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E AS CITIZEN THE WEATHEJl rain; ' 'Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. .VOL. XXV.- NO. 127. ASHE VILE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1909. PRIfiE FIVE fiENTS. SAYS HUSBAND ACCUSED HER WINE AND DINE THE SCATHLESS SENATE AFTER TRUSTS, HOUSE AFTERMONEY Unlimited Supply of Talk Turned Loose of Sub section A BilL DUNG. COOPER . In For Forty Days TELLS STORY OFJTRAGEDY Relates Events of Four , Years Leading up to Car ' mack's Killing. v OF BEING FLIRT NAVAL HEROES Mrs. Brokaw Files Her Scene of Festivities Trans ferred to Richmond for the Day. Amended Bill of Divorce In New York. TH HEWLLE t -i-.j ANOTHER TURN IN THE FAMOUS CASE Long List of Grievances Sot Out From Insults to Threats. ' (Special to Tli Citizen.) NEW YORK, Fob. 2S. Tha amend ed complaint of Mrs. W. Gould Bio kaw In her aotlon against her husband for a divorce haa Just been flUd and It gives detail of the matters of which she complaint. It recite al leged acta of cruelty and tells of the mental suffering caused the plaintiff by her husband's extreme jealousy during the time of their sojourn nt their High Point hunting lodge, which caused doctor who resides In Aslie-ville- to jnjmpel her husha id to sfgn an agreement to cease his persecu tions. Called Her Bsd Nairn?. The amended complaint alleges among other things, he following:.. "In November, ii-7. soon after car marriage, my huab.tnd railed me fool, Idiot. '-- 'iar. and worse, t lh- .-'otel flevi'te. In this cli.-, for n- r. atou whacv.:r. "At the same plate, a llttlu later. K i-. breaking ni nrj at all T i.i- of the night for abord rea t.i'S "There, and later In HH'.tlmore. he was habitually intoxicated, habitually lied to me, and accused me with flirting with Ir. Martin, his phy sician, and others. He ran about hotel corridors In his pajamas. "On Christmas. 1907, he accused me at Hotel Seville, of flirting with Jimmy Martin, his slater son, and of talking too much to his uncle. He wade me stay .n my room all even ing because I had a glass of Chan s' gne. ! . m A reused HVr of Fllrtlue. "to Fobruary, 108, at High Point, N. C.,' his hunting lodge, he accused me of flirting with his friend, a doctor from AshevMlle, and said I liked the loctor better than T .lid him. Hie doctor made Mr. Brok iw sign an agreement to cease his en -lty t- me; but he brika l: very toon af'er ward. ? . "He forbade me at FountMiiililcau Prance, to take luti::hr.on with Vrs. Sands, an old trie id, arc! her inlher-ln-law, Un. .raid llt, tullh'g them he was slc'-v r.nd nea-Ied mo to tart of him. It taan dran t heavily. "He broke into my room at Great Neck, L. I.. In December, 190S, and accused me of misconduct. When he went to his shooting lodge he con stantly sent telegrams accusing me of misconduct, and demanded names and Initials of guests whom I entertained. "On December 16. 1908, he had his servants close the house at Great Neck and take away ail the furni ture, forcing me to go away from there, while he remained at High Point. He left me without any means of support. GAVE DAUGHTER HER LOVE FOR WEDDING (By Associated Press.) MORRISTOWN. N. J.. Feb. 23. Mis Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, one of the wealthiest women in America, was married at noon today to Matthew Actor Wllke, who Is about sixty-six years old. and is the great-grand-son of John Jacob Astor. Mrs. Green and her daughter have been living In a modest apartment In Hoboken. but this morning came to this city with a wedding party of about thirty per sons tn a special car. In St. Peters Episcopal Church the marriage cere mony was performed by Rev. Phlla mon Sturges, the rector. Mrs. Green appeared to be In tho best of spirits at the ceremony. When asked If she approved of the mar riage ha said: - "I am happy because my daughter Is happy." She would not state definitely whether she had given the bride any wedding- presents. "I gave her my love," abe said, "and when I die, she will have si great deal more from me." EVENING JOURNAL WRECKED. (By Associated Press.) RICHMOND. Va,. Feb. 23. Fire of unknown origin, early today complete ly, wrecked The Evening Journal plant The estimated loss Is $40,000, Insurance $31.000. ' OCTOPUS OBJECTS TO JURY OF FARMERS; COURT QUASHES PANEL (By Associated CHICAOO, Feb- 23. The re-trial of the Standard Oil company of Indiana was unexpectedly delayed today when Judge Anderson, in the United States district court quashed the panel of 1&0 veniremen because of what he con sidered the singularly large propor tion of farmers thereon. It was so-called farmers" Jury which brought In the verdict making Judge- Landis fin ot I29.240.W0. in the 'original cs possible, mud John ft. 