CM A- W. niliCHMORR, PltOPHIBTOR* ;th e j.t a n n of t i i h _pi l igknt sua l l ru lk. ?? \ A I ? V \ V. VOL. VIII. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY rS. C\, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1005 J* . . 1 J ; 'JjlJ-J *?- *yi--!gii - 1 NO. IS. A -YAWNING CHASM. Into Which an Excursion Train Loaded With Negro Plunge 1. OCCURRED NEAR WEDQEF1ELD r?vo I'ooplo Killed and Many o.I,. eru Woumled. linortH to \N arn tho Knglncvr of > Danger Failed. ^ An excursion train from Nichols to Columbia on tho Atlantic Coast Lino Railroad was wrecked between Wedge Held and Cane Savannah, about eight miles from Sumter, Wednesday morn ing. The train 'wa;t taking a largo crowd of colored people to Columbia When eight tnile^ from Sumter, going at full speed, it plunged Into a deep washout. Tho engine, the baggage car and throe coifphes were thrown in a heap, and the crew and passengers crushed in the wreck. The water which had been lying pluoidly beside tlie embankment had become a torrent unlashcd, and the pent up force tore a gaping hole 1-, the path or the train. Into this fis sure the train plunged-and the At lan tic Coast Line service has lost one or Its best passenger conductors: four excursionists are reported dead, and others are suffering from severe in Juries. There were :i2 of the pas senger list of less than a hundred, who suffered injuries of more or leas im portance. frnm^TsnJo1?1 trSJ n Was an e*curslon from iSichols, Marlon county, and was running just ahead of the regular morning train from Sumter to Colum bia. lhe excursionists wore neirro preachers and their friends going to the commencement of one of the col ored colleges in Columbia. DKAD AND WOUNDKI). J. J. Clements of Florence, conduc tor, killed instantly by blow ?n head 1< rank Hoss and Minnie Ross, his wife, colored. Joe Davis, colored, Marion. Ned Weston, colored, Marion. Died Sumter6 k?1'1 WhUe l)Cin" taken 10 In addition thlrty-tive passengers were hurt. The 'engineer, Geo'? Wi taon , was also badly h urt. All the killed and wounded were colored cx cept Conductor Clements and Engi neer Wilson. The worst cloudburst which has been known in that section of Sumter county in a quarter of century swept ntaht^nd*? * ??ramunlty Tuesday sheets Th?>f ? the wfttei> foil in sneers, ibe ?er;Vc]oud:} needed toi lave been drawn from undet a sus pended lake. But the section fore men and track inspectors of the Coast Line went over the line and could find nothing which forebode the terrible disaster which blotted a train out of ri\e moming passenger train had passed over the same stretch Snm? " 18 ?av from Columbia to Sumter, and a freight' train had also passed along this very place and had noted no weakening in the embank TRIKD TO STOP TUB TKA1N. The nuii.ious booming of the break f"R of. ,h'.h/lnk wa? heard by a negro farm hand, Alexander Robinson, who 11 ves near by, and terror stricken he rushed from his cabin to warn the ap proaching train for he knew that w,.? paTnK?r to Columbia wis due in less than half an hour iSlm With a,,xletv to convey the startling news, he ran down the track toward Cano Savannah, a station two miles east of the place where the wa tersmado the breach, and six miles out of Sumter, i lad he not reached the station his signal of warning and or hid n? m,Kht have been heeded, or had tho regular passenger train been running ahead of the excursion It would havo stopped. Hut if Engineer George Wilson saw tho Improvised cdUthA1 *loxa?der Hoblnson Haunt ed In tho face of the Invisible Jnllu 2? WaS ,Ur,n" Uie locomotive to Its doom, no notice svas taken fur excursion trains are not expected to stop at such stations as Cano Savan nah unless they have had orders, and tho regular passenger train was run ning but ten minutes behind. Fran tically the negro waved In tho face of the engine a long strip of ied paper which he had taken from his hat, and eagerly ho pointed down the track to the hole or horror beyond. M?t his well meant efforts were misunder stood and the train dashed by at the rate of 35 to 40 miles an hour. There was nothing for this humble messen ger to do but to wait for tho Inevit able, and his heart sank with fear as struotlon ^ dMh,n* ?n to ?to d? DRATII STAKRDHIM INTIIIC KA(!K. The train was within GO feet of the abyss when the engineer saw f' X S?"?1"" out of tho terrible chasm. With great prosonco of mind he applied the emergency brakes and r , IT l ?V0rK0 '?vor back to its furthest notch. Had ho not donoso the weight and Impotus of the onglne would havo carried It across, tie coaches would havo been piled In even greater confusion than they wero and the oss of life would have boon rar greater. Hut with Its feet tied by tho brakes, tho locomotive sottlod serene y Into the chasm, Its nose burled far nto the sand of tho side toward which It had been approaching. The groat driving wheelB aank to their top",!? In thebed of sand tho fires woro Im mediately extinguished. Tho esoan ng steam crooned a ?a,l ,?S through the whistle, which had been the ohronloler of tho llfo and activity of the engine now useless but not a ruin, for It oan bo rehabilitated. ? ? An(' 0wl,at bf themen who rode In the