffee wefe ready, and were handed to
the passengers through the windows of the
cars. Some of them had come all the way
from St. Augustine without a mouthful to
1 eat, and among them a lot of children.
This provision of the mayor is subject
to the approval of the city council, which
meets to-night, and which will be unani
mously sustained.
• THE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Ye-terday morning Mayor Price received
the following telegram from Gov. Perry:
Tallahasse, Fla., August 13.—To the
mavor of Macon. Is it true as reported
that yout city offers refuge to the citizeus
of Jacksonville? May I so advise them?
E. A. Perry.
The mavor replied that the authorities
allowed the refugees to pan through, hot
not to stop.
There are various expressions of opinion
xs to the quarantine regulations now in
force. The people are divided on the ques
tion of allowing them to come end to pass
through on cannonball train*.
One idea is that the “partial quaran
tine” as adopted by the board of health
should be defined to have a physician at
Fort Valley to board the trains coming by
the Southwestern railroad, and one at
Cochran for the trains on the Erst Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia. These phy
sicians are to make an examination of the
trains of people, and if any sickness is on
board, determine the nature. If there is
no yellow fever symptoms, then the pas
sengers are given the option of stopping in
Macon; otherwise, the quarauliue would
be in effect.
Macon's heart is so big and warm that
she chafes under the order to bar the gates
against people in distress, and or this rea
son she is anxious that the quarantine be
regulated as above mentioned.
The present method is n-1 regarded as
effectual. An officer boards the train at
Fort Valley and inform* the passengers
that they cannot stop in Macon, bht must
go on through. But they can stop at
Forsyth and remain until the next down
train and return to Macon without let or
hindrance, aod the same can be done on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.
This is the manner in which the matter
is being talked about over the city.
WICKED AND GROUNDLESS RUMORS.
Some malicious person put afloat a
rumor yesterday that there were two cases
lanta at all. The rapid changes which are
always going on in our climate constitute
our safety.”
“It is estimated,” said the reporter,
“that there are a thousand refugees in At
lanta. Do yon think it possible that the
dlse se may break out among that thou
sand ?”
“It is not probable that more than a
dozen out of the thousand would have the
fever, ond I would be willing to take the
whole dozen—if they were respectable
people—to my own home and care for
them in my family. There is no danger
to anybody except to those who have been
exposed to the climate and tellnric influ-
suces which produce the ferer. There is
no reason in the world (or any of our citi
zeus to be frig- trued.”
THE DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCE.
Dr. J. J. Knott has had experience with
yellow fever. In 1873 when the fever was
in Shreveport, Montgomery and Mobile, a
New York drummer was exposed to the
fever in one of those cities and came to
Atlanta. He bad the fever at the Kimball
House, was attended by Dr. Knott and re
covered. Dr. Knott also attended Mr.
Mark Anthony at the Markham House in
1876. In 1876 the fever was in Savannah,
of yellow fever in the city. The rumor j and Judge Henry B. Tompkins was taken
spread all orer the city and on every hand . with it while on his way from Savannah to
was heard the question, “Is it true?” One : Atlanta. He came in, stopped at the
was to the effect that two cases were at Markham, was treated by Dr. Knott, and
the Hotel Lanier. As soon as it i recovered. In 1878 when the fever which
re ched the ears ol Mayor Price he j started at Memphis extended to Chatta-
made every effort to trace it to a source, nooga, Dr. Knott went to Chattanooga and
but failed,'no one being willing to father took charge of the hospital there,
it. The fact was there was not a sick per- | He says that yellow fever is not so dang-
son at the Hotel Lanier, or any other hotel erous as most people suppose. He has had
for that matter. The mayor openly says patients to recover even after they had
that should it happen that a case could been attacked by the black vomiL
possibly get into Macon he would make I fleeing ball players.
knowD the fact at once He does not pro- • t . ’ •,,
jbsjskiss srit
I * Jj ; when tne vellow lever temre came up to
In the afternoon Dr. Walker, chairman ! wSST IhZ
to a residence on the Hill where itwu^iid friends. When the club went to Fernan*
to a residence on the Mill where it was said , « . . i^r. *t»_ i>.._
, t 11 f t» l, ’ dnia the members lelt their valises con*
snzststzsx. stss >■'»>■- S'
mind that the cases were not yellow fever, f uIa f £L “
but supposing that the inmatesnf the house ' 1 Jot S?
