Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-09-08

When the correspondent entered the clearing house the dog parked savagely and the roosters crowed as loudly as If they had not come within Gn ace of death.
 Eleven more bodies have been located thus swelling the total of those found along the Duluth tracks between link ley and Skunk Lake to about fifty.
 The most sorrowful feature of the ter rible fatality at Hinkley is the thought that had the situation been realized in time not single life among the resi- dents of that town need have been lost. The Great Northern gravel pit where only 100 sought safety is about ten acres in extent, broad enough, long enough and deep enough to have sheltered every soul in Hinkley with their domestic ami mals.
 Two hundred and thirty tents have been furnished by the regular army and the state militia from St. Paul for shelt- CT of the survivors.
 PINE CIT MInn., Sept. Airs. M. A. Greenlesf is in the hospital here burnt and will die. Her. husband and two sons aged fourteen and sixteen were cutting road when the fire forced them out. They reached the house and took refuge ID the cellar, where the father and five children found a fiery grave.
 WICHITA, Kans. Sept, f. A terrific. storm visited this city at an early hour this morning. The lower portion of the town was inundated by cloudburst
 Many telephone wires were blown down. Lightning was incessant. At the home of Thomas Hermat a bolt killed three year cid boy and fatally burned a nine year old glrl and litter ally tore the house to pieces.
 WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. 3.-Fifty survivors of the fire at Partridge were received in this city today, and another relief train is expected. A late report from the line says that Bonnet siding is In imminent danger of destruction. Many trains are tied up on account of burned bridges.
 SAVED BY RIVER.
 SANDSTONE, Minn., Sept. 3.-All that remains of what was once the prosper ous village of Sandstone, IS small shack used by Sandstone company as an office. Crowded into this building, which escaped the flames because it was located near the quarry, and also in the ferry house, were over 200 people who had lost their homes and everything they possessed except the clothing they wore. A relief train has arrived here from Miller's junction with provisions for the destitute. All those saved at Sandstone were in the river while the cyclone of flames passed, and only es- capped by wading out in the water as far as possible, and then throwing water over each others heads.
 The coming of the flames sounded like thunder and those who neglected to seek safety in the river perished in the flames. Forty or fifty bodies were scat tered about the streets burned to a crisp.
 The bridge watchman at Denmouth was so badly burned that he committed suicide before the relief party arrived.
 INCENDIARY FIRES STARTED.
 ASHLAND, Wis, Sept. 3.-Some thirty begrimmed settlers of the forest fire have been struggling into Ashland all the forenoon with tales of loss of cattle and everything on their farms. They are taken in hand and everything pos sible done for them.
 old .ho 1e d. at Washburn incendisrles got out and started fires ID different points of the city. Five have been arrested, three of them being caught in the act. When the first was caught rumors of lynchlng were prevalent.
 DENVER, Colo, Sept. Army off, cers have accomplished the remarkable feat of signaling by the heliograph, and transmitting a message from the roof of the Eqitable building to Pikes Peak, a distance of sixty six miles in an air line. But five minutes elapsed from the end of the message till an answer was received.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-A spit in the Knights of Pythias is said by members of the Supreme lodges to be possible and is perhaps probable outcome of the meeting now in progress here. Already the committee designated to consider the question of the membership of liquor dealers has decided to report against the future admission if this class, and 1t IS now understood that the committee in charge of the matter known as the German question" that IS a question of permitting lodges to perform the ritual in that language, has decided to make an ironclad report for use of the English language: Only German lodges have been open in avwo- al of determination to secede and con- duct their branch of the order on their own responsibility in case the contest went against them. It IS understood a committee report will be made against the recognition of Pythian sisters as an order.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-The Evening Star says:
 Today furnished & genuine sensation in political circles by the statement that Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, who has represented his state in the United States senate for over tweuty-one years, has formally renounced his allegiance to the republican party and cast his lot with the populIsts. Senator Jones has written letter to his constituency, which will be published in Nevada to- morrow, and will be the first intimation to the people of that state that he has doffed the political garment which he has worn with such distinction for So many years, a will don the gsrb of the third party. Senator Jones declit ed today to speak on the contents of his letter, but it is understood his change of policy is based almost entirely upon the question of silver.
 His bolt makes the Nevada cougres sional delegation solidly populistic, Sen- Rtor Stewart having left the republican party some tune ago, and Representative Newlands paving been elected silver ite.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Sept. 4.-General An tonic Ezeta and his four fellow refugees from San Salvador were brought into the United States district court for ex- animation on extraditlon today. Coun-