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DEiDLY WORK OF DISASTROUS CYCL0UES
Towns In Wisconsin and Nebraska Are Almost
Completely Swept Out of Existence.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN STORM’S PATH WAS FEARFUL
Not a House Now Stands Where Once Was Two Prosperous
Northwestern Villages.
A special from St. Paul, Minn.,
says: A terrific and long drawn out
cyclone along the upper Mississippi
river and its tributaries in Wisconsin
and Minnesota has done enormous
damage. Not less than three towns
have been practically annihilated,over
250 lives have been lost and the flames
added to the horrible conditions, the
survivors being unable to rescue the
bodies of hundreds of victims from
the ruins being swept into ashes by
the angry flames.
New Richmond Devastated.
The worst destruction was at New
Richmond. Wis., where a frightful
tornado struck just before 6 o’clock
Sunday night. Fully 100 corpses,
twice as many mangled people, forty
acres of piles of brick, shivered planks,
scattered heaps of household goods,
dead horses through which the wind
had driven sharp splinters of boards,
smouldering fires whera houses had
stood, is what the storm wrought upon
the town in the space of three minutes.
There may have been cyclones which
created greater devastation, some that
have occasioned larger loss of life, but
it was only because tli'ere was more
material for destruction in their path
than this small village could afford.
There never was a cyclone that made
a cleaner s\v$ep of that which lay in
its path than the one of Sunday even¬
ing.
In the business portion of the town
absolutely not one building was left
standing above the cellar window’s,
everything above the foundation wall
tvas shaved as clean as though it had
been cut with a plane.
The towm was crowded with people
who had come from the
country to see a circus abnwincr there
aud this fact added to the destruction
of life caused by the storm, All the
hotels of the village weie filled with
guests. railroads and telegraph
Damage to
and telephone lines is widespread.
The running of trains was interfered
with and communication with points
in the path of the storm cut off.
Relief trains w r ere sent from Chip
P eWft Falls and Stevens Point, and
doctors and nurses were picked up
along the route, as, in addition to the
dead, there are hundreds of injured,
of whom are in a critical condi¬
tion. Wisconsin
New Richmond is on the
line and on the Duluth, Superior
branch of the Omaha road It is 36
miles east of St. Paul, and in the
heart of the rich farming section of
Bt. Croix county. It is near Willow
river, on which are several large saw
and grist mills,and is quite a business
center. of
It is one of the oldest towns
western Wisconsin, and had many
handsome residences. There wore two
principal streets crossing each other
at right angles, the more important
ones running east and west. It was
through this street the storm passed.
The thoroughfare was three miles
long, lined with trees, aud made a fine
driveway.
Other Towns Damaged.
Next to New Richmond, the most
severe damage done by the storm was
at Hudson, Wis., and also atLaCrosse,
Wis. In tho vicinity of the first
named town four people were killed,
residences unroofed and barns and
outbuilding all along its path demol¬
ished. severest
At LaCrosse it was the
storm known in seventeen years.
Nealy five inches of water fell. The
river rose so rapidly that 400 people
living in the lower portion of the city
were driven from their homes.
MINERS GETTING TOGETHER.
In East Tenne.^ They Are Rapidly
sociation and putting themselves m
rpS^antlirra 0 ^"
PI iH.“:.Ih”y vii> fully backup looked
the miners at Soddy, who «e
out because they are refused lecogui
tion as members of the association.
The movement has been progressing
quietly for several mouths until
now the plans are perfected.
A special from Omaha says: A tor¬
nado struck the town of Herman in
Washington county, Nebraska, Mon¬
day evening and wiped the place out
of existence. Herman is a town of
about 300 inhabitants, in the extreme
northern part of Washington county.
It is on the line of the Chicago, St.
Paul, Mineapolis and Omaha
A conductor on the evening train
from Sioux City passed through the
place not long after the storm, and he
says not a building is left standing in
town. He counted twelve dead bodies
lying in the streets.
The fatalities will undoubtedly run
up to a hundred, if not higher. A
special train left Blair, the county seat,
ten miles distant, for the scene of the
disaster within an hour after the storm
passed, carrying surgeons and all
needed supplies.
Wires are all down north of Herman
and it :s not known how much further
north the storm went, but reports are
coming in to the effect that a large por¬
tion of the country north of Herman
is laid waste.
The streets of Omaha were flooded
and the play of the lightning was
fearful.
Advices received by The Bee (Oma¬
ha) up to 11 o’clock Tuesday night
stated that every dwelling in the town
was destroyed except the public school
and a small dwelling, both of which
are on the outskirts. The force of the
tornado was terrific, as scarcely one
piece of the many structures destroyed
was left intact.
