Semi-weekly herald., 1909-07-26
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

gulf coast yesterday may be several
days iu counting. Leyeling of teie-
graph vi all The destroying of
other NJ rs oi pmmunication with
the oui wo Il. by the hurricane
which A,.e u along the gnlf shore from
points IL Cameron Paris. Louisiana.
to the almost southwestern extremity
of Texas A. ~. IS can now be as
cortained The afois.l vented It's fiercest
force on the ci,s II Galveston. There
The sea wall KEPT back the waters.
Ten people were crowned in the water
that swept over a portion Of Tarpon
pier seven miles from galveston. They
were washed from the rocky promono-
tories into. the gulf and the bodies
have not been recovered.
While Impossible TO get an accurate
list OF the dead owing TO the fact
that the register has always been kept
aI the pier. the best information OBJ
tainabie is as follows: Captain BATH.
son and wife, Edward Lewis, C. a..
Daily. circulation manager OF the Gal.
weston Tribune, and four negroes. The
ten others are unknown.
That loss of life and property dam
age have been caused at other points
along the Texas coast and possibly In
Cameron Parish, Louisiana, is the be
lief few entertained In Matagorda
county. seyenty-five miles southwest
oi Galveston, II is reported that sew
efal lives were lost but at al early
hour today confirmation of the report
il lacking. Southernmost points of
Cameron Parish, Louisiana, We're cut
OF; from the outside world before noon
yesterday. There are no railroad con
nectlons with points there. Reports
received by the weather bureau here
Indicate the storm passed inland from
point close TO Matagorda bay.
Uneasipess which was entertained
for outing parties on some of the is
lands along the Texas coast was dis
PEELED during the night by messages
which assured the safety of these ex-
oursionists. Many of them being
aware of the approach OF the storm
took passage by tugs to the mainland.
OURAY, July 22.--This city and sur
rounding country was visited by the
BttNitoA W
oud-burst. yesterday afternoon, in
the history of the city. After raining
most OF the day about a quarter of 3
In the afternoon the flood gates uf
heaven opened and pretty soon the
streets were running rivers and ut 3
o'clock several blocks of the city
We're flooded, many small houses washS
an htiIhfr =, as
undermined. Water came down Cas-
onde creek, having its source east of
the town, twenty feet high, carrying
huge logs and boulders, and where the
stream emptied into the uncompaghre
logs and rocks We're piled twenty feet
high The Elks' club, block south
OF the Beaumont hotel, was filled with
debris, rocks being landed in the sec
ond story. The half dozen or SO
bridges spanning this creek were
washed out--in fact every bridge in
The town except the ones crossing the
main river. Bridges on Bear creek
and Bachelor creek are also reported
washed out. Had the down-pour con-
tinued another hour the entire town
would have been flooded and much
damage done.
PUEBLO, July 22.-John Dunleavy,
city detective and one of the best
known politicians In the city, was shot
and perhaps fatally injured near mid
night by TWO unknown men. Dun
leayy had just returned from down
town and had gone to neighbor's 8
house 10 get his 15-year-old daughter
to take her home
they were passing the Colorado Sup.
ply company they met two men, who
apparently We're intoxicated. The girl
stated that the men insulted her, and
that her father at once started for
them. Before she realized what had
happened the two men drew revoIvers
and started to fire. der father reach
ed for his revolver and fired several
shots. The men escaped
Dunleayy was shot in two places,
once under the heart and once near
the left lung. He was taken TO the
Minnequa hospital and there is little
hope expressed for his recovery this
morning
SEATTLE, July 22.-A special cable
To the Post-lntelligencer from Nome,
Alaska, gives information concerning
The means used by the Russian politi-
cal exiles who are believed to have
successfully landed in Alaska in eff.
feciing n passage across the Bering
strait from East Cape Siberia.
According to information given the
authorities at Teller York and Port
Clarence. small islands In Alaska op-
positc East Cape by fifteen deported
Russians who were captured when
attempting TO re-enter Alaska.
Tie exiles forced them 10 assist them
in seizing boats from the natives and
TO aid them in crossing the strait.
On July the Russian steamer from
Niadiyostok landed 800 Russians at
Nome. Half OF them We're paupers
and We're ordered deported. Customs
inspectors fined the owners of the
steamer $1,000.
The steamer carrying the deported
Russians left Nome July 9Th, going to
East Cape, Upon arrival there the
paupers were put ashore. Immediate.
ly according to the tale told by the
men now under arrest, they were i'm.
pressed by the twenty exiles who
had ESCAPED from the Yakutsk dis.