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' ' i - v '!- fUrpCLIPTION PRICE:. (3.00 Per, Year.' : ; CHARLOTTE N. C., MONDAY MOKNIKO,-' OCTOBER 1; 1D0G. V . 1G III AWAITING ARIIY IMj llli GOOD NOW 5 k i t .rtments Indicate That oiuo Quiet In tli L .ut the Insurant Intend wn Their Anna -A r- Conc-ludod Not Only i-'orce of 8,(100 Men, But J Foroe of Equal Nuin- 'oilow' If Needed-Tniin- fured Southern Quaran- a Problem,... -. -r h , . n, Sep : 60,-AmerlPcan !are moving toward Cuba. of the force l&ll be at ews, Vo., ,tfor tho most kh a, part of the first ex- force' to Cuba wtti ha sent York and - from Tampa; i-e received" fit the de f tneSniWtary , eetablkjh- goverounont to-day todl ta quiet n Cuba and that feta intend to ,"ay down .The probability. Is that U forces in the' Island, will inly as ' precautionary p .tar." su "officlaWTof the here ere advised", no trou- conslderiible number of nmrlnoi on board that could be utilised m landing parties ... ......v.. .... nf.. To tuk the place of tha IVs-Molne e CltnfueKoi, the . Tacoma meu , io-uajr from Havana. The Prairie wiled to-duy from Boton ami the buttleahtp Texa from Norfolk, both with 'detachment! of marine on board for Havana. The former Carrie m blue Jacket, and. WO marine end the latter 226 blue jacket and ) marine. They ar expected to react) Havana en Thursday at the lateiC ' .,' ' -'" The cruUer Brooklyn, with a larg number of marine, will anil from league inland, Philadelphia, next Tuesday morn. Ins. ., v"'"-' ,-. .?.. ;. ENTR.UNED FOR CIENFUEGOS. Landing "Party of Marines and Blue Jackets Attracted Little Attention in ? Havana Others to Land To-Day and to be Distributed In Havana ami v .lOeewhere. . ,-.c ..;.' ... Havana, Sept, JO. The landing party- of marines and 'blue Jackets for Cienfuegos was made up , of detach ments from the Louisiana,- New. Jer sey, Newark' and Minneapolis, t i The men were alt landed at the captain of the jport's wharf in heavy marching order; They. boarded H street care. In .-which, they wore Ukn ; to "Villa Nueva, .where they were - placed on board two trains - of six cars each Tents were carried fop fht battalions ancr aiso tnree colt . rune, 'xne two A. I. !,. v 1 . "A I Jo . if ;; r ' ,.' '! ; ':': ..W..;'.,"i.;' sous 1ft nd anticipated ,J sections followed the regular throsgh train, which left at I o'clock to-night. The f battalion , attracted little at Hention as the transfer was not looked for. For the present the- dlatrlbu tlon of marines will be as follows: At Bagaa la- Grande SO; At Clenfuegoe, 226. from- the Dixie, in addlUon to those on. their way to-nigbt to that city; guarding the Treasury at. Ha vana,. 10,. and due brigade to be sU tloned at Camp Columbia to-morrow. The battleship Kentucky arrived. here to-night 'bringing: tpo . more marines. - Governor Taft haS.lnformed all the members of the Paim cabinet that he would appoint Ministers In about 10 days; In the meanwhll the sub-secretaries are acUng, It is believed that some of the ex-members V the ca fe int will be reinstated. '; '-. ' ' ; ' " Governor Taft has sent a cablegram 40 Benor Qnesada,-. the Cuban IninUrter at sVashtngton, reanesting mm boi w press hU yealgnaUon. ' V The disarmament' of the govern ment ' volunteers began here to-day when the Estrada, Palma battallonf t Naval officers feel some anxiety con cernlng the cruiser Tacoma,- now on her jeay to Cienf negos, on account of Indications of a hurricane Jn the uar The story published in the United States 'i that ' a number of American marines- had been killed by Insur gents Is declared. by Governor Taft and the rebel commanders to be with out foundation. .'..'' CoL Burnette! the ranking marine Officer, Is In, commend, of the battal ion sent to cieniuegos. -.; garrtsonV Camp'"C6luttblA. wfll be' half past v ociocit to-morrow morning. The coming ashore of these men. well as the arrival of some 6,000 sol diers from the United States,! Is not considered locally to Intimate any hos tile purpose. ' Governor', Taft said to night that he did not aatlolpate any trouble and the bringing la of these forces : was chiefly ' to - restore confi dence' in bnslneBs circles, . especially among foreigners." The - American troops will be quartered In perms. nent barraoks in the same manner thatthey are- distributed at home lrt lime -vi peacw. .. , s y . . . Foreign Powers - Not : Yet OfflcJally '.: ' : : i , , Notified. ,r ; " Washington. "Sept. ,10. Notice of American Intervention In - Cuba- has not . yet ; been - officially , sent to the foreign powers. It Is 'expeeted that the President, who. will return from Oyster v Bay to-morrow, and Secre tary Root, who returned to Washing ton te-day,' will consider to-morrow whatever action Is to be taken In that direction. . ; ...-.