The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-09-14

pIldtlOl, making IL necessary 10 pa
these claims out of the appropriation fo
r the fiscal year of 1890 This accounts
e in many particulars, for the apparent in
crease in payment of pensions durin.
July and August, 1889.
Storms on the Atlantic have causeC
unprecedented high tides and tremend
Gus waves. resulting in destruction te
) property all along the seaboard, the
floods in many places washing away the
railroads. Advices from New York state
that the wind has somewhat subsidized
but the skies are still black and light
rain is falling. The only trans Atlantic
steamer which arrived up to 9 o'clock
yesterday morning was the California.
The City of New York and the Teutonic,
due the previous day, have not been
sighted. Reports from along the Jersey
shore show wrecks everywhere, there be-
ing sixteen between Barnegat lighthouse
and Sandy Hook. The water along the
East and North rivers is not so high this
morning as at food tide Yesterday, but
many cellars and Easements are still
Hooded ahd business at the docks and
along the water front is still being car
rled on under great difficulty.
! - NhopuIoll 1IOIlI I1CCu"OONt, N1lSS
says: Twenty-Five negroes, and possibly
more, who were working on a cotton
plantation on Monday morning now rest
died by bullets. The names Of those
killed, so far as ascertained, are John
Boyker, Dol Wharton, Monroe Jones,
Scott Marsh, Warren Smell, Theyton
Lock, Ben Lock and Warren Beckworth
II, 4
One was killed on Monday or Tuesday
end the others Wednesday and Thurs
fday. The leaders of the insurrection,
George Allen and Oliver Cromwell. have
both escaped, though it is thought that
Allen was captured last evening. Crom-
we'll was caught in jackson Wednesday.
but for some reason was turned loose
The negroes are in frightful state of
fear, and two have gone crazy over the
excitement The negroes have threat
ened to burn every house in Letiore
county and every house is being closely
guarded. More than thousand labor
ers have quit the fields, and the cotton
and corn needs gathering badly.
The great storm on the Atlantic was
worse than at first reported. All along
the coast vessels are ashore. They will
probably number up into the hundreds.
At LeWes, Del, seventeen are ashore,
and numbers of men have been drowned.
A number of those saved relate thrilling
experiences. The loss of life can not be
estimated, and that of property will
mount up into the millions. At Atlantic |
City it is thought that at least fifty lives
have been lost Men were seen clinging
to the rigging of the fast sinking yes
sells, frantically yelling for help. The
life saving crew were powerless to rem
der assistance owing to the fury of the
gale. The loss of property and the
breakwater will reach, it is thought, |
s5,0O0,OO0. At Highland Beach, N. j., !
the damage can hardly yet be estlmat-
ed. Nearly all buildings owned by the
Highland Beach association are badly |
injured. The track of the Central rail
road has been torn up and the rails
twisted out of shape. At Wilkesbarre,
Pa, ane of the greatest caves-in that has
yet occurred in the coal regions startled |
the inhabitants of Wyoming Valley.
just outside the town the earth settled
for a distance Of half mile, affecting
about thirty acres of territory. At Long
Branch, N. j., the storm was the most
severe and damaging which ever visited
the SUIT SUIT W; WASHED i Il away Mt the outer end of
the great iron pier. 1t will cost fully
$4,000 to repair the damage