'Killer, ; of the defense, was prompt tn falling the attention to the fact that the panel prwented for the SPERRY TELLS OF BENEFITS ACCRUED Norfolk Will Entertain Sat urday and Give "Jaek ies" a Chance. RICHMOND, Va.. Feb. 24 Grace ful homage was paid by the South to day to the globe-girdling American battleship fleet In this quaint old city. "We welcome you to the hearts of a people who yield to no one In de votlon to the American navy nor In loyalty to 'our' flag.' This sentiment expressed by Mayor Richardson In welcoming Rear-Ad miral Sperry and his officers to this city, found harmonious echo In the following words of the gallant Sper ry: "On the world's cruise I have bad about me a splendid corps of officers. In my personal staff of - seven men. six of them are commonly known In the ships as "arrant rebels." Georgia. Florida, Bouth Carolina, all are repre sented among my personal aides while my old sour apple state of Con necticut Is left out entirely." Tho visitors Invited by the Rich mond chamber of commerce, arrived here shortly before noon by train from Fortress Monroe escorted by a great committee. An informal re- ceptlon at the famous old Confeder ate club, the "Westmoreland," follow, ed. Women Applaud Them. Then came the luncheon at the Jefferson. As the officers entered the hotel, they were flattered by a very pretty little atttentlon from the wo men guests, who lined up . on either side of the lobby, subjected the of ficers, to a vigorous hand-clapplng. The warriors dotted their caps gal lantly. Nothing but the most earnest de sire on our part to accept ypuT OPS' nitaiitv cou!dTa.ve brough us here to day. I have t read any oniciai man since arriving on the American side." Then as a faint smile curled nis lip, he continued: I don't know where tne secreiury of the navy is, and what Is more I don't care." BencftU of Cruise. The admiral then undertook to Im press upon his hearers that the voy age around the world was no Jun ket, that it consisted of, something more than entertainment and fetes. "Do you know," he aaked, "that while we have been encircling the globe we have doubled the score of last year's target practice? You have not been told that there has been an im mense Increase In the efficiency of the fleet nor that Its efficiency has Increased twenty-five per cent, in economy of coal consumption, due to hard and faithful work of the men below decks. This item nlone has greatly Increased the efficiency In flndng the enemy. For whe n a con test comes a navy must know how to get and and how to stay there when It gets there. "Now that the world Is governed by the people and for tho people, and since the people generally are only Impressed by what they see, It Is ne cessary, If you desire the peace of this world, that you show your fleet." Captain W. Gordon McCabe pre sided aa toastmaster and provided much of the wit and brilliance with which the luncheon abounded. In the absence of the governor. Adjutant General Anderson represented the state. STORMYT5 ROADS. FORT MONROE. Va.. Feb. 23. The bad weather which greeted the battleship fleet at the Virginia capes yesterday, the worst the sixteen ships i.o, s.ninrcil In ant wort visited on their way. around the world, con tlnued today. Storm signals n tho beach, and during the afternoon a stiff southeaster set In, driving a stinging rain Deiore ic JNearly one-half or the ships began coaling today In spite of the weather. All of the vessels came in wim oun ers nearly empty after the long and stormy run from Gibraltar. It 1 hoped that the last of the ships will have been coaled by Saturday In or der that the men may parade In Nor folk on that day. The men have so far been kept aboard ship In anticipation of au in spection of each ship by Admiral Sperry. (Continued on paps four.) new trial contained but threeChica goans. although sixty per cent "of the population wHhln tho Jurisdiction of the court lives within Cook county. "It looks llke.design. cr if not design it looks like a strange coincidence." commented Judge Anderson, whereup on T. McMullin and R- C. Jones, the Jury commissioned. Insisted with vig or that the latter was the cose, that the panel had been drawn exactly . as In the other cases, This the court later admitted to I fact. The iurv commission was ordered to produce the new panel Thursday, FICKLE WOMAN CAUSESSUICIDE Young Lieutenant Comes Home from Philippines to Find Her Engaged. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Speculation wa rife' in army quarters over the motives which could have .driven Lieutenant John J. Moller, of the Eighth Infantry, U. 8. A. to commit suicide by shooting himself- late last night in a room at the Grand Union hotel. As a result a story was re vived to the effect that the young army officer had been Jilted less than a year ago by a young woman with wfeom he had become acquainted While stationed at Governor's Island and to whom he had been attentive up to the time of his departure for the Philippines. While stationed In the Islands Lieu tenant Moller was tried before a court martial on a charge of having con doned cruelties on the part of the Filipino chiefs, but the verdict of the oourt exonerated him and when he returned from the far East It was With the idea ot renewing his suit with the young woman. Upon landing at San Francisco, however, he learned that during his absence the lady had become engaged to another, and this preyed on his mind, his friends declare. She is said to have since married. Three young women called at the morgue late tonight and requested to see the body of Lieutenant Moller. They declined to give their names or addresses. They appeared deeply moved when shown the body, and the youngest one Inquired for a ring which she said the Lleutnant had worn on his left hand. Re was told that the ring was in the possession of the police. Chaplain Smith, of Fort Jay,, GeV' ernor's Island, said today that four years ago a man servant of Mollcr'a shot himself In exactly tho same way that Moller had done. In both eases the bullet, he said, entered the light temple and made Its exit on the left side of the head. The chaplain added that the lieutenant thought a great deal of this servant. "ANGEL OF CHARITY" FOR ALL GRAFTERS (Uy Associated Press.) PITT8BURO, Feb. 23. That there was a regular organization among councllmen, with Captain John F. Klein as the "Angel of Charity" and that money contributed by six bank? wss divided among eighty-elfht mem bers of councils was told by Klein to Robert Wilson, who worked up the graft cases, according to the test I mony of Wilson, given today. When witness told Klein he seemed to have reduced the matter of controlling legislation to an art, he replied, so witness stated, "It is not an art. It Is a science." Tomorrow the Jury will be taken to two hotels, to see holes In the doors through which Wilson says he heard negotiations and saw payment of moneys. CHARGED WITH THEFT FROM BANK'S VAULTS (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Oalther C. Bodenhamer, twenty-six years old. who reached here today from New York and registered at a down-town hotel under the name of "P. G. O'Brien," was' arrested on a charge of having stolen about $2,000 from the vaults of the Forsyth Bank and Trust company of Kernersvllle, N. C. The police allege that he made a writ ten confession. TO TAX COTTON OIL- (By Associated Press.) PAR 18. Feb. 23. The tariff com mission at th close of its meeting to day adopted an amendment restoring the old maximum and minimum rates for all oils, with the excepton of cot ton seed oil, -which win pay a uniform rata of twenty-five francs per kil os. . R atsn maintained Ha decision with regard to chilled taeot. UPHOLDS BACON IN ATTACK ON RAINEY House by' Party Vote Re fuses to Take Action on Secretary's Letter. By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Rising to a question, of the highest privilege, Mr. Clarke of Florida, In the house of representatives today offered a resolu. tion providing lor an Investigation by the committee on judiciary of the let ter of Secretary of the State Baoon, of February t, 1109, wherein the sec retary depreciated the remarks of Mr1. Kalney of Illinois, regarding Panama cansA affair. fo ord to oocertaln whether or not It was a violation of the privileges of the house and to make recommendation accordingly. Messrs. Payne of New York and Overstreet of Indiana, sprang to their feet, demanding that the resolution be laid on the table. Breach of Privilege. The letter of Secretary of State Ba con, he said, had been scattered broadcast over the world through the press. ' There hus bi-en Mled in the archives of Hie government there to remain as mug oa the government stands," he aid "an attack on a member of this house for what he may have wiid in debate on this lloor. ' Mr. Rainey, he charged, hud been de nounced in that letter as having tit tered an untruth in debute, "was de nounced by the secretary of tate at the direction of the president" and denounced In an official communica tion to the r.'oresetatives of a quasi foreign power. By a strict party vote of 1H6 to 1-0 the resolution waa laid upon the