Sterling Daily Gazette from Sterling, Illinois • Page 2

DEADLY DELUGES Ravage Once More the Region of the Smoky City. THE EAIH COMES DOW BY INCHES. Torrents Fill the Valleys and Wipe Out Six Building with Ten Occupants Swept Away and Three Women Drowned Three Other Fatalities Described Dams Burst Their Embankments and Flood Several Towns, PITTSBURO, Aug. morning at 8 o'clock this city and vicinity w23 visited by one of the heaviest and most persistent downpours of rain that has been seen here for years. It carried death and destruction with it, and as a result six lives were sacrificed aiid thousands of dollars worth of property laid waste.

The dead are: Mrs. Susan Auld, widow, aged 74; Mrs. Ellon Poppleton, widow, aged 79; Mrs. Florence Robinson, her daughter, aged 34; Martin Cochran, infant; Omeil Schafer, 10 years; unknown man. The storm came from the southwest, preceded by dark and threatening clouds which obscured tho sun and enveloped the city in an almost Egyptian darkness.

As the gloom began to dispel the rain came In torrents and for an hour tho downpour was terrific. Rained Three Hours Without Ceasing. It then let up slightly, but for three hours longer it rained without ceasing. Up to noon 2.24 inches had fallen, 1.8 of this being precipitated during the first hour. In the Immediate city little damage was done, but the suburbs and small towns near this city suffered severely.

Do Haven, a small oil town on the Plttsburg and Western railroad about ten miles from here, had to bear the brunt of tho storm's fury, and it was there that most of the lives were lost. The little town of 800 Inhabitants is situated in a valley just at the junction of two creeks, and every heavy storm fills the creeks and floods portions of tho place. When the storm burst tho house of James Robinson was made the place of refuge by teiopeople. Three Drowned the Ten. Of this number tnree women were drowned.

The storm partook of the nature of a cloudburst and filled the streams to overflowing with wonderful rapidity. A torrent of eighteen feet came rushing down and struck tho Robinson residence with terrific force, carrying it from its foundation and toppling It over into the swirling flood. The house collapsed as it was carried along, and was lodged against some willows along tho bank, and the occupants who had clung with desperation to the ruins were enabled by superhuman efforts to make their escape to except the throe women mentioned above, who were drowned and their bodies washed down the stream. and Exposure Kills a Boy. Little Martin Cochran was in bod sick scarlet fever when the flood entered his father's house.

The shock and exposure brought his life to an end within an hour or two. Omiel Schafer was standing on the Plttsburg and Western bridge at Sharpsburg with thousands of others watching the high waters. Ho attempted to catch a piece of driftwood, lost his balance and ivas caught by the torrent and whirled into eternity in an instant, while the onlookers were powerless to help. The other victim was an unknown man, whose body was soon floating down Goar Head creek past De Pino creek, from Its mouth at Sharpsburg to Do Haven, is a sorry looking spectacle. Every foot of level ground was under water for several hours and miles of gardens and ittle truck farms were washed out.

Ban Workmen from Their Work. The west end of Sharpsburg and Etna were flooded and the water was four feet deep in Spang Chalfant's mill, putting out the fires and compelling the workmen to abandon the building, some having al- firm's loss-wilLbo about $10,000, and new furnaces will have to be built. The Plttsburg and Western railroad has been blockaded practically all day and considerable damage will result. Tho loss at Etna will amount to between $75,000 and $100,000. -FORT PITTS DAM LETS GO.

Run and Brush creek moot wrst of tho town and tho combined waters rushed upon the inhabitants of South Side, flood- Ing their homes and carrying away hun- of dollars worth of household furniture. At Penn and Manor the loss to the residents will be immense, as about sisty houses in tho two towns are almost submerged. The mining village of Claridgo, on the Manor Valley railroad, near Grecnsburg, was almost wiped out by tho cloudburst, but DO lives were lost. Tho Manor Gas and Claridgo gas companies' mines arc flooded and great damage done. DEATH OF A GREAT PAINTER.

