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ILUME XXXII
IBERAL
PROPOSALS
TALKS OUT
COLLEGE A MASS DF RUINS
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IRBY AND POLK
ARE IN DALLAS
TO
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leeting at
LOOKING FOR BIG WHEAT.
$
THE STAR-EYED GODDESS
ROMINENT HOUSTON
THE VERY VALUABLE ANO COSTLY
<
MEMBERS WILL ATTEND
STILL SINGS TOR HENRI
LIBRARY WAS WHOLLY DESTROYED
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J.
TRIED TO KILL HERSELF.
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others who assisted, they were nble to
DIED ON THE TRAIN.
Most
GENT
that lieked upwards
und downwards.
eston.
a single
NG
BOY LOST A LEG.
Was
$
STILL AFTER LANHAM.
of
■il
same thing
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MATERIAL FOR GOOD ROADS.
A Very Fairy Tala.
G
stroying element.
The brothers and priests also lost all
their personal belonginge and clothlii
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ed
The iireleame so sudden!
and fann
y
ll
<8
all
quarera so
A Very
Talk
STEP FORWARD FOR MEXICO.
washing away of the : granite dam
neither was the clothes room to the
three years ago. on Ap6.
Many of the students lost all their Is, three miles south dhe city, and
PUSHING THE WORK.
was a rinsn of blush red fire.
TERRITORY DEMOCRATIC.
an institution In case «» fire.
STRIKE WAS SETTLED.
several hundred yarstay, that Wi -
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SANTA FE ELECTION.
flames.
Musical Instruma Lost,
Four pianon were bidl, an unmuc-
fall without Al mo-
he MW|
which were
IEW SURVEY OF HOUSTON.
April 9.—For Western
8 prob-
hat way.
qr several weeks to make a survey
m
No Casualties Reported--Ear Ray, a Student, Overcome by Heat--Firemen
Worked Like Demons to Save Exhibition Hall-Work of
Rebuilling Will Begin Immediately.
Fixtures at a Loss of $240,000, Wim
Only $50,000 insurance.
Washington. .
Texas— Showers
taining his own convictions and ot Mv-
Ing up to them; but he becomes little
other than a bigot who thinks more ot
himself on this account, and loves his
neighbor less, because that neighbor*
City
imme-
This is by far the gitest alami
which has befallen Altin since ti
Fort Worth and Denver City road at
("hildress has been finally settled, the
with an attack of the mumps, on the
fourth floor. near where the fire was
first discovered, and for a time it was
t Cliff. the
innings of
also pres-
auxilaries
g session
it of dele-
l secieties.
d by Mrs.
uba.
ormation
1-
asked 36 rents without any provision.
Home of the strikers were put back to
work.
willing hands, succeed saving all of
the dining room and phen fixtures.
Including much of the vislone.
Carried Water in ashbowis.
Ho intent were manh making an
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and
lower
Hparks
sav all of them from the bluze.
of the books were destroyed.
KENTUCKIAN SAYS THAT HE IN-
TEND8 TO STAY SNUGGLED
UNDER THE BUNTING.
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En Route to the Poor Farm Was Re-
lieved of His Sorrows.
ne
I YORK,
at Noon.
Way
s UO.
I at Key
| S. S. Co.
La, offer-
ect route
f the evening.
ROBBED OF BIG SUM.
discover the smoke »ml he told Hobin, '’Sparing the
and the two rushed out of the building flames.
To Be Elected at a Meeting For That
Purpose.
‘ORLD’S FAIR COMMISSION
HOLD ITS MOST IMPOR-
, TANT MEETING.
OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR
AFRICAN SLAVES.
. Saved,
enks and
tution, ।
columns that may
ment’R warning. TI
Weathe Forecast.
By Associate Press.
Titory of the City Nearly Doubled
by the New Charter.
walls had (rumbled thuthe institu-
lion would be rebuilt ancork would
And In Turn He Talks the Sense of
Man Who Think* to the Rythmic
Flow of an Orator’a
Enthusiasm.
a hundred such that formerly were in
the minim dormitory.
A Fallen Woman Takes Poison to Es-
cape Life.
Machinists on the Denver Secure Com-
promise. But Some Loso Job.
probably fair.
Eastern Texas- Cloudy Friday, with
“PEACE BETWEEN
•y Narrow Escape.
ick, one 9f the advanced
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Largest Crop In the History of th.
Stat. 1. Promised.
THE SECTIONS ”
came a cry
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the hurry
of Infinite
Valuables Were Lost.
