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Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
a SURVIVORS, STORY
OF the Awful Death and 0esolation on the
Cheniere Settlement

NEW ORLEANS, oct. 5-Mathew Schurb
OF Goldsboro, just opposite the city, was
one OF the survivors Of the Cheniere
calamity and arrived yesterday on the
steamer Good Mother. He brought with
him a narrowing story of his experiences
and OF the loss of life at Chenere. He
says in one house there were y people.
The house was a rude establishment OF
boards, and proved to he tomb Of prob
ably a score Of persons.
Mr.. Schurb estimates that the loss OF
life on Grand Isle ard Cheniere, Caminada,
and in the Grand l. ke, Adams, Cook,
Chalon and Trister bayou settlements
will reach 500 When he left Cheniere
island he counted but five houses stand.
ing, out Of a total Of about 800, while the
land was covered with curpses
Mr. Schurb says that when daylight
broke the picture Of desolation was awful
TO behold Only here and there stood
house Here and there were ghastly faces
OF corpses turned howard 70 the peaceful
skies, now bright and beautiful with the
mild autumn sun, and bearing no traces
Of the fury of the night Upon them
were still evidences Of the terrible agony
that they had suffered before death came
TO relieve them OF their troubles Many
Of the men, women and children had lived
through the night, hut mortally wounded
and with nothing to qucuch their thirst,
and no medical assistance at hand, had
given up the struggle that verify tried
mems souls.
There were broken arms and broken
legs, bruised and battered bodies, faces
slashed ont Of all human resemblance.
Many pile Of debris was the temporary
grave Of family
Cheniere lies across from Grand Isle,
and is separated from the island by Chen
iere bay. It's head is stuck out in the gulf
and when the storm came up the mighty
waves Of the ocean washed over the face
OF the stricken land and swept everything
before them. Cheniere was the home Of
fishermen and stOrekeepers, and IL com
prised colony Of 400 souls, with churches
and schools and evidences Of modern civil
ization.
Nearly all its residents were white
people, the Spanish race largely redom-
mating. There was no time to build cof-
fins, and those remaining dug bitches In
which To deposit the remains OF the vic
tins. Mr.. Schurb participated in the In.
terment Of not less than 80 persons, men,
women and children, some of these hav.
Ing not lhdfh upon lhelr persons 10 snow
what had caused death.
Unless steps are taken Immediately to
organize relief parties it is not unlikely
that many will perish from starvation and
thirst.
The water destroyed all the provisions
on the Cheniere island. The result Is that
fresh water is so scarce that IL Is not suf.
fcient TO relieve the thirst OF the hun.
dreds who are now without anything to
eat and scarcely anything TO drink.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
THE TRUTH.

1t made its appearance yesterday. 1t has
n pretty cognomen and started In with a
true Tomahawk spirit and the future, like
that brief-li sheet, will depend, with
ont doubt. on the amount OF subsidizing
and anonymous communications 1t re
ceives.
With one breat It states that 1t is not
published to pitch into Carroll and the
next It contradicts itself. We can nly
imagine that Carroll is like Banqno's
ghost and will not down but pops up Ia
every article and appears like the school
boys love-letter "A capital put In evsry-
where 1t looks pretty.
We fancy We can distinguish .he nne
Italian hand OF the author OF several of
said art cles, and II strikes us tha, there is
a good deal OF dog-ir the manger
about them, and true Hessian -inciple
displayed. Abuse IL not jou rralism m, and
nothing creates sympathy 20 much as
unmerited and continued abuse. We
have yet to learn of any person or paper
that ever was built up by throwing down
people, and in relation to our new con-
temporary, we take the liberty OF suggest
ing, believing that little advice is not
out Of place. that they weaker their gal
and wormwood and reduce so newhat al
first that feeling expressed by Montt
Cristo, (The world is mine) and not EN-
ulate the frog in the fable when he tried
by swelling to increase his size to the OK
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
WOMEN IN POLITICS.

