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1 STORM HITS OMAHA HOME THAN ONE THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED ? FIRES BREAK OUT TOO Many Persons Not Injured by Colltqis1 ing Building Trampled to Death.? Firemen Unable to lies pond to Alarms.?iJoiiiiiiuiiicauon tut uir ' Vv t,.f Front Out?i<lo World. Omaha, chief city of Nebraska, storm wrecked and fire swept, was so effectually cut off from thfe remainder of the world Monday morning that only meagre estimates of the death list and damage could be obtained. Brief dispatches forced through by devious routes, indicated that between 900 and 1,100 persons perished and hundreds of others injured. Special trains and troops are rushing to the scene. Early Sunday evening a series of equinoxial gales of varying intensity began sweeping through the Missouri Valley and middle west, leaving ruin in their path. At least six states sustained heavy damage. Ter Tt ^ ^ T M .1 1 M M A *% /1/kn t It re nuuie, jiiuiuiul, iepuit? ti ucum list in that vicinity which may reach 50. Towns in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri were affected. Wire communication with Omaha was broken shortly after six o'clock Sunday evening and since that time only a few dispatches could be sent over roundabout routes. That the city and suburbs sustained great damage is certain. One of the dispatches received via Lincoln described the path of the tornado as being "eight miles long and from four to Bix blocks wide". United States troops from Fort Omaha were immediately called out, it was said, and the stricken zone put under practi cal martial law. The National Red Cross has volunteered its services for the injured and Gov. Morehead, of Nebraska, left Lincoln early Monday personally to aid in the relief work. Railroad bridges are down, however, and train schedules demoralized. Hysterical passengers ariving at Lincoln from Omaha were unable to give any connected account of the disaster except to say that the residential portion of the city suffered most. ) ? ? BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS. ? ^Secretary of State Agrees With the President. Secretary of State Bryan Thursday said he was entirely in sympathy with President Wilson in the latter's attitude on the proposed Chinese loan. Ho declared also he was unable to agree with what former Assistant Secretary Huntington Wilson had to say concerning the six-power agreement. "t nr?f nf r?nnrse. airree with the former Assistant Secretary," said Mr. Bryan, "in what he says concerning the six-power agreement. The representatives of a group of bankers were heard and the matter was considered by the President. The principles involved were such that it did not require any great length of time for the President to understand or act upon them. "The Assistant Secretary handed in his resignation when President Wilson took the oath of office and expected to sail for Europe last Tuesday. Having to leave the city for a few days, I asked him to delay his departure until I returned. This he consented to do, but he seems to have felt that the change of policy prevented his remaining. He looked at the Chinese loan proposition from the standpoint that former President Taft '* and the late Secretary Knox did. "I have no doubt that in the matter of the Chinese loan, the late President and retiring Secretary and Assistant Secretary did what they thought best for our country and China, but I am entirely in sympathy with the attitude of President Wilson and heartily endorse both the position taken and the language employed by him, and I may add that I am sure Europe will approve of the change in policy. I am equally confident that China will rejoice at our nation's attitude. "My associations with the Assistant Secretary, Mr.'Wilson, have been very pleasant. I have found him courteous and helpful during my connection with the department." ? + Death In a Water Tank. , A dispatch from Thomasville, Ga., stlys with one end of a rope tied around her neck and the other end fastened to a smoothing iron, Mrs. C Jj. Whitney, wife of a local farmer, was found dead in a water tank ai the Whitney home by her husband Saturday. The woman, aged 60, had been in ill health for some time. The Whitneys came to Georgia two yeari ago from Ohio. <> Shot the Wrong Man. A Shanghai cable says former mln Ister of education of China Chin bhung was assassinated by a Man churian, when arrested the assassii showed distress saying "Made a grea