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VnT YVTV MANNING. S. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 SEA TRAEY m Lae neif lims SCHOONER is IREKF &amr lcked tp ta the W"ekVge of the Goveenor Anme and Car gzed to Chresoa by the SeaM dt ihawmat. Gives Graphe 14o uy of aCaastohW. ag s VeU5-mted scboonef GO'v Sor Amee, .ound from Brunswick Ga.. to New York. with a large car o of railroad roeies. grounded ad weat to plees or Wimble Shoals. twenty-Eve mOM nort of Cape Hatteras. Monday afternoon at about s o'loc. The captain. te . euSnmitbn of tevTe mea. and the wife of the captain. were al! Miled or drowned with one singe emption. Tba, says Th News and Courer. a the story toad by the sole Su" ~ivor. a Nova Seotin. by the name of Josiah Spering. a seman on the esel. He was picked up from S man of Soating tie by the KeUm - ship Shawaut. while on her way from Phiadelphia to Charlestoa. where se arrived WedneSday night with Spearing on board. Capt. A. SyeooU. of the shawmof. sa Theday moraing about '- o'Olock divered a Egure signaIlg on a - of vreckage. The Sbawmot 1 was about two mies from the see. ut immedialy bastened to wbere the wrechage lay. The sea was too rovgh to lower a boat. but a ladder x w- thrown over the side of the "o va and Speartag embed aboard. I Spearing wa sufaring om the mg4thke shock and partdeularly from swere brube inscted by the ast bag wreckage, which best upO him m anout of the heavy sea danb agt to and r Hies an arms hasr blu. and black marks. and he ft unabl to walk. Ie mind. bow- I er. is slear and be Is able to give a tan aceufnt of the calamitY. wbhcb he did to a reportW of The NOn and Courier, and from that acCount e e make up this report: e aed the Sbawmot by Waeing an eR skin c~.t, which he managed to gave before the siboonr weat dow. Do sa that In the freoos Monday the wtad asomed ma proporeaS. it was toosy. ad ( drisIa, and be say the maa at the wheel was aesr.ghted ad could not a* whoe he was steering: that I he 0OW4 only steer by the way the wind 3ned the sail. or by aid of z the Star That at 11:30 o'clock ta the =*rli the ,chooner strueh z roc- and brok e att The sea eame l on the qurtrdeet and the al-1 ore Iaed the captain's wife to the spanker rigging. I hca the men we: ewn to get life preservera. When it was tried to use them they fell to pees before any one could get theg on. Bope yards were then mafe around the preservera by each man who had one. WhDe the men were trying to make the preservee seaworthy the gmi broke aft, and the captain' v wite was rushed to the forward dek ad lashed to the mast. She WaD alms trome. safering from the eO0 wind and froca the coMd m that wa Ailing the boat. The 300 rahed d9wu Into the embin for blankets for her. and they had hard y gotten on deck again wen the *stern broke In two ad the cabin was Oi0ed with water.1 *It was about?2 o'clock thea, and the wind tnere*n. the voelo broke up completely. 'Te woman was lash ed to the mtein rigging. anda then. s the rigging began to break. she wa takes away and lashed, to the hoops et the mainmaeer on the fore a ne Te sea was eo vtolent that the mast broke. ad. fanning upon th woman. crushed her to death. Spearing said s the womn tell he hed a man give a death scream. a. the same mast had ihnies upon him andi kined him. Sperig saId tht as son as he an the mate saw that the eatain's wif was dead they knew they could do ao more. so they made as efiort to Oave their own liem by ~rennlng to the jib as It wee the safest plc When the vee began breaking et abe s5ung around so violently that they couldn't stay on her any longer. Three big een wshbed over the rekge and Spearing manged to hold on. The fourth sea was so strong. bow ver. that be fenl overboard from the mecage. He grabbed to a hand rope a the flying jth and wee for inate enough go land on the deck. hich was floating. Hie had scaree ly landed when two sees struck hint nockig him down before he couMd raise himself. He was terribly dam ed and about half ecescious when he tood up. but he made a start for the aft deck and he could hear me'I sereang with fear and agony as they were being pounded sensele~S by faling timbers. Another sea washed over him and he attepted to get to the men in distr. It was good dark then: the stump of the jigger mast broke of and with It came twenty feet of the deck. Three men were hanging n and aln had broken arms and le~s t was at this time that Siearinr ecmbed up the only mast above wa tr and foemnd on the top a poor ta man with all his fingers chopped When finally a ii sea dash.