-XSLi.i.Z::.', Hoodoo of the Navy Off for, Cuba. v Norfoite Va.; Sept 10. The United SUtes batUeshl Texas, whlch' had been hurriedly fitted out and placed In : commission at the Norfolk nhvy yard, sailed to-dayior Cuba, carrying between 260 and J00 marines . who had been mobilised at tha naval sta tion here,, .vt-'it'-;- --4 4V-. .iz ' GEORGIAN KILLS HIS fWITE. ..V-v. T,,; 'i'-' i": ,'' ' v.';, Bends Two. BnOeta Into Her Body And Thea Makes Desperate 1 Effort to '; End His Om Life, , ' ... .': Savannah,, Oa, xSepi 80. -'William Sogers, It years old, tonight sent two bullets Into the -body of his wife, Mrs. Ella Rogers, killing her Instantly. Then he turned his weapon upon him self and ' sent : a bullet, through . his right shoulder. .; : , ; , r : r The shooting -occurred In a lunch shop, where Mrs. Rogers had gone to secure - food for . herself, and '. two dafughters of a former union. There her husband found her and made his second and this . time - sMcceasful at tempt to. kill her.' -v .. '.., : Rogers "would have succeeded 'lrt killing. himself had not a man In the place sprung upon 4lm and wrested the pistol away. i.Rogers was , arrest- RETAIV DRUGGISTS ARnmNG.' More Than 1.R0O Iclcgate Ripened to AttMMl Meeting or National As ; Kiatbn In Atlanta. ' .. ' ? s' ' Atlanta. Oa.. SeoC 10. Deloptlon to the eighth annual convention of the National Aaaociatlon of Retail Drug- glits are arriving to-ntght and when tne list is complete it is expectea there will be present from; 1,600 to 2,000 representative retari druggists from all over the United States. . , The first session Will be - held to morrow afternoon and the convention will remain in session threes, days. Among the arrivals to-hight was Na tional Secretary Wooten, of Chicago. ,Tbe city is widely decorated In hon or : ot l ne - visitors. . ; j. , - . ,; . v rdanoo "with instruotldns ent J Roosevelt ' durrled are toeing made fair the a expeditionary' force -of Cuba.' ". 'u. -'-'.-. v.C AmerixAa troops wall be Havana,;-next '-. Saxurday. ke 'marines and blue Jack- Ameortcan fleet , tn ' Cu- rrill . protect American In- buppono - Secretary Taft, tal Qovernor of Cffbe, to Ion of order and the pro- and- property.- j STAT INPE FINITE. tlrclea tiere American ta as "regarded as tnevtta ng st may oonUnue, 4t Is t foreteU. The nature of son and the preparations is a sju,pervlsion of Cuban e pari, of he American . for an Indefinite pertod. Is have 1 been Concluded r che first expeditionary iba of about- 6,600 men. I force of eoual numbers. br (he mtabtliutrJon of the L of course, have been la-- the men, are needed-all ar- have ibeen .completed for em to Cuba ax the earUest Umeox. Whether wore are tabhided to the first MU be sont to Cuba will jn -the developmesta In the kg the next ten day or two certain, honrever, that a ores , of - Ajnertcaa troops tlBtalaed-4ni K3ute tosap wrietonal coverament and eourtty to -Mfe and prop-g-the -estabUshmentv of a -nment' hy the Cubans TNTS . ON "WAR BASIS, s 4q all departmenta -of ' establishments -. of - the to-dar were on wear basla secretaries and men or were at their desks and was ' humming with eo- les of clerks who have not wunday since fhe Spanish- r were on duty at tne avy Depsrtmenta and at artew. . kf i ' tha - Marine lAlnsworth, toUltarr secre- leneral Bell, "chief of Stan, y, worked throughout the idlng arranjpe meats for the of the first expeditionary iba. Orders. for ,he move- - lnM, -mim unt imt f r-4v but to-lay scores of orders TO oox-ers woe are a 4ot ir reg li nenta.. . ;u - ..V , -'..U a laws;aprob- phrey, cuartertnaster gen- eally closed arrangements be transport which are to expedition to Cuba.- Tne e ready for departure; be have been 'mobilised at (News If U ' shoudd be tto' send : a second expedi rce to- Cuba , Immediately the -flret, the-War Depart rehf ndw some difficulty on che quarantine laws of the l them states. - A (transport any eouthertt Slate from have to remain JkA quaraa .ys (MtCore st can taice en a roopa for Cuba, The- War t has taken up this matter utftoriUes of the Southern lie nop of arranglnsi tor a the five days' quarantine THE EXPEDITION. ' V.' ifiwra ' of - Administrative f ka ef Army - Sorvlca . ' Pass W arksonvUlc -Judge , Ad- Jacluonvllle thl afternoon Coeat Line traln,en route Cuba. Colonel Crowder I to kidtr advocate general of the L ' j .? ''f fGcncrnl's, . Quartermaster's I f - . ! ? (nmlssary DepartmenU Rep- . rr - rn". -: , fu cui ' ; ' , jfcTos lOTOcnn general 01 nm I -v" lutrirt of Cuba and will be the jj sr to General Frederick Pun- Ite the Oevernor General of sitaln llutt, who ha been depot ikwir at Waihlngton, , will be de (tertnnitar st Havana and Cep f wUI be depot commluary st . . ... . ,-, . - . .. Crowes bad with him -four uaht from Waahlnatnn. Captain thtee clerk from WaihlngAsi, from Atlanta Joined him here. (BtublUh a quartermnter' depot ly, ttpon Mi arrival and will arrangement made for landing wneo tney arrive. --, ; SER S11NTTO SANTIAGO; V Inre, Which Has Mronir Force arliicn. I Ordered 1oiii C;ien- rm to Son tlM-aul era foat ritr trie Kails lom lloMton and Tcx- rrom .Norfolk; llnaton. Sept. tO.'Annotmeement lade at tha Navy Ivpurtment to ot tne cruiser Jm Molnea. which. dv ato, W ordered from llrt- 'l-nfueo, OiiIim. to re-enforrn Inrlettii and Clpvolimd. hud beon to Kintlaro. Cul.a. and nlremlv led. Tha onl-r f--r tha movement 1 M-ilnea given by tWretarv nd nitvul oftl-'luls h-ue 0- n--t know pe-le uLcnllU-.-in-a of It. Jt li be L however, to ! a M'eenii'liiniir tr end not le"Siie fif any dHtiirb- t LuUv&o, Ttis Aks i.v.:.; iuj a .'t ' $10,000,000 LOSS IN LUMBER, Tens of Ttiouaanrts of tlie Flneet Trees Blown Down and Immenae Numbers '''of Logs Swept Away,-.- .v',. ;.,.'