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TORNADO SWEEPS GALVESTON Ten People Are Swept From Pier and Lost. SEA WALL SAVES THE CITY No Lives Lost in Galvestion and Froper ty Damage Not Great—But for Sea Wall City Would Been Whelmed. UNSCATHED BY STORM GALVESTON REJOICES Galveston, Texas.—The city of Galveston sends greetings to her sister cities, the people of the United States and of the world, in that at this hour it has just passed through a most formid able storm, manifesting in its course some of the most violent incidents and cyclonic disturb ances, and its great sea wall has completely vindicated its etiicien ciency and protected the city against dangers from the sea, leaving such insignificant dam ages as are incident to all storms. The city, its great busi ness interests and its people have safely passed through a most se vere hurricane, the sea wall has proved a complete success. The city’s great wharves and shipping interests suffered no damage and not a life was lost. Lewis Fish er, mayor; Maco Stewart, presi dent Security Building Company; M. E. Kleberg, city attorney; V. E. Astin, commissioner of street; E. O. Flood, jjresident chamber of commerce; B. A. Doue, president Maritime Associ ation. Galveston, Texas. —Man’s strength and skill were pitted against the fury of the elements and man won, when this city, safely entrenched behind her impregnable 17-foot, sea wall,with stood, with comparatively trifling loss, a tidal wave and hurricane equal in intensity, and destructive force to the one which destroyed tne city on Sep tember 8, 1900. In Galveston and vicinity not a sin gle life is believed to have been sacri ficed, but the material loss is quite extensive. The hurricane swept the entire gulf coast with an intensity and . viciousness that has seldom been equaled in a country where destruc tive storms are not unusual. It had its origin on the Atlantic coast and swept westward and south ward, devastating the entire gulf coast even as far south as Matagorda Bay. The hurricane struck Galveston about 1] o'clock Wednesday morning. The wind, attaining a velocity of near ly 70 miles an hour, whipped the treacherous waters of the Mexican gulf into a fury of destruction. With the pent-up fury of ten years of hate, the waves blindly assaulted the grim parapets of stone which man had huilded to restrain its attacks. in vain it hurled its thousands of tons of water upon the splendid breast works. Only a feeble burst of spray and a little water reached its object ive and the beleaguered city lay calm and safe behind the wall. Outside the limits of the city,where the wall had not been reared and where the city had not been elevated, the waters had their way, but they wrecked only deserted huts and abandoned territory. While the city of Galveston was held safe agajnst the fury of the storm by the new government $2,000,000 sea walls, far out in the gulf, on Tarpon fishing pier, 7 miles from the city, where the storm whipped over the jetty into the bay, ten persons were washed from the rocky promontories into the gulf. Those drowned were members of a fishing party and em ployees of the Tarpon pier, marooned on the Jatty. Boats were sent to their assistance, and it was learned that the house in which they had sought refuge had been washed away. Three spans or sections of the bridge running from the island on which the city stands to Virginia Point were swept away when a barge was hurled against the piers. This bridge supported all of the telephone and telegraph lines running into Gal veston. Official bulletins issued by the Unit ed States weather bureau gave warn ings of the approaching storm, and in some measure the shipping was ■prepared for it. Before daylight the storm clouds began gathering in the south, far out over the waters. Every moment the wind increased in velocity until it had attained a maximum of 76 miles an hour, and the mercury in the barometer fell with startling rapidity as the storm center rushed closer and closer to the city. The barometer fell as low as BLAME BUSINESS DEPRLSiION. / Idleness Has 3ecome a Habit With Many. Washington, D. C.—The recent bus iness depression had a demoralizing effect on certain classes of laborers, according to C. L. Green, inspector in charge of the New York city branch of the division of information of the department of commerce and labor, who submitted his report for the six months ending June 30 last, to L. V Powderly, chief of the division. The report shows that during the fiscal year just closed three thousand eight hundred and twelve men secur ed employment in the various states through information furnished by his bureau. 