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A GULF COAST HURRICANE Details of Terrible Storm Which Swept From One End of The Gulf To The Other—Whole Towns 1 Desolated—Lower Coast Suffers Heavily. Houston, Texas, Special.—The Wert Indian hurricane, which swept from one end of the Texas Gulf coast to the other Wednesday, claimed a toll of 12 human lives, fatally in juring four others and seriously wounding 1(5, according to the details of the storm, which began to arrive here late Thursday night. Whole towns were devastated and the wreck and ruin to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trains, frory 12 to 15 hours late, crept into Houston Thursday and freight trains are lost throughout the Stricken district. « The territory around Bay City seems to have been the centre of the storm, which moved southwest from Galveston. For four hours tbefe a 70-mile wind swept across the coun try, carrying everything before it. About 50 per cent, of the business section was damaged, including the opera house, ono bank, the court house, the new high school building and the city jail. In the jail, the pages were left standing and .the pris oners were exposed to view but were safe. Yelasco, a small town near Bay City, is reported demolished, but with no lofcs of life and none injured. Every building was unroofed or part ly demolished and the town Thursday was in four feet of water. People, es caped in boats from Colorado river, a mile away. The loss will total thousands of dollars and in some districts reports state that the storm was worse than the disaster of lUOO, which devasted Galveston. Kagle Lake seems to have suffered c>n a parity with Bay City, but very few houses reaping'the iury of the storm. Along flic Browns rc>nfrom I THE WRIGHT BROS. FLY FI Washington, Special.—ln two short flights in tin* \\ right aeroplane Wed nesday afternoon at Fort M.ver, Yfl., Orville \\ right closely approached the world's aroplane speed record, attaining an average velocity ol' •841-2 miles an hour as computed bv "Wilbur Wright, who held the stop watch on the machine for half a doz •n rounds of the course. On the first flight the nir craft re- nuLuieii uloft only 1 minute and 3B seconds, the aviator being forced to dsaeend by losing a cog wheel on tin: magneto after making his second round of the course. On his second flight. after the cog had been replao**!' FUEIGHT TRAIN GOES THI Goldsboro, N. C., Special.—Consid erable excitement was caused when it it was learned that the Atlantic Cons* —■ - Ka.li-okJ bruWg gVßf^^Ußi'flV- 1 " er between this city and Dudley had pvcti way under the weight of a pass ing freight train, and in a short while sereral hundred peoole had gathered upon the scene and were greatly re lieved when it was learned that by a miracle all the crew had escaped and nobody was killed or injured. The freight, which was composed of some -10 loaded cars, had one of its cars got safe across the river, but. was approaching the bridge, the con sequence is that one of the worst ma terial wrecks ever seen in this terri tory is now piled up at the above CLOUOBtR T CAUSES DEV Dulutli, .'Winn., 'Snecijl.—Following the terrific rains of Tuesday, Wednes day night's cloudburst caused a scene of devastation in Dulutli. Thetfose it is computed, will reach $1,500,000. Three lives were lost. Two chil dren were swept from their mother's side in Ninth avenue, one body being lost in a sewer, and another child was lost in Keene's creek at West Du lu th. PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEI Now York, Special.—A pitched bat tle uas fought in Brooklyn Thursday between immigration inspectors and a band of 24 gypsies who were being dejK >rtcd to South America. The trouble had its origin iu the refusal of the gypsies to board the steamer \erdi, which was to take thorn to Buenos Ayres. t In the heat of the melee several children of the baud wore injured by reason of their parents using them as __ ahialdn. In several instances the parents pushed the bodies of children against the inspectors who were try ing to drive them from a tug to tk« PROTECTORATE TO BE EST Mexico City, Special.—That the f United States contemplates the for mation of a protectorate over the re public of Honduras ip the near future is the statement brought to this city by a secret agent of one of the Cen tral American republics. • The agent, who would not permit the use of his name, left Panama on the steamer Newport and arrived at y the port of Corinto, Nicaragua, July, Kingsville, in parts, the desolation was nearly complete. Corn fields were swept to the ground anil harvesting will have to be done by a hay rake. THe cotton, however, withstood the storm well. At Elcampo, the electric light plant is wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church in town is either demolished or wrecked. In the oil fields around Markham, derricks were blown down and wells stripped of their machinery. Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Richmond when the windows had been blown in and while the guards were repairing the damage. • At l'alacios Mrs. llogan and chil dren were injured under the falling brick wails of their home and were later extricated by workmen. Thei' injuries may prove fatal. At Galveston Hay the situation u not as had as at first reported. No part of the railroad bridge, which spans the arm of the bay between the island and Virginia Point, was wash ed away, but some 50 feet of the structure was thrown badly out of alignment by a huge barge and other small craft, which were washed from their moorings and pounded against the piling. A special from Houston says while the city suffered a property loss es timated at between $50,000 and $75,- 000 this entire section from a crop standpoint has been benefitted in a most marked degree by the storm. The cotton crop in central, south and north-middle Texas was in a dis tressing condition on account of the drought. Wednesday night's rain ex tended from the Gulf to the lower part of the Panhandle right through the cotton belt of central and iniddlo enst Texas, and farmers are elated over the probability of good yields. A New Orleans special says eigh teen persons dead, and sixteen seri ously hurt and property damage ex cending $1,000,000 is the record resulting from the destructive sweep of the hurricane along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. FTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR the aeroplane swiftl- circled a dozen times around the course, which is five-sixths of a mile in circumference. Certain changes had been made in the gearing of the motor and propel lers to give the machine a higher speed. The Wright brothers bad de cided to give this speed cliautre only a 10-minute trial Wednesday, and the aviator brought the aeroplane to the earth after 11 minutes-in the air. The Wrights signified that they would be through with their work at Fort Myer by next Wednesday, the day that the time limit expires. They do not anticipate that nny extension of time will he necessary. [ROUGH A. C. L. TRESTLE scene. The engine and some twelve •ars got safely across the river, but the derailed car took to the river, off jMm high and~2»l .a)Uu«. cars followed it, piling themselves one upon another over the bridge and into the river. The scene is something appalling to look upon. The steel bridge lias given way under the fearful strain and while no lives were lost the dam age will be heavy upon the railroad oompany. A great number of the cars were loaded with lumber, which is now piled up pell-mell in the river and vicinity. It will be weeks before the wreck can be cleared and in the meantime the passengers and other traffic will be transferred on a gaso line launch. fASTATION IN MINNESOTA The entire hillside became prac tically one great waterfall. The sew ers, already overflowing, were inade quate to carry off the rushing wa ter, ojid the streets and avenues quickly turned into torrents of water three feet deep. Twenty or more houses were wash ed away along small creeks in the city suburbs and several narrow e»- ca»wi from drowning are reported. N INSPECTORS AND GYPSIES steamer. One little girl was uncon- M'loiw when the vessel sailed with the gypsies. The gypsies believed they were to be returned to Russia, their home and when they realized that they must go back to South America, which coun try they had just left, their rage knew no bounds. The women fought with more fury than the men. One ragged dame used an iroi) camp kettle whenever she got within reach of a hostile head When thft Verdi sailed, her unwill ing passengers were huddled astern, nurainc th&r wounds. ABLISHED FOR, HONDURAS s 22. Traveling with him as a fellow ■ passenger was Gen. Domingo Vas • quez, former President of Honduras, s who was exiled through the machina ' tions of President Zelays, of Nica • ragua, in 1905. The Newport was met at Corinto t by a United States gunboat and the i officers of the warship accompanied t Vttsquex ashore to the offices of the ' commander of tije porU STATUS OFJJOTTON CROP Ai Viewed By President Harvey Jor dan, of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The follow ing otiieiai bulletin was issued on Sun day by President Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association: "The present outlook tor anything like a normal production of cotton for the season of 1909-11)10 is worse than any year since 1!