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WAR STATUS IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Roberts Reports Two Small En¬
gagements With Enemy.
IN BOTH BOERS WERE BEATEN
Within the Last Few Days British
Have Captured 5,000 Rifles
Belonging to Burghers.
Lord Roberts has sent bulletins to
London of two small fights occurring
on June 26th and June 27th in which
the Boers were discomfited. In a dis¬
patch from Pretoria dated Thursday
he says:
“A small force of mounted troops,
with mounted guns, commanded by
Lieutenaut Coloue! Dreiper wap at¬
tacked by the enemy under Prefers
and Nel, on the morning of June 26th,
seven miles north of Senekal. They
beat off the enemy and burned their
laagers. Our casualties were three
wounded and ten killed.
“Hunter, temporarily commanding
Ian Hamilton’s, made a march yester¬
day from Heidelberg toward Frankfort
without meeting any opposition.
“The euerny attacked our Roodeval
spruit post on the railway yesterday,
(Thursday), but were easily beaten off
by a detachment of the Derbyshire
light infantry, the West Australian
mounted, a fifteen pouuder and an ar¬
moured train.
“Baden-Powell reports the capture
of an influential Boer named.Ray, who
was endeavoring to raise a commando
in the Bustinburg district. A patrol
brought in over a hundred rifles.
More than 4,000 rifles and 1,000 infe¬
rior pieces have been taken during the
last few days.
“He states that thirty Boers have
arrived at Rustenburg, going to their
homes from Delareya commando. They
would have left before if they had seen
the proclamation which was carefully
withheld by the Boer authority.”
Lord Roberts says that Wednesday,
June 27th, was a record market day
in Pretoria for Boer farmers selling
produce.
Parties of Boers are still hanging on
General Buller’s flanks. F. R. Burn¬
ham, the American scout, is invalided.
On Jime 20th the war office cabled
Lord Roberts that disquieting reports
regarding the hosptal were accumn-
latiug, and asked him if anything
could be done, and particularly if
more nurses were needed.
On June 25th Lord Roberts replied,
saying that he did not wish to shirk
responsibility or to screen the short¬
comings of the medical corps, and he
suggested a committee of inquiry. He
said that there had been an abnormal
number of sick at Bloemfontein due
to tho exhausting nature of the march
aud the terribly unsanitary condition
of the camp at Paardeburg, where the
only water available for drinking flow¬
ed from the Boer camp higher up,
where the river was crowded with de¬
composing animals and also with a
number of wounded after the fight on
March 10th.
To improvise accommodations at
Bloemfontein for such a number,
which had become 2,000 before he left
Bloemfontein, was no easy iask, said
Lord Roberts. No tents were carried,
and the public buildings had to be
turned into hospitals. In three months
there had been 6,369 admissions to the
hospitals of patients suffering from
enteric fever, while the deaths num¬
bered abeut 1,370— about 21 per cent.
Lord Roberts observed that he did not
know whether this would be an ab¬
normal rate in civil hospitals in peace
times, but if the rate was abnormal it
was due to the exhausted state of the
men, and not to the neglect of the
medical corps.
RUSSIA MAKES PREPARATIONS.
All Military amt Civil Authorities Serretly
Ordered to Get. Ready.
The Vorwearts (German newspaper)
savs: “From an absolutely reliable
source we hear the Russian war min¬
ister has sent to all military aud civil
authorities in Russia secret orders to
prepare everything for mobilization.”
GERMAN OFFICER TALKS.
Predict, a Long and Bloody Struggle Be¬
fore Boxer, ure Supprced.
General Stahl, of the Imperial Ger-
man army, who has been investigating
conditions in the Orient under a spe¬
cial commission from the German gov¬
ernment, arrived at Vancouver, B. C.,
Thursday ou his way home. When
asked if he thought the Boxers would
be quickly suppressed, he said that in
his opinion tho powers had started in
upon a long, bloody conflict. In the
end, the Boxers would be disbanded,
but the destruction of life would be
appalling for the movement was
spreading like wild fire, throughout
China’s vast territory.
ALLIES NOT FRIENDLY.
British OIBcer* Say Russia May Deotde
to Act Independently.
The officer's of the British first class
cruiser Terrible at Che Foo, China,
as sert that disoord exists between the
Russians and Anglo-Americans and
they say they believe the Russians are
planning to break the ooncert and
take possession of Pekin independent¬ Admiral
ly. They assert that Vice
Soymour’s command lacked unison,
the foreigners sulking.
