~ STOR AND FLOOD GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN TEXAS. FOUR LIVES REPORTED LOST. Fort WonrTH, Texas, July 4, —Sev- eral inches of rain fell In this part of the State yesterday and great damage has resulted. Reports from the west show heavy rains for 200 miles. The Brazos and the Trinity rivers are booming, At Benbrook, 12 miles west, the bridge of the Texas and Pacific and 500 feet of the track are washed away. The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas for two miles out is submerged. The Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas and the Fort Worth and Denver have abandoned thelr tracks north, The Texas and Pacific has abandoned trains both east and west. At Fort Worth the bottom lands to the north for two miles and to the east for a mile and a half are submerged and truck farms are gone. The Trinity rose four and a half feet In one hour, and the dwellers on the lowlands barely escaped. Oity Marshall Farmer, Sheriff Richardson and their entire force for the time became a rescuing corps, and people to the city, where they are quar- tered in large warehouses, 200 me women and children cared for. H. Plume and sister are said to have been washed away, and Mrs. H. 8 Bentley and Patrick, her son, who lived on Trinity, are missing and sald to be drowned. Their house carried away. The river there 18 IW0 miles wide, and all the cabins and ts are gone. The OL Louis, Arkansas and Texas operator last night re peived a message that he west fork of the Trinity was coming down with an six inches more of water and the waler works will have to be d Wheat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly damaged. The loss can hardly be comj uted, but conservative estimates pl high as 32, There 18 son for the le villages along the Trinity, above Fort Wortl but is no telegraphic communication and noth- can garned, At this morning it still rain hus the eight foot rise. abandone Ce 10 AS 00,000. ¢ fear 11s there definile e ing on tw o'clock ing hieg KILLED. ww. W. Va. Jul st bound y Railroad was wrecked Ona this morning. been a very the slide. George W. st engineer on the roa A, whose name cannot be It No on tl neal severe rain DOWN TOWN. Pa., July 4 — rains tilled the streams flowing, and in consequence mu the rubbish in the creeks was disturbed and a great deal of IL was floated down tream. It is also thought that a num- of bodies were carried down several were found along banks at Cambria City. Eight were brought to Morgue It is thought that when waters fallan of other b Liat have been by the of to-day will be found. ORM IN NORTHERN Ohio, July §, ~ rm passed over section o yesterday afternoo g torrents, and | damage to Summit county, David pstantly killed while dris ntry road. At Shreve, :. Jolin Batram was killed a room in JOHRNSTOW cent the the \ wi umber os dislodged will O10. shit ni ghtni properiy. floor of ORE FLOODS. POUT” AT ALTOONA. “TANING POINT RESER- VOIR IN DANGER. ALTOONA, Pa. July 2.—A spout over this city about to-night doing great damage, waler- hioke o'clock WRECKED BY A WASHOUL A TRAINON THE NORFOLK AND WEST- ERN THROWN INTO A DITCH. OVER 25 PERSONS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN KILLED—NEARLY ONE HUNDEED INJURED. LYNCHBURG, Va., July 2.—A fear- ful accident, by which many lives were lost and a large number of people in- jured, occurred on the Norfolk and Western Railroad at 2.30 o'clock this morning, one mile above Flax- ton’s Switch and 31 miles above the city. lain had been falling almost continuously, and at times very heavily, for 24 hours, swelling the mountain streams greatly beyond their normal state. Several trains had passed over the road during the night, and it was thought that the line was safe for traffic, notwithstanding the rains, and that no danger need be apprehended, At the place of the accident, how=- ever, the water has undermined the roadbed and caused a washout about 80 feet long aud 50 feet wide. The water at this point was eight or ten feet deep. Into this watery gulch the engive the rate of 30 miles an hour, carrying As he engine struck bottom the rushing of the water in the locomotive ex- ploded the bolier. This fact augmented Lhe catastrophe. the train by the flying frag- scattering fire-brands, which woodwork of the coaches, those on ments and ignited the press wat. reading panic among the stricken passengers, Lhe ter, besides s;} terror supposed were ut from 1 th i in Lie i that some