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The morning news., 1897-07-17

to !, won, with Basquil. to l, second, and
Terrier, to !, third Time 1:321k.
Second Race-Six furlongs. Nick Carter
5 to 2 won, with Rose dor, 7 to 2, sec
ond and Frontier, to l. third Time I'M.
Third Race-Purse, for two-year olds,
five furlongs. Tom Lilly, 3 to /, won, with
Judge Keene, 10 to /, second. and King
Oscar, to !, third. Time los
Fourth Race-Purse, one mile. Aauinas.
3 to 90 won, with Madeline, to 2. second.
and Gladys, 20 to l, third. Time 1:441h.
Fifth Race-For three-year-olds, one
mile. Greyhurst, 2 to 3, won, with Can Gal
lop, % to l, second, and Gold Top, 7 to 2.
third. Time LAG
Sixth Race-Sx furlongs. The Ghost. so
to l, won, with May Gallop, S to l. sec
ond. and Miss Verne, 8 to 2, third. Time
116.
Detroit Mich. July 1.-the fourth day
Of the Blue Ribbon races was not largely
attended, owing to the threatening wealth
er. The races were slow.
The event Of the day was the m4r-
chants and manufacturers consolation
Z;A class trotting for non-winners of the
main stake, for purse of 5000. All the
horses that started in Tuesdays races and
were losers of the big stake, started. with
the exception OF The Abbott, as her own
Si WIZ NOT race her more than once a
week. OF the thirteen starters, Octavia
was hot favorite. She lost the frst
neat to Mosul, finishing fifth. Dick VIII
son drove Mosui.
In the second heat the bay gelding sold
for $50 against S25 In the field with OAayia.
Mosul took the lead and held it. way into
tne stretch, when he went of his feet,
letting Octavia win by three lengths
IN the third heat Mosul gained into the
stretch, and, breaking about seyenty-fye
win. ~
The fourth heat was won easily bv +ba
mare, with Mosul second.
Marion Mills, the "guideless vvondar .,
paced an exhibition mile without a break
an 2:O6A, a second and a half lower tban
yesterdays mile. She went the first omar
Ter IN 0:3lA, the half In 1 1:02a.. and the
tnree-quarters in 1:34h. Summaries:
four-year-old, pacing, purse 81 500. Aei-
tato won the second, third and fourth
heats and race. Time 2:1Oh, 2:13a.. PA
Reiiet won the first time. Time 0.1OaL
tairview, Midi and Quadrigs also started
Merchants and Manufacturers Consola-
tion, purse 5000 2:24 class. trotting Oc-
tavla won the second third and fourtb
heats and race. Time 2:I1Jh 2:14K Ola
Mosul won the first heat. Time 213a.
Tacomis, Grand Baron, Vida, Shadeland
Narword, Boydello, c. W. Williams star'
mont, Icicle Maid and Esleweir also STA
ed. S'o'
Three-year-old, trotting, purse 81 zoo
Hastings won the first three heats ana
race. Time 2:22A, 219&, 2:19%. Lotus
Dirrum, Kelly, AMmere and Intact aIso
started.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
TOWN rs WIPED OUT.
CHANDLER. OKLAHOMA, DE.
STROYED BY A CYCLONE.
Forty People Reported Killed and
Over One Hundred Hurt : Nearly
Every Building Demolished = Fire
Starts In the Ruins.
Wrecked by Wind.

