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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-06-28
ST. PAUL SWElTERING
Sanity city's Hot Weather Record
for June Is Badly
Broken.

st. Paul, June 25-The hot weather
record for this city for June was
broken today by the mercury at the
local weather station reaching SO de-
grees, three points above the highest
previously recorded here during the
same month.
At Z o'clock tonight it was still sui
try and high with little prospect OF
falling. Last night at midnight it
stood 50 and at 2 o'clock this morn.
ing went up to "a, dropping to rs, the
lowest, at z o'clock.
Notwithstanding the intense heat.
a breeze relieved the situation great.
~ and only one prostration was re
ported, that of William Bell, a labor
er on the street paving force. He
will recover.
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is PLACED AT FIFTY

Roanoke, Va, June 26-News from
the food swept district in West Vir-
ginia shows no reason for increased
estimates of either fatalities or prop
erty losses. Fifty is the outside limit
of lives lost.
Reports from all over the section
are to the effect that while many PEG.
pie have lost all, yet there is no dan
ger of suffering for want of food. 1t
is believed the coal field will not be
entirely restored for many months.
No bodies we're found last night or
this morning. 1t is impossible to give
a full list of those who persisted, from
the fact that many of the bodies
were buried without identification.
Property losses have not been ex-
aggerated, but it i sthought that out
side aid will not be needed, as the
coal companies are taking car Of
those of their employees who were de.
spoiled by the flood.
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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
College Of Physicians and Surgeons
and Adjoining Hospital
Burned.

Chicago, June 25-During a heavy
thunder storm tonight a bolt of light
ming struck the college Of physicians
and surgeons on Harrison street be-
tween Wood and Monroe streets. The
fire which followed in a short time
destroyed the college building which
was one Of the finest Of the kind in
the west. Before fire engines could
arrive flames had spread through
five stories Of the building. Adjoin-
ing the college is the smaller build
ing of the west side hospital which
was filed with patients, about 100
being in the various wards. AS soon
as it was seen that the college could
not be saved and that it's walls were
liable to fall at any time, the work
Of removing patients from the hos
pital began, most of them being
taken to the county hospital one
square distant. None of the hospital
patients were injured.
The college of Physicians and Sur.
geons is the medical department OF
the University of Illinois situated at
Champaign, Ills. The loss on the
building and equipment is practical.
ly total and will approximate $780,.
900.
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ceedingly great. Bodies are scatter.
ed all along the steam, many Of
which will never be identified. Sew
en- saloons at Keystone were washed
away, four lives being lost in one Of
them.
At Brooke the loss Of property is
severe, but only three lives are said
to have been lost therer. The region
form Ennis to Davey, a distance Of
43 miles, is completely in ruins.
Hundreds of mine mules can be seen
in heaps, intermingled with human
bodies. The coal operators and mill
men have lost unknown amounts.
Twenty barrels Of whisky were
caught in the Tug river at WEIGH. A
report has reached here that most
of the colored miners are laying of
and r on protracted sprees and
street fights are numerous. Much
theft is reported in the devastated
country. Even clothing is being torn
form the dead bodies. Most of the
bodies being found along Tug river
have been washed from the Elk
horn river.
The loss of property by flood on
the Elkhorn and Tug rivers is now
roughly estimated at from $4,000, 900
to $S,000,000.
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BOTTOM LANDS SUBMERGED.
Crops Are Destroyed and Livestock
Drowned.

Crops Are Destroyed and Livestock
Drowned.
Keyser, ". Va, June ga fright,
full storm passed through New Creek
valley, south Of Keyser, last night. 1t
was an apparent repetition Of the
cloudburst, and in a short time the
bottom lands were covered by a roar
ing river from 10 to 20 feet deep, car.
rying off newly harvested wheat.
running oats, corn and gardens, and
damaging roads and pasture fields. 1t
is not known that any lives were lost
but several persons are not account:
ed for. Today the waters receded,
and on all sides r lying bodies of
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and other
livestock by the score. The valley
is one of the most fertile in the
state. New creek rose a foot every
two minutes for 20 minutes. G. R.
Dye, Edward Ellifritz, Jack Mark
wood, Charles Miller and many other
large farmers and stock raisers are
heavy losers.
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AN AVALANCHE OF WATER

