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' y :- VOL, V: NO. 185- A.8HEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBEK 11,45001 PEICE 6 CENTS 7 " Ail OESTREIGHER&GO An Extra ordinary otter of SILK WAISTS. We will put on sale Monday, Sept. 10th 50 Silk Waists in all the prevailing shades and made of the best quality of Taffeta and in vari ous styles. These oods are worthfrom $6.40 to $8.50 each. Our price during this sale is $3.75 each. This is beyond any doubt the greatest offer ever made of SILK WAISTS. OESTREICHER&CO 51 Patton Aye. If we have it, it is the best. One Tub Cider Mills Two Tub Junior Cider Mills Two Tub Medium Cider Mills All at close prices. in ASHEVILLE, N. C. SOUTHEAST 70R. COURT SQUARE. PHONE 87. MASSAGE.. STEAM Treatment for: Nervous, Rheumatic and other diseases. Special: Thur Brandit Massage for Female Diseases; Also Face Massage. PROF. EDWIN GRUNER, S. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 206. (Gnaduate Chemnitz College. Germany. formerly with Oakland Heights Saoa- wlum.) tiome or office Treatment. Office bour. U a. m. to 1 p. m., 2. to 4 p. m As a corrective of Dyspepsia and ii rstlon, Grant's Digestive Cordial Proved exoel'lenit.'Our sales have rn nearly 600 bottled. As a tonic, a tive and gentle laxative we cannot ommend it .too fcdgfcly. " It corrects loui eructaJtions afiter meals, nausea. freaii of taess anid oppression so hwn y exPerienced after eating ;a Wu! F11- It's a sure cbrrectSve of Qm. 00113 atipaition . Price . ; 60c. MUmtUBIBllffllM COMPANY Relief Parties Bring Death-Dead Bodies Found by the Hundreds- Lars:e Part of City in Ruins--30 Other Town Wrecked. Dallas, Sept. 10. At 6 o'clock this ev- ening the Houston and Texas Central office in Dallas was notified from the headquarters of the company in Hous ton that couriers from the relief parties sent forward to Galveston had sent word that sixty dead bodies had been found in one block on Tremont street. Six hundred corpses had been gathered at one point and 400 reported at anoth er. People are dying from injuries, sickness and lack of fresh water, and unless medicines and fresh water are supplied soon, the death list will be ap palling. More than 700 bodies are reported picked up on the mainland within a distance of twenty miles along the coast. A special train with relief forces, medicines, food, etc., started for Gal veston from Dallas tonight. Austin, Tex., Sept. 10. Direct com munication has been had all day with people residing at points on the main- and, not far distant from Galveston, but they could not give any definite in formation as to the damage wrought nor the number killed. All that is known of a certainty is that a large portioni pf the city has been completely destroyed and cores of bodies have been recovered from the beach on the mainland, where they have heenis'ept by the tide, and that innumerable oth er bodies are to be seen floating in the bay. No record has been kept of the num ber of bodies recovered. It Is reported at one roint over two hundred bodies of women and children were .gathered. Telegrams to Governor Sayres from parties who have just reached the mainland from Galveston estimate the loss of life from 1,000 to 3,000. There is hardly a house in town hab itable. Many large manufacturng structures and scores of handsome and costly residences went down under the force of the storm. The total loss of property in Galveston and on Galves ton island will reach into the millions. Authentic information from several coast and interior points today fixes the loss of life and property as follows: Galveston, 1,000 to 3,000 lives lost and property loss many millions; reliable estimate unobtainable. . At Texas City, many houses raised; fifteen lives lost. Town of Alvin, -wiped out; seven lives lost. Town of Hithcock, devastated; num ber of people injured; no lives lost. Seventy two houses wrecked in town of Waller; one person killed, several in jured. Town of Rosenberg was partly de stroyed and three killed. Coast city of Seabrook almost wholly destroyed; three killed. Town of Quintan Is reported wiped out and a number of lives lost. Every house in the town of Pearl raz ed, but no lives lost. Town of Alio Ioma was wiped out, but no lives lost. A score of houses destroyed in the town of Altar, and all houses in the town of Clodine razed. (No casualties reported. Many houses razed In Richmond and several lives lost. At Hampstead, "Waco, Elgin, Bas- r I i Valuable Mineral Property. One hundred acre tract on Tur key ycak, CQDiU-lnilng large de posits of magnetic iron' ore. Worth, ithe investigation of amy oiie having necessary capdtal for development, as it possesses great poasibdlitiesl v Owaer aextous to make a quick ssie. ' f 9 ! & Z .Ptone 661. 