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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-29

capped serious injury. From 11th to 10th
streets were mostly small frame houses, oc-
cupled by colored families. The roofs were
torn of, but no great amount Of damage was
done and none Of the occupants were hurt.
From 10th to 10Th streets, the destruction
was terrible. Peter Speth and family, who
live at 1908, were quietly seated in the par
lor when the storm burst. The building
swayed and tattered and finally the walls OF
the second story reeled and fell with. re-
huddled in the hallway and escaped injury.
The furniture and the building were de-
stroyed, causing total loss OF about $500.
The residence Of Mrs. Welsh, No. 1918,
was literally demolished. The members OF
the family escaped. The loss is about $4,000.
Mrs. John Brown lived at No. 1917. She
was caught by falling timbers and pinioned
to the ground. Her husband eXtricated her.
She was not seriously injured. Her house
is q mass OF ruins. AT No. 1919, Mrs. Shut
fine two story brick building was leveled and
all it contained is total loss. The members
of the family ran out when they heard the
crash, barely saving their lives
The Catholic building. at 18th and Broad
way streets, including the Sisters Home,
Parochial school. Father Disney's residence
down. Sister Plus was buried in the ruins
and killed. All the other sisters escaped
injury.
At the Union depot, at the foot of Seventh
street, the Chesapeake and Ohio train for
Washington was just starting out filled with
passengers. The building was prostrated,
crashing in on the train. All the passengers,
however, were rescued, except one news
boy.
Such desolation no city has known in this
century. Every building, treeland telegraph
pole In the district struck was leveled. The
cyclone was predicted by the Signal Service
bulletin yesterday afternoon, but no heed
was paid to its warning. The cyclone came
without warning sound, and in all the
buildings struck the inhabitants were en-
gagged in their usual avocations without an
effort to escape when their homes collapsed.
The district LAID waste comprises an are aof
the city three miles long and nearly half
mile wide.
Portland, a suburb, has been swept away.
The indications are that the loss Of life Is
from 250 to 800. About 400 business houses
have been destroyed on Main, Market, JEFF
ferson and Walnut streets, from Tenth to
Sixteenth streets.
At the corner of 10th and Magazine streets
three men were caught in the falling timbers
OF a two store grocery and bar-rOom and
burned entirely to black and charred mass.
Seven people were in the house at the time,
and the proprietor alone escaped with his
life, being badly burned and bruised.
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IN THE RUINS.
The Loss Of Life in Louisville Now
Put at SeVenty-Pive.
Scenes During the Work Of Rescue in
the Stricken City.
Dead and Dying Dragged from Piles Of
Brick and Timber.
Fire Lends Additional Horror to the
Scene Of Ruin.
Metropolis, I'LL, Nearly Wiped out Of
Existence by the Storm.
Other Towns Seni News Of Loss Of
Life and Property.
Snow Storms and Lightning in the
Eastern States.
Fire Lends Additional HorrOr to the
Scene Of Ruin.
Metropolis, I'LL, Nearly Wiped out Of
Existence by the Storm.
Other Towns Seni News Of Loss Of
Life and Property.
Snow Storms and Lightning in the
Eastern States.

The Board of Trade in Louisville has be-
gun to bring order out of the chaos made by
the tornado as it passed over the stricken
city. The estimate of the killed furnished
by the committee of the Board is about 70, a
much smaller figure than those named by per-
sons who got their ideas from glimpses of
the ruins and the sight of dead and dying
people lying in the streets. The work of
rescue is being pushed vigorously forward
and is accompanied by many pathetic incl
dents. 1t is good thing that mild weather
prevails, for it will prevent suffering
among the homeless people. Summing
up the reports from Louisville, it may
be said that while the calamity
was appalling in its loss both to life and
property. still it was not as great as indicated
by the first reports, some of which placed the
number of killed as high as 800 and 1000.
But Louisville is not alone in her suffering.
The town of Metropolis, H., has been de-
vastated and many persons. killed A brief
report from Marion, KY, is. that there
is great loss of life there. From small
towns in the Central States, came reports of
demolished houses, and in some cases, loss
of life.
In the East, the Empire State escaped with
a spring snow storm while the lightning was
destroying buildings in New Jersey, and
the wind was making havoc in Virginia.
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Water and Wind Combined.
THE DESTRUCTION WIDESPREAD
People Killed at Eminence-Port
RovaI DennoIished.

