.X'-VS V 12 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY, JULY . 19, 1892. DARING DALTOH BOYS. Leaders of the Gang That Bobbed an Express Car Kecently. AS FEARLESS AS THE JAMES BOYS. Their Stronghold in the Indian Territory Brofcen Tp. OFFICERS BUS TOE EOEBEES TO EARTH St. Louis, July 18. Train robbery and highway bandits have been themes of gen eral discussion in St. Louis for the past day or two. The bold hold-up of a Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train in the In dian Territory Thursday night has occa sioned renewal of a subject which a lew years ago would not have attracted much attention in the West on account of the fre quency of the occurrence, but since the breaking up of the James, the Younger and other desperate gangs that infested Missouri and Kansas, Western people have felt com paratively secure from depredations of this character. Three or four years ago Texas was the favorite arena for the exploits of the freebooters, but the constabulary of that State became so vigilant and merciless in the pursuit and punishment of the scoun drels that they have all apparently been killed or driven out of Texas, as no train robbery has occurred there recently. The Indian Territory seems to be now the only rendezvous left tor the gentlemen of the mask and Winchester, and when the condi tions there are considered it is no little wonder that outlawry of this nature is not even more rampant than it really is. The Daltons, who robbed the Pacific Express car of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas at Adair Thursday night, are by all odds the boldest and most audacious bandits who have ever plied their calling in the Terri tory. There arc four of the Dalton brothers -who are known to have committed train robberies in the past. , Onlv Two In thn Last Ilold-Up. Only two of them Ed and Charley were in Thursday night's hold-up. The other two boys a jear a?o were captured in Cali fornia after desnerate resistance and con victed of robbing a Wells-Eargo express car on the Southern Pacific Bailroad at Toulare. near Los Anceles. They were sentenced to life in the California peni tentiary, and are now serving their terms. All four of the boys were in the California robbery, but Ed and Charley eluded capture and made their way back to the Indian Territory. They had been driven out of the Territory only after a bloody war between themselves and their sympathizers on the one band and the officers and cattlemen on the other. This war was inaugurated .three years ago, and cost the life of many a good citizen and Deputv United States Marshal. Ic will be remembered that the posses in pursuit of the bandits were led by Deputy Marshal "Hec" Thomas, one of the most fntrenid officers who has ever bad to deal with the lawless elements of the Southwest. Various times he was reported killed, but fie always managed to show up smiling .bout the time his friends had ordered crape. He pursued the Daltons farther into their rendezvous than had anybody be fore or since. He succeeded in penetrating far into the bushwhacker country, richt among the friends of the Daltons, and came out unscathed, though empty handed. Prior to this time the Daltons were not known to have committed any train robberies. They had confined their rascality to stealing cat tle and driving them through the "public lands" into New Mexico and selling them, along the route. A ISnslnrss That Was Attractive. Then when they got readv to return to the Territory they would steal a bunch of cattle in New Mexico and bring them home to tell, always returning by a different route. It did no good to indict them. Their friends dominated the local courts, tuid even if they were brought to trial they got off scot free. Honest cattlemen of the Terri tory finally grew so exasperated at their thievery that thev organized to rid the country of the Daltons, and waced bitter war upon them. It was then that the cattle thieves perforce quit their old practices and turned their attention to train robbery. It is ever so much easier anyhow to rob a train than to steal a few head of cattle. So they found their new business incomparably safer and more remunerative. Situated as the Daltons were, the busi ness was especially attractive to them. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Santa le Railroads ran right through the country over uhich thev hadj-anged ever since emi grating from Arkansas when only mere strippiings of boys. They knew every In dian trail and deerpath in'it. Not a man or woman unfriendly to them had been al lowed to live in the section they claimed for their own, and so every circumstance was most propitious to them in their new calling. They lived for the most part on a bald prairie east of the "Katy" road in an uninhabited country between Pryor Creek and Chouteau, stations on the railroad. Adair, the scene of their latest depreda tion, is only 20 or 30 miles to the north of them, and Leliaetta, where they held up a train last September and secured $1,600 in booty from the Pacific Express Company, is but a few miles south of them. A little southwest of these two stations begins what is known as the Coweta district. It is heav ily timbered and abounds in deep ravines and serpentine paths. 