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J. H. ESTILL, President. |
FREIGHTED WITH HUMANITY CARS PLUNGE INTO FLOOD
RUSSIANS ON SEA
BEAT JAPANESE
THREE VESSELS DAMAGED
by mines, shot or shell of the,
RUSSIANS.
Viceroy Alcxleff Report* the En
gngeinent to the Emperor, Em
hoilying the Account Received
from Admiral Wlthoft Command
ing the Squadron at Port Arthur.
How the Russians Steamed Forth
and Met the Japanese.
St. Petersburg, Aug. B.—Emperor
Nicholas has received the following
from Viceroy Alexieff, dated at Muk
den, Aug. 7:
“Telegrams received to-day from
Port Arthur and from the commander
of the squadron (Rear Admiral Wit
hoft) state that the cruisers Bayan,
Askold, Pallada and Novik and some
gunboats steamed out of the harbor
on July 26 for the purpose of bom
barding the enemy's positions. They
were attacked by the Japanese bat
tleship Chin Yen, the protected cruis
ers Chiyoda, Itsukushima and Matsu
shima and two second class cruisers,
with thirty torpedo boats.
“An eight-inch shell from the Bay
an burst in the stern of the Itsuku
shima, placing that ship out of action.
Thereupon all the Japanese ships
steered for the open sea and at the
same time the Chiyoda was damaged
by a Russian mine. As the Chiyoda
was sinking by the head she steered
toward Talein bay.
"A shot from battery 22 also dam
aged a Japanese gunboat which was
sighted.
“On July 27, in view' of the Japanese
having taken the general offensive
against our land positions, the Bayan,
Capt. Reitzenstein; the battleship Ret
vizan, the Pallada, Askold and Novik,
the coast defense ships Gremiaschi and
Otvashni, the gunboat Giliak and
twelve torpedo boats, under the com
mand of Rear Admiral Lenehiniky,
were ordered to support our right flank
at the demand of Lieut. Gen. Stoessel.
“Our ships, preceded by mine dredges,
steamed toward Lungatan, from where
they bombarded the Japanese positions
until 2 o'clock In the afternoon.
“On their return, w'hich they effected
with the same precautions, a mine ex
ploded underneath one of the dredges
“Rear Admiral Withoft estimated
that the enemy’s naval forces which
were off Port Arthur July 30 consist
ed of five battleships, four armored
cruisers, ten other cruisers, and forty
eight torpedo craft.
ic.ooo sicTor~w6unded
ARE AT PORT ARTHUR.
London, Aug. 9.—According to the
correspondent of the Morning Post at
Shanghai, it is reported there that
there are 10,000 sick or wounded per
sons at Port Arthur, and that the Rus
sians are negotiating with the Japa
nese to send the hospital ship Mongo
lia away full of sick.
It is reported, the correspondent
fays, that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel has
committed suicide and panic prevails at
Port Arthur.
Marquis Oyaraa has proceeded north
and expects to attack Liao Yang, Aug.
20.
STEAMER CALCHAS
ARRIVED AS A PRIZE.
Vladivostok, Aug. 8, 11 p. m.—The
Rrltish steamer Calchas, from Tacoma
for Japanese ports, which was arrested
by the Vladivostok squadron, thirty
miles north of Tokio bay during the
recent cruise off the Pacific coast of
Japan, arrived here to-day In charge of
a prize crew. She was a week over
due, having been detained by fogs.
The Calchas is the last vessel cap
tured by Admiral Jesaen’s cruisers.
The papers of the Calchas showed she
was carrying 370 tons of flour, nine
lons of cotton. 215 cogs and 125 parts
of machinery, all consigned to Yoko
hama. The remaining 1,500 tons of the
Calchas' cargo were consigned to Hong
Kong.
held a conference
AT CZAR’S PALACE.
St. Petersburg. Aug. 8, 5:35 p. m.— An
mportant conference on the military
•"nation was held at the Peterhof pal
ace to-day. The Ministers of War and
Marine, the Grand Duke Alexis, the
IRh admiral. Gen. Cotte, one of Gen.
uropatkln's aides de camp, who had
J ' IM ar Hved from the front with per-
Fr| nal dispatches for the Emperor, and
miners were prenent.
CHE FOO HAS HEARD
MORE HEAVY FIRING.
