Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Prcsss and Banner. j = glT SECOND. DIED IN FIRE Forest Fires Cause AWful Disaster in Michigan. SICKENING SCENES i Relief Train Carrying Terrified Inhabitants of a Little Village At* tempts tor Ron Gauntlet of Flames Only to be Ditched, Fifteen People Losing Their Lives. A dispatch from Alfena, Mich, says fifteen people lost their lives Thursday night in tne Burning or the Detroit and Mackinac Railway relief train, which was carryiug tlia inhabitants of the little village of Metz, 23 miles north of here, to safety from the forest fires which wex sweeping away their homes. The ill-fated train wa6 ditched by spreading rail at No wick 1 sidinS, south of Metz, and the terrified refugees were forced to abandon the cars and rush for safety either down the track with burning forests on either side or into the ploughed fields near the siding. Eleven of the victims were women and children, who were unable to escape quickly enough from a gondola car. Their charred bodies wer' found there Friday when rescuere reached the scene. Two of the mei victims were members of the train crew. Four additional fatilities occurred in the neighborhood Thursday nigni. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wagner died froiri heat and exhauetion on their farm near the BCene, and Mr. and Mrs Fred Nowlckl, lost tb?ir lives in their burning house near the elding. When the forest fires closed n Thursday about the little village a special train of three empty box cars and two coal gondolas was rushed to Metz, and as rapidly as poo- i Bible people and their goods were loaded Into the cars. Some refus- i ed to abandon their goods, or the train might have left earlier. When ' the train finally started there were ! about 100 frightened people aboard! j The flames were already sweeping through the village. Nearlng N'o.wickl crossing Engineer Foster saw blazing piles of cedar ties on both , (Jides of the track. Opening the throttle he tried to dash through at full speed, but the heat had caused the rails to spread and the train left the track Blazing piles of ties < surrodunded it and in an Instant , the cars caught fire . The terrorstricken people jumped from the cars are rushed down the track. Three * mothers and their little ones were not quick enough. They were cremated in the car. Brakeman Barrett sprang into the water tank behind the engine, only j to be literally boiled to death 'as ' the flames swept over It. Engineer Foster and Conductor, Kinvill<? 1 fled down the track through the fir* and smoke, and were the first> to reach the village of Posen and .-report the wreck and ask for assistance. Behind them staggered a burned and wounded procession of refugees. It was a fearful march over the hot ties with the flames and burning woodF on either side of the track roaring and snapping in their facet-. Engineer Foster was terribly buftiei about the head and face, but it is thought that he will survive. Many of the refugees are suffering painful burns. " The 9urvivers of the frightful experience seemed dazed by their per!; and sufferings and were unabie to give any coherent statement as tc whether anybody *as left behind in iuetz. It will probably be a week ~ ~J* !?-? ImMTvn HfiflnUttk' ur UlUl c uv^orc It 13 M1U n u UN#uuivvi,' how ma.ny peop?o perished In th*; villa**- of Metz. When tho relief train left Met/ it carried all the inhabitants of th.? village except George Cicero, the station agent, who stayed to handle the railroad wire and eecape<l tbroush ploughed fields only to find his wife and three children cremated in the wreck of the relief train. A fourth child, a boy, about 31 years old, had jumped from th*:! burning car and escaped with but sJi<*ht injuries. Every report received Friday nig'i. from the fire-swept country to the north of this city increases the extenr ann eravitv of the fire situation, ani the death list which started Friday with the cremating of fifteen people in the Metz relief train, is steadily growing. Presque l6le and Cheboygan counties are all flames, and the 75 miles between this city and Chebovgan is reported to be almost :i solid mass of fire. Alpena County i ablaze in every direction. Reports of fatilities are coming from many places. From Metz Township Frldav night the cremation was reported ot Henry Kemps, his wife and two children In their farm house. Bolton, South Rogers and Met2 are among the destroyed villages. La