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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
A DAY OF DISASTROUS FIRES.
JEROME, ARIZONA THE SCENE OF
MANY FATALITIES.

Eleven Bodies Taken From the
Ruins of the Town and 800 PeO-
pie Are HOmeIess-New Westmins-
ter Loses Its Entire Business See
tion, Not a Business House Left
Standing and No Food in the City.
Only One Hotel Standing-FOOd Be-
ing Hurried to the People From
VancOuver-Other Fires of the Day.
Prescott, Ariz., Sept 1.-THE town of
Jerome, near here, was completely wiped
out by fire to-day entauing a loss of
900 in property.
Eleven bodies have so far been discov-
cred, while a score or more are said to be
in the ruins or missing.
The fire originated in cabin, and spread
even the clothing.
The fire was confined exclusively to the
business portion of the town.
The area of the fire was confined to a
narrow gulch and ravines leading to it,
in which were located substantial wood
en- and stone buildings, the latter melting
as rapidly before the flames as pasteboard.
Over 100 residences, twenty-five general
merchandise and other stores, saloons,
etc, are wiped out.
One thousand five hundred people are
homeless.
Two special trains left here tonight for
the scene of disaster, carrying tents and
other material to comfort the distressed.
The loss is complete but little insurance
being in haf 60 fla
great risk and inadequate water supply
Where the fire originated was the scene
Of a drunken carousal last night and
while no demonstrations are being made
against the men who are responsible for
it, when the horrors of the deed wears
away from the victims, attention will be
given to the men who caused It, They are
said to be Italians.
Various parties are now endeavoring to
extract the remains from the ruins, and
until the ground cools sufficiently to per-
NIT rescuers to approach the debris it will
be impossible to ascertain definitely the
names of the victims
Several prominent mining men In the
West are said to have been in the town
at the time and are unaccounted for.
1t Is said an entire family consisting of
a man and wife and three children, who
were endeavoring to save what they had
been years in accommodating, have been
found in the ruins, and as the arrivals
from the scene reach the city the devas-
tation reported is only the more pitiable
and sad.
So complete is the disaster that refugees
In this city tonight are not only penni-
less but are without necessary clothing as
well!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
GEN. MILES ASSUMES DIRECTION.
Belief at Camp WikOR That Many
Changes VIII Occur.

Belief at Camp WikoT That Many
Changes VIII Occur.
Camp Wikon, Montauk Point, Sept. H.
The general belief in Camp Wilton to-day
is that great changes will be seen here
before the present week is over. Reports
are circulating freely that Gen. Miles had
assumed the active direction Of affairs of
the camp, and he intends to have all the
regular troops removed from here as soon
as possible and sent to regular army
posts. where they can live in regular army
barracks and be more comfortable in ev-
cry way than they can be living In tents
on the eastern end OF Long Island, for
when the weather becomes much colder
than IL is now the troops will undoubtedly
suffer here.
Gen. Bates who is now in command Of
Camp Wikon, admitted to-day that new
orders had been received from Washing
ton in regard to the disposition of the
soldiers here, and the general understand
ing is that they will all be moved away
as rapidly as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
SAN JUAN's COMMISSIONERS.
Spanish Instructions Finally Arrive
by the Alfonso Mi.


San Juan de Porto Rico, Sept. u.-Last
evening the Spanish evacuation commits
sioners cabled the governu ent at Madrid
explaining the predicament in which they
will be placed IL their ins.,s actions fail TO
arrive by tomorrow.
The Alfonso XIII, however, arrived this
morning from Barcelona, bringing in
structons for the Spanish commissioners,
with mail and passengers.
Many of the latter are residents of the
island, who fed at the outbreak of the
war, and the quays were lined with
friends, waiting to welcome their return.
The Alfonso XIII steamed into the har-
bor amid the booming of the forts and
the shore batteries.
This afternoon she proceeded for Ha-
vana
The American commissioners win hold
their meeting in a building in San Jose
street, rented by the provincial govern
ment and used as a Senate chamber. 1t
was selected by Col Hunter secretary Of
the commission, none of the numerous
public buildings controlled by the Span
ish authorities being available.
This morning Senior Munez Rivera, pres
ident of the provincial government, called
upon the American commissioners to pay
his RESPECTS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
FIRST SITTING OF COMMISSION.
The Cuban Commissioners Have n
brief Session at Havana.

