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THE LEDGtvU. ?hujirlow Carter, ED I TO K AND MANAOKH. SATHMiAV, SKIMKMHEll .*?. lOOu. i ELL THROUGH THE TRESTLE P isscnger Train Near Yorksille Takes a Plunge of Fify Feet Si \1? n J\ i:li ' aii.'i w m.'\ Jr._itii.vl, J i*. o Sr.vi-nj lv- -Yhrv. 1 i.i 1'he Injur i Fio.n iaUic*i>> ter Fell to i? "1 ol 1 hing C rook. News was received here about neon Thursday of a disastrous wreck on the old .'1 C's Railroad, now operated by the Southern, at Fishing Creek trestle, about three miles this side of Yorkvilie. The accident occurred about o'clock that day and it is said was due to the timbers of the trestle being rotten. - The entire trait), consisting t?f the engine ami throe coaches, went through the structure to the hanks of the creek below, ti distance of about 50 feet, killing six men, and injuring 24, live of whom will likely die. Three of the latter wete negro passengers. Among tho injured passengers are our townsmen, .Messrs. T. ('. liicks, Hazel Cunningham and Fred Poug. The two latter were on their way to Clem son College. Tho injuries of Mr. Hicks are quite serious while the injuries of Messrs. Cunningham nnd Po.-.g are only slight, the former getting his hack sprained and tho latter having one or two ribs brokon. Mr. ilicks has one of his legs broken and is injured about the chest. Mrs. Ilicks, accompanied y their family physician, Dr. M. T. Crawford, and Messrs. \V. J. i limit phalli and .J. L. Pong, fa i ,ci> < f tlie injured young men, j vcre l iken to Yorkville on a s< rial train that afternoon. At 1: - account- Mr. Hicks, who was I taken to his brother-in-law's, Mr ' K .j. MacKorell's :i! } % i o. .v. a ro-'.:ig easy. M ?<r--. ( ' .r md 1 i . . l?r?! !( '..s* riiirbt. ! ?I. *>i i v : X." M e York\il orr* sp n.b.it* rd ' the .N o\v nad ( .one :vcs t - 1 fob" \ b ' det ni- of f[.o ( dent. As sjoa as word ot the disaster reached town crowds commenced to mukc for the sceue, your correspondent among the number. The sight that met the eye beggars description. / The trestle was about four hundred and tifty feet long and perhaps forty-five feet high at tliej highe.-t point. The entire -true-! i turc was down except two benches at the west end and four at tineast. No semblance of cars wato he seen, except the badly disfigured shell of the lirst class coach, sticking upright and perilously balanced on the debris, all the rest being literally reduced to fragments. The locomotive fell at right angles with the lino of the trestle, anil no part of ir appeared to have escaped destruction. Lying on the hanks of the crock were several dead and dying men, as well as a number of fatally and seriously injured, who were being ministered to by those who ar-> rived early from Yorkville, and I the country immediately surround-1 i?g the trestle, including Drs li. A. Bratton, J. A. Barron, J. I). McDowell, i\l. J. Walker, Wylie Moore. In a short time there were from five to six hundred people on the ground, among them scores of good women from Yorkville and tho surrounding country, and uiany of the latter brought will them <juilt>, pillows, linen foi bandages, and < ther articles cal I P ' ciliated to l)ii of use m such ui i occasion. This correspondent mad< .a special examination of the timh ( ^ crs of the trestle and found thn ( every piece, except where then was a strip ot heart, \n.is rottci land had apparently heen so fo; years. Scores of pieces, ipparent 1 v sixteen incho ? nare, had heel hrokMi in t'An hy li e tall, and tin i >>u i ?i i ci i --in ei? i.cu1 the resul in broi k ng ?. c >1? :tlU. J:.