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MANY IOWANs HURT IRIi|'TlI'
overland Passenger on Southern Paofio
Derailed and Forty Are
Iniured. III

Santa Barbara, Cal, June 2.--Over-i
land passenger train No. 22.~on the
Southern Pacific railroad, was derailed]
at a point about q mile south Of Rim
con at 8 o'clock Saturday night, four
cars plunEing down an embankment|
forty feet high. two Of them being part-l
" submerged in the sea.
About forty people were injured.
some Of them sesaosaaly. Many sus-,'
tanned broken bones and were badly
bruised.
A woman whose name was given asi
Mrs. j. A.. Smith had both arms crush
I'D so badly that they will have to bel
amputated at the shoulders. The in.I
1ured were brought here Is soon aOI
possible by special train, and taken at
oncs to the Cottage hospital.
It Is a matter of h greatest surf
prise that none was killed. as many
people were buried beneath the wreck
age n wre securely fastened.
Among the injured are:
Mrs. Nelson Johnson, Fort Madison,l
Ia. bruised and badly cut about the
head.
]. E. ca<r. creston. Ia. u and
bruised.
Mrs. ]. E. Carr, Creston, Ia. bruised
Mrs. ]. M. Casey, Fort Madison. Ia..}
Guy ana bruised about the head; fearedl
internally injured.
Mrs. Casey, bruisd Inc cut.
F~ive-year-od son Of Mrs. Casey
slightly cut.
Nelson Johnson, Of Fort Madison, Ia,
very badly hurt about head and should-|
ers; feared internally hurt.
1t is not known just what caused the
wreck. It Is believed, however, that
the rails spread as the engine was pass
Ing over them, throwing the first car,
followed by three others, down the
steep embankmeht. q.
Several other cars left the track, but
did not go down the bank.
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scenes, and the distress here will be great
" intensified within the range Of possi-
bility,
TWENTY-sEvEN DROWNED.
Bridge Full Of sishtseers at Kansas
City Swept Away, sg

tELss afaEfNH
Kansas City, June "a message to
the Times from Kansas City, Kan. by
way of Leavenworth, at 2 o'clock,
Monday) morning, says that twenty
seven men We're on he Union Pacific
bridge which SPAWNED h Kansas
river when 1t went down, and all of the
men We're drowned. 1t is said hat
many persons saw the helpless men
drown.
With the waters Of the Kaw and Mis-
souri, rivers nearly four feet above
the disastrous level of 1881, and their
swollen tide spread owe twelve square
miles Of the lily and its suburbs.
One report says fourteen and an
other fifty lives have been lost. Twelve
bodies were counted as they foated
down the flood on wreckage yester-
day afternoon.
The financial loss has been i%ncreas-
ing all day, and bids fair to con-
tinue. The heavist loss Is at Armour
dale, where the losses to the packing
industry and others is placed con-
servatively at s2,500,000 Argentine.
another suburb, has suffered losses es-
timated at $4,000
Armourdale, with a population of TO-
600 people, is deserted, and its site
marked only by the tops Of buildings
and a number Of fires.
Kansas City, May 30.-Fourteen lives,
it is estimated, have been lost; fully
2 1000 persons have been rendered
homeless and financial losses that in
Guiding damage to houses and stock
washed away and railway tracks ard
bridges rendered useless, that will
amount high into hundreds of thous-
andss of dollars, have already resulted
from the almost unprecedented floods
now raging in Oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
and Iowa.
Lives are reported lost ut the follow
ing points:
Topeka-S.
DeS Mo1nes4.
Kansas City,.
Oklahoma City,.
The homeless are estimated as fol-
lows:
T~opeka-7.0o0.
Various interior Kansas Points-3,5oO.
Kansas City, Kan, and Vicinity-2,50O.
Des Moines-6,WO
Nebraska Points-1,OW.
A thousand persons, particularly in
Topeka and throughout Kansas, spent
last night on housetops; hundreds at
Des Moines are without foo or shelter,
and great suffering is being expert
enced all through the flooded district.
Railways service, particularly west
and southwest and from Kansas City,
Is d~emoralized; dozens Of bridges
reaching as far west as Manhattan.
Kan, are washed out; many miles of
rack are nde water.
Rain is still falling at many points in
the southwest, and the weather bureau
predicts the disastrous flood records
of 1881 will be exceeded and that the
worst is yet to come.
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DYNAMITE
Adventist Institution at Battle Creek.
Plotted A~uainst.

