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The evening times., 1900-09-11
storm that ever devastated the coast of

storm that ever devastated the coast of
Texas
Tonight the city is filled with the be-
reft. destitute, and homeless At the tenn
porary moFgue are stretched out hundreds
of bodies of all ages, representing all M
tiona3ities and conditions of life Whole
families lie side Dy side. The living are
searv.sir.g for their loved ones amid the
slime and waters in the strets or under
the debris of their homes.
Samuel A. Motley, a telegraph operator,
despite all of his efforts to save them, lost
his wife and three children and does not
know where their bodies are. The bodies
of Leon J. Lackey. another telegraph op-
orator. his wife, two children, and two
sisters are lying in the morgue tonight
The only member remaining of the family
"a Evl Lackey, who was saved by re-
naming in the telegraph cOmpany's build
ing The house of a Captain Peete was
crushed in by another falling upon it. He
lost his wife and six children. Jesse E.
Toothaker. contractor and builder, lost
his wife and daughter Joe B. Aguillo,
Chairman of the County Democratic Exec
utive Committee, and his two children,
were drowned Richard NJ. Peck, city engi-
neer, was drowned in an effort to save his
family. This grewsome list could be con-
tinued almost indefinitely.
The city beach in the southwestern part
of the city was under ten feet OF water and
he Government barracks located there
VIE destroyed The soldiers had a mi
racuIous escape from drowning. Many sub
stantial residences in the western. and
southwestern part of the city were de-
stroyed and the mortality list from there
was large.
a heavy mortality list is expected among
the residents down the islands and ada
cent to the coast On the mainland, as both
were deeply flooded and the houses were of
light construction The heaviest losers
financially are the Galveston Wharf Com
pany, the Southern Pacific Railway, and
the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway
companies. and the Texas Lone Star Flour
ing Mil Company 1t will be days before
anything like a correct computation of the
loss of life and damage caused by the
storm can be obtained.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
DENIED BY CHIE CHEN.
Chinese Minister to England Ridi-
cules the Charge of Duplicity.

Chinese Minister to England Hidi-
/. cules the Charge of Duplicity.
LONDON, Sept, IA correspondent had
an interview today with Chib Chen Lo
Feng Luh. the Chinese Minister to Great
Britain, in regard 10 the charges made by
the correspondent OF the Times" at Pc
kin that the Chinese ministers at London
and Washington had endeavoTed to hood
wink the various foreign Governments. by
issuing lying statements and bogus Impe-
rial edfcts during the siege OF the lega-
tions The correspondent also charged
that while Lo Feng Luh and Wu Ting
fang were Issuing statements that the
trouble at the Chinese capital was caused
by rebels, the Dowager Empress and high
Government officials had ordered the at
tacks on the legatiopS.
Ckih Chen said This implication of Mr..
Wu Ting-fan and myself is severe but is
not justified by the facts. l won't call it
lying but Will say that il is the result OF
exaggerated imagination Mr.. Morrison,
the correspondent of the Times is natural
ly enraged because the Chinese Government
did NOT protect him perfectly. SO his judg-
ment is extremely prejudiced.
"All the edicts that Mr. WI and re-
ceived were genuine. They came to US
through Ii Hung Chang Yuan Shih Kai.
the Governor of Shantung and the Vice
roy Of Hsnkow, who all assured us that
they emanated direct from the throne I
was bound to accept these assurances; be-
cause. If the officials I have named had
not sufficient faith in Mr.. WI and myself
and wished 10 deceive US, we would not
be ambassadors
Furthermore, I had private means of
judging the genuineness of the edicts.
irrespective of the assurances Of respJn-
sible Viceroys, that the Empress had or
dered the protection Of the legations I
do not say that the protection was per-
feet, but it was protection from Krupp
guns, and the salvation of the legations
was due to Imperial protection.
"All the ediets which l handed to the
British Foreign Office I also sent to Mr..
WI Ting-fang. who delivered them TO
the American Government. If the de-
spatehes are bogus. you can exonerate
MIR. WI. as / sent the cables to him orig
inally, and will accept all the RESPONSE
biIfty for whatever happens.
The Americans are very sensible in re-
gard to these matters and l do not think
these charges will affect the confidence
they have always reposed in Mr.. WI Ting
fang. Americans always do the right thing
and they will do it in this case, especially
Secretary of State Hay, for whom I have
the highest respect as a statesman and
poet.
The credentials of Ii Hung Chang as
the representative of China in the coming
negotiations were delivered in the vari-
ous foreign capitals yesterday The Gov
ernments will accepts them when they ap-
point their own representatives who will
probably be the ministers now in Pekin.
The evening times., 1900-09-11