Rouque Is threatened tonight. * Ou!v th*? church is left at the village of Cathro, and It is crowded with refugees. ; * " A strip twenty miles wide from Hubbard T,nke to the Au Sable River. In Alcana County. Is burning. More than flftv farmers are reported tonlerht to have been swept by the fire? today, and their buildings destroyed. Sixty passengers on r south-bound Dotrolt anfl Mackinac Railroad train. STATES FOR BRYAN CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE C VICE-CHAIRMAN HUDSPETH. Tammany Gives Fifteen Thousar Dollars to the Cause?Kohlsoi Called on For Proof. At New York on Tuesday Vlc< [Chairman Hudspeth, of the uemt Jcratic National Committee, mad public a list of States In which h said Mr. Bryan would receive th electoral vote. They are as follows The solid South 166, Nebraska { Indiana 16, Ohio, 23, West Virgin! 7, Nevada 3, New York 39. Tota 261. Necessary to a choice 242 The vice-chairman put Wisconsin 1 the doubtful column and said tha New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhod Island and Illinois were still debar able, with New Jersey and Connect! cut favorable to the Democratic par ty. Tammany Hall will contribut $10,000 to the Democratic Nationa Committee, according to an announc ment made by Charles F. Murphy the Tammany leader. In addition the local organization will pay al the expenses of the big mass mee: ing in Madison Square Garden oi - I LfClODer it, HI WU1VU illl. ui;au i to speak. This will probably amoua to $5,000 more. According to a telegram receive* by Vice-Chairman Hudspeth fron Chairman Mack, in Cnicago, Mr. Bry an will epeak only one day in Ne? Jersey and one day In Connecticut Mr. Hudspeth said, referring to i reported statement of H. H. Kohl aaat, of Chicago, to the effect tha' there are three Democratic editor1 in the United States who are sup porting Mr. Bryan in their papers but who do not wish to see hin elected, and that one of them is z member of the Democratic execu tive committee. "I challenge Mr. Kohlsaat to giv the names of these editors or tc name the member of the executive :ommittee. Mr. Kohlsaat has com1: under the hypnotic influence of th< White House. It is rather singula! hat all these reports about dissatisfied Democrats come out of Wash ington." NEGROES LAUD FORAKER. Their Press Conventions Declare Hini to Be a Martyr. The meeting or the negro presf convention in Pittsburg, Pa., las; tveek carried to that city over on*; lundred of the leading negro editors )( the Eastern, Middle and Southern 3tates. In a declaration of principles and i set of resolutions adopted Thursda-. Senator Foraker and Governor Deaeen, of Illinois, as lauded* whllt the administration of Preslden Roosevelt and the attitude of Candi date William H. Taft art ^ensured The declaration of principle among other things states: "We hold in kind memory oui friend from Phillips and Lovejoy U Lincoln and Grant and the others but the one who stands today foi our caufefe as a champion and martyi Is Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio who, in the face of public opinion had dared to uphold the principle) or rigm ana noi pariy; wnose pumi ?al future is jeopardized by his owi party for being otir Bide and fight Ing to sustain truth and Justice." The resolutions say; "We call upon the negro voter of Ohi?? tb first support Hen. Jo= Behson Foraker, our champion, fo re-election to the United State senate and ever afterward to an position to which he aspires. A. we call upon the negro voters of th country who have a spark of mar hood left to show their disapprovg of the present Incumueut of th White House, who will he virtuall he power behind the throne If Tal s elected." JAPAN AND CHINA Have a Clash of Arms 6n the Corea Border. Grave complications, which threa ">n the peace of China and .l<tpan, ai 'eared as the result of a clash lv 'ween Chinese and Japanese trooj on the Corean border .near Kantai According to reports a hodv of Ch neee soldiers fired on the Japanei without provocation and in the figh ing which ensued many were killf on both sides, the Chinese heir finally forced to retreat. The Jai followed them to the border and tl JapanetC commander demanded tl surrender of the Chinese, which w; refused. The Japanese foreign offV was quickly informed of the affal The fear here is that China's refits to surrendor the men responsible f< the attack on the Japanese mi raiiRp .Tanan to crops the horuf which would undoubtedly precipita