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VOL XIL
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1907.
SO. 47.
I
OP RIVER FLOOD
WORST jj HISTORY
Twenty Lives Lost and $50,000,
00C Damage at Pittsburg.
WATER REACHES 39 FEET
Ten Square Miles of Territory Inun
dated -Fires Spread Terror and
Destruction Dynamite Checks
Flames Looting Amid Suffering.
Pittsburg, Pa. The flood of 1907,
the most disastrous Pittsburg ever
saw, has caused a loss of $50,000,000
and a score of lives. The crest of the
flood came when the rivers reached
36.6 feet, breaking all records.
Then the waters slowly began to
recede. But the danger had not
passed. All night the chiefs of the
Fire Department had been in sus
pense for fear a Are would break out,
with no water to fight it. At 8
o'clock a. m. the expected happened.
A small blaze started on Mount Wash
ington and the firemen were power
less. The flood had put the city
water plant out of service, and soon
an entire block in Shiloh street, the
business part of Mount Washington,
was burning fiercely. The firemen
used chemical engines and bucket
brigades were formed, but the flames
continued to spread. Then dynamite j
was resorted to and several buildings !
were blown up. In that way the
flames were arrested after twenty t
buildings had been destroyed with a j
loss of half a million dollars. .
Within the day other fires broke j
out at various places, but fortunately i
noiu of them was serious. j
Early in the morning the street i
car system was blocked completely.
There was no electric light, not a I
tele; hone in service, and no water, j
Every railroad entering Pittsburg, j
except the Pennsylvania from the
east, was out oi business.
The newspapers were badly crip
pled and some were compelled to
print in "the pressrooms of rivals sit
uated on higher ground.
Twenty lives were lost in the Pitts
burg district, two at Gloucester, Ohio, 1
four near Parkersburg, W. Va., and
sixteen near Steubenville, Ohio.
Business was practically suspend
ed, and reports of crime were many.
Valuable goods were stolen under j
the eyes of the owners. Pickpockets
reaped rich harvests among the
crowds of sightseers until the police
issued an appeal for people to stay
at home.
Five men are thought to have lost
their lives in the Ohio River at Se
wickley. Four well-dressed, men
alighted from a train on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railroad, which
was stalled at Lashiel's ferry, and
engaged James Greenway, a ferry
man, to take them across the Ohio
River, a mile wide at this point, to
Sewickley, where they could catch
a train. Greenway collected $10 from
the men and, after turning it over to
his wife. put. out in the raging torrent
in a yawl with the four men. With
in a few minutes cries for help came
out of the darkness. The party never
reached Sewickley. It is believed
their frail craft was crushed in the
heavy ice floes.
A city distressed is McKeesport.
Death rode on the wave in that fa
mous little steel town. Eleven lives
were lost. Paul Rice, while trying to
save his household goods, fell into
the Youghiogheny and was drowned.
A wharf boat broke from its moor
ings, carrying Watchman .iilas Gray
to death in the flood. The four-jjear-old
son of J. B. Tomodolsky fell from
a perch into the water. Three Hun
garian children were drowned.
The relief corps of McKeesport re
ported that 25,000 sufferers had ap
plied for and received relief. -There
is fear, however, of a bread and milk
famine.
There was much looting there.
Mayor Coleman gave orders that the
police should shoot any one found
looting without asking any questions.
"Shoot, and let the Coroner ask ques
tions I'll answer him," was his curt
order.
It was a day of suffering in Alle
gheny. All the city officials, under
the direction of Mayor Kirschler,
worked, taking people out of flooded
houses' and providing retreats. Hun
dreds of persons are now without
feed. Mayor Kirschler got all the
money in the Charities Department,
and sent boats through the streets
d iivering food, coal and medicine
to the marooned ones. Supplies had
to be hoisted up to second and third
floors by ropes.
The ice gorges, from which so
much was feared, passed out without
doing much damage.
Eleve Drowned in Flood.
Athens, Ohio. The flood waters
t?e. Hocking River took seven lives
teas and four elsewhere in the
mty and for leveral days cut Ath-
oi
in
CO
en;
Off from thckftwrrrrlA l"!rtinmiinir3-
n by telephone wras restored,
oso drowned in Athens are: E. D.
Albert Sweet, Turner and
T
Young, Charles Bears, Otto
jl the persons, with the exception
of
sized
v PrA in a olrifi- whiph ron-
1 IlC n t ll ci t' rl fi-vTtr r i n ores nrtniivrorl
w weisonviiie, where three lost their
ajes, and at Trimble, where one was
drowned.
Fifty houses were swept away, and
ty more are tottering. A thousand
WS are homeless and living in
arches and halls. The business
or the town is not in danger.
OKLAHOIMSJONSTITUTION
Convention Adjourns and Its Work
Will Be Voted on August 6. .
Woman's Suffrage Defeated Prohi
bit ion is Declared and a Fellow
Servant Lmv Included.
Guthrie. Okla. The Constitutional
Convention, after completing its
work of drawing up a set of lawc to
govern the proposed new State of
Oklahoma, adjourned sine die. The
constitution as prepared will be sub
mitted to the people of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory for ratification
or rejection at a special ejection on
August 6 next.
The convention was in session 115
days. One of the last acts of the con
vention was to appoint a committee
to solicit, funds to pay for the election
of August t. the convention having
exhausted all the money appropriated
by Congress. The convention was
composed of 100 Democrats and
twelve Republicans.
Probably the most important meas
ure killed by the convention was that
providing separate railway coaches
for whites and negroes. Female suf
frage was defeated by a few votes.
The initiative and referendum,
patterned after the Oregon 'aw, was
adopted, as was a provision provid
ing for the nomination of all State
officers and United States Senators
by primaries.
Oklahoma will be a prohibition
State, the most stringent liquor law
in existence, prohibiting not only the
sale, but the introduction of liquor
into the State, being provided for.
The enabling act provided that In
dian Territory must accept prohibi
tion for twenty-one ye.rs.
Provision is made for a Slr.te Rail
way Commission, to be elective, and
a two-cent passenger fare is ordered.
A fellow servant law is embodied
in the constitution.
Corporations are prohibited from
owning more land than is absolutely
necessary in the operation of their
business.
The issuance of watered stock is
prohibited, and the books of all cor
porations are made subject to in
spection at all times.
A commission is appointed 'to ne
gotiate the purchase of the segre
gated mineral lands in the Indian
Territory, valued at many, millions of
dollars, and State ownership and op
eration of the coal mines thereon is
contemplated. ,
KILLS JERSEY CHARTERS.
Annual House Cleaning of Delin
quent 1600 Corporations.
Trenton, N. J. Governor Stokes
issued a proclamation revoking the
charters of more than 1600 New Jer
sey corporations which have failed to
pay the annual franchise tax levied
by the State for the fiscal year of
l905-'06.
The proclamation is an annual af
fair, provided by the corporation
laws for the weeding out of delin
quent corporations, and it seldom
makes its appearance without sensa
tional stories of a great fight being
waged against corporate interests by
the State.
The fact is that the revoking of
the charters of even 1600 companies
ha& little effect upon the business
world, since a large percentage of
the corporations involved are with
out actual existence, except on japer.
It is estimated that probably
eighty per cent, of the delinquent
companies have never transacted auy
actual business since their incorpora
tion, many of them having failed
I even to obtain subscribers to $1000
i worth of stock, which is theminimum
amount with which they may start
' business.
CONFINED TO WALL STREET.
Bradstreet's and Dun's Agencies Re
port No Outside Depression.
New York. Both agencies agree
that the depression in Wall Street
has not affected commodities. Brad
street's thus outlines' the situation:
"Trade conditions continue to im
prove, the tendency in this respect
being the direct antithesis of that dis
played in the stock market, where
prices have been moving downward
at a rapid pace. This movement ha3
given rise to sqme pessimistic senti
ments, but it is noteworthy that con
sumption of commodities throughout
the country is going on at an enor
mous rate, and that high prices seem
to have little, if any, effect on demand."
! Dun's Review says: "Depression m
! the stock market did not extend be
! yond Wall Street, commou.ty prices
! ruling high and general business cn
! tinuing vigorous."
GOLDFIELD SHUTS DOWN.
Mine Owners and Merchants Suspend
Business to Fight a Union.
Coldfield. Nev. Every mine and
Kir?-P in Coldfield is closed. The
j streets are crowded with idle men,
1 and armed guards are everywhere as
1 a result of the general lockout insti
j tuted by (mine owners and business
I men against the Industrial Workers
of the World.
Everything is at a standstill and
will be for an indefinite time. This
is the culmination of labor troubles
that have been almost continuous for
months. The mine owners and mer
chants, who have the support of mem
bers of the unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, aie
determined to fight the Industrial
Workers to a finish.
MRS. RUSSELL SAGE GIVES
$10,000,000 FOR CHARITY
Founds Trust Fund to Improve
Living Conditions.
RESEARCH IMPORTANT FEATURE
Will Be Known as Sage Fonndation,
, and is to Be National in Scope
Social Conditions Are to Be Rem
edied Helen Gould a Trustee.
Albany, N. Y. Ten million dollars
of the Russell Sage fortune is to be
given by Mrs. Sage to the improve
ment of social and living conditions
in the United States. An organiza
tion known as the Sage Foundation
managed by prominent philanthrop
ists of both sexes, is to have charge
of the fund. Only the income from
the $10,000,000 is to be used.
A bill incorporating the Sage Foun
dation was introduced in the Assem
bly by Assemblyman Prentice, of New
York. These persons are named as
the incorporators of the Foundation:
Robert W. De Forest, Cleveland F.
Dodge, Daniel C. Oilman, John H.
Glenn, Miss Helen M. Gould, Mrs.
William B. Rice and Miss Louisa L.
Scnuylcr.
Mrs. Sage, through her attorney,
R. W. De Forest, makes the follow
ing statement concerning the founda
tion: "I have set aside $10,000,000 for
the endowment of this foundation.
Its object i3 the improvement of so
cial and living conditions in the
United States.
"The means to that end will in
clude research, publication, educa
tion, the establishment and mainte
nance of charitable and beneficial
activities, agencies and institutions
and the aid of any such activities,
agencies and institutions already es
tablished. "It will be within the scope of sus'.i
a foundation to investigate and study
the causes of adverse social condi
tions, including ignorance, poverty
and vice, to suggest how these condi
tions can be remedied or ameliorated,
and to put in operation any appro
priate means to that end.
"It will also be within the acope of
such a foundation to establish any
new agency necessary to carry out
any of its conclusions and equally to
contribute to the resources of any
existing agencies which are doing ef
ficient and satisfactory work, just as
the present general education fund,
organized to promote higher educa
tion, is aiding existing colleges and
universities.
"While its scope is broad it should,
preferably, not undertake to do with
in that scope what is now being done
or is likely to be effectively done by
other individuals or by other agencies
with less resources. It will be its
aim to take up tho larger and more
difficult problems, and to take them
up. so far as possible, in such. a man
ner as to secure co-operation and aid
in their solution. In some instances
it may wisely initiate movements
with the expectation of having them
maintain themselves unaided after
being once-started. In other instances
it may start movements with the ex
pectation of carrying them on itself.
Income only will be used for its char
itable purposes, because the founda
tion is to be permanent and its action
continuous. It may, however, make
investments for social betterment
which themselves produce income.
"While having its headquarters in
New York City, where Mr. Sage and
I have lived and where social prob
lems are pressing and complicated,
partly by reason of its extent and
partly because it is the port of entry
for about l.Ofi 0,000 immigrants a
year, the foundation will be national
in its scope and in its activities. I
have sought to select as my trustees
men and women who are familiar
with social problems and who can
bring to their solution not only zeal
and interest, but experience and judg
ment." NIAGARA ICICLE KILLS MAN.
Drops on Trolley Cor and Five Pas
sengers Are Injured.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. A huge ici
cle dropped from the cliff 3 of the Nia
gara Gorge onto a trolley car of the
Gorge road as it was passing the
Whirlpool Rapids. Ev Brett Rams
dell, a conductor, was killed. Dr.
and Mrs. I. E. Nerveg, c-f Sioui City,
Iowa, and Miss Nerveg were struck
on the back and badly bruised, and
S. C. Lindsay and wife, of Pittsburgi
were injured, the former having his
hand smashed. The injured were
taken to the Prospect House.
Dr. Nerveg and wife were on their
honeymoon. Ten days ago they were
married in Harvey, III., as the climax
of a pretty romance in the Sioux City
College of Medicine, of Sioux City,
Iowa. Dr. Nerveg had charge of one
of the surgery classes and Mis3 Edna
Shadle, of No. 720 West Fourth
street, Sioux City, now his bride, was
one of his students.
TWENTY-TWO MEN DROWNED.
-,. ,-rfg
Only Two Saved When Boat Cap
sized in the Sacramento.
Redding, Cal. Twenty-four Greek
laborers started to cross the Sacra
mento River in a boat at Pitt. The
boat capsized and twenty-two of the
men were drowned.
The men were employed by the
New Delmar-Pitt Railroad.
FATAL OHIO RIVER FLOODS
Lives Lost Amid Ice Floes as
Towboat Sinks.
Railroad Bridge Swept Away fn Penh,
sylvania, Precipitating Freight
Train Into Rushing Waters.
Pittsburg, Pa. In one of the
greatest river boat disasters in re
cent' years two lives were lost and a
score threatened on the Ohio River,
and eight othersare known to have
been drowned in other places on the
river and its tributaries.
The spring floods promise to be the
worst since 1873.
The dead, besides John Kennett
and a deckhand named Session, lost
in the boat wreck, are Lloyd Weyant,
of Bakersville; William Beard, Jones
Mills, and Annia Shute, of Hastings.
Three men drowned, a railroad
bridge washed away, a county bridge
in danger of following the railroad
bridge into the Allegheny River and
an engine and five cars in the water
are the first results of the rapid rise
during the night of Deer Creek, near
Harmarsville, on the West Penn
Railroad.
A freight train east-bound entered
on the bridge about 5 o'clock a. m.,
but had not gone further than the
second pier when the pier suddenly
gave way. Before the engine driver,
fireman or a brakeman on the front
part of the train could realize what
had happened the bridge went dovn,
carrying the engine, trainmen and
five freight cars with it.
So rapidly had the Beer Creek
risen during the night that it had at
tained a height of sixteen feet in
stead of the normal, from four to six
feet. So great, too, was the force of
the current that one of the five
freight cars, heavily loaded, was car
ried, down the creek a distance of
oer a quarter, of a mile before its
progress was stayed. The fireman,
engine driver and brakeman had not
the slightest possible opportunity of
escaping, but were immediately
dragged into the roaring current and
drowned.
About ten miles below Pittsburg at
8 o'clock p. m., the great tugboat
Cruiser, of the River Coal Trust, went
down after striking the abutment of
a Government dam.
twenty other persons were plunged
into the icy water. Captain Harry
Swaney, of the Cruiser, met his
brother at the pilot-house door. They
swam out together into the stream,
holding to the same bit of wreckage.
One mile down the river they were
rescued by Joseph McDonald? who,
from his residence, saw the lights of
the Cruiser disappear and jumped
into a yawl. He took the captain and
pilot to shore, and started across the
river to where the steamer Valiant
lay with steam up.
Dispatches from all sections of
Western Pennsylvania report heavy
rains. Connellsville streams rose at
an alarming rate. Dunbar is inun
dated and Oakdale, Ingram, Carnegie,
Wilmerding, Sharpsburg and Turtle
Creek borough were already under
water. At the latter place many
were rescued from houses by skiffs.
Pittsburg rivermen prepared for a
flood stage of twenty feet.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Heavy rain
storms throughout the Ohio Valley
did much damage in the Mill Creek
Valley and other suburban sections.
Lancaster, Ohio. The worst flood
since 1873 swept Lancaster. The
police and flre departments are work
ing to rescue people from the second
stories of their homes in the west
and south ends and the Hocking Val
ley tracks are washed out for more
than a mile.
Springfield, Ohio. Twenty-five
families were rescued in boats from
the flooded district near Buck Creek,
where a section a mile long by four
blocks wide is under water. Mrs.
Mary Wills and her four-day-old child
were removed to the hospital. This
is the worst flood in eleven years.
ADMITS JAPANESE TO SCHOOLS.
San Francisco School Board Adopts
Resolution President Asked For.
San Francisco, Cal. In accordance
with a promise to President Roose
velt the Board of Education passed
a resolution readmitting Japanese
children of limited age to the primary
schools of San Francisco.
The board members declare they
have now kept i,aith with the Presi
dent and are waiting for him to ful
fill his part of tbe contract. If the
large influx of Japanese should con
tinue the board will ask an explana
tion from Washington.
Mayor Schmitz was at tne meeting,
but there was no discussion of the
resolution, which was prepared at
Washington. P. S. Barber, chief
clerk to United States District Attor
ney Devlin, was present, and as soon
as the resolution was adopted he sent
a telegram to the President.
Robbers Wreck Bank.
The Union State Bank of Hunae
well, Kan., was wrecked by safe
blowers. Five explosions aroused the
residents, who gave chase to the bur
glars. The robbers escaped on a
handcar.
Former French President Dead.
M. Casimir-Perier, former Pres
ident of France, died suddenly at Par
is of embolism of the heart. He was
born in 1847.
Wholesale Prices Quoted in New York
MILK.
The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is 3c. per quart.
BUTTEB.
Creamery Western, extra. $
Firsts.
State dairy, finest.
Good to prime
Factory, thirds to firsts. :..
CHEESE.
State, full cream, fancy....
31 $ 32
29 30-
(3 30
26 29
18 21
144 14
14 15
8 9
2 3
HI 22
18 20
- 17
35 40
Small 14
.fart skims, good to prime
Full skims
EGGS.
State Good to choice.
Western Firsts
BEANS.
Marrow, choice 2 10 2 15
Medium, choice 1 47 1 50
Red kidney, choice 2 27 2 30
Pea 1 50 1 52
White kidney. 2 90
Yellow eye 190
Black turtle soup 2 00
Lima, Cal 3 00 3 05
FRUITS AND BERRIES FRESH.
Apples Greening, per bbl. 1 50
King, per bbl 2 75
Ben Davis, per bb! 1 50
Cranberries, C.Cod, per bbl 6 50
Jersey, per bbl 5 00
LIVE POULTRY.
Fowls-, per lb
Roosters, per lb. : 9
Turkeys, per lb .
Ducks, per lb
Geese, per lb 10
i'igeons, per pair
DRESSED POULTRY,
Turkeys, per lb 10
Chickens, per lb 10
Fov.-is, per lb 10
3 50
4 00
3 25
8 50
6 00
15
11
13
16
13
30
15
18
14
24
10
12
50
15
10
75
00
65
22
10
14
10
1
I
I
(S)
I
m
i
i
Capons, per lb
Ge&se, spring, per lb...
Bu?k3, spring, per lb
12
8
I
8
bqnads, oer uozen 1 75
HAY AND STRAW.
Hay. prime, per 100 ib....
I
I
I
No. 1, .per 100 lb
No. per 100 lb
Clover mixed, per 100 lb.
Straw, long rye
HOPS.
Stale. 1900, choice
Medium, 1005
Pa-Miic Coast. 1906, choice..
Medium, 1905
VEGETABLES
Potatoes, L. I., per bbl....
Jersey, per sack
Sweets, per bbl
80
65
70
60
21
9
13
8
1 75
1 50
2 75
2 00
2 00
1 60
3 75
3 50
3 50
2 50
4 00
3 50
2 00
50 00
Tomatoes, per carrier
iL.r:c nlanu. per box 2 00
Souash, per box 1 00
PeS. per basket 2 00
Peppers, per carrier 2 00
Lettuce, per basket 40
Cabbages, per ton . '. 15 00
String beans, per basket. . . 1 00 (a)
Unions, Ct., white, per bbl. 4 00 (a)
Orange Co., per bag...... 1 25
Carrots, per bbl 1 25
Bests, per bbl 1 00
Celery, per case 125
Turnips, per bbl 1 12
Okra. per carrier 200
Cauliflower, per basket 2 50
Brussels sprouts, per qt. ... 5
Parsley, per bbl 3 00
Spinach, per bbl 100
Vvatercress,per 100 bunches 1 00 (2)
Kale, per bbl 1 25
Shallots, per 100 bunches.. 2 00
Radishes, per basket 1 50
Parsnips, per bbl 1 75
Horseradish, per bbl 5 00
GRAIN, ETC.
Flofir Winter patents .... 3 60
Spring patents 4 15
Wheat. No. 1 N. Duluth...
No. 2 red 84
Com, No. 2 white..
No. 2 yellow 1
Oats, mixed....
Clipped white 51
Lard, city
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves, city dressed ........ 7
Calves, city dressed 8
Country dressed 7
SheeD, per 101) lb 3 00
Lambs, ner 100 lb 7 50
Ho?s, live, per 100 lb 7 60
Country dressed, per lb..
9
MANY BILLS HIT AT ROADS.
Western State Legislatures Have Con
sidered 712 Measures.
New York City. How prolific rail
road legislation has been during the
past year is shown by the fact that in
ten Western States 712 bills have
been presented during sessions of
Legislatures, and forty-five in the Na
tional Congress just closed. The bills
are apportioned as follows: Illinois,
seventy-two; Iowa, i.'orty-seven; Wis
consin, 125; Missouri, 177; Nebraska,
seventy-nine; Kansas, fifty-five; Colo
rado, four; Montana, eleven; South
Dakota, ten, and Wyoming, seven.
In every Stats an anti-pass measure
has been presented.
In Illinois a legislator offered a bill
requiring fire escapes on passenger
cars. Another bill "would prevent
freight train men from riding on top
of freight cars while in motion.
Safety devices come in for a large
share of attention, and one man in
Minnesota offers a series of prizes
for devices which will prevent train
wrecks. The first prize is $20,000 in
cash, and the four others are graded
down- to $2500. The bill does not
say how the winners of the prizes
shall be determined, other than that
they shall be awarded for devices
which will prevent train wrecks.
Larger Crops Expected.
The West and South are calling
early for funds and the demand is
larger than generally occurs at the j
start of the season; yet this only
nfeans extra preparation for enlarged
planting operations, thus insuring,
with ordinary weather conditions,
more than average crops.
More Horses Wanted.
More persons want to buy horses
than at any time in twenty year;:.
FRENCH WARSHIP BLOWN
UP AT HER DOCK
Fatal Disaster to the lena in
Toulon Harbor.
POWDER MAGAZINES EXPLODE
Spectacle a Terrifying One Bodies
of Victims Hurled Through the
Air Scores Jumped Into Water
Death Roll Large.
Toulon, France. By one of the
most terrifying and strangest disas
ters in history, the great battleship
lena, the pride of the Freiich navy,
was blown up. As a result, Captain
Adigard, the commander of the bat
tleship; Captain Vevtiez, Chief of
Stan of the Mediterranean squadron,
and from seventy to eighty bluejack
ets are dead, while Rear-Admiral
Manceron aud hundreds of other men
are suffering from horrible injuries.
Naval circles are aghast at the ex
tent of the fearful catastrophe, and
the public is stunned by the appall
ing details of this accident, coming
so soon after the loss of the French
submarine boat Lutln, in which six
teen men met a fearful death.
Tnere were about 630 otneers and
men on board the Lena, at the time of
the disaster, but many of them
Jumped into the water.
The lena was undergoing an in
spection oif her machinery in the first
basin of the Missiessy dock.
The , concussion caused by the ex
plosion of a compressed air torpedo
eet fife to the after powder magazine,
blowing the whole afterpart of the
vessel up.
Further explosions on the lena oc
curred at frequent intervals and de
bris flew over the dockyard for a dis
tance of 500 yards. The windows of
the workshops around the scene of
the explosion were all broken. The
electric wires flashed in the fuses and
then broke down all about the Mis7
siessy dock.
A shell weighing twenty ;ounds
was hurled a quarter of a mile be
fore striking and sinking into the
ground.
A complete panic prevailed mong
the employes of the arsenal, who
were returning to work from lunch
whenthe powder magazine blew up,
and many of them made a rush tow
ard the Missiessy dock,-whence clouds
of thick smoke were arising.
No one seemed to know what had
happened until some one shouted:
"The lena has blown up!"
An officer then peremptorily called
out:- "Save yourselves!" and all the
workmen and others made a rush
for the nearest exit from the arsenal.
Later squads of workmen and sail
ors approached the scene of the dis
aster, at the peril of their lives, and
as they neared the dock they could
dimly observe through dense smoke
human remains flying constantly in
the air, following further explosions
on the doomed vessel, which present
ed a terrifying spectacle and caused
the arsenal employes to wring their
hands with horror.
Suddenly blackened forms with
haggard eyes rushed madly through
the lines of spectators, not knowing
where they were fleeing.
Officials declare that the magazines
of the lena were completely filled
with explosives and that the recur
rent detonations indicated that they
were all on fire.
A signalman r-i the lena, named
Giudicelli, who escaped, says that a
large number of the crew of the bat
tleship were gathered in the forepart
of the ship, listening to a lecture
which was being delivered by an 'offi
cer when the first explosion came.
Most of these were able to escape.
Many of the crew saved their lives
by climbing down ladders and reach
ing the quays, whence they fled to
places of safety.
The lena was flying the flag of
Rear-Admiral Manceron, command
ing one of the divisions of the Med
iterranean squadron. The command
gr of the vessel was Captain Adi-
L gard.
PITTSBURG HAS A BRAINSTORM
When News Comes That It and Alle
gheny Will Be Legally One.
Pittsburg, Pa. Pittsburg had a
brainstorm when word came from
Philadelphia that the Supreme Court
had affirmed the Greater Pittsburg
bill, making the consolidation of
Pittsburg and Allegheny a certainty
ten days hence.
Wnistles were blown and every
body acted foclish for a time.
The annexation of Allegheny gives
Pittsburg a population of 521,000.
probably making it the sixth largest
city in the United States, although
this claim may be contested by Balti
more. By the consolidation Pitts
burg moves forward from eleventh
place among the cities, passing Cleve
land, Buffalo and San Francisco.
37,323 Rural Mail Routes.
The report on the operations of the
rural delivery service up to March 1,
1907, made public at Washington by
tbe Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General,
shows that the total number of
petitions received up to that date was
59,920, upon which 15,701 adverse
reports have been made, and there
are now in operation 37,323 routes,
on which 37,174 regular letter car
riers are employed.. .
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