'■he Foo. Aug. 8. np. m.—The firing
“* vy S' 11 "" at Intervals of one mln
has been distinctly heard In the
' r<v,l °h of Port Arthur since 10:80 p.
m ” ,h * acoustic condition of the at
mosphere being unusually favorable.
No Change In Sphere.
rv, *''burg, Aug. 8.-Lieut. Gen.
pkharoff reports thst up to noon yes
r ay there had been no change In the
Manchurian army's sphere of opera
tions.
j&abatmaJ) Uteitinij
HAY DEFINES RIGHTS
OF NEUTRAL NATIONS.
Secretary's Ideas Upon the Contra
band of War.
Washington, Aug. B.—“ The recogni
tion in principle of the treatment of
coal and other fuel and raw cotton as
absolutely contraband of war might ul
timately lead to a total inhibition of
sale by neutrals to people of belliger
ent states, of all articles which could
be finally converted to military uses.
Such an extension of the principle by
treating coal and other fuel and raw
cotton as absolutely contraband of
war, simply because they are shipped
by a neutral to a non-blockaded port
of a belligerent, would not appear to
be in accord with the reasonable and
law'ful rights of a neutral commerce."
This is a summary of the declaration
by Secretary Hay on the rights of neu
tral nations during war. It was em
bodied in a circular to American am
bassadors to Europe, which was issued
from the State Department June 10
last, but for some reason was with
held from the public, although certain
shippers who inquired at the depart
ment after their right were supplied
with copies. The circular is based on a
declaration by the Russian government
that coal, naphtha, alcohol and other
fuel have been declared contraband.
Secretary Hay directs attention to
the West African conference in ISS4,
when Russia “took occasion to dissent
vigorously from the inclusion of coal
amongst articles contraband of war,
and declared that she would categor
ically refuse her consent to any ar
ticles in any treaty, convention or in
strument whatever, which would im
ply its recognition as such.”
Due note is made of the fact that
raw cotton could be made up into
clothing for the military uses of a bel
ligerent, but the secretary adds that
a military use for the supply of an
army or garrison might possibly be
made of foodstuffs of every descrip
tion which might be shipped from
neutral ports to the non-blockaded
ports of a belligerent. “The principle
under consideration might, therefore,”
he says, “be extended so as to apply
to every article of human use, which
might be declared contraband of war
simply because it might ultimately be
come in any degree useful to a belli
gerent for military purposes.”
The Secretary speaks of coal and
other fuel and cotton as being em
ployed for a great many innocent pur
poses, and that many nations are de
pendent on them for the conduct of
inoffensive industries, adding:
“And no sufficient presumption of an
intended warlike use seems to be af
forded by the mere fact of their des
tination to a belligerent port."
He declares that the recognition in
principle of the treatment of coal and
other fuel and raw cotton as absolute
ly contraband of war might ultimate
ly lead to a total inhibition of the sale,
by neutrals to the people of
belligerent states, of all articles
which could be finally convert
ed to military uses, the Secretary con
tends, would not appear to be in ac
cord with reasonable and lawful rights
of commerce.
THE FIGHTING~WAS~
FAR FROM FORTRESS.
St. Petersburg, Aug. B.—A dispatch
from Mukden, dated, Aug. 8, says the
fighting at Port Arthur from Juiy 26
to July 28, occurred at least seven
miles from the fortress, and that not
all the guns of the batteries facing in
land were engaged.
SULLY~CANNOT SETTLE-
Withdraw* Offer* to Creditor* and
Will Go Into Liquidation.
New Y"ork, Aug. B.—Daniel J. Sully
& Cos. to-day Informed their credi
tors that they would be unable to car
ry out the proposition made by the
firm to the creditors last month to
pay off 40 per cent, of the claims
in cash with 10 per cent, additional
in the form of 90-day notes. The In
ability to keep this agreement, it was
stated, was due to the fact that cer
tain individual creditors would not
withdraw their claims. The firm,
therefore, will go into liquidation.
The announcement was made at a
meeting of creditors which had been
adjourned from last week to allow Sul
ly & Cos. an opportunity to furnish
proof of their ability to make good the
compromise offer.