an uRly situation. which left Cheboygan last night f this city, spent a night of horror La Roque. Flames 6urrodundcd t! train and huduied in their cars, V, terrified passengers spent the nig In momentary expectation that t' train would be consumed. It w 6aved, however, and the paesenge came on to Alpena this afternoc Rogers City was threatened this aft? noon, but it is now hoped that t | town can be saved. I RICH AND RACY 1 Hearst Reads Some More Greasy Letters From Archbold ? TO SOME OF HIS PALS They Were Written to Our Sometime )a Senator McLanrln, Congressman e 8ibley and R. H. Edmunds, Editor ,0 of the Manufacturers' Record, and a From McLaurin to Archbold. Speaking in California the other u day, W. R. Hearst read more Archie bold-McLaurin-Sibley letters. He e also read one to R. H. Edmunds. editor of the Manufacturers' RecorJ. i- Here are the letters: "26 Broadway, Feb. 5, 1901. e "My Dear Senator: I have your 1 most kind favor of yesterday and appredate it greatly. I have also u , telegram from Mr. Grasty today i, which I have answered, and- which 1 answer I hope he will make known - to you. Believe me that I appreI; itioto fho ovhrnolnnf! nP i'auk IaH.m. wmvvs VUV VAj;n.oivuij \J L JUUl 1VI L\J 1 s more highly than I can well state, t and I hope when the time cornea, if It ever does, for an opportunity 1 to reciprocate, you won't be found i wanting. Again thanking you and - with very kind regards, I am ? "Vory sincerely yours, 'John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. L. McLaurln, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. "26 Broadway, Feb. 13, 1901. "Mr. R. H. Edmunds, Baltimore, Md. "Dear Mr. Edmunds: I have your several very Interesting favors, I return Senator McLaurln's letter witn the clippings. The whole affair at Washington has been most Interesting. Have been sorry Indeed to hear of the senator's Illness. Mr. Grlscomb undertook to Have a talk with him Monday through a mutual friend Your own work in all this matter has been most admirable. "Very truly yours, "Jno. D. Archbold." "26 Broadway, Feb. IS, 1901. "Dear Mr. Sibley: I beg to inclose you herewith certificate of deposit to ^ your favor for $5,000, sent you at the request of Mr. Qriscom, the purpose of which you no doubt understand. Permft me to express my ! high appreciation in response to our ^ request regarding the consideration ! subsidy matter with Mr. Grlscom. , "Very truly yours. ! "John D. Archbold. "Hon. J. C. Sibiey, Washington." I "26 Broadway, Feb. 18, 1901. "My Dear Senator: Please accept thanks for your note of the 16th. 1 am, of course, much interested in the statement. Have no doubt Mr. Sibley 3aw you on Saturday, as I requested him to do. "Very truly yours, "John D. Archbold." r "Hon. J. L. McLaurin, wasnmgtou. > D. C." r "Bonnettsville, S. G.? Sept. 3> 1904 r (Confidential); . "Dettf Mr. Archbold: Ita the Bamo mail by which your letter cams teas 3 Ane that I wieh tb quote a sentence - from ^propose of your remarks about i Mr. R. The writer of that letter - was employed in a confidential way by Senator Hanna in matters of importance. He is a shrewd, but a f very intelligent man, whose public t. experience and acquaintance is wide, r I knew him well in Washington and * when he saw my article in The Sun v he wrote me a long letter, Indulging s in some unexpected criticism of the ? nreeldent, to which I replied, com > bating his position. 'I "He said in part, viz.: "Reading on Sunday Lawson's 'Frenzied FiV ->ance' recalled to mind a remark I" hat I heRrd him (Roosevelt) mako ' 'hat he hoped (tome day to lie able to take a fall o\it of that Standard Oil gang, and if he succeeds hlm<elf, mark my word, he will try to r make good his statement, as he b4Meves it will appeal to the mass'-s ind keep him in the centre of the =>ta?e." "I thought it would be a frlendlv let to copy this and give it to you s* in strict confidence. From my position. I can not say whether it Is ?/ worth the ink or not. It will show. anyway, that I am not unmindful 5< of your various kind actions toward " me. 1.1.? i*A<ror/lc >\ 1 i U MliUCdi. " Yours sincerely, Jf: "John Lowndes AlcT,aurln. w "To Mr. John D. Arehbcld." 