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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-21
A British Mnr Shin Sinks

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 2O.-The British
war ship Lily struck a rock off Point
Armor and sank. Seven of her crew were
lost. The vessel is "a total wreck. Con
siderable money and valuables went down
with her.
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Jesse Haines. of Baltimore. Dead.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 20.-Jesse Hines, in
surance commissioner of Maryland and
for many years one of the Democratic DO
litical managers of the state, died tonight.
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]. G. Maltlnglr & Sons. Dlstillers.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 2O.-J. G. Malt
ingly & Sons, distilIers, reported embar-
raised about ten days ago, to-lay filed
deed of assignment The liabilities are
estimated at about four hundred thousand
dollars: assets 1926, 900
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Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton.

MAYS LANDING, n. j., Sept. 20.-Reports
that Mrs. Hamilton either attempted or
committed suicide are absolutely false
Mrs Hamilton is reported this afternoon
by members of the sheriff's family as in ex
cellent spirits and has eaten heartily. Her
departure for Trenton states prison will
probably occur tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-21
senate Irrigating COMMITTEE.

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 20. - The United
States Senate committee on irrigation is
here listening to statements from citizens
of this section on the matter in hand
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is at the head
of the committee.
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The CIGAR Makers, Convention.

New YORK, Sept. 20.-In the Cigar Max
ers international convention this morning
proposition to have the president of the
union elected by popular vote, instead of
by delegates to the convention, was re-
iected-S1 to g.
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Gladstone on Balfour,s Plans.

LONDON, Sept. 2O.-Gladstone writes that
he regards Balfour's Catholic university
endowment proposal as a lightning con-
ductor intended to divert lightning from
striking the Parnell commission at the
opening of parliament,
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Warmer OFF for Deer park.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Maior William
Warner will leave this afternoon for Deer
Park in response to communication from
President Harrison. 1t is presumed the
President desires to see Warner in connec-
ton with the pension commissionership.
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Hanged al Daylight.

MooRHEAD, Mimi, Sept. 2O-Thomas
Brown was hanged this morning for the
murder of Policeman Poull on the night of
October II, 1888. The drop fell few min
utes after am. Brown faced death
calmly and died without struggle.
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Celebrating in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-The italian military
and civic societies celebrated the occupa-
tion of Rome to-day with procession and
picnic.
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Italy's Occupation of Rome.

ROME, Sept. 2O-The nineteenth ami
versary of the entity of the Italian troops
into Rome was appropriately celebrated to
day
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LONDON, Sept. 20.-The steamer Florence
foundered in the Irish sea to-day while en-
route from Garston to Belfast. Nine per
sons were drowned.
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the cantons are as follows: Glass A, Canton
Marion No. 6, Marion, Indiana; Glass B,
Canton Indianapolis. No. 2, indianapolis,
Indiana; Glass c, Canton Wichita No. 5,
Wichita Kansas
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Italian OCCUPATION of Rome.

New YORK, Sept. 2O.-The Italians to-
day celebrated the anniversary of the occu-
patton of Rome by the italian troops.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-07
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Z, 1889.
THE AWFUL CALAMITY,


tbe particulars of which we give in another
column. is the most terrible that has ever
occurred in civilized country. But two
hundred miles from our own doors, as the
crow flies, a city Of Twenty-Eight Thou
sand inhabitants was blotted out from the
face of the earth and one half OF it's lnhabl-
tants silenced in death. That our readers
may understand it's extent, we may say that
the city of Jamestown, Pa, contains The
number of inhabitants named. 1t is CON-
posed of several townsVCambrla City,
Conemaugh, Woodvale, and the borough
Town of JohnstOWn, the last being about the
size and population of Staunton. Below all
these is the great stone arch bridge Of the
Pennsylvania Railway Company, which
acted rs dam and awful death-pit. The
body of water which came from the bursted
reservoir struck the smaller towns first at
height of twenty feet. 1t tore them to pieces
and carried the timbers of the frame houses
down on the doomed city OF JohnstoWn, the
heavy timbers killing those who were borne
on the flood. Below Johnstown it was
stopped by the bridge, and backed into the
city, throwing thirty eight feet OF water
into it's streets and drowning every living
creature who was outside OF house. Al
the bridge the wreck took fire and thousands
were swept into it and burned to death, OF
killed by the floating timbers. Ii they were
swept over the bridge it was only to be
drowned on the other side. Whole families.
from the parents to the infants, were rushed
to a horrid death this way. The latest esti-
mate puts the loss of life at Twelve Thou
sand. but the number will never be ascer-
tanned till a census Of the inhabitants OF the
towns. about to be taken, is completed.
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GLEA NED FROM THE MAILS.

