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...: " r 1 SALISBURY. N.O. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7. 1898. NO. 45. VOL. XI. IB HID IE STTIFT TRAIN SMASHES 1 TROL LET CAB TO SPLINTERS. E3HTEEN PASSENGERS -KILLED. Mtn Mil Women On the Trail? Mantled lleoad Identification Ten .Badly ,"' Wounded and May Die. Shortly before 8 o'clock' Mondav ! . . . T ,, , A. ' night a trolley car of the Troy City Railway, company was struck by the J night boat special of the Delaware and Hudson railroad, at a crossing at the west end of the Hudson river bridge, which (Connects Cohoes," N. . Y.," with Lansingburg, Eighteen of the thirty-fire passen; gers were killed outright and it is stated that at least ten of the remain der will die. ? The cars entering the city for Lans ingburg were crowded with passengers returning from a Labor Day pionic at Renselaer park, a pleasure resort near Troy. Car Np. 102 of the Troy City railway was the victim of the disaster, ft came oyer the bridge about 7:25 o'clock, laden with a merry party of people. The crossing where the accideut oc curred is at a- grade Four tracks of the Delaware and Iludson road, which runs north aud south at this point, cross the two tracks of the trolley road. It was the hour when the night boat special, a train which runs south arad connects with the New York city boat at Albany, was due to pass that point. : - " The tracks of the street line Tun at a grade from the bridge to the I point where the disaster occurred. Inconsequence of this fact and of the frequent passage of "the-trains, it has been the rule for each motor1 car conductor to stop hiscar and go for ward tos observe the, railroad tracks and signal , his car to proceed if no trains were in sight. It cannot bo . ascertained whether that rule was complied with on this occasion, for all events ptior to the crash are forgotten by thone who were involved. The motor car was struok directly in tbe ceuter by the engine of the train, which was going at a high speed. The car was upon the tracks before the train loomed in sight nnd no power on earth could have saed it. The motor man evidently saw the train approach ing as he reached the track and open ed his controller, but in vain. - With a crash that was heard for blocks, the engine dashed into the lighter vehicle. The motor, car parted in-two, both sections being hurled in to the air in splinters. The mass of humanity, for the car was crowded to overflowing, was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with the woist fate. The force of the col lision was there experienced to the greatest degree, and every human be ing in that : section of the. car was killed. Bodies were hurled into the air and their headless and limbless trunks were, found in some cases fifty feet from the crossing. The pilot of the engine was smashed and amid its wreckage were the maimed corpses of two women. The passengers of the train suffered no injury in addition to a violent shock. The majority of the passengers of the trolley car were young people, They included many women. ' The miured were taken 'to the Cohoes city hospital and to the Con tmental kuitting mill, the former not having sufficient ambulance service to care for them all. The dead were placed in boxes and taken to a neigh- . boring mill shed Many were unrecognizable. The crash was frightful in- its results t . - , neatness women with gay summer dresses, bathed in their own and the blood of others; limbs without trunks or means of identifying to whom they belonged; women and men's heads .with crushed and distorted features; bodies crushed and flattened. The train of the Delaware and Had son road, immediately after the acci dent, proceeded to Troy. The engin eer stated that he did not see the car until he was upon it lie tried to prevent his train from sinning tne car. out his enorts were fruitless. ARKANSAS STATE ELECTION. Jonm, Democrat, For (JoTernor, Wlni lly - Decisive Majority. Monday Arkansas elected a full corps of state officers, 100 members of the lower house of the legislature, six teen state senators, local officers in each of . the seventy-five counties and voted on the adoption of two import ant constitutional amendments as well . as the question of the liquor license in .the different counties. The democratic state ticket, headed by Dan W. Jones, is undoubtedly elected, the only question of doubt being the size of the democratic plu rality. The vote on the two constitu tional amendments s in doubt. EXPLOSION OX STEAMER. Sis Men Drowned In Mississippi River at Fort St. Fhlllp. A New Orleans dispatch says: Six men were killed in the explosion which sunk the steamer John R. Meigs, near Fort St. Philip, on Saturday. v The forecastle was blown off and the vessel went in the deep water of the Mississippi channel. ' The explosion occurred about 11 o'clock. It was noon when the Meigs eank. y VTE. :th Great Faced Deadly Hall of Eai; Valor-Battle Do The correspondent c f a London neweptpzr thus describe! l . 