?' Mobile. Ala., Sept 10. It Is now believed .that the Ions to fhe lumbr mterent Alon by the storm will ajc gregate $10,000,000. Tens of. thousand of tree of the finet qualify have been blown down,' The number of logs that have been carried out to sea or driven Into lnaecpnlble swamps I enormous. The great majority of trees that had been Weakened by being tap pod for trupentlne were leveled with the ground, and dealers In turpentine 9X9 very gloomy over tJi outlook ,, 120 IN AND ; K.EAB MOBILE STORM'S ' DEAD; $8,000,000 LOSS First ' News hy Telegraph Froni the" Mncken Alabama iort wure , Thnrstlay's Uurricune Shows Heavy ', Ixss of Life, Mainly in Environs, ami IiiimeiixA Drwtruotkm of Proi- 'erty 30 Uodlc HeporU to Have - Bern ltccovrred at OiMUit Resort of p-uo Souct . lieeu.-lv-Inliabltants of : "Dauphin IsIsjmI Suffering . Some j Few Trains Being Handled- :.!; ! Louisville, Ky., Bept.i 10. The first news by telegraph out of the stricken city of Mobile was received In Louis- villa at.t o'clock this (Sunday) morn ings by The . Courier Journal, whose correspondent sent a dispatch In - a roundabout vfay from- an improvised office in the swamps Just on the edge of the city. ' The Information is given In the dispatch that the loss of life in Mobile, and vicinity .from: the .great storm ofr. Thursday j, will -probably reach 110, although -the death list in the city itself will not be large,- The greatest number of lives lost, accord ing to the dispatch, is at a place known as Sans Soucl Beach, a summer re sort near Mobile,, where 1 bodies are reported to have been recovered. The property' loss In Mobile t and along Mobile bar wlll probably ap proximate $6,000,000. t " - ' . The people Jiving on Dauphin' Is land are suffering for food and they have only the clothes they are wear ing. . Nearly all the ' houses ef j the flaheVmen were swept away. ' The dis patch, says furthen-v: ,. y "As the dead, come ashore on. the south beach below here, they are . be ing buried. .' The Louisville A Nash ville Railroad will not be -able to re sume train service for several days and the other roads here are handi capped toy. washouts -and the loss of telegraph wires, which, prevents the handling of trains with any degree of promptness. ., Gulf port Is damaged to a small extent and there Is no loss of Hie there as rar as nas seen neara fiom, .' Many Interior -points ' yet re main. to be heard from." .'.. ,. .- At -the general manager's office, of the Louisville ft Nashville road In Louisville to-day'lt was stated that they have telegraphic communication within a short distance of Mobile, but that the tracks are still unfit for use, It could not be stated definitely when train service would he resumed. The Western Union at noon Sunday. was working one 'Wire from "Atlanta into Mobile by way-of Montgomery - and this circuit is being utilised to order men and equipment from every direc tion to Mobile to repair the vast dam age done. . . Vi . -;,i.,': ' '" : : . PEN 8A COLA UNRECOGNIZABLE. SUm- Devastation so Great as Al most to Defy Description goo Peo ple Homeless, but Will bo Relieved Wltliout Calling for Outside Aid House; Carried Away and. Three Drowned, : f ..,:."' Pensaeola, Fla., Sept O-It1; Is difficult to. give any adequate Idea of the magnitude of the storm devasta tion here. ' The entire water front Is a, mass of tangled, .wreckage. The costly bridge of the LoulsvfUs V Nashville . Railroad, spanning -Escambia Bay, was demolished and It will be many' days before trains ean go eastward. Officials of the railroad believe' the foundation is Intact and the work of rebuilding .will be begun as soon as posslbla Tj-aln service north has been restored.1 Out of 16 fishing. schooners of E. E. E. Saunders A Co.'s fleets only one Is , afloat ; Warren eV Co.'s fleet suf fered equally, -.only one being un damaged. The i others are on- the beach and Some of them - broken, up. The tugs Monarch and Mary .Lee, are high and dry In Pine street.- The pilot ; boat "Pilot"- and" the dredge "Caucus" are. safe.'--a. ' Among the ocean-going -craft hard aground are - the Norwegian ship Ingrid, Norwegian barge Helmdala, Norwegian ' ship-Avantl, Portuguese ship Ferrolra, schooner Donna Chris tina, Swedish bark Alfhlld, Norwegian bark Andrea, Italian bark Avon, Nor weglan bark Herf ord, ' German bark Maria, Sweedlsh , bark Neach VI, iuiian bark Ollvarl, .Norwegtaa bark Superb. , ' The fishing smacks Lottie Hosklns snd Carrie E. Chase and the lighter Iris crashe-js-lnto the Bay , Shore home of Las Jacoby, wrecking it, and the crew of the Chase were rescued from the . front gallery pf the resi dence. , V , " . ' ' It Is estimated that 100 people are homeless, and In want, but citisens are raising a fuad and It la not now believed that any. outside aid .will be needed.-'' .; - . . "' Mrs. T.' .F. " Mathews, wife of . the bridge tender at Escambia Bay, and two . children, were carried away In their house and were - drowned, de spite the frantic efforts of - Mr. Mathews to rescue-them, , Dr. R. G. White, In charge, of the quarantine station, -and' his wife are a mass of cuts and bruises where they were whipped by wind and wave be fore they, were rescuod, by the quar termaster steamer Poe. ; ; ' , : ". .' During the hurricane , the - water roe eight and twelve feet on the bay, inundating all the lower part of the city. 0- . r v V"'"? A Stlsens. relief -iicommlttees have organised and alt the Injured and homeless are being cared for. , J MOBILE RAPIDLY EMERGING. ' Liu-go Gangs of 'Men Are) at Work Clearing Away Wreckage and Bwd nees Will be Normal When Rail roads Resnma Full Train Serilce Death- KoU About t2S '- O, ifnbil Ala.. Via Meridian..' Miss.'