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t ; ' S ' . -V : ! - -.j-f . - t '-)' A.8HEVILLE; It CUV SATUEDAI UOBNING; SIABGH 18. 1899 Vol: 4; No.34. Price sXeats. h it r ! If J" i OESTREICHER & CO., 51 Pattoh Avenue. 4 BY EMPRESS Jti v -" arrival oandonJe Tail- ; ! from th'e lo-annul 1899, in Spribg- pet coloring?. MSdeight, fit right v and prices right. Also Tailor. ms"r'-. fd Jackets in Tans. Browns, .'St. Blues and Blacks, Silk Hnedv new apd nobby for inter-season $t wear. St Suits, $10 to $25. Jackets, $5 to $10. I OESTREICHER 51 Ntrn A e. !i8!l!!IHSllslli4!Siij Just Red eve d 2ar load J) IE MI Flour Car load Retsof" Ice Cream Salt and Rock Salt, for btock Car load White Seed Oats. ' GA. GREER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FANCY GROCER, V ; 53Patto:aAjiroe- , 7 Huyler's Candles ' Received today ( Saturday ) Jordan Almonds, 7 . c , Burnt Chocolate Almonds, ', Salted Almonds. Taffy, Assorted, 2 Molasses Candy, Marshmallows, ' Caramels. Chocolate- Peppermint,- .' ; ' Bonbons an d Chocolates, - ,'?? Mixed Chocolates, ' 4 ' Candied Fruits, ; ss 8 Agency, 1 HEII11TSH & REftGftH - ' Druggists, ; Church St and Pattbn Aye. ; Phone 132-w: en m a hurry for DrNu'-?c IJ1B1 'M nm $ - ii ii n it II U 111! II II II U U 11-11 n n ti-arv ii lb u D D b Min Jijives Lost an4 Scores of People Injured in the Destruction of the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue. 1 Eight Bodies, all oi Women, who Were Xillled in Leaping from Win dows, Identified. A Search only Raveai How Many Died In Tha F ery Furnace. Abner McKinlev, his Wife and Daughter and Miss Helan V McKinlev Among the Rescued. Thrillmg Scenes of Rescue and Escape by Means of Ropes Let Down from the Windows, Ivew York, March 17. The Windsor Hotel," for nearly 'thirty years cme of the - t i nrJost famous hotels of .thi3 country, was completely destroyeid hy fire this after ffcSn ansa maaysTycrsons?were' curnea w de'iiJi and probafoly more tham fifty in jure J. Eight bodies have been! iden'ti fiei buttbere are more in. the ruins. Tha identified bodies axe 'thosz per sons wfro had leaped tor fallen from wfn dows. All were women. Mrs. Warreii Leland, wife tof th pTopri tor and! her daug'hter were two of tJiese; others gnts at the hotel. There were rescues by scores, some of them the most thrill ing imaginable. Amtong these -were Ab r ner McKinley, wife anld! daughter and" Miss Helen McKinfley. The fire occurred an for the time be ing, the mlost crowded piant of the ci'ty, for Fifth avenue was jammed from curb to cuTb.with St. Patrick's day parlaiders. this fact is due stome of the losa of life and injury to persons for the crowd Ji interfered with the police and firemen. but so suddenly dud it sweep througn the big hotel, ; fronv floor to floor, from street to too f, and from side to sidef , thiiU if there h'ad been i5o crowd there would still hkv beeni miany accidents aind some fatalities-. ' ,v' ' It Ss the worst flte New " York has load im !m!any yeiara.lt may bet days before the list -of the ateafl is completed. Th- is no complete list of thie missing'. There ' ' ' v.' - '-; ' ' "' ' w " aire bodies in the .ruins, but only by "a search will the extent of the disaster be known,- . .'. ""';rv' " HOW IT STARTED. J ; Vl't was a few. minutes past 3 o'clock when the fire broke out. A waiter on the secto-nd v; floor noticed one of ; the guests light a cigarette and toes the match tfQward a window; It struck the lace 'curtains wnlcih 'blazed up like so much powder. a' -- s A't .ithis nHnen)t FSfai aveniie was ESTABLISHED 1888. 'AA' :'ASpfDlrtvata;i Treatoent of Lung and Tbjroat Dleaaea! : v". A ; KARL tob HUCK, M. D., MMllnl rirctor. 