Several of the studenta lost money
and jewelry in the building. William
O’connor, son of the prominent cattle-
shpwers in Interior, cooler in north
tion; Saturday, partly cloudy.
AUSTIN, TEXAS. FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1903.
--him-F -jt--F f mH-
MAGNIFICENT ST. EDWARD’S
ter war carried in w atowis and 10-
plied tn that buildingHundreds of
No Adequate Protection. ■ •— - -....... -..... ■
Among the Srst to discover the fire willing hands aksisted he work and,
were Iwo stude nt, Nat Jones of Ard-:with the old rendered ljoreman John
more, 1. T., and Berry Hobin of Tur-IShelton and his men 010 Routh AUB-
nerpysie. Tex. Iones wax the first to tin Hose company, thisucceeded in
* • ......... * — •'* exhibitioniall from the
| peclal to The Statesman.
"Houston, Tex., April 9.—Col. La J-
lk, vice president and general man.
ger of the Gulf. Colorado and Santa
e railroad, was in Houston today en
pporis are in-
the immense
Fire Completely Consuming Buildings
Playing on Railway Track and
Run Over by Engine.
TATES
11 8.—The
ty of the
esbyterian
with the
ile of Cie-
live Dollars a Mil. for the Railroads
and One Per Cent of Capital From
the Banks Would Provid.
Very Fine Start.
f mt meeting of the Santa Fe‘s Reau-
me lines, held in Heaumont, the fol-
long officers were elected: E. P. Rip*
। lepresident ; John >1. Kirby, vice-
pdeni; W. E. Maxson, second vice-
pident; J. E. Baxter, auditor and
setary: W. E. Davidson, treasurer.
sructure, and the library was left to
perish. Among the booka destroyed is
a history of the civil war that is of im-
burned an arm in assisting a brother ■ , . -
to escape from the fames, but this also efort to SAVe the exheion building,
proved to have been only a rumor. “ hiniitei VnE’M thm Wnt
Jr.,
a 3 thui
Vast Beds of Concrete Gravel Well
Suited for Improving Highways.
Ser Lake Road is Being Hurried to
Early Completion.
BAPTISTS IN SESSION.
Jin Representation Present and
a College Indulged.
With staying at h respectful distance . -
and viewing the havoc wrought by the exercising the same right, does the
destroying element. In knots and “ *
groups they collected and spoke to
each other of the afliction that had
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visited and ench thing was flung to i man of Victoria, lost in the neighbor-
the earth to be grabbec by other stu- hood of $500, over half of whieh wus in
dents. The rooms occupied by the col- i hard cash. Albert Henkel, a student
Saving ths Effects. ........... .... .....
As the fir progressed a thousand seemingly bent on preventing
figures could be seen darting hitherithing from being taken from the struc.
and thither, pitching furniture out ofture. As soon as the dlooring began
the windows, dragging fxures of to give the boys and brothers left the
value, flitting here and there m a vain - "
thought that he had perished In. the
flames. Tom Kelly of Dallas, his
room male. dashed into the building
and snatched his schoolmate and car-
ried him out just in time to save his
life. When Kelly opened the door to
tures, Messrs- Julius Hutze, Jr., an 1
been with the company eight mpnths.
Tim men were getting 33 cents and
which raises water to the tank sitw-
ated in the tower, was kept going all
the time and this was really the only
means to combat the confagration. It
American Prisoners in Mexican Jails
Not to Be Kept in Incommunicado.
Within half f
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woodwork. and
men accevting the proposition of the
company, which was the cause of the
trouble. That is, they accept 35 cents
an hour for all employes who have
Play Hall Saved. ... .......„„ muc.
Am the northern wing burped, the by the wind reached ..... a
wind veered and the volume of flames ( qulekiy that no time was allowed to
rushed towards the building Ip thetuke out belongings from the rooms,
rear of the main building owed as a h was a case of risking a life for any
reading room and Play had or the one enter the raging and devastating
names , To have entered meant a deg-
perate chance to regiin the pure d||*,
come before he reached fresh air and
safety. Huck was taken in a carriage
to the home of a relative In Austin,
where he was made comfortable.
the room he was almost suffocated -
with smoke, and came near being over- eluding many students >m Mexico.
the immense
specia}to The Statesman.
Ran Antonio, Tex., April 9.-The
Baptit missionary and educational
ally of southwest Texas is now in
sesson in San Antonio, there being
reent ministers from Austin, San
M;rcos, Floresville. Kenedy. Devine,
whelder, Laredo, Kerrville; missin-
firs from the Colorado association,
nr Ran Antonio association; Dr. J. B.
