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---4.'. To6 INBRO&CjSA, UY2,92 ; 1 1 ESTERN FLOODS. Steamboats. Float Over Growing Crops. IAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $6,000,000. fmmense Fields Seen in a Great Lake Whose Shore is Visible Only Through a Glass. Kebkuk, Iowa, Speclal.-Exploration of the flooded district of the Mlssissip 4p river from Reokuk south shows con oditions beyond the appreciation of re .alization ofanj-of those of long experi -enee fith.the Father of Waters in its i-ost destructive mood. The situation U growing worse hourly and a great -cnflagration' ita great city wduld not be more rapidly destructive of values. There Kabsolutely not the slightest anee stoppong this most costly ain t history of the great river * ..above St-Lonis. A correspondent of the Associated Press. went over the worst :damaged ,area in' the steamer Silver Crescent and found everywhere the *reatest c-ops ever known under water .deep enough to float a steamboat. Peo Iyple at the river cities give account of losses aggr gating many millions of -dollars. H ds of farmers, iich 10 -days ago, are penniless and homeless. Careful estimates gathered from the tatements of test informed people in cate the loss upo Monday is about 000*,00 with prospoect of two or milions- ad. onal by the rise i4et yet ching the lower - tfhes of the rivers. Most of thois loss 4s othe r, the river, be t eon Keok al. Tassing the water-lapped ards of K!o kak, tpie mo s Moines r'ier &-rnearly two miles 'wide. Normally e a~re two mouths,.dI an island delt -which are t6 the dast the breaking of r eetpf water Al Is, submerged iS~hch ser .on es on s are beyond the danger line. ense fields are seen in a great with the shore visible only with a ilass, where the high bluffs bound the bottoms. Islands dotting the river at its normal stage have disappeared, -except for the tops of trees or fringe of bigh shore willows, slightly protruding .like a circular coral reef. Occasionally a house on piles -or stilts is seen, but generally only roofs rise to mark the -center of farms of corn. On the edge of the flooded river, corn gradually rises -on a slope, tassels, tops, ears and stal:s I appearing in order. In the middle of the present river the tracks of the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Rail road, n'ormally on the Missouri shore, -are now a few inches above the water and under it in some stretches. Shore J lights for pilots are standing in the midst of a wasto of waters where :steamboats can run over them. The river is 5 to 10 miles, wide, and a great 'lake 70 miles long is added to the map. All this territory was practically cov -ered with corn a f'ortnight ago, esti mated to mnake 75 to 100 bushels to the acre. Previous estimates of the loss have been greatly increased by the 'prospective yield being much greater -than ever before, telling of many farms -that were good for 100 bushels to the acre before the flood. The loss is total. Experience is that. if water stays 4S hours. even four inahes under the sur lace it kills corn and every stalk wet 'by waves perishes from rotting roots. The height of the :lood is indicated by an incident at La Grange. The steam boat warehouse was well back fv~m the river bank and stands high. A strong -current and a gale caused the pilot to -make an imperfect landing and the cor 'nice of the roof of the warehouse was torn off by the forward guarLh of the Silver Crescent. The river is rising all the time, six inches during the day in the immense area of 700 square miles, and the worst is to come. - The chief flood thus far is on tihe Missouri side, from Keokuk to Louisi ana with Canton and West Quincy as venters of the country hurt worst. On the Illinois side are three continuous levees for 40 miles from Warsaw to Quincy above water which thus far are safe, but farmers are afraid of cre vasses from musk rat holes and every road of the redoubt is watched day and 'night. The breaking of these levees would fiood many square miles in Illi nois and destroy $2.O00000 to $3,O00 009 worth of corn. The levees below Quincy are in the same situation, ex cept they are lower and less firm. AKFatal Accien~t. Roanoke, Va., Specirl.