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LOSS BY
FLOOD
16 Persons Known
To Have Drowned
at Pittsburg.
rin, tmmti, March 16.—The known
lin f dead ns a result of the flood In
:‘n- Ohio valley l» forty-ihree. Many
OM" towns nre still cut off from com-
municutlun. The Ohio river has risen
. in foot here since I o'clock this morn-
ins The flood situation at Newport,
K> « attain alarming. The estimated
1»* v. the rnllroutls In Chllllcothe
county is fl.000,000.
Pittsburg. March 16.—Sixteen ara
known to have perished, while a score
"! others are reported to have been
•wept away in the great flood which
unlay in receding within the banka of
t.ie Allegheny unil Ohio rivers. Dam
age to property amounts to at least
exclusive of the railroads,
an.] they are estimated to have suffered
damage to the extent of at least 610,-
r'ltes. i.'Suiting from explosions and
lack of water aupply, caused damage
STntintlng t" r.enrly 51,000,000, while
Kerri of families were made homeless.
In Allepherv county It Is estimated that
•nor. 'hsn 100.000 persons were thrown
out..: work.
Order Ceing Rtstorod.
Some ordrr Is being restored In the
business secilcn today, but out where
ib • xr-ni mills are located and where
the an' i ulso throb* of Pittsburg heat,
'b* rf.'rct* of tho deluge will not be
Linlsh.il until long nfter the tutoulent
» here have lest themselves In the Quit
if Mexico.
Rallrnails took on some semblance of
regularity this morning and street car
traft:.- was resumed on Indifferent
schedules over the various lines. City
water Is again being supplied on the
south side and the denger from serlou*
Ores Is psst. office building* and down
town stores have pumped their cellsr*
fry and commerce Is once more a pos-
ilMllty.
Hungry Are Supplied.
Ten thousand or more people who
hud be.n made temporarily homeless
wade.l through mud sediment to their
houses and began once more a clv-
tllxes] method of living. They epent the
i day scrubbing, carrying furniture down
•loirs, hauling driftwood from their
d"<.r.s and trying to And their fence*,
ooaiil walks and coal houses.
At noun today the rivers were berk
™ im lr natural channel*. Great cakes
"■ I'c from the Parker gorge All the
and block traffic In some pieces
vi’re effectually than the driftwood.
T.iv me win have to melt aa the cekea
*>c too big to have sway.
Pneumonia la Predicted.
I’r Matson, of the bureau of health,
•ays the flood will have a good effect
jui.l that the community will be heallh-
, r f" 1 ' the cleaning. The food fathlne
«i i not grow to any extent, but an In-
m n,e number of pneumonia
ii's.-s is predicted by many physicians.
Hundreds, especially In McKeesport,
wb" went without food yesterday, have
," n "Hrved. Succor waa brought to
'i' ll' ns rapidly aa possible.
Police in France
Fire on Strikers
HI# HOLINESS POPE hU* X.
This picture of the pontiff is from • let* photograph and shew* him tatted at hla doth in hlg.private ream
the Vatican. ; i v «'
THE POPE’S MESSAGE TO
(Copyrighted.)
Rome, Italy, March 16.—-‘‘To my Beloved Children
of Ireland who live in America—With prayer that
through the intercession of St. Patrick they ipayprove
ever faithful to the traditions of their mother country, I
send blessings from my heart.
(Signed) “PIUS X.”
Gives His Blessings to Erin’s Sons on Eve of the Celebration of St.
Patricks Day—He Speaks With Feeling of the Devotion
of the Irish For Their Patron Saint.
Rome, Italy. March 16—Pope Plun
today penned a message for The New
York Evening Journal to the millions
of Irlah-Amerlean Catholics of the
United States on the occasion of the
great Irish feast day.
The message waa written by hla
holiness on the back of one of hla fa
vorite photographs, and waa probably
the longest autograph bleastng ever
penned by him on a photograph.
