150 TO 300 DEAD IN DAM DISASTER IS ESTIMATE The Fulton County News E AWAKENING OF OLD MOUNT ETNA McConnellsburg, Pa. ITALY OPENS WAR il AGAINST TURKEY 15 POISONED INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION. For some years the tendency of young men peeking higher education baa I'cen toward law and medicine. Schools of these professions have in creased In number and the fields of occupation have Income more over crowded, says the Omaha Bee. Cer tain new tendencies In Industry and the science of treating human Ills are at work which suggest the possibility of a change In the drllt of the educa tional current. Public and private en terprise are enlisted In a movement to work out new cures for old deseases nd Improve sanitation throughout the country. Vast progress h been, and more win bo, made. Along wltn this, though distinctly apart from It, goes the effort of the government and private capital to harness nature for the needs of Industry; to open up Irri gation and water-power plants for ag ricultural nnd Industrial purposes. The New York Times luvltes to the new fields of scientific service the attention of young men contemplating finished educations. They are, undoubtedly, proline of opportunities. What will the effect le In these two chnnnels? Will the current be diverted Irom law and medicine to that of technical or sani tary er plneerlng? Ilow rapidly the aeroplane Is becom ing practically useful Is thown by the plan of the English postofllce depart ment to Install Immediately an aerial post between London and Windsor and the report that the French postal efllclnls Intend to employ the hydro aeroplane for delivering mall from In coming steamships, says the Chicago Record-Herald. Not more than two years ago men of affairs and scientists saw little possibility of the heavier-than-alr machines becoming more than a means of tport. There seems not much to be gained In time In send ing letters by aeroplane between Lon don and Windsor, but the experiment will doubtless lead ro the establish ment of other lines If successful. The distance Is only 21 miles, and It Is expected that the trip will take about ball an hour. A railway express train could travel as quickly. As regards the transfer of innl rrom steamships, there seem greater possibilities; sev eral hours may be gained. An entirely unromantlc Austrian count, who has lived In New York come years concealing his title and earning his bread, has Just found it necessary In getting a marriage li cense to reveal his secret. He came to America to esci'.pe the dull conven tions Imposed by his rank at home, afd Is so well content with social freedom that he will never return to Austria. This is not the kind or no bleman that marries an American heiress In a church decorated with $10,000 worth of roses, but he will make no worse American citizen on that account Persons who grow vnstly discontent ed with their lot if they are not pro moted or otherwise elevated In power and remuneration every year or two may be Interested In the announce ment that Principal Charles F. Hnr man, who has Just retired from serv ice In New York city, has been a schoolmaster for fifty-four years and only "mlHsed" two days. His boys gave him a reunion dinner. Tbey be lieve, and rightly, that he has had a great Influence upon the civilization of the city. According to reports from I'nlted States Consul ('buries Adams Holden of Rouen the much dlBCussed project of establishing a train ferry service between Dieppe, France, and New haven, Eng., Is soon to become an ac complished fact. At present passen ger and freight are transferred from the railway cars to steamers, trans ported across the English channel, and again loaded on the railway. l!y having ferry steamers on which an entire train could be transported, all the annoyance, expense and waste of time could be avoided. . A woman In New York In a hobble cklrt chased and caught a pickpocket Of course, In the Interests of reason and logic, the hobble skirt should have brought Its wearer to failure, but it wait strictly In the nature of Illogical femininity that she triumphed, and criticism Is again abashed. Never watch an airship, O Innocent bystander, from the track of taxlcabs or street cars. I An outside umpire declares that New York has cleaner streota than Chicago. Put the western metropolis Is not to be outdone In something su perlative. It has smaller mosquitoes than New York ever dreamed of, and, moreover, they are a self-culture. 