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Show A SCORE MEET DEATH IN CYCLONE Will Be Given Another Poit Town of Loredo Suffer Severely From but a the wind Increased In force tho more substantially constructed buildTwister Which Strewed the Street ings were unroofed, and In many cases With Debrl. The were demolished. lightning flashed vividly and continuously, add. SEVERAL MIRACULOUS ESCAPES. Ing to the fears of the Tho one hour. storm lasted about The damage wrought at the Loredo Wall of Seminary Completely seminary Is severe. Not one of tho Yet Teacher Escaped group of magnificent buildings which With But Slight Injuries, go to make up that Institution escaped damage. The barracks, the primary scoro A of people building. Emery hall and the chapel Loredo, Texas, vrer killed and at least an many more wero damaged from f0 to 75 per cent. The escape from death of tho teachInjured by a tornado which tore through this city late Saturday night, ers at present quartered In the Instiwhile the property damage la enor-xnou- tution Is considered miraculous, as tho walls of some of the buildings which There are persistent rumors of many they occupied wero completely demob other deaths outside of Iredo, while Ished. Mrs. East ley, one of the teachall along the path of tho storm much ers. were heroically rescued by several cadet students of the Institution, damage has been done to property. The storm made its appearance they lowering her by a rope from a from the southwest, in tho neighbor- second story. She was badly bruised. hood of Lampasas, Mexico, seventy-tw- o Conditions In New Laredo, across reis It and miles from this city, tho Rio Grande river, are similar. It ported that great havoc was wrought Is not ofllcially known how many dead In that locality, although It Is not or Injured there are at that city, but It Is stated there are five. thought that any loss of life resulted. The Mexican National hospital buildediWhen the storm struck the city, huts ing had the roof lifted from tho to time were much classes the will It and poorer occupied by require fice, the first to be leveled to the ground, repair tbo building for patients. ju-opl- d, s. HUNTING PARTY ATTENDS CHURCH Glenwood Springs, Colo. Fresideot Roosevelt and his hunting party attended church services at the Old Blue school house on the West Divide creek on Sunday. The little district school building was not a tenth part large enough to accommodate the con gregation. The organ was moved to the platform In front. Platform seats were ' provided for the president and his party, tho Rev. Horace Mann of Rifle, Colo., who preached the sermon, the choir and the trustees of tho church. The members of the congregation 6tood or sat on the ground or in were which their convej'ances After grouped around the building. rethe at the services the president, quest of the minister, addressed the congregation. He told them how glad he was to be there and how much It pleased him to come face to face with so many people who were braving hardships with light hearts and doing their part in life without complaining or bitterness. Ho told them the spirit they wrere displaying Is the quality of the American people that goes to make this tho greatest of all countries. After he had concluded his remarks he shook hands with the entire OPEN EYES OF RUSSIANS. MINISTER BOWEN RECALLED. Give Proper Washington.-Secret- ary If H Can Explanation. Taft has re- ceived Instructions from the president to call Minister Bowen, now at Caracas, to Washington; Minister Russell, minister to Colombia, to Caraea, and Mr. Barrett, now minister at Panama, to Colombia. It is stated that If Mr. Bowens action relative to the charges affecting Assistant Secretary Loomis are not subject to criticism, It Is tho presidents purpose to send him as minister to Chile and then probably as embassador to Brazil. Mr. Bowen will make his statement to Secretary Taft, who is disposed to deal with the case himself and not permit It to remain open to add to tho bulk of Important business which will confront tho president on his return to the capital. TRAGEDY DUE TO DRINK. Brave Soldier Dead and His Comrade Badly Wounded. Salt Lake City. Captain William A. Ralbourn twice attempted the life of First Lieutenant William H. Toint, Saturday at midnight at Fort Douglas, and then shot himself through tho Lieutenant head, dying Instantly. In the wounded right hip Point was and the fleshy part of the leg, but It Is believed that ho .will recover. The shooting occurred In front of Captain Balbourus quarters. A moment after the tragedy Captain B. H. Wells and Major A. M. Smith were on the scene and conveyed the officers to the post hospital. Captain Baibourns crazed mental condition, due to drink and brooding over his arrest pending a court mar tlal and his resignation, Is said to ba responsible for the tragedy. BAYS IN WHtCh RUSSIAN FLEET HAS BEEN SHELTERED. Create Great Sen-catio- STRIKE LEADERS INDICTED. Must Answer to Charge of Conspiracy. Chicago. Twelve of the labor leaders prominently identified with the teamsters strike, now In progress In this city, wero Indicted Saturday night by the grand jury. This was tho last day of the present session of the grand jury, and tho Indictments wero returned to Judge McEwcn just beforo the jury adjourned. Each indictment contains six counts, and charges tho men with conspiracy. Chicago Strikers Work of Lone Bandit. San Jose, Cal. Two Mount Hamilton stages and a private surrey wero held by a lone bandit, heavily masked and armed, between Smiths Creek and Mount Hamilton observatory, Saturday night. There were about twenty people in the stages, and these wero ordered to alight and deliver up their seats. Senator Convicted of Accepting Bribes Former Stale Senator Harry Bunkers of San Francisco lias been