WOOLEY FOR PRESIDENT.
Prohibition National Convention
Finishes Work at Chicago
and Adjourns.
The prohibition national convention
at Chicago adjourned sine die Thurs¬
day, after having placed in nomina¬
tion for president. John G. Woolley, of
Illinois, and for vice president H. B.
Metcalf, of Rhode Island. The nomi¬
nations in each instance were made on
the first ballot.
The candidates for the presidential
•nomination balloted for were Mr.
Woolley and Rev. S. C. Swallow of
Pennsylvania, Hale Johnson of Illi¬
nois withdrawing his name at the last
moment and throwing his strength to
Mr. Woolley. This undoubtedly had
a great effect upon the result, as the
convention earlier in the day had been
nearly stampeded for Swallow by an
eloquent speech of Homer Castle of
Pittsburg, and had the friends of tho
Pennsylvania clergyman forced a bal¬
lot at that time the result might have-
been different.
For vice president three candidates
were balloted for—H. B. Metcalf,
Thomas R. Caskardon, of West Vir¬
ginia, and Rev. L. Eaton, of Iowa,
Mr. Metcalf receiving an overwhelm¬
ing majority of the votes cast. Imme¬
diately after the announcement of
the result of the ballot for the
the presidential nomination Dr. Swal¬
low was proposed as the vice presi¬
dential nominee. The convention went
wild over tho suggestion, but Dr.
Swallow, after a hurried conference
with the Pennsylvania delegation, re¬
fused to accept the nomination.
During the last day’s session Chair¬
man Stewart, of the national commit¬
tee, called for contributions for the
campaign and over $7,000 was realized
in a few minutes.
John G. Woolley is descended in a
direct line from Emanuel Woolley, an
English Quaker and friend of George
Fox, who came to New England in
1658 and later became a large land
owner in New Jersey, which is still
the family seat. Dr. Woolley was
born at Collinsville, O., February 15,
1850. He was graduated from the
Ohio Wesleyan university in 1871,
practiced law in Paris, IB., Minneapo¬
lis and New York until 1888, when he
became a Prohibitionist, and from ac¬
cepting occasional invitations to speak
upon the liquor traffic, drifted out of
the practice of his profession into the
lecture field. He hae resided in Chi-
eago sinoe 1892.
Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Island,
prohibition nominee for vice president,
was born seveDty-one years ago. He
is president of the Providence County
Savings hank. Mr. Metcalf was for¬
merly a Republican, but joined the
Prohibition party several years ago,
and has been prominently identified
with that party since. He has been
tho candidate of his party for governor
several times.
BLACK ROOT IX COTTON.
South Georgia Planter* Threatened With
Lori of Crop.
An Atlanta dispatch says; Commis¬
sioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens
says that black root, a very damaging
disease, has in been South discovered Georgia. iu the
cotton crop
Reports have been coming in from
the farmers telling him of a peculiar
color the cotton has and describing
the roots of the cotton plant to be
black. Remedies for the disease were
asked for. Mr. Stevens in speaking
of the black root says:
“Black root is a terrible thing for
cotton. It always destroys it and if
the reports that I have been getting
for the last two days are true, the cot¬
ton crop in this state has been greatly
damaged and the loss will amount to
thousands of dollars.”
FROM LI HUNG CHANG.
Mlnl.t.r Wu »t Washington Receive.
Cablegram From Canton. China.
Minister Wu called at the state de¬
partment Thursday afternoon and ex»
hibited the following cablegram to
Seoretary Hay:
“Canton, June 28.—The legation
ministers having left Pekin are now
twelve miles from Tien Tsin with Ad¬
miral Seymour. Li Huno Chano.”
The minister explained that the ca¬
blegram reached him from the Chinese
minister in London. He believes the
cablegram to be correct.
DOLE IS INAUGURATED
A* Chief Executive of the Hawaiian Is¬
land* In Honolulu.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
The last of the three great epoch-
making events in the history of the an¬
nexation of the Hawaiian islands
to the United States of America, took
place Thursday morning when Gover¬
nor S. B. Dole, first executive of the
American territory, was inaugurated.
Tho oath of office was taken and the
inaugural address delivered on the
spot that Was the scene of the other
two events—the reading of the all-
important proclamation of 1893 and
the flag-raising of 1898.
SEYMOUR SENDS MESSAGE.
According to It Hs Had 03 Men Killed
and Over 200 Wounded.