Battle Creek. Mich, June Fit Isl
common talk here that a plan to blow
up the Adventists' sanitarium with dy-
Mantle during Sundays d~edicatory ex-h
ercises, when Governor Bliss staff and
been discovered.
Everybody concerned with the insti-
tuition denies h truth of the runor.
It is said after the receipt Of an h
nous letter warning sanitarium off,
Gals a Thorough search was made Of
the building, with the result that oil
two sticks of dynamite were foundi III
the building. s
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Will Shoot Plunderers.
she police have been ordered to
pt on sight any one caught plumber

she number Of lives lost in this
Unity cannot be learned for some
e and probably never will be known
nitely. However, there seems to be
ple v%erification Of reports which ac-
int for the loss Of more than a
EN- lives in the bottoms.
reat anxiety is felt for the safety
people in Kansas City, Kan. One
kor, circulated during the night. was
scores Of people had persisted
be, but owing to the fact there has
absolutely no communication with
place since yesterday there Is a
eral disposition to discredit this and
r sensational reports.
hat there has been some loss of life
e, however, is regarded as prob
Telegraph and telephone wires,
&h, south and west, are down and
E are only a few wires east.
8 this morning it was reported at
be headquarters there had been no
her loss Of life during the night as
las known.
the bank of the river, wagons
aiming ropes We're stationed dur
Ethe morning in order that any
egency could be promptly met.
y in the morning it was announced
a number of people were on the
Faukee bridge and it was decided
Ind a ferry boat to their c
additional call made from the
situated at the intersection Of
eteenth and Tennessee streets,
e a number Of people We're report
be held in upper stories. A fer
Z BAT vas also ordered to take them
the earliest practicable moment.
came UP from the stock yards
there We're twenty or thirty peo-
~ aught by the flood in that dis
- They We're said to be in no inn
ate danger.
HERS this morning that a number Of
9fSSwere looting houses in the east
ms. They had improvised RATS
boards and by propelling
with poles, were making
gesMs&S their way into the houses
~ gh the second story Win
AS soon as this word was re-
by Chief Of Police Hayes he or
a detachment Of officers to the
<$with strict orders that If the sto-
efound true the thieves should be
Town at once.
births are reported to have oc-
~ during the night. One Of the
x3 being drowned.
NNSS%% No Improvement Ahead.
sSgA1 o'clock the weather bureau is
Tie following:
kre will be probably be a slight
in river conditions at Kansas
&during the next twenty-four
Slight fluctuations mean but
IN the way of relief so long as
r conditions remain unsettled.
orm e central in the Middle
bippi valley from which the west
t emerged, and the threatened
pment Of another storm area in
thwest, carries no assurance of
ete relief. Rain Is falling over
Epart Of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
libra ska this morning
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RAIN STILL FALLING.

Eastern Nebraska and Southern Iowa
Conditions Grow Worse.
Omaha, Nab., May 30.-The heavy
rain continued all night and today,
with. no indication of abating. The
eastern half OF the state has been thor
oughly soaked and reports of damage
by floods continue to come in. the worst
being in towns along the Missouri
river.
On the Iowa side between Council
Bluffs and Missouri Valley the whole
valley is a lake. The water is beginn-
ing to soften up the railroad beds.
Trains came initiate from the west and
a great number We're annulled alto
gether.
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AT KAN.
City Is Center Of a Flooded District in
Which Millions Are [ osf.

winch MILLIONS ARE LOST.
Manhattan, Kan, June 3-Manhattan
IS the center Of a destructive flood x
tending throughout the Kaw river val
ley from Brocksyille to Kansas City, a
district of 200 miles long by three to
fifteen miles wide.
The entire territory is under water
one to fifty feet deep. Probably fifty
people have been drowned. The loss to
homes, barns, live stock and crop will
run into the millions.
In this city most Of the Inhabitants
fled to the hills, $500 being housed in
the Agricultural College building.
Every business store is filled with
water; telegraph and telephone wires
are Frustrated, the city in darkness,
the electric plant being flooded. The
city was saved from being entirely
swept away by the high railroad
banks. All passengers have been
taken good care of by the railroads.
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ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.