-While a bridge force was working on a Norfolk and Western Railway trestle over Reed Cpek; two miles west of Wytheville, the scaffolding gave way.. precipitating Allen Grubb, .James WV. Smith. Stephen Gregor, William Hi ks and John John son, the latter a foreman, eighty feet below into the creek. Smith was in stantly killed, his head being crushed by striking a bed of rocks. Grubbs and McKenzie are believed to have received injuries that will p-rove fatal. Gregor and Hicks were orly slightly injured. All of the men are of family. Smith leaving a wife and thirteen children at Dublin, Va. GREENE SUBMITS AFFIDAVITS. lie Says That Erwin Wanted Five Hundred Thousand Dollas.' Quebec, Special.-Friday's proceed ings in the Gaynor-Greene case con sisted principally in the fillng of affi davits and counter-affidavits and it was only a short time before-;the judg ment of the court that Mr. ]OcMaster, of the prosecution, made histrgument on 'motions to quash .corpus writes issued by Judge iJune 20th, last. The proceed roDPen ed by Mr. Tasehereau, for the prisoners, who produc vIt of Benjamin D. Greene May 17 Mr. Erwin caled on him at the Wind sor Hotel, M treal, when;EFiwn said to Greene: "f yoTwilmftay $500,000 to settld the w umatter, I will go at once to W -nd advise its ec ceptance." Greene repl he could not stand that, beca had not money enough to pay his half of the amount, but tht Erwin said: "Gaynor has enough. I.don't knoW where it is, but he has it" ' To this G Wii id: "'If you will say $200,b9Q I -il. tAlk with .Colonel Gay nor about It." .,Erwin replied, the vit conin ued: "That 'mll not' tough." Greene th'en added: "-What do you thin: of $300,000?" He said: "I dcn't think that I- en'aght, but you don't want 'torgs through the rest of your life Easted wherever you go, and ydu must- emember that if you are extra dited and are In Georgia it will be too late to make a settlement." Greene finally reTlied: "Well, any way I don't see how we can pay any money because that would be an admis sion on our part that we have received money wrongfully, and that we have not done." Mr. MeMa'ster read an affidavit sign ed by Marion Erwin, completely deny ing the allegations contained in the af fidavits of Mr. Greene and Mrs. Gaynor, Regarding the interview between Greene and himself, Mr. Erwin stated that on his return to his room in the, Windsor on the afternoon of May 17 he, found a note there In which he recog nized the bandwriting' of S. B. D. Green, which note was as follows: "If you can call to see me at; any time today, you will do me- a Vor." 4The original of t"hino latter opened the conversation by say ing that while he knew that Erwin had been prosecuting him vigorously for over two years,he wanted to thank him for having always treated him with I personal consideration. He then said if the extradition proceedings at.Montreal proceeded for any length of time it was probable he might desire t'o give bonds on forfeited recognizance which he said were secured by assets put up by Gaynor and himself with the sureties, but that If he settled the civil claims it must carry with it the dismissal of the criminal proceedings. I replied that I knew of no law for settling the crimi nal case, but that if he made restution of the government's actual loss, I did not know what view of leniency might be taken by the government; I had no authority In the matter and the amount he offered in settlement of the govern ment's civil claim was not sufficiently large for me to recommend to the At torney General." The other affidavits practically contain the same stateme~nt as that mentioned this week in Mr. Er wins 'reply to Mr. Taschereau's state ment. Erwin's affidavit continued in sub stance: "I called his attention to the fact that he and Gaynor had already forfeited bonds in the sum of $400,000 each. He replied that he had left the United States because he had resolved never to be put in jail as a convict; that he had come to Canada with the expectation that after a year or two his friends in the United States would ef fect a settlement of the civil claims of the government against him and then he could probably obtain a dismissa lof the criminal prosecution. He said that he had not given his personal word that he would not run off from the prosecution, but he would pledge me hiswordof honor that if I would agree to his giving bc,., before Judge La Fontaine he would not run off. He then referred to the fact that the govern ment had already tied up by civil pro ceedings half a million dollars of as sets, of what the government claimed was 0. M. Carter's share in the fraud and asked me what was the exact amount the govenrment claimed that he and John F. Gaynor had received as their share? I replied that we claimed that he and Gaynor had received $1. 