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CHAPTER I.
SOiTE INTRODUCTORY ADVENTURES.
Jules Vernoa with liis wife, who
was much jounger thau himself, and
his ouly child Pauline went to the
Vernon plantation house, or Vernon
Place, as it was called at Bay Saint
Ijouis, to spend some monthE. There
were few residents on that wild,
lonely and lovely shore iu those days;
Cor our story begins at the time wheu I
war with England, commonly called
the War of 1812, was at its high tide.
Why Mr. Vernon hud sought this j
isolation will be disclosed, perhaps,
in due time; at present we must be
content to know him with only such a
glimpse of his character and motive}
as circumstances permit.
He is a man of giant stature; and
feds face, almost covered with grizzly
Iward, wears that look of rugged
strength whioh perfect health often
gives to the countenance of an aged
M#n whose life has been spent at sea.
tlis shoulders are sqnare-set andj
"powerful, hia head large, shaggy,
leonine, his arms heavy and muscular. |
When ho langhs, there is u suggestion
of sea-roar iD hi} voice?a mellow
jkoaraeness not unlike the beating of
long swells on a reef.
y. His wife is a bright, clear-faced,}
'WolatUe Creole, just beginning to show
the lines of age in her pretty face, j
albeit her hair is almost snow-white.
As for Pauline, she is lovely, a girl
to catch the eye and heart of almost
any man, with her regular features,
ker expression of modest simplicity, j
lighted up with a cunruaiug vivacity,
&er plump, supple figure and her
lpxariance of shining hair.
Here they are, these three, living
for the time a life of ntter loneliness
ill a large, rudely built house, iu the
aaost out-of-the-way nook to be found
I en the wild gulf coast.
It was not as strange as it se?ms
romantic, that they were thus isolated;
for in thoso days men ven- 1
tared witnont fear and risked every- I
thing without hesitation.
Mr. Ternon was a very rich mau, j
%ho, since he abandoned sea-faring j
life, had been one of the chief leaders
?f afoirs in New Orleans. His bnsi*ess
relations had been many and 1
. fa*--reaching. Perhaps he u ow wished
to get rid of some of them, and had
P come to this lonely plantation with
the hope of breaking away from en- '
tanglejnents which had become irii- .
I come to him.
A tall, slender, emaciated, but yet
seemingly vigorous old man, one
stormy March night, sought the hospitality
of the Vernon household. Of
course, as was the old Southern custorn,
they took him in, although his
motions were myterious to the point of j
suggesting a doubt as to his sanity.
He had crossed the bay in a little
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open boat, wuicu capsizea wuu aim
sear the shore; and wlieu he entered I
the house it was evident that he had '
'suffered much. Next morning he was
ill, and for many days ho seemed at j
at the point of death.
In this extremity, ho confided his J
life-secret to Mr. Vernon. Simply :
told it was this: His orphan grand- 1
-daughter, a sweet and beautiful girl,
"while jet scarcely more th^u a mere j
okild, had becu influenced by a darling
young scapegrace to elope with
luin and become his wife. This was
in Scotland. Tho old man, who gave
hi3 name as Max Barns, did not dis dose
the n&me of his graud-danghter's
-nbductor. Perhaps ho had good rea-?oas
for keeping it a secret; bat he
went on to tell a touching aud almost
incredible story of how he had spent
many years and a large fortune iu trying
to find aud in someway take back
3iis wanderius grandchild Margaret. |
The young man, immediately after
marrying the girl, too!; her to Italy,
where he became a robber. The
grandfather followed him,only to find
that he had fled to Spain. There, too,
? lie was au outlaw; and after souio !
.years of picturesque and terrible ad"venturo,
he was so closely pushed by j
fie authorities that ho left the country
a?<1 was next heard of iu San Doluiugo
From there, at length, he
came to New Orleans.
AH this time Mux Burns, who was a
"Presbyterian preacher, had followed
Lira as best ho could, making every
effort that money r.ud tireless energy
coaM 'sustain to capture the mau aud
tegain Margaret.
4 And now, almost penniless, his fortune
dissipated iu his vain endeavors,
, liis health ba lly broken aud with old
age'gripping bis vitals, lie was once
more, close upon the object of his long
and apparently hopeless quest.
"And so," he went on iu a feeble,
panting tone, "just as I can almost
reach hira it seems that I must die.
