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Till-: HUSTLER OF ROME.
THE FLOOD.
I
it took 1000 mon to Repair the
Damages. I
TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN.
Caucasses of Horses and
Cattle and Wrsoked house
held Furniture Lodged
In the T'ees Behind
the Flood.
.San Antonio. Tex.. September 4.
—The 1,000 men who have been at
work repairing the 40 miles of
track on the Southern Pacific rail
road, overflowed and washed out
west of here, by the recent flood,
completed their work yesterday
afternoon and trains are running
over the temporary structures.
The first through train since the
deluge occurred, arrived here at 9
o’clock last night. It was a pas.
aenger train and brought in a large
number of people who had been
tied up by the great washout. They
report a terrible condition of affairs
along the distance for a hundred
miles or more.
In the branches of trees where
the high water left them are debris
of all kinds, including horses and
cattle, household furniture, etc.,
and the broad prairies are still
covered with water to a depth of
two to five feet, and overland trips
to the remote ranches and settle”
inents are matters of impossibility
It is expected that relief expedi
tions will be sent out today.
Mr. Tom Lowry, who has been
visiting Dr. Battle at Shorter Col
lege, for some days, will leave in
I the morning for his home in Ma
con.
Mr. Howard Jack left today for
Dalton. He will go on the road for
Railroad Snuff.
JUST RECEIVED
One of the most com
plete assortments o f
TI.'LET SOAPS
AND
TOILET ARTI-LES
/
Ever brought to the
city. See our line of
fine
IMPORTED TOOTH
BRUSHES
Theyhsveno superior
on this or any other
market
SOLE AGENT FOR
CANDIES
J. I. CROUCH & CO
Medical Building.
ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER. 4 1894.
THEY ARE COMING
General Clement A. EVans anS
Eloquent Bob Gumer.
AT WAREHOUSE FRIDAY.
Bacon Will not be Here but
' Our John” Will be on
Deck. The Biggest Ral
ly ofthe Camoaign
er, for Floyd.
Friday will be a big day for the
Floyd county democracy.
It is the day on which General
Evans and the peerless Bob Burn
er will meet with the' “wool
hat boys” and preach pure democ
racy to the great crowds that will
gather to hear them.
A Hustler of Romc reporter
dropped in on John J. Black, of
the Floyd county democratic exec
utive comniitte', this morning ai d
was show'll a letter from Hon.
Steve Clay, chairman or the State
executive committee.
Mr. Clay informs Chairman
Black that Genera! Evans and Bob
Burner, the eloquent, will be sent
to Rome on Friday and guarntees
that they will not only make it
warm for the enemies of demo
cracy but will more than entertain
the democrats themselves.
Major A. O. Bacon, Ou account
of au engagement on the 6tb. can
not reach Rome ou the 7th, but
will sneak in the city ou some date
within the mouth.
Reduced rates will be given
over the railroads for Friday, and
everything now p >iuts to a large
and enthusiastic crowd,
The dares for Floyd o< uuty ral
lies, begimng on Saturday the Bth
are as follows:
Foster’s Mills and Livingston, Sat
urday, September Bth.
Flat wood’s, Saurday Bth.
Cave Spring, Friday 14th.
Van’s Valley, Friday 14th, (night )
Texas Valley, Monday 17th.
Howell’s (at Seney) Monday 17th.
Chulio, (Bryant’s Mill) Wednes
day 19 th.
Barkers,(Porters store) Thursday
20.
Etowah, Thursday 20.
Watters, (Pinson’sstore) Friday 21.
Everett and Floyd Springs, Satur
day 22
North Carolina, Saturday 22.
CONDUCTOR GOES MAD.
He Carries his Train Through: Then
Comes the Reaction.
St. Paul. Sep. 4—Conductor
Sullivan, of the train that was
caught by the fire near Hinkley
and backed to Skunk Lake, be
came a raviug maniac after reach
ing comparative safety.
He was heroically cool and col
lected while his burning tram was
making its fearful, run, but at
Skunk Lake his mind gave way.
Engineer Root, of the same tram
is so badly burned that he may
not live.
There seems no doubt that this
train would have pulled through
in safety if the engineer had not
stepped to take up two or three
hundred refugees who lined the
track.
Mrs Gardner has a fine night
blooming cereus. Several of the
flowers opened last night, and a
number of people went to see
them,
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Floyd County:
To all whom it may concern: E. H. Colclough
having in proper form applied to me for per
manent letter* of administration on the estate
of W. H. perry to be and appear at my office
within the time allowed by the law and show
ciuse if any they can, why permanent admin
istration should not lie granted to W, H. Ennis
Ccunty Administrator on W. N, Ferry’s estate.
Witness my hand andofficial signature this 3rd
day of Sept, 1894.
John P. Davis,
Ordinary Floyd County Georgia.