. Sept. 30. The number Of casualties In the great, storm oi tast weanes day Is slowly Increasing as messages . ..iwlMil from nlacea which hava heretofore been Inaceesnible.' . The to tal last night of the known dead was 76.'. This -Statement was orougni up to a 'certainty of 76 and a possibility of 101 by the.reports which reached Mobile during the night, and early to day four bodies not before counted have been found at Coden ttnd It Is estimated that 21 lives have1cen lost from- the oyster fleet around Coder Point. Tle last estimate Is not known to.be accurate and Is probably exaggerated, as It Includes smongthe dead every man aboard a flnhlng hnaf who has not been heard of since the storm', 1 l known that some of thu boats on Which these men were hava been driven anhore and It Is entirely possible that some of the crews man aged to reach the shore. Jt does not seem likely at preaent that the death roll will amount in this vicinity to more than 125.( . Mobile Itself Is rapidly emerging from th confuHton caused, by the storm. Lsrga gangs of men were kept working all of Sunday in clearing the irnt of debrla. Threa nt tha tnam. er line have commenced to run foT toe jii-t uu since j.cancsaay, ins rfock Is rapidly being' repaired and bust lness will be, normal as soon as tne railroads are able to run trains. As yet the Louisville ft Nashville Is still disabled and Is the only road - hich is not able to maintain a' schedule, and the time when that line will be open for regular traffle Is conjectural.- It will certainly be the best part of a fortnight before It' will i be running trains between .Mobile and" New.-Or-lesna . The Southern and . the Mobile Y Ohio are running trains as before the storm, y: v..n '-v.;, MANYN DEATHS ALONG . COAST.', Nt a . Residence Ift Bunding ( at . PascaaroT Ja Btarh ' , and - More o or , Less lanutire at Uie Various Points West of Mobijp -several .vessels ' vLoMt. With .crevni...-. V'-: V ' , Mobile, -'Sept. 10. The: BItua tlon along the cos it to. the west of mis city i , now - tairiy wen "Known. At Scranton, Missions church, the Odd Fellows' Hall and several build ing were, blown down. At - Pases goula Beach, not 'a residence f left standing, the river front at that point Is completely torn up, and the light house - there has been ' destroyed. Shipping at this point has been badly damaged. : 1 The revenue cotter, Wi nona, for which much fear was ex pressed. Is now - known to ,be safe. The crew of the cutter rescued - the keeper of the Pascagoula light house and his family- during the storm. The1 keeper, of the Horn Island, light house, just-outside '-.of Scranton, lost his life.- Th captain of a ttfk which came near the house at the beginning of the storm urged him to leaf, but he refused to .abandon hie post and m a short time was drowned. The entire 'end of the Island on which the light house was situated Is said to have been, carried away by .the waves.''. ..At Blloxl the damage has been of a - minor character to buildings. Every hath house in the place la gone and the beautiful driveway along the coast at this point has been destroyed Boats which have found refuge from all. the storm that blew by fleeing Into the back bay at. Blloxl were granted no much Immunity en Wednesday,- as the waves iran high And many of the boats which sdtfght refuge there were sunk and -all. of them were badly damaged, v j-- '- -v. At Pass Christian no lives were lostand the damage was slight. i The wrecking of . a few houses comprised the damaave at . Gulfpvrt and no lives were lost there. ' Five out of eight vessels at Ship Island at the time ef the storm were beached and two will be total wrecks. ' Several vessels, . the nsrae of which are. unknown, are ashore off Horn Island, and the small Islands marking the passage between Dauphin Island and . the mainland have been destroyed. The Brecon lights on this part of the coast are not greatly damaged. The! schooner Alice Gra ham, of Mobile,. la known to nave been lost with her crew of six men. The boat hss been pursued by an evil fate, and besides having various mishaps from time to time, was wrecked In the great storm of 111 J, when several people ware lost from her..: :: as- ' v - ' The known deed at Dauphin island are .Captain John Worten, of - the schooner Irene; Captain Robert Pe ters, of the schooner 'Louisa B.. and Mftchell Plsell, mate . of the same boa. -. ; ' . . Four bodies have neen picked up In the water near the Dauphin Island. and have been burled, there. Two were evidently sailors and two wer boy.. The people on Dauphin lalsnd suffered great hardship during the storm, and for 14 hours were In great danger.