CINCINNATI. March 2S.-Conductor Hal
bourn, of the Louisville & Nashua train, ar
rived this morning. He said that all along
the line coming out Of Louisville telegraph
poles and timters were scattered In all
directions. At La Grange, q miles from
Louisville, much damage was done. At
Eminence, 20 miles from Louisville, several
persons were killed. Port Royal, 40 miles
from Louisville, was reported to be entirely
demolished. A violent wind storm passed
over the city this morning and caused con-
siderable damage among the hill top suburbs
Dwellings we're unroofed and fences de-
stroyed. At Madisonville, barns and out
houses were blown down. The 10th district
school was unroofed as 200 pupils were as
sembliDg. They were not injured.
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walls nothing aslstanding above the second
story. Nearly one hundred members were
present at the lodge meetin5 and fully two
thirds were ladies.
'The ladies Of another order were holding
a meeting on the same floor with US, and q
German band was Irehearsing on the second
floor. A party of decorators were at work
In the large hall on that floor. preparing for
an entertainment. AS far as | could judge,
less than dozen got out unhurt. Claude
Goodman, chief train dispatcher Of the
Louisville Southern. is supposed to be bur-
led In the debris.
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a Path OF Ruin.

Everywhere, in the track of the storm
is wreck and ruin. The Carpenter
Annear Iron Works, on Eighth street
a four story building, was blown down, only
several feet of its walls remaining standing.
The liquor establishment of j. I. Brown &
Sons, corner of Eighth and Main streets,
fell instantly. The liquorts; caught fire and
ing consisted of five stories. and was COM
new By tne s15S nav work ba the Temen
adjacent were considerably torn up. Ii Is
quite certain that several dead lay beneath
sae sar runs ~ 0geerI Rosenstein % & 20 "a tne
number of stores lost their roofs.
The building 434 Market street was
smashed to splinters by the falling of 436.
The immense iron foundry of Ainslee Coch-
ran & Co., was completely razed to the
ground, the rear wall alone standing. The
storm seemed only to have swept Broadway
from Fifteenth to Ninth. Nearly all the
houses between those streets and on the in
tersecting streets were demolished. Most of
the cottages ana low frame buildings es-
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Totals So, S,678, ,O93 $5,523 so
STATE VALUATION BY COUNTIES.
ONE KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED.
Report of Murder by a Fourteen
Years Old Maine Boy.

LEWISTON, March 2S.-A special to the
Journal says that Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Bagley
of Troy Corner, went Tuesday to call on
neighbor leaving atihome a son about four
teen years old, daughter younger, and
niece. The boy was lying on lounge COM
planning of headache. The two girls had
gone up stairs and were playing on bed
Hearing them making noise. the boy
stepped to the foot of the stairs and ordered
them to keep quiet. Soon after, hearing
them again, he seized his fathers loaded gun
ran up stairs, and as the little niece raised
her head to see what the trouble was, he de-
liberately fired at her, the charge taking eff
feet in her face and killing her almost in.
stantly. The other child was severely
wounded but will recover
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To Report the Subsidy siI.
Washington Notes.
WHAT WE ARE WORTH.
Figures From the Reports Made t.
the Valuation Commission.

AUGUSTA, March 2s.-The Valuation Com
mission adjourned at.noon today, after being
in constant session since December Sd, and
will not meet again until the second Tuesday
In November. All the returns from the
towns and cities have been tabulated, and
all the hearings on towns and wild lands are
closed. and the evidence is with the commit
tees.
The total valuation of the State of Maine
as returned by the assessors of the cities,
towns and plantations of the state, is $685..
91O,724. The value of the wild lands. which
is to be fixed by the commission. is to be
added. The total valuation as reported in
1880 was $22S, ,O30.656. The following are
some of the commissioners figures:
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P.C.-Partly Cloudy.
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Wool Consumers, Association,

