STORM ON THE COAST. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND POSSIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. BRIGANTINE BEACH HEAVY DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AT ATLANTIC CITY, SUBMERGED, =» Brigantine and Deters Deach are sub- the safety of the inhabitants, former place has been broken into frag- ments by the waves, THE DAMAGE TO ATLANTIC UITY. ArraxTtic City, March 21.—Two of the highest tides ever known since the beach front has been bullt up were those of last night and to-day, and as a result the destruction of property bas been unparalleled, The storm of No- vember 25th made its worst inroads at the upper end, but the present storm struck the section lylug between Miche igan and Texas avenues with unparal- leled fury, the waves dashing in shore much farther and with far more des- tructive effect than those occasioned by its predecessor, The first effects of the presant storm were felt on Tuesday evening, a driving rain and high winds being the preliminary symptoms, Wednesday morning hail and snow took the place of rain, the wind increased and the waves dashed in with threatening force. ‘they not only covered the tracks of the previous storm, but threw volumes of foaming water around the buildings on the inner side of the boardwalk, undermining them to an alarming extent. The storm gained ia streuglh as evening &p- proached, and at 10,30 Wednesday night the devastating ficod tide found the shaky buildings, booths and pavil fons easy prey, and they went down before its irresistible onslaught like so many reeds, To<day’s tide found but little left to attack. locks of four to six buld- ings between Michigan and Texas ave- nues, some of them three stories, were at one stroke of the waves piled up in ruins, The remaining portion of the boardwalk was swept away and logs, lomber and debris were strewn all along the beach and carried fully half a square up the ocean avenue. Such wholesale destruction was never wit- nessed and losses to beach property must be something appalling, many of them losing all they possessed, A number of the houses between Missouri and Georgia avenues were occupied by people who felt sure that they were safe, as their buildings had stood the November tide, but when Wednesday night's flood struck the frail structures they hastily left through back doors and in many cases bad miraculous escapes, a notable one being that of Professor Jones, a corn doctor, who jumped out of his bed when the waves enveloped his shanty. He had just reached the door when a detached board struck him and he fell in among the ruins and seething surf. He succeeded un reaching a place of safety, but how, he cannot tell From Michigan to Texas avenues the ruin is complete, son’s bath-houses, just below Michigan avenue, are gutted and have fallen over seaward. Ewald's photograph gallery is wrecked, into fragments, The front of Switchback road is gone, so is about thirty feet of the View Excursion House covered walk, Leedom’s pavilion, Doyle's, Guverna- tor’s and Bowker's pavilions and bath-houses, and William A. Iee & Sons’ bath-houses are wholly or partially destroyed. Below Milssis- sippi, Pullitzer's bath-houses, Philip Fitzgerald’s bath-houses and bar, and all the small bath-houses and stands are completely wrecked. The side and front of the B, J. Kelly Iouse, at Georgia avenue, 18 torn oul. FPrestby’s house is gutited. Johnson & Wilson's baths and other buildings, below Georgia, are partially gone, and all along these four squares the ruins of houses cover the line of the board- walk. Richard H. Lee's ocean terrace has succumbed to the waves, and the houses thereon are toppling over, the occupants having escaped ina hurry. Above lennsylvania avenue, Jack- son, Bew, Adams and Johnson have again suffered, and Kidd's photograph gallery has been overturned on the strand, Mr, Jackson had built 8 new front to his bath houses, and a large section of it waa badly damaged. Opposite the Traymors the waves dashid in with great fury and wade several large breaks ip the board walk, and at Park avenue it also made seri- ous inroads, The outbuildings of the Children’s Seaside Home are in danger of collapse, several of them being un- dermined, For the first Lime in its history South Atlantic City bas been visited with a destructive flood tide. On two oc- casions it flooded the whole place, and the foundations of almost every house have been seriously weakened, A 10- room cottage supposed to be the property of Mrs, Mary Coyle, was completely wreckod at high