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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
II DID NOT FIT THE CASE EXACTLY
Ernm The Chicarn Herald

bonses good deal of money in cable toI importing
in While It contuses people. One OF chIcago's
largest whOle ale houses employs such cipher and IL
was used last month by the wife OF member Of the
firm who is now In Europe, in communicating with her
husband who IS In Chicago. She knew thai his
Gftieh birthday occurred September %, and that
day sho cabed him 70 the effect that she sent her love
and wished him fifty more Of Them She sent the
cable message 10 the firm name, E., Chicago,
knowing that her husband opened all cabiegrams and
would understand the message AS u happened tho
cahegra fell into the hands ~ The eldest Of the
head Of the firm. 40 he had JUS been madH happy
fafher be naturally supposed that al con rainhnry
messages were meant Tor him. but he was puzzled at
lhis one because he did not remember lat he bad
friend In Europe Just then, and he could n,t eii'e
Tho matter remained unexplained until Monday, wbsa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
SENDING CABLE MESSAGES FROM EUR0Pl


From The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The American who goes into telegraph once IN
England for the first time b SEND caDle ncssaec
uslially undcrgOes an experience that confirms nm
IN his opinion the superiority OF the INSTITUTIONS
of his native land lie HIS just arrived ana anxious
10 inform the FOLKS at home. 50 he stops on his way
10 the railway station hotel. Telling the capDy"
10 wait he grasps a blank, fills In the necessary
words lays down his shilllngs and prepares = 60.
q Wrong iomn says the clerk. politely but firmly,
The traveller looks around helplcsly until some one
soeng his emharrass mcnt hands him The white sheet
required for cable messages He gives IT 10 the clerk
with q sigh Of relief. " Must be stamped replies
that ofciaf pointing TO sign Of stampS sold here
ghe traveller hands his message 10 the bnghtfacei
girl who prcsdes behind The ron-raiiei G Is,9
despair anxious, maybe, to catch train or Join
some waiting friends. he finds the rating clerk. buy
the stamps from the inte esting young lady, and at
last ton minutes or having passed, has his
message accepted and started via pneumatic tube to
some more central station, at which the operating
room is located. Many arc the exceIencies OF the
English postal telegraph service, but prompiitude Is
not always one Of them. II Is just to say the new
cable company has dispensed with many of the forma
ties which trying TO any one accustomed to
American ways.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
THE REASONS FOR EDWARD REH3rS SUICIDE.

THE REASONS FOR EDWARD REHMS SUICIDE.
Chicago Nov. 9.-Edward Rehm whose suicide in
front Of Judge MoConneps court created sensation
last night, was ioumeyman baker. He came here
from Kansas City In September. On September "a he
went into the East Chicago-ave. police station and
talked about having lost his girl, his money and
place, and said that he intended to kill himself. The
police him 10 the detention hospital for the insane.
but friend after taking him his house where he
has since resided This friend said that Rehm left the
house yesterday afternoon IN a cheerful mood saying
that he had secured work. This the last seen OF
him until the shooting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10

REMOVAL
WNI. kNABE ~ co.
havc removed 10 their wareroomA
las FIFTH AVENUE,
near 20th-st
a number Of slightly used grand upright end square
pisnos make which specially selected and used
X me the Metropolitan Opera House Company
Syr,nS the past opera season. will BE- sold 81 liberal 10.
duetion from regular prices
IL MERSON PIANOS RANK HIGH among
II nstclass Instruments. and sold at moderate prices
on reasonable terms. Over so 900 In Annual out
put 500. Light plant action pure meodous SnE
cases with elegant wood or perforated bronze panels
fsNERsON PIANO CO. % 9TH ave-. near 1Ath-ss.- -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10
EIlIl:aaL]3y;S![Il

My mother has had a
chronic cough for about
twenty five years She
has tried everything she
ever heard of, but with
little benefit. RIKERS
EXPECTORANT relieved
her in a very short time.
Both lungs were affected.
MRS. MARY REMM1N-
GER, rs GOerck-st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10

dence and Worcester Railroad Company. The plain
tiff was freight brakeman and thrown from
train by defective freight bar and lost his right leg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10