-! the men from the perches and tookc t!'e mast with it. Spearing ?emined in the water fully fifteen minores4 hA fore he came to a blg part of th'e wekage which he at Eirst -oh was a shark. He hun~g on to the foating timbers with might and iain until the next morning. m-ta g aars the schone :ff AND TWENTY-FIVE INKRED IN THE 9OCTHEBX WRECK. Name. and Addreso of the Paseng en Who Wre Killed or Wound ed by the Accident. Vice President and General Man ::ger Ackert. of the Southern Rail cay. Wednesday gave out the fol lowing statement in regard to the accident near Greensboro. N. C.. ear Ly Wednesday mornins: -Our passenger train. No. 11. which is operated locally between Richmond. Va.. and Atlanta. Ga.. and earries sleepers from Richmond to Charlotte and from Norfolk to Charlotte. was derailed about 6.50 O-clock this morning. about elevec miles south of Greensboro. N. C. !u far as can be ascertained at this :me. the cause of the accident was a broken rail, due to a concealed Setect. Two coaches and two sleep rs turned over. The engine. mall ad begae ars did not leave the The pasesgers reported killed John A. Broednad Greensboro. . C. V. E. Holcomb. a lawyer of Mount V ry. N. C. Edward Seton. Dentoa. N. C. Frank W. Kilby. BtrMingham. Ala. A. P. Cone. superintendent of tiebmond dtvilion of the Southern. C. B.' NoIaS. Pullman :oaductor. H. C. White. traveling auditor. ashigton. D. C. Ed Bagby. Richmond. Va. Richard Eame. New Tort ety. Isaac Dammafle, porter om Wleb aond sleeper. On un"itIed. clean shaven rhite pan. aboat 34 years of age. Tota regorted dead, eiem. Reported Injured: Joha W. PhWInPi PetarsburI. VO. Daid P. MeBrayer, Andersoa. S. Alva L. Harris. Reidsvllae. L C. Will Zamne=. Davideom Colege. L C. Satral Watson, uaskervil. Va. Arthur Watson. Baskeril3e, Va. Robert RuosselL 14 East 41st treet. New York. Umr. H. T. Cook. Norfolk. Vi. ?. Ss:fth. Speocer. N. C. H. L. Strtbbling. Atlanta. Ga. Richard Dobe. Norfolk. Va. W. T. Deberry. Portsmouth. Va. Mrs. Robert Edmond. Jr.. New eave. 14. .nth~p Nelson. Gre-eeoro. N. C. The Rev. D. B. Hill (colored). sidsvile, N. C. Thoas W. lidridge, bagge WsHter. Richmond. Va. Bartog Marye, road master. atich od. N . Thomas V. Chalkley. Richmond. George B. Wagoner. Daarthe. Va. W. Tb. Carrol!. ticket agent, Nor H. L Weed. Pullman superinten eot. Norfolk. Va. W. Tb. Carter. traveling auditor. lenie, Va. John Anderson. colored porter. forfoa. V. Total reported iniared twenty The track was cleared and all rains zoving at G:30 p. a. Wedaa Tagdy in GeorgIa. At Cuthbert. Ga.. John W. Harris. 0 years old., and brother of Mayor aris. of that city. was shot and ntantly killed In the lobby of the badoph hotel by 3. F. Lord, Jr.. I years old,. son of the proprietor are ira pIng cards in the obby wehea young Lord. it is said.I ,rdered hJim out of the house, and a the diseulty ktflowing Harris a shot. Lord Is under arrest. ExtTerm et Opert A dispatch from Ktngstree uays lerk of Court Britton received Wedesday from Governor Ane am rder for the calling of an estre Lerm of the Court of Genera! Se+. ion to commence on January 10 l11. The special term Is for the punps of trying John Weeds (or 3.ose). the would-be rapist. 1Ths , the - earliest day the court can awfuly be held. Emow Up Beak. Blowing op with a heavy charge f ynamite the entire side of the yuilding, See bandits a few mornings gorobbed the Citizens' Bank of Gnerimo, a small town eight mniles north of Lawton. Okla.. securIng t.20 and ecaped. Two citizens: were held under guard until they bad robbed the bank. Brunswick on Thursday last. The resse! hailed from Providence. R. T. but had sanled from Boston to Bunswick. He did not know the~ cptai's name and had on'ly been w.th the ship for a little over three weeks. He jotned the ship at. Bos The crew consIsted of thse ptain, to mates. an engineer and a steward and six seamen and the captain's wife. Spearing said that his home i Cambridge. Hants eounty. Nov1a Scotia. He is 33 years of age and umarried. Spearing was dloating on the wrecage two or three mil.' from te Shawmut when he was~ iset sihted. whbich was about 24 miles urth. northeast of Diamond Shoals l'hshp. The catastrophe occurred4 at Wible Shoals. about 5 ml north of Cape Hatteras. Spearing said that the vessel went pees atbout five rn!!'e from shore. An attempt was madle elzl or ten times to make raft's topu the crew on so as to go- to ,norn-. but the high seas prevented. The sor could ha~t haae n Ithe ee o RECK F TRAIN Costs eve Lis aad Ca*sesmiiry is Ir Peek ACDENT ON SOUTHEM A Brokes Rail Thrown Pile Coaches From a Bridge Near Gre* -o N. C.