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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1904)
-Y - V iV -S' "7- v I.iSiu. COliVALLIS, OREGON. AUGUST 24. 1904.; B. F. IKV1I Kdltor lid Proprietor it J. ' h . ' 5 I M SI S3 & Si, & SI . . 1 , Biff Gut on I Regular' : i .; "Prices ypJg -For Atjf i All ladies fine shoes at a big discount, and some odds and ends in all kinds of shoes ; at half price. Summer cotton and wool fabrics at a great; sacrifice. Lots of bargains j for this month. NH ! . llilli 11 r- n I )(S6me and1 See HOT FOREST FIRES OFFICERS PULL THEIR COATS AKD LEAD THE PRIVATES. Thirty-Five People - Burned Oat of Home and i Loet Everything - i Frank Cubit, Arson Sus- pect, Is Arrested and . Gives Bail. ', ' ' ;' f 'W HARRIS Free Bus. ."..--" Fine Light Sample Rooms. S.r'S&fc' Hotel r 1 1 j I aWIsW. 1 'Corvallis; . l", mi j nniirr'"---!L";; ' v. - & I -; -1- , j ' Vancouver,- Wash., 19, 'Twen ty-three small children: 12 adult?, and a badly singed cat (which u much r better, than ; it looks ) are homelfsi on Fourth .-. .Plain, near Vancouver Wash. burped out by the fierce forest , tire- -of .the . past week. ; Few -of the unfort unate-people hadn't muh in the way of world ly goods, but as one. remarked ..to- day:' ' ": ':::t ; ' "It seems a good deal when it's all you've gpi, and you lose it." The end is not yet as tee nre is now threalenins the hamlet' of Or chard, about: seven miles east of j Vancouver. ; . ; Frank Cubit, who is charged with baviDraalicioualy started the fire last . Wednesday, was arrested at the ;Vancouyer; ferry-elip by City Marsha Fran b Vabnat j, Thursday evening.fHe' was released on $500 bond today to appear for examina tion in the justice ourt.at 10 aim. tomorrow; ' Feeling against him; is strong, though the evidence appears HO De ciji;uiiiti.auija!. , ,- ,.i - r t" Cubit, who lives at' .Woodla'wn, has long been engaged; in hauling Kyancouver City and Clark county sutoonuea-naa; oeeu appeaiea 10 ior aid io; vain, Colonel Huston began arganiziog . companies ot soldiers and sending them to help, the strug-. glirg, -exhausied nd, smoke-choked settlers. The men were relieved at intervals by fresh battalions, so that from 40 to ,150 soldiers .have been fighting fire' practically j ever since Jast Wednesday., 'That much more damage has: not been done is undoubtedly due almost sltojrether Lto the tffort8 ot the officers and sol- dierp.; ' : , r-, s , "Uncle Sam's boyB are all right," it bp ark?d a smpke-begriao med wood- pan 40 ,f, he UregoDian .oorrespond tnl today-. "I feen a lot ' of tbem j'rlloB-s' owatib'.and chokin' and i A RACING TORNADO THAT SWEEPS THE CITY OF sr. -Paul and several7 . ARE KILLED AND .V j ; WOUNDED. Minneapolis Aleo' ;- SufferB Loss ' Amounts to Millions Wire " . ; Service Is Uttetly Demol-;;;' , ( . .. iebed The Storm. U'l: Jr. of ShowDuralioDr - . rnr st suffocated,, and them officers "utriv 1 V .. .. . ' . - ' ... . nnna were killerl. ft nnmher. are re- puued on thetr eoats ana; noierea.p . .. . . lnn . . . ... nnrtart missincr -nnn fill fn KUl nrprn filnmfl nn hrius. Atirl: OMiInrt riirht Irf, tOO," : .. t r.';,.;U vii'fV'v- V A drive past, .the1; barracks,, and out along, the country' road ; east ward about five miles brings one close to the f nter. -of.; the burned, district, "in a field tq the left, va-" cant dwelling has been occupied by four , of the. unfortunate families, who have loet nearly, all. Their tew honsehold effects saved, lo , the bustle of escape from the , woods a mile distant are scattered about the house and - yard,; enough bedding being mustered to accommodate the party .'by crowding .the .floor : space.. ; i "Not a life was .lost except chick ens and- cats,".-, said ' Mre.; F. N7 Borduian. , ''They went except our yellow torn there. Ha got awfully sioged, poor dear, but is b3tter'n.hei looks., , See, he can just walk pain fully, abauti en his, burned feet. ,Our bouse was .all a fire-when, ..he craa woocl from 'Vanconvef. and i selling' Lthrbugh t;"thea eut , and .through . . . n . . ' ' tt. ". . I-, i t i ;Si ' ' .. j 1 i J o Leading Hotel in Corv.illis. Ilec8ntl3T opened. New brick building. Newly- furnished, with modem eori- vonif ncea. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es- W cipes. Hot and c.i)ld water on tvery lloor. Fine single-. -S room.-;.' Elegant suites etie a! lev. Hate?: , $1.00, $1.25 ai d $2.00 per day. Lendins house in theWillam- S ; ' : : ; ' w WE L n KOT OFTEN but our Oods change hands' ry i!ay. Your money exchanged 0f ad CVt ior Yaiu Quality is the idea. M Big Line Fresli groceries! Domestic and Imported. 