SHANGHAI, Sept. 10-12:10 a. m).-Li
Hung Chang is now circulating proclama-
ton in the Province of Pe-ehi-n, warning
the Boxers and all other persons who are
disposed to make trouble to disperse at
once, return to their homes, and resume
their peace occupations In one part of
the proclamation, Earl Ii says:
''You know me; remember my twenty
four years service among you"
Ii threatens that unless his orders are
obeyed at once he will go TO Pe-chi-li and
punish the recalcitrants.
The Imperial party including all the
princes left Pekin on August il. Prince
Tuan was at Tung-chow when the allies
reached that place. He fed at once TO Pc
kin and reported the fact that the allies
We're coming to the Empress Dowager-
Preparations we're made at once to
leave Pekin, but the Imperial party re-
manned in the palace until the allies
were actually entering the Chinese city.
Then they left by way of the western
gate, while the troops of the allies were
passing through the eastern gate.
In view OF this information regarding
the escape of the Empress Dowager and
the princes at the last moment, it seems
certain that if the Russians had kept the
agreement made at Tung- chow for joint
attack by the allies the entire city
would have been surrounded, and the es-
cape of the Imperial party would have
been impossible.
despatch from Shanghai. dated yes
terday says Ii Hung Chang has decided
to go TO Pekin. and will sail for Taku
on September II
The evening times., 1900-09-11
BoERs CAPTURE A TRAIN.
An Escaped Prisoner Says the
BurGhers Have Plenty OF Supplies

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. ia railway
culvert south of the Kip River was de-
stroyed by the Beers last night. The
burghers captured train that came alons
after the eulvert had been blown up, kill
ing railway pioneer They took the arms
Of the Others aboard the train. and then
allowed them to GO free
General Hart is engaging scattered
bodies of the Beers along the Potcher-
stroom Road
One of the men belonging 10 the North
Staffordshire Regiment, who was captured
in fight three days ago. has made his es-
cape and returned to his regiment. He
states that the Beers get supplies from
farm houses everywhere. They have plenty
of food, and also arms and ammunition
Much OF the ammunition is concealed in
various convenient places. where the Brit
ish have little chance of eker finding It.
The soldier adds that while he was a pTis-
oner he saw women in farm houses bring
out ammunition and I'LL the bandoIiers of
the men belonging to the troops.
Messrs. Kruger and Steyn are now at
Pilgrims Rest
The rolling stock of the Netherlands
Railway. consisting Of thousands OF trucks
and engines, is massed at Selati
The evening times., 1900-09-11
MINISTER WU's STATEMENT.
He EnphaticaIiy Denies the Charges
of DIR. Morrison.


Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese Minister, was
an early caller at the State Depar TRENT
this morning, and after a talk with Dr.
Hill, the Acting Secretary, he gave out a
statement inrepIy to the charges made yes
terday by DIR, Morrison, the Pekin CORE
spondent of the London Times,' which
were published this morning The charges
were as follows:
The most profound indignation is felt
here that Ministers Lo Feng Luh and Wu
Ting-fang, whose shameless lies and trans
mission of bogus Imperial edicts delayed
the departure of relief until it was nearly
too late, arg still received with honor in
London and Washington
In Eis statement Mr. Wu said
Il see in the morning papers that DR.
Morrison, OF the London Times has
things. This is one of the most ur:usti-
fable, unealIed for libels ever published
on public man. 1 wish TO know what
shameless lies 1 have ever uttered that
have caused the most profound indigna-
tioa? What bogus edicts' does he refer
to2
If DR.. Morrison only knew the truth he
would see that my efforts have always had
an entirely opposite effect The edicts
were issued and came to me through the
usual channels. They were all absolutely
genuine and absolutely straight. Perhaps
he does not remember that it was through
my Efforts that the American people re-
celyed the first message from Mr.. Conger
though at the time the affair was branded
as fake and I was jeered at. The truth
came out later / have all through these
troubles been true TO the American Gov
eminent.
think that no man ever had more
difficult task than I to perform / had TO
do my duty to my own Government and
yet do II in my power to aid this Gov
efnment. / had to protect the interests
OF China and yet play fair TO the Ameri-
cans. In all this time ! was subjected to
prejudices. I have done my duty to the
United States. / have done all in my
power, and it is rather unpleasant 10 be
rewarded by being termed a shameless
liar
/ do not doubt that DR.. Morrison is a
gentleman and that he represents great
newspaper but I, 100, am a gentleman.
just as much as he His statements we're
made to injure me and his remarks are
ungentlemanly to say the least. They
were made because of his biased views
after being confined in PekiR for time.
hardly believe that he means what he
says, as there is no word of truth in his
charges -
The evening times., 1900-09-11
DWELLING HOUSES WRECKED.
Advices From Galveston Say Bust
ness buildings stood Well.

AdVices From Galveston Say Busi-
ness Buildings stood Well
NEW YORK, Sept lie. L. Porch, OF
Wells & Porch, the Galveston correspond
ents of the brokerage firm of ]. s. Bache
& Co, sent private wire despatch TO that
3rIn yesterday afternoon from Houston
which contained these details Of the dis
aster:
Il left Galveston Sunday at II: 80 o'clock
WITH half dozen others in a small launch.
Arrived at Houston a. m. today. Large
part of residence portion wrecked or badly
damaged; business portion badly damaged
by loss of roofs, etc, but no business build
ings collapsed except sheds on water
fronts The wharves themselves and bulk
heads generally stood we'll. Elevators had
the tops blown off Southern Pacific i'm
provements not damaged, as first thought,
All four bridges TO mainland down. Ali
rail communication cut off.
Generally estimated when we left about
j, 900 lives lost. Great velocity of the
wind, blowing at one time over eighty
miles an hour, chief cause of damage.
Poorly constructed buildings would col
lapse and those who tried to escape from
them would be drowned by the high water.
Electric light, water, and gas not working.
distress will be very sreat. All provisions
except canned goods scarce. Greatest loss
of life is in east end anG along gulf front
The house where I lived, being fully three
blocks from the beach, was the last house
standing for nearly miie up and down.
Eight ocean steamers with cargo wrecked
or aground
Prior to the receipt 1y ]. S. Bache & 10.
| of this despatch, which arrived at 2:04
p m, the firm at about 1890 O'Clock had
received brief despatch from Mr. Porch
which stated he anI his partner, W. A.
Wells, had both arrived safe and well at
Houston. Accompanying this early de-
spatch was an order for the purchase of
cotton in the Liverpool market.
/ 1t was announced in Wall Street yester-
day that Jefferson Seligman had eontribut
cd 81 900 for the benefit Of the sufferers by
The evening times., 1900-09-11

