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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-13
Thence MENlCES
STRICKEN GALVESTON
Decaying Bodies Everywhere Fill the Air With
Od0rS and Sickness Is On the Increase.
About Fifty Negro GhOuS Are Kied-Ready Aid From Out
side is Relieving the Distress

Galveston, Tex, Sept. Il, s p. m, via
Houston, midnight--All attempts at
7-7rvfng the dead have been utterly
abandoned, and bodies are now being
disposed of in the swiftest manner pos
sibie. Scores Of them were buried to-
day. and hundreds were taken out to
sea and thrown overheard. The safety
,f the living is now the paramount
ouestion. and nothing that will tend 20
rrayent the outbreak of pestilence is
being neglected. This morning it was
found that large numbers of the bodies
which had been previously thrown into
-be bay washed back upon the shore.
and the situation was thus rendered
worse than before they were first taken
I'm the barges and thrown into the
water
II viii now never be known how
many have lost their lives IN this awful
catastrophe. Mayor Jones thinks the
dead will amount to several thousand,
and others whose opportunities for
Judging are less than that of the mayor
place it is high as 10000.
Efforts were made this afternoon TO
pick up the dead bodies that have
foated in with the tide, having once
been cas- into the sea. This is awful
work. and few men are found with suf-
ficiently strong nerves TO last at it
more than thirty minutes at a time.
All Of the bodies are badly decom-
posed. swollen to enormous proportions
and Of so dark a complexion that it
is impossible to tell, except by the hair
whether the corpses are those of whites
or of the negroes.
General McKibben. Z. s. A. arrived
last night and has assunAd entire
charge of the city, with the result that
conditions have much improved as
far as method in the disposition of
I . supplies and work is concerned.
General McRibbC represents the gov
eminent in a general way, but has not
asst ned direct charge of the city.
which is under the command of Ad-
jutant General Scurry.
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SICKNESS MAY
BECOME EPIDEMIC

Galveston, Tex, Sept. u, ? p. m. via
Texas City and Houston, 6 p. m.-Thir
city il now threatened with pestilence
Many deaths are resulting from un-
avOidable neglect and the sanitary con-
dition, and superhuman efforts are be
ing made to clear up the mass of debris
which bids fair to breed an epidemic,
which is almost sure to start from the
filth and animal matter that is bePi0-
ming to decay. Disinfectants by the
carload are being shipped from the
larger towns to Galveston. The big
ice companies of Dallas are today load
ing trains with ice destined to Calves
ton. which cannot reach their destina-
ton earlier than tomorrow.
The citv and island is covered with
Carcasses of horses, mules, cows, dogs.
rats and cats. The odor from these.
and from the human bodies poisons
the air. and it is a matter of impossi-
nifty to dispose of even One-tenth Of
the purifying carcasses this week.
The number of people trying to leave
is great; not all Of them want to stay
away permanently. but they desire to
get to relatives and friends elsewhere
To recover from the shock. They want
to get where there is plenty Of food
and drinking water and medicine, "a u
not so much danger of sickness that
may prove as fatal as wind and water.
Over Fifty Ghouls Are Shot.
The ghouls have been holding an
orgie over the dead at Galveston. The
majority of these men were negroes,
but whites took part in the Dissertation
of the dead. Some of them were ma
uves and some had been allowed to go
over from the mainland under the
guise Of relief workers.
Not only did they rob the dead. but
they mUtilated bodies in order to secure
their ghOulish booty.
A party of ten negroes were return
ing from looting expedition. They
mad stripped cOTpses of all valualbles
and the pockets of some Of the IOoters
We're fairly bulging out with fingers of
the dead. which had been cut off be-
cause they We're so swollen the rings
could not be removed.
Incensed at this Dissertation and mu-
u.ation of the dead, the looters were
shot down. and it has been determined
mat an found in the act of robbing
'aE dead shall be summarily shot.
1Hrng the robbing of the dead not
'A.N We're fingers cut off. but ears were
stripped from the head in order TO Sc
cure Jewels of value. n few govern
Urnt troops who survived and private
MS have been patroling the city
GU nave endeavOred TO prevent the
i''o.hS of the dead and on several Oc-
tsSi'nS nave killed offenders It is said
tll"' al one time eight were killed, and
a. another time four. Altogether the
fully fifty.
w. Fl. McGrath. manager of the Dali
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sABRUZZI is HONORED.
Nansen Joins In Tribute to Polar
Explorer.