might brightened, he felt it h s duty to *"' J “£ ng W,th “ ,he clothul « ° f the
go. On. arriving at the residence he made , " '
known the purpose of his visit, and was j THE EAST Tennessee* action.
told that such a rumor was absurd. The Last night Maj. Barnes, Superintendent
“patients” were romping over the house as of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
lively as healthy children could e. j gia railroad, was yesterday notified by tel-
Tbnt the runio- went ont of the city egraph that there were a number of pas-
surprtsing swiftness is evidenced bv the 1 sengers from Florida who bad bought
following telegram received by Dr. Walker I tickets to Macon, and that being quann-
last night: | tined there they had no finds to go fur-
Acgusta, Ga., August 13.—President ther. He at once telegraphed the con-
Board of Health:—Rumored in Augusta ductor to pass to Atlanta all passengers
that cases of yellow fever are in Macon. . without funds, and that he would see to it
Telegraph immediately if or not the rumor i that they were properly cared for when
is true. Eugene Foster, j they reached this city. He did so, and
President Board of Health of Augusta. | when they arrived he found homes for
It is needless to say that Dr. Walker ; them,
wired immediately that there were no'
cases here.
If it is possible to find a person creating
such false rumors he will be severely pun-
isbed, aod it isthe duty of all good citi
zens to run such reports down to th. per
son starting iL
DRAINING THE SWAMPS.
In conversation with Mayor Price yes
terday, he said that he was thoroughly
roused on the subject of draining the
swampe just below the city. The condi
tion of this swamp is known to the people,
and the time is here ( r it 'o be drained.
He suggests that tu. citUeli. BMei and re
quest the county commissioners to drain
the swamp at once. The connty has the
money, and as the city pays about eight
tenths of the taxes, this request should re
ceive immediate attention. Therefore no
Outlets to the foul an.i stagnant
water that is fed daily by cart loads of the
garbage of the city, and while the poison
ous gas thus generated has not as yet, as
the mortuary record shows, bred any dis
ease, it is in danger of doing so under the
hot summer cun. There ore, with Jack-
a inville’a desolate condition in view, and
for the purpose of averting any danger,
the mayor thinks now is the time to begin
the work. The swamp drained, the sani
tary regulations carried out as they will
be in the future, and with her unsurpassed
natural drainage, Macon will be the
healthiest city on the face of the earth,
defying yellow fever or any other tpidemte,
and offering a safe refuge to the people of
any land on which the desolating hand of
disease is laid.
Gainesville's action.
Gainesville, Ga.. August 13.—On Sat
urday last our Mayor, Mr. Jno. A. Smith,
extended an invitation to the refugees
from the yellow fever district to come to
our mountain city. While we are cot
afraid of au epidemic, still we would not
like to see a tully developed case of “yel
low jack” put down in oar midst. A few
cases in year* past have developed hr re
after the parties arrived, but the disease
did not spread and the patients recovered.
Some Floridians are coming in on every
train.
THE FEVER IN JACKSONVILLE.
Washington, August 13.—Acting Sur
geon-General Hoker has received a tele
gram to-daj from Dr. Mitchell at Jackson
ville, as follows: Official bulletin for tbe
last twenty-four hours: New cases 3; re
covered 1; deaths 1, (Mrs. W. 8. McClel
lan); under treatment 17: numberof cases
to date 21; number of deaths to date 3.
THE REFUGEES IN ATLANTA.
What I)r. Knott Says About the Fever-
Returning Hall Flayers.
Atlanta. August 13.—A near neighbor
of the Atlanta Bureau of the Telegraph
is Dr. J. J. Knott, whose office is in the
same building and on the same floor. Dr.
