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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

death by steam. The Consolidated
Wire works are almost totally wrecked.
Seven people we're injured seriously by
this wreck. The two story BUILDING 81
the C. Fl. Sawyer Manufacturing tom-
rany was demolished and John So
yer. member o. the firm and. Emma
CLANCY and Isabella Hamden, tyne
writer's, were crushed to death. H. X.
Sawyer another member, was injured
fatally. The Gets tank at the SOU !:
end OF the Twenty-First street yiadr.t
was blown over, crushing four men to
death and possibly more.
AT Brooklyn.
Decatur, H., May 2S.--Worl has
been received from Brooklyn, near
East ST. Louis, that the Vandalia
freight house was destroyed and thir-
ty-hve pe9De killed IN 1t. The We
bash round house ia destroyed Part Of
The east approach 10 the Eads bridge
vas blown away II is said one hun
dred and Gfty people are killed at East
st. Louis.
Renick Wiped Out.
Kansas City. Mo, May 2S.-Ten pes
pie were killed III a tornado whicl
struck the village OF Iabaddie, Frank
lin county, last evening and the town
OF Renick, Randolph county, was eom.
pletely wiped out.
Eight Killed Near Mexico.
Mexico, May 28. "A cyclone swept
across Adrian county last evening
killing eight people and injnrIne
probably twenty-five. At Dyes school
house five children were killed. At the
Bean creek school house Miss Ware
Lulu Embanks and Hilda Blase were
killed
Eighty Children Killed.
Kansas City, Mo, May 2S.-A report
from Roodhouse. ILL.,. sage that the tor.
nado demolished the school house al
Drake, H., and that eighty children
perished in the ruins and as many more
were injured
Sixty Killed In a Hospital
Memphis, Tenn, May 2S.--Word
reaches here by way Of Carondolet, Mo
that sixty dead bodies have been taken
from the st. Louis city hospital which
was completely wrecked and every pa
tient probably killed.
Heavy Fall OF Hail.
Baldwin, No, May ga hurricane
accompanied by terrific hail ana rain
passed over s. Louis county Fol
three hours rain fell in torrents and
hail to the depth of several inches.
Several fatalities were reported.
Landslides Near Carondelet.
Little Rock, May 2S-The telegraph
operator at Carondelet, four miles
south Of st. Louis says that all street
car Communications between st. Louis
and that suburb is entirely cut off and
the streets are almost impossible
Railroad tracks arc blocked with de-
bris. Trestlas rave been torn away
and the bed washed out in places
Several landslides a:e reported,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
DUPONT TROPHY.
IT Is Won This Year by a Wisconsin
Marksman.

Chicago June 2-One of the most
notable live bird shooting matches
that ever took place in the city began
at 10 O'Clock Monday morning at Wat
son park, near Pullman. Fred Gilbert
of Spirit Lake. Ia, held the Dupont
trophy emblematic Of the American
wing shot champion, which he won in
New York last year. He appeared
against George / Deter. OF Milwau.
kee, who is deemed the best shot in the
northwest Deter won the match by a
score of "a to SO. He had been victori-
Gus in all of his contests and he has a
number of very valuable medals to
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
AN ICEBERG BEACHED.
Ii Grounds at Amsbury. Mass. and
Lowers the Temperature.

Amesbury, Mass, June "A Dig
iceberg drifted ashore here, and for
short time during low water gounded
on the sands. When it left its birth
place in the polar regions 1t must
have been one of the largest Of the ice
bergs. After penetrating so far south
as this latitude it was as big as
church. 1t appeared late in the after
noon and the rays of the setting snn
made 1t a mass of glowing red. sew
eral venturesome persons rowed
around the berg. but did not 60 near
fearing the fall of fragments OF ice
The thermometer dropped to 40 de-
grees at the beach during the night
The early guests at the hotels Kept lhe
night clerks and porters busy with DC
mands for blankets and quilts. Ai'Ff
one night the Iceberg weighed anehof
ard sailed away
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

Moscow, May 31.A terrible panic
resulting from the great rush Of people
here Saturday in honor Of the corona
ton of the car, caused the trampling
to death Of many people. In anticipa-
ton of the great holiday and popular
banquet on the Hodynsly plain, tens
Of thousands of people began trooping
toward the Petrosky palace, in front
of which the plain is situated, during
the earliest hours. Suddenly the
masses, controlled by some inexpli-
cable impulse or Impotence to get at
the food, pressed forward, swept every
thing before them and overturned
tables and benches as II made of grass
trampling hundreds underfoot and
crushing the life of great number OF
people. The number killed is not as
certained. for the police and military,
eventually succeeding in restoring or
der, carted away the dead and injured
and preparations were made to proceed
with the banquet as If nothing unusual
had happened.
The latest account says $500 bodies
have already been recovered. Provi-
sion had been made to feed half mil
lion people and that number was on
the plain when the panic occurred.
1t later developed that the cause OF
the disaster was the tossing of gifts and
food into the dense mass of people to
keep them from pressing too closely
upon the banquet tables before the
hour set for the feast. This throwing
of gifts aroused the people just with
out reach of them and in their efforts to
get gifts they trampled down the peo-
pie in the front ranks.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
1000 ARE
KILLED
------
pEA III AND DESTRUCTION REliN
SUPREME IN ST LOUIS AND
VICINITY.
WILD WORK or THE WIND
scEnE or DISASTER sHRoULE9
in a PAIL or DARKNESS.
HUNDREDS APE DROWNED

4 Death Dealing Cyclone Tears It's
Way Through St Louis shortly ~
Ter S o'cloc> and for Thirty Miaules
hi;ls and Mains 1t Is Estimated
That at Least 1000 Must Have Per
4 ed. Many oil Them Now Lfng
Cola anu Liieless Beneath the w.
tiers of the Mississippi Hospitals
and Morgues Are Utterly Incapable
to Accommodate the Countless VIC
tims-With All Electric Service De-
stroyed Almost lnky Darkness
Closes over the Appalling Sesne--
The Destruction Of Property lmpos-
sible to Estimate.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
LATER DETAILS

st, Louis, May 29--When darkness
temporarily interrupted the search for
storm victims last night 315 people
were known to be dead on both sides
of the river. The number injured is
even larger and many of the MANNED
cannot survive. The property loss will
reach well into the millions. Miles Of
wrecked buildings are as yet unexplor-
ed and numerous collapsed factories
towards which investigation has as yet
made but little progress may hide al
most any number Of bodies AS yet the
police have been unable to secure any
thing like an accurate list of the miss
ployes were on duty when the storm
broke. 1t Is believed by the police too
that ewing to the suddenness with
which the crash came many tramps and
lac meless sought shelter among the
buildings which are leveled and moth
ing can be known as to their death un-
til perhaps weeks hence. The city was
in darkness last night, the repair of
the electric light plants having been
but scarcely begun and but few trolley
lines are running. All over the strick-
en- district debris choked The streets
crowded by sight seers.
There is not a tree nor building
standing in Lafayette Park. The city
hospital is so surrounded with wreck
age that it is barely possible to reach
t. The entire building is rendered
useless and the tottering walls must be
torn down. Houses are in stages Of
demolition, from less of roof 70 COM
plete destruction, In some OF them the
ants performed their household duties,
cared for their injured, or mourned
their dead in view of the crowds in the
streets From the doors of many par
/ ally wrecked houses tluttered black
badges of mourning and scarcely a
house In all the district but had some
relative, friend Of neighhor within its
wind battered walls, The path of the
storm was about half a mile wide and
over four miles long. Sweeping through
the thickly settled southwest portion
and across the river into East st. Louis
liggett 4 Meyers tobacco plant which
was wrecked. is an estimated damage
of $4,000 600 which will be almost a
total loss owing 10 lack OF cyclone i'm
surance. The wreck left by the storm
attracted an army of piekpockets and
thieves and they piled their trade all
they could with but few arrests. There
were numerous instances of robbing
dead bodies and frequent threats Of
lynching ghouls, bur few were clumsy
enough to he caught Honseh old goods
were stolen and in the wreck Of whole
sale houses, miscellaneous goods We're
carried away almost by the wagon load.
The work Of rescue which
began almost Immediately after
the storm was continued throughout the
night and kept up all day and wlll
moi be completed for week or more.
Voluntary rescue part, ". squads, police
and companies from the FIRE department
are scattered about the devastated
district searching the ruins for bodies
Every few moments the sudden shift
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