23 Patton avenue. A IFIIAMIL ill Back Terrible Reports toop, Chapel Hill and other places many blown down. At Morgan's Point several houses were razed and two lives lost. There is great damage to property at Missouri City and four persons were killed. At Bryan many buildings were un roofed and one person injured. The town of Angleton suffered reat ly; three persons killed. Over sixty houses were razed at Pul shear; one person killed. At Village Hills, Sabine Pass and Smith-ville many houses were blown down. The town of East Benard was entire ly -wiped out. Three persons were kill ed. Most of the town of Dickinson was destroyed and six killed. Many buildings were destroyed at Genoa, "Webster, Clear Creek, Virgia Point and other small places. SCENE'S IN THE RUINED CITT. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 1$. Starting as! soon as the water began to recede, the Houston Posit correspondent, with others, began the work of rescuing the wounded, 'and dying from the ruins of their homes. The scenes that were presented cannot be told of in a pto eaic manner. It is not possible to do ilfc. Screaming women, bruised and bleeding, some of the bearing the life less forms of children in their arms, men broken and sobbing, bewailing .the- loss of tiheir wives and children,; streets filled with floating rubWeh, among vwhih there were many bodies of the victinas of the storm, constituted part of It he scene . - In every direction as far as the eye could reach the scene of desolation and destruction con tinued. The first loss of life reported wai that at Rietter's saloon on Strand, where three of Ithe most prominent cit izens of the irown lost their lives and where many others were maimed and Imprisoned. The dead were: Stanley C. Spencer, Charles Kelner andl Rich ard Lord. These three -were sitting alt a table on the first floor making light of the danger, jocularly telling each other that ithey -would stay in the city. Sud denly the room caved in above them and came down with a crash into the saloon, killing all of them. Those in the lower part of 'the building escaped wi'th their lives in a miraculous man ner. The falling roof and flooring were caught on the bar, the people standing near it dodging and resting oander the debris. It required several hours of hard work 'to get them oult. The negro waiter who was sent for the doctor was drowned at the corner of Strand and. Twenty-firslti street, and his body was found a shorty time after. Col. L. J. Polk, 'the general manager of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa, and several other prominent citizens of the cilty left 'the restaurant a 'few minutes before the collaose. A PLACE OF REFUGE. The next place visited was the city hall. 'Here were congregated' fully 500 people who were more or less injured in various ways. One man from Lucas Terrace reported the loss of fifty lives in the building from, which he escaped. He himself was severely injured about tfhe head. On Avenue M several ladies were im 'prisoned in a residence by the water and debris. They were rescued by a party headed by C'apt. M. The riot. Several of them were badly hurt, but they are still living. Coming back to Fremont street and going out to Avenue P 'by climbing over Ithe piles of lumber which had once been residences, four bodies were ob served in one yard and seven in one room in another place, while as many as sixty 'bodies were to be seen. lying singly and in groups in the space of one block. A majority of the bodies. however, that have not been recovered are under the ruins of the (house and it will take several days' hard work to get all of them oult . The body of Miss Sarah Summers was found by the cor respondent near her home on the cor ner of Tremont and Avenue F, her lips smiling, 'but her feature set in death, her hands grasping her diamonds tightly. The remains of her sister, Mrs. Claud