At g O'clock Tuesday evening terrific
cyclone, followed by hail and flood, swept
through the town of Chandler, y. t.,
completely devastating the town. Three
fourths of the residences and business
houses of the town were wrecked and it
is said forty lives were lost and nearly
$50 people injured. Darkness at once
came on and the work of rescue was car
ried on under greatest difficulty. The
telephone office was carried away, and at
10 o'clock telephone was connected with
the wire two miles out and message
sent to Guthrie for assistance.
The cyclone struck the courthouse while
court was in session. twisted the build
ing around and hurled it into a street a
complete wreck. Fifteen or twenty peo-
pie in the building were badly hurt and
several are missing. Ex-Alayor McEl-
benny, of Guthrie, and one member of his
family were killed and the others injured.
But two buildings are left standing, the
Mitchell Hotel and Rock Island store.
Up TO midnight the list of injured had
grown largely, but no more known dead
had been reported. The wrecked build
ings took fire and burned iercely and
many of the injured met death by fire
while pinned fast under debris. In one
building five injured people were burned
to death and at another place the incin-
Grated bodies of three unknown children
were taken out. All physicians were kill
ed or injured but one.
Chandler is town of 1,5OO people, built
on hill in thick timber. and the mass of
torn trees and wrecked houses made it
impossible to reach near all of the people
in the dark. On every side could be
heard groans and cries for help, and the
scene was indescribable. A large num-
Der of physicians and other citizens went
from Guthrie with surgical instruments,
drugs and other supplies. Twenty-Five
dead bodies were taken from the ruins
up to midnight.
Reports indicate that the cyclone which
destroyed the town of Chandler also
passed across the State of Kansas, though
in less destructive force. Florence, Kan,
reports severe windstorm between
and 6 O'Clock that unroofed n portion of
the Santa Fe roundhouse, blew down sew
eral wooden buildings and blew box cars
from the tracks. At Haven box cars
were blown from the railroad tracks. Bar
ton reports very heavy wind, which
wrecked several small buildings and blew
cars from the tracks. Telegraph SER
vice throughout the State was badly Grip
pied.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
News of Minor Note.

Premier Laurier of Canada has ac-
knowledged the letter of congratulation
sent him by the Frenchmen of Chicago.
The directors of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western Railway have declar-
ed the regular quarterly dividend of 13l
per cent.
Nail works at Cleveland were closed to
permit the men to attend funeral. After
the funeral the men held a meeting and
decided to go on a strike.
The crew OF the scurvy-stricken ship T..
Il. Oakes has been notified that It will be
paid off at the Office of the United States
shipping commissioner in New York City.
Eleven of the men are recovering slowly
in the marine hospital on Staten Island.
Hop and Wah, Cinnamon, were found
murdered in their laundry at Clayton, N.
M. The murders were. committed with a
club, an AK and knife Robbery was
the motive. Several arrests have been
made. The sheriff says he has evidence
that conspiracy had been formed for the
murder and robbery Of q number of
wealthy people.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

ordered out by the War Department. Thus
thousands were saved who might have
perished from hunger and cold. Nearly
10000 persons We're carried to Memphis
alone. Not all the villages, however, are
deserted. From some of them. which
stand on high ground, and where the water
runs through the streets at depth of
only few feet, none of the residents have
departed, but make the best of the situa-
ton by plying about in small boats.
Some of the scenes are graphically de-
scribed by IA writer who covered the en-
tire section when the water was mt its
highest, on a steamer, which made its
way slowly over the vast body of water.
and stopped wherever human beings We're
in sight to pick them up. He says:
I'm this body of water are occasional
spots formed by what under normal con-
ditions are lofty bluffs and high ridges of
land On these are gathered the popula-
ton for miles about, sleeping and living
in the open air or beneath the meager pro-
lection of bit of canvas hoisted above
them on strips of lumber or rough drift
wood snatched from the encircling waters.
Hunger, sickness, privation, loss of life
and property abound. Hundreds of these
Southern settlers remain in the inundated
districts and battle stubbornly with the
resistless waters, clinging tenaciously 10
their few belongings, and 10th to leave the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
Official Rennrt Given.

According TO report issued by the Sec
retary of Agriculture, the worlds wheat
crop for 1896 is =, 2,42S,393, 900 bushels. 1t
is the smallest wheat crop in six years.
Although the total wheat yield is lis, S,OO0,-
600 bushels less than in 1890, it is larger
than earlier estimates indicated. This is
largely due to an increase of 59,OOO,OOO
bushels in European Russia, as shown in
the final estimates of the central statisti-
cal bureau over the November estimate
of the minister of agriculture of that coun-
try.
The report prepared by the Agricultural
Department is particularly interesting be-
cause it gives the product by countries and
continents not only in 1896 but in each
year back to and including 1891. This
makes a valuable table for dealers who
desire to compare the yields year by year.
While these figures by countries are not
given here, it is possible in brief space TO
give the recapitulation by continents for
these years. and that follows:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
CRAWLING MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1897.

