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UIIIIDHAW
Our Troops Win Not Remain
Unless Powers Reach an
Agreement Soori.
Pekin LikeJj to be the Center
of Negotiations,
Soldiers of Allied Forces Living in
Perfect Harmony
Splendors of the Imperial Palace
Viewed.
A NON-COMMITAL ANSWER SEiNT
TO THE CHINESE MINISTER AS
TO THE UNIED STATES' AOCEP
ANCE OF LI HUNG CHANG AS
REPRESENING CHINA'S GOV
ERNMENT. Washington, Sept. 11. This govern
ment will shortly notify the powers
that it will withdraw the American
troops from China if the allies don't
come to an agreement within a reason
able time. The way is being paved by
the state department, under direction
of the president, to withdraw the mil
iary gracefully and remove Conger to
Shanghai, unless it shalL appear advan
tageous to keep the legation at Pekin.
As the imperial government, however,
has designated Li Hung Chang and
Prince Ching to represent the emperor
at Pekin, and Earl Li will shortly re
pair there, Pekin may be the centre of
nterest this winter and negotiations
carried on there.
Acting Secretary of State Hill, after
a long consultation today . with the
president at Somerset, Pa., over the
long distance telephone handed the
Chinese minister the answer of this
government to the imperial edict re
ceived yesterday vesting Li Hung
Chang with power to deal with what
ever questions may require attention.
The answer is non-commital but it is
pointed out that this government does
hot wish to appear hasty in accepting
Li Hunr Cnang at this time, though
willing to treat with nim eventually.
EVENTS IN PEKIN.
Shanghai, Sept. 11. A Taku steamer
which has arrived here brings reports
of events in Pekin. The advices are tto
the effect that the greatest harmony
prevails among 'the officers of the allies,
who treat each other with exitreme
courtesy, and !the soldiers are living as
though members of one army. Late
arrivals say that if any clash occurs
during the 'occupation of Pekin it will
be brought on by diplomats in Europe
and not by soldiers in the field.
The march through the palace was a
hisltoric event. Every army was repre
sented. The Russians led! and the
troops of other nationalities! followed.
Sikhas bagpipers played national airs
while the troops marched through the
grounds and buildings.
After the procession, wihlch was an
hour and a half passing through the
grounds, a party of civilians, Including
It.he legation ladies and prominent imis
sionardes, was admitted. The palace
was inspected. The most remarkable
feature of the building Is said to be the
gilded exterior, staircases carved from
single stones with dragons, lions and
other ornaments. The empress' bed is
trimmed with solid 'gold.
Blue Ribbon lemon and vanilla are
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Grant's Corn Solvent, 25c.
Pharmacy.
Grant's
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Grant's Flavoring Extracts, Vanilla,
Lemon and Orange, are guaranteed
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Grant's Pharmacy.
They have proved: Columbian Insec
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Pharmacy.
I ON MONTFORD.
House tf 11 trooms and
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Haywood street. $3,500.
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$2,800. House of 9 rooTOJE,
almost new, well built;
modern, conveniences. '
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Real Estate Brokers j
Plone 661. 23 Patton avenue. I
THE SEA THAI UORKED HI
Kill
Poblems of Public Safety That Face the
City Water Supply Cut Off and Darkness Govers the
Desolation at Night Houses Uninhabitable.
SCENES IN DEVASTATED TOWNS ALONG THE COAST
Galveston, Sept. 11. The extremities
to which this city has been placed, by
the recent hurricane are almost beycs
appreciation. The water supply isut
off and the city is-in darkness, owing to
the partial destruction of the gas
plant. The houses, such asjjelajaiftare
soaked with salt water tJielght
of the first stories. Wreckage ev
erywhere. One person In eVeryfrty of
the population is.dead, and perhaps one
in every ten is Still suff erinf fromcuts
or bruises or shock. The dead must be
buried, the wounded and sick nursed.
Survivors must be housed, many of
them in tents, until the houses are hab
itable. They must also be fed. Gal
veston's citizens have rallied heroically
to the emergency. They have organiz
ed the city into a great camp, prac
tically under martial law. Soldiers
who survived the destruction of their
barracks, the police and the city mili
tia patrol the streets.