29.56, as against 27.50 when the 1900 storm was at its height. The waves, rolling high, dashed fu riously against the massive concrete sea wall, hurling dense clouds of spray and spume into the air, where it was caught by the wind and driven back across the city in torrents. Far more rapidly than it had swept down upon the city, the wind sub sided. With the passing of the storm the fright of the citizens passed, as they realized that their sea wall, which had been built at a cost of $2,000,000, had held fast, and to it they probably owed their lives and prop erty. Rescue parties were sent out onto the beach, for there it was that th* storm did its damage. Bath houses, pavilions and booths along the speed way, as the driveway outside of the seawall is known, were turned topsy turvy, the more frail ones being crush ed and splintered by the force of the wind and w-aves. Houston, Texas. —Other than to add several hu.rdred thousand to the mon etary less, dispatches from the storm swept coast sections of Louisiana and Texas and into the interior for a hun dred miles add but little to that al ready told of the hurricane, which ri valed in intensity the storm of 1900. The number of killed is conservative ly estimated at twenty-five, those more or less seriously injured twice as many and the property los sis con servatively estimated at approximate ly a million dollars. While belated reports may add to the list of casual ties and the property damage, other than to isolated points, communica tion has been restored. New Orleans, La. —That the hurri cane which swept the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana, levied a far heavier toll in loss of life and prop erty damage than that at first suppos ed. was indicated when points which had been cut off from communica tion again got in touch with the out side world. I That the property loss will run into the millions was made a certainty when the whole towns which were not at first believed to have suffered, were definitely reported to have been wrecked. Nearly a score of persons are now believed to have lost their lives. NEW RELIGION JWf THE WORLD. It is Coming Soon, Says Dr. Eliot of Harvard. Cambridge, Mass.—Charles W. El in an aduress before the Harvard iot, president emeritus of Harvard, summer setiool of theology, prophesied tne advent of anew religion. “It will not be bound by dogma or creed,” he said. “Its working w r ill be simple, but its field of action lim itless. Its discipline will be the train ing in the development of co-operative good wilt. It will attack all forms of evil. There will be no supernatu ral element; it will place no reliance on anything but the laws of nature. Prevention will be the watchword and a skilled surgeon one of its members. “It will not deal chiefly with sorrow and death, but with joy and life. “God will be so imminent that no intermediary will be needed. Its priests will strive to improve social and industrial conditions. The new religion will not attempt to reconcile peoples to present ills, but the prom ise of future compensation.” Dirt Flying on Canal. Washington. D. C. —Substantial pro gress in canal construction all along the line is shown by reports coming to the Washington office of the isth mian canal commission. Excavation work by the Americans now approxi mates 80,000,000 cubic yards, almost as much as the total quantity of dirt taken out by the French during the period they were engaged in opera tions there. Less than 100,000,000 cubic yards of earth remain to be re moved from the ditch. Colonel Goe tlials has estimated that the great waterway will be completed by Jan uary 1, 1915. Daughter ol Ex-President Taylor Dead Winchester, Va. —Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor BandrAige, daughter of Gen eral Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States, and sister-in law of the first Mrs. Jefferson Davis, died at her home here Sunday, aged 85 years. Mrs. Dandridge was the third daughter of General Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the Unit ed States, and was born at Fort Snell ing, Minn., April 20, 1824. High Heels May Cost Life. New York City.—Mrs. Arthur W. Teels, who lives in an apartment house at 422 West End avenue, fell thirty feet into an areaway from the window of her suite, and received in ternal injuries which may cause death. Mrs. Teele was wearing high heeled flippers, and one of them caught in a rung and threw her forward. The window was low and she tumbled out. Lett-Handed Trains to Go. Chicago, ill.—" Left-handed” trains will be given up by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway in a few days. The switches and signals are being rebuilt, and all trains will be run on the right-hand track as they are on every other railroad of consequence in the country except one, the Chicago and Northwestern. , Russia Conquering Cholera. St. Petersburg.—The cholera situa tion now seems to be well under con trol, and the Russian authorities are confident that it will not reach the proportions of the 1903 epidemic. Af ter remaining stationary for several weeks with a maximum of 120 cases, LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The royal train bearing King Victor Emmanuel to his summer palace at Racconigi ran down and killed a flag man at a crossing near San Vin cenzo. The king ordered the train stopped and, alighting, ordered his secretary to see that the needs of the man’s family were provided for. Struck by a bolt of lightning a* he sat on his piazza at Broxton. Mass., his hand resting on the brass-studded collar of his dog, George E. Bowman, a twenty-year-old artist, whose work recently won him a prize of SSOO at a New York exhibition, is lying at his home speechless and sightless. On board the United Fruit com pany’s steamship Limon when sue reached port at Boston, Mass., from Port Limon, Costa Rica, was no less distinguished