Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-28
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

tearing everything before il. A num-
ber of houses We're blown down and
there are reports OF terrible disasters
Just outside the city.
At noon the report is that 5000 per-
sons have been Injured. many of them
fatally.
Surgeons, ambulances, and the en-
tire fire department have been sum
moned to one end of the city. where
the disaster was greatest.
AT Cirvuit. twenty miles distant,
tremendous damage has been done.
1t is reported that eight men We're
killed at Irondale, several miles from
here
Pratt City also suffered from the
storm. two fatalities being reported.
The wind has been blowing gale
since 10 o'clock. Vast sheets of wa
ter are falling, telegraph aud tele-
phone wires are down, and it is diff
ficult to get accurate information
LATER.-The cyclone which swept
through the Jones valley this morn
ing is not as bad as first reported.
Up to O'Clock 30 people are known
to be dead. The fury of the storm
was terrible and the loss to property
is enormous.
DR.. Chapman, a prominent physician
of this city, is dead, killed by falling
bricks. Mrs. Robert Lowe and her
son were killed at their residence. ].
Alexander, merchant and w. p.
Dickson, his bookkeeper, were killed
in their store on oath street. Six
school children were killed. Mrs.
r. H. Thomas and w. II. Thomas, wife
wife and mother of prominent citi-
zens, were fatally injured by falling
debris. The storm did much damage
in the vicinity of Avenues | and X.
Hundreds are injured and this after
noon the city is in a state of panic.
The rain storm is now abating.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 25.
The storm which swept through AL
ALBANIA destroyed several miles of
track on the Chattanooga G. Rome rail
way. Lynnyille, Ga, reports much
damage from the storm and several
severely injured. Dozens of negro
cabins have been destroyed all
through Alabama.
SEATTLE. Wash, March 25.-Re-
ports from the northern Pacific tell
of terrific hurricanes all last week
roaring down from Bering Sea and
doing great damage to the islands be
tween here and Alaska and along the
coast. Several wrecks are reported.
NEW YORK, March 25.-March
storms on the Atlantic have been
terrific. The Cunard liner Lucania,
which came into dock this morning.
was battered and torn. covered with
ice and her masts partly dismantled.
Two seamen were lost, being swept
from the deck by hurricane.
The passengers were down for three
days.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Cables
from Lima this morning say that a
lively revolution is imminent on the
coast of South America.
Chile is belligerent and wants tc
go to war with both Bolivia and Peru,
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 25.-Mrs.
Nation, with blood in her eye. stop
ped off here this morning to pay Wis
It to saloon-keeper who calls his
establishment THE Mrs. Nation
She met the man and threatened
him whit all sorts of bodily injury II
he did not change the name of his
place. He refused.
Mrs. Nation proceeded on her way
without invoking the law, saying. how
ever, that the saloonist would hear
from her again.
DALLAS, Tex, March 25.-Sheriff
Johnson today made this statement: :
III. c. Henderson confessed to me and
County Attorney Summers that he
was one of the Cudahy kidnapers.
His confession was made voluntarily.
He stated that he had squandered and
nsed in fleeing from Omaha most o.
the money he got as his share in the
kidnapping job before | arrested him
in this city as suspect early in Feb
ruary. County Attorney Summers
asked Henderson why he had not adj
mitted his identity earlier, and he
said:
Heretofore when | have been in
trouble l have had a man between
me and the court house. But now
see there is no chance for me to get
out of thirteen years sentence on
my conviction here in Dallas for
theft, and l might as well own up to
the Omaha job
Sheriff Johnson has accumulated a
mass of documentary evidence show
ing Henderson's career and criminal
record in various parts of the United
States for more than ten years past
NEW YORK, March 25.-Surrogate
Fitzgerald this morning fixed the
trial of the contest for the Rice mil
lions two weeks from today In do
ing this the announcement of lawyers
on both sides was made They mum
Der among the most eminent legal
lights in the metropolis and it is ev,
ident that hundreds OF thousands oI
dollars will be spent in legal Foes
alone. yif
There are ten contestants for tie
Rice millions, including Lawyer Pat
rick, the principa! beneficiary, now in
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