Bad Trio Were Going to Assassinat~
Victor Emmanuel.
Paris, June "A dispatch from Mar
settles says three anarchists with incrim-
mating papers on them lave been arrest
ed at MentoEe on suspicion Of being en-
gagedHin a plot against King Victor EN-
manuel on the occasion of his approaching
visit to Paris.
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FOURTEEN DEAD BODIES.
They Are Reported Taken from Houses
after the Flood Near Emporia.

Emporia, Kan. June 2.-Reports
from h country indicate the valley of
the Neosho above here is a desolate
waste. Thousands Of dollars worth of
farm property and crops have been
washed away and hundreds of cattle,
hogs and sheep drowned. No loss Of
human life is reported near here, but
at Council Grove fourteen bodies are
said to have been found In houses since
the water subsidized.
The significant silence from the
country below here indicates the de-
VISITATION will be most complete.
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THE a in CHICAGO.
Fully 100000 People Take Part in thl
Elaborate Obsevances.

Chicago, June 2.-Under a gloomy sky
and in a raw win Memorial day wa cell
ebrated by a naval demonstration on the
lake front, in which more than 1000 vet
eran sailors took part. At the various
cemeteries Memorial exercises were held
and it Is estimated that 100000 men, wom-
en- and children took part in the ceremon.
les. A street parade Of veterans, MILL
tary and civic organizations, took place
this afternoon,
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ECHO or cHlvALRY.

prince Robert" and New Yorker Eiuh,
With Rapiers Over a Woman
Adrian. Mich, May 3O.-A duel with
rapiers was fought near here yesterday
between an Adrian mar who writes for
magazines under the name of prince
Robert" and 70. Ellis of New York,
over an Insult offered a Toledo lady en-
gagged to Prince Robert.""s At the first,
onslaught Ellis was wounded. He apollo
gized and returned to New York,
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Bryan Doesn't Want Il,

Lincoln, Neb., May 30.-Mr. Bryan,
declines to be interviewed on the SUBJ
ject OF his accepting the democratic
national craftsmanship. but a close
friend. after a talk with Bryan, asserts
that Bryan refuses to consider it
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HUTCHINSON IN A LAKE.
In Immediate Vicinity of City Loss Will
Reach $4,000 COO.

Reach $2,UUU,CUU.
Hutchinson, Kan, June 1.-Cow creek
has fallen since last night, but the wa
ter is still two feet higher in Main
street. Every business house is food
ed one foot. All railroads are flooded
for miles, and no trains moving.
thousand people in fifty blocks
are homeless. Hundreds of boats are
%rescuing and children. Hutch
inson is a lake five miles square, with
but 500 houses above the water.
Thousands of acres Of wheat, corn
alfalfa are ruined. The founda-
tons Of many buildings are weakened
n may fall. There is much suffer-
ing but no deaths. In Hutchinson and
the valley the property loss is esti-
mated at 50, 0O0, 900.
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Dancer at ST. Louis.

st. Louis, June 1.-The danger line
on the Mississippi river at this point
will be reached tomorrow according to
the local weather bureau. Rain is fall
ing today and this added to the heavy
precipitation the past two days, with a
flood coming from the Missouri and
other tributaries north, is causing the
river to rise rapidly. No damage has
resulted yet but precautions are being
taken in anticipation Of a disastrous
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AT oTTuMwA.

Lower City Flooded and Many Peopi~
Driven From Homes.
Ottumwa, Ia, June with less
two feet to the high mark, the Des
Moines river has flooded the lower por-
tions of the city, driving scores of fam
lilies from their homes. A heavy rain
fell last night and continues today.
Hundreds Of acres of farm land in the
valley are under water.
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Steamer is Safe.