80 honors are even. It Is believed that Lake Michigan cools oft Chlcngo, while It warms the fruit belt of Michigan. Could any thing be more amiable? A western railroad has announced that It will employ no more girls as stenographers In Its departments, owing to the tendency It finds In the girls to get married. Odd that this railroad Is the first to make the start ling discovery of this tendency. Tigers are being trapped lo India by means of fly paper. It may not be A sportsmanlike method, but It la far aaier than swatting them with a towel )r a newspaper. Turkish Commander Refuses to Surrender Garrison. DESTROYERSUNKOF F EPIRUS City Has Been Occupied By Italian Troops A Report Tthat An Italian Cruiser Has Destroyed a Turk ish Destroyer. Tripoli. Following the declaration of war by Italy on Turkey at 2.30 Fri day afternoon, the hour set In the Italian ultimatum for a compliance with Its demand, a messenger from the Italian fleet, which had been cruis ing In the offing, came close In shore and the destroyer (larlbaldlno steam ed Into the harbor at noon flying a white flag. Great crowdB gathered and watched her approach. Alter re connolterlng, the destroyer launched a boat, which came to the beach. An ofllcer landed. He was preceded by a blue Jacket carrying a white flag. TurkUih soldlors surrounded the pair. The ofllcer asked for the Turk ish commander. When taken to him, be formally announced that the Italian fleet had been ordered to oc cupy the town. He therefore demand ed the Instant surrender of the whole Turkish garrison. Tho Turkish com mander replied that he was unnble to comply with- the demand and emphatically refused to surrender. Tho Incident was witnessed by the foreign residents, who gathered around the Italian ofllcer and cheered blm enthusiastically. The boat then returned to the destroyer, which re joined the fleet. The Arabs have held mass-meetings In all the mosques and taken a solemn oath of unity and alleglunce to the Turkish flag "to the last drop of blood." The Turkish transport Perna has discharged 20,000 tons of ammunition stores and 13.000 mauser rifles. These have been taken into the Interior, 450 camels being used In moving the sup plies. CRIPPLING TURKISH FLEET. Italian Warships Attacking , the Enemy's Destroyers. Salonlkl, European Turkey. An , Italian cruiser has destroyed a Turk ish destroyer In the harbor of Trevesa, In Eplrus, and landed troops. The Turkish authorities are sending a bat talion of troops to Prevesa. Paris. The Matin's Athens corre spondent says the telegraph official at Vonltza. Greece, wires to the govern ment that a naval battle occurred off Prevesa at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. Itnllan warships belonging to the Ionian squadron encountered a flotilla of Turkish destroyers cruslng off the coast of Eplrus. The Italians prompt ly attacked the flotilla and two Turk ish shins were badly damaged by shells. They have gone ashore In the ' Culf of Arta. Turkish Troopships Run Ashore. Athens. Premier Venizolos says that he has received a telegram from Vonltza, paying that Italian cruisers had been seen p.irsnlng two Turkish transports with troops aboard. The troopships were run ashore by their commanders near Preveza. PARDON FOR CAPTAIN HAINES. Slayer Of Annls Will Be Released This Week. Albany, N. Y. Governor Dlx In formed Col. Asa Bird Gardner, coun eel for Capt. Teter C. Haines, who Is serving out a sentence In Sing Sing for the killing of William K. Annls, that he has decided to pardon the former I'nlted States Army , officer. The Governor said that the formal pardon will be Issued this week. Gov ernor Dlx declared that he had In vestigated the case thoroughly and that he was convinced that the facts behind the killing warranted the granting of the pardon. WOMAN AGED 113 DEAD. Llvsd Alone Last 30 Years and Culti vated Garden. Sergeant, Ky. Aunt Sarah llnckley, the oldeBt womnn In Kentucky, or per haps in the United States, born near Albany, N. Y., who for many years has been living alone in a log cabin on Puncheon Fork, of Reaver Creek, died there Thursday. She was 113 years old Inst June. $82,108,078 For Russian Navy. St. Potersburg. Tho naval esti mates for 1912, which were submitted to the Duma, provide for an expendi ture of $82,108,078, an Increase of $27, 879,778 over 1911. Morocco Row Over. Paris .Premier Cnillaux assured a delegation of brokers who called on him that there was no question of further difficulties between France and Gormnny because of Morocco. He stated the delay In ratifying the agreement Is because of a difference 'of opinion regarding the phraseology of the document. ' General Reyes Leaves Mexico. Mexico City. General nernardlno Reyes sailed from Vera Cruz on tho teamor Monterery, for Havana. John 8mlth Wed Five. Los Angeles, Cal. Five women and there may be more are seeking one John Smith. They say they were married to Smith. He has escaped arrest so far because of his name. The wives hall from the Atlantic to St. Louis, and thence to Rablnal, Texas, and the weddings date from 1887 to last week. People who wish to drive automo biles In Germany must pass rigid ex amination before receiving their fascial license from the police. y-ufe ... , ;fa,,''-i.