'file Scene of. Their Last Exploit. They know every foot of it better than the oldest inhabitant knows St Louis, but if a stranger enters it withont a guide he is liable to get lost after a few hours' travel, and never get out again. Through the Coweta district they dash into the Fox and faac country, and then leisurely make their way down to the Canadian Biver and cross to the Seminole reservation, until thev feel like venturing back to their prairie Lome. Since their hold-ups at both lied Bock, on the Santa Fe, and Leliaetta, on the "Katy," they have been bold enough to ride into AVagoner with their wagons and teams and buy supplies for their ranch. Hundreds of people at Wagoner knew perfectly well who they were, but none of them dared "peach" on the boys, for if they did they well knew their lives would pay the pen alty sooner or later. It is considered entirely useless and act ually foolhardy for any posse of men to go after the Daltons now. They are perhaps bv this time many miles in the Coweta dis trict, and are so safely ensconced that they could shoot the officers from ambush as fast as they entered. Then, too, the country around them is full of spies who will keep them posted as to the movements of their pursuers. A man who has nearly all hit life lived in the section of the Indian Terri tory described, and who is well acquainted with the Daltons and all their kith and kin, was at the headquarters of a prominent de tective agency here yesterday. "Don't, for God's sake, use my name," he begged of a reporter, to whom he was giv ing the information outlined above, "for if you do my life will not be worth shucks when I return to the Territory, as I am bound to do on account of my business in terests. I am confident, however, that no posse of men will very soon get close enough to the Daltons to get a shot at them, and it is therefore foolish for a body of officers to go in pursuit A Bad Ganc In Texas, "In iact.no marshal or other officer who is known in that country ought to attempt to follow them, for their every movement will ic snaaowea ana reported to the bandits. It will require the very shrewest detective skill to catch up with them, and then the Daltons will never be taken alive. They are much more desperate than the James bovs, and Charley especially is perhaps the quickest man on the trigger who ever car ried a pistol. Ed, though the older of the two, is not near so nervy as his brother, and Charley has really been the leader of the can" since its organization. Somehow or other he has picked up a smattering of edu- WAfclUU WUltiU UUBQ Ul IUB OtHCr QOJi pQI' Bess, and when occasion requires it he can be as genteel and mtld-a-mannered man as e'er cut a throat or scuttled a ship. To his other crimes of murder and theft is added polygamy. There is no telling how many times he has been married, and his wives are all intelligent, good-looking women." The same man told an interesting story of a gang of Texas train robbers. They were led by the notorious Brack Connett at first, and when be "bit the dust" under the famous Alfred Allee's pistol, the leader ship fell upon Bill Whitley. The last crime of this gane was very similar to that of the Daltons Thursday night, except the former were foiled in their attempt by a posse of officers on the train. The Whitley ganghaditsrendezvons in Wilson and Atas cosa counties, Tex., about 100 miles south of San Antonio. Allee, who has perhaps killed more men than any other man alive, with the possible exception of Bat Masterson, of Creede, Col., owns a ranch in that coun try, and knew every one of the gang. In the winter and spring of 1887-88 they had held up trains promiscuously over Texas. Thieves Quarrel Among Themselves. Finally they got in a row among them selves over the division of spoils, and one of their number named Harrall gave the whole gang away to United States Marshal John T. Bankin at San Antonio. Harrall told Bankin of a plot to rob a through ex press of the Southern Pacific Bailroad, near the little station of Harwood, 120 miles east of San Antonio. The Marshal had Harrall remain with the robbers and report to him daily in cipher the progress of the plot and of their movements. This Harrall did faithfully. When tho situation grew threatening Marshal Bankin, with a heavily armed posse. Alfred Allee amontr the num ber, left San Antonio one night in Feb ruary, 1SS8, in the express car which the robbers intended to loot When the train reached Harwood, Bill Whitley and another of the gang, heavily masked, boarded the engine and, with cocked revolvers at the heads of the engi neer and fireman, made them run the train out from ifarwood a couple of miles and there stop in a deep, dark cut The rest of the gang, to the number of 15, were am bushed at the point where the train was halted. Then the fireman, in obedience to a command from Whitley, cut the mail car off from the train, and this was run on down the road a mile and a half further. The robbers had mistaken the mail car for the express car in the black darkness, and they left behind not onlv all the boodle, but also the heavily armed Marshal's posse, who were .sitting