The Victims, Who Were Mostly Of The Poorer Classes, Swept Away From Their Huts — A Rush To Higher Ground —— Recently In- stalled Industrial And Electrical Plants Seriously Damaged — The Railroads Tied Seenes In The Flooded Sectione— Torrential Bains Finally The Dead Unburied. Up——Distressing Coensem— PREVIOUS FLOOD DISASTERS Galveston Texas, September 8, 1900 6,000 killed logs, $30,000,000 Pensacola and other Coast, September 1906. More than Milliong of dollars’ property lost and more vessels wrecked Along the Florida tober 20, 1906 millions of dollars’ erty lost, Mexico, October killed; property loss heavy. Cincinnati and vicinity ary, 1207. No fatalities; ty loss, $500,000, due flow of Ohio River Eastern Ohio and ginia, July 18, 1607 Dallas, Texas, May 24 and 25, killed. Property caused by overofiw River Property Mobile, along the Gulf 279 and 28, 100 killed worth of than 50 Ala. Fla., nlace = Keys, Oc 1.600 killed; worth of prop- 1908, 13a Janu- proper- to over- West Vir Nine killed and vicinity. 1908 Four loss heavy of the Tr 3 Laredo, Tex. { Special) With partial re-establishment of communi- cation with the flooded Northern Mexico, previous reports as te loss of life property were confirmed vices state that 400 recovered Direct terey was re-established by the sociated Press at 10.30 Sunday operator at that point states that the number of dead w reach 1,200 The Monterey to suspend publication owing to high water, gection of and damage Semi-official! ad- dead bodies were in Monterey Sunday with communication Mon- t will for two days MRD LAURELS FOR UNCLE SH Rheimes Contests. In Off The Honors America’s Only The Competition I4on's Share Of An Accident To The American's Competitor Speed perior To Dirigibles, lepresentative Carried fhe Bieriot Most > —— Removed Dangerous In he Fhree-Lap Contost—Helicopters Sua- Rheims pigton of Paulh plane, like a great above the plain, so ed to rise above moen just rising hls, and the as the Curtiss machine bed, smashing anothe: cord in the Prix de la the closing glories of aviation we The victory of Glenn H. Curtis sole American representative in contests, coming the great victory in the international cu givea the United on's share of the honors The Prix de la Vitesse, francs ($4,000), divided into prieges, was distributed 10 the machines making three rounds ths course 30 kilometers, at greatest speed, the first prize wom by Curtiss quite handily, withstanding his penalization surtiss only missed winning iap speed contest from Bleriot by a small margin. He captured second place in that even, which was over the fall circle 10 kilometers, or 6.21 miles, raising his total money winnings for the meeting to 38,000 featics, besides the international Cup. which goes to the Aero America, inscribed with his name $ 1 § fieet} bhaesle Af 3 x on Nees of nis ’ States the | of the m of soting Sh A 20.000 four four of the being nots the of FEWER IDLE CARS. Further Decrease Of 47.549 In Number Of Sarplus, Chicago (Special).—The Raflway Association, in its fortnight- ly report on car surpluses and short- Ages, says that there has been a further decrease of 47.749 in the number of surplus cars, bringing the total down to 159,424, which is 43,959 fewer than for the correspond- ing poriod of 1908 Box cars decreased 21.141 and coal and gondolas 19,328. There was sgo a decrease of 8,248 in miscel. lanpeous cars, due principally to a The ment. There 8 an Increase in gust 4 to 2,008 on August 18 Kills Woman And Self, South Norwalk, Conn. (Special) .- James Cavanagh, a polisher, living in Spring Hill, a suburb of Norwalk, fired two shots nt hig daughter-in-law, Mrs, James Cavanagh, Jr., after a stantly, fired two shots, being carried into the hospital. The murdered woman was about 30 years old, and Cavanagh was 75. The Catarina rapid course } and to add to the horror of the siti- uation rain commenced to fall, and caused untold suffering to the thou- sands: of homeless peons who had congregated on the various plazas The destructive flood, due te continued fall of rain for the past 06 hours, Swept eve ryvthing before it and hardh left of wha was a few days ago a couglomera- on swarming with Jamilie the poe classes dead. whi cannot be Jdayvs-——perhap placed at from 400 viet Were 8 Santa on their the