GETS SO 900 FOR LOSS or LEG
(, Providence, z. l., Nov. 9.-Frank o. PAU was yo+
Sxdsy swsrdNd 5000 w. hs s4s AGAINST ~ fSv';
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10

,ho nerbcr of the firm who had had birthday nnaly
ano The cablcgram really meant for him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-06-12

reason they think tho loss will be found 20 be
very great The water came In a wall preceded
by yellowishTloud OF mist or foam, and it
caught the blocks OF houses IL swept them down
together with n succession Of crashes TINT was
terrible.
Mr.. Felt thinks there were less than coo people
on the high ground with him. The others went
down with the flood. He saw hundreds Of them
go down before his eyes they stood looking
down upon the wreck. No one escaped from
the Hurlbut house. and Messrs. Felt and Nc
Cloud would have been among the lost had they
dined there.
As soon as possible the Chicago men began
the work Of organizing relief parties to rescue
the people who were on the houses that had
been swept back into Stony Creek when the
water could not escape below. These people
We're wild with fright, and Mr.. Felt
secured n clothes-line which used To send
out raft with strong man TO take people of
the houses. river man volunteered FOR
this work, and with rope tied Sc
curely about his body, he made many trips
into the flood, and each time brought two
people ashore with him. The other gentlemen
carried these people up To the high ground
where they were cared for by the residents of
that locality. They rescued over fifty people In
this way, mostly women and children. They
worked as long as they could see aud after dark
the FIRE at the bridge gave them light TO here
and there the people still clinging &c roofs, some
OF whom were rescued. number OF travelling
men who were I'm the hotels tied TAGS to their
clothing and shot themselves, so desperate were
they I'm this scene Of terror. Bob gentlemen
vouch for this.
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A Remarkable Story.

While the 5-year-old son of John Y.
W. Purcell was playing boat in a
mud pond or flag marsh on the Island, Z"
as / called a strip of wet, wooded land
on the Thomas ii. Tremper tractin the
town of Rochester, he was attacked by
a large number of swapping turtles.
very numerous in that section. and sus-
tanned several severe bites from the
hitherto considered inoffensive reptiles.
No cause is known for the attack and
in that section il is entirely unprece-
dented.
Ii seems the first warning the little
fellow had was general gathering of
the turtles around him. each uttering
a peculiar croaking moi c. The little
tot, being questioned about it By tie
attending physician, said: Say all
commenced to hollar an frew tones
at EN-. "Zen yunned an failed an
zey all bite my legs zan foots an hurt
me orful bad" His mother hearing his
screams rushed to his assistance only
to find him completely surrounded by
the ugly things, which were literrlly
chewing him to pieces and sucking his
blood and it was with some difficulty
that she beat them off vi h clothes
stick which she happened to he hold
ing in her hand. -Poughkcepsie NetCs-
Press.
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DAzED BY THE HORROR.
Johnstown Like Great Tomb-Scenes
in the Stricken City.

