Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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| iBESMBBi # N' I'ORSII *1-r| fj |J XYcfJe tabic Preparation for As- I f' stinitfltingrtttToodfliKlUc^uIa- Sj * lin? the itonuichsand.Bowels of w | r Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- flj l! ness and Resf.Contains neither fil f OpTum.Morphine nor Minora!. g3 #! >OT X.VHCOT1G. M - Akrpv aS OU LrSAMl ZZ PITCHER /Wpvtui Set*' K iAe ?f w*? ) /|p?IWT? . Wi/ S?\<f I ll #ES?.:?.. i .& |l {SsSfc,. ip jkwyw f 'ttw. J j| A perfect Remedy for Constipa- 9 tion. Sour Stoinnch.Dianhoea, *! Worms,Convulsions. Feverish- IB Yj! ness and Loss OF SLEEP. B T.icSimite Signature of t >n-:w vork. j LXACT COP/OF WRAPPCB. Ljfc CHESTIR f MACHINE and LUM3ER 3ilMP*NY. 'i ^ ' CHESTER, S. C. o 'f ' cheater M dun*' 'o. and R. M ' r|?r;?t! ?k Co, hav?- consolidated the j 1 tw ; 'nits', and now teady to furnish j 1 ho t hing in the Machine hiii! Lumber < lit with a well equipped Foundrv , an Machine -hop, anil Door, Hash an i It itul Fae*or\ < ur facilities ar? ? " un -1 'ailed in fhi- part of the State KE WERS vow En**. ; HRE-n Ki<>. GINS, ENGINE- -A -V MILLS , H Y AND CO ?ON PRESSES I \ KRO.A K. . A- INGS, KYC A.I.&O ; SilUHO Han j MACHINERY. k-s*" Hills coiii(iiete for Dwellings. 8t"i- Rooms, etc -send us list of youi wants,, and we will answer bv | itji i ii ill.tli CHI-STER M?C"INE & LUMB1R COMPANY., I j *r\;* c*^ 3. re j ^ ^? ; m <m* rr; ~ cr ? >? y^*~? re- ^ ? cf- re i " o * 2 ? S ? 5 ? -?re ? = ~ x ~: co '; y VI gf 8. g. re | ^ ? " | , ag j? ? ? 3 cr ? x? ? ? i. X v. ? ' j 3P?.g~? |.s 9 5 S3 S ? s- 5- S-x g 8 : > ?s g. ? 3 CD gjfg-s Sq ? 2 271. g - I ? 5- S I J - sr. ? & ?. ? s * %iS O 5T ^ 73 ??" go ?*% a c & 3 ?L * 2 *-*# a> ? < r- v re r * ?" 2 g-'< - ^ re re 5 so ? T ? ^ JBi ? re re 3 -< jy _ J3 _ ' J _ , cr cr ? 3 ?" s 5 sS2 5-21? S]SK s ? 5T ?. o -? ?? |S S.6 ? MM ? ^ ~ w 3 <*> ' e-3 &. | 3 3. ? zir cn ft ? 1 3. r*" r? p ? s ?. "5 a ? 09 O x ? C a >-l e+ -I t+ A Chance to liny I'oii a Home. Any party or parties desiring to purchase any of the real estute of T M Fitzpatrick & Bro., in the town or county, can got prices j acd terms by calling on the editor j of The ledger. The Messrs i Fitzpatrick hare so lie very de- I irable farms and valuable improved town property and their i j being on the market gives men of 1 j Moderate means a splendid oppor- ' teaity to purchase a home. I For Infants find Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough; Bears the jf ? Signatnre^^j^^" hj* Ose For Over Thirty Years SfiSTIilfl' TMK CINTAUII OOMPANV, NKW YORK OlTV. , LANCASTER A.N i ? UES KB R A I I W \ N schedule m effect * |?r11 23, 1900 (i'uilycx>:f|)( ^iii?l ) W K-THOQN t> | KA?il K. IT IS I? I i i iini lo ! No's . mm ' > I1 \ VI. P M. \ P v; " 7 7 0 \ r ' 'IihhH1 r i, v 9 4' l 1 ' I r 21 6?1 Rl"l?l?ur? 10 2 <7 r 12 0 JO ' BasconibvHle 10 40 A7 ">7 6 00 Fori Lawn 11 00 '4 1 *? W l >'?? 5 30 Lv Lancaster Aril 40 9 j N ? 14 Lancaster 6-30 am n k-s e.o9*j eon 'lec'!<?' -p .'!he"iei ?? li'-rii Uaiiwav No 3d lor i IMinriolte and point* north; and Sea i tr i Air Line ' Allan'a Special" ?r \ltanta and points weat A >< vir ? i "arm ma and Northwestern Rail way No 10 f.>r etioir N O and Int. rmediate points, and -outheru Railway No 33 for ('oluiulii a* d points south *o. 17. leaving ( h< ster 10.30 am connects wiih Southern Railway No 3d fiom I'olurubia and "oints south; S l? mrd vir l.ine" vllanta Special" from northern anil eastern points a- d e>< U'hern Ra Iway No 33 fr m Northern and eas'ern points, an * a Lah?*i leru ith * & O K for Hlacksburi; ; N . Id- leaving Lancaster 4.On p m | nt Lancaster with H G ?fe G E f inn * am.len and Marion anil Southern Railway X.i, 34 at Chester for l.urlotte and points north. No 16. leaving Chester 8.10 p m, conn eta at t heater with Southern II >iI way No. 34 from 'olunihia and P< >i ii ta sou i ii. J M HE \TH, (ion Pass. Agt I.BROY SPRINGS. President.. "' FOUR PAPERS A WEEK '" FOR ABOUT THE * PRICE OF ONE. * + >* This paper and the Atlanta + * Twice-a-Week Journal for + 4. fl>1 tc ? ' a I. / o. + 2 Here you g?t the news of ? the world and all your looal j; 4 news while it i? fresh, paying t< | % very little more than one |! | ^ paper c< ate. Either paper J I f is well worth $1.00, but by a ? special arrangement we are * 2 enabled to put in both of J 5 them, giving three papers a J 4 week for this low prica. Yon a g cannot equal this anywhere f 4 else, and this combination is a * t hebsst premium for those * \ who want a great paj>er and J J a home paper. Take theae * \ and you will keep up with f 5 the times. ' ; Besides general news, the | 1 Twice-a-Week Journal has a \ much agricultural matter * and other articles of special if a interest to farmers. It has $ 2 regular contributions by Sam ? ? Jones, Mrs. \V. II. Felton ? r i m ? ^ w jonn iempie urares, Hon. I C. H. Jordan and other dia- j j 1 I tinguishad writara. ]; | Call at thto afftc* tsd Imv* ymmr I i J wNcrlptitM tmr Ml pmpmrm. M/tm m i | gmt m Mafia Myjr mi ilMur pmpmr bar* j | mm apfllcatta*. I | l*******aa***a*a?a*****a*i j FEARFUL LOSS OF HUMAH LIFE. Thirty-Five Hurled to Instant. Death in Georgia. WASHOUT WAS THE CAUSE. Every Person on the Train Perished Savo Those on Pallman Car Heartrending Details of the Awful Tragedy. Atlanta, ,1 one 24.?A passenger train on the Macon branch of tlie Southern railway rau into a washout one and a half miles north of McDonough, Ga, last night and was completely wrecked. The wreck caught tire and the entire train with the exception of the sleeper was destroyed. Every person on the train, except the occupants of the Pullman car, perished. Not a member of tho train crew escaped. Thirty-five I people in all were killed. Tremendous rains of daily occurrence for the past two weeks have swollen all streams in this part of the south and several washouts have been reported on the different roads. Camp's creek, which runs into theOcmulgee, was over its hanks unci its waters had spread to all the lowlands through which it runs. About a mile and a half north of MeDonough, the crock is some what near the Southern's tracks and, running alongside it for some distunco, finally passes away under the road by a heavy stone culvert. A cloud burst broke over that section of the country about (J o'clock last night and presumably, shortly after dark, washed out a section of the track, nearly 100 feet in length. Into this the swiftly moving train plunged. There was not a note of warnTh -a-? - uj^. xuw siunu was sun raging ami all the car windows were dosed. The passengers, secure as they thought, and sheltered comfortably /roni the incitement weather, werrt to death without an instant's warning. The train, consisting of a baggage ear, ! second coach, first-class coach and ! a Pullman sleepor, was knocked! into kindling wood by the fall. The wreck caught fire a few minutes after the fall and all tlio j coaches were burned except the Pullman car. Kvery person on the train ex-' cept the occupants of the Pullman I car perished in the disaster. There was no escape, as the I heavy Pullman car weighted down tllh nthnru nml lK? ?l!?? I? 4L ?.<> 1IIU icn IIIIVU 111 till? I sleeper were unable to render assistance to their fellow passengers. ' For u brief time there was! silence. Then the occupants of! the Pullman car recovered from their bewilderment and uftsr hard work managed to gel out of their car and found themselves on the track in the pouring rain. The extent of the catastrophe was quickly apparent. Flames were already coming from that part of the wreckage not covered by the water. As the wreck began to go to pieces under the destructive work of both tiro and flood human bodies floated cut from tlve mass and were carried down stream by the swift current. The storm did not abate in fury. Flashes of lightning added | to the steady glow of the burning train and lit up the scene with fearful distinctness. Flagman Quinlan, who was one of the first to get out at once started for the nearest telegraph Btatioa. Making his way as rapidly as possible in the face of a blinding storm, he stumbled into Ihe office at McDonough and after telling the night operator of the wreck, fell fainting to the floor. Wor?l was quickly sent to both Atlantu and Macon, but no assist ance was to be bad except from the former city as the interrupted track prevented the arrival of any train fron Macon. Nearly the entire male population of McDooougk went to the scene to render assistance, but little could be done by the rescuers, as the lire kept them at a distance. At daylight tho bodies that had flouted from the gorge were gath- j ered up. One body was found a mile from the wreck and many , were seen uiong us .nana. A wrecking train was started out from Atlanta at midnight, hut owing to the burning wreckage nothing could ho done until morning. A special train at 6 o'clock this morning took doctors, ministors, railroad officials and helpers to the scene; but nothing could he , i done save to gather up the bodies. As the dead wore found they wore removed to McDonough. There are two undertakers there. Both establishments