The Clarksburg telegram. [volume], July 14, 1893, Image 5

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MEDICINE, 8URGERY, Ac.
GUBHIBDBO, W. Va.
Offlsw Main 8tr??t, oppoaltxtta.
Hour*. * to 10 a. m ... to 5 ud ?t? $ p.-a.
K. ADAMS, ~ T ~
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CcmmlMloner of Accounts,
Offlop In Court House,
45.] Olarksburg, W.Va.
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ff^BR WillI be In hi* office. Clark.:
Q^^HMbnnt, WVVa. feor month* of the
ofteetb guaranteed, ud a ..t of bwnUtai
teeth Inserted In ene minute after the e?,
traction.- wjs'??? >3pMg|
ornue Main atreet. oppo.lt. Fourth.
DR. A. B.HALL.
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Graduate of th.
^ Penn'a Dental Col
Nttfe Once and Retldeno*
?f on Main Street, near
opposite Hotel
M* Southern, Clarki.
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. Win be In hU Clarksburg omoe, Howell
building, every four.months-see iooal no
tice. Every thtng In Pro.th.llo Dentistry
done h?re-oot brought and Inierted, All or
the liner ipMialtle. attended to promptly.
? All communications ahonld be addressed
to the liome office at Qkptoh, W. V. "B.
osr W. F. SWISHER,
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Graduate, of Unjyersity of Maryland,
Baltimore, Md., tenders bit profession
al servioes to oitizens of West Milford
and vicinity. All calls will receive
Fjoropt attention. Offioe at residenoe
of Mrs. Lynoh. ll-4m
THE MONTIOELLO
BRICK COMPANY,
Manufacturers of
Hand Made Brick,
and Contractors for Brick Work.
Will keep constantly, on hand a
full supply of first-class brick, at
? he Menticello Brick Yard, on
Monticollo St., Olarksburg, W.Va.
Orders solicited. Address J. R
Adams, Secretary.
Box 148, Olarksburg, W. Va.
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^ Carpentery and Contracting for
andWy^en^r!?g. ^HeSy
Framing a specialty. All work
carefully constructed.
WilsoAburg
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formerly conducted bjr J. H. Small
WAGONS, BUGffiOE^ ruTtHTtrnra
Best of Material and Workmanship,
Full line of material for repairing al
*?ys on hand. Would be pleased to
have yon ooll. Conducted by
N^E, MABHIS,
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I have and will keep oo hand at my Yard
on Clay street. a .took of Pint Clan
Band Mad.
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^ WJ},1 alio Contract fr^Brlok Work ofeverj
description. B. W. WILLIAMS.
Jan. 1-lvr Lock Box 333.
6. W. MofTett, Notary Pnblio, Convey
"f.0? Md. Pension, Solicitor. Prompt
attention to all business. West Milford,
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ului/ATTRT
e World's
Warehouse at
of About 40 People.
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Tb? Victim. ?t Work on a Baloony Half
Way Cp tho Tower?Ther La; Kl*htr
Hit?0 ?5" *?>?-?"? Towmr
aad Crtulut th. Boor.
pinnacle, high among the cupola* and
"inareta of the Dream City, amldat the
?moke and heat and blaze and under
neath a clear, blue sky and the bright
raya of a summer sun, there prayed to
?fTe?,f0r deliTer<u"? a bravo band of
Columbian guards and firemen. No de
liverance came. Higher, swept the
names above, fiercer they came up from
below. The prayers ceased. Strong
men hugged each other; the tower tot
tered; some jumped off toward the roof
bdow, others reeled to"the platform on
which their feet rested; the great col
umn of staff and smoke and fire reeled
and crumbled with a loud report, and
all were lost.
It wasa little flame that burst out of
the top of the tall tower of the cold
storage warehouse at the World's filr
.grounds at 1:40 o'clock Monday after
noon. The guard who turned in the
alarm did not appear to be In any
special hurry, He had witnessed a
hundred such flames from the buildings
in the White City during his short term
of service, and thought this like all the
rest. There were sightseers on the
balcony, some fifty feet from the top,
looking out over the broad expanse of
architecture Into the blue waters of
^*e lake* They did not hurry away.
