Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 191, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 10, 1889 Page: 1 of 8
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DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO
BftlM THIS LIST WITH YOU
Black Gros Grain Silk worth 75c 1 Si25 SI50 and 2
marked down to 50c 75c 95e Si 10 and Si 0 per yard
Black Trieotine never offered at less than Si25 Si50 and
2 our price to close them 90c 110 and Si35 per yard
Block Peau de Soue a now weave reduced from 175 2
and 225 to Si 40 1 CO and 180 per yard
75 pieces Colored Silks well worth 1 125 and 150 choice
75c per yard
jTi pieces Colored Moire well worth 75c this week only 50c
0 pieces Colored Pekin Moire cheap at 125 reduced to
1 per yard
Remnants and short ends of Silk and Satins none worth less
than 1 choice 50c per yard
25pieces Brocades Silk none cost less than 1 choice of lot
at 75c per yard
25 pieces Colored Satins worth 40c 50c 60c and75c all
marked at one price 25c per yard
2000 yards wool Tricot a great bargain Half price 25c
310 yards assorted Striped and Brocaded Velvet price cut
from 2 to 1 per yard
333 yards Brocaded and Striped two toned velvet not a yard
worth less than 250 Choice this week 150 per yard
Fine Beaver Newmarkets trimmed with gimp puffed back
bell sleeves cut from 1050 to 1175
Ho X
Ij Booksellers anil Stationers
Surplus Fund 50000
DIRECTORS W M Harrison Sidney Martin H C Hieatt C Y McClellan Geo W Baker-
S I Rainey Jr W Q Bateuinu J FCooper and Jno C Harrison jessCollections receive
prompt attention and a general banking business transacted
E 21 VA > ZASDT President THOS A TIDBALL VicePresident X HARDDiG Cashier
TUB JPOHT WORTH NATIONAL BAJStK
Successors to Tidball VanZandt Co Port Worth Tex
Capital Stock Paid Up 125000 Surplus Fund 30000
A general banking business transactpd Collections made and promptly remitted Exchange
drawn on sll the principal cities of Europe
DIRECTORS K M VanZandt Thos A Tidball N Harding H B Herd J J Jarvis E J
Beall R L Ellison
21 B L0YD President
I C BEXXETT YicePresidcnt E B HAEBOLD Cashier
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Corner Second and Houston Streets Fort Worth Texas
Cash Capital 250000 Surplus 125000
DIRECTORS John R Hoxie M B Lovd C II Higbee Zane Cetti D C Bennett George
Jackson S B Burnett E B Harrold and E W Harrold
ZPzrazn f = s o3ns i CSoaaoxxtX 33aj
xisixiess
J Q SAXDIDGE President C1IAS SCHEUBEE YlcePrcsidcnt 2IAX ELSES Cashier
CITY NATIONAL BANK
Of Port Worth Tes
Capital 8150000 Surplus 830000
Safety Deposit Boxes Fire and Burglar Proof For Kent
DIRECTORS J Q Sandidge C M Crane T T D Andrews Chas Scheuber Max Elser
Fort Worth Tex
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WHOLESALE
Wholesale Agents for Anlieuser Letup and Schlitz Beers Fort Worth Tex
Corner Main and Fourth Streets Fort Worth Tex
Rates 250 Per Day GEO C HUDGINS iHIang
SI A WEEK
Inorder to advertise our large stock of Watches
thoroughly we have commenced organizing clubs
and putting in a 70 Watch for 60 on payments of
51 a week This is not an installment plan and
we guarantee to save you 10 on every watch yon
buy in our clubs Members are in no wise re
sponsible for any loss that may occur
WClfiifallGlGo
POET WORTH TEXAS THURSDAY JANUARY 10 1889
We haye completed our animal inventory and find that we are over stocked on some lines of
goods Our sales during the past twelve months have been very satisfactory to all concerned
Yet we find on close investigation that we have more winter goods than wedesire to carry-
over hence this great cut of prices If low prices will make business lively you may expect
to see great animation in our particular line for the next two weeks Below we give a few
sample ideas of our clearing sale prices
BKMG THIS LIST WITR YOU
Himalaya striped Newmarkets puffed back bell sleeves
cut from 15 to 950
Pine Seal Plush Modjeskas former price 2250 25 and
35 cut to actual cost which is 1550 1790 and 2325
Extra fine Seal Plush Sacques regularprice 35 40 and 50
go at manufacturers cost 2325 27 and 3250
300 Odd Corsets some a little soiled worth from 75c to 150
your choice 50c each
200 Plush Caps for Boys all colors well worth 1 this week
only 50c your choice
500 Ladies Linen Collars white and colors cheap at 15c our
price two for 15c
Blankets that wo sold at 450 57 9f now only 315
390 520 735 v
Ladies Merino Underwear reduced from 75c 1 125 to
50c 75c 51
Special low prices this week of colored Blankets Comforts
and Crib Blankets
Ladies Pine Flannel and Quilted Satin Skirts worth from
2 to 150 choice 150
500 Jerseys worth from 3 to 55 weplace them all before
you at one price 2 each
The above list is merely a sample giving yon a slight idea of our determination to close our
