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rTy ^ * TOWN SWEPT AWAY Place of 2,000 Inhabitants Wiped Out By High Waters. A RIVAL OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD Keystone, West Virginia Visited By a Cioud Burst, and 600 Lives Said to nave oeen losi. Bluefield. W. Va., This entire section has just been visited by a flood the extent of which in all probabilities will equal or exceed that of Johnstown i:i 1SS9. so far as the loss of property is concerned. Early Saturday morning shortly after midnight, a heavy downpour of rain began, accompanied by a . severe electric storm, and steadily increased in violence until 10 o'clock in the morning, then ceasing for several hours and beginning again with renewed violence. This continued throughout the entire day and night and at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, while the storm had abated, the lowering clouds indicated another terrific downpour at any moment. Many miles of the Ncr 1U1A OC \\ C3U'l 11 naniuau nav n, ui tu^g an-l telegraph lines are entirely destroyed and communication is entirely cut off west of Elkhorn. so that it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property, but officials of the coal operations located in the stricken district have s<nt*out messengers to Eikhorn, the terminus cf both tele graphic and railroad communication, and have received a report that a conservative est mate as to th,- loss of life will ^r.-ily rea h 200. Some of the drcwae.: ace among the most prcmir.er.t citioc r.s -f the coal fields. The rccr.hontas coal field is lccat'd in a basin, with hi&h mountain rang s on cither side. Elkhorn creek flows through the centre cf the basin which ran;, s :. .n one-fourth to cne mi'e in width. From Ennis ,\V. Va., to Vivian Yard. \V. a distance cf ten miles, miners' c.v ins, coal company commissaries and cake plants line this basin. Elkhorn r :k. being fed by numerous small streams coming from the mountain side.-, rises very rapidly an-l thhs WatCrSpOUi I'.liUC SJ suuutiil,. i.ia. nc entire lr.s'n between the ra.unta'n ranges was flooded and b-fore th^ terror stricken people realized what was upon thsm they were carried down by the flood, which swept everything in its path. ' The little town of Keystone, with a population of about 2.0C0 seems the greatest sufferer. practically the entire town being washed away. This town is the principal one in the Pocahontas coal fields and is located near its centre. It was to a great extent headquarters from which the mining population purchased supplies and was al-o the only place in the field where whirkey could be purchased. At this place there were some 12 or 15 saloons .all of which were washed away. The : opart to lies that the mining population arc Haw ceuupyins the banks of the; streams below, catching the merchandise and barrels of whiskey and be r as they float down. A great number ?r the coal ar.J coke plants throughout the Pc.or.ontas field are report u pra- - ticallv destroyed and in some instance entirely washed away. Cn account of the very high water which has fl iod <1 the region and prevented com.munie.ition. anything like a correct estimate of to !es of property is impossible l u: from the best information obtainable at 2 p. m.. the loss to properrty will casiiy rea<h into the millions. Ac Landgraf the beautiful home of General Manager Crd is reported gone, but his family is said to be safe. Passenger train No. 4 of the Norfolk & Western Railway reached Wvian Yard, the western terminus of the coal field, about S:30 a. m., met the flood and was unable to proceed further. The waters reached such a dc-pth that toll coaches had to be abandoned, the passengers being rescued by means of ropes strung from the windows of coaches to the tops of remaining coke ovens some distance away. Between Elkhorn and Vivian Yard, a d.stance of ten miles, 100 cars are said to be ?."-v..,,! tVio = anrt manv of them carried down the streams. A rough estimate places the number if bridges washed away between Bluefield and Vivian Yard, a distance of IS miles, at from 13 to 20 and from present indications it will be impossible to get trains through to Vivian and points west of there under a week or ten days. This will render it impossible to get relief into the stricken discvet and with these who escaped with their lives, homeless and without food, in describable suffering is inevitable. On the Clinch Valley branch of the tNorfclk & Western Railway, between this city and Norfolk. Va.. communication is entirely cut off west of Taz? well.. Va. Reports come from that point cf great loss of life and property throughout the entire section. In Shakeraa. a negro settlement on the ' outs.