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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07
Club Room
WAS INVADED BY OFFICERS ON
CHARGE OF BEING A SPEAK
EASY

CLARKSBURG, May THE club
room of the Fraternal Order Of Eagles
was invaded Saturday night by the
city officials at Salem The charge
was that a speak easy was being
conducted there.
Two men were found in the prem
ises who were Immediately placed un-
der arrest They are to be given a
hearing this afternoon
The city officials forced their way
into the room and round things inside
as rumor said they Were Great eI-
element and interest has been SHOWN
in the affair, and the members Of the
organization are very anxious to learn
the result of this evenings hearing.
It has been impossible to learn the
names OF those arrested, but they wiz
be known this afternoon.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07
A TERRIBLE
ACCIDENT ON
HUGHES RIVER

PARKERSBURG. May T.-While a
test was being made Of the belts and
machinery of Pearson & Aliens stare
mill. which had just been set up on
Flint run. near Hughes river, ten
miles from Elizabeth. the boiler let
so and six people were seriously in
iured- The accident occurred at 1870
o'clockq Saturday afternoon 1t was
not made known until Sunday as the
wives of two of the injured men are
Ill and 1t was feared the shock OF the
first news would be TOO much for
them All of the injured men We're
scalded and some II addition TO pain
full burns and scalds were badly cut
or bruised by flying debris. The most
seriously injured is a little boy, five
years of age, who though still living.
is not expected to recover.
The Injured
Little Dallas Alisn. aged Eve fear
fully scalded. about head, face and
back VIII likely die
Abe Bell. tester. badly scalded about
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07
DELEGATES PLEASED.
All Who Attended Missionary Society
Convention Enjoyed the
Meeting.

Rev H. G. Stoetzer says taat the
session of the Missionary Society
which met for two days last week at
the Presbyterian Ghurch,-was one of
great profit and interest to all who at
tended its sessions and the delegates
were pleased with the session II is
seldom that Fairmont is favored with
the meeting OF this convention. for it
gets here only once in about ten years.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07
SUNDAY SCHOOL
a. Fleming Chapel Reelected Officers

AT Fleming Chapel Reelected Officers
Yesterday Afternoon.
The Presbyterian Sunday school OF
the Fleming Chapel. was reorganized
Sunday afternoon and the following
persons elected to Office: Mr. j NJ
Black. superintendent. Mrs. Jennie
Poole. assistant superintendent: Miss
ShaHerman. secretary. Two new
classes were organized with Mrs.
Poole and Miss Lillian Reed as teach
eH. Mr.. Black will also teach 4 class.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07
Taken to Morsantown-

Deputy Sheriff W. s. Furbee took
Brown Tenant to MorEantown this
afternoon. Tenant IS the man who
was committed to jail by Justice Ben
ninston several days ago for assault
ing Miss Ice. of Barrackville- Tennant
IS wanted at Morgantown on q charge
of felony
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07

Haiis& Harris ice crsam has already
become famous for its quality.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-07


He has been teaching years a5e.
is the principal Of fthe Second ward
school. the graduating exercises cf
which are being held thfs evening. Ie,
was born IN Barbour comfy ISIS.
Besides attending the regular pubic
schools OF the State Prof Hunt took!
four years. course IN the Sorma5
here His ability to maint the best
discipline in his school IS one Of the.
qualities for which The school authors-
ties strongly recommend him. Durs
the summer. If his health permits he
wiz assist in the summer school At
BeInSton. When the high school Is
removed from the presen buiidinE
and larger quarters are thus gwen
Prof Hunt Intends TO make tho
schoo. over which heshas charge ke
best insthe city II not IN the State
Mrs Lulu Bnlingslea the Nor
NAL School facultys who has been n
for thepast weel. ysilI cable 70 re-
sumo her work his week
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29