Firemen came and hurried their hose
to the balcony in a methodical manner.
Thy Columbian guards came with them
and forced the rather unwilling sight
seers to go below, out of the way of
firemen and danger. A faint stream
played high into the air from the single
strand of hose, and while it did not
check the blaze, the fire did not seem'
to be gaining headway. Another line
. of hose was drawn nn with n rnnn nn,1 -
hose toward the flame which crept out
of the big chimney top, and twisted
their heads to keep from smothering in
the smoke that came from below.
At last the captain realized their dan
ger and called on the men to leave
their posts and save their Uvea. They
looked about them as best they could,
ank saw only two small ropes by which
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eighty feet to the roof below, s The
lower ends of the lines were swinging
toward the flames and were' being
scorched: The fire was so fierce that
the firemen on the roof- below could
not get to the ropes to keep
them from burning. Almost in an in
stant the ropes were on fire, and the
flame was creeping upward on them.
A fireman tried to desoend one., He did
well for twenty-five feet, when a great
flame crawled out of a window and
licked him in the face. His hands un
clasped and he fell to the roof below,
only to get into the dutches of anoth
er boiling masB of flame and be con
sumed before the eyes of those who
were unable to render him any assist
anpc. i ;?
A hush came from the throats of the
multitude after the exclamations of
awe which had been uttered at his
fate. Another fireman .from the plat
form was following the first He
reaohed the same spot as the other and
went down In a like manner. A third
saw the fate of those who had gone be
fore and he swung away from the win
dow and passed It in safety, only to let
his hands slip into the flame which was
creeping up the rope with lightning ra
pidity, and he too went below and
shared the fate of the other two.
The ropes were of no further avail.
If those above would not go down with
the tower they must jump onto the
roof below as the only possible means
left them for their livca ?
One man jumped far out, turned half
way oyer, and fell to the roof with a.
crash that broke nearly eVery bone in
his body and made a great hole In the
roof. The men pulled his lifeless form
away from the flames. The men on the
platform were seen to kneel and appeal
Tto . Heaven, perhaps for deliveranoe,
perhaps to blot out some entry in the
book of life, perchance for some loved
ones waiting in a; little home for
the coming of a husband and a father.
The prayer was of short duration. The
big tower wavered > and sank, and the
flames hid them from view. . They had
.fallen into the seething mass below.
The great mass of people was beyond
the control of the two thousand Colum
bian guards thathad been called to the
scene, and they pushed those who were
tag buMtag*11?!*
ror-stricken. The crowds and officers
were in a perfect frenzy. Patrol wag
ons, fire apparatus and ambulances
were trying to get within reach of the
building. It was useless.
The danger grew more imminent
every minute. The officers saw that
the loss of life would be very great un
less the crowd could be farced back In
which the flame;waa
people In the rear and holding their ,!
hand* before their scorched, faces in
In double-quick time, and on their guns
ylistened bright bayonets.'
Orders were riven to cleir Upe crowd
back from the on tiding, and to nie their r
bayonets if resistance be offend. The
effect waa magical; the great collection
of human being* swayed back with
clocklike step. Hopes were brought,
and when the people had been removed
out of harm's way the ropes were held
by the guards, while the soldiers pa
trolled the front with military tread.
They wen joined in a minute mori by
a company of French marines armed
with long sabres. Then came company'
after company of British redcoats, who
passed within the lines unarmed, and
went to the assistance of the hundreds
of firemen who wen then assembled on
the ground below.
The city fire department?five battal
ions?had jarrlved by this time, and;
close behind them wen two or three
companies of veteran policemen, many
of whom bore scare they received by
the bursting of the bombs in' the
Haymarket riot The firemen on
the roof were pouring several
streams into the oenter of the.build
ing, when a few minutes before stood
'the great tower, and from which was
issuing the fin and smoke of a fieroo
flame of a young volcano. ' They never
dreamed of danger. In another minute
the flames had burst from'a . hundred
windows underneath the cornice. They
saw it not, and continued to flght the
fire. The smoke began to come through
the roof, followe&by tongues of flame,
and then they realized their dan
ger.. The signal to retreat waa given,
and a half hundred men attempted
to go down the single little ladder at
once. The smoke and flames over
came many, and they fell below, only
to be picked up by the guards and
turned over to the ambulanoe corps to
be hurried away to the hospital. Not
mon than half the men got down the
ltt^S^^e.tttoTthiatailding was
burning and for hemrsafterwardhun
owlng to the complete - destruction of
the electric light wires. Six bodies,
all of them burned beyond rec
ognition, have been-taken from the
debris since 8 o'clock:
THE KILI.KD. .