10 ______. "Here we have a statement of Senator McLaurln from the Standard rj Oil Company that they will not b n found wanting. the words found wanting peculiarly emphasized bv quotation marks. Here we have r> . ' statement that Mr. Grisco munderstatement that Mr. Griecom under McLaurln on Monday through a muor tual friend. at "Here we have next the inevitable he certificate of deposit sent to Mr. Slhley. the mutual friend, 'at the request ht of Mr. Griseoni.' and, finally, we h6( have the confidence expressed by th?a as Standard Oil Company to Senator rs McLaurln that no doubt Mr. Sibley ?n, eaw the senator on Saturday, as Mr. if* Archbold requested him to do so. be Mr. Arcbbold assuredly dot * found wanting. But tbo quostlor CAPERS WRITES. TO SOUTH CAROLINA COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION. Insinuates That Republican Votes j Cast In Thl9 State Are Not Counted bv the Managers. ?- - . 1 John Q. Capers, the member of the Republican national committee for South Carolina, has sent the following letter to the commissioners of election for the State: Washington, D. C., Oct. 14, 1908. Commissioner of Election of South Carolina.?My Dear Sir: Except In one or two of the lower counties !n the State there are no accredited Re- 1 publican nominees for office in South t Carolina to disturb your local af- t fairs in the State. While in the se- r lection of commissioners of elecLio-i _ for South Carolina the Republicans have had no voice or choice. I hope and believe that in a spirit of fair- I ness you will allow those who wish i to vote a national Republican ticket an opportunity under your direction as commissioner to cast their votes e for Mr. Taft and have them counted. ' 1_ _ 11 tL. T5 1.11?? ? ? aol, | S 1 UUL IS till luc rvcpu Uiik.aus h.oh. Conditions which have promoted v many of our citizens to resort to *' methodB unnecessary to review no longer exist, and at this time a purely national proposition is involved. It 0 would seem, therefore, that a spirit ^ of absolute fairness and justice P should prevail, and I have confidence ^ that you will Bee to It that we are given a square deal. ^ I value ae highly as you do the traditions and history of my State ^ and my people, and there are hun- a dreds of men in South Carolina who n feel as I do and yet who can see no n earthly form of disloyalty in contrib- 11 uting through their ballot to a per- si petuation of the financial and Indus- G trial prosperity of the whole country, 0 which seems permanent only when a Republican president and a Rcpublican Congress are in power. 5' The Panama Canal, certain feature of protection, the great need t? . )f improving our river in the South, o; plead to us to get for South Carolina is some national standing and enjoy v the resulting national influence and 1 assistance for the development of ouv C jreat resources. vi Respectfully, tc JOHN G. CAPERS, Member Republican National Com- ci mittee for Soiith Carolina. * v f< ANOTHER NEW COUNTY R b Proposed Out of Portions of Aiken * and Lexington. .V A dispatch frotn Columbia to The ^ N'ews and Courier says the promoter of the project to form from portions of Aiken and Lexington counties a new county, to be known as "Summerland," have seized upon tho A failure of the Edisto new county proposition as an auspicious occasion for the renewal of effort in behalf of their own scheme. It is S( claimed that the necessary territory n with the required population and ^ area, can be found in the old coun- c, tie6? 6nd that there shouid by all j>. means be a county seat on the rail- c road between ColumBia and Augus- j, ta. Leesville and Batesburg are the ^ two wings that would soon gather j( around the Court House, making an r Inland city with mod6rn equipments.* 1( SIX WERE KILLED. o Pkking Dynamite Cap Resulted in c a Dsiaster to Maitj*. s Near Fort Collins, Colo., six per- 9 sons were instantly killed and twenty- 1 one others injured by an explosion of dynamite at the Ingleside Limastone Quarry. The dead include two Japanese and four Mexicans. Ftvp rhnreps of dvnamite had been placed, but oniy four of them exploded as arranged. While ?in attempt waB being made to pick the , cap from the unexploded charge '.t went off. * 1 Would Canse Panic. In a speech Mr. Bryan said that ( , the Republicans were threatening \ , [ panic in case of his election. "There , will be a panic in one family,' no . said, "and that will he the Taft fam- ^ lly, for Mr. Taft's Federal ralary will ] be withdrawn for the first time ij ( more than 20 years." * Bryan Negro Club. At Springfield, Ohio, Thursday ] night a Bryan Club, six hundred , strong, \va6 organized by the negro voters, led by Colored soldiers who . formerly served at Brownsville. * is, Who