-.irts of Tazewell, the water star 's - . to a depth of six or eight inches in the street and houses, all of the occupants J having been removed to points of safety by moans of a boat. New York. Special.?Henry Fink, ; president of the Norfolk & Western ' Itailroad, was seen at his hotel in r ffnom General Manager L. E. Johnson, erence to the West Virginia d:saster. Mr. Fink was in receipt of a dispatch of the system. Mr. Johnson's head- ( quarters are in oan .ke. Va.. from which place he telegraphed. He said that the joss of life was reported to be ve v i large ar.d that it was estimated tha; ^ ^ 1 T?Vt flDOUC t;oo persons iiau pcnsuc i. i us damage to the Norfolk & Weste n property, he stated, was all to rails ami bridges on te Dluestone and Nor.h Fork branches. M. Fink said: "The amount of money loss cannot at pres ent be estimated. As to the less cf c life, the country is not so very thickly settled around there and 1 cannot but believe that it has been exaggerated. a It is al in the coal regions and the poo- r pie are principally miners. The fleo.l e must have been due to a cloud burst, as 11 the dispatch from Mr. Johnson states L that te damage to our property is cn the Bluestone and North Folk 3 branches, one of which is east and the 1 other weet of the Flat Top Mountains, t a After riexican flurderers. e Austin. Tex., Special.?The Mexican i murderer of Sheriffs Morris and Clover [ 4s still at large with the American r posse in pursuit. Sheriff Davis, of this 2 t'OUTliy, wnu II as iciuiutu. aa?a u: uuca : > not believe the Mexican is in this part 3 of the country. Captain Joe Shelly, of |. the State Rangers, took Tomaseo Cortez. a brother of the fug tive murder. c to Karnes cotinty on a charge of horse. 3 thieving and of being implicated in the i murder. He has been in jail here sev. g eral days, with another man who is bo- f lieved to be connected with the sans, t Negro Preacher Lynched. LaGrnnge, N. C.. Pp-c al.?D. R. I= n Jones, the negro preacher, who, it 3 I allege 1. attempted t> assar. t Mr.!' Noah Davis, near l.aGr: nge Mordiy ll was taken from the guard house he:?;" Wednesday night and lynched. Litilj!' can be learned here of the aifa'.r s.va '' that during the night crks of distress 1 and pistol shots were he.rd aid it wa- 1 found the lock-up had been broken inra 1 and the negro had disappeared. To f i finv.^rr.m Denver. C; 1., Spec'al.?The Tira s r says: "A gigantic scheme is under way to transfer the railrcals of the Unite 1 ' Stales to the government. A Western : financier declares that w th n a few 3 v. ars the Rockfeller. Harriman, v. n- \ derbilt, Gould and Mo: ran inte esto : would turn ovtr to the gcvc.nxcu. ' every line of the railroads in the coutt- 1 try. the gove:ntr.ent to pay the to a' J value of about $10.CGO.CO\OCO, a sirln:; : of banks to be controlled by the same ! interests to finance the deal." i Preacher Shoots a Dentist. I Berkley, Cal.. Special.?Dr. G. J. Jes- i sup, a dentist, v.as shot and fatally ! wounded by Rev. Chas. Adams, former- J ly an Episcopal minister. It is stated that Adams' daughter called Jcs^up by telephone and asked him to come to ! h*r home and prevent her father from j whipping her. When Jessup arrived 11 at the Adams house and remonstrated ; with him, Adams drew a revolver and , shot the dentist through the breast. 11 Adams is in jail and Jcssup is dying. I. ~ I! LABOR WORLD. I ' |C 1*110 printers of Bristol, Va have JI formed a union. I There are 114.020 British fishermen : owning 27,1 II boats. ! France lias 2!)8 collerieg, with a joint | yield of 2."i,000,0d0 tons a year. The stage hands and scene shifters i' of ltichmoud, Va., have formed a I' union. ; The paper mills strike at Iloiyoke, Mass.. has been declared off, the strik- ' ITS winning. ' Foal miners' wages in Front Britain 1 have advanced lifly to eighty per cent, in two years. t President O'Oonncll has l?eon re- ' elected i?y tli International Maciiin- t isis' Association. Servant girls are becoming scarce ' in Berlin because of the greater pupu- 1 larity of factory labor. : It lias been decided by the Woman's ' International Labor League to start ' to organize a servant girls' union in ' Chicago. Work in tiie Woolwich arsenal. Eng land, has now somewhat slackened 1 down, nud many hands have been dis- { charged. Only about twenty per cent, of the { waiters in German hotels and restaurants receive any wages, as they are expected to live on their fees. I The lishing industry of France has remained stationary for seventy years. There are 12.000 fishermen to-day; just the same number as in 