Christiana. Sept 12.-The Duke OF
Abruzzi. head of the Arctic exploring
expedition on the Stella POlare' was
the recipient of a splendid popular tn
b,,+a in Christiana Last evening the
students organized . grand tOrchhght
procession. The streets were throng-
ed with singing thousands
Al the official reception earlier IN
the day. Dr. Nansen spoke. saying Ihal
the Duke of Abruzzi had not ohls re-
nayvad the noble traditions of italy. OF
Marco Polo. and Of Columbus, but nad
given the youth of all nations noble
example
AT II D. m. the duke started for italy
intending to return in about a Iorl-
night He was accompanied 10 the
railway station by DR.. hansen
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.ORhAN is NOMINATE
Heads the Ticket of the Colo
RADIO FuSiOniStS.
HARMONY rs RE[GNING
DIVISION OF THE OFFICES Is
ARRANGED.

Denver. Sept. Fit took eight bal
lots tonight in the Democratic cOnven-
tion before a nomination for governor
could be made. There were five candi-
dates. The following is the fusion as
far as completed at this time:
Governor, ]. B. Orman, Pueblo.
Oem)
Secretary of state, David a. Mills.
Denver, (Pop.)
Treasurer. DR.. ]. N Chipley. Pueblo.
(Sil- Rep)
Supreme justice, Robert w Steele,
Arapahoe county. (SiL Rep.)
Superintendent of public instruction,
Mrs Helen S Grenfen, Gilpin county,
(Sil- Rep.)
Attorney general. c. C. Post. Clear
Creek county, (POp.)
Congress man, First district, John F.
Shafroth, Denver, (Sil. Rep.)
Congressman Second district, John
c. Bell, Montrose, (POpO
Presidential electors, B. H. Eaton,
(Sil. Rep.); T. NJ. Patterson. (Pop) :
Charles j. Hughes. (Dem), and J. H.
Robson, (Dem)
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ANOTHER RACE WAR ON.
Drunken Negroes Cause Riot and Six
Murders.

Bedford, Ind, Sept. 12--Drunken ne
grOes are causing a reign Of terror
at Huron twelve miles south Of here
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and
Judge Martin of this city has been
asked that the sheriff and a posse be
sent to the town 70 qUen riot that
is on between a mob Of negroes and
number of whites in the marshal s
posse
The negroes have been employed by
railroad contractors and received their
wages Saturday. since when they have
been spending the time II drinking
and gambling Many bloody fights
have resulted. and at least six murders
have been committed among the ne
groes since their advent here
Yesterday a number Of the blacks
were jailed by Marshal Glory and are
now being guarded by a posse OF white
men. Friends OF the prisoners have
armed themselves and threaten 10 re
lease the prisoners.
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BOTHA READY TO QUIT.
Commander Is Making Overtures
For a Surrender.

London, Sept. 12--The flight of Pres
ident Kruger from what is now desig-
mated as the Vaal River colony, and his
arrival last night at Lourenzo Marquee,
as cabled to the Associated Press this
morning. is regarded here as indicative
of an. early end of the hOstilities in
South Africa.
Significant also, although it is un-
confirmed, is the announcement that
General Botha, the Boer commander
in-chief. is making Overtures to sur
render, and the question whether the
burghers will now follow the usual
their arms or formally declare in favor
of guerrilla warfare must be speedily
settled. 1t is, however. believed here
that President Kruger's action deprives
the Beers of their main pretext for re-
naming in the field
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AMERICANS IN DISTRESS.

