I THE PICKENS SENTINEL. f dm voted to politics, morality, education and ro tiie general interest of this country. YOL. V. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1876.NO. 43. ^ Railroad Diaaater- | was etill warm waslvitiir miaido Hiiwn I i.?wi ^ " - * 1? - ALL ON nOAUD PERISII. f ' f ? ... <5i> Friday last Goorgo VV. Williams and family, of Charleston, woro on their way in a chartorod car to Was ooocho Yalloy,in Georgia, this sido of Griffin, via Andorson, and when at that town ho loarnod that thoro was a broak in tho road noar Pondloton, and that it was useless for tho party to procood farthor. After Stopping at Andorson a iologram was dispatchcd ** to Col. Dodamoad by Mr. Williams, asking if ho would not that ovoning liavo his car dispatchod to Greenville. An affirrnativo answor was given and tho conductor and engineer with the % train hands, wont to Uollon. Aftor uncoupling Mr. Williams'car from tho train at Bolton itwastakon to Urocn-* villo by anotbor ongino. x TITK FATAL TKLEQRAM. It is said that tho Snpcrintondont of tho road telographod to the conductor of tho Andorson train to remain ovor all night at Bolton, which would havo deforrod tho catastropho until ' noxt morning, but tho conductor ask*, od to bo allowod to mako tho trip that night. Tho Suporintondont consontod, rind tho Andorson train startod back t\nf??fAAn ? ? A A 1_ 1IT I uuutruuu uij?iib unu 111IIV U UIUUK. YY I10II it arrived at Broadaway trestle tho ponduotor stqppod his train and walked across tho bridge with his lantern and oxaminod tho trostlo as well us 9 ho could, and thon concluded to risk his train. Getting aboard, tho train t nt ton o'clock ?n tho night, whon a hoavyraiu was tailing, moved on the trestlo which gave way and tho ens gine, tondor and mail car wore j)reel .1 i. ii .. J'-i ~ I>iiuiuu iu mu uibiunco 01 seventy two f'ectta,tho WHtcr be-low, and all on bourd wont down to death. Instantx ly tho conductor, the engineer, tho fireman &nd the baggage master wore killed, but tho brakeman lived some eight or ten hours. Tho brakeman was caught in an upright position with ono hand elinehod botween hoavy timbers whilo his leg was crushed hetwoon other timbers. In this cons dition ho remained until tho next ^ morning, iviion lie was released and carried to a neighboring houeo whoro ho died in ilio nl'tornoon. Till', ONIiY WITNK88. A eolored woman who lived near v the trestle on tho opposite side of tho crook from Andorson, saw tho conductor's light as ho carriod it ovor tho t t*nutln o<> tir < l?/\ ' ?!" ?- ? - f while liia bowels floated and swayed in the water as if anxious to bo released. Tho bodies of tho conductor* LaFoy, and tho baggago master, Kit" singer, were found some threo or four hundred yards below, wbero they had boon washed and lodged against trees, Bonio ton or twenty feet apart. It is enpposod tbat thoy had jumped off tbo fulling train. The conductors skull was crushed and his thigh was brokon. Tbo baggfigo master had only a slight bruiso on the head. He smeomod to have been killed by concussion in striking the water. The breaktnan, llenry Allen, alone was alive, and ho was immovably fastened in tho timbers in an erect position) with his logs crushed, iiis arm stretohod perpendicularly, his hand divided or split to tho wrist by tho sharp edge of tho timbers which hold his arm. In this dreadful .condition in the middle of the rising stream, with no living soul within tbo sound ot his voice, ho kej>t his lonely watch over tho bodies of the dead. When the accidont occurred Allen was not raoro thau two feet in the water, but tbo stream continued to rise until it was around his neck. If tho waters had rison a few inches more, he would have been drowned. Drs. Nardon, Seudday and Broyles were present and rendorod medical aid to the wounded man. T1III INQUK8T. Tilal Justine W. S. Brown, acting Coroner, at onco organized a jury from tlio bystanders, and held the in(juciit over the bodies of LnFoy and Kitsingor, Dr. O II. Broyles making the examination. Tho jury also examined Allon before he died. After which they proceeded to inspect the timbers of tlio bridge. Up to Sunday no inquest had been held ovbr the bodies of the fireman and ongineer, who were still benoath the wreck. The report as to Mr. Williams' tarn* iI v Knilinr in tlio ii'i'ftnL \w.iq v b ~ V.'VUWUO, ivB his car liad boon lelt at ]je!tt>n tor (lie ongino from Greenville to tako forward to ita destination. 