Oh, Margaret, Margaret!" and ho lay
gazing at the ceiling as if in prayer.
The story was s;> strauge that, told
nuler the peculiar uud pathetic, circumstances,
it filled the hearts of the"
Vernon household with inexpressible
sadness.
Xo one hearing the old man speak
tfouid doubt the truth of what he said;
h there was tho unmistakable stamp of
'' fcixeerity and deep, absolutely poignuut
fueling on every word as it came
Irom his feeble lip3.
Bat coutrarv to every probability,
Ihrns got well and departed as mysteriously
as he came, going off on toot
vi trie directiou of tho Pearl Riyer and
Jiairey Island, n regiou which at that
was the Lome or a robber-band,
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E DURING THE WAR OF 1S12.
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t hy Robert Bonner * Sena.
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iuo must uesperate iuu puwonui c?ci
known in our conntrj.
The old saving is, it never rains but
pours. Scarcely had old Max Burns
gone away, leaving behind him the
almost weird impression of his strange
story and of his mysterious personality,
when another wanderer thrust
himself into the life of the Vernons;
und this time it was a young man of
distinguished bearing, handsome,winning
and withal not devoid of most
that goes to add romance to character.
Pauline had bcei out to the cabin
of one Lapiu, the overseer of her
lather's servants, to see Lizctte, the
overseer's daughter, Avho had been ill.
P?eturning thence on horseback and
followed by a negro groom, she was
making her pony gallop briskly when
at a turn in the path he suddenly
scared, whirled about and flung her
off.
The object which had frightened
fl*? lifflo onimol nrnvBil to hn an
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easel roughly improvised by an artist
who had been sketching a cluster of
moss-hung trees. The artist himself
was near by, and ran to Pauline's assistance.
1 The fall, though hard, had rather'
dazed than hurt the astonished girl,
atid before she fairly realized what
had happened, she found herself upborne
in the arms of a strange, handsome
young man, who held her as if
she had been a little child.
"Are you hurt?" he inquired, his
face close to hers, his eyes tenderly
regarding her.
At first she could make no answer,
and she was too weak to struggle.
The groom hastened to the spot; but
seeing his young misjtress in the possession
of a stalwart, heavily armed
white man, was afraid to say a word or
move a hand. The pony, freed of its
burden, bad run home at full speed,
and the thoroughly frightened negro,
after glaring a moment, whipped his
cob and rushed away iu the same di*
rectiou, leaving Pauline a helpless
captive in the arms of her rescuer.
Mf. Vernon chanced to bo at the
house, when the groom, wiid-cyed and
gasping, arrived with his but half-co
hcrent story of the adventure.
"Pierre Rameau!" be hoarsely cried
in a half whisper. "Pierre Rameau
done got Miss Pauline! Oh, de good
Lor', de good Lor', Marse Vernon run
dar quick!"
Mr. Vernon did not need to be told
twice. He snatched a brace of heavy
pistols, mounted the groom's horse
and galloped toward the scene of the
tragedy.
Pierre Rameau was a terrible name
in the Gulf-coast region in those days,
more terrible even than that of John
A. Murrell became a few years later.
Indeed, Rameau was reputed to be
the leader of all the robbers, pirates
and creole forbans in the whole Southwest.
His deeds had hung a fascinating
inist of romauce about him
which appeuled to the imagination of
the people.
Little wonder, then, that Mr. Vernon
felt, as he urged the clumsy horse
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the trees, a terrible whirl of mingling
aud, so to say, crashing emotions.
His daughter was his idol; he worshiped
her as only an aged man can
worship an only child, the offspring
of a belated marriage.
Pauline in the hands of Pierre
Ramean! The thought was absolutely
unbearable, and yet it had to be borne,
at least for a few minutes; aud the
strain upon the old mau's feelings
showed in the swelling veins of his
neck and forehead as he leaned forward
over his horse's shoulders and
seemed trying to pierce tho dark,
thick woods with his gaze.
When he turned a sharp curve ol
the way and looked down a straight
stretch between heavy liveoaks and
under gray festoons of Spanish moss,
he saw something which, as a picture,
hung tver after in his memory.
It was Pauline walking side-by side
with a tall young man, who, armed
like a brigand, with ritle and pistols,
'y ??? a^ict'a Conn
aau uuauug uu ai uou a ut??4u
tered with the careless ease and grace
of o?o at homo in any place. Tho
two seemed quite on good terms with
each other, and were coming toward
Mr. Vernon, who checked his liorsg
in time and glowered darkly at them.