3 conflict between the Anglo-Err forces and the Dervishes where: lie latter were completely routed I ilie city of Omdurman captured : " "Our infantry formed r.- outside the camp. On the left were the First battalion Northumberla Fusileers, the Second battalion Lancaster Fusi leers and the First battalion Grenadier Guards, .with the maxim-batter y, manned by the Royal Irish Fusileers. In our counter were the First Cameron .uuiuu Lincolnshire regiment with maxims WOrked by a detachment 'of the Royal artillery, under Major Major Williams On our right were the Soudanese brigades commanded by General Max well and General McDonald..- The Egyptian brigades held the reserves and both flanks were supported by the Maxim Nordenfelt batteries. "At7:20 o'clock in the morning the enemy crowded the ridges above the camp and advanced steadily in envel oping formation. At 7:40 o'clock our artillery opened fire, which was answered by the dervish riflemen. "Their attack developed on our left, and in accordance with their tradition al tactics, they swept down the hill side with the design of rushing our flank.' But the withering fire main tained for fifteen minute.3 by all of our line frustrated the attempt, and the dervishes balked and swept toward our center, upon which they concen trated a fierce attack. A large force of horsemen, trying to face a continu ous hail of bullets from the Cameron Highlanders, the Lincolnshire regi ment and the Soudanese, was literally swept away, leading to the withdrawal of the entire body, whose dead strewed the field. "The, bravery of the Dervishes can hardly be overstated. Those who car ried the flags struggled to within a few hundred yards of. our fighting line, while the mounted emirs absolutely threw tneir lives away in bold charges. "When the Dervishes withdrew be hind the ridge in front of their camp. the whole force marched in echelon of battalions toward Omdurman, As our troops surmounted the crest adjoining the Nile, the Soudanese on our right came into contact ' with the enemy, who had reformed under cover of a rocky eminence and had massed be neath the black standard of the khalifa,' in order to make, a supreme eftort to retrieve the fortunes tof the day. A mass, 15, 000 strong, bore down on the' Soudanese. "General Kitchener swung round the center and left of the Soudanese and seized the rocky eminence, and the- Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined the firing lino in ten minutes, and before the Dervishes could drive their attack home. . ; - "l he nower of the khalifa s army was caught in a depression, and within a zone of a withering cross-fire from three brigade?, with the attendant ar tillery. The devoted Mahdists strove heroically to make headway, but every march was stopped, while their main body was literally mowed down by a sustained deadly crfcss-fire. "Defiantly the Dervishes planted their standards and died beside them Their masses gradually melted to com panies, the companies to dribble be neath the leaden hail. Finally they broke and fled, leaving the field white with jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow drift dotted meadow. "At 11:15 o'clock the sirdar ordered an advance, and our whole force in line drove the scattered remnant of the foe into the desert, our cavalry cutting off their retreat to". Omdur man". ' ' "Among the chief incidents of the battle was a brilliant charge by the iwenty-hrst Lancers, ;under, J-aenten ant Colonel Martin. Galloping down on a detached body of the enlemy they found the Dervish swordsmen massed behind, and were forced 6 charge home against appalling odds. The Lancers hacked through the mass,' rai lied and kept the Dervish horde at bay Lieutenant Grenfell, nephew of General Sir Francis Grenfell, was killed, four officers were wounded, twenty-one men were killed and twenty