400,000 as their share in the fraud. He replied that he was in no position, and had not sufficient means to meet such a claim, but that he and Gaynor would be willing to pay the government $300. 000 in settlement of the entire litiga tion to inc!ude the $80.000 claimed on forfeited recognizances." iany Carrenters .Strke. Jacksonville. Fla.. Speelal.-Twenlty two hundred union laborers in all branch9e of the building trades went out on a strike Friday, because the contractors refuscd to accede to a de mand for an eight-hour day. Practi cally all building operations are tem porarily suspended. A mass meeting of several hundred labor men was held in the open air at night ad dressed by prominent union men. The strikers were urged to obey the law and abstain from dissipation and violence. At a meeting of the Cen tral Labor Union a general strike of all organized labor was discussed, bu no definite action was taken. TOWN STROYEI Furious Storms Devastate Section a The Nothwest GRkTDAMAE FROM A TORNAD fNny Lives,it Is Thought, Were Los In the Northeastern Portion v North Dakota. St. Paul, Special.-Tremendou damace, and it is thought great los of life, were caused by a tornadi which Tuesday night swept In j southwesterly direction from th, boundary across the northeaster] portion of North Dakota. Three towns according to reports, were totall wiped out. Railroad and telegrapl lines are wrecked ancT there is n1 communication with the section o the State 'where the most serious de vastation is though have beel worked. The little town of rip, on the St Vincent line of the Great Northern is an absolute wreck. The final re port was that the entire town wal wiped out and hardly a structure o any sort left standing. The repori from Borup came in very soon aftel the storm struck and contained no in formation as to the casualties. Wit the report from the St. Vinceni branches came reports that th towns of Eldorado, about seven milef from Grand Forts and Thompson,.be tween Grand Forks and Larimore, ha been destroyed. At Thompson tho Great Northern station lies a con fused mass -of wreckage diretl across the min line. Stores and reI dencesa.re in iuins and the main .or tion~ -h e town Is wiped out. Th populdo'n is about 200. SMere fragments of conA comie from Eldorado, but these 11 cate the destruction of that towul about 250 people. Neither of the re ports from Thompson or EldoradC speiak of loss of life. This is*-artiall accounted for by the fact that thel were sent before nqis could havi lien received frQm the outying dis tqaodeveloped~Q~.~ of.th ..keof the-Wow been unusually wide and the effect of the storm outside Its primary lin unusually severe. The Northern Pacific Is unable t gain the slightest information over It wires from the storm district. Line min and relief trains have bee: started from the stricken district. Early Wednesday morning wh6,t i thought to have been the edge of : tornado struck St. Paul. Its onslaugh was sudden and fierce, high winds an a brilliant electrical display bein; predominant features. No report from Minnesota indicate any seriou storm damage, the destruction beinj apparently confined to North Dakota The following storm special ha been received by The Pioneer Press "Grand Forks, N. D., Grand Fork was between two storms, both 0 which were of terific violence an the outer edges of both of whic1 passed over the city. The two storm: traveled in parallel directions ani seem to have been central about 11 or 15 miles apart. Their course wai southeasterly. A heavy fall of smal hail stones came with the first and i: the Eecond the ground was covere< with stones measuring two inches i: diameter. Many crops are ruined an< immense damage has been done b: the wind. The depots at Eldoradc Thompson and McDonalds rere blow: away. Thompson is badly wrecked an' numerous farm buildln'gddstroyed2 In Meckintosh, Gilby, otway an< other towns north and -'west grea damage was done. The tornado is re ported to have destroyed thousands of acres of grain and to have don' considerable damage to pz werty Ii eastern North Dakota and westeri Minnesota the storm continued soutl and east of Crookston and did muel damage alo:. the Winnipeg'line o the Northern Pacific. Ulen, recentl: visited by a storm, was again a sufl ferer. At Borup several building: were damaged and two miles fron Lake Parks, on the main line of th< Northern Pacific east of Fargo, caboose In which there were severa stock men, was blown from th< tracks. The occupants were not sert ously hurt. Between Lake Park an< Glen a family was reported to havy been killed. Many farm buildings i the path of the storm were destroye< and some domestic stock killed. Th' grain fields have suffered badly. The wheat was just heading and is si luxuriant in growth that the plant is badly tangled, but it was estimates that much of it will straighten up Barley and early oats were almos ripe and those crops will be a tota loss wherever the storm struck. lHe Expelled himself. Richmond. Special.