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The Portland daily press., 1898-01-13

side Places Not Yet at Hand.
Fort Smith, Ark, January 12.--Two
score of human lives and upwards OF one
million dollars worth Of property were de-
stroyed by tornado which burst upon
this city few minutes past eleven
o. clock last night. The storm tore it's
way through the entire territory, leaving
it path marked by death and disolation.
Men, women and children, asleep in their
homes, were. without moments notice,
awakened to meet death under falling
walls or in the flames which soon wrapped
many of the wrecked buildings
The tornado was Of such magnitude
that the full extent of the damage is not
vet known. II swept straight across the
city, leaving ruin behind. The known
dead are:
Silas Mincer, merchant.
Harvey Ruttledge, negro.
Mary Zimmerman.
Two unknown men from tne Burgess
hotel.
Joe Griswold, tailor.
John Martin, Madison county.
j. B. Riley, Madison county.
George Carter, fireman Grand Opera
house.
Mrs. Milt Burgess, proprietor Burgess
hotel.
Two unknown men, died at st. Johns
hospital.
j. M. Fouts, farmer.
Joe Kyle, farmer.
Two LeFeyre boys.
Malt Knapton, Jr.
Mrs. Mult Knapton.
joe Lucas, negro.
Edward Ferrell. butcher, q nd his two
little children, Irene and Roy.
Frank Richardson, restaurant keeper.
John Adams, carpenter.
Mrs. Charles Mauver.
- Ritter, gardener.
Mrs. Will Lawson.
Louie Sengel.
Miss Holden.
Jonn Badt farmer.
Mrs Maggie Sheehan's infant.
l.. Twoehl, butcher.
James Smith, clerk.
Mrs. Jones.
The injured are:
Mrs. Braden.
ID. l.. Grimes.
- Martin.
- Hosea
William Lawson.
Bell Martin.
Tony Eberhart.
+. Il. kubbell.
r. III. Greenholder.
A. b. Stafford.
--- Ashworth.
DR.. Gate.
Mrs. Gate.
Mrs Gates mother.
Minnie Burgess.
Mrs. f. Grell.
Mrs Hugh Rogers.
Mrs. Ritter.
Mrs. T.. N. Brown.
Mrs. Luther Huntley.
---- Lane
Edward Yaden.
---- Wolsey.
Il. L. Hirschberger.
Miss Lilly Stahl.
Tho tornado struck Garrison avenue at
the corner Of Ninth street and made a
clean sweep from there to the Texas cor
ner.
Isaac Sons store was totally demolished
and the stock is q total loss. Babcreek's
grocery store had the rear end blown ont.
The following stores were totally de-
m olished:
Fleming Rros., coffee and tobacco.
Haresfield's restaurant.
Smith 8 grocery store.
Marinez's second hand store.
j. Mance's dry goods.
Mann & Wilson, groceries.
City Feed store.
James Smith, Jr.
Mr.. Gray.
Mrs. Gray.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gray.
Atlas Jones.
Frank Lefevre.
Eta Kies.
Many others were badly damaged.
The upper floor of the block on the cor
ner of Garrison and Towsea avenue Is
used as flat. Tho ruins caught fire and
seven bodies were taken from them.
Burgess hotel, a three story brick build
ing On Towsea avenue. was demolished
There have been eight bodies already
taken from tho ruins. Rescue parties are
still at work at both places and expect to
find several more bodies.
The federal court Is in session and that
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-13

Edmunds Argues for the
Single staudard-Says Double stand
ard.is Observation-Disclosures of Green
backs Discussed by Ex-Secretary
rrnirol,iId
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-13
BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED.

Fayetteville. Ark, January IA ter
rible wind and hail storm swept over this
part Of this state last night. At Farming
ton, five miles west Of this place several
buildings were completely demolished,
several persons being injured.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-13
RELIEF FOR CUBANS.

New York, January 12.-The Central
Cuban Relief committee made a large
shipment on the steamer Vigilancia. con-
signed to Gen. Lee. consisting of 30,2n3
separate packages and in addition 5oo.o0o
grains Of quinine. The work is progress
ing finely and the relief committees are
being formed in all parts of the coun-
try. Another large shipment will be
made next Saturday AMI semi.weekly
thereafter.
WEYLER PRESENTS HIMSELF.
Madrid, Jan. 12-Lieut. Gen. Weyler
presented himself tonight before the
supreme court and afterwards to the
captain general of Madrid.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-13
More Than Million Dollars Of Prop
erty DESTROYED,
AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE
RENDERED HOMELESS.

