Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • 1

LOOK AT TDK ADDRESS LABEL IP THE DATE IS OCTOBER, 1S0G. YOUR' SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRES THIS MONTH 1 6: ISSUED IN i a EM I'WE Vt 1 SECTIONS eyerY Week Tuesday and Friday 4 ISSUED IN'TWO PARTS-TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. FOUNDED 1832. WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE PX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER NEW NUMBER 95 The radius of the storm was probably on the north side of the ha rbor were ling m. Demand That Turkey Release Armenian Eefngee, 1 Mil HULL Ulli.Lt HF I 111.

hardly an avenue' or a street that was not soon fined with tree limbs, and wreckage. It will -be several days before the supervisor of the various districts osn have the dead limbs of the trees hauled away. In Capitol Park the spectacle is a pitiful one. The grounds will rrot regain their former appearance for a long time. Big trees -that have weathered the winds of a half eentury wera blownl down like nine pin a The hurricane seemed to brush them out of Its path like twigs.

Roots, with masses ot earth clinging to them as big as a room. He upturned along the walks and through the park. Many small saplings recently -planted will have to be dug up. The storm cut them in half near the base and they will be useless. -It waa same along Front streetnd -the river bank--: GREAT DAMAGE ATvXJEBANpN.

Lebanon, Sept 201 The round house of the Cornwall A Lebanon R. K. wrecked by the heavy winds this morning and eight locomotives were more or less damaged. The roof of the Lebanon Valley furnace wns-also wrecked, 'as well as one of the. largest stacks at Light rolling mllL i Lands Arson's shoe factory at Palmyra-was unroofed and the building washed and; many trees' are blown across them.

PENNSYLVANIA RR. CRIPPLED. Sept 20. The Pennsylvania Railroad between Altoona and Harrisburg Is badly crippled by a washout at Ardenhelm. near Huntingdon Up to noon to-day no trains arrived from the East The day express and limited express were sent east by way of Tyrone and Lock Haven, thence to Harrisburg over the Philadelphia Erie, A train to represent the Pacific express was made up here and sent West-The Atlantic express is stalled.

A train for local traffic was made up at Altoona and followed the The city escaped damage In the flood, but the flood channel of the new reservoir at Klttanning Point was washed out as was also the coffer dam, entailing several, thousand dollars damage. At the Altoona division the railroad bridge was washed away and passengers are being transferred at that point. Anumberof summer cottages at Point View, a summer resort on the Juniata fourteen miles from Altoona. were washed away. TERRIFIC STORM AT SHAMOKIN.

Shainokln, Septr-SO. A terrific wind JECNSWICK'S LOSS 1500,000. The Old Monitor Blowing About the Harbor in Danger of Sinking. Atlanta, Sept 24 H. M.

Merrill, of the Atlanta Telephone has reached Atlanta from Brunswick and states that the city of Brunswick Is badly damaged and that three big vessels were sunk in Brunswick harbor The latter were blown away from their moorings. Mr. Merrill says that the famous oil Eiinboatthe--Monltor-w-l5lown away from her pier and that she was floating helplessly in the harbor, and in danger of going to the bottom. Four persons were killed outright in Brunswick, as follows: William Daniels. Abel Davis.

John Jefferson, and a baby. A careful estimate places the damages at Many persons were dangerously injured. The railroad tracks were obstructed by trees and poles, and the only train which came through from Brunswick was preceded by a wrecking train and crew for a distance of twenty mllea-jf- BeYASTATION IN ANN AIL Several People Drowned and a Million of Damage Done. Savannah, Sept 30. Seven lives lost a million dollars' worth of property de about a thousand miles.

It reached from the lakes and the Ohio Valley far Into the Atlantic The wind, together with an unusually high tide, caused damage in several places along the coast At Rock-away. Beach serious wash-outs were the result Hog Island was almost submerged at 11 o'clock, and the tide was still rising. Incoming vessels continue to bring re ports of storms at sea. All that arrived yesterday experience gales, while some suffered damage. The British steamship Aloedene.

from ran Into a strong westerly gale Sept 23. and was boarded by a huge sea. It smashed the Jollyboat badly damaged the lifeboat shattered 'the engine room skylight, broke the ventilators, flooded the galleys and did minor damage about the decks. The Italian bark Harrington, on Kept 23, in the Gulf Stream, was struck by a gale from the north-northeast which lasted fourteen hours. The British bark-Strathmulr.

on the same date, was hove to under bare-poles for two. hours. She tost and split several sails. The British schooner Arthur M. Gib son from Quebec arrived via Hell Gate.

She reported kstng her foretopmast during a heavy north-northwest wind off Prince Edward Island. Portsmouth, N. Sept 20. Last night's storm did considerable damage in this section. i storm moving' Westward.

Mariners were anxious to learn it It would be advisable for them to leave port and many shipping masters, called upon the weather bwreauIn -Mclr cast local orecaster Dunn replied to- inquiries that vessels might leave port in safety as the storm which struck this city last nleht had passed off to the Lake re- toH Themperature--thts morning wos 6 degrees. The storm lasted until sunrise this morning, and -did much damage throughout the South. AU direct communication between this city and Washington by wire was shut off. Western-Union poles and-wires were blown down in almost eyery city along the coast It was not until noon to day that any telegraphic communica tion was established between New York and Washington. The capital was reached via Chicago and New Orleans.

