VOL. XLVI.-XO. 14,311.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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TERRIBLE RESULT
DF TROPIC STORM
Hundreds of Lives Lost
in Florida.
WHOLE ISLAND IS DESTROYED
Cuba, Central America and
Venezuela Suffer.
LOSS REACHES MILLIONS
Hurricane Sweeps Around Caribbean
Sea, Causing Havoc on All
Sides, Strikes Florida
and Goes to Sea.
WORK OF GREAT STORM.
MIAMI. FLA. Steamer St. Lucie
sunk. 28 persona killed. AO injured.
Tidal wave swamps Elliott's Key
and drowns whole population of
250. "
Barge wrecked and 50 passen
gers drowned.
HAVANA, CUBA Twenty persons
killed and 12 Injured: damage,
$2,ooo,ono in Havana and Pinar
ol Rio Provinces.
American warships drag anch
ors, but none are damaged.
Two schooners driven aphore.
Transport Curia na badly dam
aged and 120 mules and horses
swept overboard.
Forty lighters wrecked.
Fifty buildings damaged and
brirk wa rehouse dest royed.
Lodging-house collapses, killing
eight occupants.
Almost every tree In Prado up
rooted. SALVADOR Whol republic flooded,
numerous lives lost, crops and cat
tle destroyed, houpes fall, burying
occupants; whole face of country
changed
GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS
S3 me results as in Salvador; loss
amounts to millions of dollars.
VENEZUELA Dutch steamer lost;
jo miles of railroad destroyed.
MIAMI", Fla . Oct. IP. Th steamer St.
Lucie. Capra in Bravo commanding, has
punk cff the Florida coast. One steamer
arrived in port tonight bringing 60 in
jured, who were taken ro the hospital,
and It is paid 2R dead bodies will be
brought up tomorrow.
It Is believed now thai a part of the
, Florida Fish & Produce Company's fleet
was destroyed. The fishing nets were
found strewn upon the shore.
Captain Bravo says that he anchored on
the lee side of Elliott's Key, 25 miles
south of Miami, yesterday morning andl
soon afterward a tidal wave engulfed the
Island.
He sayfl there were 20 residents on the
island, all of whom were lost. The St.
L?ucle was crushed by the same wave and
of the 100 passengers on board 25 were
killed. Captain Bravo was seriously In
jured. A barge containing 10 people is said
to have been torn away from Its moorings
at Elliott Key and afterwards picked up
near the Bahama Islands. W of her pas
pengers having been drowned.
The steamer St. Lucie belongs to the
fleet of the Florida East Coast Railway
and is employed In carrying workmen to
and from the extension works on the
Kys. Pesplte the storm warning. Cap
tain Bravo sailed for Key Sargo with a
large number of workmen aboard The
steamer was caught in the storm and
B'M driven ashore with the awful loss of
life reported in the foregoing
HrXPREDS OF "WORKMEN" LOST
Steamer Rescues 4 9 of Hundreds
From Swamped Barges.
KEY WEPT. Fla , Oct. 2VThe Aus
trian steamer Jennie. Captain Durlch,
bound from Oulfport for Genoa, has call
ed at this port to land 43 workmen pick
ed tip at sea near the Bahama coast. 160
miles from Key "West. The men were a
part o? a force of ltW workmen belong
ing to barge No. 4. encaged on the east
coast extension work. Most of the others
were either killed or drowned in the
s t or ni ea rl y Th u rsda y .
Nine other barges crowded with work
ingmen engaged in extension work were
at sea wjth Kir if No. 4. There is no
news of them and it is feared all were
lost.
W r. Dusenlmr . one of the engineers,
savei by- the steamer Jennie. says the
storm struck barge No. 4 at 5 o'clock
Thursday morning. One hour later the
houseb'.u went to pieces In the raging
sea and SO to 40 men were killed after
the crash. Dusenbury says nine other
bca;s working on The extension at. Long
Key went to sea with barge No. 4 He
has no intelligence of their fate and fears
for their safety.
Officers of the rescuing steamer Jen
nie say that twy heard cries for help
Thursday night and. following the direc
tion of the sounds, came upon a lot of
men float ins in the sea. clinging to logs,
lumber and small rafts Boats were
lowered and the foregoing men brought
here were rescued. Three other steamers,
using searchlights. c me on the scene and
assisted in saving life. How many they
rescued was not ascertained by those
aboard the steamer Jennie.
!
Damage to Transport Cubana.