Sir John MXUaig, President of the British Royal Academy. LONDON, Aug. John Millals, president the Royal academy, died at p. m. yesterday.

John Everett Millals was born at Southampton In 1899. From his boyhood ho showed evidences of wonderful artistic Instincts. At 10 he drew astonishingly well. At 12 he composed Intricate arrangements of figures and horses. At 9 ho won the silver medal of the Society of Arts with a drawing from the antique, and when 11 years old became a student In the Royal academy, where at 14 he won the silver medal and four years later he received the gold medal, the greatest honor that the school can bestow.

He was an exhibitor at tho Royal academy before he was out of his teens, and as a lad helped to form the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, along with Rossettl, Hoi- man Hunt and others. At tho age of 25 ho was elected an associate of the Royal academy, and nine years later became an R. A. In 1855 he was created a baronet. In 1878 he was awarded a medal and elected to the Legion of Honor.

Ho was a member of tho Academies of Edinburgh and was chosen a member of the Institute of France in 1883. Two years ago a critic summed up Mlllais' characteristics thus: He Is a very careful, thoughtful, laborious worker; a faultless draftsman, whose forcible command of color and chiaroscuro has not always been guided by the light of correct principles; and above all an expressionist, whoso power shines forth in the vitality of his portraits, in tho life and joy of his pictures of childhood, and in the depth of meaning that makes his every canvas strong. Herein lies his chief claim to immortality. NANSEN IS BACK FROM THE NORTH. SPORT ON WHEELS Good Races at the National Bicycle Gathering.

PROFESSIONALS THE CHIEF CAEDS. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Arctic Explorer Safe at an Island of Message. NEW YORK, Aug. the man who started out to drift to the north polo in a whalcship provisioned for a five-years' cruise, believing that the drift of the pack ice would cany his ship past the goal ho sought, has been heard from.

According to a Christiana, Norway, cable he has arrived at Vardoe island, Norway. CURISTIANIA, Aug. Verdens- gang, a dally newspaper nf thla city, has received the following telegram from Dr. Nanson: "Home safe after fortunate expedition." MALMO, Sweden, Aug. newspaper Dagensnyheter has received communications from Dr.

Nansen and Lieutenant Schotthansen, from the Island of Vardoe. These communications state that they abandoned the Fram in the autumn of 1895 and resorted to the Ice. The steamer Windward, carrying supplies to the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, picked them up near Franz Josefland. They expected that the Fram would eventually drift to the east coast of Greenland. Dr.

Nansen failed to reach tho north pole, but he touched a point four, degrees nearer than any other explorer has done. Dr. Nansen left tho Fram on March 14, 1895, in 84 degrees north latitude. He traversed tho Polar sea to a point 86 degrees, 14 minutes, north latitude. No land was sighted north of 83 "degrees of latitude or thence to Franz Joscfland, where he passed tho winter, subsisting on bear's flesh and whale blubber.

He sailed from Christiana Juno 24, 1893, and had been given up by most people for dead. BANK ROBBED OF $10,000. Torn Cooper Wins the Fastest Race of the Year and Lowers His Own Two-Mile Record Two-fifths of a Wings Off Take Most of Vencedor's First Appearance Does Her Credit. LOUISVILLE, Aug. Cooper won the beat and fastest race the year at Fountain Ferry park yesterday afternoon, winning the two-mile national championship race for amateurs and professionals in 3-5, or just two-flfths of a second slower than the time In which he won tho two-mile championship last year at Asbury Park, defeating Arthur Gardiner.

Yesterday his competitors were the fastest men of the Not Butler, Mo- Donald, Gardiner, Zlegler, Bliss, Eaton and Ackers. This, aside from the mile open professional, was the principal event of the opening day of the national L. A. W. racing meet.

The weather was not unpleasantly warm, and this fact, together with the high class card, brought out a crowd of about 5,000 people. Illinois Rider Outclasses His Fields. C. C. Ingraham, of Dixon, outclassed his fields In the two amateur events hnndlcnp and the half-mile both with ease.