Throughout this State and up towards Maine the storm also did much damage to wires. -So badly were the wires crippled that the weather bureau here did not receive any reports from the stations in the Southern States except Galveston and New Orleans. The storm centre this morning was over Michigan. It passed from the coast to the. Lake region and Joined a second atmospherical disturbance there.

PENNSYLVANIANS AT CANTON: A Delegation Prom Centra County Listens to One of McEinley 'a Addresses. Canton, Ohio, Sept 30. After an all night ride on the ears, a party of 400 enthusiastic voters from Centre County, arrived it o'clock this morning and marched through a blinding rain to the Tabernacle. Maj. McKlnley took an early and hurried breakfast and was drien down to meet his visitors a few minutes after their arrival.

His appearance on the stage was the signal for an outburst of The men from Pennsylvania forgot all about their long ride and the dismal weather. They threw their hats In the. air and shouted, cheered and applauded for nearly five min-ptes. The spokesman was W. E.

Gray of Bellefonte, chairman of the county Republican He called attention to one of the banners which the delegation brpught, and which bore the Inscription: "The first county in Pennsylvania to Instruct for McKlnley." Mr. McKlnley In responding said: I anr glad to address the citizens of the county In Pennsylvania that has furnished men to the pubc ONE OF THE RAIDLT3 Hs Fled for Safetylo the Belgian Legation and Will be Protected AU Raiders Sentenced to Death Mussulmans Convicted of Bioting Given I itteea Tears' tnent. Constantinople, Sept 30. The government tribunal, to-day sentenced to fifteen years! Imprisonment each a number Of Mussulmans who were convicted of taking part In the recent riots. "These are the first rioters who have been tried and found guilty since the late Ajtasre The tribunal also passed sentence of death upon all of the Armenians who are known or suspected of having taken part in the seizure of the Ottoman Bank.

In this list is included an Armenian who was surrendered by the Belgian legation, with which he had taken refuge upon condition that he would be released after he had been examined by the tribunal. The Belgian minister haa sent a peremptory note to tne porta, ce-mandtng the man's liberation. ITALIAN byUAJJKUrX A 1 BAiJJ.Nil-A Salonica, Sept 30. The Italian squadron of warships arrived here to-day, and It is announced that the British squadron will soon follow. BRIGANDS KILL AUSTRIAN.

VienpJiSept 30. A hand of brigands on the outskirts of the town of Seres, In Macedonia, recently- kidnapped M. Glatkow, brother of the Austrian consul at that place, and also carried off a Christian and three Turks. Air five of the captives were murdered. The brigands demanded 5,000 ransom for M.

Glatkow, and as the money was not forthcoming they killed him. TWENTIETH DISTRICT TANGLE. Conference Practically Ends in a Bolt Rivals Submit the Question to Haywood and He Decides on Hicks Kooser Will Contest. Johnstown, Sept 29. The Republlcaa congressional conference had a sensational time of It here this afternoon.

It practically ended In a bolt At the very last hour 3:30 p. nv the conferrees representing J. D. Hicks of Blair and Alvln Evans ot Cambria County, appeared in the conference with a resolution providing for an adjournment until 10 o'clock to-night, at Harrisburg, to suDimt tne question oi me uihm uuuu-nation of a candidate to State Treasurer Haywood, or in his absence, Auditor General Mylln the treasurer or auditor to cast one vote for each county in the district The resolution to this effect was opposed by the Somerset and Bed. ford County conf erreesi representing F.

and Joseph F. Throop and the chairman refused to entertain it of submit to an appeal from his decision. The majority of the conferrees, however, voted for the resolution. Immediately the Hicks and Evans men rushed to the depot to catch the 4:11 train to go Harrisburg in time to reach a result before 12 to-night The Kooser and Thropp conferrees remained and nominated Mr. Kooser for Congress, and adjourned sine die.

Mr. Kooser at once secured a certificate of nomination and hurried to the 4:11 train, going with the bolting delegation to Harrisburg. where he will file his nomination papers. The Kooser adherents declare that the nomination of Mr. Kooser will be sustained by the Dauphin County Court because It was regularly made by the only body constituted under the law.

They claim that any nomination that may be made at Harrisburg will be Illegal. i -HAYWOOD DECIDES FOR HICK 9. Harrisburg, Sept 29. When the Republican congressional conference of a. Twentieth district, comoosed of the isfferm visited this section of the county at o'clock this morning; lasting for more than an hour, 'buildings were destroyed and property of every description-laid waste -for miles.

Tha heaviest lossers are the Coal whose colliery la situated at Natalie, a mining village six miles east of this The breaker and fourteen houses were totally-destroyed, seven -by fire and seven by the storm The stables connected with the colliery were blown aown ana tnirty mules killed outright The breaker, was almost entirely des mollshed, causing -a loes of over 250, 000 to the Patterson Coal Co. alone. John Chalmers was fatally injured and Mrs, sayineskl had her limb fractured trying to rescue her baby Vhlch was fatally injured and has since 'died. In this city houses were unroofed and widespread destruction resulted. At Delblers Station the United Brethren Church was totally destroyed by the DESTRUCTION AT GETTYSBURG.