Berlin, June IA dispatch fro.,,
Durham, Natal, today announced the
German Antarctic steamer Gauss, con-
corning whose safety considerable APP
~prehension was felt, passed Durham
yesterday on the way to Cape Town.
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Mrs. Geo. Alfred Townsend Dead.
Washington, May 30.-Mrs. Georg.
Alfred Townsend, wife Of the well
known newspaper correspondent, died
here today.
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CITY NOW
The FLOOD SUFFERER
he River IS Nearly Nine Feet
! Higher Than the Previous
High Water Mark.
MUCH LOSS OF LIFE
timber Of Victims, However, Can
Never Be Definitely known-kan-
a City, Kan, Completely Cut
OFF From Main City.

Kansas City, June 2.--The desolate
6pect of the flood situation here
pwed no improvement this morning,
eept that the fires. which it was
bred last night would spread, were
II out by the rain.
che only rail communication the city
b, and that very uncertain, is by a
Id running southeast.
Business all over the city is sus-
nded.
Manufacturers on high ground have
kn compelled to shut down owing to
almost total shutting off Of the wa
4 supply.
no street cars are running.
Fhe river guage this morning showed
rty-f1ve feet, having risen from
during the night,
ehis is nearly nine feet higher than
previous high record.
ehe committees having in charge the
Fk of relief and rescue We're busy.
cly q special meeting Of the city
kncil was held during the forenoon.
pusands Of refugees at Convention
made their breakfasts from the
kral rations issued by the relief COM
~ tna aEslf eH1HHl .-HGaa ~ AA4L= rraAAE-
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1T OVER TWENTY DEAD.
IN in Topeka Is Bad, but Not as
First Reported.

Hl.. - o. &VNs ars-H 4t-saElH 4srE
ka, kan. June lit is now be-
9the total number of lives lost
hood here will not exceed twenty.
Is were lost In the fires and only
buildings were destroyed by fire.
yrly reports We're unavoidably
fated. Burning lumber piles
e impression the whole northern
the city was going, and no one
hnd who placed his estimate OF
of life under hundreds. With
Pike cleared away and the Kaw
communication by boat Is less
Additional light on the sub
s received this morning. The
In in the estimated loss of life
About 200 people are still
Pa Topeka, $50 Of them being in
r story Of a wooden mill. They
fed but extremely uncomfort-
a List of Known Dead.
blowing is the list of known
y JORDAN, colored.
YARD. an aged man.
FUR STITT.
sYEAR-OLD SON OF MR..
G,T.
LID OF GEORGE NJ. STORY.
LOUISE
JACKSON, a widow.
x LUDDINGTON.
u. ADAMS.
IDA MONTGOMERY.
AND AMELIA BUTT, both
kof Andrew Pretzell.
II KUTZ.
the missing are DR.. II. G.
his son-in-law. A. C. Keat-
rescuers Of the Miner fam
ne women and children on the
When they returned the doc
not be found. They lived in
y house. Two miles down the
n1ft marked "A. c. Heating
afloat.
ht Roosevelt telegraphed to-
cheyenne to Governor Bailey,
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TRAINS ARE ABANDONED.
Iowa Central and Rock Island in Seri-
Gus Trouble at OskaIoosa.

Oskaloosa, Ia, June 2.-The new
Burlington railroad bridge 1t Tracy
was carried AVA by the flood In the
Des Moines river last night. The wa
ter is half a foot higher than last year.
The Iowa Central north and Rock Isl
and east are abandoned.
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FAMINE IN CHINA.
American Consul At Hong Kong Rs-s
ports That People Are Dying BY
Ga54Ss$ VI nArnla - " z. IjS5ss 8%@5

Hong Kong, via, Victoria, tune Con
writes that the famine Atuation In
Kwangsi Is appalling. Hundreds are dy.1
Ing. The people are uttertng many anti
foreign threats and much alarm Is felt IL
the district. h plague has recurredaa&
Yokohama. a
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so justly proud, is directly responsible
for much of the present day brangle-
ments, nihilsms and homicdes
The liberty of the press is "A blessing
when we are inclined to write against
others, and calamity when we find our
selves overborne by the multitude of our
assaiants.-Johnson.
Liberty of conscience has flooded the
land with every ism under the sun, and
every anti that ignorance and fanaticism
have been able to exercise. We have in
addition to the old time spiritualism,
the modern Eddyites, faith cures, mental
healers, osteopaths, vibraologists, distant
healers and all the wonders of sanctif-
cation; together with a multitude of an
tis-such as anti-drugism, anti-vlvsec-
ton, characterization, etc, most of which
Is really anti-common-sense. Then to
| complete the peep-show liberty of speech
has resolved itself into that dramatic
but Chauvinistic flight of grandiose cor
ceit, GIVE me liberty or give me DEATH"
N. B. HERRING.
Wilson, n. c.
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FOR SAL I:

Cotton plantation in Eastern North Car
DINA, on the Roanoke river, rich bottom
lands, $50 acres. Steamer landing on prem
ises-S5 miles from Norfolk. Price SO 900.
cne-half cash, balance on mortgage.
H. c. HARRINGTON,
Palmyra, N. C.
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THE CABLE COMPANY,
r. b. GAMBLE,
Factory Representative,
Louisburg, N. G.
THE CABLE COMPANY.
NJ. T. LANGLEY, Manager,
Durham, N. G.
THE CABLE COMPANY,
M. N. HALES,
Factory Representative,
Morehead City, N. G.
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THE CABLE COMPANY,
j. G.. Corley, Manager,
Richmond, Va.
THE CABLE COMPANY,
c. G. STONE,
Factory Representative,
Raleigh, N. c.
TIE CABLE COMPANY,
j. G. HOWLETT,
Wilson. n. G.
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Write Phone Call on ANY of Following Representatives of TT

THE CABLE COMPANY,
J. Z. OSMENT,
Henderson, N. G.
THE CABLE COMPANY,
w. L. R0YSTER,
Rocky Mount, N. G.
THE CABLE COMPANY,
w. NJ. Bagwell, Manager,
Kinston, N.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-09

Mr.. Easley. In support OF this motion,
export OF wide szpertsncs who was 10:
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GEORGIA WOMAN
COMMITS SUICIDE.
Shoot, and Kills Herself In Balt1-
more-Her Mind Affected
Since Disappearance OF
Her Husband

BALTIMORE. ND. January s.-Mrs.
Mary Benedict, 81 years old. shot and
killed herself to-day at the home of her
brother-in-law. DR.. Frank Martin, in this
city Since the disappearance OF her nus
band, John Benedict, from Athens. Ga,
three years ago last May. Mrs. Benedicts
mind had been affected. She was treated
in sanitariurns in Philadelphia and Wat
kins Glen. N. Y, and was thought to have
been cured. a year ago she wag brought
to Baltimore Her nervous trouble be-
came more pronounced week ago, and
arrangements had been made to take her
to a sanltarium In Philadelphia to-day.
1t was while dressing for this trip that
the fatal shot was fired
John Benedict, g weIl-knowu business
man. of Athens, Ga. husband OF to-days
suicide. mysteriously disappeared. and has
never been heard Of. Mr.. Benedict start
ed from Athens on a business trip through
the northern part OF Georgia. and the
southern section of North Carolina. His
route led through rough and unsettled
section, infested by lawless whites and
negroes. After Mr.. Benedict drove away
from a suburb of Athens. neither he nor
his team was ever seen again, and the
authorities of Georgia and North Caro-
lima, as well as the shrewdest detectives
of the country, who enedeavored to find
some trace of the missing merchant. con-
Guided that he had been murdered, and
that his murderers had destroyed his
horse and buggy, In order to leave no
oil
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miliar with this field. and was graIiiied
TO near the terms in which he spoAe OF II,
and that ne had expressed surprise thas
it had rot beeni developed by local capi-
tai
Mr.. Sands referred to a govern
ment report upon the subject. which
could be had upon app.icaGon, and
would afford valuable information. in
reply, however. MIR. Cabeli stated that
the gentie man mentioned by ntIn as de-
string to contribute to fund for an
expert and up-ro-date report was familiar
with all Of the reports exsant on this sub.
ject but desired something more specific.
Mr. NJ S. Quarles seconded the motion
of Mr.. REGISTER, and it was unanimously
carried.
The following members were then
elected: MesSrs Williams e Rehling.
proposed by Mr. T. NJ. Carringtoa;
NJ; ssrs Blackford & Wilmer. proposed
by Mr. o. j. Sands: Messrs. Moulton &
Tallmadge and Frederick G. Srauer. pro-
posed by Mr.. H. L. Cabe.L
The meeting then adjourned