THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt MONDAY, JTJXE 24, 1901.
the tracks and many of them wcro carried
dcAvn the streams.
A rouith esllniato places the number of
bridges wailifil awuy between Bluchuld and
Vivian Vurd, , distance of twenty-eight
miles, at truth fifteen to twenty and from
present Indications It will bo Impossible
to get trains through to Vlvlnn and points
wont of there under a week or ten days.
This wilt render It Impossible to get relief
Into thu stricken district nnd for those who
escaped with their lives, homeless nti'l
without food, ludescrlbable suffering l
Inevitable.
On the Clinch Valley branch of the Nor- ,
folk & Western railway between this city
nnd Norton communication Is entlroly sev
ered west of Tazewell, Va. Koports como
from that point of great loss of life and
property throughout that entire section. In
Shakerag, a negro settlement on tho out
skirts of Taiewoll, the water staudM to the
depth, of six or eight feet In the street nnd
houses, all of tho occupants having been
icmoved to points of safety by means of a
boat.,
Three mlleo west of Tniewcll on the Hlg
glnbotham farm thb home of Paris Van
dyke, a farm hand, was swept away, carry
ing with It Mrs. Vandyke and four children,
of Whom two, John, 17, and Charles, 6, were
drowned. Mrs. Vandyke with tho two re
maining children. Edgar and Laura, were
found at S o'clock this morning In a dying
condition one mtlo from where the home
stood by Mr. Vandyke, who was absent
from, home at tho time of the cloudburst.
While the rescuing party was searching
for the Vandyke family It found the
body of ft white women, well clad, float
lag down Hum creek. No one thus fat
has been ablo to Identify her and It Is sup
posed the body had WHShcd down from some
distance.
A report comes from Wltten's mill, a
small station between Bluefleld and Taze
well, that three children, Christian names
unknown, belonging to Ilellgh Brush, wcro
drowned early this morning. There Is no
telegraph station at Wltten's mill and it
Is Impossible to ascortnln particulars.
llumlrciW WurkhiK to Itcpulr.
The railroad and telegraph companies aro
working between 1,000 and 1,500 men day
and .night. Officials are on tho ground
pushing the work of constructing telegraph
lines and are building the road and hope
to be able to communicate with both the
storm swept districts by noon Monday.
Nothing whatovcr has been heard from the
section of country between Vivian and Wil
liamson other than that tho Tug river Is
reported as being entirely over Its banks
and higher than ever known by the oldest
Inhabitants.
The town of Wolch, county scat of Mc
Dowell couuty, noccBSarlly must have suf
fered s6riously and a number of tho large
lumbor plants nl tinted along the banks of
Tug river no doubt ore entirely washed
away.
Some of the Oinil.
Details of tho great Pocahontas flood are
hard to obtain owing to the Inaccessibility
of the mining district whero tho fury and
havoc of the angry waters caused the most
appalling loss of life and proporty. At
Keystono the water began to rise at 9
o'clock Sunday morning and by 11 o'clock
the flood had spent Its fury and at least
two-thirds of tho llttlo city had been washed
away or demolished-. It Is known that six
teen residents of tho north side of tho
stream lost their lives and at least fifty of
those living on tho south, or lower, side
wero drowned.
At Burke, a suburb of. Keystone, a number
are misting and eight are reported dead.
It Is now certain that the total list of
the dead from one end of the Elkhorn val
ley to the other will reach 200. A full list
of the names of the victims cannot bo as
certained at this time. Hundreds aro miss
ing; having taken refuge In the mountains
to escape tho fury of the flood. Tho list
of the dead ao far recovered and Identified
as it has been possible to obtain at this
time are:
John Lewis and Martha Morgan, white;
Samuel Poyndcxtcr. bottle Drown, John Bal
lard, Annlo Smith, Laura McCoy, Nellie
Smith, all 'colored and all of Keystone; Ivan
Solosky, wblto, and a colored family named
Hatrston, consisting- of mother and four
Children, at Algona.
At least 300 mine mules were drowned.
Little damage Is done to tho mines proper,
as tho drift mouths were high up the
mountainsides. Several mines, however,
are reported flooded, but It Is Impossible
to ascertain the extent of the damage.
" CntnnlnK On the Monntnlna.
On the North Fork branch of tho Nor
folk & Western, which Is flvo and a half
miles long, there was no loss of life, as
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far as known, but hundreds wero rendered
homeless and tonight are camping in the
mountains, The damage to property on
this branch Is heavy. Only one of the
ten collieries located on this branch es
caped, the Ashland being located at the
head of tho stream. Tho McDowell Coal
company lost twelve residences. The
Roanoke company lost Its bolter house
and the 100-horse power boilers were
swept four miles down tho stream. Tho
Louisville company's storehouse Is a
wreck and the stock of goods a total loss.
