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Robert J Lyons leader ol the miners
during the strike of 1891 convictecLof in
citing the Strong Mine shaft houseriot at
Yictoria Colo was welcomed back to
that camp by 2500 people with a brass
band on his return from the penitentiary
a pardon having been granted him
MajTor Doyle made a speech of welcome
The miners to show their good will set
fire to the celebrated Fort Dean on Bull
Hill and it was entirely destroyed
KATE FIELD IS -DEAD
Noted Woman Journalist Dies of
Pneumonia in Honolulu
H H Kohisaat the proprietor of the
Chicago Times Herald received a cable
message dated at Yokohama and signed
by Lorin A Thurston ex minister to the
United States from the Sandwich Islands
which said -Kate Field 4ied at Honolulu
May 19 of pneumonia
No further particulars than those con
tained in the dispatch of Mr Thurston
are known
Worlds Fair Medals
It has been found there are some names
on the worlds fair medals incorrectly
spelled These errors however are not
chargeable to the Treasury Department
as the spelling in every instance corre
sponds with that in the list furnished
by the fair bureau of awards In order
to avoid any dissatisfaction on the part
of exhibitors the department announces
that it will make needed corrections free
f charge if the original medals are re
turned
The Milwaukee Strike
Samuel Gompers held two conferences
with the street car managers at Milwau
kee but was unable to unravel the strike
problem The men made a proposition
that the company make three shifts in its
forces so as to employ the old hands as
well as the new at the old rate of wages
but the company will not grant the re
quest
Seven Children at a Birth
Thosee weeks ago at Fishers Corners
nearCfcttawa Lake Mich Mrs Charles
Comstock gave birth to seven children
lAH are ino v living but one and the mother
and sir -children are doing well The
place is fairly beseiged with sight seers
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Zeiler tj Winner
By consistent hard fighiting and forc
ing the issue throughout Owen C Zeigler
of Philadelphia bested DYU Hawkins in
an eight round contest at iPan Francisco
and got the decision of the referee and
jmrse
REVIEW OF TRADE
The Business World as Seen for the
Past Week
R G Dun Cos Weekly Review oi
Trade says Continued exports o gold
amounting to 3900000 this week are rec
ognized as natural results of the borrow
ing and importing early in the year but
caused no serious apprehension
Markets for products are weak rather
than stagnant The business done is
small but largely governed by the belief
in large crops and insufficient demand
Wheat has fallen 3 cents Atlantic ex
ports of wheat flour included are 1544
H bushels for the week against 1483745
last year it remains that for May these
ports have been only 4742777 bushels
included against b183420 last year
western receipts for the week near-
fir cent larger and for four weeks
bushels against 5944572 last
imates vary widely but nobody
rop so short as to exhaust the
lit Cotton has fallen cent
nued reports that famine
Elusive of a few specula
based on extreme low
than 40 per cent of a
Isumption and for May
1900 pounds against 20-
Prices are weaker
that rebuilding at St Louis
and steel markets
unor metais are a snaue
the week have been 239 in
Itates against 215 last year
Iiada against 34 last year
Id a whole family
s air commissioner ana
Ive Others Murdered
P McGlincy his wife and
Mrs James Dunham James
son of Mrs McGlincy a hired
Minnie Scheslerand a hired man
Jriscoe were killed at Campbell
James Dunham the son-in-law
rri f
J11C umiLupiG
eaped About midnight a neigh-
id Page heard reports of shots in
tion of McGlincys home fol
Lthe sound of galloping hoofs on
lv roads Page hurried to the
CcGlincy and was horrified to
body of McGlincy lying in an
a pool of blood Entering the
ind the bodies of James ells
leen shot Mrs McGlincy and
rter who had been slabbed and
man and woman who had been
n to dentli with a hatchet Hie
yhere the bodies lay were
tfii Jikiodt yjvith everv evidence
made a desperate resistence
Ives The onlyweing in me
escaped alive wasaTireth old
irs UvtUham ana thenegeu
FamiJy troubles areaid to
fsed the mirder The lastfseen of
he was rfding rapidlyf towards
Ise Col McliUncy was one oi me
rnia commissioners to the Worlds
it Chicago
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Heated Campaijrimn Chli
spatches from Yalpaiiso Chili say
ieople are growing excJted over ie
ions and the strugglefbotween Keyes
Errazuires promises tor be tlie most