THE FIRE.
Michigan and Wisconsin’s Forest
Holocaust.
■HUNDREDS OF BLACKEND
Bodies Mark the Track of the
Fire Fiend. The Number of
Dead May never be
Known. Black
ened bodies.
Ishpeming, Mich., Sept. —The
gravity of the situation from the for
est fireg continues to increase every
hour. The long continued drought
displays no signs of abatement, while
every morass adjacent to the city is
aglow with flames.
A dense eloud of am ke envelopes
the country for many miles, obstruct
ing business and offering constant
menace to travel,
Dust and ashes are falling in
showers. The volunteer fire brigade
is divided into convenient squads,
which are doiu g effective work.
The district lying between the
Bradford farm and the Dead river
to the north is a vast fen, filled
with underbrush, and is now’ a
lake of fire. The same is true of
the course of the Cairo river.
Ashland, Wis., Sept. »4.—The
auxietj felt at Ashland for the
safety of northern Wisconsin towns
was somewhat relieved this morn
iug by reports of ram in nearly
every locality where the fires had
been the worst. It is a Godsend to
this country. J <
The northern Wisconsin towns
that have been burned are as fol
lows : Benoit, Poplar, Marengo,
Sneticer, partially ; Highbridge,
partially Ashland Junction,
scorched; City of Washburn,
scorched. Bessemer scorched.
BAINING Ort THE RUIMB,
Hinckley, Minn., Septembers.—
A gentle rain is falling today and
quenching the burning embers of
the immense forest fires that did
so much damage in this city Sat
urday afternoon and night. The
blackened ruins of two or three
brick buildings are all that re
mains standing of the once pros
perous town of Hinckley with its
1.700 people and its busy railroad
and lumbering interests.
This is today a place of ramm
ing and the burial of th » charred
and unrecomzahle b»d es of the
hundreds of victims has saddened
the survivers even more then the
disaster itself, -
The number of dead at Hinckley
is placed at 200. The correspondent
has counted 194 of these, and the
margin allowed about all that is nec
essary. The figures are as follows:
Hinkley 200; Sandstone 92; Miller
12; between Skunk lake and Miller
12; Pokama 28; in lumber camps and
scattering, estimate, 50.
Probably 200 people left town
on foot or in vehicles, plunging in
to the woods to the north, across
the Grindstohe river, which skirts
the town on the north. They were
literally fleeing before the pursu
ing demon of fire.
Over the hill that rises behind
the Grindstone river is a swamp
and to this most of the peopl,
with teams Leaded, but it proved
no protection. The fire g .ve them
no opportunity to go further. Some
abandoned their teams and ran
into the lower portion of the mo
rass, but the fire sought them
out.
Not one was left to*tell the tale,
and there yesterday morning in a
space of little more than four or
five acres, were counted over 180
corpses. There were families of
five, six and seven, and there they
lay, the men generally a little in
advance, the mothers surrounded
by their little ones, cut ofi by the
most horrible of deaths.
OLD FLOYD
The “Banner County” of the “Em
pire State of the South.”
HAS SAFELY WEATHERED
The Fearful Panic of'93 and
'94 and With only a Half
Million Slump in her
Tax Returns faces
the good times
The tax slump in Floyd county
amounts to <547,873.
County tax receiver, M.D. Mc-
Osker, wai seen by a Hustler re
porter this morning and gave the
above as tho exact figures in the
decrease.
Last year the entire taxable
property of Flovd amounted to
<8,328,495, This year it is 17,780,-
622.
Mr.McOsker saysP'The decrease
is not nearly so large a-> I had ex
pected some time ago, but the peo
ple have been giving in their prop
erty fairly, and have not sought
to evade taxation by taking ad
va itage of the natural shrinkage
in the value of realestate.
“The bulk of the taxes fall on
the people in the Rome district,
because nearly $6 000,000 worth of
the property is in this district.
The slump is pretty evenly di
vided over the country.”
Floyd is in as sound a "financial
condition as any county of her
wealth in the state, and the people
should feel very well satisfied with
the present condition of affairs.
With the best crop we h'ave had
for years, every enterprise in the
city on full time, and
all the channels of trade quicken
ng into busy life, Rome sits se
rene on her seven hills and scoffs
at the mention of hard times.
The County Commissioner will
meet in a few days to fix the tax
rate and it is more than probable
that it will be the same as last
year.
8. M. STARK.
I desire to call the attention of
my patrons and the public general
ly to the fact that
ON bEP’T 10th.
My large and well assorted new
stock of FALL AND WINTER
WOOLENS
Will arrive, and further that I am now
prepaired and will turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
AM)
FIRST GLASS GOODS,
Cheaper than ever before. Paste
this in YOUR HAT and remember
yc ur own i> t rests
8. M. STARK,
■!« UILOB
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