tide to-day and fell over on the beach in ruins. Other houses are expecled to go to-night, The boardwalk up last season is a total wreck, and the famous White Elephant is toppling over and cannot possibly remain intact through the night, Six feet deep of solid embank- went, for a distance of 30 feet, was washed away. The few people who bad the courage to remain in the dreary, stormbeaten place, are in the dread as to what the night will also . soning. . Up the Inlet at noon to-day the high tide dashed over the bulkhead and flooded the Inlet district down to the street car stables, travel for fully two hours, ilo damage was done to y at this pomt. the Baltic avenue | water, and the distressing scenes | ot November 20 were repeated in any cages, Whie na considerabie amount of water is still on the meads | ows, the rallroad tracks have been kept | clear of floating obstructions and there bas been very little, if any, interrup- { tion to travel. A Leavy snow storm | prevailed during the greater part of the i day, but at this writing it has given way to a drenching rain. The more | robust hotel guests found amusement | aud exhilarating exercise in watching { the wild waves and visiting the points { where the greatest bavoc was wrought, AT SEA ISLE CITY. The heavy storm has been unusually | severe at this point, the seas dashing with relentless fury. It has damaged a large amount of property here and caused a heavy loss. Two handsome cottages north of the Continental Ho- tel, wnich were nearing completion, have Lad the foundations nearly washed from under them, #0 that a heavy wind would be liable to blow them to the ground. The sea wail has been wrecked for hundreds of feet and the ocean front 18 in a deplorahle condition, but arrangements will be made to re- store it at once. The light house premises have also sustained consider able damage. AT OCEAN CITY. Another big tide came in this morn- ing and caused a few slight washouts on the rallroad, delaying travel for the day. Little damage was done on the beach, notwithstanding the surf was very high. The total amount of dam- age done on the beach during the six days’ storm will not exceed $250, Travel will be resumed to-morrow, unless something occurs, AT OCEAN GROVE, ELBERON ASBURY PARK, ASBURY PARK, N. J., March 21. — Increased damage has been done along the coast of this section by the storm afternoon, At Elberon three bathing houses have been washed into the ocean and the sea lashed Into sueh fury that the waves run up and over into Lake Takahasse, houses of dents, At Deal Beach the damage was con- fined toa cut into the sand, near the station, No. 0, that threatens the bulk- bead which protects the watchtower of the station. Along the coast from Deal Lake to Ocean Grove the ravages of the storm are less apparent, although another portion of the boardwalk has been carried away. The pier at Rosas Pavilion, Ocean (irove, has been badly shattered at t extreme end, will cost considerable to put it in re- pair, Immense quantities of drift wood and heavy timbers are being thrown up on the © «ch, and this, it is feared, will cause | mere damage. Gangs of men a+ work to-night, gather- i Ing, a8 weil .- they can, the timbers we. Great difficulty doing this work, {| owing to the blinding snow-storm and prevail. Upon the the wealthy summer resi- | the board walk, fishing pier, and two | pavilions at Asbury Park. MORE GOLD FIELDS DISCOVERED MINERS FLOCKING TO SWEET GRASS HILLS IN MONTANA —GULD AND S1L- VER IN PAYING QUANTITIES, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, March 18, A special to the Tribune from Big | Sandy Montana, says: This little town ia full of excitement over the develop- ment of gold mines in the Sweet Grass ills, 55 miles northwest of here. {| People have just arrived from the | Gulch are making from $50 to $30 a day. | The most of the gold is taken oct in | the placer diggings. But blue ore | has been struck by several parties in { the hills, and the country is full of | prospectors from Helena and other | mining districts, It the present rush continues straightened times must i Ingvitably result, as men from all parts | of Montana and Dakota ars focking { here In great numbers without making i adequate provision for subsistence, Actual work at the mines Las as yet only fairly begun, bot the results are very factory to the parties working claims. To Alfred Hilles, a Butte miner, is ery of gold in paying quantities in the hills, He has been working quietly at Middle Butte, aud shows about $4000 for his labora, About a week