Admiral Seymour, it is said, suc¬
ceeded in getting a message into Tien
Tsin on last Monday, according to
which he was eight miles westward,
terribly harrassed, could only hold oat
another two days, and had 63 killed
and over 200 wounded.
He did not mention the ministers
or others from Pekin.
MINISTERS ARE SAFE
Foreign Representatives Were
Protected By Government.
ARE WITH THE RELIEF EXPEDITION
Washington Officials Are Groatly Relieved,
borne Detail* <»f the Fighting lift-
fore City of Tien Tain.
The following cablegram was re¬
ceived at the navy department late
Wednesday afternoon:
“Cine Foo, June 27.—Secretary
of Navy,Washington: Pekin force
and ministers reported with Pekin
relief expedition intrenched eight
miles from Tien Tsin.
“Kempff.”
The developments of the day re¬
specting China were important and
interesting. The Chinese minister’s
report of the departure of the foreign
ministers and their guards from Pekin
greatly relieved the officials at Wash¬
ington,who took it as the first tangible
evidence that the imperial Chinese
government had a full realization of
the enormity of permitting the minis¬
ters coming to personal harm and of
doing all in their power to observe the
amenities of international exohauge.
At tho state department it is said
that if it shall be explained that the
imperial government did this, not with
a purpose of rupturing diplomatic re¬
lations, but simply to insure the
safety of the ministers, which they
were unable to guarantee as long as
tin y remained in Pekin, there is still
ground f»r an amicable understand¬
ing.
The keenest interest is shown by the
officials to learn the conditions under
which the ministers left Pekin. Min¬
ister Wu’s dispatch was ominously
silent on that point, and though the
minister himself maintains almost ob¬
stinately his confidence in the non-
existence of a state of war, it is gen¬
erally admitted that it will be difficult
to accept his conclusion if it Bhall
transpire that the Pekin government
itself has sent the ministers away with
their passports or, what may come to
the same thing, with a guard as safe
conduct.
Notice has come to the government
that the cable companies have again
re-opened communication telegraphi¬
cally with Taku and Che Foo. This
arrangement has be-en made by means
of the Russian telegraphic system con¬
necting with the Siberian railway sys¬
tem. A European agent has managed
to re-epen the lines, though the means
of communication between Che Foo
and Taku and Tien Tsin are tortuous
and protaabl) precarious.
NEWS FROM LONDON.
A special dispatch received in Lon¬
don Wednesday from Chee Foo was as
follows:
“The fight of the allied forces
against the combined boxers and Chi¬
nese soldiers barring the road to Tien
Tsin opened at daybreak. One hun¬
dred and fifty Americans were among
the 2,000 international troops. The
Chinese soon broke under heavy shell¬
ing and then the arsenal was attacked
and the guns were gradually silenced.
The fight was practically over at noon.
"The keen friendly rivalry for the
honor of first entering the city result¬
ed in the Americans and British going
in neck and neck, with the others
close up.”
The composite brigade of 2,300 men
who raised the investment at Tien
Tsin and pushed on to help Admiral
Seymour, has relieved him.
SULZER (JOES TO LINCOLN.
Party of New Yorker* Confer With Bryan
Regarding Vice Presidency. I
A special . , from . Kansas _ Ctty says:
Congressman william Sulzer, who if
being boomed for vice president on
the Democratic ticket, and Richard
Croker and ex- 8 enator Murphy, of
New York, will have a conference at
Lincoln, Neb., with W. J. Bryan be¬
fore attending the convention.
Sterling Price, of Texas, who has
opened headquarters for Mr. Sulzer,
received a telegram Wednesday from
that gentleman saying he had left New
York for Lincoln. Another telegram
stated that Messrs. Croker and Mur¬
phy would be in Lincoln on Friday
night.
BOERS STILL IN EVIDENCE.
Their Renewed Activity Give# Briton#
Plenty of Work.
Telegrams reaching London from
South Africa indicate that the renewed
Boer activity increases in proportion
with Lord Roberts’ acquiescence, so
the completion of the commander in
chief’s enveloping movement supposed
to be in progress is anxiously awaited.
The latest Dews supports the reports
that Boers succeeded in piercing Gen¬
eral Rundle’s lines and penetrated
southward.
FATAL COLLISION IN WISCONSIN.
Excursion Train In Smash-Up and 8«ve«
People Killed.
A passenger train on the Chicago
and Northwestern road, loaded with
excursionists bound for the sangerfest
in Green Bay, Wis., collided at 10:15
o’clock Monday morning with a freight
train at Depere, five miles south of
Green Bay. Seven persons were kill¬
ed, one is missing and thirty-four were
injured.