-Two High Santhern Rail way Ofice Ar" lactoded in the List of Those Killed. Local passenger train No. 11. on the Southern railway. known as the Rlcbmond and Atlanta train, due in Greensboro at 6:40 a. m.. was wrecked Wednesday at 6:32 at Reedy Fork trestle, ten miles north of Greensboro. and at 6 o'clock Wednes day evening eleven dead bodies had been removed from the wreckage. Fourteen are reported dead and twenty-five ajured are being cared for at St. Lao's hospital. Owing to !he character of the wreck much time was required to remove the dead and injured trotm the debris and. It was 8:30 before this work was well underway. The injured were carried to Greensboro as rapidly as they could be extri cated from the wreck and placed In St. Leo's hospital. The derailment of the train was caused by a broken rail, about two hundred feet from the trWle that spans the small stream.. The train was composed of two baggago, at prom and mal ears, three day coaea and two Pullmans The en sine and baggae, mall and express cars pased over In safety, while the day isches and Pultman were thrown from the trale Iato the week ad along the banks some twenty to thirty test below. At the point where the Srat coach let the track. the' right hand rail being broken, about eighteen lack se from a joint. the rail was broksn into fragments for everal feet. and torn entirely from the crossties. The truck wheels ran on the ties until r.ear the Lrestle. when the outside wheels went over. allowing the brake beams and axles to fall on the guard rail of the brdge. A9 the last coach was about on the tre 1 tie, the fie coaches toppled ove. broke loose from the mail and ex pres car and tumbled to the ma-1 and water below. The Norfolk Pullmas fell In tbe water while the Richmond sleepe ut In front, landed only partiaaiS In the water. The most of the :i ured and lilled in the aleepers we & in tne Richmond sleeper. which was toally demolished. The Norfnib sleeper was not so badly torn up. but fell on Its side in the swwollen tream, submerging many of the p..' sengers in the water. The condue tor n this coach. Capt. Johnson, wax very slghtly injured and none of LI's passengers In bis car were killed. The Richmond Pullman is a maam of wreckage and,scattered over Lthe wet and muddy bank of the stream. part of it being busied In the :nu. At 1 o'clock parts of two bod.. ere visible from the edge of this mass of wrekae and tt is not noe known bow many more are under It. Railroad men, who were wort ing hard to rescue the unfortunate victims and to recover the bodies of the dead, are practically certaa. that a remova. of the debris would reveal moore den bodies. The ..u' day coaches in front of the I'u!! mans were also complet' wrecks, be ing smashed into kindling wood. Of the dead their appearanlc'a the undertakers .emrwed tha, soon were scalded to death. 0*-: .e badly mutilated, while one wee eut I hlf at the waist. his dismetnber ed parts being found at the o'pposite end of the coach. At 1 o'eiock. when the d!aa w.-re chrried into the city. the' wirgtue was so crowded t~ the tras" pa ed on further where the amuia'tes and hacks were gathered to convey the dead to an improvised anormue which had been ordered. It took a cordon of policem-.e. to keep the eager crowds from .?( ek In all approaches. For a ~s-~ of four houtr the streets were .,' one time or another the scene ->f a pro cesion of ambulances carryanus *d wounded to the hospital or the dead to the morgue. The Southern i:14 a core.' or ff Scials, physicians and la borers on the seen quickly after the news was re eied. Improvised litters were quickly put inte service, as the in jured were released from their per lor's positilons In the mass of wreck Pullmnan mattreses and blaekets were usaed to protect the t..e injured. and the dead were w-appod and handled as tenderly as the exigen. cels of the occaion would permtt. strong and wIlling hands lifted the improied litters with their b'r dn of suffering hutnanity and bore thm to the hospital trains. which were opierated between the place of the wreck and Summit avenue, near' est the St. Leo's hospital. Srong men wore blanched faces, but carried steady hands and work ed quietly. but with a will to de everthing~ in their power. Evet ~ner the stress of the terrible to itment there was much tendet ShtWhile Hunting. Mr. Btarkin W .'rley. a piant" " the Mnujnt Pleasanlt s'ction n Newerr ct"ly. accijdental'y sho Ihi.