Williamson, w. Va, June 26-The
estimate of the number of lives lost
in the recent flood has now been
raised to something like 100. Parties
arrived this evening from the upper
end of the flooded district and
brought the first authentic informa-
tion received from the scene of the
disaster. A party just arrived o n
sisted of Judge e. s.. Doolittle of
Huntington, Judge Tourney of Char,
lesion and Elias Hatfield, deputy
sheriff of Mingo county. They left
Vivian Sunday morning and their
journey to this city was a perilous
one.
Judge Doolittle said to the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent tonight
that words could not describe the
scene of devastation between Vivian
and Dewey. It vas the tidal wave from
a cloudburst and swept everything
before it. In the track of it's course
everything is gone, including coke
ovens and pillars of stone. At WV
ian the water came roaring down the
mountain sides in monster waves and
people who attempted to flee to the
hills for safety were washed back
and carried away by the raging cur
rent of the Elkhorn. The section Wis
tied by the flood was thickly settled,
but a large majority of the dead are
women and children. Fifteen peo-
pie are said to have been drowned at
Eckman. At Keystone the loss OF
life was great. Probably 30 persons
persisted there.
On Dry Fork the loss Of life is ex.
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SECOND STORM
EQUALS FIRST.
FLOODED REGIONS VISITED BY
ANOTHER DoWNP0UR.
LIGHTNING Asc0NTINuOUs
Numerous Houses and Churches
Struck-One Woman
Killed.
LIGHTNING WAS CONTINUOUS

Pittsburg, June 26-The storm
which struck Pittsburg and vicinity
this afternoon was short in duration,
but terrific in power and disastrous
in effect. Lightning and thunder was
continuous for about thirty minutes.
The wind attained a velocity of 80
miles an hour and .46 inches of rain
fell. One woman was killed instant
ly by lightning and several other per.
may die from the same cause.
Numerous houses and churches
were struch by lightning and several
picnic parties were panic stricken.
Waters rushed down hills at Home
stead and literally engulfed the town.
The actual damage done there is the
worst in the history of the town AMI
will reach many thousands of dollars
in property loss. Besides the numer-
GUS houses that we're wrecked, four
iron bridges of the Monongahela
street railway were washed out.
Dozens of washouts occurred be-
tween Pittsburg and Hardwood and
street car travel vas suspended for
over an hour. All through the south
and west ends the storm carried de-
struction with it. The east end and
Williamsburg suffered equally with
other sections of the city, with the
exception of fatalities.
From all the surrounding towns
reports are coming in telling of the
widespread damage done by the
storm all reports unite in saying it
was the severest known.
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CORRESPONDENTS GO IN.
Newspaper Representatives Visit De-
vastated District.

~ DAuOAVANs III ~ In 6AVu0I1OA
in the Elkhorn valley is greatly i'm
porved, today is the first time news
paper representatives were able to
get into the area of the flooded dis
trict. General Manager l.. e. John
son was seen on his private car at
North Fork Junction where he is
personally experimenting the work
and he stated the loss was much less
than the amounts heretofore given
out. He says that if nothing unfore-
e occurred his force of 5000 men
would have the road opened for traf-
fic or a single track by to morrow
night and the other lines would be
running in two or three days. This
of course does not indicate that reg
ular traffic will be restored but trains
will run over theroad. Today five coal
operators have resumed work. 1t is
believed by Mr.. Johnson that the
road will be put in it's normal condi-
ton within two weeks. Many news
paper correspondents went into the
center Of the devastated district to-
day and it was evident that the facts
were not exaggerated so far as prop
erty loss is concerned.
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said that the shutdown was on ac-
count Of the destruction by the flood
and the fact that no traffic was pass
ing over the road. The notice said
that the shops probably would re-
sumo work in three or four days.
There are about 1000 persons en-
ployed in the shops, but not all Of
them will be effected. All men are
keep up repairs.
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MORcAN's KINcL\ GIFT
Presents Harvard With Fund for
Erection Of Memorial
Buildings.

