The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • 1

--7- 7------r---- 7 nrsr-s7-rR -772'-47 Ig "-rowrf ro1 I 1 1 0 i 1 1 1 aCCiettAJ kJ- 4 VI dozmpt We Offen Distinction in Style Perfection in Quality Satisfaction in Price It Dsalsttistafaccttiolon sinsptrylicee Perfection in MIAMI -Clothes do not make tbe to be well dressed is a valuable asset Burk's Suit or OvercOat Is a guarantee of correct attire -Clothes do not make tbe to be Wen dressed is a valu- able Burk a Suit or Over- coat is a guarantee of corm it tire burr sad Lulea 7 (betty sail tiolmii Slak I 11) lAefi 1 4111 112 4 I ITS' 4 dike Vt 1 4 4 (co ASIIVILLE TENN SUNDAY3IORNING SEPTEMBI11 30 1906 VOLITME icXXIII NUMBER 11216 I FIR IFI 44 11 Vh VT'S i rs 1 I ri: i a 4 11 1111 ii 1 rii- 11 1: CUBA IS HOW AMERICAN HANDS CUBA IS NOW Ili normyrouT IT I 11 TIO nimuii INTO THE RIVER I AT CLARKSVILIAE jE INTO THE RIVER im AT I TITITITITT T1 1W ta iuitu laa L11 ri tr7 Err State Fir A Pages to--L7is t1 '7-41 9a i Ps PE SA nralcinrin L)4 L'a 11 il I i 1 LI optu Went Part of Louisville Nashville Train 1''1 THE NEWS IN BRIEF THE WEATHER Taft Proclaims Himself Provisional Governor DURATION MAY BE SHORT sm oil I 44 0 '1 Taft Proclaims Himself i I 4 LI 1 I I LI Provisional Governor' I ii THE NEWS IN BRIEF 1URATION MAY BE SHORT THE WEATHER I TWO MEN WERE 'D Urecks Many Forts and Ann Posts Along the Whole of the Gulf Coast 71 le rocks F3any Forts and Arm" posts a 111 IL- IPIL-11 -t 11- Twenty-Cix Bodies neon Recovered and More tire Buried Bennth the Wreckage 1 Bodies con 11: i A I vet- --11 P13-- rt 112 LONG ENOUGH TO RESTORE ORDER AND HOLD ELECTIONS ENGINEER AND MAIL CLERK ARS THE MISSING ONES RS Cuban Flag Will Still Fly and All Er' luting Laws Not in Conflict With the Changed Situation Will Be Enforced Action Gives General Satisfaction Engine and Two Mail Coaches Went Through An Open Bridge Across the Cumberland Men Went Down but Five Wert Rescued ent the ent Tlit71CDERSTORM5 wAsursciroN BP pt Tennessee and and thunderstorms Sunday order in west portten Monday fair shcivera and cooler is east portion Sunday 000ler in north portion Monday fair cooler In south portion variable winds becoming fresh northwest 110T-11117 TEMPERATURE SEPT 11 6 a 69 1 7 a 71 2 Al 5 a -4 8 a -4 4 11 a ra 14 5 79 11 a in 6 6 12 "8 7 78 Sun rises Sun sets 646 Fly LIVES r47 ALSO LOis Llit A IN DA lI i Li il 1 04 Forts Heroes Face Death to Bring Succor to Comrades in Peril Morgan Barrancas Pickens McRae and St Phillip MI Suffer I 1 ke I "'C 4 i I 3 1 1 1 I 't -c ') i 1 4 i i 1 11 0 1 1 4 't ii l'i tttt4 4 1 :4 (For detailed weather see Page iti) LOCAL Building news and notes Million dollar deal In Dhorrphate lands reported Prorramme of Dellatedt's Band for the State Pair Preparations are completed for the Ten-Leases State Fair City Park Commission may take charge of Richland Park PEUS1100111 THE HARDEST 1111 NAVY YARD COMPLETE VIREO Heavy rain of Friday rtlght dot soma damage in thls city Judge ilert sends Addle McKissark to colored reformatory Extensive improvements being made at the Hermitage Club What Tennessosna have achieved la retains Jersey cattle Mellen McDowell addresses the Colored Methodist Conference Llany lava' Vessels There Suffer Damage and Lives Are Lost by the Score Faithful Light! muse Keeper Refused to Desert Post and is Drowned At Millie and Elsewhere Three Gunboats Two naval Tugs and Innumerable Smaller Vessels Wrecked Hospital With Its Inmates Washed Out to Sea and Five Lives of Horror bouso uninhablte(1 Watt dame to machinery on croond floor No lives lost in navy yard BICKNELL" cLArKsvILLE Tenn Sept 29--(Spe cial)e-North-bound Louisville Nashville passenger train No El due here at Ti40 me ran Into an open bridge over the Cumberland River this evening The engintli baggage end tnall ettr were plunged into the river together with six employes The dead: ENGINEER FRANK 'PORTER of Bowling Green Ky EXPRESS MESSENGER liTM WOOD of Clarksville The Injured are: ROBERT MARTIN of Paris Tenn baggage master slight burns about the arms A FRAZIER of Russellville Ky mail clerk okull fractured and may not reeover MARTIN of McKenzie Tenn mail clerk slight bruises JOHN MORAN of Bowling Green Kr flretnan arm broken HOW