No story Of the great storm would
be complete without reference To-
the heroic work of Captain E. ). ....l.
,lerin saving the government steamer
Poe from almost certain DESTRUCTION
and his rescue OF DR.. r. c. White,
of the Marine Hospital Service, Mrs.
White. William L. Stearns and wife
and a number of others from what
seemed to be almost certain death
at the. quarantine stftion after the
buildings had been wrecked by the
fierce gale and wber the inmates OF
the buildings had almost given up
hone of succor. Army and navy Off
GERS, without, exception. are enthus-
iastic in their praise of Capt. Miller
and his crew and his conduct during
the trying hours CT Wednesday night
and Thursday will be reported to
the war department with the request
for suitable recognition.
The Poe, under command or Capt
Miller was at Palafox, street wharf
Wednesday afternoon while the
wind was blowing a gale and, feel
ing sure that the vessel could not
keep afloat if he remained there and
knowing that it was useless to at
tempt to ride out the hurricane at
the forts. he made run to FIT. Bar
rancas where he ordered all hands
excepting his crew ashore and then
headed the vessel for a point be-
tween Deer point and Town point
where both anchors were dropped
and preparations made to ride out
the storm.
Dragged Seven Miles.
The gale increased in fury and
soon after darkness set in the an
chors began to drag. The vessel at
that time was rolling and pitching
in an alarming maner, but the cap
tain and another man remained at
the wheel and the engines were start
ed ahead working toward the anchors
and were kept going all night. The
storm was so severe that all sense
of locality was soon lost and the cap
tain, steering simply for his an
chors, kept at his post throughout
the night. When morning dawned
the Poe was off the Navy Yard, hav-
ing drifted about seven miles drag
ging both of her anchors after her.
As soon as he found where he was
he worked the vessel back and forth
until one of his anchors managed to
pick up cable attached to naval
buoy which held him until the gale
began to abate on Thursday, when
he slipped his anchor chains, buoy
ing them so the anchors could be
recovered and. after steaming down
past the forts to. cheer the storm
bound soldiers by the presence of the
steamer safe and sound, made foS
the quarantine station.
Rescue at Quarantine.
An immense sea was running at
the time but, nothing daunted, the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
800 HOMELESS
NEAR NAVY
YARD
Residents on Naval Reserv-
alton Felt Full Fury
of Wind and
Waves.

1t is estimated that between two
hundred and fifty and three hundred
persons were made destitute on the
naval reservation by the tropical
storm and, while everything is being
done for them by the army and navy
officers, there is much suffering.
Not house at Woolsey escaped
the fury of the gale and some were
completely demolished. Three
deaths are reported, Ed Hughes,
white, and an aged colored couple.
p. J. Mckenzie, resident of Wool
sey, who is well known in this city,
was forced to leave his home by the
high water, which reached to his neck
as he made his way to high ground.
The house is badly wrecked. The
store of Mrs. L. Wheat is entirely
demolished.
A large number of women and chill
dren were cared for at the naval
hospital and many are still there.
Dpring the morning the commandant
of the Navy Yard ordered that ra-
lions be issued to all these who were
in need of them, and as far as food
goes there will be little suffering If
the supplies hold out.
The army steamer Poe, being the
only government vessel afloat, will
begin carrying supplies to the Navy
Yard regularly to-day and will con-
tinue to supply the yard until other
can be made.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
RESCUES
AT QUARANTINE
CAPT. E. j. Miller and Creav Of Army
Steamer Poe HIGHLY Commended 10r
Byavvy During Hurricane

brave captain and his brave crew
managed to get close to the crib,
over which they hauled the life boat
or the steamer and succeeded in get
ting DR.. and Mrs. White, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stearns, Customs Inspector o.
A. Bailey and the others who were
left at the station on board the Poe.
inspector Bailey distinguished him.
self by swimming to the crib
through the boiling water and assist
ing IN the rescue Of the others.
DR.. White sustained bad injury
TO the left foot and his whole body
Is a mass of cuts and bruises. Mrs.
Whites arms are painfully bruised,
the injury being caued by holding on
II different supports to keep from
being blown away. The others,
while exhausted by their narrowing
experience. We're not seriously injur-
ed.
Or. Whites Story.
DR.. White was seen by a repre-
sentative of The Journal Immediately
after reaching the city on the Poe
and while he was waiting for a car
rage to take him to his home. He
stated that when he was rescued
from his perilous position both he
and Mrs. White We're waist deep in
water, which broke clear over the
island, at the quarntine station. He
stated that all the buildings at the
quarantine station were ruined with
the exception of his residence and
that 1t was unfit for shelter, having
been badly broken up by the storm.
Dr. White said that at the time the
storm commenced there were eight
men from the British steamer Kirk
stall in the hospital, all suffering
from Chagres fever.
/; The fate of these men, as well as
Messrs. Ross and Collier, attendants
at the hospital he knew nothing
about, but was advised that five of
the men had been picked up at Fish
erville the night previous. where
they had floated on the hospital roof.
Another one of the men had been
picked up by fishing smack who It
is believed was Collier. This makes
the loss of life at quarantine four,
instead of three as at first reported.
Praise Capt. Miller.
DR.. White and the others were en-
thusiastic and sincere in their praise
of the heroic conduct of Capt. Miller
and his crew and all expressed them
selves as of the opinion that his
conduct should be recognized by the
department at Washington.
DR.. White stated that the wind
blew so hard that the interior of the
house was stripped clean of furni-
ture and effects of every descrip-
ton. even trunks being blown out
of the house and lost in the wild
waters. 1t was with the greatest diff
ficulty that Dr. White and the others
managed to keep upon their feet and
they regard their rescue as little
short of miraculous.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
WATER ROSE
HIGHER THAN
At GALVESTON
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SANTA
ROSA ISLAND CITY WOULD
HAVE Persisted.