cab? The bottom of the crevasse was the width of the engine, without the tender, *and tho latter was stand ing almost perpendicularly. Its front end having entirely demolished tho cab and Ita rear end being held upright by a tangled confusion of trucks and running gear, upon whioh threo ooachcfl had boen mounted. From t'hli vortex of death-don ling Iron It would seem that the onglne men would I have boon killed Instantly, but the ! fate which lured the" also saved, for | with the Impact of the application of i the t morKency brake, tho tlreman was j shot out of the cabe window as out of I a catapult. The engineer jumped to J keep from beingx'auuht In his cab, i and ran upon t^ie tender. When the | engine settled and tho tender careene^ 1 upon its end, Engineer Wilson was I also thrown to the front and to the side landed In a bed of sand, but so i near to the engine that he was scald ed f rightfully . He received several facial abrasions and was hurt Inter nally. The tireman escaped with slight bruises and ran all tho way from the sconce of disaster to Wedge lleld to get help for those who were injured. T1IK CONDI' CT< ) U ' 8 DKATH. The train consisted "or a refresh ment car and live coaches. It was In tho former that Conductor Clements met death. He had been sitting in tho middle passongcv coach talking to the onlv white passenger atx.ard, Sir. K. W. K. Kellam of North Carolina, a traveling salesman. While they ] were talking two negro preachers, Denb.v from Marion and Moseley from Nichols, came up and asked the con ductor to assist them In mme matter. They had just had time to walk through the two coaches in front and to gel to the refreshment car when came the awful crash. As soon as Mr. Kellam could extricate himself from the tangle of passengers thrown upon him. he made his way out of the car, which was only partially derailed, and went in search of the conductor, whom he found lying at the bottom of the ravine of the Hour of what had been the refreshment, car, now ruof less and shapeless and with its run ning gear .1*0 feet away. Mr. Kellam, seeing a terrible gash across the left side of the face of the insensible con ductor, foil of Mr. Clements' pulse a:>d immediately realized that the ac commodating and popufar c mductor had taken his last train order. WOliK OK IlIiSlTK. Ktllam, making his way back to those coaches which had not been de molished secured the axos and saws and got the uninjured to work remov ing and caring for the suffering. The llagman had gone back to warn the regular passenger train which was ap proaching hard upon the heels of the ill-starred excursion. The porter was hurt and helpless, his collar bone hav ing been broken, and there was no one of the train crew left to look after those who were hurt. The most miraculous part of such dreadful tragedies as this is the fact that when It seems that no otic could escape alive there arc really so few casualties. In this particular wreck there were many people who received Injuries, serious and slight, but there were but live fatalities. Tho cars In which the Injured and the dead had been riding were literally torn into kindling wood, the destruction being so complete that oven upon close ex amination it would be "almost Impossi ble to tell whether two or three coaches had their parts so mixed inj the mad confusion. May Ho Warning**. The Anderson Mall says the most callous and indifferent of men must be impressed by the great destruction of life and property by wind and light ning and high waters, and involun tarily the question will come. Why are these things permitted? We may rack our brains for an answer, and there can be but one answer: They arc sent by the Almighty for his own purpose. It may be that they arc sent to warn us as Individuals and as a nation that God reigns and his pres ence and his v.rath arc always at hand. It may seem to human minds to be a terrible and costly method of warning, but most of us will all too soon forget it within a short time after it has passed. We are all hushed and silent while the warning Is upon us. How few there are Who, in the time of storm and disaster, can look up to Clod and say: "I am not afraid." How sweet and restful It will be when the the storms have passed and we can again see the sunshine .ind the bow of promise. I, ike n Bird. A dispatch from Gainesville, Ga., says I'orman W. 10. liannister of t he Gainesville Cotton Mills who was caught In the cyclone and was last seen about three hundred yards In the air more than a mile from the mill has been found. Uannlster was on the fifth lloor of the Gainesville Mill when the cyclone struck the mill through the roof. He was seen and recognized by many as he was carried through the air at, a great height. He passed directly over the Southern Railway depot and many Identified the body, lie appeared to he a hundred yards be hind the funnel shaped cloud, riding in tho suction of tho wind fiend. About a mile from the mills he was seen by many of the employes of the I'acolot mill. They all say they In stantly recognized him. Ho was then in an attitude much as though swim ming, Ills arms and legs extended and his face was downward. He was traveling at