a personage than ’ King” Alonzo Adams, supreme rul er and owner of Swan Island, situat ed in the Carribbean sea, and one of the most important strategic points in the entire West Indies. While exact figures are unobtain able, it is conservatively estimated at Pittsburg, Pa., that a loss of $60,000 is incurred each day the steel car strike continues. Nearly six thousand men are idle. The plant has a capacity of about one hundred cars a day, which sell at an average price of SI,OOO each. The figures show that the company is sustaining a tremen dous loss while no product is being turned out. So fond of jumping was Heather bloom, the $20,000 world’s champion jumping horse, that he topped eVery fence built for a paddock. He reach ed his limit, however, trying the high est fence ever placed around him, and was so badly injured that, in mercy, he was shot. He was owned by Howard Willets, of White Plains, N. Y., and Marlborough, Mass. Mr. Willets refused SIO,OOO for him from Barnum’s circus only this season. Heatherbloom had held the world’s record, eight feet, six inches, having made the record in C'hicago, winning from a class of fifty horses. Washington. The figure heads, used for orna ments on the battleship Alabama and the cruiser Montgomery, will be given to Montgomery, Ala. Such accessor ies are being taken from all the war ships and Congressman Dent has se cured these two for Montgomery. It is reported here that prominent American bankers are to refund t-he public debt of Honduras at the pres ent time, amounting to about SIOO,- 000,000. The firm of J. P. Morgan & Company is mentioned as among those who have the matter in hand. There is a decided sentiment for the abolishment of the Panama canal government as it now exists and for the substitution of a “one-man rule” in the canal zone. In the opinion of members of congress who have look ed into conditions in the canal zone and who have examined the ' great work of construction, there hs too great a division of responsibility and authority under the commission form of government as it now exists. A special meeting of the cabinet was held at the white house to dis cuss further the matter of cutting down the estimates of the various de partments for the coming fiscal year, according to the statements of sever al of the cabinet members before en tering the consultation Foom with President Taft. It is clear that the widely published attack on the estimate of farm ro ss*tes of wheat on March 1 was with out basis; that it was unjustifiable and that its sole object was to enable the speculators who made it to gain personal profits at the expense of the general public, was the summing up of Secretary Wilson in a statement given out in answer to the criticism from several quarters that the depart ment’s estimate as to the amount of wheat on farms in the United States was entirely too high. The secretary says that “the estimate was challenged as being much too large, and consid erable agitation was aroused by specu lative interests desiring to create a public belief in a serious shortage in wheat supplies.” The conferees on the tariff bill for mally adopted the corporation tax amendment as redrafted by Atttorney General Wickersham, with practically no amendment. The amendment re duces the rate of tax from 2 to 1 per cent, eliminates the holding compan ies and strikes out that part of the original amendment which made building and loan associations subject to the act. The city of Panama is anxious to have an officer of the American army detailed for duty as inspector and in structor of the national police of that city. A cable resolution making such a request has reached the state de partment. The army, however, is short of officers and it is not likely the request will be complied with, a similar request from Bogota, Colom bia, recently having been declined. Anyone son dins? a sketch and c. *'crint'nn mat nrlckly ascertain our opinion freewhe'her an invention is probably patentable. Corm miiica* t ions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK onl'ntenta sent free, oldest ntreitcy forsecurinj; patents. Patents taken through Munn & On. receive special notice , without chnrce, iu the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated wuckly. 1 c*" ctilntiou of any scientific Journal. Terms. [■> year : four montns, $L Sold by all nevsdea. vr- MW* &C 0- rMdwa >NewYc;R eh Office i' St.. Washt-’iC'in. D. C. Attractive Round-Trip Rates VIA Southern Railway Account SpecialOccasionsNamedßelow Summer School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Dates of Sale—June 28, July 5 and 12. Return Limit —All tickets limited to 15 days from date of sale. Extension of Return Limit —By paying SI.OO and depositing tickets they may be extended to September 30. Young People’s Missionary Movement, Black Mountain, N. C. Dates of Sale—June 30, July 1 and 2. Return Limit—All tickets limited to July 28. Christian Endeavor Convention, St. Paul, Minn. Dates of Sale —July 3,4, and 5. . . Return Limit—Good to reach starling point July 31. Montreat Chautauqua, Black Mountain, North Carolina •• Date of Sale—July 12, 19, 26, 31, August 2,9, 16. 21 and 25. Return Limits-All tickets limited to September 6. 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