The water during the recent hurri-
cane reached a higher point that it
did in Galveston during the great
hurricane and flood of several years
ago. According to the best obtain
able information, the water in Pen
sacola bay during the height of the
storm was eight and one-half feet
above normal high water mark, while
during the Galveston flood it only
reached seven feet above high water
mark.
The great protection afforded by
Santa Rosa Island, notwithstanding
the fact that the water swept entire
ly over it for several miles, is respon-
sible for the fact that Pensacola did
not suffer more severely from tie
hurricane.
Reports thus far received from
ether Gulf coast cities are to the
effect that the destruction was much
greater than in this city and vicin-
ity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
THE MILITIA
ORDERED OUT
To Prevent Further looting By
Desperadoes.
HOTELS DAMAGED, AND MANY
LIVES PROBABLY LOST IN
FALLING HOUSES - PUBLIC
PARK RUINED, AND A SHORT.
AGE OF SUPPLIES FEARED.

Manager Crockett of the local
Office of the Western Union, received
the first news from other SUFFERING
sections and stated to representa-.
tive of The Journal last night that
Mobile had suffered as greatly if not
much worse than Pensacola. A great
loss of life has been suffered and
property to the extent of over three
million dollars or more. Six or seveIi
large river steamers have been sunk,
to say nothing of the smaller sailing
craft, and many crews have gone
down with their vessels.
The business section of the city for
five blocks in width and extending
almost the length of the city is
under ) feet of water and many
bales of cotton and other wreckage
are floating down the principal
streets. The Cawthon and Bienville
hotels. both beautiful structures, have
been heavily damaged, suffering con
siderable damage from the wind and
rain, fine tapestries and paintings be-
ing ruined.
Many houses have collapsed. catch.
ing their inmates in many cases, be-
meath the debris, and 1t is now i'm
possible to obtain anything like a
positive estimate of. the loss of life.
The city has been in utter darkness
and all telegraph and railroad COM
munication has been destroyed by tho
wind and water. The streets and !,
yards of handsome homes are strewu
with refuse and debris Of all kinds.
and beautiful Bienville Square is a
total wreck.
The city is running short of sup /,
plies and unless communication i5t
soon restored with the world, great |
privations will follow.
Looters Appear.
Several cases of looting have been
reported, and the militia has been
placed in charge, given ball and carr
fridge and ordered to shoot all caught
robbing, and but one negro has yet
suffered the penalty so far as known.
Christ Church, an elegant structure,
valued at fifty thousand dollars, was,
blown to the ground. The steamers,
Oauchita and Nettie Quill, passen-
ger boats, were seen to turn turtle
and go down, with how many of her
crew is not known. No passengers
were aboard.
Seamen who drifted In on RATS to-
day reported that many coast towns
had been washed away, or almost
completely so. Crichton and Fort
Morgan are among these latter.
Frederic, three miles out from Mobile,
has been wiped from the map, and
none Of its inhabitants have yet
shown uA
This telegram was given to the
upArlI affar fhrflIfp0 r;Aa In hAok
and on horseback and after swimming
many streams on the part of the Ass
ing to travel thus for S5 miles to a
railroad station.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29