When writing the message, flla holi
ness referred In n touching way to the
veneration Irishmen the world over
liavo for St. Patrick and the glorious
traditions of their mother country.
The audience granted the -corre
spondence was arranged by Monalgneur
:ii> ». France, March 16.—The po
, -today fired on Hoteoue strikers
2r' n * 11 (Afeet light, killing two per-
FiremenOvercome
By Smoke at Fire
•’""•burg. March 16 Fire broke out
y f-'ur-story Ruben building at
• h.-Fsport today, menacing the en-
business section. The water rup-
F was ,-ut „fr, god | t was half an hour
water could be secured. Sev-
t,' J'" 'ocn were overcome by smoke,
it.- r n blocl< «'"» the finest liulld-
!>,,, j n ,h * clt.v Aid was sent from
IRISHMEN
PARADE IN GOTHAM
» . ’ v '*rk. Murrli It.—Fifty thou-
i»iff- ii »*' 1,1 Mihnien. reprt?»entlng all
v . |,, " , rntan Roclctits in Greater New
r , ’ *lrinlty, paraded this after■-
, , ■ »«» k«»nor of the memory of their
I •.*,/! , M,m The celebration rur-
, ; ! ,n "'WltUdt nil former Ht Put.
v 'irmoiiAtrmilona.
•■ « .emu, eiiiertmlnmenm and din-
**»vc bAtn arranged for tonight.
BRAIN STORM INTRODUCED
IN CASE AGAINST TURNER;
MILD INSANITY ALLEGED
Blitetl. pontifical major domo. At the
appointed hour the correspondent waa
ushered through a long suite of rooms
In which were welting groups of per
sona from all the countries of the globe
for uudlcnre.
The pope, oh signing the message
said: v ._. .
"I have blessed my Irish children in
America with all my heart."
Wheeling, W. Va.. March 16.—Fire
and a terrific gas explosion In the plan!
of Ibe W. A. Warrick Pottery Cora
pany added to the horrors of the flood
here today. Following the explosion
the plant caught fire and wee practl
rally destroyed.
The flames Quickly spread to a num
ber of tenement houses In the vicinity.
The occupants, who had been driven to
the Upper stories by the flood, were
the aklffe available were rushed
to tb* scene and most of the occu
pants of the tenements ware rescued
Seven persona however, terror-strlck
en at the approach of the flames, leap
ed Into the water end were drowned.
It 1* believed that a number of oth
•re were also swept away by th«
(era. and while only eevtn live* ere
known to have been lost. It seems prob
able that the total death list will be
froni 11 to 11.
Broken and leaky gaa malna fed tbe
flames and added to tba horrors of tbe
situation. •
HELD Bf DFftCtRS
Augusta, March 16.—James Raley,
young white man who holds a ccrtlfl
cate giving him the privilege to prac
tire medicine) n Georgia, fine been ar
rested at Statesboro, Ga.. and brought
to this city, suspected of shooting Amos
Clark, a prominent cltlxen of this city,
a few weeks ago and robbing him of
1400.
Raley attended a medical college In
Atlanta, going there from Jefferson
county. He Is from one of the most
prominent families In this section.
Case Continued Until
April 1 by Judge
Orr.
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O SHAMROCK IN EVIDENCE O
O IN ATLANTA SATURDAY. O
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O Shamrocks In, evidence Satur- O
O flay—real rocks ahead, or rather O
O rocky feelings fir over-cnlhusl- O
O lists. Still, It ■> -worth while In O
O honor of good 8t. Patrick.
O Sunday gives promise of being O
O a real balmy spring-like day—the 0
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Brain storms. Insonlt) und topoim t 0 (|oor(i K<>r «.. at; 0
leal questions figured to such on cxi.nl o "Fair and Warmer Saturday O
on Saturday morning In Justice of lh*|o
Saturday temperatures:
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. .46 degrees O
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. .64 degrees 0
. .67 degrees 0
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Peace ore's court as t„ make a hearing
in the cose against M. M- Turner. | o X
charged with einbexslemcnt, resemble jo y
In some respect* the Thaw trial In New, 0 JO
York. 13 }■•
Of course there wen- no famous |q j
alienists on the stand. Neither wits, q
there s large array of lawyers for the o
defense.