a high rato of speed much as a bird llles. Mrs. Uannlster Is re ported In an almost insano condition. Mny l?n Discontinued. A dispatch from Washington says a determination was reached to In vestigate all tho rural free delivery routes and ascertain whether a mate rial reduction in the total number established cannot l>o made. A rough estlmato has been prepared showing that In tho South there arc one third, In tho north ono fifth, and In the northwest ono fourth more routes than are required by necessity. It is claimed that under tho pressure brought to boar by senators and rep resentatives, Maohcn established a largo numbers of routes not Justified by the population or business. In ac ceding to tho requests of Congressmen, Machen sought to build a great politi cal machine that would assist him when tho day of adversity came. There are now moro than 8,000 rural routes. It will requlro much time and trouble to Investigate them. Gfeat caution will be necessary beforo abandoning oven ono of them, as tho peoplo will complain and congressmen will violently object. We hope tfyttC none of tho routes In this countjT will I be disturbed. THE GREAT FLOODS, i The Situation in the Overflowed Sec tions Improving. GREAT MENTAL SUFFERING Many Hobcuch KlTectetl, hue Pony. Kijtht are Known to be Dead at'Topefc*.. CJrcftt Ill>H8 of Property. A dispatch from Kansas City says Blue sky was visible above Kansas ^ity Tuesday afternoon. The rains have disappeared and the sun was visible for the ilrst timo this week. The waters of the Kaw river liave fallen eight Inches aro steadily decmi UK at the rate of about one-half an , . 1 an llou>- 1" the MisM.uri the , K ,sUKe of 35 f,,(>t ls stiil main talned, but this is due to the rise which has been coming down the Missouri proper and has been able to offset the fad In the Kaw. It is the water of the latter stream, however that has caused all the damage in this wifh u t a,)Sa.8 Clty' Ktts > with It at a normal stupe, business in Kansas Utv soon will resume usual conditions. This city, by a narrow margin has escaped a serious short ly Lrl I 1 T faC?d tl)e Per" ?f ,lrc utterly helpless to avert its conse quences, has suffered millions of dollars of damage to property and sustained a loss In life that in all probability never will be accurately measured^ now it Is commencing to believe promises of better things. i he situation shows improvement on al.no, t every side; the waters are falling; the gas has been turned into the mains once more and there is no immediate danger of a serious short age of food. The city has cared for Its own and Is abundantly able to do so still, but there is notsutllcicnt food on hand to permit the relief committee and the municipal oflicers to feel easy Sitil??nk' The transportation facilities, at the present time are so limited that not much freight can be brought in at a time and there is theTpply" U'C dCman'1 may oulrun thf thoir U ves Tuesday In the attempt to save others, Just Keenan was drowned while endcavor ing to rescue some people from the Adams house In Union avenue and Ed ward Brooks lost his life in Liberty street, where his skiff was overturn Cd by an odd, while he was endeavor in{, to get another man out of a build A number of bodies were seen 1 b? ?5 North TopeK.'"0 K,w' pr?bttbly 01 ? ? ' !l^y people were brought to the 1 welfth street viaduct during the day by boatmen. None of them had ; *reat dant?er. Many people' are still in the warehouses and otllce ?hi n i* ar!dagc than has al ready been done. There have been some reports of settling of various fcrirfh busings In the wholesale dis trict but they appear to have settled n a remarkably even manner and expert examination will be required MKNTAL ANGUISH. Without water, save for urgent needs without beds, the upper part of the town being unable to house In any comfort the horde of refugees 1 uesday night bids fair to be a repeti tion of others since the coming of the 1 he wretchedness, however, ls more mental than physiclal, through the dsa,mforts due to herding large bod es of people In buildings not built irmv JfSIST and try,nK 10 feed an army without a commlasary depart ment. Leavenworth, to the north, the only way by which the suburb can to whk.h ,ir/Ulm^pUcR' ,s theP?acc ISiJnSl \UT? w,th h?Pe- Nations J it 8 Hcveral days If care fully economized, were brought in loVhlni dayand additional bedding, clothing, medicine and other supplies are expected within the next 21 hours ciiKenf H('nt!l1 f,i8c<"nfort exists bc f'.mm ,C Rrparation <)f members of families who had little time to escane from the flood. Since Sunday fathers mothers, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters have visited every part of town, particularly the places of re Jffi ffunl'ues. '?r mcmhm "< ?nl1,nR "J*0 order was brought out of the confusion Tuesday In the hand W?htt,r (>f HUch food a8 wa-s land. With tho supply running short t became apparent that the distribu tion must bo mado systematic and a opened tW timt purP?8c mm nt mm no food, 1' 10m there the food Is sent in pro per proportions to the various schools, churches and other camps of refugees A temporary hospital with medical at tendants has l>een established. Farm ers sold garden truck In the streets during the day and 000 sides of l>eef were carried from Swift's packim, Jll's 'R the entire number of beeves saved at that plant Merchants of Kansas 01 ty Kas have brought up large quantities of supplies which will be shipped Into the suburbs as fast as possible over trie ?Ll f" ?f frad ?P?n ltl? Me tric road from Leavenworth, Kas Street cars In the suburbs began to run after a fashion Tuesday with Power furnished by the dynamos at Leavenworth. The lack of 2 J wverely felt and oil |H scarce. ,1 I ?.f d,Rtres? from partly Inun dated buildings In Armourdalo could " "??'' 