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The Georgia Record.
VOL I.
CARRABELLE STORM SWEPT
Disastrous Gulf Hurricane Almost Annihilates
A Fair Florida Town.
GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED IN OTHER SECTIONS
Crops and Turpentine Interests Reported as Ruined.
Train Blown From Track.
According to special dispatches the
town of Carrabelle, Fla., a prosperous
port on the Gulf of Mexico, southwest
of Tallahassee, woe almost completely
destroyed by a terrific wind and rain
storm which passed through that sec
tion during Tuesday and Tuesday
night. Many boats which were in the
harbor were wrecked and most of the
Long wharf is gone, together with large
quantities of naval stores.
At Lanark, the boathouses, pavilion
and boats have beed destroyed.
Fully fifteen persons are reported
drowned at St. Marks. A few houses
■were destroyed at St. Teresa. The
Mclntyre, Ashmore and Curtis mills
suffered severely. A passenger train
on the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and
Gulf railroad, thirty-five miles below
Tallahassee, was badly wrecked, but
no one reported killed or injured.
The turpentine interest in this section
>is greatly damaged and much injury
•has been done to the crops.
The regular midday southbound
vEa.u-'fium-TrrallahaSSee io Carabetfe
was caught in a storm at Mclntyre
and blown from the track. The stout
new trestle over the Ocklocknee river
at Mclntyre was blown away.
A wrecking train left Tallahassee at
daylight Wednesday and found over 200
trees across the tracks in a thirty-mile
run. - General Manager Chittenden
had charge of the train. He returned
in the evening, stating that all the
towns along the line present scenes of
desolation. Houses,sawmills,churches,
hotels, wharves and pavilions have
been blown from their positions and
many entirely wrecked.
Crops Totally Destroyed.
Over half the trees in the pine for-
MORMON OFFERS REWARD
;For Apprehension of Whitecappers
In Jasper County-Will See
Governor Candler.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch
-says: President Ben E. Rich, of the
southern states missions of the Church
•of Christ, Latter Day Saints, will go
to Atlanta, Ga., at an early date to call
on Governor Allen D. Candler and de
mand of him protection for Mormon
•elders who are preaching in that state.
President Rich decided on this course
.after consulting his co-workers. Mr.
Rieh is highly indignant at the manner
in which elders have been treated in
Georgia, and he is going to leave noth
ing undone to secure for them the
protection that is due every citizen.
Mr. Rich will present letters to Gov
ernor Candler from the governors of
Idaho and Utah testifying to President
Rich’s character and high standing.
President Rich has offered a reward
of SSOO for the apprehension and ar
rest of any member or members of the
Georgia mob that assaulted the Mor
mon elders. In an interview w’ith
President Rich he said:
“I propose myself to bring this mat
ter to the attention of the governor of
Georgia and ask from him the same
protection for our elders that a citizen
of Georgia would want in the far
western states. We are living here
under the constitution of the United
States, which guarantees religious
liberty to all her citizens. All we want
are the liberties and rights guaranteed
us by our country,”
—
Tobacco Trust In Chicago.
Representatives of the American
Tobacco company have purchased the
plant and business of August Beck &
Co., at Chicago, for $300,000. Only
a few weeks ago the American Tobacco
company purchased the plant of I
Cradle Strotz.
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 5. 1899.
ests are uprooted and large turpentine
interests ruined. Crops in the tracks
of the storm are completely destroyed.
One mill hand is known to have
been drowned at Mclntyre.
The several summer resorts are
almost positively known to have es
caped loss of life, but reliable news
from other places was unobtainable at
time of going to press. Large relief
parties went from Tallahassee to the
stricken section.
For sometime after the storm noth
ing could be heard of the steamer
Cresent City, plying between Cara
belle and Appalachicola, with a crew
of eight and several passengers.
The wires were blown down south
of Tallahassee and railroad service to
the gulf ports is suspended.
Storm Traveled Northward.