In respect to the political enfrenchis'-
ment of women, the STATE OF New York
now stands foremost The women OF the
State will be able n It me nth to exercise
the very highest right OF citizenship
They will then be lawfully entitled to
vote for delegates to the Convention that
is to be held for the revision OF the state
Constitution, and they may even be
nominated as candiGstes for membership
In that most powerful boty.
The Legislature OF New York has con.
ferred upon the women Of the State an
authority that has never get been eter-
cised by the women OF any State, not even
by those OF Wyoming, where women car
vote in all elections. "a ,he enactment OF
this provision of the law the Legisls ture
followed the advice given by 'ae Hon.
David B. Hill six years ago, whe he was
Governor of the State, and repeated With
new emphasis by Governor P,swei p.
Flower last year.
We must trust that the women o. New
York will not be backward In tho exer.
else OF the very great political rights
which they now possess. There are plenty
OF women In the State who would make
excellent candidates for membership in
the convention. They are also empowered
to vote for County Commissioners, and to
serve as such. II the women do their
duty In the elections In which they nave
the right TO vote, there will very soon be
a law emitting them to vote In all cleo
tions held in the State.
New York is far ahead OF Connecticut
In this matter. The Connecticut women,
as well as the New York women. vote for
school officers; but, besides that, the
women OF New York can vote for dele.
gates to a convention and vote as dele gates
In convention, which has power to alter
and amend the constitution OF the fore.
most state OF the American Union.
We again repeat our expression OF the
hope that they will do their patriotic outr
at the polls next month.-[N. Y. Sun.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
DEATH LIST OF 1900
ACCordIngto Reports From
Cyclone District.
MANY CORPSES ARE FOUND.
Survivors May Be Overcome by Death
From Starvation.

NEW ORLEANS Oct 5-Nearly 1900
killed and 100000 Of property snnihi-
lated is the record of the great gulf storm
in Louisiana. There has never been any
thing approximating it since the country
was settled.
More than half the population In the re-
gion over which the hurricane swept are
dead. Everything is wrecked; but one
house in 10 f. standing, and the surviving
population II left in the most destitute sit
uation without food or even clothing, for
most OF them were sleeping In their beds
when their houses were crushed by the
wind or waves
The country throughout Is a scene Of
wreck aud devastation. The trains which
reached New Orleans last evening brought
auumuer of the Bayou Cook survivors TO
the city, many of them wretchedly attired
and theiI faces bearing the marks Of fear
ful suffering Tony Negevitch, one of the
survivors. reports that 81 bodies bad been
found there up TO the time he had left,
and from information volunteered by
other arrivals il Is estimated that 800
people persisted on Bayou Cook and In
that section Of the country. The deaths
at OF her points all the way from Bayou
Cook TO Grand Isle and Cheniere will swell
the total 20 more than 1890, according 10
the best information now obtainable. AT
Grand Bayou not less than 26 perished.
1t is learned that IT, loss Of life in Rosa
rio aud Lincoln rs been great. No
definite informatio1 Ias been yet received
from Grand island The tracks are COM
pletely washed away, and as there is no
communication by telegraph 1t IL impos-
sible To verify the report that there has
been great loss Of life at that point. The
houses ON Grand island are built on a
ridge that runs through the middle Of the
island, aud a. many OF them are sheltered
by tle trees it Is difficult to calculate what
the result IT the storm has been. There
are only about 2DO residents on the island
and no one has arrived from there.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

CARLISLE EXPLAINS
Why He Did Not Make Big Purchases OF
Silver In July and AUGUST.

WAsHISGToS, Oct 5.--Secretary Car
Isle yesterday sent to the speaker OF the
house letter explanatory of his silver
purchase policy After giving figures
showing how greatly the price OF silver
had fluctuAted, he says:
In view Of these facts Il seems eminently
proper that, as the government OF the United
States Is the largest purchaser Of silver In the
world, the secretary Of the treasury, after ex-
animation of the offers and quotations OF each
day, should determine what Ia his judgment
is a fair market price.
1t Is evident that there are but two courses
open TO the secretary. He must purchase
$4,000 ounces of silver each month at what
ever price may be asked by the dealers no
matter how unreasonable or extortionate they
may be, or he must employ such means as are
at his command 10 ascertain what the actual
market price il, and make, or offer TO make,
the purchase a. that rate; and IL is simply be-
cause the dealers were not willing TO accept
what was considered fair market price that
4.6D0,0J ounces were not purchased during the
months of July and August.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
FIVE TO FOUR.
Plenty Of Money Ready 70 Place on the vgI.
liant, but No Takers.