, Bemont Lines Elect John H. Kirby
Vice-President.
Th Fact Shown by City Elections consolidation proposition in Texas at
Held There This Week, the coming meeting.
The 13th of April, 1861, Sumter fell.
The 9th of April, 1186, Lee surrendered.
The four years intervening between
those dates, marking the beginning and
the end of the most momentous strug-
gin of modern times, witneased such
an outpouring of blood and treasure*
such displays of courage and endur-
ance, such sacrifces for opinion's sake*
hs stagger human credulity and beggan
alike the powers of computation and
recapitulation. Never in any preced-
ing war was there so little of publio
wrong, so much of private generoslty:
nor ever were the results of any wan
so complete and final. Eisewhere upon
the surface of the earth traces may*
yet be assn, sometimea yet lurking in
the hearts of men sensibilities may ba
found, nf strifes, religious or racial. in-
ternational or civil, our, tyo and three
centuries agone; in America not a ves-
tige except what upringa from assoct-
ated charities and reciprocal ministra-
lions of patriotism and benevolence.
Northern men and women mark and
decorate the last resting place ofl
southern soldiers who died in federal
prisons. Confederate offcers sit in
both houses of congress and upon the
bench of the national judiciary, and
have repentediy served in presidential
cabinets and represented the country
abroad. At least two Confederate gen-
erals wear tho uniform of the United
States army, glad to be assured thas
the flag which waved over their cradles
shall wave over, their graves. Tbs
chief magistrate of the United Btate
is half a houtherner and nil a rebels
(lod bless him. amt may the Lord keey
him in the path of wisdom and virtue!
Already over the fireside of many s,
home hangs the Rwords of the grande
father who wore the blue and the
grandfather who wore the gray, placed
there by pious hands as priceless
memorials of love and valor, crossed n
last In the everlasting pence of a re
united family.
Speclal to The Statesman.
El Paso, Tex., April 9.—Instructions
have been received at the Juarez jail
to no longer keep Americans incom-
muncado when placed in jail. This is
another step forward for Mexico.
Formerly every man placed in the
jail had to remain seventy-two hours
THE AUSTIN
A Waco Marriage.
Special to The Statesman.
Waco, Tex., April 9.—Harry C.
Chamberlain of Chamberlain’s ranch,
west of this city and out towards Cor-
yell county, was yesterday married to
Miss Alice Hale. daughter of the man-
a ger of the Cameron Lumber company.
They will reside on the ranch.
. , south of the main structure. Only by
1 19 institution mb red amons the heroic efforts of the firemen was
'tn students boys and 218 men from : either of them saved. The pump
almost every part of • country, in- - • ........
Special to The Statesman.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 9.--Ofcial
information was received at Fort
Worth today that the pending strike of
the'machinists in the shops of the
Will Cross Bats.
Special to The Statesman.
Waco, Tex., April 9.— On Friday and
Saturday of this week games of base-
ball will be played between the Agri-
cultural and. Mechanical team and that
of Baylor, on the grounds of the latter
here in Waco.
Baylor is practicing atyd getting
ready for the contest.
. ii '» , ,, - August If. Pressler beg among the
names, HP wAs confined to hore as cout betound threw .... b «
stream as possible on to the roof of
the play hall to prevent it from being
> A Seething Mass.
When the wind veered to the south-
Special to The Statesman.
Lake Charles. La., April 9.—Lillie
Patterson of the tenderloin district at-
tempted suicide by poisoning this aft-
ernoon. She was rescued by the early
vail of physicians. A quarrel caused
the rash act. »
University President Resigned.
Special to The Statesman
Fort Worth. Tex.. April 9.—Dr, Os-
ear L. Fisher, president of the Fort
Worth University the past twelve
years, has resigned on account of ill
health.
