The Waxahachie Daily Light from Waxahachie, Texas • 1

WAXAHACHIE DAILY LIGHT XMV TEXAS. SATCRDAY. ACCJCST NO. 127. storm leaves ruin in PATH AS MOVES INLAND USES WILL HE ENORMOUS OF ROM Its PROPERn RAMAOK BELIEVER TO HAVE been ffll KH I DUO It.

Members of the Oew of the pilot Boy Perished When ypmel Was Wrecked On liar Off Port Aransas. OAIATOTON. The tropical hurricane which struck the Rtdf late yesterday alter- has left ruin in its wake front I the mouth of the Rio tirande liver Pass, one hundred miles the north, according to meaner available today. HI the lantl wires nre down and Uttle information that is approx accurate can be learned by wireleas. iv latest torts receiver nnIndicated that the hurricane was folprwing the course of the striking army camps as it advances.

At o'clock this morning it appar. ntly centered over Ikel Rio, fifty min above Kagle Pass. Millions of dollars worth of daknip to property and tiie destruction of crops is believed to have Iteen done, but the only known loss of lifd so far as known was the lag of ten memlters of the crew of the small steamer Pilot Boy. wreckid on tV bar off Port late ytstrrday afternoon. Several targe steamers are bettered to have been in the path of the hnrrtrane and grave fears are for the safety of the aud-toa steamer Port Morgan.

She thirty hours overdue from Puerto Mexico. The vessel carried a ireiv of twenty-three but the nit inker of passengers is unknown. tiie vessel put into a Cuban or Mtxican port It is believed there little for iter to weather the gale. A fishing fleet front I his port is unreported. Tlie small crafts believed to have Iteen on the Ounpelte banks when tlie storm knak them.

The big steamer which has lieen ashore on Palre slaml for some time, is re- have broken up. Reports received from Corpus Omxti indicate that the city susUiiel the greatest damage of any if the gulf ports. Kvery bathing on the lieacli is to demolishetl and a big hoasaml-fiMit pleasure pier as Nicked. of life in Christi reported thus far, the taking refuge on the high fcffs west of the city where they he safe from the highest seas. storm passed inland in the district with great ra-j leveling army tents and experishable munitions to a deof thirty thousand WtUmeu are in (bat region, wliere dollars worth of gov SIIK FINDS Ill'll SONS imn TWKLYK VKARS.

ARTHUR, HAGGERTY PAUt Haul and Arthur Haggerty were back to the United States from Germany by Mrs. James W. Gerard, wife of the American ambassador at Merlin. The boys had been taken twelve years ago by Mrae. Merline, who placed them on the stage.

In Merlin they were said to have been ill-treated, and Mrs. Gerard learned of their case. I ALL STATE TROOPS ARE REPORTED SAFE I eminent supplies are believed to been destroyed. No casualties are reported from that section. No details have received ns to which regiments suffered the most, but it is known that the Illinois troops found refuge in houses in Brownsville.

COIUT'S CHRIST! BELIEVED TO HAVE 81FFERED HEAVILY BEEYILLK. Aug. "Things are mighty haul. A big puvillon hats just blown away unal a hoait sunk out in the harbor." That was the last message rcceiv- cal over the telephone from Corpus Christi shortly alter 11 last night at Hinton, thirty miles south of! here aind sixty miles north of Cfiristi. The hurricane struck here anomy after 3 yesterday afternoon and tlie wind was blowing sixty, miles an hour at A large gin and two blacksmith shops were demolished and numerous small buildings were blown down.

Tlie cotton crop was ruined in this section and windmills, silos and fences on farms were swept away. Trains which left bote at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon could go no fur- flier than Sinton on the Safi Auto- nio and Aransas railway. Tlie crews reported that the storm caused heavy damage to the tracks, which aie covered with debris for several miles tliis side of town. Xo loss of life has been reported. All wires are down south of heie.

BLOW STRUCK BY BRITISH TROOPS August The troops struck a great blow i Berman line north of the canning the fighting into of the village of Uul. General Haig this Between Ovillers trr British pushed forward a hundreds of was made at sixteen mile mi a Point Thlepval where arp inta of British tluust Berman line on the Thiepvsl. Fast anti southeast of the farm southeast of tiuillemont, an advance of two hundred yards. Further east one hundred yards of tierman trenches wt tired between Fourcaux wtuais i the highway, an advance that brought the British IL's closer to the fortified village a local flernian strong liold. BRITISH t'ONTIM TO MARK tiA 'NS ON WKST LONDON.

Aug. further east the British drove the Uerinaus DALLAS. I Southwestern Telegraph and Tele, phone company a wireless message from Itrownsville via Galveston shortly before noon todny, stating that the iW.lWO militiamen in Itrownsville and that vicinity were sul'e. No loss of life resulted from the storm in that region. The telephone company's wires were working as far south as Sint on, sixty miles north of Corpus Chrlsti, anil workmen were stringing temporary wires from Hinton to the hay shore opposite Corpus Chrlsti.