night, flood waters of the River continued throughout the VOSLIRe is Of acceuratels stimated val 1,000 The poorer ¢'a weeks 18 Osh 10 the ims from The flood reached its tween 1 and } o'clock morning, Many families to death, with hardly a Witt the i 4 lives waters pandemoniun hg Were chanct onrush of the reigned, from ely and as their VICLIINE were swept on Lhe tops of wh ing that the wate unprecedented heig for as those on higher would react ht, pitiful appeals sisiance could bi heard ound but Kind WHE Impo gible Sunday every Bot! plazas Were thro yet ughon throng congregated in which ig on high ground, to sh th ood as it ward. Alre this vicinity swept on- dies have 1308ible to state exact num? A authority says the police lies had been today Ke ady heen semireliable the records re- of show tha 0 bod red up to noon ores ire helleved to be still along the hefore in Various points and © recovin HENRY FARMAN WINS he weoks All Aeroplane Records For Time and Distance Broken Day Of Great Excitement On The Aviation Field At Rheims—Rec- ords Made By Latham and Paul ham During The Days Are Badly Previous Smashed 1 Field, Rbeims Far the Eng- hitherto unknown aviation contests, in design, records for in a heavier than won the $ i 06.000 la Champagne ~by & remarkable i officially recorded at 1 kilo- meireg (111.78 miles) in 3 hours 4 iminuteg 58 2-5 seconds. He actually covered an extra ten kilometres and remained in the air ten minutes alter 10 o'clock P. M., hour at which the timekeepers under the rules, ceased keep a record of the Righ: The other contestants finished the order named Hubert Latham, in monoplane, No. 28 154 kilometres metres, time 2 hourg 18 minutes seconds; Louis Paulhan, in a biplane, 131 fiometres; de Lambert! biplane 116 kilometres; Hubert Latham, in monoplane, No. 13, 111 kilometres M. Tissandier, biplane, 111 kilo- metres: Roger Sommer, biplane, 60 kilometres: M Delagrange, mono- piane, 50 kilometres; M Bleriot monoplane, 40 kilometres: Glenn H Curtiss, biplane, 30 kilometres. M Lefebyre biplane, 21 kilometres Although Hubert Latham, with different machine, took second and fifth positions, the aviation commit tee held that he was ineligible for two prizes and awarded the fifth to M. Tissandier and the sixth to M Sommer Although Farman's brilliant ord as an aeroplanist should warned the sharps that he Own duration of nd distance al machine srand Prix endurance £14 or by i Znt and de togt i the RO the io in 500 $ 3-5 Voisin Count ree have Wag a He had secretly a complete surprise preparing his machine today except for a few about to ten, Indeed, after he started 1.30 P. M., keeping close ground, while Latham and in the air, tention until he had flown 80 Babonic Plague In Hawaii, Honolulu (Special) Three cases death S80 far no Finds 46.Grain Pearl, Mount Vernon, HI (Special). George Ruttiedge found a pear! in yabash River weighing forty. The jewel {8 the largest ever BE HIS LIFE 10 SAVE OTHERS Wireless Man, Calling For Help, Sinks With Ship. HIS LAST MESSAGE UNFINISHED. Five Lost When The Alaska Steams ship Company's Steamer Ohio Hits The Rocks . And . Founders—128 Passengers Escape In The Boats—— Vessel Goes Down In Three utes—The Survivors Picked Up By Steamers, Five Lhe Wash lost in the Seattle, { Special) lives were sinking of steamen There Alaska Steamship y Off Point, Company Steep Alaska but being io CRInNe: 1 on board, Victims reer F ' ireless Opera- if Winnipeg y rise rigrmasier, down nstea A wireies ank thret bly means ti FOUR PEOPLE CRUSHED IN A NAD PANIC Factory Employes Pack the Stair- cases. Three Hundred Men, Women And Girls Fight To Escape From A Burning Building At Waverly, Ia. —=Leap From Upper Stories, Strik. ing The Prostrate Forms Of Fel. Jlow-Workmen, Waverly, 1a, (Special) In a panic Factory to escape from the floor of the canning tank aver had the killed, fatally Were se gasoline thrown fire George McRobert Persons were ed and a score of ly hurt The building was dest! by the fire that followed explo sion, causing $100,000 damage While the canners were gaged in preserving sweet the second floor of the factor line tank used for the cans burst with frightful hurling flaming the large Most of women ung men Xeite by the show cries of fea and window the ground falling on each othe