Gettysburg, Sibpt. 80. The storm in Adams Couhty did tremendous damage to housesbarns, timber and fencing. outTSo casualties are reported. On the Gettysburg battlefield the National Cemetery suffered very Top and Culp's Hill are a mass of broken-trees and the new Iron observatory on Cemetery Ridge was Injured.

The monument'of the 66th Ohio Reet- Iment'wjB completely turned, RAGING RIVERS AT JOHNSTOWN. Johnstown, Kept 30. The heavy rain last night raised Stoney Creek to eleven feet and Conemaugh River to eight. At the stone bridge the covered Iron street, which Is the only avenue of communication with the lower part of the city, to the depth of two feet. Traffic was delayed several hours.

LACKAWANNA TRAIN WRECKED. Blnghamton, N.1 Sept. 30. Train 84 on the Delaware, Lackawanna Western road was wrecked this morning at MessengerviUe, the aceldent be ing caused by a tree which was blown across the track by the wind. Fireman na ijeiananty, or Great Bend, was killed.

Great damage was done in this city and vicinity by last night's gale. Buildings were unroofed, chimneys blown down and" wires prostrated in all directions, while the streets were strewn with the branches of trees. DESTRUCTION AT WASHINGTON. Public and. Private Buildings DamagedHeartrending Devastation in the White House and Capitol Grounds.

-rr-" damaged. Later reports show that the damage by the storm last night was far greater than at first supposed. In addition -to the round bouse of the. Lebanon and Corn wall Railroad Co. being demolished that of the Cornwall Railroad met with a similar fate.

The losses sustained by these two companies will run into the. thousands of dollars. The United Brethren Church at- Annvtlle was wrecked and the Sunnyslde. mills-were unroofed. -A part of the roof nf the United Brethren Church in West Lebanon was carried away as well as those of the dwellings of Joseph Strohman and F.

R. At the Iron-City brewery the boiler and engine houses were levelled to the ground. The top of the steeple of Salem, XAitherarrhurch was broken oftVAt 'Ebeneser the barn of Benjainhv Blouch was unroofed -as well as several new dwellings -belonging to Daniel Seller The old brick furnace at North Lebanon, used as a storage house Is a mass of ruins. Hundreds of trees of all sorts were uprooted and It is difficult to estimate the extent of the damage, as there were few; buildings and orchards In the track of the tornado that Wilson Chrjstman and his famlly.jssldingiteaT-Copps Rol-llng Mill, had a most thrilling They had just left the house when one of the walls collapsed, filling their sleeping apartments with a mass of brick and mortar: The bam and house or the steeple of the Reformed Church at Jonestown were badly -damaged. A portion of the steeple of Suedburg Church was twlstedoafof shape and must be taken-down.

The round house at Tremont was wrecked and several engines damaged. As far as can be one was seriously: injured, but the- oldest people say they never experienced any like it It was a night of terror and many of. the residents fought shelter in their cellars until the fetorm subsided. LANCASTER COUNTY SWEPT. 1 Sept" 3olrLate reports received from all sections of-the county show that the damage' done will reach in.

the aggregate nearly a million dollars. Hundreds of farmers have lost their entire tobacco crop, which was ready for the. market. In addition to frame buildings numerous brick structures were razed to the ground. The largest was that of H.

Burd Cassel, ex-chairman of the Republican county committee, his brick planing mill collapsing, destroying valuable machinery andinvolving a loss of about 210,000. Deputy auditor general Friday was, a sufferer. The roof of his barn was blown a considerable -distance and the upper part of the buUdlng'waswrecked. Senator Quay had Just -completed the erection of a large tobacco shed on his farm and the roof of It was mown and carried a great distant-AarES tobacco barn belonging to J. Hay Brown was blown from its foundations to the public road and the entire crop of tobacco was ruined.

These are but a few of the hundreds of similar losses. The railroad bridge at Columbia, which was hurled into the jiver by the cyclone was one of the longest, covered bridges in the United States, being about a mile and a quarter long. It was rebuilt In 1869 at a cost of about 2158,000. The piers are apparently uninjured. It Is believed that several men were In the bridge when it was ewept away and search is -now being made for their bodies.

In -Columbia the electrlo light station and the lace mill were partially unroof ed and great havoc was wrougnt throughout the town. Reports fromTdi soon filled' with swirling pools. Water backed up IntoJones Falls to such an extent that ft poured over the walls and flooded Bwanand Water streets to a depth of about eight feet Families waded out of their homes and sought safety In a more elevated neighborhood. Employes of the Baltimore Ohio Ron Spear's wharf were Isolated on what they called-little Venice of their own." Between thirty and. forty carloads of miscellaneous freight were stored on the wharf.

