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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
TOWN WIPED OUT
BY CLOUDBURST
Raging Wall of Water Engulfs
Folsom, N. M.-Hundreds OF
Houses Swept Away.
TWENTY THREE LIVES ARE LOST
DeSOlatiOn and Waste Now Marks
Scene Where Stood Thriving
Mining Town.

Trinidad, Colo, Aug. 80. - Twenty
! three persons are known to be dead
! and scores are missing as the result Of
! q cloudburst which sen a raging wal
Of water eight feet deep over Folsom
N. NJ, a mining camp of $500 people
situated at the foot of Mount Capulin
, forty miles south of the Colorado
New Mexico line.
1t is impossible to estimate accu
rately the total loss of life, which
may reach th~irty-ive or forty before
morning. Already nineteen bodies
have been found buried under the silt
The hotel, in which five travelling
men were stopping, was washed away
and they were drowned. The proprie
tor, George Wenger, also is drowned
and his body has not been recovered
Completely 5Iotted Out.
The town is completely blotted out
of existence. Hundreds of houses
were carried away, and where stood a
thriving mining camp o only re
mains ~desolation and waste. Hun
dreds of citizens are out of homes
food and clothes, and relief is being
rushed from New Mexico and South
ern Colorado. The railroad tracks are
washed out for three miles and trains
are only going within eight miles OF
the stricken camp.
The cloudburst occurred at 10
o'clock last night and those citizens
who were awake on the streets es-
capped, while those who had retired
were mostly caught asleep without
warning.
Rushes Into Creek.
The water rushed into Cimmarron
creek and spread, sweeping a clean
The Cimmarron creek, which carried
the flood is ordinarily a small trick
ling stream. It's capacity was INSULT.
cient to hold the rush of water.
There were many marvlous es-
capes and forty people were rescued
after the flood had passed the camp.
Last night bodies were being found
as far as fifteen miles away, and loco
motive headlights, loaned by the Santa
Fee railroad, are being used in the
search.
The wires were down for ten hours
following the flood, and a Southern
Pacific train was marooned with 125
passengers and no food. 1t was reach
ed late in the afternoon and brought
TO Trinidad.
Ration, n. NJ, also suffered a severe
loss. Many homes were washed away
and several hundreds Mexicans spent
the greater part Of the night in a
church.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
Casualties 6.

The railroad town of Hazen, forty
miles east of Reno, vas destroyed by
fire. Lass, $125,000.
Halt of the stock yards at West
Toronto. Ont, were wiped out by IRE.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Spreading rails caused the derail'
ment of four coaches OF a passenger
train near Pueblo, Colo. No one was
injured.
Ellaid Carl, the ~six-year-old son OF
Evan Carl, fell into a vault at Lone
Tree, Iowa, and was dead when the
accident was discovered.
The shipping department Of the Lin.
dermann-Hoverson company, stove
manufacturers Of Milwaukee, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The milling plant Of A. H. Engel at
Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
Two firemen were badly injured, one
probably fatally. Property loss, $780,
600.
/. F. Upper and his ~six-year-old son
were drowned in the Snake river near
Twin Falls, Idaho, while fishing. A
big fish drew the boy into the water
and the father leaped In after him.
A lighted match in the hands of an
automobile repairer who was search
ing for a screw under the touring car
of J. M. Slusher at M~arshalltown,
Iowa, ignited leaking gasoline, causing
an explosion and fire which complete.
Iy destroyed the machine.
Henry Bolk, a farmer OF near Shelf
field, Iowa, was seriously injured by
a bull he was leading. The animal,
which was considered gentle, suddenly
became %enraged and, charging Bolk,
knocked him down, goring and tram
ping upon him. Rolk was cut and
bruised, and three ribs and an arm
were broken. He Is injured inter
nally.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
Crimes.