surplus stock We would advise the ladies to call early to get the choice of bargains
E W Taylor Pres K K Chasc 1st YicePres Xorcan Jones 2d VicePrcs A B Smith Cashier
THE MERCHANTS9 NATIONAL BANK
Fort Worth Tex
Capital Paid in 3500000 Surplus Fund 33213428
DIRECTORS J GWright Morgan Jones B CEvans C J Swasey W A Huffman C E
Bush R M Wynne A P Luckctt E E Powell E WTaylorE E Chase R M Pace T P
Martin A B Smith Mark Evans Transacts a general banking business in loans discounts
and exchange foreign and domestic Correspondence solicited Collections made and promptly
remitt d Safety Deposit Boxes fou Rent
nnrfiiw in iin mn
TV M 1UUBISOX
President
II C 1I1EATT SIDNEY 3IARTIX 1X0 C HARRISON
1st VicePresident 2d VicePresident Cashier
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
Cash Capita 300000
Corner Main and Fourth Streets
WALL PAPER
Mixed Paints and Glass
Bobbins Bound
215 Oorner Second and Main It Worth
GMAMB MOTEL
Opposito Public Square Fort Worth Ter
Thoroughly renovated newly furnished and
under new and competent management
Rooms or 3Ieals by Day Week or Month
Mesdajies Woodwahd Bennett
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A H0KEIBLE AFEAIE
An Old Man Criminally Assaults His Niece in a
Sleeping Car Berth They Say They
Hare Been Married
Special to the Gazette
TexakkaXa Tkx Jan 9 On the
the arrival of the north bound Texas and
Pacific tram this afternoon the passen-
gers complained to the city police that a
man about fifty and a young girl appar-
ently fifteen years old occupied ono berth
in the sleeper had made the night hid-
eous by cries and screams from the girl
On investigation the man gave his name
as Robert Wooley the girl Dora Wel-
don whose home is in Brazo
ria Tex her father W H
Weldon her age sixteen Wooley
is heruncle and lives in the same locali-
ty and who was accompanying her with
her fathers consent to relatives in Red
River county Tex that she might by
scenes that are new forget her dead
lover whose name was Decrow to whom
she was betrothed he having died a short
while since She recounts her experi-
ence during the night with this uncle a
detailed account of which would
horrify the public It is
sufficient to state that the villian
committed rape on the young girl for
which crime Wooley was arrested and
jailed and the girl taken to a hotel
While in his presence she corroboated his
statement as to her beinghis wife but in
a private interview with the officers she
stated he was her uncle who had forced
her into the measure Later Wooley re-
fused to make a statement further than
that he was the girls uncle but not
guilty Dr Hesterley pronounces her
suffering from injuries received during
the night and in a semiconscious condi-
tion The trial will take place tomor-
row 1
Abilene
Correspondence of the Gazette
Abilexe Tex Jan 9 At a meet-
ing of the stockholders of the Abilene
National Bank held today the following
directors were elected to serve forlSS9
George P Phillips Theo Heyck J M
Dougherty J W Red E BRollins
and J G Lowuen all of Abilene and
William Cameron and William B
Brazelton both of Waco The officers
elected to serve for 1SS9 are Theo
Heyck president William Cameron
vicepresident J G Lowden cashier
A negro by the name of John Davis was
jailed yesterday for some petty offense
and while in confinement be and John
Johnson who was sentenced for murder
got to playing cards and Johnson be-
coming angry beat the negro very
severely
There was considerable iee this morn-
ing A quarter of an inch thick in places
Baird
Special to the Gazette
Baihd Tex Jan 9 Messrs Robert-
son Hinds new stone store house is
going up as fast as men and means can
push it
The signal service has appointed Major
D Richardson agent here and we may
soon expect weather bulletins at Baird
the young Fort Worth
Captain W C Whitley is circulating a
petition this morning for signers asking
the county judge to have our people vote
on incorporating Baird So far no one
has opposed the move
eve
AT PITTSBUBft
A Ifew FourStory Building Col-
lapses Twelve PeopleKilled
Thirtyeight Others Frightfully Man
gledaiany Yill DieCause of
the Collapse Unknown
A Hurricane Does Considerable Damage
Throughput the Glty Partial list
ofthe Dead and Injured
BULLETIN
Cincinnati Ohio Jan 9 It is re-
ported here that a terrific tornado visited
Pittsburg today Some of the largest
tfuildings wero blown down and many
people were killed
MEAGER PARTICULAItS
Pittsbuiig Pa Jan 9 A terrible
windand rainstorm passed over this city
about 1230 this afternoon during which
a large building in course of erection on
Diamond street collapsed carrying twen-
ty workmen to the ground and burying
at least twenty more in the ruins Twelve