jy contested since the dars when
a Makenna opposed Anibal Pinto and
ie latter was elected
Errazuirez and his party were badly re
ceived in Concepcion where the people
hissed and threw stones at him In San
tiago the clubhouse was attacked and all
the furniture wrecked The police finally
drove away the rioters
Compressed Air as Power
The Metropolitan Traction Company of
Kew York will soon place in service on
its Lexington Avenue line twelve cars
which will be operated with compressed
air as the motive power If the experi
ment proves a success it is possible that
this method will be employed on the en
tire system The dozen cars which are
now being equipped will be given the
first run June 15
Wisconsin People Escape
A strip of country a quarter of a mile
wide and several miles long in the towns
of Center and Freedom Outagamie
County Wis were devastated by a
nado the other evening One dwelling
was wrecked timber and crops leveled
cattle killed but no persons hurt
Trying to Save Her Husband
Mrs Percival Coffin of Wabash Ind
wife of the bank wrecker who was sen
tenced to eight years imprisonment in the
penitentiary for his part in the fall of the
Indianapolis National Bank is making
an energetic effort to secure a pardon for
her husband
Pastor Kills a Deacon
Rev Kennedy Martin pastor of the Af
rican Baptist Church of Pittsburg Kan
shot and killed Decaon Wright a pillar
of his church He shot four bullets into
the deacon Alleged intimacy with Mar
tins wife led to the killing Martin is in
jail
Will Forsake Cleveland
It is now regarded as certain that the
Standard Oil Works in Cleveland Ohio
at one time an immense institution will
be practically abandoned and its place
in the companys system be taken by
works at Lima Ohio and Whiting Ind
Indiana Man Suicides
The dead body of William Myers of
Huntingtou Ind was found near Day
ton Ohio It is said he fraudulently pur
chased some stock at a sale and it is sup
posed the fear of prosecution caused him
to take his life
Tug Reported Lost
It was reported at Windsor Ont that
the tug Lorimer of Detroit owned by
Alexander Ruelle has gone down on the
middle ground off Pelee islands and all
hands lost
Guilty of Smuggling Diamonds
Herman Kreck a member of the firm or
Kreck Cotterman Co diamond im
porters of Cincinnati was found guilty of
attempting to smuggle diamonds at Phil
delphia
Ship a Million Gold
The Yon Hoffman Company of New
York shipped on tlieSOtu 1000000 in gold
by order of the director of the mint
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E KILLS Fl HUNDRED
Missoulas Largest City and Its Illinois Coir
Vsort Meet Terrible Calamity
ST MS 1 11
Huge Buildings in the Ctvs
Heart Destroyed
DEATH ON THE BIVEfi
Excursion Steamers Are Biown
Bottom Side Up
Human Beings Swept to Instant Doom
Steamers Are Sunk Buildings Blown
Down and Railroad Trains Over
turnedLoss of Life Rivals That of
the Johnstown Disaster Principal
Buildings in East St Louis Destroyed
Fire Adds Its Horrors Millions of
Dollars Property Damage
The city of St Louis torn and devas
tated by a cyclone floodedl by torrents
of rain and in many places attacked by
fires was Wednesday night the scene of
such a carnival of death and destruction
as has seldom been equaled in America
Owing to the frightful havoc of the storm
cutting off almost every line of communi
cation with the stricken city but little
information could be had and that of a
nature It is estimated that
very vague
lives lost while the
as many as 500 were
damns- to property is inestimable Scarce
ly a building in the city but has been in
some way or another damaged by the
tornado
Ruin and desolation are upon St Louis
For the first time in the history of a me-
THE GREAT CUPPIES BLOCK
tropolis the terrors of a cyclone have come
upon its avenues and boulevards ravaged
the business streets and brought death to
hundreds St Louis with its 7Q0000
people passed through in one brief half
hour Wednesday night an experience
paralleled only by the horrors of the
Johnstown flood Cyclone Hood and fire
This triple alliance wrought the dreadful
havoc
The grand stand at the race track
was blown down killing 150 The east
end of the great Eads bridge was de
stroyed and it is reported that an Alton
train went into the river Steamers on
the river were sunk with all on board A
station of the Vandalia in East St Louis
was destroyed and it is reported thirty
five lives were lost The roof of the Re
publican convention hallat St Louis was
taken off The two top stories of the
Planters Hotel are gone The Western