ta bu. I'renltlent's Trip. The comlim hunting trip of Pres ident Roosevelt to Africa was the sub ject of a short discussion. Mr. Gar rett of Tennessee wanted to know how much, of the expense of that expe dition waa to be paid by the govern ment. Mr. Mann of Illinois volun teered the flimwer tha no public moneys were to be used. The fact that there remains an un expended balance of $22.r..O0O of the 3350.000 fund appropriated last year for the enforcement of the Interstate commerce laws stirred Mr. Fitzgerald of New York to a defense of the pro posal by the committee lat to ap propriate only $50,000. At that tlnv. said Mr. Fitzgerald, President Roose velt characterized the proposition as a sham and said that it would be bet ter to repeal the law. Brownsville Affair. Tho president is authorized to ap point a oourt of Inquiry to determine the qualification for re-enlistment of discharged soldier of the Twenty fifth regiment who were accused of hooting up Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August 13-14, 180. The Aldrich bill for this purpose was passed by a party vote of 56 to 26 except that Senator' Teller wted with the republicans for the passage of the bill. The senate also passed the forti fications bill, with appropriations ag gregating $ 320.111 and the diplo matic consular bill, carrying $3.(16 3I( of appropriations. ear 'St WASHINGTON, Feb. 23- Fore cast: North Carolina: Rain, Wednes day; eoldsnr In west portion; Thurs day fair, colder: brisk to high south west to northwest winds. TAFT MAKES PLEA FOR NEGRO UPLIFT Declares Education Badly Needed by Both White and Black in South. (By Associaud Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 33. Mr. Toft was the principal speaker tonight In the Interest of Hampton Institute, un der the auspices of tho Armstrong as sociation at Carnegie hall. A drench ing rain failed to keep away a large throng, eager to hear Mr. Toft and learn of the Industrial progress of tho Hampton students. Mr. Toft was given a hearty slavo of applause, as he was escorted -to the platform with William Jay Bohlef- felln, president ot thf association, Booker T. Washington and Bishop Greer. Mr. Taft began his remarks with the statement that nine of the ten million negroes In the United States live in the Southern states. i "Now if you read the congressional record," he said and the audience smiled audibly. Mr. Taft afso smiled out loud and he recalled tine senator who wanted to make people read the record.. It was. he said, a source of Instruction and amusement. This stntement he applied to his subjert by saying the record had contained a reference to moving the ten million negroes out of the country, backed by "the solemn, scientific statement ttmt the races cannot live together." The answer was that they are living together and any attempt to take any number of negroes out of any com munity would create a rfof. Race Problem Exists. "We hnve the problem and we have simply got to solve It," he asserted. "We have a race feeling. It does exist, anil that's part of ffff problem. I believe in my heart you are going to work It out by realizing that It Is not to the advantage of either to make It difficult for both to live to gether. The negro Is absolutely essen tial to the South. Hence It Is that the work of the Hampton Institute has such tremendous prominence. It Is the solution of the race question." No unprejudiced person. Mr. Taft sold, could read the statistics of the negro race In the past fifty years nnd not feel convinced that a solution was to follow. "Why." he declared, "a raee that can produce Booker Washington In a century ought to feel confident that It can do mlrlcles In time. "It Is very dlffleut to spesV In par liamentary language of the advocacy of the doctrine that we ought to keep the negroes In Ignorance," White Need Education. "One of the difficulties In the South is that It Is not the negroes only that need eflucatlon, and I mean that liter ally." He eulogized the patriotic spirit of the negro and bis love for the Stars and Stripes. It was his belief that the negro was going to work out his own salvation. Mr. Taft spoke of the agonies of spirit which he said he knew the negro had to suffer In the face of the !-. The future to them i overcoming the obstacles was well worth the effort. An appeal was made by Mr. Taft for funds, with the explanation that there was nothing so easy oa for a man without money to tell one who had it what to do with It. Bookef T. Wishlngton of Tuskegee Institute also addressed the meeting. FIRES AT HPEXCER. (Special to The Cltlxsn.) 