wounded "The Egyptain cavalry were in close fighting throughout with the Baggara horsemen. For a short period the en emy captured and held the gun, but it was brilliantly retaken. . "ihe heroic bravery of theJJerv- ishes evoked universal admiration. Time after time their dispersed and broken forces re-formed and hurled themselves upon the Anglo-Egyptian, their emirs conspicuously leading and spurning death. "Even when wounded and in death agonies, they raised themselves to nre last shot LETTER CARRIERS MEET. National Association Assembles In Con- L , vent Ion at Toledo. The National Letter Carriers asso ciation opened at Toledo, O., Monday ! with 400 delegates present. Visiting carriers from various cities were esti mated at 5,000 and the convention ioDened with promise of Teing the greatest in the history of the associa ition. WILL SOT PARADE. An Order Issued In Reran! to General V " Miles and I1U Troops." r A Washington dispatch says: Gen eral Miles and his army- of between 4.000 and 5.000 volunteers now en route to this country from Porto Rico, will not parade in ew lorfc city or elsewhere, as a body, upon their arri val. The official announeement of iha fort vm mada at fha war depart- J ment Saturday.' DE R YISUE i " W EK 1 PBEIII CHEERS THE BAST SICK SOLD IIHS BY HIS PRESENCE. HE IS GIYEH A ROYAL WELCOME. Goes Throuah the Ilospltal and ATter- ward Addresses lieroes of - the Santiago Campaign. . President McKinley spent five hours at Camp Wikoff, Montnak Foint, Sat urday, bareheaded most of the time, visiting the sick in the hospitals and inspecting the well in their canton ments. He made a speech to the as sembled infantrymen, reviewed the cavalrymen, expressed his opinion of the camp to the reporters and issued an order directing the regulars tore turn to their stations east of the Mis- sissippL ' . With the president were Vice Presi dent Hobart, Secretary of War Alger, Attorney General Griggs, Senator Red field Proctor, of Vermont; Briga dier General Began, commissary of the army; Brigadier' General Ludington,; quartermaster of the army; Colonel lienrjr Hecker and Secretaries to the President Porter and Cortelyon. The ladies of the party were Mrs. Alcrer and Miss Hecker, daughter of Colonel Hecker. . ' w.U - General Wheeler, his staff and near ly every officer of prominence in the camp met the president at the station except General Shatter, who was still, in detention, and General Young, who fell and broke his arm Friday night. After greetings and introductions on the railway-platform, .the president took General Wheeler's arm and went to a carriage. Mr. McKinley drove to General Shaffer's tent in the detention camp. The general, who was flushed and weak from a mild case of malarial fever, was in full uniform, sitting in a chair at the door; of the tent. - He tried to rise, but Mr. McKinley said: "Stay where you are, general. You are entitled to rest." The president congratulated General Shaf ter on the Santiago campaign and after a few minutes' rest proceeded to the general1 hospital.- The soldiers recently .arrived on transports and dev tamed in the detention section of the camp lined up irregularly on each side of the road and cheered. Mr. Mc Kinley took off his straw hat then.and scarcely put it on for more than a minute or two at a time during the remainder of his progress through the camp. Miss Wheeler, a daughter of the general, happened to be in the first row of the hospital tents and she showed the president through her division. ' General Wheeler announced in each ward: - "Boys, the presidsnt has come to see you," or "Soldiers, the president of the United States." Some of the soldiers slept uncon scious, some listlessly raised upon their elbows, others feebly clapped their hands. Mr. McKinley eentlv shook hands with many, and at every cot he paused an instant, and if he saw the sick man looking at him he bowed in a direct and personal way. .rrom here the president proceeded to the infantry plain, as . it is called. The men of the Ninth Massachusetts. the First Illinois,-the Eighth Ohio, the Thirteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty second and Tenth regular infantry were assembled .without arms. About 5,00 men stood in close order. Gen eral Wheeler said: '"The president of onr great country nas come here to greet the soldiers that mnrched so gallantly np San Juan hill on July-1st. He comes here to express the nations .thanks