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ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1902. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. OVER ACRES OF CORN xcnnioniiU Lost Upon DevMtatiig Scene Along Mississippi. RIVER TEN MILES WIDE NEAR QUINCY Bush of Water jOontinoel and Mighty ' Stream Keep Hieing. LEVEES CRUMBLE BEFORE THE CURRENT farmers Flea to High Ground and View Deitruotion of Property. ESTIMATED DAMAGE SIX MILLION DOLLARS even Hundred Square Miles I'ndcr Wrttr and Rise Coutlnwee the Worst U Yet to Come. KEOKUK, la.. July 20. Exploration of the Hooded districts of the Mississippi river from Keokuk aouth shows conditions be yond the appreciation of any but people of long experience with the Father of Waters In tta most destructive mood. The situation Is growing worse and a great conflagration In a great city would not be more rapidly destructive of values than the antithesis of a hundred wiles below Keokuk. There Is not the slightest chance of stopping this dozen times most costly flood in the great river above St. Louts. The correspondent of the Asso rted Press went all over the worst dam aged area today In the steamer Silver Cres cent and found everywhere the greatest rrop ever known unden water deep enough to float a atearaboat. People at the river cities give an im mense amount of Information, all to be generalized In millions of dollars loss, hun dreds of farmers, prosperous ten days ago are penniless and homeless, hundreds watching and praying that the great levees may hold, which are their bulwark against millions of loss, and many caaes of penury. The extent of territory covered arid gen erallzattone of the statements of thousands of people Indicate that the loss up to today Is six millions of dollars, with every pros pect of two or three millions additional by ths rise above not yet reaching th lower atretches of the river. Most of this loss Is on the Missouri side of the river between Keokuk and Hannlbsl. Passing the water-lapped lumber yarda Of Keokuk the mouth of the Des Molncs river la aeon to be nearly two miles wide. Normally there are two mouths and an Is land delta, covered with farms, which are 'tinder raging torrents. Alexandria was protected to the last by the Egyptian levee, the breaking of which would send four feet of water all over the town. Gregory Is submerged except the White church, in which services were held today, the pray ing congregation from the country reaching the house of Ood by the railroad track, which Is still above the flood In a waste Of watera mllea wldo. Other towns and .ma nn tti islands see havond the danger line. Immense fields are asen In a great lake with thi-shora llns barely itlslbl with, a glass, where the high bluffs bound the bottoms. , " Island At Cone. Islands dotting the river at lta normal Btage have 'disappeared except for the tops of trees or fringe of high shore willows protruding like a circular coral reef. Oc casionally a house on piles is seen, but generally only roofs protrude to mark .the center of farms of corn. On the edge' of the flood corn gradually rises on a elope, tassels, ears, stalka appearing In order. In a tew of the half-submerged fields Is shocked wheat in the background, the rem nant a of many more washed to the Gulf Of Mexico. In the middle of the present river the tracks of the St. Louis, Keokuk A North ern railroad, normally the Missouri shore, are only a few Inches above the water, and under It some stretches. Shore lights are standing in the midst of waters whers ateamboats can run over them. The river la' five to ten mllea wide and seventy miles long and another great lake Is added to the geogrsphy. . This tract was practically covered with corn a fortnight ago. estimated to make aeventy-flve to 100 bushels to the acre. Previous estimates of the loss have greatly Increased by the prospective yield being found much greater than ever before, re ports telling of many fsrma that were good for 100 bushels to the acre before the flood. The loss is total. The experience la that If water stays forty-eight hours ven tour Inches under the surface it kills corn and every , stalk perishes from rotting roots. ' ' . I Blver Still Rising. The height of the flood la Indicated by an incident at La Grange. The steamboat warehouse was well back from the river bank and Bits high. A gale and the cur rent causedlhe pilot to make an Imperfect landing and the cornice of the root of the Warehouse was torn off by the forward goards of Sliver Crescent. The river Is rising (11 the time, tlx Inches during the day In the Immense ana of TOO square miles and the worst to come by the extension of the flooded area by the water passlcg levees it 1s now topping. The chief flood thus fr Is on the Missouri aide from Keokuk to Louisiana, with Can ton and Weat Qulncy as centers of the country hurt worst. On the Illinois side are the three continuous levees for forty ml'es, from Warsaw to Qulncy, above ths water and are thus fsr safe, but farmers Vare afraid of orevssses from muskrat bolts and every rod of the redoubt Is watched day and nlgtt. The breaking of these levees '.would flood 175 squars miles in Illinois and destroy from $3,000,000 to 13,000,000 worth, of corn. The levees below Qulncy are In ths