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- " Jl V-', Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Prjce, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XII. G0LUMBU8, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1906. N0.1. 8 '.1 "... I . Views Sowing the TH5S RUINS -OF THE STANFORD MEMORIAL CHURCH. Tlie oiVsicru section of the cpnntry is only now beginning to realize the wide jsproatl nature of the San Francisco disaster. The pictures of the wrecked and "burning city .now coming in tell the story as it was impossible to tell it in a nv otht r way. ' , The mist tumbled and tangled dis trict in ''the city is not the southern friii of Market street, the area where tlie "'clcvas-ration was widest and the AYL THAT , REMAINS-. OF GRACE -CHURCH. CALIFORNIA STREETS. . .' . ' - . .1 .. .mi... . i . i --i ; i ' - r"'v,,,:,j . ifF. mm0$l-, ' Iff ;UACK CHURCH BEFORE THE loss of life greatest, but on a little trip between Harrison and Valencia, Seventeenth; and Nineteenth streets. It "was in this area that the Valencia Hotel sank Into the earth. The block between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets and Valencia is twisted out of all appearance of houses. 1 The car tracks at one place run in a wavy line from one side of the curb to the other. The asphalt is broken as though great suDbles had forced their way through It. .-I,." ' I At the corner of Eighteenth and Va- FMiiiii?' &wim fit- A MWA-MKt?ik.4u" iii lit.- -' TifniMiiiir i nm til mt 1T1 n jln n f mill nr 1 ..,rtrti,il..r.'t-- - " ... nn ,f- J VIEW AMONG THE RUINS. ,)."." . - 1 ' . k t - - Devastating; Effects of A SECTION lencia there is a hole ten feet wide. The asphalt is turned up from the cen tre of this hole like the petals of a flower, and from it comes a stream of clear water. No one can tell whether this stream comes from a broken main or from a brook .which used to run down Eighteenth street. Valencia Hotel sank ten feet Into the earth and pitched forward into the street. When the debris of the hotel STOCKTON AND EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. was cleared away it was found that the asphalt, pavement before it had bulged upward to make a mound four feet high. Tlie hole into which the foundations sank is filled with water. The big fire obliterated the old China town forever. Maj-or Schmitz has in formed Chief of Police Dlnan that all of the Chinese now in the city will be collected and placed in and pear Fon tana's Warehouses, near Fort--Mason, and that the new Chinatown would be located at Hunter's Point, on the southern extremity of the county on Earthquake and Fire OF THE CITY DURING THE FIRE, i ; ! '.wS(i4iK ' 'Jl TL ' fv,l-ii:"""'i' i iiONT OF ST. MARY'S COIXE E, SHOWING i I EARTHQUAKE. the bay shore. It is several miles dis tant from the old Chinatown. All Chinese who have left the city and who return to it will be concentrated at the new point. V. .5 MARKET STREET AT in San Francisco. j It is now decided that the old lines 1 "f the, city will not bje followed, but hat instead new thoroughfares will be .-jiced.- all streets made wider than formerly, and a uniform style of arc'hi cture adopted. For two years Daniel Uirnham, an architect, had been agi sting for a city beautiful. He had ral lied many business men to his support, :ut his plans were abandoned by the ity authorities only two months ago is beyond all reason in cost. Now, the twin disaster of earthquake mid fie has made possible theraccom nlishment of Burnham's dream, which it had been admitted by .every one would transform San Francisco into . the most beautiful city , in the world. Work will begin at once in pushing; Burnham's ideas to complete develop ment, and all the municipal officials are enthusiastic : over the outlook.! Mayor Schmitz expressed his delight with the plan for the new San Fran cisco. L I "The whole city will be remodeled,"! nld Mayor Schmitz. "We will star work right at the water front. Even the ferry house, which survived the fire, will be torn down l and replace DAMAGE DONE BY by a magnificent structure on the Burn- ham designs. In the water front sec tion alone we will spend $25,000,000. New wharves and depot will be built, and market street from end to end 1 CORNER OF FIRST. will offer two unbroken lines of sky scrapers. Throughout the city Improve ment will be carried out exactly as Mr. Burnham has advocated for two years. "We will have a great boulevard and terrace at Twin Pea-ks, and the several new parks and other beauty spots con ceived by the architect now will be Con structed. , The changes will cost tens of million's, but the result wlU be that San Francisco -will stand as the most beautiful of all cities. I predict that there-will be nothing to compare to the. new city in beauty and utility. We': were too cramped in our business quarters. Now we are going to have plenty, of elbow-room, and, besides, we will have a city, that will delight the eye. All the old ugliness has gone for ever. "The new Saji Francisco will be bet ter than the old, as'was thease in. Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Galveston and Baltimore, but on a much larger scale. Thirty days will see 50,000 men at work in the burned district."- The delivery of telegraphic messages to persons in San Francisco was an impossibility. The messenger service of both the big companies .was paralyzed. T ' I ti I 1 -3H V :7 - . n. FATAL TEXAS TORNADO Village of Bellevue Wiped Outy Wind and Fire, " - "a',' BI licit Dainie Caused by Storm "lu btooeberc, Montague, Buffalo Springs, - Shannon' ..'and - Other 'Places. Bowie, Texas. The tornado which! destroyed the- town f Bellevue, five miles northwest of here, did much damage to the towns of Stoneberg, Montague, Buffalo Springs, Shannon and other smaller places. The path of the storm was! about five miles wide and nearly "thirty miles" long. Many farm houses .were de stroyed. : " ' 1 Only one building is left standing in the town of Bellevue. iFire caught in the wreckage and completed, the work of destruction. The town had a popu lation of several hundred persons, and they are all homeless. 1 The dead are: Robert Carr, Mrs. R. L. Russell and five children, R, L." Rus sell, Mrs. Robert Carr, Tom Mount, two children of J. B. Greer, W. W. Bell, of Henrietta. About twenty-five persons were in jured. The property loss is more than $200,000. . The first news came to Bowie. A horseman covered witL sweat and dust galloped in at 8 o'clock p. m. and breathlessly reported that Bellevue had been entirely wiped out by a tornado which struck at. 6 o'clock, and only about three of all its houses were left standing. Soon after the storm; he said, fire had broken out and threat ened to complete the devastation. Bowie was aroused and immediately got into communication with Dallas, which at once started out relief trains for the scene of the catastrophe. Shortly-after the sky in the direction of Bellevue became red, and the people ofBowie could see that what was left of the town was burning up. Bowie received a message from the City Marshal, of Hico, another town in the path of the storm, saying that Hico had been badly injured, and Hamilton, a town near by, had been nearly de stroyed by the force of the wind. He reported, however, that as far as he knew, there was no loss of life. Stone berg, the other tqwn in the path of the storm, is reported to have been injured Ljumost a-s badly as Bellevue. ; The ,, inhabitants thrugou Clay County are used to tornadoes t great er or less force and are equipped with cyclone cellars ,and other means . of dodging the force of the wind. , This undoubtedly saved many lives." The storm, however, one of the severest in years struck just at the time when most of the people were at supper. At this time cf year cyclones are fre quent in this part of Texas, but it is seldom that one causes destruction over such a large area. The houses are built low and fbr the most part of adobe to withstand such storms, and one that could complete such destruction must have been of unusual force. Area Covered by the san Francisco Fire Compared With the Chicago, Balti more and - Paterson Fires. The burned district of San Francisco Is i-epresented by the whole area of the diagram. The relative areas of the burned districts of Chicago,' in 1871; Baltimore, In 1904, and Paterson, -in 1902, are included in the area 'repre senting San Francisco. Put together thev would not equal the area covered bv the San Francisco fire.- The area devastated by fire in San Francisco annroximates 10.000 acres, or about fifteen , square miles. Within ; this fifteen 'square miles were nearly! 100 bauks, some of the finest buildings in the world, thousands of mercantile and manufacturing " establishments and more than 2CO.OO0 inhabitants, besides 40.000 transients. The homes of I9O, 000 people are still standing and practi cally uninjured. There still remain the great shipyards at the Totrero, the Pa cific Mail docks, the stockyards at South San Francisco, the docks and manufactories along the water front from Mission Creek to Hunter's Point, the Mint, postofiices and a large retail district in Fillmore and Devsadero streets. ' ' Flour Trade Dull. Trade-in flour is far from satisfac toryt to the millers in the Northwest. There is a gradual expansion of man ufacturing activity from week to week, i but on tne sales enu or me equauuu there is a general disposition to buy only the flour required for current needs. " . '. - 4 ' K - Winter Wheat Uninjured. A special canvass of the M'iuter wheat situation by Dun's ' Review shows little injury and large acreage. honors rarauL JONES - r j; Admiral's 'Body , Laid to Rest at the -. -v flaval Academy. FRANCE JOINS IN CEREMONIES Cusket in AVlilch Repose Kemmtns of the Founder -of America's Transferred to a Temporary Tomb im Bancroft Hall, AnnapolU Kooserelt