Pauliue ran forward to meet her
father, her face beaming.
"Paps, this gentleman is Mr. Fairfax,
of Virginia; when my pony threw
me a moment ago, he came to my aid."
"Ho is au artist, and is staviug at
Monsieur Vasseur's. I hope you will
thank him for his kindness to me."
The young man came up jnst then,
and Mr. Vernon bent upon him a
steady, searching look.
"Are yo i Mr. Barton Fairfax, sir?"
lie demanded, patting away the pistol
that he had been holding for deadly
use.
"Yes, sir.'' Evidently the yonng
man was surprised. His face showedit.
"The negro tcld me that .a robber
had caught my daughter, so I was
scarcely prepared to seethe son of my
.old friend, Colonel Stirling Fairfax."
Mr. Yeruon had regained perfect
composure,' a"d was now smiling
kindly.
"Yon knew my father?" inquired
Fairfax.
"Many, many years ago, in England.
"NYa were tue besi of friends,
ard I em proud now to see his ?on
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and to thank him for his gallant kind*
ness to my daughter."
"You give me the deepest pleasure,
Fairfax said, the strangeness of the
u'tuation preventing a clear under|
si anding of it.
"Your mother was a Burton," Mr.
Vernon went ou. Ho dismounted and
took the young man's hand. "Fine
oiu jamuies, me -dutiohs ruu me r airfares?fine
old families. Glad to fake
your baud, sir."
Paaliue stood by, looking on. It
was a picturesque group, and evidently
the young girl felt deeply the romance
of the occasion. Her feelings heightened
her beauty.
Mr. Vernon pressed the young man
to go to Vernon Place, and the three
walked thither along the woodland
1 road, the horse following after them.
When they reached the house the
i two gentlemen were quite like old acquaintances.
Mrs. Vernon was glad
to see the son of her husband's old
frieud, aud thus Fairfax found himself
the center of charming attentions.
It was like a leaf from some old romance,
like being cast into a nook
where the poetry of life still survived
and where scarcely a ripple of the now
order of things was ever hoard.
Rich, fatherless, motherless, withsut
a tie to bind him to any spot, the
: young man, after much travel aud
many adventures, had come to New
Orleans, whence, in search of whatever
was new or skctchable, he passed
on into the wilderness, and finally
found iiis way to the lonely shore of
: BaySaiut Louis, where he was glad
to make his home for a time with a
queer little fellow, Vassenr by name,
in a ramhlintr old backwoods house
overlookiug tho beautiful water.
Vasscur was an enigma to the young
adventurer and as such very interesting.
He was very dark, could speak
English, but brokenly, aud in many
ways his actions suggested a past life
not above outlawry. All the furniture
and belongings of Vasseur's house
hinted at plunder; all of the man's actions
had about them an atmosphere
of furtiveuess.
To pass suddenly from such surroundings
iuto the charming circle of
the Vernon household was a change
which gave emphasis to the effect, and
it caught the young mau'3 imagination
at once.
And how was it with Pauline?
A young girl under such circumstances
does not analyze her feelings,
aud who shall do it for her?
She eat in the spacious room, aud
instinctively her chair was drawn
close to her mother. Her heart was
full of vague happiness, and any
observer could have seen that she was
quite uuconscious of her beauty. Her
expression was all attention, for every
faculty of btr nature bad assumed a
vn/?nr?tivo nftitnrln* nml wliila "\Tr V.H
noil auil Burton Fairfax discussed tlio
ancient social relations of the Veruons,
the Fairfaxes and the Bnrtons,
she found a most satisfying pleasure
in the details, although it would have
beeu quite impossible for to explain
why.
Fairfax gladly accepted an invita-tion
to take luncheon at Vernon Place;
indeed, it required a little heroism on
his part to refusoMr. Vernon's urgent
request that he remain in the house
during the rcet of his sojourn on the
bay shore; especially hard was it to
hold out against tho hospitable insistence
of the ladies, who, in the good
old Southern style, joined in pressing
him to stay. As it was, he took his
donartnro late in the afternoon: but '
Yasseur's was not so far away that bo
.could not come back every day if bo
saw lit.