BOSTON, March 28.-The Commercial
Bulletin tomorrow will give the details of
the second meeting of the new Woolen Man
ufacturers Association held in Boston today
Manufacturers of wool and importers and
dealers in domestic woods were present By
laws were adopted and the election of Off
GERS left to committee. 1t was voted that
the association be called The Wool Con-
sumers' Association, and that its object be
to secure change in the tariff for the mutu-
al advantage Of wool growers, manufactur-
ers and consumers whose present position
domanda ra1iaf
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The following are the United States Signal
Service observations for yesterday, March
2Sth, taken at 8 p. M, 10Th meridian time
the observations for each station being given
in this order: Temperature, direction of the
wind, state of the weather.
SW, cloqdless; Philadelphia, 4So. cloudy.
cloudy; Washington, 500, NV, partly cloudy !;
Albany, "a, NV, cloudy; Buffalo. 2So, NE,
trOit tnGE 2s SleysI2nd, NM SC NW snOw De
cloudless st. Paul ,24o, N, partly eIoudy: Du,
lqth, 2S'. NE, cloudless; st. Vincent. $50. w.
cloudy; bismarck, 300, NV. cloudIess !:
Jacksonville 6S', W, partly cloudy.
P.C.-Partly Cloudy.
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Portsmouth ltems.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., March 2S.-A spirited
meeting of the board of mayor and aldermen
was held last evening.
A resolution was presented and referred to
the committee on police requesting the city
marshal to appear and state reasons for fail
ing to prosecute sundry persons engaged in
carrying on bucket shops and gambling
places Which were ordered by the board to
be closed before the 10Th of the present
month.
part of this city at the present time. The
board of health has issued an order that
hereafter any physician who fails TO notify
them of cases of contagious disease under
their care will be prosecuted.
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Failures of a Week.

NEW YORK. March 2s.-Failures in the
last seven days, reported to the Dun & Rus
sell agencies, number for the United States
there were 204 in the United States.
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Trouble in San Domingo,

NEW YORK, March 2S.-A cablegram was
received yesterday afternoon by Tellado,
Gibergs & Co., a Spanish importing house at
No. 1i8 Wall street, from St. Thomas, San
Domingo, stating that political revolution
had broken out and that battle had been
fought in st. Thomas. The dispatch also
said that the trouble, which originated few
days ago, and was thought to be insignif-
cant, has spread over the entire island.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-29
Closing Boston Saloons.

Boston, March 2S.-The committee on
the liquor law reported to the House this af-
ternoon bill to limit the number of liquor
licenses in Boston to one for each 900 of
the population, conforming to the license
The effect of this would be to cut down
the number of licenses in Boston to one
half.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-29
The Russian Students.

Moscow, March 2S.--The University and
College of Husbandry here have been closed
disorder among the students. Six hundred
students attending the institutions have been
arrested. The disorder at the college was
due to the arbitrary action of the director
who prohibited the circulation among the
students of the Kreutzer Sonata, a work of
Count Tolstoi, the social reformer.
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Arrested for Intimidation.

MONTPELIER, VT, March 2S.==Joseph =.
Dyer, secretary of the National Granite Cut
ters' Union, Thomas E. Quinlan OF Barre
Patrick Morrison, Thomas Herking n. 4,
arrested today on a charge Of conspiracy
Call Mcclure, a stone cutter, refused % Joiin
tine stone cutters union last winter; hs III
leges intimidation. Ball was furnlsneu'
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the always absorbing woman suffrage ques.

the always absorbing woman suffrage ques-
tion was involved. Young Mr.. Washington
of Tennessee, who is rampant Democrat
and has never had anything to do with
hatchets, threw bomb shell into the debate
by declaring that if Wyoming was admitted
with the woman suffrage clause in its consti-
tuition, it would not be long before a female
in poke bonnet would be elected to and
this, which is probably so but many fellows
from the West at once rose up to say that
they did not care If she Of the poke bonnet
did appear. Congressman Harrison Kelley
of Kansas at once predicted that the young
man from Tennessee would live long enoueR
to see ladies occupying seats upon this
floor, and having votes, and representing
districts and constituencies, perhaps even
from Tennessee, and doing it with credit to
themselves and to their constituents"
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Wrecked a Train.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. March pa freight
train on the Louisville & Nashville, last
night, encountered the cyclone mile north
of Seabree and was completely wrecked.
The engineer was buried under the engine
and has not been recovered. The head
brakeman was also killed. Fifteen cars of
freight were wrecked.
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Two Republicans Will Be Seated.