>03. Reports which have come to me from all parts of the eotton belt from reliable sources, and the result of personal observation during the last thirty days, indicate a very serious condition of the cotton erop, especially in the territory of the southwestern states. The long, and as yet unbroken, drought in Texas, ac companied by unprecedented hot weater, covering the largest produc ing counties of the State, make it im possible for the crop there to recover normal conditions. ev«n under the most favorable weather, hereafter. The same conditions have largely pre vailed in Mississippi and Louisiana. In every State, except Texas, there has been a voluntas decrease in the cotton acreage by the farmers this year. "In all the states east of the Mis sissippi the ileitis are generally pras sy, and many thousands of acres have been abandoned and the fields plant ed to corn and peas. Crab jjrass has sapped the vitality of the cotton plant, and absorved to a great extent the commercial fertilizers. Black root and boll, worm in the eastern Btates and boll weevil i:i the south west are contributing to make the sit&tion all the more critical. There is not a sufficient supply of old cot ton in the South today to last the southern mills until October first. I anticipate that the forthcoming Aug ust eondition report, by the bureau of cotton statistics, to be issued August the 2nd, will reflect the deterioration of the crop iu July, by several points under the very low June condition re port. In most sections of the belt the cotton plant is small and grassy, and in other sections too full of sap and weedy. These conditions forecast a small yield compared to that of one year ago. "The failure of the peach crop al ways forecasts a shortness in the pro duction of the cotton crop, such as the case this year. With consumptions assuming enormous proportions, and the production of the cotton crop in dicating an unusual shortness, it Is impossible, at this time, to predict with any degree of accuracy where the maximum price of spot cotton will reach. That we are now entering up on an era of very high prices for the coming season, there is scarcely any question of douht, and the slower spot cotton is marketed at the opening of tho seasoir, tho asior it will be to maintain hiph prices." Storm Loss Increases. Houston, Tex., Special—Other than to Add several hundred thousand to the monetary loss, Friday night'■ despatches from the storm-swept coast sections of Ixiuisiana and Tex u and into the interior for miles add but little tb that already told of tha hurricane of Wednesday which rival ed in intensity the storm of 1900. The number killed is conservatively esti mated at 25, twice as many more 01 less fceriously injured, and the prop erty loss is estimated at approximati- 4y.sl wf»oH# may add to the list of casualties and the property dannge. other than to isolated points, communication has been restored. Late despatches add the towns of Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer to those which suffered to an extent from the sweep of the wind. At Rock Island nine of the largest build ings were either rar.ed or partially wrecked, the damage being estimated at $75,000. Fifty houses were blown down at Weimer and the property loss will approximate SIOO,OOO. Whar ton suffered more than from the storm of 1900. Rattlesnake's Bite Fatal Hendersonville, N. C., Special.— Pinckney Stepp, the 14-year-old son of Mr. John Stepp, who lives about six miles from this city on the Polk county line, was bitten by a rattle snake Thursday evening and died Thursday night. Pinckney and his brother were get ting tanbark near the odge of a field. When going near a large stump the boy was suddenly struck on the outer side of the ankle by a monstrous rat tlesnake. The brother succeeded in killing the snake and hurried home with Pinckney, who in the meantime became very sick. The neighbors were called and all remedies known to the mountaineers were put in use. It was four miles to the nearest tele phone, and required sever-tl hours be fore a doctor' could reach the house. When the physician'arrived the young fellow was in a sad state, and died two hours later. This is the first person who has been fatally bitten by a snake thia season. General News Items. President Taft went to a moving picture show Wednesday and saw himself in action on the canvas. Mrs. Taft has improved greatly since her