-,. K'opyrlcht. 1911.1 E Combine Effected to Eliminate Middleman. TO ACT AS CLEARING HOUSE Thousands of Heads of Families, Re tall Dealers and Farmers Banded Toflether to Reduce Food Prices. New York. Ten thousand heads of families, 00 retail dealers in 50 Hues and several hundred farmers of the Pennsylvania State Grange, have com bined In an association here to elimi nate the middle man, and lower the high cost of living. While the Penn sylvania State Grange Is completing negotiations with the association to handle their output, a small army of canvassers is enrolling hundreds of other families in the movement, and officers of tho association are negotiat ing with the farmers of New York State to handle their products also. The association plans to act as a clearing house between producer and consumer, dividing between them the profits of the various middle men through whose hands food commodi ties have hitherto passed. In the case of some farm products, the associa tion finds that six middlemen or brok ers have been reaping profits before the products reach the consumer. Tho 600 dealers In almost every line of re tail trade are members of the associa tion and receive their supplies, be cause of such membership, at lower than market rates. The heads of fam ilies are associate members. The 600 dealers are divided into seven groups. Each group Is requir ed to pay Into the coffers of the asso ciation a percentage of Its gross re ceipts, varying from 6 per cent, for grocers to 15 per cent, for dmggists. The fund thus crented Is divided into six parts, four of which are put aside for distribution among the consum ers, one part being spent for advertis ing and one part for administration Dtid operating expenses. Each association member or head of a family, receives a coupon from the denier whenever he makes a pur chase, setting forth the amount of goods bought. At the end of stated periods the consumer surrenders his coupons to the association to serve ns a basis for computing the rebate which he will receive from the profit fund. It is the plan to reduce the cost of living by these refunds rather tlinn by charging the consumer lower than market prices In the first Instance. Red Cross Stamps. Washington. Distribution of the r.0,000,000 lied Cross stamps that are to be placed on sale In all parts of the United States shortly before the opening of the holiday season will be made from Washington. Instead of distributing the stamps from the headquarters of the National Associa tion for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, in New York, they will be sent from this city. WALKS TO FRISCO IN 92 DAYS. Bert Moyer Ends His Stroll From Coney Island. San Francisco. For the purpose of presenting a lotter from Mayor Gay nor, of New York, to Mayor McCar thy, of this city, Pert Moyer, 19 years old, walked Into the City Hall Thurs day, ending a stroll that began at Coney Islnnd May 2. Moyer's actual traveling time was 92 days, giving him an averngo of 33 miles a day. 400 KILLED; 200 CAPTURED. Deposed Shah's Brother Reported Routed In Battle. SI. Petersburg. A Teheran dis patch snys that, according to Govern ment advices, a great battle was fought at Nobaran, 50 miles from Teheran. Salnr-ed-Dowleh, brother of the deposed Shah, lost 400 killed and 200 captured, In addition to 7 big guns. He retired In the direction of Hamalan, to the west, the GDvern ir.ent troops pursuing him. SOLD THEIR BABY FOR $t. Parents, Unable To Give Child Away, Make Sale. Howe, Neb. After they had been prevented from giving away their own baby Jefferson Lee and his wife sold the child, which Is 9 months old, to Homer Howell, a farmer, for $5. In order to make the matter legal, How ell Insisted that the couple appear be fore a court at Auburn and sign a con tract giving him the custody of the child. The Lees lyive been traveling through the State in a buggy. WILL REDUC ! COST OF LUG NO WEDDINGS