Committees have been formed to take
up every branch of the work of relief
and restoration. No help which comes
from the outside will be wasted or go
amiss, but Galveston is facing some
problems which even a nation's charity
cannot reach. The dead must be dis
posed of, and that quickly in this hot
climate. When on the morning after
the storm the work of collecting the
bodies began it was found that for the
safety ojf the living they demanded im
mediate action.
Many corpses are without clothing
sufficient to identify them. Others
have been disfigured and bruised' by
wreckage and washed about. When an
attempt was made to dig graves in some
places tt was discovered thait the water -
heoaked condition of the ground pre
cluded burial, and so the sea, which
wrought the bavoc, received many of
the victims, The work of disposing Of
the dead called for stout hearts. Many
shrank from it. The firemen of the city
became undertakers. The 'bodies were
gathered in two-wheeled carts and
hauled Ito the barge, which was turned
into a morgue. So far as possible a
list has been kept, and it is growing to
appalling proportions. As was the case
att Johnstown the number of the dead
at Galveston will never be known ac
curately.
GALVESTON'S DEATH LIST.
Galveston, by way of Houston, Sept.
11. The latest estimate of the number
of lives lost in Galveston is from one
thousand to three thousand. Up to 10
o'clock this morning 500 bodies had
been recovered and since that time
more have been found and were await
ing identification. The rescuing and
searching parties are so widely scatter
ed that it is impossible to obtain any
thing like a correct estimate of the
number dead that have been found up
to this time. Many more have been
found in the city of Galveston than
expected.
GALVESTON'S AWFUL PLICHT.
Dead Taken Out to Sea for Burial
Thieves Work Among the Aband
oned Stores and the Corpses.
Houston, Sept. 11. Additional details
by tug from Galveston show that west
of Thirty-third street the storm swept
the ground perfectly clear of the resi
dences that once stood upon it and pil
ed them up in a congl6merate mass
five blocks back on the beach, strew
ing the piling with debris and the bod
ies of its victims. Many of these were
lying out in the afternoon sun and
were frightful to look upon. The fear
ful work of the storm was not confined
to the district known as the Denver
Resurvey but it was near to the beach
that mosof the destruction to human ,
life occurd.
The horrors of Sunday at Galveston
were as nothing compared with Mon
day's. An attempt was made to bury
the dead, but the ground was full of
water and it was impossible to dig
trenches. Alderman McMaster and M.
P. Morrisey secured authority to have
the bodies taken to sea for burial and
a barge was brought up to the Twen
tieth street wharf for that ..purpose.
The firemen rendered heroic service in
bringing the bodies to the wharf but
it was almost impossible to get men-to
handle them. The most of the men
appealed to to work for the city declin
ed. GHOULS AND THIEVES.
During the storm and afterward a
great deal of looting was done. Many
stores had been closed, their owners
leaving to look after their families.
j The wnd forced in the doors and win
! dows and left the goods prey for the
marauders. GhouIs,,stripped dead bod
ies of jewelry and articles of value,
j Captain Raff erty, commanding the
United States troops here, was appeal-;
ed to for help and he sent in seventy-
OALMTWS
men, the remnant of the battery of ar
tillery, to d1 police duty. , They are
patrolling thepstreets under direction of
the chief of police. An urgent appeal
to the outsidfe world was issued and
those who respond are asked to send
contributions ;io John Sealy, chairman
flmnceebmmittee; W. C. Jones, may
or; M Lisker, president Islancl City
Savings bank J. D. Skinner, Galves
ton Cotton exchange 5 CM. Mc Master,
Galveston chamber of commerce;
G. Lowe, manager Galveston News, or
Clarence Ousley, manager Galveston
Tribune.
At 2 p. m. Sunday a meeting of
prominent citizens was held at the
chamber of commerce for the purpose
of organizing to relieve the suffering
and to bury the dead. A burial com
mittee was appointed to collect and
bury the bodies of all dead. Inquests
will be dispensed with.