CHAFFEE IS ASSIGNED
To Command Our Troops In tho
Celestial Empire.
GOES WITH SIXTH CAVALRY
New* That Ninth Infantry One* at. Once
to Tukn Greatly Plea*.** the Offi¬
cial* at Wa*liiugton.
President McKinley has assigned
General Adna R. Chaffee to the com¬
mand of the American military forces
operating in China. The plans of the
war department were somewhat clear¬
ed up by the announcement.
General Chaffee was at the war de¬
partment Tuesday receiving instruc¬
tions and will leavo for San Francisco
in time io sail with the sixth cavalry.
This detachment sails on the Grant,
which has been ordered to touch at
Nagasaki for further orders. It is
probable that the ship will then sail
direct for Che Foo, with General Chaf¬
fee and the sixth cavalry.
General MacArthor, at Manila, was
cabled an order directing the com¬
manding officer of the Ninth infantry
and such other forces as may be oper¬
ating in China by the timo of
the Grant’s to report to General Chaf¬
fee on his arrival. Unless present
plans change headquarters will be es-
tablised at Che Foo.
Tho news that the Nintk.. infantry
sails at once from Manila for Taku
■was received with pleasure at the war
department. Gen. Corbin said he reg¬
iment will compare favorably with any
similar organization sent by any of
the ovhor foreign governments in
China.
The Ninth has been recruited to its
fullest possible limit of 1,170 and is
provided with »n ample supply of
field guns, tents and complete field
equipment. It goes to China prepared
for active service and is thoroughly
equipped in the matter of transporta¬
tion and subsistance supplies for a
long campaign. The regiment is com¬
manded by Colonel Liscum, one of the
bravest and most discreet officers in
the army. The trip from Manila to
Taku will be made on the transports
Logan and Port Albert, the latter car¬
rying transportation outfit and ma-
chine guns.
MOBILE FLOODED.
Over a Foot of Water Fell In the
Space of Nine Hours In
Alabama City.
The heaviest rainfall in the history
of the weather bureau of this country
was experienced at Mobile, Ala., Tues¬
day, when 12.67 inches of rain was
precipitated in the immediate section.
It was merely a local rain extending
only a few miles in almost eveTy direc¬
tion, although the Mobile and Ohio
railroad announced that they had rain
in great volume all along their line to
St. Louis,
The rain began about 4 o’clock, and
the heaviest fall was between the
hours of 5 and 7, the record for the
two hours being five inches. The
rest of the fall was recorded between
7 and 2 o’clock, the entire fall of 12.57
inches being within nine hours. Only
once before in this country has this
record been nearly equalled, when os
September 3, 1893, in Doualdsonville,
La., there was recorded a fall of 21.70
inches in thirty hours.
The damage done by the fall cannot
be estimated. The crops are ruined
entirely, and bridges in all sections of
the country are either washed away or
severely damaged. All of the country
roads are impassable. All of the rail¬
roads experienced washouts and there
is heavy damage, as the road beds are
weakeued to a reat extent.
The section has never before ex¬
perienced such a protracted period of
heavy rainfalls, and there is no way
ol estimating the total amount of
damage done.
The farmers, according to well in¬
formed cotton factors and commission
men, are well nigh ruined, and there
is no hope for them to recover their
losses. The ootton is gone to grass to
a great extent, while the other farm
prodnots are receiving no attention
whatever owing to the impossibility of
working the fields in the rain.
Rosing To Nominate Towne.
L. A. Rosing, chairman of the Min¬
nesota Democratic state committee
and delegate at large to the conven¬
tion at Kansas City, will make the
speech placing the name of Charles A.
Towne before the convention as a can¬
didate for vice president.
Two Instantly Killed.
By explosion of a boiler to a thresh¬
ing machine at Cross Hill, S. C.,
Wednesday, William P. Fuller, a
young graduate of Clemson college,
and Marshal Owens, were instantly
killed. Two others were seriously
kart.
NEW FIVE*DOLLAR BILL.
I* a Silver Certificate and Design Is a
Unique Feature.
Five dollar silver certificates of the
new design made their first appear¬
ance in Washington Monday and took
the place of the old fives in all treasury
payments from the cash room. The
feature of the new note is a large typi-
oal Indian head in the center, with tq
blue seal, and a large letter V with the
word “Five” also in blue running in
curved line across it.
