The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1902 Page: 3 of 10
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SUPPLEMENT TO
THE YUKON SUN.
VOL. 10.
YUKON, OKLA., MAY Hi, 1002.
NO 20.
Old .Missouri.
'I'lie Smithville, Mo., Herald
poet may go to the head o£ the
■class:
An’ oltl Misnoo’ is bloomin'
The best state of ’em all
Sii months of flowers and springtime.
Six mouths of glorious fall.
A land of health and plenty.
Where reigns the golden rule.
The land of “ big red apples”
And the Missouri mule,
♦
Advertising Kales.
The Sun is compelled to ad-
vance its advertising rates a trifle.
Onr old scale of rates was made
two years and a half ago when our
circulation was smaller and print
paper cheaper. Our rates should
have been advanced long*ago, but
we hoped the tariff laws would be
amended so as to make paper anti
supplies cheaper. The Sun is
well pleased with the amount of
patronage it is receiving- in fact,
we have been doing enough busi-
ness to have made some money if
onr rates had been as high as those
of other papers of this class.
After June* 1. l‘.K)2. rates will
be as follows:
SPACE. 1 wk.
1 inch____£ .25
:S inches.. .50
>_i column .75
Va. •• 1.25
2.00
Desnoyers Shoes
Are the best shoes for Men and Wo-
men. If you wear them once you
will always stand by them. At
least, that is the experience of
many people.
Don’t forget that we arc head-
quarters for this shoe, the
best. Come in and
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Local notices, in reading type. 5 cents
per line for each insertion. On 20 lines
or more taken regularly, 3 cents per line
for each insertion.
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Whose girl are YOU? Does
vonr beau treat
to
Howard’s
Ice-Cream.
Look! Complete now line of
Oxfords, 2 and 3 strap slippers,
extension soles, on .display on
front tables at Bass Bros.
I want a few good farm loans
and will make a very close rate for
choice loans. No application re-
([iiired am! viio delay for an in-
spector to examine the land.
1). W. Hogan.
At First National Bank of Yukon.
The El Reno Foundry &
Machine Co. are .manufacturing
the best castings of every de-
scription. (dive them a call.
Just received a fine line of up-to-snuff
Laces, Embroderies
and Beadings.
They go well with our beautiful summer dress
goods. We cater to that class of customers who
want the newest and most stylish.
T* & J* Hats*
cNot 44 Tom and fferry, ’' but good hats never-
theless. You can afford one, for they're Cheap.
See our east windolv.
Groceries*
Remember our growing grocery department. We
Jpill leabe to your own honest judgment if we have-
n't the freshest, cleanest stock of wholesome gro-
ceries in Yukon. ft ft
---Ransom & Hancock---
Yukon, Okla.
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ke which killed
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of earthquake
:1 Intermittently
and eventually
1U.0U0 peoplo
i of Gettysburg
hus such a tre-
ties occurred in
time and terri-
In the three
Gettysburg, in
oss was 23,190,
lied and 13,713
lerate loss for
has never been
is approximate-
100 were killed
recent seismic
rrod in the re-
ipelago in 1883.
rxplosive erup-
rakatoa, on the
le, in the strait
a and Sumatra.
>egan in May,
four months.
Bland was de-
nomcna which
re are still well
i and dust were
nark the upper
ried completely
icing a peculiar
. twilight glow,
y months. The
3 of old Kraka-
stance of 2,250
mated that the
ur and a half
. Between 30,-
were lost, and,
oyed.
Irst earthquake
world-wide im-
L'harleston. On
an earthquake
te entire Atlan-
tal tSates, and
nto the interior
ern states. Be-
own that Char-
unusual visita-
nal news was
that forty-one
he falling walls
' to the amount
destroyed.