ago, however, a general rush commenced, and now the country Is overrun with prospectors, some of whom have abso- lutely nothing, and supplies cannot be brought in fast enough to feed any- body. It looks as if a temporary famine was Imminent, The Sweent Grass Hills, in which the gold has been discovered, are 55 miles by wagon road northwest of Big Sandy, and just south of the interna- tional boundary. The hills comprise three buttes, varying in elevation from 7900 to 8400 feet. Water and timber are abundant in East Butte, no timber and water scarce in Middle p Between and around the bs broad bottom lands with The richest placer diggifgs Eclipse Guleh, tn Middle" ! Hazel Lines Gulch in the East Butte, Silver, copper, iron and a fine quality of marble have been found, while coal 1s abundant on Milk the present immigration continu these mines will be developed In short time, and prices of food, now at the top notch, will go up out of might, Searcely a man at the mines is getting less than $4 NEWS OF THE WEEK, —At the Mahanoy City Colliery of the Reading Company, on the 18th, while David Evans and his sons, David and Edward, wers ‘‘robbing’’ pillars, the roof fell upon them. The elder Evans and his son Edward were killed, David escaping with severe injuries, An elevator In the machine shops of Flynn & Emrich, In Baltimore, fell on the morning of the 18h from the fourth floor, a distance of forty feet, severely injuring three men who were upon it. The men were carrying on the elevator a heavy iron bar, held vertically, which as the elevator reached the top struck the ceiling, and the strain upon the light rope broke the cog wheel controlling the drum which at once gave way, causing the elevator to fall, A fourth man who was on the elevator saw the danger aud jumped from the elevator to the fourth floor. -A despatch from Parkersburg, West Virginia, says that Detective Baldwin and an armed posse, who went into the wilds of Wyoming and McDowell counties to hreak up a gang of illicit distillers, have been sur- rounded and their lives are Lhreatened. 1he moonshiner band is made up of noted desperadoes, who for three years | have defied the law, Thirty have been captured, and it was while attempting to arrest forty more the officers were entrapped. ~The boller in Whitney & Tuttie’s saw will at Pound, Wisconsin, burst {on the morning of the 18th, wrecking { the building. Otis Clement was killed, and August Regel, Frank Greenman, i Julius Gokey, Henry Devey, Frank Forcea and Philip Goodehild were se- verely injured. It is feared some of { the injured will not recover. Josiah { Rhodes and his mother were drowned {| while trying to cross the Ohio river in a boat at Pomeroy, Ohio, on the 13th, i Peter Nearshalsky, the miner who was | imprisoned for 54 hours at Black Dia- wond Colliery, at Mount Carmel, Pa., {and who was liberated on the 16th, died on the 18th from nervous exbaus- { tion and internal injuries, ~Constable Harnishfeger from Los | Angeles, California, to Garvanza vill- {lage on the 17th to arrest B. 8S, little girl, Sprague shot and fatally {fire on kis deputies, {returned to the city and gave the { alarm and a posse started after Sprague, | During the battle which foliowed | Sprague was shol through the abdo- | men and fatally wounded. Sprague is i thought to have been insane, | in paying quantities have been discov. fered in Sweat Grass Hills, 55 | northwest of Big Sandy, Montana, and | that miners in Echpse Gulch are mak- ‘ing from $50 to §50 a day, Men from { all parts of Montana and Dakota are | flocking to the new [felds, without | making adequate provision for subsis. { tence, Itis feared that a famine will | follow, as supplies cannot be taken to the ground fast enougr to feed every- i body. ~ An express train on the Inter Colonial Bailway collided on the 19th | with & special freight {traln near R'monskl Station, Quebec. Both en- | glnes, the baggage car and two freight | cars were wrecked, Four train hands | were Killed and two injured. The | passengers escaped injury, In drilling { out an unexploded blast of dynamite at {the Cumberland Hydraulic Cement | Company's tunnel In Cumberland, | Maryland, on the 10th, an explosion { occurred whereby ‘smith and Joseph Wegman were fatally, and Noah Long and Solomon { Moore severely injured, ! the Midland depot, in Anderson, Indi | ana, on the evening of the 18th, and { took possession. About thirty citizens, { armed with poles and barrel staves, [ad | by the town marshal, went to Lhe | depot and formed a gauntlet along the i rallroad., Turough