At Rolfo a large number of miners'
houses were nwept away, as welt as the
handsome residence of the company's
physician. Twenty-five houses arc Jammed
together In one largo mass of broken
timbers and debris. At the Ollllam com
pany's colliery tho powder house and four
teen houses arc demolished.
At Indian Itldgc tho country store was
completely demolished nnd the stock tost.
The residence of Captain C. IJotsford, the
manager, Is wrecked also. Tho North Fork
track Is nearly all washed away, all tres
tles being gone except one.
In the Elkhorn valley It Is said that the
loss to the railroad and coal Interests Is
expected to reach $2,000,000. Out of the
twclvo miles of main double track only
ono mile remains and alt the bridges are
gone. Only the bridges with the heaviest
masonry nnd foundation resist tho force
of tho flood.
Cozier & Co., ono of tho largest operators,
lost a 1,000 horse power electric plant anil
many coke ovens. Loss Is said to bo $50,000.
Tho Houston company Is damaged '$20,000.
Tho Tlerney Interent, conalatlng of four col-
llorler, was largely damaged. Many miles
of their tracks leading to coke ovens and
mines nro gone. In some Instances mine
locomotive nnd cars havo been swept for
mllCH down the stream.
Fifteen hundred laborers have been
rushed to the scene to work on repairs and
It In expected that the complete communi
cation will bo established before noon to
morrow. Lnter advices from the Clinch Valley di
vision confirm tho reported drowning 6t ten
persons.
A family named Hook, living near tho
river, close to Pounding Mill station, on
tho Clinch Valley division, wero alt
drowned, six perishing.
A pathetic story la told of a Hungarian
family at Keystone. Tho father was at work
In the mines and when the alarm was given
did not reach the drift mouth until tho
town was partly Inundated. He made his
way to the cabin, whero his wife and new
born babe were lying helpless. He tried to
rescue both nnd after a fierce battle with tho
waters, logs and debris, ho reached a place,
of safety with them, only to discover that
both were dead.
MAY REACHSIX HUNDRED
Itunnoke Kstlmatea an Even Greater
J,os of I.lfe Somo Re
markable Escapes.
ROANOKE, Va., June 23. There was a
great deal of excitement and anxiety cre
ated hero today when it was reported that
an awful flood and cloudburst had swept
over the Elkhorn coat roglon in West Vir
ginia. This territory Is near the Virginia
line and Is about 125 miles west of Roanoko
and some twenty-flvo miles west of Blue
field, W. Va. The region visited by tho
flood Is said to be devastated and the Po
cahontas coal fields reported in ruins.
More than thirty miles of the railroad
tracks of tho Norfolk & Western railroad
are gone and reports nre still coming In to
the general offices of this system in this
city reporting washouts on the various
sections of lines in the flooded districts.
Ono of the. breaks In thv track will re
quire at least 1,000 laborers and "several
days' work to repair tt, The railroad yards
at Vivian, a small town in West Virginia,
wero completely destroyed and It is re
ported that much of the town was washed
away.
North Fork Junction and a few other
smaller towns suffered greatly.
Saturday night Is pay night In the coal
fields and It Is supposed that the coal
miners had flocked Into tho towns In the
district to do tholr trading and there Is no
telling how many of them were caught In
tho flood and drowned. It is stated that
tho greatest damage so far as known is
at Keystone, W. Va., which Is only one
mllo distant from North Fork and was
thirty mites west of Btuefleld.
Like JohnstoTTii and Galveston.
From tho meager reports describing the
force or the storm at Keystone it would ap
pear that tho damage rivals that of Johns
town and Is equal to the Galveston horror
In Its Intensity so far as the percentago
of population lost and property destroyed
Is concerned.
There is no telegraphic communication
west of Btuefleld, as the telegraph tines
wero swopt away along with the railroad
tracks.' It Is said by the telegraph of
ficials that the lines aro' useless between
Kenova, 'W. Vs., and BlueOeld, a distance
of 200 miles. It may be several days be
foro the telegraph lines will be restored
sufficiently between the two points to ob-
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building In the town ot Keystone was de
molished or carried away by tbo water
save one and that was a barroom which
stands on a high hill.
Tho normal population of Keystone is
about 2,000 souls and as last night was
Saturday night there is no telling how
many miners had gone Into the town to
awell Its population. It Is estimated that
200 Jives were lost at Keystone alone.
The Hood seems to have extended over a
vast area of mountain country and so many
mountain streams being swollen served to
swell the Elkhorn rhcr until It had reached
great proportions and carried great de
struction In Its wake. Railroad tics and
tracks, small buildings of all descriptions,
trees, telegraph poles, huge boulders and
every Imaginable moving thing thnt came
within the sweep of this mighty torrent of
maddened waters went down the moun
tainous district in a seething, roaring mass
of debris. Dead bodies could be seen
floating along the valley by those who had
gained a place of safety on the high hills,
nnrknriia Precede tlie Flood.