'r"m K?n??? City, Km., dur Lf&eta? n, """V airectert. Possibly 10 bod 1m h?v<, been floating finnday but l^isa! ,R aro val,l? IS?J 1 of fche bod,w? may have floated down fche Kaw from Topoka fche same bodies drifting In the ever changing eddies of fche flood may have i>ecn conn ted several fcimes. The Hood situation Is very much in * proved Tuesday night. Tho gas sup ply Is ample; two electric street car lines have resumed service and others will follow Thursda>: the electric light plant is ready to begin service but It does not. do so because of the* possibility of tires from crossed wires; the waterworks will begin to pump; Kansas river in the reservoir tOmor- 1 row and the next day the watcer will j be turned Into the pipes: the food sup- 1 ply Is ample on both sides of the river, the vast quantities of meat in the packing houses having been reached by the packers; the predicted Increase of sickness lias not appeared: the Kansas river is falling* half an inch an hour .ind the Missouri river Is cxpected to begin to fall before day light. Eight persons are positively known to have been driwned in the two Kansas citics since last Friday. They are: Policeman Edward Kecnan, Kohlc, Philip Ware, a negro boy; Wm. Helster, tnick driver; Win. Ilerbet, expressman; James Doorman: John ltay, negro Kd ward Hiooks. WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS The I'nHpeukable Turk nntl II ik Cruel |)lT(U ill I loll III II II in. Horrible details are arriving here of the slaughter of the inhabitants of the village of Smerdash, south of Luke l'rcsba on May 21, by liashi-ita/.ouks. It appears that on the arrival of the iiashi- Itii/.ouks, ChakalarolT s band of insurgents withdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss. As no rebels were lett in the village the in habitants experienced no anxiety, until sunddenly, at sunset, the Turks, who had completely surrounded the place, commenced a regular bom bur J ment, whereupon all the villagers as sembled In the streets. Though the artillery ceased tiring during part or the night, the Turkish infantry tired all night long. The artillery bombard ment was recommenced at daybreak, but as it was ineffective the Turks set lire to the village on all sides and commenced a general massacre, slaughtering women, children and the aged. About three hundred houses were burned and upwards of two hundred persons, mostly women and children, were killed. The women and girls were murdered while resist ing outrage. Whole household were slain. One family of seven were slain and their bodies heaped on the hearth. Not a living soul was left in the village. The survivors, many of them half-burned or otherwise Injured, lied. Some of the tleeing villagers were cap tured and had their ears and noses cut olf before they were butchered. The report adds that 1,500 villagers were in the mountains without clothing or food. One. band of these, consisting of forty women and children, were caught by soldiers in a ravine and wore klljod after horribly treatment. Freed at Imwt. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the happiest man in South Carolina today, perhaps, is Cato Gadsden, formerly a colored citizen of Beaufort County, but who since 1880 has been a convict In the Penitentiary, lie was sentenced for life for stealing $:55 or $10 worth of cotton seed. lie stole them at a time when the law was different from what it now is, and as the crime came un der the class of burglary, and the house where the cotton seed was stored adjoined a dwelling, Cato got the extreme penalty. It turns out that generally he had been a quiet, law-abiding negro, but somehow yield ed to temptation. Ills conduct in the Penitentiary has been good. Thurs day a delegation came to see the Governor In his behalf. They gave him a good character as a rule, and as he had served four or live times the term he would have served had the crime been committed later, the Governor decided to pardon him. Forest Fires. The entire state of New Hampshire is darkened with a pall of smoke from the forest tires in the North, so dense that the sun Is entirely obscured and lU4s with difficulty that one can work or road without artificial light. At Groveton the people packed their be longings Thursday to move away. The city of Ilerlln Is entirely surround ed by (lames which swept up the Am monoozue viilley. In Carroll county vast quantities of timber and cut lum ber are burned. In Groveton, ho miles away, ashes are falling In the streets. Killed by I . John Dennis, a negro was lynched at