IT HAPPENED The accident was one of the worst that ham occurred on the railroad here in many years The bridge watchman bad turned the bridge to allow a boat to pass and the train ran almout to the opening before the signals were noticed The engineer threw on his emergency brake which is said to have refused to work and the engine went down Into the river carrying the mall and baggage cars and tense aboard The passenger coaches remained on the bridge being locked by the air brakes Engineer Porter is supped to have gone down in hie cab and was drowned Three of the men were rescued one hundred yards from the bridge clinging to the beggege coach Another was found on the top of the mull coach about two hundred' yards from the bridge CARS FLOATING DOWN RIVER Messenger 'Wood is supposed to bay been drowned In the baggage ear which has eot yet been located Loth the baggage and mall cars are floating down the river and one man was on top of them Among the passengers were the follow A Barber Republic: 'White Elkton Ey Garrotte Fox Springit Tenn Garrett Fox Springs AV Kellogg Bowling Green Ey IL Martin Cincinnati MeCianehen Nashville and Morgan St Louis Jelin biller Patis Tenn Stewart The gleatest excitement prevailed amung the pastengors some of whom be tame hysterleal aed threatened to jump arid take chances Of getting out of the liver fifty feet below TOO passenger t'usches fetetied the same fate by ahnoet a hair's breudth the meeker being within a few inches of the bridge when the air brakes locked it pe- lle TAO the en- geld yea of OD rm the Ky not nm Kr that in had '4k501 en- ake ova ver and re- by sup- and were the nch the 'rem lav hien bag- the coaches' Mased the sum ate ost ahn IN MISSISSIPPI SOUND PENSIICOLA 11714 SPpt loss of life and the damage resulting front the hurricane which struck this Thursday morning is something terrible to contemplate Already the list of has grown to twenty-six and it is known that many more have been lost others Injured while more lino P101 see For two days reseiig parties have tj'111 PENRICOLA FEU SP pt toss of life and the damage resulting front the hurricane which struck this city Thursday morning is something terrible to content- plate Already the list of dead has grown to twenty-six and it is known that many more have been lost others injured while more 'Ina lii101 ere 't-nteless For two dayst rescti4 parties have rescued When nearly dead Two had perished At E'scambia trcstle a mile in length the cOilage of the ket per of the This This ssats carried air and W110 and two little children drummed Ile and his assistant wasiud up on the five miles distant lig1 AWFUL Actom it the city here the scene beg-working to bring conditiens tO Point iplion end it will be fully three greet of order but their efforts have not months before the veeela van be dug out shown to any extent and there are Tnitn) from their positiona of the twenty-two 'indica yet underneath the masses of ahlus and barks of foreign flaga anchored In the harbor only one remains which is wreckage badly dArnaged The Ione fared bet-For ten miles east and west of the city HAVANA Sept- American provisional government aseumed pose session of Cuba to-day when War Secretary Taft's pmcinmation declaring himself Provisional Governor of the Island was formally isisued The proclamation was published In the official Gas Ite and thousands of printed copies of the document were distributed in Havana and elsewhere It is as follows: "To the People of Cuba: The failure of Congress to act on the irrevocable resignation of the President of the Republic) of Cuba or to elect a suecessor leaves the country without' a government at a time when treat dimorder prevatis and requires that pursuant to the request of Mr Palma the neeessary steps to be taken In the nnme and by the authority of the Prestdent of the United States to restore order and protect life and property in the Island of Cuba and the bitands and keys adjacent thereto and for this purpose to establish therein a proviminnal government The provisional government hereby established will be meiptained only lohit enough to restore order pence and public confidence by direttJinn of and in the name of the President of the