WAPH1NOTOX. Oct. 1V Quarter-nii&ier-General
Humphrey, of the Army
tonight received a dispatch from Quarter
master Baker at Havana as follows:
"Cubana arrived this mornjng at 7
o'clock and encountered heavy weather.
Her foremast completely gone; mainmast
top gone. No men injured. Considerable
number of animals killed and Injured.
Will report exact number with full par
ticulars as soon as can be ascertained.'
General Bell has reported to the War
Lepartment that two men of the 2Sth
Infantry were Injured, one fatally, by
the hurricane; that ocean-going shipping
is In satisfactory condition, but that
many lighters broke adrift and several
sank. General Bell's message Includes
the following list of casualties.
Harry Foster, teamster. -Sth Infantry,
one eye dest roved, shoulder broken, in
ternal injuries, not expected to recover;
Frederick Sutliff. wagonmaster. 2$tn In
fantry, retired soldier, head badly cut;
will recover."
LOSS GREAT IN" VEXEZCELA
Dutch Steamer Sunk Twenty Miles
of Railroad Destroyed.
SAN JCAN. Porto Rico. Oct. 19. The
Red Star Line steamer Philadelphia, from
La Guayra. Venezuela, for New York,
arrived here today 48 hours late. Her
Captain reports that a Dutch steamer
was lost in the cyclone at a point be
tween Caracas and La Guayra.
The Philadelphia encountered the cy
clone upon leaving the harbor at La
Guayra on Monday. She was blown
ashore and slightly damaged. This and
the heavy weather accounted for her de
lay In reaching shore.
Twenty miles of the railroad connect
ing La Guayra with Caracas have been
totally destroyed by the storm, according
to officers and passengers of the Phila
delphia. The Philadelphia left here for New York
this afternoon.
RICH VALLEYS DESOLATED
DEATH AND DEVASTATION" IX
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Ten Days Tempest Kills Untold
Number, Wrecks Buildings and
Changes Whole Country.
SAN" SALVADOR, Oct. 19. A tempest
has raged incessantly for ten days
throughout the Republic, flooding- the rich
valleys, principally that of Majada, and
resulting in great loss of life and the de
struction of cattle and crops.
The, San Salvadorean man-of-war Kizal
co was lost at Acajutla.
The topography of various departments
has been changed, buildings have fallen,
burying their tenants in the ruins, and
the iron bridges over the principal rivers
have been carried away. Today the storm
is abating. The railroads, telegraph and
commerce are paralyzed, but traffic ts be
ing restored in some towns of the Repub
lic. The water mains at some places have
disappeared.
The rivers are bringing down the bodies
of persons drowned in the storm and the
carcasses of cattle, and the sight of these
tends to Increase the terror of the people.
The losses are incalculable. The govern
ment has issued orders that assistance be
given victims of the storm.
Guatemala and Honduras also have suf
fered greatly. It is said the losses there
will amount to many millions of dollars.
Damage at Miami Not Serious.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Oct. 19. Pas
sengers arriving here from Miami to
night report that the damage there by
the hurricane was nothing like as seri
ous as first reported. The elegant sea
coast hotels at Miami and other east
coast points all escaped damage, there
being no damage of consequence else
where north of Miami. At Miami the
greatest damage was to small houses and
fences.
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WOULD CONTINUE-
WORK IN SENATE
Roosevelt's Eye Is on
Piatt's Office.
FROM WHITE HOUSE INTO IT
Plenty of Opportunity to Oc
. cupy His Energy.
MOUTHPIECE OF PRESIDENT
After Dictating His Successor Roose
velt Could Drive His Measures
Through Senate Room for
Hughes in Senate Also.
ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Oct. 18 If Senator Piatt lives
through his present term of office. It is
quite possible, and by some considered
probable, that he win be succeeded in the
Senate by Theodore Roosevelt It is well
known that the President would like to
step from the Presidential chair to a seat
in the Senate, and It conveniently hap
pens that Piatt's term expires on the
same day and at the same hour that
Roosevelt will retire from the White
House. If elected to the Senate to suc
ceed Flatt, he could, upon relinquishing
the Presidency, immediately take the
oath as Senator, for the two events
would take place In the Senate chamber
and the two would dovetail together in
splendid order.
From time to time the'report is circu
lated that Roosevelt will be elected to
succeed Piatt, and stranger things have
happened. No President ever stepped
from the White House directly into the
Senate, but Roosevelt has established
many precedents in his day, and a mere
matter of precedent would not stand in
the way of his donning the togo If cir
cumstances were right 1
Former Senatorial Ex-Presidents.