- The soldiers Of Fort Gaines mads a dangerous trip of two miles to the residences on the island, offering to. give, everybody shelter within the fort, but the oner was in an cases refused, the people preferring to. re mtlntn thefr homes. DAMAGE EAST OF PKXSACOLA. Heavy Losers Inflicted, on Towns of Milton and westvuie, ria , anu Connecting Railroad Crops Se riously Datnaggd. -Milton. Fla.. Sent 10. Milton was greatly damaged by the hurricane, the velocity of the wind at time being frightful, trees, houses and fences were , destroyed In' all parts of the town. The water- from the river backed up Into the stores on tha prin cipal street badly damaging stocks of goods. -: C. Clsrk lost hi entire stock. The store of Chsffln ft Co. was filled with water on a level with th count ers. T. - Williams- Cm- wss dam aged to the extent of 15,000,' th tine Stock being rultted. t V;.-." heavy toss, water rising to six feet in the mill and : their float . of lighter ware destroyed. Tha river li Jammed with wreckage for a dlatance of half a mile. A boat containing twO.Oreeks was sunk and th men . are missing. Weetvlllo"' Fla,. Sept- V 10." This town has been entirely cut oft from the outside world since Wednesday, the storm-, raging here. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. ' Wire ; went down and train service ceased. . Cot ton and corn crops have heen serious ly damaged and turpentine t farms greatly Injured. A train on the Pn sacnia and Atlantic division of the Louisville ft Nashville Ilayroad paased her .Wednesday night, but was wrecked before It . reached Defunlak Springs. The -ame night the engine of the east-bound freight) , burst Its boiler at Chlpley. ,- A. train came through' from Milton last night and brought. the first news of the damags done , at , Pensacola'.)Q V ':: '.. FLOOD BELOW NEW ; ORLEANS Hundreds of Sqnsrw Miles ' In IMta ViflTcr Froni , It Im-liea 1 to Four " Pre of Water and Heveral Live lamt In Fishermen's Villages no : t prooted and Collotted , lu Orrat i Masses. -v. v',! 1 v Newl Orleans, ' Sept ,10. Reports that probably a doscn lives were lost and that hundreds of -square miles of land were .under 16 Inches to four feet of water during the hurricane on the Mississippi river delta were brought here to-day. The Inundated region begins 60 to 170 miles below New Orleans and Is mostly Inhabited by fishermen and toystermen. Mes sages which left these villages lust night said that -up to that time sev eral .persons were atlll missing. " The tug R. a Velt. which was' tied Up during the hurricane sbout 76 mites down- the river, took, aboard It refugees during the night. Kurly in the night seven women snd two men were soert near the tug nearly Up to their arm pits in wster which was run ning Inland from the Oulf with miin Hent force to csuae them to doiijta from tree to tree to avoid losing tb-ir footing.. The refugee told of i.thi-r famtlle which had not flared to h-nve their-homes snd, members of tho tug crow, wra,nt t Uiclt rescue la BECtS ABOOX TO; DISAKil WH,L BE FED AKD TAKEN. UOJIE General lunston. as Clutlrman of Dis . armament Commission, lias Two l:nitneiitly SaUsXs4-ury Oonfcrenocs Willi lnxurgrnt Commander, v Itc sululig in Detinlte Agrwment No v, lsyni-nt Is to be Given forearms and Fern are - Likely to le Hur remlcml Horses , to be Retained. htolcn Ones Subject to Identification Ijater Pino Gucrra Says Men - Are ,' natisnoa. , i; i "v" - -... - Havana, "Sept 10. The work of disposing peacefully of the revolution ary forces In arms against the Cuban government) is already practically under way. -Brigadier uenerai Fred erick Funston, chaTfman of ' the dis armament .commission, v had, two amicable -conferences to-day - with Generals rjno Guerra and Del Cas-t tiiio ana srrangea. a programme per fectly satisfactory to all concerned. Jn fact General Funston said this evening that the evlndup would be so smooth and rapid that It will, take much less time- than had been an ticipated. . 1 .' ; ':'..- ; r- -'..-' - The . first landing of any consider able number of Americana took place to-night when - 4S0 marines came ashore from the squadron In the har bor. . This force proceeded for Clen f uegos at o'clock this evening on a special train. It was explained that this movement was not made, on ac count of any actual trouble In Clen f uegos, but, for the purpose of exerting a calming Influence on-the local sit uation, -which contains - some possi bility of a conflict by reason- of the tenss feeling existing J: between the government volunteers and the insur gents. ' . ... The day at the palace passed quietly and rather gloomily. .. . -., DIPLOMATISTS SOLACE PALMA. , There are as yet no signs of Secre tary TVft's actual occupation of that edifice., which to-day was the scene of a number of farewells to ex-Presl-dent Palma and his -, family. The members of the diplomatic corps and the foreign consuls called In a body to say good-bye. ' They gave expres sion to many sincere words of friend ship and appreciation 'of the charac ter and kindliness of the late head of the republics Senor Palma received all his visitors with quiet dignity and seemed entirely reconciled to going, although he still appears dejected at th outcome of the revolution. Towards evening the private recep tion 'room, of the palace was thrown open and scores of personal friends called and remained for some time with Senor Palma, his wife snd other members of the family. The ex Prestdent Is besieged by requests fur Interviews by cable and In person. London-newspapers are argent In asking for an lnterview.To the cable grams the . ex-President has not re- one house