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A S Salley State ESTABLISHED m 16 TERRIBLE WRECK ?ai!S8d;by2an Express Train Crashing into Another. SIXTY ARE KILLED Defective Switch Throws Past Mail Against Local Train Carrying PU gr&ns to the Shrine at Turn bout, all of Whom Were Killed or Seri ously Injured. ? One of the most disastrous rail road accidents in recent times oc curred at Contich, a station six miles1 southeast of Antwerp, Belgium, on the main une at 8 o'clock Friday; morning. The exact number of vic tims had not been determined up to late in the night owing to the ditn culty of removing the bodies from the debries, but the latest estimate places the number at sixty killed and one hundred wounded. The catastrophe appears to have been due to a defective switch, where the main line crosses a local line. At] this point a train carrying a large number of pilgrims on their way to the Shrine at Turnbout, was stand ing. Into this the Antwerp-Brussels express dashed at a speed of fifty miles an hour, literally leapiug on top of it. . The heavy coaches' of ? the express | crashed t^ -?nter train into splint ers. The sides of the express cars were torn from their fastenings, the floors practically collapsing, ? thus precipitating the passengers to the side, uninjured, when they fled fren zied across the field. Li! But for this fact the death roll would be mucu greater. Few of the occupants of the local train escaped alive* .Those not killed were badly injured,,many of them mortally. The rescuers, even the doctors, were sickened at the sight that-met their gazes. -. Evidences were found ^.horrible death struggles that oc cured in me coaches. , At one place a. dismembered - hand was found! clutching: one of the supports of the; torn car. One body was lying across toe boiler of the locomotive crushed into a shapeless mass. The majority of the dead could not be recognized, either being decapitated or thelt heads being terribly crushed. .-. The signal man at Contich saw that his switch was not working just as- the Antwerp express came thun; ?dering down the line. Hp leaped from.the window of his signal station and heroically. ran down the track toward the,, oncoming train, wp.ving a red flag. His effort was too late to avert a disaster. i The- engineer and fireman of the express were killed at their post. The judical authorities of Antwerp soon arrived on the scene and opened an investigation into the disaster. They ordered the signal man in j charge of the switches under arrest, although it is believed by the authori tives that they were blameless. Prince Albert went to Contich this | afternoon and visited the wounded, having cancelled an engagement to preside at a banquet at Antwerp. With regard to the cause of the) collision, a railroad offical stated that the switches were being repair ed, and that tne workmen who had been placed at the temporary hand switch appeared to have made a mistake or the switch failed to act. The engineer, it was stated, saw the j danger and applied the brakes, but ] It was too late to avert the disaster. * TRUSTS FOUGHT BRYAN. He Appreciates Work of Friends in Alabama and Pennsylvania. At Philadelphia Bryan said with reference to the outcome of the Ala bama primaries where he secured an apparent victory for control of the delegates to the Denver convention. Alabama was claimed by the op position and while the vote is not a surprise to me, it attracts attention because the returns answered the misrepresentations which have been sent out. The primary system en ables the voters to express themselv es." "I appreciate very much the fight that has been made by friends in) Pennsylvania and Alabama, for inj Alabama they had a steel trust to fight and in Pennsylvania they had not only the steel trust, but several other trusts. In fact, I do not know of any other State in which our peo ple had so much to overcome as they had in Pennsylvania." Hypnotized for Hiccoughs. Hypnotism was resorted to as a last resort to save the life of Mrs. O. L. Massiuger, wife of a prominent physician of Bridgeport, Conn., wl>" had been suffering from hiccoughs for three weeks. In the presence of j half a dozen other physicians. Drs. Godfrey and Smith induced the pa tient to concentrate her mind on the idea that she could no longer hic cough. A state of partial hypnotism was brought on and there was a cessation of the attack, but as the patient came out of the spell she re sumed the hiccoughing. ? j Monster Whale Caught. A large whale was caught at Cape Lookout Sunday and was towed to Beaufort. X. C. where it wiii be pull ed out of the water by the ship yard railways. The monster is about i>U feet long and 2r> feet around the body. The estimated value of the bone and oil is $600. Jr.! 16 ?iib rjouee 69. NEGRO HANGED. I HE PAYS DEATH PENALTY FOE WIFE MURDER* I Very Few People Allowed to Witness the Execution, Which Took Place in Jail Yard. Jim Malloy, colored, was hung at [ Bennettsville on Friday for the bru Ital murder of his wife over one year [ago. The trap was sprung at 11.39, and at 12.OS