ILWAYS AND BANKS READY
TO DO THEIR PART
FOR EXHIBIT. \
UHg. one of the priests, had a private _____ — __ , __________
library val*J at $2500, which was alsoibe started as soon as theebris could
completely destroyed. ( be cldared and (he contra let. Whil
The fire had gained a good start be- ! 5t has not as yet been doled, it is be-
fore it was discovered, which ‘ to be the intentiobf the man-
have been about twenty minutes after 'agement to rebuild the edge along the
It started, and spread rapidly over thesame Unes as it was here.
upper part of the building, and no hu- I The coliege has ainp!backing. be-
man agency could stop its mad.prog-ing affiliated with No! Dame uni-
ress. The flames quickly leaped from versity, of Notre Dame,ad.
one department to another, and before As son as it was disdered that the
anything could be done almost the en- building was doomed aish was made
tire building was enveloped in flames, to save some of the fulture and fix-
tensity nf the demon of fire. An Iron
nuppost trembled foppled and fell with
o »ranh, \*ro)^ tingArom a cross piece
aniwan a woven Wirkot sole remnant o1
effort to save aught that might be use-
ful. Tables from the dininR room were
bundled out of the window, glasses and
crockery ware, table linen, bread, and
the thousand and one articles in the
dining room were thrown in a hetero-
genous mass upon the campus. Will-
ing hands bore them to a place of
safety.
The fire had reached the quarters
occupied by the faculty and teachers.
From every aperture protruded heads
of helpers, who lowered by cords the
many valuable books and curios ac-
cumulated by the fraternity. Many
thousands of dollars' worth of inval-
uable documents were thus preserved.
Special in The Statesman.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 9.—The di-
rectors of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Texas will hold a meeting in this city
April H. at which time an auditor and
treasurer will be elected. Acting Au-
ditor H. Morris nni Acting Treasurer
F. It. Mitchell will likely be elected.
This company will also consider the
by the new city charter. Instead of
nine square miles as at present, there
will be sixteen, making necessary a
survey of seven square miles by the
city engineer.
The question is how in the hands
of the finance committee which will
determine whether or not a new sur-
vey of the entire city shall be made
under the present administration. The
new territory will not be assessed for
taxes this year.
Campus Was Littered.
For n 200-yard radius the campus
v. as piled with the effects taken from
the burning building. Red clothing,
chairs, tables, a collection of odds and
ends were piled belter skelter wherever
available space could be secured.
Pitched in any place where the ruth-
less flames were powerless lo destroy,
they formed a mass whereof neither
head nor tall was vimible. When the
flames had started in the minim dor-
mitory in the southern wing, the stu-
dents swarmed to the northern portion
of the building to throw out whatever
could be saved. Room after room was
By Associated Press,
Chleaso April 9. The annual ban-
quet of the Hu mii ton club, which i9
held each year on the anniversary of
the surrender at Appomattox, tran-
spired tonight in the Auditorium hotel,
A large number of local guests were
present, and many came from distant
polnta. Former Congressman Francis
W. Cushman, of Tacoma, Wash., waa
to have delivered an address, but wan
unable to be present because of th®
death of his father. The other addreases
were by Henry Watterson, of Louis-
ville: Rev. Thomas P. Greene, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, and Edward L. Hamil-
ton, of Michigan,
A reception in the parlors of the hotel
preceded the banquet.
Mr. Watterson said;
I want to talk to you tonight, not’ua
a democrat to republicans, but as an
American to Americans. I have al-
ways resisted and resented the iden
that party lines are lines of battle;;
that party issues are proclamations ot
war. Our government rests upon tho
theory that we are equal shareholders
in the common property. Touching the
adminintration of this property there
will always exist honest differences of
opinion. Good citizenship imposes
upon each of us the duty of enter-
Ail of Us Are Yankees.
To what do we owe these miracles 05
enlightened progress? Mainly to th<
good sense and good feeling, the rich,
red blood of American manhood; part:
1y to the recognition by reflecting and
generous iinds that neither party te
that great sectional confiet had all th<
right of it, its anagonlit all the wrons
On this polnt I fan speak with toler.
able assurance, I belonged to that
negment of conservative mtn in tbs
south who lovee (he Union and did not
accept either the gospel of Afrfcar
slavery or the doxma of secession. The
debate ended, fhe god of battle invoked
to settle what had indeed proved an
rrepressible tonfet, we went with 016
own side But four years later, whetu
in 1865 all that he had feared in 1861
was xotuaily come to pass, we needed
no act of congress either for our re-
demption or reconstruction.
The better to iMustrate the sitiatlon
let me relate an incident that happened
in Tennessee toward the close of tho
war. The Union general, Lovell Ros~
neau of) Kentucky found himself en-
camped on the form of Meredith Gen-
try. a famous orator of th old whig
party. Gentry had been kosseau’n
file leader.hin political idol. n whg ot
whK*, a unionist; but, swallowed by
(he movements of the time, he had al-
lowed his dirtriet early in 1862 to elect
him to the C’onfeernte congress, lie
we nt to Rit hmond. found himself out of
place there, did not like it. and re*
turned home, where, among nla booke,
under his vine and figtree he awalted
Among important matters diseussed
via a Baptist college in southwest
Texns, but no action of a final char-
ider was taken. The rally will con-
hue tomorrow.