to these brave men.' The president then addressed the men in a touching manner, eliciting cheers at frequent intervals. lhe part of the field where the Eighth Ohio stood, the regiment which is sometimes called "The President's Own',' was particularly noisy. The party then went to'the detention hos pital. The Jjraveyard, in which sixty to seventy plain new wooden crosses 6tood, was near the road on the left. The president solemnly raised his hat. Mr. McKinley went through all the wards of the detention hospital in the same careful way in which Jbe had cone through those of the general hospital. lhe president and those with him toctk lunch with General Wheeler and his staff. After lunch the president. General Alger, General Wheeler and t - - r Colonel Hard, of the Eighth Ohio, were photographed in a group. 'The president issued an order direct mg that the regular troops at Camp ikon -whose posts are east of the Mississippi should return with the least possible delay to their posts. When the president reached Long Island City ho took the government lerry ooar, uenerai Aieigs, and was taken around the lower end of Man hattan island to the Jersey shore on his .way to the vice president, at Pat terson, N. J., where he spent Sunday. BAYARD AT DEATH'S DOOR. Onr Former Ambassador to England Is Critically 111. special from Dedham, Mass., says: 1 he - conaiuon , ei j. nomas x . Bayard, former" ambassador to Eng land, who is at Karl stein, the home of his daughter, Mrs. Warre, was crit ical Sunday. So pronounced xas been the change in the past two oi three days that it was thought the patien would not survive many a ays. E5ULISH.GE112AX ALLIAXCE. Report That TTllllam and Tletoria TJara Sla-aed lTatnal AaWrment. A report: was currenC in London Friday that a treaty of allunce between Great Britain and Germany, on the lines of the speech of Jlr. Chamber lain, the secretary of stats for the col onies, was actually completed Thurs day. ' 1 yW-rr'- This is probably an amplification of the gossip lelative to ' the daily visits of Count Von HatzfeldWeidenburg, the German ambassador, the British foreign office during the past fortnight, which have been attributed to a desire upon the part .of Germany and Great Britain to formulate a common policy in regard to Russia and China. Another explanation of the German ambassador's visits to the foreign office here is that they are relative to mixed tribunals of Egypt, the international agreement on, the subject ending in February. Through" French and Rus sian influence, the court 'lias always hampered . the British . plans for the use of the Egyptian -savings and the advancement of Egypt. ... Now it is. said an agreement has been almost reached by which Ger many will support the British views relative to the future composition and powers t the mixed tribunal. It is said that as a quid pro quo for Germany's support in Egypt, Great Britain will recognize Germany's claim to utilize as an outlet for her surplus population.: Syria, a division of Asi atic Turkey,' which includes Palestine, J is estimated to cover an area of about 146,000. square miles. It has a popu lation of about 2,750,000, mostly Mo hammedans, but including about 350, 000 Greek Christians, 260,000 Maron ites. and -Roman Catholics, 175,000 Jews and 48,000 Druses. " Emperor William, of Germany, has for some timeipast been planning a trip to Palestine, and he is expected to visit Jerusalem this fall in order to dedicate the German church there and lay the corner stone of the German school, parsonage and hospital. His majesty has also undertaken to regain for the Roman Catholics the possession of the Coen aculum (inx Zion) the "chamber of the last supper," and the sultan of Turkey is said. to have inti mated his willingness; "to meet the wish of the emperor in this matter. The Pall Mail-Gazette of Friday af ernoon stated that it had I received rom a source jn which it. has every confidence information that the Anglo- German agreement was signed by Mr. Balfour and the German, ambassador in behalf of the respective powers.:"". TEN 5EW CASES AT 0RTV00D. Marine Hospital Service Receives Advices From' Mississippi Villag-e. The marine hospital service at Wash ington was officially advised Friday of he ten new cases of yellow fever which nave oeen aiscoverea ai wrwooa, juiss. The officials are at sea as to the origin of the fever there and have no definite theories to work