The workmen reported that the causeway and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway bridge connecting Corpus Christ! with the mainland bait been badly damaged. The workmen, at Inst reports, forcing their way arrows the hay wiUt a cable anil were to establish direct communication between San Antonio and Corpus Christ! by 2 o'clock tills afternoon. to the telephone comimny indirnted that the center of the hurricane passed between Corpus Chrlsti and Harlengin, thirty miles north- west of Brownsville. From there It passed in a gradually narrowing path, passing in a northwesterly ilioction and veering steadily to the eastward. It Is believed to have blown itself out on the plains of t'vnlde county, twenty-five to fifty miles northeast of Kagle Pass.

The International Great Northern railway is out of commission from Pearsall to t'otulla, a distance oil thirty miles directly east of Kagle Pass. The rainfall was extremely heavy throughout that section. from the western front out of Guillemont and passing on northwest of the town captured a position between Delville wood and Ginchy. HEAVY DIME DEPORTED i FBOM THE EGIIAD COUNTRY small buildings were demolished. fences were leveled Mini the cotton I crop for miles around the city was ruined by the storm which struck here about IO o'clock last night.

This city is altoul miles north 1 or Corpus Christi and from the velocity of the wind here it Is ludievod the latter place was hard hit. SH IRK rlOHTKRM fSn)RT H'lm Mil IUMI sUIMMK.RS tltMV. A NT A Aug I tjiiark aimed with long knives accompanied the two long distance swimmers Toth of Boston and Henry Sullivan of LosteR when they struck out from here on a 40-mile swimming race across hay to Prlncotown today. This Is one of the longest, races ever staged. The shark fighters are keeping constantly Having on the swimmers.

WIIX NOT PROM INIHI. TION IN KKITSING PKKMIIIKNT WlliMONH ISSUE II STATEMENT Statement Issued By Railway Presidents Insist tlie Whole Matter Being WIN By Arbitration. WASHINGTON. August railway presidents, after a night devoted more to pn informal discussion than to sleep, determined today not to accept President proposal for a settlement of their controversy with lire employes, submitted yesterday, when they preparer! to leave their hotel today for the White House, where the president waiter! to go over the matter again with them. The railway heads claimed to have a lengthy statement which they had ready to lay Itefore the president in which they insist they eannot yield to any settlement except through arbitration.

ITALIAN LINER SUNK BY ENEMYJ1MARINE THE LOSS OF THE VESSEL WAS REROUTED TO THE NEW YORK AGENTS TODAY. Ship Was Formerly in the Passenger Service Rut lately Has Keen i'wil In Conveying Troops. NEW YORK. Aug. Italian steamer Stampalia has been sunk, presumably by a submarine, the agents in this city have been advised.

The Stampalia was tormerly In the passenger service between New York and Italian ports, but more recently has been used as a troop transport. The Stampalia was 47tl feet long and was built In 1909. The vessel was owned in Genoa. loss OF LIFE IS 0FP00TE0JFF FIOCKPORT TELEPHONE MANAGER MAKES WAY TO GREGORY AND SENDS OFT FIRST DIRECT REPORT. of May liefer to IfmwnlBK of Ten Members of the Crew of the Steamer Hlot Boy.

DALLAS, Auk. A. Oates, manuKer of the Southwestern Telephone company at H'" kport, made Ills way through mud and water to Orettory aud communicated with the local office. Oates says then- Is some loss of life off Itockport. although the town hail no casualties.

Oates' report Is I relieved to refer to the loss of the Pilot Boy. a steamer, late yesterday when ten men were drow tied. Is only a lew miles north of Port Aransas where the Pilot Hoy went down. BlUiAKS MKET KKVKRSKS ON SKHB UtONT SALONIKI, AuK. lit Bulgarian troops who attacked the positions of WILSON STANDS PAT ON PLAN TO PREVENT SRI HE I 4 5 AMKHUWH FROM UHRAT HHITAIX.

1 JQSETph; 'TH0MA5 H. KELLY Tbomus Hugh Kelley and Joseph Smith, two Americans, went abroad to distribute In Irelund money they had collected In Amerlcn for suffering Irishmen, but the British government would not permit them to enter Irelund. They were tuhen to an Atlantic liner nnd there detained until she sailed for the United States. UNITED STATE TROOPS ROT TOjBE WITHDRAWN the entente ulHes along the Herblun frontier on Aug. 17 were repulsed and thrown back upon their original positions after sustaining enormous losses, says the Serbian official statement.

I. I ITAUAN lilli (il'NH CHKCK AISTIHAXM ROME. Aug. Austrians launched an attack last night on the left wing of the Italian forces on the Carso plateau. It was announced I i officially today.

The assaults were chocked by the fire of the Itnlian batteries. smmsfii im IMOtlllTSJD Slut THE ASHEHKMENTH TO HE liECTEP KKOM KTOCKHObllKICK (OVER HHOIITAOE. Tlie IMsappearance of the Oc.lured Following the Exuiiiiiuition of Hank's on June in. AUSTIN. Aug.