was found guilty? Assuredly Mr. SiU'.ey saw Senator McLaurin, but tne question is, Did he merolv see him or did ho raise him? "If the phraseology of this particular game Is too technical for the ladies In the audience let us put the question in this form: Button, button, who got the $5,000? "Now, my friends, I have read j*ou I these letters, not merely to Interest | and entertain you, but to arouse you to the seriousness of th? danger that threatens our republic. Be patriotic, be non-partizan, be rigilent, with the eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty, and do not allow those forces of corruption to destroy our republic which destroyed the republic of Rome." A GRAVE CHARGE The President Accused of Using an Offfice to Buy LABOR LEADER KEEFE IVhose ChaDgo to Taft From Bryan Accounted for by the Democratic Press Agent, who Says Keefe was Promised Immigration Commissioner's Office to Desert Gompers. The National Democratic Commltee, through John G. Gordon, asslsant and acting chief of the press jureau at headquarters In New York, nade public the following statement fuesday night. "It was stated at the National democratic Committee headquarters ?uesday night that President Hoose elt by promise of office has succeedd in having one of the big men of he American Federation of Labor deert President Oompers in his adocacy of the election of Mr. Bryan or the Presidency. "The labor leader in question !.-< )aniel J. Keefe, of Detroit, president f the International Association of .ongshoremen, and one of the vicaresidents of the Federation of La- ! or- 1 "The Democratic committee al>ges that Keefe and the President i rere closeted for several hours in 1 Washington on Saturday,'October 3. nd the offer of being named com- s lisloner general of immigration. < iade vacant by the deatu of Com- ' lissioner Sargent, was made in con- s [deration of Keefe's repudiating Mr. c ompers and the executive council c f the Federation. T "Keefe, on Saturday last, issued o ' Latement in which he said* 'Am \ oing to vote for Wm .H. Taft. "It Is pointed out that on Sep- \ ?mber 28 last, the executive council ? t the American Federation of Labor c 6ued a circular calling on all or- 1 anizatlons of labor to work for ths s efcat of Mr. Taft and Republican I ongressmen seeking re-election an-J i [r. Keefe authorized his signature ) be attached to it. "The scource of the Democratic t smmittee's information was not di- ? ulged, but the Information was o? ? >red that if Mr. Keefe or President oosevelt deny the charges, another -: ig labor leader, now in New York, t III come forward with facts to prove 1 lat the offer was made, and that lr. Keefe accepted it and has com- < lenced to make good his part oi" ie deal/' fliEY MAfcttlED AGAIN. , llet Being Divorced Sixteen lears Old Couple Reunited. , After sixteen years of divorced eparation, during which each hao ( emarried and had each .been bereft ^ hrough death, an aged German ouple, who were married in thei. atherland forty years ago, pro ured in New York a marriage license ? a order to at once re-enter, for their ecliuing years, the ties they ba.1 ggally set aside so long Ago. Conad Knubert's second wife died no, ang ago. Having heard that his fo.aer wife's busbafi had also die a Germany, he wrote the partner f his young years, asking er ^ ome to New York and marry him e-Un She cabled her repl>?that he xvafe coming and on the next teamer. She reached ^ork 0L t'uesday. COLONEL TUCKER ARRESTED. Vrmy Officer Charged With Having Deserted His Wife. C0l. William M. Tucker, of th? [Tnited States army, *ae arreste< it Decatur, 111., on Tuesday charged vith deserting his wife, a aaufci:er of the late Gen. John A. Logan. The arrest was madfc by Sergt D'Brien, of the Chicago police department. Col. Tucker, who was ill an-.i .'ould not be taken off the train, igreed to return without rerjuisitior. papers. He went on to St. Louis to [)e taken back to Chicago later in th-. iay. Col. Tucker was accompanied by i> woman for whom he is alleged t.