same sltustlon except that they are lower and leas Arm. Opposite Qulncy In Missouri is still an other center of special dcvsstatlon, which Is, appalling. North twelve miles to La- Qrange and south to Holton, large prairies are well uuder water, reaching from the Illlnola bluffs to the Missouri bluffs, at least ten miles. Levels hastily thrown x around farms hsvs dlasppeared In a strong current rushing from above through the draw of the Burlington route bridge, carry ing everything before It. Lone Tree Prairie, tea miles square, Is deserted, the people having flown to Qulncy and the bluffs on the Missouri aids, from which they watch the complete destruction. Fablua river, fifteen miles above Hanni bal. Is high and furnishing a rout for the Mississippi to flank and reverse ths levee aa the Fox river does forty miles up the Mississippi. This flanking move ment snake evsa the highest Missouri levees ineffective. Around Lamotte, Sav. rton, Buach atatlon. Clemsna, Ashburn, north of Haoalbal, there Is more wheat thaa at ether placea and ali In ths shock r .Continued en Second Page.) PALMA "JAS "GREAT HOPES -,. . will Emerge Vie- ''A torlo ".. h Present HAVANA, July 20. lw "upsnola quotes President Pslma a In an Interview that he has great . .es that the country will emerge victoriously from the present crisis. President Pslma ssld: If Amerlcnn syndicates have bought all our cigar factories snd consldersble land besides a number ot sugsr estates. It is because they have faith In the economic future of Cuba. Moreover, Benor Terry, who le a planter, asserts that price of 1 reals per twenty-five pounds of suptar of fers a profit, which though not very great, makes It worth while for those to cultivate sugsr who can avail themselves of the best methods. Furthermore we of the bent methods. Furthermore we are approaching a day when sugar bounties will be suppressed and when Cubnn sugar will be able to compete with the European product and there are besides favorable symptoms! of reciprocity with the United States. With these reasons as a basis we may hone that the economic future of Cuba will soon Improve. When once the economic problem Is solved the po litical situation will not present difficulties. The Inexperience regarding official organ Isms la compensated for by the good senfS o' the people. Annexation , Is not the way to savs Cuba as It will not come when the present population of Cuoa would bene fit by it. but when the Americans choose that Is, when the Influence exercised by the Latin element In Cuba shall have ceased. SULTAN BECOMES FRIENDLY Leader of Mindanao Forces Now Says that He Has No Dealr to Fight Americans. MANILA, July 20. The aultan of Baco lod, Mlndsnao, who recently sent an Insult ingly worded communication to the 'com mander of the American expedition to Lake Lanao, in which he threatened to begin offensive operations in August, has now written a friendly letter to the com mander ot the American forces. In which he dlssvows all desire to tight and says be will confer with the Americans In ths future. The general Moro situation is regarded as favorable. Two natives implicated in the massacre of American soldiers at Blnangan, Rlzal province. Island ot Luzon, on Decoration day, have been arrested on a charge of murdor. Their identification Is complete. The cholera Is decreasing in Manila and the provinces and the health board has do elded to relsx the quarantine regulations which have been enforced between cities and provinces. This step has been decided upon because of the failure ot the natives to co-operate in the measure and the general native opposition to sanitary plans. COMMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS Paris Paper Says Vatican's Reply to Taft'a Last Note Is Tantamount to a. Rejection. PARIS, July 20. The Temp.- comment ing upon the negotiations between William H. Taft, governor of the Philippine islands, and the Vatican, says: Notwithstanding the courteous language used by both Hides the Vatican's reply to Governor Taft's last note Is tantamount to a rejection of the American offer, which amounted to nothing mors or less than the conclusion of an" Indirect concordat with the United States. The signature of such a convention would have given the apostolic delegate In Waahlngton a sort of dlDlomatlc exeouateur nermlttlnK him to confer directly with Prealdent Koosevelt or the government without the Interme diary of an American cltlsen such as Arch bishop Ireland. The Vatican in refusing to lend a hand In the gradual expulsion of the congregations from the Philippines has at the same time stinen tne germ or an American concordat which would be a triumph for the policy the pope has seemed so ardently to pursue since his advent. WITHOUT VIOLATING TREATY Rom Correspondent Holds United States Caa Empell Friars with Doe Regard for Treaty of Parle. LONDON, July 20. The Rome corre spondent of the London Post, detailing the negotiations between Judge Taft and the Vatican contends that the American au thorities can unquestionably expel the friars from the Philippines without violat ing the treaty of Paris. What the Vati can gained by Its obstinacy, says the cor respondent, is not clesr, but it certainly will have lost- about 1,000,000. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram com pany from Rome says the pope granted an audience Sunday to Judge William H. Taft, governor of the Philippine Islands, and his assistants in the negotiations with the vat lean regarding religious conditions in the Philippines. KING DOING SPLENDIDLY Edward Attends Divine Service and Contlnned Improvement Bar- prise Doctor. COWES. Isle of Wight, July 20. King Edward today attended divine aervlces, which were conducted by Commodore Ls jb ton, the commander ot ths Victoria and Albert. Queen Alexandra and the other members of the royal family aboard the yacht were present. A cold northwest wind necessitsted the Inclosing of the sides and stern ot the deck, where the king usually staya. Hla majesty now rises at o'clock In ths morning and takes his breakfast a halt hour later, afttr which he ls visited by his physlclcans. The king's progress con tinues to surprise his doctors. QUEEN IS SOURED ON WORLD Her Majesty of Belgian Say She Haa bat Her Dog and ls Already Forgotten. ' BRUSSELS, July 20. La Reform publishes an extraordinary alleged Interview with the quen of the Belgians (Marie Henrlette) In which her majesty ls quoted as saying that the papers have made her out to be dying too quickly, and then bitterly lamented her utter loneliness. According to La Reform, Queen Marie Henrlette aald: "I am thor oughly soured. In times past I was so gay, and in now ill from looellnes. I have only my dog to smuse m and am already forgotten." SHORT BATTLE IN TURKEY According to London Report Twenty FIT Were Killed In Fight. LONDON, July 21. The Constantinople correspondent ot the Dstly Telegraph re ports thsa an sngsgement kss taken plaes at Strumitis, European Turkey, between a force of 300 Bulgarian troops and a body ot Turkish Irregulars. Twenty-Pv Turks, the correspondent says, war killed la the nggfmcau NO KILL AND BURN ORDER Colonel Groeabeck Discusies Noted Case of General Smith, BELIEVES IN PRACTICE OF WATER CURE Say that It I the Moat Hu mane Method of Obtaining In formation Knowa to Modera Warfare. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. Colonel Ste phen Groesbeck, formerly judge advocate of the Division of the Philippines, haa arrived here from Manila en route to Chicago, where be will take station as judgs advocate ot the Department of the Lake. Colonel Groes beck waa chief reviewing authority In the trial ot Major Waller and General Jacob H. Smith, both of whom were court-martialed for methoda used In the Samar cam paign. Discussing the Waller trial. Colonel Groeabeck characterized Major Waller as a tactician, not a leader. In reviewing the case he said: Only Qoallfled Approval. "I could only give a qualified approval of the findings of the court because I be lieved him responsible largely for the condi tions that caused his men to commit the offenses chsrged. An attempt was made to lead a detachment of bis command, con sisting of four officers, fifty-four enlisted men snd thirty-three 'cargadoros' from east town across the Island of Bamar in search of the enemy, and when about mid way of his course he found himself In the heart of an uninhabited, mountainous sec tion, without ration and without medical attendance. The march had been begun without proper provision being made. The en's shoes had worn away, their cloth ing hung In tatters, many were stricken with fever, their feet bruised, and bleeding, their bodies lacerated by thorns and. added to th s wretchedness, the leeches which abound attacked and greatly aggravated their ex posed wounds. To the cry for food the 'cargadoros,' It Is alleged, did not efficiently respond and the suspicion arose In ths minds of the starving men that the 'carga doros' were conniving at their destruction. For this they were placed under fire, and all of those from whom a cry ot retalia tion came were executed." Talk of Famous Order. Referring to the famous "kill and burn" order alleged to have been Issued by Gen eral Smith, Colonel Groeabeck said: "No such order was ever issued by Smith, but he ls an Impetuous and erratic man, and, when going over the ground at Balan glga, after the massacre of an entire com pany ot the Ninth infantry, ho remarked to Waller that they would be justified In kill ing and burning aa they went." He did not think that Waller or any of the officers of his command should be held accountable for the live destroyed, but he believed that had mere careful provision been made when the fatal march was begun It would not have ended with such destrc tive results. He spoke of General Smith as a fine officer .and expressed regret at the humiliation attached to th recent i orders for hla retirement. . - . - t . Colonel Groesbeck believes In the water cure and said that in all the complaints caused by this method of forcing the in surgents to give information as to where arm were hidden, etc, It had been abused only by young officers over sealous and in experienced In their work. I believe," said he, "the water cure as practiced by the American army in the Philippine to be the most humane method of obtaining informa tion from criminals of war that ls known to modern warfare." On the Philippine question In general. Colonel Groesbeck said: "We are there to atay. The price that has been paid for the