they found on three mat tresses piled on a bed, two children placed there to keep them above the water, which had already risen to the second mattress. Large quantities Of cane were up rooted In the marshes near the coast This cans collected ffl ' great masses on the water and a party of eight fishermen near Burs, who Were being driven helplessly in a dismasted and earless boat report that they rsn Into a mass of cane, upon which scores of seml-amphlblous and a few small land animals had taken refuge. The can was packed so closely as to stop the passage of the . boat and thereby saved tne fishermen rrom what appeared to be certain death. Reports to-dsy from the Mississippi Sound Islands which were Inundated say th'st the loss to the United States Marine Hospital quarantine station on Shin Island la about 160,000. The fumigation plant la reported to have been washed up on Petit Bole Island, still retaining most of the original structure. Of the eight sailing vessels. wrecked on the islands. It is reported that half of them can probably be re paired and refloated. . t APALACIIICOLA CUT OFF. plied, while to the lSwpaper corres pondents here-he has'nt word that he has nothing furtherV say.! ' .To-day Secretary Taft Vnt a letter to Senor Palma saying heVleslred to escort him -40 the railroad sWlon- to morrow and hoW him' everyVcourtesy due his exalted position. : Senor Pal ma thanked Secretary Taft cordially; ut said he wished to leave .quietly i.ad -without public Ceremony. , . v DISARMAMENT PROGRAMME. The disarmament commission has decided that the rebels shall not re ceive payment for their, arms, but each 'man will be .given transporta tion and subsistence until' he reaches home. . The programme of . disarma ment Is simply that one member of the commission accompanied by-one or more representatives of the revolu tionists,, will visit each command. The arms will be deposited with the bat talion commander, who will turn them over to the commission: The rebels wll I take their, horses home, the ani mals which have been stolen to he re turned later to the owners on proper Identification. -: -,v In- order to . expedite - the return hofne of the large number of revolu tionists In Plnar del Rio province and avoid possible disturbance during the operation, a special train win ner run, beginning Wednesday, from the point on the line, nearest the rebel camps to San Juan de Martlnes, the termi nus oft tne western Ksuroaa. si en and horses will be distributed at the intermediate . stations. The . govern ment will begin . distributing rations In the rebel camps to-morrow, .The provisional government has no - ex pectation that even a considerable number of the revolutionists will sur render their arms. Most of the wea pons are the personal property of the men carrying them. The first of the disarmament commission left here to night for Puerto Principe. Others will start ' to-morrow for Santa Clara rjro vines n a special train, which will pick up the arms turned In at the various places on the way. As Santa Clara province contains the largest number of rebels in arms, the work there will be especially arauous. General Guerra himself will assist in superintending the work of the re turn. of his. men to their homes after tha forces In Plnar del Rio province have riven over their arms. . General Funston expects to remain In Havana In general charge or the worx oi dis armament When this. Is completed he will take command of all; th United States troops In Cuba. SATS REBELS . HAV10 WUN. General . Pino Guerra. speaking to day ef tha new situation In the Is land, said all the men. of his forces were eminently satisfied with the ar rangements. 'He -expressed tha -be lief that the stability of the govern ment was now assured and predicted that never again would there be a revolution In Cuba, thanks largely to the United SUtes government for the hand It had taken In the settlement of the difficulty. v Whlle many of his men wanted to parado Jn Havana before dispersing. their commanders regarded - this as unnecessary and general Guerra said there would be no demonstration that would permit of the possibility of a renewal of the previous -ill-feeling. Asked whether his men shared btf contentment with .the .proposition to n,,,-M -uUO, a' lk.l..'1,X...- A... era! Guerra said: S "The men under our commands will obey us. Those who do net certainly never were with us. The revolution In ended and we have won, so we are supremely content." Storm Raged From Monday Until Friday Night, Doing Great Damage. Apalaohlcola, Fla., Sept 10. The worst storm known here- In -many years raged from Monday until Fri day night the wind reaching htgh ve. loclty and the watea. rising ovyr the wharves and flooding the ' lower streets. The warehouses and whary'l of Coombs ft Griggs, Ruge BrvJ Cunninghsm Grocery Co., .Taponf wharf, John Marshall ft Co., Saxon Lumber Company, Jos.' ' Wessina, Electrlo Light and Telephone Com pany, John Fowler', and a- great part of the Cypress Lumber Company art sll more or less destroyed." Cross ties for the construction of the Apalaohlcola : Northern Ralrway 'were washed away and thousands of saw logs wsnt adrift f-i The fish and oyster canning fac-' torles which were on the water front were ruined and great sucks of lum ber