Cambridge, Mass, June 26-Presi-
dent Eliot announced at the Harvard
alumni dinner tonight that John
Pierpont Morgan had given more
than one million dollars for the erec
ton of three of the five buildings
planned for the Harvard medical
school in Boston. The gift is for
prosecution of the applied Biologi-
cal Research"
Some months ago, President Eliot
explains; Henry and Frank Higgin-
son took a tract of 20 acres of land,
paying $550,OO0 for it. This they
agreed to hold in trust for the uni
versity until means could be found to
buy it from them, when they would
sell at cost price. It vas supposed
that the carrying out of the plan
would be a matter for the remote fu-
ture. Nevertheless the medical fac
ulty, through a committee, consisting
of Drs. Henry p. Bowditch and J.
Collins Warren, proceeded to draw
up plans and specifications for the
buildings which they would like to
have and could use next year if they
had them. The estimated cost was
S ,00O, 900. Last February DR.. War.
rem received a cable from Morgan in
which he said:
referring to our conversation and
plans submitted, l am prepared to
erect the central buildings and two
side pavilions as a memorial to Jun
ius Spencer Morgan, a native of Mas
sachusetts and for many years a mer.
chant of Boston. You can announce
this"
President Eliot called attention to
the phrase "plans submitted" which,
he said, included specifications and
said that these called for an outlay
Of more than 81, ZOO, 900. The new
Morgan buildings on Huntington ave-
nue. in Boston will include a hospital.
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MAKES 1T LOWER.
Visitor Gives Estimate Of Number Of
Lives Lost.

r.sE Lives IOSIs GH-'
Washington, June ga Washing.
ton gentleman who returned today
to the city after a personal inspection
of conditions in the flooded district
of West Virginia expresses the opin.
ion that the total fatalities will not
exceed 20, although several hundred
houses vel washed away. The re-
gion devastated, he says, was wholly
a mining one; the houses destroyed
were mostly miners shanties and the
mining proprietors are abundantly
able and willing to e that their
employees do not suffer for the neces-
saries of life.
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Mr.. w. S. Whedon, cashier Of the
First National bank Of Winterset,
Iowa, in a recent letter gives some
experience with a carpenter in his
employ, that will be Of value to other
mechanics. He says: 8" had q GER
penter working for me who was oblig-
ed to stop work for several days on
account Of being troubled with d.
arrhoea. I mentioned to him that I
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhoea Remedy had Cured me He
bought q bottle Of it from the drug
gist here and informed me that one
dose cured him, and he is again at
work." For sale by Chapple Drug Co.
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MISSING ARE TURNING UP

w. a slne z5-An-
other "a hours mas passed and the
full extent of the devastation done
stated. All over this section there
is great relief expressed at the an
nouncement that the loss Of life is
not SO great as at first believed.
Many of the missing and who were
mourned rs dead by their friends,
have turned up. Six bodies were
found yesterday, but they were dis
colored and swollen beyond recogni-
ton. It is now highly probable that
very faw of the dead whose bodies
we're found at this late hour will ever
be identified.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad
company continues to make every
effort to effect the opening of COM
m%unication between the affected dis
trict and the outside world. Labor
ers are going in a continual stream
and many more hundreds could be
used. The work of repairing and
clearing the debris goes on steadily
A thoroughly equipped electric light
plant, consisting of three cars, has
been provided. It is capable of furn-
ishing 80 arc lights of great power
and is equipped with a huge search
light that sweeps the country around
for a mile.
Wrecking trains completely man.
ned continue to arrive. They have
been sent by connecting lines to aid
in repairing the right of way and the
building Of tracks. A car load of
covered wire, like that used by the
army, has been received and is be-
ing laid o nthe ground to complete
the broken lines of telegraph wires.
This wire can be laid in water and
works as we'll as when strung on
poles. 1t is expected that a line of
wire will be ready for S inside Of
4S hours. The estimate made by the
railroad officials is that one line of
temporary track will be open as far
as the east end of Vivian yard, in
Guiding Elk Ridge. by tomorrow
night and it is thought a train can
be gotten that far.
General E. I. Boggs, private secre-
tary to Governor White, and Adju-
tant General Hudson are here look
ing into the necessities for a relief
movement. 1t seems to be the gen.
eral opinion that there will no ne
cessity for calling out the state
guard AS the railroad and coal com
panies have efficient systems Of po-
Icing the devasted district. A great
many Of the coal mines will have
their damages repaired and be ready
for work some time before the rail
road is in sufficient repair to handle
the output.
The people of the storm swept sec.
ton appear terrorized and in their
excitement they are really helpless
as far as work is concerned. In this
section of severe thunder storms
each flash of lightning and peal OF
thunder is enough to cause a panic
The dead, as far as found, are be.
ing hastily buried and many times
the spot is not marked.
The bridges on Simmons creek and
Flippang branches are, with one ex,
ception, all replaced by temporary
trestles. At Bramwell a bridge ove1
the Bluestone is being erected.
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Bridges Gone.