1830. * Officials of the Trackmen's Union, at Montreal. Quebec, announce that 3000 to 3500 of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's trackmen have struck for an increase of wages. This is ninety per cent, of the total. ! Judge Baker, in District Court, at 1 Omaha, Neb., decided that tlie female labor law of Nebraska, prohibiting em- r ployers from working female employes 1 for more than sixty hours n week. Is t constitutional. The court held that It was necessary in order to protect ; the D"blie l^aUh, . I 4RP Ofi SUICIDES,; barlow Philosopher Finds Unhealthy Condilion of Minds. POPPING .WOOD IS A SIRE Cl'RF Relations Between Physical and Mei tal Labor Are Discussed By the *? en p.nowii ? riicr. The increasing prevalence of suii'.des indicates an unhealthy condition >f mind and body and I have though: hat if the man would quit thinking ibout his troubles and go to chopping rood or digging in the garden, or even. 10 hunting and get up a good cricu.aion he would feel better and conclude o live on a while longer. The body iffeets the mind and when the blood in he veins gets thick and sluggish and he secretions become stagnant, the aind gets diseased and morbid, the imotions are out of tune and the man ctually believes he would find rest and )eace in death. It is strange that any nan of education or refinement would ntertain such an unreasonable hope. Vhat did the schoolteacher of Dothaa iccomplish by killing Dr. McNeil and limself? Where is the schoolteacher low? When two enemies fight a duel und both are killed, how do their spirts meet in the ether world? Do they hake hands or renew the fight, for. of ourse, they are not in heaven? What lets the young man accomplish by killing his sweetheart and then him;elf? Are they not then forever separitcd? What does anybody gain by sni ide? As Hamlet says: "Is it not better o bear tho ills we have than fly to >thers that we know not of?" Why not un away from yourself? Run to the '/oods?keep on running?jump the )ranees, sv.ini the rivers, get wet, get ired?work in the garden, dig, hoe, hop wood, mount a horse and ride f t iously?anything to divert the disrased mind from its train of thought, lly good old father was afflirted with heumatism and when he feit the acute, igonlzing pains coming on he would otJse up and limp away and nnke or the farm, and would walk faster tnd fas'ter as the pains increased, and vould actually make them ashamed .nd ihcy would leave hint for a day or wo. To keep the mind in a good, noraal condition the body must be exerised. Sedentary or upaUons are not calthy for men. and even women ;hould fly around the house with a >room or wash the windows occasion!lv. or din among the flowers. It \*dl lot do for them to sit and sew all the ime. I am sorry for these unmarried tirls who have to run the machine all he day long and got no healthy exercise except for the ankle bones. When hey get married and the babies come .long they are pretty safe, for little .hildren give a mother diversion ?nough. A mother with a babe in her irms never thinks of suicide. Even if aer husband is cruel to her cr is a irunkard, she will live on and cn for he sake or tiie cuv.u. ?e n.-ie i-;-i Tiost of the suicide's occur among the >*ot'.ng men and are caused from intemeiance or disappointed love or failure o make money fast, or being caught .'n mbezzlement (alias stealing). Othello iilled himself because he found out hat he had wrongfully killed his wife, nd Shakespeare says "he was great of lenrt." I reckon he was. considering hat he was a Mcor and did not believe n a heareaftcr. It was the best thing ind the most heroic thing that he 'ould do. It was the very intensity of :rief and repentance and has no paralel in modern suicides, for most all of hem are selfish cr revengeful. It was ike the Harikiri of Saul, or of the anient generals when defeated in b.ttle. The most alarming feature about h'se suicides'of our young men is the ndication that they are not believers :i the Christian religion. No sine mm will take his own life if he believes in tieaven and hell and a future state of rewards and punishments. He will be ifraid to. The iniluenee of modem fic:ion on the youthful mind has much to lo with it. for a great deal of it is aintpd with atheism and infidelity. Even some of the standard writers, inch as Hume and Disraeli had left heir bad impression. The latter threw i dark shadow over life and says that 'youth is a blunder, manhood a strug;le and old age a regret. Is it not far better to take a more lopeful view of Iffe and say like the 'cet, Horace Smith: The world is very lovely! Oh, my God. I thank thee that I live." > to