8PENCBR. N. C, Feb. 23. A cot ton gin belonging to Klutt and Lynn near Spencer was destroyed by fire shortly before daylight, this morning entailing a loss of $2,600 with no In surance. The owners Oelleve the fire to have been of Incendiary origin; the plant had not been operated for ten days, though there la no evidence that night riders had gotten An their work In Rowan county. A quantity of bale cotton, and a lot of valuable- machin ery were destroyed. : Then la no clue to Who Bred tba building. . . a , " ' -.' S t t' ? i :' ."-'.'-'' : ; WEAVER WANTS TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN House Devotes Day to Rais ing License Fees on Va rious Businesses. (toselal ta Trts ciiismi.i RALKIUH. N. C Ken. 34, The senate discussion of anil-trust legis lation began today, continued for lw hours and then went over until to morrow when It will be resumed ail Infinitum there were two speeches today, Senator Lock hart for his orlg. Inal sub-section "A" bill and Heng. tor Hassott of the Blow-Bassett sub stitute which superceded the Lockhart bill In taking a favorable report at the hands of the judiciary committer. Senator Lockhart claimed his bill alons would be effective in bringing trusts to terms if they would profit by North Carolina business claiming further that incipient movements for water power trust, leading to a cot ton mill trust called for his bill as n curb. Senator Bassett urged the substi tute as being effective for punishing real offenders, "Conspirators," while Lockhart's bill might give serious trouble to Innocent parties and with its term "agreement" operate against tobacco growers In keeping down price of raw-material when prices once were lowered. Violation of the law should not be felony but remain t misdemeanor. The Lockhart bill opens the way for continual harassing corporations through power of the attorney gen eral to inak demands for .proof of non-vloluCibn of law four lm" year he claimed,: H warned the leg islature that the business Interests of the state are not In a receptive mood for Texas and Missouri leglslslon of this sort. Houmi In Taxing Mood. The house was In eommlttee of the whole again on the revenue bill and the work will be resumed tomorrow. The most Important results today1 Were the passage of a bill taxing au tomoblle dealers $25 and Including marine railways In the section taxing ship brokers; putting the $26 tax on liverymen who sell more than five horses In six months; Increasing the tax on sewing machine manufacturers and dealers from three hundred and fifty to four hundred and fifty dollars and raising the fifty cent fee for each agent to two dollars; Including under packing house tax of $100 all whole sale dealers In meat packing house products who own and operate cold storage plants and exempting all not handling over twenty-live thousand pounds a year: pulling on dealers In beerlne, near-beer and all drinks containing as much as one-half of one per cent alcohol a tax of twenty dol lars. Weaver Wants Cliam. Mr. Weaver lodged a motion In the house today for the reconsideration of the vote by which the Buncombe county prohibition bill was tabled last night, stating that he wished to offer a substitute enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Ashevllle courts, In order that tho people might get some relief from the near-beer establtament evil. Mr. Morton moved to table the motion, but withdrew It on the understand ing that he wss to be given a hearing on his bill tightening the state prohi bition law by requiring Individual licenses to keep liquor for personal use. BAD DAY IN COURT FOR ALL REBATERS (By Assoclstsd prtea.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 The ver. diet of the United States circuit for the Southern district of New York. Imposing a fine of $108,000 upon the New York Central rsllroad company on the charge of granting rebiites to the American Sugar company was to day affirmed by the supreme court of the United States. The case of th United States vs. the New York Central and Hudson river railroad company. Involving the question whether a railroad company, which Is a party to a rebate transac tion, but Which was not the Initiatory road can be criminally prosecuted for a violation of the Elkins anti-trust law was decided by he court against the company. THIRTEEN KILLED, MANY INJURED, TOWN DEMOLISHED BY TORNADO (Bv Asseelsted Press.) MARKED TREE. Ark., Feb. !