are Known to have been killed outright
six others fatally and about thirty others
seriously injured
SHAECHIXG THE RUIXS
Pittsburg Pa Jan 9 Up to 4
oclock p m twentyeight persons had
been taken from the ruins Of these
four were dead and several so badly in-
jured that recovery is almost impossible
A large number are still buried under the
debris The building was owned by
Wiley Bros and is a complete wreck
Martin Hiller just taken out of the shop
said there were four more in there and
then became unconscious
FURTHER PARTICULARS
Pittsburg Pa Jan 9 The most
frightful catastrophe that Pittsburg has
witnessed for many years occurred at
1230 noon today At the hour men-
tioned the new fourstory building on
Diamond street near Wood and in the
rear of ReaBros Co s and J R
Weldons stores on Wood street fell
with an awful crash which was heard for
many squares Although people at a
distance could not understand what was
wrong the ominous sound sent a thrill of
horror through their hearts Tho force of
the falling building was so great that
the rear walls of the two other buildings
mentioned were crushed as if they had
been made of papernnd their front walls
fell upon the pavement on Wood street
burying several people id the debris and
mangling some horribly Of those two
Were a girl and a boy and one man un-
known all of Avhom were taken in a pat-
rol wagon to the homeopathy hospital
A barber shop in the rear was also de-
molished and its six occupants buried in
the ruins The top story in the rear of
feiehbaums building onJFifth avenue
was also knocked in and three printers
who were working there were injured
but how severely could not be learned at
present
The number of killed and injured can-
not be definitely stated at this time as
many are supposed to be still in the ru-
ins It is believed however that
twelve have been killed and thirtyeight
injured six of them fatally
THE WORK OF RESCUE
Work was continued all the afternoon
and ot 10 oclock tonight a number of
persons wero known to be still under-
neath the debris Up to that hour forty
mangled and bruised bodies had been
taken from the ruins Some were dead
others were dying and many were fatal-
ly injured One or two died on the way
to the hospital From the best informa-
tion obtained eight were killed outright
or died in a short time and thirtyfive
others were injured It is believed the
list of dead will be greatly increased be-
fore inorning
THE WOUNDED
Of the eight killed only two have been
identified so far One was a little girl
named McGleone who was waiking along
the street with her brother when the
building fell and tho two were buried in
the wreck The little girl was killed in-
stantly and her brother it is thought is
fatally injured
The body of George Kirch barber
eighteen years old was found in the cel-
lar of the barber shop
Five unknown men and ope boy are
now at the morgue awaiting identifica-
tion
Dr J L Reed a prominent physician
of Allegheny was in Weldons at the
time and he is still missing It is feared
he is dead
Following is a list of the wounded res-
cued lip to 10 oclock tonight
Daniel Courtney badly bruised and
suffering from coneussionof the brain
Eugene R Davis printer seriously in-
jured
Charles H Petticord bookkeeper for
Weldon Co seriously injured
Weldon Mason badly cut about the
head
Aliqe Carte sixteen years old
John Ridout carpenter back of head
injured and leg fractured
Bernard OConnor bricklayer serious-
ly bruised not fatal >
Frank Bassett head and breast
crushed seriously
Thomas Heymen bricklayer ribs
broken very serious
Alfred Lambert compositor seriously
hurt
W A McCurdy bricklayer badly in-
jured
Jnmes Watt carpenter injuries not
fatal
Michael Ryan bricklayer blinded by
sand and badly bruised
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Henry Faulkner badly injured re-
covery doubtful
Thomas M Kee bricklayer legs
broken
OscarE Smith stenographer injured
slightly
Elmer MeKeon clerk not serious
Martin Halloran engineer badly
bruised
George Mason very seriously injured
William Springerr engineer badly cut
not fatally injured
William Barker injured internally
death momentarily expected
John Cohring lawyer severely
Morris Tint bricklayer blown from
the top of a building and taken from
Weldons cellar injuries not fatal
Owen Donnelly bricklayer quite
serious
GeorgeThrisler barber serious
W W MeKeon both less Droken
Ct U
Samuel Thrown bricklayer serious
George Scott printer severely hurt
George Lang printer back injiired
J E MoLevin printer arm dislocated
and head cut
GusMeesmer printer shoulder blade
and leg broken
Rev Father Canevin Iiadly bruised
but not serious
Bartley Colley fireman bruised and
cut but will recover
Samuel Stringer boy very badly hurt