A. Hamlin, a traveling salesman,
who arrived on the tugboat, says he
was at Seabrooke Sunday and assisted
in getting the people of that place to
Houston. Only one house is left
standing at that point. The mainland
is strewn with dead bodies. The town
of Angeltown was washed away; the
railroad age fit and wife and sister at
Virginia Point were drowned.
The work of securing the names of
the dead at Galveston proceeds very
slowly. The newspaper plants are
crippled and no papers have been is
sued since Saturday morning.
Mrs. Cline, wife of Dr. I. M. Cline,
local forecast official, United States
weather bureau, is among the identified
dead. Dr. Cline and his brother, Joe
Cline, and three children drifted about
in the raging torrents for three hours
on a roughly "constructed raft. They
were all bruised and cut frora their
struggles with flying debris.
THE WRECKED RAILROADS.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 11. The rail
roads will suffer the loss of .millions of
dollars in actual damage, to say noth
ing of the loss from the stoppage of
business. At Galveston, their
wharves, warehouses, depots and
tracks are ruined. The costly bridges
which connect the island are in ruins
and must be entirely rebuilt.
The International and Great North
ern and Santa Fe have considerable
track washed out, while the Galveston,
Houston and Northern will suffer heav
ily. Superintendent Mulvey yesterday re
ceived notice that all track between
Seabrooke and Virginia Point, with all
of the bridges, had been washed away,
and Section Foreman iScanlan and aTl
his chew had been lost.
HOMELESS AND HOPELESS.
Destitution Alone: Santa Fe Eoute
Prairi Strewn With Dead.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 11. The Santa
Fe run its first relief train to Hitch
cock this morning, finding pretty much
the same condition of affairs along its
line as prevailed along the Galeston,
Houston and iHenderson railroad along
whichSuperintendent Rice, of the In
ternational and Great Northern, travel
ed. In many places the homeless Inhabi
tants of the section traversed by the
Santa Fe were found housed in emptv
box cars while others were sitti-g
hopelessly on the wreck of their house
hold effects piled together In promiscu
ous heaps. Many of the sufferers are
destitute and without means to reach
friends or relatives in other portions o '
the state and will have to be given
free transportation to places where
they are sure of obtaining sneiter ana
sustenance. Every building in Fear-
land was either damaged or destroyed
GALL AND SEE
Thatwefare al
ways prepared
to supply you
with the best
Wines and Whiskies...
both imported
and domestic at
the
Boston Saloon
CABR AfWABD, Props.
21 South. Mia. .. "Ffccm .
J
T
OEAD
Living in the Ruined
but fortunately no lives were lost
there. At Alvin the story is more
gloomy. Besides the great damage to
property that town had several deaths
to record resulting- from the storm in
addition to the 7 previously reported.
The information from Angeltown is
that it and the surrounding country
suffered severely from the storm and
that assistance is much needed there.
Algoa, Arcadia and Alto Loma show
signs of a severe visitation and many
are in need of help in each place. The
twelve-year-old-son of James Bodecher
was killed at Arcadia. Two children
lost their lives at Alto Loma. Three
bodies were found hanging to a fence.
A number of bodies floated in from
across the bay but could not be identi
fied. DESTITUTE1 REFUGEES.
Many destitute refugees have been
picked up here and taken to the Jac
quard hotel, where they are given ev-
ery possible attention. Many of those
refugees were suffering from injuries
of various kinds and had been in the
water for some time.
The injured were taken to the Hous
ton infirmary. Most of them floated in
on drift and rafts and one of the party
came ashore on a piano.
One hundred ammunition boxes from
Camp Hawley were found near Hitch
cock and a pile driver from Hunting
ton wharf was driven inland to with
in a few hundred yards of the town.
The prairie is covered with drift of
all kinds, dead cattle, water craft of all
sizes, buggies, wagons and such like.
Searching parties had up to noon found
a dozen bodies in Hall's bayou and bur
ied them and then work was not half
completed. The railroad track from
Hitchcock to Virginia Point has been
washed away from the road-bed and it
Is impassable.