Greenville, MIsr., Thurday after noon by a mob of two hundred men. Tho negro had attempted a criminal assault upon a well known young lady who was returning homo from the telephone exchange, where alio work ed, on Tuesday night week. He was Immediately arrested and placed In the local )&4). A Warning. K. W. McDanlol, a young white man of Lexington County, will ftervo the balance of his natural life In tho state prison for having taking the life of a fellow man. The supreme court de clded that ho should not have a new trial. The court was dlvhlod, two and two, and the motion failed. war STATISTICS. I Further , Statement of Furc9? and ( Loies on Each 8ido I IN THEOREAT CIVIL WAR. i Th? Southern 8ol?llor? llatl to Flight Aicaiiist (Jrent 0<1<1h and Take i w More Kittle* Than the A Noriliorn. t Soinq days ago the New Orleans IMcayubo printed statistics showing that in the Civil war the losses of the O ?n federates In killed were in propor tion greater than were those of the re promptly responded to, asking Confed erate survivors and State authorities possessing muster rolls and other data of the sort, to send them, either as a loan or gift, to the war department at Washington, so that Uiey may be copied and used to supply the lost records. So for as the tigures are available today. The Picayune re peats with additions the tigures print ed by it last Wednesday. The tigures in regard to the union army are taken from the "Statistical Record" hy Capt. Frederick I'hlsteror, then of ih.eavmy, published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons, New York, 1883, and declared to be compiled from army or ders, registers of rejgulars a?.d volun teers,' "fcVoriH of "the adjutant general of the army, and from those of the pro vost marshal general of the army, the "Medical History of the Kebellton," and other sources. As to the union forces in the tield, the summary of the men furnished by., and credited to the various States by the adjutant general's ofllec is given by States, and it shows, including Indians and negroes, a tot.al of 2,772, 408 men and money commutation al lowed by the draft law, to represent 86,728 men, making an aggregate of men represented to be 2,859,132. Of Indian troops there were 3,630, and of negroes there were 186,097, all of whom are included in the tigures of 2,722.108. There were 2,047 regi ments of all arms. After citing in de tail the tigures in the reports of the adjutant general, of the provost mar shal general, Capt. I'histercr gives the following as the most complete and re liable statement: Killed in battle 44,238 Died of wounds 49,205 Suicide, homicide and execu tion ,r>20 Died of disease 180,210 Died in southern prisons 24,184 Tolal 304,309 Of the negro troops included In the above. 1,514 were killed in battle, 1,700 died from wounds, 29,212 died from disease, 837 died in prison, and 57 from other causes. The enlistments of foreigners in the federal army are thus given: Germans 170,800 Irish 144,200 Mritish Americans. 63,500 English 46,300 All others 74,900 i Aggregate 494,900 The deficiency in the Confederate returns precludes any accuracy of statement, has been put at (100,000. It should be remembered that the northern States had a white popula tion of 20,000,000, while the south had a white population of 0,000,000, lie sides 4,000,000 negroes. The south ern negroes were slaves and were recruited for the northern army from the districts In the southern States that were, overrun by the Invaders, to the number of 180,097. As to foreign ers, they were 'kept out of the south hv the hloqkadc of the southern ports by theTederal fleets, but they were attracted to the northern army by the large bounty offered, and thoy Joined in great numbers. If the six million of white people. In the south sent one-tenth of their number, or 000.000, Into the Held, the, 20,000,000 of the northern whites should at the, same rate have sent 2,000,000 soldiers. These, with the 495,900 foreigners, and the 180,007 negroes, would make an aggregate of #2,080,997, or atx>ut the strength reported alxive for the total federal force. The Confederate lrsses, as compiled from the the muster rolls extant and on lilojn the war department In Wash Ingtori, give the following:* Killed In battle 62,954 Died from wounds 21,570 Died from disease 59,297 Totyl 133,821 Died fh northern prisons 20,430 I ? ? A ggegatc 1 00, 257 It, Is plain, however, that the mus ter rolls of the Confederates am ex tremely Incomplete, because t-bey give North Carolina 14,362 killed, while they give Alabama only a total of 652, and Virginia 6,328, and Georgia, 5, 638, and Mississippi 6,807, when it Is well known that any of those States furnished as many l roups as did North Carolina, and did as hard fighting. In the "Medical History of the Civil War," prepared under the direction nf the then Surgeon General lUrues, It was estimated that one man out of every 05 was killed in action, one out of every 10 was wounded in action, and one out of every 50 died of wounds. At this rate the losses of the Confederates should have been 9,2:50 Instead of 52,954, and the wounded should have been 60,000, while those who died of wounds should have Ix'cti something over 10,000. but, on the contrary, they were many times greater. The late distinguished Confederate surgeon general. Joseph Jones, esti mated the grand total of deaths In the Confederate army from batik- , wounds and disease, at 200,000. The federal otlicial reports show that of prisoners and deaths in prison the following ligures arc the round numbers: Federals in southern prisons 270.000 Confederates in northern pri sons 220.000 Kxeess of federals uoo Deaths of Confederate prison ers 2l5.