in the express car, waiting for an opportune moment to spring out on the bandits and annihilate them. The Jierrc of a Xaw Student. The onlv cccunants of the mail ear were the postal clerk and a thin,dudish-looking youth, just from law school. His name is Duval West, and his father had been Chief Justice of Texas. Young West, with the the true Texan spirit for adventure, had joined the posse for the experience. His nerve was unquestioned, or he wouldn't have been permitted to accompany Marshal Bankin and his intrepid deputies, though his delicate features and pale complexion were against him. The doors on one side of the mail car were left open. When the engine was brought to a stop the robbers made the engineer climb up the side of the car to light it A big torch was flaring in his hands. No sooner had the engineer poked his head in the door than West, the dudish-looking young law Btu dent, blazed away at him with both barrels of a shotgun loa'ded with slues. The lead plowed through the engineer's right cheek and tore all the flesh off as closely as if it had been scraped with a knife. The engineer fell back wounded, and then me roooers saw they would have to maker a fieht They turned their Winchesters and pistols loose, and filled the side of the car lull of bullets. The Ganc Run to Earth. West had four or five double-barreled shotguns, and he kept up such a hot fire from the inside of the car that the robbers. 17 in number, thinking a whole company of soldiers with a battery of artillerv was after them, took to tbelr heels and "fled. The one lone,delicate law student had vanquished the worst gang of train robbers that had ever infested Texas, while the Marshal's posse were resting on their arms in the ex press car, momentarily expecting an attack. In a few hours after the fight was over the posse with bloodhounds were on the trail of the bandits. The robbers scattered, but Bankin kept hot on the trail of Bill Whitely. In a day or two he overtook him in Harrall's house, in Wilson county. The Marshal and three deputies surprised the bandit and ordered him to throw up his hands. Instead of doing this he reached for his brace of pistols, and was literally rid dled with bullets. Others of the gang were run to earth one at a time, arrested and sent to the penitentiary. The last to be cap tured was Bud Powell. Two weeks ago he was arrested near Helena, Mont, where he had been living lor three years under an assumed name and as a leader in the Pres byterian Church. He was carried back to San Antonio for trial, and now the religious elements of both Helena and Antonio are pleading for his liberation from custody, contending that he has been "converted" and now living a godly life. IN DARKEST RUSSIA. Some Very Curious Ceremonials Which Mark the End of Winter. ODD SURVIVING SUPERSTITIONS Among the Peasantry of the Rural Regions of the Conntrj, WELCOMING ailB GODDESS OF SPRING F1KE, SMOKE, WATER Another Monster Fire Sale Will Start Tues day Mornlnc at 8 O'clock A Destruc tive Fire Once More Gives Ton u Chance to Bar Clothlnc for Les Than One Third lu Value P. c. C. C.. Corner Grant and Diamond Streets. All day Monday and all Monday night our great troops of sales people have been busy as bees getting in shape all the goods that were only slightly damaged by smoke and waver and marking them at prices you never heard or before, and now we are ready with a peerless, matchless and most wonderful Are sale or line clothtns never before at tempted on such a gigantic scale In the United States. You don't know what bar pains are until you visit our great fire sale. Llko a mighty cyclone through our vast establishment prices have been swept away, and leaves slightly damaged men's fine clothlne to be carried away for nearer nothing than anything ever offered In the history of the clothing trade. Who wan ts to buy clothlnzt You don't need a big pocketbook. Come to this sale and we will open your eyes Stir ring scenes. The wildest excitement will prevail this morning when our doors are thrown onen to thetiublif TCnt. nnWh. In Pittsbure, but the whole western portion or Pennsylvania is bound to be at lever heat within 24 hours after this announcement reaches the eais of the people, lhls colossal fire sale Is without doubt full of the greatest values In medium and heavy-weight men's salts and overcoats ever offered by anyone on (he race or this glooe. Here you are. An absolute necessity. Articles that no man u u wnuom ouerea lor one-third less than cost of manufacture because they are only slightly damaged. They must surely be bargains. Head the list of prices and see what we offer at this wondeiful Are sale of slightly damaged clothing. Men's black fancy worsted suits at $3 33 worth $10 Men's cutaway worsted dress suits worth 118 or anyone's money you c in buy them at this great Are sale for $6 85. Men's black Prince Albert coats and vests.greatest value In America, K 95 worth $20. Men's cheviot suits, 20 different shades, 87 77 worth $23. Men's silk mixed casiimere frock suits $7 62 worth 12. English narrow wale dre .nito very dresBy garments, $8 78 worth $25. Men's plain dark suits and mixed worsted and cheviots at $4 worth $12. Black hockan nlns