5?S $22 ?? n upward.accirdin? to tlw room selected. - mcludea everything t-iceptlng medicine, which are supplied At cost A s certain cumber of t reoma are raerved at lower rate for battents whoee-. :: financial circumstances eoiir It ud to xwh Oia mfiiHn,. in-. : du4ed. v Patients 'can enter, and r admitted. 5 -r - ,K v" 'T-V .'. "-'V' '- ' 1 Iff blocked wiith crowds watching1 the SL Patrick's day parade, tihen passing: The windows of the hotel were crowd ed' and ihundreds were on the roof. In a few mimutea smoke was pouring from a dozen windows, of the big hoteL One of the ef!evatoirsJfell with a crasih and the shaft became a great flue suck ing the flames. By the time this nrat engine arrived the people im the windows had rushed back only itio return screaming and terror-stricken. The firemeni at once began 'the work j!f reseuiei, but, were hampered by the lack of fire escapes and (the frantic struggles of hysterical women. From a window on the third floor a man lowered his daughter axsdvwife to the ground 'and then came down hand over hand azndd the cheers of thousands. Rope fir escapes were being thrown out from every room and men and wo men climbing and attempting "Co lower themselves ito (ttue street. Now and then a fortunate one would get to the bot tom without falling, but eigbjt outf ten would slide a few stories and then fall the rest of the way. Time after time f shoot down, strike a victim would the portico and bounce off inito the street. The firemen did not have enough nets, but occa sionally one would catch a falling vic tim. A Of sixty or seventy who slid down the ropes but two. or three were killed. The injured were carried into near-by 'houses. . Meanwhile the ffkmes were gaining terrific headway. They nad broken through the roof and 6lhot high in the air. Dense clouds of smoke poured out of the windows and darkened every thing. The firemeni continued taking women down the ladders, butt one leap ed from the fourth floor window, turned .four or five somersaults and landed on the sidewalk unconscious. On titte Forty -seventh street side there were several thrilling rescues. At two wMdows pople saw two women shriek ing. The women then.: disappeared never to return. Wh&tbjer tthey lived or died, none . knows, trot by this time the wlhoTe interior was a roaring furnace. It Ss aimoat certain they perished. A FBARFTJI panic. Several others were seecr to perfeh. All this time tihere wis a most terrible ave i 'any , tlmewA Advanced past r nc . v JlnrahKotelajidAiji'tarliiJiiCo. v insid ithe doomed hotel. f Mi men lout Hheir hekdir and ran Pfdly about hriefciiig vad-drvdxut'for. Palicemaa and firemea braved the I of air and , the, BUffocating smoKe and gathered in most of the - ' v j vrv tut nuviu W see and did not leave-until the roapin& flames were almost on (hem. 9n the street floor the panic was al .0fit indescribable. Anaon those res cued from the first floor were Mrs. Ab aer McKinley, her daughter, Mabel, and the president's sistter, Miss Hela McKinley, who were gotten down the main stairway In safety. One woman after being rescued caH- so loudly for her diamonds thai1 a fireman got them at the risk of his life. By the time tihat the work of rescue had gone as far as- it -was possible all the fire engines that had arrived suc ceeded in getting streams on" the burn ing hotel and the buldings .near-by. Flames wera coming from- every win daw and licking at the Ihouses across the street. iThe fire was gotten under control by 7-o'clcek and nothing .was left but a mass of ruins. ' FIREMEN INJURED. : Several firemen were hurt by falling walls. None of the buildings which caught fire was destroyed buit several were badly damaged. . Among tlhe injured in Bellevue hoss prtal is Mrs. M. Price, of Macon, Ga., saster-ia-law of Governor Candler. One of the young wonien killed by jumping from, a