\ ! g i;> 11 V"ul the i* ll .! the disaster htul cU velopcd 1 ? in th person of Mr. 11. V Willi ford, the travelling represcn tutivo of F II Andrews, dealer ii 1 musical instruments, of Charlotte N. C. Others who arrived inline diately after the wreck occur ret were telling us to how one man alone and unaided, had rescued ? number of injured people from tin lirst-class ear. Ho was looked n] and asked to toll the story of th disaster as he saw it. He commenc ed by saying that previous ti i hoarding the train he had bcei told that the Fishing Creek trestl was helievcd to he in a dangcroin i condition and as the train ap i preached it it was running at : iiyciy gait, and he involuntaril grasped the arms of the seat ii which he sat. The next instant th ear commenced to fall and it ap poured to be dropping hundred i of leet. Passengers were throwi in every direction, sonic apparent ly the length of the car, when i finally stopped. About tifteoi passengers were on board, includ ing three women and three chil dren, the balance being men Words could not describe th< scene. Five of the men. including I C Williford, were only slightly in jurcd, and four out of the five left tho car at once in the face o Wilhford's entreaties to remait and help him rescue the woniei and children, none of whom wen I seriously injured, and also to ge [out the others who were serious ly hurt. From the liest information ob tainablethere wine thirty-one per m i! s on the trai includin:* miss | * n i cngers ami operating crew. () this number is certain that si: 1 i WG10 li 1110(1 OlUt lglil ft IO lOWS T I f* tr i !ci. .. ? -??? <\ whose I. uno was Bin-' 1 ur ' . .;I llhvnr. fireman, aged abou _ T. li Mile, Blaoksburg : C. J S. ''tli, colored, postal clerk, ng< 1 about 10, home, Charleston and three unknown negroes. It i* claimed by some that there were one or two others killed, hut no others were found. The following arc supposed tc be fatally injured: Julian .Johnson, aged about 20, whose home: is Koch Ilill. lie was hurt internally: \V. T. Slaughter, ol Hickory drove, S. C.; badlj bruised and hurt internally, ant three negroes, Win Beard, Fran It But ris and Alex llucy, all injured inte rnally. The following were seriously, hut not necessarily fatally, injured: i. C. Hicks, travelling salesman for a Richmond grocery house, right leg broken below knee and otlicrwi-o seriously injured. His homo is Lancaster, S. C. li A. vViiiis, Ivlgenioor,S. C., log broken and otherwise injured; Marvin II. Morrow, Blacksburg, right lep broken at thigh and other injuries, Edward T u r n o r , conductor, Blacksburg, shoulder blade broken and painful wound in side; P. Bomar VVhisonant. tlugman, Blacksburg, leg seriously injured; D. F Dukes, baggage master and express messenger, painfully injured; Mr? 11. B. Buist, llock Hill, painfully hurt on shoulder. The following is a list of the passengers who escaped with slight bruises or were not hurt at all: P. \V. Spencer, Koddoy's, S. C. i Fred Poag, Lancaster; J. N. IV! c[ Laurin, Bethunc; Mrs J. C. iioyd, , Pressly, N.C*; \V. Ilarry. Wylie, , Jr, Bock llill; B. F. Williford, a, Charlotte, N. C.; K. V. Hall, . Bock Hill; F. Mills Stevenson, t Kershaw; II :i /. e 1 Cunningham, q j Lancaster; Sudiu Mr Cuskeil. Keri shaw: Walter and Mary Jenkins, ; 1 Bock llill; Miss.lcs-ie Love, Sha, ion. * , NVIiilo all the doctors of this ,? place have a largo cliontngo in the" >11-roiaidingi or ry a.nl neco-sari- ! . f a!v. out ot ; .a . !.;rgc part ?' i the time, it > hipp rod hiat all of * [ ; em heard < i . > <1 (v : lllui ar?. t lived at the ; < eno hi tune to render valuable services. An extra . j train was sent from Bock llill , i hearing friends and relatives of ' victims ot the tragedy, arriving , j within one hour after it occurred. I On the train were several Bock ! llill nhvsieians. A number of the > i , , t wounded were brought to Yorkc i ville, and nro being nursed by the p people of the community. Others 0 j wore taken to tiie homes in the ' vicinity of the wreck, while still ,, others .vere taken hack to Rock J Hill. e | C. J. Smith, the postal clerk s i killed in tho wreck, was running ? ! his lirst trip as a substitute, and it , | is said he