Chamber Of Commerce Meeting
G. F. Geek presided at the Cham.
Der Of Commerce meeting, which waa
largely attended, and the following
committees were appointed:
Relief CommitteeJ. III. Sheriff.,
chairman; w. G. Jones, secretary;
J. q. Abercrombie. j. Clark Porter,
Geo. P. Wentworth, Walker Ingra-
ham, ]. A. Wilson, r. p. Reese,
Henry Covington, Jr. B. s. Williams.
Soliciting Committee-Sol Calm,
T. A. Jennings, w. A. Blount, Jr.. Ed.
Gale Quina. Walker Anderson, W. X.
Hyer, Jr., ]. e. Stillman, A. d. Nor
rison, w. N. Roberts, r P. Reese,
r. G. Bushnell
organIzedfat Once.
These committees Immediately
organized and the work OF relief
was begun. Persons needing help
and there were hundreds of them
were located, the old st. Anthony
Hospital building was secured and
thrown open for the shelter of the
homeless, food and clothing was pro-
vided as fast as possible, and the
needy were made comfortable to the
best Of the committees ability.
The Chamber of Comerce rooms
in DeLuna street were designated as
the general headquarters for the re-
ceipt and distribution OF clothing and
supplies, and uney will be open to-
Continued on Page ThresA -
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Although left with neither power
nor electric lights, The Journal, by
dint of energy in installing a new
gasoline motor and gas lights. was
enabled to get out two additions on
Thursday and Friday, and to cover
the great storm in manner that has
elected words of commentator from
every quarter.
The Thursday edition was soon ex-
hausted; and although 1000 extra
comics OF Fridays issue were printed,
the supply failed to prove equal to the
demand.
All day Friday. and far into the
night, a steady stream Of neople pour.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
The Journals Two
Great Storm Editions

ed into The Journals business office.
all eager to get some accurate and
definite information about the great
storm. Hundreds of copies were
bought and mailed away to anxious
friends and relatives all over tn.
country; and so unprecedented was
the demand that 500 additional copies
of Fridays great storm issue have
been printed, and will be on sale at
The Journal Office to-day, upon the
"first come, first served" principle.
1t was a great event in the annals
of Pensacola, and it was covered in a
manner BETTING the occasion by
Pensacola's representative news
paper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
BENNIE EDMUNDsoN's
LAUNCHES ARE ALL RIGHT

Captain Bonnie Edmundson wishes
to announce that all of his boats are
in first class condition, and ready for
business. Two of them were out yes
terday and made trips to the Life
Saving Station and other points.
Trips will be made to these points
next SUNDAY,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29

TELECRAMS

Account of inability to find at adj
dress, following Western Union tele-
grams undelivered, please call: Mr..
Staples, mail carrier Milview, F. NJ.
Scott, Frank E. Moriner, Pensacola
Tar and Turpentine Co., Walker
Thompson; cablegrams "Pinquina'
Steamer Kirkland" and "Rosasco.
A. G. CROCKETT,
Manager.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29

Continued on Page Eight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
THE Relief WORK
The journals Relief Fund Greatly
Augmented by Citizens
Committee.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOMS
WILL BE HEADQUARTERS FOR
COLLECTION AND DIsTRlsU.
TON OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND
SUPPLIES.

The work Of relief started by The
Journal was taken up vigorously yes
terday morning as soon as citizens
could get down town. A meeting
was called at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms at noon, Secretary
Jones notifying all who could be
reached, with the result that the
relief fund now stands as follows:
Paid at The Journal Office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
REPORTS OF THURSDAY
NIGHTS STORMS COURSE

The following press dispatches ara
clipped from the Montgomery Adver-
tiser of Friday morning:
Washington Report.
Washington, Sept. 27.-Belated re-
ports to the weather bureau tonight
from Pensacola, Fla. announce that
the hurricane passed inland west Of
there, the winds reaching lightweight
miles an hour at Pensacola.
The storm probably is centered to-
night In South Central Mississippi.
Continued on Page Eight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-29
MANAGER CROCKETT'S
COMMEMORATE ENTERPRISE