After the announcement the creditors
took up the question of preferential
claims. At the time of the failure of
the firm, there was on deposit at the
Corn Exchange Bank a large amount
of money deposited as margins, and
this was subsequently turned over to
the Cotton Exchange creditors.
This action was contested by some
of the individual creditors on the
ground that this money should be in
cluded in the estate. They demanded
of the trustees a positive answer as
to whether they would make applica
tion for the return of this money. An
attorney for the trustees said that
there was no disposition on the part
of the latter to stand in the way of
any creditor contesting those claims,
but that it was not the province of
the trustees to do so.
The meeting of the creditors was
then adjourned to Oct. 5.
burning’choseVas~
HER HORRIBLE END.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. B.—A special
from Olive Branch, Miss., says:
Demented by the recent death of her
husband. Mrs. W. H. McCargo to-day
committed suicide by burning. After
saturating her clothing with kerosene
and setting fire to the oil, she rushed
Into the street and fought all who at
tempted to extinguish the flames. Mc-
Cargo was a hotel proprietor here and
died suddenly two weks ago.
TO LEASE RAILROAD
Howland Ha* Gone to North Caroli
na With an offer.
Raleigh. N. C.. Aug. B.—R. 8. How
land of A*hevllle, the owner of the
Providence (R. I.) Journal, Is In Ra
leigh to offer to lease the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad, over which
there has been so much controversy.
He was accompanied by ex-Attorney
General Theo. F. Davidson and R. P.
Footer, a railroad man of Asheville.
Gov. Aycock lakes up the matter in
the morning and no figure* will be ob
tainable till after the conference.
NUMBER 17.745.
ONE OF THE GREATEST DISASTERS
IN THE HISTORY OF RAILROADS
HAS OCCURRED IN COLORADO
Accident Reported in Yesterda/s Morning News Far More Dis
astrous Than Was at First Expected .
Loss of Life May Reach 100—Probably Will Never Be Known Just How Many
Perished in the Raging Flood Into Which Locomotive and Cars Plunged.
How the Search for the Bodies Is Prosecuted.
Pueblo, Col., Aug. B.—The wreck of '
the World’s Pair Flyer on the Den
ver and Rio Grande Railroad near
Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo,
last evening, meager accounts of which
were published in the morning papers
to-day, proves to have been one of
the greatest railroad disasters in the
history of the country.
Two crowded passenger cars and a
baggage car were engulfed in the tor
rent that tore out a trestle spanning
Steele’s Hollow, otherwise known as
Dry creek, and, so far as known to
night, only three of the occupants of
these cars escaped death.
Fortunately, two sleeping cars and a
diner, completing the train, remained
on the track at the edge of the abyss,
and none of their occupants was killed
or injured.
How many perished probably will
neveiV be definitely ascertained. The
treacherous sands are drifting over the
bodies.
Searching for the dead was begun
about midnight on an extensive scale
and still is in progress to-night.
All corpses found were brought to
Pueblo and placed In four morgues
here. At 4 o’clock this evening seven
ty-six bodies had been recovered and
of these fifty had been identified.
During the day bodies were recov
ered all the way along the Fountain
river from the scene of the wreck to
this city.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon two (bodies
were taken from the stream at First
street, Pueblo, more than eight miles
from the point where the disaster oc
curred, and it is probable that some
may be recovered further down stream.
Probably 1(10 Dead.
Two carloads of human freight
plunged into the raging torrent. Two
sleeping cars and the dining car stop
ped at the brink of the hungry chasm,
filled with a boiling, seething current
that quickly snuffed out probably 100
lives.
So quietly had the catastrophe been
enacted that the occupants of the
three cars remaining on the track did
not realize that an accident had occur
red until they alighted from the train.
Then they were utterly powerless to
render assistance to the victims who
had disappeared in the rushing water*.
On the lookout for danger, warned by
the squally clouds and heavy rains to
the north. Engineer Charles Hindman
BUTCHERS WILL STRIKE
IN NEW YORK PLANTS.
Between 3,000 and 4.000 Men Will
Stop Work To-dny.
New York, Aug. B.—The Advisory
Board of the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters' and Butcher Workers’ Union of
North America, at a meeting to-night,
decided to order a strike In New York
and vicinity.
Between 3.000 and 4,000 men will be
called out. Slaughtering will stop at 8
o'clock to-morrow morning, and twen
ty-four hours will be spent in cleaning
up so as to leave the abattoirs in good
condition.