Union and many other buildings are
wrecked The city was left in darkness
Fires broke out and threatened to destroy
what the wind spared but rain finally
checked the flames At Drake 111 a
school house is said to have been demol
ished and eighty pupils killed Telegraph
wires were down and it is difficult to se
cure information Heavy damage to life
and property is reported from other local
ities
After the wind and rain had done their
work fire added much to the storms loss
account Down wires wild currents of
electricity crushed buildings all contrib
uted to this element of destruction The
alarm system was paralyzed Approaches
were blocked a 200000 conflagration on
the St Louis side was supplemented by a
dozen lesser fires In East St Louis a
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POSTOFFICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE
mill was burned and two other consid
erable losses were sustained To the
enormous total the fires added at least
500000
Trail of Ruin Through the City
From where the storm entered St
j where it left somewhere near the Eads
nriuge mure is u iue yaiii ui mma oj
tory after factory went down and piles
of bricks and timber mark the spots on
which they stood Dwellings were picked
up and thrown in every direction Busi
ness houses were flattened There was
no chance for the escape of the occupants
The ruins covered bruised and mangled
bodies that will not be recovered until a
systematic search is made Thousands of
families in South St Louis are homeless
practically and the temporary hospitals
shelter scores and hundreds
At the time the storm broke the streets
were thronged with crowds of people re
turning from their work Among these
the sudden fall of almost inky darkness
penetrated almost momentarily by flashes
of vivid lightning the ominous rattle and
rumble of the thunder the torrents of
stinging rain and the raging and howling
of the mad tornado created a panic that
made the streets of the city resemble the
corridors of a madhouse Chimneys
cornices sighs everything that came in
the winds way were swept away and
dashed among the frenzied people Pe
destrians were themselves caught by the
wind and buffeted against the walls of
buildings or thrown from their feet like
mere playthings Overhead electric wires
were torn from their fastenings and their
and women horses all kind of fowl in
the open were picked up and carried
hundreds of feet in every direction
So irresistible was the cyclone and so
much greater in magnitude than any the
country has ever previously known of
that some of the stanchest business blocks
went down before it Structures the pride
of merchants and architecturally famous
from New York to San Francisco were
like tinder boxes when the wind was at
its height The massive stone fronts
caved in
Iron beams were torn from their fas
tenings and carried blocks away as if
they had been feathers Roofs braced
and held to their positions by every de
vice known to the best builders of any
day were torn off as if held only by
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YIEW OF ST LOUIS OVERLOOKING THE DEYASTATED DISTRICT
deadly coils with their hissing blue
flames joined in the destruction of life
and property People were killed by the
score and the city hospital which fortu
nately escaped serious damage by the
storm was soon crowded to the doors
with wounded and dying Long before
the tornado had spent itself many of the
downtown streets of the city were impas
sable with the wreckage of shattered
buildings and the strands of broken elec
tric wire which were sputtering and blaz
ing everywhere and had it not been for
the floods of rain the tornado might have
been but the prelude to the destruction of J
the entire city by fire
On the river the destruction was even
more complete than on land Only one
steamer out of all the fleet that crowded
the levee remained above the surface of
rhe Mississippi The otherjs fell easy
prey to the fury of the tempest and quick
ly sank in many cases carrying down
with them all on board- The Great Re
public one of the largest steamers on the
river was sunk along with others
Death List Is Appalling
Ten millions of damage to property and
five hundred persons killed and a thou
sand injured is what has been accom
plished East St Louis is as badly dam
aged as St Louis Half a dozen small
towns close to St Louis in Missouri and
at least two villages in southwestern Illi
nois are gone There has been loss of life
in each of these communities What
seemed to be three distinct and separate