If he saw fit! Did a young man
ever fail to see fit to go back nnder
such circumstances? Vernon Place
was better in every way than Vassenr's;
,Mr. Ver%ou was a more interesting
man than Vasseur; Mrs. Vernon was
a charming woman; and Pauline?
certaiuly Paulino was lovely, even if
she did not talk much.
The young man leit a very pleasant
impression in the household. So
pleasant, iodeed, that it wiped out
for the time all memory of the old
wanderer who so lately had occupied
almost their entire thought.
Pauline, after bidding good-by to
Fairfax, ran to her own room and
watched him go away. Ho had put
on again his belt hud pistols, "his
pouch -of drawing-materials and his
broad hat. Tho rifle across his shoul- 1
der erleamed bravelv in the suulieht.
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"We could but laugh at such a dis
play of weapon? in our day; but then I
it was different. The wonder is that
a man could feel quite safe eveu when
thu's apparently ovcr-aruied.
To Pauline there was 110 suggestion
of the bravado of mere outward pretense
in the appearance of Fairfax,
nor ought there to have been. The
times were tragic enough. War between
the United States and Great
Britaiu was already progressing in
the North ami at any moment ipight
De transferred to the Gulf coast. Not
only this, but all the lawless men of
the remote aud to a degree unprotected
regions were taking advantago of
the disturbed state of things to redoable
their defiauce of local authority.
The spirit of violeuce was in the
air, and au unarmed man was an exception
to a prevailing rule.
The vivid imagination of Pauline
Vernon caught au impression from the
young man's showy armament quite
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umereiib noui wuut suiu a >isiuu
would produce iu the mind of a bright
girl of our day. To her came a thrill
of the romance in the midst of which
she was living. She was not self-conRcious
enough or sufficiently trained
in self-analysis to be aware of the
sonrce from which the glamour came;
but she felt her right to enjoy to tho
full tho deep an.d rich though elusive
chcrnrofthe moment.
She watched the young man until
he passed out of sight, then closed her
eyes, the simple-hearted maiden that
she was, as if she could thus shut iu
I forever the fascinating picture.
1 (TO BE continued.}
HAVOC OF FOREST FIRES
Destructive Flames in New York
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I State, New England and Canada.
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Damage to Property Up in the Bflll'oniGame
Anlinnl* ?ml Hird? Killed
by the Thnuiiudl.
Now York City.-Jteports from the
northeastern'counties of New York,
from all the New England States and
from Canada, show that the property
loss by the forest fires will go well
into the millions. Villages In Maine
and in New Brunswick, Canada, have
been wiped out. hut, so far as known,
two women near St. John, N. B., are
the only victims of the flames.
Definite information is lacking from
the Adirondack counties. It is known
that great tracts of woodland have
been swept by fire in eight counties,
that hotels and cottages have been
burned, and that thousands of game
birds arid animals have been destroyed.
Estimates place the loss at from
$1,000,000 to $1,.100.000 in New York
State. In Maine the forest fires are
fiercest, have wiped out small settlements
and devastated great areas of
timber land. The damage to property
is estimated at $2,000,000. and the crops
of the farmers may be a total failure
from drouth. In the rest of New England
the forest fires have caused a loss
of $1,000,000.
The greatest loss in all probability
will l>e in Canada, as the fires cover
1000 miles of territory. The damage so
far reported is greatest near St. John.
N. B. One village was wholly destroyed
and 200 persons are homeless.
Two women, in try in? to save their
cows, were caught In the flames.
From New Brunswick the fires have
extended southwest through the Province
of Quebec, and news came of forest
lands ablaze in Ontario. The entire
section of the country northeast from
New York has had no rain for a month,
and In some places for six weeks. The
latest news had no promise that the
I fires would be checked.
The smoke that spread over the
whole of this portion of the country
was everywhere reported to be particularly
irritating to eyes and throats.
*The Dev??tateri Area.
. Washington. D. C.?The United States
Weather Bureau saw no relief from
the lurid pall of smoke which had
settled over the entire eastern section
of the country on the Atlantic side of
the Alleghanies and as far south as
Washington. Nothing but wind or rain
would dissipate the smoke, which was
caused by the great New York and
New Englaud forest fires, and neither
wind nor rain could be predicted for
shortly, according to the reports received
from Weather Bureau stations
throughout the smoke affected country.
The area covered by the forest
fires was declared to be something less
than 200.000 square miles, the burned
aren, of course, being much less than
this amount.