upon. . They are endeavoring to trace, the causes. There is a possibility that tbe vie tims brought the germs in their clothes to Orwood from some point hereto fore infected, but the nearest one is Durrant, where the epidemic touched last year, and even on this theory the warm weather should have brought out the fever. Orwood. is far from the railroad and the fever, therefore, might not have been brought by that means. The Mississippi board of health has received a telegram from Inspector Grant statin c that yellow fever has appeared' at Taylor station. No re port of the number of cases is made Secretary Hunter makes the follow ing statement for the Associated Press "There seems to be considerable ex citement over the yellow fever m La favette county. The board feels ex ceedingly hopeful of being able to con fine the fever to the infected district, which is very healthy and not densely populated, The conditions are very favorable. In case of a spread, trains will be provided to carry the people north." FOUR YOUKG LADIES DROWN. Fatal Accident Occurs To a Pleasure Yacht On Presqne Isle Bay. A dispatch from Jurie, Jfa., says By the accidental jibbing of the sail o a pleasure yacht on Presqne Isle bay Friday evening, four young women were swept off into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered them. Their names are Ella, Mary and Para Dean, and Jessie Moore, C0RBETT IS UNDECIDED Whether He Will Go Acainst McKoy October 1st or Not. James J. Corbett, the pugilist; pass ed through Chicago Friday on his way to New York, In an interview he said: "I am feeling perfectly well and have not allowed myself to worry.' As re gards the fight with McKoy, I have not made np my mind whether to fight on October 1st or not, and I cannot tall until I have talked it over with Considine. I am still in the business, though, and mean to give everybody a chance, I want to thank the mem bers of the sporting fraternity for their .kindly expressions of Empathy for me in my bereavement. TRANSPORTS FROM SANTIAGO ArrlTe at Montauk Point With Many Con valescents Aboard. The transports Nueces, City of Washington and City of Berkshire ar rived at Montauk Point Friday. ; The Berkshire had 350 convalescents on board from the Siboney hospital. She sailed' from Santiago on August 5th, The Nueces had on board the Twenty- fourth United States infantry and two companies of the First Illinois. IB IIS MET. OPPOSED TO A REVISION OF THE DREYFUS CASE. DISAGREED WITH HIS COLLEAGUES Story f -the Imprisoned Artillerist, and the Bevelatlons Which Followed -Hi Trial and Conviction.' - A cable dispatch from Paris states that M. Cavaignac, minister for war, has. resigned. The resignation was due to a disagreement with his col leagues who desire, a revision of the Dreyfus case, thus a revision of the case seems assured. ; . ' Story of Dreyfus Case. Albert Dreyfus is an Alsatian Jew. He was a captain in the Fourteenth regiment ipf artillery in the French army. He was detailed for service at he information bureau of the minis- er of war. He was arrested on Octo ber 15, 1894, on the charge of having sold military secrets to a foreign power. Here is the letter which was said to have been found at the German embassy by a French detective, writ ten, it was claimed, in the hand of Dreyfus: - ' V Having no news from you I do not know what to do. I send you in the meantime tbe condition of the forts. I also hand you the principal instructions as to firintr. If you desire the rest I shall have them copied The document is precious. The instructions have been given only to officers of the gen eral staff.- "I leave for the manoeTrea." Some time before the arrest of Drey us, who was charged with being the author of this letter, M. Drumont, ed itor of the Libre Parole, had been rav ing about the Jews in general. He declared Dreyfus guilty, but affirmed that there was danger of his being ac quitted, through the Juverie, "the cosmopolitan syndicate which exploits France. - . Public opinion in Paris was thus poisoned against Dreyfus. He was under these circumstances .brought to trial before a secret court martial, de clared guilty, degraded from his mili tary rank and imprisoned for life on Deni s Island off the coast of French Guiana. ' The sentence was executed with the greatest . severity. It is stated that Dreyfus is living in a mis erable hut shut in by an iron cage on the island. s He is allowecTto send and receive