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EIGHTH YEAR
smoke a “Bill Arp’ warters New Brand
A THOUSAND LIVES
Were Destroyed by the West
Indian Storm
WHOLE VILLAGES SWEP’
From the Face of the Earth.
Terrible Havoc.
Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24-
—Mail advices which reached
here today brought melancholy
relief to the suspense experienc
ed regarding the full extent of
the hurricane disaster it the is
lands of St. Vincent, St. Lucia
and Barbadoes, showing tha»
the first accounts were not ex
aggerated. At St. Vincent about
300 lives were lost, not count
ing the loss of life sufferred
througn the destruction of ship
ping. The coast is strewn with
the wrecks of vessels, many of
which were from Barbadoes.
The storm raged from 10
o’clock in the morning (Sunday
Sept. 11th) until 2 o’clock in
the afternoon, completely wreck
ing the island.
At the capital. Kingston, fully
200 houses were demolished,
while the suburbs, Coxheath and
Montebello, were obliterated.
Among the principal buildings
destroyed are the Anglican and
Catholic churches, the fine new
hospital and Fort Charlotte. All
the other public buildings were
more or less injured. Cloudbursts
from the mountains swept much
of the ruins in the sea, as well
as several dead and injured per
sons.
Throughout the island the
destruction was on a wholesale
scale, nearly all the estates and
buildings being razed and culti
vation being obliterated
The following towns or villag
es were destroyed :
Rose Place, Grande, Sable,
Arnosvale, Mount Pleasant, Ar
gyle, Willilabo, Barrouaillio,
tayon and Buccament, and the
second city, Georgetown, was
considerably damaged.
No approximate estimate of
the pecuniary damage done has
been reached, but the island is
practically ruined.
St. Lucia suffered mostly from
rain and landslides, the deluge
lasting ten hours. Cui de Sac
and Rousseu valleys, the centers
of the cane and cocoa clutiva
tion, were converted into lakes
and partly filled with debris
from the mountains, which
ruined the crops, while many
plantations elsewhere were
wrecked.
‘Serious damage was sustained
especially at Mornetabao, which
piecipitated an avalanche three
miles long, covering the valley
to the width of a mile and over
whelming Ruby and a couple of
other estates.
Similar avalanches partly de
stroyed the Diamond, Pearl and
San Jacques plantations. The
c*ty of Castries suffered some
what, chiefly from a tidal wave,
whieh swept over half the town
*nd wrecked a portion of Bay
street. Thirteen lives were lost.
1 he full extent of the damage
has not been computed, but it
is incomparably less than at St.
Vincent.
ibe hurricane struck the is-
THE ROME HI ST 1 £ R-( 0M M EI{Cl AI
land of Barbadoes on the night
of the 10th, completely wrecking
all exposed plants and sweep
ing away 10,000 houses, while
damaging thousands more.
This left three quarters of the
inhabitants homeless. Over 100
people were killed, so far as
known. The city of Bridgetown
was partially destroyed, and tne
suburbs at St. Michael and
Belleville were entirely demol
ished.
All the shipping was wrecked
or blown out to sea. In the coun
try the desolation is awfui, ow
ing to the destruction of the pro
vision grounds on which the
population depended.
While all the parishes suffered
the greatest distress is in St.
Michael, Christ Church and St.
Philip. All the sugar estates are
damaged, and many of them are
completely wrecked.
But, while the cultivation of
cane has suffered considerably,
the cane has not yet been totally
ruined as at fi-st reported, the
damage not exceeding one fifth
of the cane. Thejtotal estimated
damage, besides the loss .from
the cane crop and provisions, is
about $1,500,000 at Barbados.
Among the incidents at Bar
dos was the miraculous escape
of Gov. Hay and his son from a
building which collapsed, bury
ing them in the ruins. They
escaped with insignificant
bruises,
KING CRIME
Reigned Sufbemb In Brooklyn
Ykstekday. v-
New York, Sept. 24—Au out
break of murder swept Brooklyn
yesterday.
Mrs. Ella Wilson, a rich widow
was shot and killed in the parlor
of her magnificently furnished
home, on Union Strfeet, by James
O’Neil, a railroad yardmaster.
Then O’Neil killed himself. Jeal
ousy was the cause-
Felix McNally< a Bond-Street
store-keeper, tried to kill his wife
She will probably die Then he
killed himself. He was mad from
drink.
John M. Thurston a sailor, was
killed in a room in a Brooklyn
saloon, in which he was drinking
with three men. His body was
thrown downstairs, where it was
found early yesterday. Three men
supposed to be those who were
with him were arrested.
ROUGH RIDER’S BRANCHO.
icked A S2OO Bugsy And His
Stable to Pieces.
New York, Sept. 24.—Geo’-ge C-
Wortman, of No. 575 Jamiica
avenue, attended yesterdays’s sale
of Rough Rider horses and bought
a mangy, wild-eyed little broncho
for $7,50. This morning Wortman
went to the stable, The brancho
bad broken loose and kicked his
stall into kindling wood. He ruined
a S2OO buggy and put himself on
the outside of $lO worth of feed.
With the help of half the neigh
borhood Wortman succeeded in
getting the broncho out. Now the
animal is tethered in a two-acre
lot.
ROME GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1898,
POLICE THEORY
Is That Emma Gill’s Body
Was Dismembered by
DR. NANCY GUILFORD
And That Individual Is Badly
Wanted-
Bridgeport, Conn , Sept. 24.
—Whether the dismembered
body of the girl found in Yellow
mill pond was that of Emma
Gill or not, one thing is certain,
and that is that Dr. Guil
ford is wanted badly by the po
lice on a charge of knowing haw
the girl met her death. The
police theory is that the woman,
who has been in trouble before,
is the one who cut the body into
three pieces.
Since the finding of the three
different packages in the pond,
the woman J disappeared as
though swallowed up by the
earth, and do what the police
can they cannot learn her where
abouts.
It is the belief that the dead
girl is Emma Girl, of Southing
ton, and so confident are hw
relatives that today ffcey applied
to have the dismembered re
mains dug up from potter’s field
and with the head they desire
to bury them in the family lot
at
Three men are detained, as the
chief here puts it—One man is
the lover of the girl, Walter C.
Foster; another is a fish vender,
Charles Plumb, and the third is
Harry, the son of Dr. Guilford.
As yet none of these arrests
has resulted in any startling dis
closures, but the police will hold
Harry Guilford’s underclothing
was used to wrap up the head.
A little laundry mark found on
the piece of underclothing is the
connecting link that ths son
will have to explain away, but
the mother will have a harder
task.
One portion of the body was
found wrapped in the portion of
a rubber dissecting apron, and,
though the police do not admit
it, is almost a certainty that the
apron belonged to Dr. Guilford.
One thing still puzzling the
detectives is where the crime
was committed. The girl w; s
either cut to pieces in a house
within sight of police headquar
ters here or at a place in Strat
ford, a village near this city.
Another puzzler is, what be
came of the missing entrails?
These were not found, and were
no doubt held by the murderers
to destroy evidence of another
crime.
When I asked a man high in
authority what he thought be
came of them, he said :
“I believe that at the proper
time we shall be able to show
that they were burned.”
The police discovered this
morning that during the night
some one had entered the house
of Dr. Nancy Guilford. They
fear some incriminating articles
were carried off. A detective on
the case said today that every
movement of Mrs. Guilford is
watched, and the authorities
here can have her arrested at an
hour’s notice.
Blp&aa TabulM cure < iMrtasM.
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