All day Saturday the rain fell In sheets
nnd It was evident that If It did not cease
there would bo a flood and great destruc
tion as the result of It, but it was not until
after darkness had enveloped the coal re
gions that the great catnstrophe was upon
tho country and wbb making a clean sweep
of the valley for miles around.
Shortly after midnight Saturday night it
seemed as It the heavens had opened their
floodgates over the town of Vivian, W Va
Here a passenger train was caught In the
flood and tho lives ot the frightened pas
sengers were saved by the use of ropca
which were quickly thrown over from the
coke ovens which" skirt tho railroad yards
at Vlvlnn. The passengers wcro glad to
catch the ropes and willing hands dragged
them from the submerging train and over
the oven barricades to a point of safety.
Owing to the fact that tho telegraph lines
had been prostrated by the storm Norfolk
St Western officials detailed messengers by
foot to cover the territory as best they
could, they returning in a short time with
reports of the terrible destruction which
had been done In their respective territory.
One of these messengers In walking over
the devastated district camo back and re
ported having seen thirty-eight dead bodies.
There arc supposed to be many who will
never bo accounted for. The loss of life
will probably reach 500'or 600 and possibly
this number will be swelled when fuller de
tails are obtainable.
Many peoplo in this city havo relatives
In the coal regions which have been
struck by the flood, but not a word can be
heard from them, as there Is positively no
no way or communicating with them. The
telegraph offices, railroad offices and of
ficials and telephone offices are besieged
by many eager people seeking information
of their relatives nnd friends.
Extent Not Yet Known.
The Norfolk & Western railroad general
officers In this city aro reticent, but they
admit that at least 200 lives have been lost,
tho town of Keystone laid wasto and mil
lions of dollars' worth of property de
stroyed. It Is not known how far back Into
the mountains the storm extended and it
will be days nnd perhaps weeks before all
the storm-stricken country Is heard from.
The flood has not only damaged the Elk
horn valley, but it is stated that every
one of the thirty-three Flat Top coal oper
ations or planta have suffered to some ex
tent. Great damage is also reported to
have resulted In the Clinch valley section,
which extends south from Graham, Va.
No lives, however, are reported to have
been lost along this valley.
Tho next train from Bluefleld, which la
the farthest point west from, which the
trains are- running, la 'durf hero at mid
night, but the railroad officials tell the
Associated Press' correspondent at this
hour (0:30 p. m.) that this train Is now
two and a halt hours late and probably will
not reach here before after 3 o'clock a. m.
The dispatches say at this hour that they
have heard nothing further than that stated
above and that it Is not thought there haa
been any further damago by rains today.
A message reached the Associated Tress
tonight from Coaldalo, W. Va., fourteen
miles west of Bluefleld, saying that there
had been an immense toss ot property and
some lives at that point. The town of
Keystone, which Is said to have been swept
away, all anve one saloon, Is said to have
contained thirty-four barrooms.
The Western Union Telegraph operator
at Blucflold wired the Associated Press
correspondent at 9 o'clock that the loss ot
life at the lowest estimate Is 200. He says
there Is one wire now working through to
Knnls, elghteon miles wcat ot Bluefleld,
but that this wire Is monopolized by the
railroad people.
Hundreds of telegraph poles are being
shipped from Richmond and Roanoke to
the West Virginia coal fields to replace
those destroyed. The telegraph people are
exhausting every means to open up com
munication and already havo sent a number
ot gangs of linemen, builders and workmen
with carloads ot material to rebuild their
lines.
CLINCH RIVER 0N RAMPAGE
Sweep Away Mill Dam Near Tse
well, Virginia T.nndallile
Kill a Family.
TAZEWELL, Va June 23. Clinch river
baa done an Immense amount of damage
and has swept away many milt dams. It
has not beeu so high within the memory of
any person now living. It was an Immense
landslide that occurred on the farm of A. J.
Hlgglnbotham, three miles from this place,
which swept away the house ot Paris Van
dyke. So sudden was the catastrophe that
inmates had no warning at all. Two of the
children, one a young man of 17 and the
other i, were killed or drowned and their
bodies recovered a mile and a half below
where the house had stood. Another son,
7 years old, Is badly bruised and cut and
will likely die. A little girl wbs carried
halt n mile In tho mass of stones, logs and
other debris, but will recover. Tho mothor
was carried 400 yards and was only slightly
wounded.