mistake and wish to apologize. I in tended to kill General Hasing." i MANY LIVES ARE LOST WINI> STORM VISITS SEVERAL WESTERN STATES. Doing Great Damage to Property and Causing the I>e?th or Injury of Many People. A dispatch from Chicago says a terriflc wind storm, causing widespread destruction and loss of life and practically wrecking the already demoralized telegraph service, rdged over the Central West and Middle States luttt ShikIhv UAnnrtn frnm Nftliraska. I Kansas and Iowa and Indiana indiIjcate heavy damage but owing to the wrecking of the telegraph lines the reports are fragmentary and lacking in detail. Omaha, Berlin, Ashland and Yutan, Nebraska?the latter towns near Omaha ? Marshalltown, Ackley, Woodbine, and Carroll, Iowa; Terne Haute, Ind., and Abilene, Kan., are places from which scattering messages carrying the news of grave destruction have been received. The death list at Yutan was placed at fifteen and the injured at fifty. For more than four hours no word was received^ from the stricken city of Omaha. Bate bulletins report that half the city was swept by a tornado. All wires were down and Berlin, a neighboring town, was said to be in flames. The message was received over a single long distance telephone wire, which worked at intervals. First reports from Nebraska were that the towns visited by the storm had been wiped out and that the wreckage was on fire. Trains loaded with rescuers, nurses and physicians were struggling toward the scene, being compelled to feel their way without running orders, owing to paralysis of the telegraphic service. Loss of life and severe property damage was caused by a tornado which wiped out the southern part of Terre Haute at 10 o'clock Sunday night. At 12 o'clock seven bodies had been recovered. Scores were injured and property damage will reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. All wires were blown down in the district affected. This prevented rescue work, although every available fireman and policeman was rushed to the stricken district. It is expected the death list will be increased. With no warning the terrific gale swept down upon the district. Parts of the Root Glass Company's plant were flattened. The end of the foundary room of the Garland factory, a solid brick wall eighteen Inches thick, was caved In. Brick and stone structures suffered alike. Lighting set fire to many houses. Men, women and children were crushed to death in bed. Some escaped to the cellars. Whole structures were blown away by the force of the wind. Difficulty was experienced in obtaining doctors and the firemen were unable to cope with the flames, which swept the dsitrict. The heavy downpour of rain is all that prevented scores of injured from being burned in the debris of their homes. SHACK BLOWN ACUOSS RIVER. A Storm Strikes Duncan, in Spartanburg County. A violent wind storm struck the town of Duncan at half-past 8 o'clock Friday morning and did much damage. The roof of a rough frame structure, used as a boarding house by negro employees of the Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson Railway, was picked up and blown across the Middle Tiger River. The negroes fell upon their knees to pray, and while thus engaged the shack collapsed, and two of them were painfully injured. The barn of iB. F. Gordon was blown down and a cow crippled. P. E. Chapman's barn, at Mount Zion, was demolished and a mule killed. Many telephone poles and trees were uprooted. The banks of the Middle Tiger were denuded of large water oaks. Children on their way to school were knocked down, and even adults were severely buffeted. Magistrate J. M. Dean was hurled against a fence by a particularly violent gust. The storm was at its greatest fury for only a few minutes, and did the most damage in a narrow strip of country about an eighth of a mile long. Five bodies Recovered From Iluins. YVorkmen Thursday continued their work to recover bodies believed to have been buried beneath wreck[ age of the Malcolm Canning Co.'s [ main building at Medicine Hat Alberta, when it was destroyed by fire and a gas explosion late Wednesday. ; Only five bodies have been found, but I there wore persistent rumors that 30 I employees were in the building when ? the walls fell. A small blaze started ) after a broken gas main filled the main building with fumes. Property loss has been estimated as high ae $100,000. ( jj Sixteen Killed by Snow. At Christiana, Norway, sixteen per 1 sons were killed by an avalanoh< t