The battle of the giants came In tho mile open professional. The only prominent men who failed to qualify In tho trial heats, which were run In the morning, were Arthur Gardiner, Fred Loughead, J. P. Bliss and A. D.

Kennedy. The man began to string out as soon as the pistol was In fifth place, Sanger and the Butlers well back. There was scarcely any change until Sanger started on his run from ninth place on the back stretch of the last lap. The others were slow in making their sprint, Bald missing the opportunity to tack on as Sangor passed him. As.

they bunched at the head of the stretch Tom Butler set a hot pace for Sanger, but Bald was pocketed. ganger Begun Too Early. Sanger had mode his start too early, and was not equal to the terrific paco at which Butler came homo. The latter landed the money, a comparatively easy winner, Bald finishing in his pocket at fourth. Scratch men did not figure In tho mile handicap for professionals.

It was another scalp for the Butlers, Nat, with a thirty yard handicap, winning In a close finish from A. D. Kennedy, of Chicago, who started from tho fifteen-yard mark. In tho two mile national championship Cooper had the pole. The pacing was done by Staver and Wlnesett on singles.

Cooper caught the pacemakers within fifty yards, and Bald was on his rear wheel, while Pinkey Bliss filed into third place, the others strung out In Indian file. Thus they pedaled for five laps. Cooper and Bald In Struggle. At the last quarter Eaton made his sprint from last place, Nat Butler tacking to him as he passed. These two challenged tho leaders at tho head of tho stretch, but the great pair had the race well in hand.

It was a battle royal between Cooper and Bald to the tape, Bliss clinging to third place like grim death. Cooper started in upon such a spurt as he has seldom been called upon to make, doing the last twelfth In :07 4-5. This won the race for him, and with It the first national championship medal awarded at the meet. Johnson Too Fat for Epeed. Johnny Johnson took his usual shy at the records, but ho is too fat to accomplish his old-time feats.

Ho made a half-mile behind a triplet in 0:53 4-5. A. J. Nicollet rode his "Giraffe" a quarter In 0:33 3-5 to the amusement of the crowd. Two record attempts were made by triplets, tho best performance being a mllo In 1:52 2-5 by a local team.

Have Barely Time to Save Their to Property. Irwin, a thriving town on tho Pennsylvania railroad about twenty miles east of hero, also suffered much property damage, but no lives were lost. At noon word was received that tho Fort Pitt dam at Jean- netteJhad burst and the water was rushing toward Irwln. Warning was Immediately given people living in the low land on the west of the railroad, but before they could get away tho flood came rushing down Brush creek, carrying railroad ties, telegraph polos and debris of all kinds. The car shops of the West Moreland Coal company were first to suffer, the employes being compelled to flee for their lives, many having to wade through water to their shoulders.

The women and children living in tho houses near tho shops were forced to the upper stories and roofs. Rescuing parties formed and tho imperiled ones were taken out in boats, and where the water was lower on tho backs of men. When the waters of Brush creek had reached their height tho Pennsylvania Plate Glass company's dam, which had been partially repaired gince the other flood, burst again and its waters came rushing through Tinker Bun, flooding on their way the Parr Wagon works, the Hockensmlth foundry and machine shops and planing mill and the lumber yards of the Irwin Lumber company. The damago at the machine shops will run into the thousands of dollars, Tho The depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad company spans Brush creek and the large platform used for receiving freight was carried away, together with several of worth of freight ready for shipment. The railroad bridge of the Weat Moreland Coal company at Larimar was taken away, and about 200 yards of the washed out The waters of TJnJcer Bold Work of Some Bandits in a Town In Broad Daylight.

PocATELLO, Aug. was received here last night from Montpeller, that about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon three masked men rode Into town on horseback, stopping in front of the Bank of Montpeller. They dismounted and compelled six men who were standing In front of tho bank to go Inside. Two of them covered the men with revolvers, whtio the third went behind the counter and emptied all the cash in sight into their sacks. The robbers then mounted horses and rode out of town.