London. Sept 12-The Cape Town
correspondent of the Daily Mail. refer
ring to the question put in the house of
assembly to Sir John Gordon Sprigg.
regarding the refugees, says
The distress among the men is very
serious Large numbers. mostly
Americans. are living in caves on the
sides of Table mountain, owing to their
inability TO pay rent"
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Especial to The Hera1d.l

Butte. Mont. Sept. 12.-DanieI Lucey,
alias Sullivan, will be hanged here Fri
day for the murder of his friend, Pat
rick L. Regain, two years ago, the
governor having refused to interfere.
Lucey is a deSerter from the army.
He is suspected of several other muir
ders, and was tried once in Arizona
but acquitted for lack of evidence.
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army officer who accompanied the
ROers in their campaigns as military
observer:
'LOurenZO Marquee.
Events have required the departure
OF attaches from the TranSVaI
Request instructions
-REICHMA ANN
This message is interpreted at the de-
partment to mean the complete col
lapse of the BOer resistance to England
Captain Reichmann has been cabled
permission to start at once for the
United States
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ONE NARROW ESCAPE.
Steamer Flint and Pere Marquette
Barely Reaches Port.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 12.-Battered
and damaged by the terrible gale that
swept over Lake Michigan last night
the steamer Flint and Pere Marquette
No. of the Pere Marquette line. ar
rived IN port this morning after one of
the narrowest escapes from disaster
ever experienced by a passenger steam
er on the lake Thirty passengers were
more or less injured by the trip. while
the following sustained serious injuries.
w. Harker, Detroit
Mrs. w. Harker
Maggie Eglenton, Detroit
Mrs. Martha Derham. North LANSING
Conrad Hubbard. Monroe. Mich.
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, MANY SUFFERERS
BECOME INSANE

= Dallas, Tex, Sept. PA bulletin :
Z from Galveston, via Virginia Point
Z and Houston, received here at II
= a. m, says:
= The situation grows worse
= every minute
Water and ice is needed.
= People in frenzy from suffering
+ from these causes,
Scores have died since last
= night and number of sufferers
= have gone insane
= + 4 d,
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CONVICTED MURDERER ACCUSES
SOLDIERS OF KILLING CHILDREN

He makes the statement that while
he was in the army during and prior
to the Geronimo Indian trouble. the
soldiers used to kill white settlers and
the crimes were credited TO the Indians
He says he knew of several instances
where soldiers bayoneted children and
the crimes were supposed to have been
committed by the Geronimo band
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Dundee Founders In the Storm Near
Cleveland.


Cleveland, o.. Sept. 1.-THE schooner
Dundee, owned by the Michigan Tran
sit company, in tow of the steamer John
NJ. Glidden, foundered about eleven
miles west of this port early today.
The boats were bound for AshtabuIa
with ore and the storm struck them
about O'Clock this morning
The Dundee lost her rudder and a big
sea boarded her and carried away her
forward hatch. The crew took to the
rigging with the exception of Kate
Hoffman, the cook, who was drowned.
The men were finally taken off by the
steamer c. Lower, jr., and brought to
Cleveland
As the result of the furious gale
which swept over the lake last night
Geographic and telephone lines were
Frustrated in all directions from this
city today During the height of the
storm the wind reached a velocity of
sixty miles an hour
Today the storm is Subsiding.
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THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE
Kruger FIees From the TransVaa4'
storm Still Works Havoc
PACE Two
Ching Is In Custody
PAGE THREE
Republican Campaign "opens
Railroad News
PAGE FOUR
Editorial
PAGE FIVE
Rogers Is Discharged
Sommer Renominated-
PAGE SIX
Burlington Flyer Held Up.
Mining Stock Market.
Mining News
PAGE SEVEN.
Financial and Commercial.
PAGE EIGHT
Bandit Lynch Talks.
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BOATS DRIVEN ASHORE.
Ships and Yachts Are Wrecked By
the Storm.

Oswego, N Y, Sept. 12.-The storm
here was severe. The wind reached a
velocity of forty-two miles an hour.
The schooner Albercore was driven
ashore east of the harbOr. The crew
was rescued by the life savers
The T. p. Kerritt of Hamilton, Ont
is ashore on Nine Mile point. The crew
escaped to shore
Ten handsome yachts were dashed on
the beach here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-13
KRUGER FLIES
FROM TRANSVAAL
BOer President Is a Refugee
in Portuguese Territory.
ROTHA ASKS TERMS
OF SURRENDER
Military Attaches Leaving
War Practically Over.