The experience of the men was an exciting one for a time. The wind lashed the water into waves, which steadily' rose until they submerged the wharf and the streets approaching It Whichever way they looked the men could see only a mass of water, with warehouses rising out of it like islands. Docks and wharves were completely' suDmergea. ana the waves dashing against the end of the warehouse in which the men were working. Street railway cars running along the water front were blocked in numbers, and, the water flooding them, passengers were forced to leave and wade through' the water.

Cable and -trolley cars were blocked In every section of the city by the violence of the storm and the crossing of electric wires. The wind played havoo with the myriads of wires in aU parts or the city. Electric light wlreawer crossed, lights extinguished, circuits and converters burnt out small fires engendered, and telephone "and telegraph lines rendered temporarily useless. With every additional surging of the tempest wires parted like whipcords. then spluttering and shedding myrladai of sparks as they hung from poles or other The Impassable condition of the streets in the flooded district was ennanceu oy me extreme danger i which venturesome persons were ex posed from these broken wires.

Amid the shriek of the wind the sharp Jangle of broken glass was incessantly heard from upper stories, while canvas awnings and political banners were ripped from their, fastenings as If they had beenimeie, scraps of paperin a summer sephyr. Many of the fire alarm Wires were cut Out-completely. Chief McAfee and his six. district chiefs patrolled The city all night Fortunately there were no extensive conflagrations, but a great mans Incipient blazes due to broken electric light i -h Late trains from Washington last night were delayed several hours by trees and other obstructions which" had been blown across the tracks. The engineers moved along slowly, guarding against wrecks from the trees and telegraph poles.

Early this morning? the direction of the wind changed, and the violence of the cyclone abated. Thousands of dollars' worth of property were destroyed, but no loss of life Is reported. Several narrow escapes from death were, however, reported to the police. Up to 7 o'clock this evening the telegraph and telephone companies had been unable to re-establish electric connection with Washington. Reports from the country section between here and Washington Indicate great damage to buildings- and crops.

THE STORM IN MARYLAND, Annapolis, Sept 30. The storm which reached Annapolis last evening raised the tide considerably. At 10:30 o'clock parts of Prince 'George street, leading from, the Tolchester steamboat wharf as far as St. John's College, were submerged. Residents along the street were afraid to go to bed.

Some damage Is reported in the county by the blowing down of bams and outbuildings. The storm caused telejrraph and telephone lines out of Annapolis. IN WESTERN Cumberland, Sept 30. A heavy rain fell in this section steadily the entire day and last evening a. perfect de- renorted ioMldhK Thi.

reported considerably -Wd there was no train further, west than FroBtburg last night. DAMAGE AT SYRACUSE. Syracuse, N. Sept 30. Great havoc was wrought by the storm here this morning.

Buildings were unroofed, chimneys blown down, trees uprooted and the streets strew with broken trees. Street car travel was delayed. The loss cannot be estimated at this hour. No ratames are reported. VIRGINIA STOltM SWEPT.

Lynchburg, Sept. 30. This section of the State witnessed yesterday one of the heaviest rain storms that has been seen here for a long time. It seemed to be almost a cloudburst and In a short time all of the streams In the country adjacent to the city had overflowed their banks. At 8 o'clock last night the tide was five feet and was rising at the rate of a foot an hour.

When night set in the rain again came down in torrents and the wind blew with the force of a hurricane. Staunton, Va Sept 30. There was a tremendous downpour of rain here yesterday. Three and one-fourth Inches of rain fell since morning. No one remembers and no records show so great a tall of water here In so short a Charleston.

Sept. 30. A'heavy wind and rain storm from the south-, east visited this place yesterday. At times lha wind blew very hard and a great many trees were broken or blown The corn crop has also suffered, the shocks being blown over and soaked with' water. HEAVY GALES OUT AT SEA.

New York, Sept. 30. A lively gale came up the coast from the South last evening and when its centre spproached New York a hurricane, was threatening. New York was drenched with rain, which fell fastest at half-past 9 o'clock last evening, at which hour the wind had attained an hourly velocity of thirty-six miles the highest reported, The local weather bureau was In spectacular mood last night Its chief, Farmer Ellas Dunn, used the dark background of the sky for his bulletin' board, and Issued a notice to seafaring folks in port that they had never before seen. He called the attention of skippers to the Manhattan Life tower by sending an Incandescent shaft from a 11,000 candle power electrlo light across their ships.

After he bad thus aroused them he sent up a rocket," which Is a pyrotechnic bomb that left a red trail In Its flight, and when about SiO feet above' the surface of Broadway, burst and threw out fifty red balls. After six of them had flared the announcement to the world afloat hereabouts that It would be wise to stay tn the harbor the rain came down so hard that the display ended. The cyclone thus heralded by flaming bulletins didn't exert the fury of Its energy In this neighborhood. It struck Inland from the Gulf of Mexico over Georgia and Florida early yesterday morning. At first It was a modest swlrler, but by noon it was roaring up the Atlantic coast In the fierce fashion of a real West India hurricane.

Its centre was off Houth Carolina at 2 p. m. yesterday and Its westerly edte was far Inland. Its Influence wss felt over the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, where there were greet rainfalls. Late In the afternoon the tumultuous West Indian bounded off Inland.