arrival at Beverly and now there is harly any trace of her illness that caused the President so much worry. A liberty pole 107 feet tall will be erected on Antietam battlefield by the Philadelphia Brigade Associa tion. AGED LADY MURDERED Body of Mi«s Lydia 0. Newman, a Well-to-Do Maiden Lady, at Sum . .ner Township,, Was Fonnd Dead Near Her Residence—Skull Was Crushed With Bludgen and She Had Been Dead For Several Days. Greensboro, Special—Miss Lydia C. Newman, a maiden lady, who lived alone in the Burnett's Chapel section of Sumner township, was found dead Saturday within three hundred yards of her residence. Her skull had been crushed by a bludgeon and she had evidently been dead for several days. She was last seen Tuesday morning, when a neighbor observed her going in the direction of the cow lot. Coroner Wood summoned a jury and held an inquest Sunday after noon, but no evidence was secured to throw light on the tragedy. There appears to be no doubt that the ob ject of the murder was robbery, but it is not known whether or not the murderer procured anything of value. Miss Newman was possessed of,con siderable /property and at times had large sums of money in her home. About two years ago her dwelling was burned and she was robbed of about SI,OOO in cash. Miss Newman had a number of rel atives in the community, but always insisted on living alone. Her dead body was discovered Saturday by a rural mail carrier. Automobile Highway Selected. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The officials •of the New York to Atlanta automo bile highway completed their deliber ations here Saturday night and an nounced the selection of the route which will be followed- in the good roads and reliability run between the two cities next October. 1 he New York Herald's experts de oiiled to adopt the road leading from N'ew York across Staten Island, to Perth Amboy, to I'hiladelphia, tp Get tysburg across the historic battlefield down through the beautiful Shenan doah valley, through Lexington and Natural Bridge to Koanoke. At Koanoke, a., the Atlanta Jour nal's scouts took up the choice of roads and selected from Koanoke to Greensboro or Winston-Salem, to Salisbury, to Charlotte, to Spartan burg, to Greenville and on to Atlanta. '1 he route was chosen after the scout cars of The Journal and The Herald bad covered over 4,000 miles of road and is believed the best one available. The scouts say that both the capital to capital and the Bristol routes will be built, but iu their judg ment at present there are too many ferries and too few bridges to the selection. ve route selected is about 1,135 miles long and before the big contest begins next October, a sign board will be ereoted at every cross road to guide the drivers in the race. Heart Pierced by Bullet. Salisbury, N. C., Special.—A terrible tragedy, whether suicidal or acciden tals not -positively k«wn, -otynvwed at Organ church, this county, about 12 miles southeast of Salisbury, just before noon Sunday. The particulars as learned here late in the afternoon are as follows: Mr. Henry Kluttz and family had gone to Lutheran Or gan church to worship, leaving a young son, Clarence, aged about 20 years, at home, he having been com plaining of feeling unwell. When the family returned from the soryces to their home they were horrified to find the young man lying across the bed in his room dead with a rifle ball through his heart and the weapon, a small rifle, lying by his side. Death List Increases. New Orleans, Special.—With defi nite reports Saturday of 13 additional deaths as the result of the hurricane in Texas and Louisiana Wednesday, the death list Sunday night totals 41. Alson six previously reported missing are still unaccounted for. Dispatches confirm the report that Maurice P. Wolfe, his wife, six children and ne gro servant hat}, been drowned at Christiau Bayou. Most Successful Flight. Washington, Special. Orville Wright, at Fort Myer Saturday even ing, surpassed all previous perform ances of th? Wright aeroplane in the matter of speed and in the shapeli ness of his turns. Wilbur Wright, j who closely watched his brother's flight during every inch of his pro gress, caluculated his average speed with and against the wind, at 47 miles an hour. One of his circles at full speed was estimated to be within a diameter of 150 feet—an automobile could hardly do better than that at the high rate anoed. / Flies Across the Channel. M. Bleriot, a Frenchman, succeeded in flying across the English Channel Sunday morning. He left Les Bara ques, France, 3 miles from Calais, about 4:30 a. m., on one of the small est monoplanes ever used. He cross ed the channel in a little less than hald an hour, twice as swiftly as the fastest mail steamer. His speed aver aged more than 45 n>iles an hour, aoinetimes it approximated 60 milea « Staufcrf. tfi&w-V in'.