North Carolina Newspapers

SCOOT Eel It Pays to Oiv'c . . H Vi SI ... -ar a . commercial l'vinung i Letter Heads, Bill Heads,. THE PEOPLE nn lnvit.rtlinn trt tradA with vnn. Note Heads, Statements, Business Cards, Envelopos, etc., The best way to invite them is to ad vertise, in THE TIMES. W Executed Neatly and Promptly. hSH25HSH25H5ZSS5Z5lCSHnn5HSH5ZSESZSH5HSHSHSH5HSEHKfl I252SZSH2: VOL. IV. WALTER B. SELL, Editor. ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. JUNE 4, 1896. HUBBARD & ROTH, hUiikm- NO. 34. AWFUL CYCLONE. Appalling Loss of Life hind Around St. Lonis. 1 THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED. A Whirling Cloud of Death and - Destruction. Great Tornadoes Sweep Oat of th Worth, west, crossing Lover St. Louts, and Followed by Flood and Fire, Destroy Much of East St. Lonis The Eads Bridge Wrecked A Orjat Calamity on . the Alton RailroadScores of Factory Girls Perish Filly School Children Killed The Storm Sweeps Over Sev eral State.. St. Louis, Mo., May 28. St. Louis bosds In the shadow of a horror unspeakable. Prom end to end It Is a city of wreak and ruin. From end to end It Is a oify of the dead. A tornado, terrible in its fury, Im measurable In Its destruotiveness, struck the eityat 5.15 p. m, yesterday and for half an hour It rooked and trembled as If a giant wefl'irj "Ue 18 burned out. as mate The report was io the effect that well as eleotrlo nlant Fourteen Are alarms were soundej with in an hour, and three alarms were sent In irom the poorhouse, which building hat 1200 Inmates. The roof of the poorhouse was blown off and the fatalities are great. During the lst race at the Fair Grounds the rsof was blown off the grand stand. The crowd had gone to the open fluids for safety, and only four men were killed. The armory at Seventeenth and Pine streets was used as a hospital. At 7.80 p. m. the rain, which had ceased 'or a time, began afresh, and fell in torrents. At 8 o dock the eastern sky was nnarae with ihe light of fires in East St. Louis. The me al roof of the Merchants' Exchange wai rolled up like a soroll and fell into the streets. The Louisville and Nashville east-bound lOOal DaSSHneer tmln hH Inll rannhurl di. jjouis wnen the storm struck the city. Ihe train was overturned, but miraoulousfy on'y a few passengers were injured. The Chicago and Alton east-bound local passenger train which left n. i.oni. i o'olock was on the east span of the bridge, wnen the wind picked the cam upani turned them over on their hIiImh Tk imn ..uiii and trusses held the cars from toppling Into tne river, 100 feet below. The passengers were thrown Into a confused muss. Tee net work of wires made rescue difficult and dau gerous. The east spnn of the east bridge is so badly wrecked that it will take three days to allow trains to pas. Lightning struok the Standard Oil Works and flames were soon pouring from a dozen buildings. The East St. Louis Fire Depart ment was utterly powerless to cope with the fires, and It was feared that nearly the entire business and a great portion of the resldenoe section wculd be destroved hv fl Ammi If nof already ruined by the wind. Among the principal buildings already In ruius are thi Natioaal Hotel, the Standard Oil Works, 1 East St. Louis Wire Nail Works, the Elevator, Hesel Elevator, all freight depots ! and stores and residenoes on St. Clair ave- nue. The damage to the DroDertv in St. T.mii.i. estimated at $1,000,000, and the loss in East St. Louis $3,000,000. There were reallv two tornadoes. One oame from the northwest fifty pupils bad been killed and a number injured. Bturokow, Mo., May 28. A tornado passed five miles north of Sturgeon about s o'tfloek p. m. At Rentek three med were seriously Injured and a family of colored people were1 unme t over a mne, two ontiarea being fa tally hurt.