Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-02
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

terday In the Hood which swept
large portion of this city.
Conservative estimates place III
property damage at twenty millions
Fifteen thousand people are home
less.
More than 500 bodies have beel
recovered. The bodies. as fast as re
covered, are placed along the banks o
the river on higher ground to avail
identification. The bodies are guard
ed by soldiers who escort any search
er for missing friend or relatiy,
along the lines of the dead
The accc .tpanylng rescue work ant
search for bodies is being pushed a,
rapidly as possible. Scores are LODGED
AT various places along the stream ant
1t viii be weeks before all are found
Some doubtless will never be seen
Man, families have been divided b,
the disastor and the grief of the sur
vivors is pitiful
CHICAGO, Aug. 3o.-A dozen OF
more persons ware injured today when
an Ogden avenue street car jumped
temporary track in West Twelfth
street and Washtenaw avenue and
overturned 1t is said none will die
though The injuries are severe.
NORFOLK. Neb., Aug. 30.-The TEN
peraiure dropped 5s degrees within
torty-eight hours. falling from 9S Fri.
day 10 40 yesterday The cold wave
yesterday it i. said brought light
frost on the lowlands. 1t was not
damaging
BEVERLY. Mass. Aug. 30.-Presi.
dent TAFT today accepted the resigna.
ton of Ormsby Mcliarg assistant soc
retary of commerce and labor. There
is no one in Beverly today willing TO
say that Mr. McIIarg's resignation is
in any wise the result of an interview
Published in Washington last week in
which he was credited with saying
some sharp things about former Presi.
dent Roosevelt and his policy of for
est conservation. Mr. Mcliarg is quot
ed as saying that the policy is too
dream-like to ever be of practical
value, Mr.. MeHarg had grown quite
bitter over the free manner in which
some of the government officials at
Washington, generally known as "the
Roosevelt element" has beon CRITICS
ing members OF the Taft administra.
tion.
PANAMA Auo
quake was experienced shortly after s
O'Clock this morning. People were
greatly alarmed, but no serious dam
age is reported and no one injured.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 3O--Fol-
lowing the lynching of Robert Wood
all, white man aged 80 years, fo.
criminal assault ON l2-year-old gil
mob feud has broken out In Brook
haven eas1S .hss moLnpg g-.yheEait-1as
-Juhd that the city had divided iu.o
two camps with a feud war raging
that is one of the worst in the his
tory of Mississippi
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 30
Telling how the terror that bslched
out OF the iyphoon that stove In the
bulkheads of their steel plated ship
and released poisoned fumes that
struck the captain blind and caused
the death of five other men, Elmer
Hutchinson, third assistant engineer of
the United States collier Nanshan
reached San Francisco on the cruiser
Buffalo. Elmer, among other officials
OF the Nanshan, was smitten by the
terrifying fumes, but recovered in time
to save the collier from joining the
hulks streWing the bottom of the China
sea by going to the aid of Third Off.
Ger Ssnderson, the only man ON board
who was able to direct navigation and
restore the discipline OF the crew
DENVER, Aug. 30.-His brains dash
ed out and neck broken by fall from
the scaffolding near the roof of the
auditorium to the balcony 35 feet be-
low, Harry Sedalnick, known az ~
amateur prize fighter under the pseu
donym of kid Force" lay mangied
and dead among the balcony opera
chairs yesterday afternoon, while
above him. cllngMg desperately to the
broken and unstable scaffolding, his
two companions, c. II. Lee and 10
seph Conils, waited breathlessiy for
rescue. Apparently there was no way
to reach them Ladders could not be
elevated TO the dizzy height, and II
seemed that the scaffolding would
scarcely hold the two men for an
other moment.
In the ceiling above the wrecked
scaffolding where the two men clunl
was a hole about four inches square
Procuring n rope, and lowering 4
through this opening to a point wher'
the imperiled men could avail them
selves OF Its slender support, the flr'
, department was then called Still /
was n problem how to reach the i'm
perlled men. After a moments sur
vey of the situation firemen enlarge
the hole through when ;he rope wa
hanging. and carefully lowered lon
ladder until the two mon we're abl
to grasp It's lowest round and SO I
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