were soon full of the mangled remains of j the passengers. Some of the bodies were terribly burned while others wore crushed beyond recognition, the only means of identification in the majority of the cases were letters and papers in the pockets of the victims. The bodies were prepared for burial as ranidlv as r?rnu*ih!? i v ? i ??? : Some may be buried at McDon- j ough. Others will be sent to ' their homes us fast as the proper addresses can bo ascertained. Only three ladies were on the ' train. Two escaped. It is pre- 1 named that the other porished, but 1 the body has not been found. ' Besides the regular crew of the i train, several conductors and other employes were enroute to Atlanta ' to spend Sunday. All were kill- 1 ed. Conductor W A Barclay ' was in charge of the train. 1 A section boss with a gang of 1 eight negroes occupied seats in 1 the second class coach. They were on their way to re. ( pair a wnshout on the Georgia, Midland and Gulf road. Not one escaped when the car went down. a drummer's experience. Jesse L Rohr, u traveling sales- l man of Baltimore, one of those 1 rescued, had this to say of his experience last night: "1 was in the Pullman with the others who escaped with their lives, when the wreck occurred. 1 There was not an instant's warning. We heard suddenly an in- < distinct crash and the next iustant felt our car pitch forward and i drop. The forward end of the i car tilled with water at once and the lights went out. We heard < the roar of rushing waters and knew we were in a stream of some Kind. We got down on allfours and felt and crawled our way to the top of the car and then out. ; The car was hanging by its rear trucks to the stone abutment of the culvert and swayed by the motion of the water, swung to and , fro like a great pendulum. It ( was pitch dark and the rain was coming down in torrents. Peering into the breach in the track we could see a confused mass of broken cars already beginning to burn. What impressed me,wasthe fact that not a single call for help was heard. Those in the forward coaches must have met death instantly. The wreckage was on tire when we reached the top of our car and lit up the scene bright* ly. Looking down toward the middle* nf Alir por I uaiu ?l.a U?.l ? v* v?4t V0I) a rjmrr iuo noil i an<l shoulders of & woman and soon hoard her cry, 'Save us, we i are alive/ But we could do nothing for her then as there was no < rope to be had and we were afraid the car would awing from its posi- , tion. "Then came the struggle to | V k ; - ' mm- 1 get to the track ahoTO. We were many feet from the level of the roadbed. Great chunks of earth, loosened by the ruin, came falling down on lis, and wo were nearly buried two or throe times. We feared, too, that the stone abutment weakened in its position by the giving away of the eaith, would loosen aud crush in upon no \V? ? 1. U..I.1 it wo. 1IU liCIUIV IIVIIU W1 II1U I'UUltt and several times us we neared the top of the hank, they p.illed out anil sent us tumbling back on the car. Once, Mr. Flynn, who was one of our little party, was within grasping distance of the top. Suddenly to our horror, ho lost his hold and down ho came. lie did not stop at the car this time, however, but went on into the river and was carried away by the terrific rush of wators. 1 was tielighted at daylight, however, to see him walk up to our party in McDonough and tell us that ho had managed to catch a tree after u ride of a mile or more in the water. "Flagman Quinlan worked like the hero that ho is.- llo finally got to the top and ran as fast as he could to a farm house nearby! and came with a rope. It was too short, however, and he had to make the trip aguin to anotheri house. Finally he got plenty of rope and then we pulled the two ladies out of the forwurd end of the coach and all wore soon on the top of the groun 1." When asked how wide the washout was, Mr Kohr said: "1 ani leu you accurately; to me; it seemed the width of the Mississippi river, and the roar of the flames and water was something calculated to unstring any man." Mr W W Ipnrk, one of the killed recently moved from Macon to Atlanta. He is the southern igent for a baking powder com [mny of Richmond, .Va, and was returning to Atlanta after a short trip. another's experience. Macon, Ga., .June 24 ? Miss Mamie Merritt, who is a teacher in the Emerson school of oratoiy, Boston, gave her experience us fo lo-vs. Sho said: "It begun to rain about the Lime we left Macon and rained incessantly all the way up to Mc Donough. The conductor came through where wo were