Islands demands that we hold them, but to civilize and establish a government that can be ultimately given Into the keeping of the native la a task beyond the comprehension of those unac quainted with the treachery that haa been instilled into the people by their former rulers. The uplifted bolo 1 the oniy law that they have feared for ages and strenu ous means must be adopted to eradicate such idea. ALL 'QUIET AT LEAVENWORTH Report that Man Who Wa Stabbed May Recover Ha Soothing Effect on Soldier. LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. July 20. The In clplent riot atarted late last night by sev eral hundred soldiers from Fort Leaven worth, who demolished the house of a ne gro In the low quarter here following the stabbing of Ell Loucks, a cavalryman, by an Inmate of the place, ended quietly shortly after midnight and today all was quiet. A company of the Fourth cavalry arrived at 1 a. m. and rounded up those soldiers who hsd not voluntarily returned to the post. Today Loncke was reported to hsvs a chance of recovery. Groups ot soldiers continue to discuss the trouble and there were threats to finish up to night the work of last night, but it Is be Ueved no further trouble will occur unless Loucks die. The general sentiment Is with the soldiers and there Is mild tslk of organizing a vigilance committee to drive cut the tough chsractsrs and thugs unless the police take decisive action In that di rection. DRIVEN INSANE. BY ILLNESS Miner Shoot Relative and Then Blow Ont Hla Own Brain While Demented. SEATTLE. Wash., July 20. Driven In sane by illness, Samuel H. Lake, a miner, ahot and killed his brother-in-law, DavK Thomas, mortally wounded his sister, Mrs. Mary J. Thomas, and then blew out his own brains last night at the Fredonla lodging houae. When Policeman Stuart arrived on the scene he found th woman huddled in a corner of a bedroom, hardly able to speak, her husband lying on his facs cloae to the bed and the body of the murderer and suicide blocking the passageway lead ing to the room. FIND REMAINS OF FARMER Body of Wealthy Mlasoarl Maa Who Disappeared Week Ago I Discovered. KING CITY, Mo., July 20. The remains of William York, a wealthy farmer, who disappeared laat Monday, were found to day in a hog lot three mllea from here. The skull and thigh bones were all that remained. Mr. York was 36 years of sgo and feebls. It ls supposed he wss stricken with heart failure and while protuat was attacked by bogs, ' PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE One Maa Killed and Nineteen Others ley Wreck. ROCHESTER, N. T.. July 20. A fatal head-on collision occurred between two ae senaer trains on the Lehigh Valley rail road, near Hope hospital, this city, this evening, In which one person was killed and nineteen others more or less seriously in jured. Both train were running at a high rat of speed when they came together. An engine and one passenger coach of one of the trains waa thrown down an embankment and into the Erie canal feeder and was completely wrecked; the other engine was demolished and remained on the tracks. The following Is the list of killed and In jured: Tho killed: PETER W. PUTNAM, aged , of Roch ester, fireman westbound train; leavea a widow and two children. Injured: Injured At the Hanneman hospital: Robert Mathews, Lima, N. Y., shoulder badly bruised. Byron B. Vary, Lima, wrist badly cut with glass. Fred McVittte, Rochester, face cut badly and seriously bruised. Charles Hoffmann, Rochester, furrier, ra dial artery of wrist cut and bruised; in juries serious. L A. Bause, 1207 Seventh street, Wash ington, shoulder, arms and legs badly bruised, severe cut on right elbow, Internal injuries; will probably recover. Charles R. Barnard, Rochester, bad cut on forehead, seriously bruised, suffering from shock; will recover unless Internal Injuries develop. Emma J. Bailey, Rochester, side seriously bruised. Injured Internally. Buffering greatly from shock; recovery doubtful. Gladys Vogen, aged t, Rochester, scalp wound and suffering from shock; will prob ably recover, ' Mrs. Minns Tyler, . Rochester, shoulder badly Injured, suffering from shock and in ternal Injuries feared. Sydney O. Tyler, husband of Mr. Tyler, severely bruised; not dangerous. Taken to homes: Mrs. Honderf, Rochester, hurt about head and left shoulder; not serious. Mr. Zorn, Rochester, cot on face; not se rious. At Homeopathic hospital; . Mr. Mercer, New York City, badly cut. Mrs. Mercer, New York, cuts and bruises. J. G, Longfellow. Rochester, badly wrenched shoulder; hands and arms cut; will recover. Mrs. J. O. Longfellow, ' Rochester, badly Injured Internally, sever contusions; will probably die. , v ' Charles Daniels, Rochester, engineer in coming tralf jumped from engine, struck on head, very bad acalp wound and i per haps internally injured. 