of able to extricale wreck and lames, but it is difficult information, as the Western oration passes them. selves sumed to gel employees of the Norfolk Railroad refu y 1 to the public. accurate Selo Thirty of the wound taken to Roanoke, I Buaifordsville and 50 to 14 t A special despatch celved about 11 o'clock if the wreck, by Lhe way says: Six dead 1 odles have ered. The bodies £ P. Do t Of nee 1 ¢ | gineer, and i have Leen Van, eh- Postal Clerk Mme, were Iie others are not superintendent Cassell, all hurt, is on the grout wuible for Com pan) of physicians recognized. LOW, Wy 2 11g hough Uauly wie giher pul pcumber of conflagration, Major J. C. i the Lynchin and was Baggagemaster Ford and Capi Johnston, who was FUE ald and 4 It was thought that Johnston was fatally wounded, bul rt says that the him and Daggagemasier what !mproved. lL. DB. of Abingdon badly bruised, bul, fortunately caped the fale of his rupmin Rose, @ Lraln, CONGILK CleIk, THE KILLED. The names of the killed, as far positively ascertained, are: Patrick Donovan, Lynchburg, Va, Charles Bruce, Roanoke, Va., fire- Lal. L. B. as Summers, Abingdon, Va., mall rents, overflowing the streets bursting the sewers, eports from South Fork state that the great viaduct is in danger, and no tidings from the West have come in since © o'clock. | storm continues middle division trains will be annulled till morning. Kittanning Point reservoir, city’s water supply, break, banks like n small Niagara. go the city will lose $100,000, Mra, H. Pennsylvania ticket agent, was struck by lightaing, and is not expected to recover. The Pennsylvania agent at Hollidaysburg, A. M. Hyle, wife and child, were found unconscious in their home from the effect of a stroke, The damage Ly the waterspout ls wide- spread, and cannot be estimated at this hour (midnight) —H. D. Oleson, who lived with his son-in-law on a farm near Clifton, Texas, was abusing his daughter on the evening of the 27th ult, when her husband ordered the quarrel stopped. Tue old man procured a shotgun and chased the family out of the house, and then set fire to the premises, He kept the neighbors out of the house with his gun until 1t was almost de- stroyed, when be leaped into the flames and was burned to death. The body of @& well-known man, about 23 years of age was found on the morning of the 20th ult, at Spring Gaiden, Maryland, and besides it was a half emptied box of rat poi- son. He had a sandy moustache and a full face and was clothed in a gray striped suit, His pocketbook con- tained a certificate stating that A. S. Biggs had been appointed a school teacher at West Liberty, Onlo county, West Virgina, A letter addressed to A. 8. Biggs, 1708 Mary street, Pittsburg, South Side. Pa.,” was also taken from his pocketbook. The Jetter was signed “[da,” and was from West Liberty, Wes, Virginia, The writer was evi- dently his sister, this A — A. agent, Nathan Coben, merchant, I Va. en route to Germany to visit his parents, W. { S. Francis, Marion, Va, mal }sanaks vORLIOAR, . Stead, Cleveland, route to England. J. W. Beal, Cleveland, route to Paris, A. M. James, Roanoke, Va., travel ing engineman of the road, YW. Linsay, Roanoke, Va., train despacther. John Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg, Va Dennis Melon, Roanoke, janitor of the general offices of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, who was en route to New York to be married. A. L. Little, of Staunton, Va. It is believed that 15 or 20 others Tenn., en Tenn., en unaccounted for. The dead THE INJURED. The injured are: Bishop Alpheus W. Wilson, of Balti. wrist cut and body slightly be able to leave for Bal- The Bishop lost his gold wateh, all his clothing and $300, M. F. Temple, Pottsvill and limbs burned. ¥. T. Dexter, Beverly, Masa, severe- ly bruised on the head and budy. J. b. Young, Radford, Va, arm mashed, Mra, e, Pa., head Judge Thompson, Staunton, over the death of her little neice, Roland Johnson, Roanoke, Ya. , con. ductor, frightfully cat on the head and face. E. ©. Dubarry, bruised severely. W. ©. Glass, Roanoke, bageage, arm broken. W. H. Hayward, Pullman conductor, shoulder hurt, J. D. Tanuer, Lynchburg, Va., ly bruised. Joseph Goldberg, and shoulder bruised Miss Inez Jackson, Texas, R. B. Goodfellow, Roanoke, and foot Injured, J. C. Cassei, Roanoke, Superintend- ent, arm hurt, fH. W. Marsin, Chattanooga, Tenn, cut and bruised. M. D. Temple, Chicago, jured. Mrs, BR. B. Young, badiy