received his commission y J only yesterday. i Fred Khyne, tlio fireman, was a 0 most excellent young man and a , general favorite with the railroad 8 people. He was fireman for Kurt gineer .Jack Metcalf, who went . down to death at Buffalo trestle, t near Blacksburg, sovornl years ago. n Khyne escaped after drifting down . the stream several hundred . yards. The trestle that went down to3 day is said to bo the original strucX turo erected when the old Three > C.'s Railroad was built in 1888. At this time the bodies of the f engineer and fireman had not beeit ^ taken out of the wreckage. 1 The opinion is expressed by somo 3 that it is possible that if Engineer 1 Brickman had checked his engine and struck the trestle at a speed of less than ten miles an hour it l i i ? * i IUIKIIIi UUl UllVtJ jrone (lOWU KM IV. hut unless it had soon I em over hauled im*i renew d it wouM \e I . ! 1 I nine down some other day. The*outh uu'l pitssciisroi 1 i , :ros8Q<l the trestle < oly about F< rty minute - !v. >' h n 'i '> ?1 , j attempted and ..die S. No w . < le passenger was instantly killed, or Li us since died, hut the opinion of all who saw him, is that Air. ,Jiif linn Johnson, of Hock Hill, will hardly recover. S. M. (Sr. > A Sea Cow Seen in Beaufort. Special to The State. Hfinnfnrt- Soot 1 ?R?l!ul\lnii? ? j r?' w|' v? A AVV1 IUI/1V> IU"" formation has been received ftom I BlufTton that a manatee or sea cow was seen in May river, near Lin' den, last week by several negro : fishermen, who wero considerably ' alarmed and surprised by its appearance. The animal rose and sank three times and finally disappeared. It had tho appearance of ' a big man rising to tho waist, wiping tho water from his face, looking around and then sinking. 1 This animal is supposed to have traveled north from the Florida I everglades and got into tho river | 1 by chance. Several years ago a > similiar amphibious animal was 1 captured by fishermen off Frying Pan shoals and taken te Charles 1 ton, where, as a curiosity, it is { said to have brought a good price. A death from drunkenness in ^ * Wilmington, man on trolloy-car i track. Death from drunkenness in Winston, man on railroad track. Suicide of a drunkard in Winston. 5 Attempted murder and ncconiplisht ed suicide by a drankard in Durham. One day's record. Hurrah : for tho saloon.- Charlotte News. f======== THE LAS To Our Grand munin ? o o o ; lyo PKorr e uavf, kn.j sai.ES OF tu mm Eli g( VERY LITTLE LEFT Of STOCK. Still there are a few GOOD must ho denned up before the ui Our Matchless Wo leave in a few days for tlis of the BEST VALUES tins com mise our friends not to return ti the greatest values in ?rnod mere brought to the city of Lancaster for our largo store in K >ck Hill (Quality is no object?the price i can handle the stud' if bought l'ij, two of the best towns in the Sta VTftTT run -M J JT XJ VJ J During the next few weeks and 1 our many odds and ends and reti half their value and even LESS, to Ladies and Children's Low Cut Shoes We offer a good solid Oxford T grade at 75c, $1.00 and $1.39. Vici Kid Shoes at $1.95?worth our $1.25 I. Kip ties at 95c hen Big Clothiiii I^rJUST PICKED UP 2(> I BEST GRADE OF SMOO TF ARE ONLY WORTH 812. SUIT. EVERY SUIT GOO w v. a it vn rt i?.< vr i/ r E. E. C fav o \ p. n n \j c 10 IJH I C During the everything in si including Dress Goods Clothing, Shoes, Shirts, ?T "1 underwear, Hosiery, Etc To go at PR DEFY COM We haven't Lo quote prices, b us and Save You Yours to Funderb =tg T ( ALL Feast of er Bargains ! f ' f-* O I > ~ !ovi:d or:? k ial i: )on.s i i: i i;i;k is - oi m ii< ; m.? .5 ! :k i; i THINGS ON HAND tint irival of 5 Fall Stock. s Northern m irk in search a try ntTord.