UNION TEAMSTERS~ARE
THE STRIKERS’ WEAPON.
They Will Wield It to Coerce the
Faeker*.
Chicago, Aug. B.—The union team
sters are to be the principal weapon
which the labor leaders propose to use
to win the stock yards strike. Orders
were Issued to-day to drivers of Ice
wagons to deliver no more ice to butch
ers who buy of the big packers, or to
any of the branch houses of the pack
ing plants where the men ,are now on
strike. A list of more than 200 retail
dealers, who have been buying meat
from the so-called trust packers and
hauling It away with their own wag
ons has been compiled, and according
to the claims of the strike leaders the
Ice supply will be cut off from every
one of these places to-morrow morn
ing.
Arrangement* have been mode to
have pickets stationed at all the retail
markets which have been placed under
the ban of the unions, to see thst the
boycott Is enforced to the limit. Th*
Internntlonnl Brntho'hood of Team*
•tors in session at Cincinnati to-day,
SAVANNAH. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1904.
was running cautiously about fifteen
miles an hour, as he approached the
arroyo, which was spanned by a bridge
ninety-six feet in length. The condi
tion of the bridge was not known un
til the locomotive, one of the monster
passenger type, had nearly crossed.
Fireman Frank Mayfield, with a torch
that the engineer and the fireman had
been burning to ascertain the condi
tion of the track, was in the gangway.
When Engineer Hindman felt the tre
mor in the great machine and caught
a glimmer on the water he shouted his
last words:
Bridge Gove Way.
"Put out that torch,” evidently
thinking that in the accident he felt
certain was coming the flames would
serve to spread fire.
But before Mayfield could obey, while
the words were still on the lips of the
doomed man, and his hand seeking
the mechanism controlling the air, the
bridge gave way as though It had been
a stack of kindling wood, and the lo
comotive dropped with the hissing of
steam thirty feet to the bottom of the
*
arroyo. cross-wise to the track.
The baggage car, smoking car and
chair car followed the locomotive into
the stream and were swept away. All
the occupants of these dars, except
three men, perished, and had not the
roof of the chair car burst asunder,
none would have escaped. The fire
man, as the locomotive went over, was
thrown out and managing to grasp a
piece of wreckage from the bridge,
floated with that to a curve made by
the caving bank and crept out of the
water. He ran toward, Eden, meeting
on the way Operator F. M. Jones and
his wife, who already had started up
the track.
"Everybody I* Killed."
"Notify Pueblo,” came the voice of
the running man, "the train’s gone
down and everybody is killed.”
Even as he spoke, relates the opera
tor, there were cries coming from the
distance. Two men ran to where the
bridge had been, to search, but in vain,
for victims of the disaster. When they
reached the spot all cries for help had
ceased.
Relief trains with physicians, wreck
and pile driving outfits and scores of
workmen were hurried from the city.
The first train from the wreck came in
shortly after midnight with J. M. Kil
lin of Pueblo, H. S. Gilbert, Tony
gave the necessary indorsement of the
proposed boycott.
All the packing plants began opera
tions here to-dny with slightly Increas
ed forces of workmen, nearly 200 addi
tional employee having been secured
over Sunday. Nearly all the men who
left the yards Saturday night to spend
Sunday at their homes returned to
work this morning.
The live stock receipts, consisting of
19,000 cattle, 26,000 hogs and 20,000
sheep, were nearly all bought up by
the packers to-day. This fact, the
packers claim. Is positive evidence that
they now have the situation well in
hand.
COOLNESS PREVENTED PANIC.
Fireman Announced a Fire from
Thenter'* Stage.
Buffalo, N. Y„ Aug. B.—Fire in the
five-story building at Nos. 251-257 Main
street this afternoon caused a loss es
timated to-night at $400,000 and for a
time threatened the Academy of Mu
sic, next door, where a play was being
produced. By hard work, however, the
firemen confined the blaze to the build
ing tn which It started, and the prompt
appearance of cool headed fire fighters
on the stage of the Academy of Music
prevented what might have been a se
rious panic. The people left the play
house without serious mishap, al
though there was some disorder.