Visitation Came without Word of Warn
ing-Men, Women and Children Awak-
ened To Meet Death Under Falling
Walls or In TIames-News from Out
side Places Not Yet at Hand.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04

that angle which would insure the shot
gun. Probably the heaviest guns of the
than send their shot distal CO Of ten
the 13-inch, 12-inch and 1O-inch guns in
our service, and the 125-inch and e11-inch
guns on board the Spanish Ships An
other serious hindrance to high angle fire
afloat is that the ships decks cannot be
conveniently made to stand the downward
kick following Immediately upon Gischarg-
ing the gun. A warship Is designed, built
arr1ored and armed first and foremost
for the almost exclusive purpose OF ca
ga ging in combat with another waIshlo
on the high seas, and is SO braced, Sc
cured and strengthened. that she n can
stand the -acking and 'straintng incident
to the firing of her guns in any position
in which they might bo pointed during
an engagement with her enemy
No man-of-war would open fire on an
other man-of-war at a distance approach
ing ten miles. Indeed, the ships would
not begin to show up above the horizon
until they were six miles apart because
the visible horizon to-. an eye elevated
fifteen feet@is only four miles and q half,
Probably the first shot would not be fired
before the two combatants were well
within three miles Of one another. How
ever for purposes Of bombardment, from
eight to ten miles may be safely given
as the answersto the question, How far
will Spains largest gun carry?'
The great turret mounted guns In our
service afoat and in Spsin's, are as fol-
lows:
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w.. "FIGHTING BOB.o
Characteristics OF the n

enaracter1stics of the Famous
American Naval Commander.
II you want to make Evans angry adj
dress him as Fighting Bob" He wiz
answer to the name right away by knock
ing you down. Probably nothing in his
life, has ever annoyed him so much az
that epithet, which some thouehtless
newspaper applied to him originally after
a certain little episode at Valparaiso.
where he vinddcatcd the quality of Ameri-
can manhood in striking way that has
been we'll remembered. :.
Inls memorable incident, half hurnor-
Gus ana half tragic, has been garbled
10 a considerable extent in the various ac-
counts OF 1t printed. The facts, simplv
STATED, we are assured by the New York
World, are that he was in command of
the U. S. 8. Yorktown at VALPARAISO at
rather exciting period, and some Chill
cans on shore, having an Unborn hatred
LOT Yankees anyhow, took a notion to
De lmpudent to the sailors Of the York.
town.
Capt Evans had occasion to send a boat
ashore, and the Chileans would not permit
the men to land. Evans then sent
steam launch, with. 1-pounder gun in
the DOW, and gave notice that if he was
lnter1ered With he would make hell
smell Of garlic" 1t is hardly necessary 10
say that the trouble ended right there.
A good many people have acquired the
hot1on That Evans is a loud and a bullying
person. At the beginning of the present
connect ne was quoted as saying that he
would make Spanish the prevailing lan-
guage IN Hades. Far from answering to
SUCH description as this implies he is
very quiet and una assuming man. not in
the least given to blrs.or.
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BATTLESHIP GUNS
ARE MONSTERS OF rREMEN-
n,ats POWER.
,-~ These Death Dealing Weapons are
Trained and Handled-Gun Mounts OF
the Spanish Pelayo-Three Hundred Shots
Nearly Wear Out Thirteen-inch Guns.

"lIow far will ships cannon shoot p
Is the constantly recurring question put
in these troublous times by landsmen to
seamen. In the first place don't call the
piece OF ordnance mounted On board a
Warshlp cannon; call it aagreat gun
Which is the technical anne for it-and In
the second place dJn't say Shoot" say
carry" Thus the above question prop
erly framed would be, How far will A
great gun carry?" The, ansHer is that it
will depend primarily UPON the calber
of the sun, that is. upon the, diameter
charge and projectile are secondary con-
sideratioss. In our navy this diameter is
measured in inches. Other things being
equal, it is stated by the New Yorl,
World, the larger the diameter Of the gun
the heavier weight of the shot, the great
er the charge of Lowder the. farther the
distance the gun will carry The thumb
rule for ascertaining what distance a
great gun will carry is that the SHOT will
travel through the air as many miles as
the diameter Of the bore Is inches For
example, thirteen-inch gun will send its
prOtectile thirteen miles; six-inch gun
six miles. Below this calibre Of six inches
the rule does not hold so accurately.
Up to the present time a Y.2-inch gun
has attained an actuar range of twelve
and one-third miles. which Is within a
few miles Of the theoretical calculated
range, and the ra .)id-fire guns of 6-inch
caliber have been made to- carry nine
miles; but it should be remembered that
these guns were mounted on shore on
carriages especially constructed to stand
the strain of this hieh-angled fire. as it
is called. On board ship it would be i'm
practicable to obtain such snselevation ais
would permit the muzzle of the gun to
go up in the air and the breach to go
down so that the piece could be laid to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04