Jutserand, Porter and Warfleld Spealc Annapolis, Md: Reverently attendedl by" the official 'head of the Nation he " loved, and served so well, by the Am bassador of the- land in which he diedj by the Governor of the State and by; tAusands of men and women, the. body of John Taul Jones was placed in the crypt beneath the grand marblei stairway of Bancroft Hall, in the Naval Aeadeniy grounds, where it will resf until the completion of the chapel which is to be itSt final resting place. The day was also the anniversary of ' the engagement in which John Paul Jones with his little sloop of war;. Ranger, whipped the British frigate Drake. . . The impressive ceremonies began with the arrival of the President, who reached Annapolis shortly after noon - , in a special train from Washington. With him was a party of distinguished men, among whom were Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, SI. Jusserandj. Ambassador of France to the United States; Viscount Charles de Chambrunj Admiral George Dewey, Secretary ot . State Root, General Horace Porter ' Secretary and Mrs. Loeb, Surgeon-General Rixey, Admiral Cowles and Tost-master-General Cortelyou. The party was driven directly to the Naval Academy, where formal honors were paid to the President, the Na- " tional salute being fired and a battalion of marines with the Naval Academy? Band being drawn up in front of the residence of the superintendent. ,- The President and other guests were ; then" entertained at luncheon by the ' superintendent of the Naval Academy.' 1 The guests were the Presidential, party, the heads of departments of the Naval Academy and the following offi- ' cers from the French and ' American, fleets: Admiral Charles H.. Davis, Ad- t iniral ."IfcBCBiudf of fl Admiral Paul,':' Campion, Captain .53. ij Ai., Gulpratte of the Marseilles, Captain "A: 'L. M. Huguet of the Conde,' Captain G. M. Lefevre of th.. Admiral Aube, and the commanding officers of the American:, vessels now off Annapolis. At 2 o'clock the ceremonies in the armory began. The President was the first speaker, followed by M. Jusse rand. General Horace Porter and Gov ernor Edwin Warfield, of Maryland, in the order named. Between each speech there was music by a special choir of 300 trained voices. i -At the conclusion of the ceremonies; in the armory the crfsket with the body of John Paul Jones, which up to that time had been supported on a platform 5 in front of the speaker's . stand, was carried in formal procession by repre sentatives, of the sailors of -'America' and France to Bancroft Hall, where it was deposited in the room designated " as Memorial Hall. The public was not admitted to Bancroft Hall, the Presi dent and a very few of the special guests acting as the mourners, and these with the body bearers and guards constituted the procession from the armory. When ' the body was de posited. Chaplain H. II. Clark, of the Naval Academy," delivered the prayer. Later, -when' the crypt of the mag nificent new chapel. is completed, the body of John Paul Jones will be re moved to, j, the occasion being attend- . ed with no other ceremony than the simple prayer of commitment. The chapel, which is the architectural crown of the whole new Naval Acad emy, will form a fitting monument to the Father of the American Navy, ami the monument, as well as the casket Avhich encloses his remains, will lie constantly in the' sight of he youths who are being trained to hold the .Na tion's commission in her-naval force. ROCKEFELLER PASTOR SUES. Wife Charged With Desertion to a, . . Band of Colored People. ' , Cleveland, Ohio. The Rev. I. R. B.,, Arnold, associate pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, the religious . home of John D. Rockefeller, filed suit for divorce from Adelia Arnold.. He charges her with deserting him to live f With 'a band "of colored believers of "Holiness" religion in Chicago. . They were married in 1SG7 and have five daughters, all adults. " : In his petition Mr. Arnold says that 'he found employment for? his, daugb-, ters, but she (his wife) compelled the girls to abandon their work and go with her to reside with a company, of, colored people in Chicago, because, as she said, it was wicked -to earn money, or engage in any business." , , , , . . Hobson' Wins' Congress Fight. '-' Tate returns from the Sixth District. Democratic Congressional primary, in Alabama, confirm titer nomination of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, hero ot; the Merrimac, over Congressman John H. Bankhead. The '- . nomination: '. li- equivalent to an election. Auto Obstacles Tiled. - - Raised cross walks In Chatham, .K. ' ' J., to prevent automobile speeding were tested and found successful. Machine? going over them at high speed received a terrible jolting, and side-combs, hair- Sins, cigars and goggles were left be-' ind. ' ' . 1 -A A i : in n : 1 1 1 K i ; j i 1 n
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