FOR THE WEAK Dr. Wiley Tells Conservation Con grets How He Would Have Things Run. Kansas City. The establishment of a national department of health was strongly urged upon by Dr. Har vey W. Wiley In his address before the National Conservation Congress. Contrary to expectation, he Ignored his traducers and made no mention of the recent controversy in the Agriculture Department. The title of Dr. Wiley's address was The Public Health, Our Greatest National Asset. "Weak and diseased parents," he said, "are apt to transmit not only specific diseases, although sometimes so, but an unreslstant organism to their children, which causes them to fall easy victims to the first invnnion of disease. I realize that marriage is a sentiment, and not a principle, but the power of the state to protect its citizens from disease may be con stitutionally exerclBed before, as well as after, birth. "I am not a believer In the starva tion theory of diet, nor In the limita tion of any of the essential elements of food to a minimum. It is a mis take to suppose that any exigencies of the food market ever Justify the debasement or adulteration of food. There Is no condition of Just political economy which can be urged as an oxuse for such an action. By what principle of political economy can the practice be Justified of keeping wholesome food In storage until Its taBte has vanished and poisonous products have been produced? "The man whose . foot never touches the turned soil cannot be said to be healthy. The great manu facturing enterprises should be con fined to -tho smaller places where each workman may have a garden and a front. Cities should be re served for exchange, and manufac ture should be rigidly excluded there from. How Infinitely superior Is the garden to the saloon? "The farmer should be the long est lived of any profession, but at tho present time this Is not the case. The sewage of the farm Is an un known problem. Tho bathtub is I scarcely known, and the septic tank i Is unheard of. The agricultural col leges should teach hygiene and sani tation as well as animal husbandry and plant breeding." NATIONAL BANK BUSINESS. Large Gains In Loans and Discounts Since June 7. Washington. Large gains In loans and discounts, losses in cash and In creases In deposits of national banks are Indicated by reports to the Comp troller of tho Currency regarding their condition September 1, as compared with June 7. Loans and discounts of the 7,301 banks reporting reached $5,663,411, 073, an Increase of $52,572,281. The losses In cash amounted to $50,855, 702, while the gains In deposits were 12,003,855. Millions In Postal Banks. Washington. Two million and a half dollars was on deposit In the postal savings banks on August 31, according to official computations Just made. This was an Increase of $1,000,000 during August. It Is estimated that the aggregate of de posits September 30 will be $4, 000,000. Snake Hidden In Firewood. Sergeant, Ky. Frank Hall Beaver, a farmer, carried In a load of r.tove wood and along with It carried a six foot rattlesnake which he did not notice. As he threw down the wood Beaver wns bitten by the reptile. He la dying. 14 GOLD MINERS ENTOMBED. 100 Rescuers Trying To Dig Through 30 Feet Of Ice. Fairbanks, Alaska. A shaft 150 feet deep In the Shakespeare placer gold mine on Dome creek caved In, imprisoning 14 miners, mostly Rus sians. One hundred men are seeking to enter the mine through an old I shnft. This Is plugged with 30 feet of Ice at "the bottom. There Is a pos sibility thnt tne intermediate snaus have settled. If so, the entombed men probably aro dead. Another Effort To Free Morse. Atlanta, . Ga. The fight to free Charlos W. Morse, the New York fi nancier, serving a 15-year sentence In the Federal penitentiary here, will be resumed In this city on October 9, be fore the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Morse's struggle for free dom Is made on technical grounds, contending that he should have been sentenced on but one count of his In dictment and that he should hayo been sent to a rsow Torn jaii insieafi 1 of tho penitentiary, where hard work( I Is required. Mew Orleans Woman is Charged With Awful Crime. SECURED INSURANCE MONEY Annie Crawford, a Morphine Fiend, Is Believed to Have Caused the Deaths of Her Father, Mother and Two Sisters. New Orleans, La. That Annie Crawford, ugly and a man hater, poiBoned four members of her family to collect their life insurance and thus gratify her Inordinate tyve of dress Is the police theory of the most sensational recent