United Sieteis and then to bold ouch electiens as may be necessary to determine on those persons upon whom the permanent government of the Itepublie hould be devolved "In no far as is coneletent with the nature of a provieiomil gsis4nmotet established under the nw lion of the United Stutes thle will be a Cuban government contrirming with ths constitution of Cuba The Cuban flag will be hoieted as lomat river the government bnildings of the Island all the executive department and provincial and municipal governments Including that of the city of Havana will continue to be administered as under the Cuban Repubite the courts wtil continue to admiinster justice and all the laws not In their nature inapplicable by renson of temporary and emergent character Of the goveinment will be in revise "Preeldent Rensevelt hag been mnet enxiotie to bring about periee under the constitutional geverninent of Cuba and he made every endeavor to avoid the present step Longer delay however would he tioneeroue In view of the resignation of the Cri bin Pt "Until further notice the heade of all the departments of the central government will report to rue for instrections including General Alexe andro Rodriguez in command of the Rural Guerda and other repute Roe ernment forces and Gen Cartes RI lotr Treasurer of Cuba 'Until further notice the civil Governors and Alcaldes will also report to me for instruetions "I ash all citizens and residents of Cuba to assiot me in the work of restoring order tranquillity and public confidence "WILLIAM If TAFT "Seeretary of War United States Provielonal Governor of Sept 21 lisie" government will rePort to me for in- Inns inolnAinw Campt-11 A Wonderful advaner of the cement mantifeeture in Nashville Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church meets here Oct 4 Unveiling of monument to Sam Davis will take plata at Pulaski Oct IL Preparations being mnde fnr taking religious census of the city this week Anniversaries of Walden University and Meharry MedIcal College are celebrated Prize Perkshire hogs of Ist Overton and ii Dello will meet at the State Vali Counsel in the Cumberland Proshytertan Church case issue signed statcnient regarding Court decree George It Enos ends his thirtieth year ns General Freight Atzent Of the Naah villa Chattanooga St Louie to-day Namirrille Chat tannoga St Louis Thuiwity erects monument nu the Stone River hattletield near McFadden's Ford STATE Lneg County Democrats nominate a Legielative tieket len Patter nn athusinaticrilly received In Dickman County l'-rtday's storm did vast damage to crops all over Middle kind West Tennessee I' Thomas Saii lev a farmer living near Geudiettsville lI hy the chsclisuge of his gun Eertine and two mail cars on Lottiscliie Naahviile went through open bridge acrees Cumberland at Ciaiksvitie and tea men were drowned SPORTING Monday's racing entries Vnkeraity of Virginia's footfall ached11 10 HON one gnme p1ave1 In the American Lea nue to I shot wins the Oriental Handicap ae results from Louisville and Gravcsend SWAtit'l deft ats Inoney In first game of the ecason I I I i ter but they are damaged Some of the ifitnterttie ocean ships of 201 tone ftre resting hi front yards others have been driven through houses some have their noses pointed into stores while aiime others are keeled over 011 their side In the bay are piled up masses of wreckage Only leur tugboats out of 11 fleet of about twenty remain About thirty fishing sehooners of fifty or seventy-five tons were moor'ed alengside wharves and two remain intact Some of thetfi are half a mile inshore The Immemite wharves all eking the water front are gone excepting two of the Louisville Nashville Railroad the third going down with about kfty cars and an eneitie Everything with a tin roof has been unroofed stocks of goods damaged provisions ruined and unless traffie is resumed there will be atfil further suffering Flout cannot be procured but other necesities are at present being furnished For one mile west of the city were the small cottages of the fishermen all chime to the beach The have been wiped out Three people are known to be dead there Many daring rescues were made In get titi the poor families from these