Two ex-Presidents have gone to Con
gress after retiring f-om the White House,
but none under conditions similar to those
that would prevail in 1908 in case Roose
velt should succeed Piatt. Andrew John
son sought election to the Senate immedi
ately after leaving the White House, but
was defeated : five years later he renewed
his fight and was successful. John Quin
sy Adams upon retiring from the Presi
dency was elected a member of the House
of Representatives for nine successive
terms. With these two exceptions, no ex
Presidents have ever found seats in the
National Legislature.
Yhy Xew York Wants Roosevelt.
There are many reasons why Roosevelt
may succeed Piatt in the Senate. To be
gin with, Piatt is sure to be retired and
the Republicans of New York, if they con
trol the Legislature two years hence, will
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VIEW OF THE HARBOR OF THE
jRIpl
want a man the direct opposite of Flatt:
a man strong' of mind and body, untaint
ed, free from scandal, forceful and pro
gressive; a man worthy in every way of
representing the greatest state in the
Union. All these things Piatt is not. And
his colleague, who will remain two years
after Piatt retires, is no more fit to rep
resent the state than the now infirm boss.
Piatt's successor will have the full re
sponsibilities of two Senators, for Depew
will be of no assistance to him. Roosevelt
unquestionably tills the bill. He is as dif
ferent from Piatt as any man could be.
What is more, Theodore Roosevelt is un
questionably the strongest man in the
Repulbican party of New York, and can
have about what he wants from that
party at the present moment. If his
power does not greatly diminish, it is safe
to predict that 'he can have the Senator
ship for the asking, provided, always, his
party is in control of the Legislature.
"Why Roosevelt Wants Job.
There are many reasons why Roosevelt
might want Piatt's seat. While he has
initiated and carried through many re
forms as President, he will retire with
many things undone, many projects left
incomplete. Nowhere would he be in so
good a position to aid in furthering such
reforms as in the Senate. There he could
not only voice his views, but could, no
doubt, procure legislation, for his influ
ence in the Senate would be great. It is
generally conceded that the man nom
inated for President by the next Repub
lican National Convention will be accept
able to Roosevelt, for Roosevelt absolutely
dominates his party, and his choice will
be a man who. as President, will carry
on the work of reform that is now under
way. With such a President in the White
House, Roosevelt in the Senate could give
him invaluable assistance and would be
come the mouthpiece of the administra
tion in fact as well as in name.
1 Most Senators ate compelled to serve
a probationary term before they are
permitted to take any part in the Im
portant work of the Senate. Few Sen
ators make speeches during their first
two years in Congress, and none who
have not completed at least one full
term are taken into the inner councils
of their party. ' It would be different
with Roosevelt, should he succeed
Piatt. The fact that he has been Presi
dent and such a' popular President
would give him privileges never before
extended to new Senator. He would
be at liberty to speak at will and his
tremendous power throughout the
country and his influence in Republi
can circles would command for him
recognition among the men who shape
the work of the Senate. It would be
a bitter pill for some of them to swal
low, hut Roosevelt is too big a man
to be ignored.
No Other JoB Would Suit Him.
Theodore Roosevelt has always en
Joyed public life, and it would be very
difficult for iiim. upon leaving- the
White House, to settle down to a quiet,
inactive existence. He could not do it.
If he does not come to the Senate he
will launch forth on some other line
which will keep him in the public eye
and permit him to work off some of
his superfluous energy. There was talk
of making him president of- Harvard,
but that is a comparatively quiet life,
not to be compared to a place In the
Senate. There has also been talk of
tendering him one of the greatest dip
lomatic posts, but Theodore Roosevelt
would never be content on a diplomatic
assignment. There is too much frank
ness about him to make a good diplo
mat. He would unquestionably pre
fer a Cabinet office to a diplomatic
position, though it might be imagined
that as Ambassador to Germany he
might derive considerable amusement
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CITY OF HAVANA. WHICH HAS BEEN
CLEVELAND DOES
NOT FEAR HEARST
His Election as Gover
nor No Menace.
BUT HEARST IS CONFIDENT
If He Wins in November, Will
Be Sure of Presidency.
MAKES GREAT CAMPAIGN
Uses His Newspapers to Good Pur
pose in Telling Only His Own
Version of Issues in Con-
i
test With Hughes.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Oct. 16. "If William R Hearst
should be elected Governor of New York
the people would have him two years
and be through with him. The Pres
idency would not be menaced."
This Is the declaration of ex-President
Grover Cleveland. Cleveland does not
discuss Hearst freely: the subject is
distasteful to him, and he apparently
feels that he cannot with dignity speak
his full mind regarding the man wno
bought the Democratic nomination for
Governor of New York. Cleveland does
express some opinions of Hearst, but his
silence is more eloquent than his words;
he leaves much to be inferred, yet indi
cates what that much would be if it
were said.