WASHINGTON, March 2S-Today, the
House committee on election, in the case of
Waddell VS.. Wise. in the the third Virginia
district, by party vote decided to recon-
mend the seating of the Republican contes-
tant, Waddell The Democratic members of
the committee took the ground that neither
party was entitled to the seat and will re-
commend that another election be held. In
the second case, McDuffie VS.. Turpin, In
the fourth Alabama district, by another party
favor of the Republican contestant, Nc
Dnffia
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Nine Were Killed.

CHICAGO, March 2S.-Nine men we've
killed and three injured by the explosion in
Chicago sugar refinery last night This
evening all the bodies were recovered.
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THE w EATHER
Snow.

The following is the forecast of the wealth
er till 8 pm. today:
Snow with northerly winds and lower tenn
perature, clearing weather. Fair weather
Sunday.
Storm signals displayed from Eastport to
Hatteras.
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CreeIy's Warning.


WASHINGTON, March 2S : Gen. A, W.
Greedy, chief signal officer, reiterates his
opinion the flood in the lower Mississippi
valley will continue undiminished ten days
or more. March 18th, the Chief Signal Off
Ger expressed his opinion that the people of
the lower Mississippi valley should prepare
for unprecedented flood conditions and all
stock and movable property should be re-
moved above the highest flood point ever ex-
perienced.
The Pension List.
WASHINGTON, March 2s. Pensions have
been granted to the following Maine people !:
ORIGINAL, WIDOWS, ETC.
Joseph V. Welch, st. Albans.
Orrin Hatch, South Carthage.
Philip True alias Samuel Wilder, West Farm
ington.
William X. Edgar. Weeks Mills.
Michael Kelley, Togus
James L. Dale, Gardiner
Royal 2: Dodge, East Perham.
James I. Emory, North Dixmont.
George Perry, Portland.
Allen father OF Charles M. Witham, Limestone
To Report the Subsidy Bill.
.WAsHINGToN. March 2S.-The House COM
at @lttee "a Us report tc t6e House with
amendments, the Farquhar subsidy bill.
The principal amendment refers to paying
paying 80 cents per gross registered ton for
each 1000 miles sailed, to United States ves-
selsengaged in foreign trade.
Washington Notes.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Wilson, of
Iowa. offered a resolution, which was agreed
to, calling on the secretary of the treasury
for information astothe arrival and departure
of the Chinese at and from the port of San
Francisco and as to the evasion or failure of
the anti Chinese laws.
Mr.. Horace Stevens of Camden, Me-, has
been appointed an engineer in the govern
ment printing establishment.
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Collector at Saco.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-The President
today appointed Freeland 81. Oaks collector
at the port of Saco, Maine. in place of the
Democratic collector, Mitchell. who has re.
signed. The Office pays about three hundred
dollars year.
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Foreign Notes,

La Liberte, discussing the Mckinley bill
now before the American Congress, express
es the opinion that tariff war with Ameri-
ca must follow the adoption Of the meas
ure.
Telegraphic news from a st. Petersburg
correspondent reports that the authorities
have discovered fresh military conspiracy
against the Gar.
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cnnmandar Mccalla Relieved.

New YORK, March 2s.-The members Of
the Naval Court of Inquiry into the late
cruise of the United States steamship Enter,
prise have, up to the present time, devoted
their attention since going into secret session
I'he members of the court continue to main
tain strict silence as to the result OF their in
vestigation.
thing Is changing, and the crew are hard at
work getting the ship ready for sea, as she Is
TO proceed in few days to finish out her
time of service under her present commits
sion.
Commander McCalla applied for two days
leave of absence, which was granted, and ne
left the ship on Wednesday on visit to some
friends. He has also applied to the Navy
Department TO be relieved from the command
of the vessel. This request has been granted,
and the Commander will be succeeded py
Cantain Bradford
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A Big sum Misslpo-