ARE PREPARING FOR FLOOD
Great Knuavrha Valley Hnrd Hit by
Rain and People Fear
the Wont.
CHARLESTON. W. Va., June 23. The se
verest storm in years struck tho great
Kanawha valley last night. There was a
high wind and rainfall ot 3.25 Inches. The
Kanawha river was thirty feet at 8 o'clock
tonight and Is rising. Wires are down
above. They aro preparing for a flood. Tho
Kanawha & Michigan railroad tost three
bridges north ot hero and Is tied up. A
landslide on the Chesapeake & Ohio tied
up that road, leaving thrco through trains
laid up botween here and Hinton. Great
damage has been done on many trlbutariea
ot the Kanawha.
GIVE OHIO HARD WETTING
Severe Stoma Do Considerable Dam
age Aronnrt Colambaa nnd
In Other Vicinities.
COLUMBUS, 0., June S3 There were
severe atorms in several socttons of Ohio
Saturday and Saturday night and consid
erable damage was done to property. No
fatatltlea were reported, but a number of
people were Injured. A veritable tornado
swept Delaware county, destroying a num
ber of buildings. A barn on tbo f"m of
Caleb Harsh collapsed and Frank Fhllllpe
and George Heath wero caught by falling I
timbers. Phillips had two rlb3 broken and
may not survive. ueatn nau a leg broken.
A tcrrlffic storm prevailed this morn
ing In Columbus and vicinity. Tho chief
damage was from vtater, which flooded the
basements ot many business houses. The
losses amount to many thousand dollars.
Considerable damage was done by the
wind: a long stretch of telephone poles
carrying long-dlstanco wires were cut
down. Several buildings were unroofed.
A motorman on an owl car was caught by
the wind and carried out Into a vacant lot,
but escaped Injury.
At Grove City, a few miles south of Co
lumbus, several houses were blown down.
A tornado, tho path of which was thirty
yards wide and three or four miles long,
cut through Mount Sterling this morning.
Everything In the path of the storm was
leveled. The house occupied by George
Bird and family was turned upside down.
Mrs. Bird had an arm broken and Bird and
a daughter were bruised.
CINCINNATI, June 23. A severe wind
storm, accompanied by heavy rain, visited
this section of the state last night, but
beyond the crippling, of telegraph and tel
ephone service llttlo damage Is reported.
At Anderson's Kerry four persons, who
took refugo under a wall which was blown
over by tho wind, were slightly Injured.
TORNADO TOUCHES ILLINOIS
Dear Dunn Hard nt Lincoln, tlolnn
f 100,0(O Dnmnfxr to Property
In (lint Vicinity.
LINCOLN, III., June 23. Damage esti
mated at fully S100.QOO was done last night
by a tornado that awept across Logan
county, unroofing public buildings, wreck
ing residences and business houses, laying
low great tracts ot grain and demolishing
outbuildings of all sorts. It Is almost
miraculous that thoro was not great lots
of life, but so far no casualties have boon
reported.
Tho storm came from the southwest and
was in two sections, tho first coming at S
o'clock and the second and mora destruc
tive an hour later. Its path was about a
mile and a half In width and probably
twelve In length.
One end of the large brick chapel build
ing at the Illinois Asylum for Feeble
Minded Children was torn out and the for
est surrounding tire stato property was
ruined. The county poor farm west of tho
city was almost entirely wrecked. Tho
main building ot the Institution, constructed
of brick nnd stone, was demolished and the
occupants barely escaped with their lives.
Lincoln college, which was on the north
boundary of the storm's path, was partly
unroofed. Tho largo campus, covering
eleven acres, Is a mass of wrecked trees.
In this city the worst, damage was. done
to the Lincoln mattress factory. The brick
building was almost destroyed, the top
story being blown off and tho roof carried
100 yards nnd dropped on the Chicago &
Alton right-of-way. Tho roller flour mills,
on the south lino ot the storm's path, were
struck and a large hole was bored through
the hrlck building from west to east. The
residence of Mayor Miller was crushed In
by falling trees and the family sought
shelter from the storm at a neighbor's
house. Several store buildings were un
roofed nnd tho torrents of rain which ac
companied the wind flooded the stocks, caus
ing great damago.
Reports from Middletown in the south
western portion of the county show that
the Warren grain elevator was blown from
Its foundation and that a number ot stores
wero unroofed. New Holland, Burtonvlew,
Beason and Mount Pulaski were also
touched by the tornado.
At Elkhart, south of here, three boxcars,
in which were quartered, workmen on the,
Alton section were' blown, from a sidetrack,
and one of the occupants was killed. Hun
dreds ot farmers suffered heavy losses.
This city was entirely cut-oft from com
munication with the outside world from 9
o'clock last night until tonight.