at the Cypress Mill and on the yards . Of fhe Apalaehtcola ..Lumber company were. damaged, v k . The work of reririnr nd rebuild ing the damaged iroperty hss al ready begun and Iiv4 short while bet terv buildings . will ' replace- those de stroyed. ; . '' i'. - - i"-." Apajschlcota has up to thla writing been entirely cut fitt from communi cation with the' outside world. . Cable and telegraph service, direct la still CUt OfLVV . .' -'..,- '', . ';;-.S ANOTHER liTOKM APPROACUING. Tropical Dim rhsnoe of as Yet Un known Hovc'y Is pressing est the Heels-of Let Week's Hurricane. Washington, fkst 10 The Weather Bureau te-nlght 's inounced that an Other I-; "tropical d. vr bance" la re ported ss apprbath. -g the Tucatan Channel from the sua. but that there was no Information av hl as to the Intensity of the storm.V rts approach was reported to the Hu, -au by the Bolen Cpllege of . Jesulu v t; Havana, the - same source from V Hjeh the warning of the recent Oulf -vrlcane first emanated. -While the Be, a u of ficials decline to hasard a piS, hiion ss to how severe Is the second -vm. It Is pointed eut that the rem, --qt of the storm or last week now V Ins? crowded southward In the. mi, die Qullf coast may serve, as a chsc FIRST tOO TO SAIL WEDNESDAY. Transport 8umner lo Precede Main Expedition With Force From New York Nearly 8.000 Marines and Blue Jackets Already Available) to Governor Taft. Washington. Sept S0.-H3ecretarv TTaft, as 4-he head of the President's special Tniaalon to Cuba, has avail able nearly 6,000 marines and blue Jackets, who could be landed on Cu ban soil in a few hours in - case of emergency. Other marines are en route to Cuba and will be available cor emergency sorvlca In. two or three ... i , . days It will be 4 full week before the forces of the ,my can be landed In Cuba. The nt detail of troops will leave New Tork on Wednesday aboard the army transport Sumner. - They will arrive at Havana on Baturady af ternoon - next It win probably be several days later before other troops or tne nrta expeditionary force of th army will -be able to reach Cuba, . H it likely they will go to Havana.'. No time is being, lost ht hurrying troops to the point of mobilisation. Newport Newa Va, - Advices received to-day oy tne snuitary seceretary.- General Ainsworth, indicate that the ' orders to Che troops are being carried Into effect."' ' ,' .-..'v I --' .'. - v .. Nine hundred 'men. 'W4W salt from New Yotk next-' Wednesday . on th army treiwmow Sumner. One light baUery from Fort Sheridan at Chica go will embark from Port Tampa for Havana as soon as arrangements ran be Completed for the movement The remainder of 4he first" expeditionary force, which will number about .6,790 men, -will sail for Cuba from Newport News,' Va, ;, '.v t.- I'ne general movement ot tne army forces is shown In a cablegram sent to-day ty Aotlnc Secretary of War Ollvor to Secretary Taft at Havana, the text of whkih follower , f v; "WashlngUm, Sept; lOi llOi. ' "Secretary "Taft- Havana,- Cuba, ' Telegram'' from e President: . Ar range for ,000v troops to start-for Cuba as noon as possible. Troops now moving. - Embark at Newport News. except , light - taiWery.v avihtch goes through Tanypa, and two batttaUons ot Infantry - and one battel Ion of . engi neers, wttlch ax from New York on the Sumner. Total force to consist of ten battalions of infantry, four squad rons of cavalry of It men each com pany .and troop: two mountain 'bat teries from Vancouver, one noicr bait- ery, one b&ttauoA Of engineers, one company or signal corps, ss medical oirk-ers nd 171 hospital corps men. 8umnr -now , loading with 'rmmla sayy supplies at New York end ex pect o salt (with about. 600 ' men front there, ag specified, ,by Wednes day:? Balance of Corvee from Newport and Tampa so xonow as ratuuiy iSHJECQEQTitAiy vTiUi:i::,: A NEGRO CUA11GEP..WITII t 111 .Ml J .-.''.- '' ,'.! "i - ,.', ' , .-.' Locomotive Iicavrs tlw Trau k, Cravlt. " ing.Into Lo4)id Cars of LuniU-r " and Killing a Negro Women Homo Distance Away .Several Truliiincu .' Hnrt, . But l's-wengrTS ' , I h-bihI ' 'Without Injury Knglnccr, by ' . Jumping, Saves His Life Detect Ivo ' A hern, of Greensboro, Arrcets Will V Mclvcr, Colored, and Charges Htm With ', the Crime Circumstantial Evidence Against 'Him,' '-'.';.:.. ; Special to The Observer. ;U'V':v"i ' , , ' High Polnt'-Septr 80. A serious wreck 'occurred here-last night at mid-night on the Asheboro division of the Southern, and as at result, a negro ' woman Is dead, a negro man Injured . and the engineer and firemen of the ill-fated train are - badly shaken up and bruised about the bodies as a re suit of their Jumping from the engine. . They-are at the hospital but It Is not ' thought they are dangerously wound- d. -y :-,," yy . '.; . " Thefllst of tb dead, and. wounded follows: i .- 1 . " .-' - ALICE BROWN colored, dead.'; . ' Hun iWhlte, colored, bruised about the shoulders and head. V ; r, ' - Engineer Kin Wilson, brulscil about the body , and suffering from sever .' shock '' . '. -- ' v ' Fireman Reed Norrls, of Randleman, ' hurt, about body and. atove-up1 from, jump from engine. 'V ' - -. vlvy Hall, brakeman, was also In- . Jured. - : . . ... ,;':"?