these lines of men the tramps were [oreed to run, their | speed belag accelerated by beavy blows | well laid on by the men, be tramps | were untercifully whippad, the blood | time they had reacted the end of Lhe | gauntlet, {| =Three cases of drowning in Chesa- | peake Bay were reported in Baltimore { on the 19th. They all occurred during 19th, John Manoughs, of New York, was washed overboard from the bug- eye Pinto, and was drowned In spite of the efforts to save him, Solomon J, Hall, of Baltimore, was missed from the slope Undine, while the lay at Oxford, Md. His hat and boots were found on the wharf on the morning of the 17th. John Cooper, also of Balti. | more, was drowned from the schooner Julia while In the city dock, Annapolis, ~A despatch from Indianapolis, Indiana, says that the shortage of John In addition to this he se- cured $15,000 from the County Treas. ury by fraud, ~BYy the burning of a dwelling near Baldwinsville, Massach on the afternoon of the 10h, Mrs, Kussell, aged years, and two daughters, aged respectively 5 and 15 years, of a peighbor named Truehart, lost their roof by a little girl, who notified the Sheriff, Edward Powell, a river pirate, succeeded in getting away, but the others returned to their cells after Dick Jones, a housebreaker, had been shot by the Sheriff. It is thought that Jones’s wound will prove fatal Roland Bacon, 35 years of age, committed suleide in his father’s store at Laurel, Delaware, on the morning of the 20th, by shooting himself in the left breast, Ile had been drinking heavily for three weeks, Some villain on the evening of the 10th entered the weav- ing room of the Graniteville Manu. facturing Company’s mill at Granite- and cut the warps in all except fifteen looras, The factory was forced to shut down on the 20th, and it will take a week at least to replace the warps in the looms, ~A body found in Lloyd’s creek, at Easton, Maryland, has been identified a8 that of George N. Sidney, of 1144 Snyder street, Philadelphia. A heavy rainstorm on the evening of the 10th caused the waters of Richmond creek, which runs through Dayton, Tennes- see, to overflow the banks. Furnace fires were putout and a mile and a half of rallroad was washed up. A number of houses were swept away and several families barely escaped with their lives, Alexander Vaughan was drowned. Another gas well was struck at Kempton, Indiana, on the 10th, When the drill was withdrawn the gas becams ignited Iu some man- ner and a stream of fire leaped forth, In the little ro»m around the derrick were fourteen persops, and all were more or less burned, four of them badly. Our Consul General at Shanghai has informed the State Department, at the request of the Shanghai Committee of the North China Relief Fund, of the distress existing over a large area of China, the result of floods in the Yellow river sections and of droughts in por- Anhoui. The committees desires to 1n- vite the clhiaritable people of the werid to respond to its request for funds, Thousands are starving and dylog from exposure in Northern China. lelief has already been received from but more is Until the spring crops are — As Robert Harbin, a wealthy far- His His head ana face and death Herman Lenck, aged 17, was suffocated by smoke during a fire on Third avenge, New York, on the morniag of the 20th, —dJd. J. BShedlove, a prominent tallor, in Topeka, Kansas, quarrelled on the evening of the 20th over the terms of a lease for the bulid- ing occupied by them. Five shots subsequently discovered that Werner bad been Killed and Bhedlove fatally wounded, Circomstantial evidences in- dicated that Shedlove did the shooting. The boy had {re quently asked his father for a pistol, bad Leen refused, and while with It it was discovered by on hia shooting him through the ~—James Cocley went to the resi. in Roane county, Tennessee, late on the evening of the 18ih, and called for Brown, Brown refused to leave Lhe Cooley threw several hiouse Brown, and severely ine Cooley was ar- He wastaken before a magis- drew a pistol ou the first Before he could fire, the Sheriff shot him in the without He was found guilty, gave and bas fled to North Carolica., A reward is offered for his re-capture, ~George NR. Carlton, bookkeeper for Smith, Bros, & Co., In Seattle, Washington Territory, sent a note to the firm on the 18th, together with tbe safe keys, saying that he was ili. It was discovered that he had left the city and an examination of the books showed that hie had embezzied $20,000. A telegram from Seranton, Penna., reports that a week ago Charles