the, practice observable in the most
recently constructed battleships of for
eign naVies is to have the two turrets,
With their pairs of guns, situated as far
apart as possible, utilizing the space be-
:ween for the mounting of the secondary
lrm aMent
. There Is a noticeable popularity ID, the
composition Of the primary ornaments
OF our battleships, when compared with
the batteries on board foreign built shins.
Other nationalities. as we have said place
IN their battleships four guns of large
calbre-1O, II, II or 13-inch-sa1ppleroer3t-
ed by large number of rapid IRE pieces
OF T., D or 6-inch, and to these are
added a still greater number of much
smaller pieces, usually known by the
We1ghts of the projectiles fired from then,
as 8, and 12-pounders. These three
types we find in our ships, but we haze.
q aooltlon' an intermediate calibre, the
e-1nch gum and herein lies the peculiar
" spoken OF, for no other battleships the
world over possess this feature. Abroad
when there Is difference it Is not &C.
pecially great; thus the Spanish ship Pc
layo carries two 12.5-inch guns, one in
each turret forward and aft, and two
11-imeh guns, one each in turrets at the
side. But our battleships carry four l.
or 13-inch guns and eight S-inch guns.
and fire one Of these big guns if care be
taken to aim properly so as to strike the
target-probably one round in three min
utes is as fast as the gun can be efficient
ly handled. The great guns of battle
ships are great in every sense of the
word; for instance, the new guns in our
navy are forty calibers long-that is, for
ty times the diameter of the bore of the
gun will give the length of the gun; a
12-inch gun if forty feet long, Some Of
our 13-inch pieces are only thirty-five
calibers long-about thirty-eight feet.
The weight of the 12-inch gun alone ia
forty-five tons, that of the 13-inch sixty
tons; the Pelayo's 12.5-inch gun weighs
forty-eight tons, the 1l-inch thirty-three
tons.
An extremely important point in con-
nection with all large caHbef~ guns is that
which relates to the life Of the gun. After
ascertain number of rounds are fired from
the gun the piece begins to lose it's ac-
curacy, owing to defects in the bore, due
to what is called erosion, which is the
wear and tear Of the rifling. 1t has been
intinaated that a 13-inch gun can be fired
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04

giving to the exterior portions of the gun
certain initial tension, gradually de-
creasing toward the interior, .1n4 giving
% the interior parts a certain normal
state OF compression by the grip of the
outer cylinders or coils. The general
features of this theory Of construction
When practically applied to the building
up or great guns may be briefly described
as follows: First, there is the tube bored
out the entire length Of the gun from
solid ingot of steel, next comes the
jacket, and then come the hoops BY thus
building up gun of a series of cylindrical
hoops, each hoop being slid on hot over
the others and shrunk on in cooling, the
inner hoops are given the ascertained
normal amount of compression, and the
outer hoops the necessary state of initial
tension. Therefore, the innermost tube
cannot be extended by the pressure of
the exploding charge of powder and shot
to the elastic limit until it is first forced
from its compressed state. to accomplish
which all the outlying tubes that are
assisting the inner tube in resisting any
olsruptlVe force must have their initial
tension overcome. ~.
Large calibre great guns have no trun-
mons; instead, there are shrunk on with
the outer bands Of the gun a. number
Of. circular Jugs which fit. into CORE
spending grooves in a saddle, a heavy
casting, constituting in it's entirety a ton
carriage.
The 12.5-inch guns on board the Spanish
oattleship Pelayo are mounted this way.
so are those 11-inch pieces in the turrets
OF the Carlos ", IVizcaya, Almirante
Oquendo and Maria Teresa. In order to
give some idea Of the general manner of
handling ammunition for and of working
heavy guns we can do no better than to
describe the principal details Of the type
OF turret and mount now fitted on board
these Spanish ships.
The gun mount comprises a, cradle, or
carriage, which rests upon the slides of
an underframe, to which it is held down
by clips. To this carriage and under
frame are attached the cylinders; pistons
and hydraulic ram necessary for taking
up the recoil, running the gun in and out
and giving vertical train. The forward
end Of the underframe is pivoted to the
trunnion bearings, which bearings are
rigidly secured to the turntable. This
turntable, rigidly attached to the turret,
rests on series of live rollers, or trucks,
fitted to revolve on a fixed circular track
just within the upper surface of the bar
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04
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The thumb rule for ascertaining the
Weight Of the charge Of powder used in
irtngs one of these pro5ectiles is that the
weight of the powder charge Is equal to
one-half the weight of the shot. This rule
Is almost exactly the truth. a way to ar
the projectile is to take half OF the cube
Of the diameter Of the gun in inches;
the answer will be the number OF pounds
weight in the shot For example, the cube
of 13 is 2,197, half Of it is .O9S pounds.
All modern great guns are made Of
steel. and are Composed OF several parts
Of cylinders united to form a whole so
as best to support the strain brought upon
them, hence the name .'built up. In our
navy these built up guns are constructed
on what is known as the principle Of
initial tension. This principle consists n
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04
GENERALS Or The NAVY.