The Cuban Commissioners Have N
brief Session at Havana.
Havana, Sept. II, $50 p. m.-The AmerI-
can evacuation commission landed this
morning at 7:SO, and rode from the wharf
to the palace of the Cuban Colonial Cor
tes, where the first sitting took place to-
day. Col. Clous. secretary of the COM
mission also landed.
At the palace the Americans were well
coined by representatives of the colonial
council of secretaries, and by the members
of the Spanish commission.
After an exchange of salutations, they
entered the principal hall, where maps
and charts of Spain Cuba and Porto Rico
We're found spread out upon the tables
The session Immediately opened Ths
credentials of the two commissions were
produced, and II was agreed that the Sec
ond sitting should take place tomorrow
at the same hour. The sitting lasted twen-
ty-fiVe minutes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
NETHERLANDS GRIEF.
Swiss Federal Council Wires Its
sympathy to the Emperor.

SWISS eueTat OOumClA "ANCS ANE
sympathy to the Emperor.
Berne, Switzerland, Sept. 1.-THE Fed
eal Council met this morning and sent
the following telegram to Emperor Fran
els Joseph:
The Swiss Federal Council has the
honor 10 express to your majesty its pro-
foundest grief and deepest indignation at
the horrible crime to which her majesty
Empress Elizabeth, has fallen victim. Our
sympathy and Indignation are all the
greater owing to the foul crime having
been committed on Swiss territory, where
the departed, as she had often done be
fore, was seeking recovery from bodily
suHerings, which recovery, as on previ-
Gus occasions, she had every hope of find
ing.
The council hastens to assure your
majesty, at the same time, of its own
Warmest sympathy. and that of the
whole Swiss people in the irreparable loss
Your majesty, the imperial house, and
the peoples of Austria and Hungary have
Uttered through your exalted lady's
death"
The flag on the federal building is at
haf-mast.
Ii is expected that the judicial authori-
ueS of the Canton of Vaud will conduct
me inquiry and the trial.
Inc Geneva cantonal government decided
- issue proclamation expressing the
nJltor OF the government and people of
HtueNa and a decree directing a popular
"Menstraton tomorrow. All the civil
pllc'3-s win march past the Hotel Beau
mage, followed by the citizens, all of
"nom are invited to participate.
Emperor Francis Joseph telegraphed the
A's.I'a IAN minister Count Won Kuefstein,
"eonsent to a post mortem examination.
IT. Reyederin, Dr.. Tegvaus and DR.. Go
ID! were entrusted with the exami-
usuon Of The wound on behalf
ne judicial authorities, and ac-
So-uIAsly proceeded 10 the Hotel Beau
.Nase, where they carried out their in
tlu-Ions. At the close of the examna-
eoN they announced that death was
t5used by internal hemorrhage from a
"la"sular incised wound"
pierced. '''e -''' "'''
4Aey decided that the injury was of a
ttt''"cter to leave no grounds for the
by which had been advanced, that the
ti-,IpIess' who suffered from weakness of
'''I might have succumbed simply to
"T Shock of the bow
c,a ae Geneva Council will place upon the
tr" "fealhs intertwined with the Aus
6.u 6.3u ana Geneva colors, and bearing the
.Puon, "A taken of sorrowful sympa-
w Ifom the people of Geneva"
n 'loushout yesterdays examination of
wy assassin, his demeanor was one of re-
'o.'ng cynicism.
CT press Elizabeth was returning to
IL rance. when she was murdered.
iss,s suite had preceded her by train.
Bs 'ls with her only her maid Of honor
v5- ness Won Rothschild, and a man ser.
WAY he last words Of the Empress
s,ea,-Iu. ud1ressed to the attendants on the
ro.Der' recovering consciousness for the
reHed. "9Aeu "hat had nap
c59e.yet yet the authorities have found no
G.- ..hA'ion Of the report that the muir
b... was part OF an anarchist eonsniracv
Sin uo1en persons with whom the assas-
niSs(oclated have been arrested for ex-
tbo strangers are allowed to approach
N0IAh of the murdered Empress Eliz-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
GRIEF FOR THE DEAD EMPRESS
y,,prRoR FRANCIS JOSEPH SHOW
NC REMARKABLE FORTITUDE.