> have deserted his wife. A woman nurse, who was taking care of him and two men servants, completed the party. BURNED IX HIS HOUSE. Goes Into Burning Building to Get Ills Valuables. W. S. Langher was cremated in his home near St. Edith's Academy, five miles west of Manassas-. Va., Tuesday morning, when his house, with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire originating probably from a defective flew. AH the other occupants of the building escaped. Langher had re-entered the burning structure to save sonje money and valuable papers in an upper against the pleading pf his wife and children. Langher's Mills, th > home of the Langhers, was one of the eldest landmarks of the counts*. i JURORS GAMBLED ON THE LIFE OF A MAX THEY TRIED. Verdict Set Aside Because Two Juron> Resorted to Game of Chance In l??lro at n rVvrvrln fiiftn. ViUVI W tUliiv MW V* A dispatch from Aiken to The News and Courier says William Knox, the convicted murder of PiclcenB Penn, was given a new trial bj Judge WilBon, who heard the arguments for a new trial on the grounJ of irregularity in the Jury room. Knox was convicted or murder la ;t week in the Criminal Court, but hi was not sentenced at that time in order that his counsel might be heard in a motion for a new trial. Las' Saturday the defendant was called up to be sentenced, but the solicits asked for a postponement until ye? terday. The arguments were begun late yesterday afternoon and end ed this morning by the Judge setting .iside the verdict. The ground for the new trial i: most unusual. Affidavits were pro luced by Knox's counsel, Messrs Henderson ana Davis, uunier anr jyles, from four of the jurors wh<sat on the case. These affidavits were in effect that ten of the jurymer stood for murder, without recommen iatlon, and that two stood for mur der with recommendation to thmercy of the Court, thus reducing :he sentence to life Imprisonment. They could not arrive at a conclu don by reasoning the matter and re sorted to the uncertain game o' ihance. It was proposed that twi slips of paper, one marked "mur ler," which was to stand for no reojmendatlon, and the other to narked "mercy," to Indicate a rec >mmendation for mercy, were to b' >laced In a hat and drawn for. This was agreed to and the slip vere placed In the hat. It war igreed by the two that If the 'mur ler" allp was drawn they would giv n to the ten, and If the "mercy' ilip was drawn the verdict shoul * >e guilty with a recommendation tc nercy. Fate was against Knox in the jur.i oom and when the draw was mad he "murder" slip was drawn oul ind the verdict was according!" ligned and rendered to the Court. The defendant's counsel contend id that this was gambling the life o he defendant away, and could nr lave been their honest conviction.* ind was contrary to the law, and ask ?d that the verdict be set aside. 1 TURNED GRAVES DOWN. Hearst's Candidate Tried to SpeaT Amid Cheers for Bryan. In Baltimore wide publicity havin; >een given the announcement thaWm. R. Hearst and John Tempi; 3raves would address a meeting o :he Independence party, the Prince/: Theatre was packed tonight. A te! egram was read from Mr. Hears' expressing his regrets. It was learn 3d later that the announcement tha he would speak was made by mis take. Mr. Graves in his specch credite Mr. Hearst with having injected intr this campaign all the interest it po*sessed, and then severely criticise'" both the Democratic and Republicar narties. He flayed Wm. J. Bryan fho mpntinn of whose name, how ever, was fceartily cheered. Th' speaker attacked the DemocratI' vice presidential nominee, declaring Mr. Kern to be the paid represents tive of a railroad corporation convicted of criminality. A man in th' gallery was ejected for repeat edly shouting "Are you not in th pay of Wm. Randolph Hearst?" The ejection of the questioner wa< followed by a call for cheere fo Bryan, which were given in such f manner that Mr. Graves threatene--' to appeal to the police to secure hiir a hearing * A PREDICTION* VERIFIED About n Trust Gobled Soap Factor* in Nebraska. In a speech at Nebraska City Mr Bryan compared his meeting then this year with his meeting therin 1900, and left with the chair man of the committee $5 to be pre sented to the campaign fund of tb; Republican committee if they woulr' consent to carry the same banner: in their parade that they carried a' that time. I At that time he predicted that thi starch trust, which was being prosecuted under the State statue wouli' be likely to close the factory at tha' | place, and it was intimated thai nhvsiral violance would be done hlrr if he ppoko in that city. "I to]d thenthen that I wonld denounce the trus' even In tho shadow of the starch factory," he paid. "Where are th? Republicans who mockingly wrotf to me after the election and declare'' that the shadow of the starch factory extended across the State? How far does the