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VOL. XXXIX-NO. 19.
OMAIIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1909-TEN PAGES.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN
- HAS GREAT DAY
Canadian! Join with United States,
England and France in
Celebration.
MANY DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Taft May Come
to Omaha Some
Time Next Fall
RAGING RIVERS
SWEErBOTTOJIS
Missouri and Its Tributaries, in Full
Flood, Do Great Damage
Along Course.
Tentative Plans for President's West
ern Trip Are Being Laid in
Washington.
SEVERAL PEOPLE DROWNED
SENATE TO VOTE
ON BILL TODAY
Informal Agreement Beached to Dis
pose of Tariff Measure at
Pour O'clock.
TOBACCO TAX ONLY REMAINS
Income Tax is Forced to Direct Vote
and Defeated.
Two
TAFT AND HUGHES
IE
Senator Elihu Root Delirers
Historical Address.
BIG BANQUET HELD AT
e
Chief Exeentlv Declare lalted
lu 1 "Mont CouerriMtT Na
tion In th World" Hur
Notable IpMkin.
I'LATTPBURO. N. T., July 7. New Tork
-tate's share In the tercentenary celebration
of the discovery' of Lake Champlain today
reached its climax. Tomorrow the acene
will be transferred aero the lake to
Vermont, and Burlington will have Its
fling.
Governor Hughes of New Tork and Gov
ernor Prouty of Vermont, In their speech
making tour today, Indulged In a good
deal of pleasantry about the rivalry be
tween the two states whose borders skirt
the lake, whereupon Ambassador Jusse
rand, at the Plattsmouth barracks, speak
ing In excellent English, was lead to de
clare, amid a gale of laughter: "Gentle
men, Champlain discovered both sides of
the lake at the same time. He looked on
one sldt and then the other. He saw New
York, and he saw Vermont, and ha liked
them both."
President Taft, Ambassadors Jusserand
and Bryce, with Governors Hughes and
Prouty, again occupied the center of the
celebration stage. Kach made three
speeches and all were at a brilliant banquet
at the Hotel Champlain tonight. Senator
Root added to the prominent guests to
day and made the historical address of the
celebration at Plattsburgh barracks.
Postmaster General Rodlfe Lemieux of
Canada also' spoke at the barracks, and
with Senator Root and the others again
tonight at the' banquet,' where the expres
sions of friendly good will among the
three great nations participating In the
tercentenary were emphasised.
Many' Dlsrlagralshcd Gaest.
M. Lemieux and Ambassador Jusserand
each took President Taft for a subject
and In their remarks gave him equal promi
nence with Champlain. M. Jusserand de
clared that there should be a filial feeling
between Champlain and the president, for
each knew what-U was Jg plant a flag In
a faraway land." " .".
"Tha spirit and all that was best In
Champlain," declared M. Jusserand, "lives
a Rain In President Tart. And there is a
people In a distant archipelago who know
It. and feel It, and who for centuries will
bless his name."
Canada had a large share in today's
celebration, and on the American mill
tary reservation at Plattsburgh barracks
this afternoon the president and the other
guests witnessed a parade of American
and Canadian troops which was spectacular
to a degree seldom attained In this coun
try.
An Ottawa regiment of Highlanders In
scarlet coats, furry hats and kilts, and
another regiment, the Goveror General's
Foot guards, also from Ottawa, in uni
form of almost equal brilliancy, partlcl
pated. Two regiments and a squadron of
cavalry from the United 8tatea forces and
a regiment of the New York 8tate Na
tional guard, all In the modest blue of
the American army, formed the contrast
for tha vivid color of the foreigners' uni
form.
Taft ana Haghee.
Governor Hughe and President Taft
were much together today and on each
speech-making occasion they exchanged
many compliments.
At the ceremonies at Plattsburgh bar
rack Governor Hughes spoke first and
was followed in turn by Governor Prouty,
Ambassador Jusserand. Ambassador Bryoe,
Postmaster General Lemieux. Senator Root
and President Taft. M. Jusserand de
livered a part of hi address In French.
Mr. Bryce again today dwelt upon the
peace of the nation and declared that he
hepe'd that celebration a hundred year
hence would be to commemorate tha be
ginning In this generation of a prolonged
era of good feeling and friendship be
' tween nations which once were divided by
hatred.