Burglars entered the Rhodes phar
macy at Rhodes, Iowa, and stole 5000
worth of jewelry, mostly watches.
Joseph and Louis Adler, brothers
were arrested by the New York police
in connection with the murder of Sam
uel j. Rosenbloom, a merchant oi
Windber, Pa.
fractional politics are said to be di
rectly responsible for the killing at
Ironton. Ohio, of Henry Frecka by
Rober. F-owine, his rival candidate
for Republican state committee man.
Despondent over the death of his
wife less than a month ago, Arthur
ID. Adams, a bookbinder in the gov
eminent bureau of engraving and
printing, took his own life in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Morris Stein and mother, Mrs.
Mary Bayard, who have been held al
Des Moines for alleged completely IL
the Stein-Porter murder mystery al
Loudenville, Ohio, were released on
bonds OF $1,000 each.
The case after kid" Royal, the out,
law, has been abandoned after a pur
suit by posse for more than 300 miles
The trail of the bandit was lost al
Two Dot, Mont, where Royal is be
lieved to have crossed into the Snowy
mountains.
Caught in the act OF robbing the
house Of a neighbor who had many
times befriended him. Edward Moo
ney, a former Philadelphia fireman
with a record for heroism, was shot
and MORALLY wounded by Policeman
Harrington.
Anthony Davis, a negro non-union
miner, whose house at Pratt City
Ala, was destroyed by dynamite, was
fired upon from ambush near his
home at Pratt City and fatally injured
Quite a number of shots were fred in
to his body.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
General.

A Black Hand letter demanding $400
gle Walz Of Calumet, Mich, q leading
Finnish club woman and newspaper
publisher.
A falling meteorite narrowly missed
striking President Roosevelt's house
at Sycamore Hill. 1t embedded itself
deep in the turf back of the presi
dents barn. The meteorite was about
the size Of a brick.
The first serious break In the ranks
of the striking mechanics on the Cana
dian Pacific occurred last week, when
seven strikers applied for their old
positions at the West Toronto shops
and were taken back.
It has been learned at Reno, New,
that Gen. Raphael Ysabel Mondez, who
has been in Nevada since his escape
from the battle of La Victoria in
1892, is organizing a flibustering ex
petition to overthrow the Castro gov,
| eminent.
Thuro Ducemman, seventeen years
old. was killed in a rough and tumble
fight In a row in an alley at Sioux
| City by Bert Hilgers, eighteen years
old at Sioux City. Only a few blows
had been exchanged, when Hilgers
drove a terrific blow to Ducemman's
| jaw, which landed him on the ground
lifeless.
Hostility to Gov. Hughes because
of his efforts to suppress gambling at
the race tracks was expressed during
the visit Of the governor to the Sara
toga county fair last week when own.
ers Of trotters refused to start them
in the races while the governor was
on the fair grounds. Oficials of the
fair threatened and coaxed the horse.
men in vain. Not until the governor
had departed did the races proceed.
That the presidential and congress.
sional elections In Cuba would be held
on Nov. IA next, and that the inaugu.
ration of the newly elected president
would take place on Jan. 2S, 1909, was
the announcement made by Charles
E. Magoon, governor of Cuba. follow.
ing his conference with President
Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill. Gov. Ma.
COON said that President Roosevelt
and he had agreed upon these dates
after a full discussion of the situation.
The Union Pacific has again placed
extra guards on It's overland trains for
their protection In the event of hold
ups. Several reports of Grain robber
les In the Northwest Is said to be the
reason for this ~precaution.
Some 5000 shipmates. relatives
friends and admirers Of Admiral Da,
vid Glasgow Farragut paid a tribute
to the memory OF the hero Of many
battles Of the man in the dedication
Of . memorial tablet In the Ports
muth navy yard. Admiral George
Dewey. who served with F~arragut. un
yelled the tablet.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03

While making repairs to his thresh'
ing machine near New Hampton,
Iowa, Frank Stather, the owner,
caught his foot In the cylinder and his
leg was chewed to pulp below the
knee.
The barking Of a pet dog saved the
family of Joseph Schell from a fire
at Pittsburg. The family were goi
out just as the walls of the building
fell in, burying the dog which gave
the warning.
David e. Thompson, American am
bassador to Mexico, was run down by
a bjcyclist in Mexico City, suffering
a fracture of one arm and Commissions
OF the face. His condition is not con
sidered serious.
Joseph Houston, Jr., provincial con
stable, and Bruce Buril, while sailing
with two companions on Lake Win
nipeg. were drowned by the upsettins
of the boat. They were caught in 9
whirlpool and sucked under.
Charles Reiss, a Knott county (Ky)
farmer, carried an armful of bark into
the house for stove kindling. A six
foot RATHER crawled from 1t and two
of his children YER bitten before the
reptile could be killed. They both
died.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
HAMS BROTHERS BOUND OVER
Testimony Shows That T. Jenkins
Tried to Dissuade the Captain.