Moscow, June 2.--There were 1877
victims buried yesterday. The bodies
of those who were identified and
claimed by relatives were inferred IN
private graves. but at the expense OF
the municipality. A great number of
the unidentified dead were buried in
eleven great trenches, each fifty yards
long. The trenches were very deep
and the mutilated bodies had to be
placed close together to find room for
them all. There were COO workmen
engaged all Srrday night long at
Vaganovskoe cemetery digging trench
es. Many priests, prominent among
them John of Crchstadt, famous for his
piety and his power to console, and, It
is8believed by peasants, to heal and
many military chaplains, conducted flu
neral services The surviving friends
and relatives are for the most part of
the ignorant and simple minded peas
ant class, and their grief and terror at
the sudden calamity was expressed In
a very demonstrative fashion. The
scenes at the cemetery were pitiful and
terrible in the extreme. Only about
half the bodies recovered have been
identified.
Last evening the car save d banquet
to the representatives of all estates in
his realm. Foreign representatives
were also present. In the afternoon
the car and czarina visited the hospi-
tai where they censoled the patients
injured in Saturdays crush.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
GRAIN AND STOCK FIGURES.

Chicago, June Wheat: June %
&c; July, 56lse. Corn: June, 2ese'
July. 27Ihc. Oats June, 17he; July.
i7tbc. Rye: S2ae. Barley: No. 3 4
as4c. Flax. slIs 6s21ac. Timothy .
$50. Glover. 7.35. Pork June, or
Is July, $50. Lard June, 400; july
412Ib. Ribs: June. S,571a; July, S,e5.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

show for his ability as marksman
The contest was for the Dupont cup
and for the championship Deter lost
six birds out of bounds, and Gilbert
had four birds dead out OF bounds.
Gilbert recently took the Dupont tro-
ply from Budd OF Brooklyn DETER
Is a conductor or the Northwestern
railroad.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

New York, June 81. s. Clarkson
of Iowa. has beel i'll at the Fifth Ave,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

Los Angeles Express:-It Is oFon.
chltis when you get well ana pnea
rnonia when you die Of it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

nue. hotel for several days. His Illness
was not considered serious till Sunday
night when it became dangerous He
is suffering from heart trouble.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
.MANGLEDAT MOSCOW
STRANGE AND HORRIBLE CAS-
UALTY AT A BANQUET.
THOUSANDS MAY BE DEAD

Twenty-Five Hundred Bodies Already
Recovered Half a Million People
on the Open Plain Press Madly
Forward and Merciless Trampling
Under Foot Ensues.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04
cLARKsoN VERY ILL.

Iowa Statesman Frustrated IN New
York by Heart Trouble.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02

pernicious legislation they have made
classes possible in America.
! want, my friends, then to ask you,
before closing this argument, to take
these questions home to consider-not as
partisane, not as democrats or populists,
not as republicans, but as citizens who
are intelligent enough to discharge the
duties Of citizenship by casting their in
telligent ballot-and let me say to you
in this campaign that party lines
have almost disappeared; men who
few short months or years
ago were arrayed against each other
in political parties are tonight standing
shoulder to shoulder, fighting the COM
mon battle of the country. (Applause.)
AS an evidence Of this and Of the gener-
GUS spirit which permeates the people in
this campaign, call the attention Of the
republicans OF this county and city to
the generous act performed by the demo.
cratic convention at Missoula in refus-
ing to place in nomination candidate
against that young representative Of our
state, Charles S. Hartman. (Applause
and long-continued cheering.) This,
my friends, was not an ungen-
erous act. It was q recognition
of services nobly rendered to his Estate;
we have laid the way open that he may
go back, and although his name does not
appear upon our ticket as party man,
he will get the votes Of the democrats
and populists Of this state and be sent
back. (Applause.) And I ask you when
you 60 to the ballot, when you go into
the booth to mark your ballot, to use the
same spirit of liberality. (Applause.)
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02