which overwhelmed three armies ii - the Guddbrands valley in Southen Norway Thursday. DOES NOT AGREE WITH PRESIDENT ABOUT THE CHINESE LOAN MATTER Assistant Secretary of State's Request That His Resignation be Immediately Accepted, Respected by President Wilson, Who Acts Accordingly.?Had Agreed to Serve Until Successor Could be Named. Huntington Wilson, Assistant and Acting Secretary of State, has resigned that office and insisted upon immediate acceptance of the resignation because of his radical difference of opinion with the administration regarding its Chinese policies. President Wilson immediately ac' ^ ^ ^ 1% /v /\ rv i n n of! /\ inu i ffeiDiiaiiuu, Mr. Wilson, like all assistant secretaries in the various departments, tendered resignation as a matter of form to President Wilson directly upon the latter's assumption of oilice. Mr. Wilson was requested to continue in his place until it should 'be convenient for the President to name his successor. He consented to do so to accomodate Secretary Bryan in his desire to make his present visit to Lincoln, Neb. The issuing of the statement from the White House defining the administration's attitude regarding the Chinese loan negoiations is believed to have been regarded by Assistant Secretary Wilson as sufficient to Justify him in requesting to be relieved at once from duty. After telegraphic notice to secretary Bryan of his intentions, Mr. Wilson late Thursday afternoon dispatched a note to the White House terminating his own service, and President Wilson at once designated Second Assistant Secretary Adee to act as Secretary of State during Secretary Bryan's present absence. A pro.bable result of the resignation will be the immediate appointment, under a recess commission, of John iBassett Moore as counsellor of the department of State with authority to act as secretary. In a thousand word letter to President Wilson the former Acting Secretary of State set forth that wher he consented to continue for a time with the new administration he did not understand there were to be any radical changes of policy for which he would be called upon to act as spokesman. The letter continued in part: "It to-day becomes the duty of the Acting Secretary of State, in dispatching instructions to the repre sentatives of this Government abroad and as the channel of communication with the representatives of foreign Governments at Washington, to be the spokesman of the President in regard to a new far Eastern policy which is apparently deduciblo from your Statement issued to the ipress last night. "Inasmuch as I find myself entirely out of harmony with this radical change of policy as I understand it, I trust that you will sympathize with the view that it was not appropriate that I should longer retain the responsibilities of the office which I have now relinquished. "I had no reason to suppose that the officials now on duty at the department of State would learn first from the newspapers of a declaration of policy which I think shows on its face the inadequacy of the considera tion given to the facts and theories involved and the failure clearly to apprehend the motives to and the purposes of the policy superseded. I had no reason to suppose that the fate of negotiations which had so long had the studious attention of the foreign oflices of six great Powers would be abruptly determined with such quite unnecessary haste and in so unusual a manner. "These methods, against which 1 respectfully protest, are the very extraordinary circumstances which I feel vitiate my understanding with Mr. Bryan and completely relieve mc rxf nnu fnrthor nhliention ill til C premises: President Wilson replied: "My Dear Sir: Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of your iettei of yesterday, and to say that I ac cept your resignation, as you suggest as of the present date." The correspondence was given oui at the White House Friday. Mr. Wil son's letter of resignation was datec Thursday. The President's accept ance was dated Friday. ? i Buried Musty Corn." "I have totally destroyed seven 2 horse wagonloads of damaged corr and foodstuffs during thd past waek,' 1 said Commissioner Watson at Col am 1 bia Saturday. The products wen 1 seized by the inspectors of the stat< department of agriculture during th< 1 year 1912. The seized stufT was bur led on the asylum farm. ? ? ? Associate Justice C. A. Woods, o - the State Supreme Court, stands i b good chance of being appointed i i United States