'llio virdict ot tlio jury had not been renderod at last accounts, but :i .i._ TJ .-I 1 ? m 10 u.ipvmuu umt. uiu xvuurutiu Jills thoritiotJ will bo severely bhiiiied. It is known tlmt the fooling against tho Railroad is intense. Tho people of Anderson have of late been much ex crcised about what they thought to I ho an unjust'discrimination against thein in the matter of freights to that point, whi'o th?y openly assort their belief that tho catastrophe was tho natum! result of the decayed condition of tho bridge, and not at all to bo attributed to accident, ltumor luitli it that tho trestle two years ago \v:ib pronounced unsafe, and that engineer Milligan about that time repor'cd to the Buporintondent that this bridge was unsafe, and that ho was afraid to cross it in its condition} iv h r-rmi iirwi lir? umiq /liamica/wl ti X . VII|'W|( MV ?? IIU VIIOIIIIOOW4 II V'lII V I 1 V> servico of tho ltoad, and Iub situation given to Mr. Wilson. Wo aro also informed that tho unsafe condition of tho trestle was common talk umong tho train hands, that tho conductor had said ho thought it likely that thoy would all bo killed there?and on one occasion tho conductoi- went so tar ae to show liia pocket and to explain which wad his money and which bo longed to the railroad, requesting his contidant to boo that his family got his money in caso of accident. An iutolligont and reliable gentleman passing up tho road from Charleston aloo told us that tho brakeman on Thursday last called his nttonlion to tho rottennes of tho bridge and stating that ho intended ft quit running on tho road at tho end of the month. Wlin fmttSCswi ?l... -1 ~ 1 ?ll It 1 JL Iiu iiiiii 11 IVO \/I 1IIVJ uuuuuouu <11 I uvuu at Wallialla. LaFoy had a wife and four cliildron; Kitainger a wife and tbroo cbildroii, and ttouio ot the oth viu unu lauiauvH. wii oaturaay ?veil* ing when they all arrived together at tho 8ceno it would have moved a heart of stone, when the wives beheld their husbands and iho children look ed upon their fathers held in tho iron grasp amid tho timbers, manglod and doad. Mr. T. A Sullivan was mail agent tor this train, but owing to a misunA i- v uumumumg as to the cxact time the train would loave, ho was accidvMtly left at Bolton. Whon tho train stars ted oil' ho was at tho hotel and inado tho greatest efl'ort to get aboard but failed to do bo. When tho ongine went down at Broadway his car was smashed to pieces. Tho mail bags torn, and all were washed down the stream. Much of tho mail mat ter was lost, but tho b;A( (Kn At * a I - Wi VIIV) nuxutin. XVI it,n II l^IUJiSU LIIO WU** tor was fourteen footabovo tho lowost wator morlc. A construction train of tho company, with hands, arrived on tho spot about dark Saturday night, but what work thoy oxpuul lo do just now, except to ortricate tho bodioa of thofio in tho rubbish, wo havo not bocn in* forrnod, but think it likoly that tho ongino will ho taken to piocofl, as wo jnoHuinu it woiuu do impoSHiblo to raiso it as a whole, to tho imincnHO height of tho track, Bfcvonty five feet ahovo. Unless tho company havo tho timbers already on hand, it will lilcoly bo weeks before a new trcstlo can ho built. Tl is trostlo ii at tho same plaeo whero tlio embankment was washod away in the winter of 1hG5. J Miring tho heavy rains which fell in February of that year the volume of water