Among the persons and events comment'
orated that day on which he could dwell
with most enjoyment. Mr. Bryce said, was
the figure of Samuel Champlain himself a
valiant, prudent and resourceful man, one
who could use both sword and pen to
good purpose, . clear-headed and right
hlng. .upright and God-fearing, a man of
whom Franc might well be proud. As
for the battles end the sieges of the later
days, they roust all reoognlse the gallantry
and the skill displayed. "But the recollec
tion of all this fighting." continued the
ambassador, "give me little pleasure and
there would indeed be no pleasure it
thought such commemoration tended to
breed a love of war. May w not rather
rearet that all this fighting had been
thought needful? Courage haa been shown,
but who ever doubted that either French
men or Englishmen, whether of colonial
or of British birth, were good flghtersT
Perhaps the Indians showed the great
sit courage and endurance of all. They
tad to face not only death, but the pron-
sect of horrible tortures at the hands of
Indian enemies. Most of all this fighting
might have been avoided by a larger and
more Christian statesmanship, and the
moral I would like to see drawn from
these commemorations of wars mould be
tb avoidance of such methods in the fu
lure.
At Mora NatUasl Strife.
"No renewal of SU-tf need be feared
between the three nation that are now
Joined In thl celebration. Franc. Britain
and the United State are all linked by
what I believ will be an enduring friend
bip.
"If they remembered these old conflicts
they remembered only to forget- But it
was for thl generation to strive that
fleaUnud on Second Pag.)
President, Two Ambassador
Governors and Other' t.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, July 7.-Speclal Telegrams-President
Taft, If the tariff bill
Is out of the way by August 1, will visit a
number of western states. Including Wash
ington and the Alaska-Yukon-Pactflc ex
position. Should the president decide to
make the trip. It Is believed he will- make
Omaha one of his principal stops either
coming or going. Until the tariff bill is
further along and the date of Its passage
can be predicted with certainty, nothing
Is being said about the forthcoming trip,
but that a tentative program haa been out
lined I certain.
Senator Burkett and Brown yesterday
filed with Director of Census E. Dana
Durand recommendations for census su
pervisors la Nebraska congressional dis
tricts now represented by democrats, as
follows: First district, Frank E. Helvey,
Nebraska City; Second district. Charles L.
Saunders, Omaha; Third district, J. A
Hays, Central City. Congressman Hi.,
shaw of the Fourth district, who will hav
the naming of the census supervisor fo,
that district, says that while there are a
doren or more applications for supervisor,
nothing has been done toward the appoint
ment of any individual for that place. Con
gressman N orris stated that he had sug
gested to the senators the name of S. L,
Bravo of Holdrege for supervisor of the
Fifth district, which 1 entirely satisfac
tory to both Burkett and Brown. Senator
Brown stated tonight that the appointment
of supervisors in districts represented by
republicans will rest wholly with the con
gressmen from those districts. Congress
man Klnkald of the Sixth district ha not
mad up his mind as to whom he will rec
ommend for supervisor, there being a num
ber who desire the Job.
William Hayward, with hi wife and son.
are at the Wlllard, Mr. Hayward arriving
from New England yesterday. They ex
pect to leave for Chicago tomorrow.
C. E. Campbell of Omaha Is appointed
messenger in the army headquarter at
Omaha.
John W. Roberta of Lincoln 1 appointed
scientific assistant in connection with the
Agricultural department.
Hippo Hunt Next
for the Roosevelts
Teddy Shoots Lion in Fall Charge
and Permit Gets Two
Rhinos.
I
NAIVASHA. British East Africa, July 7.
The Roosevelt expedition 1 enjoying good
hunting and all the member of the party
are well. Thl -Information was brought In
today by courier from the Sotik district.
Mr. Roosevelt haa killed a splendidly
maned lion, one lioness and four rhln
oceroses. He brought down the lion while
the beast was in full charge, the bullet
penetrating the middle of the chest. Ker-
mlt Roosevelt has secured one big bull
eland and one lioness and two rhinoceroses
In addition, both hunter have been sue
ceesful In bringing down a large varies
of other gam.
The party 1 coming In to the farm o:
Captain Richard Atterborough, on th
south shore of Nalvasha lake, where Mr
Roosevelt and his son will make use of
launch at hlppotamau hunting.