1 Plain anA Fancy CMnaware A lartre and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and Complete.- Visit our Store we do the rest. ' 6 Bornitig.- --i a- "sa- "Vi" "s- XtraooD Glothes For boys, little fellows and young men see Nolan & Callahan. G. It. FARRA, Physician & Surgeon, Office np stairs back of Graham & Wells' drug store. Residence on the corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele phone at residence, 104. : All calls attended promptly. it in Portland.: His;stropgest com pettier is said .to have :been the Van Oouver Fuel Company. - who cut their wood and haul it from: the same timber tract on Fourth Plain, where Cubit has been cutticg and where the fire originated. v. lt It is asserted that Cubit's rivals have beeD ' cutting prices lately. j urthermorpj trial uuoit was; ; in-. volved in a law suit wnereby.be feared bis own cordwood might be attached; also that his wood was insured. ' These considerations are thought to have furnished the mo tive for incendiarism. 1 be Vancouver authorities say that' Cubit, accompanied by his vou'ng eon, drove to the tract in"a cart by a circuitous route Wednes drt : that the cart and horse left'a nliin trail- along the byway to point near where the first blaze staited; that be left the cart and walked into the Blurock slashing near where the fuel com pan v had about 450 cords of wood, symmet ricaiiy puea: tnatjuttas be was coming bark he was met by a man who ni l , appear as a witness lo mortii ; (hat the man slopped him and. "Cubit appeared very nervous, locking over his shoulder from time to uuif-,!? 11. tiie dirtetioa whence a fw n omei t-i 1-ittr the fire appeared.' ; Cubitus ailfgtd to have next pro- out-rei io lis own wood ami nred it. rtfe blaze was well under way -when he iis met bv' Clarence Bildwin, a woodcutter df the vicinity. Bald win fiivs lijMt he urged Cubit to try' to put ouc the fire urd offered to help, but (La, Cuoit replied: - ' ! s'Ii's no use, let it go." ;' r i But for the ratter strong uorth ierly and northeasterly winds which I have prevailed all week, the blaze j would doubtlese have beeu controll ed long before this. The burned district covers an area approximately five miles loog, north and south) by three wide. It was bnrning hercely last night at the western side of the strip, near Min nehaha, but through the heroic ef forts of the Vancouver barracks reg ulars, aided by a favorable wind to day, the flames are fairly under control on that side. Now anxiety is left chiefly for Orchard, in which vicinity are liv ing.about 100 people. The posteffice and houses close by will be sure to go if the blaze gets rampant in Paddock's elashmg. These "slash ings," being full of dry, dead tim ber and brush, are invariably the worst places the fighters have, to deal with. Colonel Hu6ton last night order ered a battalion of about 125 men to the vicinity of Orchard. . They are armed with gunny- sacks, axes ana otner weapons for fira-figbting, and will remain all night in the ef fort to prevent the further destruc tion of homes. Enthusiastic praise is giving the soldiers and officers from the bar racks by the settlers of Fourth Plain. The barracks have at no time been in. danger, bat after the the blazing mill 'and into the pood below. He get on a log in the mid dle of the pond some how and stay ed there through it all. Our cattle we could not drive nor-, lead. .' We had to tie them behind the wagons and iust drae them out. . We wo men 1 jaded' the three wagons while the men, were trying to save-'the ;The mill cost us $4,000, and timber was worth $1,000 and our homes contained all else we had in the world; The four families of us got out a sewiDg machine each, one piano and two organs and a little other stuff, but not a bite in the way of provisions; , "We put a lot of crockery in a tub and stood it out in the pond; well, the fire burned that tub to the water s edge and melted the crock ery right down into it. We buried Eome fruit and stuff in glass jars in the ground, but It all burst and was lost, too. We stayed until themen bad to give up the mill and as we drove away the flames actually met over the road over our heads." A mile further on through the smoking wood3 brought the corres pondent to the ruins of the Home stead Lumber Company's mill, and a cozen uweuicss and barns, be longing to the two Boatdmans, V. L; Hash, J. C. Carson; M. Iser, E. H. Hugan,' Frank Augee, Allison Pettit aud Louis Pettit. . Three dwellings just across the creek were almost miracuioucly sav ed thoitgii surrounded for hours by the fiercest