say like Longfellow? "Life Is real?life Is earnest. And the grave is not its goal." It is easy to diagnose a poet's temjerament of a philosopher's by his Writings?some are gloomy and some ire bright and cheerfful. I was rumimting about these young men who *"ve just graduated at my alma mater uid the other home colleges, and wonicring how many of them would prove i success in life and twenty years icnce exclaim with the poet, "Oh, my" / ' i I roi. I thank The* that I live." Fi'.yfanr years ago I was at Athens, in the .lass of '47 and of the forty-two timn living there ai ^ now font half a (1 zc i left. Many of then live I and died rn:l ' made r.o signs. Sonm of t :om raw {rouble and some made good oii.z ns. rood husbands and fathers; and just ; history repeats ir-c ail along the generations. It grieved ino that I end! not attent the contpnnial and commune with the al.tmni an l rejoh? with t ie young and feel lonely with the old. Then there is old college and new college, and the chapel and the campus and the two halls that are still i n 'hanged. I wonder how many hoy have occupied the old rocm that Id s cose and I lived in for two long ye.r3I saw it in the picture and fe!t iik> it was still my room. The ailanthus trees (by a misnomer called the tree of heaven) grew close to our window? and extended their nauseating odors to dormitory where we slept, and the b )vs all along the line complained, but the "oia !? orrmlH corn nis? AWAV laruuj oaiti n .. , ?, and the trees were imported from China, the Celestial Empire, and .hey were called the trees of heaven. So one dark night the boys (not I) got axes and girdled them and they died ml went to heaven in China, where ther :ame from. For some months l roomea I in new college, and so did'our tutor, ! who was cross and never smiled, for I tie was an old bachelor?peace to his ' ishes. He wouldent let me net Chess i Howard play on the flute after study | bours at night, nor let Ben Moseley nor i Dick Fafmer play on the fiddle. Said it . annoyed him, and so some of the boys (not I) got some old cannon balls from the armory and away in the dead hour of night, when deep sleep falleth upon a man or a tutor, they rolled a s xpounder along the long hall 200 feet j *ight by his door, which was about ] midwayi When it got to the other end another boy slipped out and rolled it back again, and the rolling and rumbling was kept up for a time until there happened just what they thought would hanpen. The tutor had opcnnl , i track in nis aoor. ana waen ne n a n the ball coming lor the ftftth time he slipped out suddenly and stopped it 1 with his foot and picked it up and took I t in his room. That was just what the | boys (net 1) wanted, for they had another one in the fire getting hot. In J due time they took it in the shovel an 1 sent it slowly down the hally, and it stopped not far from his door. Quickly j ho stepped out and the light from his 'room showed hiin the ball. He seized t with his right hand and straightway dropped at and use l some language that was unbecoming, and retreated to his room. The next day his hand was tied up in a white* handkerchief, which was a kind of flag of truce, for he was much more considerate to us and seemed to like music. I never perpetrated much mischief while in college, but I was an apt scholar to look on and enJoy all the fun. Chess Howard was an expert, and could play ball belter than inybody. especially a hot cannon ball. Chess came to see us some time ago and after while asked me and my wire to give them some music. And so she seated herself at the piano and I took my flute and asked what he would I ke. And he said play that good old piece that we used to call "Sallie Baxter"' when we went serenading in Athens. So we played it, and before we were aware of it Chess had slipped his own flute out of his pocket and was tooting along behind me. Sallie was our college sweetheart, but we dident get her, for a Bird flew there and she followed I him off to Baltimore and is living there ret. But we never thought of suicide. I But I forbear. It is sweet and it's sad I to recali the memories of '45, '46 and 47, tand I would have felt lest and !_ I niao o nrvllecp thpn loneiy 111 Auinis. n. ?uo ? It is a great university now, and many " hanees have como over it, and we old veterans have to keep up wifi the profession whether we like the modern methods or not. They have got intercollegiate baseball in the curriculum now and I reckon it is to keep the boys from committing suicide. It diverts :heir minds from the strain of trigonometry and calculus and conic seclions. 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