Lourenzc Marquee, Sept. 12-Presi-
dent Kruger arrived here last night
He and several Transvaal officials are
staying at the house of Mr.. Pott, the
consul of The Netherlands here.
1t is reported that they will sail for
Europe Sept "a on the German steam
er Herzog.
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FIRE AT NARRAGANSETT.
Confagration Spreads From Hotel
Loss 100000.

Narragansett Pier. r. l.. Sept. IA
serious fire broke out today in the
Rockingham hotel. an extensive wood
Ell structure. The flames. driven before
a seventy-knot gale, spread rapidly.
The Rockingham, the Casino. Haz-
ards block, the Knights of Pythias
block and twenty small stores owned
by James c. Burns & Sons We're
burned.
The loss is estimated at $500, 600.
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He was so weak and SO badly injured
that IL was impossible to bring him down
the mountain to Mullan, but he will re-
cover.
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ATTACHES ARE LEAVING.

Boer Resistance Said to Have Col
lapsed.
Washington. Sept. 12.-The following
dispatch has been received By the war
department from the United States
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Sons of veterans Elect officers.

syracuse. n. Y, Sept 12--The ma
tionaI encampment of Sons Of Veterans
today elected as cOmmander-lh-CIil sL
f. A. Alexander OF Reading, Pa
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IDAHO MINER IS BURIED SIXTY
HOURS, RESCUED, AND WILL RECOVER

Spokane Wash. Sept 12-Barney Con-
nelly, who was entombed for sixty hours
In the Park Tunnel above Mullan, Ida
by cave-in, has been rescued
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PLAQUES AWFUL RECORD.
Over $4,000 Die In India In
Week.

Simla. Sept. 12.-The plague is again
increasing. over ~ 600 deaths are re
ported to have occurred in India dur
ing the last week
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SCHOONER Is SUNK.

part of the transatlantic steamer
routes
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Last Warning Is Given.

At noon today President Mitchell made
his last official statement before declar-
Ing the strike. The railroad companies
control y per cent of the mining output
and as a last resort President Mitchell
has photographed warning TO the preSi-
dents of the Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley,
Delaware & Hudson. Delaware. Lacka-
wanna & Western. Central of New Jersey,
Philadelphia K Reading. Erie New York
& SuSGuehanna < Western; Delaware.
SuSquehanna & SchuylkilL and New
York. Ontario < Western companies
The message was as follows:
Indianapolis Ind. Sept. l2.-lS9--A
strike is imminent in the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania II IL comes il viii
have an injurious effect not only upon
the coal regions. but upon ali COmmuni-
ties where anthracite coal is sold, trans
ported or used The public. Therefore Is
interested in the result. As the conn any
of which YOU are president controls mines
IN the anthracite regions. we the du-
thOriZed representative Of the anthracite
miners. in order to promote the public
welfare and avert a strike. propose 10 you
and the other coal operators that the
whole question of wages and conditions In
The afthracire- coal fields De s1lhulitt79 TO
arDitra ton An immediate rerrv. signify
ing EOur acceptance or rejection of this
proposition is requested
JOHN MITCHELL, President.
f'W- b WILSON.
Secretary Treasurer United Mine Work
erS Of America
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cedure of the three district bodies I'm ap-
5dEln& 10 the national board for author
lty TO strike and formal announcement
JhaI the application is endorsed and the
strike ordered The order saws:
DO not wait for any further notice te
st~-Go. but cease work in a body on and
after Monday, Sept L. 1901
This afternoon President Mitchell and
Secretary Wilson sat in the headquarters
BoUn were nervous They opened tele-
grams from different parts Of the anthra-
cite region with feverish haste. thinking,
as they said, that each message might
be some concession from the operators
that would prevent the strike.
The three district president reported
this afternoon that of the 1A2.000 men IT
the three districts, 154,500 would so on
strike Monday.
President Mitchell would not state what
secret influence had been at work 10 pre-
vent the strike and which caused the de
lay. He said the person at work had Of
Tered his services voluntarily and that
the matter was confidential
As TO maintaining the men during the
st--9-2 he said:
When men are fighting for just wages
they can Subsist on very little. At any
rate II is safe TO say that nobody Will
starve or want for necessary clothing
Most of the men live in company houses.
eviction, but these things have all been
fully considered At this time il will be
folly for the organization 20 go into de-
tails as TO the provision made for feeding
and clothing the strikers
President Mitchell viii leave Saturday
for HaZletOn, Pa, personally to conduct
the strike
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Continued on Page p
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Silver and Lead.