bruised. superintendent, bad New York, leg and hand hurt, bruised, band back in- Marshall, Texas, On the body of Mr. W, C, Stead, of in LB — wveinnd, Tenn., was found the sum of 814.000. He was on his summer vacation und was going to England. i — — NEWS OF THE WEEK. —John Bromwell, a bricklayer, was run over and killed on the afternoon of the 1st, by a locomotive In Baltimore, Mrs. Morris Rubens and her infant were found dead in bed, in Albany, on the morning of the 1st. The cause of death is unknown. The largest ferry steamer on the St. Lawrence river, the William Armstrong. of Ogdensburg, New York, sank on the afternoon of the 1st, while carrying three railroad cars loaded with coal from Morristown to Brockville, Ontario. As far as known no lives were lost, The boat was valued at about $20,000, Cruces, New Mexico, from the mining camp of Hermosa, reports that a cloud-burst flooded and washed away over half of that prosperous settle- ment. No lives were lost. Hermosa is 60 miles from a railroad, and no de- tails have been received. A very heavy rain storm visited Washington, D. C., on the 1st, duce houses on lailroad Station on Sixth again surrounded by water, which came up almost to the main floor out in a cut on the Pan Handle near Hanover, Ohlo. A gravel throwing 11 cars causing a wreck rock track, on it, and eal TRACK off the ! I'he steamer City of Rio de Janeiro has arrived at Francisco from Hong | and Yokohama. de- sd n storm occurred 29 and 50, i San ng A Houg 1 total 13 hours was 204 inches, ¥ at he » i8 not given o the loss W arty, but the loss to public Fifteen daced at $200,000 | y Schiels and Charles were drowned on the #3 MIS, On near Ch grounds, at Riverside, By the explosion of a boiler in works of the Asphalt TDawving » ie 1 V ilkesbarre, Pa. Cotn- Tat sty Lt} & on Lhe 18. he engineer ie YOY ie, fireman be bursiin red. -N cases of in Wilkest feared. xiy reported demic is ~The public debt statement issued on the 1st shows a reduction of $16,25: 29 during June. Total Treasury, $643,113,172 —'There is another fated Conemaugh valley, the heavy rains on the 24 and i bria City several dated on the 34, and communication Johnstown proper cut off. One the heaviest thunder storms Known at Hollidaysburg, Penna., for years, visited that place on the evening of U 2d, causing a greal flood. The Juni- ata river rose to nearly height of the flood May 31, and the Jower sireeis were covered with from 3 to water. Many people had t dwellings, Damage was also done at Duncanville, where main was destroyed, and at Williamsburg, where the temporary bridge was swep AWAY. Great damage Was Franklin, Venango county, Penna., on the 24, by a terrible storm of wil d and rain. Two “cloud bursts’ ening of the 2d sed of Church Run, which divides ville, Penna, and much property resulted. The mated at $15,000. Howard Nicholson, aged 16. was killed, and uz younger hrother, Har- old, was slightly injured by being struck by a train while driving across a railroad crossing in Altoona, on the evening of the 3d. Deceased was a son of H. L. Nicholson, Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agent at Altoona. A singular conincidence was that Mr. Nicholson had been receiving sympa- g th ii ue cash flood in the ili result In Cam were Of houses nun ith of + @ t the 2 o y Teel of oO leave thelr the street done at on the over flow Titus. damage to josses are esil- the State on account of a despatch pub- i i 1 i 3 | | in which his wife figured as having been struck by lightning, which was not true. A passenger tralo from Macon to Columbus, Georgia, Was thrown from the track and into diteh, on the 34, while rounding a curve, near Geneva. Bight passengers were in jured, including J. L. Block and N. C. Nickelston, of Pennsylvania. It is not thought that any of the injured will die, — During & heavy rain storm al Du- buque, Towa, on the afternoon of the 24, two boys named Corbett and Ben - net sought sheiter in a barn and were killed by lightning. David 8, Wise, a farmer, aged 50 years, was struck Ly lightning while nding on a hay rack, near Magador, Oblo, at noon, on the 34. The sun was shining at the time and the lightning came from a very small cloud. Two sons of Mr. Wise riding on the rack with him were knocked Insensibie, as was also a woman in a house near by. The horse was killed by the same bolt. Heavy rains during the past two days have partially inundated the City of Mexico. The heavy pumps, which it was thought would