In March, 1889, tho great storm In
the harbor of Apia, Samoa, electrified
the world with its appalling loss of'
life. The German gunboats Olga, Eher
and Adler, and the United States men-
of-war Nipsic, Trenton and Vandalla
went to pieces on the reefs, and fif-
teen merchant vessels either went to
the bottom or stranded. One hundred
and forty-two men from the warships
in the harbor were lost.
Japan has proven Itself a veritable
home of earthquakes, the latest gigan-
tic loss of life occurring in 1891, and
resulted in a loss of 4,000 lives, 5,000
injured, and 50,000 homes destroyed.
The great Johnstown flood was the
first of two great disasters in recent
yean# which has come home to the
people of the United States with crush-
ing force. On May 29, 1889, by the
I ■ rating of tho dam of the Conemaugh
river, Johnstown and surrounding
towns were swept out of existence,
and a loss of life approximating 10,000
souls took place in the twinkling of an
eye.
The calamity which befell Galveston
on the 8th of September, 1900, ranks
with Johnstown as the most appalling
within*the memory of present genera-
tions. Beginning with a storm of mod-
erate proportion.-^ the increasing wind
rolled the waves higher and higher
upon the beach, until, after a sudden
shift of winds near nightfall, the is-
land city was completely submerged,
and great waves from the sea rolled
over the town site. It was a night of
the most terrible suffering and mis-
ery, in which nearly 50,000 souls in
and near Galveston expected every
moment to die. Between 8,000 and
10,000 people lost their lives in the
storm, and millions of dollars worth
of property was destroyed.
The visitation of fire from neigh-
boring volcanoes has wrought a de-
struction of life and property upon St.
Pierre which is yet to be definitely de-
termined, hut promises to be one of
the greatest in the world’s history.
The islands off Uie China coast, and
the Malay Hortas, being of volcanic
origin, have been especially subject to
earthquakes. It used to be said of tho
Philippines that shocks were constant
there, and it is true that ‘the noedla
in the seismograph in the Jesuit ob-
servatory in Manila is always writing.
But there has been no extremely dis-
astrous disturbances, and none seri-
ous since 1884. when the tower of the
great cathedral was thrown down and
many lives were lost.
victims are quite calm, as though they | of the disaster, with the.single excep-
were stricken down instantly where tion of* the English steamer Koddam,
they stood, without a moment's warn- i was burned with all on hoard lost, ex-
ing or with' hardly time to appreciate ! ceptiug one captain, who was saved,
for an instant the deadly peril they in relating his escape lie says that
were in. Others have stamped on their j the only way in which he managed to
faces an expression of indescribable ; save his life was by repeatedly diving,
terror.
Tho entire city and the neighbor-
hood all about, reeks with a horrible
odor of burned flesh. In one instance
an entirely family of nine persons was
found, all ti*ghtly locked in each oth-
ers' arms, and the bodies in a horrible
state of decomposition.
Almost the first thing done was to
make preparations for the cremation
of the dead. Fatigue parties of sol-
diers built enormous pyres of wood
and branches of trees upon which they
heaped the*dead bodies by scores and
burned them as rapidly as possible.
The total number of dead is now
estimated at fully 30,000. The disas-
ter itself took place within thirty sec-
onds. and in that half minute the vast
majority of all these people were
killed.
It is supposed, for there is nobody
living apparently to tell the exact
facts, that there was suddenly shot
He was an expert swimmer and was
able to remain under water for a con-
siderable length of time. He returned
again and again to the surface, barely
exposing his face tor a momi-iy or two
to the terrific heat and thus getting
enough breath for.another long dive.
Ever since the 23d of April last the
volcano Mont Pelee, which finally
wrought all the havoc, has been mani-
festing disquieting symptoms. A great
column of smoke kept mounting from
it, and there were from time to time
showers of ashes and cinders failing.
Finally, on the 5th of May, there was
a terrific eruption, which hurled into
the air vast volumes of mud, which
completely swallowed up the Guerin
sugar factory, which stood near the
River Blanche.