in the Stricken City.
A snd and gloomy sky. almost ms sad and
gloomy "a the human faces under il. shrouded
Johnstown to-day, continues Mr.. Giles. Rain
fell all day and added 10 the mseries of the
wretched PEOPLE. The great plain where the best
part of YOUNGSTOWN used 20 stand is half covered
with water. The few sidewalks in the part that
escaped the flood were inches thick
with black sticky mud through which
| tramped steady procession Of the poor
women who are left utterly destitute. The
TENS, where the people are housed who cannot
find other shelter, were cold and cheerless. The
town seemed like great tomb. The people OF
Johnstown have supped so fun OF horrors that
they 60 about in sort of n daze and only half
conscious OF their griefs. Every hour as one
goes through the streets he hears neighbOrs
greeting each other and then inquiring. without
show or feeling, how many each had lost in his
family. To-day gray-haired man hailed an
other across the street with this question.
Il lost Ave all ale gone but Mary aud l. was
Il am worse of than that sold tho first old
gentleman; Il have only my grandson left.
Seven of rs gone"
element. They and every one else had heard
SO much Of these melancholy cOuversat ions
that somehow the calamity had lost its signih-
canoe to them. They treat 10 exactly as III the
dc ad persons had gone away and were coming
back in n week
The melancholy task Of searching the ruins
for more bodies went on today in the soaking
rain. There were little crowds of morbid curl
oeity hunters around each knot OF woringmen
but they were not residents OF Johnstown. All
their curiosity i'm that direction was stated long
ago. Even those who come i'm from neighborng
towns with the idea Of days strange and
CHASTITY experiences did not care 10 be near after
they had seen one body exhumed There were
hundreds and thousands of these visitors from
the country
One thing tina. makes the work Of searching
for the bodies very slow is the strange way that
great masses Of objects rolled into intri-
cate masses OF rubbish As the food came down
tho valley OF the sonh Fork it oblilerated the
suburb OF Woodyale, whore not "a house was
left nor IA trace of one. The material they had
contained rolled on down the valley, over and
over. grinding il up to pulp and finally leaving
ii against an unusually firm foundation or an
eddy The So masses contain human bodies, but
10 is slow work TO pick them to pieces
In the side OF one OF them seen tho rcns
nanis OF carriage, the body OF "a harnessed
horse n baby cradle and doll n tress of WON
ans hair. rocking-horse, and piece of beef
steak Sill hanging TO n hook.
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ing of oach key, little fingers or followers
at the Same time continually pushing for
ward the characters until the line Is COM
pleted, or nearly SO.
The spacing Of the lines is accom-
plished by peculiar mechanism which
uoes it automatically, and always spaces
evenly letween every word
The line of matrices thus completed is
received by head pIosi.e the end OF
the stationary tyre guide. there being
Immediately below and behind the head "A
mold, in the form of a vertical disk. hav-
ing n mold chamber or slot extended hori-
zontallv through il of form and size
identical with that of the required type
bar. This portion of the machine will be
better understood by reference 10 the sec
tional view. where b represents the disk
mold, ii the line of matrices ~ held up
thereto, G the reservoir Of melted metal in
its gas heated chamber, ID q plunger acting
as q force pump TO pump or force the
metal into the mold, and T. an ejector bar
which has forced out the type bar +.
For the purpose OF forcing the line of
matrices tightly against the mold, their
! characters registering with the mold
proper an outside clamping head Is en-
ployed to bear against the outer edge OF
the line, while supplemental clamps or
jaws assist TO hold the line firmly and In
exact adjustment.
Not only is all this work done automat-
ically, but the matrices, after the type bar
has been formed are automatically with
drawn from their position against tho
mold disk and lifted by carrier TO the
distributing mechanism, at the top of the
magazine, whence they are distributed to
their several tubes.
How far this machine may be consider
ed practical success for general use, In
the way of superseding typesetting by
| hand in the old way, it is perhaps too early
to give definite answer. 1t is obvious
that it is not adapted for work requiring
different varieties of type, as small CAPT
tails, italics, accented letters, etc. But
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STORY OF THE DEUCE.
HEARTRENDING SCENES IN CONE
MAUGH VALLEY.