But only for a moment,
a second the Ilene
rin begun to gnaw the
exeeptie of about twenty-five ham!
grenades filled with chemicals, and
some of he people'at the institution
made a rth with, these chemicals,
but as soot, as they reached the inte-
rior of (he quilding, they had to beat
a hnsty retrt. 33 the smoke was un-
bearable. andhad they remained they
would have ben suffocated.
Strong Vind Blowing.
While none of he fire companies 1-
sponded, with the exception of Soth
Austin, the fremnel ompoing the de-
partment went out pd did some voble
work in Having the nfirmary, whh IB
a wooden structure ituated abmit 50
yards from the main xiding, old the
other buildings belonging to th insti-
tution, Including thes gmnasjrm and
(he exhibition hall. Thesoun Austin
boys did commendable Wrk in saving
thia last named building
A strong southwest whd yas blow-
ing, and as the fire progrsssel the wind
seemed to Increase in vebeity and
served to add fury touth fames, "his
was in the direction of ie exhibition
building, und the firemenhen devoted
their attention to that sucture, and
by placing wet quilts andlankets over
the roof succeeded in Hng it from
destruction. Had the will been bloy-
ing directly west (he builags situated
in the rear of the main steture would
have also proven easy pys to the
fiery element.
There was no way in e world to
c heck the fire, and it was 1th (ears in
(heir eyes (hat some othe priests,
brothers and others ofhe faculty
watched their beloved insution go up
in smoke.
It was announg ed eve before the
। Srria) to The Statesman.
• Vntson.'Tex., April 9. Resultgofthe
I ■ rent municipal elections in the terri-
1 toi are 75 per cent democratic. All
; of e large towns went democratic by
, ) deded majorities. Indian territory is
I detcratic.
s. Edward's college, situated on an
eminence three miles south ot ihi8
city, and one of the leading educational
institutions in the south. is reduced to
ashes, and what was once a magnili-
cent four-story stone building is now
razed to the ground and nothing is left
to mark the spot except the remnants
of the walls. Fire, which originated in
the dormitory ot the minims, com-
pletely destroyed the magnificent
structure. Lt is by far one of the larg-
est conflagrations which has ever OC-
' curred in Austin, and entails a loss es-
timated at $240,000 to the building, fur-
niture and fixtures. The insurance on
the building will not exceed 350.000,
only 33000 of which was on the furni-
The fire occurred at G o’clock last
evening, but was not discovered, until
about twenty mintes Inter. Fortu-
' nately no lives were lost, as all the
students had just finished supper and
were out on the campus, while the
: priests, brothers and teachers compos-
ing the faculty, were also on the
grounds at the time. and consequent-
ly no one seems to know how the fire
' origin ited, although many theories are
• advanced. '
Although there were no fatalities,
then- were many narrow escaPe8
among those who made an attempt to
save some of the valuable books it nd
other fixtures in the building. The
chapel, with its cosily vestments and
chalices, was situated on the first floor
of the institution, directly beneath the
spot where the fire originated, and is
almost a total lost. A library contain-
ing about 1000 volumes was completely
। destroyed and the loss will exceed $10.-
! 000. Some of the books contained
therein can not be replaced, and are
a serious loss to the institution. Father
personal effects, some of them losing i the building has alwaycen consider-
as much as $500. and with no insur-jed tire-proof. When 1 fire started
anc. Many of the students had their (there was no way to iede its prog-
trunks in the gymnasium, and theyress. Chief Will DIIJ. the fire de-
saved their effects it is egtimate j par tment. In answer to uestion from
that (be loss to the students alone will f n reporter of The Statean, said; “it
exceed 32000. some of them osing;was no use to sendthepartment to
everything they-b d ... the fire, all the hose inwn could not
Tarl Ray. a student from the Indian have saved the buildirds there was
Territory, was overcome from heat and’no water.1' Then* is a te water tank
bid to be taken from the burnins.sittated on the grounds hich is used
building and placed on a stretcher . Ik for domestic purposes, ut the oniy
w. 15 assist ing in removing some of he. this water c be uthlized
fixtures at the time. He is resting, with the aid ora en hose. It
eaY-,,, demonstrated beyond doubt thnt
neEherenwks.mawldirumopiothatrohn there be ah adete NuDply
Institution, had perished in the burn-
ing building, but after a search he was
found to be nil right. There were
also rumors that one of the fathers had
weight of masonry superimposed upon
them, and It is only a question of a
few dyn when they will fil.