ROOSEVELT IN WASHINGTON.
During HI* Tour Tlx Traveled 14,000 Alias
and Made 265 Speeches.
Washington. D. C\?President Roosevelt
returned to Washington from his
trip of more than two months' duration
throughout the West. He was
given a hearty reception by the people
of the capital, who lined the sidewalks
as his carriage, escorted by the battallion
of High School cadets, was driven
to the White House. lie looked the
picture of health.
A large crowd of people repaired to J
the rear of the White House, where
the Marine Band gave a concert in
honor of the arrival home of the Chief
Executive. The President made a
brief speech to the gathering, saying:
"My friands and neighbors. I thank
you very, very much for coming hert? i
to greet me this afternoon, and I have
appreciated more than I can say the
welcome back home that I have received
to-day. I have been- absent over
two months and I have traveled ninny
miles. During this time on? thing lias
struck me. and that Is the substantial- 1
ness of the American people. One can
travel from ocean to ocean and from
Canada to the Gulf and always he at
home anions one's fellow-Americans. 1
I thank you again, my friends, and 1
now I am going in to my own folks"
Mr. Roosevelt and his party traveled ]
over 14.000 miles on railroads and scv- 1
ernl hundred miles in stage coaches j
and carriages, hut not an accident ]
marred their Journey. During the sixty-live
days that lie spent on the road
he made 265 speeches. One of the
features of the trip was the non-partisan
spirit displayed in the reception of
the President everywhere. The crowds i
In the different places visited were orderly
and friendly, and gave the Secret
Service men little cause for concern. 1
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WOMEN WATCHED LYNCHING.
Netro RaiiRfd to r Telegraph l'ole on a <
C'roiriled Street.
Greenville, Miss.?John Dennis, colored.
was lynched here by 2(K) men.
The negro had attempted to assault a
young lady who was returning home
from the telephone exchange where she ;
worked.
While the streets were crowded with 1
women shoppers the men went to the *
jail, demanded admittance and were (
refused. Securing a railway rail they .
battered down the door of the prison. '
Dennis was taken to the telephone
exchange and hanged on the cross-arm
of a telephone pole. Many women wit- -
nessed the lynching. The negro only
asked time to pray.
Richmond'* Now Cathedra1.
The cornerstone of (he new Catholic
Cathedral, at Richmond, Ya., was laid
with elaborate ceremony.
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Ten War* For a Lyncher.
Samuel Mitchell, white, who led the
mob that lynched Thomas Gilynrd. a
negro, at Joplin. Mo., recently, was
sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment i
in the penitentiary. (Jilyard killed a j
policeman who was trying to arrest '
him.
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Hid For Raisins the Main Rejected.
The Secretary of the Treasury, at
Havana. Cuba, rejected the bid of Tibacio
Castaneba, the only one received. <
for tlie raising of the Maine. The Sec
retary will again advertise for bids. ,
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LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of Oeneral Interest In
Short Paragraphs.
Down in Dixie.
The regular term of the Circuit Court
began at Jackson, Ky., and the alleged
assassins of J. B. Marcum were
brought into court.
Two young men were killed and
another wounded from ambush by unknown
persons in Laurel county, Kentucky.
Witnesses have been subpoenaed at
Westminster, Md., to appear before the
grand jury in the case of ex-Superintendent
of Free Delivery A. W. Machen.
It is eaid that North Carolina has at
last got rid of all the slot machines
and other gambling devices in the
State.
At The National Capital.
The Supreme Court adjurned for the
term.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington Friday night, after his
long trip through the West.
The application for a writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Whitaker Wright
*as denied by the United States Supreme
Court.
The grand jury found a true bill
against Machen, the man accused of i
robbing the postoffice department of
over J13,000.
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At The North.
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The disabled Old Dominion liner
Monroe reached New York in safety.
The number of persons ' certainly !
killed by the flood at Topeka, Kan.,
is now put at 34. At Kansas City also (
a considerable number of lives have
been lost. j
It is told as a true story that John i
Chapman, at (ialena. Kas, fell down a
twenty-foot tramway at the Blind I
Tiger mine and dislocated his shoulder.
He went home and stumbled down
the callar steps, and in falling his
shoulder was thrown back into place.
He took a drink and returned to work.
From Across The Sea.
The Chilean Congress was.opened at
Santiago by Vice-President Lueo, the
Pcsident being too ill to do so.