Judge. He would mak i an able one, and we hope he will b appointed. / WARNED AGAINST BECKER MAYOR OAYNOR WAS TOLD HE WAS A VERY BAP MAX. The Condemned Man's Brother-inLaw Gives Him a Very Bad Ileeord All Around. At New York on iFriday letters read .before the Aldermanic committee Investigating police graft showed that Mayor Gaynor and Police Commissioner Waldo were warned against the character of Police Lieut. Charles Becker as far back as August, 1911. John F. Lynch, brotherin-law of Becker, bitterly denounced the former police officer in a letter to the mayor. The letter was referred to Commissioner Waldo, who told the Mayor that "this seems to be a family row", and "Becker is doing excellent work." "One of my sisters is, unfortunately his wife. She works for him, teaches school," Lynch wrote of Becker, "and he, hero-like, takes her money. She being away, he asked another of my sisters to come to his house yesterday to cook, but immediately attempted to assault her. She successfully resisted him, threatening to cut his throat with a knife, whereupon he got his revolver and shouted that he would shoot her. "By yelling 'murder' she was able to get out. He threatened her with arrest and said he would get one of his squad (the 'strong arm' squad) to catch her 011 the street some night and lock her up for soliciting. She came home crying and with her waist torn." In a postscript to his letter to the mayor, Lynch said: "As further evidence of his character, I would say that he has frequently expressed the sentiment regarding your misfortune of a year ago that Gallagher should be electrocuted for not having killed you." The Gallagher referred to was the man who shot Mayor Gaynor aboard a steamship at Hoboken. Another letter, written to the mayor last March by one Henry Williams, asked that Becker be investigated "He is getting more money than a former chief of police," the writesaid, naming the chief. This missive was sent by Mayor Gaynor to police headquarters; there it was turned over to Becker himself, the record showed, "for investigation and. renort". 'Becker's report was that be had assigned a detective to find the writer and that the detective haa failed to do so. PRESS GANG WILL MEET. At the Isle of Palms and Take Trip to New York l?y Water. The executive committee of the State Press Association met in Columbia Friday night and selected Thursday and Friday, June 19 and 20, as the dates for the annual meeting, which will be held at the Isle of Palms, Charleston. It was decided to take a trip to New York following the meeting, the party to sail from Charleston on Saturday morning Juno 21. It was only after much correspondence and hard work on the part of President Watson that the Clyde Line consented to make a rate of $2 0 for the round trip from Charleston to New York, provided as many as oo^iirnfl fnr fhp trill. Tilt' dftlllj' *> CIC otvuivu ivi I...V V. $20 will include fare both ways, meals and berth, and the committee felt that the president had been forltil.ate in securing so reasonable a rate. The matter of securing 1111 orator for the annual meeting war left with the president, and he was empowered to complete any arrangements necessary for the annual meeting. The 1 master printers of the State will probably hold their annual Convention in Charleston two days previous to the meeting of the Press Association. Reservations for the trip to New York should be made at once, and those desiring to go should communicate with H. L. Watson, of Green| wood. Those attending the meeting , Friday night were: Robert Lathan, J E. H. DeCamp, A. R Jordan, II. L. Watson, J. L?. Sims, A. H. Seats and W. F. Caldwell. THREE MEN HAXGBl). ' Mftdero's Friends Have No Show in t Bloody Old Mexico. I Hanging from railway telegraph poles at Sauz, between Chihauhat City and the border are the bodiej of Mariano Rodriguez, former chief of Juarez, and Hahel Esquir, an aget newspaper vendor of the two bordei towns. On the band of the hat worr 1 by Esquir, who was credited with re ' llgious fanaticism, are printed tin - strange words: "Solado do par"a soldier of peace. e Taunting their victims with thI e motto, Mexican troops last Wednes day removed Esquir and Rodriguo from the Jaurez jail. They had beei held for "political offenses." It wa f explained that Equir had writtei a for a weekly newspaper blamini a Gen. Huerta for the slaying of Ma e dero. An unidentified political pria e oner also was hanged, say person arriving from the scene. 