Fire It Disooveivd.
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
Several claim to have seen it first, but
(he genera! opinion concedes it to an
employe of the college by the name
of James Orimth, He finished his sp-
ver before the students and passed
out of a rear door. Instantly his at-
tention was nttranted by smoke issuing
from the mlt Ims’ dormitory Rushing
(Continued on pufa Eight.)
Rylal to The Statesman.
uston, Tex . April 9. At the an-
mense value.
willing hands succeeded in saving all of
Forbidden to Enter.
When it was wen that the entire
building was doomed the prefects and
teachers coHectod the boys on (he
campus and forbade any of them to
enter. In spite of this some of the stu-
dents went back after clothing and
other valuable things, and some narrow
escavga from sufocation were re-
ported, Iater however, the atudenta
saw the futility of try liig to cope with
nature’s most disastrous element, and
desisted from trying to recover their
valunbies. They contented themselves
Sial to The Statesman.
uston, Tex.. April 9— It will re-
Special to The Statesman.
Waco, Texas, April 9.—Dr. Andrew
Goddard, of this city, who is good au-
thority on the subject, thinks thaj
there are vast beds of what he terms
"conerete gravel" in Texas, and says
that there is plenty of such road ma-
terial in this county.
The concrete gravel, he says, will
come together in a compact mass un-
der pressure, thus Insuring the finest
roads imagnable. Thoroughfares thus
constructed, he Hays, are more durable
and satisfactory than macadam. He
thinks that the road from Waco to
Bosqueville, recently constructed, is
built of this material, which came irom
the Blume place, and he says that there
is‘‘enough gravel in this one place, were
it practicable to haul it over the coun-
ty. to gravel every road in the county.
There is no finer material. In s
judgment, with which to form roads.
I left Her^Money in a Lounge and a
I ' Lounger Got It.
away from the sUffoaHng smoky and
gases. The Hrefects prevented the
boys from endangering their lives by
entering the living hell that yawned for
their destruction.
ascended 500 feet and rained all over
the campus. Incipient blazes were
started among the piles of rencued
bedding, bul they were extinguished
by the students.
adequate to uphold
Special to The Statesman.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 9.—Major J.
J. Jarvis, one of the oldest pioneers of
the state, in discussing the conditions
of wheal, said to a representative of
this paper that he had never witnessed
in Texas during nearly a quarter of a
century such flattering prospects as
exist now. "I don't believe the green
bug can propagate fast enough to
damage the crop anywhere in the
state, so thrifty and healthy is the
stand now," said the major.
He looks for the greatest crop of
wheat this year ever raised in the
state of Texas.
Will be found on
ige 6 this issue
water attached, or noble, for such
No Water Protion.
The Institution h AH ractleally go
water protection, bejrttuated as it
pecfal to The Statesman.
Galveston, Tex., Apri} 9.—Mrs. Mary
Xodefelde, who lives in the West End.
vas robbed of a round sum last Sun-
ay. The crime was not made public
util today. The um stolen,, about
2600, was hidden m a lounge in the
ouse and had been kept by her at
Come for a lon time. It is under-
food that this money was the sum of
ler husband’s life insurance, which
he collected some time ago. The
obbery was committed in the day.-
ime, and thre is no clue to the thief.
. caught. Hard and earnest work was
- necessary, but the freboy won the
nC day. The building was not burned.
Provented it. Spread.
A paasage way leudn hrom the nouth
ntrance the college proper to III?
kitehen: thia la ot wood. When tho
tire had reached the lower story It waa
feared that it would in thia manner
communicate to th,, kitchen, and train
that to the other outhouses.
Firomen and students sprung to the
work of tearing down the flimsy pass,
age way. Board after board came
down, and yet the flames toyed with ll.
Just as they had seised the remaining
Plunks one side of the wall collapsed,
and by the merest miracle ten lives
were saved. Had the descending strue.
|Hire crushed into the boys naught but
torn and mangled remains would have
been left. As It Wus, the fire was pre-
vented from communlcating to the
kitchen, and thus the clothes-room,
"hop and stable were saved from anni-
hilation. As It is, the clothes-room, be.
lug the nearest, is scorched and
charred. The noble work of the fire
boys laboring under the greatest of dif-
ficulties, is what saved the entire outer
buildings from destruction. The fire
hail gained too much headway to ever
stop it in the main bullding-call that
could be saved WAs saved.