fire. These -were occu pied by the families of William iitalev, Louis Pettit and Wi E..Sny- der; ' : ' 1 ' - "We had an awful time, of it," ssid Mr. Pettit. "Tin bridge waa a!l ablaza aud the other families, eeeicg that we couid't get out, were sure fi r a time that we all had been dettroved. You can sse how clean Jhe fire took everything up to with in a foot of my barn there. It got in through the windows and burned the bedding. There's the remnant of one straw mattress that I threw out blazing. It seemed as though I drew and carried from that well a thousand pails of wa ter that day, but we stayed with it, 'There were 11 houses in this lit tle place about the mill and we called the place Hob9on. E. E. Hugan was the oldest inhabitant; he has been here 22 years; he lost everything orchard, house and outbuildings valued at about $1, 000. .. - ; "The soldier boya saved Bill Sny der's place up there after four hours of the; most , desperate fighting. These fellowa are all right-1 tell you. A. Pettit, who was work ing at the Portland sanitarium aa nurse, lost all he had except a shav ing outfit. I lost three email build ings, one 01 wnicn waa use J as a church. : Four hundred dollars will cover my lose. No one waB well off enough to be a heavy loser in a monetary sense, but it's pretty hard on the families that lost all they had." . ported missing and. 50 to 100 were! iojuredi" some '"fatally; business property and residences were dam aged to the extent of perhapa $1, 000,000; .The massive steel bridges across the Mississippi were wrecked and strained; shade trees were lev eled and much other damage was done in St. Paul and Minneapolis by a tbrnado which broke over the two cities shortly after 9 o'clock last night..' 1 .' , : ; . Apparently, the storm waa of". a local character, for .as far . as can be learned no damage was done in the neighboring towns." The storm waa particularly, severein the business districts' of the two cities. : Wind ows; were blbwn in and Tbofa torn from immense wholesale warehous es and the flood of rain which ac companied the Etorm did immeas urable' damage to "stocks of goods. Dwelling houses," 'churches- and schools also suffered greatly. " Railroad traffic between; St. Paul and Minneapolis 'waa complately cut eff. The street-railway of both systems were: prostrated. For hours after the storm had spent its. fury it was impossible to get into com munication With. Minneapolis, . the telephone wires being, demoralized Humors ot great loss of lite were rife, but on being tracked : te their eowrces "were-found to be incorrect; Practically every building on the north side of Third street is wreck ed... The Habe-Hurst block, at Sivecth and Wacota t streets, was unroofed, and the Economy depart ment store was damaged to the ex tent of $20,000, at Minneapolis there was no one killed but man? were wounded. The storm was of short duration, lasting not more than 15 minutes. The devastation it wrought waa ter rific. The wind according to the government weather observer, blew 80 miles an hour, coming from the southwest, Buildings were unroof; ed and fronts blown in, the cellars being flooded by. the rain which came in great waves along with the wind. Electric wires were pros truted and many persons were in iurtd by contact with electric wirea An excursion steamer, towing barge on the river below St. Pau ia. reported to have been wrecked. R'.litf parties in steam launches av i-'en dir-ptched to tbe rescue. It is said thta many live were lost tbfire. . ilie at. AnthoDv elevator in Minoeapo!i3 v.ns leveled. One per son io reportBU killed m one wing i of the House of the Good Snepherd, ! which waa blown down. A little girl was killed aud ten or twenty women injured. As later reports cume in, ic is thought the list of the dead will be materially increas ed. - The Pioneer Press building, a 13 story steel and brick structure, was considerably damaged. The wind ows on the top floors were blown in and a number of printers at work in the composing-room were seri ously eut'by flying glass. The Vestern Union Telegraph office on the eleventh floor of the Pioneer Press building was flooded. An immense skylight was crushed to powder and the court in the center of the building was filled with' de bris. . The work of getting out the Sunday edition waa not interferred with. , About 10O residences in various, parts of the city were damaged . to more or less extent. . -: - ; The tornado came as a climax of a day of humidity and warmth. Early in the evening there were in dications of a heavy thuniler storm with lightning flashing