UNRECOGNIZABLE DEAD.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 11. The scene in
and about Virginia Point is Indescrib
able. Those who survived flood and
destruction are nearly all severely in
jured. Most of those found alive were
severely bruised and v maimed, pre
senting a pitiable sight, with their limbs
lacerated and bleeding. All bemoan the
fate of those dear to them whom they
feel must surely be drowned. Many of
the dead have heir faces and heads
mutilated so that it is impossible to
learn the names of those who find their
last resting place in the crude graves
hurriedly dug. A head board was
placed on the grave in nearly every in
stance giving as nearly as possible, age
and accurate description.
It was found necessary in many in
stances to bury three and four in one
grave .
Those who have survived the wreck
are homeless And have had nothing to
eat since Saturday last. As most are
injured it is not possible for an organ
ized movement on their part. Life
sustenance must be furnished by relief
or they will help to swell the list of
dead.
Most of the bodies found in and
(Continued on fifth page.
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CLARENCE SAWYER
GROCER.
6 NORTH COURT SQUARES.
VICTORY FOR
DISPENSARY
Such is Result of Yesterday's
Primary in South
Carolina.
McSweeney Wins Against
Hoyt for Governor.
James H. Tillman Chosen Lieutenant
Governor.
Their i Majority is About Twelve
Thousand.
TWO BLLODY FIGHTS REPORTED
AS A RESULT OF THE ELEC
TION A DAT OF TRIUMPH FOR
TILLMAN.
Columbia, S. Ci, Sept. 11. The sec
ond primary election to settle thfe ques
tion between candidates not settled in
the first election on August 29, was
held (throughout the state today. The
issue was brought clearly between Gov
ernor McSweeney and Col. JJamea A.
Hoyt for governor. In ithe first race
McSweeney received in round numbers
38,000 votes, Hoyt 23,000, while the .three
other candidates, Gary, Patterson and
Whitman, divided 18,000 votes between
them. Governor McSweeney is fight
ing for the continuance of ithe Tilman
dispensary system and Colonel Hoyt i
against it.
The dispensary triumphed today. Mc
Sweeney for governor and James H.
Tihnan for lieutenant governor were
re-elected by a majoriity of about
twelve thousand. Tilman Is a nephew
of Senator Til-man.
So far two bloody fights are reported
as a result of the election. AlFeast
ervalle one man was shot dead and
another was dangerously hot at
Blytthewood.
ATLANTA TO HAVE A NEW PAPER.
Atlanta, Sept. 11. Six membera of
the staff of ithe Atlanta Evening Journ
al have resigned, and, with a number of
other well known newspaper men; wilt
in the course of the next few weeks
publish an afternoon paper to be known
as 'the Atlanta Daily News. Walter
Howard, formerly of .the New. -York.
Journal, will be the editor of the new
paper. W. R. Hearst of the New
York Journal is said to be 'behind it.
PRIZE FIGHT DECLARED OFF.
San Francisco, Sept. 11. The Tom
my Ryan-Jack Moffett fight for the
middle weight championship Of the
world which was1 scheduled for tonight,
has been declared off.
Overwork tires more people than ov
erwork. Hospital bulletins contain the news'
of the weak.
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500 pairs men's light weight Tan
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Remember me for cots and cot mat
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El Principe de Gales, La Sinceridad,
Robert Burns and other choice cleans
at Grant's Pharmacy.
Grant's No. 24 cures Cold and
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Absolutely pure with a delicate per
ime Grant's Talcum Powder. Tin
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THE
DAILY GAZETTE
Is on sale at the follow
ing places in the state :
aHEVILLE:
H. Taylor Rogers.
C. F. Ray.
F. F. Balnbridge
Ashevllle Printing Co.
L. Blomberg.
Battery Park Hotel New Room.
Berkeley Hotel New Room.
Swannanoa Hotel Newa Room.
Southern Railroad Depot.
ON ALL TRAINS of the Southern
Railroad entering ami leaving
Ashevllle.
HBNDERSONVILLE:
A. F. P. King.
WAYNESVTLLE :
Waynes ville Pharmacy ,
B .EVARD:
Leonel Young & Fisher..
HOT SPRINGS:
Mountain Park Hotel New
Room. J&H
RALEIGH:
Yarboarigh House Nr Room
MORG ANTON :
B. S. Gal titer.
CHARLOTTE:
Btiford Hotel News Room.
want s Pharmacy.