The Texas Spring Palace Exposition, now
open at Fort Worth, is a marvel of grandeur.
The building covers $4,000 square feet and has
a dome so feet in diameter and 100 feet high.
The dome is covered with wheat worked i'll ar
fisticdesigns. There are fourteen towers feet
high, on which every product Of Texas is repre-
seated One is bedecked in hides, horns, hoofs
and tails of cattle. A feature of this tower is
a map of the State of Texas showing every
county, stream and town, the different colors
being obtained by using the hair OF cattle.
One tower is done in corn IN fancy designs,
one in cotton one in seashellS, one in oats and
milIet, one in wheat and rye, one in sheep pelts
and wool, and one in cotton and wool. The
others are covered with variety of yege-
tables
Gov. Merriam of Minnesota, after rigidly eX-
amining him on his Christianity, recently
engaged a Christian Chinaman as a servant.
A short time after, the Governor had card
party at his house. The next morning the
Chinaman was not to be found. Meeting him
on the street, the Governor upbraided him for
leaving without warning, but the Chinaman
heard him with apparent contempt. When
the Governor finished he replied: "When
9OON''
say Slunday-school scholar an Clistian Chi
naman. Last night go play cards. Ino work
for heather" The Governor accepted this
rebuke in silence and passed on.
Lewis Hutcheson, of Ga, aged seventy, with
nine children, secured the consent of MissAnnie
wilkins, aged eighteen, who lives with heI
step-mother, to marry him. When the hour
came and the company assembled, it took
some time to find her hiding place, and when
found she declared she could not marry him.
After persuasion she consented, the tears
running down her cheeks during the ceremony.
The next day she fled to another part of the
State and has not returned since.
The iron firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. OF
Pittsburg, have forced their skilled workmen
10 accept reduction of % per cent. in then
wages for three years. As the time expires il
1892, the Presidential year, it is probable we
shall hear then of raise in wages and the
great benefits of a high tariff tax! This is the
same Mr. Carnegie who drove four.in-han6
with Blaine over Scotland, and is so loud al
advocate of protecting the American work
ngmen.
AT st. Augustine, Fla, May Both, Crane
Army men and ConfederateS had a combined
decoration of graves. The night previous
ome one had placed a federal flag on tn
monument to the Confederate dead of thu
own, and the flag was removed by direction
,f the Memorial Association and the monu
nent garlanded with flowers. The inciden
aused no unpleasantness and the removal
Ae flag under the circum stances was regard
d by all as proper.
In the Christian church at New Liberty
nd, Sunday, May 26th Rev. j. e, Meyer
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-07
A LIVE TOWN.