bound or plain. Imported mixtures at 7 25 worth $22. Men's English plaids. icunas and other imported fabrics $9 aj worth $27. Boys' suits at 78 cents, worth 13. Boys' striped and mixed cassimere suits sizes IMo M, at $1 and $1 47. Bovs5 long pants suits, sizes 13 to in plain dark colors. $2 27 wortn $7 Boys' all wool checked suits, nobby plalus and mixtures, at$l 42, worth $6 80. Men's overcoats at $1 45, worth $12 00. These gar ments are heavy winter coats, long-cnt with a silk velvot collar, and we have tbem in black, brown or blue. Overcoats, medium weight and ulsters In jrreat profusion. It will positively pay you to buy these goods now at this Are sale and lay them aside for future use. Itemembor, we could mention a thousand wouderful bargains, only slightly damaged, but we have given you a good idea of what you can get at our stores, commenc ing Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock, and con tinuing from day to day until we have sold every garment in the house. P. C. C. a, Clothiers, cor. Grant and Dia mond streets. "Death .Week," the '-Smartna Nedelya" of the Slavonic peoples, marks the end of winter in rural Russia, says a writer in the Chicago tfrttnme. It is kept during the last seven days of March, and is a survival pure and simple of early paganism. In its old Slavonie mythology, as in the minds of the mass of the untaught Russians nowadays, the idea of death and winter is closely asso ciated; and the ceremonies proper to the "Death "Week," lr6m the sacrifice to the "Vodyanoi," or water spirit, which it begins, to the driving out and drowning of death, with which it terminates, are based upon the superstition that was formerly universal in Northern Europe. That writers on Bussia and the Bussians have given no account of the "Death Week" celebration is due, no doubt, to the fact that it takes place at a time of the year when travelers are rarely tempted to visit Bussia, and is confined to rural districts out of the beaten track, which are unlikely to attract foreign ers. "When the ice begins to break on the water winter is considered over in Bussia; and the breaking of the ice is due, the Rus sian peasants hold, to the "Vodyanoi," or water spirit, who has his abode in the rivers and streams. He has slept over the winter, they say, and awakes hungry and angry with the first ray of the returning sun. He bursts the congealed covering of the water, Bends the ice floes drifting, drives the fish from their haunts, and causes the streams to overflow. In the last week in March, therefore, before the ice begins to break, the peasants in rural Bussia start the "Death Week" celebrations by prepar ing a sacrifice for the "Vodyanoi, so that he shall not be kept waiting when he awakes from his winter sleep. They meet in a village where the celebration is to take place, and subscribe a sum of money for the purchase of a young horse. The Horse Must Not Be a Girt. The animal must not be a gift, but bought for money; it must not be bargained for, and no one person mjst contribute more than another to the amount required. The horse is taken to a stable specially reserved for the gift to the "Vodyanoi," and fed for three days on brea 1 and oilcake. The fourth day, at midnight, the horse is taken from the stall and conducted to the nearest river or stream, the villagers following in a body. The mane is decorated with red ribbons, the head smeared with honey, the legs are tied together and a couple of mill stones secured to the neck. Then a hole is made in the ice and the horse thrown into the water, a living sacrifice to the "Vodyanoi. " Fisher folk in the Archangel district pour a quantity of fat into the water instead of throwing in a horse; and the millers of the Ukraine cast the horse's head into the river, and not the living animaL After appeas ing the Water Spirit, the House Spirit, the "Domovoi," calls for a sacrifice. He awakes on the night of March 25, and will only wait three days -for his offering. So on re turning from the riverside the villagers prepare a suitable cut lor him. xney take a fat, black pig, kill it, and cut it into as many pieces as there are residents in the place. Bach resident receives one piece, which he straightway buries under the doorstep at the entrance to his house. In some parts, it is said, the country folk bury a few eggs beneath the threshold of the dwelling to propitiate the "Domovoi." One of the Peculiar Ceremonies. On the following day the ceremony known as the "Lyalya" takes place. The "Lyalya" is not the Goddess of Spring, but a personifi cation of the season. The ceremony of the day is known as the "Lyalynik," and only young unmarried girls take'part in it. They all meet in a field outside the village, and Kole.f ftno tvhn id in no inn "T.waltri, ' Rha land, and is considered to bring misfortune with it besides. The dummy is carried back by those who find it within their boundaries, while the village folk who left it there gather to oppose its return. The fighting in such cases is prolonged, and is not infrequently attended with fatal results. The more peaceable villagers are content to leave the dummy in the water where it is thrown. On returning to the village sundry addi