Bhadow reach now? The factory Is closed down; th*? machinery has been removed and th'building is In the hands of a wrecking crew." * FELL IN THE SEA Another American Air Ship Meets With Disaster] HAD EXCITING TIME The Passangers, Suddenly Finding Themselves Over Deep Water, Den Life Preservers, Descend to Water and are Finally Rescued by Ufa k IB Savers. A diBpatch from Berlin, Germany, says the second of the three American balloons that Btarted in the race for the international trophy on Bunday from Schmargendorf has met disaster in the North sea. The "Saint Louis," manned by N. H. Arlolfl. of North Adflma. Mann an/* Harry J. Hewitt, was carried overland to treacherous air currents and ater in the haze the aeronauts lost heir bearings until suddenly they ;aw the guard lights of an unknown :oast. ? This meant that they must descend or risk the drnger of being Iriven far out of the track of vee;els. They chose the former course ind for an hou trhey were buffeted >y the waves, olmost giving up is lespair. Eventually they were rescued by a ife boat, and the first intimation that m accident had occurred to tha 'Saint Louis" was conveyed la a vireless message from Arnold saying: "Lost everything In tho North 8ea ast night." Following bo closely on the dranatic experience of A. Holland For)es and Augustus Post, tho naviga ors 01 me ~ tjonquerer, wmcn irurst it an altitude of four thousand feet ioon after the start of the race, botk nen having a thrilling escape rom eath, the disaster to the "Saiat .ouis" was the subject of excited nterest In Berlin throughout the day ind tronirg. The jirftis coT.rannlcatjd with vlr. Arnold at Wilbelmshaveo, to vhich place he had teen transported by one of the torpedo boats, vhich were sent out to render astistance to any of the balloonista vho might drift out over the water. lr. Arnold told a graphic story of he mishap. He said: "All day Monday with the excepon f.f the eai!> afternoon we were inable to see the earth and we lowred the balloon repeatedl to cora.lunlcnte wllb i peof'e 10 asccrain our whereabouts. Apparently ve could not make them understand, ut tiiis probab'e wi s du> to our >oor German. Finally we decided o risk proce;diu?, still having tweny sacks '*f ballast. 'Moving in a norlhwon:jrly direc.o< I:i "i" .vening / i p.;w?d a c'.y, he lights of which wore viulbli five niles to the west ana we je?iuo? ater that it was Bremerhaven. Soon fterwards we noticed light houses >.nd buoys, which convinced us that ve were moving about big water, but <e had no idea whoro we wore. "In order to avoid drifting out of he line of ship traffioe we concludd to go down to the water hut be for doing so we put on life preserv rs. This was a perolious task, for t was dark and there was great langer of being swamped in the baatet. "After pitching about in the waer for almost an hour and giving lp all hopes of rescue, Hewitt, who lad climbed Into the riglng, difl overed a flash light and soon aftervard was a life boat approaching is. The boat, however, could not each us, as we were being dragged hrough the waves at the rate of fiftopn or twenty miles aa UJUUV utkvvw ~ _ lour. The boatman shouted to ua o Jump overboard, which we did. "I tried to save the St. LouU Club's ballon by ripping It np, but he rope was Jerked out of my hands. Vbout ten minutes later I was picked ip by the boat, which in the mean .ime had saved my companion, lewitt. We were landed here, too Ired to proceed to Berlin, whither ve will go. , Two of the competitors in the eniufarice raaes have not been reiorted, and it is hoped that these ^scaped the changeable lower cur-ents which affected the other com)Gtitors and succeeded at higher al Jtudes in reaching Russia. A report received here from Was?rloog Island, In the North Sea, says hat a balloon passed over there, but hat there was no further tidings of :* The flotilla of torpedo boat de stroyers Is searching the North Sea, svhere a thick fog prevails. MAKES POOR SHOWING. Ibout Fifty at Hearst Party Gather* lug at Columbia. At Columbia on Tuesday night, a meeting was held In the interest of 'he Hearst party. There were about fifty persons present, many of them active Democrats, Including a banker, several lawyers, newspaper men, business men and laboring men. 4n address was made by ex-Congress man Howard, of Alabama. State Secretary 8. S. Price, of Columbia, presided, and M. F. Tlghe, of Washington, connected with the Hearst J papers, was present. I