The storm was one of the hardest
that ever passed over that section of
Florida. It came directly up the gulf
and started northward. For hours the
i wind was terrific, blowing at a high
rate and the rain fell in torrents, wash-
I ing away bridges, endangering thor-
I onghfares and railtoads. The storm
reached the coast Tuesday morning
and there was no cessation until far
into the night.
Along the coast the fishing industry
has been severely interferred with.
Parties who returned ou the wreck
' ing train which went to Carrabelle
Wednesday morning report that the
I country along the route shows the
| effects of the storm. The train was
compelled to run with great caution,
owing to the condition in which the
storm had placed the roadbed. The
water had been over the tracks in
many places. Passengers on the train
which was wrecked say the train was
blown from the track.
ASSAULTER IS JAILED.
Exciting Race For Life But Would-Be
Lynchers Were Foiled.
John Mullins, a negro, thirty years
old, attempted an assault on the wife
of Mr. James Cook, two miles south
of Senoia, Ga., Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Cook was alone and was stand
ing at the window of her bed room,
eating watermelon, when, unawares,
she was seized from the rear by this
brute, who placed his hand over her
mouth, threw her to the floor, cursed
her and told her if she screamed he
would cut her throat.
The sound of a buggy crossing the
bridge near by is all that kept the ne
gro from accomplishing his dastardly
purpose.
The negro fled and Mrs. Cook gave
the alarm at once, and pursuers were
soon hot on his trail.
Mullins was captured within a short
time and placed in the guard house in
Seuoia. A short time afterward it
was decided to take the negro to New
nan for safe-keeping and he was start
ed through the country in charge of
officers.
A mob of forty armed men quickly
organized and started in hot pursuit,
but the sheriff eluded them and land
ed his prisoner safe in the Newnan
jail.
JAILED FOR WIFE MURDER.
Albany Gunsmith Is Charged With Most
Heinous Crinw.
W. J. Glazier, a native of Germany,
who has resided in Albany, Ga., for
eight years, is confined in Dougherty
county jail on a charge of wife mur
der.
Glazier, according to the story told
by his neighbors, several
severe beatings to his wife, who was a
small woman of weak constitution.
Wednesday morning it was discovered
that she was dead.
Glazier was arrested, charged with
having murdered her, but professed
his innocence.
INDIANS ON WARPATH
Band of Yaquia Reported To Hava
Massacred Many People.
AMERICANS AND MEXICANS KILLED
1 .
A Bloody Encounter ’Said To Have Taken
Place Forty Mile* From the Town
of Ortiz, In Mexico.
A special from Ortiz, Mexico, says:
Any doubt that th i Yaquis are on the
warpath in earnest was dispelled Tues
day when news was received that a
number of Americans and Mexicans
had been killed in Pueblos or towns
in the Yaqui river valley, east and
southeast of Ortiz.
The courier who brought the news
of the slaughter declares that he saw
a desperate fight at a point forty miles
southeast of Ortiz and that he has
positive evidence that J. F. Remley, a
merchant of Hermosillo, and A. Miller,
a photographer, in his employ, were
among the killed. 'Remley was one of
the best known Americans in Sonora.
The inhabitantsfof the towns in and
near the Yaqui val'ey are in a state of
terror.
General Torres, commander of the
First military zone, which includes
Sonory, Sinola ami lower California,
who was in the field with the Twelfth
regiment, is reported among the slain.
No information is obtained as yet of
the number of ti e fighting Indians
under arms, but if the outbreak is of
the proportions of the war ended 1897,
the number may bi placed at between
3,000 and 4,000. ,
The outbreak irf a surprise to the
state and tvr-.y— J". It i' impos
sible to secure figures as to the total
number killed to date, but the esti
mate at fifty on each side is not con
sidered excessive.
THE FEVER SITUATION.
Three New Patients and One Death
The Record of Tuesday
at Hampton.
“Three new case# of yellow fever in
the Soldiers’ Home at Hampton and
one death” was the official report re
ceived at Washington Tuesday, by
Surgeon General Wyman from Dr.
Charles Wasdin, the yellow fever ex
pert, on duty at the institution.
The most important development of
the day in the yellow fever situation
was the discovery of three cases in the
town of Phoebus, adjoining the Sol
diers’ home. Policeman Joueph Mar
tin is one of victims, and the most re
markable feature of his case is the
fact that he believed he had yellow
jaundice. While w-alking about the
streets Tuesday he was seen by Sur
geon White, of the marine hospital
service, stationed at Hampton, who at
once pronounced the disease yellow
fever.
Dr. White ordered Policeman Mar
tin to return to his home, which was
promptly quarantined. The other two
victims are old soldiers who were
found in a saloon. They were sent to
the hospital at the home. These are
the only cases that have been reported
at Phoebus, although many wild rumors
regarding the outbreak there have
been in circulation.
“BRICK” SHIED AT DEWEY.
Boston Alderman Protests Airninst Mak
ing Admiral a “Second Boulanger.**
The board of aidermen of Boston,
Mass., passed an order Tuesday re
questing the board of estimate and ap
portionment to appropriate a sum suf
ficient for extending the hospitality of
the city of Boston to Admiral Dewey.
Aiderman Michael Brick forcibly op
posed the measure. He said, in ex
plaining his position:
“I do not think that we should
throw ourselves into a state of adula
tion of a hero because he has won a
battle. It hardly strikes me that the
admiral is to be put in the same cate
gory with Grant, Sherman and other
great military heroes. Ido not, how
ever, wish to discredit him in the
least, but I protest against making
him a»second Boulanger in America.”
Aster a Rcpudiator.
The London Gazette announces that
William Waldorf Astor was naturalized
a British subject July 11th of the pres
ent year.
THE SCOURGE IS EPIDEMIC
Existence of Yellow Fever at Hampton Causes
Great Alarm Throughout the Country.
EXPERTS ANNOUNCE MALADY GENUINE YELLOW JACK
People Hurrying Away From Resorts In Vicinity of
Hanipton--Extra Precautions Taken.
A special of Monday from Norfolk,
Va., stated that the breaking out of
yellow fever at the Soldiers’ home at
Hampton, and the prevalence of an
epidemic even before it was known
that there was a case of yellow fever
in the United States, is causing almost
a panic in eastern Virginia, and thous
ands of people, especially the summer
guests at Old Point, Newport News,
and other immediate Atlantic resorts,
are flocking to the northern and east-I
ern cities for protection from the dis- ■
ease.
No Doubt an to Disease.
Surgeon General Sternburg at I
Washington received the following .
from Lieutenant Colonel DeWitt at
Fort Monroe regarding the outbreak
of fever:
Fobt Va, July 13—Surgeon Gen
eral, U. S. A., Washington—At 4 o’clock p.
m., yesterday Surgeon Pettus, United States
marine hospital service, quarantine officer,
officially stated that yellow fever Is at the
Soldiers’ Home; 3i cases, with 6 deaths.
Commanding officer took immediate meas
ures for quarantine.
Surgeon Pettus states surgeon general
marine hospital service was notilled yester-1
day afternoon, (Signed)
DeWitt, Surgeon. ;
Adjutant General Corbin aud Major j
Johnston, assistant adjutant general, 1
were at Fort Monroe Sunday and were
present when Surgeon Pettus made I
his report to Lieutenant Colonel De I
Witt. General Corbin says that from I
all accounts there is little doubt that I
the conditions are serious, and there is
no telling how far the infection may
have reached.
General Corbin further says that
there is not the least question about
the character of the disease, physicians
who were present at the postmortem ;
on some of the victims declaring that;
yellow fever was surely present.
According to advices received at I
the war department Monday, there j
had been a total of 40 cases, six of ’
whom died.
The Soldiers’ Home has no connec
tion with the war department. It is )
under a board of managers created by
congress, which manages all the sol- 1
diers’ homes throughout the country.
The men admitted are soldiers of
the war of the rebellion. Officers of
the war department are very much con
cerned on the part of the military post
at Fort Monroe, which is within six
miles of the home.
Hegira From the Resorts.
A Washington special says: The;
yellow fever outbreak at the soldiers’ j
home at Hampton has caused great
anxiety at the national capital, be
cause, when it became known that the
scourge was in reality existing in the
soldiers’ home, the summer guests at
the hotels at Ohl Point immediately
packed up their things and took the
boats aud trains for Washington and
Baltimore. There is fear that in this
way the disease may be carried to the
capital, and that a quarantine may be
instituted in Washington.
Monday the marine hospital service
hurried a number of surgeons to
Hampton and vicinity.
Dr. Wasdin, of the marine hospital
service, who is already at Hampton, is
detailed as the expert at the home.
PEERAGE FOR PAUNCEFOTE.
British Ambassador to the United States
Goes Up a Notch.
It was officially announced in Lon
don Monday that Sir Julian Paunce
fote, British ambassador to the United
States, who was head of the British
delegation to the international peace
conference at The Hague, has been
elevated to the peerage.
NO. 6.
Surgeon General Wyman has not yet
decided whether he will go to Hamp
ton, but will do so if there is any need
of his services. Arrangements are al
ready made to throw quarantine lines
around any place where the disease
shows itself outside of the home.
Hospital Given Up to Patient*.
Secretary Alger directed the Josiah
Simpson hospital at Ft. Monroe to be
turned over to the marine hospital
service if it is wanted by Surgeon
General Wyman. This hospital con
tains 1,000 beds, and was fitted np for
the troops stationed at Newport News
last summer. Only a small portion of
it has ever been used.
The secretary told General Wyman
to call on the war department for any
i thing that it had or was wanted, and
i it would be furnished at once without
regard to regulations or rules. The
secretary said that Surgeon General
W’yman should be assisted in every
way in dealing with the epidemic. The
following order was issued by the war
department Monday:
"The presence of yellow fever having
been officially reported at the soldiers'
i home at Hampton, Va., the secretary of war
’ directs that you give orders for the imme
diate movement of the garrison at Ft. Mon
; roe to some place of safety somewhere on
the northern coast to be selected by you.
! Two commissioned officers and not less than
twenty men will be left In charge of the
I post. If there are immunes in the com
mand they will be given preference. Ae
| knowledge receipt and report action taken.
"H. C. Cobbim, Adjutant General.”
The Possible Cause.
I Dr. Wasdin’s official report of his
examination of existing conditions at
the Soldiers’ home reached Dr.
Wyman Monday. It is dated Sunday
and notes the fact that the doctor has
seen all cases of suspected diseases at
the home. He sums up the history of
the contagion as follows:
“Early in July an old soldier enter
| ed the home for a short rest and soon
I afterwards appeared at the dispensary,
where he informed the physician in
I charge that he was but recently from
I Santiago, via a transport to a northern
port; thence he started for Manila via
San Francisco, to beat his way to the
home on a freight train, and entered
I with his baggage. He complained of
dumb chills and fever and was pre
scribed for. He mingled freely with
the inmates of the home and a short
time ago disappeared. From this as
a possible cause, the outbreak is as
follows:
“Preceding Friday,the 21st of July,
there had been no’ticed nothing of a
suspicious nature. The weekly death
! rate was as usual. But on the 21st
and 22d there became ill during the
night, with sharp pains, more or less
chill, high fever, some eight or ten in
mates, men of usually good health.
These seizures, although noted as pe
culiar, had occasioned no alarm until
about Thursday, the 27th, when a
death occurred, the man becoming
distinctly yellow some time prior to
death.
“On or about the same day another
one died, without having attracted par
ticular attention; he also turned quite
yellow. Autopsies were held on both
by the resident pathologist. Then
a telegram was sent you asking for an
expert. I found there were 3,500 in
mates and thirty-five had been taken
ill since the 21st.”
ALGER POSTED OTIS.
n
RctirlNg War Secretary Notified General
That He Is Being; Criticized.
A Washington dispatch says: About
ten days ago Secretary Alger cabled
General Otis, saying that there was
some criticism of him in the American
press, but assuring him that the ad
ministration was thoroughly satisfied
with his conduct of the Philippines
campaign.