At 10 o'clock lant night the centre was at Detroit and waa making things lively for folks In Illinois and Ohio. i 5i--wi Tie Ailantic Slope Devastated by Floods and StormsT Millions of Dollars of Pro-- perty Destroyed. DESTRUCTION IN THE STATE Great Damage by Heavy -Wind and Bains Reported From All Sections Almost Cyclone at Some Points The Columbia Bridge Carried Away A -Breaker Destroyed" atSheanolsinBa Traffic Much DelayedTelephone Crops Destroyed Devastation at Washington and Other Points 7 Southern Coast Cities Affected Great Damage to Shipping in the Harbors A United States Moni- 'r in New York. Philadelphia 4 Sept SO. Reports re- cate that last night's storm was exceedingly disastrous throughout the eastern, middle and western counties of thm-Rt tTTrtiia hams hrlHirM were blown away, cropsrulned, streams and rivers are out of their bankajKashs.

outs and blocked railroad tracks and in Be vera! places Uvea were lost The damage to property will amount to probably two million dollars. At Lancaster and throughout Lan- caster County thesstornuwasespeclally nr. I I. A Susquehanna at Columbia, used by the Frederick division of the Penn-sylvanla Railroad, was blown raway. -Several men are reported to have been killed when the bridge went, but the rumor la unconfirmed.

The tobacco crop in Lancaster is nearly ruined and the monev damage of all kinds In the county a js esumatea. at oy tne coi-; lapse of the roof of the casting house of Temple furnace, Berks County, Ed- til Jll QuritiiAl IPWliiI m.Aiv, killed and William Collar, Joseph Kuth- Ipr linrt fi.ll more or less Atfjhe men were employes of the furnace. -The round house of the Cornwall and Lf banon Railroad, of Lebanon, was etarht -ImvimnrlVfiit dam The "Juniata Is out of Its banks at Huntlngdori-and In Blair County, and the Is Inundated and experience lng a flood scarcely less destructive than the memorable one of 1889. Because of washouts and. landslides traffic on the middle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad is suspended, but eastern trains are going around by way of Lock Haven; on the Northern Central.

At 8hamokin the breaker of the Pat-. 'terson Coal with' fourteen hmiHp tvA blown mules In the stablejpjLthfi-ColJlery-wererkilled bythe collapse of the building. John Chalmers was fatally Injured and the Infant of Mrs. Savlneskt was killed and Mrs. Savineskl had her leg broken.

The above Instances are only a few of the destruction wrought There Is nd telegraphic communication from this city further west In the State than Mount Joy, twenty-seven miles from Harrisburg and details of sUll lacking. The wires of the telegraph companies suffered as they never did before and Up to 9 o'clock to-night communication with points south of Baltimore are still cut oJtThfrtorm was not particularly severe in Phlladel-. phla and only trifling damage was done. A -HURRICANE AT HARRISBURG. Harrisburg, Sept.

30. A hurricane ioved with Harrisburg in the night and when the day broke through the fast disappearing masses "ot gray storm clouds thlsmomlnirths--lty--tooked tiporrKTICene of demolition and destruction that It has not witnessed in the last quarter of century. The mark of the whirlwind that passed over this city will not be effaced in a month, or a year. Roofs will be restored and houses re- paired, out a tnousana maimea trees many of them survivors of the time when the State's capital was but a struggling hamlet and to which citizens were in the habit of pointing with pride will remain to show where the storm biased its path. It had been a rainy Xuesaay wun gusty uiivcb auiii bunv made- walking Uncomfortable early in the evening.

But this was but a foretaste ot the coming gale. By midnight the storm had begun. It hissed around corners and whirled through the telegraph-wires In a way Utterly foreign to a September equinoctial and terrifying to the. timid. It was a gale at midnight; It lashed Itself into sections of whirlwind thirty minutes and by 1 o'clock and for over an hour after It showed the teeth of a small cyclone.

There -wers scores of people In the city who spent the night after 12 o'clock In I A 1 -tf ineir cellars praying inm iua im ui fit Louis might not be in store for Harrisburg. There vera thousands more who sat shuddering until-morning waiting for the fury of the wind and rain to abate. AH were fearful, and, after the hurricane wearied Itself out, the streets were full of people anxious to learn the havoo that they knew must He In its wake. At 12:40 a ball of fire, ti observers as large as a September sunt, flashed out Into the blackness from the southwest and hung for a full minute In the angry heavens. Those who saw It jay that It died away slowly, not with the flashing brilliancy and sudden extinguishing of a meteor, but changing- from white to red and then fading like a dying coa4.

After this the worst was over. The hurricane vrered frequently snd seemed poasessad of as many whims as a school gtrL It would wrench roofs from their 'fastenings, several houses together, and then skip skyward for two or three blocks before beginning Its work of ruin. On Peffer street trees were nprootea and blown down on one side of the Street while the other remained untouched. It was the same on many streets with windows, ono side of the thoroughfare escaping while the opposite houses would be glajuless. Wires were down over town, but gang's of mn were soon busy daring the debris sway.