money question simply means that the
present gold standard now in existence is
to be continued indefinitely in the future,
and we Say if we are returned to power we
will adopt financial policy that will
tend to accelerate the forward movement
OF prosperity in this country, and we will
proceed directly to the reconciliation of
silver whether Europe consents or not.
(Applause) If there is possibility of
obtaining European consent, there may
be something in the professions of the
republican party which greet US. Will
England's interests be advanced? Will
its prosperity be augmented! Its ma
tion speaks; Gladstone replies, and, in
language not subject to doubt or mis-
construction, tells US that il silver is re-
monetized in the United States, it cuts
the revenues of England in two.
They tell US that if you remonetize
silver here that all the civilized nations
of the world will dump their silver upon
the United States and that as a conse-
quence silver will go TO discount and
that gold will go to premium and seek
foreign countries and that there will be
consequent contraction of the currency.
But every dollar Of it in European coun-
IlAC6 COolo uOlc Iuhu III LILO Oultou
States. The ratio in this country is l6
to l and in those countries it is 151a to
l, 30 that it would not come to this coun-
try as the McKinleyites say.
You will recollect, in the month of
June, 1890, silver had access to the mints
of India, and on a certain Monday in
that month of June silver was CONNER
cially quoted in this country at the price
Of 81 cents an ounce. The English min
istry, in pursuance of some policy that
1t deemed advisable to adopt, issued an
order that silver should be denied access
to the mints of India, and in ten min.
utes, or as soon as the fact became pub
lie throughout the civilized world, there
was fall in the price of silver from "a
cents to GA cents an ounce. Where,
my Mckinley friends, was the bo-
nanza mine discovered during those
eight minutes, or eight hours,
where was the unlimited supply of silver
brought to the knowledge of the nations
that gave that depression? You know it
was simply and purely because silver was
denied mintage at the minte of India.
And if India, semi civilized in it's char
acter, with an intelligence not to be COM
pared with the intelligence Of the United
States could have effected drop OF 20
cents, don't you think that an order
coming from the United States, through
legislation declaring that silver be re-
monetized, don't you think it could
boost it up the additional deficit and
make it sl,29? (Applause).
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02

The next speaker was Col, Nolan OF
Helena, candidate for attorney general
IN the fusion ticket He said in part
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This magnificent audience, a fair index
Of aasemblages Of tnis kind throughout
the country today, augurs well for the
cause Of the people. For ! am satisfied
my friends, that the important questions
under consideration in this campaign, if
they are deliberately considered by the
American people, and dispassiOnatcy
and fairly viewed from every point, will
result in nr mistake in the verdict that
will he rendered on the Sd Of next No
yember. (Applause)
The republican party, in their plat
form, tell US that the monetary system
prevalent in this country, defective as it
is in character, should be continued IN
til assistance is rendered by the CONNER
cial nations OF the world. AS against
that, the democratic party, the populist
party and the silver republicans say yes
they concur with their republican friends
in tho proposition that the present finan.
cial policy is bad but we 90 beyond you
in that we do not believe, IN the fret
place, that European consent can be Oh
tanned for the reconciliation OF aiiVrr
They look upon that from the stand
point Of reason and come to the conclu.
sion that it is impossible to get the con.
sent Of Europe, and that the proposition
of the republicans in reference to this
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02

Chairman Hanson first introduced to
the audience +, a, Spriggs of Townsend,
caIlIdatu on the fusion ticket for lieu
tenant-goyernor, who made short but
excellent address, He said he had craved
ut The hands of the chairman al intro.
duc,lon to this splendid Great Falls au-
;ience, not with the intention of taking
much Of their time, as he WAS
we'll aware that the magnificent
crowd was assembled to hear
the brilliant Col. Nolan and the logical
and convincing campaigner, Robert B.
Smith. tie then paid high compliment
to the city of Great Falls. briefly touched
On tho merits of the silver question and
expressed his firm conviction that the
verdict rendered by the people on Nov.
3 would prove second declaration of
emancipation for the people of this coun.
try and that the coat of arms on the
white house would be changed from the
lion and the unicorn to the American
eagle, and the Stars and Stripes foa,
over the treasury instead Of the Lnion
Jack, Great applause
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02
BRYAN MIN YELL
Last Night at the Great Falls Opera
House. Where State Campaign
Was Opened.
IT WAS A RED-H0T MEETING
Bob Smith, Z. A. Spriggs and Col.
Nolan Speak on the Questions
of the Hour.