murder case In the history of New Orleans. ThiB love of dress was exaggerated through the fact that she Is a morphine fiend. According to a statement by the district attorney after the girl prac tically had. been grilled for 24 hours, she has made a partial confession. . The woman she is 27 years old is 4under arrest charged only with poisoning her young sister Elsie, a pretty stenographer, who died mys teriously a few days ago.. It seems almost certain, however, that she soon will be charged with poisoning her father, mother and another sis ter, who died under mysterious cir cumstances within the past 15 months, and Annie Crawford was the beneficiary named In the insurance policy on the life of each. The total was only $1,750 and the police say the girl spent nearly all this amount on her clothes. Annie Crawford, through long service In the drug department of the New Orlenns Sanitarium from which she was discharged following the dis appearance of large quantities of drugs, 'was familiar with the action of poisons and seemed to have work ed with the careful patience of a scientist conducting an experiment. Her methods sometimes were crude but she seldom bungled. Since her discharge from the hos pital more than a year ago she has not worked, but has paid board to the uncle and aunt with whom she lived. At first she claimed she had saved up some money, but later she Bald she could not have kept up but for the Insurance money Bhe received by the deaths of members of the fam ily. In addition to being addicted to morphine she was also eccentric. She seldom ate at the table, usually taking her meals In the kitchen. When young men called upon her slu ters she ran off and hid. Yet her clothes were handsome and expensive and she lavished considerable sums upon them. As a result of the finding of poison In the stomach of Elsie, who died Inst Saturday, the bodies of the oth ers will be exhumed. NO MORE UNTAXED SMOKERS. Manufacturers To Pay For Cigars Given To Employes. Washington. Cigar manufacturers the country over soon will be given a hearing by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Cabell to work out a method of taxing all cigars made, including those used by the employes of the manufacturers. The recent ordor of the Trensury Department prohibiting manufacturers from supplying their employes with untaxed "smokes" has created a storm in some shops where the manufacturers have declined to contlnuo tho privilege N. Y. Central To Spend Millions. New York. The New York Central Railroad will spend $G5,000,000 to re move Us tracks from the West Side of the city as directed by tho legislature enrly In tho year. Plans for the Im provement were filed by the railroad. From Seventy-second street north the rnllroad will roof over the streets that carry Its tracks so that Riverside Park may be carried to the water front. Below Seventy-second street the tracks will be elevated. ARMY'S FOOD HIGHER. War Department Finds Allowance Must Be Increased. Washington. The government will have to allow more for the feed ing of the men of the army owing to the Increased cost of living. Commissary General Sharp an nounced that the Increased cost of foodstuffs will make the allowance per man per ration for the next year 23.36 cents, against 23.35 a ration during the present year. The difference in the cost, of the rntion Is Important. The total cost of feeding the army last year was $9,100,000. To GagtBllly Sunday. Wheeling, W. Va. "Billy Sunday la working for Bill and not for Christ," said Councilman Pete Haber stlck, who Introduced an ordinance In City Council to bridle the tongue of the baseball evangelist. 'I have figures to show that he Is the cham pion catch-as-can 'soul slugger and has cleaned up $200,000 In five years." The ordinance failed to pass, but will come up at the next sesBloa of council. To Break Potato Corner. Indianapolis. Mayor Shank an nounced Wednesday that he was de termined to break the corner formed by commission men on potatoes, which are selling at $1.60 a bushel, and for that purpose he has bought a carload which will be placed on the city murket Saturday. He says the potatoes cost 69 cents a bushel' In Michigan, and will be sold here at the same price with the freight added. Propsrty Loss -At Placed At ONLY 16 BODIES ARE FOUND SO FAR Not More Than E-'ght Injured In The Little Hospital No Lack Of Food-State Constabulary On Hand To Keep Order-Survivors Stories. MAGNITUDE OF THE DISAS TER DIMINISHES. According to the latest and most trustworthy estimates, the num ber of