Hut Oicrc was evidence given of In-1 11 " '"
sanity and It was this eildAicc mat: flMbu , judge Orr declined to lake
cause,I Attorney T. J. Ripley for the I „„ t he motion until Dr. Hurt
proecrutlon to cross-examine Dr J. H. | ri>ll |j ra ,nt Into court snd give hie evl-
Hurt on "brain storm." j drnre as to the defendant's condition.
When Hie ras,- against M. M. Turner Dr. Hurt On Stand,
was called on Friday afternoon, n plea The result was that the hearing waa
for postponement was made by Aitor- j „g«in taken up on Saturday morning
r„c Owen Johnson for the defense on and Dr. Hurt waa pieced upon the abandon gill-edged escurltte* to rata*
3S groan"1 that he w.s unable physt- i ' “1 *“0?eb2S£Ld“bM
,V«||»-lo antwar In court. Represented _ . _ — goodly portion of the abandoned bol
li ccrtlftcairfrom Dr. Ituit to this cf- • Centmued en Page Three. lag* at fair advances.
TO GIVE VIEW
REGARDING PANIC
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O SEASON, PANIC FEARED. O
O Havana. Cuba,.March 16.—Local O
0 bankers era making preparations O
O for e panic which they fear will O
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Washington, March It.—President
Roosevelt le preparing e statement
bearing on the financial situation, and
It may be given out late thla afternoon.
He went over the draft of the state-
mtnt thla morning with James Speyer,
the New York banker. Speyer la re
ported to have approved It and urged
Ha publication.
New York. March II.—Effervescent
Wall street shook off the laat remnants
of the pell of gloom which had settled
over It, following boar raids In the
early part of the week.
When the market opened today the
bull element regained Its mastery. Hub.
atantlal gains were made by nearly
every security on Ihe Hat. Buying
order* came In from every quarter dur
ing the two hours of trading.
Many large Interests were forced to
Countess Visits
Slayer of White
New York. March 10.—Mrs. Evelyn
Thaw, Mrs. William Thaw and the
countess of Yarmouth. Ihe latter
Thaw'* sister, all visited the prisoner
In Ihe Tombs today. It was the first
time Ihe countess ha* seen her brother
for several weeks. Ths countess' ac-
lion today set at rest *11 reports that
the Is estranged from Harry, end that
any but friendly relations exist between
them.
Evelyn looked far from well, but In
sisted that she "f«Tt line." She was
optimistic regarding the outcome of the
trial.
Thai the defense will have four new
allenlals to offset the state's six experts
who swore Thaw, In their opinion, was
sene when he shot White, was an
nounced. *
JUDGE HOUSER DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Special to The Georgias.
Perry, Ga, March 16.—Judge J. H.
Houser died at his home here Wednes
day night after a long Illness. Judge
Houser was ordinary of Houston coun
ty eight yegrs. He was 71 years old,
an honorable, t
tleman and will
munlty.
He had been a devout member of the
Methodist church for more than fifty
grandchildren and several great-grand
children. He was burled In cemetery
here.
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0 New York. March II.—Alarm O
O bells clanged through Ihe rorrl- O
O dors of the Hotel Nivtm si the
O breakfast hour today, summoning
O Ihe guests from their room* on O
• account of a small volcano of Are O
O that waa spouting from one of the O
o chimneys. Water and salt In alio- o
0 pathlc doaaa subdued the Are In O
O the chimney. , O
O Roger O'Mara, the Plttaburg de- O
O tectlve. In the employ of the O
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O TWO VICTIMS OF WRECK O
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0 Chattanooga. Tcnn., March II. O
O Mrs. Alice McGowan Cooke and O
O Miss Grace Cook*, who were serl-
O ouely Injured In the wreck at
O Englewood, N. J., are daughters of 0
O the late Colonel J. E. McGowan. O
0 editor of The Chattanooga Times, 0
0 for twenty-five years, who died 0
0 here several years ago. They ere 0
0 well known Southern authors, O
0 having written some very com-
0 mendable novels and other works.