Relative Rank Explained for LANDS
mcn-One Kind of Admiral.
When Secretary Long cabied to Commo-
| dore Dewey that 1.-The president has ap-.
pointed you acting. admiral" he really
didn't mean 1t. Mr.. Long having been
chosen for his position because he was q
we'll informed and influential New Eng
land Republican, undoubtedly knew that
| the American navy has neither admiral
nor vice admiral. 1t was only slip OF
the pen. and Commodore Dewey, without
doubt understood that he had been ap-
pointed acting rear admiral, like Capt.
Sampson. { =
Dewey stands an excellent chance of .,e-
ing the senior rear admiral of the navy
before he retires in a year or so, even
If nothing higher. Although he was third
on the list Of commodores, says the New
York Press, he had only to wait until
July before there would be vacancy
! among the admirals. But he did not have
| to walt until then. When the president
! recommended that the thanks Of con-
gress be extended to him for the glorious
| victory Of Manila, that was the first step
| toward appointing him full rear admiral.
The president of the United States has
this power of appointment in time Of
war providing congress votes thanks to
the officer for specially meritorious serv-.
ices:s This. in fact. is the only way in
which. in time Of war, vacancies in the
AA0s u ASoA 0OA114IdLS C61 Dc IllleO. Inc
provision that these vacancies can be
| filled by regular promotion from the
grade OF commodore, after the required
examination, applies, by law, to times Of
peace.
Most we'll informed men, including cabi-
net, know the rldimentary principles Of
military rank-that ordinarily, colonel
commands regiment; brigadier gen.
eral several regiments, which taken to-
gether, make a brigade; major general.
several brigades, or a division; a l!euten-
ant general, several divisions, or a corps;
and general, strictly speaking, an army,
though the United States has had many
armies, but only a handful Of full geaer-
ais. Naval rank, however, is not under
stood so generally, though the principle is
the same. It will be Of considerable help
to remember that military and naval rank
correspond in this way:
Admiral s(when the Office is created) to
general.
Vice admiral when the Office Is created).
to lieutenant general
Rear admiral to major general.
Commodore to brigadier general.
Captain to colonel. !, i
Commander to lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant commander to major
Lieutenant to captain.
Lieutenant, junior grade, to first lieu-
tenant.
Ensign to second lieutenant.
Considering. only the two highest grades.
now actually held, the number Of officers.
in each since 1852 has been six rear adj.
mirals and ten co,iiiil0 dnres. The present.
cGntiIu On 1nA Ta1e.
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AT the same time he is unquestionab,.

Atthe same time he Is unquestionabI,
\ fighter by instinct. in the good sen~-
of the term. Anybody who attempts t.
impose on him in any way Would be likely
to suffer for the indiscretion. He is
man of strong prejudices and passions
and he never makes any disguise about
his opinions. Throughout his career II,
has been down ON the red tape Of the
navy and has fought its privileges anG
claims tooth and toe nail. Il, 49,. .
Just before he was appointed to / the
command of the Iowa 1t CHANGED that he
went Into jewellers shop on Broadway
and entered, into conversation with
clerk behind the counter. The man was a
German; and had no notion of the iden-
tity of his customer, but had some ideas
to express about the expected war with
Spain. Said he: 10y. =. ...,.; =,
"Py chiminy, hat q boy in the navy"
"Indeed"' said Capt. Evans politely,
What slip is he on?"
Hes on the Iowa, py Chiminy," re-
piled the clerk. Hes going down, to
Cuba with Bob Fighter"
Evans has the reputation of possessing
remarkable executive ability. No COM
mander in the navy Is more beloved by
his men. though. they are just a Z bit
afraid of him, too. AS to work he is
very exacting, but when work is over he
gives his men all the play they, want.
Though strict. he is no martinez. In
short, on shipboard he is just as good a
fellow as he is on land.
Generous to fault he is one of the
most open-hearted of men, and socially
inclined in high degree. He belongs to
good many clubs in various cities, in
Guiding the University club in New York.
1t is said that he is an excellent judge Of
wine though he has alwlys been an alb
stemious man, and during the last three
years he has not drank drop.
Fighting Bob is about 5 feet 10 inches
in heighth, sturdily built. and weighs
$50 pounds. He parts his hair in the
middle, and his face is clean shaved and
round, like full moon. Occasionally he
has been mistaken for an actor. FL
Anybody would call him good looking
man, though not exactly handsome; one
would judge him to be younger. than he
really is. His eyes are blue and his hair
| is brown; his dress IS always modest.
Now and then he uses q little profanity.
when stirred up.
Evans has a. bad limp; he walks With
one knee bent The damage was done
(during tho attack on Fort Fisher. thirty.
| FIVE years ago. On that occasion he was
| shot in the knee and fell on the send.
A comrade named Eoban Sands, who Is
now commander of the cruiser Columbia.
came to his rescue and piled up an es::-
bankment Of sand in front Of him to pro.
.ect him against more bullets.
Evans is one of the best practical seas
zen in the navy. He has thorough
Knowledge Of the art OF sailing..a boat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-04