pants lie basking in the sun, some blessing
God for its warmth, while others grumble
and curse nature for the abundance of
water. Some of the queerest sights to
be seen are where the settlers take to what
they call the 'scaffolding plan Groups
of four or five houses stand amonG the
trees, in which the stoves rough beds and
kitchen table are raised on scaffolds 50
close to the roofs of the houses that the
occupants are obliged to stoop over MS they
stand on floating platforms leaning over
the stove or table. The women and chill
dren are forced to lie on the bed while
the head of the house cruises about the
vicinity and gathers driftwood to be dried
and used for fuel
The flood of 1892 destroyed growing
crops and property TO the value of S2O,-
000,00O The present cannot be even ap-
proximately estimated, but it will far ex-
ceed that of five years ago. From St
Louis to Cairo, all of that immense basin
that was created by the earthquake fifty
years ago. is deep enough to swim steam
boat This section embraces a remarka-
bly,. big part of the wheat fields of south
ern Illinois and Missouri. The submerged
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
M'kiNlEY'S BABY M'KEE.
Grandniece of the President to Oc-
cunH the Position.

The Baby Mckee of the Mckinley ad-
ministration will be Majorie Mckinley
Morse. the grandniece of the President.
This charming miss is a special favorite of
Mrs. Mckinley, and in order to be persona
grata at the executive mansion it will be
necessary for every one TO conciliate the
little lady. 1t is said. however. that Miss
Morse Is easily won over. and is n stanch
friend of any one who gives her that def.
erence and attention she demands from
all her subjects. But woe TO the fortunes
of those who neglect her. AS the pet of
the administration she will be power at
the White House, and office seekers who
are wise will first conciliate her and then
present their cases to the President. Little
Miss Morse is not the only intimate child
friend of Mrs. Mckinley. That lady is
very fond of the little ones. and surrounds
herself often with trotsy, babbling guests
who own and control the Mckinley house
hold while under its roof. This will no
less be true of the White. House, and the
children in Washington may look forward
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

places of safety by Mississippi steamboats,
which pick their way among the tree tops,
while other thousands still cling to their
homes and refuse to leave. Beds, stoves
and other furniture have been carried to
the roofs and there these stoical people
eat and sleep and sigh as they wait for
the waters to fall. In many cases, chick
ems, pigs and cows are with them on the
housetops. Should the waters rise to
where they are encamped these stoics will
build RATS, encamp on them and drift
whittier the winds and currents carry
them. Then. indeed, will the death list
be swelled to appalling figures. But the
prospect is not SO dismal, for the waters
are falling.
Though worse may come, existing con-
ditions are bad enough. From Cairo, ILL.,.
to Memphis, distance of nearly 25O
miles, the river is over it's banks and the
average width of submerged land is TWEEN
ty-ive miles. 1t is long line of black
ness and despair, with the surface of the
muddy waters covered with floating tim
bers, wrecked houses, eddies of bloated
dead animals. with an occasional lifeless
human being mixed with the debris. Here
and there is mound or housetop. On
some of the latter are found suffering
half-starved human beings and on the
former small groups of shivering animals,
wild and tame. 1t is not an uncommon
thing to see cattle, hogs. sheep, coons,
rabbits, deer and bears thus herded to-
gether.
The Mississippi is a cruel stream and
never n spring passes that does not see it
leave its banks and overflow the lowlands.
These lands are mostly devoted to the cul-
tivation of wheat and corn in the central
section and cotton and sugar in louisiana
and Mississippi. Above Memphis there
are no levees to speak of. There are a
few, but they are as chaff when the big
foods come. Tennessee is but little affect
ed even at the highest stages of the river.
The banks on the left are high and are
supported by rocky hills that creep up al
most to the rivers edge. The volume of
water is therefore thrown with all its ter
rible force to the unprotected sides of
Arkansas territory, backing up the small
er rivers and streams, causing them to
overflow the lakes, thus creating an inland
sea that adds new territory to its cruel
waste hour by hour until the entire sur
plus waters of the north have gone TO
join the salty waves of the southern seas.
A few weeks ago the SHOWS began to melt
in the Allegheny and Rocky mountains,
and this, with the spring rains, caused the
little mountain streams to pour great vol
umes of water into the Missouri, Ohio
and Cumberland rivers. These, in turn.
swelled the Mississippi into turbulent
torrent. and the waters broke through the
levees between Cairo and Memphis and
caused food greater than has been
known in five years.
As soon as the reports reach ID Memphis
and other points, relief boats were sent
out to bring the half-drowned people to
places Of safety. Government boats were
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
PICKS UP SIXTEEN SURVIVORS.
Rescue of Part of the Crew of the
Unfortunate st. Nazaire.

