Show GALE AT NOME SEVERAL VESSELS WBECKED BJT NO LIVES LOST J1 Gen Randall Has Received Authority Authori-ty to Send Back the Indigent Siclr and Destitute S Seattle Wash Aug 15The steamship steam-ship Centennial arrived this afternoon after-noon from Nome with overt 600 passengers passen-gers bringing news of the wreckwpC several vessels on the Nome beach on August 2nd and 3rd during which time a severe storm raped The steamer W K Merwln Is a total wreck She drove ashore on the afternoon of August 2nd So far as known there were no Jives lost l the crew and passengers escaping to the shore in small boats The gale Is reported by returning passengers pas-sengers to have been very severe Several Sev-eral drownlngs occurred Gen Randall has received authority to sond back the indigent sick and destitute at the expense of the Government Govern-ment m lie had received over 3000 applications appli-cations for passage and there were still several thousand who wore broke and who would eventually bo compelled to ask the Governnient to assist them home S The criminal element is again In the saddle at Nome according to passengers passen-gers who arrived from the North by the Centennial For a week or more prior to that vessels departure thugs thieves and firebugs had kept the city In a state of suppressed excitement and talk of lynching was to be heard on every street corner The crimes were apparently the work of an organized gang which carried on its operations systematically regardless of the military mili-tary The greatest Indignation had been aroused by the discovery and frustration frustra-tion of at least three separate and dla met attempts to burn the cilty and a rumor was In circulation on the streets that a gang of firebugs had planned to start fires In various parts of the city simultaneously and loot the banks shops and stores during the progress of a general conflagration The local columns of the newspapers were full of accounts of the doings of highway robbers burglars pickpockets and incendiaries |