If any one thinks Staunton is not go
ahead town, let him look at this for al
eiphteen-months history of what has beer
started:
Bark Extract Works.
Staunton Fruit Tree Nursery Company
Staunton Ice Factory.
Staunton Furniture Factory.
Staunton Medical Institute the most
costly in the South.)
Staunton Bottling Company.
Staunton Shoe Factory.
And this for improvements:
A new Lutheran Church.
A splendid Y. NJ. c. A. Building.
A new United Brethren Church.
Besides building any number OF new
houses, putting in electric light, an Electric
Fire Alarm and Paid Fire Department,
street railway about to be built, and a rail
road company organized to develop tn
resources of the county
What's the matter with Staunton for
live town? Any town that you know o
done any better ?
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swept against the new railroad bridge at
Johnstowll and from an overturned stove
or some such cause, the upper part of the
wreckage caught fire. There were crowds
of men, women and children on the wreck,
and their screams were soon added to the
awful chorus of horror. They were
Soon after the fire burned itself out 9TH
ers were thrown against the mass. There
were some fifty people in sight when the
ruins suddenly parted, broke up and were
swept under the bridge into pitchy dark
ness. The latest news from Johnstown is
that at O'Clock the tops of but two houses
could be seen in the town. 1t is also said
that only three houses remain in Cambria
(itv
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AGREAT CALAMITY.
$4,000 To $4,000 PellsylValian2
Drowned.
The City of IohnstOwn Destroyed
by a Bursting Reservoir.

FRIGHTFUL SCENES ALONG THE RIVER
THE CITY SUBMERGED IN MOMENT
AND THOUSANDS OF BODIES FLOATING
DOWN THE RIvER-AN AWFUL NIGHT
AFFECTING INCIDENTS - OLD AND
YOUNG, PARENTS AND CHILDREN
SWEPT TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BURNED
TO DEATH ON TOP OF THE FLOOD WRECK.
&C., &C., sc.
The little city Of Johnstown, Pennsylva-
MA was situated in the Allegheny noun
tains. 1t lay in a short valley, while on
one side of it ran the Conemaugh river, a
little mountain stream, and on the other
side ran Stony Greek, which could be
crossed on stepping stones. These two
end Of the city, and just below
that junction the Pennsylvania Railroad
company had built Il stone arch bridge
through which the united streams ran.
The whole scene was between two high
mountain spurs. The spurs Tan back tC
the Allegheny mountain nine miles, and at
the foot of the mountain was an artificial
lake one hundred feet deep, three miles
long and one mile broad. 1t was made by
a stone dam one hundred feet high. The
descent from the lake to JohnstoWn, a dis
lance OF nine miles, WAS two thousand feet.
1t Was the bursting of this reservoir and
the fearful fapidity with which the water
rushed down the descent that caused the
awful calamity of Friday last. Two years
ago the little city, by the rising of the
streams on which it lay, had experienced {
flood which rose to the depth of four feet
in the houses the highest it had ever ex
perienced. Sudden high water was familiar
to the people Of the little city, and it is tt
this familiarity, and the belief that the rist
was nothing more than usual, that is at
tributed the fact of the great loss of life
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to comparatively still waters at the bridge
and there met death either by fire OF water.
THE LATEST.

to comparatively still waters at the bridge
and there met death either by fire OF water.
THE LATEST.
The latest intelligence from Jamestown
is that 100 conservative citizens were cho-
sen from different districts of the city rep
resenting all classes and occupations, and
they after investigation concur in the belief
that from 1900 to $1,000 persons have
been drowned. The telegram adds:
cit must be remembered that a very large
proportion of the loss is made up of children.
How strikingly frequent is the reference in
the death-list to Mrs. Jones and six children,
Mrs. Smith and five children In the mOrgue
little ones lie in dozens where adults are in
half dozens. There is and has been great diff
fculty in recovering the bodies of children.
Being lighter and smaller, they have often
been swept into out-of- the-Way recesSeS that
are almost inaccessible, and were more easily
carried away. A very great proportion of the
children have been swept down the river and
their bodies driven i'll under Oyerhanging
banks, under thickets, and in other places
where there is only spare population and
where search is not carried Oh in a careful and
organized manner
There are 5000 men employed at Johns
town digging out the bodies out Of the de
bris.
Money and relief to the survivors is pour
ing in from every quarter. Philadelphia
alone subscribed $3.50, 900.
A meeting was held at Washington pre-
sided over by President Harrison to pro
vide relief, and the Federal government is
furnishing all the aid in it's power.
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MARRIED..