Wm. Davis,, Wm. H. Deming, Philip
Breen, J. Green, Burton E. Page, J. A.
Garvey, John McBride, Capt J. Fits
pa trick, John Cahlll, Paul Schroeder,
unidentified lineman, Lieut John H.
Freeman.
The following firemen are missing
and an undoubtedly dead: Q. H.
Blalzdell, M. Dixon, w. A. Huff, A. Lb
Otto, M. 8. Bonfield, W. G. Sturm,
Lieut Moulter, Chas. Purvis, John A.
Smith, four Columbian guards, .names
not known.
At midnight the following men an
also missing, ' and an said to.
be lost: M. McQuade, driver' en
gine No. a Ralph Drummond,
electrical engineer of storage
building. Howard, a lieuten
ant of Engine Company No. a
ISJBMtB.
W. P. TUahoney, both legs broken,
badly burned; E. J. Frank, leg broken
and body burned, may die; Frank Ber
linberg, badly burned and internally
injured, will die; S. Nordrum, burned
and braised; Capt Thos. Barry, of the
World's fair fin boat badly burned,
arm crushed and amputated, may die;
John Davis,' hands and face burned;
Wm. Lenehan, face and head burned
and leg mangled; Martin Kimball, of
St Paul, Columbian guard, hands and
arms burned; H. Bnckenridge, of Fin
castle, Va., Columbian guard, face
and hands burned; Marshal James
I* Kenyon, Chief Battalion No. i
3, leg badly cut and 'mangled; I
F. 11. Donahue, Columbian guard,
slightly burned. M. Murray, burned
and nearly suffocated. W. C. Fisher,
eyes and face burned. W. Lunch, scalp
wound. C. S- Woman, hand scalded.
G. 11 French, right foot crushed. Fred
Goetz, right hip broken.
Bnjlnff Mora Silver.
WASHnfOTOif,JulylO.?The director of
the mlAt has accepted offers tor the
sale of 838,000 ounces of silver' in addi
tion to the 100,000 purchased Friday on
the July account In response to the
offers Friday the director made a coun
ter proposition, and his figure, $0.74,
was accepted by telegraph Friday even
ing for the 888,000 ounces, although the
answers were not received. until Satur
day morning.
I<n? Wehlcaa Una
IsHFKMUfO, Mich., July 10.?The
mayor of the dty has reoommended
that the council stop all .mtmldpsl
work other than absolutely neoessai7,
as all the money the dty can raise will
be needed to support Idle miners and
their families during the winter.; The
Wlnthrop mine closed Friday, night,
and over one thousand miners an now
idle in Ishpeming alone, and 8,000 in
this district ? . " ?
The Inspection of Immigrants.
Washisotos, July a?Superintend
ent of Immigration'Stump isat present
engaged in drawing up the rules pto
vided for in the immigration act, for in
spection along the borders of Canada,
British Colombia and Mexico, ' . 'ii
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i People la the Worifl (Mr Ralloou
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eaee.Bat Nobody Wh Hers.
Chicaoo, July 10.?Chicago was Tin
ted at 8:80 Sunday afternoon by the
*t terrlfia-storm It has experienced
? several years. The wind blew al
most a hurricane, and the rain fell In
...torrents. The earlier part ot the day
W?? well nigh perfect, oloudlees, and
with a cool, gentle breese blowing off
{Lake Michigan. The storm gathered
in the north and west with marvelous
quickness. Nobody was looking for it
or. expecting it All at once It was
here, and the next mlnnte It was sweep
ing over the city, leveling trees and
umny pleasure boats which were
out upon Lake Michigan. Many nar
row escapes, from death wet* experi
enced, but, so far as known, the loss ol
life is limited to four, all of them lost
by the capsisingof the sailing yacht
Chesapeake, which was overturned
about two miles from shore.