Jump Into River
to Escape Fire
Hundred Men Have Narrow Escape
When Big Oil Tank
Bursts.
NEW YORK, July 7. One hundred men
working on a pier of the Standard Oil
company in the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn Jumped into the East river to
day to' escape a shower of blaring oil when
a tank on the pier exploded. The cloth
ing of many of the men was on fir when
they Jumped. One man was badly burned.
The workmen were quickly rescued by
boats.
TOO MANY CIGARS, KING FAINTS
Peter of Servia Falls from
bat Is Not Badly
Iajnred.
Horse,
VIENNA, July 7.-A telegram received
bar from Belgrade says that while King
Peter of Servia waa riding In the park
yesterday he fainted and fell from his
horse. H wa taken to th pelaoe, where
It wa found that, except for a few bruises.
he wa not Injured. The fainting Is at
tributed to excessive smoking.' His majesty
Is now quite recovered.
Wickersham for National
Creation
PADUCAH, Ky.. July 7. Stat control of
eorpviation doing an interstate business
waa discussed in an address before the
State Bar association by George W.
Wlchersham, attorney general of th
United State in this city tonight Th
address wa notable chiefly for it recom
mendation, that congress should enact a
law providing for nationally created in
corporations to carry on interstate com
merce. "Of course, many will object to the
centralising tendency of a national law
authorising th formation of corporations
to carry on interstate business," said Mr.
Wickersham, "but such a law aeema to
m to be the inevitable result of economic
condition."
"Much legislation haa been enacted in
various state," h said, "for th purpose
of preventing trust pool and combination
in restraint of trade and monopolies.
Many of these aota are lung. Involved and
abounding In adjectives. Some of them
have bean more or less effective, most of
them hav proved Ineffective a applied
to foreign corporation.
"It haa seemed te m that an effeetiv
method of leglalatioa oa thia subject would
CORPORATION TAX AMENDED
Senator Clapp Wins Fight to Include
"Holding" Companies.
CUSTOMS COUBT IS ADOPTED
Many Seaator Assail Var iotas Por
tion of Bill, bat Aldrtcb aad
Hla Committee Control
the Situation.
WASHINGTON. July 7.-Wlth a general
tmierstandlng that the final vote lq the
enate on th tariff bill shall be taken
y 1 o'clock tomorrow, the senate ad
journed at 7 o'clock this evening In pleas
ant anticipation of the early conclusion
of the labors of th special session of con
gress.
The arrangement for a vote tomorrow
was reached after much consultation, and
was only arrived at as an alternative for a
night session tonight. Because of the pos
sible effect on the tobacco achedule there
was no effort to obtain formal assent In
open senate to the proposition to fix ' a
time for a vote, but so far a the can
vassers of the senate could ascertain ' to
night there was no Indication of objection
to a final adjournment tomorrow.
The day wa a busy one with the pros
pect that tomorrow will be as fully occu
pied as was th long session today. It is
expected that the bill as perfected will
reoelve practically all, though not all, of
the republican votes, while It is wider
stood that all tha democratic votes, with
the exception of the vote of Senator Mc
Enery of Louisiana, will be cast against It.
When passed the measure will be hurried
over to the house a expeditiously as pos
sible, and it 1 expeoted that the house
will be In session Friday morning in the
hope of receiving it No plan has been
arranged by the house leaders, but it Is
probable that they will agree tomorrow to
a recess until Friday to receive the bill.
Ia cone Tax Finally Beaten.
The Income tax question. Including the
aorporatlon tax provision and inheritance
taxes, received much attention in the senate
today, and the straight Income tmxer wert
afforded the opportunity, upon which they
have so long Insisted, to get a vote in favor
of the Income tax as opposed to the cor
poration tax. i
Senator Bailey moved his income tax a a
substitute for the finance committee's pro
vision ana, without debate, a vote was
taken upon it and It was rejected by a
majority of 19. the ballot standing SS te 47.
The republicans voting for the Income tax
were Borah, Brlstow, Clapp, Cummin and
La Follette. All the negative vote were
caat by republican
Flrbt on Corporation Tax.
