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8 FATAL FIRE IN A THEATER IN SCOTLAND. Flames Break Oat During the Progress of an Evening Performance. Three Dead Bodies Taken From the Ruins of the Building. No Startling Developments in Connection With the Strike on the Canadian Pacific Trains More or Less Delayed, But Railroad Officials Claim That They Will be Running on Time To-Day. ABERDEEN (Scotland), Sept.

During the progress of the performance at the People's Palace Theater this evening fire broke out and the audier.ee were thrown into a panic and made a rush for the exits. A number of those st nt were severely burned, and many "were- crushed in the wild endeavors of the frantic crowd to reach the streets. It is said that at least forty persons were injured, four fatally, while a number of others who are known to have been in the theater when the fire started are reported to be missing. The building was completely gutted by the flames. ABERDEEN, Oct to this hour (3 a.

three bodies have been In the ruins of the theater and fears are entertained that the search, which is being carried on actively, will result in the discovery of others. CANADIAN PACIFIC STRIKE. No Startling Developments in Connection With the Trouble. MONTREAL, Sept. 30.

are no startling developments in connection vith the Canadian Pacific strike. Nearly all incoming passenger trains were more or less delayed to-day, but the railway officials claim they are replacing the strikers, and they expect to Lave everything running smoothly by to-morrow. The company's claim, however, is emphatically contradicted by Chief Piereon and other members of the Strike Committee. Pierson to-night said the situation remains practically unchanged. He had received advices from many points which showed that the men were standing to their keys.

As to the prospect for the trainmen and engineers joining the strike, Pierson Bald he could not speak at present, but that union meetings were being held at points to discuss the situation. As to the result of the strike he was confident- The railway officials state that many operators are applying fw work, and that 'inconvenience" about describes the situation. There is a great deal of sympathy expressed for the strikers, whose grievances are set forth in a manifest published to-day. QUEBEC, Sept. is practically no change in the situation on the Canadian Pacific here.

Passenger trains are arriving and having on time, but no freight is being moved. Local Superintendent Hall is of the opinion that the strike will be settled inside a week. OTTAWA (Canada), Sept situation here in regard to the Canadian Pacific strike is unchanged. Rumors that the trainmen and engineers will join the strike have been received here, but no movement in that direction lias as yt appeared. A few vacancies have been filled by new men.

WINNIPEG Sept. is no change in the strike situation here. Operators at outside points remain out, but passenger train. are moving as usual. No perishable freight is being taken by the company.

Both sides are confident of the other giving in soon. WHEAT MARKET FIRM. The Prices at Chicago Continue to Advance. CHICAGO, Sept. 30.

The Chicago wheat pit was to-day the scene of turbeen witnessed since the days when "Old Hutch" used to make speculators writhe. Since September Sth up to the SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-TTTSTIOy, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1896. opening of yesterday's board wheat had steadily risen, an advance of nearly 11 cents being recorded. Yesterday the conservative element concluded that wheat had risen about as far as existing conditions warrant, and a decline of resulted from their letting go. A conviction existed that wheat would decline further to-day, but cables from Liverpool told that every offer of wheat from this side had been accepted, and there was still a firm demand.

Prices, too, were higher, in spite of the decline here. The shorts were stunned by this announcement, and the opening prices were fully higher than yesterday's close. When later cables reported that "London was excited and prices were advancing the eagerness to cover became a scramble to get wheat at almost any price. By noon December was selling at an advance of for the day. There was some reaction from the high point, but the closing was firm.

Many speculators prophesy a dollar market will be reached. UNION GENERALS. rieet With Hearty Receptions in Nebraska. WEPT POINT Sept. The Union veterans touring in this State addressed the people of Northern Nebraska at West Point to-day.

A crowd of visitors, estimated at 2,000, 600 soldiers among them, came to town. The visitors included Generals Sickels, Alger. Stewart, Howard, Corporal Tanner and ex-Senator Manderson and General Cowan of Omaha. Public schools were closed and business almost entirely suspended. The exercises were held in the park, and while the speeches were brief the enthusiasm was great.