william Henry smiths Graphic Dcscrip-
ton of the Floods Awful Approach
Mad Plunge of the Aqueous Avalanche ON
tho City of Conemaugh-ifow Trains.
Houses, Everything, Went Down Before
the Fierce Niagara-Awful Scenes of De-
struction.
Mr.. William Henry Smith, General Manager
OF tho Associated Press, was an eyewitness of
the awful scenes In Conemaugh Valley on the
night of the great calamity. He tells the follow
tng story of the floods devastation
The fast-line trains that leave Chicago at rs
and Cincinnati ut 2. m. constitute the day ex-
press eastward from Pittsburgh, which runs in
two sections. This train left Pittsburgh on
time Friday morning, but was stopped for an
hour at Johnstown by reports Of washout
ahead. 1t had been raining hard for over six
tsen hours and the sides OF the mountains were
covered with water descending into the
valleys. The Conemaugh River, whose
bank is followed by tho Pennsylvania
Good nearly bankful. Passengers were inter
ested in seeing hundreds of saw-logs and an
enormous amount OF driftwood shoot rapidly
by, and the train pursued its way eastward.
At Johnstown there was a long walt, as before
stated. The lower stories OF many houses were
submerged by the slack water. and the inhab-
ttents were looking out OF the second stories
Horses We're standing up to their knees in
water in the streets side-track OF the railroad
had been washed out loaded cars were on the
bridge to keep il steady and the hugo
Company, carrying fifteen wires, swayed
badly and several soon went down. The
two sectiong nan 10 Conemaugh, about two
miles this side Of Johnstown, and lay there
about three hours, when they were moved on TO
the highest ground and placed side by side. The
mail train was placed in the rear OF the first
section, and freight train was TO a side
track on the bank OF the Conemaugh. The re-
port was that a bridge had been washed out.
carrying away one track, and that the other
track was unsafe. There was a rumor also that
the reservoir at South Fork some time ago n
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the nance Of uhese unfortunates ever revnd
place ON the pages of history.
@An indications point 20 the fact that tho
death-list will reach over Ave thousand names,
and i'm my opinion the missing will reach 5000
In number" declared Gen. d. H. Hastings.
AT pretsnt there are said TO DO 2 200 recovered
bodies. The great difficulty experienced In
getting a correct list Is the great number Of
morgues. There is no central bureau Of infor-
nation. and To communicate with The different
lighthouses is the work of hours.
In answer TO questions from Gov. Beaver,
Adjt. Gen. Hastings has telegraphed the follow
ing:
Good order prevailed throughout the city and
vicinity last night. Police arrangements are
excellent. Not one arrest made NO need OF
sending troops
about 90 bodies have been rescued. and the
work of embnlinng and burying the dead In 90
ing on with regularity There is plenty OF modi-
cal assistance. We have bountiful supply OF
food and clothing to-day and the fullest tele-
graphic facilities afforded, and all inquiries
are promptly answered. The Pennsylvania rail
road will be completed TO Johnstown stati
tonight. Have you any instructions or inqui-
RESP
"1he most conservative estimates here place
oppression il that the loss viii reach from 500
TO 1000. There are many widows and orphans,
and n great many wounded-impossible to give
an estimate. The property destroyed will reach
~, OO0, 600 The popular estimate will roach
4O,oooOoO TO s5O,0oo0OO. Chief Burgess
man of the Relief COMMITTEES, are
doing good work. Have made requisition on
Pittsburg for cooking facilities shoes, and made
up clothing for mon, women, and children, all
OF which We need badly. Tomorrow morning
we will have go men, with horses. carts axes,
and other tools, clearing away the debris.
You cannot raise too much money for this
suffering community"
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It's Owners Were Aware of It's Rotten
Condition.