Sheriff Dayis organized a posse of thirty men who are in pursuit of the robbers, thirty minutes behind. Tho bank officials refuse to disclose the amount secured, but it is believed to bo fully $10,000. New Scheme of Counterfeiting. WASHINGTON, Aug. secret service bureau of the treasury department has been requested to look into a report of extensive counterfeiting of United States silver dollars In one of the Central American states.

The information comes from a Mexican paper and was sent to the state department by Minister Ransom. It states that In one of the Central American states a company has been organized by Americans who have purchased tho silver dollars of the stato worth 47 cents and coined them into American dollars. It Is said that 2,500,000 of these dollars have been shipped into this country, where they have passed at par. Mexican Fanatics Are Vicious. PHOENIX, A.

following dispatch to Governor Franklin is received here: "An assault was made at 8:80 o'clock a. m. on Nogales, Sonora, by filibusters. Three Mexicans aro dead. Seven filibusters are dead, or captured.

The were $anta Teresa fanatics, and they are heading toward Tucson or Solo- monvlUa. SAM WKDB, Collector," Troops are after the attacking party and both sides of the Mexican-American line are YACHT RACING AT CLEVELAND. The Chicago Competitor of the Canadian Fin-Keel Takes a Prize. CLEVELAND, Aug. splendid sailing breeze, continuing steady from daybreak to.

nightfall, made tho regatta events yesterday very much of a success, despite the fact that the sea was a trifle too rough for fast time. The four races scheduled for tho day came off In addition to a race between the Say When, of Cleveland, and the Enquirer, of Buffalo, two swift, handsome and sumptuously furnished steam yachts. In the schooner class over 55 feet the only starters were the Priscilla, of Cleveland, built on tho Atlantic as a sloop to defend the America's cup, and the Crusader, of Chicag o. The latter was not in racing form, but entered out of compliment to the Priscilla, whoso owners had made preparations for tho contest. The Priscilla won In 2:45:28, the course being twenty-one miles.

The Vencedor, of Chicago, tho challenger that will race the Canada, which Fife built to meet her for the international championship of tho great lakes, showed her. fine qualities and the skillfulness of her crew in the flfty-flve-foot class. As on Wednesday, the Canadians demonstrated the fact that they are fine sailors and have speedy yachts and they captured nearly everything. The results of. the four races on the pro- gramme were as follows: Schooners over fifty-five foot, twenty- one-mlle course, Priscilla won.

foot class, twenty-one miles, Vencedor, of Chicago, wOn in 2:48:09. Thirty-flve-foot class, twenty-one miles, Eva, of Hamilton, Canada, won. Thirty-flve-foot class, fifteen miles, Hiawatha, of Hamilton, won. To avoid accidents the steam yachts raced on a straight course from Falrport to the Cleveland yacht club house, thirty miles. The Say When and the Enquirer started even, but the latter caught her best pace the soonest and forged ahead a short distance.

The positions thus taken were maintained to the finish, the Enquirer passing between the home-stake boats twenty-eight seconds ahead of the Bay When. The actual time iulrer, Say Waeo, Lizzie Rr-nsor, of Cnss county, has started to wivlk to St. Louis to wed B. A. Stensall, of Denver.

The affair is tha result of a matrimonial advertisement. Florence Gordon, sweetheart of Jesse Thames, the "long" man now in custody at Chicago, has reconsidered her decision to "have nothing more to do with Jesse." She hns returned from Detroit and will marry Thames at tho county jail this week if the police are willing. A constable attached the dining room of one of the swellest hotels of Newark, during the dinner hour in order to satisfy a judgment in favor of a servant. The money was quickly paid. Obituary: At New Haven, Hubert Anson the oldest professor In active service at Yale university.

At Upper Sandusky, Robert McKelly, 81. At Greon Bay, Mark English, 59. At Kouts, Thomas H. Macoughtry. Maud Dusenbury.of Ramona, stole a team of horses and was arrested at Brazil, Ind.

She is but 18. At the Chicago School of Psychology, 255 Bowon avenue, hypnotism was successfully used instead of anaesthetics to deaden the pain of extracting teeth. The patient was a man 45 years old. Eight teeth were drawn. He said he felt no pain.