- Friendship Church north of town, was demolished. iThe funnel-shaped cloud was seen by half the people of Stur geon. Bridges and fences are torn up for mile?. Kansas Citt, Mo.,' May 28. Raniok, Ran dolph County, Mo., was blown away this afternoon and several persons were killed. Labadie, Mo., was also destroyed. Ten per sons were killei at the latter place. UooDHOtisE, III., Mav 28. It is reported that eighty children were killed in a sohool hotise in Drake, near- this elty, by the cyclone. ' BILL ARP'S LETTER. jfi-f C, tVILXiIAM IS GETTING fd BB 80MKWIIAT SENTIMKNTALv Passenger Train In the Itlver, . Chicago, May 28. The train dispatcher on the Alton road at Springfield, III., says that tho Chleuifo and Alton vestlbulo train No, 21, with 00 people on board, has gone Into Ihe river with that portion of the St. Louis bridge that went down. So far as known all were lost. Republican Convention Hall's Danger. Tarokdelbt, Mo., May 28. There was an nucnnilrmed report that the new Auditorium had been blown down by the tornado. This building which was erected by the Citizens' Committee of St. Louis to accommodate the Republican National Convention, stood on Olive street. about five b'ocks beyond the Planters' Hotel, the largest hotel in the city. This is the real centre oi the city of St. Louis. The Auditorium was designed to seat 12 000 persons, and the Sub Committee of the National Committee. whloh inspected it recently, deolared that It was the best convention hall In theworld. tie indites an Interesting Epistle on the Subject of Flowers. - , TWO NEW BISHOPS. ! Chaplain MeCabe and Earl Cranston i Chosen bv the Methodists. Charles C. MoCabe, D. D.,was born In Ath ens, Ohio. October 11, 1836. His alma mater is the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1860 he joined the Ohio Conference. At the break. ing out of the war he was made ohaplnin of tne lzza umo volunteer infantry and went ' ST. LOUIS AUDITORIUM. (Built for the Republican National Convention which will be held June 16. Committee- , ... nuilu will UO UB1U UUO ID. 110010111 man gerena says the damage It has received will not interfere with the meeting) earthquake were shaking the earth beneath it. At oame from the south, where it scourged a vast extent of oountry and it wrought unprecedented havoo in this city. I Two tornadoes, one sweeping down from Moberly, Mo., toward the southeast and the - otner sweeping up from the southeast, met over the Mississippi River at Bt. Louis. The ttorms seemed to join foroes and dealt death and destruotion. East St. Louis, on the 1111- nuis siae oi tne nver.iarea tne worse, a swath several blocks wide being cut through the icon vi iuai uiiy. xao lower part Of Bt. Louis, on the western bauk of the river, was swept through and great buildings were levelled as though they were built of straw. In East St. Louis the loss of life was greatest, it is variously placed at from two hundred to three hundred. In St. Louis it is known that many were killed. : Late at night it was said that 1500 persons were killed or wounded in bt. Louis. In East St. Louis and environments it is esti mated that there are 600 dead and wounded. The latest reports oompiled from the scene of destruction in the three States point to the won v- w.vt .w uuumu uvctb. AUUUrUing 10 rdaoes, the death roll Is divided as follows In St. LOUls 800; East St. Louis, 800: Drake 111., 80; Rush Hill. Mo., 10t Renuiok, Mo., t Labadie, Mo., 10. The disaster appears to be the greatest tne oountry has knowi since me jonnsiown nooa. ' The property loss runs into million.. Tf Is placed, from eyolone, Are and flood, in East St. Louis, III, at two millions and a nan oi aouars. in Bt. Louis it wiu be a million more. ' factories and asylums were razed. One oigarene iactory, whloh was blown down. contained at least two hundred working girls, many of whom were buried in the ruins. Fifty school children are said to have reen auiea in one scnool bouse. A large hotel, full of guests, was blown down and only two persons are believed to have es oaped. Despite the flood of rain which followed the gyration of the winds, the eleotrlo light wires ignited the ruins everywhere and the destruction was lnoreased. The streets were so littered with debris that the firemen were unable to render assistance in any direction, even if th9 water works had not ilready