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Negro Excursion Wrecked.
Frightful Disaster on tho A. C.
D. Near Wcdgelield?Conductor
Killed, also Three Negro
Ptisscn ^ers ? Fight
Seriously Injured
and Twenty-six
Otheis More
or Fuss
Hurt.
Special to News and Courier.
Sumter, June 2.? 1 lie most fatal
and disastrous wreck in the
history of this division of the Atlantic
Coast Line occurred two
miles east of \Vedgefield,near Cane
Savannah (lug station, at 9.55 this
morning. Conductor J. J. Clements,
of Florence, and three negro
passengers were taken from
the wreck dead, and another negro
has since died. The injured
no nher thirty-four and many
others have more or less bruises.
Eight of tho injured are classed as
seriously injured, but it is too
soon yet to say how many are
fatally injured, as some of them
have internal injuries that may
yet take a serious turn.
The train wrecked was an excursion
train, being run by negroes
from Nichols, Marion County,
to Columbia. Tho train was
made up of a baggage car and live
day coaches, pulled by Engine
No. (>G. There were about 150
passengers on tho train, and it
was duo solely to tho fact that
most of the passengers were in the
two mar coaches, which did not
leave the lU.o dm .......t.....
~ ...w v.^vo) vi<c%v iiiu iiuiinnu
of killed nnd wounded was not
far greater, for a more complete
wreck is seldom seen.
CAUSE or THE WKECK.
The embankment carrying the
track across this bottom was fifteen
or more feet in height. The
unprecedontedly heavy rain last
night caused an immense head of
water to accumulate in the low
ground on the north side of the
track, which finally washed away
the embankment for a distance of
forty feet and escaped into the
branch on the north side. The
rails an<l crossties were left suspended
in the air, spanning the
chasm, and when the engine struck
it, it plunged in and the baggage
car and three coaches followed.
The washout was discovered a
short time before the wreck by
Aleck Robinson, a negro farmer,
who lives near the place, and he
hastened to Cane Savannah siding
to flag the regular passenger train
for Columbia, No 52, and warn
them of the danger. .Just as ho
reached the siding the excursion
train came along and he made frun
tic efforts to sign it down, but Engineer
George Wilson, having no
orders to stop at fllag stations to
pick up passengers, paid 110 attention
to Robinson's desperate
efforts to get him to stop, and
went forward nt full ur>?n 1 '
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futo thut was awaiting his train.
A DISREGARDED WARNING.
Robinson first waved his handkerchief
to bring the train to a
stop and, seeing theio was no
slackening of the speed, ho tore
the red lining from his hat and
waved, but all without effect.
Kngincer Wilson thought l.o was
just another nogro waiting at a
flag station to get on the exenr
. i
s;on train anil did not stop. i
CASTORIA.
Boars tho h*8 K|n(1 You Hav0 Always Bought ! ,
.
Happenings In ?he State.
As Chronicled !>y the Alert Corrospindents
of The Columbia
Slate.
SPAIN KKI.I.Y'S CASK CONTINl KI>.
Bishopville, .J tine 1. ?The court
of general sessions convened here
today, Judge Krnest (Jury presiding.
Council for Sptii 11 Kelly
aslced for ti continuance of his
case until the September term,
which was grunted.
onk DIKli WMII.K OTIIF.lt wan I>A
inc.
Due West, May 31 ?Mr. .J.
M. McGill <>f this place was found
dead in his room yesterday. His
family had left him in the morning
in good health and gone to a
picnic near Hodges, He was
sent for about 3 p. in. to go to
the bedside of his brother-in law,
Mr. 11. \V. II addon, who was
very ill. The messenger found
him lying on his bed cold in
death, g
Ho was 83 years of age?one of
our oldest, most useful anil respected
citizens. Mr. lladdjn
and Mr. McGill were brothers-inlaw.
There were only a few days
difference* in their ages. They
lived within t>ight of caeh other
and the ono died while the other
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was dying.
TF.RUIFIC HAII. STORM.
Greenwood, Juno 2.?Greenwood
was visited by a terrific hail
storm yesterday afternoon at 5.30
o'clnplf I toil 4V.I1
oiwin;o iril Licit
measured over six inches in circumference.
The oldest inhuhi
tant could find no occasion to surpass
this one. Much damage was
done in town to window panes
and skylights. Several small sections
of stained glass windows in
the Methodist, Baptist and I'res-.
Intcrian churches were broken
out. The damage to crops north
west of the city was very great.
The farmers report that everything
was destroyed.
CHILI) A'l'K (il.A^S.
Yorkville, June 1. ? Little
Uutli, tlie 2-year-old daughter of
Col. W. (i. Stephenson, the superintendent
of the Kings Mountain
Military academy, died yesterday
under very sad and distressing
circumstances. Since
last Wednesday thochild has been
suffering with what was thought
to Ito dysentery. Dr. J. I). McDowell
was called in and prescribed
for the child, but asked that
the excrement I o kept for examination.
This was done and pieces
of glass were found m considera
bio quantity. It was fragments
of broken electric light bulbs,
some pieces being an inch in
length. Yesterday morning, the
child seeming to be better, Col.
and Mrs,Stephenson attended the
commencement services at the
l'resj^vteiian ehurch, Imt on returning
home Mrs. Stephenson
discovered that the child was
dead. The nimo had laid it in
tlie cril) or lied about 12 o'clock
for its usual daily nap.
