12 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1900
Page
1
The store unveiled a large stock of ladies flannelette wrappers with yokes trimmed in fancy braid, tight-fitting waist linings, and skirts wide with flounces. Styles ranged from 1.25 to 4 dollars, in blue, pink, black and red, with quality and workmanship noted.
A large display features twisted foulard silks suitable for evening dresses skirts and waists. Color range includes heliotrope red orange yellow gray brown tan blue turquoise navy olive Nile sapphire white cream pink lavender emerald cardinal and other tones priced at 7ic a yard.
Our window display features Colored Silk Velvets fashionable for capes dresses skirts waists and jackets with wide color range for street and evening wear. Sold in two qualities width 19 inches at 1.00 and 1.50 per yard.
In Galveston on September 12 the city faced monumental burials of thousands of dead with scarce help. Mayor Jones and officials mobilized all able bodied men, including soldiers and police, to haul, bury, and sea-bury bodies aboard barges bound for the Gulf. Crews worked through the night as monitors and guards prevented looting amid martial law.
A Beaumont to New Orleans dispatch says the storm swept a vast stretch from Sabine Pass to Bolivar Point with immense property damage and a possible billion-dollar loss. One fisherman Jeff Guniff reportedly died. many residents remain missing as relief trains reach flooded rails and wrecked Gulf & Interstate lines.
The Galveston disaster tragedy continues as authorities publish additional identified victims. The list includes Mrs Mary Burnett Mrs Toothaker Jennie Toothaker Wm Miller and family Lucia Miner H Etdermann Charles Darby and others along with extended relatives and children. Names appear in a long roll with spouses parents and offspring among the deceased.
Houston dispatch reports refugees arriving from Virginia Point with harrowing tales. The urgency centers on securing means to transport them across the bay to reach safer areas as conditions worsen and time advances.
Reports from Crystal Beach in the Canadian side of Lake Erie say every dock was destroyed by last night's wind storm and Buffalo Canoe Club boats and many sailing yachts were wrecked. The wind reached 52 miles per hour, causing tree damage, awning and chimney destruction, and a Pan American building tower under construction collapsed. A woman killed by an electric wire and her husband seriously injured were among the casualties.
Washington dispatch reports the Boer forces in Transvaal have collapsed, according to a U S army officer who accompanied the cars. Attaches depart as Reichmann says he is cleared to begin the voyage back to the United States for orders.
Capetown refugees, many Americans, suffer severe distress. A Daily Mail correspondent notes in the house of assembly debate that large numbers live in caves along Table Mountain due to their inability to pay rent, reflecting widespread hardship.
Houston reports chaos turning to order as Galveston reels from the disaster. Mayor Jones and others estimate about 5,000 deaths, with nine hundred more in Texas. Property losses run around ten million in Galveston and similar in other areas. Bodies weighed and sunk rise, while looting is curtailed and relief pours in by cart and rail as communications overwhelm the wires.
Milwaukee reports a terrible gale on Lake Michigan injuring thirty passengers aboard the Flint and Pere Marquette No 2. Several listed as seriously injured include W Harker Detroit Mrs W Harker Maggie Eglenton and more as decks broke and life rafts were hurled through cabin windows. Cleveland notes telegraph lines down and wind at sixty mph. Other steamer losses and sightings follow as ships struggle in heavy seas along Ohio Michigan and Illinois shores.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers announces a strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields unless railroads and coal operators accept arbitration on wages and conditions. He cites railroad control of 72 percent of output and issues a demand to major rail lines for an immediate reply to avert nationwide disruption.
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night visiting delegations of the Congressional Medal of Honor Legion gathered for the tenth annual reunion. Distinguished speakers included General Nelson A. Miles Major General D. B. Sickles Lieutenant Governor Timothy Woodruff St Clair McKelway and General Stewart Woodford who delivered the principal oration.
Christiana September 1 The Duke of Abruzzi head of the Arctic expedition on the Stella Police received a grand popular tribute in Christiana. Students formed a gram foresight procession as streets filled with singing thousands. Dr Nansen praised him at an official reception noting Italy's noble traditions renewed and youth of all nations inspired. He left for Italy at 11 p m accompanied to the station by Dr Nansen and plans to return in about a fortnight.
Havana reports Louis Rivera former Cuban secretary of agriculture cannot serve in Honduras as he plans to stay there. Governor General Wood orders that state pays interpreters for judicial bodies, covering English translations of documents for transmission to foreign countries via the U S government.
Simla reports the plague is increasing with over 12,000 deaths in India during the last week.
London dispatch reports Lord Curzon cabled that rains have fallen across Madras and Central Bengal and the Gangetic plain. The relief ends anxiety over autumn crops though no totals are given, with famine figures previously reaching 4,334,000 in the affected areas.
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