With the corporation tax provision thus
securely established as part of the tariff
bill, there was considerable effort to amend
it, and In one notable case this effort was
successful. Senator Clapp of Minnesota has
been a severe critic of the provision ever
since its Introduction because It excluded
'holding" companies. He renewed hi criti
cism today and waa supported in hi view
oy other senator.
Mr. Dolllver declared that it -would be
difficult to levy any tax that would not be
come a burden upon the people. Referring
to the Inheritance tax propositions, he con
tinued: '
"We say to our people by this form of
tax, 'work on with the consciousness that
the government will be represented at your
funeral, but not as mourners, to turn back
to th treasury the accumulations of your
lifetime.' "
He declared that the pending corporation
tax was so drawn "a to produce iniquities
and Injuatlce.'
It wa not wise and would not be palat
able to the American people, he said, to
enact a law to tax business corporation
over th entire country and to exempt the
great holding companies from any tax.
cannot believe," said Mr. Dolllver, "that
it wa In th mind or th heart of our
great and popular president to exempt
from the burdens of thl system of taxa
tion the class of holding corporation.
The ultimate result was the acceptance
by Senator Aldrich of an amendment by
Mr. Clapp striking out th exemption of
such companies. Assurance wa also given
that every effort would be made to retain
the amendment In conference.
Customs Coart Adopted.
Next to the Income tax the discussion
of the customs oourt was the big feature
of the day' work. Th oourt waa at
tacked a in th Interests of the cities in
wblch It would sit, and of th government
and a opposed to the interest of th Im
(Continued on Second Page.)
of Corporations
be to enact that no foreign corporation
should be licensed to do business within
th stat it 60 per cent of its capital stock
or upward wa owned or held by any other
corporation, domestic or foreign; and that
if, at any time after obtaining such a It
cense more than U per cent of th capital
stock of such corporation should be ac
quired by another corporation, th license
hould be Ipso facto vacated.
"The device of holding corporation Is the
only thing which has made possible the
rapid growth of the great trusts and
moAopellee and a prohibition such as that
stated would go far toward their destruc
tion."
A an instance of th unlimited power
of the states, as recognised by the United
State supreme court, he cited the case of
Security Mutual Life Insurance Company
against Prewitt In which the aonatltu
tlonallty of a statute of Kentucky waa up
held by th United State supreme court
The result of this decision, he pointed
out. Is to enable a state to compel a foreign
corporation to refrain from resorting to the
federal court In controversies brought by
or against It or els to cease to do business
within that state.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
OMAHA BOOSTS FOR RIVER
Sends Forty Representative Men to
Yankton Congress.
COMMODORE WEAD THE LEADER
Share Special Train wltb Delegation
from Kansas City to Pnll for
Navigation on Rivers of
tb Oaantry.
Toot, toot, t-o-o-oot!
Nebraska will hav a delegation of forty
at the Missouri River Navigation congress
which is on at Yankton. Headed by F.
Wead, the Omahan and two Nebraska
City representatives, left Union station at
46 a. m. A special train, made up In
part . by throe, es.ro4 at .Kansas City
men, bore the 4elegat!. -x,
The Omahan expect to- be back Friday
night at 10:30. If they are able to secure
boat back, som of them will be longer
In returning.
The following Individual and firm rep
resentative made up the Omaha party:
The Omaha Real Estate Exchange C.
G. Carlberg, J. E. George, Peters Trust
company, H. M. Christie, Bower E. Mc
Cague, Henry F. Wyman, Payne Invest
ment company, Alfred L Creigh, H. B
Payne, F. D. Wead.
Members of the Omaha Bar Green,
Breckenrldge A Matter, by W. H. Hat
teroth; Hon. S. A. Searle, Judge W. W.
Slabaugh.
Member Omaha Clearing House Asso
ciationUnited States National bank, two;
First National bank, two; Nebraska Na
tional bank. City National bank, Omaha
National bank, two.
Omaha Merchant Hayden Bros., Tho.
Kllpatriok company, Nebraska Clothing
company. Grand Union Tea company, by
W. D. Williams.
Th Pre Omaha Bee, by Victor Rosa-
water.
National Corn Exposition Rome Miller,
William F. Baxter.
The Clergy Rev. J. M. Kersey.
South Omaha Union Stock Yards Na
tional bank, J. P. Kraus, commissioned by
the governor; John Sautter.