ii'So W 1iSSbodC khe SdPkdlIis
New York, Aug. 30.-A new light
was thrown on the Bayside tragedy
yesterday when it IA shown by testi.
mony at the preliminary hearing that
Thornton Hams told a moment after
the shooting that he had begged his
brother not to kill Annis. Both men,
however, were held without bail and
again committed to the Queens coun-
ty jail in Long Island City to await
the action of the grand jury.
Charles Roberts, who is a member
of the Bayside Yacht club, testified
that after the shooting, when a de.
mand was made on Thornton Hams
for his weapon. Capt. Hams advised
his brother to give up the weapon,
adding:
''This is a gentleman's club; let
them have your pistol"
The witness also said that when he
told Thornton Hams that he was as
guilty as his brother since he had pre-.
vented any one from stopping the
shooting, Thornton Hams replied:
What could l do? He was my
brother. ! have tried to persuade him
for some time from doing this. | am
just as sorry about it as anybody
here"
Capt. Peter C. Hams, to all sSpear.
ances, paid not the slightest attention
/, to the testimony.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
From Other shores.

All the schools In the city OF Chris
tiania have beeen closed, owing to a
serious outbreak Of smallpox.
The Mexican government is taking
every possible step to guard against
a recurrence of the recent border
troubles on Sept. 10, the anniversary
of the independence Of the country.
A dispatch from Strassburg, Ger
many, says ii Is reported that the i'm
perial maneuyers have been post
poned, owing TO the fact that the en-
peror is suffering from an injury to
the leg.
The Turkish government has decid-
ed to engage the services of a Brit
fish adviser for the reorganization OF
the Turkish navy and a French adj
wiser Is to be employed for the reha-
Utilization of the finances OF the I'm
pire.
A curious provision is made In the
will of Michael Hanmore. an Irish So
licitor of London, who left nearly $40.-
600. He bequeathed $4,000 to the
mother superior of any convent his
wife should enter after his death, ii
being his desire that the widow should
devote the remainder of her life to
prayer. II the lady declines to enter
a convent she is to receive only some
tewelry.
The bride OF a week of Prof. Ru.
dolph Splitter of ~Sternberg, Prussia,
threw herself from the top Of the Bis
marck tower at Heringsdorf, falling
1900 feet to the bottom of the cliffs
upon which the tower is built. The
couple were on their honeymoon. The
woman left a note asking her hus'
bands forgiveness and requesting
that he marry another woman with
whom he could be more happy. Prior
to their marriage the pair had been
engaged for ten years.
The postponement Of the Toxic in
ternational exposition, which Is now
schecnycd for 1912, is being agitated in
goyernnSs ut circles IN Toxic and seri
ously discussed on the ground that
the appropriation set aside for this
3 Is inadequate. and that the
time intervening IL insufficient for the
amount OF preparatory work to be
done,
Duke Karl Borwin Of Mocklenburg
etrelitx. Who has been suffering FOL
~ome time from . rheumatic aSectior
81 the heart. II dead at Metz. He Va,
bOrn IN 1888.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
At the Capital.

An ante-election warning against po'
litical assessments has been issued to
employees of the treasury department
by Acting Secretary Beekman Win
thrOp.
Preliminary figures given out at the
general land Office show there remains
In the states and territories Of sur.
ve,ed and unsurveyed public lands
about $50 900 acres.
The new battleskip North Dakota is
nearly so per cent completed. 1t is
stated that the craft will probably be
completed by the middle OF July,
1910. She will be launched on Nov.
Q next, when Sc per cent finished.
Gen. Allen, chief signal officer OF
the army, has received advices that
the two wireless telegraph stations To-
Gated at Fort Gibson and Nome, Alas
ka, have been completed and put in
operation. These are the last stations
OF the telegraph system which ex.
tends from Seattle. Wash, to Nome.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
MANIAC TRIES TO
KILL DAUGHTER
Insane Father Attempts to Hurl
Girl From the High Audi
forum Tower.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE tNSUES
Frightened Girls Call for Help Is An.
swered by Elevator Man Who
Saves Her Life.