Th wires were not gotten Into shape entirely all but Third street carsi were running by, I o'clock, Tbr kim 01 mm m.y Iro stroyedthat is the record thecy- clone wnicn sweptjsavannairTrom 11:30 a. nu-untll 12J15 p. m. yesterday. The jitonn, which had been lurking in the Eastern Gulf for the last few days, swept rapidly across Florida at 8 o'clock In the morning, and without warning burst upon Savannah.

Hardly a house In with cwtrnorejor-less damage, thoughjhere-arerfew com paratively-total storm began to rise at 11 o'clock. Half, an hour later It was blowing sixty miles an hour, -When the wind reached a velocity of sixty-six miles an hour the Instruments at the weather station Were blown away. "5T- The storm was terrific in Its Intensity, exceeding the great cyclone of 1893, which devastated the South Carolina coast. The storm came fromJbe-outhT east and sweptdlreetly-6ver the city, Hardlyapubllc building-escaped its fury. The forests in the city were laid In swaths.

The parks are in ruins and many buildings were razed to the ground. The immense -Plant system passenger depot was completely destroyed. The Central R. R. of Georgia and the Alabama R.

R. freight warehouses on the opposite side of the city were unroofed and the walls demolished. The public market was blown In. The theatre was partially unroofed and the Second Baptist Church Is almost a total wreck. Hospital ana me ueorgia tnnrmary were unroofed.

The city and suburban street railway car barns were blown down The Georgia Hussars' armory was badly damaged. Nearly every store in the re- tall part of the city was more or less damaged. The Norwegian bark R'osenius, anchored in the harbor, was capsized. The. German bark Cuba, loaded with naval stores for Hamburg, went aground below the city.

The bark Mlsa, loaded, with naval stotea. and ready for sea, was tlown against the-retaining wall five miles below the city, and Is lying on her side. The tug Robert Turner went to pieces against the Government Jetty, Three of her crew and the captain, C. H. Mur ray, are supposed to have "-been lost, The United States revenue cutter Tybee sustained slight damage.

Small boats were thrown about in every direction. One hundred and fifty thousand dol lars is said to be a low estimate of the damage to the shipping. Telegraphic communlcatlon'Twas cut oftAt-the-begfnnlng of the storm. This report was sent by train for transmis sion from The only train to arrive this city since the storm began Is the north bound iant system fast mail, two-Jjoursaterunff is Still here await ing information as to the condition of the track north ofhere. No trains have passed over the Florida Central Peninsula R.

R. One ot the most complete wrecks Is Forsythe Park, which has been the pride of the city. The city is a tangle of wires. The. street car lines stopped running soon after the blow began and me cars are standing on the tracks In every part of the city.

At Gordon-Wharf a flying timber struck Wallace. lng him im ntly. W. Thompson was killed at the wreck of A. S.

Bacon Co. 'a mills. Several people were also injured in the destruction of Gordon's wharf. i Four negroes In Southville. a colored settlement In the southern portion of the city, were caught under a falling roof and killed.

There Is. yet no communication with the surrounding No news has been received from Tybee Island, which suffered so severely during the cyclone of AugUst. 1893. The reports Indicate that the' damage and loss of life will be greater than then. The fatalities by the hurricane 'which 8 wept Savannah and the country south and north of here was Increased to-day by the finding of the body of Captain Charles E.

Murray, of the Robett Turner, which went ashore in the river below the city during the height of the storm. The steamer. Governor Stafford, which left Beaufort. S. for Savannah, has not been heard from and It is supposed she is The steamer Star left this morning In search of the Governor Stafford.

The finding of Captain-Murray and-the drowning of three of the crew has increased the number of dead so far to Two of the employes Injured by falling buildings will die The damage by the storm will go largely above a million dollars. Nearly every building in the city Is damaged and the loss to railroads is heavy. All the plantations north of the city and along the Savannah River were badly damaged. No definite news has been received from Tybee Island, but It Is believed that the loss will be heavy. SHIPS.

AS1I0RE AT BALTIMORE, The Tide Boss and Dashed Them Into the Streets of the City. Baltimore, Sept 20. The bright sunshine and soft hreeses this morning were in striking contrast with thedown-pour of rain and the wind of ultra-hur-rtcan proportions which swirled through the streets of Baltimore last night The cyclone struck here yesterday afternoon and developed Into dangerous proportions at 11 o'clock last night The winds suddenly gathered with all -the fury of a hurricane. Upon the wharves fll the brunt of the maddened rush. The direction from which they came caused the water in the harbor to back up above the level of the surrounding streets snd flood the cellars ot mercantile house The steamboats and numerous other craft at the upper 'end ot the harbor were lifted high above their usual level.

Bleep was an unknown quantity tn all thowe en board the veaslea and those residing along the neighboring streets, fearing, as they did, that etery Instant the cyclone would come upon them. Along Frett street from the font of Ony street to Centre Market space the current was more than waist deep. While the other thoroughfares adjacent 'AKhtnrtnn Runt 5rt Ta Wait dian tornado which struck Washington between 11 p. m. and midnight last night respected neither official nor diplomatic properties.