-The Genera Assembly cornvened for the first tiu< under the new constitution. The onl: feature of the session was the re fusal of I. P. McLean, Republica: member of the House of Delegate: from Mecklenburg, to take the oats to uphold the new organic law. WheI the Speaker, acting under a resolu tion, called upon the members to ris< and receive the oath. Mr. McLea: arose and said: "I will never taki that oath. There is no power to comn pel me to rk so. I emphatically re fuse." He then gathered his paper: together and stalked from the capitol U jnder the constitution his seat i thus vacated. The members of the Senna took the oath individually. TEMS OF NEWS Muiy' ers of.General ifterest I 4Ort Paragraphzs. e Sunny South. T Demodratic convention, it lveston, nominated S. W f or Governor. de and saw-mill of the Kec ShingeC five miles west of Eng a land, as burned on the 19th inst ; The loss in plant has not been estimat ) ed. It isted that there was no insur i an.e on thi'valuable properties. The Ala., Valley Fertilizer Co. of Fo Ala., has had a most suc cessful ,itsoutput and sales be lng Of volume. The company expects in a rock plant next sea sob- to Its own phosphate rock from -its at Springer, Tenn. The No arolina State Democratic Convent! net at Greensboro last week aid ated Hon. Walter Clark for Chief e of the Superior Court, Judge - and Hdn. Hon. Platt D. Walkert ociate Justices and Prof. SY Joyu State Superintendent of t blic on. * "~At Ioat Capital. The 'to the President, Mr. Cortily rranging the itinerary 'or the es trips. Judgv esented'a final propo sitionl-ta can, and will sal from I In a week. Seer y decided that the battleGovernment built shal be~~~ er the New York Navy The :of Agriculture, Presi. dentf Cornell, and Mrs Cbxi~e Catt delivered addres tEducational Asso t's tips. Sihhas been cen Roosevelt and re yeide becaue he Gvrnmo bilts and AThe Nort N Terrific hail and wind storms dii 2 great damage in North Dakota, Minne sota and Illinois. C At least 34 lives were lost by ar ex I plosion in the Italy-West silver mm tat Park City, Utah. At Oyster Bay, L. LPresident Roose. velt caught his daughter Ethel just ft Stime to save'her from falling from* thi horse she was riding. E. L.% Bonner, th- Montana million. aire and politician, fell from his auto mobile, dying instantly. B -- f Fifteen men were terribly burnd b3 a shawer of molten metal at the Home I stead (Pa.) Steel. Works. 3 The national convention of coal mof I -rs to vote on the question of a e T ersrifichall meet at windiantorms i g r.a Waag CBringofrthladelpian sdto renderedlinoillfr$1,00fra plosendac uin the ates millionaie tOer By, EmL. Keingthos young waugh ho aghteruated wutit consmetonacirfrfllind whorommth hoed siie a oeN was redng E. L. verdictrhth ma.ng, milion proire an politcl ealro his auo mobie, susiino hnatangy. reA 1ifteen C.Ltmewere troklyn bun b. rsdePa. Steel' planforas. sTntional odfnseniso ceapemin to er doted b the Uiten ofMgn Worlske convet at Indianapoli tenaefod ipnth ae Desllionie C rierLha ase wastiawared $29,239 on bewomn $2,0000 wandcu$ated0witl tocospion .bail and Misori.it jro Acrsh Sucan a. Jgv Twlvec thatk pEsta wer Kn, th cur-is fomihtng iche Churchakfnt Holrychnie.cr nJrsl Liag CH.n Tu.the says hieca Minisera l to clUieathimsexp rom te inuspinterview hadirgimurder tAl Bodesdn ofyonichll'reln forh atna ioneat scooped defense un founpctd i toi believped bth manitedini Woen rc' aneniof aninapois SiFreshuflod inhe was apoines LieuetGvernhasrause etmted drasaae of Netwee Y2,0,000ere toand $4,000,00 tcocros had Iowamn ie and wounuri edohd Acrossme inThe fieldand32 0T0weve Gre prisnere ent prisn. forfighn inete Churchailur te goly Ceulcreirctywl J rslt a aschy and nexe iation wilor isv aBle ofyugchlie wihth BARRELS OF MONEY Startling Filures Showing Wealth of Steel Combine, MANY MILLIONS IN TS Big United States Steel Corpodilon Gives Out Figures That Show Enormous Wealth. Newark, N. J., Special.