1 Charles Bchuette, Rochester, baggage- master Incoming train, lajnred In back and other bruises; jumped from door of car Into the feeder as the crash cam and waa atruck by falling wreckage. ' . - Frank De La Vergne, Rochester, con ductor, acalp wound; mind badly affected. The incoming train, which !.. consisted of a combination smoker and baggage car and two day coaches, was due tp(. this city at 6:30 o'clock, but wa a i minutes late. The outgoing traltu, eomtlifln- of a -combination smoker and baggage car and one day coach, left- promptly on time at :80 o'clock. The two trains came together with terrtflo force on a atralght line of track one-half mile south of Clarissa street bridge, near Hope hospital. Just before the crash came the crew of each engine, with the exception of Fireman Putnam of the Incoming train. Jumped and escaped with slight injuries. Putnam was caught In the wreckage of his engine and horribly mangled, death resulting in stantly. GARMENT WORKERS WALK OUT Twenty-Five Hundred Strike and Fifteen Thousand Other Will Likely Follow. NEW YORK, July 20. Twenty-five hun dred outside garment workers went on strike today, and It is predicted 15,000 more will follow. The unions affected are tho Brotherhood of Tailors, the Vest makers' union, the Knee Breeches Makers' union, the Children's Jacket Makers' union, the Sailor Jacket Makers' union and the Buttonhole Makers' union. The Brotherhood of Tailors demand of the manufacturera a fifty-six hour work ing week, the payment of last year's union scale, a guarantee that the contractors of middlemen will pay union wages and em ploy union men, and also a gusrsntee that in case a middleman defaults they will get their wages. i" Conferences between representatives of the union and the employers were held last week, but no settlement was reached. The employers were willing to grant the fifty six hour working ek, but were not will lrg to take any pledges aa to the payment of wages by ths contractors. The Brother- hood ot Tailors and the unions that are on strike belong to the Garment Workers' Trsde council and the other unlona went out In sympathy with the tailors. The delegate of the Goldbeaters' union to the Central Federated union reported to that body today that a general strike of gold beaters to enforce a demand for an Increase of wages will go Into effect In this and aeveral other cities tomorrow. He said that the gold beaters Intended to make the demand on September 1, but the employers hearing of It, began to dlacharge men arbitrarily, then it was decided to strike at once. The gold betters, he said, will demand 321 a week. At present the rates are Irregular, ho ssld, and from $12 a week up. WILL NOT RENEW STRIKE At Special Meeting Freight Handlers of Chicago Decide to Re main at Work. CHICAGO, July 20. There will not be a renewal of the freight handlers' strlko In Chicago. This decision was reached at a epeclal meeting of the Freight Handlers' union tonight railed by Prealdent Curran to consider a report that four of the roada are discriminating sgalnat the old employea who went on a strike two weeks ago. After a careful Investigation committees appointed to investigate the supposed grievances re ported all the roads, with the exception of the Pan Handle, are living up to their agree ments and thst in soms Instances the men had been accorded better term than had been demanded while they were on strike. Whits the Pan Handle people have been unable to place all the atrikers, It was re ported that all the old men would be back at work in the course of a few days or ss socn as the cootrscts of the nonunion men who hsd been engaged during the strike should expire. This state of affairs met with ths spproval of the union and It was decided that there waa no cause for any future controversy wlla the railroad. N YL MACKAY IS DEAD President of Postal Telegraph Company Buocumbi t London Heme. THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN IMPROVING Waa Stricken with Heat Several Day Ago, bnt Investigation Show Symptom of .i Pneumonia. (Copyright 1902, by Press Tubllfhlng Co.) LONDON, July 20. (New York World Ca blegram Special Telegram.) John W. Mackay died thla afternoon at hla London residence, Charlton House Terrace. The Immediate cause of death was heart fail ure. The right lung was found to be con gested, and the symptoms Indicated pneu monia. He was conscious most of the time today. Mrs. Mackay Is prostrated with grief. Mr. Mackay came to Europe for his health and apparently had benefited by the change, but the sudden hot wsvs affected him Injuriously and while attend ing to some business In the city last Tues day he was taken with falntness and diz ziness. A doctor was sent for Immediately and advised that he bo taken home. The unexpected news thst he wss seri ously ill -wss a great shock to Mr. Mackay. She instantly summoned fotr of the lead ing specialist In London. On Wednesday and Thursday the patient showed signs ot holding his own, but on Friday he began to grow worse and early this morning de veloped symptoms of sinking, sgalnst which all the resources of science proved power less. H pe had been abandoned on Friday and his son, Clarence Mackay, was cabled for. He ls bow on the ocean. The last sacrament, according to the Catholic rite, was administered on Saturday. Mrs. Mackay was most devoted In her attention to her husband. She, her mother, Mrs. Hungerford, and Countess Telfner, were by his bedside when he peacefully and painlessly breathed his last at :30 p. m. Princess Colonna. Mrs. Mackay's daughter, did not arrive until an hour later. It was noticed by friends on the occasion of Mr. Mackay'a great concert some days ago that her husband looked 111 and