persons who lost their lives by the collapse of the dam will not excood 300. and may fall as low as 1G0, the larger number being re ported missing. Aftor an all-day search through the debris, which, however, has been little more than scratched on the surface, only 16 bodies had beon recovered. Of the inhabitants of the town of Costollo only two perished. Not more than eight Injured are bolng treated In tho little hos pital at Austin, which escaped de struction because it stands on the hillside, and all the Injured are expected to get well. The property loss Is put at not less than $6,000,000. As the timber In thnt section of ronnsylvanla Is nearly cut out, It Is the prevailing belief that Aus tin will never be rebuilt. Prompt measures were taken to maintain order, prevent looting and ward off disease, tho State Constabulary being dispatched to tho scene of destruction and the State sanitary officers conferring on hygienic measures. An inquest will be held some tlmo this week to fix the responsi bility for the disaster. Austin, Pa. From 150 to 300 out of a population of 3,200 wore drowned and untold numbers were maimed here when the great dam of the Bay less Pulp and Toper Company, holding back more than five hundred million gallons of water, went out. Forty bodies have been recovered, many of them so mutilated that recognition is Impossible. Chaffs reigned from tho moment the mighty wall of water tore through tho town. The Dam Breaks. The dam was built two years ago, a great structure 530 feet long, spanning the little valley formed by Freeman Run and rising to the height of 49 foot. It was of concrete, 32 feet wide at the base and said to be con structed hfter the most approved plans of modern engineering. "It was a wonderful sight," said Harry Davis, a Buffalo and Susque hanna locomotive engineer, who was in the little knot of person's near the dam. "There was nothing to Indicate thnt the dam was about to give way, nnd some one had just remarked about lu strength, when with a shorp report a hole was burst In the wet end. In a moment water poured through, and It wns Immediately Been that the hce was getting larger. In a minute It was 20 feet wide and extended almost tho entire height of the dnm. Then there was another report, and It. seem ed as If the whole structure was giv ing way. "With a cry of alarm I fief) to tho nearest high ground and persons scattered In every direction. It was apparent that all tho great body of water behind the dam was going out. Some were caught, and before I could tell what was happening tho water was tearing down Freemnn Run a wall 50 feet high and sweeping every thing before it. Fire Follows Flood. "The sound wns deafening. But I had little time for that. There wns a house close by and I rushed to the telephone and called the Central in Austin. She did not hnve miich time to telephone the alarm, but I think she did her best. I guess she is dead. I haven't heard anything about her since. "I came down to Austin as soon ns possible, hut It was an awful sight. The water had torn through the plnce, taking all the principal buildings and crushing houses like egg shells. Then the fire broke out. The timbers and Bides of houses were piled up ngalnst the railroad shops, and they were soon In flames. I knew there were men In tho shops, how many I rnnnot say. but there was no way to help them. They wero probably burned up. "I don't know how the fire started, but It seemed as though It began In a score of places at once. The postoflice WHY ITALY WENT TO WAR. Foreign Minister Cables Statement To Consul-General. New York. Why did Italy go to war? Dl San Glullnno, Italian Minis ter of Foroign Affairs, has answered the question In a cnble to G. Fara Fornl, his Consul General, here. The statement recites In detail numerous allegod Instances of Injustice, cruelty and barborlty by the Turks toward Leaves Fortune To Masons. Cambridge, Mass. Masonic organ izations are benoficlnrles to the ex tent of $100,000 under the will of the late Samuel C. Lawrence, of Medtord, Just filed. Other Institutions receive large sums, also, the total amount given to all organizations reaching $230,000. The principal Masonic be quests are $50,000 to the Masonic Educationnl and Charitable Trust, and $35,000 to various Masonic lodges, In cluding $5,000 to the Lawrence Chap ter, of Worcester. ' Austin And Costeilo $6,000,000 escaped, but nearby was a store, and there the flames appeared first. Then I looked for the Bank of Austin, but It was gone, swept away. Shrieks Of the Victims. "But