tairways only to be- where a Foo, three niur vere. and WAS probably oliner this a BAR8O- tion, clots of GV es room the 3 employes ar and girls All were flames, and ran for the stairs Many leaped to mell disorder tried with ' ¥ er of the 10 descend the bounds, row ways Those employ) #t floor went qui the entas fla eu fame I arried to safe hen al Qing er Davis iller 1 ¢ NH been that they will x had Fhe material Joss 600 cans of corn, not insu Favor sufirage For Women, Pittst 3 Adopting f whic fa ho ¥ roned | onven her with » nominatie ie following can Ir Frank Fish, of Clays State treasn: W.R didates ville, Harold B. Ro 4s f thi © 0 Storm Kills Three Chicago (Sp I't led by | injured and prog af of dollars the electrical ARO and env killed were wo nds BY TELEGRAPH The charges mad« % ORETressman Bennett, f OF of extrava in the purchase of paint SLL med Rance plies for t by denials MeEsRKe Taf Departme national Lana Vere beverages without Mex American-brewed liquors are practically in the market of Monterey, Henry Lane pointe dd 10 8 son as ambassado South American recognized the wireless the conduct of government The n popularity in Ambassador JC0ee countries a8 usein cigarette is growing rapidly India Thompson is said to have engineered a deal! by which the Pan-American Railroad of Mexico passes to the control of 8t. Louis mil. lionaires John R Carter telegraphed State Department that Great Britain will be represented at the Hudson Fulton celebration The Pi tonces of Pensacola of peonage The State Department formation of the capture mara, the Moroccan pretender, Taft took Lite ited the sen- convicted in to commit sident comm: ECVEral men CONEPITH« received in of Buba cognizance made against P. 8 of the Field Divigion Land Office Je la Barra. the hae made final for Europe on President the charges (lavis, chief of the General Senor Mexican Arrangements September 4, A. K. Fisher, of Agriculture, kill thousands of and mice, Acting Secretary of the Interior Pleree designated 50,450 acres more land as coming within the homesteay act in Montana. The Indians are displaying a will. ingness to work and to with their white brothers for improvement. The consular agents were ordered to make collection of laws of the Central South American Francisce ambassador to sail of the said the Department house cats local Instructions in first aid to injuved will be given by the tions ag the reault entrance of Montevideo harbor, Pr. I. F. Tittman will represent the United States at the meeting of the Geodetic Association at London. President Taft made it clear that consus work and politics are not to be mixed. Acting Secretary Norton sald the Western banks are overflowing with money. Between 150 and 200 Persons Are Drowned. All Of The Crew While The Majority Of The sengers Who Survived Are Passengers Were Asleep When The Crash Came And A Panic En- sucd-—High Seas Made The Work Of Rescue Bodies Difticalt-—iringing The Ashore Montevideo rainstorn women S1TYiY from geno Montey has caused the Uruguayan quencs has pos ranged for the anguration of fen, which is has been authorities butes deo an keenesl governmen tponed celebrat the only Y detained by the Her commander coliisionsto the wind seas which made unmanageable bodies have been recon now lying at the cus but many of them have been {dentified. The Colombia was an gleamer 1.200 tong engaged in the regular passenger service between this port Ayres port iia te slightly here port attri. and both the high steamers Scores ered and tom house not almost r 3 are old of OIL KING TO GIVE $100,000. Promises To Complete Fund For Academy In Rome. New York (Special) John D tockefeller has promised $100,000 the $1,000,000 fund now being rajsed the Arademy a: to for American Rome Hig contribution will mad« when other subscriptions have reach. he Chicago to meet of the University of $150,000 is needed name About contributors include J Morgan, James Stillman, Vanderbilt, Henry C. Frick Present Youtsey Sued For Divorce, Lexington, Ky. (Special), Mrs Mary Youtgey, wife of the only man plicity in the murder of Governor guit for divorce The papers were Mosquito Pest Of Deer, Duluth, Mion, (Special). duced such zg bumper crop of mos quitoes in sparsely settled localities frantic by the pests, Lightning Kills Two In Church, Lucca, laly (Special) --The vii lage church at Gello, a ncigiiboring was struck by lightning. The roof of the building colla , kil ing two of the worshipers within and injuring fifteen others, EDWARD H, HARRIMAN kis Trip Abroad, Remarkable Home Coming Of Builder Of Railroads——FEyen Wall Near — Enfeebled The Treatment Abroad, He His New Summer Home “After Cure"—His Will Shows In Every Draws By Goes The indomitable Act For York (8p Bonus and New Harriman en mast roads, came hg Tuesday Blo On its ancy Cam He 1 ast a back sick, punded tit od and ph: though 1 it Arden- gun after ic 3 f« thi GIRL A HUMAN PINCUSHION And Where From Docsn’t Know The Pins ome rson, N 'yekoff ale THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS Orders Newspapers Not To The Judge Print News, nEstown i a apecial grand investigation ju in convened, saying that no news printed about the investi- unless indictments hand should he gations turned The farmes; woeie re- grand and composed of Robbed, local The Paris De Sagans { Special) A sublishes Princes: $5,000 at heims, the Prince, was at lieved 4 10 001 not been arrested Princess de Sagan to withess the newsra- Hes pe tha rob hed stay statement to the effect Helie de Sagan was during her recent and her husband, the same time re. The robbers have The went to aeroplane flights ¥ of From Hoopskirt Te Airship Washington, D © { Special) From hoopskirt, wilh bastle attash- story of the inventive genius Capt. J. F Chase, Union Army veteran, now here from hig home, in Veteran City, Fia has airship and it that the him. ment tes i 0 airship rong the of makes the foriy-seve patent on! to 15 Killed In Mine, City (Special) iron Mexico Mateahanla says that oned by the droppieg ¢f a cage L.a Paz mine there. The cable parted through failure of the brakes and the men dropped 1,500 feet. The cage was sent to the rafters of the and the strain snapped the cable, IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE The Daltimore and Ohio's gross earnings last month increased $301.. 315 and net carniags increased §36,- 838 The street regarded the gain When asked if J. P. Morgan & Co. were still trying to have United States Steel listed in Paris 4 member of that firm replied: “We will not affirm the report. We do not care to state whether or no such an effort is being made.’ JAMES N. SUTTON'S BODY May Exhume Body to Clear Lieuten- ant's Name, DR. LA GARDE NOT INTERESTED. The Noted Authority On Gun Shot Wounds lefuses To Be Drawn The” Fight Waged By The Victim's Mother —— Report Says Cardinal Gibbons Has Sanctioned The Burial Of sutton’s In fonscoerated Into Fuody Ground shot ar ie iF rit inde Kil.ls ANOTHER s Tigre ee Owas n Kem Cigarette Costs West I ile Sorida Es n dead and tally burned. The oxplosion member of the ra‘lroad force eareless cigaretils int sairaction a lighted ¢ of r 36.000 Fres vis Wee roc that Carnegie had given 3530. 000 to the university f a new Sei ence building, Wesleyan having rals. ed an endowment fund $60. 000 Carncgie Gives Anoth Bloomington, 11. (Sp Kem) niversity, ient Theodore llevan 1 Andrew To Keep Out lllegal Goods Monigomery, Ala. (Epeciai) AT ¢ s Bll {Cc prevent in- by 10 a poritions of laws ) LippiRE in Zoods canusol be id Hy =0ld in Ala- mak on jens Une Stats bama pnd charicr tle Police Frightens Boy To Death Catskill (Special) Frightened at thooat policeman to “take * for plaving in » park foun Roberts Simm A Beven- boy, ren terior siricken fo home neathy and dropped dead ninther's feet of a hile along here at his Guaness Victim Alive, a, Wis (Special) who was supnoscd to have boon a victim of Mrs. Belle Gunnese. at La Porte, Ind. is alive and well on a farm near Freeport, Neb., according to a letler received nim Frank Wankes 1.000.000 Children To Celohrate. New York (Special) — Elaborate plans for the participation of the nearly 1,000,000 children of Greater New York in the Hudson Fulton cel: ehration through memorial exercises, parades and carnivals have been mapped out by the children’s lostival committee, which Ande ample evi dence that they are Jookiag forward with vager anticipation to their in it. tunday, October 2, has decignaled as the day for the ehily dren's parades and play carnivals.
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