may die
Willie McGlone small boy badly
bruised about the head and body pro-
bably fatally hurt
Rev Father Canevin who was help-
ing to rescue the victims narrowly
escaped being killed Joseph
Goehring an errand boy em-
ployed by Weldon Co was discovered
among tho debris He was heard to call
for a drink of water and Father Canevin
and B Devlin got a tin of water They
were about to let it down to young
Goehring with a small gum hose when a
partition fell in the rear of Weldon
Co s store covering up Father Canevin
and three others When Father Canevin
heard the wall crashing he
supposed ho would be killed and
pushing Devlin aside ho threw his arms
around the pillars soas to prevent the air
from being off from young Goehring
Fortunately he was not much hurt and
when rescued he was able to go home un
unassisted
All kinds of theories have been ad-
vanced for the coUapse of the building
Xothing definite can be known however
until an investigation is made It is im
nossible to estimute the damage done at
this lime
The cyclone worked terrible destruction
in other parts of the city and cut along
the railroads centering here A portion
of the foundry of Mcintosh Hemphill
Co on Thirteenth street was wrecked
as was also a house in Allegheny At
Wallis station on the Pennsylvania Rail-
way a largo brick building owned by the
Westiughouso Air Brake Companv was
partly demolished and at Wilinardiug
Pa a coal tipple was wrecked At Me
Keesport houses were unroofed
trees blown down and windows
smashed Three houses in course of
erection wero blown down On the river-
a number of boats were torn from their
moorings and cast al out like corks but
they were secured before muoh damage
was done
The velocity of the wind was fifty miles
an hour the highest recorded for6e It
is still blowing hard tonight but itis
growing colder and the weather is clear-
ing
Tho list of the dead identified up to 11
o clock was as follows
Samuel Stringer eged sixteen years
printer
Thomas Jones bricklayer
Charles Fritch aged sixteen
George Mason carpenter
Lorger colored boot black in a barber-
shop
George Kirch barber aged eighteen
years
The little girl McGlone is not dead as
previously stated but is in a serious con-
dition
The remains of one man have not been
yet identified
Inspector of Police McAleese stated at
a late hour tonight he was of the opin-
ion that from fifteen to twentyfive per-
sons were yet in the ruins and he would
not be surprised if the death list would
be increased to fifteen or twenty
Up to midnight no more victims had
been rescued It has just been learned
that the nut factory owned by Bontreger
Company in the Seventeenth ward was
blown down during the storm and a man
named Stines killed The losses was
13000
Of the thirtyfive injured six are in a
dangerous condition and will probably
die
1
A KELIC OF THE PAST
A Blank Eeanisition for 100 in Missouri State
Defense Bonds
Special to tho Gazette
Wichita Faixs Tex Jan 9 On
last Saturday evening a complaint was
made before the United States commis-
sioner against a man whose name was
unknown for attempting to pass coun-
terfeit money He was arrested oon
after and upon being searched what
seemed to be a 100 bill was found It
proved to be a veritable curiosity and a
relic of exGovernor Claib Jackson of
Missouri during the late unpleasantness
It was a blank requisition on
the fund commissioners of the
state of Missouri for 100
in Missouri state defense Tjonds payable
to of the Missouri State
Guard with blank spaces for the date
name of fund commissioner governor
and payee none of which seemed ever to
have been filled out The party who had
it was a white boy about seventeen or
eighteen years old and said his name was
Rogers that he had been working in the
Chickasaw nation for sometime and had
been paid the bill as good money for
his work Rogers attempted to pass
the bill several times even
after he had been told that it was no
good and therefore complaint was made
against him After consultation the
commissioner decided that he had no ju-
risdiction as the bill was not even an im-
itation of United States money and Ro-
gers was dsscharged a3 he haiL not
obtained anything of value except poker
checks for it the state authorities could
do nothing
4
rrnyear Case Set
Special to the Gazette
Greenvllle Tex Jan 9 A grand
jury of representative men of Hunt coun-
ty was organized on Monday by Hon E
WTerhune district judgeelect Judge
Terhune delivered to that body an im-
pressive able and exhaustive charge In
the now noted infanticide case the judge
being disqualified the HonT D Mont-
rose was elected special judge to try this
case The statea docket will be taken
up on the 28th of January The Pruyear
case is set lor that day
t