4 ft V ACTED VERY BADLY ? HAD A HOT TIME IN A POVERTY FLAT AT UNION TALKS OF MARTIAL LAW .? C. I). Fortner, a Member of the Legislature From Spartanburg and a Commissioned Constable of Governor lUease Created Excitement at Union and Was Kuocked Down. The following from The Union Times will be read with interest: There was quite a stir in Union Saturday night, near midnight, and in Poverty Flat. C. D. Fortner, a member of the legislature from Snar tan burg and a man named Forbes have been operating in Union as detectives for Gov. Blease. Fortner came to Union Tuesday and gave liis name to Chief of Police Evans as "Smith", representing the Virginia Life Insurance Co. lie asked Chief Evans questions about Geo. Fowler Jr., and the breaking in the U. G. S. depot. Chief Evans soon found that "Smith" was operating under an assumed name. Forbes claimed to be acting as detective in the Coleman and Edge murder casus. On Saturday night Fortner was acting badly in the Flat. The trouble commenced at Purcell's alley; Forbes was rolling on the alley. Fortner was holding his coat. Fortner was cursing so that Mr. Purcell had to call him down. Mr. Painter also called him down. He continued cursing until a policeman was sent for. When he found out that a policeman had been sent for he said he would search Will Estes' place that night; that Estes had liquor stored tliere and he was going to get it; that Estes had made his threats he was going to show him wat he could no. He went out and met Policeman J. B. May; told him he was going to search Will Estes' place and to come on with him. He was talking in a loud tone of voice: "I'm going to search the place or put the whole town under martial law." He came to police headquarters and met iM. M. Stroud; deputized Stroud to go with him and raid Estes. When Stroud refused to go, stating he could not leave, then he tried to force Stroud to go, Stroud knocked him down. He then deputized Policeman Hix, the latter refusing to go without orders from Chief. "Where can I get him?" "Over the telephone," he was told. Chief's telephone rang just as he got home. Fortner phoned Chief Evans: "I am Fortner, Chief, State detective." Said he wanted to raid some places in town; that he had found a lot of liquor there, and he wanted to raid them. "How long have you been in Union?" asked Chief Evans. "One week," was the reply. "You are the man I met at the depot; then why did you not make yourself known before?" Ho answered, "For reasons best known to myself. Governor sent me. I want you to come and assist in these raids." Chief Evans found him at Will Estes' place with Sheriff Fant. A large crowd had gathered. This was 11:30 Saturday night. Forbes was standing at the foot of the steps. Chief Evans called Fortner down and told him he would have to cease cursing, and asked to be shown his commission. Pulled out one, 1913, signed by Gov. Please. Chief Evans asked him what he wanted. He said he wanted to go in that building. Chief Evans said: "I could not break down any door without a warrant.' lie then asked for a State wn rrn 111 Forbes and Chief Evans went to Magistrate Puckett and got out a warrant. In their absence Will Estes came and said ho had no objection to the sheriff or Chief Evans searching, but did olxiect to having Fortner, "A d? rascal and spy," searching his place. Fant said: "I have already searched." They went through again. No whiskey was found. In the meantime Estes was arrested by the sheriff and put under $200 cash bond. On Sunday before this same building was searched, but nothing exi cept a few empty bottles was found. Fortner came out after the search. He then searched Purcell's place , without any warrant; said he did not ''""o Pnrr?r?ll called Sergeant I I1U V VJ V/*4\/? ?. _ _ w } Wood and told him to search the f place, but that ho did not want this I follow Fortner to search. That he r had been kicking up a racket all x night. Purcell swore out a warranl for disorderly conduct against Fort 3 c.er. No ono appeared against Stroud. The detectives left Sunday foi ? Chester. Fortner has notified partiei .. in Union that he will return ane z stand trial upon the charge of disor 1 derly conduct. x Killed l?y Falling Tree. g James Brown, a white tenant liv ing on a farm near here, was strucl i- by a falling tree during a terrifl s windstorm Saturday and killed. Th mule he was riding was also killed fc&if , ilQ* . : Mi ITlllllflllMBHI^MB 4 ffS'# :w TALKS OF HIS DEFEAT II THINKS IT MAY HAVE BEEN 'I