Drs. Carmichael and Kinney pronounced him dead as a result of strangulation. His body was cut down and taken away and buried in the potters' field, his fami ly refusing to take charge of the re mains. The execution was orderly, and only a few witnessed it. Tb.e gallows on which iuailoy was hanged w-as about 12 feet high. A t'-ap door had been fixed allowing a fall of about 7 feet. The cutting of the rope allowed the trap door to fall, and the body dropped through this. Before the execution the Revs. John Moultrie, R. F. Harrington, F. W. Prince and B. C. Jackson held de votional exercises in the cell of the doomed man. Malloy said that he was ready to meet his God, and that he was going to his death with ma lice towards none. At 11.27 Sheriff J. B. Green en tered the cell and read the death war rant to Jim. Accompanied by Depu ties Hinson Odom and A. C. Green, he then marched to the scaffold. His hands arid legs were tied. The sher iff asked him if he had anything to say before he was hung. He said that he had made his peace with God and that he was going to death with out fear. He said that he deserved to die and asked the sheriff not to mind it. He asked Gods blessings on the sheriff, the deputies and all pre sent. He asked Mr. E. W. Evans, on whose place he committed the .murder, to tell his mother-in-law that he had nothing against her, and sent his love to them all and asked that they meet him in Heaven. The black cap. was then adjusted, and at 11.39 the trap was sprung, but the fall failed to break the mur derer's neck, and, it was 12.08 when the doctor's announced that he was dead as a result of strangulation. His body was cut down and- taken away to-the potter's field and buried by the eounty. . _ . .. The sheriff, in accordance with the law, allowed only a very few to see the execution. More than 1,000 ap plied for admission cards. ... The murder was committed on the 24th of April, 1907, in the after noon, and that night the sheriff had application for cards to the hanging. Malloy was about 30 years old, six feet in height, and appeared to he of the average intelligence. Before the execution he had allowed his beard to grow out and his face was covered by it. He met death bravely, avowing that he had been saved. * FIENDISH CRIME FRUSTRATED. Six Year Old Child Was Intended Victim. The Columbia State says an at tempted criminal assault upon the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sandifer, who live at 1420 Lady street, resulted in an exciting chase by the police after Antley Robinson, a negro boy, his subsequent capture and removal to the State penitenti ary. The details of the affair show a remarkable tendency toward crimi nal iife by the boy, who is only 12 years of age. Robinson, whose mother worked in the house, attacked the little girl, whose mother was at tracted by the screams. The boy ran as soor as he heard the mother com ing and although caught, wrenched away from her grasp and started out of the yard. He was struck by a brick hurled by the mother of the child and a long gash cut in his head. The boy has made a confession of his guilt. * MURDERER ARRESTED. Who Had Killed No Less Than Six Persons. The South Bend police authorities were informed Friday of the arrest of James Dremmingstall, accused of the murder of six persons, near Do wagiac, Mich. Dremmingstall has already confess ed to the murder of two persons, ac cording to the police and they fur ther say that they will have no difii culty fastening the other murders ujion him. The arrest was brought about by DremmingstaU's wife, who voluntarily ioId the police that she feared that she was to be murdered. She said her husband had deter mined to kill her because he feared she would tell of his many crimes. * FEARFUL FLOODS. Oklahoma and Texas Swept by Most Terrific Storms. Oklahoma and Texas have been visited in the last few days with most terrific rain storms. A dispatch from Muskogee says there is uot a rail road in operation as a retuM of the heavy rains and cloud bursts that have occured in that State. Many railroad bridges have been destroy ed and the crops badly damaged. Texas has suffered nearly as bad as Oklahoma. Some parts of the State have been devust-ited by the rain storms. * OBA1STGEBU DIES OF RABIES. Heard Doctors Say "You Die in : Seventy-Twb Hpurs." f. SWIFTLY FULFILLED. I Qne Other Man and a Girl in Danger From the Same Dog, and Are'Now Being Treated in the Pasteur In stitute. Took in Stray Cur. ' The prediction of death passed up on William H. Marsh last Monday by the physicians of the Pasteur Insti tute at New York was fulfilled two days after when he died of hydro phobia. Unconscious from the ad ministration of opium, the wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer escaped the last tortures - of rabies Warned by Dr. W. L. Wheeler two days ago that he did not have mor than three or four days to live, Mr. Marsh, who to all appearances then was in the best of health, turn ed to leave the Pasteur Institute and drive back to his home at No. 74 Ocean aenue, Flatbush. "Before I go, doctor, tell me just