-The answi of the United States Steel Corporatio to the suit brought . by J.. Aspinw Hodge, Wm. IH. Curtiss and' Bernarc Smith, who asked for an injunction to prevent the company from carrying out Its bond conversion plan, was filed Tuesday, before Vice Chan zellor Eme ry. The case was put over until July 23. The answer was sworn to by Chas. M. Schwab as president. The assets of the properties of the subsidary companies, it is stated, in cluded 400 producing mills of the value of $300,000,000; 75 blast furnaces of the value of $48,000,000; iron and Bessemer ore properties of the value of $700,000, 000; coal and coke properties of the value of $100,000,000; natural gas fields of the value of $20,000,000; cash in bank to the amount of $66,000,000 and over $80,000,000 of material in process of manufacture. The total value of the company's property, including cAsh and cash assets, is placed at $1,400,000,000 1 by Mr. Schwab in an affidavit which is | r part of the corporation's reply. The company's earning's are stated to be at the rate of more than $140,000,000 a g year. A saving of $30,000,000 a year is | credit to the ore properties and it is estimated that the ownership of trans portation facilities saves the company $10,000,000 annually. The earnings of C the coal and coke properties are stated I to be. more than $1,000,000 a month. Thea ntsas to val#es and earn 4 disprove a tile, the secretary, made a cate when they certified that i0 their judgment the properties were worth at least the par value of the prefetre'd stock after deducting all indebtedness. The conversion plan was agreed upon at a stockholders' meeting May 19. The answer admits that the conversion plan includes a payment of $10,000,000 to J. P. Morgan & Company. It denies that any of the acts contemplated will work fraud or injury to the complain ants, but says that on the contrary such acts when consummated will bzj greatly to the benefit of the corpora tion and of every stockholder. The answer says that some of the directors ! are members of the syndicate formed I by J. P. Morgan & Co., to float bonds 1 and that that fact was conveyed to I stockholders in a circular dated April J 17, 1902. It is further.declared that the directors so interested constitute a mi nority of the board of directors, that ) they were individually at the time of] the formation of such syndicate and now are owned by holders of large in terests of the stock of the defendant corporation, and that they became par-') ties to said syndicate and assumed their proportion of the liability thereof in order to assure the success of the plan of purchasing and retiring the prefer red stock, as they believed such plan to be of great value to the defen'dant cor poration and its stockholders. Mr. Schwab's answer contains the following statement of the value of the ( corporation's property which estimate he says he regards as below its 'real( value: Iron and Bessemer ore proper ties $700,000,000; plants, mills, fixtures, t machinery, equipment, tools and realr estate $300,000,000; coal and coke fields (87,589 .acres), $100,000,000; transpor- f tation properties, including railroads, 1,467 miles, terminals, docks, u .i)s, (112) equipments, (23,185 cars and 428 locomotives) etc., $80,000,000; blast fur- 1 naces $48,000,000; natural gas fieldsr $20,000,000; limestone properties $4, 00,000; cash and cash assets as of June 1, 1902, $148,291,000; total $1,400,291, Torpedo Boats Hlave Mishaps. Norfolk, Special.-The torpedo boat Biddle ran aground near the Rip Rapsc last night and re-nained in a helpless condition until floated Thursday morning by the government tug 1. hawk. The Bididle, apparently uniu jured, then proceeded out the capes. The Earney. another torpedo boat, met with an accident to her propellerc and probably will have to be docked. Eurned By a Mob. Clayton, Miss.. Special.