-.- : NORTH STATE NEWS NOTES Items of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. Held Farmers Institute. Hillsboro, Special.—The Farmers' Institute held here Monday will long be remembered by those who attend ed. Two meetings were held in the forenoon, one for men and one for women. The afternoon meeting was a joint session with an attendance about equal to the attendance at the two morning sessions. There were 15(3 farmers and 76 ladies who lis tened with the closest attention to all that was said and to the demon strations that were given. The farm ers of Orange are rapidly becoming aware of the benefits derived fiom coiftact with practical experts . and were eager to take advantage ofjhe opportunities afforded them by the Farmers' Institute. > The men's meeting was held in the court house and the women's meet ing in the Baptist church. Mr. T. B. I'arker, of the State De partment of Agriculture, and Prof. C. L. Newman, of A. and M. Col lege, addressed the men in the morn ing, and Prof. S. B. Shaw and Prof. J. S. JefTry in the afternoon. The subjects discussed were Soil Preser vation and Improvement; Rotation and the Production of Animal Foods. Special emphasis was given the neces sity of more live stock on North Caro lina farms and the necessity of an accurate knowledge of the founda tion of fertilizers. Professor Shaw's address should have been heard by every farmer and farmer's wife in the State. He so plainly brought out the pleasure and profits to be derived ,from a home garden as to stimulate a strong interest in this necessary adjunct to the farm. Professor , Jeffrey's address on Poultry Feeding embraced a dis cussion of the principles upon which, feeding poultry is based, and select ing and preparation of the best foods, as well as how judicious feeding may lessen poultry diseases. He mude it plain that the im)>ortance of the poul try industry was not appreciated and that every farmer could, by bestow ing a little more care and attention' to fowls, vastly increase the home food supply and have enough left over to bring a handsome annual in come. The crowning feature of the day was the address by Mrs. Sue Hollo way, of Uoldsboro, who, with Miss Josephine S. Evans, of Raleigh, con ducted the ladies' meetings. The County Teachers' Institute was to have been held here Monday but those in charge very graciously gave way to the Farmers' Institute and attended the ladies' meeting. Mrs. Holowell's address had for its main feature the home training of the child and the effect of this home training when they enter school. The mother often leaves for the teacher training that can be given only at tfWrvp. Mrß. Holtowell emphamred the necessity of other training than that which may come from books, espec ially moral, physical and hygienic. Mrs. Hollowell has a most forceful way of reaching her audience and ex erts magnetic influence upon all who hear her. Miss Evans, who presents the sub ject of Domestic Science, has ,a car equipped for the purpose and in addi tion to lectures, gives practical de monstrations of cooking. The value, and composition of foods is explain ed as well as combination of foods that will give best digestive and nu trotive effects. » Horse and Anto Collide. Durham, Special.—Frank Carver, the 13-year-old son of Mr. H. L. Carver, of Rougemont, was painfully hurt Sunday morning shortly after midnight by an automobile which col lided with his horse. The young fel low was driving home with his uncle wtn?n the big machine ran under the horse and upset the vehicle complete ly. Both occupants were hart "Shooting-up" Town Ends in Con viction for Murder. Wilmington, Special. —William Bass, a rural mail carrier, charged with the murder of Major A. B. Par ker, a prominent business man of Parkersburg, because the latter wc-uld not sell him ammunition on Saturday while 011 a drunken spree and engag ed in shooting up the village, was Tuesday found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. A plea of insanity had been entered, and an appeal was taken to the Su preme Court, bond being fixed at $15,000. Postmaster Arrested. Warrensville, Special.—Drury El liott, post master at Pinckton, this county, was arrested Monday by an inspector and bound over for a pre liminary hearing at Wilkesboro, Sep tember 1, on a charge of robbing the mails. It is charged that Elliott ab stracted a pension check belonging to a party in Ouilford county, signed i.r over and sent it to one of the mail order houses in Chicago in payment for • bill of goods. Heart rendering Accident. Durham, Special.