Gone up into smoke is a library of
4000 volumes, that representa years of
labor and accumulation on the twirl of
the college authorities. Valued at about
310,000, it is a total loss, not a book be-
ing saved. What few volumes were
rescued are the lawbooks and text
books of students. The library was
Bituated on the lower floor of the main
or central building. As soon as the
college people recovered their wits a
diligent effort was made to rescue nt
least a part of it. The aitempt was
frustrated by the trencheroun fames
। lambsel, corresponding secretary of ......— ..
he Baptist general convention, and incomminicado.
nany others. ---
Special tohe Statesman.
Lake Charles, La., April 9.—Clarence
Modus, the 14-year-old son of Henry
Medus, had his leg mushed at 3 o'clock
this afternoon by a Southern Pacific
switch engine. It was found necessary
to amputate the leg, which was done
by Dr. Watkins.
The boy was playing in the yards of
the Bell Lumber company when the
accident occurred.
Special (o The Statesman.
Round.Rock, Tex., April 9.—A man
about 60 years old, who was in a de- ‘
mented condition and in the custody of
Sheriff Connell on his way to the
county farm, died on the train between
Hutto and Round Rock this evening.
The body was taken to Georgetown
and given burial.
kept a steady stream on the roof and
sides of the buildings adjacent' to the
college and by this means prevented
its spread. At 7:45 the pipe became
stopped up and for a Tew minutes it
looked ns if. In spite of (heir earnest
efforts to the contrary, the play hall
was doomed. Shortly, however, the
water flowed again and the good work
continued.
Iron Safe Rescued,
lege professors and members of thefrom Mexico, lost $200 in cash, and
community were denuded of beddng over that amount in clothiing. Arthus
and furniture, the whole of which was) Adams roported the loss of 360 in rash,
pitched to the ground. Tons of room I and John Painter, a .Fort Worth pupii
furnishings were thus saved, but in stated that he had $200 in cash and
of the moment many things'over that amount of jewelry in his
value were left to the de- room, nothing of which was saved.
abor Union* Are Making Desperate
' Effort to Kill Anti-Trust Law.
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pecial to The Statesman.
.Galveston, Tex., April A—-A mass
eeting of the labor unions of the cit
ras held tonight at Serewmen’s hal
nd resolutions were passed requesting
overnor Lanham to submit to the
peclal session of the legislature the
ibor law of 1899. The attendance was
lout 250, and the meeting was an
husiastic one. Mr. Walter Poteet or
an Antonio was the principal speaker
PEICE.5CENT8
WATTERSON
Desolation Reigns.
What was once St. Edward’s college
lofty and proud. Is now but a heap of
mouldering ruins, NothinR is lelt
save the wAlIs, am! in some pares
they have been razed to (he earth.
Smoke yet ascends, bul the damage is
done The structure that housed 200
students Is but u mass nf ruins, with
but small resemblance to the great
stone building that was the pride of
the Holy (‘rose community. Totally
gutted in the Interior, the exterior is a
mass of leaning walls and « rumbling
I »ute to Dallas.
(Hon. John H. Kirby, president of
L e World’s Fair commission, accom-
Ruled Colonel Polk on board the pri-
ite rar of the latter.
[ Colonel Polk, who is vice president
[' the commission, has been acting
yresident of the organization at such
pnes as Mr- Kirby has been absent
fom Texas. It was Colonel Polk who
st suggested that- the railroads of
I xas subscribe 35 per mile to the
Pbxas exhibit. "He backed up the SW8*
ostion by pledging 35000 from the
anta Fe. He is in earnest in regard
I the necessity for having the exhibit,
I id the failure of the Texas legislature
| J help along the enterprise has been
[ th displeasing and disappointing to
2)m.
? it is stated that the banking intert
Jits of the state are coming forward
, perally with subscriptions. The
hate Bankers' association, of which
I ‛r. J. E. McAshan of Houston is the
president, agreed to give 1 per cent of
Ne capital stork of the various bank!
luded in the membership.
I Members of the commission from
arris county, who are expected to be
k hand for the Dallas meeting are
dhn Jl. Kirby, H. W. Cortes. 8. F. B.
Korse, H. F. McGregor, W. B. Slosson,
IA M. Johnston and George P. Brown.
Big Tank Collapses.