Manager Crockett's efforts to gee
business going early yesterday werd
successful and the news given to the
world by tho local Associated Press
representative through Mr.. Crockett
and the Western Union was the first
the outside world had received from
the Gulf coast cities.
The Western Union has handled a
large business by sending 1t out by
an operator to Flomaton and while
this causes some delay, II Is ex-
tremely beneficial to the local public
and world at large. The Western
Union hopes to have a wire going
some time to-day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
EEET 1;
CHAPTER III
"He Knows the Word"

The, next. moment, the doubt natural
to the occasion asserted itself. 49, -
elbow do you know all this9 You
state the impossible. Explain your
Gerridge was only too willing to
IT have just come from Mr.. Full
ton 8 house, - said he. Enquiries there
ELECTED the facts which have SO star
tlea you: Neither Mr.. Fulton nor his
wife meant to deceive you. They
knew nothing, suspected nothing of
what took place, and you have no cause
to blame them. It was all plot be-
tween the two. women f.. ...
but how-why-"
"You see, I had a fact to 90 upon.
You had noticed that your so-called
bride g gloves did. not fit her; the boy
below, that her shoes were so tight
She hobbled.: That set me thinking.
A woman Of Mrs. Ransom's expert
ence and Judgment would not be apt
tant particulars; which, taken with the
veil and the promise she exacted from
you not to address or touch her during
your short ride to the hotel, led me
to point my inquiries so that I soon
found out that your wife had had The
assistance Of another woman in get
ting ready for her journey and that
this woman was her own maid who had
been with her for long time, and had
always given evidence of. an especial
attachment for her. Asking about This
girls height and general appearance
(for the possibility of substitution
was already in my mind), I found that
she 81 was OF slight figure and good car
removed from that of her young mis-
tress. This made the substitution T
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have mentioned feasible, and when ]
was told that she was seen taking her
hat and bonnet into the brides room.
and, tho not expected to leave till the
next morning, had slid away from the
house by the basement door at The
same moment her mistress appeared on
the front steps, my suspicious became
SO confirmed that I asked how this
girl looked, in the hope that you would
be able to recognize her, thru the de-
scrlptlon, as the. woman you had seen
sitting IN reception room No. 3. But,
to my surprise, Mrs. Fulton had what
was better than any description, the
girl Is picture. This has simpiifed mat
ters very much. BY it you have been
able to identify the woman who at
tion room, and the person who rode
here with you from Mr. Fu1ton,s house.
Wasn't she dressed in browne Didn Il
you notice a similarity in her appear
ance to that Of the very lady YOU were
then seeking9'' E.8
did not observe. Her face was all
] saw. She was looking directly at me
as / stepped into the room. -
Il see. She had taken off her veil
and trusted to your attention being
caught by her strange features-as It
was. But that dress was brown: I'm
sure Of it. She was the very woman,
Otherwise the mystery is impenetrable.
"A deep plot, Mr.. Ransom; one that
should prove to you that Mrs. Ran
som s motive in leaving you was Of q
very serious character. Do YOU wish
that motive. probed to the bottoms /
cannot do it without publicity. Are
you willing to incur that publicity9u
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There are three of them, as you will
see, all reception rooms Mr.. Ransom
had passed thru them all in looking for
his wife. In No. i he found several
ladies sitting and standing, all strang-
ers. He encountered no one in No. 3
and in No. 3 just one person, lady in
street costume evidently waiting for
some one. To this lady he had adj
dressed himself, asking if she had seen
any one pass that way the moment be-
fore. Her reply was a decided "NoD;
that she had been waiting in that same
room for several minutes and had seen
no one. This staggered him. It was
as if his wife had dissolved in thin air.
True, she might have eluded him by
slipping out into the hall by means Of
door two at the moment he entered
door one; and alert to this possibility
for her. But she was nowhere visible
nor had she been observed leaving the
building by the man stationed at the
entrance A. But there was another
exit, that Of B. Had she gone out that
ways Mr.. Ransom had taken pains to
inquire and had been assured by the
man in charge that no lady had left
by that door during the last ten min
utes. This he had insisted on, and
when Mr.. Loomis and the detective
came in their turn to question him on
this point he insisted on it again. The
mystery seemed complete at least to
the manager. But the detective was
not quite satisfied He asked the man
if at any time that day, before or after
Mrs. Ransom Is disappearance, he had
swung the door open for lady who
walked lame. The answer was decisive.