The opening meeting of the campaign
in this city occurred last night in the
Great Falls opera house, where an i'm
mense meeting was addressed by the
next governor Of the state OF Montana,
Hon. Robert Smith; Col. Nolan, candi-
date for attorney general, and Hon.
A. 4. Spriggs, candidate for lieutenant
governor.
While it is true that Montana has sent
many Of her best stump orators east to
battle for the cause OF silver, where the
fight is hottest and the need is greatest,
yet the democratic and populist parties
in this state are not without plenty Of
oratorical ability left within the state
limits, judging from the addresses at the
opera house last night. 1t is true, per-
haps, that more enthusiasm greeted the
speakers than is customary in political
meeting, which marks the beginning
Of campaign, on account of the
vital issues in national politics this year
and the general interest taken in the
national ticket which heads the demo-
cratic and populist state tickets. Every
reference OF the speakers to Bryan or sill
yer brought forth rousing demonstra-
tions of approval. AS to the numbers
present it can be said with truth that
the house was crowded to its very fullest
capacity, and many went away who were
unable to find even standing room.
The stage was very handsomely decor
ated with flags and bunting and CEN
terpiece depending from the arch bore
the motto, "lG to l." One bit of decora-
.on which caused the audience to go
wild with enthusiasm was not there
when the meeting commenced, but was
added as the result OF a happy inspira-
ton from Dr. Gelsthorpe and Otto
Schoenfeld, who we're standing in
the wings and bethought them
Of certain portsit of William Jennings
Bryan, which sits on an easel in parlor.
This WAS borrowed and, just as Col.
Nolan made a reference to the great sill
yer champion, the portrait was brought
on the stage, elciting frantic cheering
which lasted several minutes
The meeting was presided over by
Judge Hanson, who introduced each
speaker in appropriate words
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-02
THE RUMBl|NG OF 7HE|
Montana Central Railway "a
Making Many Permanent
provements on Its Linz

A visitor to the Montana
railway headquarters can not h
impressed with the busy times
ing all along the line. Never bel.
the company been employing n
men or disbursing so much
monthly in this vicinity. The
nent improvement of the roadbe;
line between this point and But
called for the outlay of very Ia,
Of money. and has given work tol
number of men from this locality
every stonemason in Great I'd
been put at work building archs
the company is engaged in sutsa
fills for trestles and bridges.
A contract was let a short tlu:a
Mesers. Mckenzie e. Mainland I!
Falls to put in the stone work,
more steel bridges to take the Il
wooden ones. These bridges are ID
Woodville and Butte. The idss
placing wooden bridges witt
structures and trestles with solid
not that the present structures 81
out and require replacing, but ID
business OF the company between
Falls and Butte has become go
that the company cannot afford ID
chances of delay, which might
the accidental burning Of some ol
bridges or trestles.
A contract has just been letto Wiz
& Parsons of Butte to make nu1
of smaller fills on the rosdheo bet
Wickes and Boulder and y teams
large number Of men have STATED
the work.
In addition to all the contrsC
this class of work the company ls,
steam shovels and large gangs Of J
their direct employ. 1t is probat
work can be kept up all winter
least one OF the steam shoveIs
whole work OF changing the roadc
laet year longer and give 200
of work to people in this eectil
they would not otherwise have
Cattle shipments this season a.o
line of the Montana Central haV
fully up to last years heavy
They will probably close in d co.
weeks. Yesterday two trainloa
Great Falls and seven cars came
Arlington. The latter belong
M. j. Riley, and the
to Messrs. Beach, Chichestet
Owens, Ed HASTE and others.
will be a shipment Of 40 cars Of q
day from Cascade, oelonging
Chestnut roundup, and this vi.
ably be the last shipment from
this season, although it ie expect
two more trainloads for the sgmt
| will yet be loaded at ArmingtonY
The immense coal traffic betwe
| and Anaconda, now amounting It
100 cars a day, is to be still furt
creased, the railroad company
been notified that hereafter Il
company will require 100 cars
This would indicate an increase
20 per cent in the amount
shipped out of Belt and, Of Ct
corresponding increase in the pa
that thriving camp. The ordin
cars hold about &c tons each, VIII
OF the big ones hold over 80 tons
12O cars would mean an output
far from $500 tons of coal per de