ENVOYS ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Tliniik People «»f United State* and Only
A*k Fop C hi tinned Sympathy.
A New York special says: Tko Boer
envoys who have been in this country
for the past two months, have issued
an address to the people of the United
SlateH.
After expressing regret at their ina¬
bility to accept invitations extended
to them, they expressed theirjthanks
to the American public for the “deep
sympathy they have shown for the
cause of the two struggling repub¬
lics.’’ The address says:
“We now feel convinced that the
boastful allegation of the colonial sec¬
retary and other British statesmen
that this great country sympathized
with the British in its attempt to
crush the liberty and independence of
our two small states, is absolutely de¬
void of truth.”
Ttie address then goes at great
length into the history of the rela¬
tions between great Britain and the
Boers, which it characterizes as one of
violated faith and broken pledges un¬
der the display of magnanimous and
irreproachable principles.
The addresB declares that the capi¬
talists control the press of South Afri¬
ca, and that the leaders of these sub¬
sidized journals were appointed special
correspondents cf the principal London
dailies.
The broad charge is made that Mr.
Chamberlain’s revival of the suzerainty
claim in 1897, hte public utterances,
Sir Alfred Milner’s speeches and in¬
flammatory dispatches, and the efforts
of the South African league, under the
direction of Cecil Rhodes, were all
directed towards the ultimate destruc¬
tion of the two Dutch republics.
Taking up the campaign to date, the
report says:
“The Boers may be in the end de¬
feated by overwhelming numbers and
may ultimately be forced to surrender,
owing to the difficulty of securing
ammunition and provisions, but the
conduct of the present war, as well as
the history of the past 100 yeaTS, jus¬
tifies ns in saying that they will never
be conquered.”
The address concludes by saying
that the envoys do not ask the direct
or forcible intervention of the United
States, but a continuance of public
sympathy and support.
VICEROYS TURNED DOWN.
I They Appealed t*» United State* to With¬
draw Troop* From China.
The Bix great viceroys of China, act¬
ing through the Chinese minister, re¬
newed their efforts to have foreign
troops kept out of China until Li
Hung Chaug reaches Pekin. The re¬
quest was a formal document signed
by the six viceroys, including Li
Hung Chang, presented to Secretary
Hay Tuesday.
The answer of the United States
government was the same as that to
the formal request of Minister Wu
Monday, aud amounted to a declina¬
tion.
The viceroys are informed that there
can be no abatement of efforts to se¬
cure the safety of our officials and citi¬
zens. Minister Wu Ting Fang looked
gloomy on leaving the department.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS ACT,
Name State Ticket and Indorse the Chi¬
cago Platform.
The Arkansas Democratic state con¬
vention at Little Rock, Tuesday, partial nom¬
inated the following state
ticket:
Governor—Jeff Davis, Pope county.
Secretary of State—John W. Crock¬
ett, of Arkansas county.
Attorney General—George W. Mur¬
phy, of Pulaski county. E. Little,
State Treasurer—Thomas
of Sebastian county.
The report of the committee on res¬
olutions favors reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform, opposes imperialism
and contains a vigorous anti-trust
plank.
_
TO HOLD REUNION.
Survivor* of Forty-Secoud Georgia Regi¬
ment Will Meet In Atlanta.
The Forty-seoond Georgia regiment
has decided to hold its annual reunion
in Atlanta, July 21st, and arrange¬
ments looking to holding a barbecue
are now being made.
Congressman Livingston will be in¬
vited to aot as orator of the day. The
date of the reunion, Jnly 21st, was
selected on account of the fact that
the reunion of the blue and the gray
will be held at that time.
RUMOR CAUSES APPREHENSION.
Alleged DI.enrd Between Hu..ion. and
Anglo- American. Worry Official..
The officiate at Washington receive
with regret and concern the reports
from Che Foo that disoord exists be¬
tween the Rnasiau and the so-called
Anglo-Americans. Coming from the
officers of the Terrible, it is considered
as largely “sailor talk.”
At the same time it has been recog¬
nized from the outset that such a
heterogeneous force gave opportuni¬
ties for serious division, as it is well
known that the sailors and soldiers of
certniu countries do not like to serve
under a foreign superior.
LISCUM LEAVES MANILA.
Sails On Transport With 1,271 Men For
Scene of Trouble In China.