Soon after the fire started In the
Main street block, but before the hun
dreds of persons gathered In the thea
ter next door were aware of the prox
imity of the flames. Assistant Fire
Chief Edward Murphy went to the
academy stage. Informed the audience
that a building near by was ablaze, but
assured them there was no danger.
He then asked the people to leave
the theater. Exits were thrown open
nnd the crowd filed out. The slight dis
order occasioned by the mishap did not
result In any serious accident.
The origin of the fire Is a myster”.
Fisher and Fireman Mayfield. There
were four men in the midst of the
wreck who escaped.
Wbnl the Dawn Showed.
When dawn came the wonder grew
that four had been permitted to emerge
from the raging torrent with breath
still in their bodies. The end of the
Pullman car Wyuta, extended four feet
over the brink, while broken timbers
and twisted rails hung still further
over. The arroyo had been widened
to more than a hundred feet at the
point where the bridge had been. The
water tore a zigzag course across the
prairie to a depth of thirty feet in
several places. There was little left
of the baggage car, a few rods, a
truck or so, dimily seen in the muddy
water, and a half buried iron safe.
The great locomotive, the boiler free
of the trucks, the cab and tank gone,
lies where it fell.
A quarter of a mile to the east,
where this gorge of death debouched
into the Fountain, lay the chair car,
window's gone, three-fourths filled with
mud and sand. A hundred feet farther
on was the smoker, bottom up against
a sand bar.
9 !t
Bodies Were Fonnd.
A hundred arid fifty feet farther on
in the bed of the Fountain was the
coal tender of the engine, and from
that point on for four or five miles,
vestiges of the coaches, the engine and
tender stuck up from the bed of the
stream or lay along the shore or on
the islands. Red plush seats of the
smoker were strewn all along the
stream. Brass rails from the coaches
were found in the sand half a mile
from the bridge and pieces of the bag
gage car stuck out of the water in
several places.
Bits of clothing, coats, skirts and
women’s hats, were found in the
brush along the shore, and the search
ers scanned the foliage for bodies.
Masses of earth had caved in from the
high sides of the river at many places,
and searchers passed these with fear
that bodies were buried under them
which they were helpless to reach.
Five hundred men scanned every
inch of the river and Its surround
ings a few minutes after daylight.
They waded In the stream and carried
out mud-begrimed bodies which were
found at widely separated points, some
of them miles from the scene of the
accident.
Among the missing is Miss Alice
Wood of Jacksonville, Fla.
CUT SCHOONER DOWN.
Captain and Three of Her Crew
Were Drowned.
Norfolk. Va., Aug. B.—On board the
steamer Nantuekot of the Merchants
and Miners Line, which arrived to-day
from Boston, was Edwin Wentworth of
the schooner Ella Francis, which was
sunk in collision with the Nantucket
last Saturday night. Mate Wentworth
was the only man on the schooner
saved, the others having been drowned.
The collision occurred in a dense fog
off Norsuch light. Cape Cod. The Nan
tucket struck the schooner with such
force as to cut the bow away and the
vessel sank at once.
Those aboard were Capt. Thorndike
of Rockland. Me., and W. HarVey,
Mike Seaton and Herbert Gray, all of
Rockport, Me. They were In one of
the schooner's boats, which was drawn
under bv the vortex made by the pro
peller.
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE.
New Zealand Island* Were Shaken
by ll* Force.
Wellington, New Zealand, Aug. 9.
The heaviest earthquake which New
Zealand has experienced In many
years occurred at 1:22 o'clock this
morning. Several public buildings
were seriously damaged and private
firms also suffered heavy losses.
The shock was general on both Is
is nds.
No loss of Ufa has been reported.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
FORMED A FEW PLANS.
Drclnfnn* Benched After Conference
of Five Hoorn.
New York, Aug. B.—The National
Democratic Executive Committee was
in session five hours to-day and upon
adjournment gave out the following
statement:
“At the meeting of the Executive
Commiftee of the National Democratic
Committee all the members were pres
ent except Col. James M. Guffey of
Pennsylvania, who is ill; also Chair
man Taggart, Vice Chairman Nicoll,
Treasurer Peabody and Secretary
Woodson.
"The location of national headquar
ters was fixed at No. 1 West Thirty
fourth street, consisting of the second
and third floors and the basement of
the Century building.