Flags of Vienna at Half-Mast and All
A,,usements Suspended Indefinite
,,-Emperor Stiu at SchOenbrunn
He Managed to Sleep Several
uours During the Night-PIans for
,be Funeral Contemplate the En-
nress' Remains Lying in State at
vienna Friday and Interment on
saturday-A Servant Crazed by
Grief
Vienna, Sept 1.-THE plans for the
t,rerai of the late Empress Elizabeth,
ubo was assassinated by. anarchists yes
,erdav at Geneva, contemplate bringing
tba remains to Vienna next Thursday, ly-
,op in state on Friday and the obsequies
of nterment on Saturday.
Every flag in the city is at half-mast to-
d.r and the theaters, races and other
orasaments are suspended indefinitely.
Ar the archdukes and the Archduchess
Marie Valerie have arrived at Schoen-
brunn.
If was reported last evening that En-
neror Francis Joseph had gone 10 Geneva,
nv A special train, but this was an error
At noon to-day he had not yet left Schoen-
brunn. Crown Princess stephanie, who
has been staying at Darmstadt, has been
summoned.
The Emperor's fortitude is the topic of
universal admiration. He is bearing up
manfully. despite the terrible shock,
which in view of his age, had inspired
the gravest apprehension. Although at
first stunned and then slightly hysterical,
he soon regained his self-control, and dis
played remarkable calmness. Occasional
". however, completely overpowered by
his grief. he moaned piteously, repeatedly
sobbing the name of the Empress.
Addressing Prince Won Liechtenstein,
chief marshal of the imperial household
he exclaimed last evening" 1T is incon-
ceivabe how a man could lift his hand
against one who never in her life injured
anybody, one who did nothing but good" :"
Then he moaned: Nothing is spared to
me in this world" He managed to sleep
several hours last night, and said this
morning he felt comparatively well, dis
couaging the attempts of his attendants
to display sollcitude for his health
The shock of the news craZed one of
the court servants, who rushed from the
palace to Buryplatz, shrieking: Where
is the murderer of our Empress?"
Dispatches of coincidence are arriving
al the palace from all parts of the world,
tesHfying to profound horror and sympa-
lhy Among them are messages from
President Mckinley, from Emperor Will
liam. and from nearly all the European
s0veregns.
The court will go into mourning for six
months.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
SARATOGA FROM SANTIAGO.
She Arrives at MontnuIS Point With IA
Cargo of Soldiers.

Camp WlIon, Montauk Point, Sept. IL
The transport Saratoga arrived from San
tiago this morning with about siNty MEM
bers of the signal corps, In command of
Lieut. Col. Frank Green. Half Of them
were volunteers from Maine, under Lieut..
G. c. Burnen. The Saratoga also brought
$50 negro laborers, who We're sent to San
tiago several months ago to act as team
sters, drivers, stevedores, etc. Two of the
negroes died of malarial fever on the voy-
age. Twelve men were sick when the
steamer reached here, and were taken to
the detention hospital. The members of
the signal corps aboard were taken to the
detention camp. but the negroes were not
permitted to land here.
The Saratoga win be fumigated and will
then go to New York, where the negroes
wall land.
The transports Concho and Alamo are
on their way from. Ponce and they are ex-
pected TO arrive this week Though none
of the arrangements has been decided up
on, il Is more than probable that the
event will be made the occasion of a grand
review of all the troops that are able to
take part, whether they have taken part
in the Porto Rican campaign or not. The
troops that arrived in the city on the Mis-
sissippi will take part in the parade.
On the Concho are Gen. Wilson and staff
of the First Division, First Army Corps,
and staff of the Sixth Army Corps; de-
tachment of United States engineers, Com
pany c; unattached artillery battery, field
and staff; Battery A, Missouri Volunteers;
Battery A, Twenty Indiana Volun-
teers; Battery b., Pennsylvania Volun-
teers; total, "a officers and $50 enlisted men.
There will arrive on the Alamo Compa-
nes t., G, and II. Second Wisconsin,; Bat
terry A, First Illinois; Company ii, First
District of Columbia; Battery c, Penn
sylvania Artillery; unattached, six Of
ticers, so men and 30 civilian employees to-
tai, 48 officers and 5f5 enlisted men.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
NEW WESTMINSTER RAzED.
Entire Business Portion of the City
Goes Up in Smoke.