Ford Train, 'have not been re covered. The report front St. Mary's infirmary shows Ifchiat only eiffhif. per sons escaped from; that htospital. The number of patients and nurses could not beascertaihed, but ordinarily the number of inmates was seldom under a hundred. Rosenberg '.school house, which was chosen as a place of refuge by the' people of that locality, oollaps- ed. Some of those who. had taken xe fuge Ithere escapedr fhow many cannot be learned. Of those who did not es cape nothing' anortaa remains except the inanimate flesh. . DEAD, , AND , WOUNDED, EfVERY- T,. . :yi-Jf:.:i "WHERE. ( . As Sunday unomlns dawned the streets were lined th people naif clad cripple in. -veryf conceivable . manner, bobnldn: as best .they could to where they could receive ttoe alttentiott ofphys- iciahs for themselves and summons aid fbr friends . and i relatives "who , could not move . Police Officer . John. Boiwier mho recently was lawarded a prlzea' of Destruction and the most popular officer in the city, was met by the Post correspondent in a pitiable condition. Hie feelD were torok en, two ribs caved in and his head bad ly bruised, but his condition, he said, was nothing. "My house with -wife and children are to the gulf i I have not a thing on earth for which to live." Notable among the sufferers was Pat O'Keefe, who has for years kept a popular resort' on the beach, and who 4s known to every visitor to Galveston. As the old man came trudging along he was 'bemoaning the loss of his wife and everything he had on earth. Where hi resort stood on the beach facing the gulf there is not a vestige of build ing or piling tto be seen. The grevt bathing pavilion known as the Pagoda, the big pleasure resort known as the Olympia and Murdoch's bath houses are all swept away in the gulf. There were few bodies on the beach. They had been swept into the gulf or driv en up into the rubbish 'by the waves. Only half a dozen of them were in sightt from the side where the workers were. One incident was that of a three year old boy who sat holding his broken head in 'his two hands, making not a murmur of complaint. He was taken back into town, smiling at the Joy of human companionship after his aw ful experience. He will probably re cover. The house of all prominent citizens which 'have escaped destruction have been turned into hospitals as have the leading hotels. - There is scarcely one of the houses which are left standing which; do not contain one or more of the dead as well as many injured. RAIN ADDS TO MISERY. The rain began, 'to pour down In tor rents and the party wenit back down Tremont street toward the citv. The misery of the poor "people, all mangled and. hurt, pressing' to the city '-t medical attention, was greatly aug mented by this rain. Stopping at a small grocery store to avoid 'the rain the party found it packed with injured. The provisions in the store had been ruined, and there was nothing for the numerous customers who came hungry and tired. The place was a hospital. no longer a store. Further down the street a restaurant which had been submerged by water was serving out soggy crackers and cheese to the hungry errvwd. That was all ithat was left. They wore soaked full of water, but 'the people who -were fourtunate to get those .sandwiches were hungry and made no complaint. On returning to the Tremont hotel, which is at the center of the city, the reporter found the deai'i list to swelling rapidly, the accounts coming from every portion of the city. It is hard to determine w Tat section of rhe city suffered the greatest damage ai)d icse of life. BARRACKS DESTROYED. Fifteen men, consltuting.all that re mained of a ccn pary of regular sol diers, stationed at the beacn barracks, were marcied down Marker street. At 11:30 Sunday mo.