silver. 625sc. per ounce.
conner. 15a4c. per pound
lad. A. s K r. Cos price. S4C0; New
york exchange, $4.375z; New York brok-
ers, 500.
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Continued OF page p
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-09
The RATS BEGIN TO LEAVE.

In another column is published an
editorial from the Chicago American.
which is one of the most remarkable
after-electicn statements that any
newspaper could make. After a cam
jpaign OF months in which that journal
supported Bryan and all his party is
sues often in a most INSCRIPTIONS
manner. this paper appears on the day
ment that Mr.. Bryan was defeated be-
cause his cause Was wrong and that
the American knew it was wrong The
assumption being thar the American
was wiser than Bryan in that 1T knew
all OF the contentious made by Mr.
Bryan and his party were wrong The
Hearst newspapers We're the first to
advocate the retention of the Philip
pines and "the American has had its
individual opinion about the unwisdom
of free-silyer." Yet these two propo-
sitions were advocated by the Bryan
party paramount to all others and
the Hearst newspapers the Ameri-
can applauded 1t used all Of its
questionable influence to elect the man
and the party that favored these prop
ositions, telling the people that both
were right gathering and printing ev-
idence to prove that both were right
and villifying with all its power Of pen
and picture the man and party who
stood prayeIy in front Of the forces Of
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DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF DEFEAT.
LGhicago Americana

IGhica2Os American. ~
The. lates. indications are that Nc
kinley has carried every state ne car
sried liz 1886 and several that Bryan car
ried then, including his own state of
Nebras ska.
William Mckinley has been reelected
in most decisive fashion. His popular
majority is much less than in 1896, but
This electoral majority is enormous.
Thru the haze of this defeat the de-
mocraey can see the victory that might
have been. Beyond a doubt Mr.. Bryan
would have been triumphaEslS elected
but for two things.
The first vas the intrusion % the sill
Yer issue. Free silver was dead and 80
unpopular that even its corpse wac
ienough to drag any man down TO de-
feat.
The second was the policy OF cutting
loose entirely from the Philippines. That
was not in accord with the spirit Of the
American people.
The people have evidently made up
their minds to dispose Of free silver
l;once for all. The effort was superflu-
ous, for free silver had ceased to exist
| as possible policy four years ago, but
the voters We're determined not to have
t.the remains lying around any longer.
The democratic party has paid by two
defeats for the adoption of an unpopular
! and discreGited issue. Free silver was
Edefensible in 1896, altho even then its
advocates had an uphill fight But ev-
ferything that has happened in the past
-four years has helped to bury it deeper
| in the graveyard Of obsolete Issues.
Russia, Japan and half dozen minor
nations have become gold standard
countries. Even in South America sil-
yer is steadily losing ground, and Next
1 co is almost the only important friend II
bas left.
A flood of new gold has filled the mon
Ietary channels Of the world. Every ar
gument the silver advocates advanced
lin 1896-scarcity of money, appreciating
currency, business stringency has
ceased to have any application to pres
lent conditions Prices have been rising
INSTEAD Of falling. The trusts have been
practically reducing the wages OF the
Ientire aboring population by making
| the dollar buy less. This is the most
effective argument advanced by the
democracy for winning labor votes, and
lit is under such conditions that the dem.
ocratic party has been put in the ridicu-
ious and odious position of trying t.
make the dollar buy less still.
i A to the Philippines the Hears
newspapers We're the first to advocate
their retention, but they never believed
lin attempting to hold their affections
with a shotgun, az Mckinley is doing
The policy Is az repugnant to the Amer
!tcat people az il IL to the American, bu,