LONDON, Sept. 11.-GeneraI Butler sp-
pears 10 be pushing irresistibly forward
and demoralizing the Boer forces placed
in opposition to his advance. English
military experts believe tbs great time
cannot elapse before the RnaI blows in
the South African war are delivered and
the FederaIfsts compelled TO capitulate or
fee to the mountainous country.
The British War Office has received a
brief despatch from General Roberts, dat
ed Pretoria. September 10, which says:
Yesterday Butler occupied Maushs-
berg after considerable resistance. He
says the road is TOO bad for desc1tp-
ton He is now moving on Spitzkop
'Hildyard reached Griedhorsts yes
terday. He met with slight opposi-
tion. ROBERTS.
General Butler has not yet reported
concerning the casualties sustained dur
ing his advance
According to a despatch to the Central
News from Pretoria. the South African
Republic, over whose destinies Paul Kru-
ger has presided for so many years is
to be known henceforth as the Vaal River
Colony
Another despatch from Pretoria says
that General Baden-PoweH has been ap-
pointed chief OF the Transvaal, or Vaal
River Colony, police.
A despatch from johannesburg, dated
September 8, says that Dalgetty's Third
Cavalry Brigade arrived there from Zee
rust after some sharp fighting for a week.
They got into tight corner at ouagger-
fontein where the Beers captured their
ambulance train.
The British had twelve killed and thirty
wounded. The Beers had five killed and
nine wounded. General Little was among
those wounded on the Rrftieb eide
The evening times., 1900-09-11
INSTIGATED THE BOXERS
Secret Papers of the Empress Dow
ager Discovered.

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE Pekin CORE
spondent of the "Lokalanzeiger' says thai
four Boxers, who were convicted of mur,
dering Christians, have been shot in the
German jurisdiction a number of reports
that were made daily to the Empress Dow
ager have been found in the imperial pal
ace, precisely enumerating murders o:
Christians, also a proclamation issued BY
Chung Ii, a member of the Tsung-u-
Yamen. in July, offering so taels for every
male Christian, 40 for every female ane
80 for every child killed.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
Galveston Storm Sufferers StaTv-
inc in the Streets.
THE DEAD ON EVERY SIDE
Condition Of the Devastated CITY
Worse Than Ever.
A FEVER EPIDEMIC FEARED

Estimated Number of Those Who
Lost Their Lives in the Hurricane e
and Flood. Three Thousand-LaeiS
of Water Adds Untold Horror to
the Distress-HunSry Mobs Break
oEen stores and Dwellings, in
Search of Food-Militia Companies
of Texas Ordered Out-Necessity of
Removing the Survivors to the.
NIuinIand-ReIief Supplies made
uuate-Many Business Men Ruined.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
BUTLER On THE ADV hNCE
British General Takes Mauchsberg
After Considerable Resistance.

His Army Now Moving on spitzkop.
Hildyard Reaches Griedhorsts
After Slight Opposi.ion-The South
African Republic to He known
Hereafter as the XaaI River Col
ony-Bnden-POveII Appointed as
Its Chief of PoIice-SIaarp Fighting
of DnIgetty's Third Cavalry Brig
Lose Twelve Killed ia the Battle.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
ITALY FAVoRs PEACE.
Ministerial Council Declares Against
Further WAR in China.

ROME, Sept. 11.-An official note issued
today announces that at a ministerial coun-
Gil it was unanimously decided to exclude
from consideration in the settlement OF the
Chinese difficulty all proposals that might
tend to draw Italy into further war with
China
The cabinet also decided to initiate peace
proposals Immediately Italy will formu-
late demands for an indemnity and if these
are accepted intervention in China viii be
considered at an end.
The evening times., 1900-09-11