$. Thirteen person were killed, more than a score were Injured, several se riously, and practically evry nalfd Ing in the town of Flaber waa wrecked by a tornado which swept through the northwestern portion of th coun ty early to day, according to m eagre advices received here late thla after noon. Wire communication with th devastated district la completely proa trited and the 'only information re ceived wa a. messenger who atated SENATOR WAS HIS . PROTEGE FOR YEARSj Flushes Angrily When- thfli Insulting Editorials are 7 Read Again. By Associated Press.) " v ,';-'" NASH VILI.B, Tenn., Feb. II, Th sixth day of actual testimony la the" eaaa of. Col. Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, and John l, Sharp, charged with the murdwV of former, E, W.' Carmack,' closed with the agd defei.4s.nt. Colonel cooper on (he witness stand. His own court-' eel were questioning Mm and when; court adjourned they Intimated that' they were about half through. They had taken him over the trouble, com mencing four yars ago and brought him down to the start from his son's office to th governor mansion, - It waa during this walk that th na tor waa killed. , , . Colonel Coopsr mad an excellent : witness. He appeared very coot, col lected and almost disinterested. Tho only time he showed amotion was when counsel war reading th edi torial which led up to the killing. Then hi already florid fic Bushed mar deeply and tha aoarlet stole up ever his balV head, accentuating th whiteness of whav little hair la lsft him. : f'.,' r t , Colonel Cooper la ihort, heavy sti very florid, and somewhat bald, ami his acanty hair, ilk hi moustache t very whit, His eye sre clear and' hard H la $4 'year otd, Coopsr gave his war- record with tt Forrest, where he got his title, then he said: "I mat Senator Carmack year ago at Columbia when h .was ejult' young ,1 brought him to Nashville edltot of The American And he re mained with me urrtll. lidl, when ha went. to Memphla," a , - : - Cooper aM that in ! Carmack wrote an odttArlr thanking th wit ness for what he had done for him. It was Carmack' farewell, In which he expressed regret si laavlnf Th American and gratitude to the paper end it friends. They maintained friendly relation until Ieoember,!l04 He said the relation between himself and Carmack were not cordial dur I lug the Carmack'Taylor senatorial contest. He said that th first of., tensive note appeared .In Th Mam1 phis News-Sctmntar In 101, - Cooper i supported Taylor then. - Witness bald that when h supported Pattsrsort for, governor, Carmack ceased speaking tt him. ..... - y !v;; An editorial In The Memphla New Scliuular of March tl, If 01, waa in troduced in evidence In part as bear ing on Cooper's . mental condition. ' Cooper had been Informed Carmack wrote it. Th editorial referred to Colonel Cooper and Colonel Gate a "consistent bolter who got together In support of the only governor the Louisville and Nashville railroad In It history or crime and debauchery , ever owned." . r . : - " The state objected to the tone of voice In which Attorney Washington read tho paragraph. Raid Headed Angel. Colonel Cooper ssid that in th joint debutes between Carmack and Pat terson his nam used very often, "it begsn," h Hj4, "in a spirit of ridicule and (atar charged m wltk . corruption. Ill first reference wss to 'a little be Id headed angel named Dune Cooper. Later referring to th , 'angel' he asked It the ' angel was white or bliek and were M feather ' tainted with a sulphurous fmell," Cooper said h waa a privat citizen at that time, held no offlc and aald or done nothln to provok th ate1 tacks. Carmack wee defeated and be rented and became , editor of Tho ' Nashville Tennesseean continuing, tbf al larks. ' ' ; fine editorial closed by "directing the attention ot th Honorable Dun Cooper and othW honorable," nam Ing them, to the threat to knife Bry an. Among the honorable named was Solomon Cohen,, who Cooper testified wa " block bottom dlv keeper, often eonvlctd of crime." A copy of Th Tennesseean of No vember $. contained the editorial en titled "Across the Muddy Chasm, . which so enraged Colonel Cooper that he told Craig that either Carmack or he must die If hi name appeared again. Cooper said Senator Carmack also charged him with being th "head :. and front of a corrupt machine." v .(Continued en ease feue.) that Id the town of fisher but two building are standing while th dam age In th surrounding country iB also great "' - t The dead are i. B. Bam, Wada Frees, Mrs. Stone, two unidentified men and a child. , Because of tha flooded condition of the Intervening territory a relief party which started from Marked Tree thia afternoon waa forced to abandon tha effort for th day.: Many of th dead and Injured, It Is stated, are burled beneath the wreckage ot tha demol ished buildings. ;.
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