secure to the city at jeast partial drainage, are growing practically useless, —A terrible thunder storm passed over Northern Ohio on the afternoon of the 34. Two men were killed by lightning, David 8, Wise, in Summit county, and John Bartram, in Wayne county. A vestibule train on the Ches- apeake and Ohlo Railroad was wrecked by a slide, near Qua) West Virginia The slide was caused by a heavy rain. Two train hands were killed. A steam bleacher in the mill of the Lyons Paper Company; near Clinton, lows, exploded on the evening of the 23, wrecking half of the large brick building and killing Alexander Hart and Thomas McBride, workmen. A man named Callaban was badly scalded. —Two hundred persons were injured, about halt of them severely, and a child was killed by the fall of a grand stand during races at Oklahoma, Indian Ter. ritory, on the 4th, Nellie Burton, aged 18 years: May Royal, aged 16; Ida Cassidy, aged 22; Fannie McCourt, aged 18; and Bert Freeman, aged 20, were drowned by the upsetting of a barge near Allegheny City, Penna., on the afternoon of the 4th, Two unknown men were instantly killed at Baltimore on the evening of the 4th, by the Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Elwyn Latham, a young drug clerk of West Washington, | was drowned in the Potomac on 4th, by the upsetting of a boat, Al youth, named Andrew Gregory, Was | drowned while fishing at Staunton, | Virginia, on the 4th, SE ———— School Girls, Sehool girls are often enough like the | Japanese trio, made of laughter, and thinking life a joke that is just begun; but this 1% only one type The uncon beauty is another, and that is a v¢ ritable vision of d¢ Tight There are i where learned side by the pass 3T gin to spon t 1 hood I SCIOU8 ¢ chool gird schools ecoquiet giclee with grionmar, ¢ up pe wppy nit of eln stake The | where bubbling t yw: the other +t whatever she turned to, A geil te woman vidently discovered that it 1s chile to laugh with one's whole as to work, and the strong dor had the energy to act hie Art as v BErvous chara upon the discovery Fakenas a whole, a cluster of schoo Wl girls in the famous ‘School Revisited, under the trees of their own garden a most pathetic sight and a wonderful mystery. Their are all before them, and their romance tos, Soon they are to soatter out of their happy world to go through the SAY, As are ROTTOWS volumes surely we should never forget in think hese weak and thoughtless little ing of t women: first, that it is unfair to the girl mind is as different as a young willow and her worth to the world will not be measured by the smount of her learn. ing, which, because of few years and delicacy of frame, has its limits, bat that her worth will be measured by hor beauty of character, whieh isca mble of development to a breadth an depth and height beyond our mortal reckon- ing. a ———— «eB. C. Holly will have « couple of world-beates in the pacing events through the California circuits next fall in Yolo Maid, 2.14, and San Di 291. The former reduced the world’s three-year-old Jast year and Johnny Goldsmith says she is the fast. eat side-w that lives, Of the 343 swans on the Thames 178 elong to the Crown, 94 to the Vint. hers’ Company and to the ‘8 Company. a ie: Be Cheerful. A well-known philanthropist in New York, whose time was given to the help of the criminal and pauper classes, had upon his library table a Turkish figure of un laughing donkey. The beast was so convalsed with merriment that no one could look at it without a smile, “Why do you keep that absurd figure i there?’ a friend asked him. “It seems i to jeer at the gravest subject which we | discuss.” “Simply to remind me that the est subject grax- has its cheerful, langhable | “f find it a whole some warning in the midst of so much misery.’ Many an American reminded in he an swered, needs to be daily that life has its An hour's rest, talk with a friend purpose better than s jaughing donkey. We are a nervous, anxious people, and many of us have Puritan ancestors a be- lief that amusements and mirth are sin- ful ABS lately visiting her friend i New Ea vid, exclaimed one | day, is the best vear of my life! i Ne WAY book, a would serve the i i uthern won My hush yd ehildren are in good | health, val worry; | hristian men; | gant friends, soon it in black passementene, ordin- a sort Fis soles raid vest, then the en back surrounding thie from the bottom of the shoulders alle only inches of the center of the corsage 10 