0 They formerly lived In Catoosa 0
0 county. Ga., and woro Involved 0
S in a suit ovor an antiquated road 0
law of that stale some time ago. 0
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New York. March 11.—Upton Sin
clair's "Helicon Hell." near Englewood,
N. J.. wee burned to the ground today,
following a mysterious explosion which
tor* the front pert of tb* building
away and sent flame* to every comer of
the structure.
The flfty-flve persons who comprised
Mr. Sinclair's Socialistic settlement. In
cluding the ^author of "The Jungle”
and Me wlM-.Yrere ehur ftt by the
and all had to escape by leaping
from tbe wlndowe on tbe eecond and
third floor*.
Children were tolled from the win
dow* In their night clothe* and caught
In the arm* of men and women, or In
blankets held by them. It la believed
every one had escaped when the walls
of the building collapsed.
Sinclair eroueed the enmity of a
..eat many persons by Ui* publication
of hie novel, "The Jungle^ In which
he exposed conditions existing In the
Chicago packing housei, resulting In a
ivtmment Investigation of ths plants
to author has boon annoyed recently
by cranks and some persons who crltl-
clued his Socialistic views. The destruc
tion of Halcyon Hell entailed e lose of
about 1*1.060.
Tho body of Joseph Briggs a carpen
ter. of Providence, R. I., has been found
In tho ruins. Briggs had arrived her*
only a few days ago and was engaged
In making repairs In the hall.
The seriously hurt ere Professor
Montague, of Columbia University;
Bancroft, Mich. March 16.—The
Grand Trunk passenger train, knows
aa the Atlantic Express eaatbound, sad
due at Durand at 1:16 a. m, ran Into
an open switch and crashed Into s
freight train here, and aa a result *C
the wreck a doien people were hart,
two faulty. ,
Fatally Injured:
A. B. Schism, engineer of the ex
press aged 41, married, of Battle
Creek; crushed and scalded: both log*
broken; In hospital at Bancroft.
Frank Cowan, aged to, fireman. Bat
tle Creek, Internally Injured and scald
ed; In hospital at Bancroft.
Railroad man say the twitch had
beta left open by a freight train crew,
after tbe freight ran In on the elding.
At unabated speed, the express lo
comotive hit the caboose of tbo freight
and plowed through tho freight a dis
tance of several ear length* The ex
press train buckled and three eoaehea
climbed up on top of the locomotive.
They were the mall car, baggage car
and one passenger coach. t
Engineer Sehram. of tbe express, end
Cowan, his fireman, had no time to
Jump. They lay under the heap of
wreckage until dug out by th* crowd
of trainmen end townspeople. Th*
other Injured are all passenger*. They
were taken out of the wreckage of the
coach which lay over the engine.
Gas Explosion
Ends Girl's Life
Bridgeport, Ohio. March 16—The
Scott (Lumber Company and several
nearby buildings were destroyed by
lire. The loss la 1110,000.
Coney Island, a pleasure resort near
Wheeling. W. Va_ waa devastated by .
th* Are and at warrtnton a school ,
house and several residences were
washed away.
A gaa explosion at a residence In
Wollsburg killed a girl and destroyed
the house. i
Mlsa Alice McGowan, th* nov*jU*t;
Mies Ida flsohuabarg, a t —_
George MoOowan Cook, a writer, and
Miss Edith Bummers private
to Upton Sinclair.