fatigued by the ordeal of assisting to re ceive the guests. Princess Louise sat be tween Mr. and Mrs. Macksy In the front row that evening and entered Into an ant mated conversstlon with blm. That was the last entertainment he took part In. No arrangements for the funersl have been made yet, but It Is understood that the body will be taken to the United States for burial. Great sympathy ls felt for Mrs. Mackay at this fresh affliction. Canaea l"hock at 'Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. The news of the death of John W. Mackay In London caused quite a shock here, notwithstanding the public was in a measure prepared for It. Mr. Mackay was the last surviving mem ber of the four bonanza kings. Flood, O'Brien and Fair, the other three having long since died. For the past eighteen years Mr. Mackay had not been actively Identified with the life ot thla city, but had passed moat of hla time In the east, making annual visits to the cOast to look after his property Interests in this state and Nevada. " , On the occasion of his last visit to this city, early this summer, Mr. Mackay com pleted arrangementa for a landing place for the new Pacific cable, a project he was much interested In. During a visit in 1892 Mr. Mackay was shot and slightly wounded by W. D. Rlppey, who hsd a fancied grievance against htm, growing from the atock banking days of the Corn stock. Mr. Mackay came to California in 1861 via Panama. He at once entered a mine, working with pick and shovel In the placers of the American river and at Down- ievllle. In 1859 be went to Virginia City, Nev., and began mining on the Comatock with varying success. His first real start toward success was made when he became superintendent of the Kentucky, mine in Gold Hill. In 1863 Mackay formed a part nership with Flood, O'Brien and Fair. In 1867 this famous quartet purchased the sit of the Bonanza territory north of the Ophlr mine on the celebrated Comstock ledge. They began work on a slide abandoned by Sharon and other large operators. The en terprise was a fruitful source ot ridicule In mining circles, nothing but financial dis aster being freely predicted. Without losing heart or patience the four men continued expending half a million dollars in pros pecting operations. The ledge waa struck and over $110,000,000 were added to the world'a stock of precious metals. No ac curate estimate of Mr. Mackay's holdings In this stats and Nevada can be made, but it will run up Into the millions. He was the ownor of valuable real estate In this city and had interest in mines throughout the stats and Nevada. EXPOSITION BUILDING BURNS Largest Stractare for Texas Stat Fair at Dallas Goes l'p la Smoke. DALLAS, Tex., July 20. Fire broke out shortly after I o'clock this morning In the exposition grounds, located In the suburbs of East Dallas, and In thirty mlnutea the main exposition building, one of the lar gest buildings in the country, the mu sic hall annex, the poultry building, the private buildings of ths J. I. Caae Plow company. Southern Rock Island Plow com pany and that of the Farlln-Orendorff company were deatroyed. The loas will reach 1100,000, with Insurance of $30,000. The fire will not Interfere with the hold ing of the annual state fair. Ths Dallas fire department la crippled through the absence of Hs acting chief and four firemen, who have gone to tho Pasteur Institute In St. Louts to be treated for supposed hydrophobia, caused by tlto bite of a mad horse. - FOR REFUSING TO WED HIM Marshall, Missouri, Maa Kill Sweet heart aad Then Commit Suicide. MARSHALL, Mo., July 20 George Wiley shot and killed Miss Dovle Flynn, step-daughter of Richard Dearklng, a Chi cago Alton railroad employe, at ths tat ter's home here at midnight last night and then committed suicide. The woman, had refuaed to marry him. Wiley had Inter cepted Miss Flynn on her wsy horns from a religious meeting and walked with her to her home. Mrs. Dearklng had called to ber to come Into the house and aa she wss passing through ths door, Wiley shot Miss Flynn from behind. She died within a frw minutes wtihout making a statement. Later Wiley's body wss found In the street in front of the Dearklng home. He had f.hot himself between the eyes and apparently died Instantly. CONDITION 0FJTHE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska Fslr and Warmer Aionoay; luesuay t air. GUARD FLEES FOR HIS LIFE Miner Shoot Negro Workman Dur ing Riot and I Forced to Take Refuge In Woods. FLORENCE, Colo., July 20. W. H. White, a negro miner employed by the Coloradu Fuel and Iron company In lta mines at Chandler, wss fatally shot by Ed Bakewell, a guard at the mine, during a riot late laat eight. About midnight a mob of negroes compelled Bakewell to flee tor his lite Into the woods, where he was overtaken and besieged. Yesterday was payday at tho mines and following the usual custom tho credit due at the company store was de ducted. This Infuriated some ot the ne groes, who became intoxicated, braudish tng weapona and terrorizing the guards. White and his companions came upen Bakewell and another guard and White threatened to shoot. Bakewell ordered him to lower his gun and uoon his re fusal shot him In the stomsch. Ths negroes asserted that Bakewell had abot White In the back