positions when the water had driven them to the rafters TALF OF 110tROlt A terrible 'story of suffering was brought to the city this afternoon from Careen Point up the bay by one of the survivors He etated that fully fifty people were homeless and starving with no way of reaching any place He left there Friday meining and at that Moe the enure party had been twelve hours without food cooking their last morsel the 'night before They have no clothing or shelter and if relief does not reach them soon many will perish To add to the already heavy loss and demoralization the rain poured down today in torrents for three hours the water attaining a depth of four and five feet in the streets The rainfall In the three hours measured seven inches of the business houses have been unroofed by the atorM and the water is standing in some of them a foot deep: Stocks were ruined aria what food that was not heretofore spoiled was badly damaged Tie turpentine farms for a radius of DO miles from the city are completely devas- The ocean-going tug Astral from Port Arthur for New York with Standard Oil barge No tie) in two wee caught in the hurriesme when 5 miles northwest of Tortugas The hawNer parted and the barge with nine men on board is either sunk in the Clatif or else is floating about waiting for assistance The tug put in to-night for repairs and assistanee ver 'thin with a tin roof has becn un- 14' the entire party had been twely WILIIOUt L00(1 N)OKIng 1neir 1118V morset WASHINGTON Ferit damage to life and property was at FevPral of the army forts and naval stations along thl Southeastern Atlantic Coast by the recent hurrleane Maj Gen James Wade commanding the Atlantic division rcportcd to the War Department that six civilians were killed at Fort Morgan Ala and one enlisted man is missing The damage to the post is estimated at flilialtal Chief Quartermaster liodoson at Atlanta reportea to Quartermaster Genaral Humphreys the Kuria facts adding that the fort was completely inundated Authority was telegraphed to Capt Thomas Dwyer commandant at Fort Morgan to make suCh repairs as are necessary in the present emergency In addiCan to this aiitton Quartermaater General Dumphrey has ordered to that pont IL Dolan il Engineer attached to the Quartermaster General's Department and Sedley Chaplin Civil Engineer and Superintendent of Construction at Fart liamilton to direct the work of rePals icon' NERAE DESTROYED Capt Lawrence Miller commandant or Fart Barrancas Fla reported that three enlisted men are rnissing from that POSI that Fait was almost totally destroyed and that Fort Pickens suffered severely Concerning the damage abForta Barrancas and McRae Quartermaster limigson at Atlanta sent the following telegram to Quartermaster aleneral Miralatrey: "ATLANTA Ga Sept ieneral Washingtan: Following telegram received from Quartermaster at Fort Barrancas: 'With api royal of cornmanding ()facer request authority to purchase material and hire labor in open market for temporary repaits to WlittriPS and builaings at this post and Fort Pick-lens Dt a ilcd estimu to follow Fort McRae entirrly gone except eight-inch battcry and tank' '(Signed HODGSON "Chief Quartermaster" Via authority requested was given by the Quartermaster SPnirat Tho naval tura Uneas and Iforeules from this' city and tha Osceola from Ley West have been ordered by the Navy part Meat to praread Immeduitely to the THIitt station at Pensacola Fla to render snch assistanee as may be pos ilonr Admiral Washington Capps Chief Naval Conatructoir hasbeen otalerel to go to fPrisat-ola to gate the dinnee and report to thes dapartment Rear ral Capps tid today that all of the vesNcla sank at pensmieda can probable he raised and repaired hut that the work will require much time and money LIFE-SVING STATION CONE Superintendent Kimbal of the LifeScrtie to-day recaived telegrams fiam Senator Ntallory aria Supt Ilroaaheat stAting that the Sants pa-a i vine: SS i01 Lear Pensacola Fat had 11 Maitrayed and that tha craw were a it Mariey or ninth Mg A crania iracts Pr made to relitia a them ho ei ing telegram was t'eceived at the tvy I tt psrotetttt to-day fret the NCottltoihPult Pf the Pensacola Navy Ytt'cl dt the gr at suftre1 hy