The psrty on the boat oonslsted ot
nine people, and of these four were
drowned. The desd ore: Ethel Chase,
sixteen years old, of Boston, Man.)
Themistocles Tlmballa, Barry Marlow,
Wm. It. Cornice.
The Chesapeake was a well built
yacht, and was owned by the Avery
brothers, William and Fred. Tho par
ty had been out during the afternoon,
and .had been enjoying the pleasant
sailings Tho sudden fury of >he storm,
howover, gave .them no chance, and
they Wen in the water before the men
of tho party, several of whom
were experienced and sklllfnl sail
ors, could do anything to prevent
It. Gray, Fred Avery anX Elliot clung
to the side of tho boat, and managed to
keep their hoadsout of water. Will
'Avery was hurled nearly fifteen feet
from the boat and*went down head
foremost Near Ulm was Edith Cramp-!
ton, und asAvory rose he seized her
-and swam to the boat There, with hli
three companions, he made a gallant
fight for life.
^-nt, McRae, of the ?team tuff Robert
nt, which wo* in the harbor, saw
Other tugs In the harbor were busy
for a time in picking up row-boats, and
no less than nix people were saved'In
the harbor alone, but no live* were
lost Charles Saunders, of St Louis,
started but for a boat ride and hung to
the bottom of the boat for forty min
utes before he was rescued, more dead
than alive. The yacht Flora, with a
large party on board, lost her masts of!
Evans ton, twelve miles north of here,
but her passengers were taken off by
<he Evanston life-saving crew.
At the World's fair grounds little
damage was done to the buildings, but
the passengers who were aloft in the '
captive balloon had a close call, and
the balloon itself, after being brought
to earth, was blown in pieces, and the
pieces were carried out of the grounds.
The gale struck the Ferris wheel
with all its force. The cars were all
filled. It blew so hard that the engi
neer oould hardly keep at his post But
hard as it did blow, it did not more th?
gigantic structure a hair's breadth.
Some little excitement was shown
by timid people as the wind howled
atonnd the cars that hnng in thb very
heart of the storm, but the wheel kept
moving as steadily as If the sun had
been shining.
Census Delayed.
Wasbwoto*, July 10.?Although the
last congress practically provided for
the completlon'of the work of the cen
sus by December 1, 1808, and although
Mr. Porter in his letter of resignation
states that the work is very nearly
completed, those on the Inside of the
office state that not only Is the work
not completed, but that It can not be
oompleted in,, the time specified and
that a large appropriation Is necessary
and will be asked for immediately
after the organisation of congress.
Many lines of work have been aban
doned entirely, or are only to be in
cluded In the final report In an Incom
plete state. This is true of the inquir
ies relating to the fishing Industries of
the United States. This work was
practically abandoned on the suspen
sion of Mr. Charles W. Smiles, and noth
ing has been done since except to tabu
late a few of the schedules collected.
Only one bulletin was ever lssued\y
this division;. that on whale fisheries
and many of ihe valuable sohednlea on
the lake and Atlantic fisheries are not
in shape for Insertion in a final report
jfsasss meat Crop a hums,
Torxxjk, Kan., July 10.?Secretary
Mohler's monthly crop report says there
has been no Improvement in the pros
pects for the winter wheat crop, and
that the total yield wffl. be only abont
33,804,000 bashels, a decrease of about
80,000,000 bushels as oompared with last
year's/crop. But little more than half
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Cleveland's Condition Improved.
Buzzard's Bat, Mass., July 10.?The
president's oondltlon Saturday morning
remains ; about the same as Friday
night.' Be goes about the house and
out upon thb veranda, and a gradual
ImprovementJs noticeable.
A musis Falls BAPk Breaks
New York, Jfaly A special to the
World from Niigare Falls, N. Y.. ?*ysi
* " orter has been appointed re
toons, Constable's Sale,(Notice t<i
Trespaaers, can. lje accoromo
dated at the Telkoram office. .
_-Our Blank Deeds are on Triple
Extra White Bond Paper, try
them and vou will use no others
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