and gathering a crowd chased the guard out of town. Sheriff Simon of Canon City arrived this morning and find ing Bakewell besieged on a hill by th negroes, hustled him Into a buggy and drove him off. The blacks pursued them, firing over 100 shots at ths officers, none of which took effect. The mines are hcsvlly guarded tonight, but no further trouble la expected. MUST ANSWER FOR MURDER Man Who Broke Jail In 1S8 aad Killed Sheriff Back Behind the Bar. CLAY CENTER, Kan., July 20. (Special Telegram.) Sheriff Guthrie of Marshall Telegram.) Sheriff Guthrie and a deputy of Marshall county brought J. S; Dalton In the Clay county jail for safe keeping swatting hie trial at the October term of the district court of Marshall county. Dal ton, In company with Kl Royal and Tom Taylor, are charged with committing bur glary at Irving In 1898. They broke Jail April 6, 1898, killing Deputy Sheriff Bas lerson at the time. Dslton ls about 23 years old, and waa captured at San An tonio, Tex., by Sheriff Guthrie. Royal and Taylor are still at large. Sheriff Need of this county will not allow the prisoner any privileges while incarcerated here. SERVICES AT A MONASTERY Youthful Candidates for Priesthood Take Vows and Listen to Admonition. GRANVILLE. Wis.,- July 10. At t monastery of ths Servllle order hers today an Interesting ceremony was witnessed by the parents of a number of youthful can didates for the priesthood. Francis W. Munson and J. H. Gallagher of Chicago, G. J. Miller, ThomasMayer and Thomas Frits of Detroit, James Cam erford of New York and Herman Keeter mann of Granville having completed their first year's novitiate, took their vows and listened to admonitions from the master. The provincial of the order In America, Father Hugh Crevler, la at present In Denver and waa not able to reach here to take part In the ceremonies. TRY TO ROB PLACER MINE Robber Attempt to Force Entrnnce Into Hayden-Lama Working and Shoot Watchman. i .LEADVILLE, Colo., July 20. At day light this morning thres robbers attempted to force an entrance to the Hayden-Lama gold placer workings near Leadvllle. The watchman, Ora Iman, was shot through the arm before he could fire. He then suc ceeded in shootng one of the robbers, who wss placed on a horse by his compsnlon and carried away. Before Iman could Ore the second time he was knocked senseless by another robber who had entered the window. The robbers secured no money. Prospectors report seeing horsemen carry ing a dead man with them through the hills, so It ls presumed the robber shot by Iman died. JUMP RESULTS IN DEATH Hibernian Delegate Who Leaped from Second Story Window Dies from Iajarle. DENVER, Colo.. July 20. Patrick J. En rlght, who waa a delegate to the Hiber nian convention last week, and who be came auddenly Insane last Thursday and Jumped from a second story, dlsd at St. Joseph'a hospital today. Hla heart was weak and, although his only Injury was a broken leg, ha failed to rally from the shock. Mr. Enrlght was born In Syracuse, N. Y., In 1868. For the last six years he his been general officer for the Ancient Order of Hlbernlana for the state of New York. The remains will be taken to Byracuee for interment. SAY HIS NAME IS SEVERENS Fugitive Hurry Truer Alleged to Be Native of Wisconsin Instead of New York. ST. PAUL. July 20. Hsrry Tracy, the fugitive Oregon bandit, according to a report received from Grand Rsplds, Wis., Is a native of Plttsfleld, Wis., and bis trus uams ls Severens. His grandparents, It Is said, ltv in Orsnd Rapids, Wis., and ars prosperous. After bis Imprisonment In the Oregon penitentiary bs is ssld to hsro written to his grandfather, asking ths lat tcr to undertake to get a pardon tor him, but the old gentleman declined to aid him. The grandfather has since become an la valid, and all reports of the desperado's Crimea have been kept from blm. Movements of Ocean Vessels, July SO At Lizard Passed: Koenlgin Louisa, from Bremen, for New ora; eelina, irora Am wem. for New York. At Liverpool Arrived: Etrurls. from New York, for Queenttown. Sailed: Han overian, for Hoston. At Olbraltsr Sailed: Trave. from Oenoa and Naples, for New York. At New York Arrived: Columbia, from Olasgow and Movllle: St. I-outs. from Southampton and Cherbourg; I'mbria, from IJvertMHil and Queeiistown. At Quentown Balled: Luc an lan, from Temperature at Omaha Yesterday Hoar. Dec. Hour. Deg. B a. an l p. m Hl 6 a. na 81 B p. m TO T a. na At It p. m TH 8 s. m..i... 6J 4 p. ra T4 t a. m . . . S3 Bp. m ..... , T4 10 a n oa flp. m 6 11 a. at H6 T p. m ...... 12 an 68 ft p. m 9 p. m HT Liverpool, lor tM xoru. ELEVEN LOSE LIVES Tornado Iweept luddenlj Dow Upen City of Baltimore, HUNDREDS OF TREES ARE UPROOTED Little Damage Done in laiiaeis Fart, Wind Itrikiig the Levee, NINE MEET DEATH IN THE HARBOR Wert Ont Sowing When Storm Oamt sod failed to Beach Shelter. PATHETIC INCIDENT OF A DROWNING Mother aad Children Had Gon for Kail When Wind Capslsed the Boat, Throwing Them Into the Sea, BALTIMOB. July 20. A fierce tornada characterised by a wind storm of extra ordinary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning, suddenly burst upon Baltimore at 1:20 p. m. today, romlng from the southwest, with th net result that eleven persons lost their lives, hundreds of trees In the public parka and streets were torn up by the roots, many buildings damaged and several people In jured. The storm exhsusted its fury In less than fifteen minutes. The damage dono in tho business part ot the city was comparatively slight, being confined to the blowing down of signs and Injuries to roofs. It was worst In portions ot the city along the river front and In th harbor, where the wind spent its violence. Ot those who perished nine were drowned In the harbor from open boats, one wss killed by a falling tree and one by a live wire. The following Is a. list ot the klll td: Drowned In the harbor: ROY BATEMAN. 