It ripped oft some of the corjlnar nf lhi Whito TTnuw mil laid Jo w-most of the historic treesJni iue iiue nouse grounds, including the elm tree which Lincoln -planted (and this gave the relic fanatics a- fruitful field for their: operations). It carried away part of the roof of the State Department, where the official documents are stored, but fortunately left them uninjured. The roof of the nntpnt nftW constructed after the fire there some years ago, was rolled up and distributed all around, the and 'skji lights half an Inch thlcJcwere-Temorse- sky-J iciraiy ueaien ub-rne. naval observatory, andV-m7 pretty, well every otherpubllc building, was more or less damaged, Diplomats' residences were not spared. That of the French minister was left rooiless, and even and substantially built embassy of Great Britain suffered the loss ot the portico under which the British ambassador used to sit In the summer evenings and receive his friends.

Church and theatres suffered alike. The slate roof of the Church of the Covenant, where President Harrison used to worship, was blown down and each separate slate by a curios freak planted itself upright In the grass parking which surrounds the StllL mora disastrous was the fate of the York Presbyterian Church, -which Mr, "Bryan recently attended, sitting in Lincoln's pew. -The whole tower of that edifice was reduced to match wood and persons in search of souvenirs had no difficulty in obtain ing them. Nearly every other church in the city suffered more or less and their antipodes, the theatres, were equally The ower of the Grand Opera House, formerly Albaugh'B, Was blown down fortunately without hurting anybody, though the debris still obstructs the whole width of one of the broadest streets in Washington. Several other theatres lost their roofs, In whole or In part new Albaugh's Opera House, built-on the site of Blaine's old residence, where the Seward assassination was attempted, escaped injury, but the watchman's box at the corner, where, through several wintry weeks newspaper men awaited the progress of the last Illness of the great secretary, was caught up by the storm and crushed In-to splinters.

The devastation wrought among the beautiful trees of the capital was heartrending. For years the parking which controls this part of the national capital decoration has been Implored to have the redundant foliage of these trees trimmed. The reply ha always been that there was not a sufficient appropriation made by Congress. Now thousands of trees which would probably have weathered this storm, it reduced to less redundant shape, have been blown- up by the roots or hopelessly dismembered and the damage done by last night's storm cannot be replaced by an appropriation five times as large as that usually made by Congress for any one year's tree culture. There was no loss of life as far ss known In Washington, though a list of twenty-tour persona are seriously Injured by falllmr branches and crumbling walls Is given out by the hospitals.

In Alexandria, two persons were killed and In other suburbs of Washlgnton personal Injuries were almost as numerous ss property losses. The total destruction of prprty In Washington City by the storm estimated at nearly half a million uy acquainted wun tne old war governor, Andrew G. Curtin (applause), with whom I served fpr a time In National House of Representatives; It has been my privilege for years to know Governor Beaver (great applause), as as Governor Hastings. (Renewed appiause.) Both of them. have spoken from thle platform many, many times, and no speakers ever came to this city who have been more welcome or who have been favored with larger audiences than thoseHwodlstrngulsed citizens ot your county.

I am glad to meet the Republicans of the great Republican State -of" the Union. (Applause.) Whatever, other States have done in the past your glorious old commonwealth has al-waa been true to the doctrines of the Republican party, and In the national contest has been true to the Republican cause. A visit from Penrwylvanlans Is always enjoyed by me. I like that old 8tate. M3" ancestors came from It, and I have for you a feeling of kinship.

I know your greau resources. I know your wonderful I know the wealth of your Bute and rts splendid citizenship, and I am always glad to be assured byPenrmyl-vanlans that in this great national contest for public honor, public and private honesty, for the supremacy of law and order, for good government and good politics and good morals, your great State will lead tn the triumphant march for Republican prin ciples, (ureat applause and cries of -i nats right.) By the census of 1S80 I have noted, as doubtless you have noted, that you have farm values In Pennsylvania In over 000 -000 acres, of or an average valuation of more than US per acre to the whole In your production more than 213.000,000. or an average yield In prosperous times of per acre, while your manufactories, which benefit and enrich the farmers, have an annual pay roll ot reward of labor of tl3tO0O.OQO, which would mean that your farmers would have from them, if they furnished all the breadstuff's and other farm production that laborers consume, nearly li.lo per acre, each and every one of which ar prosperous when business Is good and -all are -embarrassed whn business is bad. No other similar reward to husbandry is presented anywhere; and I make no apology, my fellow citizens, for urging a like policy everywhere, or for having always endeavored to the extent of my best efforts to continue this wise system under which you have had such splendid results In the State of Pennsylvania Call It the Pennsylvania system If you will It onfy does honor to Pennsylvania and her statesmanship for It fceneflts all our laborers and farmers In all parts of the American Union. (Applause and Cries of That's Why should ws not do all our work and spend all our wages at home, giving to both farmers and worklngmen the richest rewards for the labor of any country under the sun? (Great applause and cries of That a the Answer that my f-(low citizens.