Unfortunate St. Nazaire.
News comes that the British steamship
Yanariva, Captain Weston. which left
Newport News on March TO- bound for
Glasgow, arrived at Greenock, Scotland,
Sunday night. The captain reports that
on March II, while in latitude 81 longi-
tude Il, he picked up a small boat con-
tanning sixteen survivors of the steam
ship Vile de st. Nazaire. They had been
without food and water for four days, and
were in state of extreme exhaustion and
were bordering on madness. The officers
and men of the Yanariva did all in their
power for the unhappy victims of an
ocean horror, and finally learned their pitt
full story piece by piece.
They say that four boats were launch
ed, two containing twenty nine each, the
third seventeen and the fourth six. The
boat picked up by the Yanariva was one
of the two that took off twenty -nine but
thirteen of these succumbed to exposure,
hunger and thirst. The last the survivors
saw of the other boats was on the day
the vessel foundered, when they sighted
two of them lashed together and empty.
For some time after the rescue the cap
tain of the Yanariva kept an officer at the
masthead, sweeping the horizon with a
glass in the hope of getting some trace
of the other boats, but there was no sign
of them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

old spots which have become endeared TO
them.
Hundreds of others view with indffer-
ence the rising waters, and remove from
first floors to second floors, and at last to
floating RATS and slowly withdraw to
higher points. only TO be again pushed
back. The apparent Indifference of some
of these people is astounding. They have
always lived in the same spot, and when
offers are made TO remove them TO places
of safety. they shake their heads and re-
fuse TO be aided. With sacks of corn
carefully preserved and with an occasion
al rabbit or bird, they exc out a scant ex-
istence. To them place of safety is
strange land in which they have no kin
dred, and where existence can only be Sc
cured by eXertion. They have passed
through other periods of flood and manag-
ed to live through it somehow and the
most graphic description of the horrors TO
come fails to move them. The water
will drap bimeby.' they say.
"The situation is worst about fifty miles
above Memphis. There the water stretches
as far as the eye can see. 1t is nearly
forty miles across at this point. Little
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

to bring order out of chaos, and he ac-
complished his task so well that when he
returned to the United States, England
and Germany sent formal notices of their
appreciation of his services to the State
Department. Mr.. Chambers was induced
to return to the islands as commissioner
When n vacancy occurred in the post of
chief justice President Cleveland prompt
ly named the talented Southern lawyer
for the position, and this appointment was
readily confirmed by England and Ger
many. While serving as commissioner in
Samoa Mr.. Chambers became intimately
acquainted with Robert Louis Stevenson.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
GOES TO SAMOA.
William l.. Chambers, New Chief
Justice of the Islands.

William l.. Chambers, the new chief
justice of the Samoan Islands, appointed
TO that place by the United States, Eng
land and Germany, is a native of Georgia
and a former law partner of exSecretary
of the Navy Herbert. Mr.. Chambers left
Georgia and settled in Alabama in the
practice of law when a very young man.
He lived in Alabama until his appoint
ment as Samoan commissioner four years
ago by President Cleveland. His ap-
pointment is not matter of political in
fluence, but follows upon his worthy and
efficient service as commissioner. When
Mr.. Chambers arrived in the islands four
years ago he found affairs in an almost
hopeless tangle. He promptly set to work
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
Sparks from the Wires.

Fire destroyed the Buchanan building
at Beaver. Pa. Loss, $4,000.
An English syndicate is trying to buy
seven breweries in Dayton. o., and is said
to have secured an option on six of them
for $3,000,000.
Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the American citi
zen recently released from Moro castle
Cuba, was given public reception in
Philadelphia in the Academy Of Music.
The supreme council of the Order OF
Equity with Offices in Indianapolis and
operating in fifteen States, has failed. Its
assets are $4,000, and liabilities, 1000
A bill to compel respectful treatment for
the United States flag was introduced in
the House by Representative Howe OF
New York. II provides that any person
in the employ of the Government who
shall utter words that reflect or cast re-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