-While Miss Tucker, a hihly connected young lady. of this section. was riding in the country Wednesday. she was as saulted by a negro. She was so vio lently pulled from the buggy that both her legs were broken, and she now lies at the point of death as a result of her injuries. The negro was soon eai tured and held by a posse of citizens, but they were unable to pro. tect him, and he was taken from the people, saturated with oil, tied to a tree and burned. SOUTHERN NDUSTRIAL For North Carolina. Just before the adjournment oC Congress Hon. John H. Small of the first district of North Carollia sub mitted, under the rules of the House of Regresentatives, some remarks whichlught to have a wide influence for the welfare of his State. The re marit6 were quite extended and were a splendid description of the resoux ces of North Carolina. With a great deal of -pains Congressman Small had gathered and arranged in attractive and comprehensive form an array o6 facts4about the climate, the people, the agriculture, the manufactures, the foresti mineral and timber resources, the fisheries and the educational con litions in the State. Circulated at eady in the Congressional Record in ill parts of the country, the speech ia to be scattered broadcast in North arolina and other States. It is really i condensed guide to the investor and iomeseeker, and ought to direct great er attkation than ever to the oppor tunities in North Carolina, and to incourage the people of that State ;ndcof other States to avail them ;elves promptly of those opportunt des. Industrial Miscellany. It is announced that the Thomp ;on Lumber Co-. of Grand Rapids qich., has acquired possession of a nost valuable saw-mill property In qississippi, together with about 23, 100 acres of fine timber land. The iaw mill property is located at Boyle. n the Yazoo & Mississippi Valle lailroad, about 120 miles south of Kempris, Tenn. The mill has a ca acity of 35,000 feet of lumber a da. Che purchase was made by Mr. B. L rhompson, a member of the com mny, from the bank 'at Friar's Point,. Lnd the transfer has been legal :oinpleted. - The transfer of the property of the tefuge Oil Mills at Vicksburg, Miss,~ o the Southern Cotton Oil Co. was. ffected last week. The Southern ow iwns, four mills .in Mississippi tefuge at Vicksburg, the C -- "otton Oil Co.-, at Colunbwsg lanters'.r loaded with 15,00 from Minneapolis, . Minn, and . next day a train of thirty-five cars 2,100 tons of tobacco, arrived. Both trainloads were intended for expot J. J. Felder of Navasota, Texas writes to the Manufacturers' Record that he is anxious to interest outside parties In building and equipping a $200,000 cotton mill in his town, N vasota to subscribe $100,000 and the Dutside parties $100,000. It is announced that the Fruit DiW patch Co. of New York, wbich con trols ninety-three freight and passe* er steamers, has established a a11W between Central America and Char leston, S. C., the first vessel of which [s to arrive this week. The Pocahontas extension of the 3t. Louis, Memphis & Southeasters Eailway has been opened for busine. [t is about forty-two miles long. On the first day of this month ship ment began from Pittsburg of 30,00,. )00 bushels of coal down the Ohio an! ifississippi. A Young Men's Busi'ness League has >een organized at Woodruff, S. C.. 'ith Dr. S. A. Wideman as presi lent. Textile Notes. Announcement of the . Ninety-Six Ntton Milhs of Ninety-Six, S. C., was ully made recently. 3. E. Sirrife-. ireenville, S. C., architect and en ineer in charge, has now let con racts for all buildings and machinery equired. The equipment will 'nclude 0,000 spindles and 280 looms, marn acturing about 4,000 pounds of Aine heeting daily; 150 operatives em loyed. Inman Cotton Mills, Inman, S. C., as completed its building and Ia apidly installing equipment of textile nachinery. There will be 2,00* pindles and 450 looms, all driven by lectricity. The, investment is $50,. 00. Union (S. C.) Cotton Mills has de lared an annual dividend of 3 1-2 >er cent. on commcn stock, which tmounts to $21,000. Lockhart Mills >f Lockhart, S. C., has declared a. emi-annual dividend of 3 per cent. mounting to $18,000. H. C. Townsend Cotton Mill of tnderson, S. C., reported at length ast week, will invest $25,000, and ince awarding contracts expects to ouble the plant before the year ex. nres. Spalding Cotton Mills of Griffin. a., ihas declared a dividend of 10' ->er cent., besides adding a consider ble sum to its surplus fund. It is stated that a Philadelphia yndicate will invest $1,000,000 in the ~stalishment cf a knitting plant for h production cf hosiery and under ear at West Point, Va. Names of the nterested parties have not been an iounced as yet. but it is known that. )lans and specifications for the mill m.d eqpipment are being prepared. he two main buildings will be 501 0x0 feet and 50x120 feet 'each, boiler rhe two main buildings will be iorse-power boilers. The machinery aill be driven by electricity. Paper boxes in which to pack the product w'ii. also be made. West Point inveas~ ors will aso be interested. ,.