General Sickels received a genuine ovation. He said he was a Democrat of fifty years' standing, with the span of lift- nearly spent. There was nothing which the Republican party could offer that he would accept, but in the present emergency he was compelled to put aside party and vote for what he considered the integrity of the nation. FREMONT Sept. visit of the Union Generals this afternoon was made the occasion of the greatest Republican demonstration of the campaign.

Visitors came from all over the northern part of the State. CANADIAN PACIFIC STRIKE. Main Line Passenger Trains the Only Ones Hoving Regularly. WINNIPEG Sept. Canadian Pacific Hallway strike remains unchanged.

The main line passengers are the only trains moving regularly. Two freights working on the time-table got out this morning, but all other service- is demoralized. The Deloraine Branch passenger is stalled down the line. The company is not receiving any perishable freight, and a fruit famine is imminent. he grain rush is on, and the dealers are "kicking." The strikers are confident and quiet.

It is reported that the wires are down east of Winnipeg. Leadville Strike. LEADVILLE Sept. miners held a largely attends! meeting to-night, but the session was strictly executive. The meeting was a long one, and what was accomplished is not known.

From what has leaked out, however, it is believed that President Boyce delivered an address advising the miners to stand together. Several mine managers who are preparing to start up their mines state that they can get all the men they need at the 50 scale. Tug Sinks With All on Board. NATCHEZ Sept. officers of the steamer St.

Joseph report that a small tug, name unknown, sank last night near pent's Landing, and all on board were drowned. The water is seventy feet deep where the tug sank, and it cannot be raised. None of the bodies of the crew have yet been recovered. BROKE THE RECORD. Fast Voyage of the Pacific Mail Steamship China.

SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. Pacific Mail steamship China arrived this morning from Hongkong, Yokohama and Honolulu, breaking the pacific record between Yokohama and San Francisco, and lowering the- record of the fastest steamers of all lines between Honolulu and San Francisco two In UTS. The China is always springing surprises, as her officers nay, but her recent accomplishment is the biggest surprise of all. The log the China's voyage, which will go on record as the banner trip of Steamers sailing out of San Francisco, is explained in the following entry: I "Sailed from Hongkong September 3d, and from Yokohama September loth, reaching Honolulu on the 24th, after a trip occupying It days 10 hours and 11 minutes, breaking the record two hours. I The run from Honolulu was made in days hours and '20 minutes, break- Ins; the record a little over 2 hours.

I Passed tin- heads at 9:85 a. STEAMSHIP ASHORE. The Alki fleets With a Hishap Near Douglas Island. SEATTLE. Th- Wlllapa arrived in port to-day from Alaska and reports that the Pacific Steamship Company's steamer Alki.

several days overdue, ran onto a I rock, badly breaking her propeller. The I disabled craft was beached neai Douglas Island. The Willapa brought down Cook's I Inlet miners, who re port from eight to t'-n drownings on Turnagain Arm With" iti the past sixty days. The Excelsior land tin- schooner Royal transported the Willapa's miners from Six-mile to Sitka. SEATTLE Wash Sept.

P.O.— The story that the steamship Alki has been wrecked in Alaskan waters is denied by the officers of the City of Topeka, which came from Alaska to-night. I say that the Alki met with a slight accident to some of her machinery and was laid op for repairs. Then she went I STet Bay for a cargo. Suicide at Eureka. EUREKA, Sept Jennie Palmer, the wife of a laborer, comn Itl suic ide this morning by hanging herself to a harness peg in her husband's stable.

She was slightly demented. MANY LIVES LOST IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. (Continued from First Page.) now owned by Commodore Beardsley, Is a sad spectacle to behold, with its piazzas all torn to pieces and its columns prostrated. The Courthouse was terribly damaged. THE DAMAGE AT WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Sept. est Indian tornado which struck Washington between 1 p. m. and midnight last night respected neither official nor diplomatic property. It ripped off some of the coping of the White House and laid low most of the historic trees in the White House grounds, including the elm tree which Lincoln planted, and this gave the relic hunters a field for their search.

It carried away a part of the roof of the State Department, where the official papers are stored, but fortunately left them unharmed. The costly roof of the Patent Office was rolled up and distributed all around the neighborhood, and skylights half an inch thick were remorselessly beaten in. The Naval Observatory, and, in fact, pretty well every other public building, was more or less damaged. Diplomatic residences were not spared. That of the French Minister was left roofless, and even the substantially built Embassy of Great Britain suffered the loss of the portico.