window was idemtiified as Miss Lascelles Grandy, of Elizabeth Oiity, N. C. She arrived from the Japutih last "Wednesday. ' THE DEAD IND MISSING. New York, March 18, 2 A. M. Fol lowing are th names of the per soma whose bodiies have been recovered up to 1:30 o'clock this morning! John Connolly, hotel carpenter. Mrs. John M. Gibson, Cincinnati. .Miss Eleanor Goodman'. Miss Lucille G-radue, North Carolina. Mrs. .Nancy Kirk, Chicago. (Mrs. I&abelle Lelahd, wife of the pro- :v Miss Helett' daughter oJL.tJhe propriettor. Miss Amelia Paddock, Irvington-orn- Hudsdn. The names of one hundred and four were reported to the police as missing, but many of these will doubtleiss turn up. FIRST H. C. RFCIMFHT RECEIVES ORDERS- Havana, March 17. Brookes has or dered the Fourth Tennessee) anldl First North Carolina to hold themselves .in readiness to embark foT home. SAVANNAH NAMES A TIME LIMIT Troops will not be Received in City fr m Cuba Af terv April 15. ASavannah, March t 17. Mayor Myers said today that no troops from Cuban, ponts would be allowed to come to Sa vannah after April 15, fifteen days be fore the regular quaranline. He said, however, he would not object to bring ing soldiers Fort Pu'laski, "at the mouth of tlhe' river, and keeping them theire while, their clothing was fumi gated. OAK STANDS FOR UMBRELLAS. AND POTS from 45c up to $2.00 each. New pattern. J. H. Daw, 35 Pattern av enue. , TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tatole AM druggtota refund the money If it tafia to coxet 26 ceata- The eeouiae oaa L B.Q. o5aacb tablet. A Perfect Coffee ' t $ a 4 . ? -JAV0CHA A I 2 IScientificallylJf I Blended a naff I-Roasted. , 1 ' ' : . I It makes a f licibus drinlL 'I Shldefs, . ' -. OH the Sq'iare GOOD NE17S FROM OTIS Expects Satisfactory. Termi- nation of Philippine War in About Three Weeks. Washington, March. 17. Most grati fying information regarding the Filipino insurrection was received from Gen eral Otis today. The most important statement was Otis' .expressiion of con fence that with a conitinuance of suc cesses the milttary situation would de- v:e4ap a satisfactory termination in about three weeks. Otis said he had cuit Aguinaldo's army squarely in two, and was pushing each division back. Half a dozen ocean roing tugs will probably be sent Dewey from the Pa cific coast in compliance with his oft repeated request. i( -UHGEN SA LCK. ftSOAflt DRIVEH BACK. Manila, March 18. The insurgents north of the city advanced from their trenches late yesterday and attacked He-Arthur's centre. TQie TJ'cah battery, the Third artillery and the Tenth Pennsylvania drove the enemy back. Three of tha Tenth Pennsylvania were wounded. A Filipino soldier who has 'been captured, states that the rebel forces north of Manila number 4,000. The main army of 10,000 men is com centraired at Malolps, the insurgent capital, REOOCUPY TAYTAY- Manila, March 17. The insurgents have - reoccupied the site of Taytay village, which the Americans' captured and burned yesterday. One hundred of the Twenty-third intfantry were towed on barges today by one of the impro vised gunboats from Pas'ig across Ia- .gna de Bay .(bo Bmangauaft, ' which place was shelled. Our lines were com paratively quiet today, though there was some firing on the front by the Tenth Pennsylvania. General Lawton will re'lieve General Andfrsson in com mand of the brigade of regulars. The latter Will return to the United States. TREATY RATIFIED BY SPAIN'S QUEEN. Madrid, March 17. The queen regent today ratified the peace treaty. It is understood the government ihas decided not to publish the decree relating to the signing in the official gazette. THE THREE MILLIONS ARRIVE AT HAVANA. Havana, March 17. The transport Meadow, oonvoyed by tlhe cruiser Chi cago, arrived