"I was profoundly startled by the se
lection made of a candidate t the Dem
ocratic state convention," says Cleveland
in an authorized interview, "of course
every voter in the state must settle with
his own conscience in determining ms
action in the emergency, but I cannot
but regard the 'Democratic situation in
New York as an afflictive one. Hearst's
nomination was a calamity to the Dem
ocratic party. It placed thousands of
good men who believe in Democratic prin
ciples and who rebel against voting for
a Republican in a terrible position. "
Would Vote for Hughes.
It is evident from his words that if
he were today a citizen of New York,
Grover Cleveland would cast his vote
for Hughes. He dodged a direct ques
tion to this effect, but, commenting on
the issue involved, said: "I think the
question was stated concisely by Mr.
Hughes when he said an attempt Is being
made to marshal the forces of discon
tent in an appeal to passion, not reason.''
Asked if he considered Hearst a Dem
ocrat, Cleveland replied :
"I certainly never dreamed that he
represented the principles of Democracy
as I understand them."
Hearst is very confident that, if he car
ries the election in New York this Fall,
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he will have a cinch on the Democratic
Presidential nomination in 190S and a
great many politicians of both parties
agree with him on this point, rather than
with Cleveland. Hearst cares for the
Governorship only as a stepping stone to
the Presidency, and it is because he so
regards it that he has been spending fab
ulous sums of money to secure sufficient
votes to send him to Albany. A promi
nent Republican leader, who was in
Washington today, speaking of Hearst
and the future, said:
''If Hearst is elected Governor at the
close of the present campaign, and Bryan
persists in advocating Government own
ership of railroads, I would be willing to
bet my last dollar that the next Demo
cratic National Convention will nominate
Hearst for President."
Hearst's Newspaper Campaign.
This Senator went on to say that
Hearst Is heading a movement that is
gaining strength, not only in New York
but in all parts of the country. He is
playing upon the ignorance of a certain
class of voters; he is making them be
lieve that their only salvation lies In
him. and great throngs of the ignorant
and poorly-educated classes are begin
ning to look upon Hearst as the one man
who can save the country from certain
destruction. The spread of Hearst news
papers into the more important cities has
resulted in the spread of Hearst doc
trine, and the classes who read the
Hearst papers in New York are like the
classes that read the Hearst papers In
Boston, in Chicago and in San Francisco.
That Hearst realizes the strength of his
dailies is evidenced by the fact that he
has copyrighted the names "Journal" and
"American" in a dozen large cities,
among them Washington and St. Louis.
He intends to extend his power to locali
ties not now reached by his yellow jour
nals, and wherever he does, he will fur
nish exclusive news to the class of peo
ple who make profitable the string of pa
pers he now controls.
Hearst methods are being laid bare in
New York every day. Hughes, the Re
publican nominee for Governor, has made
a most complete expose of his rival and
has taken the plans to procure documen
tary proof of his accusations. Hughes,
in brief, has demonstrated that Hearst is
doing the very things that he condemns
on the stump. Denouncing corporations,
he himself is a corporation. Condemning
boss rule, he Is today bound to Boss Mur
phy, whom the Hearst papers only a year
ago styled the "most corrupt criminal of
them all." Condemning corrupt practices
in government. Hearst accepts a nomina
tion secured through the unlawful ousting
of duly elected delegates, and through a
deal made with the aforesaid Boss Mur
phy. Tells Only His Own Side.
But the effectiveness of Hearst's news
paper campaign is demonstrated in con
nection with these exposures. Though the
charges and the proof come from the rival
candidate for Governor and though they
are daily substantiated by every reputa
ble paper In New York City, not a word
that Is damaging to Hearst appears in
any of his papers "and he on the stump
ignores the charges. The Hearst papers
are exclusively read by a large number
of voters in New York City and state,
and these people have no other source
of news and general information. Hearst
keeps from them the damaging facts
brought out by his adversary: he humi
liates himself while he publicly ignores
the charges, simply and solely that he
may not lose the confidence of those
voters who depend on him for their news.
And yet Hearst, who excludes Hughes'
speeches from the columns of his own
papers, mounts the platform and" de
nounces the reputable papers of New York
because they do not print his own
speeches In full and because they have
the temerity to say that some of his
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BIND CONTINENT
WITH HIS TRACKS
Harriman's Great Rail
road Ambition.