|:Ui Deaths of federal prisoners. . . 22. ">7o Kxcess of Coiifi derate deaths 2.^.0 Commenting on these ligures. the present efllclent and studious Con led erate Surgeon General Tebault says: "According to these figures the per centage of federals deaths in southern prisons was under 9, while the per centage of Confederate deaths in northern prisons was over 21. These mottuary statistics show how faith fully and devotedly the Confederate medical corps eared for the prisoners of the Confederacy in spite of the scant supply of medicines and instru ments ami works on medicine and surgery, and the most absolute essen tials fur satisfactory treatment, these having been made contraband of war." That the Confederates, by reason of their smaller numbers were forced to tight with greater energy and to expose themselves more prodigally to the enemy's lire is shown by the re turns of losses in killed and wounded in battles, thus. Confederate Federal Battles. loss. loss. Chlckamauga 15,801 11,1 to Gettysburg 22,544 17,tlM Atlanta 7,500 2,522 Franklin 0,250 1,222 The above were battles in which toe Confederates attacked their ad versaries in strongly intrenched posi tions, but in every case the losses of the southern troops wero out of pro portion to their numbers but they never received a blow without inilict ing tremendous losses in return. Surprised Hint. One of the biggest hauls of whiskey ever made in a single raid was cap tured by some of the local constables Wednesday afternoon about two miles from the city. A constable approach ed a well known gentleman on the street and asked him if he would ob ject to a search of a barn on a farm In the county. "Why, no," I)r. Ilelse laughingly replied, "you are welcome to all the whiskey you can find there." The constable was insistent and Anally obtained the permission. Late in the afternoon when Dr. Helse was driving along the road to his farm he met a wagon heavily laden with kegs. The constable was driving and Dr. Ilelse accosted him. "IIow much whiskey did you get?" he asked. The answer appalled him, for the man of the law answered: "Four hundred gallons!" This whiskey had been kept for some time in a barn without any one ever t>eing aware of it except the em ployes of the farm. The constable said It was intended for a local and well known blind tiger. Dr. Helse was for a time greatly dis turbed lest he should ho arrested for running a tiger himself. ? Columbia State. KlowurH for ( .(I in i> CIirho. Gen. John H. Gordon, comander-ln , chief of the United Confederate Veterans, has issued general orders calling upo i the people to contribute flowers for the dec-oration of the graves of Confederate dead at Colum bus, Ohio, June 11. Gen. Gordon says: "The commanding general feels sure, although the time Is very short, that, there will lie no lack of flowers at Columbus to decorate the graves of our dead at Camp Chase. To honor such dead is to honor the living. In this connection the gener al commanding finds great pleasure in reminding the Southern people of the hitherto most generous course of Col. Kanan, of the Union army, and of the broad-minded people of Ohio In decorating the graves of these Con federates Independently and in erect ing the monument which adorns their resting place. Such acts illustrate the spirit of fraternity and unity which Is the surest guaranty of the Republic's future progress and per petuity." A Filial Wreck. A special from I'aola, Kan., says two Sante Fe trattis, a north-hound and a special south-lKiund, collided head on, one mile north of Stlllwell, Kan. Nine persons are dead and twenty eight are said to he Injured. The Weils- Fargo express messenger Is still under the wreckage. Five coaches and l>oth engines are In the ditch. The dead are to be, taken to Olatlie, Kan., and the Injured to Kansas City. Is Is reported that the two trains wero to meet at Stlllwell, but one conductor misread his orders. I'ntTfld k Fnlluro. The Ferris wheel, the massive struc ture, which was ono of tho main at tractions to visitors on tho midway during the world'f fair at Chicago in 1893, and which was subsequently re moved to Lincoln park has l?een sold by public aution In Judge Chyatrus' court. A Junk dealer bid In the big wheel and the sum paid for tho en gines, building?. lK)ilors, rt*,t. , was ? 1,800. Tho wnool 4 cost originally ?302,000. Outstanding against It are tx)nds amounting to 1300,000 and a floating debt, of ? 100,000. LOSES ALL HIS MONEY K'x -Senator Mol ll.?v? Untight a (Job! I trick . A special to lie S I *v o fiom New ^ oi k su\ s John L. M l.iurin. f ? : ?u r United States s< nator ! :om Soulli t '.n ollna, is in this city striving to gather some fragments of lus ?rtn r*.