sitting, in the rear of the sleeper, and proposed to let down my window, as the rain had begun to come in. As he put tho window down 1 reached over to gather up my mackintosh, which I had spread across my lap, and while I was bent forward the crash came. "Quickly looking up, 1 saw the conductor being thrown headlong toward the front of tho car. I was on the left of the car, my friend was on the opposite side and the conductor was falling headlong over the seats on the right. That was the last I saw. Then I remembered the car plunging down, down into the water. The car turned over on the side on which J was bitting, and the next 1 knew Miss Alden was lying across mo. "The water had risen up to our waists and I noticed that Miss Alden's head was lower thnt mine and, fearing the water would cover her, I took her in my arms and lifted her up. We both were wedged in aod could not move our bodies below our waists. For some time wo lay holpless and called for help, but none came. "Miss Alden had a steam pipe across her body and she was across me and 1 was further wedged down with a berth partition across me. I began to pull the debris off with my hands, and when 1 had removed all that was loose I took a wooden beam and nrf**d the steam pipe from off my friend. Finally I got it iooee and relieved her of its pressure. I was still wedged down hy the partition. I got hold of another longer piece of wood and hcgnn to prize up the partition and at last pulled myself from under it. Then I crawled out in the open space in the cur, where 1 could look out through the broken aperture. 4tI ,could see tho embankment and the rails and tho men who had ii a - * a I l I gwuuu oui ui uio smoKing apartment standing and walking about | upon tho embankment. 1 called to them, aud tliuv pai 1 no attention; but a negro porter hoard uie and came to our uss'stance. "By hie aid 1 managed to pull up on top of tho (deeper and crawl I to the end next to the embankI ment. 1 then called again and i 15 again to the men to help us, but they only cried back, 'AH right.' "In tho meantime Miss Alden had gotten on to tho roof of tho car, and after she had fainted and a long wait a gentleman from Atlanta came down the cmbuukmcnt and tied a rope about my waist and 1 was drawn up tho steep etu-? bankment." HOW'S THIS T We cflVr One Mu divtl Dollars lieward for any case o ? a arr'i thai cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. V J i JI EN KY A CO., Props To| lem, O. | We the underpinned, have known r j fluency r>r the la-t 16 years, hihI believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially ?bie *o carry oui any obligations made by their firm. Wksta I'huaX) Wholesale Drugget. Toledo, (>. Wai-iuno, Kinnan A Makvin, Wholesale Du^gists, Toledo. O, Hall's Catarrh < lire is taken interna ly, acting dire tly upon the blood and mucous surfac. s of the system. Price, 76c. i>er l>otlie Sold -by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hub's Family Pil's are the best The Herald of Horry thinks the dispensary will win in the campaign. It bases its opinion largely on the selfishness of the peoplo. Counties that get big school money from tha dispensary funds will be for it. In that case Horry can be counted on for a big majority for dispensary. Last year that county got more money for its schools frot* the dispensary fond thun frotn the three-mill constitutional tax?about $8,000. And there is not a dispensary in Horry.?Greenville News. rA exAD i A vn<j vniM For Infant* and Children. Tht Kind Yon H?i Always Bought Boars the " Signature of lcucJi6&! Americans Am hushed by Hand of Filipinos. Manila, dune 23 ? A detach* ment of 40 men of the Fortieth regiment, Capt. Thomas Miller commanding, left Cagaynn de Misamis, Islam I. of Minadanao, SCOlltinf .Iline IS TYnrlr.nr dVio. o ?"""ft morning of Juno 14 they encountered a strongly ambushed and entrenched force of the enemy. i The Ameiicans attempted to charge but were frustrated by the Filipino pitfalls and traps. Tho advance lino, consequently was under a heavy fire in front and on its thinks, and fell hack on Cagayan. Tho American loss wus It men killed and two officers and 10 men wounded. NO RIGHT TO IJOLINEM8 The woman who is lovely in face, form anil temper will always have friends, but ono who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be norvous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Ritters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes,smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down invalid. Only 60 cents at Crawford Bros1 Drug Store.