rytment irt the retT'ent Ftorn: ru ings in bailn I al C-11 large No I aef on to an I 'sea hum on beriiih at west Ctltn-etr en beaoh outside Wood a dcy dock fiasteayed Nea to a aimast gone Permanent Phrictirog on the rati irf el the sieel dry dock vnarf I rtnrhnin wharr It3Inagel Ako JH sktk Ktrcre iLr Prokn up tgt g-t Tanga 11isi eirstrayA The flolting L1-1 bnen but leakiaa i-y tk iga in jr1 0-Ps ss -tp ar toasts oho Alt elttri 'at sk-'1-Ps rowe An4 nc worng rtttillings generally damaged by wina Ono i1 rt1 wl OW eieet dly dock ha at1 iitn wlairf Iltinaged Ako '-)Lne s- lk i'''''''' tateet range 11 Ise estroyed The 11 'e7! nOltillg lit hnen but leak- I 1 i I di if 1-14: RMtzeitiliti unhm- i i e-I IT'11 wi-c n4e In iir1 11'''S 'v' 't '11 'll' I "21 I2P 14- ''''t l't tn'' A 1 '1'71 A res wrehel i '''''''P er and 'red werlrg relill- legs generally damaged by wind One rya 1 destroyed and that Fort Pickens suffered The navah turs tTurns nd Itereules from thl cit and the 054coola from EN FM A Perele COuin breahs jail atDecatur Mobile still cut off from communication by sire Itattiestafrg Miss damaged VIOO000 by the storm immilise paint deposit company organized In Alabama Milliono of daniao done crops In MISbr the storm Over six Inches Of raln fell at Firming-ham I twenty-tuur hours Forts and army poets along the gulf greatly damitcod by storm Feeretary 'rot took formal pOSACSSIOn of the Government ut Cuba yosterday Two towns in Mobile Lay completely wreeged and great loss of life resulted Wreelool schooners plied across Louis- afll Nashville tracks just beyond 1StoIPer 4 9t00 American troops destined for ila leave In the next live or ItA titos Alabama Conviet Devi rtment earns oNer thrw-queitets of iiuIioti dollais Living the past year At Fort Morgan Alit there wos a genriot IkrPtliaZe by the EitOrtil 0118 tt)lillor It lits Liglithoitse loper on lloin Nand III Ins ssIte arid doinhtcl rtin ms of the 011 SIX Psoplo drowneb I nearly Zs) yeswrPck41 14 thr report of the 1rriclitiC 8 Wrk p(q-8)1A1 4h rly forty Icor Is sieolod ami three isnds sdiniebeed Is tale ot Twentv-sts the bile of vietims l'ensiwcIa TU In 1aws ir brown to inelerne tril tho niaos r-rk8g Nsfich 111s the Mobile still cat off from communication 1i a At Fort Alorgsn Ala there tees a Ikrt'Otat1V the EitOrtil alid take f1- Seven Killed in Pennsylvania rlinADEL1111A Sept 2--Seven sons were killed and 29 injured in a fright ful rear-end collision of passenger trains on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Ettilington Pa 19 iniltst north of this city hOrty after o'clock to-day of those killed three nave heen'identifled as follows: Miss son ag(' 17 daughter of Richard of Trenton Mary OMalley Philadelphia Mrs Vol Conell had ft employes' pass believed to be from Philadelptidia It Is stated by passengers khat the Long Branch express bound for kolladelpIda had stopped to cool a hot jrairnal While the train crew was at work on the Jour nal th erpreis train which left New York at 721) a thundered around curve and crashed into the Long Brant train It Is declared the the expr from New York disregarded signals anti thus canoed the accident ktost fit those killed and injured were hi a Pullman ear on the rear of the Long Branch train It was cut In two as with a knife and the intliart smashed the two COStelleS ahead of it I curve end crashed nto the Long Brant train It le declared the the expr Six Persons Drowned and Nearly Forty Veseela Wrecked NEW OFLEANS Sept M---Rix persons drowned eight good-sized sailing yessels wreeked about thirty smaller vessels sunk or ashore and property damage et more than a million dollars was the result of the hurricane in the Mississippi Sound The full extent of the disaster there became known to-dasg when Ship Island Cat and Horn Islands were heard from They had been completely aubmerged according to the reptirts of tugs sent out frvril the mainland tO the Islands to investigate from ten to fftee'n miles off shore All the loss of life and the greater part of the wrerkage occurred at the eaatern end Of the Sound about l'ie miles away from Mobile 114DIT KEEPER AND FAMILY LOST The worst catastrophe wes at Horn Island where Light Keeper Johnson with his wife and