Death of Judge Jower s Wife
Special to the Gazette
Pai esxlne Tex Jan 9 After a-
long illness and much patient suffering
Mrs Bettie Jowers wife of County Judge
W GW Jowers died at their residence
last evening
The court was adjourned today out of
respect for the bereaved family The
interment took place at the old cemetery
at oclock this evening
rJJfc <
YOL XIII NO 191
EATAL EUMEL
A Cyclone Sweeps Over lPortion
of the City of Reading Pa
ATot Less than Sixty Persons KillgLOut
riffht and One Hundred Injured
3Iany Fatally
The Euins Take Fire and Several of the En-
tombed Men Are Boasted Alive The J
Money loss Immense
BULLETIN
Reading Pa Jan 9 A cyclone
passed over this city this evening doing
considerable damage and killing more
than fifty people
A silk mill in which 250 girls were em-
ployed blew down just before thojhour for
quitting work Everytning is in con-
fusion The loss of life is probably much
heavier han at first reported About
the same time there was an explosion
and fire in the same neighborhood by
which eight men were burned to death
WORK OP THE FUXXEL CLOUD
Readevg Pa Jan 9 This was the
saddest night in the history of Reading
A deathlike pall hangs upon the city as a
result of the most horrible disaster in its
history
One hundred households are in mourn-
ing as a result of one of tho greatest
calamities in Pennsylvania A cyelone
swept over the northern section of the city
this afternoon and laid waste everything
within its reach and with terrible loss of
lifsThe
The lives that have been sac-
rificed and the number that
have been injured can only be
estimated The most reliable informa-
tion tonight is that not less than sixty
persons have been killed outright and
one hundred injured How the terrible
calamity occurrrd is about as follows
It was raining hard all morning To-
wards noon it ceased almost entirely and
by 4 oclock there was every indication
that there would be an entire cessation
of the rain storm Half an hour after-
wards the bright sunshine made every
effort to penetrate the clouds Tints of
a rainbow were seen in the eastern sky
It portended a beautiful sunset There
was a clear sky overhead Thi3 contin-
ued for half an hour longer
THEX THE SCUKE CHANGED
with a suddenness that was appalling
The fleecy clouds gave way to ominous
signs of a coming storm Dark heavy
banks of clouds marshalled themselves
and soon a gloom seemed to have settled
over the city There was the stillness of
coming danger Then the wind whistled
roared and tore in mad confusion The
storm clouds grew heavier still and
louder roared the wind In the western
sky a storm was seen approaching with a
thundering noise Tho swath itoutr was
narrow but its effect was terrible Per-
sons residing along the track of the storm
say they saw the first signs of danger in a
funnelshaped maelstrom which seemed
to gather up everything within its reach
and cast it right and left The traok of
this destructive element was not more
than 200 feet wide and it is lucky it only
touched only the suburbs of the city It
came from the west but passed along
THE XORTnERX BORDER OF READESG
First it touched the Mount Penn
stoneworks Here a corner of the build-
ing was struck and a portion of the roof
was cut off as nicely as if done with a
pair of scissors Then the storm cloud
hurried across the fields took off a por-
tion of J H Soneburgs drilling mill
and a number of dwellings were unroofed
as readily as if their tin roofs were pa-
per The storm then hurried across the
property of the Reading Railroad Com-
pany and crossed the railroad Here a
passenger car was standing This was
overturned as if it was a toy and its
splinters were scattered in every direc-
tion Neanwhile the rain poured down
in torrents Tho atmosphere became
heavy and appressive and it was almost
as dark as night Directly on one side
the track of the Reading Railroad was
situated the paint shops of the company
It was a onestory building about 60x150
feet in size Here about thirty men were
employed in painting passenger cars
There were eight or nine of these cars in
the building They had been built at the
companys shops in this city at a cost of
0000 each The building was
STRUCK SQUAEEIA IX THE MTDDIE
and the bricks were scattered about as if
they were playthings The cars were
turned topsy turvey while the men were
buried under the debris Some of the
bricks were carried away The chambers
of each of the passenger cars were al-
ready filled with gas as they were ready
to be taken out on the road in a few days
These exploded one after another with the
fearful bang of a cannon There was
a considerable quantity of gasoline in the
building and this added fuel to the flames
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