On the top of the tower on the main
building WAA a tank that supplied
^ater to the entire house. This was
kept filled at all times, and for the pur-
pose a pumping plant was located in
rhe rear of the college. When the out-
bleak occurred Engineer John Booth
immediately got up steam, and within
ten minutes had a stream of water
overflowing this tank. He continued
to pump as long ns the tank held to-
gether. When the flames reached the
tower they eneircted it and the volume
of smoke that ascended heuvenward
was as a glimpse of a vohano The
tank caught fire bul its contents pre-
vented it from immediately collapsing.
When ft did the whole tank full of
The Wall Crumble*.
he Mouth wing Was mure complete-
Y,,demolished than any other part,
with the aaalatance of the wind push-
ing the tire the whole lower part was
burning before aimilar parts were ig-
flighted in the other section. The in.
teriot was gulled, whole sections or
the flooring falling in at once. The
iron stanchions bore up until the joista
holding them in place had been burned NNORTH MUST BEAR FULL SHARE
through. Then with a resounding erash
the entire mass fell towards the west
i carrying with it half the western wall.
‘ A ery o alarm reached the fenen
~1Etriving to save the play hall. They re-
Hte5 from the wall, all save one man.
‛ta, f>) 5 MOsk 8til gating at the de-
neu, "o,, *‛eb is. .Not an inch moved
‛ Jo "0 9,, * 8ook As the solid pha-
^0/^ vuched it, but a mir-
Ta °/99,*9~ ' prevent th" Intrepid
4. 710, 10 hia doom.
Sniuedktw. 4 th' ruins And com-
•Tying "fire." It was then confined to
the small boys' dormitory situated at
the extreme southeast corner of the . ,............ . . . .... -.....
fourth floor. Mr. Clyde Wilcox of the cessful effort being indo save them,
faculty at omo telephoned to the po- There were a large ber of other
lice station and also to the chief of the musical instruments 'toyed. Many
file department that the building was valuable chemleal iniments were
on fire and isked for afd. This was also consumed.
about twenty minutes after the blaze,
must have been started, but it had Danger From LiWires.
not left the dormitory. Mi. Wilcox During the time ttthe building
made a request (hat the department be was well under fire th
sent out at once lo old in subduing to look out for live, w, whieh
the flames, but it was no use, as there hanging all round UniHiding,
was no water protection near enough Flectriclah George Fi
to do any good, but Chief Dill of the diately cut (he wire
fire department gent out the chemical ably saved come Illes
tank attached to South Austin Hose /
par- company, but II was unable tn do any Typewriters and I
. . - ------ with good. Us the fire had gained t00 much ’ There were about
M, cuvusur cono . ....... .......... showers in east and extreme south headway. There is absolutely no fte typewriters in th )
o>e new CHy limiis as established poruons, fresh south winds, protection at the institution with the throuth the efforts of
come to (heir Alma Matei All express-
ed genuine grief at the occurrence and
deplored the ncridont as much ns did
the brothers and prieste of the Institu-
tion
Friday; 1 Saturday
Spelal to The Statesman.
I Iouston, Tex., April 9.-- VI co -Pres I -
{det Markham and Engineer E. V.
CShlng have returned from Sour Iake
sttion, where the work on the Sour
Lae extension has been commenced.
Tb work will be pushed rapidly (o
condition.
RGJN ISLAND OFFICERS.
west, the flames became Hlercest. The
south wing was by that time a mass
of nkyhigh fire that seemed to grow
larger every moment. The Interior
burned with a flerce glare that was
blinding in spite of the night darkness.
Joist# and supports withered ns if
straws; iron columnns and pillows fell
with u roar, and above all (he hiss of
the destroying element could be dis-
tlmtly heard am it licked up (he fix*
lures and interior decorations of the
roomH. A hundred small beds from
the minim department Mazed, the foor
gave way and the whole mass wax ore-
ciptated to the lower. This In turn
took fire and the scethins confagra-
tlon resembled a cauldron in which the
blasts of hades had been concocted.
Nothing evcuped Fach thing that was
touched but s emed to add to the in-
While the tire was yet confined to ' water whs precipitated downward,
the upper stories an effort was made to (completely putting out the fire direct-
take out the iron safe from Father ly underneath, *
Boland's ofHce. A score volunteered
to aid the movement. By main force
they dragged the cumbrous safe to the
ateps and rolled it down Then the
roof began to fall in arid the flooring
above give way. A thousand voices
yelled to them to leave the safe and
heek safety. Not so, however With
the safe at the foot of the stairway it
wak but the work of a moment to at-
tach a rope. A hundred willing hands
seized it and by main strength pulled
it through the door and out from the
blaze. The At Airs crumbled and blazed
but a second later.
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