tions are made to the instruments with which the people are provided. The bells are taken from the necks of the cows, as well as the horns used for calling cattle to gether. One or two procure drums to beat. Then men, women and children begin to run round the village as fast as they can. making as much noise as possible. The object of this performance is to drive out the evil spirits Death is supposed to have left behind. The quicker the people go and the more noise they make, the more effectually is the place cleared of the imps supposed to follow in the train of Death, and the greater will be the blessings of the coming season. The villagers, therefore, rush along pell-mell, as for a wager, the men hooting, the women screaming at the top of their voices, the children joining in with a piping treble, horns blowing, drums beating and bells Tinging, the pots and cans making ad unearthly clatter. A Itaco From Start to Finish. On they go, dashing up one street and down another, past pillar and post, always quicker and quicker, while children stum ble and elderly people fall into the rear, until, exhausted and out of breath, the noisy multitude returns to the point whence the start was made. It is generally evening by the time Death has been drowned, and the place cleared of evil spirits. The villagers take a rest, and then prepare to camp out for the night; among the Southern Slavs no one ever dreams of going to sleep on the evening of the festival. It is an old Salvonic belief that on this night the gates of heaven are opened, and if anyone asks for a special gift at the actual moment of opening it will certainly be granted. At that particular in stant, too, all trees are said to bear golden fruits, and whosoever is lucky enough to grasp them just then may retain them for his own. The Bussian peasant, therefore, stays out in the field all night in order to watch for the opening of the sky. That he does not make much of the opportunitv is perhaps due to the fact that he often takes advantage of the camping-out festivities to get so drunk on vodlki that were the heavens really to rain gifts during the night he would be in no condition to profit by the bounties of the skies. As soon as the first signs of sunrise are observed in the east by the women who keep watch the villagers ure roused, and are speedily afoot In a body they proceed to the nearest hill facing east, where the earliest rays of the Bpring sun fall, there to welcome "Vesna," the goddess of returning summer. The two elders of the village take with them a clean white cloth and some bread and salt Arrived at the sum mit ofthe hill, the cloth is spread upon the ground and fastened down by pegs to pre vent it blowing away. The bread and salt are placed upon it, and the men call out loudly: "Mother Vesna! see here!" desiring the goddess to accept their welcome. And with this invocation the special ceremonies of the "Death Week" terminate. THE YEAR'S.DELUGES. One of the Most Disastrous Periods of Modern Times. THOUSANDS OP ACEES fiUINED, And let There Was a Deficiency in amount of Eainfall. the TOE LESSONS TAUGUT BY EXPERIENCE A MODERN ENOCH ABDEJT. Tears select one who is to be the "Lvalya." She is attired in a white robe, with a crown of green stuff on her head, and a staff, decorated with green leaves, in her hands. Barefooted the girls then perambulate the village, headed by the "Lyalya," stoppingat certain dwellings settled upon beforehand. At the first of the houses where a halt is made a cake prepared over night is handed the party. At the next they receive a basket containing as many eggs as there are girls in the procession, and one over. At the third house they get a measure of mixed grain. Preceded still by the "Lyalya," they leave the village, stopping, however, at the last bouse, where an egg is taken from the basketful and thrown' clear over the roof. The party now make the round of the fields belonging to the village, each one dipping her hand into the grain measure, and strewing a few of the seeds over the ground. This is supposed to insure fertility the coming yean"1 When all the fields have been traversed the procession returns to the spot whence a start was made; the cake and eggs are divided, and each girl returns to her home. The egg and cake must not be eaten, but are preserved as charms against all sorts of mis fortune. A Most Curious Superstition. The young women who have taken part in the procession can, if they are curious that way, ascertain on the night of the "Ly alya" whether they are likely to marry within the course of the next 12 months, and if so, in which month. They must procure an onion and take off 12 layers, and put them in a row between the piece of the"Ly alva" cake and egg. Bach layer of onion A Seaman Returns After Twenty and Marries Ills TV ire. Ottawa, July 18. A case involved in considerable romance has just come to light in Amherst, N. S., which threatens to out rival the story of Enoch Arden. In 1871, Rebecca Hicks, of Sackville, married Michael Cahill. For a few years their married lite was quiet and unevent ful, except in the birth of one child a boy until the husband, who followed the sea, decided to return to that occupation, and