daughter were event 'into the gulf with their lighthouse and drowned Ilefore the Storm JOIlliiintt refused till offer to g(i ashore One necro was drowned when the schonnfr Daisy of New (rileans went ashore on Vern Island lie climbed a tree to escape the rising 'water but could not hold on The other four members of the same crew escaped although three of them were precipitated into thei water by the blowing down of the pine tree into whieh they had climbed During the storm two bodies were seen floating in Pesefigoula Day but were not reeovered Pascagoula lighthouse was partly demolished The wesietant keeper Gaston Perteentit saved his wife and two email children at the height of the worm by lowering them into a lunch with ropes He then climbed safely into the launch hrtiself The head keeper was rescued In the open bay where he was drifting in a mail boat without mirs The federal quarantine station et Ship 'slued was badly crippled the isolation hospital and Dr Mencuree residenee being the only bitildings on the islartd to fiscane damage FREAK OF TIM STORM Three men vvre in the Klondyke building on Ship Island which wee th11101- 1-d and they were swept out to sea Th shift in the wind came when they were half a mile off chore and Swept them hack safely to lend The Pritish bark Itautrirn with a St''- 00 cargo of lumber and the Norwegian bark Anna with $2Ae00 worth of lumber were both blown upon Born Island and left lyiug on the beach Their crews were saved by tug boats which put out from the realido1 The ex i erienee of the American bark Flotirine whii it was wrecked on Cat Di land show the strength of the wind When the bark began to drift a tug made riA a line attempting to tow theFlouriee the harhr but the wind dragged tlif in he'd at its mercy until the tug MA orr 1 line 6t1 1-hit) I lid four vessels were eyrie ked the ship liereuics and barks Nur) rg NPW Orlane Lem had communicatiel by rad elth lillexi all day and no 10 icrtil darniige a A done there (setside Cif shirring destroyvd the main property loss to the FoUnd i itlfil occurred about Peaceglejla Fifteen lumber mills located there lest many of their builchngs and machinery razed to rhe ground Large quantities of pine tlilber latelests were virtaally destroyed Atfernets by the Louisville (to Nashville Retiree I 19 run a wire vast the wesh(et at Fameligetria in an effort to r7s NI ie to-night were without euccess The WPV(1111 Union I 'Continued oin Second Page) lest many of their buildngs and machins eryrasel to ate ground Large nonnt tles of pme tiTcher int etests were virt ua l- 1r (mst-reyaj Atfetupts by the Louisville Si Nathville 1 vtf the rH run a I it- a Fasetg-tria In an effort tr) rtsh lii t- Idle to-nght were without success The Union eurnhor tand Tedeptehe teUn ed an Seond e) articag One nee-ro vi drowned when the schoon- 141-a'hd- harmltal ard Dr Ntnneurra' rosIdono" hat- ND FUSS AND FEATHERS ATTENDED THE TRAlkISFER gen-I I I I 1 I I 1 are strewn the wrecks of homes and vessels of all classes Commencing at Fort McRae on a point overlooking the gulf and continuing to Eseambia Bridge east of the ity there is nothing but ruin and desolation DEEDS Or IIERGISSI At Fort McRae five lives were lost The experience Of the twenty men there is something horritle to contemplate They ecoight the batteries this very highest point as the waves began to dash over tinm and lashed theinselves to the guns There they clung fur more than twelve hours Only one lady and her little child were at the post She was the wife of Sergi Prentice 'and although the big strong soldier fought to save the lives of Ins young wife and baby they were almost wrenched from his arms Three artillerymen were lost by being washed from the batteries The fort was almost razed Across on the Santa Rosa biland also on the gulf is Fort Dickens where over 100 men were stationed The mortar batteries were driven In and guns wrecked The banacks were early demolished and the under the Captain Nought higher pointe Five artillerymen volunteered to go through the water then dashing over the poste to the batteries carrying a line which enabled all to reach safety where they too lashed themselves to the higheet points Fort Barrancas has