*. which he declares has been shattered bv the endorsement of notes. If lie cannot realize on the collateral rfiven to him as security, former Senator McLaurin. who was worth something like *ioo.- I 000, suys he will scarcely have money 1 enough to net l?ack home. In Ids light to save sonje of his money, Mr. Me- : Laurin lias obtained an attachment' from Judge Clark, in the supreme! court, for $20,000 against projHTtvj said to bo owned by Frank A I'mstcrl I or Worcester, Mass., in tavor of Wil-j llarn Howard, Jr., who held the pro tested note. A cerililcate for 17.^0'J shires of stuck uf the Brunswick and Bint ing-' hajn railway has been atiaebed. The! note in question was made i.y Mr "Mr- 1 Laurin on April 21 and was pa\at>le al the Mercantile National bank ot New ' York in oi e mouth. The not.; >\;i> not paid at inaturitj. Mr. MeLriu- in had presented the note to t h" Guardian , Ti ust company, wiicii paid him the money. In an atlidav it Mi. Lau rin says he paid the money to Mr. I'msted. I houg i the note in question was! for $20,000 it is .said that Mr. M. Lau- ' rin is threatened with the loss ol v 1 oo ! 000 and that several prominent po|j. i tieians of >outh Carolina are he.ivilv ! involved in it. James \V. ( )shorne. a| former assistant dist riel attorney, and Otto lleise, wild have l.eeii employed: as counsel by Mr. McLaurin. are now! trying to learn whether t here are any I prior claims upon the property gi v. n a's 1 security by the men who obtained tin : endorsement of the former I oiled , States senator to their paper. Mr. McLaurin. who is staying at the) Imperial hotel, declares he was not in I position to say the security obtained ' by him was worthless, lie feared he, ! as well as other involved, wouid be able to realize only a very small por- I lion of their investment. Continuing the tenner senator said: 'T will say: however, that the property given us as security was represented as being gilt edged and it is yet to be proven that the representation is as stated. Our security consisted of live notes of the promoters of the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad. given on April 21and payable one month after date. "They were endorsed by Mr. I'm sted. When they fell due, however, payment was not forthcoming, and since then myself and associates in the transaction have been using every means In our power to arrive at the exact value of the property. "What we have learned is not reas on ring." Mr. Urns ted, against whose property the attachment was issued, occupies apartments in the Wellington. Ac cording to a representative of Mr. Umsted, the deal in which Mr. Mc Laurin is involved was a '' 'endly one, and Mr. Umsted was n .ing every effort, to guarantee the amount due to the former senator from South .Caro lina. Former Senator McLaurin said that he was unable to say just how long he would remain in New York, but that he had been advised by counsel to stay until something definite was done. Legal steps will be taken in a few days. That the situation is critical was evi denced by the fact that both Senator McLaurin and Col. Brown were in close consultation with Attorneys Os borne and Heise at the nar associa tion rooms until nearly midnight Tuesday. Col. Brown came to New York with Mr. McLaurin several days ago. THE DEADLY LIGHTNING. Several l*er. ouh Are Killed In Differ ent PtirlH of thr Stain. A severe storm passed over South Carolina Tuesday week resulting In the loss of several lives and doing considerable damage to crops. At Anderson Ge>ige Hammack, a young white man, was killed by ligth ning. He was at work on one of the cottages being built at the <>rr mills. At Congaree the storm was particu larly severe. A negro house on liagar Jones' place was blown half an aere and a ooy killed by spiintei ing tim bers. The large barn and stables of Raw linson and Weston were completely demolished, killing one horse and in juring several others. The Atlantic Coast Line depot was unroofed and a great many barns and stables were destroyed. In the Limestone and Jamison sec tions of Orangeburg county the wind was accompanied by bad which killed sheep, hogs, dog:; and other small an imals and completely destroyed the crops. The farmers wili probably re plant cotton and corn, but I he other crops are an entire, loss. While ret urnlng from Spart anburg to Ids home near Gollghtly, John C. Lee, a well known farmer, was struck by lightning. The bolt struck one, of his legs, felling him instint.ly. The lightning tore olf his pants from one knee down, tearing olT one of the shoes and sock. In falling Mr Lee's face was badly bruised lie was ren dered unconscious by I lie. shock and remained In this condition for several hours. This Is not the lirst disaster Mr. Lee has experienced from stoimS. In IK'M a cyclone struck his bouse. A neighbor's son who was sheltering in It from the fury of the storm, was killed outright by the falling timbers and Mr. Lee was considerably bruised At Laurens, Andy Garrett, a negro, was plowing a mule when a bolt of lightning struck the animal, killing'lt Instantly, but the negro esc, aped un hurt. reward of %.r>0 will be paid for the arrest of the parties that