TAYLOR-BRISTOW.-A the residence of the
brides uncle, Capt. B. G. Rawlings, Raphine,
Na May 18th, by Rev. James Nelson, D: D., of
Staunton, Mr.. Manning II. Taylor of Hamp-
shire county, w Va, to Miss Lenora c. Bristow
of AppomattoX county, Va.
HAM---ESSOMs.-I Washington city, May 3lst,
Mr. VIM. b. Ham to Mrs. Carrie Essoms all OF
Staunton, Va.
SPIKER-CRA BILL-At Stephens City, Va,
May 30th. by Rev. ID. II. Rhodes, Capt. Et ward
s. Spiker, OF the Valley Ry., to Miss Emma c..
Crabil
NICHoL s-sPIECE.-May 8oth, in this city, Mr..
Samuel w. Nichols to Miss Josephine Spiece,
OF. Augusta county.
YOUNT-CARR.-June I'd, in the paror of the
Virginia Hotel, in this city, by Rev. DR.. McFar-
land, Mr. David E. Yount to Miss Ida Carr,
both of A ug uSta county.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-07

The most startling sort of news for the
anti-Mahone wing of the Republican party
comes from Washington through the CORE
spondent of the Alexandria Gazette. On
May 31st, Park Agnew, the candidate fol
congress last fall from the Sth Virginia
district, went to First Assistant Postmas-
ter General Clarkson, with batch OF appll-
cations. He was told that the applications
must have the signature of Gen. Mahone &c
be successful, and that the President mac
directed it. Mr. Agnew told Mr. Clarksoi
that under the circumstances he should
bring no more On Saturday, June list
Gen. Jno. E. Roller Of the 18th district
called on the same errand and got the same
information from the Postmaster General
Senator Riddleberger expresses the oplnlol
that this course of the Administration endS
all hope of the Republicans carrying Vlrgl-
MIA this fall This will be dismal news fol
the opponents Of Gen. Malone i'll the lie
publican party.
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County Organization for the Poor.

Editor Vlndacator
The ladies of the City Mission read, with
pleasure, your article in your last edition, sug-
costing county association, for assisting the
worthy poor. 1t may not be practicable to
district the county, as was done in the city, but
it might be districted through the churches, il
respective of any denomination to which those
needing assistance might belong.
The object of the City Mission in trying to
relieve has been, principally, to improve mo-
rally and physically. H.
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DIED..

ARBOGAST.-On NJ onday, May Goth, near Tray
eler s Repose, Poca hontas county, Mrs. Jacob
II. Arbogast, at an advanced age.
BURRU Covington. Allegheny, Sunday,
May 9th, Frank Nelson Burruss, aged 40 years.
GARBER.-May 29th near New Hope, Mr.. j. d.
CARRIER, aged IS. He left d widow and three
small children.
HARRISON.-At the residence of her mother
Mrs. Polly Harrison, on Sa turday evening, May
25th, Miss Fanny Harrison, in the 54th year of
her age.
HARMAN.-At Richmond, June 4th, Asher, in
FAINT son of Eugenia Cameron and A. w. Har-
man, Jr.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-06-07

GOV. Fitz. Lee President of the Staunton
Equity Life Insurance Company! Good
Tie public men of Virginia are on the right
track when they align themselves with the
practical business interests of the State.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

DUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE PERSONAL
L PROPERTY BY virtue of deed of trust
dated February 2Sth, 1881, and recorded in the
Clerks Office of Augusta County Court, in d. B.
lob, Page 242, executed to the undersigned by
Philip Myers, and being requested so TO do by the
the Circuit Court of Augusta Co., Va, entered on
the Sd day OF June, 1889. in cause therein pend
A. Hanger ct ais defendants, I will proceed in
front of the Courthouse, in the City of Staunton,
Va, on
Saturday, the Goth day of June, 1889,
to sell the following personal property, to wit
One Nichols, Shepard & Co. Separator, 2S-inch
cylinder, complete. 1t being all the personal
property embraced in the aforesaid deed of trust
TERMS OF SALE-CaSh.
JACOB A. HANGER,
june7 st Trustee.
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Aor A FEsrlGE LEFT:

OF the Episcopal church not vestige
remains. Where once it stood there is
now placid lake. The parsonage is swept
away and the rector Of the church, rev.
Nh. Dillon, was drowned. The church was
one of the first buildings to fall. 1t carried
several of the surrounding houses, many
of them occupied. Victims were swept in
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DETERMINED MEN,

He had no sooner finished the last SEN
tence than five burly men, with looks OF
terrible determination written on their
faces, were on their way to the scene OF
plumber, one with a coil Of rope over his
shoulder and another with a revolver IN his
hand. In twenty minutes, so it is stated,
they had overtaken two of their victims,
who were then in the act OF cutting pieces
! from the ears and fingers from the hands OF
the bodies of two dead women. With the
revolver levelled at the scoundrels the lead
er of the posse shouted: Throw up your
hands OF 1 II blow your heads off," With
blanched faces and trembling forms they
obeyed the order and begged fol- mercy. They
were searched and as their pockets were
emptied of their CHASTITY finds the indigna-
ton of the crowd intensified and when the
bloody finger of an infant, encircled with
two tiny gold rings, was found among the
plumber in the leaders pocket, a cry went
up, 'sIynch them! Lynch them !" With
out moment S delay ropes were thrown
around their necks and they were dangling
to the limbs of a tree, in the branches OF
which an hour before was entangled the
bodies of dead father and son. After the
expiration of half an hour the ropes were
cut and the bodies lowered and carried to a
pile of rocks in the forest on the hill above.
1t is limited that an Allegheny county official
was one of the most prominent factors in
this justifable homicide.
Mrs. II. M. Qgle and her daughter Min
ME are among the drowned Mrs. Ogle
wa one Of the best lady telegraph operators
of the country. For twenty-five years OF
more she managed the Western Union Office
here, and for twenty years she has handled
the Associated-Pre work here.
HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF BODIES.
:. Every hour OF so, forces Of men working
on the various heaps of debris find mum
bers of bodies buried in the Wreckage. /
is believed that when the flames are extin
guished in the wreckage at the bridge ant
the same is removed that hundreds and hun
dreds Of victims will be discovered. Intact
this seems certain, as dozens OF bodies hav
already been found on the outskirts of tn
huge mass OF broken timbers. Report
from outside points are also appearing. u
to 8 O'Clock tonight one hundred and eigh
ty bodies had been embalmed at NineVal
and there is a report that 200 more hay
been discovered half buried in the mud OF
the island between New Florence and tn
place named. AT the Fourth Ward schOo
house over 100 victims have been laid on
for Identification. In many cases the
have been recognized, while n Ma!py NOR
they bear thfa simple word ''UnknoWn.
) Shocking sights have been so common that
: they have lost their terror, and the finding
of body here attracts little OF no attention
from the great crowds that constantly lin
the river banks and crowd all other acces
sible places:
NOT A FIss1lGE LEFT:
OF the Episcopal church not vestig
remains. Where once it stood there l
, now placid lake. The parsonage is sWep
. away and the rector Of the church, Rev
| MI. Dillon, was drowned. The church wa
one of the first buildings to fall. 1t carries
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WITHIN THE RUINED CITY.

SHOCKING SCENES AMONG THE DEAD AND
I ~W0BNDED-LYNCH LAW TO ROBBERS OF
THE DEAD-INDyIDUAL EXPERIENCES.
sc. &C.
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NEY ADKERT-LsENalxLy

NOR SALE-Aialc calf, Uoistein, very fine;
X also several cows in good condition.
f. w. WALTERS,
i,,ne Ills Staunton, Va