"It is a shortsighted view that some have
taken of this river navigation campaign,"
said Mr. Wead; "this movement does not
stop with the plan of making thia river or
that river navigable, of getting boat be
tween theae points or those it contemplates
a much wider purpose than that It Is
aimed ultimately at the use of th river of
thl oountry a highway of commerce and
It 1 never going to atop short of that
nd. W are Just laying the foundation
stones to a mighty enterprise and pursuit
one that will stand In th commercial life
of our country."
CONGRESS BEGINS ITS WORK
President Ellis Make Address and
Oomsnittoea Are Appointed.
TANKTON. 8. D., July 7. Special
Telegram.) The second annual Missouri
river congress was called to order here
Wednesday afternoon by President C. E.
Ellis of Kansas City In a large tent erected
on Broadway, and with the seven states
of Montana,' North Dakota, South Dakota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri
represented. Vice President Charles De
land of Pierre, 8. D., and Vice President
(Continued on Second Page.)
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Rural Teachers
Are Scorched by
Ohio Pedagogue
He Declares that Some of Them Are
Ignorant of the "A B C" of
' Education.
DENVER, July 7. Delegate to the Na
tional Education association today heard
some sharp criticism of teachers. Henry
B. Williams, dean of the State Normal
school at Athens, O., speaking of teacher
in country school, said:
"There are some rural teacher who don't
know even the A. B. C. of education, yet
they are called "professors," Just the same
as is th corn doctor or the dog trainer.
James w. Robertson, president of Mac
Donald college. Bte Anne De Bellevue,
Quebec, said agricultural schools must be
more closely allied with the rural schools
in general, to bring about the desired end
of keeping the boys on the farm. He de
clared that to make the boys stay on the
farm, the farm must be made fit to stay
on, and that there must be a much educa
tion for the girl a for the boy.
Edwin G. Dexter, commissioner of edu
cation of Porto Rico, speaking before the
general session, gave an outline of the work
accomplished in that country. He said
with a beginning In the elementary grade
for all classes, a complete school system
ha now been wrought
j. t. Joynrr, superintendent of the South
Carolina schools, was announced today as
a candidate for president of the associa
tion In opposition to Ben Blewltt, superin
tendent of schools of St. Louis, and J. H.
Phtlllpps. superintendent of the school of
Birmingham, Ala.
There are stUl one or two candidate to
bo heard from, though they hav thu far
declined to permit their name to b dls
Mjrf. One 1 a New Tork man.
The election of officer will tak plac
tomorrow.
ROAD MUST PAY BONDS
Jvdgmeat Secured Against Wabash
for SOOO.OOO by Widow of
Holder of Securities.
CINCINNATI. O.. July 7.-By a decision
In the United State court of ppeal to
day the Wabash railroad will be compelled
to pay 1900.000, the amount of principal
and compound Interest on 1160.000 of bonds
Issued by the road in 1870 and bought by
Henry L. Compton. Compton has been
a. a t-ral vears and his widow con
tinued th suit.
Compton recovered Judgment agalnrt th
road in th Ohio upreme court and the
road appealed.
Th Wabash Railroad company must
now pay th principal and interest on th
Compton bond or uffr It Toteao
terminal and th Ohio branch of It ye-
tem to be sold to satisfy th lien.
Revolution Proclaimed
BOGOTA. Colombia, July 7. A portion
of the army stationed at Baranqullla took
up arms on Sunday last against the Co
lombian government mad prisoners of th
municipal authorities and proclaimed
Gonzale Valencia a the president
General Jorge Holguln, who is acting
president in the absence of Oeneral Rafael
Reyes, who is in London, was strongly
denounced and th gendarmerie were
driven out of th city, later arriving at
Cartagena. Th revolutionist tok pos
session of the town and several steamer
on Magdalena river. General Holguln has
declared martial law throughout tb ooun
try. Gonsale Valencia haa disavowed the
rising and la coming to Bogota with the
acquiescence of the government
Valencia Issued a manifesto expressing
his disapproval of th revolutionary move
ment a did also tb republican commit
tee. According to advices bar, th disturbed
condition and confined to Baranqullla.
Official of th government say that th
rest of th country is at peac. and thlT
th people dealr peac in order that oon
gree may meet on July St and tu many
GIRL TELLS AWFUL STORY
Ella Gingles Relates in Detail Her
Alleged Experience.