NEW YORK, Oct 5-The first Of series
OF best three In five races for the queens
cup, more commonly called the "Amer-
ica's," IN scheduled for today. II will be
between the American centerboard yacht
Vigilant and the English keel yacht Val
kyrie. 1t will be over course Is miles 10
windward or leeward (as the case may bel
and return, and the start will probably be
from an imaginary line between the Sandy
Hook lightship and the steam yacht May.
The cup will be the ostensible prize OF
the victor, but the real prize will be that
the maker Of the winner will have credit
Of supremacy over all others in naval
architecture. There is more excitement
over this race than over any II its pre-
decessors, and, blow high or low, IL will
be witnessed by thousands OF people.
The Valkyrie is regarded by yachtsmen
much AS the Thistle was before her races
with the Volunteer. She is held To be too
formidable an antagonist To treat lightly.
or To bet against rashly. What betting
there was was in favor II the Vigilant, and
considerable Vigilant money was not COW
cred. The prevailing odds were five to
four In favor of the Vigilant.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
PARK? NO; BREAD.

With mills stopping, wages lessening'
tax rate goins up, valuation at its highest
point, rents increasing and milk I'm
Lonsdale) getting desrer, can we buy a
park?
Hardlyl Better open soup kitchens for
the people who are out OF work through
Republican Vaccinations to scare on an
honest adjustment Of the tariff.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
Story Was Stretched.

PRISCETos, n. j., Oct. Sit was re-
ported yesterday that a student named
Leopold was driven into the canal and
drowned during the recent hazing. Leo
pold has returned and stated that the
sophomores pursued him, and, becoming
badly scared, he jumred into the canal
and swan safely To The other side.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
Awful Punishment.

New ROCHELLE, y. Y, Oct. b-Mrs.
Mary Fallou Of Hudson park entered the
store Of Mrs. Traphagen, to whom she
claims her husband has been TOO atten-
tive, and drew a syringe filled with vitriol
and forced the fuid into MrA Trapha-
gems face. Mrs. Traphagen's face Is badly
SCARED.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

They say Truth once jumped on viii
get up and walk in day or two. Resent
ly, though, we haven't noticed any -1peIa-
bundaDt symptoms OF veracity.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
Railroad Yards Blocked.

MEMPHIS, OF. 5.-The swtchmen on
the Illinois Contra. aud Yazoo aud Miss
issippi returned TO work yesterday. The
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern men
received their time checks and discharges
The yards Of the Chesapeake and the
Memphis and Charles IN are full Of freight
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

They say Van Ahlen (or Van ilien) il
going to Washington to "exDlain." Why
doesn't he save mis- car fare end send on
clippings from the papers9
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

The TRIBUNE always welcomes clean,
legitimate competitors. Honest eompeti-
ton Is the life of trade.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

And after all, what is lie 2 'Tis but the
Truth in masquerade.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

Don't Forge 'lalIoy & Taylor
at the "Plckwick,' astiaveuue. MOS, pop
lar place In the city.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

Some people at Chicago today think
Rhode Island is the biggest safe In the
Union.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

Thererl be many a slip twiIt the Cup
and the lip today.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

The "better element" ought TO have a
higher toned organ.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
The Upper Hand!
CAST OF CHARACTERS:


Prisoner 307...........
The Wanderer.......f ED. L. SULLIVAN.
Mad dJack..........u.
honest jack. .......
key Beaten, tramp-with songs..........
James l.. Byrne
Uncle JOSH OF "oId virginny,"-wiih songs,
etc.................... ....William III. Danvers
Jacob Schultz, very much In love-with
songs........... ..........John Weber
Newton Darke. the cause of the trouble.
Josiah jenkins, very much In authority. :.
Richard Darlington. sheriff and warden ...., @
g. X. Harris
jim Jam, the heather Chinee-wlth songs,
Convict Mike. leader OF the revolt. -.
Harold McDonna
The Detective. "The Majesty OF the Law"
Carl Branscom be
Miss Nina sayiiie
Maud LAMAR. Miss Maude Nick srson
Mrs. Wolf, the "she wolf". Mrs. Chas. Peters
Kittie Kettle, the belle of the kitchen-wtth
esrspnss pnss Miss Emms ma Dunn
act. Little Baby Dot
Gertrude Lamar, In and 5th acts. ..........
Miss Ellen Mort.:l.cr
SYNOPSIS:
Act LACK tLamar's Happy Home. The
"wn ifre." Rogues have the upper hand.
Act 1.-The Penitentiary. The Revoltl
The Explosioni Escape of the Doomed Con.
victs Prisoners have the upper hand.
Act III-The Home OF sorrow. Strange
Christmas visitors. The Loving Wife has
the upper hand.
Act Iv-The Blscksmith's Forge. The
Snow Storm: A Curious Sleigh Ride. The
Thrilling Abduction. Arrest of the wild
horses at full speed. The wanderer has the
upper hand.
Act v-The Home OF Mirth. ComicaIties of
all nationalities. At last the right man has
the upper hand.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05

Charlie Lee has connected with the
sewer.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-05
HEN GUESSING CONTEST.

Manager Lothrop, in order To make things
merry NJ Lothrop's Opera House next week,
will have a veritable Yankee hen guessing
contest, which gives every person attending
the pei rormances of The Upper Hand dur
ing home with a magnificent album con.
tanning the photographs OF the members OF
his several stock companies. Little Allie
Fisher, Lothrop's phenomenal baby star, IL
the possessor OF an educated hen. She has
applied to this feathered biped an endear.
ing name. The first person who guesses
this name will take the album.
The herald., 1893-07-02
Ordinance No. 1850.
tNEw SERIES. J

tNEW sERIES.)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND
N council of the city of Los Angeles estab-
fishing the grade of
SANTA FE AVENUE
from First street to Short street.
The mayor and council of the city of Los An
geles do ordain as follows:
SECTION l. That the grade of Santa Fe ave-
nue., from First street to Short street, is hereby
established asfollows:
AT the intersection of First street the grade
shall he 765 feet above the city datum plane
on the southeast corner and 7.54 feet above the
datum plane on the southwest corner; at the
intersection of Second street $50 feet above
the datum plane on the northwest corner and
g. 80 feet above the datum plane on the south
a. o feet above the datum plane on the north
west corner and $40 feet above the datum
Dlene on the southwest corner; at the intersec-
ton of Stevenson avenue O5O feet below the
datum plane on the northwest and northeast
corner and LOO foot below the datum pla ne
on the southwest and southeast corners; at the
intersection OF Short street 2.50 feet below the
datum plane on the northwest corner and 300
feet below the datum plane on the northeast
corner.
points the grade shall be established so as to
conform to a straight line drawn between said
designated points.
SEC 9. The city clerk shall certify to the
passage of this ordinance and shall cause the
same to be published once in the Los Angeles
HERALD, and thereupon and thereafter it shall
take effect and be in force.
hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance
was adopted by The council OF the city OF Los
Angeles at it's meeting of June 26, 1898
G. A. LUCKENBACH,
Approved this 29th day of June Is5s
T.E. ROWAN,
Tilt Mayor.
The herald., 1893-07-02
Ordinance No. i74e.
tNRw aRRIKs.,