Parkersburg, w. Va.,. June rs
Communication has just been opened
with Spencer, the county seat Of
Roam county, and word was received
from Reedy Valley that the awful
flood waters rushed down from that
valley. The cloud burst struck
Reedy creek about 10 a. m. Sunday
Rain continued to fall in torrents and
the destruction to crops and live
stock is the worst aver known. Every
store in the village of Reedy is sew
eral feet under water. In Ripley and
Mill creek valley the railroad is in
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Pocahontas Inundated.

Bluef1eld, w. Va, June ga rail.
road man has just received word
from Pocahontas, IL miles west, that
there has been a cloudburst and that
the water is three feet deep in the
railroad yard and is washing proper
ty away.
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Aid Not Needed.

Charleston, w. Va, June 26-Gov-
ernor White has issued a proclama-
ton stating that the loss of life in
the floods will not exceed SO, and that
the distressed can be cared for with
in the state. He expresses apprecia-
ton and thanks for the offers Of aid
from the outside, but says it is not
needed.
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bad shape. The loss OF four bridges,
and many washouts, will make it i'm
possible to resume traffic for several
days.
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Worse and More Of It.

Roanoke, Va, June 26-Word was
received here tonight at a late hour
confirming the report that there had
been another heavy fall Of rain in the
West Virginia coal fields. Intelli.
gence received here says another
storm has occurred and that Poca'
hontas is damaged more than last
Saturday.
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Repairs Gone.

Bluefield, w. Va, June 26-Another
destructive storm visited the flood
stricken district tonight and while
no loss of life is yet reported from
this second visitation the damage to
property has been great. The work
done by the large force of men re
pairing the damage Of last Saturdays
flood has been destroyed in many
places. Details are hard to gather,
for the communication destroyed by
Saturdays flood has not yet been re
established.
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Estray Notice.

! II you have any horses estrayed
and want them returned, write to
w. II. ARMSTRONG,
94-27 Lavina, Mont.
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FIRE AT BOWIE.
Gallant Work Prevents
Flames from Spreading.

A 6re occurred at Bowie last Sun'
day. in which the Bowie Lumber Con
pany suffered . lose estinsted ut
sbout as, 900. The ongia Of the hss
IL not exactly known, but II u sup
poss,l 70 have started from . spark
from some nearby chimney. The
flames we're discovered at about 8
o'clock Sunday moroing in one Of The
dry kilns, viii b had Obtaiaed such .
hesdway that II Was 'mPossibls 70
gain control Of il until two kilns we're
destroyed. BY the heroic and e"os'
getic effort, Of the employees of the
cou ,,auy, the Ore WAS co"d"ed n the
Two kilus, and the large mill. which
i. at no great di,tan'e from the kaos
va. at no time in any danger. A
uumber of our 6remen, went To The
scene on . special tsa'o, WIN the Ffo'
,ec.or's engine, but reached the scene
after tI. Gre US under c00trol. The
boys ,eport having had . g'or'oos
time sud sse slated Vvss the cordial
reception tssdssed then By ths peo
Vie VI Bowie.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1901-10-19
How The Presidents Started
Life.