REPEATS TALE OF AN ATTACK
Given "Knockont Drops," She Says,
and Brntally Mistreated by Two
Women and a Man Ton
Taggart Again.
CHICAGO. July 7.-Ella Gingles, the 18-
year-old Irish lacemaker, waa on th wit
ness stand In Judge Brentano'a court room
all day today, matching her writ and her
lnr.ooent face against the sharpness of the
lawyers who were trying to confound her.
All afternoon the girl was cross-examined
by Assistant Stat Attorney .B. J. Short
on tH story h related In the morning of
how she wa attacked by two women and
a man In th bath room of the Wellington
hotel on February 18.
Thl story was similar in many details
to the one she gave last Friday concerning
another attack upon her January 5 In a
room of the same hotel. Miss Agnes Bar
rette, the late Mrs. Cecilia Kenyon and a
"masked man" figured a tha assailant
In both case.
Beyond a few tearful and trembling mo
ment when some climax In th shocking
tale waa reached the girl did not hesitate
In her answers. She faced the prosecutor
with simple denial. She told of the most
Impossible . situations, apparently with
candor and frankness.
The cas probably will reach the jury
by Friday.
Btronaj Crosa-Kxamlnatioa.
"On February 18, then," Mr. Short asked,
"you went to the-Wellington hotel again
of your own free will, having said nothing
about th attack upon you in the hotel a
month beforef
"I went to collect ome money."
"You went to Miss Barrette again, the
woman who did all these terrible things to
you before?"
"Yes, sir."
"At that time Mis Barrette knew that
P. H. O'Donnell was your lawyer and that
all these olub women were your friends T"
"Ye, sir."
"And she knew that you could have
notified all these people of what had oc
curred T" i
"Yes. air."
"Did , you tell anyone up to that time
that these women had tried to sell you lntj
whit !avryT"
"No, lr.'.'
"Then you want In this room In th hotel
and waited and a man knocked at the door
and said Miss Arnold was expecting you in
the bath room, I that KT" "Yes, sir."
Tovrel, Over Her Face.
"And you were pushed In th bath room
- (Continued on Second Page.)
by Colombian Soldiers
Important question which are pending,
General Perdomo will leave Honda to
morrow with six steamers, having on board
3,000 men and twenty pieces of artillery,
The objective point of the troop 1 Baran
qullla.
WASHINGTON, July 7. Th center of
the revolution in Colombia, a Indicated
in dispatches from Colon, appears to be
at Baranqullla. at th mouth of th Magda
lena river, aooordtng to advice received
at the State department today from Paxton
Hlbben, secretary of legation at Bogota,
Mr. Hlbben 1 acting charge d' affair
pending th arrival of Elliott Northcott,
recently appointed minister to Colombia,
Throughout the republlo martial law pre
vail and there haa been an interruption
of the postal service and telegraph com
munloatlona hav been suspended. For
thl reason Mr. Hlbben haa not been able
to communicate with Mr. Northcott for
several day. la Bogota the situation I
exceedingly grave, but with armed patrol
guarding th street conditions are quiet
for the moment, Mr. Hlbben say In his
dispatch. Tb cause of the renewed trou
b i not liUoat
Missouri and Kansas Towns Suffer
Severely from Water.
NUMBER OF TOWNS SUBMERGED
Efforts Made to Relieve Beleaguered
Residents by Boats.
SUPPLIES SENT TO SUFFERERS
Food sad Other Necessariee Being;
Hurried to Pattonsbnr;, Chlll
eotbe and Points Wber
Help Is Needed.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. July 7.-Northwetern
Missouri 1 experiencing the worst flood
In its history.
The "103" Platte and Grand river are
five to six miles wide In places. Two
persons are known to be dead In Pattons-
burg. Three other are missing.' Crop
alued at hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been destroyed. Hundreds of
head of live stock have been drowned.
The dead are:
GEORGE PALMER. harness maker.
Pattonsburg. ,
MAKIUHON WALKER, section man.
Pattonsburg.
Tho misning three are D. Bowner and
wife, E. C. Nelson, a grocery clerk and a
man named Scott.