been destroyed by the eyolone. The great Eads Bridge, spanning the Mis sissippi, was partially wrecked and Is littered nna tne other from the direct east. Both uiei on me Illinois snore of the Mississippi River and joined in a whirling oloud of death nnu aesiruciton. rne list of dead in St. uviws is ueyoua present computation. A startling report reaohed Pollne Bb.i1. quarters that 200 girls were in the ruins of jiiSK'ii z never s cigarette laotory at Tower Grove Park. There was creations nf Hfo in th southern portion of 8t. Louis from railroad traoks to Carondolet. The wind swept awav f (l A nutf rf tk. C" ..ii j i . . J v. uw n.iiuouiuu j, uiiinr ir nnn mat struoture is badly damaged by the flood of water. . The levee was racked with ii.. . j"a.. . r u , m rageu nercest, groping through the darkness and eagerly imploring infor- lunuuu iiuuj juvea ones on tne river. The Annunciation Church at aiwh nn4 Lasalle streets was totally destrnv,l Vath, Read, the pastor, was fatally injured. Michael Dawes, a driver, was blown from his wagon in the vicinity and instantly killed. The miuaie span oi tne roadway above the rail road traoks on the Lads Bridge was blown completely away. The Plant flour mills and the worlra of tho St. Louis Iron and Steel Company were de stroyed, and the big Oupples block of build ings was partially demolished. The Waters-Pieroeoil works by fire, and buildings in several parts of the oity burned all night. H. O. Rice, the manager of the Western Union at the Relay Depot on the east side, reports a wreok of terrible nmnortinn. said the National Hotel. Tremont House. Market House. De Wolfe's f n,,! min ing Company s mill, Horn's oooper shop, and a large number of d that section were swept into wreckage. The Baltimore and Ohio and Vandalia roundhouses, the Standard Oil Works, East St. LoulS and nrAaiwnrAlAvotnM. Ia freight houses were eaught in tne vortex of the eyolone and reduoed to debris. Five hundred freight oars are said to have been blown into the river. The great Eades bridge was twinred nil out oi shape and made an utter ruin. Freight cars were tossed to ami fro tnmhlort inin ditches, driven sometimes into the fields many rods from where thev stood. Th great Vandalia freight bouse fell in a heap of utter ruin, and thirtv-flve men who h5 taken refuge in it were buried beneath the ruins and their lives crushed out. Some of the bodies have been got out. torn and BISHOP CHABLES O. If'OABS. with his regiment to Virginia. At the battle of Winohester, in June. 1863, while caring for the wounded, he was taken prisoner and sent to Libby Prison. Before the war olosed he was asked for by the Christian Commis sion, and made the tour of the great oities of the Rnpublio pleading for thst great cause. In 1865 he was stationed at Portsmouth.Ohio. In 1866 he was made Centenary Agent of his conference and then of the 8tate. In 1868 the Board of Church Extension called him into their service. ' They were in debt and crippled for want of means. For sixteen years he gave his time and strength to mis worK, ana during that time nearly 5000 houses of worshio were aided into erinfnnnn Dy tne Hoard. The loan fund grew to hal' a minion ana tne annual income to over C700.- 000. In 1884 the General Conference elected him Missionary Secretary, in which nosltlon he did most effective work. In 1888 he was eieoted Benjor georetary of the Missionary ouuieiy. ' ' 4H lam not a linguist, but 'have been told there is no language but onrs tbat has a word or expression signifying "home" in the sweet, sentimental meaning that we attach to it. There are words enough that mean a dwelling house, en abiding place, but home has a broader oompnss and includes all ihe emotional stirroundiucs the earden. the well, with its old oaken bucket, or the crystal spring at the foot of the hill the vines over the door and on the lattice tho shade trees, the land scape view from the window, the cra dle and the old arm chair ; the clock on the mantle, the piolures on the walls, the faithful watch dog, the play ful kitten, and ever the crickets' chir rup on the hearth. But more than all these are the loved ones who meet us and greet ua at the threshold, The wise man tells ne of the tim when man goeth to his long home an tne mourners go about the streets. Our home here is very brief, we know. but it is the dearest spot on earth, an should be loved atid cherished every one who goes out from its sacred portals or returns within them to rest from the cares of a biiBy world. It is one of my constant regrets that there are bo many good people in this great big world who have no home not an acre on God's green earth they can call ineir own. if every family had home the children would grow up bet ter citizens, better patriots ; the par ents would hold up their heads and be thaokful to God for his blessings, Ihe good wife and daughters would treasure the vines they planted, and the flowers they grew in the front yard flowers that are the smiles of God upon a sin-cursed world. The poet says: "The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our Joys must flow, Af'l that dear place 'our homo." t was ruminating about these thincs as I sat in my verandah in the shadow of the vines the Virginia creeper, the madiera and cinnamon vines that by day and by night are climbing higher and, enlarging and unfolding their tender leaves that will soon cover -the trellice. I love to watch their daily progress. I built the framework for these vines and ' am proud of it. even thongh my wife did boss the job, and me, too. iwasehewbo made me set the posts out two feet from the edge of ine verandah floor and braoe them to the top of the columns. 'Twas she who suggested canes from the cane- brake long canes that were stuck in the ground and their tops cut even and fastened to the crossbar. These canes are just one foot apart and are interlaced with horizontal canes, also a foot apart, and the basket work keeps the whole fabrio good and irong. eirong and vigorous vines have already climbed and twined around every cane, but she said there must be windows in the lattice, so that we could sit in onr chairs and see the trains go by and the carriages and bi cycles and I nneral processions and pio nio parties and the children going to school and look at our neighbors who live across the way. So there is a space of three feet where the vines cling close to the perpendioular poles, but are not allowed to send out any horizontal shoots. This gives us ample vision of the outer world,' and I sit daily there in my big arm chair and rest my feet upon the railing and rum inate upon life with its blessings and am thankful that I live. Just a word about that railing. Tt used to be about three feet high and studded with upright balusters, the top rail too high and the bottom one too low for a Rood foot rest. 8o when I this time she has good Lord for His mercies. The weather has been awful hot, but I have had to dig and fork up the ground and haul fertilizer in the wheel barrow and lay off a new flower bed and change plants from the old ones and tote water and sprinkle and take around till me nether garments were moist and as salty as Lot's wife. It hasu't rained a drop in three weeks, notwithstanding my rheumatic pains and my wife's corns and the rooster's crowing in the night, and so I have everything to water every even ing, We have bad no man servant but me for a long time, and my wife says X look exceeding well, considering age and infirmity, and the girls smile around on the sly to see how a little uxorial taffy cpurs me on. Had a letter yesterday from a suffer ing benedict, who says his girls wanted him to stop chopping cotton and sow ing peas and send some help to lake up the carpets and whitewash the palings and the trees and the pig pen and clean tip things generally, for some town kinfolks were threatening to visit them. He said he was about to outdo the. girls, but his wife re-enforced them and said they dident ask snob favors but twice a year and were the best daughters in Jlie world, and she thought he rniebt spare a hand lor a day or two, and now he writes to me rfor advice. Must he surrender and take a hand from the field or not? No, of course not. , The way to do is to do all these little household jobs yourself. You can take up a carpet and hang it on the paling and beat the dust out 'of it as well as anybody, and whitewashing is nothing but good fun. You can hang a window curtain or put in a pane of glass or mend a baby carriage or repaint the mantel piece. My girls papered every room in our house. Their mother traiuedus to do all these things, and it saves a lot of money. My friend, tbat whitewashing must be done if tne world comes to an end. Let the cotton suffer for a day. I expect you have too mneh planted, anyhow. Everybody around here has. The good wife and daughters have to stay in the house or about it nearly all their time, and it should be made as pleasant and inviting as possible. Yours in sympathetic bonds. Bin, I Akp, in Atlanta Constitution. What is I Castorla is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infant . nnd Children. It contains neither Opium j Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee Is thirty years use by Blillions of Mothers. Castorla destroys Worms and allays feverlshness. Co&toria prevents vomiting: Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castorla relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castorla assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural bep. Cas torla Is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. Castoria. "Castorla is an excellent medicine forchil-'l dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." v Dr. G. C. Osgood. Lowell, Mass. " Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day Is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrums which ' are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby ending them to premature graves." Da. J. F. Kincheloe, Conway, Ark. "Castorla Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Arches, M. D., tu Bo. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " Our physicians in the children's depart . ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria and although we only have among out medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." United Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Mass. Allen C. Smith, Pres. The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York City. BtSSOP EARL ORAKCTO. ST.. LOUIS EXPOSITION BUILDING. (The famous structure, where many National Conventions have met. badly damage. writh the wrecks of trains fad wagons, with killed or injured men and horses. . i East 6. Louis suffered probably mora than Bt Lonis. Messengers cam at 7 p. m. from there, asking for physicians and nurses, f The steamer D. H. Pike, with thirty pas sengers on board, bound for Peoria, was blown bottom aide up In the middle of the river and a number of persons were killed. The steamer Delaphin. with a crew Of six and twenty lady passengers on board, was blown against a bridge pier and broke in two. The ladies and two of the orew clung to the bridge stonework, and were rescued. The steamer Libble Conger, with only Captain Seaman, his wife, and three of the crew aboard, went adrift. The wreok ol a boat opposite Oarondelet is supposed to be the steamer Conger. , Ottened's furniture store, at Broadway and Soulard, was demolished and six men re reported kilted. A ealcon at (04 South Seventh street fall wliii Dins meu In the ruins. St. Patrick's Church, at Sixth and Blddla ftreessj, tejj, angjna oebrtf BUS the streets. mangled beyond the powers of description. Liggett and Meyer's big tobaooo manufac tory, the largest in the West, according to the latest RfjSort was wrecked totally and the loss of life there was great. Twenty dead bodies and many wounded have been recov ered from this building, " The soene in the river opposite St. Lonis was appalling. Steamboats moored at their landings were torn away, turned over and sunk, drowning a'l on board. Many people were seen clinging to floating wreckage and pltiously appealing for help. OTHER PLACES STRICKEN, The Wide Beaeh of the Storm and Some of the