Vancouver, B. c., Sept 11.-New West
minister, the chief city on the Frazer river,
presents a fearful scene of desolation to-
day.
Fire this morning wiped out the whole
business portion.
There is not a public building standing
in the central portion of the city.
Famed by a fierce wind, almost a gale,
the fire, which was started on the water
side by sparks from a passing steamer.
spread with such awful rapidity that ten
streets were blazing in three hours, and
only smoking ashes mark the spot where
scores of houses formerly stood.
Handsome blocks, banks and churches,
went up in smoke.
The Cathedral of the diocese is no more.
Hundreds of people are helpless and relief
is being rushed from this city.
Two newspaper Offices are gone, as well
as the Canadian Pacific Railroad station,
three river steamers, a railway bridge
and number of private houses.
1t is also feared that some lives have
been lost.
The telegraph Office at New Westminster
has been burned.
The burned city is twelve miles from
here.
Vancouver British Colombia, Sept. IL
New Westminster to-day is without a store
of any kind, without newspapers, and
without food, save that which is being
hurried over from here. Every industry
save the big Royal City Planning Mills and
Glove Canning Company has been wiped
out. Every merchants office has been
burned.
The fire started at BRAKEMAN & Kerr's
wharf on Front street. 1t spread down to
the Canadian Pacific Railway station
From there it went up taking in the other
side of Front street and also Columbia
street, the chief business thoroughfares of
the city. Block after block caught fire
rapidly and in few minutes there was
nothing left of what had been the busi-
ness portion of New Westminster.
The Episcopal Church was quickly at
tackled the Baptist Church followed and
the Central Methodist Church went next
All were destroyed.
Here, too a large number of residences
went up in smoke and the inhabitants had
to flee for their lives. The fire swept
down Carnarvan street and quickly ell
compassed the big brick court house and
the wooden city han.
The fire gained great headway, owing
to the fact that the fremen lost a great
deal of hose by burning.
This morning there was no water st1nnlv,
for the private use of the burned-out citi-
zens. There was not a single butcher shop.
baker or provision shop that was NOT
destroyed
Only one hotel escaped destruction.
The loss is roughly estimated at $780,
CO., with insurance of 81 &c., 600. London
companies are said to be the heaviest
losers.
The buildings on ten streets were de-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
TO BUILD WINTER HOSPITALS.
Gen. AIger Has Ordered Them to BE
Erected at Once.

Erected at Once.
Detroit, Sept. 11.-Secretary Alger to-day
expressed himself as well pleased at the
Presidents selection of members of a
committee to investigate the conduct of
the commissary, quartermaster and med
ical departments of the war department
during the war.
On the subject of sickness among the
soldiers Gen. Alger said: "The whole
trouble has been in the volunteer troops
not knowing how to take care of them
selves and carelessness in warding off dis
ease. The regular army men have not
been troubled as the volunteers. They
have had yellow fever, and fevers from
exposure in the trenches before Santiago,
but their general health has been good
and the proportion of sick and the deaths
from sickness are very small
THE day before l left Washington" ="
said Gen Alger, 81 called Surgeon Cen
eral Sternberg into my Office and told him
I wanted him to build winter hospitals
for 6,000 men. VIII have enough hospitals
If we have to raise the 5000 TO 6000O. They
will be located al points where they can
be reached by transport. although just
where is not yet determined. One of the
hospitals, however, will be at Havana"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
DECEPTION TO DIxIE's CREW.

baltimore VIII Show Them Honor
for Their COnquests at Ponce.
Baltimore, Sept. 1.-THE United States
auxiliary cruiser Dixie, having on board
"a large number of the members Of the
Maryland Naval Reserve, as part of her
crew, arrived here this afternoon, fresh
from her conquests In Porto Rico.
While there the crew of the Dixie took
a prominent part in the capture OF Ponce,
which, next to San Juan, Is the principal
city on the island.
In recognition Of this fact and of 9TH
er deeds of valor performed by the Dixie's
crew, a great popular reception has been
planned in this city tomorrow, which
happens also TO be local holiday, known
as Defenders Day" and commemorative
of some Of the stirring scenes connected
with the war OF 1912, and which took
place in and about Baltimore
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
TESTIMONIAL TO ROOSEVELT.

Rough Riders TO Express Their Re-
gard in n Small Statue.
Camp Wikon, Montauk Point, Sept. IL
ment of Rough Riders mustered out on
Thursday, and the men win then leave
camp and go to their homes.
The officers and men OF the regiment are
preparing to present to Col. Roosevelt a
testimonial of their regard in the form
of a small bronze statue designed by
Frederic Remington, the artist. 1t Is call
ed the "Broncho Buster" and represents
a cowboy on the back of a bucking mus
tang. The testimonial will cost $3.50 and
ii is the intention to have every officer
and man in the regiment subscribe some
thing to it's purchase.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
FATAL GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
FORTY GALLONS LET GO IT'S FURY
IN A PHILADELPHIA STORE.