('' The wreck occurred In the aouthern part, of thr city Alongside the planu of the Eagle Furniture Company V.aT the Standard Mirror Works. ' - , A BAD SMASH-UP.Vy, ; j ' The Asheboro train wss dnS to leave here at 6 o'clock. but never got away -until a few vnlnutes tl 11. o'clock owing to the latsnsssj' of the south bound trains. Engineer Kin Wilson was relieving regular Eagtneer'Kephart on thla run. The train was bounding along at a pert- rate when Engineer . Wilson felt the steel monster rear up -. and turn Its nose from the main Una . Into cars of lumber.. . Quick as a flash he roverstd the, lever and he and his fireman went to the "tall timber." The engine butted first Into a heavy loaded lumber car and poked Its nose half way through solid tiers . of planks, breaking Its ace and completely dis mantling the engine, especially on the' ' right lde, eVhlch struck most of the V lumber In Its mad flight over crosaties. The cabin on the engineer's side was completely smashed and he would un-. ' douutcdly have been killed had he re mained at hla post; the fireman might havf escaped. An empty cattle car and; 'two other lumber cars , wera smashed into kindling wood, the cat tin cur going down the embankment Some four hundred feet of trackago was torn up and .the construction fores i were busy from. early morning until .12 o'clock removing the debrl and getting, tha .ensue aiid. caraout' let the way. ' y . - ,--. ' V:. :VT NO PASSENGERS INJURED. s The passenger coaches never left the track and no one in these car were JnJured more than-; a aevero shake-up. The negro woman that was killed was coming tip the track with a negro man when the train approach ed. .They stepped off between two b cars and in a few seconds the om lay dead, .being crusnsd. Into w jei from the ; compact of the ' wreck care. . The man had a very -narrow -cape, having been ' struck by fly i -timber and wedged Into' a small c ner. , ,' , ; ,".,:Ji $ -The location of the wreck was su ae to cause - serious damage, , be among the sidetracks of factories r lumber piles and Jt Is rather mlr lous that some of the passengers not badly injured .or killed as Ih.f grated the lumber piles. Howevrj only thing-that saved a nvbre sc wreck was the engine going InU solid car ot lumher, which acted wf.ll In stopping the speed of th and thoreby holding the cars back ef snore serious dsnger. . All day I crowds of peopleVffocked to the s of the wreck and watched the wi of removing the wreckage ' t : ; WAS TRAIN" WRECKED T -. Various causes Ire given as the r son ior tne wrecx, ueiecuve ah of Greensboro, has been here all and he believee that the train wrecked, and In rubsUhtlation or claim hss had arrested Will M colored, charged , with placing a I piece of Iron, part of a brake, on track. , Mclver was arrested b- he told of a piece of Iron being ot track before there was any susj as to the train being wrecked. f gineer Wilson positively state? th engine struck some object track and thst It. bounded fo Just a be jumped for his llf- I brake shows an Indenture as If,, of a-nglns had .struck It while It were broken..'.- Its rusty m( shows that,, It was not In u time of the accident, but had i edly been picked up alnngfdd. track. This is -the brake that was supposed to have become ed from a car and .fell down track, causing thw . wreck.. The tha brake were gathered tip be carried toGreeniboro to-r Detective. Ahrenj the croj.H the accident occurred wer sound and some suggests' blllty of rotten crosstlea of the wreck. The wreck v Southern In. the ntilghlv $60,000,' sot I am Informed. LAKE VESSEL LOST WIT .- .-.".;;, vr?'-'' '' . Unknown Steamer Goes -..All on Board Huron;. hi St g . .. -A. ' r. expect to complete anrpmcnt o ,rA force within ten dya- Chief ol ,i. - will furnish further details ss rspkm ! information-in reooivtMl. All V'S-A -ero directed to' take full opv, 're cots, , mosquito bars u . ..... -if. , ' V, ' vr.--- upon the second storm.": ;; - v ; Vf bartered tranwpopta c be ready Varge Wicn vrew oi aligns euu siiss- . r' ing.. h ? - . Key West Fla, flept 10. The steamer " Northmen arrived - to-day from . Port Arthur, Tex., 'having the steamer Toledo, also from Port Ar thur, In tow. The Toledo was found iiuabted In ths Oulf and feports that she lost a bnrg whloh sh was tow ing In the storm. The steamer Wini fred, from 'Port "Arthur, 'arrived'1 to day Snd oepnrt that h could find no tra of her barge w)th eight men on Load, which went adrift - In the storm, o xcrortcd . . v.. v : ,,' -t of which was previously Sumn try trt snd s Vss;' tvi ue aad,,i and head Thi troops -M.1VER, fiocretary. ' "to rn.hu.. on th pr t-. -ttallone of tnfatw i i'liittHtn, (N,V.) barrack , battnlla ei nnglpeers , from rton barracUs. -companyln r II i-A s-me ot!l i nnd 1nen t iiiil torps and -l- -Uat'fori.j ;'h.a; ' t S';p. -orp : Port Huron, Msrh"-! unknown steamer foun entire crew in Lake Hu "Ko St $ o'ol'xk this v" the, northwest rai. T wltnifvei by 'the crew ger steamer Ci:y of i' nrrlved at Hnr'-.r lit-.. Mackinaw -w.i i m-n when the un!. no , ti and crul(ol ' ': -u t I somfi 'time la t'n I some of t!ie ci -w, in-- end storm i found. I'- r Uio Vf. 1. t: i. Sefii' I Mobil.-, abi in i to-nl;!it Wll in ' that a i ttio V" lu-re t.)-i I: ...r, :.;?:. ' ':f- - j. i j .. e i
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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