Churches and theaters suffered alike. The slate roof of the Church of the Covenant, where President Harrison used to worship, was blown down, and each square of slate by a curious freak planted itself upright in the grass parking which surrounds the edifice. Still more disastrous was the fate of the New York Presbyterian Church which Mr. Bryan recently attended. The whole tower of that edifice was reduced to matchwood, and persons in search of souvenirs had no difficulty in obtaining them.

Nearly every church in the city suffered more or less, and their antipodes, the theaters, were equally visited. The tower of the Grand Operahouse, formerly Albaugh's, was blown down, fortunately without hurting anybody. The debris still obstructs the whole width of one of the broadest streets in Washington. Several other theaters lost their roofs ln whole or in part. The new Albaugh's Opera-house, built on the site of Blame'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 waited the progress of the last illness of the great statesman, was caught by the storm and crushed into splinters.

The devastation wrought among the beautiful trees of the Capitol was heartrending. For years the Barking Commission, which controls this part of the National Capital decoration, had been employed to have the redundant foliage of these trees trimmed. The reply has always been that there has not been sufficient appropriation made by Congress. Now these trees are blown up by the roots or hopelessly dismembered, and the damage done cannot be replaced by an appropriation five times as large as that usually made by Congress for any one year tree culture. There was no loss of life as far as known in Washington, though a list of twenty-four persons seriously injured by falling branches and crumbling walls is given out by the hospitals.

The total destruction of property in Washington City by the storm is estimate at nearly In Alexandria, the Virginian suburb of Washington, just across the Potomac River, the damage done by the storm is estimated at not less than $100,000, and at least two lives are known to have been lost. The killed are Mrs. Louisa Pelt and William D. Stewart, crushed to death by falling walls. Nearly 200 houses were badly damaged by the tornado in its course.

CLEVELAND'S HOUSE WRECKED. WASHINGTON. Sept. ('lev-land's suburban home at Woodby, near city, which has been left in charge of servants since the President ami his family went away to Mi nmchusetts, caught the full fury oi last night's gale. Roof and rafters were carried away and landed 100 yards distant, where they were intermingled with the ruins of a windmill which had supplied water to the country seat of J.

R. McLean, adjoining the President's property. Portions of Mr. McLean's stables, which stood on a slight bluff adjoining the President's grounds, and which from their exposed position were quite a feature in the tanscape, were intermingled in the general mix-up. This evening workmen were engaged in repairing the ruin.

VIOLENT STORM IN VIRGINIA. RICHMOND Sept. most violent storm ever known in this section burst upon the city last night about 0 o'clock and raged for two hours. Trees were uprooted, fences blown down, windows blown ln and houses unroofed on every side. On tad Street the roof of Jacob's clothing store was blown i-i on some sleeping children and one of them was seriously hurt.

The Steeple of the Second Baptist Church was blown off. the point of it going into the front of th' 1 V. M. ('. A.

building, which is on the opposite side of the street, and doing considerable damage to that building. A colored church In Manchester, just across the river from Richmond, was unroofed and the steeple blown down, and parts of the steeples of the Broadstreet Methodist Church and old St. John's Episcopal Church, this city, were carried away. The wires of the city hie alarm system are wrecked. The roots were taken off the tobacco factories of the J.

B. Pace Company, the Yarborotigh and Cutting WOT th and the tank on the top of the Allen Ginter factory was blown off. The car barn of the Richmond Traction Company was unroofed. Grace Episcopal Church steeple and the Third Presbyterian Church steeple were damaged. The streets were in darkness all night, and the trolley cars had to stop running.

The same stories of the storm come to the "Dispatch" from all over the State east of the Blue Ridge. Barns and small outhouses were swept away, trees uprooted, residences unroofed, wires prostrated and general wreckage prevails. The heavy rain at Staunton on Tuesday resulted that evening in the bursting of the dam of the lake at the Richmond Fair Grounds, the waters of which rushed into Lewis Creek, which runs through the city, flooding the lower business section, destroying a vast deal of property and causing a loss of several lives. The Wilkes building was undermined and fell. Burk'a livery stable was turned upside down, the bridges over the creek were swept away and the Crown building is a wreck.