-ning the water had receded from the higher portions -f the city, but the str-:s n-ar he bay f -ont still contained one 10 thrte feet cl water. Tie Galveston Nevs office cn Me chanic street was fljoded Th back end of the building caved in, .he en gine and 'boilers wer? fil'ed wih watfr, m&kinc; it impossible for a parcr to be iS.'Urrd At '.he Union depot scenes similar tnose m-it with .in other portions c tne itf were 'to be fou-3. Easgage Master Harding picked up the lifeWs rnt of a biaby girl within a few feet of the s'ation. Its paren:s djid not be lou'Ud and are supposed' to have been lost. The staltion building- 1 -ji ben selected as a place of refug- by a Uri'e r umber of poopi. All windows in tne tuUdine and i uortic-i of :bs wall at the top were blown in and the orcupart? expected evs.y moment t be their last. Bait escape was impos sible, for about the building the wa er must have been fully twelve feet deep. A couple of small shanties were float ing about, but there was no means of making a raft or getting a boat. ON THE WATER FRONT. On the waiter front the destruction of property was almost as great as cn the teach, though the loss of life was not nearly so large. The wharves of the Mai lory company were completely de- CALL AND SEE That welare al ways prepared to supply you with tne best Wines and WWsMes... both imported and domestic at the - -' :T . ' v s. - , CABE ftfWABD, Tropi. 21 South Hate.- 'Pfcans 283. Boston Saloon stroyed. The big steamship Alamo Is lying among the ruins of the piers. How great the damage tto the ship can- ; not be told until she is dragged out in to the stream to be examined. The 'Wharves of the Galveston Wharf company are also gone and the great wharves of the Southern Pacific com- i pony which have been in course of con struction for the past several months are damaged to the amount of $60,000 and the damage is sucbj that months of work will be necessary to replace' them in the same condition! they were in when they were struck. WRECKED VESSELS. The Norwegian steamship Gila, which was engaged in the Cuban (trade, was stranded up the bay 'beyond where the railroad bridges once stood. The British steamship Taunton is ly ing on Pelican island, hard and fast aground. The Mexican, a big British steamer, was driven up the bay -and is fast situck in the mud. Another big ship is lying oult near Quarantine sta tion. It looks like she tried to .put to sea and was driven ashore. The Ken dal Castle has. been driven as far us as Texas City, where she is now stranded. Of the small shipping only a few boats are left. The 'Little schoon ers have been lifted bodily out of 'the water and flung upon the island. Others of them will bleach their1 bones on the mainland coast. Others are scattered along the bay front in all conditions of brokenupness. The Char lotlte M. Allen, the steam, ferryboat to Bolivar is. safe. The "big drege used at Texas City has been driven inland for half a mile and she can never be gotten oft except an pieces. The Pensacola was in port when the storm began, but Master Simmons put to sea in the teeth of ithe brewing1 storm and it is feared that the boat and the crew of 36 men have been lost. WHARVES DESERTED. There are now no big vesseds about the wharves, which were alive with seamen and longshoremen Friday af ternoon stowing cargoes-. The Ithree grain elevators and Reymer's Choffer mill are wrecked. They are not down, but their roofs and the top stories have gone, and grain stored therein has probably been ruined 'by the rain. The damage to the ships at this 'time, -when the demand for tonnage is so great, is regarded as one of the worst features of the disaster from a business stand point. None of the vessels aTe irre trievably losit but if will take some time to get the boats off and get them repaired, even though they are not wrecks . STRAND STREET UNDER WATER. The wholesale houses along the Strand had about seven feet of water on Itheir ground floors and all window panes and glass protectors of all kinds were "demolished . The top of the Moody Bank building was blown away and the fixtures of every house tm .this long business thoroughfare was de stroyed. On Mechanic street the water was al most as deep as on Strand. All pro vision in the wholesale groceries and goods on Ithe lower floors were saturat ed and rendered valuless. The engine house of the Tremont hotel was caved in 'by the falling smokestack and cook ing was made an impossibility. The damage to the hotel building will amount to $25,000 at least. The power house of the street railroad company was destroyed and the loss on machin ery and building is estimated at $70. 000. There are no wires of any sort standing. They are lying in tangled masses across the streets and will have to be cleared away before horses and vehicles can move about the streets. Grant's Corn Pharmacy. Solvent, 25c. Grant's Grant's Tonic is excellent for a run down system. It improves appetite, aids digestion and increases weight arid strength. 