The scene in the streets of the once
thriving and beautiful little town was
one of destruction. Wrecked build¬
ings and broken furniture are strewn
all around, w’hile dead bodies lay in
many places, the corpses badly disfig¬
ured and some of them recog-
Many of the injured will die, but
some of them received but slight in¬
juries. It was impossible at the time,
on account of the confusion, to ascer¬
tain the number of dead, but twelve
were kuown to have been killed, and
and the list will probably run up very
much higher. Jaynes, of the Oma¬
Superintendent Tekamah when he
ha road, was at
heard of the disaster and left at once
for Herman on a hand car, taking two
physicians along with him to assist in
succoring the injured. injured mingled
The moans of the
w’ith the calls of the rescuers as they
pursued the humanitarian task in the
darkness and by the flickering gleams
of lanterns. arrived
The relief train from Blair
about one hour after the storm and
the work of picking up the wounded
was begun. Willing hands did what
they could to help the injured, aud in
the course of an hour the train pulled
ont for Blair with ninety-five injured
on board. They were taken to Blair
as there was absolutely no place at
Herman at which treatment could be
administered. All the citizens of
Blair opened their houses to the
wounded, and the unfortunates are be¬
cared for by competent surgeons.
LUNA AND RAMON KILLED.
Insurgent General Assassinated By
Aguinaldo’s Body Guard.
Information, believed to. be reliable,
has reached Mauila of the assassination
of General Luna and his aid-de-camp,
Lieutenant Pasco Ramon, June 8th, by
Aguinaldo’s guard at the headquarters
of Aguinaldo. and it appears, went
Luna Ramon, confer
to the Filipino headquarters to
with Aguinaldo, got into an altercation
with the captain of the guard aud oue
of them drew a revolver. The guard
killed Luna and Ramon with their
bayonets. _ _
JAPAN ASS1TS CHINA.
Vessels Captured la the War Will B.
SA«-■-s 1 r
between the two countries are
to be returned to the Chinese govern
“rbj. by the J ^^tVhefnelgh- V ^ ^ poWers on
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that the only requirement to
be made s that China invests so many
to be buiIt
airectioll9 .
CONVENE
—
In Harrisburg, Pa., To Nominate
Judges—Platform Is Fa¬
vorable To Bryan.
Four hundred anti thirty-five repre¬
sentatives of the democracy of Penn¬
sylvania met at Harrisburg "Wednes¬
day for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the supreme court
judge, superior court judge and state
treasurer.
Shortly after midnight the conven¬
tion adjourned until Thursday morn¬
ing without having accomplished the
first and most important piece of work
laid out for them, namely: the selec¬
tion of a candidate for supreme judge.
When adjournment was had there
were elevev tndiuates in the field
with votes ranging from 13 to 72, the
highest being a long way off from the
218 necessary to elect. The deter¬
mined battle arose from the fact that
the nominee is sure to be elected
to serve twenty years.
The platform as prepared by the ex¬
ecutive committee was adopted by the
resolutions committee. Mr. Siebert,
of Potter, moved to amend the plat¬
form by making a straight out decla¬
ration in favor of the Chicago platform.
This was defeated by a viva voce vote.
The report of the resolutions com¬
mittee was unanimously adopted. A
synopsis of the platform follows:
“The democracy of Pennsylvania in
convention assembled, again renewing
our pledges of fidelity and devotion to
the sacred rights of the people; true to
the faith and principles of our party
as declared in the platforms of our
several national conventions, aud
proud of our matchless leader, William
Jennings Bryan, realize that the issues
involved in the coming campaign in
Pennsylvania are honest government,
clean politics and the redemption of
our state from republican misrule and
corruption.
“The increase of public officials and
clerks, and in salaries is denounced
and charged with being payment for
political obligations and causing a de¬
ficit of over §3,500,000 in the
aud crippling charities, schools and
adding to the burden of the taxpayer.”
Continuing it reads:
“We denounce the indecent haste
displayed and the disrespect shown
the people by the governor of the
in the appointment to the vacafiey
the United States senate of M. S.
Quay, who to prevent a full
tion before a oh-dtffb,
the most serious charges of
this appointment, in the unwarranted
reduction of the appropriation to pub¬
lic schools and his unathorized veto of
the constitutional amendment resolu¬
tion he has violated the constitution,
usurped authority nowhere granted
him and perpetuated wrongs against
the people and the state that demand
his condemnation.” reference
The platform closes with
to the war in these words:
“We glory and rejoice in the patrio¬
tic devotion to the cause of our coun¬
try in the late war with Spain of the
brave and noble men who periled
their lives and shed their blood in or¬
der that a conflict waged for humani¬
ty's sake might be brought to a speedy
and triumphant close.”