The Thornsburg stables are wrecked and there is a general ruin everywhere. Many horses were drowned. At Waynesburg, ten miles east of Staunton, the creek rose fifteen feet and wrenched buildings from their foundation. One man was drowned. Reports from all the surrounding country report great losses to the farmers.

The loss at Staunton is estimated at 1350,000. IX PENNS YXiV ANI A. LEBANON Sept reports show that the damage by the storm last night was greater than at first supposed. The roundhouse of the Lebanon and Cornwall Railroad was demolished, and that of the Cornwall road met with a similar fate. The estimated loss of these two companies will run into the thousands.

The United Brethren Church at Anville was wr eked, the Bunnyside Mills unroofed. A part of the roof of the United Brethren Church in Lebanon was carried away as well as the dwellings of Joseph Strohman and F. R. Fret iff. At the Iron City Brewery the boiler and engine houses were leveled to the ground, the top of the steeple of Salem Lutheran Church also broken.

The old brick furnace at Lebanon is a mass of ruins. It is difficult to estimate the xtent of the damage, as there re few buildings and orchards in the track ot' the tornado which escaped. Wilson Chrlstman and hi.s family had a most thrilling ecape. They had Just left the house, when one of the walls collapsed, filling their sleeping apartments with a mass of brick and mortar. A portion of the steeple of the Reformed Church at Jonestown was blown away and the steeple of the Swedenborg Church was twisted out of shape.

The roundhouse at Tr mont was wrecked and Several engines damaged. No one was seriously injured as far as can b- learned. HARRISBURG pt. awful fury of tne storm king was not fully realized in tliis city until daylight, when the great force of the hurricane which swept over this s'-ction at 1 o'clock this morning was evidenced in the rootless houses, uprooted trees and damage to property generally. Hundreds were unroofed, but not a single human being was Injured amid the fritrhtful crashing of hous-s and falling chimneys.

The Opera-house was partially unroofed, and many windows Were broken in churches and the hoolhouses. Trains on the middle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad were run via. Lockhaven for several hours owing to a landslide at Maple-ton. Regular traffic was established this afternoon. In surrounding- towns and country districts much damage is reported, and fruit crops aw? ruined.

Churches were wrecked in several country places and at Steelton an overhead bridge fell across the Pennsylvania Railroad. An express train dashed into the debris a moment later. The locomotive and several cars were damaged, but nobody was hurt. It had been a rainy, windy day, but it was not until midnight that the wind assumed the velocity of a gale. It lashed itself into sections of whirlwind thirty minutes later, and by 1 o'clock and for over an hour after it showed the teeth of a cyclone.

There were scores of people in the city who spent the night aftrr 12 o'clock in their cellars, praying that the fate of Pt. Louis might not be in store for Hnrrisburg. Conservative estimates of loss from the storm in the city vary from $150,000 to $200,000. REACHES CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Sept.

of the most severe windstorms known for years raged over the lake region last night and part of to-day. It seems to have expended most of its fury over the upper half of Lake Michigan. The loss of life so far reported is small, four men having been drowned by the sinking of the steam a ge Sumatra at Milwaukee. Much minor damage was done to shipping in Milwaukee, Grand Haven, Chicago and other ports, and the masters of such steamers as were out in the lake during the night report one of the roughest passages they have experienced. Owing to the lateness of the hour and threatening conditions which prevailed for twenty-four hours before the storm broke, most of the sailing Beel Was tied up in different ports, Chicago Harbor especially being crowded.

This fact doubtless explains the small list of casualties. Along the lake shore in front of the i city all night and this forenoon the I waves dashed over the seawall many feet. In the inner harbor yachts and schooners were tossed about like corks. the waves dashing over the breakwater many feet high. A large lumber schooner dragged her anchors this forenoon.

and before tugs managed to get her I under control again crashed into and sunk many smaller craft. The steamer Atlanta, when making her dock this morning, was thrown violently against Hie pier by a huge wave. The port sides of the steamer's planking i was crush in for a length of five feet. The City of Milwaukee from i St. Joseph with a few passengers and a i large crago of fruit arrived minus her upper mainmast, which was broken off during tho night and also having a por- I tion of her bulwarks stove in.