increased to immenso proportions and obstructions filled tho mouth of tho culvert, when tho water was dammed up so that it covered an immonso territory, and whole farms woro sub inorgou. wnon 1110 wator Imd risen somo thirty feet the ombnnkincnt gave way and tlio destruction below was terrific?tho water being from hill to hill, swept bridgos, mills, dams, fencing and everything clso movable boforo it. Foi this damage tho road was never required lo pay n cont.? Whither tho com pay will bo so lortuiuvte in their sottlomont witli tho widows mftdo in this nntortunuto oc-< ourreiico remains to bo soon. It is said that tho Superintendent requires all tho employees of tho road to sign an obligation not to hold tho company responsible for damages sustainod on tho road whilo in their omploy. What f'oreo such an ohliimfinn iviil huvo in answering tho claims of widows will perhaps bo tested in tho Oonrts. Tho Mtatomenfc about tho Railroad management arc a moroly ropotition of what ha.s boon said as rumor, whilo if tho Superintendent's Statomontfl woro mado and published, it might throw a different shade of light on tho worst misfortune, which has befallen I ho roud sinco its existence.? A itltlttM I L* I'rnMll UHll Platform of the Cinoinnati ConventionCincinnati, Juno 15.?The platform adopted sets out with tho history of tho party and a statement of its ditty to protect tho rights of all tho pooplo. The enforcement of tho constitutional amendments, tho permanent pacification of the Southern Becuou oi ino union, tho complete protection of nil its citizens in tho froo onjoynicnt of all their rights are the duties to which tho Republican party aro sacredly pledged. Tho power to provide for tho enforcement ot tho principles embodied in llm I'noniil 1 vv.uui vjViiaiiluuuilllL IIIUODU" monts is vosted by those amendments in the Congreea of tho United States, and we declare it to bo tho solemn obligation of tho legislative and ex^ ecutive departments of tho government to put into immodiate aud vigorous exorcise all their constitutional power lor removing any inst causos of discontent on tho part of any class, and securing to every American citi zon complete liberty and exact equality in tho exerciso ot all civil, political and public rights. To this end urn A~ -J - ^ iiu ^uinbinvijr uumuuu U VyUIlgl'CBB and Chiet Executive whoso courage and iidolity to these duties Bhall not falter until tho results arc placod beyond disputo or recall. In the very first act of Congress aigncil by President Grant the National Government assumed to roI mnrn ntiu ilnnKta ! ? ? ?? ? * - ...w . w J v/? IIO |MiI uumi LU I discharge all just obligations to tho public ci editors, and solemnly pledgo its t'uilli to mako provision, at tlio earliest practicable period, for the redemption of tlio United States notes in coin. Commercial prosperity, public merit and national credit de iiiuuu inai liio promise botullilled Lk a continuous and steady progress to specie payments. The lifth plank alludes to civil service reform, and the sixth refers to schools and embodies Blaine's proposed amendment to tho constitution. Kislith. The revonno necessary for current expenditures unci tho obligfilions of Li 10 public debt must be largely derived from duties on importations, which, no far as possible, should bo adjust oil to promote tiio | interest of Amorican labor and nd? vaneo tbo prosperity of tho whole country. Tho ninth plunk opposes further grants of lands to corporations and monopolies, for tho protection ol ads opted citizens, and legislation to prov toct emigrants. Eleventh. It, is the iinmodiato duty of Congress to tuily investigate tho cll'oct ut tho emigration atul importation of Mongolians on tho moral and material interests of tlie country. Twelfth, The party recognizes with a])proval the advaneo in securing tho rights of women by State legis* lation. Tliii tccntli. Tho plank