to gorgeous times during the next four
years. Among her special favorites who
will visit her in the executive mansion
Mrs. Mckinley has Miles Bingham of
Columbus, Ohio grandson of Judge Bing-
ham of the District of Columbia Supreme
Court Then there are John A. Logan,
ILL.,, and his sister, Mary Louise. Two
more of Mrs. McKinley's pets are Brent
Harrison Farber of Baltimore and Kath-
crime Endsley of Johnstown, Pa. As
child mistress of the White House Miss
Morse will certainly entertain on a stu
pendous scale, if Mrs. Mckinley has any
thing to say about it, and she undoubtedly
will
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

boy stories in 1863, and almost up to the
day of his death there was scarcely day
that he was not engaged in mapping out
tales of adventure or writing them. His
first story was "Hatchie, the Guardian
Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue" His
stories described the life of the boy out of
doors, in the woods, fields, under the open
sky, on the river or elsewhere out in the
air.
Prior to his taking up story writing he
was an editor, and he was the founder and
editor of Oliver Optics Magazine for
Boys and Girls. In 1916 he married Miss
Sarah Jenkins, who died in 1885. Mr..
Adams daughter is the wife of Sol Smith
Russell. the actor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

farms may be entirely useless for grain
purposes for the remainder of the year. 1t
takes growing wheat long time TO re-
cover from food, however short the
period may be that it has suffered. So
if the Missouri and Illinois valleys are
not instantly drained the fall wheat crop
there is gone. But it is south of Cairo
and clear down to New Orleans where the
real damage is now being done. That is
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

IHE central Mississippi region, en-
bracing some of the richest farm
= Il lands of Illinois, Missouri, Arkan-
sas and Tennessee, has been transformed
into a great inland sea. Six thousand
square miles of territory are under water,
forming a monster and dreary panorama
of ruin and misery. Farms, villages and
even small cities are completely submerg-
ed. Several hundred human beings have
probably perished in the flood. Thousands
have been carried to Memphis and other
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
SCENES ALONG THE RIVER NEAR MEMPHIS

proach on the American flag, thereby
showing disloyaity to the flag and the
Government. from which they derive their
livelihood, shall be Immediately dismissed
from the service.
William Dulles, who for eight years has
been treasurer Of the Presbyterian Church
Board Of Foreign Missions, has resigned
on account Of the excessive strain his
work ostailed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

The bill to regulate emigration from
Germany was referred to special COM
mission after some discussion by the
Reichstag at Berlin. Dr. Barth, in speak
ing of the Governments motives for the
bill, held it to be impossible for the Gov
ernment TO direct the stream of emigra-
tion at will, and n wrong assumption that
emigration should be led away from the
United States.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

Mrs. Henry Il. Abbey now has hand
some apartments in one of the most exclu-
sive neighborhoods of London. where she
is keeping house in magnificent style. The
report in London is that she is shortly to
be married to a wealthy and very promi-
nent member Of London's ultra swell set.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

settlements are indicated by the tops of
rough board roofs. which protrude from
the water, and which the boat passes
slowly. On some higher points, men,
women and children, cows, pigs. chick
ems, and even horses are to be seen hud-
died together and clustered about stoves,
which have been carried out on roofs. A
dugout canoe or two Is usually pulled up
beside these roofs, and the fD. .ner occu-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

An attempt was made to blow up the
property at the corner of Ninth and Wal
nut streets, st. Louis. A negro child,
who Thought someone was burning
matches. frustrated the fiend. Had she
not discovered the blaze when she did
there would have been n terrible explo-
sion, which would have wrecked the
building, a long, three-story structure.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08
"oLlvER OPTIC" PASSES AWAY
Death of William T. Adams, Writer Of
Juvenile Stories, at Boston.

William t. Adams c'Oliver Optic') died
Saturday at his home in Boston. He has
been very i'll ever since he returned from
a voyage to Jamaica, about a month ago.
Mr.. Adams was 20 years old, and for half
a century almost he has written stories
for boys. He was possessed Of a consid-
cradle fortune, all of which he earned with
his busy pen. 1t is said that more than
1000, 900 copies. of his boys stories have
been sold.
Mr.. Adams success began with the first
book he published He began to write
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

The 900 strikers of the Enterprise silk
mill at Paterson, N. j., who went out for
an increase of wages of 80 per cent, re-
turned to work. The old scale of wages
for which they struck will be paid them
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

Col. L. G. Baker, superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company ~
II. Louis. is dead.