(Applause and Cries of ia Us My greatest concern, my. chief object In this, as In every campaign. Is to drtvs from our shores distress and want and misery and lift-up those who are bowed down, and bring to those who are In want work and proeperlty. (Applause.) And I will sever view with tolerance any system which has a different ohject towards any American cliUen anywhere within the limits of our great republic. (Oret applause, and cries ot "Hurrah for Mis Lillian Stem, who has been visiting at Roaring Crek, Ashland and Rhamokln, has returned to her twine on S-wta Main street countlee-of-Cambria, Blair, Somerset and Bedford, met at Johnstown this afternoon and failed to break the deadlock, a resolution was adopted Inviting State treasurer Haywood to participate in the conference with four votes, one for each Then the candidates and conferrees started for Harrisburg, but not before the three Somerset conferrees got together and nominated F.

J. Kooser. When the party reached Harrisburg at 10:30 Mr. Haywood was ready and at 11 o'clock the conference was again convened. Joseph E.

the Bedford County candidate, refused to go Into the conference and went to consult his counseL After waiting a reasonable time the Blair and Cambria conferrees and half the Bedford delegation, with Mr. Haywood, proceeded to a ballot On the. first ballot Congressman Hicks of Blair was renominated. Mr. Evans, the Cambria County candidate, going to make the nomination unanimous.

Kooser's certificate of nomination was filed at the State Department but its validity will be contested In the Dauphin County courts. -I COLONEL DOWN'S BODY! The Remains Found in the Kononga-hela Supposed to be Those of the Baltimore Lawyer. Baltimore. Sept 29. A telegram from Pittsburg, Pa announces that the body ot a man supposed to- be that of Col.

Parry Lee Downs, of Baltimore, has been discovered near Elizabeth, Pa. Th despatch adds- that the headless body of a man was fished out of the Monon-gahela River at Elizabeth a week ago-last Saturday. On Sunday the head was found buried near where the body was unearthed. The Identity of the body was a mystery "Mil yesterday. whtr the police compared a photograph ot Col.

Downs with the head of the dead man. and found a striking resemblance. The body will be exhumed and th ht-ad fitted on the shoulders. A postmortem will be made to determine the cause of death. Col Downs was a well known attorney of Baltimore.

He stood high socially, and had been a member of th staff ot ex-Oovernor Jackson. On the morning of Jan. SI he was arrested In bed at his home. 2111 Maryland avenup. charged with forging the name of hla mother, Mrs.

Mildred C. Downs, ss endorser ot a sixty-day promissory note for 22.400. When arraigned at the central pollca station he waived an examination nJ was released on ball for court, the ball being furnished by Ms brother. Brent Downs, and John T. Gardner.

The colonel disappeared Iran Baltimore and the detective have bi frultlesWr searching the cnunlry for him for the past seven months. Hlrvca bis departure several other foreerlee have been charred against the colonel. J. O. Mi of Lehmsn, who died sxi l-denty on Tueeday.

as one of th I c-ord's oldest mjbvrlters, having i the Record of the fur years. country districts' tell the same-stcry of barns being blown downr houses unroof ed'ajideat; ha vtc wrought gen-erallyr No loss of life has been 'reported, excepting the, unconfirmed -rumor that some men were to have been on the Susquehanna bridge when It HAVOC AT PITTSBURG; Pittsburg, Sept SO. The heavy winds which were general over the western part of the State last night and early this morning played havoc the! running schedules of nearly every railway entering Pittsburg. The heaviest damage seems to have been east of the Allegheny Mountains and from the meagre reports received great damage has been done Through trains on the railways are greatly delayed. The storm practically paralysed the 'Baltimore A Ohio R.

R. system east, west, north and south. Wires and down and reports are far from satisfactory. It Is known, however, that roadbeds; have been washed there are landslides innumerable and tracks are obstructed by fallen trees. In the vicinity of Sand.

Patch, where train No. the. New York and Chicago in Pittsburg at 8:25 o'clock this morning, Is supposed to be storm bound, the rain fell in torrents for several hours and mountain ravines were transformed Into rivers. The freight cars on sidings and dwellings were unroofed and overturned. It is not yet known whether any fatalties occurred at Sand Patch.

Several washouts occurred near Akron, on the Pittsburg A Western It R. and telegraph wires were prostrated. Train No. Chicago express. Is hemmed in by a landslide near Bankerstown.

The cannon ball express is also delayed somewhere on the Ohio division, and the time ot its arrival here cannot be guessed. Locally the damage from the storm Is not serious. CHESTER COUNTY SUFFERS 6E-' VKRELY. West Chester, Sept' 20. Last night's storm In Chester County was particularly severe, the rain falling In torrents for hours, while the wind blew a gale.

The greatest damage was done to orchards which sppear to have suffered more than anything else. The Brandywlne creek and tributary streams which hsve been nearly dry this summer, overflowed their banks this morning snd washed away fenrps, small outbulldlngs-and com crops. The damage to the telephone service In the country wss considerable and In West Chester the electric lights were put out of service by falling trees carrying away the wires. There were several narrow escapes from Injury by live elc-tm wires. The puMlq roads are badly.