~ 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