been badly damagA The navy yard suffered probably to the extent of $1000000 Many tic the new buildings have been damaged or destroyed completely and the floating dock cruithed againet a stone one the latter damaged Bud the gunboats Vixen Isla de Luzon Machais and Weep as well as the naval tugs Wauban and Accomae and a number of smaller tugs and launches are complete wrecke Some of these vesels have been driven in shore for more than two hundred yards The homes of the workmen at Warrington and Wooleey were wiped off the earth and three lives lost COMPLETELY WIPED OUT Across the bay at the Lnited States life paving station directly on the gulf beach there is not a hoard to stark the spot where the station hoilSeS and Wharves once were rverything is their The Men remained at their post everYthing was carried away then with their families launched a life boat and were later 'picked up by the army steamer Poe Further down the island the rotted States marine relarantine station has ids appeered from the map except one house Several vessels detained there are damaged Custotne Inepeeter Italleye stationed ehere saved the lives of eight of the attaches by swimming with a line across a channel to the remaining house and the men enabled to reach that point The hospital there early in the night Eight seemen Run an English 'eteamer were inmates They with wo nurses Culliris and Pass clung to the floating reef rive spent the night on the riieing peas and were washed up this fedi The other eve piaashed Flirliwr down the Wang wits camped a pleasore party Among these was the aheriff of this county They fought desperateiy to save therneelyes and were nurse 4 the night Eiht seamen ft un an 1" rig: Ilish steamer were inmate Thy with two Collins and pa ss clung to as pent the night the roating tont Five on On TWA 'd it tte long 7-s catnth1rsifler: verrashleidIup Further tieWn thP iltlanki wns carorwri a ro" ong these wh6 rty A kihenfr of this county They fought des- erately to ale therntelves an were soldier fought to save the lives of the extent of $10Q0000 Many cc the new palluatwe U7Cit titINLII)yr1 44 1 4 On the I in Cheatham ASHLAND CITY Tenn Sent Ilit--(Spe dal Chiefum Limited ro 3)1 north bound was wrecked last nIght at Pegram Station three Miles from this place The accident was caused by slide in The engine and tender left the track and were turned over and the track was torn up for several yards No serioue damage was done The wrecker from Paducah called to the lecrIO and ha ti the trail( eiearod so traffin could be resumed by o'clock this morning SAMPLES OF WATER EXTENDING CIVIL SERVICE HAVANA Shlt far loss ostentation than aocompanies the accession of a new municIpal adminisiratiop the government of Cuba Wal3 formally taken over yl-day by -William If Taft Secretary of 'War of the UnitedStatos who in a proclamation couched in a kindly and diplomatic tone indicative of the policy he would pursue declaring himself provisional Governor of the island Promptly at noon Gov Tali Assistant Secretary of State flacon and Copt McCoy Gov Taft's aide-de-camp called officiallyat the Palace and paid their spects to the retiring Presidert ignoring President Palma message to Congresa on Friday in which he wrongly interpreted the mission of the American MOeliRtors Gov Taft spoke kindly to- Senor Palma to whom he said the people of Cub owed an unquestionable fR it of gratitude President l'aima's brief reply NN FIR devoted entirely to an exprlon of relict for the opportunity of shifting tle burden of guiding the tempestuous republic tr) the representatives of natmn strong enough to enforce control over MASSES INDIFFERENT The fact that the Government etit4ati2o1 hands from a position of absolute independence to the restraint of a temporary protector wan received by the with utter Indifference Most of tho reticea and thoughtful Cubans while they feel sa certain sensitiveness over thb of the island's scoureignty ars In iiropt to hope that the United States' roftc- torate will he brief A Cohan returning to lItivana to-day after a brief wr141 nrr paye recoglized from the general attitude of the people that the form of government had been altered Ruttiness the same except for the