-.f at 9 n'eteek Wednmesdas monig h> ot. Mrd hunting. rh ioa~ pentratian; his. lft leg jus aeo h kne acdproducing MZEAYA HAS RESIGNED TY RAIXCAL NICARAGUAN ktLFR YIELDS TO THE INEVIT.AI.E. With th- Whole Country seething With Revolution Against Him. This Uas His Only Way Out. A dispatch from Managua says Jo.e Santas Zelaya has resigned from. the Presidency of Nicaragua. He placr:d his resignation in the hands of Congress Thursday morn ing. Apparently there was no oth er course for him to take. The people- were at last aroused. The guns of the revolutlonsts threaten ed. the warships of the United States were in Nicaraguan ports. Managua has been seething for days. The spirit of revolt has spread even to the gates of the palace. Zelaya surrendered himself with an armed guard. Unchecked the pop ulace have marched through the streets. crying for tne end of the old. proclaiming the new regime, Who will take up the reins no one knows nor cares. It Is sufficient that Zelaya as dictator will be known no more. There is no doubt that Congress will act quickly on his resignation, for the people have de manded IL Dr. Jose Madriz. Judge of the Central American Court of Justice at Cartage. who has been clos to Zelaya, and Is now his choice for I a presdent, has gone to Man- 4 gua. Madri has his foflowing strong and inluential, even among f the revolutionists, but Gen. Zetrad. under whose command the gret body of fghting insurgents now face Vasques's troops at Rame, will have t none of him. Betrada's word will ber weight in the choice of a Prest- , dent. gelays has known. too. that adris is aot scceptable to the Unit ed Statee. and he has sought to learn who would be looked apon with fa- t vor by that government as his suc- t cessor. AcoompanyingS his rI"**I n E Welaya sent the following meae to congres: -The paInful edreumstans in which the country is plunged call for b acts of abnegation and patriotism on the part of good eltiseas, who are b the witnesses of the oppression of a the Republic by the heavy hand of fate. The country is staggering un der i shameless revolution. which threatene the nation's sovcret'nt: and a foreign natIon unjustly inter venes in our affairs. publicly provid Ing the rebels with arms. which ha- s only resulted in their being defeated everywhere through the heroisn of our troops. "To avoid further bloodshed. and for the reason that the revolutlon ists have declared that they would put down their arms when I sur render the executive power. I here by place in the hands of the national assembly the abandonment of thejC remainder of my term of offce, which is to be filled by a substitute on theirj choosing, with the hope that thi will result in good to Nicaragua, the reestablishment of peace. and partic ularly the suspensot of the hcstili ty of the United States to which ii do not wish to give a pretext for laevention." A commission of dive deputies wash appointed to draft a bill looking to1 the acceptance of Zelayas resigna - tion. which is now considered a more formality. News of the president's! action spread through the city. and ) soon great crowds moved through the streets, shouting for the United States. Estr-ada and the revolution. Held in control for years by the strong hand of Zelaya. the people have been quick to break through restraint when It was certain that the' dictator could not breast the tide that has been rising around him. Durng the later days Zelaya has resorted to all the known tricks and contrivances to hold the people of Managua with him. Reports of a government victory a- Rlama have been freely circulat ed. and rumors that a massacre of revolutionists had occurred were a) owed to apread unchallenged and un denied. It finally became known that these were without a shred of truth, and they rebounded likce a boomerang. First one deputy then another took up the denuncIatIOn of Zelaya in the chamber and later in the public paes,. and soon throughout the city demonstratIons were held, In which open revolt was voiced. Wednes day night. however, a pro-Zalaya demonstration marked the session of congress. but this had no effect out side the walls of the house. The rising was more marked Thursday than ever, and the President de cided discretion to be the better part of valor and withdrew from offce. .-m'O''S SA T It. ut Later Relased and the Faner al MTreHaute. Ind.. ar. an utn dertaker started to prepare the body of Edward Murphy for burial, the: supposed dead man arose In bed and yawned. "1 fea! better after that Ioni; Murphy had been :n a state of: coa fo- ten hours. He' had bee.n an invailed for a Iong time. Htat the undertaker soon was recalled. for Murphy really died later. after jnking about his "drst death" to the' frihten"4d ?embalmner. - Postffre Robbed. The potCneiw at Short Cr,~nk. A.