During the morning a call for aid was
sent out from Pattonsburg, a town of 1.00
In Daviess county, which was reported
under seven to ton feet of water. Reliet
trains were made up at St. Joseph and
Kansas City. The St. Josenh oartv
eachtd Pattonsburg abou ( o'clock and
began to aid In the rescue. It waa found
that most of the people had sought refugu
In the mill, school house and upper stories
of business houses. There are 400 per
sons crowded In the school, which Is sur
rounded by five feet of water. Many hsd
no food for twenty-four hour until th
arrival of the St, Joseph and Kansas City
rescuing parties. Six men swept from a
railroad track, hung' to a fence all night
until rescued with a boat built at McFall.
A large number of women and children
have been moved to the hills, where tent
have been provided for them.
River la RUlns; Afraln.
Tonight the river wa reported rislnr
again.
At Maryvllle, there has not been a train
In or out of town in twenty-four hours.
Telephone service la cut off. bridaes
valued at $100,000 are washed out, and It I
raining again tonight.
m Maryvllla water supply will be hut
off by morning. Five train are marooned
in different parts of Nodaway county., More -
man twenty miles of track r out A coal
famine Is threatened In Maryvlll. Tn
Inche of water have fallen In thro day.
At Barnard, Avenue City, piatt City and
other towns the lowland are flooded.
At Gallatin the Grand River I five mllei
wide and the lighting plant I submerged.
Train Leave Track.
KANSAS CITY. July T.-Traln No. S of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F railway,
which left Kansas City at t: thl morn
ing for Denver, wa wracked t Pomona,
Kan. or th ten coachea which made up the
train, four, a baggage car and three day
coaches, left the track and rolled Into
eighteen feet of water. The roadbed wa
covered with water, and the train wa pro
ceeding slowly, when th rail spread and
overturned the coaches. The overturned
coachea are supposed to hav been empty.
Car Sink Slowly.
It appear that tb train, which had been
detoured from th main line over th Em
poria branch, waa running along amoothly
through th water, when it began to lnk
on th undermined track. Th oo aches
sank so gradually that th passengers and
crew wer able to get Into the Pullman
car before the other coachea flnallv
toppled over and sank from view.
People from the surrounding country, at
tracted by th cries of th S00 marooned
passengers, immediately endeavored to start
on a rescue. Rafts were hastily constructed
and the few boats available were pushed
out, but by this time the current was no
swift around the train that only the most
venturesome were able to reach th people.
It wa after dark before a resoue by
meana of a series of boat tied with ropes
was affected. Boat trips of from on to
two mil wer mad to th nearest farm
houses free of the flood and th passengers
all were finally taken to safety. Th
passenger probably will hav to remain at
the farm houses until th surrounding
floods subside.
Child Is Drowatd, ,
A telephone message from Pomona, Kan.,
shortly before midnight said th wreck of
the train In the flood there today resulted'
In on death, the 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. Carrie Rose of Chicago being drowned.
Communication with the town wa In
terrupted. Although railway official
denied that anyon wa killed or Injured,
a telephone message tonight report two
people Injured. They are:
Laura St. Clair, Boston, back wrenched
nd right arm wrenched at shoulder.
Nannie St. Clair, Boston, minor bruises
and cuts.
The St. Clair women are sister, snrout
from Boston to Perry, Okl. Mis Nannie
St. Clair Is an elderly woman, and It was
while trying to assist her the other woman
waa hurt.
Pomona la almost completely inundated,
the Marias Dee Cygnes river at that point
being three miles wide. A relief train wa
ent from Ottawa tonight with food and
other supplies for the passengers, . who
wers said to have had to climb on top
of the coaches for refuge from th rising
water.
In Kansaa City Bottom.
In Kansas City the situation Is threaten
ing, If not yet serious. In the bottom
in the western section, where ar located
the stock yards, wholesale warehouse and
maunfacturing plants, th waters from
the confluence of the Missouri and Kan
sas rivers tonight ar lapping th danger
line and precautions were taken against
a further rise.
In what are known as the eastern bot
toms th authorities hop to avert damag
by the closing of the sewer flood gats
and th teratlon of a gigantic electrical
pump.
Sis Me a Kwept Away.
At Chlllicoth. Mo., on the Grand river,
six men war swept from a bridge this
afternoon and war seen floating avwn Usg