vigor Pxhihited by the wholesale merchans manufacturers and railroads to regain their aTher trade throughout the island w)101 li13 ben at stoflsI1 $IO 1W111ing ur the rfvolkitIon stx olg-) Alt It wns knwn PridAy that an Attiotician provisional goyernaint could not' be (Contlauod co Secord Jr itd tecognized from Ine g1A1 attitlidt of the people that the form of government had ben a eltered lousin on ess otionect th same except fo th viti f'hihe the wholestio nierchans manufacturers and rallroads to regain their trther trade atlroughritlttheisl a ild whit1 luis iien Kt t1 Li IIIIf A ur revolution six w-elot ego Altiv-iich it was known Frida that an provisional governitient could not Con (tinued on econd raga) HAVANA 29-With far loss os- imitation than aocomPanlett tne accession BAILEY IN DEBATE Being Taken From Tenne33ee Rivcr for Government Analysis 611)Tt V14' itSITINIToN 7)13 110 oNr11y ido the hydt-gliphie td-trt of thp 14tm(s SdrVty C11traCVAr of trA4 t' the Tf Elvev Fatnvi of tla v-ttrr nre keit Fit Knox aid 11t1 tt f-rst trc (a-mry of the ev at A WI 'hey 11 0tLp: le ttInflA kVater tht- tf tt firia iro of ft ltot 1 Imo 01 nrnoant and itltd4 tto rift 1 thr tat and variatha frla wAea ia this mam- th- ti blitly Of the litat-E'r tor purpmice rsn rts rtain fl' taok ba COIICTIO11 for a yar at It ktq au1 its con-4et Ian t10 tallittIts w-111 ye rot 110ht4 tn a 9ater 841ppy ittirrr cap Y't Vkl1 t-a oh'a'rPtt frPeof tt siattlanr have 1 rrn f-tr 01AI-truing frryi the ca tt Liver from wh1 taro Itto l'rart It tz 1 ort t-to 1 It vet at Alen-11)1db ftr am Tor WATKINS Ag to week In this the iota la bllitY Of tl'e L''r "''''I't trlt'''''''''''l purposes ra ns fq-tain ei aok An ba continu1 for a at itast 8k1 i 1 ts eom etion f10 roltufts will rot 1101'4 tn a water 5pluy purer colut A Or NI Y' la tf ohfl'oe frecof elorce ti-ttlihiti gliattiont have 1 een siaei-si el for obtatiling 9iitt: crn1 the t'A i at Ja ckson a i 'it i tile 'ssissit II liver at 11eniva amam It WATKINS Internal Revenue Employee May B4 Added to Classified List WASHINGTON Sept 2--(l-lpecia1) Some! weeks ago it was agreed to try the experlinent ot civil service exami- nations for ernp1o3Ts or the internal revenue service the initial step being in the diatxict of Western North Caro Una Fair warning- was given rtnd the rxarnination was held the results of hich have lust reaed the Civil Ser ice Comnihes Ion Most of the employes and officers datnined passed creditahle examinations The commoners were 16) melt pleased that theY have determined to recommend civil service examinationI end tile embracing of the (Wire internal revenue sereiro ItLirt CiTil serske elasaineauon It Was lit first thought to make the trial in the Southern States but it is now seriously contemplated as a good thing fot the whole United Etateta "ts narrsisetgliolcireennd itinat ries tat well pleased that they have deter Southern ates but it i now amlnations and the embracing of the Mined to recommend civil serviefs ex- cute internal revenue sertrice within CITII serNite clableitication It Wag tat nrwt thought to make the trial in the St serious- IT Contemplated as I guoi thing far the whole United Etzitree Will Defend His Course in the Waters-Pierce Affair DALLAS Tex Sept States Senator Riney and Crane of 11 former Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor of Texaa Jointly debikte the questMn As to the propriety of Senator Balley'a eore in connection with the reahniaaion of the Wettera-Plerre Oil Company in no() after the aid Wa- ters-Plore Company had been ousteI for olatiner tho anti-trust law Tte dehete wUt tiae placeot Howie-in next Saturday Senator Palley aeceptIna the chaflenge of eieItoweton Good Government Club for a Joint debate former Attorney General and Lieutenant MAI le ftit'lit7trlirounivics it'ocIt8Igle Writrttlnl lietTyl ntif ttur lialley'S couree in connection ilth the re- a Pny reptn th chaflmge of admission of the Waters-Pierre 011 Com psny intlexas in Vela after the oid Wtt- ters-Pluro Corniany hied been ousted for xiolating the anti-trust law The debate Ault talc tlacevet Houston next Saturday entor ite acIK ath o1 InT 'ertcr ilte Government Club for I' tll-1 7r1 k5ri ii Vil a P) I 1 i i ilit.