12 yeara old. JOSEPH CAIN, 10 year old. JOHN CAIN. years old. THOMA8 CARROLL. 21 years old. HARRY MCORM1CK. 19 years old. MRS. MARY 8CHULER. 28 years old. HARRY 8. SCHULER. 10 month old. OLIVE SCHULER, 4 years old. CHARLES SCHULER, 7 years old. Killed by falling tree: WILLIAM CORNISH, colored. Killed by live wire: CHARLES SHAEFFER. Out In Rowboat. The flrat three of the above list wer out in a rowboat. When the atorm broke the boat was capslsed, three , being drowned, and the three others In the boat being rescued by the tugboat Edna V. George. The boy killed by a live wire had. In company with two other boys, gone into a shed for protection, when the shed blew down and a live wire fell on ons ot them, resulting In his death. The drowning of Mrs. Schuler and her children was the most pathetto Incident, ot the hurricane. Michael Schuler, with his Wife and -three children, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Joseph Cooper,- and bla wire bad gone out Into tb harbor for a sail In a thirty-foot boat. Whan 'the storm cams Bchulef tnit" Cooper took In sails. Schuler sent hla wife and children into the little cabin and ha stood at the tiller to keep th vessel' bead to the wind. A. sudden gust of wind threw the boom of the vessel around. knocking Schuler down and pinned him to the deck. Another gust capslsed the boat. releasing Schuler, who with Cooper and his wife were thrown Into the water, leav ing Mrs. Schuler and her children penned In the cabin. Cooper saved himself and his wife by hanging to the bottom of ths overturned boat and Schuler saved himself In the same way after making frantic ef forts to gst at his Imprisoned wlfo aad children. A crew from the schooner Edward H. Hunt rescued Schuler and Cooper and wife snd towed the capslsed vessel to tba wharf, where It waa righted and ths desd bodies of Mrs. Schuler and the children ware taken from the cabin. Thomaa Carroll, with four 'other young men, were out In the harbor In a rowboat. which was capsized. Carroll was drowned. while his four compsnlons clung to ths rud der of the Merchant and Miner' ateamshlp Chatham, from which perilous position they were rescued by the tug Mary. Tree Fall Onto Tent. A colored campmeetlng was in progress In Psradlse Grove. The congregation had lust been dismissed when the storm broke. A huge tree fell on th teat In which the services had been held. Several of th worshipers ware caught beneath It as It fell. Ths tree hsd to be sawed Into plecea before the Imprisoned men and women could be releaaed. William Cornish waa erushed to death by th falling tree. The other were not seriously hurt, A hols ssveral feet In diameter was blown In B(. Mary's Star of th Sea Cath olic church. South Baltimore. A portion of the atone cornice weighing more than a ton fell to the atreet. Fortunately no on waa Injured by the falling stons and brick. Tb damage to th church la estimated at $7,000. While the atorm was at lta height a boat's crew from th German ateamsr Breslsu, at anchor In th harbor, picked up two men from a boat which had been capslsed off Wolf street. At the foot of Concord strest th Mer chants' and Miner' Transportation com pany's wsrehouse wss unroofed with small damage to th building, but tb ra4n poured in on the valuable eargo stored therein, doing damage estimated at from (100,000 to $300,000. The gas reservoir In South Baltimore, containing about 300,000 feet of gas, was blown over, the gaa exploding without In juring anyone, the damage being placed at $15,000. The damage to the shipping In the harbor was general. Including such aa the ripping ot aalls and the loss of masts and spars. The weather bureau here re ports that It was more In the nature of a whirlwind than a tornado. The wind blew at the rate of sixty-four mllea an hour and the rainfall waa 61-100 of an inch. The first Indication of the storm waa apparent at 1:25 p. m. and the aun reappeared at 1:45. Reports from outlying districts are meager, but ao tar aa Is knowa the storm wss confined to Balitmors and suburbs. Two Excursionist Drowned. TOLCHESTER, Md., July 20. James B. Post aged 20, and Theo. C. Parker, 22, of Baltimore, who came here today on aa ex cursion were drowned thla afternoon. They with four companions were rowing In the bsy. A wind squall overturned the boat. The other occupanta of the ltttl craft clung to It until rescusd. President' ulet Sunday, OYSTER BAY. N. Y.. July 20 President Roosevelt pushed a quiet Sunday at Bags more Hill. There were ro callers n ills president snd his family attended rellginu aervtcea In th morning at Christ Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Roosevelt la a member.