19-Bank lng Conindsslonjsr Patterson expressed the belief today that the assessment which can be collected front the stockholders in the People's State bank at Longview will cover the $120,000 shortage which was discovered following the disappearance of (1. Campbell, cashier, aud George Hodenhelm. mayor of Longview, who is also a heavy stockholder in the bank. Patterson said the peculation occurred since last examination of the bank's affairs on June 10. Forged notes are said to have been the principal method of defalcation.

Luck may sometimes loom larger than 'industry, hut It nearly as cert OILY SI OIMIGt BONE GJE RIO GOURDE HAN ANTONIO, Aug. liadio rntfird nt Fort Ham Houston from llrow nsville say tlie gulf hurricane mused only slight damage along the Kin Grande river. In the army camps tents were blown musing the men to move durj ing the night, hut no casualties I have been reported. WASHINGTON, August report lluit General Knnsloii had iwanmiemliil the withdrawal.1 of General Pershing's ptpnlillnn from Mexico would elicit no comment from Secretary Itaker today. In not to discuss said linker.

department will discuss only Its own actions." Army (dicers were equally as rcllniil regarding the report from Han Antonio that in the event of a railway strike it would put Gen. Pershing's forces in a dangerous position ns regards maintenance. Koine officials said the troops would he potentially lu a hostile country with supplies sufficient to last only a month at the most with no eei taint of replenishment. The militia organlMitlous on this aide of the border would also offer a Idg problem of the the sumo sort since they ronsuine a vast unantlty of supplies daily, an average of ten carloads a day being to Kl Paso alone. FORT SIM HOUSTON RII0I0 STATION QUITS WORKING SAN ANTONIO, Texas, August radio station at Port Ham Houstou has gone out of eonuutssion, and no have been received from Corpus Christ! or Brownsville regarding the storm damage since late last night.

Idas offered i BEST SOLUTION IN STATKMKNT TO IIKAfm R.MLWAY PKKSIIMCNT HAYS HM IS AIU.K. is ii faiTmethod HrrUiro lie the Puhllr IlM II HInIiI to Kxpect the Acceptance yf With Hallway WASHINGTON, Auguat tk Prealilent Wllxin, in Informal of pmpoNala for a Dement of hat NS the of the country the Indicated hln intention of pal on hla laid at cnee that the eight-hour day be graated the aeentN to me to lie a thoroughly practical ami entirely MttS faetorily fair program nml I think the public the right to expert mill the atatemest. eight-hour day undoubtedly Iiuk I aanctlon nml Jmlgment of i and principle aliould xbe nilopud a for wit gen, wm where the artual work not completed In eight the preafctant Kidd. At the same time the president proposed Ihnl the tletiuind for extra pay for overtime nnd other sura lie portioned pending Inveatignlion, and suggested that if neeeeatf ry he would obtain authority from to appoint a body of InvestIgators to prohe the wlude situation. This body would report to congress, though without making any reconi irtendutlons.

TTie president's statement was Issued Just after thirty-three railway bends had assembled to give ther reply to pixipnMifInon. President Holden of the Burlington told the president that they continued to stand for arbitration tuid did not believe It was right to ask them to iihtindmi that prlnctI pie. He It plain that full 'power of attorney to reJeH or accept the president's plan lay with the railway committee, which Is still in city but which has not participated in any of the conferences since the railway executives arrived. It Is expected before tint final crisis Iniff been reached that the railway will be naked to come hark to the Honan to indicate whether they will accept or reject tin' president's plan. There was a strong indication that rutlier Ilian reject the plan and precipitate a strike the managers Will ask for more time and further conferences.

The president closed the conference with a thirty-minute add rasa to the He said It la a and got a principle" which is at stake In the pis-sent negotiations. He said it would be (Continued on Page 3, column 3) MONSTER GUNS ARE BATTERING TEUTONS liONDOX, Aug. inch how I tiers that Hie famous Herman are playing an important pail in the uiUeil advance on of tlie Somme. The presenee of these new artillery was revenltsl for the first time tialay In dispatches I from the Kreneh front. he guns, cupahle of throwing weighing a ton two ininules, are blasting great In the Herman nutl are inatleally leveling fortifietl Yesterday's north of the I Somme were pieceded by an Intense artillery liattle in which ullietl of all calibers haltered away at the enemy Tlie I heir line tow uni Glnchy ami exerted more pressure on the who are nearly surrounded at Ttiiaumoikt.

The French tenet rated the village of Matirepas and Increased the danger of the Germans who are elinging Ut tlte village of fiery. Merlin reported a deadlock on both the Italian ami Russian though the latest announced liussfans gains in tlte farputhians. Itulgurian are reported tu have eroased tlte Greek frontier ami have taken the strategic village of Fiorina, threatening the French right flank. This is taken to indicate that both shies tire preparing for serious fighting In the.