Nier ran a needle into his foot. Burgeons sought in vain for it. On the afternoon of the 21st Nier “was taken to the plant of the Subur- ban Electric Railway and his foot held near one of the dynamos. In 15 min. utes the needle was drawn out.” ~The team of Henry Mott, of Al burgh Springs, Vermont, went through the ice on Lake Champlain, st Rouse’s Point, on the 2Ist. Mr. Mott was drowned and Mr, Mott was badly cut by the str wound, 3 HR IF BRE 09 per———— PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. | BEATE, | In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. | Packer introduced a bill providing that | telephone companies be added to the | list of corporations required to report to the Auditor General and z'so that the fiscal year, when all such com- panies are required ts present their reports, shall end on June Ade | journed, aia Lr resolution amendment for the classification of cities was passed finally, Bills were also passed giving the Becretury of the State Board of Agriculture power to stamp out contagious diseases AMON domestic animals, and to expedite Lhe distribution of money from sales of real estate upon execution, The special committee on the Australian Ballot bill reported several amendments to the bill. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 20th bills were introduced by Mr. Reyburn in- creasing the rates allowed Delaware river pilots, and by Mr. McAleer fixing the salaries of judges, Among the bills reported negatively were those fixing the weight of a ton of anthracite coal at 2000 pounds, prohibiting com- mon carriers from engaging in wining, and to prevent discrimination by rail- | roads, DBlils were passed finally allow- | lng insurance companies to change the { the operation of factory insurances | companies, Adjourned, In the Senate on the 21st. Mr. | McAleer’s bill fixing the salaries of F Judges, was reported with amend- | ments, making the salary of Common Pleas Judges in Alleghany the same as {those in Pmladeiphia, | year, { tions receiving support from the State, | The bill making 2000 pounds of anth- racite coal a legal ton, which had Leen reported negatively, was recommitted, | Bills were introduced by Mr, authorizing the courts to appoint | deputy constables and police upon pe- | tition, and by Mr, Penrose, to prevent traffic in registered bottles, The bill | for the Incorporation and regulation of { Young Men's Christian | was passed finally. HOUSE. In the House, | & State Board of Arbitration | dispules between employers and em- | ployes, said board to consist of three | members, to be appointed annually by | the Governor, one lo be an employee, | anot.er an employer, and the third Ww i be appointed upon the joint recom- | mendation of these two. Several | effectual attempls were made to have | pesolutions passed making special | orders for bills. On motion of Mr. | requested to consider the expediency of | and resolutions, Adjourned, In the House on the 19th, Mr. Capp | moved 10 suspend the rules and place on the calendar Lhe negatively reporied mil regulating the wcorporation of cily passenger raliways, was lost for want of two-thirds | ily, the yeas being 100, the nays 72. | The bill to prevent the crossing of | steam railroads at grade in cities of Lhe frst and second classes was passed | finally; also, the bill in relation to the | srection and leasing of wharves and | collection of wharlage thereon. Ad- | journed, { In the House, on the 20th, Mr. | Wherry introduced a bill to enforce | Article 17 of the Constitution in rela- tion to common carriers, The bills | establishing a State Board of Educs- | tion, for the incorporation of passenger | rallways, and “for the education of | children 1m cities and boroughs’ were | reported negatively, Bills were re | ported favorably making it lawful for ship-building corporations to increass { their capital stock, to provide a better | system of fire escapes, and to suthorize | mutual fire insurance companies of { other States to do business here. A bill was introduced by Mr, Fietcher | fixing the rate of mlotage. | prevent the standing aside of jurors by constitutional majority, Adjourned. In the House, on the 21st, Senate | bill 133, relating to the incorporation | and regulation of passenger railways, was, on motion of Mr. Keyser, recom- mitted. The General Revenue bill was passed finally by a vote of 173 to 7 and gent to the Senate, Adjourned, Dr, W. Chandler Roberts, in a a Soc'ety of Arts lecture, has stated that the gold colnage of Great Britain is estimated to consist of not