WHY HE WANTS FISH'S ROAD
Would Reach Every City in
America and Orient.
MAY SOON REACH ATLANTIC
Will Then Control Baltimore & Ohi
and With ' It Anthracite. Coal '
Roads Property Would Then
Net $180,000,000 Yearly.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19 especial )Th
struggle which is In progress for the
possession of the Illinois Central Railroad
has aroused public curiosity regarding the
purpose Edward H. Harriman has in try
ing to secure that property. At the an
nual meeting President Fish and his as
sociates openly urged that Mr. Harriman
would exploit the road as a Wall street
proposition and that they wanted to save
It for the stockholders.
Whether this is true or not, there la
little doubt that Mr. Harriman's effort to
grasp the system is part of the most
stupendous railroad plan ever devised and
of the greatest railway ambition ever
conceived by one brain. If current events
tell anything, they declare that Mr. Har
riman is trying to secure a railway sys
tem which shall comprise nearly 30. (KW
miles of road and which shall stretch
across the continent In two lines from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
Great Lakes to the gulf.
Would Reach Every Great City.
His plans point to a system upon which
It would he possible to gain entry to
every large center In the United States:
which would connect New York and the
Atlantic seaboard with San Francisco.
Portland. Seattle and IjO Anfeles by the
way of Chicago ana St. Louis and pos
sibly by the way of New Orleans; which,
would connect the Queen City of the
South as directly with Chicago as it now
connects Southern California with the
Puget Sound country.
Such a system would become a factor
in the coal fields of the East as It is
today in the coal fields of the West, and
would provide lines on which a man could
travel across the entire continent several
ways, touching the main cities as ha
goes, and on whose allied steamship lines
he would be able to travel from New
York to Panama and then to San Fran-
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Great 6torm in Caribbean Sea.
Whole island swamped in Florida and 25(J
drowned. Page 1.
Hundreds of workmen perish on harbos
works. Page 1.
Many lives lost and $2,050,000 damage donj
In Cuba. Page 8.
Dutch steamer sunk off Venezuela and rail
road destroyed. Page 1.
Hundreds of lives lout and millions of dol
lars damage in Central America. Page 1
'itioijaJ.
Moody to defend employers liability lai
against railroads. 'Pag 5.
Cavalry sent to run down Utes. who move
to Montana. Page 8.
Movement for autonomy of Philippine prov
inces. Page 5.
Foreign
Submarine Lutln will be raised today
Page G. I
Black Hundreds terrorise Russian people
Page 4.
Bank of England raises discount rata and
depresses stocks of world. Page 4.
Politic.
Cleveland predicts Hearst's defeat, but greak
campaign Is being made. Page 1.
Murphy testifies against Independence
League and more witnesses are called
Page 2.
Hughes wins many Democratic votes. Page 2
Gompere gives up fight on Cannon. Page 4,
Roosevelf for Senator to sucoeed PlatK
Page 1.
Domestic.
Harriman's great scheme to ue Illinois Cen
tral In railroad combination. Page 1.
Miners will lobby for mining department.
Page 4.
Bankers have hot debate on currency. Pag
4.
W C. T. TJ. convention moves for antl
polygamy amendment. Page 2.
Mrs. Jefferson Davla burled at Richmond.
Page 3.
Argument on appeal in Crapsey heresy case.
Page 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Growth of Japanese cement lndusttry. Pag
15.
Bank of England unexpectedly raises dis
count rate. Page 15.
Sharp drop in wheat markets. Page 15
Railway facilities inadequate for traffic
Page 15.
Water-front strike situation remains un
changed. Page 14.
Steamer Aragonia arrives from Orient,
Page 14.
Pacific Cowt.
Circuit Judge Burnett rules against de
fendant in Coquille test case upholding
local-option law. Page 6.
PearL. Tuel. Tacoma girl, explains, her es
capade. Page 6.
Secretary Taft to make campaign speecU
at Boiee October SO. Page 6.
Reno Hutchinson was hounded for weeks,
before his murder by unknown enemy.
Page 5.
Beavers take another game at Los Angeles.
Page 7.
Football season opens at Eugne today wltti
U. of O. -Astoria game. Page 7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Prospects brighter for arbitration of thej
grainhandiers' strike. Page 14.
Cornerstone of Masonic Temple in Portland
to be laid today. Page 11.
Henry Hose, an ex-soldier, kills Madge
Dovle because she threatened to leav4
him. Page 10.
Peculiar chain of circumstances bring
about arrest of innocent man. Page 10.
Initiative One Hundred favors bond issue,
' of $2,000,000 to beautify city. Page 14.