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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.