In less than one minute.
The hydraulic power which revolves the
turret, elevates and depresses the gun,
checks the recoil and returns the gun to
the firing position, and also operates the
loading mechanism. TO train the gun
the division officer, from his station on
the sighting platform, turns a wheel In
the direction I'm which he wishes the tur-
ret to revolve; it can be stopped by screw
ing down on another hand wheel at his
right. II the officer wishes to elevate or
depress the gun he has at his left another
wheel Ito accomplish his purpose.
The ammunition hoist carrying the big
shot Is arranged to revolve with the turn
table SO that the operation of loading
can be performed with the turret in any
position. but the gun must first be run
out and laid level: This is readily accom-
plished by the division officer working
the hand wheels on either side of him.
To load the gun man below the turret
deck works q lever that hoists up the
ammunition until it Is pointed fair for
entering the breech of the gun, when a
hydraulic telescope rammer shoves It into
place in the loading chamber. All this
work done by hydraulic poWersis substan-
TALLY similar to that performed Tin the
turrets of our, own battleships.
After the ammunition is showed home
the bAeech block is swung into place, the
gun is laid for the target. the charge
is primed and the great piece is sighted.
The division officer then presses button
and the mass of metal is then sent forth
to do its work. And how tremendous
this work is can be accurately told. Thus,
for the 13-inch guns Of the Indiana, Mas
sachusetts. and Oregon, the striking en-
ergy in foot tons for each gun just after
the shot leaves the muzzle is about SO, 600
tons; for 12-inch gun the energy is
about $500 foot tons; for the Pelayos
12.5-inch gun 1t is 10000 tons. and for her
11-inch $4,000 tons.
Usually four Of these guns. Of large
calibre are mounted on board a battle
ship. Two Of the guns are placed in
turret on the fore and aft line of the
ship forward, and two are similarly sit
uated aft. The advantages of this meth
Sod Of emplacement are that 1t allows the
greatest thickness of armor protection to
be used for a fixed weight, It offers the
poorest target for the enemy's guns, 1t
secures the maximum weight Of fire over
the largest arc Of train, and a greater
number Of pieces can be mounted in the
secondary battery without interfering
with the area Of IRE Of the different guns.
When the turrets are placed, as they
we're in the Maine, en- echelon, the armor
and guns are out near the sides of the
ship, making the vessel roll in seaway,
though more big guns-when mounted
INSTRUMENTATION be trained to fire right
head and right astern than when the two
nrrets are on the middle line of the
2hff1. !. - -. b..
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Go1fJewelry.

Washington Star: Golf has invaded the
realm Of tewelry. Some of the presents that
would be. most acceptable to men and women
who play golf have designs &c golf cluss upon
them Gold and silver clubs are used as stick
pins. miniature bundles OF clubs crossed son :
what after the fashion Of rifles on soldiers
cap AS brooches and a small putter clasp pin
is just the thing for the white puff tie. Match
safes cigarette cases. link cuff buttons. tank
ards and loving cups, elver-backed brushes
and silver-toppAd tobacco Jars, all with golf
and more to be part OF the gentlen1en's out
At. For the women the:.e are dainty silver
score card frames, chain belts, purses, small
cups. silk belts with silver buckles ornansn.ed
Wit, golfng paraphernal.a. AS pr,zes in local
and inter-club matches these convenient ar
tisles are finding much favor.