The first that was known here at
Fort de France of tho disaster was at
8 o’clock in the morning of the 8th
day of May. At that hour there sud-
down from tho mountain a great sheet | denly spread over
of ilame, accompanied by a terrible
gaseous whirlwind and flashes of
lightning, precisely such as are re-
ported as playing About the summit of
La Soufriere, on the Island of St. Vin-
cent.
What horrible revelations of tho
havoc wrought to human life which
these grim mounds arc yet to reveal
can hardly be imagined. In these two
quarters of the city not a trace of the
streets that existed there can be seen.
They are buried as completely out of
sight as were those of Pompeii.
Along the water front there are a
few walls standing and the ruins of
tho custom-house were found.
Curiously enough, the" face and
hands of the clock on the hospital
were not destroyed, and they furnish
an important record in the history of
tills terrible catastrophe. The,hands
of the clock Ful stopped at precisely
ten minutes to 8, showing that It was
at that moment that the city was over-
whelmed vml all these thousands of
people within R and in Us environs,
were dest.ovod
town of Fort
de France a thick cloud of smoke, cin-
ders and ashes, which came from the
direction of St. Pierre.
The cloud swept over the city with
terrifying swiftness, turning bright
daylight into the darkness of night,
with hardly a moment's warning.
From this cloud a rain of rocks
poured upon the town and threw the
entire population into the wildest
pani#
The sea suddenly swept back in a
great wave for a distance of between
fifty and sixty feet and vessels fas-
tened to the wharves were set crash-
ing against each other with great
force. Twice tho great wave swept in
and out from the shore, and finally
the waters settled down to their nor-
mal level.
As quickly as possible in the con-
fusion the government authorities and
the mayor of the city, realizing what
,
some system for carrying help to those
known to bo In dire distress.
Tlie French cruiser Suohet, which
happened to be lying in tho harbor.
tie of Gettysburg can, approach the
recent disaster lor loss of life. In-
stances where whole towns and com-
munities have been wiped out are
comparatively few, but all have been
terrific in their consequences. St. Pi-
erre lias been no exception.
Among the calamities which are
most notable, the destruction of Pom-
peii and Herculaneum in the year 79
stands as the most* ancient of which
there is a complete account extant.
Strangely enough, the destruction of
those cities is the nearest approach
in history to the disaster which befell
the ill-fated St. Pierre. The work of
Vesuvius on this occasion was as slow
as it was complete. Herculaneum
was literally swept from the earth by
a stream of molten lava, while Pom-
peii was suffocated by the cinders and
ashes. The eruption lasted for days
and covered the two cities to a depth
of from eighteen to twenty feet, and
so changed the topography or the
country that it was centuries before
topographers were able to locate the
lost cities. Tho loss of life on this
occasion was never known, but it mukt
have reached far into the thousands.
Not until 1755 was the world again
shocked by a catastrophe of similar
proportions, although there were many
throughout Italy, Sicily, South Amer-
ica and the Orient where tlie loss of.
life has been estimated at much high-
er figures, which were impossible of
verification. The great earthquake
and tidal wave of Lisbon In 1755 was
one of the most far-reaching and de-
structive phenomena of nature which
has come down in history.
It was a festal day in the city and
all Portugal was there. Late in tlie
afternoon a giant wave swept over the
doomed city, and in eight minutes,
when the wave had receded, it carried
with it 50,0011 people into the sea. Tlie
survivors crowded tlie stone whurw .-
along the water front, many only to
lie carried away by file tremendous
swell which followed the movement of
the first gigantic mass of water. The
disturbance reached tlie shores of
Spain, Morocco, Madeira, and many
other fBlands in the archipelago, carry-
ing death and destruction with it
w li e i , \ or it v . nt 'I -oi ; of iff •
earthquake was Celt over i territory
5,00U miles long.
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Maxwell, William Albert. The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1902, newspaper, May 16, 1902; Yukon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc912067/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.