~ wa. entered by dynamite ''ary on morning recently. the safe bl~rs open and several hundred dollars in money taken. Boodihnundr. we-s I SEVEN LNIVES LOST IN A FOLI-ISTORY CINCINNATI TENE-MENT DEATH TRAP. Tne Housue Ablaze With Eevry Oc cupant sleeping-Freiea Cary Many Down Ladder. Safely. in a fire at Cincinnati that de stroyed a tenement house shortly beiore daylight on Tuesday morn ing seven persons were -killed and 30 injured. The building was a veritable death rap. The one fire escape was ren ered useless by the fames and the smergency door. supposed to lead to safety. and ordered kept open )y the fre department. was nalled shut. The building is a four-story strue ture with tenants on every Soor I =cept the first. The hallways are ighted by kerosene lamps and In tome way the lamp on the second loor was upset and in a very few nnutes the dry woodwork in the hall was aflame. The blaze shot upward. making t impossible for the tenants of the 4lsce to get out by way of the stairs. Some of them jumped out of the windows and were badly hurt. rhere were fifty persons in the house it the time. The rst Bremen to reach the ene saved several of them from he rear of the burning boilding. ,he captain of engine company No. carried down two bodies on the adder and several women were ound huddled together on the fourth loor. The odieu taken to the norgue were so badly burned that entiacation was almost impossi 4e. Patrolman Clark and Trinkler. rho were the Armt upon the sence, icked up a blanket from In front I the building and yelled to the Srifted peo;e in the windowv to mp. Holding the blanket between hem. they called to a wemaa on be second floor to jump into it. As she jumped to safety the oo rs called to a small girl who was n the verge of dropping from 4 rindow on the third floor. The girl nok one look at the outstretehed lanket and jumped head Art in a. Both woman and child were adly burned and weft quickly rush d to the city hospital. Two officers carried many of the aats to safety over the neighbor 2g roofs. FROST CAVSES WREOK Wo Pensom Kied in Crash at Railroad Cossing. Two persons were killed. one fa ,y injured and seven more or leas etrlously hurt when a Central of .eorgia northbound passenger train riday morning, at 7:50 o'clock, at arris C~ty, Ga.. crashed itno the nmbination second-class. baggage ad mail car of train No. 42, east ound. of the Macos and Birmin ham road. The dead: W. A. MicCaurde. a by-stander. of arris City. J. L Williams. a by-stander. of [arris City. Fatally hurt: H. C. Rawls, joint ticket agent. [arris City. Injured. H. Mi. Newman, mall clerk. La trange. head crushed and spine in E. hi. Phillips. baggage master. lacon. Ga., foot broken. 1. M. Coleman. fireman, back hurt. D. W. Allen. of Colombus. passeog r on Central train, bruised about ody and chest. Miss Vera Caldwell. a by-stander. ruised about head and neck. Will Gritgs, negro porter, Einger ut off. other severe injuries. The accident occurred at the crosn g of the two roads and was due. cording to statements from rail 'oad officials, to a frosted track. BUR1ED ALIVEC. Lthoritee Looking Into -Meof Man's Death. A special from Anatley. Mexlico. ays: In the belief that the man "as buried alive, and that his death ias due portly to rough treatment td asphyxiation, authorities are In vetigating the burial of Salvador rijerina. The man went to a hotel at a late hour at night. become VIO lently ill and was bejieved to have ied. His burial followed. it is said. at the dirtction of the hotel pro pietor. six Mexicans~ who had been rinking. lnterring the body. That be was not dead when removed from the hoe1 is the belief of the author1 '!ed a concillatory message to Presi dent Taft. saying that he had shown his good faith by resigning in order that Nicaragua might resumefred ly relations with the United States. He added that he proposed to leave he country but stood ready to ac ount for his acts as president. * A Long Train. .t train of I:!0 st.'e! cars. carry ig six thousand tons of coa! and drawn by a single engine left Roa ok' for Nnrto~k. Va.. over the Vir ginia railway. The train was su fet more than a mile in length and i said to be the lo-st ever drawn y o:e !ecomo'iVe. Fatal Shooting Scrape. A ~rt shooting sc-rapecnt' e nVetviln Tue-day nigl1 in whien oc Belk was sho? and killed by John Peach. The partie