Joslah E. Kelley, assistant cashier of the First National Bafc of South Bend, killed himself and left a letter confessing that he hod robbed the Institution of 824,000. The sultan of Turkey has conferred upon Miss Clara Barton, president of tho American section of the Red Cross society, tho emblem of the second class of the Order of Chefakat. Alt T. Hayden, convicted In tho criminal court of soliciting a bribe, has been expelled from the Memphis city council.

E. D. Sniffen, secretary of the Amort- can Protective Wheelmen's association, charged with embezzling $100,000, was arrested at Chicago. Porter, of Chicago, fined fourteen milkmen $25 each for violations of the milk ordinance. Official returns show that French imports during the last seven months increased 215,000,000 francs over those of tho same period of 1895.

In answer to an advertisement at New York for ten divorced women to go out in a theater company the applicants numbered over forty, most of them coming from Hoboken. They will go in a museum and will probably take a tour through the country. A young man and woman who are taking a wedding tour on their bicycles were arrested at Wautaugh, L. for riding on the sidewalks, but wore released without being fined when the justice learned they were on a wedding trip. Working Up Fusion in Michigan.

DETROIT, Aug. are being made to unlto the Democrats, free silver- itcs, Populists and Prohibitionists against McKlnley. Representatives of the first three parties named mot Wednesday night and agreed upon a definite plan of action and tho Prohibitionists will be admitted to the distribution patronage if they glvo up their dtate ticket and join tho new allies. Four Dynamiters To Be Released. LONDON, Aug.

tho house of commons Home Secretary Ridley announced that upon tho medical report it had been decided to release on license Daly, Delaney, Gallagher and Whitehead, four Irishmen imprisoned for conspiracy against the government in connection with the dynamite explosion some years back. Flatt Beats Miller In the Primaries. LITTLE FALLS, N. Aug. Warner Miller lost control of the Republican organization In this county in tho caucus yesterday.

Of the sixty-four delegates to tho rftate convention selected thirty-four belong to tho Platt section of tho party. The Weather That Sometimes Comes. WASHINGTON. Aug. following ara weather indications tor twenty-four hours from 8 p.

m. yeoterdayr For fair weather: light to fresh easterly wlnda; warmer. For Generally fair, warmer weather; light to fresh easterly winds, shifting to southerly. For warmer weather; light to fresh southerly winds. For fair weather; possibly light local showers In northern portion; winds shifting to southerly; warmer In northern For fair, warmer weather; southerly winds.

Engineer and Fireman Killed. CHICAGO, Aug. Otis, a wreck on the Lake Shore railway killed the engineer, James Griffin, and the fireman, Michael Roach. New York Jeweler Assigns. NEW YORK, Aug.

A. Casper- fold, dealer in diamonds and jewelry, of this city and Saratoga Springs, N. has assigned without preferences. He is reported to have carried a stock valued at $200,000. Irish Land Bill Is Passed.

LONDON, Aug. house of lords has adopted the Irish land bill as it came back from the house of commons. It is now probable that tho house of commons will be prorogued today. NEW RULE REGARDING PENSIONS. Makes a Change In the Practice of the Examining WASHINGTON, Aug.

14. practice of tho boards of examining surgeons of the pension bureau has been materially changed by a ruling made by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds. The new rules, which take effect Oct. 1 next, and which will not disturb oases heretofore adjudicated, provide that all board members hereafter must participate in examinations of claimants, and no certificate of a board failing to show this fact save on special consent of the claimant, will be accepted. In case a full board is not present applicants may refuse to be examined.

In an amputation case Assistant Secretary Reynolds also has Laid down the rule that the middle of the humeriu is the furthest point from the shoulder Joint that will prevent the use of an artificial arm. 1MSTEAP OF WJjlTlMG A LETTER TO YOlJR FARAWAY FRIEND, WEEKLY IT CONTAINS Sixteen AISlp TrfE PRICE iS i Per gear if paid ii) V..