letters only which have been transcribed by one of his guardians. He and his family have always stoutly asserted his innocence. - It. appeared from the indictment of Dreyfus that "lie- was convicted on an unsigned memorandum indicating that its author had sold military secrets to a foreign government. It appeared also that of the five experts in handwriting , who testified at the trial only three had affirmed that Dreyfus had written the memorandum. . Matthieu Dreyfus, a brother oi the captain, declared that Major-Esterhazy was the guilty man. . Esterhozy was arrested, his lodgings and papers ransacked and two letters were found in which he expressed a wish that the Germans would conquer France. He was tried, as Dreyfus had been, before a military court and behind closed doors. . So far as can be judged by the meagre accounts made public, the evidence that Esterhazy wrote, the memorandum was quite as strong as that which had already con victed Dreyfus of that act. Esterhazy was not only acquitted, but also publicly congratulated and complimented by the president of the court. - :-; - ' Then it was that Emile Zola, the novelist, took a hand in the affair. He addressed an open letter to the presi dent of- the republic entitled "I a cuse," which, was published- in the "L Aurora. " He .' charged that the ofiiceirs of the courtmartial freed Es terhazy upon the order of their, chiefs in the ministry of war, in their anxie ty to show, that French military just ice could net possibly make an error. Thereupon Zola was indicted, as was also the responsible representative of the paper "L'Anrora." They were adjudged guilty of the libel against French officers. - By the assize court of Versailles Zola was sentenced - to pay a .fine of 3,000 francs and. serve a year m prison, It wasin theZola trial that Colonel Henri first figured in the cise. KAISER SENDS CONGRATULATIONS Kitchener Received 'Messag-ee Recalling His Great Victory Over Dervishes. The Cairo correspondent of The London Times says the first telegram of congratulations to arrive from Eu rope was from Emperor William,; who said: ' "I am sincerely glad to be able to offer my congratulations on the splen- did victory at Omdurman, which at last avenges poor Gordon's death." The queen and General Lord Garnet Wolsely, the commander in chief of the British army, telegraphed their congratulations to the sirdar direct. WILL WHITE REFUSE! - . Reported That lie Will Not Servo On the . Pari Peace Commission. Secretary of State Day arrived in Cleveland, O,, Monday morning. Secretary Day said that he intended to hand in his resignation on the 12th of this month. He gave it as his un derstanding that Justice White had decided not to serve as one of the commissioners. Regarding a pub lished interview with ; ex-Secretary Sherman, in Washington.- in which the latter expressed some very radical 1 views regarding the ; war with Spain, be declined to speak.' SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The Sew Industries Reported In the Sooth , During the Tast Week. With the end of summer, the new industries , reported gain in number and importance. Advices received during the past week include a brush factory iu North Carolina, a castor oil mill in Arkansas and - cotton seed oil mills in Arkansas and South Carolina; a 25,000-spindltt cotton mill in Ten nessee and smaller ones in Mississippi and North Carolina; "a $30, 000 v chair factory in Kentucky; a large cooperage works -in Georgia; distilleries in Vir ginia and Kentucky; a large grain ele vator at New " Orleans; two electric llrvV4 V?savtta ait ' Ti.fiaaaA Vtv a each in Virginia, Georgia; Arkan- sas, ."v Tezaa and . Mississippi, v and a $150,000 electric light power and railway company in tue latter state: flouring mills in Kentucky, Missis- sippi, North Carolina and Tennessee; a glass bottle factory in Kentucky; ice factories in Tennessee and Texas; a general mining company in Texas, and the development of zinc mines in Ken- tucky, iron ore mines in Alabama and I talc mines in .North Carolina; a paper box factory in Alabama; pipe line and a plow company in Kentucky; a pot tery in Georgia; a rice mill in Louisi ana; saw mills in Tennessee and Flori da and two planing mills in the latter state; a spoke factory in Alabama, and a $1,000,000 steel 'works at Sheffield in that state; a trunk factory in Mis sissippi; varnish works in Virginia, and water works in Arkansas, Mississippi, North - Carolina and Tennessee. Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.) G, A. R. IN SESSION. An TJn preceded Attendance On Thirty , Second Annual Convention. A Cincinnati special says: The open ing day of the thirty-second annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic surpassed expectations in he attendance and in the success ful progress of events on the pro- CTamme of the first dar. Durincr the Labor Day parade, and other parades I in escorting new arrivals irom tne depots to the hotels, the city pre sented an unusually . brilliant appear ance with its elaborate decorations. which were displayed everywhere. The large musio hall was filled to its limit at the naval camp fire ' Monday night, while receptions and reunions were going on at other places all over the city. There .'will be big camp fires at Music hall and Camp Sherman every night and smaller gatherings at other points Camp Sherman was turned over to Commander-in-chief Gobin during the day. It has a capacity of. over 15,000 in its tents and ample provisions for members. " MORE TROOPS DESIGNATED. Orders For Mustering Out 8oldiere Follow Each Other With Rapidity. The following troops were ordered to be mustered out of service Friday: First . L T 1 TT . jreuuBjivania, jvnoxviiie to Philadelphia; Second Pennsylvania, Montchanin to Philadelphia; Third J Pennsylvania Huntsville to Philadel- 1 phia; .eighteenth Pennsylvania, Camp I Meade to Jt'ittsburg; Fourth Wiscon- sin, . Camp Douglas, Wis. ; Seventy- first New York, 'Montauk to Camp Black;. First New Jersey, Camp Alger to Sea Girt; Thirty-second Michigan, Chickamauga to Camp Eaton, Mich.; First Ohio, Jackson- ville to armory, Cincinnati; Eighth Ohio, Montauk to Columbus, O. ; One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana, Knoxville to Indianapolis; Third Ohio, Huntsville to Columbus; Second North Carolina, St. -Simon's Island, Ga., to Raleigh; First and Second Alabama, Jacksonville to Mobile; Third United States volunteer cavalry, Chickamauga to Old Fort, Omaha; Second Massa chusetts, Montauk to South Farming- i,-. t7:ia iv. n i : t. -i r 1 1 ham; First South Carolina) Jacksonville to Columbia, B.C., and two squadrons of Ohio cavalry, Huntsville to Colum bus. , . . ..- - GLADSTONE'S WILL PROBATED. Names Ills Sons as Executors of His Per. . tonal Estate. A London cable dispatch states that the will of the late Right Hon. William E. Gladstone has been probated. . It shows that his personal estate is val ued at 59,506, or about $300,000. After appointing his sons as execu tors the will charges the future pos sessor of Hawarden to remember that, as head of the family, it will be his dniJ ext,end good offices to other members thereof. - 'ine rest ox the document leaves souvenirs to servants' and bequeaths to bis grandson, as heirloom, all patents of crown, offices held by the testator and books and prints presented to him by the queen, letters from the queen, etc. f ' WORK OF TWO BOYS. 1 Caused Wreck of English Express Train With Fearful Result. ' At Wellingtonborough railway sta- tion, on the London and Northwestern railway, near Manchester, England, two boys , pished loaded luggage "trolley on tbe track just as the ex- I press train was approaching at a speed of fifty miles an hour. The trtin was derailed and fearful i scenes ensued. The wreckage of tbe railway carriages caught fire; the en gineer, fireman and two passengers were killed and many others were seriously wounded. . TRANSPORT REACHES SPAIN. Over Two Thousand Spanish Soldlore Ar rive Safely at Home. The Spanish transport Coyadonga, which sailed from Santiago de- Coba on August 18th, with 2,168 XJ soldiers, 100 Spanish officers, w five children, a total of 2,316 passen gers, arrived at Sastander, Spain, eafely Friday morning. , in ii PUTS BLAME OP SU2HIEI1 CA!I paigYox their shoulders. GENERAL'S i CRITICISM "IS' HARSH. Declares That TJaaceel! mated American ' Soldiers Should Not nave . Been . Sent to Cuba at That Time. - 1 York World priaU an in- tervie w with General Shaft er, in which ' . V " y . represented as sayingt "At Santiago we bad to deal with things as they are, not as they .should be . Of course there was sickness. ; II was inevitable in a summer campaign, But nobody was neglected. The doo tors were scarce at first, but we had boat loads of them .as soon as they could get there. The doctors got sick -like the rest. They were