Chicago, Sept. /. - A frantic strug'
gle, with the life OF a young girl at
stake, took place at the top of the
| Auditorium tower Saturday afternoon
when J. f. Shilling, ffty-two years
old, attempted to throw his twenty
one-year-old daughter from the top OF
| the lofty structure. Excited men, ap'
palled at the attempt, fought desper'
| ately with the crazed man and finally
won the battle for the girls life,
Shilling had recently been released
from the Kankakee insane asylum,
and his condition since he left the in
stitution was such that his relatives
intended to return him to the place
in a few days.
Maniac Seizes Girl.
Saturday morning he pleaded with
relatives to be allowed to go to Chi
cago They consented, and with his
daughter he left the suburb where he
resides with her.
They walked about down town for
some time and finally found them
selves near the Auditorium.
LET us go up and see Chicago"
said Shilling. Il want to see the big
city again, for | may not have an
other chance"
The girl consented and they took
the elevator, which shoots up to the
lofty observatory. Together they
walked around for a time. Then the
father and the girl stood still, their
eyes fixed on the lake. Suddenly he
seized the daughter about the waist
and raised her above his head to hurl
her over the balustrade surrounding
the platform on which they were
standing. She grasped the railing
and screamed for help.
Cry Is Answered.
Her cry was Immediately answered
by John Richardson, an elevator start
err employed in the observatory. The
insane nan gave a yell of rage and
sprang at Richardson, who did not
give up his grasp of the girl.
Richardson was obliged to fight like
a demon. The craZed mans fingers
sought his throat, and the startled
man almost choked before assistance
came. Detectives who had been sum,
moned overpowered the l~unatic,
placed him in a patrol wagon and
took him to the police station.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
GUNS COW LYNCH MOB.
TWO Arizona Deputies Save Negro
From Several Hundred White Men.

Douglas, Ariz., Sept. Frank But
Ter. a negro. who shot Ernest Phillips.
white, and was later arrested, was
saved from violence at the hands of
several hundred armed men by two
deputy sherisfs. The deputies, with
drawn ~revolvers. held the mob at bay,
placed Butler in an automobile and
sped to Tombstone, where the negro
was locked up.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
On Eve of Civil War.

Teheran, Sept. 1. Latest advices
received here indicate that all the
provinces are in a state of anarchy
and that the country is ON the eve
of a civil val. Word has reached
here from Nuddea that a party OF
Liberal Mushtaieds has started for
Persia to proclaim a holy war against
the shah among the dat population.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
MYSTERY IN HIS DEATH.
Preacher Found Dead From Gunshot
Wounds.

New London, Conn, Sept. Mrs.
o. B. Milligan, wife of Rev. Milligan,
the minister who was found yesterday
in his home in Canton, Ohio, dead of
gunshot wounds received in some
mysterious way, and her brother, c.
B. Agnew of Cleveland, who have
been summering at Oswegatchie
Beach, Waterford, left here for the
scene Of the tragedy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
MISS PECK TRIES IT AGAIN.

American Woman Mountain Climber
Attempts to Scale H~uascaran.
Lima, Peru, Sept. Miss Annie S.
Peck of Providence, r. l., the noun
tain climber, who on Aug. IA succeed
ed in reaching an altitude of $4,000
feet on Mount Huascaran, but later
was compelled to return to the low
lands on account of the sickness of
one Of her guides, started Saturday
afternoon on the second attempt to
reach the summit. Huascaran is be-
lieved to be the highest peak in the
Western hemisphere. II towers above
a notable group of volcanic SUBMITS
in the south of Peru.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
Dedicate New Hospltal.

Eau Claire, Wis, Sept. l. - The
cornerstone laying and dedication of
Luther hospital took place yesterday
afternoon. Rev. M. o. Waldahl of Me-
ridian. president of the Hospital as
sociation. laid the cornerstone. IT.
vine l. Lenroot of Superior delivered
the dedication address at the grounds.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
WILL CUT OFF cHlLo's HEAD.
Freak Baby With Extra Skull Under
Surgeons Knife.

New Orleans. La, Sept. IAN OPP
eration in which many local surgeons
are interested will be performed with
in the next few days on a New Or
leans child which was recently born
with two heads. The second head is
not perfectly formed, but the top of it
is well covered with a healthy growth
of hair. The second head will be re-
moved.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
Two Flood Victims MISSING.