MORE PITTSBURG STORM
Damage to Allcubeny Connty by
Saturday' Delnse Greater Than
Flrat Reported.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 23. Tho storm
which broke over Alleghony county on
Saturday afternoon carried with It deaths
by drowning and deaths by electric shock,
floods that caused much damage and wind
that created terror and havoc. Every part
of the county suffered. The storm broke
about 2:30 o'clock after darkness had grad
ually been settling down for half an hour.
The day until then had been a beautiful
one. Tho rain was very heavy, the wind
strong and often the lightning seemed to
be playing right overhead.
Killed:
. CHARLES BITTNER. farmer, Spring
Garden borough, drowned in Spring Garden
run.
MOSCO MARCOS, Italian laborer, drowned
In a sewer.
JAMES P. DUNN, aged 12 years, of Brad
dock, drowned In two feet of water at Ran
kin. CONRAD HART, aged 12 years, of Du
quesno, killed by a live wire on the viaduct
ot the Monongahola Traction company, near
his home.
Injured:
James Fleming, aged SI, badly shocked
by a live wire.
Andrew Cole, dairyman, shocked by light
ning. There was one fatality In addition to those
reported last night which was not generally
Tim Ormsby
"I see It's the fashion now for women to
remove their hats In church," said the desk
sergeant, as ho folded the paper and tossed
It to the emergency officer.
"Not enough to hurt, It ain't, retorted
Tim Ormsby. "The style Is Inaugurated
all right, as the reporter says, but U'b like
the vaccination down In chlckamauqa park
it don't take. Tho queens removes their
lids when they's as't to sure they do, 'cause
it's up to 'om to do it, but they has their
Angers crossed."
"You mean tho custom will dwindle out
In a few weeks?"
"I mean they's got something up their
sleeves. They's doln' the meek an' lowly
act Just now. It tooks like they ain't goln'
to have nothln' to say, that the gents has
drawed the pole an' stand to show 'em the
way around all four quarters, but It's a
ten-to-one shot the gents swings wldo
on the last curve an' draws up lame In
tho stretch. That's the way I've got It
mapped out with myself an' tbat'a the
way I'm maktn' books. I'm bettln' that
while their lids It oft there's somethin'
doln under them coyfers." '
Tho turnkey and a tpcclal officer from
the wholesale district Joined the group and
while they were adjusting themselves Tim
prepared a fresh stogy for the match,
Then he resumed:
"It's along in the '96s, before I re
formed, that I'm gettln' my board free In
a tittle town down In Mlssoury, an' one 0'
those mlnlstcrtn' Jam ladles comes around
every day with tracts an' Jelly nnd a
llttlo quiet harpoon work about her neigh
bors. She's one o' those broad-gauge girls
with a three-deck chin that goes In for
snatchln' brands from tho burning. Well,
from her I gets wise that the town Is
about swamped under lodges an' churches.
The grocery store, th livery stable an
th' postnfflce all plays second fiddle to th'
lodges an' the' churches, and th' two
known until this afternoon. Charles Bltt
ncr, a farmer of Spring Garden borough,
was drowned In Spring Garden run nnd his
body was not found until today. His house
was close to tho run nnd noticing from the
porch that tho water was rising, he went
to the bank to savo his uagon, which was
there. His wife went to get his coat
and hat and when she returned In two
minutes her husband waa not In sight. Two
neighbors had seen the flood, like a tidal
wave, sweep Blttncr nway with the wagon
and part of the porch. The body was found
stuck fast In the running gear of the
wagon, among a pile of debris at the mouth
of a culvert a mile below, near the city
line.
From all over tho county tonight come
fuller reports of damage dono by wind and
water, but with tho exception of Blttner, no
additional fatalities are recorded.
Turtle Crprli ltct lilted.
The Turtle Creek district was again vis
ited by a heavy rainstorm today and the
conditions of yesterday were followed with
moro destruction. The town and valley
havo suffered to the extent of many thou
sand dollars. At East Pittsburg the West
lnghousc plant, which extends for nearly a
mile parallel with the hill, was submerged
today with nearly six feet of water on the
lower floor, which left three feet of mud.
Moro than 400 street car motors are ap
parently destroyed nnd the loss to West
Inghoute, It Is believed, will reach $500,000.
HARD BLOW IN MIDDLEPORT
llotiKr, flnrnx, Tree nml ToleKrntih
Wire Touted About In the
Ohio Town.
POMEROY. 0., June 23. A tornado
struck the rcsldcnco portion of Mlddlcport
early this morning. Two houses and six
barns wero blown down, about twenty
buildings unroofed and S00 trees uprooted.
All tho telephone, electric light and tole
graph wires wcro torn down and fell across
tho trolley wlro of street cars. Horses
were killed by contact with tho wires and
one man was fatally burned. Thousands of
dollars' damage was done to bridges.
REFUSE PERISHABLE FREIGHT
Norfolk A Western OITIclnlft nt t'otmti
hnn ricntlxe Probability of
I.oiik Uclny by Flood,
COLUMBUS, O., Juno 2.I. The Norfolk fc
Western railroad officials here havo no In
formation regarding the disaster in West
Virginia beyond tho fact that groat dam
ago has been dono to tho road In tho Po
cahontas district, a uumber of bridges hav
ing been washed away. Orders were Issued
to accept no perishable freight for ship
ment to points on the eastern end ot the
Hue. No attempt Is being made to run
trains east of Kenova.
INDIANA FARES JBADLY ENOUGH
Terrific Storm Strike Ccntrnl Pnrt.
hat Principal Dnmntcc I
to Wire.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 23. Central In
dlana was visited by a terrific electric
storm latt night, but beyond the havoc It
played with the telegraph and telephone
wires, little damage was dono. Telegraphic
and telephune service was practically at a
standstill during the storm last night. The
storm raa preceded by an Intensely hot day
and wat accompanied by a deluge of rain.
LANDSLIDES" ALSO BOTHER
Wast VlrKllila Train ' Encounter
Other Dlfflcnlilc Than Flood
Two Started nt McKendree.
HINTON W. Va., Juno 23. Traffic Is en
tirely suspended west ot Hinton by several
landslides. Two Chesapeake & Ohio tralna
are stalled at McKendree. The wires west
aro all down. s
ISLANDS AS TERRITORIES
(Continued from First Pago.)
Is to say, that revolution may bo looked
for with ench change of season; but the
Piatt amendment nnd Its adoption by the
islanders will prevent any such con
tingency, and it Is predicted that within
five years Cuba will be settled down to
housekeeping on her own account as stead
ily as any republic on tho continent, with
a mixed population such as she has.
Andrew to Speak at Wnnneta.
WAUNETA, Neb., 'June 23. (Special.)
Wauneta will havo a notablo celebration
on July 4. The Sunday schools of Wau
neta, Hudson, Zlon, Lincoln, Ough and
others will render songs and recitations.
Speeches will be delivered by C. W. Wlloy,
Rev. B. L. Galther. Rev. Saylcs. Chancel
tor E. Benjaman Androws of the University
ot Nebraska Will speak afternoon and even
ing. There will be a fine display of fire
works at night.
Patriotic Poncn.
PONCA, Neb., Juno 23. (Special.)
Ponca wilt celebrate, tho Fourth. C. A.
Irwin of Sioux City will be the orator. In
the morning Mnrtlnsburg nnd Ionia will
play base ball and In tho afternoon Ponca
and the stock yards team ot Sioux City will
play for a purso ot $50.
Hon. J. J. McCarthy of Ponca will deliver
the oration at Wayno July !.
heavyweights gets along together about as
peaceful as two buzzsaws. It seems they
don't Mocha and Java worth a cent.
"Mind, this Is a little backwoods town
down In MlBSoury, whero you can't expect
no fancy team work between 'cm. It's
different here. But It's easy worth the
prlco of admission to hear that old girl
play the tattoo on the characters with her
little meat axe. Sa-ay, that town's got
an anvil chorus that's a tollapalcozcrl
When it's In dress rehearsal they-can't
hear the cowbells over In tho next town
ship an' It's got GUmore's band brnt till
It sounds like tho Heavenly Twins playln'
Jewsharps. Th' wlmmen all belongs to th'
church an' tho men to tho lodges. They's
two papers In the town an' one heads Its
local column, 'Raps of the Gavel, an' th'
other, 'Splinters from tho Pulpit.'
"Well, ono morning this princess with th'
Jam goes Into session with me an' tells
all about the lodges, an' tho secrets, signs,
grips, passwords an' things. Sho says
every man that breaks Into th' lodge has
got to furnish a accret along with the Ini
tiation fee, and' usually has to go out an'
kill someone to get the secret. Then alt
the rest of 'em helps him keep his secret,
an' that's why you never hears of a lodgs
man heln' strung up for murder.
"That's the way they eels about It down
In this Mlssoury town, which Is 400 miles
nway by chair car an' 1,000 by blind bag
gage. Then, one day while I'm gettln' my
board free a lodge man dies, an' the widow
wants the plantln' pulled off accordln' to
league rules. She wants a preacher, an'
pall bearers marchln' down the aisle, an'
all that. But does she get tt? Not on
your tax certificate she don't. The preacher,
that's been blackballed In the lodge, ain't
got no opinions comtn' as to the after life
of th' deceased till th' lodge members re
tires to the ante-room an' deposits their
regalia with th' ushers. Then tb mem
DEMOCRATS BREAK THE TIE
Kantai Central Ormmttttt Befuiti Future
Populist Allitn. 0.
CONSIDERS FUSION A FAILURE THERE
Pant Two F.leetlon Klu Proof
A' Plenty of Folly of the Scheme
Ilerentter Pop Must
Come to Them.
TOPEKA, Kan., June 23. The democratic
state central committee of Kansas has re
fused an Invitation from the populists to
Join In the formation of a now fusion party
under a distinct name.
This action was taken last night at a
meeting hero of the democratic committee,
presided over by J, Mack Love, state chair
man. Twenty-three members of the com
mittee were pi caput and twenty others
wero reprcseuted by proxy.
J. G. Johnson, national committeeman,
counseled caution, "Wo do not want," he
said, "to appear arbitrary as a committee.
It must not appear that wo turned down
this proposition and denied our rank and
file a chance to have a say who shall con
stitute the party."
A tetter from W. J. nabb, chairman pro
tcm ot tho populist state central commit
tee, declining tho offer to merge Into a new
party was finally adopted and ordered sent.
After the meeting Chairman Love said:
"The committee was unanimous In de
claring that the democratic party should
tako an Independent stand. The last two
elections have satisfied us that fusion, as
It has been practiced In Kansas, is a fail
ure. We believe the democratic platform
embodies all the cardinal reform move
mcnts and feel that tho populists of the
stato who are earnest In wanting to see
reform movements succeed can reasonably
enter tho democratic tamp. The action
taken simply means that the democratic
party will go It alone In the future and
that those who take part in democratic
primaries and conventions must1 do so as
democrats. I believe that In the next state
campaign a largo percentage of tho popu
lists of Kansas will bo found fighting under
tho democratic banner."
HYMENEAL.
Two Huron Wedding.
HURON, S. D June 23. (Special.)
Homer Lapler or Huron and Miss Stella
Frazcll wero married at tho farm home cf
tho bride's parents, John Frazell and wlfo,
near Brooklyn, la., June 10. The bride was
formerly a resident of Huron.
Tho marriage of William C. Raasch ot
Wolaoy and Miss Maud Roberts of Wes
slngton wns pronounced by Rev. Edwin
Brown of Wolsey at the home ot the bride's
parents, June 19.
DablherK-Peteraon.
OSCEOLA, Neb.. June 23. (Special.)
Carl Dahlbcrg of Chicago and Ml(s Mllllo
Peterton of thlB place were married Thurs
day night at tho home of the bride's pa
rents by Rev. Will J. Scott. After a few
days' visit here the couple wilt go to Chi
cago to live.
Kndlec-Vondrneek.
WEST POINT. Neb.. June 23. (Special.)
Miss Antonla Vondracek and Ludwlg Kad
lec ot Dodge, were married In this city by
County Judge Krake Friday.
Destruction In Doniphan.
DONIPHAN, Neb., June 23. (Special.)
A' barn belonging to Richard McMullIn was
struck by lightning at this place yesterday
morning and the barn and corncrlb were
destroyed by fire. There was no Insur
ance. ZIMMER FEELS VINDICATED
Player' Anoclatlnn lie-Elect 11 1 m
President After Hot Debate
and by Cloae Margin.
NEW YORK. June 23.-After five and a
hnlf hours' discussion the Association of
Professional Base Ball Players, which met
In this city today, elected Chnrlex Zlmmer
president, thus, It la said, vindicating Ills
course In signing the agreement suspending
players In tho American league.
Aftor having been re-elected President
Zlmmer resigned and Tom Daly of tho
Brooklyn club was elected president. All
Zlmmer wanted, he snld, was to show that
his nsxoclntes approved his course.
Tho meeting was stormy from the start
and resulted In a vote deciding that the
"option" or "reserve" clause In contracts Is
not binding and will not be heeded by
players In the future This decision I fol
lowing the precedent established by the
court In the Lnjolc case. The meeting had
hardly opened before a petition came in
from Duffy, Cross, "Cy" Young, Tenney,
Lewis and others, suspended members of
tho Nntlonal league and members of tho
Amerlcnn league, asking that they be ad
mitted to the meeting. Hot discussion fol
lowed when this was put before the mem
bers, resulting finally In the American
leaguo. members being admitted, nnd the
suspension of the members raised. The
suspension,. President Zlmmer declared, had
been only temporary. Each club repre
sented at tho meeting had one vote. De
troit had no representative present.
When the question of officers came up
there was irreat rnnfimlnn. Rwrv mm
realized that It meant either sustaining or
rejecunK me ncuon or dimmer una every
club n tho National league stood by him.
Dale Gear of Washington had been nomi
nated for the office as an nnnonent nf zlm.
mer ami tho vote was exceedingly close, S
10 1. uoib uear was ciecicn secretary,
former Secretary Jennings announcing that
as ha had to attend Cornell this winter ho
could not attend to the duties of tho office
properly. Frank Donahue wan made weas
urer. The meeting adjourned, subject to
the call ot the president.
While These Queens Has Their Lids Off
in Church, He Says. They's Somethin'
Doin' Under Their Coyfers,
bers holds a little heart-to-heart talk with
th' widow and the funeral adjourns to the
lodge room.
"It's a week later that th' Jam woman
comes to mo with a package o' hard-luck
talk about th' men ordcrln' th' wlmmen
to tako off their hats In church. 'It's all
spite work,' sho says, "cause th' preacher
refuses to lx Interviewed at the plantln'
bee. 'Did you take 'em off?' I says. 'Sure,'
sho says. 'But you Just wait, Mister
Ormsby, till next Sunday; you Just wait,'
she says.
"Well, my time Is up on Saturday, an' I
bids the marshal goodbye an' Inquires thi
nearest way to th' railroad water tank. On
the way I stopa In front of what I takes
for a bird store. The window Is full of fine
wire things about as big as a churn that
looks llko canary bird cages, an' on 'em Is
a card that eays: 'Th' chapel coyfer very
latest conception for church wear, direct
from Paris.'
"Then I looks up at the sign an' sees It's
one o' them hair dressln' bazars. I ask
th' shirtwaist behind th' counter what them
things Is, an' she says they's 'rata,' to be
covered with phony hair. Very chlo an'
stylish, she says, an Improvement on tb'
pompadour Idea. Six bits for this one, an'
"Just then I hears a freight whittle an'
tells her I'll call again. I don't get to go
to church next day, but when I tees them
bird cages I knows what th' old girl means
when she says to wait till next Sunday,
You couldn't see over 'era with a steplad
dcr." "Looks as though the women down In
that Mltsourl town bad the men done up,"
said tho doik sergeant.
"Dono up In a bundle, an' labeled," said
Tim. "Had 'em strapped to th' operating
table, an' th' chloroform ready. An' that's
why I say that while these queens bss
their lids off they's something doln' under
their coyfers."
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The
Dee Building
Is the
only building
in Omaha
having
all night
and all Sunday
elevator service.
Doctors aro not the only peop'o
who find this an advantage, but,
they In particular find this an ad
vantage to themselves and their
patients. Nor Is this tho only
point In which The Bee Building
service Is better than other build
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Rental Agents. Ground Floor
AML'SBMIi.NTS.
Popular
usic
BY
Bellstedt's
Concert
Band.
Program.
MONDAY EVEMMG, 8
O'CLOCK, JUNE 24.
POPULAR CONCERT.
1. March "Omaha Auditorium"
i Bollstedt
2. Overture " Semlrnmldo "
Rossini
3. Walti "Potocka" (new)....
Van Alstyno
4. Gems from "Tho Singing
Girl" Herbert
20 MINUTES INTERMISSION
Refreshments by tho ladles of tho
Y. W. C. A.
Overture "Poet and Peasant"
Suppe
6. Solo for Cornet Selected
Mr. Chas. B. Jones.
7. Popular Rag Time Alrs....Hospe
8. March "The Man Behind
the Gun," with battery ac
companiment Soma
Grace
Cameron
Will Sing Thursday
Evening; at the Pavil
ion. Reserved Seats on Sale Ko v
cMY 212? 15 INCLUSIVE
C.H.A.O.S.
First nnJ "cut Flr of I lie Season.
All Attraction of HlfiU Order.
Concert Music a Special Feature.
Fourth of July Patriotically Oft.
served.
Paved Streets for all Concessions.
Reduced KuteH from ull Points.
SEE THR SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
m AFTERNOON and EVENING. m
Krug park
A p.m. and An. m.,
cl Bp.
dCouC
Afwrnoon und Evening,
morris:
Famous io and Pony
Clrrui.
LOB
Celebrated: Concert
Hand.
And ft hundred other fine features. Taki
Benson cars on Walnut Hill line. Fare fig.-
BOYD'S
I Woodward
Managers.
Durgsss,
T.I. m.
8. M. BEAR Presents
FERRIS STOCK COMPANY
Matinee To,,n'""CAMILLE
'ron,1 FALSELY ACCUSED
Commencing Thursday nlght,"Eust Lynne."
Prlceb-IOc. ISc. iOc and 2c,
BASE BALL
Vinton Htreet Park.
COLORADO SPRINGS vs. OMAHA
JL",B -, -.1, 84.
, Games Called at 3;iS p. tx)