"It was determined not to open
branch headquarters in the West or to
name additional committees for the
present.
“Plans of organization were taken
and thoroughly mapped out.
"Chairman Cowherd of the Congres
sional Committee was in conference
with the Executive Committee during
the afternoon.”
This epitome of five hours’ work, au
thorized by Chairman Sheehan, does
not go into any details of the meeting
and members of the committee also
were very reticent, although the state
ment was made that the session was
harmonious and the conclusions were
reached without discoid. Chairman
Taggart denied that the decision not
to establish branch headquarters in
the West at present was due to any
differences about location, or because
he had suggested Indianapolis in pref
erence to Chicago.
Every member of the committee said
that the existing differences between
P, H. McCarren and Charles F. Mur
ray In Greater New York were not
taken up.
There was a general interchange of
views concerning conditions In states
which the Democrats deem essential
to Democratic success. The general
conditions in New' York. New Jersey,
West Virginia. Indiana and Wisconsin
were discussed, and men from these
states gave the committee such infor
mation as they had.
Senator Gorman was not at the
meeting, remaining in his room at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, but there were
frequent communications between the
Executive Committee and the Mary
land senator. After adjournment
Chairman Sheehan had quite a lengthy
conference with Mr. Gorman.
At the solicitation of Mr. Taggart
to-day's meeting was presided over by
Chairman Sheehan of the Executive
Committee. Mr. Taggart said after
the meeting that he was ex offlelo
chairman of the committee, and in his
absence Mr. Nicoll would be ex officio
chairman.
There has (been some doubt as to
Mr. Taggart’s connection with the
Executive Committee, but the meeting
to-day seemed to recognize the chair
man, the vice chairman and the secre
tary as members.
ON A SPEAKER’S STAND
Champ Clark Will Notify Judge
Parker at Ilo*emount.
Esopus, N. Y.. Aug. B.—Carpenter*
to-day erected a speaker’s stand at
Rosemount from which Congressman
Champ Clark of Missouri on Wednes
day, will formally notify Judge Parker
of his nomination for the office of Pres
ident.
The platform is situated in the grove
above Judge Parker's home. A large
crowd is expected to attend the noti
fication ceremonies. The grounds will
be open and no visitors will be turned
away.
August Belmont came here to-night
from New York by train and spent the
evening with Judge Parker. Nothing
can be learned regarding the confer
ence.
TH ReFwEße’d R OWN ED
Through a Boom Knocking Arm
strong Overboard.
Norfolk, Va., Aug. B.—John D. Arm
strong, a well known oyster packer, Ms
married son, Walter D. Armstrong,
aged 21 years, and an aged man named
Pulliam, or Pullien of Norfolk, were
drowned In Little buy, near Willoughby
Beach, to-day.
The accident occurred just In front of
Mr. Armstrong's summer home at Lit
tle bay, while the three who lost their
lives and a colored man named John
Gale were out In a small sailboat,
planting seed oysters.
The boom of the vessel Jibbed In a
slight gust of wind while Mr. Arm
strong was leaning over the side of the
boat and being struck by the boom,
Mr. Armstrong was knocked over
board. Pulliam Jumped in after him
and the two had nearly reached the
boat, when Pulliam was taken with
cramps and called for assistance. Then
Mr. Armstrong Jumped In to try to
save his father and companion. In
the struggle which followed, all three
men went down and were drowned to
gether.
BARNES AFTER Aloß.
Former Mar*hal Want* n Nee the
President.
Washington, Aug. B.—John Nf.
Barnes of Macon, former United Staten
marshal, was among the callers at the
White House to-day.
It will be recalled that Mr. Barnes
was recently removed from the mar
shalshlp at the Instance of Judge Emo
ry Speer. Mr. Barnes declines to dis
cuss the object of his mission to Wash
ington at this time, but some of his
friends Intimate (hat he has hopes of
finding some other sphere of useful
ness In the public service, beyond the
reach of Judge Hpeer's Influence. He
was unable to obtain an interview with
the President to-day. I >i
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GETTING READY
FOR MANASSAS
DEPARTMENT IS PREPARING
FOR THE ARMY MANEUVERS OF
NEAT MONTH.