PROVIDENTIAL. | But Senator Tillman Can't Under* stand How Martin Jumped Over His Head to Become a Progressive. I i The Augusta Chronicle says while in Augusta Saturday Senator B K. Tillman, with characteristic vigor and his old time fire had some snappy and terse comments to make upon the recent Democratic caucus in Washington. He repeated his warning against what he considers the "ravenous scramble for office" in which the Democrats are indulging. Senator Tillman's utterances came as a suggested afterthought to his sensational speech, delivered before the caucus, in which he yielded his contention for chairmanship of the appropriations committee which, by right of seniority, he claimed should have fallen upon his slioulderB but was given by the steering committee to Senator Martin, of Virginia. This surrender, the Senator told the caucus, was made for the sake of party harmony. Asked what had been the effect of what he considered a gross injustice and a violation of the rule of seniority, that has obtained for so long in the Senate, and also what effect it would have on his attitude to the Wilson adminisration, Senator Tillman said: "I am not brooding over it. I am not unhappy about it. "Perhaps it was a special providence to keep mo from killing myself at work for the success of the Woodrow Wilson administration. , "What puzzles me," the Senator said, "is how Martin jumped over my head to become a Progressive, and if he was not progressive enough to be made chairman of the caucus, why he should have been made chairman of the appropriations committee." Then as if to dismiss that thought, he added, "Rut I more earnestly desire Wilson's success as president, and the realization of the hopes of the country, than anything for myself. My name in history is made; my fame is secure. "If anybody thinks the upheaval in politics last November was brought about by the people solely to turn out Republicans and put in office hungry Democrats they are damned badly mistaken. Only when a Democrat is efficient, or can soon become so, should a Republican be turned out to make room for an appointment. "I believe there are enough Democrats to fill the offices and they ought to have them as soon as we are certain we have the right man for the place, but it is unwise as well as unpatriotic to turn efficient and honest Republicans out just to turn green and hungry Democrats in. The first care should bo for efficiency of government, and I hope and believe that will ho Proairlflnf Wilson's nollov." Although asked for an expression of opinion 011 the political situations in South Carolina, Senator Tillman \ would not discuss State politics, except to say: "I am holding my nose every time I think of the situation and wishing I was strong enough to get 011 the stump again and talk to the people about it." Senator Tillman, however, intimated that ho expected to explode a bomb in the political camp in his State, although he refused to say what it was. "You may just say," ho said, "that I am incubating something for South Carolina people which I will let off before I return to Washington." ? DEATH OF FOUR A MYSTERY. ? Farm House Tragedy So Far Haft'les New Jersey Coroner. Lying in the cellar of their ruined home, tho bodies of Lee Wharton, 3 8 years old, his wife, Mary, 3 2, and their six-year-old daughter, Lillian, were discovered following a mysterious lire early Saturday which destroyed tho Uttlo farm house, about ten miles from Glassboro, N. J. The body of Johnson Hemphill, 4 2 years old, a farm hand on a neighboring farm, was found in a shed behind the house with a load of shot through his heart. Mystery surrounds the four deaths. What occurred uip to the time Hemphill was shot; how he was shot and the house set afire, are details which Coroner Stultz has valni ly endeavored to ascertain. The bod ies of the victims were so badly burned that it was impossible to deter. mine whether or not they had been ; 8ll0t. k I ? I Took Acid in a Crowd, t Grace Stiiley, a young woman of - High Point. N. C., who drank the contents of a two-ounce vial of carbolic acid in the Greenaboro passenr ger station in the presence of a num3 ber of passenger?, was removed to a I local hospital, and it is reported, can not live. ? a a Evidences of Sea Tragedy. Fragments of wreckage picked up - Monday on the coast of Norway gave * conclusive evidence that the German c steamer Peruvla, with It? crew of 28 e officers and men, was lost in a storm I. there some time ago.