this morning With $3,000, 000 to pay the Cuban troops. OPPORTUNITY. FOR THE PEOPLE OF ASHEVILLB. I have made up my mind im go Porto Rico. I will cIom ut my nt3r trtxjck- at 25 pen cent. lss thaa ceet. Clothing, seat furnSxhlng goods, hats and underwear, merchant tailor's cloh arid doth for ladies' tailor made suite, also store pic tares. EntCSre stock must go I. W. 6LA5ER, 84 South Maia street, AsbeTiil. WOOD'S SEEDS. Wood's seeds are peculiarly adopted to the soil and- climate . of the South. Sold at Grant's pharmacy. , Sunmy rooms wiPth excellent faible at "Kennorthy Cottage" on Melrose ave nue. Rates six to eight dollars per week Address Mias Mary A. Gray. Hams', Buffaol and Lincoln Water, al 111 Lithia ... ' v a ; f -, fit I A- - at -i ways Opp. Post Office.,, fc ,?isWHt Sid. 5oor;;-, Paragon IRPEfit v A;A . 'nurnntnAirTT UVCiiUiAin PestinDny Submitted t Yekerday in Dick erson Tria. The Director's Accounts from Early in the Year 1896. Same Kwurd of hr k Trans fer mui 0v'i''Si'aiL Month Aftrr MisiiUi. Summary of Transactions cf Dicker- son as J. E- Dickerson, J. E. Lick- - erson & Co. and the As,heville W odworkiiig Ccsipany. The entire morning session cf the Diickenscn trial yesterday was taken up with the (testimony of S. T. Dorsett as jo'the account ol 3 E.-Dickerson and J. E. Dickerson. & Co., with the First Na tional bank. The examination of the government covered itihe period from May 1,' 1890, UP 'to the failure of the bask, and showed that during that Ame these accounts Were overdrawn al mcst constantly. The status of the accounts during May, June, July, August, September, January, February March and April, 1897, was given during th morning. The number of items involved in a singla month may be judged by the fol lowing, which shows the accounts for February, 1897: ' a Fehruax X.he .-wi 3 draft, $2,454; Pebraary'-2; wiMidV? $126.87, and deposited $100, a check by,. ' ' J. E. Dickerson & Co., whose overdraft was $3,057; February 3, withdrew $69; overdraft, $2,250, and deposited $100, a check by J. E. Dickerson & Co., whose overdraft was $3,008; February 4, withdrew $2, overdraft, $2,400, "and de posited $1'00, a check by J. E. Dicker son & Co., whose overdraft was $3,040: February 6, withdrew $128; overdraft, $2,528; February 8, withdrew $200; ov- -erdraft $2,628, and deposited $100, a check by J. " E. Dickerson & Co., whose overdraft was $3,132; February 9, he wkhdrew $55, overdraft $2,583, and deposited $100, a check by J. E. Dick erson & Co., whose overdraft was $3,116; February 10, he withdrew $50; overdraft, $2,533, and deposited $100, a .check by J. E. Dickerson & Co., wtoose overdraft was $3,199.59; February 13, withdrew $151 and deposited $100, a check by J. E. Dickerson & Co., whose overdraft was $2,172; February 15, withdrew $35; February 16, $224, and deposited $100, a check by J. E. Dick- erson & Co., whose -account was over drawn $2,808; February 17, withdrew $1; overdraft, $2,810; February 18, with drew $50 and deposited $100, a check by J. E. DicVerson & Co., whose over draft was $3,571; February 20, withdrew $2; overdraft $2,762. February 23 with- " drew $23, overdraft $27.66; February 24 withdrew $142,' deposited $100. a check by J. E. Dickerson & Co., whose ov- (Continued on fifth page.) Do' You Want Some Silverware For Less Than'it is Worth? We have,selected out a lot of Silver-plated Ware, inclu ding Trays, Flat and Hollo w Ware, .which we are offering af$o cents on the dollar. It will pay youjlto look these things over as y they are worth 20 per cent, more than we arejnow asking for them. Arthur- Al. Field f . Ltading Jeweler, j Church! St. and Patton'Avq. i -' CD V - - . t J ' .x . f it V A n V ' a1 V LA ' Asheville, N. C V
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