Upon 05,000 Acre* Ihr Troop* Will
Opernle—Three Great Vamp* Will
lie F.Mtnhllfthed—How Water Will
Be Sunpliod—•Government 11a*
$1,000,000 to Spend Upon the Man
euvt*r*—Other Ulan* Thu* Far
Made* for the Event.
Washington. Aug. B.—An army of
workmen, directed from Washington, w
now engaged in preparing the ground
for the army maneuvers that are to
take place between Sept. 5 and 10 on
the battlefields of Virginia. Where the
Union and Confederate warriors "strug
gled at Bull Run and H'aymarket in
the '6O s, camps are now being laid ou„
for the young soldiers of to-day.
When the maneuvers are in full blast
it is estimated that 25,000 men will be
engaged. Of this number, 5,000 will be
regular soldiers and the remainder
state troops. Three great camps will
be established.
The water supply for the troops is
one of the chief concerns of the camp
builders. Camp No. 1, which is to be
located near Lewis Crossing, Prince
William county, will he supplied with
artesian wells, no less than twenty
five being necessary for the purposes
of camp life. Camp No. 2, near Thor
oughfare, will derive its water supply
from two big reservoirs, which will be
fed by a fine spring at Thoroughfare
Gap.
lineatlon of Transportation.
The matter of conveying the soldiers
'and their outfits, the tents and pro
visions and the thousand and one ar
ticles that will be needed upon the ma
neuvering grounds, is another great
problem to be confronted. The South
ern Railway Company has this matter
in charge, and is busy laying tracks
and constructing stations for the use
of the soldiers and their friends.
All told, the government has $1,000,-
00 ready to spend upon the maneuvers
If such a sum is needed, but it Is not
probable that It will cost as much as
that. The maneuvering area Is 63,-
000 acres, which, under the agreement
made with the farmers of Virginih, is
to be leased at 20 cents an acre. In
addition to that expense the United
States will probably be called upon to
pay a few bills Tor damages to crops,
buildings and stock. The amount of
damages to be paid the farmers will
be determined after the maneuvers are
over by a board of adjudication. This
board will consist of three members,
who are to be appointed respectively
by Gen. Corbin, by the Governor of
Virginia and by the farmers.
*2.1,04V> for Railway Tracks.
The Southern Railway Company is
spending $25,000 In laying trtteks about
the camps.
On Sept. 10, which will probably be
the gala day of the maneuvers, there
will be a parade and review of the
entire force by President Roosevelt
and Gen. Corbin, commanding the De
partment of the East. Then there will
be shdm battles almost every day of
the six between state troops, or state
troops and regulars, upon some por
tion of the great quadrangle, which
stretches Its length and breadth over
100 square miles of territory.
WILL INSPECTVhE
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
It< preaentntlve Lester Will Be With
the Committeemen.
By R. M. Larner.
Washington, Aug. B.—Representative
Burton, chairman of the Commlttse on
Rivers and Harbors, and Representa
tives Sparkman of Florida and Bank
head of Alabama are here, on their
way to New York to meet their col
leagues on that committee, who ars to
make a tour of inspection of the water
ways In New England and the (keat
Lakes, In anticipation of river and
harbor legislation at the next session
of Congress. Representative Lester of
Georgia, who is now at Saratoga, will
Join tha committee at Buffalo and
make the tour of the lakes.
Chairman Burton, while at the War
Department and the White House to
day, stated that there will undoubted
ly be a general river and harbor hill
reported to Congress early In the ses
sion, and the propooed tour of inspec
tion by the committee was authorised
by the House last session to enable
t
the committeemen to determine for
themselves what projects are In great
est need of liberal appropriations.
LYONS’ HALLUCINATIOfi
Pat* All the Middle W**t la the
Ho*evelt Column.
By R. M. Larner.
Washington, Aug. B.—Judson Lyons
returned from a week's campaigning
in Kansas and Missouri. He says be
addressed an audience of 1,500 In *l.
Mail* last Saturday night, and he says
the Middle West, including Illinois, In
diana, Wisconsin, Kansas and even
West Virginia. Is red hot for Roose
velt.
Represent art Ive Champ Clark, who Is
on his way to officially notify Judge
Parker of his nomination by ths St.
I .mil* convention, denies the claims
made by Lyons, and declares that
Roosevelt will not carry Indiana, Wis
consin, Missouri or .West .Virginia,