how long you give me to live. I have things to arrange before I die," said Mr. Marsh without the slightest sign of excitement. "You must get all important busi ness cleared up within thirty-six hours," answered the doctor. "You may live twice that long, but youl will be suffering then. You will not be in a mental condition to attend to business." "Thank you, doctor." replied Mr. Marsh. Then he turned to his son and said: . ? "We will go home now, boy." When Mr. Marsh entered his home, opposite Prospect Park, he called his wife, three sons and two daughters and told them of the sentence of death that had been passed upon him. Then he gave his attention to busi ness details and prepared to die, with the one request that his end be made peaceful by the use of drugs. Ramsey Marsh, the twenty-one-year -old son. and Miss Edna Thompson, bookkeeper for Mr. Marsh, are tak ing the Pasteur treatment in an ef fort to ward off an attack of rabies. The young man does not recall being bitten, but Miss Thompson was at tacked by the dog the day after Mr. Marsh contracted the. disease, and sustained a bad bite on her chin. Four ye*rs ago, when he opened up his factory, he found a little dog on the street. "I need a watchdog, and this little fellow is to be our mascot," lie told his employes. This was the name less dog?each employe had a dif ferent name for the animal?thai caused the death of Mr. Marsh. As near as the employes can recall, tht dog entered the office about six weeks ago, with a cut on ils side. It whined around the feet of ->lr. Marsh, who was busy with his daily mail. "Something wrong with you. old fellow?" asked Mr. Marsh, and he leaned over and patted him. On dis covering the wound he dropped bis work, washed the cut and tied it up with care. J "There you are. old fellow; now run away,'- he said. The brute lick ed his masters hand, and Mr. Marsh I commented oh the action, saying [that if ever a dog was trying to thank : any one it was this one. Nu one is sure, not oven Mr. Marsh, but it is supposed he had a sore from a hangnail on one of his lingers. By this means the dreaded virus entered his system, making the third known case of its kind in the history of rabies. Last Saturday morning Mr. Marsh RG, S. C. TUESDAY. Ml OVERTIME. jhad occasion to go to the basement of the factory to test one of the met ers. He turned on a water faucet and the rushing of the water seemed to have a strange effect on him. He, commented on it at the time, but carried out his work. An hour later he told Mr. Bangerter that he felt sore anil wanted to stretch all the time. "I am not sure, but I would not be a bit surprised if I am suffering from"-Mr. Marsh did not con tinue the sentence, but the. sudden twitching of his throat seemed to work him into a nerous condition. "I thiak I will go to see a doctor," he said, and, taking his hat, started for the office of Dr. Henry M. Cullin an, No. V Linden avenue, a few blocks [ from thi factory. Instead of going I to the office, Mr. Marsh made a num ' ber of (.'alls on friends on his way home, scopping at a road house less than a olock from his home. Saturday evening he spent at home, a number of his friends, Including Mr. Bangerter, calling to discuss business matters. He still complain ed of pains and the nervous twitch ing about his throat. Sunday morning he realized that he was seriously ill ana Dr. Cullin an was called. Mr. Marsh still failed to confl?e his suspicions to his family or to the physician, and it-was not until Monday morning that Dr. Cul linan hnd a chance to make a com plete investigation. Then it was that he told Ms patient he thought he was suffering from rabies. Callirg a carriage, they made a hurried trip to the Pasteur Institute in Twenty-third street. It required but a few seconds for Dr. .Wheeler to make tae test, and then came the fatal seatence that the - -steur cure would be of no help to *.xr. Marsh. He was told that he had waited too long. Dr. Wheeler Informed .-?1 pa tient that an effort was being made now by the Paris branch of the in stitution to find a cure for a man In his advanced stages. 3,No hopes of that man returning in time to help me?""he asked. "None," the doctor replied, 'men came the drive to the pretty home in Brooklyn, where his wifo and children were anxiously await ing him. After telling his family that the doctors had but little hope of his recovery, he asked his son, Ramsey, if he had come in contact with the dog, ar.d gave instructions to send word to the factory at once to warn all employes to hurry to the Pasteur Institute if they had come in con tact with the animal. , Mr. Marsh had many business de tails that he wanted to arrange and he was anxious about a patent noise less gun that Mr. Bangerter had been working on for some time. "Father tried to cheer us up," said one of the sons yesterday. "He had hopes that he might live, but thej first stages of the disease had passed and when he realized this, he knew he could net live." It. was not until .Monday that Mr. Marsh had to give up and go to bed. The convulsions had set in, and it was