be A pretty dress of mohair was made in this way. The skirt was draped be hind. 1 COTSARO littie vest of mohair open upon a plastron of mohair with a belt of black velvet. The fronts of this little were covered with a fine embroidery of black braid. The back was princess shaped and the embrowdery of the fronts extends d to the back. The sleeves were very large, and embroidered with two bands of braid, one passed around the elbow and | the other around the arm between the wrist and elbow. Many outside gar- | in red Spahi trimmed with black | The “Carrick” | with several capes is a garment of great | elegance. It is made in cloth or faille. In front it 1s a jad browdery Arn tO the three winist WII abont ®OOT) very ie a vest numerous pelerines. The hats are charming. We like for little girls the fricome hat that is of colored straw, the edges are turned up on either side without lining, for the straw has no wrong side. In front the brim extends ns over the face, for trimming there js 2 gurland of flowers, srimroses, for getminots and corn. OWETS, Flowers were never so much worn as now, they take the place of all other ornaments, indeed no trimming oan compare with them in freshness and beauty. Black straw hats with straight brims and crowns, are they not lovely and coquettish, with their guriands of verdure and flowers? Beautiful ribbons also play a great part in the ornamenta- tion of ho wings and “Tosca” tulle are placed in large flies on the fronts, For this arrangement a large bow of the body of alarge fly and the loops well spread form the wings. The Mercutio is also a pretty shape, it is of fine tobaces colored straw, pointed in front and lined on the sides and in the back, for trimming it has short plumes and bows of en-agrette are placed tipon the front. BF iH -—— HORSE NOTES, —Noah Armstrong values Spokane at ~8ix Dixon has not been public since last fall. It is sald that Terra Cotta is not the horse he was last fall, —JIn Miss Alice, 2,274, Alcantara has another 2,30 performer. The b. g- Jessie has been parties in Virginia for $2007 Been in sold Lo —Spokane’s gross earnings for his three wins and one second this season —Jockey Britton was seriousi at Chicago recently, caused by Entry’ saddlegirth breaking. —Molly, by Mambrino Pilot, Joe Davis, 2.17}, died Jr. Near J. Ni black mare by Dar by Sir Walter kille i F rechold, N. Jas iarpe’s i her foal d by lightning at é «5 has left ti consent, but Mr. or the better since | Hiram Howe's, oulevard., He a short tin od appeti ~The ch. Young Jim, ;. Coster sale. Trimble's stable for season, however, his C. F. Coster. —The t fe. ge. brought ie will remain the balance oO new owner Hi {zaroet, g - re 3G50 ws San Francisco Chronicle is responsible for the statement that Mc- Dowell drove the 4-year-old pacing filly Gold Leaf a half mile over the Pleason- ton Farm trackin 1 m. finishing the first quarter in 293, Allen Maid and David L. are un- questionably the. miniature harness performers of the turf. The former has a pacing record of 2.164, while the latter finished his mile at Hartford in 2.184, Both of these little wonders an blacks, —.Harry Wilkes is moving very fast on the Sire Bros.” track at Morristown. His let-up for two years has done him a world of good, and if he ever meets elle Hamlin she may beat him one mile, but the second might possibly be in the Wilkes gelding’s favor. ~The pacer Lumber Boy, 4 race recently from Dilly F., 2.204, turns out to be a ringer. He is G, T. sot, an old-timer well-known in Western circuits, He made a record of who won ing record of 2.194. He was sired by McDonough, and was foaled in 1868, ~The running horse Hubbard died Mr. Richardson at Fresno, Cal. on June 12, of heart dis- ease. He was bred by Colonel MecDan- jel 1n 1860, and was a son of Planet and Minnie Mansfield, by imp. Glencoe. A. G, McCampbell has been offered $12,000 for his crack two-year old Gilly Flyaway, by George Kinvey out of Sunbeam, and has refused to sell her. She won the Clipsetta stake at Latonia and the Real Estate stake at St. Louis, Recently she was beaten at Chicago by Daisy F. It is stated on Sood authority that the North Hudson ving Park Asso- clation, of Guttenburg. intends to give a trotting meeting in September. The track by that time will be a mile cir- cuit, and will most surely be ready by September made two | is placed un the front of the De owe piece of the bow resembles
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