are white. The kmilng is uderstood to be about TALE OF HORBOR! ne,..m ~~...a.a.cod.o.... ToAY MbOW Cufis il ike AdaatI -~wf Barba"*"n Coniton And Superintendent tining is Thor oughly Incompetent Ree ation Grew Out of an Indictment of Two 025cers for Deating a Nego. S"No words can express our sur prise, mortibcation and disgust at the unapeakable conditions which ex ist at the cdty stocka4e. Such is the opening sentence. says the Atlanta Journal of the report made Friday to Judge Ellis. oi the superior court by the November grand jury, which sent a committee out to the city chain gang Tbiw day afternoon to Investigate charg es which grew out of the alleged un merciful beating of negroes by con vic; guards The committee reports that 100 negro men were found cooped up In a small poorly ventilated eating room, which had a dirt Soor, and which was absolutely offensive trom B1th, expectoration and the odor of naeen human bodies. The room where the white men ate, It Is stated. was little better. except that the door was of concrete. The sleeping apartments, it Is oarged. are still more Lorrible, where messes of human beings were ompelled to lie down on nwattres s which were as althy as filth could make them The mattresses were meer cleaned, the blankets were sever washed. and one w4;te con rict declared, it Is stated, that he was compelled to go for 44 days 1 without once taking of or changing Ms clothing. The pants couldn't have been taken of. on account of 1 As shackles. This man stated that Lt the end of that time he was full Af vermin. None of the clothes worn by the white or black convicts looked as If :ey had ever been washed There were no bathing facilities. %o ventilation, no prison discipline, so prison rules, declared the grand ury. The same conditions existed in he kitehen where the cooks were I inclean women prisoners. The reg ar rations coneisted of a piece of :orn bread. a piece of fat bacon and I t bucket of molasses In which the I risoners were free to dip the bread. I Me amount was sufficient. but the 1 ood Itself was such that the grand I ury did not see how human beIng < :ould eat It. I There was no adequate hospital ervices. One man was found 17 ng on a filthy mattress like the rest.f1 pufeing from fever. presumablyj kate wh had a gunshot woundj n the breast was wearing sucha iely dirty shirt over the woundl hat infection seemed certain.4 The same was true of a man with lores on his legs. The modes of punistiment. declar t the grand jury, seemed barbari yus. The whipping chair was de cribed at length-a wooden affair i which the victim is fastened im ovabe and then beaten with heavy straps. One of the straps had met a rivets near Its end, said the re port. Clubs and billies were found w-ith which it is alleged the prisoners bad been struck. Two rings were found fastened In the walls, about six feet high, and Be or si feet apart: to these the superintendent declared he some !mes handcuffed prisoners with their arms outstretched and their faces toward the wall. The superinten det stated to the grand jury that he never continued this punishment, for more than 30 or 40 minutes. but the grand jury had reason to believe that it had been inflicted in certain sses for the best part of a whole afternoon~. Bad as these conditions were. thel ;rand jury believed some kind of a tempt had been made to improve, conditions In honor of their vis' t New whitewash had been used. andz they had been informed that the chains had been taken of certain women prisoners only the day be The grand jury declared that the authorities in charge of the stockade -naming Superintendent 0. M. Vin ing specIncaly-were "entierly In efficient and thoroughly incompe tent." and declared that many of the guards were not only incompetent. but addicted to drink, as in the case of Officer Cornett. Indicted the day before for unmercifully beating a negro. who had been caused to re 'ig from the police force way back in 190ti. because of "drunkenness whie on duty." It was declared that some of the guards we're possibly honest and in telent. but that they were power less to do any good because they lacked proper direction. The grand jr was disinclined to adopt thue idea that lack of money. was real!! :eponsble for the conditions. be' cause i! found conditions In the is is infinitely cleaner and more de 'ent than in the places where the~ human beings were kept "Ilk'' it was recommended that the~ rd Siai force b-a reorganized. that a of prison rules b." ereated, that th-. antation~ b improved, that ho - pital facilities b" installed. th' 1facilities be establis.hed for bathir. and that compulsory bathing hei" auurted: that the convicts be pce vl.ded with clean clothes, and tha the clothes be ahe at proper l3 te.