Messrs f. Singer, George Singer. Louis Clark,
and K Hussey Binns, of Pittsburg. relatives OF
members OF the South Fork Fishing Club, have
arrived from the broken dam says dispatch
from Johnstown.
The lake is completely dried out. The dam
broke in the center a. 3 O'Clock on Friday after
noon, and at o'clock IL was dry. Thai great
body OF water passed out in one hour. Mcssrs.
Park and Van Buren,, who are building new
draining system at the lake tried To avert the
disaster by digging sluice-way on one side to
ease the pressure on the dam. They had about
forty men NJ work, and did al they could with
out avail. The water passed over the dam about n
foot above its top, beginning at about 2 20.
Whatever happened in the way OF cloudburst
took place during the night. There had been
but little rain up TO dark. When the workmen
awoke in the morning the lake very full
and was rising ut the rate Of n foot an hour 1t
kept on rising until o'clock, when ii first be-
gan breaking over the dam undermining il
men We're sent three four times dming the
day to warn the people below of their danger.
When the final break came at o'clock
there was sound like thunder, and trees,
rocks, and earth were shot up into Inidair in
great columns, and then the wave started down
the ravine. A farmer who escaped said that the
water did not come down like wave. but
jumped on his house and beat il 10 fragments in
instant. He safe upon tho hillside. but
his wife and two children killed
At the present time the lake looks like
a cross between the crater of volcano and
n huge mud-puddle with stumps OF ;rscs and
rocks scattered over it. There is q small stream
OF muddy water running through the center OF
the lake. The dam was seventy feet high, aud
the break is about 200 feet wide. and there is but
n small portion of the dam left On either side.
No damage was done 10 any of the buildings be-
longing TO the club The whole south fork is
swept with not n tree standing
man named Mcguire says he was standing
on the edge of the lake when tho walls burst.
The water rising all day and was level
with pile of dirt which, me said, was above the
wall OF the dam. An OF sudden IL burst with
n report like a. cannon and the water started
down the mountain side, sweeping before IL
trees as If they were chips; powders We're
rolled down a. IL they were marbles.
tied in an hour and half. All the water, he
said, is now out. The railroad Is In n terrible
condition. At some points holes twenty to
thirty feet deep were washed ia the tracks. On
his way down he stopped AZ Mineral Point.
where sixteen houses were washed away and
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different matrices the special distinctions
being necessary TO insure the automatic
distribution of the matrices to the mag l.
zine tubes after they have been used.
side view OF one OF the matrices is
also shown Mt A. in the sectional figure,
where it forms part of line as held mp
in casting
To receive the matrices. as they are de-
liyered one at n time below the magazine,
aud conduct them 10 the point Mt which
they are assembled or composed TO form
lines, horizontal guide or channel Is
prov died. with rails on which the shout
ders of the matrices are supported. the
matrices fitting loosely in such channel,
and being maintained there n in substan-
italy upright position. The matrices
are advanced through this guide or chan
mel TO the point of assemb &c by means
of blast of sair directed longitudinally
through the channel, from the lowermost
of the two tubes seen to be connected
with the machine the ri ght of the oper-
ator, the other tube Icing connected with
the casting mechanism, TO assist in cool
ing the mold. BY this me ms the de-
livery of each mdrix is erected SO
promptly that its motion can hudly be
seen. tho click of the matrix coming TO it's
place in tn lire icing formed seeming to
be almost simultaneous with the touch
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THE SCENE SIMPLY AWFUL.
Pen Pictures OF the Heartrending Con-
dition of the Valley

dition of the Valley.
This IL certainly OF the worlds greatest
catastrophes telegraphs Fred II. Giles, the Chi
cago Netcs special correspondent at YOUNGSTOWN.
The scene Ia awful. The dead lie so thick that a
corpse scarcely commands attention. save as the
committees proceed thor rounds In a
schoolhouse ON tho hillside there are $50 bodies.
Many of them are frightfully cut and bruised.
Every condition OF life and both sexes in almost
equal number are among the dead The peo-
pie were caught without warning in the
midst OF their regular pursuits. Mer-
chants, lawyers. and business men gener-
ally arc the most numerous victims. The
great number of young women, who can
be seen To have had attractive faces despite the
distortions OF death, Is deeply touching. La
dies are soon identified and dressed for burial.
Thousands OF collins are coming in ON the train =
and are being rapidly used In many cases
whole families pehshed In n small room OF
the school-house lay eleven little children. A
big boy sat by contemplating them. They were
his brothers and sisters. His father, Squire
Fisher, and his mother wero drowned but their
bodies have not yet been found. The children
We're in the attic and would have been saved,
but II locomotive was hurled through the house
and Knocked down.
The business part OF Johnstown ia without
form. The stores in such buildings still
stand are i'm vast disorder The doors are block
AIDED with diff but peering within number
OF them, the proprietors, their clerks, ana Gus
toners can be dead on the floor The
Hotel Hurlburt, large brick building was
made place OF refuge, and fell, killing seventy
people.
an ndescribablo wreck and upon this hideous
scene II cold rain has poured all day long ana
still prevails tonight. No attempt Is made to
avoid the weather and the thou sands of survivors
are wringing wet tonight. Most Of the fugitiyes
have got shelter now.
The first dispatches from this scene were
many times short of the tremendous truth. The
catastrophe Is SO great that none dare venture
an estimate upon it's extent. Woodyale and
Conemaggh utterly destroyed, and their