did so. The birth of another son occurred three months after his departure. On leaving home, Cahill made over to his wife half his pay, which she continued to receive for some time and then It stopped. Subsequently she heard that he had been drowned at sea, and for seven years after heard nothing to the contrary. At the end of that time she again entered the bonds of matrimony, this time with a George Betts, of Point de Bute. After being married three years he died, leaving his widow with two other children, a boy and a girl. Some time after her second marsjage a rumor spread about that her first husband was not dead, but was visiting Sackville. The report was not confirmed, and it being so indefinite and not bearing from him, she concluded that it was false. After the death of her second husband she moved to the States as a dressmaker, but subsequently returned to this country and finally settled down in Amherst, where she has since remained. For over ten years, until Tuesdav last, nothing, whatever, was again heard of Cahill, he having then been away from home for 20 years. On that day Cahill returned to Amherst, expecting to find his wife dead. He heard, however, of her whereabouts. and a reconciliation was soon effeoted, he having accumulated considerable wealth during his absence. He consented to start his married life over again, with the addi tion of Betts' two children to his house hold. ITFHTJS OB A STEAMSHIP. Bronrs will banish roaches, bedbugs, etc., from your house forever. 25 cents. Ira Witt's Little Kariv m.. I Jor Diuousnesj, sick headache, malaria. represents a monio, ana ii one or mem be quite dry in the morning, it is a sign of marriage, and the order in which the piece stands shows the month in which the mar riage will take place. All is now ready for the ceremony of driving out death, from which the week derives its designation. Early in the morn ing the residents of the village.men, women and children, meet in the market place. Some bring packages of rags and old clothes, others bundles of straw, long sticks, and cross pieces. Out of these, three or four, expert hands accustomed to the work manu facture a dummy figure resembling an old woman. The face is painted and made as hideous as possible. This is the figure of Death Death, according to Slavonic myth ology, being a woman. The dummy is placed aloft upon a long pole, which is given to a sturdy peasant who is dressed out in what is left of the rags and tatters used In the construction of the figure. The men then arm themselves with whips and whistles, the women and children bring pots ana pans ana iron Kettles any uten sils, in fact, they can bang upon and make a clatter with and the procession starts, the peasant carrying the image of Death in front The Dummy Thrown Into the Blver. Off he starts at a smart run, the villagers after him, craoking their whips, blowing their whistles, banging on the pots and pans. On the party go shouting and hoot ing, driving Death in front, to the nearest river or stream. Here a halt is made, a circle is formed by the roadside, and the dummy is thrown headlong into the water. The party then return in. orderly proces sion, calling out as they march along, "We have driven out Death and bring in the New Year." In many parts of Bussia the villagers content themselves with giving the figure of Death a good duoking and then throwing it upon the nearest piece of vacant ground. In suoh cases, too, if the villagers happen to have a grievance against any neighboring hamlet they carry the fig. ure to the boundaries of the latter and leave it upon their neighbors' land. This is cer tain to lead to series of free fichu h- Best pill I tween the two villages. It is an insult to i mrow toe oguro ox isesia on ewer people s New York Health Officials Quarantine a Boat's Big Load of Passengers. New Yoke, July 18. The Quarantine authorities of this port and the City Health Board were treated to another typhus scare yesterday. Three cases were developed within a few hours, notwithstanding the energetic efforts of the authorities to check the spread of the disease, and it cannot be conjsctured just how far the malady may spread. The Onion line steam ship Nevada came in from Liverpool on Thursday with 304 immigrant passengers on Doara. ut tnese, ax were sicKly looking, poorly dressed and almost penniless Bussian Hebrews, who, alter journeying hundreds of miles over Bussia and into Germany, finally arrived halt dead from hunger and disease in Liverpool, where they boarded the Nevada. On the trip to this city these people were given the freedom of that part of the ship alloted to immigrants, and tor the seven or eight days that it took the steamer to cross the sea they came in contact daily with the rest of the passengers. The ship was detained at Quarantine until yesterday. Meanwhile the baggage of the Hebrews was thoroughly disinfected. On Thursday night the steamer was allowed to proceed to her pier. Yes terday all the immigrant passengers, excepting the Hebrews, were landed at Ellis Island, where they registered and were allowed to proceed to their destinations. iiie ueDrews were Kept aboard ship and their baggage treated to a disinfection