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rEIMYCI.KAK.
lkaufort June 1,?At Perryelear<
10 miles fro n this place,
last night, Kdward Williams, colored,
entered the house of Lizzie
Smalls, colored, whom ho had
previously aodncod on the prom
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jiscof marriage. 11?. !i:al been
| absent from the n lghborhood for
some time on account of his faithj
less treatment of the girl, but returned
for the purpose of resinn
iug intimacy. She declined to
have anything further to do with
him, whereupon he became enraVtd,
swore that ho would |-ond her
to h ?11, and stabbed her in the
right ear with a pocket knife, the I
hlade of which was over 2 inches
long. Only biz/.ie and a small
[girl were in the house at the
tune. Williams lied from the
scene after vainly trying to pull
the blade from the car, which
had been driven with force into
the mastoid pin cess. The parents
of the girl returned a few ininu- j
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ics aner tlio stabbing from a
| prayer meeting iti the vicinity,
J accompanied by a m m, ami it required
the united efforts of tlie* j
father ami the visitor to pull the |
knife from the oar. The girl,
aged about 17, was brought here
in a baggy this morning at 1
o'clock for treatment bv Dr. 1 .
O. Unison, who quickly examin
jedthe wound and administered re-j
jlief. While the doctor regards'
the wound as serious he does not ,
think it will prove fatal. A warrant
is out for the would-be murderer.
T<?KXAI)o AT CONDAUKK.
Congaree, June 5.--List evening
at about 9 o'clock a tornado
of terrific force visile I this vicini
ty and leait destruction in its
path. The large barn and stables
of Messrs. Kawlinson and
Weston were completi ly demo!ishe
I, but fortunately only one
horse was killed and a !j\v injured.
How any were left alive is a]
m>stery and a miracle, in ad-1
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or utiil hinder was destroyed. 'l'ho j
Atlantie Coast Line 11c]>:?t was!
unroofed and a great many barns j
arid stables were destroyed, with
a great deal of damage.
A negro house on llagar .Jones'
place was blown nearly hair an
aero and a boy kille 1 by splintering
timbers.
Crops are completely ruined by j
the hail, all leaves being beaten
oil'. Tobacco is a total wreck: no I
chance left for any pail of a j
crop.
Trees were blown in every direction.
some upro ?le I. others
twisted oil'a few feet above the
ground.
Destruction is seen at everyj
turn and old nersons sav thov
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luivo never soon such in their life
time.
STKl'CK UV I.KIIITNINii A N1 > INSTANTLY
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Andirsnn, dune 2.?During uj
severe ruin ami thunder storm
yesterday afternoon (icorgo I lam ;
mack, a yomi": white mm \vlioj
lives ut tin; Orr Cotton Miiis, was j
killed I?y lightning. When thei
* 1 1 ?* l ? it
siorm came 11j? lie ii'ii ins woriv ami ;
stinted for Lis home. A'ben he
reached the house ho four.d tint
tho family hud gon > over t?> aj
neighbors and imd left tin; lions *
locked. His mother, who hud j
just gone to the adjoining house,
saw him ami called to him to join
her, but ho repli il that it wasj
rninimr and as he did not care to'
- ~ r,
get wet lie would remain where
ho was, so he remained standiug
an the ])iaz/.n, loaning against the I
door. In a few s:con Is a holt, of!
I
lightning struck the house and hoi
Ml I
was instantly killed. llis body;
was badly turn l>v the 1 ><>11 au<l the
house was badly demolished.
OlJANt.l m i;c.
<)rangelmrg,.I tine li. -()r*ngebwrg
county experienced a very severe
rain and liaii storm last night. In
the Limestone and J ami-.on sections.
the storm was accompanied
l?y a terrific hail storm that kill
cil sheep, hogs, dogs and other
small animals and completely .destroyed
the crops. The hail was
very largo the majority of it falling
in lumps the size of an egg
and the ground was covered to a
depth of several inches in spite
of the rain. The farmers who
sulVcred lost their entire crops of
all kinds, including cotton, corn,
tohbacco and the uncut oats and
wheat crops. They will replant
cotton and corn and probably
make a half crop but the other
cropsure an entire loss.
STARTLING- iiVIOENCi:
Fresh testimony in great <pianily
is constantly coming in, declaring
Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption Coughs and
Colds-t?) he uneipialod. A recent
expression from T. .1. MeKarlaiul
Uentorville, \ a. serves as example.
He writes: -! had llronchitis
for itiree years and doctored
all the time without being benefit ed.
Then 1 beg in taking Dr.
King's New Discovery, and a few
bottles wholly cured me. 'Thnial
ly cll'ectiw: in curing all Lung and
Throat troubles. Consumption,
l'cnumoiuu and (ir11>. (luaiantocd
by Finnici'I>urk Pharmacy, Crawford
Bros., and J. If. Mackoy Si
Cj. Druggists. Trial bottle free,
regular sizes cUe, ami s? 1.00.
(i round to Death By a Train.
Special to Xe?vs and Courier.
Camden, Juno '). ? Just ns the
south-bound through freight on
the Sea-boar i pullo 1 out t'n.ni the
pas-engor station in Camden today
a hori ibio acei lent occurred.
Mr. (?. 1'. Allen, a llagmau of the
train, attempted to get on board
as the train was moving when he
mis-ed his footing and got caught
under the train, and was terribly
mangle 1 and death was instantan
cons. Both legs were ground oil
and his body fearfully mangled.
Allen was al?t)iit .*>0 years of ago.
His homo was in lialeigb, X. C.,
where his remains will bo sent tonight.
lie leaves a wife to mourn
his tragic death. An inquest was
held and the verdict of the coroner's
jury was that the deceased
came to his death while attempting
to board a train while in motion.
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Terrible Accident.
Willi im.-don, .lime L. ? While
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West Main street, was engaged
in arranging her clothing in ward
robe of her bedroom by some
means her little son's pistol,
which was on one of the shelves,
became entangled in a bundle of
clothing and was discharged, the
bull striking Mrs. 1? >ozer a half
an inch bel w the apex of the
heart and piercing the lung.
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