FataJltiee. Blookihotov, ill., MnyaS. Word reached the Chicago and Alton Railroad offloluls that a tornado had demolished the vtUnge of Rush Hill, Mo., twelve miles from Mexico, In Audrian County. Th tornado struck the town a few minutes before 4 o'olooir and 1 blew down ft schoolaouae, orobing its ln- The Bev. Earl Cranston. A. M. . D. D.. Is a native of Athens, Ohio, and a ola&iloal grad uate of the Ohio University. He had an hon- orame semoe in the union Army, and for iwaniy-one years laDorea in tne itinerant ministry, six years of whloh Derlod he cava to frontier work in the Rocky Mountains be fore his election to the agency of the Cincin nati metnoam puDiismng nouse. He has had much to do with planting the eJuoa l tlonal work of the churoh in his Conference, ana tne cause lor uetnoalsm In its moan- tains and Its plains. SOUND MONEY IN VERMONT. Democratic State Convention Declares Against Free SUver. The Vermont Democratic State Convention for the nomination of delegates-at-large to the National Convention at Chicago was held at Montpeller. Mention of the Barnes of Cleveland. Whitney and Russell bv the Chairman and the Indorsement of President Cleveland by the resolutions awakened con siderable enthusiasm. Both the Chairman and the Committee on Resolutions deolared In favor of a gold standard and denounced protection and the free coinage of silver. Nominations for Stat officers were mad as folio wst For Governor, Dr. J. Henry Jack son, rjarrei ueutenant-uovernor, Dr. Ralph Bherwood, St, Albans; Treasurer, James H. Williams, Bellows Fallsi Secretary of State, William W. Rider, Bristol; Auditor, E. T. Seaver, North Troy. A TerrtM Cjreloa. Fifty 'persons wer killed and twie that number Injured by a cyclone which swept through ten Iowa eo untie. - bought the property the first thing I did was to reform the long verandah. It cost but a trifle to take out the up right pieces and lower the top rail and ran a middle one and then pnt short square pieces between them and alter nate them like a road to Jericho. This makes the cheapest and most comfort able railing in the world, and cives an old man choioe of three elevations for his feet and irives a modest woman choice of two. I have already observed in my brief life that there are two classes of people who like to elevate their pedal extremities when in a state of innocuous desuetude old men and lazy lawyers. Old age is excusable, for his legs are tired, especially when his corporosity increases with ad vancing years, or he is bossed around the flower garden bv his lovintr wife : the average lawyer is excusable, too, I suppose, for it is the brain tbat Quick ens the flow of blood to the extremi ties, and if the brain has nothing to work on no cases, no clients the letrs get sleepy and must Lave rest. I can tell a town loafer's age nrettr well by his posture when seated. An old, confirmed loafer wants two chairs, one to rest his feet uptfh. If he is a lawyer he prefers a table. tfut I am off the subject again. 2 was thinking about the flower the new and beautiful flowers lhat Mr. Arp got from Mr. Berckman these cannas that are so corgeonslv IotpIt and are now blooming into beauty. We bad some yellow ones before, but now have other colors that are brilliant and attractive. I decorated my vege table garden last year with sun flow ers, but I don't think my wife fancied them. She said they made ber eyes tired, but she is delighted with the crimson and orange and variegated eannas and her Maremshal Neil roaes and carnation pinks. She wants odIt S2 or $3 worth of new flowers every SOUTHERN CONDITION. tteports of Industrial and Business Affairs. The following report of the South's indus trial progress is taken from the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman for the past week: General business is active and increasing. The spring has been favorable for small fruits j and early vegetables, and a large amount of ready money has been disbursed. Fertilisers and agricultural imolementa are In erent Ha mand and sales are twice those of last year. The new cotton mills for the week are the Landrum cotton mill of Dandrum. s n capital $100,000; the Atlanta Textile Manu facturing company of Atlanta. (Ii. with ton . 