claims sovereign power over t ho Ton itorios to exclude polygamy, and I he fourteenth declares lli.it iho plodgos to tho soU diers and sailors must ho fully fulfilled. l'iteenili. Wo sincercly deprecate all Beetfeeling ami tendencies. We therefore note with deep solicitude that the Democratic party counts oa its chief hopo of success upon the electoral voto of a united Smih so curcd through tho efforts of those l _ 11 ' % w 110 were rcconuy arraigned against 1 ho nation, and wo invoke tho attou* tion of tho county to the grave truth that a success thus aoliiovcil would reopen sectional strife and imperil national honor and human rights. iho sixteenth plunk charges the Democratic party witii being tbo eauio in charaotor and spirit u<* when it sympathized with treason; and, alluded to tlio course of tbo lower house, warns tbo country against a parly alike unworthy and incapable. Boventconth. Tlio uational administration merits commendation for its honorable work in the inanagomont of domestic foroign affaire, and President Grant deserves tho continued and hearty gratitutod oi tho American |lOOnl? for lllR nnlrintintYi on/1 ln'n ? 1 " I ?%?.Vi . I 1 o inunonee services in war and poaco. From tlift Abbeville Medium. Reminiscences of the War oku'b rifles at jbkiciio fokiv McGowan'a Brigado, of tho Army of Northern Virginia. on tho 2.3d of May, 1804, acted no tho roar guard of A. P. Hill's Corps, which had crossed the North Anna River tho evening before, near llanover Junction. We lay on the roadside in a magnificent torcst, as tho artillery and haggago trains passed, till tho afternoon, whon Orr'a Uilles wero ordered down to (lie rivor to do picket duty at Jericho Ford. The reeriment was about two hundred strong, under the command of Muj. William M. Iladden. We marched down a shady country road until wo arrived at an old gato, near where tho enemy were reportod to bo and halted as wo came tb Gen. WII. F. Loo, of tho Virginia Cavalry) who awaited us there. Here wo saw bow usoloss tho cavalry wero. Gen. r :.i. un _ i ?. -1 - -i *r ju ;u cjuiu; UU l lglll UIICHU, iUHJOl', you will find about fifty dismounted Yankee cavalry down there. Arneli is tho thing, you know, Major."? Turning to us ho said: "Now is your timo to get horses ainl pistols.'? An old citizon with a repeating riflo. who was present, said tho saino tiling as to tho number of Yankees. Tho regiment was thrown in lino of battle and advanced, Maj. Iladdcn saying, "Forward?doublo quick." "Give them a shout boys." Wo rushed through tho woods and 6truok ii solid and oxtendod line of infantry ?took ono prisoner and retired under a raking iiro from tho front and ?i ?i.~ tsv/bij ttuii ivo if %j 1U1U1 iUUU Willi lliu balauco of ilio brigo and the three other brigades of tho division charged through a \vhoftt field, across a railroad out, up ft hill and into a strip of woods, but could not move tho enemy who opened u^on us with sixteen pieces of artillery. Instead of tho 4kfiffv fiiuiimnn}.... J yrv found Iiurnaido1a corps and half of Warrcus cor pa well lutroncbod. Wo got no pistols and no horses, and saw nothing moroof W.1I. F. Loo and tho old citizen, who left ug with tho bag to hold. Capt. James S. Cothrnn, of this 1 place, bears tho mark of this skirmish on his check, and, wo ven ture io say, would not tako tlio word of Gun. W. II. F. Lcc on any such question again. David (Jleland, an excellent man trom tho upper parto' this county, was killed. Tbo brigade lost two hundred and eleven men. COL. TAYJXJIl ATORAVELLV ltUN. On the 31st day of March, 1805, KeGowan's Brigade was sent down the 1 i 11C8 from Petersburg to inters cept u body of Federal troops which was moving out upon the right llank of Leo's army. The brigado was thrown out nn Whitp. Onlr i-nfiil in company with Gracie'a Brigade from Alabama, at right angles to llio lino of breastworks, ami both biigades put in command