worst of all were tho cries of the women and children. You see most all the men were at work, and they were at home alone. Thoy had hoard the warning sent out by the tolephone girl, at least some of the poople say the fire bell rang, and thought It was a fire. Some of them dushed to the business section and were caught In the water, for thnt flood traveled like a racehorse. Those not drowned wore crushed In the crumbling buildings and others were caught In the flameB. It was fright ful. I cannot begin to tell It all. "Little children plnylng In yards at home-were caught up by tho water and tossed about on tho flood like playthings. Cattle and horses wr swept off, and even tho sidewalks wore torn up. I never Imagined there could be such force. And over and above It all were tho shrieks of the hundreds of poor people who could not escape. I don't know how any of us got away." Thousand Buildings Gone. It Is estimated that a thousand buildings have been torn from their foundations and crushed In the flood or have been destroyed by fire. The water made Its way through the busi ness section of the town and left only four buildings standing. The valley of Freemans Run Is nar row and the town was built along Its hanks. All the buildings In the lower part of the valley were swept clear off their foundations by the torrent nnd -many of those which remnlnen quickly fell a prey to the flames. There was no one to nttempt to stop the fire, and It was allowed to burn itself out, tho survivors of tho flood standing Idly on the hill sides, stun ned beyond the power to act. A feeble effort was made In the lower part of the town whore the flood soon spent Its force, to pave property and lives but it was sporndlc. The full force of the catastrophe could be seen from that point perhaps better than from any other and all efforts were aban doned. Searching For Loved Ones. Thn upnnn In thn vlllnpA ia fin palling. Here and there, can be seen tho light of some torch or lnntern ns a distracted fathr searches along the banks of the flood for some evidence of his family and home. Men who a day ago wore among the most level headed In the community know not what to do. Scenes of Indescribable sadness marked the village during the early hours of the night. Many women who had lost their children wandered In the darkness, crying their nanus In the vain hope they would answer, while here and there a worn nnd broken man stood at the ruins of his home dazed, wondering when the bodies of his family would be found. Put It Is the general belief some of them will never be recovered. A Death Trap. Tho railroad shops, where the debris Is piled high and which resist ed for a time the force of the water will probably prove to be the death chamber of the mnjorlty of men who were employed there. A rescuing party attempted to reach the Interior--of the ruins, but were driven hark hy the smell of burning flesh. Those so fortunate as to live above the line of flood were called to help the sur vivors from the valley, nnd the feed Riinnlv wna soon exhnusted ns every grocery store, with the exception of one small establishment, was swept away. All the Churches Gone. William Nelson, one of the nlost prominent merchants of the town, nnd his wife were lost. It Is said they wore walking on Turner street when the wall of water rolled down that thoroughfare. Their bodies have not been recovered. Every house j1" Turner Btroet was destroyed by tn flood and the debris piled hiKh lorff the little valley. Tho flvo or u churches I;, the town are all gone. U" only public Institutions left slnndir.K bolng the hospital and the school house. They were above the flwa line. Italian subjects: spooks of "Jus"" eternally delayed and complain" eternally involved;" tells of nllcsp(1 piratical acts by the Moslems on tW high sens against the Italian charges bloodshed, cruelty, imir'ler and rapes ngalnst theOttomnnsiilJ and Indicts the Sultan's adininW"1' tlon as a "government either wit'''1 authority or lacking In ability to pose obedience on Its dependent' government which baa failed to k towards Itnly Its International dim Tried Daring HoWup. St. Joseph, Mo.-A daring atlw to hold up the cnshler of the " room at the Union Depot, while thronged with people was fr o by one of the diners, who rll11(nl0 the aid of the cashier, An Monlco, after he had been W Plugged with a blackjack by tn flfd ber. The robber then turned an through the crowded waiting- with 100 persons In pi.'u'1' escaped In the crowd.
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