TRIAL OF KIDNAPERS.
The Barrows Arraigned--Nurse, Carrie
Jones, Pleads Guilty.
The trial of George Beaio-cgard
Barrows for kidnaping Marion Clarke,
who county, was was found begun in ^v^^York^Ved at New lork v\ea
uesdav before Justice Furman. At
,»-■>* «* tasba A jssssq 4urii ' g H
f. " called
Barrow’s ease was
Abraham Levy asked that his client,
Carrie Jones, be called to the bar.
She at once entered a plea of guilty by
the advice of her counsel. Mr. Levy
said that his client was repentant and
would throw herself on the mercy of
the court. He asked that she be re
manded for sentence, aud this was
done. The girl will be called as a
witness against the Barrows.
The work of impaneling a jury for
the trial of Barrow and his wife occu
pied the court until it was too late to
begin hearing testimony aud adjourn
meut was taken until Thursday.
EVANS DOESN'T ANSWER. I
Chargee Are Made Against Ex-Gov- I
ernor of South Carolina.
A committee’ Columbia S. C., special legis- says:
SLe The S appointed by the
penitentLry investigate the conduct of
the 1 by Colonel Neal,
C-SE. while superintendent,- and general
Us »ork Tues-
1!:“ absence of letter
Tillman and the any whom
from ex-Governor Evans,against
there is charged §175 for groceries on
tho penitentiary books, besides other
matters such as working a farm with
convicts.
AGUINALDO LED FIGHT
Another Desperate Battle
Occurs In Philippines.
REBELS MORE AGGRESSIVE
Insurgent Chief Enters Engagement At
the Head of Five Thousand
Filipino Warriors.
A special from Manila says: After
cutting the railroad and telegraph at
Apalit, several miles south, for the
purpose of severing connection, the
rebels attacked General MacArthur’s
lines at San Fernando at 4:30 o’clock
Friday morning. They met with an
unexpectedly warm reception,and were
repulsed with a loss of seveuty-five
men, thirty prisoners and many
wounded.
The rebels’ force is estimated to
have been 5,000 men. They advanced
stealthily from the jungle north of the
city and then divided, with the evi¬
dent purpose of surrounding the Amer¬
icans.
The outposts of the Iowa regiment
discovered the enemy and retired to
their lines, -where the entire division
awaited in an intrenched position.
The Iowa regiment and the Kansas
regiment received tho first shock of
the attack. Reserving their fire until
the enemy was within 600 yards, the
first volley of the Americans hit the
rebels, who returned the fire wildly,
the rent of their line failing to ad¬
vance. The Americans, -who thorough¬
ly enjoyed the novelty of the situation,
awaiting the attack, sallied forth and
the insurgents thereupon turned and
fled into the jungle. Our loss was
fourteen men ivounded, and the ma¬
jority of them are oyly slightly hurt.
General Funstan’s brigade of Kap
sans and Montanans; General Hale's
^brigade, the Seventeenth regiment and
the Iowa regiment constituted
force engaged. —*'® P er '
made for several days to
uring troops trans¬
and others from Dagupan were
ported by rail.
Along the front of the Kansas regi¬
ment thirty-nine dead were counted.
The first news of the Filipino advances
was reported by a telegraph operator,
who was sent to the bridg§.at Apalit to
ascertain the cause of a break mone
of the wires. He was compelled to
beat a hasty retreat under fire.
A Spanish officer who has been a
prisoner in the hands of the lebels,
and who was released by Aguinaldo,
has come through our lines to Manila.
He claims to have been a witness of
the assassination of General Luna.
According to his story, the rela¬
tions between the two Filipino leadeffl
had been strained to the breaking
point because of Luna’s attempts to
assume cou trol of affairs, and the final
rupture was forced by Aguinaldo provincial issu¬
ing secret orders to the
otu s „ ml8 Q f the Assault.
following cablegram was re
at Was bington Friday afternoon
from General Otis:
Manila, June .. 16 -“ A "J utant Gen
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quickly repulsed and driven, leaving
over fifty dead on field and large num
her wounded; enemy in retieat.
casualties fourteen wounded, mm-y
very tack in slight. progress Preparation several day., Jor belie tl s at
to be under personal direction of Agui
naldo.
Chicago Is Populous.
Chicago's population, according to
0 f police Kiplfey, has finally
ge(1 {]xQ two million mark and is
2) ’ 088,042. The figures are police a re
^ o tlie ceusus taken by the
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FURNACES —-—. TO RESUML.