HOUSTON. Texas. Sept, 1f-Estimates
of the total number OF dead in Galveston
and its vicinity still ranged today in the
peighborhood of 3.GG0. A boat arrived
here early this morning with fifty survivors
of the Galveston catastrophe Most oil
them were wealthy residents.
Passenger Agent J. H. Miller, of the
Southern Pacific Railway, one of the pas
sengers, estimates that the Galveston death
list will total 2,O00.
The stories told by the refugees SHOW
that a condition now exists in Galveston
more awful even than at the height of the
hurricane,
Surrounded by the bodies OF hundreds
OF dead, whom they are unable to bury,
the people are starving in the streets
The lack OF water adds untold horror to
their suffering. With their wells and els
terms spoiled by the salt inrndation, the
water works destroyed, and all available
sources of supply corrupted by the dead,
their condition is pitiable. almost beyond
comprehension.
Disease and lawlessness nave now
come to make the havoc complete AS
the waters recede. the necessity OF re-
moving to the mainland at once those
who remain alive becomes apparent.
Nothing but the most stringent meas
ures can prevent an epidemic of fever
as the sun now beats down on a coat of
slime an inch thick. which covers the
entire city
Lootfng has begun. Stores and even
private houses are being broken open by
starving mobs in the almost vain hope
Of procuring food and water.
The militia companies of the State
have been ordered out and martial law
viii be declared
Searching parties which returned at
daylight this morning reported that they
had found more bodies during the night
than they could bury.
The gravity of the situation lies in the
lack OF craft to take the $1,000 survivors
off the island. Only four small boats
are now in Galveston Bay. The sur
vivors are subsisting on canned provi-
sions that escaped spelling by the food
and the inadequate relief supplies that
have already reached them
DALLAS, Texas, Sept 11.-EVery report
from Galveston makes the situation look
more horrible. The representative of a
business concern in that city operating
with more than $1,000. 900 capital said to
the correspondent this morning:
'I have just heard direct from my house.
There is no hope for Galveston. The city
is as completely ruined as a seaport as if
the island had been sunk Men who have
survived the storm cannot survive fnan-
eial bankruptcy in their business. No
more capital Will be invested in Galveston
because Eastern and foreign fnanciers viii
not risk it there.
We are all ruined beyond recovery. as
there is no insurance against such losses
as hurricane or tidal wave. Our policies
will be repudiated by insurance companies
and if We were inclined to start anew we
could not The property loss in the city
viii not fall below $50, 0OO, 900 and the lives
sacrificed. I feel sure from what I Iearn,
will approximate . 600 -
The evening times., 1900-09-11
WARNED BY III. PICHoN.
French Minister ut Pekin Foresayy
the Spread of BoxerIsm

PARIS, Sept, 11.-It is stated that a
Yellow Book which Foreign Minister Del
casse is preparing in reference to China
contains correspondence showing that NJ
Pichon, the French Minister d, Pekin, fore
saw the spread of Boxerism and the com
plicity of the Government in the movement
and warned NJ. Delcasse who in March last
communicated with the powers on the sub
ject.
Delcasse proposed a combined naval DEM
onstration, believing that this would suf-
fee to induce the Chinese Government to
discontinue its countenanciRg OF the Box
ers. All the powers rejected the PROPOSE
ton. Great Britain and Germany pqrticu-
Iarly opposing it, on the ground that il
would be unjustifabIe.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
RECOVERING THE DEAD.
Bodies Found ON the Mainland Nenr
Virginia Point.

Virginia Point.
VIRGINIA POINT, Texas, Sept. 11.-Up
to this morning about $50 bodies had been
recovered Most of those bodies were found
on the mainland in the vicinity of Virginia
Point All last night searching parties pa
trelled the coast looking for bodies and
many were recovered by moonlight
Owing to the fact that the waters from
Galveston Bay during the height of the
storm extended inland for a distance of
six miles, the work of hunting for the
bodies is a much greater task than it
would have been had the waters kept
at one shore line. The remains are
found scattered over this wide expanse
of devastated territory, bodies are still
10 be seen floating in the waters of the
The evening times., 1900-09-11
PROCLAMATION FROM Il
Boxers Ordered TO Disperse and
Return to Their Homes.

china's Envoy Warns the Disor.ierIy
Elements That They VIII he Pun
ished if They Do Not Obey His
Comma maad-Threafens to Go to Pc
chill Himself if They Hesitate.
Report That the Earl VIII Sail for
Taixu September IA, En- Route to
PeI1in-'Phe Escape of the Imperial
Party From the Celestial Capital.
Fled Through the Western Gate.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
NANsEN PRAISES ABRUzzI.
Says Science Has Gained. Much From
His Arctic Expe<fftfou.