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 1S.-The deficit
in the accounts of State Treasurer Archi-
bald is 1921, 700.
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the Dead.
MRS. MARY HAssoM, 18th and Lyle
streets.
Mrs. MCLAUGHLIN, 18th and Baird.
MRS. BELLE LELoFF, 11th and Lytle.
MRS. PETERSON, 10th and Walnut
Tom PUFF. MRS. NUTTALL. Jefferson
street, between 18th and 18th.
SISTER MARY Plus, 18th and Broadway.
Two unknown colored men.
NICHOLAS j. SULLIVAN, 1905 Magazine
street, burned to crisp.
WILLIAM DIEMER, 10th street. charred to
a crisp.
BEN CHELT, barkeeper at 10th and Maya
zine, charred to crisp.
JOHN ENERICH, saloon keeper, 18th and
Maple, killed under the ruins.
MOODY DAVIS, colOred boy, 18th and Wal
nut streets, buried under Eclipse or Odd Eel
lows Hall.
Two unknown colored women, alley near
Walnut.
THADDEUs MASON.
G. III. HATHAWAY, Chicago.
CHAs. HEssENBRUCH, Philadelphia.
MARRY RYAN, laundry girl, Louisville
KATIE McCUNE. laundry girl, Louisville
Hotel.
MARY McGINTY.
BRIDGET GROVE.
MAGGIE CAMPBELL, laundry lgirl, Louis
vile Hotel.
FRANK PAINE, Dal keeper.
J. b. ScHILDT, undertaken, S39 East Mar
A small child of Geo. W. Cascaden.
PATRICK CORNELL. 1104 West Green
street.
f. R. McCyE, Danville. Ky.l
Unknown woman. Goth and Magazine.
PATRICK RAIDY, clerk for S. E. Ed
munds.
CHARLES jerks.
Unknown man killed in car at 10th and
REV. S. E. BARNwELL, rector of St.
Johns Episcopal church.
WHITE BALDWIN, policeman.
- MCLAUGHLIN. 18th and b aird
AUGUST FLIEscHER, master of Falls City
market.
MRS. ALLEN PETERSON.
CAPT. 7. ANGEMIR, 23d and Market
| streets
VIM. DEMARR, Pullman car conductor
MRS. +. HoSTETTER, Seth and High.
| MISS CAsTLEMAN. 18th street:
| THEo. ANGELMAN, SD and Market.
The Wounded.
VIRGIL WRIGHT. bruised about the body.
| j. III. RILEY, station master Union depot,
bruised side and breast.
Tom ALLEN, ticket agent Union depot, leg
/ broken.
S. T. SMITH, clerk agent Transfer Compa-
WM, CoNLEY, 12i6 18th street. badly in
Tom MOORE. Madison street. bruised and
cut about the head.
w. w. WOODWARD, general superinten-
dent Minion Road, slightly bruised.
WIN. LINDSAY, gateman Union depot,
bruised about The body.
CHARLES TAYLOR, JeffersonVille. inter
nally injured W.,
PC CLARENcE a LEWIS, ticket agent, Union
depot back sprained.
Mrs. Louis WHITMAN. Market street,
back broken. ,, c.r
Fred STONE, lOi4 West Green street, left
5oHN MORROW, Charlestown, Ind, left
hand cut, hurt internally.
| HENRY SEEGAR, Fl1teentn and Walnut
streets, leg broken.
AUGUST TIERNAN, Sixteenth and Maya.
zine, fatally crushed in left breast.
Nick TIERNAN. same place, badly cut II
the head.
Mrs. CHRIS. HoFFENHEIMER. 18th nea,
Maple, badly injured about the head.
| MAJOR GAIT, 18th and Broadway. beside.
his wife and two daughters, badly hurt, bn
not dangerously.
Mrs. TRorTER, colored, 18th and Madi
LIEUTENANT HOWARD, Green street, TIVE
children also hurt. slightly injured about
head
DR.. MUGUET, Walnut street, fatally in
jured about head, and spine dislocated.
MRS. MUGUET, badly hurt about the head
but not fatally
THOMAS FUNK, both legs broken.
The following eight colored men were hur
at Eclipse Hall while holding a session o.
Adam Lodge, !. Q. o. F.: jim Brown, huI
about the head NICK NEWMAN. both ankle!
dislocated; PHIL SMITH, badly cut on th'
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Mr.. Kelley told the House considerable
about what women were doing in Kansas.
He says that the right to vote on municipal
questions and hold offices does not hurt the
beauty of the women of Kansas. and if any
thing, makes them better looking. They are
councillors. mayors and police judges, and
attend strictly to business. The police Judge
of Cottonwood Falls, in Kansas, Is woman,
and when she fines drunkard $15 she
throws in fifteen minute lecture. In case
the fellow reforms on the spot, she some-
times throws off the fine, but never the lee
ture.