IRON .
Recent Purchase of a Georgia Mining
Company To Start Up.
The Southern Mining and Manufac
turing company, of Georgia, is mi •
ing preparations for opening its iron
and coal property in Dade and an
nounco that they will soon put the
",
company i. a, S o preparing »
put the old Chattanooga furnace
blast. This property, *bicb
bought a few days ago, has been
for a number of years. It is to be
completely overhauled and brought up
to date.
ARBITR A T 0 R5 MEET -
They Will Endeavor To Settle the
Dispute Over Boundaries
In Venezuela.
The Venezuelan arbiWmn^omW
tee held its first formal meeting in
Paris Thursday. There tvas a large
and distinguished assemblage. Baron
de Maartens is the umpire, and on
oue bench were the arbitrators, Chief
Justice Fuller and Justice Brewer, of
the United States supreme court;
Baron Russell, of Kiloweu, lord chief
justice of England, and Sir Richard
Henn Collins, lord justice of appeals.
The commission decided to meet
only four days next week, omitting
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
By arrangement of counsel, Sir
Richard Webster opened tho British
case, the procedure providing for
speaking by him first, then two Vene¬
zuelan counsel, next Great Britain,
with possibly two counsel, then Vene¬
zuela, aud next Great Britain, Vene¬
zuela making the final speech.
Sir Richard Webster made a geogra¬
phical aud historical review of tho
boundary subject, entering exhaustive¬
ly into a discussion of the general
question presented.
MORE MEN FOR OTIS.
Three Additional Regiments Will Be
„ • Formed In the Philippines.
Pursuing a policy determined upon
some months ago, General Otis is
organizing three regiments in the
Philippines composed of officers and
men of the state volunteers who de¬
sire to remain in the service. The
army bill authorized this kind of en¬
listment in the Philippines. If the
full complement cannot be made np
from those discharged volunteers in
the Philippines, the regiments will be
organized and officered in skeleton
form until recruits can be sent from
the'United States to fill them.
General Otis and volunteer officers
in the Philippines have been consult¬
ing to see how many men will enlist.
The number has not been very large,
as there seems to be a desire of the
volunteers to return to the United
States with their organizations.
These three proposed regiments of
regulais will sail from Sau Francisco
on the 22d and 24th and those under
orders for Manila will give General
Otis 33,000 fighting men.__«, w m be
The "volunteer and regu¬
lar'’officers who have demonstrated
ilieir special fitness to command and
who have distinguished themselves in
notion,
SENATOR COCKE ARRESTED.
He Is Charged With Embezzling th«
Funds of a Bank.
A decided sensation was created at
Charlotte, N. C., .Thursday morning
by the announcement that the grand
jury of the federal court had found a
true bill against William J. Cocke, of
Asheville, for embezzlement, abstrac¬
tion and misappropriation of the funds
of the National Bank of Asheville.
Cocke was at one time cashier of
this bank and it is alleged that these
irregularities occurred during this
period. ninety-two counts the
There are m
indictment and the bill is the largest
ever drawn -in the state, covering
twenty-five pages. arrested in Asheville
Cocke was He
while in bed Thursday morning.
gave bond in the sum of §15,000.
Cocke is one of the most prominent North
young politicians in western
Carolina. He is state senator from
buncombe county,and was the young¬
est state senator in the last legislature.
He was mayor of Asheville at the age
of 21. .
His wife died cir¬
cumstances some time ago and there
were rumors of foul play, but Cocke was
acquitted of all blame regarding his
wife’s death. There was $30,000 in¬
surance on her life. All these things
are being revived now that Cocke has
been placed under indictment.
OLYflPlA LEAVES SINGAPORE.
Next stop By Dewey Will Be At
Colombo, Ceylon.
\ cable dispatch from Singapore
s t a tes that the United States cruiser
Olvinpia, with Admiral Dewey on
board, sailed from that port at day
light Thursday morning,
The next stop made by the cruiser
be at Colombo, Island of Ceylon,
LI L , ST OF DEAD INCREASED.
More Bodies Are Found Near Nevfc
Richmond, Wisconsin.
Reports brought to New Richmond,
Wis., show that about nine persona
heretofore unheard of were killed by
the recent storm, The dead are fam
ilies of farmers living along the Burk¬
hart road between New Richmond and
Burkhart. About 200 farm houses
and adjoining buildings along nine
miles of that road are more or less
wrecked. Lacey fam¬
Three members of G. s
ily are reported as among the nine
killed; also three members of a family
named Ellis; also Mr. L. M. Hurd and
two or three others.
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