Edna Telfener, niece of Mrs. John W.
Mackay, was married In Rome to Signor
Gino de Martino.
The Porte appointment of commission
to investigate the massacre at
Smcrdesh, Macedonia.
The revolt in Yun-Nan, China, grows j
worse.
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Miscellaneous flatters.
The engagement of Anthony Hope j
Hawkins, the novelist, to Miss Eliz- \
abeth Sheldon was announced at the j
wedding of Miss Suzanne Sheldon to
Mr. Henry Ainlee. ,
In his last will Dr. Ladislaus Jas- 3
inskl, a leading physician in Lemberg, 3
Galicla, bequeathed $65,000 to a fund "
for assisting widows of doctors, and '
ordained at the same time that not
more than 8 shillings should be spent :
on his funeral. His numerous orders ?
and medals of distinction he had given j
away the day before his death to. a Kr>ctlor
onH nnstman '
Newspaper clipping bureaus, of 3
which there are said to be over 400 now [
in existence, employing thousands of J
people, find many patrons among royalty.
His Majesty King Edward XII is
said to subscribe to two and to receive
from them some hundreds of cuttings
weekly. But the King, like any other ^
English gentleman, is also known to 3
it-ad his papers first hand.
Ex-Governor Johnson, of the Chicka- ^
saw Nation, is a man of good address, ^
polished and courtly, and so well up in 3
the civilization of the white man that ||
no one would think him of aborigine [
stock, except for his coal black hair r
and the suggestion of copper hue. (.
Enterprise Mills of Kings Mountain. '
N. C., will erect an additional building &
75x100 feet in size and install 2400 c
spindles and complement of cards, '
frames, etc. a
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Two Men Killed.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?Two men
met instant death Thursday afternoon
at a pumping station of the Southern *
Railway, at Bridgeport, Tenn., by the c
explosion of a twenty-four power 1
boiler. The dead men are Frank v
Owens, of Knoxville. pump inspector j
af the Southern, and John Blanchard.
engineer at the pump station. The '
building was practically demolished. c
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Next Confederate Reunion
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New Orleans. Special.?Gen. Mickle.*
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adjutant general of the United Ccnfed- ^
orate Veterans, said that he hoped all
the cities which desired to invite the
organization to hold the next reunion
is their guest would send their namt-3
to him as soon as possible. He said
that while it is probable the reunion .
will go to Louisville, the executive ^
rommittce would consider all invita- t
tior.s and decide for any city making t
the best offer where he believed it t
would be most advantageous to hold q
1 ?Ml ??11 ? maoUn. nf -
me reunion, ur ?jw v.aw c u.tcnu,, c
the executive committee in the fall, ia t
Louisville when the place and date c
Rill be fixed. p
Miners T*ke n New Sta?-d. c
Wilkesbarre. Pa.. Special.?Since the
reported statement of Judge Gray, takiifg
sides with the miners in their contention
that their first conciiialirn w
committee was legally elected, the c
miners have taken a new stand ami a
l.romincnt officials of the Mine V?ro.-k- n
rrs in (his city stated that there would
very likely lie a suspension of work p
unless the operators receded from their n
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AWFUL WORK OF TflE TORNADO
Fuller Details of the Havoc Wrought?
At Gainrsville, Georgia.
Gainesville, Ga., Special.?The 6,000
Inhabitants of this city have begun
to realize the extent of the appalling
disaster of Monday. It now seems certain
that the death list will not be
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over 3 hundred, considering the number
of dangerously wounded whose
chances for recovery cannot now be
calculated. But through all the glcom
and desolation that surround the two
like a pall of darkness there radiate*
a beam of hope and encouragementhope
that the death list may not be so
numerous as reported and that encouragement
to those who are so bravely
and devotedly assisting the work of relief.
The storyv of the storm's work of
desolation has already been told. All
that remains is tho compilation of an
accurate list of the dead and the chronicling
of the burial of the victims.
Figuring from all available source*
and giving credence only-.to those reports
which are believed to be trustv?ortby,
the ollowing is a summary of \
the effects of the tornado in ^Gainesville
and its environments: Oae>Jiundred
killed: 150 injured, of whom probably
20 will die: eight hundred homeless,
their residences having been wiped out
of existence: property loss of \about
half a million dollars, none of which
was covered by storm insurance. \
A concise and accurate statemen\ of
the casualties cannot be rendered lor
several days, but the physicians in ?tendance
believed that it will not gto
above 100, although 25 or 30 are de*A
perately injured and may die within!
the next two or three days. The deathA
list so far compiled includes 32 at the\
Pacolet Cotton Mills at New Holland.
ill of whom were killed in the demolltlon
of the company's cottages, and 36 MH
it the Gainesville Cotton Mills, near
the Southern Railway station, where
the tornado first struck. h
The entire pathway of the storm, ex- 1
tending tvo miles from the Gainesville 1
Mills, around the outskirts of the city |
to the Pacolet Mills at New Holland, fl
is a mass of ruins, but fortunately IhA 1
rottages in the train of the tornado be- J
tween the Soutbern station and New I
Holland were those of negroes, who 1
were all absent from the city yesterday |
in attendance upon a colored execur<ion.
Businc.# Is almost entirely so*- j
"cnaea mrougnuui ine cuy, iuc munition
of everybody being given to the
^are of the wounded and suffering.
There is no lack of medical attention,
nany surgeons being present from Atanta
and other cities. There is great
leed, however, of clothing, antiseptics
ind other medical supplies. The local ,
xiilitia have been called out for police
duty. The city is very orderly and ]
juiet and only a few instances of pll- J
aging have been reported. '
The work of the tornado was compete.
From the factory where it first
lescended, upon the doomed city to the
lills beyond New Holland, where it
'ose into the upper air, the destruction
>f property is appalling. Along this enire
course, for a distance of two miles,
here is not a fence standing, not a
labitable house, most of the latter beng
reduced to strips like laths and
icarcely a tree left.
At New Holland the storm did its
rorst. Nothing but the barren red hills
ire left there to tell the story of the
twful disaster. For a distance of threeluarters
of a mile on the hillsides and
n valley to the left of the Pacolet
dills the ground is covered almost enirely
by the fragments of the 150
louses that were there when the twistng
tornado swept down. Standing on . .
be hill-top nearest the city of Gaines- - ^
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riue, ana loosing iiuriueasi, u oui|i ui
>erfectly smooth swept territory is preented
to the eye of the observer and
he entire vista is paved with the
wreckage of destroyed homes.
Negroes Run From High Water.
Newberry. S. C., Special.?A very
iard rain began to fall Monday afterioon
at about 6:30 o'clock. Scott's
reek rose rapidly and soon overflowed
ts banks, surrounding and even rising
above the floors of houses occupied
iy negroes near the stream. While no
erious damage is reported, all the
md near hem is washed considerably,
mmcdiately after the downpour of
ain and while the cieek was at its
lighest, some very amusing scenes
Fere witnessed by the spectators, who
iad gathered to see the high water.
hlef among wnicn was a negro man
arrying the occupants of the house
cjoss the water to "dry land," for
rhich he received 10 cents per capita.
Killed at Supper.
Waxahachie, Texas. Special.?A
louble .'tragedy occurred Tuesday
light near tl}e little village of Rankin,
4 miles south of Waxahatchie, in
vhioh a farmer. Samuel Weslmoreaml,
and his wife, were shot to death
n their own, house. The shooting it is
harged was done by a young man
lamed Ellis Claridy, a brother of
Irs. Westmoreland, who has not been
aptured. Mr. and Mrs. Westmoreland
rere eating supper, when. It is said,
"oung Claridy appeared in the doorray
with a double barrelled shotgun
nd killed them.
The Topeka Situation.
Topeka, Special.?The flood situation
a Topeka may be briefly summarized
hus: Known dead 4S; river ha3 fallen
oday three feet and is now receding at
he rate of two inches an hour. Disress
will be great among the refugees.
ioveruor Bailey issues a proclamation /
ailing for help for flood sufferers of
he State. Fifty deputy sheriffs, arind
with Winchesters, go to North Toeka
to protect property with orders to
hcot looters whenever they are
aught stealing.
neaa cnopp.ja uh.
Tazewell. Tenn.. Special.?Sam Daivs
as killed late Tuesday, Fale Minton
acpping '-^s head off and burying the
xe several times in hfcs body. The
iea engaged in a difficulty at Minon's
house. Mintcn was put in Taze.rell
jail at night and the sheriff made
reparations for protection against
job violence, fears of which were ex;rcsge?
chtiirg the night, ., . .