Captain Stewart says the rain fell in torrents all night, and the wind, which a I furious gale, seemed to whip around from all directions without the slightest notice. When this side of the lake was reached the steamer had to haul about three times before the entrance to the harbor could be made. The tug Sam Fischer of the Lake Michigan line left South Chicago yesterday morning with three car ferries in tow. each loaded with cars. When the storm struck them it was determined to run bock to port, and the tug succeeded in getting inside the Chicago breakwater early this morning with two of the ferries.

The other ferry broke her lines a'oout two miles out, and owing to the roughness of the lake could not be picked up. Her anchors and been let go, however, before She broke away completely, and she was sighted this afternoon apparently riding safely. It is feared, however, that if the wind freshens agiiin to-night she will roll so that the freight cars will be pitched into the lake. Dispatches from many other lake points tell substantially the same story. On Lake Superior the storm does not appear to have been so severe, although at Duluth a thirty-six-mile gale was reported.

MANY KILLED AND IXJL'UED. ATLANTA Sept. La Crosse, fifteen buildings were destroyed. Rev. W.

A. Barr, Mrs. F. F. Mcintosh and her baby are reported killed.

Near there four laborers who were in a cabin at the turpentine farm were crushed by falling trees. Newberry, in West Alachua, is totally wrecked. C. J. Kastlin.

Mrs. Nancy Olmstead and David Jones were killed. At High Springs, Harden, Jane Morris and Bailie Nobles, colored women, are reported to have been killed. At this place a number of people took refuge in a boxcar, which was blown along the track and then off the track. Every person in it was badly injured.

Two of them have since died. At Grady, a small place, twelve houses were blown down. A woman was killed, but a babe at her breast was unhurt, although it had been carried some distance by the force of the wind. At Lake Butler. Bradford County.

C. H. Harkey. Mrs. J.

M. Futch and her infant were fatally hurt. Many buildings were blown down. At this place the wind blew to pieces two cars loaded with bricks, and Henry Sullivan was killed by one of the flying bricks. On Judge Richards' turpentine farm four convicts were killed by falling trees.

In Baker County four towns were almost totally destroyed. They are Mc- Clenny, Sanderson, Glenstarry and Otustee. No one was killed outright in these towns, but many were injured, amoner whom was Mrs. C. S.

Richardson, James MoAlpin and North Webster, all of whom will die. At Live Oak the destruction is complete, hut no loss of life is reported. Welborn the house of Amos White was destroyed, and two of his children were killed. At Lake City eight business houses and thirteen residences were destroyed. Mrs.

Sarah Fletcher and two boys were killed, and Dora Jennings. Samuel Hudson and James Maybury were fatally injured. The hurricane passed over Duvall County, striking the edges of Jacksonville, but did very little damage. LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLODES. Completely Wrecking a Building at San Luis Obispo.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. P.O.—This morning at 10:30 a locomotive in the roundhouse of the Pacific Coast Railway blew up. completely shattering one end of the building and blowing a heavy timber across the tracks on to the roof of a warehouse seventy-five distant, driving it completely through the roof. Fortunately tbe men on the engine had gone away but a few moments and none were hurt. The explosion was hi ai a long distance.

shaking the ground like an earthquake. STEAMSHIP UMATILLA Lying in a Dangerous Position Off Point Wilson. PORT TnWNSF.NI) Sept 80. steamship T'matilla cannot survive any heavy westerly weather or ocean swells. Her bow is imbedded among the rocks off Point Wilson, and the rise and fall of the tide is gradually crushing her bow plates.

It is now definitely known that the fog whistle on Point Wilson was not blowing when the accident occurred which is admitted by the keepers, who say it was due to the fact that the supply of water necessary for steam purposes had become exhausted. For the past tim days the whistle on Race Pvoeks has been silent for the same cause. This, together with the ebb tide, was what threw the pilot nearly a mile on his reckoning, and While trying to locate the Point Wilson signal ran the steamer in among the rocks. A Bark Wrecked. PORT TOWNSEND Sept.

was received here this of the wreck of the bark James A. Borland, which occurred at Tugidak. Alaska, on September 10th. The vessel and cargo are a total loss, but all of me orew escaped, being picked up by a sealing schooner. The Borland was owned by Louis Schloss of San Francisco, and was a vessel of 870 tons.

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