000 capital and others at Ovford Mi Lebanon, Teun. New Industries established or InonrnornfAd in the Southern States during the past week iuelude : The Chieftain Cypress company, of cooio, i,o., capuui riou.yuoj tne American Brewing and lee company, of Central City. W Va t1.K Ah nnn ... i. ... r' V. viu,vw uapuui, ana tne .Rich mond Woodworking company, of Richmond, Va., capitalized at ftSO.000. The F. i fnni,: lin Churn and Implement company, capital 50,000, has been chartered at Austiu. Texas; tho R. . W. Coffee Man ufacturing COmnanv at Rlnhmnnd Va with 25,000 capital; and a 425,000 shoe fac tory is to be built in Charleston, S. C. The Groesbeck Cotton Oil. Gin and Com mf.uj uno umu cuanerea at tiroes Deck, Tex., with 420,000 capital: the Jacksonville Fertilizer oomnanv. canitai ftrn nnn at un,nh Ton)rn;il.. VI- . 1. ,.i . . - . voKAouuviuu, xia., me Ainens uoai ana Man- racturing company, canitai ftionnn of Athens, Tex., and the Southern Lumber company, also with $10,000 capital, at Char leston S. C. Ihere are also reported canning factories Avon Park and Linton. Fla.: a marble QUarrv to be nnennd at Knrrillo wu.,n . nail works at Middlesboro. Kv ! a nntinn J tile j lant at Oxford, Ala., and a tobacoo factory at Ocala, Fla. The new woodwork ing plants include a barrel faotory at Cedar Snrinra. Va. : a nlninlnv mill At vDi-rAi Aia., and a sawmill at Gulfport, Miss. The Florence mills at Forest City. N. C, are to add $50,000 to their eaoltal: mnohlnn ohon. at Portsmouth, Va., are to be enlarged, and also a sugar refinery at Abbeville, La. . The new buildlnirs nf the business houses at Savannah, Ga.. and Bre vard. N. C; a $50,00 board of trade buildliio- at Tampa. Fla.; a $50,000 courthouse at Charlotte. N. C; a $10,000 Jail at Laredo, Tex. ; a $20,000 opera house at Somerset, Ky. : a $20,000 school building at Laredo, Tex.; a $16,000 residence at New Orleans, La., and a $16,000 warehouse at Mobile, Ala. Southern Railway. PIEDMONT AIR LINO. Cendhas' Schoduls ef Passenger Trains, Nerthfeenna. Jan. S, l(6. Lv Atlanta. C. T Atlanta, K. T. horenss. .. bufoid ... (Jaiuasvllle Luia. Cornelia... " Mt. Airy... " Tocooa 'Westminster - Seneca " Central " Greenville . " Spartanburg 'tfUHTI..., - Blaoksburg K.10K Uasfonla . Charlotte Danville . Ar. Richmond.. Ar. Washington - Balun's.fKH " 1'UllfcdelPhl.. KewYork ftoatbuaa. Lv. V. T.. PiR R " Philadelphia. Ilalllinore... Weshlugtou .v. 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TOSp flip (I2p 00a No. II DUy 2 00s TOOa 12iWp 108p 13ip 2 C0p lp 3 06p 440p 8 40D eoip 2 (4p T40p 7ftp tltp op 07p S4ip 10 Slip v at) p No. ii A BUB 67 T20a T4Sa (27 a 80a 130a DKATH AND DESTRUCTION. Town la Iowa aud llllixis Almost Wiped Out. , Monday the villages of Valeria, Mingo and Santiago, Iowa, on the Chicago and Great ffestern Railroad, was nearly wiped from the face of the earth by a eyclono, and adjacent counties were laid waste with considerable loss of life and great destruction of railway and other property. The storm oocurred between 9 and 10 o'clock, accompanied by a deafening roar, a deluge of rain and hail. It track was ev. ral miles in length and from a quarter to a half a mile in width. Reports Bay fourteen were killed at Valeria, and five at Mingo. At Santiago, Mr. and Mrs. Bal lenbaugh and grandchild was killed. The following buildings were wrecked in Valeria: cnicago and Ureat Western depot, one drug fiore, inrea general stores, posr-onlce, fjatho lic church, one creamery, two blacksmith nr pa, ami twenty-five dwellings. In Valeria, seven members of a family named Failous, father, mother and five children, were found dead amonsr the wreckage In one room. Twochildren named Alliens, two ladies named Dickey and Mrs. Osoorn, were also killed outright The prop erty loss is estimated at over $100,000. A great amount of live stock was killed and the crops In the path of the storm utterly destroyed. The list of killed stands as follows: Jasper County, la., 