—Miss Frances Sue Watts, a Trinity student the paat year, writes to Durham friends a most thrilling and withal deplorable ex perience in witnessing two of her friends drown recently. The party of thirty-eight had started out on a launching trip and spent two hours skating at Irvington. On their rejurn the engine became unmanageable on account of the gasoline and in their efforts to get it right the gasoline caught and exploded a lantern. This started a fire on the boat which was then in wate rsixty feet deep and one mile from shore. Perfect panic re sulted. The prow was burning fierce ly and spreading while every minute had the ghost of death by explosion. They could not move and the men fought fiercely for the extinguishing of the flatties. Every moment was threatened with a stampede and final ly Miss Jannette Dudley leaped over board. She was followed by Mr. Clarence Gray, who tried to save her. The young boys swam after them but could not reach them and for an hour the two struggled in the waters of the Rappahannock within call of the boat which was utterly helpless and at a standstill. The boating party answer ed their cries with cheers and after half an hour, both went down. The ebbing tide carried both bodies far from the boat and it had to anchor to prevent a further drifting. For hours other boats passed and the sig nals of distress could not be conveyed to them. The men had fought down the flames and the wet clothes used in smothering the blaze left the party without protection. Late in the morn ing a boat bound for Baltiuore was signalled and it took on the party of thirty-six. A search for the lost ones began and they were fjund two miles below the place. Mr. Gray was l'rom Saluda, the home-of Mies Watts, an dwas said to have been on*; of that towns most popular young men. But the barest facts without a circum stance of detail, have reached the newspapers of either yirginia or Maryland and the tragedy occurred a week ago. Private Laws Out. Raleigh, Special.—The Private Laws passed at the 1909 session of the General Assembly have just bee«i completed, the work being done by Messrs. E. M. Uzzell & Co., Stat*. Printers and Binders. The volume, which contains 953 pages, is issued in the same hand some and durable as the Public Laws. The publication of these laws have been very speedy this year, ex celling all past records; and this is a matter which has given great satis faction to the State officials and the public, as well as reflecting great credit upon the State Printers and Binders. Picnic at Davidson. Davidson, Special.—Visitors, guests and strangers of all sizes, apes ami conditions liad and enjoyed "the freedom of the city," Thursday. Dav idson has kept open house and big words of "Welcome" written on can vass and uttered with tongue and voice, have bidden all comers to par take freely of air and water and then of food for the inner man. Cold soft drinks, cold, gushing well water, ap petizing lunches and refreshing ices all were at hand in easy reach, some of them for the having and others for the gold dust. Gaston Fanner Loses His House by Bessemer City, Special.—The home of Mr. Albert Mauney, about five miles west of here on the Kings Mountain and Cherryville road, was burned to the ground Monday. A part of the household goods was saved. No particulars as to how it happened were obtainable Thursday. The house was comparatively new and the loss is considerable. Boy Mysteriously Attacked. Lenoir, Special.— Tuesday after noon some excitement was ocasioned here when John Clarke a boy about 15 years old, was found in a semi conscious condition on the ground near Phillips Bostic's lemonade stand right in the business section of the town. It Beems that the boy had been asked by "Uncle" Phillips, as he is familiarly known here, to stay at his stand just a few minutes while he went to a store a block or two away to see about some lemons. When Uftcle Phillips returned he found John lying on the ground. Drops Dead in Ohnrch. Danville, Special.—A communica tion from Yanceyville, N. C., says George W. Dailey, a prominent and wealthy citiien of that section, drop ped dead Sunday morning while mak ing a talk at Prospect Church, near that place. Mr. Dailey was addressing the Sun day school when he was seen to piteh forward to the floor, dying before medical assistance could be summon ed. . , > • . .■ ;ii
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