Growth and Progress of the New Sooth
The Oeorglte records here each dsy sew*
economic fart In reference to tb* eaweid
march of tho booth.
Rerent publications of tho various Federal bureaus ara furnishing th*
world with u great deal of Information about th* resources of th* Bouth,
snd the present great development going on In thle section.
We gave a few dtya ago the statistic* of the lumber Industry of th*
country, which show that the South Is now furnishing noarly halt of all
the lumber used In thin country. This has been followed by a publication
hv ihe United Stales Geological Hurvay, giving tho mineral production of
the United mates for 1*06, and presenting Ute following statistics for th*
Houthern states:
States. Values.
Alabama 161,661,666
Arkansas «,740,7*4
Florida 4,111,761
Georgia 0,600,666
Kentucky 14.671,111
taiulslsna 6,111.410
Maryland 10,041,167
Mississippi 674.176
North Carolina 1,414,061
Bouth Carolina 1.664,467
Tennease* 16,141.611
Texaa 11.711,146
Virginia 11,761,666
West Virginia 74,7!L*f«
Total 1546.651.041
Total United mates 1.104,144,715
The Bouth, It will be seen, now turns oul one-seventh ot all th*
minerals prodursd In this country. When It Is ronstdtred that the devel
opment of thle Industry Is a matter of tbe last few year*, tb* great
progress made can be more fully appreciated.
In no case perhaps has this progress been more startling than In Lou
isiana. A dosen years ago this atate waa regarded as one of tho most
unpromising from a mineral point of view of any In th* Union, Its only
production being a little salt. In 1*05 It stood eighth among the four
teen Houthern states In mineral output, having passed Arkansas, Georgia
and North Carolina. With the further development of Ita oil and sul
phur deposits It will probably have passed Kentucky. Tennessee and Tex
as by the time the next census Is taksn. It can not, of courtt, ever ex
pect to rank among th* great mineral stales of Ih* Union, but It can
hope to occupy an honorable position and to draw from th* soil mil
lions of hidden wealth.
Relative to the mineral output of the Bouth. the same point can be
made as In regard to Its lumber—that the Southern people are os yet
shipping these valuable products elsewhere In nearly a crude Mat* and al
lowing other communities to make the greatest profit In them. Instead of
converting our valuable timbers Into vehicle*, furniture, woodenware,
etc., the bulk of It Is shipped elsewhere In th* form of lumber or log*, to -
be converted In Ihe North or Europe Into more valuable products. In
the same way our iron and coal are largely shipped elsewhere: and Ala
bama pig goes North to be mad* Inte rails, hollowirare, plows, etc., and
West Virginia and Virginia coal to keep alight th* furnacag and factories
of Ptttshurg and other Northern man ufarturtag cltle*. • '
Similarly Louisiana salt goes elsewhere to enter the product of
Western packing houses: Its sulphur to Europe and the North to eater
Into the various Industries that us* thla chemical, and ft* oil furnishes
Ihe motive power for establishments outside of the stats. -
Th* Houth will not secure the full value of Its great natural resource*
until It utilises thsni fully snd converts the raw material* Into finished
products.—New Orleans Tlmes-Democral.
|| npiviimii
(And News)
St. Patrick’s
Day in th*
Morning
Many Are Trapped By
Great Flood in
Tenements.
Upton Sinclair and'53
Persons Leap For
Their Lives.
Twelve Persons Hurt.
Two Are Fatally
Scalded.
SCORE OF OTHERS
REPORTED MISSING
VICTIMS DROWNED
SEEKING SAFETY
TWO TENNESSEE
WOMEN HURT
SEVERAL OF CREW
DUG FROM DEBRIS
By Noon Saturday Rivers
Were Baek )u Their Nat
ural Channels.
Other Lives Are Believed to
Have Been Lost in
the Waters.’
Body of Carpenter Is Found
in Ruins of the
Building.
Express Plows Its Way Into
Cars Left on a
Siding.