75c. Grant's Pharmacy. Grant's Flavoring Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon and Orange, are guaranteed pure and of superior strength. 25c. Grant's Pharmacy. Blackberry Cordial, a standard reme dy for bowel complaints, 25c. Gran.'s Pharmacy. They have proved: Columbian Insec ticide for Roaches; Columbian jLiauid for Bed Bugs. Sole agents, Grant's Pharmacy. No need to worry about the kind of femon and vanilla to buy. Just tell your grocer to send Blue Ribbon. "R0CKBR00K FARM" CREAMERY BUTTER. CUT PRICES. ... GRAPE JTJICE. Quarts from .55c to 40c Pints -from 3ac to 2."c One-half Pints from.... 20c to 15c LIME JUICE. Quarts from 35c to 30c ROOT BEER. Quants from 20c to 15c True FRUIT SHRUB in Rasp berry, Strawberry and Orange. Pints' from 30c to 25c.; CLARENCE SAWYER GROCER. , ' . i ' --..-.---. - 6 NORTH COURT SQUARE. POWERS STILL DELAY REPLY No Official Information Yet on the Question of Evac uation of Pekin. Ignorance Regarding; Condi tion of Affairs There, it K Caused by the Continued Difficulty o Communication. England Gives No Hint of Her Prob able Policj. IMPERIAL EDICT RECEIVED1 BY CHINESE MINISTER IN WASH INGTON CONFERRING EXTRA ORDINARY POWERS ON EARL. LI London, Sept. 10. There is still no formal official information as 'to thore- pnes ot the powers to Russia's pro posal to evacuate Pekin, and there is no hinit of England's policy. The tardi ness of England and Germany in re plying1 is ascribed to ignorance regard ing the precise condition of affairs in Pekin, owing to the difficulty of com munication. Today comes the news that the 'Japa nese representative at Shangha inform ed his colleagues that Japan4Is sending troops to participate in the -occupation of Shanghai. Pending their arrival' 600 Japanese sailors will be landed. Washington, Sept. 10. The Chinese minister has received the imperial edict conferring upon Li Hung Chang extraordhary powers for a complete settlement of :the Chinese troubles. It gives him authority to make terms- ac cording to his own discretion without referring to the emperor. t REPUBLICAN PLURALITY WILL REACH 31,000 In the Maine Election Lo8g Prom 96 But Gain Prom '98. Portland, Me., Sept. 10. The republi cans have elected John F. Hill govern or by about 31,000 plurality. This esti mate is made ait midnight. The total vote is likely 'to reach 115,000. The re publican ioes, compared with the 'total party vote in the election of '96, is about 11 per cent., while the democrats have increased 'their vcJte of that year 20 per cent. The republican gain an plurality from the gubernatorial elec tion in 1898 is about 23 per cent. SENATOR PRITCHARD RETURNS. Senator J. C. Pritchard yesterday re turned from Washington to h'is home in Marshall. He will probably leave for Greensboro in about a 'week to take charge of the state campaign, in the position ito which he -was recently chosen as chairman of the state exec utive committee. All first class grocers 6ell Blue Rib bon lemon and vanilla. 500 pairs men's light weight Shoes at cost. G. A. Mears . Tan Remember me for cots and cot mat tresses. Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 43 Pat ton avenue, 'phone 166. El Princdpe de Gales, La Sincerldad, Robert Burns and other choice cigars at Grant's Pharmacy. Grant's No. 24 cures Cold and Grippe. 25c. Grant's Pharmacy. La tf Sick, Nervous and Neuralgic Head ache quickly relieved by Baldwin's Headache Cure. 25c. Grant' Pharma cy, tf Absolutely pure with a delicate per lme Grant's Talcum Powder. Tin box 10c, 3 for 25c. Grant's Pharmacy. THE- DAILY GAZETTE Is on sale at the follow ing places in the state : AtHEVIIiLB: H. Taylor Rogers. C. P. Ray, -!P. EV Bainbridge. Asfhevllle Printing' Co. L. Blomberg. Battery Pwrk Hotel News Boom. Berkeley Hotel News Room. Swaimanoa Hotel News Boom. Southern Railroad Depot. ON ALL TRAINS of the Sontiem Railroad entering and leaving; Asfceville. HEND ERSONVTLLE : A. P. P. King. WAYNESVILLE: ' ' 'v Waynesville Pharmacy. B J3VARD:., , -. . . - Leonei Youog & Pisher. HOT SPRINGS: ; Mountain. Park. HotelT' Kewji Room. HAUEIGH: '-TW iittrtocKfrgb House OTesnr Rosa 3 r' i -t 1 h ;! VI
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