The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, September 05, 1903, Image 2
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.
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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.
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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 !
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!ovi:d or:? k ial
i:
)on.s i i: i i;i;k is
- oi m ii< ; m.? .5 ! :k
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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.
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; ONLY!
i- p.nf Tcrx: ? ' TO'-Tirtras
next 15 days
11 mmer floods,
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.
(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,
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