-als ad that they he given be DRUG STORE HFIM LN ATLANTA BY THE EXPLOSION of FIREWORES. Two Persona Badly Brned and Ate Interior of the Slcr and ock Mined. The Atlanta Journal say as a result of the sudden and entirely unexpected explosion of a quantl;y of Christmaa dreworks in the W. R. Fuller pharmacy. 470 Pri,? street. Tuesday evening at 10.30 o'clock. Arthur Kagle. the young soda dispenser. now Ues at the Ora dy hospital at the point of death from burns received. Dr. Fuller - badly burned about the face. hanha and body and the pharmacy is a tai wreck. At !he time of the explosion Dr Fuller and KnaeZ were opening z new svpPly of fireworks that had come in during the day and were atterly 1.1gorant of any danger; h ing beer particularly careful to rx inguish the Are in the Stove f'e hours before the fireworks were open ed. The couple had Just marked up two of the packages when one $ad lenly exploded and others followed en the $90 worth of Brevork. riluding Roman -andles, skyrockets. 1hreerackers, and dynamite Cap@, e ploded young Kagel was blown ten reet sainst the top of the store Lod came dowu In the very midst of the burning miles. Dr. F0l'er had gone to the cash register In an djoining room to ring up tb ae >t a cigar when he was jarred by he Ignition of the freworks. Though e was many feet away be was >own ten feet through space against 1e soda foun. and badly burned y the fying explosives before he :old escape. After his Bight to the eiling and ac., young Kagel was so bady blia4 4 that It took him ten mInutes to Iht his way out of the owining >rescrption room. Finally finding he door he made a dash for the treet and ran up and down the idewalk like a mad man. with his iothing ablase. He was so badly Irightened by the fames and arue ie had received that It was with 11culty that W. S. Matthew, ehe d him down and held him unti! is burning clothes could be remor .d. The pharmacy looks as If % cyet-ne ad struck It with all Its force. The 'rout doors were torn from their inges, all window panes shattered. how cases demolished, rnoda foun ain ruined and the building badly lamaged by Are. The preecription oom is a total wreck. where the fire rorks were being opened. There s nothing to it at all. The many ottles of powder and liquids were prinkled all over the floor and every ottle broken Into blura CAUG~HT IN DEATH TRAP'. )ne FIreLma anc Five GkIi Pris in a B-.; Blade. Five girls ansi ?reman Joseph ioner are konwn to have st their ives when the siz-story buildisS Philadelphia, Pa.. occupied by icrack & Sherwood. manufactor rs of undertaking supplies, was eetroyed by fire a few rnghts ago. wenty girls wore working in the ulldng when the fire broke out. uost of whom escaped with the as mistance of police and firemen. It was shown that half a dosen were nsing and lter it was reported at five had failed to return to thel' beomes. Toner was killed while en s~ged In rescue work. The ruin' ire being searched for the bodies i the deed. FORT LAWN FIRMZ FAILS. Pise in Cotton Drives .1. 8. Daanke & Co. to the Wall. Papers have been sent -to the L'nited States Court at CharlestoP asking that Mr. J. B. Daniel. of Fort Lawn. trading as J1. B. Dani'l i Co., be adjudged a banrupt. The bearing has been fixed for next Mon day. and the big store at Fort Lawn will be closed at that time. Th' proceedings are not In voluntarn form. but will not be contested b4 Mr. Daniel. Mr. Danirs taile is due to hi selling 1,000 bales of cotton at 10 cents. 0? figures about like .hat, thinking when the stap@ rose tn be able to get enotrgh off his owv farm and buy the remainder to com plete his contract, but the continued rise in the price and the almost en tire failure of his own crop put him somethng like $i7.006 to $20.00" to the had, and he was unable t" meet his obligations. Casptain .umts is Guilt. Capt. Thomxas Franklin. U. S. A. twice commended by Genu. Chaffe and Gen. Otis for distinguished serv ice in China and at Manila. ple'ad guilty a few days to a long eerie! of pet.ty embezzlements from the mes. fund of the West Point cadets as commssionary and treasure? o1 United States Military academiy, in< wa sentceced by Judge Hand. in thi circuit court. In New York. to tw~ :.cars and six months in the federa eitntiary at Atlanta. Ga. Hij -vnse! gave notice that they woulc appy for a writ of error and r. Bit'n by Bull Ng. r'.id white b'eli dog which wen' '1 'ampage in the !ower part of Net -York Wednesday niht. The do; .. fia-lm iuma~ 'r * po ceman JIADMIT HE LIE JCaPL Lam Braid Hsowl SIuemut Abt Dr. Co. a Lie. WAS OUT FOR THE MONEY He Had Prepared Oook's Obma vations for Im Has Contewo That the Story Was Prepared Without Begard to Truth. Capt. B. S. Osborn. of New Yor, secretary of the Arctic CI';o. us written Capt. Joseph E. Berner and others that Capt. A-:gust W. o.se's story of his dealins with Dr. Cook. as published iA a New York news paper, was concocted for sale. with out regard to the truth. In the presence of witweses." said Capt. Osborn. "I heard Loose Way. 