say SSieece has 6afHess Much From
His Arctic Expedition
ROME, Sept. 1.-THE Tribune" pub
fishes despatch from Chrfstiania. Civ
ing an interview with Nahsen. the Arctic
explorer. He spoke enthusiastically re-
garding the expedition CT the Duke of
AbFuzzi. from which, he declared, science
had gained greatly, inasnueh as it had
proved that only the sea existed beyond
Franz Josef Land
The students in Christiania will have a
torchlight procession In homer of the
Duke of Abruzzi tonight. Nansen, In
their behalf. viii make Z. eongratulatory
address to the Duke.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
IKE Massachusetts Campaian

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-THE Republican
National Committee Will open the cam
paign in Massachusetts next week. John
H. Wise. of this city, is booked to speak
at Lynn, Mass. on Tuesday. September Is
The evening times., 1900-09-11
DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK.
State Convention Holds Is Brief
Session and Adjourns.

Delegates to Reconvene at III o,CI6eIss
Tomorrow Morning=speeeif Of Sen!
at"r hecarren as Temporary
CHairman-TKe Republican P.rt,yt P.t,t
Arraiened for Its Mismanare-
ment of Public Affairs Bryan,st
Name Greeted With. Hearty Cheers,
Mr.. Croker Receives am Ovation,
From Tammany-David b.. Hill Not
Present During the, Proceedings,
The evening times., 1900-09-11

Acting Secretary of War Mefkleiohn
said today the report that a detachment
of American troops formed part of the ex-
pediti3a to attack Paoting-fu was un-
doubtedly erroneous The American COM
mandeTs would not participate in such q
movement without first securing the ap-
proval of the authorities here, aud no
such permission had been sought or
granted
The evening times., 1900-09-11
$40 To Niagara Falls and Return s1n
Via Pennsylvania Railroad.

Special train of parlor cars and day coaches
will leave Washington 500 a m. THURSDAY. SEN
teinber 20. Tickets good te return within zen
days allowing stopover at Buffalo, Rochester,
pnd Watkins returning
The evening times., 1900-09-11
warshfps in Chinese Waters

The Navy Department has been notified
that the New Orleans has sailed from
Woosung Tor Taku and that The York
town has arrived at Chefoo.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
Niagara Falls Excursion, September
I3. Via u. & o. Il. IA

-speoial-tfain of day coaches and parlor cars
without change leaves B. & O. station $50 a. m.
Stopoyers allowed on rc;urn trip. Tickets good
for ten days Meals served in cafe diner en- route.
Specially low rate excursions from Niagara Falls
in connection with this excursion.
The evening times., 1900-09-11
EMPRESS REPORTED CAPTURED.
Chinese Sovereign Said TO Have Been
Taken by Russians.

LONDON. Sept. 1.-THE evening pa
peTs print a telegram from Nagasaki Of
yesterdays date which states that the
Dowager Empress of China has been cap
tured by Russian troops at JohoI
The evening times., 1900-09-11
$3.50 ,ro Richmond, Va, and Re $3.50
turn. Via PennsyIvania Railroad

Account meeting Grand Lodge, J. o. O. F.
tickets on sale and good going September Is. 16.
il, is, and 80 and 1855 a trains September
49, good TO return until September 25
The evening times., 1900-09-11

Tickets sold Saturdays and Sundays for retuen
until Monday following. at reduced rates from
Washington to ChaIiestown. Frederick, Annapolis
Junction. and intermediate points
The evening times., 1900-09-11

Flynn's business College. Sth and X
s;usiness, Shorthand, Typewri;ing- a year.
The evening times., 1900-09-11

No use to put OF Aaiiding that SUI
! urban house ROW: ls.mber is down by Frank Liz
bsy 4 CO.