o! Gen. McGowan, Wo lay quietly in a skirt of woods for Bomo hours until the Yankooa advanced upon u?. Simultaneously wo moved forward with lound cheers, and charged upon thotn with great impotuoaity. A braver light was never made. Wo drove them without halting, through the timber rihI out over two hills and one branchAa many m livo distinct lines woro in a perfect raco at one timo, but still fighting as best they could. At this point (Jul. Walter II. Taylor, of Gen Lou's stall", a fine looking young inftn distinguished for hie suporb gallantry rodo up to Color Seargant Duulap, ns gallant a soldier as ever tought, ol Orr's Rifles, and asked for tho flog. DimTap would not givo it up to liim, but assured him ho would carry it wherever ordered. It stirred tber soldier's heart of the heroic Taylor us bo saw how handsomely wo were driving the Yankcos. Ho galloped in front and between tho two lines? waved hia hnt and shouted: "Come ahead, boys! God bless your heartsf I lovo every one of yon. Come ahead* (rod bless you all 1" Tho scene cannot be pictured. Tho onthusiusm cannot bo imagined. With 0110 rodoubled and unceasing cheer the lino went "forward and crushed everything in its path. As it stormed tho next hill, the writer whs shot and rot i red y but the scene is photographed upon his mind, and lie can revert to no more pleasant incident in tho war.? Taylor wore a black eapc and looked every inch a soldier, us lie proved to be. Wo trust lie hiva a good wife and n family of ii.io boys who may emulate the actions of the father. :M?T Missouri Township-Bond * oudiation Tho rcccnt dociBion of tho U. B. Supremo Court that ccrtain Missouri i township bonds woro invalid is beginning to boar fruit. Tho St. Louia I Republican says: j Fifty fivo citizens of Kaw township, havo addressed to tho County Court a protest "against any furthor recogi\? lion of tho validity" of tho railroad bonds issued by tho county for that township and also against tho further recognition of tho validity of tho Jacksou county bonds issued to tho Mertw phis and Mobile lailroad, on tho ground that tho recent dociaion tnado by the United States Supremo Court in tho caso of township railroad bonds dostrovs their v.nlirlifv. TCnw townsip bonds thus protested against amount to 6559,000; the bonds of othor townships in the aiuno County, of a similar character, to 8101,000, and tho Jackson County bonds iaauoii without tho approval of two thirds ol tho qualified votors of tho county to tho Momphis and Mobilo Itailroad to 8350,000, making a total of #1.061,? 000 bonds, which it is claimed aro jij^ valid and of no binding lorco on tho county under llio decision. Tho into*, re-it 011 thoho bonds has horotoforo boon faithfully paid. Tho Court laid tho subject over for consideration. The Republican also has a dispatch from Kansas City, Juno 8th, a# ioK lows: Tho County Court passed an ord?r to day revoking all orders for th? lo*y of a tax to moot tho intorest on all tho township bonds, amounting to Tho superiority of man to naturo ia continually illustrated in literature and in life. Naturo needs an imirienso quantity of quills to make a goose with; hut man can malco a gooao of himself in live minulo.s with one quill. That don't tit us; wo uso stool pons, Tho provalonco of lynching in TeXftft 's astonishing. Tho Galvoston Nowa gives tho particulars oi seventeen in* stances occurring within two months. Most of tho victims woro horso stealers and stago robbers. Tho San Antonia Horald says that in no other way, in tho absceiico of enforced law#f could the lives and property of ro* spoctable citizens bo protected. Tho following specimen of English pure ami umioiiioo is 11:0111 1110 Lay or* jjool TimcBj "A doctor was lately summoned to a cottago at llurwood in Teasdalo, and found a boy in noed of his services. 'Put out your tongue,' said the doctor. The boy starred like an owl. 'My good bov,' re