Knott is probably one of the best informed
physic ; ans in the State upon the causes of
yellow lever and the treatuien.of a patient
stricken with 'ho diseoee. This morning
hC tu ujjou l uu. MliO}IVUUeSt 1U
a social way, when the subject of Jackson
ville’s unfortunate condition came np.
Said he:
‘I do not believe there would be any
danger if all the people of Jacksonville
and Ssvannah were brought to Atlanta.”
On being saked to atste his reasons for
such confidence in Atlanta’s healthfulness,
he said:
WHAT CAUSES THE rEVER.
“Yellow fever is doe to certain condi
tion in the atmosphere and earth. Those
conditions, which are, in a certain, sense,
local, exist now in the fever-stricken sec
tions. It is probable the disease will not
be confined to Jacksonville. It is impossi
ble to quarantine against it, for yon can-
no quarantine against the winds. Our
aafety, and I consider that we are abeo-
lutely safe, lies in something else. It is a
physical impossibility for tbe air currents
to produce in Atlanta the climatic condi
tions which are neceeaary to produce yel
low fever. At least we will never get yel
low fever from the Atlantic coast. If we
ever get it at all it will come from tbe
west; but I do not expect it to come to At-
ATLANTA WILL NOT QUARANTINE.
For several days Atlanta has been filling
up with refugees from Jacksonville and
other Florida points, who were seeking
safety from i be yellow fever. This created
some alarm among tbe citizens, and this
afternoon a called meeting of the ci'y
council was held to discuss the situation
and consider the advisability of quaran
tining against Jacksonville. * The session
was strictly secret. After considerable dis
cussion it was decided to take no steps for
the present IooLinr to the establishment
of a quarantine. A resolution introduced
by Councilman Moran at the last session
of the council appropriating $6,000 to the
sanitary department, for the purpose of
cleaning the streets, was taken up and
passed.
LATEST FKOSt .1 VCKSO>VU> O
The Efforts Made to Kill the Germ of the
by Concession.
Jacksonville, August 13.—The fever
panic continues. The people are leaving
the city by every known means of exodus.
The outlying cities and towns, both near
and distant, are continually establishing
quarantine against us.
Macon, which had opened its gates to all
refugees, closed them to-day. The only
known exit is now through Atlanta, and if
Waycroas maintains strict quarantine and
the government citabliahes a camp for the
refugees at Boulogne, twelve miles this
side of there, the present inhabitants of
Jacksonville will be practically shut in on
all sides. The citisens’ auxiliary associa
tion to the county Board of Health was
in session all the morning. The
police force _ has been increased and
mounted police now patrol the streets
night and day. No case of yellow fever
has yet occurred among the negro popula
tion. Business is completely paralyzed
and the negroes ont ot work gather in
knots'in the streets, and it is feared will
soon begin to plunder and pillage the hun
dreds of nnoccDpied houses in the citv
Rumors of martial law are afloat. The
situation does not yet demand it, but mav
at almost any hour if the thousands of
blacks remain out of work.
By reason of the exodus from the city
the banks have been largely drawn upon
for funds. No deposits are coming in, as
the merchants find it impossible to collect
accounts. The Florida Savings Bank and
Real Estate Exchange, J. C. Greeley pres
ident, this morning posted notice on the
door to the eflect that the pressure upon it
had forced it to take advantage of the
sixty day rule with reference to th.? with
drawal of deposits. No funds will be paid
out at present. This has not caused a
panic aa yet, but will when it becomes
more generally known.
TO KILL THE GERMS.
Lime, sulphur and tar have been ordered
in large quantities a-d to night several
hundred fires will be kindled all over the
city, two or three in every block, in order
to kill the fever germs if possible. To
night the “concussion'’ theorv of kiltinv
lever germs wilt be given a practical test.
\\ ‘Ison s battery, with fire pieces of artil-
lery, will begin firing continnoualv from
■even o'clock for icveral hours.
The following order has been uaied by
the committee: The committee in charge
of the test to be made of the “concussion”
theory propose to make the test a thor
ough one, and tothat end we request that
people bear patiently and without com-
plaint the annoyance caused by the noise
of firing the cannon. Every one at
snch time as this must make
sacrifices for general good, and if this test,
combined with other means to be used,
will free the city from the scourge which
threatens ns, no sac ifice would be too
great. Attendants of the sick shoo Id be
careful to prepare their patients so that
there may be no miMcamtjr shock from
the noise, and urge them to submit pa
tiently. The hoars for firing will be from
6 to 7 a. m., and from 8 to 9 p. m_ perhaps
longer. [Signed] H. A. Lenolb,
H. R. Stout,
. Committee.
The situation at 7 p. m. is aa follows:
Only two new cases of yellow ferer are re
ported in the city as occurring in the past
twenty-four hours, B. F. Dillon, superin
tendent of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and William Sheppard, residing
on Church street,
Dr. Mitchell, president of the board of
health, does not think Mr. Gelder died of
yellow fever. No other deaths are reported.
Deaths to-day, 1; itcovered, 1; under
treatment, 19 The whole number of cases
so far is 25.
SUSPENSION OF BUSIN ESS.
Nearly every hoarding house, hotel and
restaurant in the city has been closed.
Hundreds of stores are closed and the pro
prietors have fled. All others close at 5 p.
m. and open at 9 a. m. in order to avoid
contact with the night air. Many dining
clubs are forming in private houses wholly.
All mails are fumigated by order of the
post-office department. The Western
Union telegraph office is seriously embar
rassed, only about one-third of its opera
tors remain. Press reports for the Times-
Union could not be taken last night Tbe
men could not work. There was great
difficulty in transmitting specials from
here. Score upon score are returned to
newspaper correspondents “Not trans
mitted.”
SAVANNAH S SANITARY CONDITION.
Surgeon General Hamilton Looks Over the
City and Makes a Report
Savannah, August 13.—[Special.]—The
Savannah health board issued lorty bar
rels of copperas and lime, and over one
thousand bottles of chloride for disinfect
ing the city to-day. A hundred men are em
ployed under a detail of police cleaning up
the streets and yards and removing all
matter that might tend to generate sick
ness.
Surgeon General Hamilton went over
the city this morning and visited the worst
localities. He left at toon for Washing
ton. i’
ll Speaking of cksonville the surgeon-
geuerai said: “I would advise everybody
to leave Jacksonville until the city is
thinned out. We cannot tell much about
the malignancy of the type of the fever
Of a thousand who" leave the
town, perhaps five hundred
would have the fever if they lemained
there all summer. When the exodus
ceases, we will soon have data to base an
opinion upon.”
SAVANNAH’S QUARANTINE.
In regard to tbe local quarantine, he
said: “Savannah is in splendid sanitary
condition; there is no disease that is more
susceptible to prevention by quarantine
than yellow fever. If Savannah is only
vigilant, and she certainly seems to be,
she can keep out refugees, and she has
nothing to fear from any other source.
There is no reason why any of Jackson
ville’s neighbors should contract the fever
if they can keep the refugees out. It did
not originate in Jacksonville this summer,
but was imported. Plant City was not
free from tbe fever at any time dnring the
past winter.”
WHAT SAVANNAH IS DOING.
The Savannah health authorities are
taking active measures to keepont the dis
ease. Quarantine was declared to-day
against all points in south Florida. Ad
ditional inspectors were appointed and
were sent out to-night along the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway. No mails
have arrived from the sooth since Friday,
bat they are expected in to-morrow, lami
nating stations having been established to-
A meeting of the city council waa held
to-night, and the mayor issued a procla
mation offering $25 reward for the arrest
of any person lound in the city in viola
tion of quarantine regulations. Detect-
on nil tr—Iu- to t!*—.
There is considerable uneasiness here, but
no serious alarm.
The healthful condition of the city and
the confidence of the people in the sani
tary board is preventing anything like a
scare. The Savannah Benevolent Asso
ciation telegraphed the mayor of Jackson
ville to-night oflering assistance, and a
meeting win be held to morrow to place a
fund at his disposal.
AUGUSTA INDIGNANT *
Bccauio Sensational Correspondents Seek
to Lie About Her.
Augusta, August 13.—[Special ]—Sen
sational specials to Northern and Western
papers, purporting to issue from Augusta,
and describing the panic in this city and
people tearing here on account of the yel
low fever scare, are utterly without
foundation. Mayor May and President
Foster, of the Board oi Health, hare been
seeking to-day to discover the authors of
the specials, and the citizens are quite in
dignant.
* Augusta is more than three hundred
miles ' from Jacksonville,” said Mayor
May, “has established strict quarantine
regulations, baa tbe best sewerage system,
and has been the cleanest ant^ healthiest
city in the State this aammer. There is
not the slightest danger or apprehension
of the fever, and the speciali published in
the Northern and Western papers do the
city great damage and injustice, The
only particle of foundation for them is the
fact that Augnsta has quarantined against
Jacksonville, which is no more than other
cities have done.”
COLUMBUS QUARANTINES
Anil Tell* (he Refugee. In the City Ilia
They Mast Go.
Columbus, August 13.—[Special].—The
city council held a called meeting to-day
and adopted a rigid quarantine ordinance
against Jacksonrille and points infected
with yellow ferer.
The ordinance went into effect at once.
The few refugees that arrived here last
night were required to leave. The city
council also decided to -take all possible
MUUMU; |dCUuuuMs
A Mysterious Robbery.
Chicago, August 9.—A special dispatch
from Jefferson City, Mo., says: It has been
learned here that a bold mail robbery was
committed on the Missouri Pacific railway
between this eity and 8l Louis ou August
4th, in which over 317,000 was stoleo, of
which 35,000 was from the State treasury.
The discovery of the crime was accidental.
Two fanners near Washington, Mo., were
approaching a suspicious looking mas on
the highway, when he became frightened
and in attempting to flee dropped a large
package. The farmers secured it and at
one. discovered that it was plunder from a
mail robbery. They turned it over to the
postmaster, who notified the postal authori
ties and a secret service agent from Sl Louis
is now endeavoring to trace the robbery.
American schooners Rales v-l.
Ottawa, Ont , August 13.—Two Amer
ican fishermen found on board tbe Ameri
can sloop captured by the cruiser Dream
last week, and towed into SL Andrew’s
Bay, were released after having signed an
acknowledgment of fishing within tbe
thrue-milelimiL
SAMUEL NOBLE DEAD.
The Founder of Anniston
Passes Away, Aged 54.
SICK ONLY ABOUT THREE DAYS.
Drier -ketch of a Life Distinguished fop Its
Usefulness and Activity —Ills Estate
Estimated nt One and a Half
to Two Million Dollars.
Anniston, Ala., Angost 13.—[Special.]—
Sam Noble is dead! The founder of Annit
ton has paid tbe debt all men must pay some
day. He breathed bis last at 3:45 this after
noon.
He was taken sick on Friday last while
engaged in getting tbe Anniston exhibit
ready for display in the Alabama car, which
is going to the west in Commissioher Kolb’s
ctre. Cholera morbus, together with a
heart aflection, caused his untimely death.
All Anniston, and, indeed, it might be said
alt Alabama and the Sonth mourn his loss.
Mr. Noble was the founder and main
spring of Anniston’s material welfare, and
onr fair and beautiful eity is draped in
mourning and business is a>most entirely
suspended in respect for his memory.
Samuel Noble was born in Cornwall, Eng-
land, in 1834. His father moved to Pennsyl
vania in 1837 and to Rome in 1855.
In connection with his father, Jas. Noble,
ha bnilt up a great iron manufactory at
Rome, which did much for the growth and
improvement of that city. It was for a few
years after the war the only Iron rolling
establishment of the South, and until a few
years ago furnished most of the trucks for
the railroads of the South. Four or five
years ago Mr. Samnel Noble removed these
works to Anniston. At Rome his works
were eDgaged daring the war in casting can
non for the Confederacy.
In 187- he and Gen. Daniel Tyler started
the Woodstock iron fnrnace. and from that
time Anniston dates her start.
Mr. A. L. Tyierand Judge Lapsley are ap
pointed executors by his will. He Daves sn
estate estimated a. one and a half to two
million dollars.
A TRAIN BURNED.
A Fireman, Pinmd Under His Engine
Shoot* Hlm«e-f.
Port Jarvis, August 13.—A fast freight
train on the Erie railroad, when a quarter of
a mile west of Schobone, at about 1 o’clock
this morning, struck a lot of rocks which
bad been washed down on the track and the
locomotive and four car* were wrecked.
Engineer M. Fritz received bad scalp
wounds; Fireman O’iiogmn sustained a scalp
wound and had both arm* broken and Con
ductor Fred Long was injured abont the"
back.
Express train No. 3, west bonnd, was due
at the time of the accident, and the forward
brakeman got a lamp from the switch and
tried to flag it, but failed, and the express
engine crashed into the wreck, aod one car
loaded with horset, the baggage car, mail
car, smoker and one day cozcb were thrown
from the track down an embankment eighty
feet from the riila. The cars caught fire and
were bnrned, bat not until all passengers
were saved. Alexander Newman, fireman
on the express engine, was caught fast in
the wreck and waa bnrned to death. He
said to bystanders, "Tell my wife I am
last and can not get oou’ r Soon after
a report like a pistol shot was heard, and it
was rumored that Newman had shot himself
to escape from being bnrned to death.
Others say he bad no pistol.
The f—owing Is a complete list of the
casualties: John Kinsillat,engi eer,scalded,
it is feared, fatally; Alexander Newman,
fireman, bnrned; John Gaonen, baggageman,
badly cat; James Monahan, telegraph re-
B tirer, seriously cut abont the head; A. C.
oynton and J. L. Brown, mail c'.erks, both
slightly injured; T. uuhiin, brakeman, leg
broken; Jabn Jackson, brakeman. bruised;
Thomas Draper, plumber, internally injured,
probably fatally; John Casey and Thomat
McCullough, line repairers, slightly Injured.
A number of passengers were injured.
Sixteen passengers, most of them emi
grants, and six men who were in charge of
horses, were injured. Probably all but one
will recover. Of fourteen running horse., in
tbe wrecked car, but two escaped, the others
all being burned. The lost bones w re
principallv the property of Fred Gebhardt.
Among them were Eole, Eolist. Mineral,
Blank, certainty, Pauline, Erank. Orphan
I!oy, and tbe two-year-old filly Scandina
vian, owned by Mat Storms, of Caliiornia,
waa killed, and two of Mrs. Langtry’s black
tandem horses. The only one saved was St.
Savour and a two-year-old fiUy. Abont a
dozen of tbe wont injured people were
brought to Port Jervise at noon to-day.
Mat Storms, owner of Scandinavian, was in
the car with the hones, and will probable
die from hU injuries.
CONVENT BURNED.
The Sacred Heart, In New York Consumed
by Fire—No Live* Lost.
New York, August 13.—Tbe Convent of
the Sacred Heart on One Hundred and
Thirty-Second street, between Tenth and Sl
Nicholas avenue, waa consumed by fire to-
nighL It was an immense building, with a
frontage of three hundred feet, iue udi, g an
east and west wing, each of which was about
100 feet square. It haa long been known aa
a place of excellence in education, und many
children of parent! of wealth and promi
nence have been educated there. Tnere
were 195 persons in the convent at the time
of the fire, ail of whom escaped injury. The
loss is about (300,000, on which tnere is in
surance of only about 3200,000.
The lire started in the enpoia of the build
log, which was undergoing extensive altera
tions. The plumbers were at work tl-ere
during the day, anil left a little charcoal fur
nace burning in the cupola, ft was there
when they left their work at 6 o’clock. It
VU ahmit whoya W.trka* Stlpcrfcr JCEii,
▼ic*r of tbe Eist-rn Provinces, smr a smoke
in the upper part of the home. Mother
Bafly hau charge of fifty children, who were
all in the chnrch praving at ihe time. The
feaat of the aemuiption u on Wednesday,
and the altar waa decorated. Mother
Duffy got the children together and t ok
them out through a porch to St. Joeepb’a
ahrine, to the rear of the building and away
from danger. The women might have ex*
tinguivhrd the flamea, it aaa -thought, aa the
fire worked along slowly at firat; bat they
lent ou: an alarm for firemen, who promptly
responded. Laborers employed about the
pu e started to work with a small hose.
The difficulty was scarcity of water. When
the firemen arrired they at first could
find no water, except what was in a
little reservoir in front of the house.
Beside, the vjs cn a hi!,
and the engines had to be pulled up the hill
with ropes. The hose of three engines were
finally put together and water waa drawn
from St. Nicholas and Tenth avenue, a dis
tance of 20,0U0 feet to tbe hydrants. Mean*
time the fire had been working its way. It
au down through the certre of the building
from the eopola, and then driven by a strong
wind took hold of the east wing. Soon after*
ward the west wing was ablaxe. The posi*
tion of the convent on the hUi, the ugh
wind and the scarcity of water
woik of firemeu ilmost oseltsa u>
Everv relic and painting
some furniture, were saved * p M
*“ b 7 w llng gWand
to the hospital.
HHKKiDAN’oTvH.L,
How He DUpoacl of 1IU Property
of Hia Katate.
Washington, August 13.—the „
General Sheridan, tinted May 23 r j j* 1
to day admitted to probate. Be left '.
wife one-third of ati hia penonxl p-* 1 ^
the i-me to betfiin lien of djwcr. j 5 -
Kate Sheridan (bis mother, tlnce dt-° ^
he left the Ohio homestead, to
aon, P. H. Sneridau io fee simp). ,)•*
rest of bis property he leave, to ti w
M. V. Sheridan sad Lindeot Kent o’*
torney) in trust to recover renu
the maintenance and education of i- 1 . -1
children and if more than neeeanrv.t4
cess to be paid to his wif#. Ai eteiijS
children shall reach the age of tw»„ H
year*, the trustees aha I tuaign to aueh 2
dren such shares in eatace. If*
care and guardianship of his children n fl
wife and names the trustees also aieioLjl
and executori.
It is tated that his personal eitii.
•ists of $J,719 in money $8,000 in ,
etc., 35,000 in s-vord‘, etc., (3,000 i n ol
hold furniture, $600 in a h->r»« and
and $500 iu the house at Nonqnitt. tlM
debledneas is not more than $1,250* '*1
Letter, testamentary were granted I
Sheridan, Col. Saeridan and Mr. K„,5|
bond of $2,500. M1 «'l
A JACKSONVILLE SPECIAL
To New Orleans Telia ot the Great Trosttl
to the Poor. '
New Orleans, August 13.—A Ip ,
from Jacksonville, Fla., says: “The
tion it no better, ,ave that ti is shown h3
that the fever U of an exceedingly u|
type. This morning a mat h larger forcetl
men and teams were pat to work ole,-*
up and spreading disinfectant!. This eii
ing the artillery will commence work,-
testing the concussion theory, and fil
work of bnrniag pitch, lulphd
etc., will be increased. j =
hundred and fifty pottnds of pose
have been provided aad the battery will (
a hundred rounds, enntioaiog it through*
the nigbt. The exodus continues. Erelrq
who cun seenre aid from the outside h*‘|«t
Money here is beginning to be tight, ,1
there has been such a run on the book 1
Provisions, also, it is feared, will be ihot.
Vegetables are becoming scarce, as that-
seems to be no way to bring them in. Uil
donbtedlv among the poor there will \
great suffering if assistance is not remltn—
F.a-t night immense fi es were kept in ill
K arts of tbe city, coal tar being freeltf
nrned.”
OFFICER* MURDERED.
A Villain’s Friends Rescue BimandMnrde
the Officers in Charge.
Somerset, Ky., August 11—Yesterdq|
Constable Henry Warnian and Van Wirmu
went from Greenwood Station, Ky., a
Cedar Creek Church to arrest Andy flam'ii
for seducing a sister of Warraan’s. Thn
chose the church because they belient
Hamlin would be unarmed.
After sitting through the service^ C»
s le Vestal read the warrant to Andy
Hamlin and he consented to go to Gr«.
wood. When the officers had gone a mill
with their prisoner they were overtaken by
a gang in command of Alexander Hamlin
The latter demanded tbe release of Andy,
and the officers refused. Alexander thn
snot Van Warmandead, the officers retnmri
the fire and a general fusila-le took plan.