did the shooting. The Itev. Jenkins says trial, the wildest kind of cxcltcma/it prevail ed, and the country negroes thirsted for blood. They swarmed about the train like Indians, all the time keep Ing up loud shouts. As the train passed Ten Mile Mill, some one fired a shot Into a passenger coach. A HOT T1MK A Colored Picti <. f cm Ch'ir'cton Broken Up by BAD TEN MILE HILL NIGGERS W the ('it) folks With C.iitis itinl i 1 1 1 1 > s ( s i \ ( 'nr licit Hack to the City NV Mil IHlOll '['ho Charleston I V .s t says a tierce '?attic with trims. pistol and knives was fou nh i at L.ulson. a station on the Southern rail was , seventeen miles from ( harleston. on Monday. .Itiue I, between Charles' on n^-roes, who h; <1 gone lo Ladson in lake part in a pie me civen by i | >. ? Jenkins i )rpli mage, and several hundred -country negroc-. S! h : 1 1 1 . < jj'i j.s weii- used freely ami a hi ml tv.ent \ tjve n. jio, -> were woiimi ed. though i >? >i vi k>u ,! y. \ man, Ionian an'! ehi' I. whose ident ii \ ;Mv ii!ikn< >w n. a i e mi nl i ? ' have I ?? vn ki ;ii d l hi 'ii 1 1 tie ret ml .> J ise: ed i t I'd . '1 he e.\' in si. 'iiivi s I 'M u i t >. < i tn 1 1|(. i'il\' with the w u d < d ( h : i r ! e s t < n I" ;n^. Si \ w, i, -ent to I lie eit v hospii.il, and t > l hei s weiil to iheir " homes. Tile em;: ry IK.;! >es w!', ? were six I did m i i me into t he ?. : I \ . 1 lie ucg I'oes S' 1 1 ! I < i ? I o ? llo?. e| t a I W e re pi eked upon t ! t? ? st:-et.sl.\ t lie police. I hey were: Wii.ian: lirant. sliot in side and Vur, |, ,(j ?? 1 < u A in >: iea si r< et ; Will 'a in l'ru"', ( ?? u'e Ken/ie. Henry I -aru/sl i .ti. Jam ?. \ ,m,i \V ) i li:t in I e i rin. l.ii ir. i ' Mi ! ,n c st reet . slitter in?; t rom villi) shot w out: Is. Monday tli- aim ial pienie of t he .Jenkins < hpanaue was ^i\ ? n at 1 he ir rou uds o| (lie Jen! ins Ih l amatory ill Ladson. The Key. 1 1. .1 Jenkins, w ho is I l Im | mad ? ' hot Ii i j i > orplia n age and the rehil in.'. ory carried ahout 1 .Ton Helloes on a speeial t rain. When the iv.'ormatorv grounds weie reaeh'd. llie Chariest >n neirocs were met hy a laivc neither ? ? ! negroes 1 1'oni 1 1 n Mile a u I the cou n t ry ad jacent to La |s.?u. The la: ter were alined Willi e ins, rilles, pistols and knives. I he\ told the cits negroes that they had come to have a good time and that they must nut inter fore. The morning hour passed oil" with out trouble, hut along ahout 12 o'clock in t-lie afternoon the Ten Mile Hill negroes wanted to dance in the re formatory building, and the llev. Jenkins put a stop to it. declaring that he would not a. low lus picnic to he turned into a dance. His action incensed the country negroes, and serious trouble commenced. One of the Ten Mile Ilill crowd drew a pistol on the I lev. Jenkins, and the city nog rocs rushed up to taken, his p^T There was much wranging, blows were passed and lire arms wen: dis played. The I rouble was settled for a ti me. The c- iint ry negroes organied t hem selves into a regiment, and sent word to the town ncgioes that the. wanted satisfaction, and invited the.i down to the road near a creek. Tie invita tion was accepted. The ring leader of the country forces, armed with a long ri Hi', led his ?omniand against, the picnic crowd, lie was overpower ed. his gun was taken from him, and he was shot with his own rule, lie was also badly cut, but none of his wounds are thought to he serious. After being shot he retired f r un the game. '1 he battle was kept up for several hours, and shot after shot was tired. The Lev. Jenkins gathered Ids or phans together and the female mem bers ol his crowd and remained under cover until about 7 o'clock in the afternoon the hour for the excursion train to pull out of Ladson. Hundreds of negroes made for the station as soon as the shooting commenced, where they remained, all the after noon, fearing to venture forth. Some were so badly frightened that they walked live miles t o Summerville, returning to the city ( his morning. When the excursion train, consisting ot seventeen coaches, was made up to bring the picnickers hack to the. city, everybody t houi'ht I h it t he trouble was over, but., just as the train pulled out from the station, a a country negro fired into il. which was I he signal for (it her shots and a constant I i ring was kepi up until the train was out. of range. Win n lire was opened on the train by the angry mob of country negroes, the wildest excitement prevailed in the coaches. Men, women and chil dren crouched under t he seats. Some locked themselves up in the toilet, rooms, and small negro boys climbed up into t In* bundle racks in the fop of the cars. kvery pane was powdered and it, is said that, the train came in Charleston Monday night, with not, a single head out of a car window. The shots tired int ?> t lie: coaches broke win dow panes and several passengers were peppered. One woman was shot in the aim, and a small colored boy wounded in I be hack. None was kill ed. The Southern ,ai\vay antlnuitiis have, taken the mailer up, and will make every elTorl lo apprehend t lie negroes who tired into the train. A THE OLD RELIABLE POWDER AbaalOUfy-fUHi THERE fS Nft SUBSTITUTE