Discussing the superior advantagcs
possessed by President Roosevelt, the
Atlanta Joarnal give the following
historical brief OF the early life Of the
several chief magistrates:
Theodore Roosevelt is the only
President Of he United States who
has not had any profession, business,
trade or other regular occupation.
Much Of h,s time since he reached the
age Of manh0rl las bern .Ievot.i To
literature, aud . great part Of It to
politics.
"The Grst six Presidents, Washing
ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison Non
roe and John Quincy Adams, had
good starts in life aud many circum-
stances to help them on ward, but
there has hardly been one between
John Quincy Adams and Theodore
Roosevelt Who did not have tO con-
tend with adverse condition 10 his
youth.
"Andrew Jackson WAS Torn poorel
than any Of them He Vas the sOn
Of "a Irish immigrant, who came u
this country on'y . short time before
Andrew Was born. The family waa
actually poverty s'ricken-wheh can
not he said OF the family Of any O,hei
President.
"Van Buren Vas the son OF small
farmer, and worked in the deId duFint
hls youth.
"Wiliiam h-nry Harrison, Joh'
Tyler anil james X. FOX had parent
Who were 10 humble csrcun stances
bat they managed 10 give the 'hre
future Presslsnss good college edu
cations.
Zachary Taylor, Mii'srd Pil'mor
sod Franklia Piece we're sIl l,oys u
email fsrms, but the latter received
cpiIege education.
.Buchaoan's family was in comp,
rativeiy good circumstances and b
enjoyed . full eoarss st Dickson col
Iege. ga
10th L,ocoIn aud johnson WEI
! actually poor in their youth, aud mad
. q friepd of toll. Grant vas the ~
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1901-10-19
A SAD ACCIDENT.
Two People Burned-Result
ing in One Death.

One of the saddest accidents that
has happened here IN . long while,
occurred last Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Loiseaux and her daughter we're max
ing mattresses 10 . building only Q
short distance from their residence oo
St. Philip Street. . small fire had
been lighted in the yard to bum the
moss they were picking, the moss 10
be used being placed In the house
From oil information it appears that
Mss Mary LOiseaux was throwing
trash on the FIRE aud her dress caught
afire, she evideotiy did not perceive il
st the time and started Tor the boil
d,ng where she and her mother vert
making mattresses and her burning
clothes ignitesi the moss. Her moth
or perce,visg that her daughter Wal
aiire rushed and seized her but VA
unable to assist - her clothes alst
we're burning. The young lady thcs
ran out in the ward, but before tb'
neighbors came to her assistance sh'
Was envelIOpcd In . fame, after I
while the blaze was extiogui,I,ed, ant
sbe was 20 seriously burned that deGtI
relieved her suflenngs several hour
afterwards. Her mother was 10
burned - seriously, but tue effect
had on her was severe, aud her liz,
is still 10 despair. An alarm was il
the meantime sent in and the fire de
partment responded and with littl
work extiDguished the burning bull
dings. Several d0ctofs were on th
scene and they dId oil 10 their powe
10 relieve the suffering lady; bat he
injury was 20 serious that there Va
no relief but 10 death. She rename
CONSCIOUS uotil the end and had th
benefit Of receiving the sacrements q
the Catholic Church Of which fait
sue was q devOUt member.
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roll Of the said district No. 3of this
parish. We the said President aud
members Of the Police Jury Of the
parish Of I.afourche do hereby declare
and proclaim that the proposition to
levy special tai Of five mills per an
mum for period Of forty years and the
issue Of bonds to run for forty years for
the thorough and effective drainage OF
said Third drainage district Of the
parish has been duly defeated by the
property tax payers In the manner re-
quired by law.
In faith whereof, the President Of this
Jury hereto attached his official sigma
ture I'm the name Of and for the Presi-
dent and members Of the Police Jury Of
Lafourche parish.
i'll. AUCOIN,
President,
The above process verbal having bcen
read In full, was, on motion OF Mr.
MOrvant seconded by Mr.. PARA, duly
adopted ~ containing . correct return
Of the result OF the election and the
same was ordered incorporated inSthe
minutes and duly published, by the
following vote:
Yess-AucOin, Basset, Guetry, Nor
want, Rodrigus, Falgout and PARA.
Nays-nOne.
There being no further business the
jury adjourned to meet In November
next.
II. N. CoUION, J. l.. AUcOIN,
Clerk. President
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Neurological.

Miss Marie J.0iseanx died last
Tuesday at the age Of 42 Yeas. The
sudden death Of this lady aud in such
sad way as is stated iu another
column Was o shock To the cOmmuni
ty. She was \ native Of this place
and had lived here al her life with
her mother She was of quiet
disposition and we'll known for he'
charitable aud religious work. She
leaves . number Of relatives and
friends To whom the Sentinel extends
it, condolences 10 this sad hour u,
the uut'mely death Of one 80 dear Il
them Her remains were inferred IN
St. JOseph's Catholic cemetery tn
following day.