'I was out for the money. and I don't care how I get ILO* Capt. Osborn does not believe that Loose's narrative. as supported by his aldavits, was a part of any plot to discredit Dr. Cook. "The idea originated with Loos. and Dunkle." says Capt Osborn. "They bad for sale matter In this controversy so explosive that nobody dared handle it. When they found that out they cut about for some. thing else. Dunkle was the proot er. Loose the workman. "Also Dunkle aot meet of the money. That's what Loose sa and now he is casting around to see where he stands. He's got a can science, and it smarts. "I wrote these facts Ic private letters to Capt. Bernier &ad othbrs, and their premature Pblcaton is a mistake, and may spoil what would have been complete dooumentary proof of my assertion, swora to be fore a notary. "Loose had an appointment to sign a confession, which has al ready been drawn up. He dd not appear. and now he has Just twenty four bours' grace. If he does not sign very shortly the substance of the Cnfession will then be printed from notes of conversations on which it is based.6 Capt. Osborn was not at liberty to name the person who had obtain ed and drafted the onfession. "A ship owner." he designated him. "a former employer of Looe and a man who has personal lain once with him." "How did this man prevail on Loose to conftes." was asked. "He told Loose straight out." said the captain. "that Loose was playing checkers with his own nose. Capt. Osborn does not deny that Dr. Cook and Loose had business dealings and that money passed between them. But he said: "I know enough shipmates of the doctor's who went Into the Antarc tic with him to be sure the doctor needed nobody to fabricate observa tions for him. No doubt he set problems for Loose, by which to check 'his own calculations." Neither Loose or Dunkle could be found. "Lie From Beginning toEd. An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says. "Capt. Loose has confeseed that his story published in a New Yon: n-wspaper is a line from beginning to end. We hope to have his coo feason sworn to in a few days." This, in substance. is the state meat made to a letter received by Capt. Vernier. commander of the Canadian exploration steamer Arc tic. The letter. Capt. Bernier statae. Is from Capt. B. S. Oiiborn. of N' York. secretary of the Arctic Club of which the explorer is a memnber. It was Capt. Bernier who receiv'ed the first letter from Dr. Cook aft'r his dash to the pole. announcing the sonen of the journey. Only Pfyfur From South Cao lina Passed. Director Durand. of the census bureau. Friday informed Represen cative Patterson that only 54 of thi applicants in South Carolina wM recently stood examinaion for clerkship in the census bureau had been successful. This covers the entire State. Mr. Durdan seemed~ to think that this inability to pass the examination successfully was no re~ection on those who attemptedi them, but was more to be aeoun..e1 for by reason of the fact that thes questions asked were largely those dealing with manufacturing and kindred matters. about which many persons have little knowledge. R. is not yet shown whether anothe-~ apportunity will be given South Ca: olinians to try for these plac s.* One Killed. Many Hart. One woman was killed and 51 persons were injured when the east bound California limited on the San ta Pe collided with the rear end of the eastbound CalIfornia express at Winona. Arz.. Friday. Mrs. Alice Benet of Hartford. Conn.. was crushed to death and 22 people on the express were injured. Twenty nine p'ersons. passengers and dining car waiters. were injured on the I Given Up fo Dead. A dispatch from Londen ars three huzndred pers~ons on the Auistraillau tiuer Waratah were officially gi'en up for daad a few days ago and the $1.256.000 insurance claims on th steamer were paid at Lloyds. *The warral has heen rilissing since