Both the tVarmana were killed and Co.
stable Vestal was mortally wounded. Tbs
sheriff is after Hamlin.
British Grain Trade.
London, August IS.—The Mark Lone E-.
prea*, in Its review of the Urlttsh grain trac.
dnring the post week, says: A fair amont'
of early wheat waa cut daring the week. 19
quality was good, bot still the general pros
pacta are that the harvest will b* inferior It
that of the post few years. Not much Eng
lisb wheat is oflering aad quotations art
unchanged. The tales of English when
daring the week were 16,789 quarters tt 34,
6*1, agaiust 21,632 quarter* at SJa 3d daring
the corresponding period lut year. Flour ii
slower to sell. Foreign wheats art again*
Zellers. Corn it unaltered. Linseed is 6 U
9 pence dearer. At to-day’a market flat
weather checked the upward tendency it
wbeaL Engli*h was scarce and unchanged.
Foreign was 3d lower. Floor was 3d cheap
er. Oats ware Is dearer.
Eruption in Japan,
San Francisco, August 13.-Furth«
advices regarding the volcanic eruption, it
Japan state that the small villages of Kiabi-
zauia, Akurnato and Hotone in Hinokihara
Mura were covered with sand aod ashes end
the sittt on which they stood thrown into 1
mountain. The number of persons buried
in these villages it entirely unknown, but it
it believed that no one there escaped alive.
At Mina five residences we e destroyed and
twelve persona wer, killed; at Shebyaya sev
enteen residences were destroyed and twenty
persona killed or wounded; at Nagizskt
twenty-five residences were destroyed aud
ninety-eight persons killed, and at Hortki
thirty seven residences were destroyed, but
no on* was killed. Th* people fled.
A Telegraph Pule Storm.
Pittsbcsg, August 13.—A heavy wind
and rain storm passed over Western Penn
sylvania Ust night, doing great damage to
ralrgraph wire* and pole*. Tht Western
Uni.-4 Telegraph Company wax psrtieulxr y
unfortunate. Polls were blown down is nil
directions, and Dearly allot tbe through
wire* were prostrated. At 10: '0 o’doe*
this morning the officials reported but two
Eastern wires, one to Philadelphia and the
other to New York. West of toil city the
only through wins were by the Panhandle
ra Iroad route.
Tbe storm appears to hsve spent its fuvT
ou tbe telegraphic service, as no re ortsot
other damage nave hsve been received.
AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEABS.
Th. Man Who Shot -ergesot Ptk. la Utah
In 1850 at Laat Arrested.
<li*pa cl, front Sait Lake City, lU..
says: United States Deputy Marshal*
Franks and Cannon have made an arrest ol
two accused murderers who, twenty ' ,ct '
vear* ago, shot a man ia cold blood upon
ihe slreeta here. The principal ra th*
murder ia Howard O. Spencer and his ac
complice is George Strmghatp. Their vic
tim ws* Sergeant Pike, of the L rated
Sups Armv. The mnrd r waa committed
in 1859, when Albert Sidney Johnstons
regiment was in Utah, at Camp Floyd.
Howard O. Spencer, then a d ‘ring and quar
relsome young man. went down to Camp
Floyd and got into a row with the soldiers.
Sergent Pike gave him a thrishing. Soni*
lime later Spencer saw Pike coming from
the hotel and shot him in the back, killing
him instantly. Hs m nere- *v*n
ed, and haa sinca held a Mormon bishopric
in thesouthern part of the Territory, whe«
for many succeeding year* he lived. Ju *
4th, Warden Pratt saw the man ra Liberty
park in this ctiy in the employ of the mu
nicipality and recognized him. He kept*
l: ..... J.. tmt!I th*
aw-ijv AAAVJ muu — —
watch on him every day until the 1——
ry papers to make au arrest were procured-
The alleged abettor in the crime, George
Sfrintph**?! kflfi ski h^n xrre**.»M.