tSEW 9ERIkSl
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND
"A council Of the city OF Los-Angeles, ORDER
Ing certain work to ba done on
LYKLL STREET.
The mayor and council OF the city OF Los
Angeles do ordain a. follows;
sEcIoS J. That the council 81 the Sr city tSa %
public interest and convenfeuce, and hereby
orders the following street work 70 b. done
according 70 the specifications contained in It's
First. raat tAid Lyell street in said. city.
from the southerly curb line Of Mozart
III o. Of
and intersections as ara required by law to
or COMPANY w having fsilroapd pi trscss
also excepting such portions ~ have already
been graded, grayeled aud Acceptedl, be graded
profile on file in the office OF the city engineer
and specifications on hle In the office Of the
city clerk of the city OF Los Angeles, for grav-
eled streets, said specifications being mum
Second That a redwood curb be constructed
along each line OF the roadway of said Lyell
street to the northeriy curb line Of Kuh!ts
street Excepting along such portions OF the
line OF said roadway upon which REDWOOD
structed and sccepted) in accordance with
spt cifcations in the office OF the city clerk Oh
said city for constructing redwood curbs
that the total cost Of said Improvement Will be
greater than one dollar per front foot along each
line OF said street, including the cost OF inter-
sections. 1t is hereby determined, in pursuance
Of an act OF the legislature of the ttate OF Cali
fornia, approved February 27, 1898, that bonds
shall be issued to represent the ost OF said i'm
provement. Said bonds shall be serial, extend
ing over period OF ten years, an even proper
ton of which shall be payable annually on the
tecond day OF January OF each year, after their
date, until the whole are paid. and TO bear in
terest at the rate Of per cent per annum.
payable semi-annually on the second days OF
January and July Of each and every year
6BC. 3. The city clerk Is hereby directed TO
publish = notice OF said work, inviting sealed
proposals for bids for dcing said work, and re-
ferring to the specifications posted or on file,
for two days, in the Los Angeles HERALD, u
daily newspaper published and circulated In
this city, hereby de ienated for that purpose.
Said. notice shall require a certified check or =
an amount not iess than 10 per cent OF the az.
gregate Of the proposal. He is also directed to
post said notice with specifications conspicu-
ously for five days on or near the council cham
Der door.
SKcl 1 The city clerk shall certify to the pas
sage OF this ordinance and cause the same to be
published for two days in the Los Angeles
HERALD. and thereupon and thereafter 1t shall
take effect and be In FORCE
thereby certify that the foregoing ordinance GO
Angeles, at IT. meeting OF June 26ih, A. d.
1893, by the following vote:
Ayes-Nessrs. Campbell, Gaffsy, Innes, Mum
son, Nickel, Rhodes, Strohm aud President
Teed (S).
G. A. LUCKENBACH,
City Clerk ana ex- oncio Clerk Ct the Council
oil the City of Los Angeles,
Approved this goth day Of June, 1893;
MayOr.
The herald., 1893-07-02
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The herald., 1893-07-02
Notice of Street Work.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON
~ Monday, the 9th day of June, A. D. 1893,
the council OF the city OF Los Angeles did, at its
meeting on said day, adopt an ordinance of in
tention, number 1928 NEW series), to have the
following work DONE to-wit:
AT the intersection of
MICHIGAN AVENUE AND PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE -s..
the grade shall be changed and established
5000 on the northwest and southwest corners
and $3.50 on the northeast and southeast cor
ners; the grade al the intersections Of Pleasant
avenue and Michigan avenue Eehandia street
and Michigan avenue, Echandia street and
Pennsylvania avenue and Kearney street and
Pennsylvania avenue shall be as now estab-
lished.
And at all points between said designated
points the grade shall be established so as to
conform to q straight line drawn between said
designated points
Elevations are in feet and above city datum
plane.
SEC q The boundaries of the district to be
affected by said change and to be assessed to
pay the damages that may be awarded by rea-
son of such change of grade are hereby desig-
mated and established as follows Beginning
at the southwest corner of Schuyler street and
Kearney street, thence westerly along the
west corner of lot Is, block 8, of the Mount
Pleasant tract; thence southerly to the south
east corner of lot of said block 8; thence
southerly to the northwest corner of lot ID, of
a subdivision of block T of the Mount Pleasant
tract; thence southerly to the southwest cor
ner of lot 10 OF said subdivision; thence east
erly 10 tne southeast corHer " sdiu iot ~,
thence northeesterly to the southerly corner OF
block U of the Mount Pleasant tract; thence
northcasterly to the easterly corner OF said
block U thence northerly to the southeast cor
ner of lot / OF block of the Mount Pleasant
tract; thence northerly to the northeast cor
ner of lot II, of said block r on the southerly
line of Kearney street; thence westerly along
the southerly line of Kearney street to the
point of beginning, excepting therefrom any
public street or alley that may lie within the
above described district.
Reference is hereby made to the said ordi-
nance OF intention for further particulars
d. A. WATSON,
Street Superintendent.
ByA. l. STEWART, Deputy. 6-29 ct