The war department received tho
following undated cablegram from
General MacArthur Thursday morn¬
ing:
“Adjutant General, Washington—
Transport left Manila at 8:30 this
morning, June 27. with Colonel Lis¬
cum in command. Thirty-nine officers,
1,271 men. MacAbthub. ”
BRYAN BREAKS
LONG SILENCE
Nebraskan Talks of Platform
and tlw Vice-Prcsidency.
WILL REAFFIRM OLD PRINCIPLES
No flodification Will Be Enter¬
tained, But Other Planks Will
Be Added to Document.
Hon. William J. Bryan, in an au¬
thorized interview given to an Omaha
World-Herald correspondent Monday,
broke his long sileuce on the question
of the platform to be adopted at Kan¬
sas City July 4th and the candidate
for vice president.
Mr. Bryan was asked whether he
could say anything in regard to the
platform to be adopted at Kansas City.
He replied:
“No one, of course, can say what
language will be used in setting forth
the party principles, but some idea can
be obtained as to the general tenor of
the platform from the platforms adopt¬
ed in the state conventions.
“As a large majority of the dele¬
gates have been elected by conventions
which reaffirmed the Chicago platform,
it is safe to assume that the Kansas
City platform will reaffirm the Chicago
platform, and will contain noth¬
ing which can be construed as a sur¬
render or modification of that plat¬
form on the old issues. IN is equally
certain that there will be a strong and
definite plunk against the trusts.
There is also no doubt that the plank
against imperialism will be clear and
explicit. Militarism will be denounced
and sympathy expressed for the B oers.
This much is evident from what has
already taken place.”
You have refused to discuss the
vice presidenev heretofore, Mr. Bryan.
Is there any truth in the rumor that a
vice president will be chosen whose
views on the money question will be
attractive to those who opposed the
ticket in ’96?
“It is true that I have refused to
discuss the vice presidency,” replied
Mr. Bryan, “and I do not care to do
so now, farther *han to say that I as¬
sume that the candidate nominated for
vice president will be in harmony with
the platform.
“Thevice presidentnot only presides
over the senate while the president is
alive, but assumes the office of presi¬
dent in case of the president’s death,
and it is hardly possible that delegates
to a national convention would write a
platform and then select for either
place od a ticket a man who would re¬
pudiate the platform. No man worthy
to be considered for such an office
would accept a nomination upon a
platform repugnant to his views on
any important issue.
“In every campaign men support a
ticket without approving all the plat¬
form, but no one can defend a platform
unless he believes in it. Many tariff
reform gold Democrats supported the
Republican ticket in ’96, although
they dissented from the protection
plank. But the Republican conven¬
tion would not have nominated a tariff
reformer on a protection platform.
There is sometimes a joint debate be¬
tween candidates of opposing tickets,
but not between candidates on tho
same ticket.”
MOKE BODIES FOUND.
Thirty-Seven People Known to Have Met
Death In McDonough Wreck.
A special from McDonough says:
Thirty-six mutilated bodies, many pas¬
sengers missing and nine escaped with
their lives, is the latest summary of
the frightful wreck on the Macon di¬
vision of the Southern roilroad near
McDonough last Saturday night.
Thirty-one bodies had been recov¬
ered up to midnight Sunday night.
Three bodies were found Monday
morning—D. Y. Griffith, supervisor;
W. L. Morrisette, superintendent
pumping station; J. H. Hunnieutt,
freight conductor; charred pieces of
two other bodies.
There was still another body, mak¬
ing 37, that could be plainly seen in
the water, but it was pinned down by
a large boulder.
Piece by piece the torn and dismem¬
bered engine and passenger coaches
were pulled from the abyss Monday.
One by one the bodies, lacerated,
mutilated, broken and disfigured, were
hauled from the death trap and sent
to the morgue in McDonough.
The gruesome work of clearing the
wreck and rescuing the bodies, while
the rain was falling in torrents, was
watched by thousands of persons who
waded in water and mud to their knees
ana cheered the workers on in their
nnpleasant and seemingly hopeless
task.
As the bodies were taken from the
wreckage, they were quickly carried
in a caboose to McDcnough, where
half the town people were pressed in¬
to service to aid the undertakers.
CHAFFEE LEAVES WASHINGTON.
General Assigned to China Goes to San
Francisco For Embarkation.
General Chaffee, who has been or¬
dered to command the American troops
in China, left Washington Wednesday
morning for San Francisco, accompa¬
nied by Lieutenaut Haiper, his aid.
He was due at San Francisco at 5
o’clock Sunday moEiiing and to sail for
Naga-nki on the transport Grant with
the Sixth cavalry the same day.