Trinidad. Colo, Sept. 1. = All but
two of the bodies of the nineteen per-
sons who met death in the food of the
Cimarron river at. Folsom. N. NJ, on
Friday last have been found. The
property loss is estimated at $1,000
600.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
REBELS SEND ULTlMATUM.
Make Demands on Shah and Insist OF
Answer in Five Days.

st. Petersburg, Sept. IA dispatch
from Tabriz says that the revolution,
lists have sent an ultimatum to the
shah, an answer to which must be
given within five days, demanding the
formation of a ministry composed OF
members of their party; the exile of
reactionaries from Teheran; full am,
nesty, and the immediate c~onvocation
of a national assembly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
REPEATS BRUTAL CRIME.
Man Who Admits Assault on Child IL
ex-Convict.

Cando. N. d., Sept. l. = George p.
Burgess. who already has served a
five years sentence in the Bismarck
~penitentiary for a similar assault. has
confessed here that he attacked Cath.
crime McKinnon. the ten-year-old
daughter Of Mrs. Elinor Hawkes.. for.
merly of Bemidji, MINI. The crime
was committed near this city. Mrs.
Hawkes. and her daughter haze been
here only q month.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
THIEF Ross CORNERSTONE.
Steals Casket From Foundation o
New Memorial Hospital.

Ischl, Austria, Sept. l. Emperor
Francis Joseph on Saturday laid the
foundation of a hospital in memory of
the late Empress Elizabeth. During
the night the foundation stone was
removed from its setting and the cas-
ket containing the imperial signed
record and the customary coins was
stolen. There is no trace of the thief,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
500 OFFERS OF MARRIAGE.
Duluth Woman Is Receiving Letter,
by the Hundred.

by the Hundred.
Duluth. Aug. 30.-Nearly 500 offers
OF marriage have been received by
Mrs. Anna Rowe. who is waiting in
line to Ale on a homestead in the Fond
du Lac reservation. which will be
opened here Sept. Is. Through an
error the st. Paul, Minneapolis asd
Duluth papers published the story that
she was unmarried. and Immediately
the offers began to come In from all
parts of the country.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
Lightning Hits College Tower.

Grand Forks. N. d., Sept. Light
ming demolished part Of the high low
er OF the Grand Forks college and
caused several hundred dollars dam
age.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
CHILD KIT BY AUTO; DYING.
Girl at Port Washington, Wis.,, Run.
in Front of Machine.

Port Washington, Wis, Sept. /. -
A touring car containing Mr.. and Mrs.
C. M. Ohlsen and their two sons and
one daughter of Oak Park, ILL.,, ran
over a te~n-year-old child, the only
daughter of Frank Benick, and theri
are no hopes Of the child's life. Hei
skull is fractured and she has been
unconscious ever since.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
BOLT ONLY HITS FACE.

Lightning Scores Man, but Doesn't In.
jure Him Much.
Almena, Wis, Aug. 30.-During a
storm here last night as Mat Dold,
manager of the Farmers store, was
entering a building a flash # lightning
came down a telephone pole in front
of the building, jumped to Dold's face,
discoloring both eyes and the skin all
over his face, but did not otherwise
injure him.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-09-03
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-05-11
A Lonely Death

Under lone pine tree and partly Gov
cred with twiggs and pine needles, a
sheepherder found the remains of a well
dressed man in the hills midway between
Buckskin and Wellington tast Saturday.
The man had been dead at least year
and half, nothing remaining save the
articulatcd bones of the skeleton. The
skull was closely examined and showed
no signs of violence Several articles
were found with the remains which may
possibly lead to the identity of the de.
deased. A small note book on the last
last page of which was written the name
of Dr.. G. E. Heseman, and also the word
Sweeney. A large silk handkerchief
with the letter III" worked in one cor
ner. Also silver mug with the word
"Vesta" engraved on it's side. A set of
false teeth was also found. At the time
of his death he wore grey serge suit,
black derby hat, white shirt and carried
cane. A small grip was found that
was torn up, which contained u few
collars, cuffs and IL white vest, which
were scattered on the hillside A news
paper, badly mutilated, but thought to
be Los Angeles Times of December 10,
1906, merely by an article, as the date
line was missing. 1t is very likely that
the man met his death about that time
and possibly hailed from Los Angeles.
The bones had been scattered around
by wild animals.