overworked and exhausted. But their ability was unquestionable. Look at the low per centage of deaths from wounds. It never was lower in any war. , "Why, in the civil war I lay on the battlefield myself until maggots de veloped in my wounds, and that was near by, not down in a malarious, sub tropical country far away. The man who ordered a summer campaign in s fever-infected country are responsible, for the natural and" unavoidable conse quences. . None of onr wounded were allowed to lie on the battlefield as I was in the civil war. It was the heat that was so deadly, and the rains. The more torrid the heat became as the showers fell. They would drench everybody without cooling the air. In a few minutes under the sun again every man would be steaming. Hen of the strongest type succumbed. - "Our first case of yellow fever de- veloped Vat El Caney. But the army was ripe lor it, ana it spretd luce e prairie fire. Many a man hid yellow fever who never will know it. And, to tell the truth, it is not so danger ous as the calenture or heat attacka that unacclimated men have in the malarious regions of Cuba. Why, it is a common thing for a man's tem perature to rise from a normal starts to 105 in a few hoars. That means death in most cases. "It can give cards and spades to yellow fever in the ijame of death, I'd rather have yellow f ever. I tell yon when a man burns up inside there is little hope for him. : "Our men were all nnaoclimated; they had faced no such constant heat before. Many of them never had slept out of doors before they .went into camp. How could they be molded into proper material for such a campaign? It could not be done. These men, vera see. coming back with' their lean I bodies and the yellow faces are suffer I . . - . .. . a i ing from the parasite ox ine low isver of the Santiago plateaus. "The cool air and good home caret will cure tUem. We had to choose the lesser of two evils to ship the men north to a healthy climate, not wanting to keep them where they mast die. We at the front did hot wait to let the fever have its run. ( We wanted to save life. Now the problem was to save the most lives possible. We never had a foreign war since 1812-14. The United I States has no hospital ships. It was not a question of using what was best, but what you had. We used the trans ports that brought the troops do. "If I could have had a few weeks to equip hospital ships, the conditions would have, been, better. If the war had continued we j would have stayed right there, fever or no fever. The sudden end of the war wasjinexpected. I We were not prepared for the' unex I ... . i . -! 1 pected. I made it an invariable rale to send home 25 per cent less men on a transport that she had brought south. That was a fair view to take. "I am satisfied with the Santiago campaign. When it is fully under stood, with all its difficulties, it will receive just place in military history. We were hurried off to Cuba. We landed and could not have got onr stores back on board ship If we had wanted to. When the invasion was planned it was obvious that it must be aruih. Such it was. "And it was a success complete and unequivocal. Many things were done, it is true, that were forced upon us by the exigencies of the hour, but the means employed even under, each stress proved to be wisely chosen. I was compelled to do a great many things tbat under different conditions would not have been considered. "We never had on the fighting line at any one time more than 13,000 men. . And with these we captured 27,000. Nine thousand Spaniards were forti fied in the best entrenched position I ever saw." . ' "Did Cervera's men help in the San Juan fight?" was sued to clear up s mooted point. Tea, indeed. Jle had 1,000 men ashore from his fleet in the battle of the 1st of July. His chief of staff, Bnstamente, was killed. His marines and sailors suffered severely, Cerver put them all back on board July 2d and on the 3d b.9 tried to get to sea." BODIES NOT RECOVERED. Neither That of I4euteaaat Morn or Seamaa Smith Were Fousd. A Savannah dispatch says: Neither the body of Lieutenant Henry S. Morgan, U. S. A., nor that of Harry Smith, the rigger, who were drowned I off Tjbee heroically attempting to rescue the crew of the Italian bark Nee, have yet been recovered. The government beat Dandy' Jin made a thorough search for the bodies, but without avaiL
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