by steam yesterday morning. At 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon two more cases were discovered, and these were put into carriages and hurried to the foot of Six teenth street. East river, where they were sent to North Brothers Island. The year of 1892 will go down to history as one of the most disastrous flood years of modern times. Since the beginning of April there has been a succession of overflows throughout the entire nation, and not only the United States have suffered from high water tide, but floods have extended throughout the entire world. Hungary, Switzerland, Africa and the extreme por tions of China have suffered from heavy rains, and overflows have destroyed not only property but many hundreds of lives. This country has been extremely fortu nate so far in escaping such disastrous ef fects from high water as the loss of life. During tie months of April and May a few were drowned in the Tombigbee and Mis sissippi bottoms, it is true, but the number -was quite small. It will be remembered that the first seri ous flood that occurred this year in the United States was that in the Tombigbae,in Alabama and Mississippi, early in the month of April, where there was a loss of over $4,000,000 in property. There was a water spout near the town of Aberdeen, Miss., which burst upon the people during the hours of midnight, overflowed the lands, washed away their houses and made a sac rifice of several lives. This hydropathic ex perience lasted for two weeks, when the water began to recede and the plowman was enabled to resume his occupation in the field. Millions of Acres Devastated. That was the first flood of the vear. Alone about the middle of April the water in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and all of their tributaries began to rise. The rain center danced around from the Tennessee Valley to the Ohio, thence to the Illinois and Missouri Valleys and finally to the basins of the Bed and Arkansas, thus completing almost a circle and spreading all streams at the same time. From St Paul to New Orleans all of the valleys of the Mississippi's tributaries were inundated by the heavy rains during the month of May. Especially were the people north of the Ohio river Unprepared for such an over flow. Never in the history of this country did the rains fall so heavy and last so long as during that month, which will be mem orable in the hearts and minds of thousands of citizens living north of the 34th lati tudinal line. The effect upon the commerce of the country, strange to say, has been small. Millions of acres of wheat have been de stroyed, and the cotton lands in the Arkansas and Mississippi bottoms have been submerged and of course almost ruined. Prom the mouth of the Missouri river to where the Mississippi enters the Gulf there are over 200 streams that at one time were out of their banks. And so sud denly did they rise and so ferocious were their visits that valleys then blooming with fruits and flowers and homes that wore the smiles of peace and contentment were at tacked and the inhabitants subjected to great loss and many privations. The May flood passed away, homes and plantations that had been struck by the terrific ava lanche of waters and were partially re paired and the voices of field men once again mingled with the songs of larks in tne morning. The Rainfall Was Deficient. In round numbers, the losses occasioned by the floods, from Kansas City to the Gulf during the year of 1892, will reach over the $100,000,000 line. But the matter of money is of small consequence compared to the misery, want, sickness, despair and desola tion caused by the flood. A somewhat singular fact in connection with the floods of the year 1892 is that they have occurred in spite of a deficiency in the rainfall Where the rainfall has been below the average there is where the heaviest and most serious floods have occurred. There was a long drought last winter, but it was followed by a phenomenal fall of rain suffi cient to cause numerous freshets. This thoroughly confirms the theory of the meteorologists that the climate has become demoralized by the destruction of forests, and while the rains are no heavier than heretofore they come more suddenly and more violently. Experience in the matter of floods this year is a valuable object lesson against the rapid and criminal clear ing up of the country. .The people have been frequently warned that if they kept on as they have done they may look for just such weather rain, storms and floods as they have had this year. The levee system. in its present condition. seems to be a failure. There is a disposi tion among many engineers and river men to try the Cowden outlet theory. Mr. Cow den, a Louisianian by birth, an engineer by profession and a man who lived in the Mis sissippi bottoms during his whole lifetime, is now in "Washington attempting to have Congress adopt his scheme, by which the excess waters may be carried into the lakes of Arkansas and Louisiana by means of canals. Ml waukee's LlfTrarlan Wot Free let. Milwaukee, Wis., July 18. Mayor Somers has directed the District Attorney to rearrest K. A. 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