and the thunder rolling distantly. Shortly atter a o ciock it began to ram and then to bail. " . A strong draft of wind came from the northwest, filling the air with debris. Then there was, a calm for. a short space, the . wind veered to the southwest and the tornado was districts heavy tin roofs were pick ed up aod smashed against the sides of sky-scrapers, shattered .plate glass windows aud tearing down electric wires.'; Pedestrians- unfor tunate to be caught without shelter were thrown violently to the pave, ment, .and in many ' cases were struck by. flying glass aod timbers, suffering serious. injury. The streets . were rushing torrents of water, and the wind 6 wept before it tree?, wires, signs and debris of all kinds. " : , Tbe asemoleterof tbe St. Paul weather bureau recorded a velooity of SO miles an hour, coming from the northwest, for one minute, and then broke. Tbe rain, guage was demoralized early in the storm, ' so that the precipitation-will never be kriown.-V .VT'T'rT.. ' "''-". , The center of tbfe storm seemed to.follow the Mississippi river from Dort bnelhne t Bn 'e Square. where the . grt-aift d mge was done, and then i sp-'mt its force in the wholesale u if trie-- oq Day ton's Bluff and 'the northeast- part of the city. Two spans of the high bridge were crumpled into a mass of debris'. ! The Tivoli Concert Gar den on Bridge Square was -crushed as it it were an eggshell, killing two persons and more or less seriously injuring, a score of others. The wharves along the river frontage were wrecked. - on, in all its fury. v Io St. Louis,' Aug. 20. Magnificent Parisian gowns valued at $5oo,ooo are in a ruined condition in the Palace of Manufactures aa the result of ' the .heavy rain storm which swept over the World's Fain The valuation is placed by . Marcel and the acting commissioner-genefal of France, who has investigated " the havoc wrought by the water. The gowns were made by French dressmakers and were .one of the most : interesting features of the Manufactures building. They were displayed in glass showcases, ; bat the rain was driven , through crevi ces in the rcof of the building and poured down upon the top and eventually soaking the garments. "New York, Aug. 20.--Margaret " Dougherty, of Rochester, Nl Y.m who Was almost scalped in an au- - tomobile accident, August 10, is re covering at a hospital here, after undergoing a remarkable operation which resulted in the replacing of her scalp which was torn from her head. The cuticle has already begun to unite, and the girl's hair , shows such Eigns of vitality that the success of the operation is as sured. '.'". M'isb Dougherty fell in dismount- , ing from an automobile in Central Park. Her hair caught in the bal ance wheel, which had net been shut off, and the rapidly revolving shaft wound it up, teari'jg off part of the scalp seven inches from her ear and five from front ta back. She was cirried to thf hospital un conscious and later a policeman ar rived with the scalp. The doctors quickly prepare! the wonud, replaced the seven d por- -tiOn, n hieh fhtad perfectly when eewed on. Upon removal of the haudage it hes brea found -tba. the cuticle if healing and the surgeons are saiisfied that tbe woman will show no iKt,t3 ot ber terrible ex perience a lroDth hence. Tokio, A'Jg. 21. After a severe eDgpgement with the prottc'.ed cruisers Chilose and Tsushima, the greyhounds of the Japanese navy, the fleet Kussiaa cruiser Novik has been varquisbed. The fight tccurr ed today. After it, the Novik, in a sinking condition, was run ashore in Karsakovsk harbor, on .the Isl ane of Sakhalin. The details of tbe sea tight are not known here, but it U evident that the Chitose and Te-ushrua caught up with the Novik yrt-rday and that a running fight ei sued. The contest was resumed and terminat ed early this morning. Captain Sukeichiro, who is in com mand of the Chitose, reports, the en gagement in a brief telegram, which reached the navy department here this afternoon. He says he first at tacked tbe Russian cruiser Saturday afternoon, and that Sunday morn ing he inflicted heavy damage up on her.. The Novik nearly sank, but she was beached at Korsakvosk. A shell from the Novik struck the Tsushima in a bunker. Tem porary repair?, however, rendered the Japanese cruiser seaworthy and she continued to fight. ' The Japan ese Buffered no casualties. The Im perial Prince Yorihito, pf the House of Higashi Fnsbima, is sec ond in command officer on board of tbe Chitose. . , Captain Sento commanded the down-town Tsushima. r 1 ft inn it : ij :-.;i id ; . .riiiAusroci 1 1.: