St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 8, 1898

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Two Cents CAMARA IS ON HIS WAY BACK TO SPAIN. is Ships Have R Expected H PRICE} ee VOL. 49, NO. 333. ~~ > -———_- Heaviest Rainfall in the City’ s History. ee ee. - LOS O-O—O— Maro 28°23 Chouteau. he $50 ‘ poureau, Quigier, 2817 Chonteaun., FIVE INCHES OF WATER NAc Quigley & Son, i TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.! [ acts, ioe". 7 © nos. Geunn, 290) - ai ree) houteau, drug © O-~—-O- > $100, etore Choutean, saloon: a = a DAMAGES TO PROPERTY ESTI- | MATED AT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. e-Entered the Canal and Are ome Within a Week. SHAFTER WILL NOT MOVE TILL MORE TROOPS COME. -e + Sampson, However, Will Attack the Forts Outside Santiago Harbor at Noon To-Morrow. A. Kuhn, 2903 Chouteau, candy sf f;eorce Rueet. 2742 Choutean, ealoon; Tem) °744-46.48 Chonuteau, for hmidt. 2754 Chouteau, ° - : a 2 Z ae : 7 es, i Re “ 7 { = « . = ws wg ee > we bent “x “a Edy “SSS ee ' A nes, Pay . os 7 Yen ee ‘o ae Boi ott : c En at a bs 7 * Se a rat wal YT es wh +a. Ce ¢ x 7 cS @ - a sb ae es be ae ee en t ‘ee ne. 5 3 e a ‘ 7 am =~’ 7329 C au, notions; “12 Papi n, a 27756 Chontean, bakery; Greham, 2 noute August Largewah James Fitzgera) ae | Guenther. 2764 Chonuteau, ehoe PANIC OF TERROR IN THE RESERVOIR DISTRICT. oe ee ete Cellars Flooded and Hundreds of Resi- dents Fled From Their Homes to | ry ~8 Escape the Dangers Incident coere Sales, Sy Cueutess, Sebety: oe to the Rushing Waters. tT 2000 Chouteau, hardware, Saank!in, » Kramme, 2768 Choutean, grocery; > Cc at? ‘khaus, 28900 Chouteau: 2230 Chouteau, resi- S100 r) and furniture: $700 Sebastian Golle. 28% Chouteau, b WE Garcia Roth, erine Rie ~" barber: saloon; 254 Choutean, (Gjalll, 2Sa6 Chouteau, emer 7 Charles M Siw Theodore Roch. mm building; 2826 Chouteau, dry goods; 2828 Chouteau, store bulld- 2762 Chouteau, grocery 2734 Chouteau, bullding; Kenner, 2902 Chouteau, jeweler; Clemmons, 273) Chouteau, residence; 2994 Chouteau “*houteau, residence; -'6 Chouteau; grocery total Charles Windiah. - 7 and feed estore at n / “s rainfall! damoge. $1500 Albert Lutz Kurtz by the tarts building; liz : ‘ing Thure- | 1.9] All records were broken - . 2720 Choutean, of Thureday and Thursday During the 24 Gay morning, 5.08 finehes fell during 2045 Chouteau., 2035 Choutean., saloon: $159. saloon: 27h2 > Chouteanu, bul'ding; hours ommen of rain fell, day, 3.17 hi bull bull Civhbhouse. 2933 Chouteau: , 2740 Chouteau., ding: away 20580 Ine hes the J lly Rulers’ ate ! com and iches Chouteau, grocery; Chouteau, ling: Guring the night The greatest previous fall was the of June 15 and 18, 1888, when 4.64 inch The result that all low and Grained sections of the city are flooded In the neighborhood of ¢ Jeffer eon and Compton avenues and Kutger street, the residents at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning. while the storm was abating, were thrown , into a panic of terror by the belief that Compton Hill reservoir had collapsed, and men, women and children ran half-clad and screaming through the streets in search of safety on bigh ground In that section, which forms a sort basin. water tore along the streets in floods, overfiowir« the curbstones, the steps of -houses, flooding cellars and in many stances rising to the depth of several feet in the first floors. It was a night of terror. night es fell, is “houtean. of badiy in- | The inhabitants firmly belleved that death, iby drowning awaited them. The roar of falling water, the rushing of the flood in the streets, the crashing peals of thunder and blinding flashes of iigbtning combined to rouse in the breasts of men, women and children a dread that’ grew into a panic of desperate fear, and they rushed from thetr grotecs, Some in their night clothes, others dressed in a few garments hastily thrown on. Th thie wild dash from what they be- 2929 Chonteau, bakery: |; 2919 Chouteau, Ernst, Chriaetian Roehl, meat market; §$1¢ “UW Gree n, Sr) Rmery & Graph, | SP Jere minh S500) Cook, 2738 Chouteau, hardware; 710 Chouteaun, grocery; Powell, 2708 Chouteau, dry oda: 2704 Chouteau, shoe store; 2702 Chouteau, no- Rene 2759 Chonteau, wall pa- ) Rreitachuh, 2701 Choutean, fancy - srw Pittman, 2651 Chouteau, grocery; $150. hard- 2649 Chontenn. ealoon; 2612 Chouteau, 20) Chonteau: £50 . tioetz Lime and Cement Co., ' tr. $7000 ont m Riam, 3201 Choutean. $59 fj;us Kenge. 27°6 Chontean, bakery; Rodemich, 2738 Chouteau, » BOO. . Margeret Ranks ". Benomy, 2765 Chouteanu (. Bergman,, 2775 Choutean, Mrs. Landau, 2835 Chouteau, 4°) ke Rollmeter a Sy Moll, $750. drug 2814 Pantin, $300. $2™% $150 shoe store; (jeorge Wolf, 28290 Chonteau, £40. red Kromer, 2915 Chouteau: $159. Hankop, 2015 Chouteau, $59. Shintag, 2041 Chouteau, ; $150. Zops, 8148 Chouteau, Tarpets; Koehn, 2936 Chouteau, 2938 Chonteau, $500. shoe $10 Hohn II, grocer; 12 Joh n I. Woegdes, tean; $800 den: . sm c furniture M Has Ty Rickman, 2654 Choutean, bullding; “Emily Fgroth, 2718 Chontean,. building; "iwi Gowell, 2712 Cho building: feo uftean, loy, 2702 Chouteau, bullding; Reddy, 38100 Chouteau, saloon; John barber, 3102 C #1 Wesley Smith. Ja “wb Slefert STi A Johnson, Liedmueller, hou- 2105 Choutean: $109, Ifickory, pork pack- fish. PtH 153 2990 La Salle, dairyman; Fdw. T. ePierson, 2737 resi- Simo I Bernstead, Choutean, Chouteau, furniture; . ol oe) 2769 VY. Bowman, 2765 Choutean. furniture; Krueger, drug store, 2943 Ghon- Hampker, plumber, 2703 Chon- Mi, residence, 2741 Chonteau. nr oO ; $200, Me ‘ - re sidence, | Chonteau . s1 e ‘> Everest. four store, 2929 Chou- S2iK) Isr: ee K lentog, residence, 2941 Chow tean: William Zoltman, groce 2651 Chouteau; Sm I ha Mitchell, $45 Brotschup, motions, 2648 Chou- ‘ristle, furniture, 2741 Choutean; John E. Hays, 3002 Chouteau, restaurant; 00. 3142 Chouteau, furniture: 0-0-0000 -0-—-0—0-- 0--0--0--0-0- 0-0-0 0-00-00 0--0- 0-0-0 0-0 -0—0- 0-_-9-_0--5 —-O- passed through the Suez nearly all political leaders to return to Cartagena by the end of next week. General’s account is gathering strength. More reinforcement PARIS, July &8—A dispatch from Ismailia says the Spanish squadron has re-entered the canal on its way back to Spain. “MADRID, July 6.—Admiral Camara’s fleet, which has just Canal, headed eastward, is expected by SHAFTER DELAYS, AWAITING AID. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 8.—Gen. Shafter reported all quiet ye terday at Santiago, and the best belief of the officials here is that the same state of affairs obtains to-day. The army is losing nothing by its rest, and according to the due to-day or to-morrow. = ae It is hoped that assault will be renewed to-morrow, though, so far as the army is concerned, it is gathered from Gen, Shafter’s report that it will not advance before reinforcements arrive unless 0--O— 0—-0—0—0—0-—-0—_0—_0-_9 lieved Was the death of rats in a hole they in order to repel a counter attack from the Spaniards, A PRIVATEER IN THE PACIFIC. WASHINGTON, July 8—The Navy Department has been ine LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LINARES. (from a Late Photograph.) | arene of them were permanently injured. Be reman, who ‘CUS al fee] S.u0fe a 2755 Chouteau, had : ‘rrible struggle to Save 14 horses that were nearly drowned ‘n his stabie. He found the horses almost submerged, and, after the most herculean Lieutenant-General Linares, in command of the Spanish forces in the neighborhood of Santiago, and who was severely wounded in the first day’s fighting, is about 530 vears of age, of medium height, slender in build, and has a dreamy, far-away look in eflorts, he got out and took them to Papin |his eyes. He ts said to be an excellent soldier, a stranger to fear and popular both er to with officers and men. He went to Cuba first under Campos, and was in command formed that a Spanish priv ateer carrying five guns is hovering of: Officer McCloskey said the force of torrent as it rushed down sewer iniets Was }of a regiment. Eo the coast of British Columbia. SO gre at i ed the massive stone According to last accounts, the privateer was between Prince — over them. He di d good serv in | 3 NEMY O NLY 2 200 YA RDS AWAY. Charlotte Sound and Dixon’s Entrance, ing peopie to get o1 =H of the ir eens. mee Prompt instructions have been sent to the military onthe SUBURBS | WERE DELUGED. River Des Perel Went on a Rampage . ; of — ae est coast to prepare for a visitation. Each RY eine te tae the Other 1 FRANCISCO, Cal., July &—The report from Washington that a r . at Forest Park. tiver Des Peres was Nrned into a rushing by the cloudburst. It rapidly rose privateer is hovering off the coast of British Columbia ts not credited here. was 2 to feet wide, swirling Special Cable to the &vust-Ulspatecnh. time ago it was reported that a man named Brown had cabled from Victoria to tree trunks, submerging and dam- (Copyright, 1898, by the Press Publishing Co.) the Spanish authorities at Madrid asking for letters of marque to fit out a privateer ae ye ne Os me i alee ’ . |and prey upon the treasure ships coming from the Klondike. At the time this was HEADQUARTERS, BEFORE SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July §, thought to be merely an advertiseing sc heme, but if.a Spanish privateer is really Jamaica, 7.—Ar of only 200 yards now sepa- from the advance works of the enemy. the ~* torrent until it around oor) —— | i ee ta 300) i _ Fad tad i \ y\ BATES’ aging bridges, and carrying away every- Antonio, cruising off British Columbia she will have rich picking. The steamers Roanoke’ thing movable in its path Charles Schweickardt said the general damage in ax ee. Greater than from any pre- A big lake grew | and St. Paul are due to arrive almost any day from St. Michaels with big ship- crossing of the Wabash and ments of treasure to the North American Trading and Transportation Co., and the Alaska The steamer Lelanaw is also due with returning prospectors and their clean-ups. The Roanoke and -Lelanaw are bound for Seattle and the St. Paul for San Francisco. The United States gunboat Wheeling is the only Government vessel at present in Alaskan waters, and she is conveying a surveying expedition to the Yukon. via Port July open stretch *, 27 “a 4 at the The distance is so short Suburban The lake | leet wide, during the night i rates our trenehes that we can readily behold every action of the Spanish soldiers. In some places the Spaniards have taken advantage of the armistice to work This has been not- at Co. Commercial Ster upon the breastworks shattered by the American fire. When saw this characteristic act the enemy Gen. Shafter was notified. anew withstanding the terms ol truce. our ofiicers Ut ns 1s. tracks Forest Park Station. —_——- Orn oe" SAMPSON TO GO IN HARBOR, alle : atrest was Db ony ye mgane 4 heap .. rounded by si The Hydraulic Press | Gen. Shafter and the Adrniral Plan That the Forts Shall Be Bombarded To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, July &.—It is officially announced that Gen, Shafter and Admiral Sampson have agreed on a plan of campaign, Admiral Sampson will begin a bombardment — Brick Works stood on an island in the midst of a lake that was waist ce Santiago harbor. July 7, via Kingston, July 8.— At Cheltenham the “~e di was he ave. F ther west, thi Mera River bi over in many ataned and flooded the | The new plan of assault on San ALO is for kt “a9 Admiral Samp son to bombard the forts at the outh of the®*harbor, driving the men away from the guns, and then .and a thousand inen and occupy the forts, while launches with grappling irons Lo in and counter The fleet will then enter and bombard the city, ot seneral to the $ ut- Spanish Commander, notifying This had the proper effect, The white flag still A sharp message was sent by the ¢ ‘oa + ee.) | FRIDAY pa os him that unless they stopped work he would open ‘ire. GINTY OF CHOUTEAU AVENUE where the threat was ignored. nos ecnmn 7. r Cee er ee on IN THE VI- ’ aif th y. mtied PE AN A t several hours the ounted police sta- | ‘Se | except at occasional points over the Spanish trenches and otherwise the truce is observed. Many of these ion Was surrounded by water and inacece Sible. Wires of all kinds suffered severely in all parts of the ‘ity. ; : =e PLAY OF THE LIGHTNING. waves From our works 25 Red Cross flags ctructures are churches, which we know to be filled with wounded. Old City Hall Struck and Severe P | buildings and it requires no stretcg of the imagination to see sons Injured nf | t! at t| ic Sp ants irds are prote ctinwgz themselves aiter their most approved methods. . ' th ' our men have been annoyed by euerrillas, but these maurauders, nrea eneq mee ee ee ee ee are visible over buildings. ‘Met difficulties that only desperation could ‘Surmount. They were almost carried oft Fi ptheir feet by the roaring tide that swept down the streets: they were buffeted and blinded by the sheets of Water that fell from above; they were deafened thun- he Nghtning and dazed bs the | t ( m they ran, sereaming, yelling, strug- for the safety that lay the high od at Papin street. other parts of the enacted, face our batterics, at every moment Occasionally play W is q*anT ‘k the old City an I DY owardly, nave been repulsed with little trouble. and Cc At noon to-morrow from the outer works of WITH SHAFTER’S ARMY lightning: whose t actics are conte mpt! ible Their firing is directed mainly at the American officers, apparently with the in- , one king them off one by s jt will be a mere matter of reaching out and taking Santiago (;EFORGE BRONSON REA, ial Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. in gare Banks, at esté Papin street, suffered : 4 mb tention of p With reintorcement city similar scenes In the Chelten!am distri ot} {¥ foods rose until many we, and victime lly improvised rafts. jerever the land ts low or the Grain a fee ' floods rose to menace iamage property. No section of th ity Hien the Water rr ima the vistiation it left the pavements + it the Chouteau avenue panic on eo pe ment c 2 St. beceuse the belief was Was s flooded and the damage t the dig Compton Hiil nr servoir a, letting its torrents loose upon rea ou nus ounding territory. MY | - hat re. T. J. Quigley living at a5 houteau , +l ow nue i vd husband and nine « hildren, | mo awakened by the roar of the eto: :} voly | eged her husband coe te Hep Amer) a comeervative estimat the damage } Alsop Borrowe, has | been beautitu, ir beds and terror-stricken they w aded | I hey BR ey a ble ck tae ] . THE WEATHER FORECAST. | [he streams have been bridged over, ays the blame on the drainage ay etem ough the water that flied the lower fo Tr entre e roads have been greatly improved rhe faulty construction of streets, nave —FAIR. nd t roa ) the house and made their way to Pp sets oa onts at ad di ains and the existence aink. CLOUDY ms nits rv ciouly Fri. ret. a s “ms ove&r floods | (houteau AVente For ce Lav! _ an vl , etrioct Were loped etrikinely by thie day nieht: Saturdar. fair; little change in tem. rs rriystt , afiorain he cellar of the grocery at 2745 Chouteay! “isaster figrliti #® flooded and the damage is $1500 sunken su are lars drug the as we choose. are flooded. nt Floods of wat r from Grand ; fing place an immense Ks houses s0uUght stood | ity . } Ps itt) ‘ : satety 1 ished down Tie ? Tr fi ame lan ! ‘nue and Garr! an ' : ma on Chann | la k« ) ’ LAWTON AND F TER’'S HEADQUARTERS, BEFORE SAN. Associated Press Dispatch Boat Dauntless, July &8.—N, ng pushed on the By MATOR-GENERAL SHA TIAGO DE CUBA, July ¢, by the WOOD Promo! ED. rt Antonio and Aingston, WASHINGTON, July ng _e g - ‘ither side Santiago, but “= > that Via ives a Ti ’ r rT. mine the harbor. supporting the land assault. Gien. Garcia, the insurgent commander, received orders yet terday not to attack the Spaniards while the negotiations are om ta shot has been fired recently on | and entrench- strengthened during the is hours, the ~) yards of the enemy and our hillside batteries mile a Friday mort ivered with mud ‘ ‘harles W 35233 Gratiot to tne Jan aicda. batteries last (,00CUZ ’ hes ’ _ uC) street, WOik 1 Bla Nn at Was the prevaient 7 ments. Our position Has been greatly 4 f Ter a le + * rail ; >} iT} , *? ‘ ’ ‘ ‘, Rabati : Mai r eT ne? ] : ; : American 11tics AUV allt}! . ' Wood he Briga. Me , . overlooking fon ‘2 now r TVD TIVE , ‘i- Santiago and i" Gen. | ; ; . ‘ . i $s hl he dynamite gu had | : : William Reame’s h was cdamawre iware ~ re . *) ‘7 ?? COTM Itid '. was : a res «- ghborhoo I 1 in a damage su Mkainst the its IY ing more than $100.00 . Which he save is 'o j : ivanced 500 yards to the great surprise of the enemy Wood's Rough Riders, in charge of Sergt. Hallett ly placed, hidden in a snug pit. allowing the transportation of heavy artil- The genera! health of “AWTO foot. re his nel . ot The Spanish cruisers are still filled with ¢ -harred bodies and ate The Cubans, by Admiral Sampson's or 100 Spaniards which were covered with buzzarda. ders, have buried the bodies of over washed ashore, ’ ‘)) the ong-needed rest for our men, and they are now in ——— - RAIN HOLDS BACK OUR TROOPS. (Copyrighted, 1°08, by Associated Press.) | CAVITE. Philippine Islands, July 4, via Hong Kong, July & —Floods in the country districts are hindering the advance of the American troops. Rear Admiral Dewey has given notice that he will not allow any more refugees De ce. ; ms

me « th por- tape ant GEN. ie.Shewers central an and etre fair es? ; day a ts af | was i being removed from Manilla on board ship. The German cruiser Cormorant left here to-day for Heoilo, where the gunboats Pigmy and Kattier are in harbor to the Gepth of several in: i Shc shakin 1’ UF | dy ™ ~ . paGitt toc we Friday mornins. Dn setebarena” ' 7 sles * > P t t = “fi w 7 i : 4 mn > — “ a Pie r at et Ad ot ‘ € 7 P : y » iN . 7 ‘ " “ = “ : - . i . P , . ' oe we we ¥ ay See , ahs (gotta A See oe Oe Cee | = q ee at * "3 io Sys