cyclones struck the city at 15 minutes
past 5 oclock in the afternoon They
came from the northwest the west and
the southwest
When they reached the Mississippi river
they had become one which descended
upon East St Louis and from thence
passed on toward Alton The day was
an oppressive one in the city There was
no wind and the people suffered from the
heat About 4 oclock in the afternoon
the entire western horizon was banked
with clouds These were piled one upon
the other with curling edges yellow in
tinge A light wind sprang up and a sud
den darkness came upon the city This
are famous between New Orleans and St
Louis were carried everywhere Still
others after being torn from their moor
ings disappeared and have not been
heard from As a rule the smaller craft
was sunk This was particularly the case
with the smaller excursion steamers
most of which had a great many women
on board Houses were blown into the
river and at one time during the worst of
the blow a section of the river was scoop
ed out and the muddy bottom shown
The water was carried blocks away as
though it were a solid Not while within
the city limits did the funnels rise and
fall from the ground as Is usually the
STEAMER REPUBLIC SUNK BY THE CYCLONE
darkness increased until the storm broke
The descent of the storm was so sudden
the fleeing women and children were
caught in the streets and hurled to de
struction or buried under falling walls
Before the mass of clouds in the west
hanging over the villages of Clayton
Fern Ridge Eden and Central gave vent
to their frightful contents funnels shot
out from them Some of these seemed to
be projected into the air others leaped
to the earth twisting and turning Light
ning played about them and there was a
marvelous electrical display Then came
the outburst Three of the funnels ap
proached St Louis with a wind that was
traveling at the rate of eighty miles an
hour
From them and the clouds above a
strange crackling sound came This filled
the air and at times was stronger than
the incessant peals of thunder The
funnels enveloped the western side of the
city and in thirty minutes were wreak-
Louis out in the southwestern suburbs to J ing destruction in the business heart Men
pots were piled on top of each other
Long lines of box cars loaded with valua
ble freight were turned upside down The
telegraph offices were destroyed and miles
of wire blown down
There was a short time after the storm
when St Louis could not communicate
with the outside world Nor could her
own citizens communicate with each oth
er by any electrical means Such a con
fusion and ruin in a large city was never
witnessed since the Chicago fire
Breaking at the hour it did and the
night following the work of rescue and
relief was very slow The firemen and
police were immediately made aids to the
surgeons and
physicians of the city
RECALLS THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
Story of the Disaster that Visited
the Pennsylvania Towns
The catastrophe which has befallen St
Louis was within a few days of the sev
enth anniversary of the awful calamity
visited upon Johnstown Pa and adjoin-
ing towns May 31 1889 in which many
lives were lost and millions of dollars
worth of property destroyed by the floods
that raged along the Conemaugh river
bursting a reservoir covering a square
mile located just above Johnstown For
weeks heavy rains had fallen in the moun
tains and the resultant freshet wrought
ruin and death that appalled the country
While towns were washed away bridges
destroyed and industries forced to sus
pend Hundreds of people clung to their
floating homes which were swept onward
upon a volume of water unprecedented in
modern history Many people were res
cued from their perilous positions in the
upper stories of their homes
The Cambria iron works were destroyed
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THE GREAT EADS BRIDGE OYER THE MISSISSIPPI RIYER
threads Telegraph poles fell in long
rows not coming down one by one but
in groups of a dozen or more at a time
A railroad train on the Eads bridge one
of the express trains of the Alton known
as No 21 was blown over and the pas
sengers piled up in a heap of injured
The east end of the Eads bridge one
of the most solid and finest bridges in
the world was destroyed The other great
bridges spanning the Mississippi were all
injured some as seriously as the Eads
Scores of persons were drowned or after
being killed on the land blown into the
water Steamers like the Grand Repub
lic the City of Monroe packets which
and 2000 men were thrown out of em
ployment Five large bridges were swept
away Cars and lumber floated upon the
mad torrent All trains on the Pennsyl
vania and Baltimore and Ohio railways
were abandoned Men women and chil
dren were panic stricken The fatality
list exceeded 1200 The water reached
a depth of fifty feet and it required
prompt persistent and heroic action td
rescue the inmates of a valley in which
death rode through upon a wave of merciv
less water
The rain descended in torrents for seventy-two
hours Hundreds of dead bodies
floated upon the bosom of the river for a
distance of fifteen miles from the scend
of the disaster Wires were down and
all telegraphic communication temporar
ily cut off Collieries in the vicinity were
forced to suspend The damage extended
to the properties of the Lehigh Yalley
and Reading railways
FOUR UNDER ARREST
Quartet of Chicago Touchs Charge
with T J Marshalls Murder
The coroners jury has charged Frank
Carpenter Charles Gurney Clarence
White and John Lang with the o
Thomas J Marshall
one of the most pros
perous young mer
chants of Chicago
and the quartet has
been held for trial
The murder was
one of the most sen
sational which have
occurred in the west
ern metropolis in
years One evening
just before it was
time to close
Vf Jgjyp
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MARSnAIL
the general merchandise
store known as the Golden Rule located
on West Madison street owned and con
ducted by Mr Marshall three men enter
ed the store by different doors and ap
proached the cashiers desk where sat
Miss Mattie Garretson One of the men
ordered her to deliver over the cash em
phasizing his demand by pointing two re
volvers at her She refused to comply
lady clerks standing about waiting for
the time to go home They saw what was
going on at the desk and began to scream
This attracted the attention of Mr Mar
shall who was in another part of the store
talking with his general manager Just
as he was about to start toward the desk
one of the other men approached him
and leveled two revolvers at nis head
Frightened by the screams of the girls
the burglar at the desk started to fck
out of the store guarding his retreatwith
his revolvers Marshall advanced toward
the man who was coming his way and he
oo started out of the store keeping Mar
mall covered all the time Seeing that
he latter was bent upon his capture the
man fired both revolvers just as he reach t
ed the door One ball struck Marshall
in the temple and the other in the heart
and he fell back dead
Half a hundred suspects were rounded
up by the police and out of the lot the
four named above were identified by the
clerks as those who participated in the
tragedy
NEW PROFESSOR AT ANN ARBOR
Six Hundred AVomen to Benefit by Dr
M Moshers Experience
Dr Eliza M Mosher of Brooklyn who
comes to Ann Arbor as associate dean of
the department of literature and arts and
professor of hygiene
is now on her way
to Europe to study
the colleges for wom
en in connection
with Oxford and
Cambridge The
dean of the depart
ment for many years
was Martin L
DOoge but the
place Dr Mosher is eliza 3r 3IOSHEk
to fill is a new one Her duties will bring
her into almost personal relations with
the 600 yotlng women in the university
and to each of them she will be guide
philosopher and friend Dr Mosher wills
be the first woman professor in the uni
versity and her post will be one of great
distinction and responsibility She leaves
a very lucrative practice in Brooklyn to
accept the offer of the University of Mich
igan
Henry Stefke aged 40 years was found
dead in Bloomington Ind the presump
tion being that he met death in a run-
jjaway
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with his demand and closed the cash
drawer throwing off the combination The-would-be
robber aimed a blow at her head
with one of his guns which she barely u
managed to dodge There were several
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CLUBHOUSE GRAND STAND AND RACE TRACK ST LOUIS FAIR GROUND1
case in cyclones in small places There
was no rebounding Consequently what
ever was in the path of the wind was
either destroyed or badly injured
And this destruction was done in thirty
minutes
The bells of the city were pealing G
oclock when the worst of the storm had
passed
East St Louis Ruined
East St Louis tremendous shipping in
terests have received a heartrending
blow The railroad tracks were literally
torn up from the right of way and scat
tered Huge warehouses and freight de-
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