Four Bodies Recovered From the
Ruins and a Dozen More May BE
Buried in the Debris-The Build
ings Collapse In the Terrific Shock.
Many People Living in the Upper
Stories of the Three-StOry BUILD
ings and the Loss of Life May Have
Been Heavy-List of Injured at the
HOspitRl-Rescue work Abandoned
TIL Daylight.
Philadelphia, Sept. I.-By the explosion
of forty gallons of gasoline in the cellar
of a grocery store at No. 1444 South street
tonight four. and possibly dozen more,
lives We're lost.
As an immediate consequence of the ex-
plosion the building where it occurred
and those adjoining it on either side col
lapsed.
Up to 10 o'clock, four hours after the
occurrence, four bodies had been recov-
cred from the ruins, and three of these
Identified as follows;
SAMUEL. SCHATTENSTEIN, keeper
of the grocery store.
ABRAHAM SCHATTENsTEIN, the 49,
year-old son of the above.
A 1O-MONTHS'- OLD CHILD. named
GOLDBERG.
The fourth body was that of a girl about
10 years old.
The cause of the explosion Is unknown.
The front of No. 1444 was blown out and
this was followed by the collapse of that
structure and Nos. 1442, occupied by Morris
Goldberg's furniture store, and 1446, Louis
Sallonose's shoe store.
The west wall of 1440, occupied by L..
Wanger's clothing store, was blown out.
All the buildings were of brick. three
stories I'm hight.
In the confusion and excitement follow
ing the disaster, it is as yet impossible to
secure anything like an accurate census
of the occupants of the buildings.
1t is stated that the upper floors were
crowded with families, huddled together
in tenement fashion.
Coming as 1t did at the supper hour, 1t
is feared the loss of life was heavy. The
list of injured will be long.
After the recovery of the four bodies,
the authorities decided to postpone the
search for additional victims until to-mor-
row morning, thus obviatng the dangers
of working upon the mass of debris and
wreckage in the darkness.
The injured at the Howard Hospital
are
l.. Schattenstein aged u.
Alexander Schattenstein, aged g.
Mary Healey. aged 65.
Annie McPhilomy, 40 years.
Harry Rothermel, 12 years
Maggie Goldberg, 80 years.
Sarah Goldberg, IA years.
At the jefferson Hospital are:
A. F. Fish, 80 years; fireman of truck D.
Yetta Goldberg, years.
At the Polytechnic is Rose Schattenstein,
8 years.
Estimates of the number of missing vary
from eighteen to six.
The accepted theory of the accident Is
that Schattenstein went into the cellar
with a lighted lamp, which ignited the
fumes of the gasoline The collapse
of the buildings occurred with two min
utes of the explosion, and the occupants
had little time or chance to escape.
Mrs. Goldberg snatched up her 10
months-old child in her amrs and rushed
for an exit but the child was 50 badly
injured that it died while being borne to
a hospital Strangely enough the mother
escaped with only trifiing injuries.
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abeth The body has been embalmed, and
is dressed in white. The doctors photo
graphed the wound, but the plate will
be destroyed. 1t is understood that En-
peror Francis Joseph will not leave Aus
tria, but will send high court officials to
take the body to Vienna. Flowers are
arriving in profusion.
The assassin maintains his cynical de-
meanor, and frankly congratulates him
self upon the success of his crime He
says: Il am an anarchist, but I belong
to no committee. 1 acted on my own mi
tiative. Let them do as they like with
me. That is my strength"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
EMPEROR To THE PRESIDENT.
Expression of Thanks for the Sym
pathy of the Nation.

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE President
has received the following reply to his tel
egram of coincidence sent yesterday to
Emperor Francis Joseph:
"Shoenbrunn, Sept. 11.-Emperor of AUS
tria to the President of the United States:
I am sincerely touched by the expression
of coincidence and sympathy which you
have been pleased to forward me in the
name of the government and people of the
United States. I beg you to accept for the
expression my warmest thanks.
Francis Joseph"
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CONDOLENCES FROM LONDON.

Queen, Prince and Princess Shocked
by the Terrible Crime.
London, Sept. n-Queen Victoria and
the Prince and Princess of Wales tele-
graphed their condolences to Emperor
Francis Joseph last evening.
The court circular to-day says: ''The
Queen received last evening, with feelings
of the utmost CONSERVATION, the startling
news Of the terrible crime The Queen
mourns profoundly the loss Of her i'm
perial majesty with whom she had been
on terms of friendship for many years.
She feels likewise most deeply for the
honored and bereaved Emperor, who has
experienced so many trials during his
long and beneficial reign"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
BLOCK OF BUILDINGS BURNED.

A Destructive Fire nt Red BLUFF In
curing IA Loss of 100000.
Red Bluff. Cal, Sept. 11.-Fire broke out
early this morning on Main street and
before il was extinguished destroyed an
entire block of the finest buildings in the
town.
The loss to property owners will be more
than 100000, with insurance barely half
that sum.
The origin of the fire Is unknown.
The principal sufferers are Darrough &
Fickerl. Bank of Tehama, A. L. Hoffman,
p. r. Kestler and d. S. Prince.