10; Polk Countv, la., ; Roak ford, III.. 4; Elgin, III., I; North McGregor, I., 13; Durango, la., 6; Fort Scott, Kan., SL The storm wrought its greatest havoo In Iowa, where the counties of Polk and Jasper were devastated by two tornadoes. . At Chicago basements were flooded and C(.nsid"rahle damage done. Two inches of rain fell. At F.lgln, John Keough, engireer of the State Insane Asylum, was killed by a lallirg chimney. The Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle factory was Mown dewn. At Iloekford four killed and many Injured, a. timber of them fatally, is the result of tti cyclone, besides great loss to property nd the complete destruction of cror. 'A ' a. ui. "I p. in. -l" nooa. "N" night. No. S7 and JS Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleepers netwsen new rora anu new uneans, via nan larton, Atlanta aad Montgomery, and also Wf tweca New l orn ana Hemplils, via Washington, suum iv uiruiiftKUMiu. juimug ears. Kos. SB and United States Fast Hall. Folk sun sleeping ears netwea Atlanta, New Os Mans ana new xors. Ho. 11 and 12. Pullman sleeping ear kstwsea auwarau, AauTiii. wiu vrroenjiuoro. W. Jl. GRKKN, Gen'l Bupt., Washington, D. O. 3. M. CTJXP, Traffio M Vr. Washington, D. Q W. L? RIDER, Superintendent, Charlotte, North Carolina. W. A. TUBE, 8. II. HARD WICK, Gen. Pass. Ag't, Asst Gen'l Pass. Agt, Washington, D. O. Atlanta, Ga The Charlotte Observer. - DAILY & WEEKLY BalAWBtx a TBOMPKma, Publishers. 1. P. Caldwell, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PUICE. . Year, b.dlt OauasTBR, j Months WXSXXT OSOTBVBB, li I Year. S Months 88 00 83 M 81.63. 81 CO ft CAPE FEAR & YADKIN VALLEY HI Johh Gill, Receiver. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In Effect April 12th, 1896. KOBTH BOUND. No. 2. Daily. Leave Wilmington 7 25 a. m. Arrive Fnyetteville 10 35 " Leave Fayetteville 10 55 " Leave Fayetteville Junction 11 05 ' Leave Sanfnrd 12 22 p. m. Leave Climax 2 25 " Arrive Greensboro 2 56 " Leave Greensboro 8 05 " Leave Stokesdale 3 59 " Arrive Walnut Cove : 4 31 " Leave Walnut Cove 4 38 " Leave Rural Hall , 517 " Arrive Mt. Airy 6 45 " SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Daily. Leave Mt. Airy 9 35 a. m. Leave Rural Hall.. 1105 " Arrive Walnut Cove 1135' " Leave Walnut Cove 11 45 " jj;ave ritokesdule 12 12 p. m. Arrive Greensboro 12 58 " Leave Greensboro 103 ." Leave Climax 1 32 ' Leave Hanford -. , . . 3 19 " Arrive Fnyetteville Junction 4 30 " Arrive Fayetteville 4 33 ". Leave Fayetteville... 4 45 " Arrive Wilmington 7 55 " NOBTH BOUND. No. 4. Daily, Leave Bennettsville 8 45 a. m. Arrive Maxton 9 45 " Leave Maxton 9 50 " Leave Red Springs 10 12 " Leave Hope Mills 10 45 " Arrive Fayetteville 10 59 " SOUTH BUOND. No. 3. Daily. Leave Fayetteville 4 43 p. in. Leave Hope Mills 4 53 " Leave lied Springs 5 42 " Arrive Maxton 6 12 " Leave Maxton C 13 " Arrive Benuettsville 7 20 " NOHTH BOUND. (Daily Except Sunday.) 1 No. 16. Mixed. Leave Ramseur 6 45 a. m. Arrive Climax 8 35 ' Leave Greensboro 9 20 " Leave Greensboro 9 35 " Leave Stokesdale 10 50 " Arrive Madison 1150 " SOUTH BOUND. (Daily Except Sunday.) No. 15. Mixed Leave Madison , 12 25 p.m. Leave Stokesdale 1 28 " Arrive Greensboro 2 35 " Leavij Greensboro 3 10 " Leave Climax.. 8 65 " Arrive Rainseur 6 50 " NOBTH BOUND CONNECTIONS at Fayetteville with Atlantic Coast Line for all points North and East, at 8anford with the beaboard Air Line, at Greensboro with the Southern Railway Company, at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk Western Railroad for Winston-Salom. SOUTH BOUND CONNECTIONS at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk Jk Western Railroad for Roanoke and points north and west, at Greensboro with the Southern Rail way Company for Raleigh. Richmond and all points north and eat; at Fayettcvillo with the Atlantic Coast Line for all points South; at Maxton with the Seaboard Air Line for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points south and southwest. W. E. KYLE, J. W. FRY, Gen'l Pass. Agent. 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