-. Arc! wo proII wo have 'omii'd for them ihatidise that h is over boon liuyi i.r at tlio's one ti ne wo can clean n;> big lots, s the only consideration. Wo *ht as wo have the outlet of te. LI STORE you will he well repaid. Then nnants will ho disposed of at Wo call special atttcntion I and Slippers. io for Ladies nt 50c. Better Try a pair of Meu's genuine i $2.50. For good farm use ts the world Try a pair. g Bargain. SUITS OF THE VERY ICASS1MERES THEY 50 - OUR PRICE S7.90 A D FOR THREE YEARS Y TRULY, LOUD. ? li ; ONLY! i- p.nf Tcrx: ? ' TO'-Tirtras next 15 days 11 mmer floods, [ . . (hot i *. J ? 11(11 PETITION time nor space lit come to see r Money. r Bargains, URK CO. j Farm tor Sale, The "Willis Gregory" homes-tend, 6-room dwelling newly re puiri cl, 80 acres of good farming or pasture land on waters of Flat C'reoi , fi miles each from the x llnilo and Brewer gold mines, 7 ft.im .lotrerson and 10 from Ker>lm\v. For terms appl} to T c ..... U. \ .'i\ It A ft It j Lun castor, S. C. i /? .-?' /'' fKTi/j'ioit for M<thtra C'nils mid Fever is a bottle of liruvt's I'u stole*. Chill Tonic. It i- simply Iron and (Quinine and i i. l( o*. , \o Cure No Pay. i nn Kmnv /> fiat Vvir are. Tu/cintf When yon take Grove's Taste less Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle shotting that it is simply Iror ai;d Quinine in a tasteless form No Cure. No Pay. 50c. The Cam-aster (iriulud Schools, 'I lie annual session of the Lan caster Graded School will t>egTn Monday, Sept. 14, 1903. All pupils already assigned to grades, and those to be examined for assignment, will assemble at the new school building promptly at 8.30 o'clock, a. m. Teuchers are requested to report for duty, at the same hour and place, on the Saturday preceding the opening of school. All pupils who have not been assigned to grades will also attend the meeting of teachers on Satur| day. Pupils residing within the lim' its of this School District will be required, as heretofore, to pay a monthly incidental fee of twenty five cents, each, the same to he paid strictly in advance at the be-, ginning of each school month. Pupils entering the school from beyond the school district Iim;ts will be required to pay tuition on ; the following scale: Grades I, 11, 111, one dollar per month; Grades IV, V, VI, onedollar and fifty eents per month; Grades VII, VIII, IX, two dollars per month. This includes the incidental fee. Cheap rates of board can be secured in private families by pupils coming from a distance. Special arrangements are to be made for the preparation of pupils d( siring to enter college. The Factory School will also begin its session Monday, Sept. ! 14th. A. It. BANKS, Superintendent. St ,v-' flic (Joiif/fi and Works oft thr C'dfl. i i: ? i>- - .... jjuaiuivu orouio quinine iaii ets euro a cold in one day. No ' Cure, No lay. Price, 25c.^ <i CTZJU *ssssnaa-*- "B?iK->-arj?matmmx*mmmmm Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 30th day of Si ptembcr, A. D. 1903, the undersigned, as Executrix of the will of John A. Culp, , deceased, will file her final return and sell lenient and make application to the Probate Court for the County of Lancaster, S. C., for a final discharge us such executrix. Mary T. Culp. Lancaster, 8. C. Sept. 2, '03. Teachers Examinatfon The next regular Teachers Ex* limitation will be held in the Court House Friday, September 18, 1903, from 9:30 a. m. to 4 p. m. All persons desiring to teach in this county, (and not holding a valid certificate of qualification) will please take note that this will be the last examination until the 3rd Friday in May, 1904. A. C. Rowell, Co. Supt. of Ed. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of Joseph Clark, Dec'd. All persons indebted to the late Joseph Clark will come forward and pay the same at once, and all poi sons to whom the said Joseph Clark was indebted will present their claims properly attested as required by law to the undersign, ed. Jane M. Clark, Executrix. Aii;*. 14, 1903?Ira. ? NOTICE. When yon want your well cleaned out, or a well dug, and want first class work, j call on w*. Leonard Harris, 4