less than 790 tons of an alloy of gold and copper. To be free from the rage of perpets ually buying something new is a certaln revenue. Mens, BOW...cvvesees 1B 80 BWORAT, vines wh BERaR i% rennnn Baan Gig LER ARERR AER aR ERR ie Bil oe serimetqn sass apo at and Pa sap... EE sasnssaririsseenins @ BO pasecesntvarennnrene § 55 Wire i 5 rad sevseraneiare scones 3 58 li Sasal lll 5 EOP aN 18133 Boi M0h.uiinn conenies 188 whns wonsennes ine BT » No SERA Sagat. ERRARER A EERE ARR aa » i WR rien nes — $ »" 0 eure sonran stave BMISOL, ..ovonnnnr sane BlNg Lge 18... overs 88 —-— SEE saseanerenns BE w I I Hi an ba =i FERRER RARER A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY. Is It a Wonder? “Dear teacher, will what the inhabitants of called?” “They boy.” “And are the people of Mexico called Mexicones?”’ “No, my boy: the) are called Mexi- you tell me America are are calle Americans, my And the people of Greece are | called Greecycans?”’ “No; they are called Greeks.”’ “Then, are the people of BSpain called Speaks?’ “No, dear boy; Spaniards.’ ‘Indeed; and are the people of Por- tugal Portugards?’’ **No, my boy; they are called Portu- guese,’’ ‘*And the people of fiermany are Germungeese?’’ **No; they are Germans.” “Ob! and are the people of way Normans?” “No; they are Norwegians,” “And the people of Sweden, are they Skowhegans?"’ “No, dear boy; they are Bwedes.”’ **And are the people of Sardinia Sar- dines?” | **No; they are dardinians.”’ “And in Japan are they Japanians?” “They are Japanese.’ “And in Morocco, are they Morocco- | ese?’ “Oh, no, They are Moore.” “And are the people of Patagonia | Pats?’ i *“No;they are FPatagonians.”’ | “And in Hindoostan are they iin | doostanians?”’ “No; they are Hindoos,”' “And in Holland, are they IHolloos?’ “They are Dutch.” “In Belgium are they Belch?” “No; Belgians,” “And in Poland thoy are Polians?”’ “They are Poles.” “And in Russia, are “No; Russians.’ “And in Wales, they are Wallians?"’ “They are Welsh.” { “In Scotland, are they bdeuleh?” “Seoteh,’ { *And in Ireland Itech?” { *No; Irish.” { “And in France, they are—Fish?” “No; French.” “And in Eogland, loach?’ “No; English.” “Aud are people called Switch?” “They are Swiss,” “And the people of Sicily are Siss, — {or Sissys?"’ | “Sicilians.” | “And in Turkey areibey Turkeyans, {or Turkey?” | “Neither; they are Turks.” | “Apd in Italy, they are Its?" | “No; Italians.” | “And the people of Denmark, dear | teacher—** “The people of Denmark may go to Copenhagen. I think we have had all the geography we need for one day.” they call them Nor- they Rushes?" in Switzerland MADE A MISTAKE. A Man May Be a Countryman and Yet Know How To Spar, He had & mouth like a carpet bag. His hair looked as if it had beer cut by {across eyed barber aMicted with the | shaking palsy; and, moreover, be ap- peared to be a redolent hayseed. All day long be had hung about the place, | occasionally *‘asking the boys,” and | between times “dong the lone act.” | Along the middle of the afternoon {two young men meandered in, like | Judge Finn and Colonel Blood, looking | for whisky and trouble. While they | were being served (be gentleman with {the rural air steppea up and asked for | the same.’ | “You're not drinking with | remarked the younger man who { “called on.” ‘ Oh, yes, 1 will,” replied the other, | meaning, as he afterwards explained, | that he would drink at the same time, | The young man gave him a light | openback hand tap on the cheek, calied {him “Old Hayseed” and warned him | to keep away. { “Don't do that again, “1 don’t ty us, had young man.” said the other. like 10 be cuffed!” | “You don’t. eh?” apd then followed {a harder one on the other cheek, and | the young man, who up to that Lime {had quite a fancy for himself as an amateur sparrer, ‘put up his hands” in the most approved style. The next instant that wmasguided youth resembled nothing so much as a Maux penny with the St. Vitus dar ce. In sixty seconds he was humped up in ous corner. “Want any more!” queried “Old Hayseed.”' The victim spit oul a mouthful of blood teeth and bad language. and was understood to reply that he had enough, bat that be would like to know who it was that “did lum up.” Never you wind who I am. I've fought ia public five times with small gloves and once with kids, and I won five times and I got a draw ihe olher, Good morning!” Evil Effects of Tobacon. Says the New York Medical Journal: “In an e mental observation of thirty-eight boys of all classes society and of average health who had
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