convicted of accepting a bribe, while chairman of the committee on commerce and retrenchment, to grant immunity to certain corporations which were to be investigated. For this offense he and three other members of the same committee were expelled Ho has now been from the senate. of a penitentiary convicted criminally offense. The other three senators, Emmons, French and Wright, have yet to be tried on similar charges. have fired. It Is suggested, from thq force of the explosion, which could be heard for miles around and which tore heavy timbers aside and piled tons of dirt Into the shaft, that a bad shot had set off some dynamite which had been stored conveniently for work in pushing the entries. The shaft Is 360 feet deep, and it wras 300 feet to , the place where the men were work-air ing. The men were supplied with means and by shaft the from fanned of compressed air tubes. It is the general opinion that the air pips xvas burst by the explosion. death. The end w'as peaceful and without pain, the general remaining conscious until within five minutes of the end. A widow and five children survive General Lee. Two of the boys are army officers and two of the girls are wives of army officers, while the remaining child is a young woman still in her teens. The children are: Mrs. J. C. Rhea, wife of Lieutenant Rhea, now at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee of the cavalry branch, now in Manila; Lieutenant cavGeorge Mason Lee of the Seventh alry, who is now in San Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife of Lieutenant Brown of the Seventh cavalry, who is now at San Francisco, and Miss Virginia Lee. The bays in which the Russian fleet has been seen recently Kamranh and Turan, which are shown in the map . Turan Bay are in French is about 800 miles directly west of Manila and eighty miles south of Hue, an important French settlement town. The Pescadores are 850 miles northIndo-China- east of Turan (Vloroccan Question Causing Anxiety. Paris. The Moroccan question is pxciting renewed anxiety, despite the fact that Premier Rouvier dined with Prince von Radolin, the German em- bassador to France, at the German embassy Thursday night, and other external appearances of improvement. n. The news of tho beconclusion of the arrangement tween Charles M. Schwab and tho Russian admiralty for tbo reconstruct lion of the Russian fleet contained In theso dispatches was telegraphed back to St. Petersburg from New York and published here Friday afternoon, being the first Information on tbo subject furnished to the Russian public. Tho news created a great sensation among the agents of foreign ship yards, who had been waiting continuously In the corridors, of the admiralty building. When the facts became known to them they descended upon the admiralty in a body, demanding details and particulars of tho mysterious method of construction by which Mr. Schwab proposed to build ships 20 per cent higher In efficiency than anything now afloat, but they obtained little satisfaction. Tho few superior officers who took part In tho secret negotiations naturally declined to talk,, and the Inferior ofllcers could only exj plain their lack of knowledge. Bt. Petersburg. valuables. The robber felt the pockets DEATH OF GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE General Washington. Brigadier Fitzhugh Lee, U. S. A., retired, died at Providence hospital here Friday night, aged 08 years, from an attack of apoplexy which he suffered early in the morning on a train while en route After from Boston to Washington. to the General Lee had been removed hospital it was evident to the attendcase was a ing physicians that his very serious one, but they believed that his strong vitality and will power would assist materially in a partial recovery, at least, from the attack. His condition remained fair, considering the severity of the attack, during the 9 oclock he beday, hut shortly after began to grow weaker, his breathing came more rapid and his .pulse lower, terminating In less than two hours in Succe of each person, and when ho heard tho jingle of money relieved the owners of it. The drivers were not molested and were permitted to remain on their FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE Wllburton, Okla, Thirteen miners were entombed and probably killed by an explosion at 1:20 8unday morning In the Misosuri, Kansas & Texas Coal oompany mine No. 19, four miles west of here. There is little prospect of their bodies being recovered for several days. The men went into tbo shaft at midnight. Foreman William Ray of the shift that left the mine at that hour, states that the mine was In good condition and a gas explosion was hardly probable. Ills shift left a iot hanging which the new shift may Schwab' Standard Fighting Hennery iaw. Topeka, Kans. Governor Hoch announces he will not hire any attorneys to help Attorney General Coleman prosecute the oil refinery case in the supreme court. State Treasurer Kelly and Warden Jewett have engaged hall a dozen attorneys to fight the refinery law. It is.announced that others whose names have not been given to the public are at work on the case in the interests of the Standard Oil company. They will help the attorneys hired by Jewett and Kelly. The suit is to test the refinery law. Bristow Will Resign. Topeka, Kan. J. L: Bristow, the presidents special commissioner foi the investigation of trade condition? in relation to the Panama canal, 4s on his way to Washington. He has been making an investigation of trade mat ters in several of the gulf ports, and after his report to Secretary Taft ex pects to resign his place. Mr. Bristow announces that' he had not decided upon the date of his resignation, but it will be In a short time. He will return to Kansas to look after his news paper properties. |