only with the greatest effort that he could keep his mind on the vari ous subjects ho wanted to clear up. Tuesday saw a slight change for the worst, and them came the refusal of all rood. The family called in a corps of doctors who labored over the patient, but medical skill could do nothing. Tuesday morning, telegrams, telephone messages and letters began arriving at the Marsh home by the score. People drove up in carriages and a itomobiles, all declaring they I had a sure cure if but given a chance. Cranks, attracted by the first pub lished accounts of the story, declared they could cure by prayer, by digging up the dog and other methods. Physi cians seeking advertisements wired to the family offering their cures, and from San Francisco came one message that read: "Cod and His miraculous powers will cure you." So ilrequent became the telephone LY 26, 1908. ?-Kessler in St. Louis Republic HAD CLOSE CALL. MR. W. S. BROWN WAS DISCOVER ED JUST IN TIME. To Save Him From Being Asphyxiat ed at Wright's Hotel in Columbia on Friday Morning. The Columbia State says: Mr. W. S. Brown of Lancaster was found in room 264, Wright's hotel, Friday morning about 7 o'clock in an un conscious condition, due to the in halation of gas. It is possible that ! he would have baen asphyxiated with in half an hour if the odor of the escaping gas had not been discover ed. I Many seemed to think tnat Mr. Brown had deliberately turned the gaB on in an attempt to end his life, but Mr. Robert C. Wright gives it as his opinion that Mr. Brown turned the gas on and forgot to light it and that his near call for death was ac-' cidental. Mr. Brown left the hotel about 10 o'clock, before he could be seen by a reporter for The State. Mr. Brown registered at Wright's about 1 o'clock Thursday morning. He asked what time the train for Charlotte left. On being informed the time of departure of the 6 o'clock train for Charlotte he told [the clerk, Mr. Cronenburg, that he did not care to get up that early and left a call .for 7 o'clock. He paid his night's lodging in advance and was assigned to room No. 264. When the porter went up to call Mr. Brown he received no response from his knock on tne door. The transom was slightly open and the fumes of escaping gas were detected. The matter was reported at the office of the hotel immediately and a hurri ed investigation was made. No re sponse came to repeated knocks! on the door and it was finally forced open. Mr. Brown was found lying across the bed in an unconscious con dition and the gas jet was turned full on. Dr. Mclntosh was summoned and after working with Mr. Brown for quite a while restored him to con sciousness. It is said at the hotel that Mr. Brown had little to say re garding the affair and at 10 o'clock walked out of the hotel. If Mr. Brown turned the gas on in a deliberate attempt to commit sui cide no reason for his act is known in Columbia. It is said that he is an insurance agent, but nothing could be learned about his affairs. * ATTEMPTS SUICIDE A Young Woman Inhales Uns in Po lice Station Cell. Jennie Blunt, a young woman who was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary by Judge Pike in Brook lyn, for shooting Charles M. Sanferd a lawyer, came very near cheating the law. She was found unconscious in her cell in the Raymond streel jail from inhaling illuininating.gas. Her life was saved by the prompt action pi a physician. .Miss Blunl shot San ford because he wronged her. calls and the messages thai the fami ly had the telephone and front, door bell disconnected. About noon Tuesday tin- suffering of Mr. Marsh became so great thai drugs were given to him, which had the result of lessening bis pain. An effort was made to give him liquid food, but the doctors decided that was useless. Shortly before & o'clock Dr. Cul linan discovered that the patient was sinking fast and thai the pulse <-.-a.< growing weaker with every beat. He notified Mrs. Marsh and the children that the end was but a matter of mo ment. At 5 o clock the cud came. * CAN'T BE FOUND. MR. R. LEE BRUNSON OP FLOR-. ENCE, &. C. Has Apparently Disappeared and His Friends Fear that Something Seri ous Has Befallen Him. Mr. R. Lee Brunson, one of the most popular and highly respected citizens of Florence, has apparently disappeared and no trace of him has been found since last Saturday night week ago, when he was seen at the union station in Columbia. When he left home he told his ?family that he intended going to Charleston to consult a specialist In regard to his eyes, but it seems that, he went instead to Columbia. There is no cause known to his family or friends which would lead him to remain away so long without communicating with them. The officials of the Bank of Flor ence, where he has been employed for several years as assistant cashier, assure his family and friends that there is absolutely no evidence of any shortage of funds or irregularity in his accounts, though careful exa mination has been made. He is the keeper of records and seal of Harmony Lodge, No. 8, K. of P., and a member of the Florence Lodge, NO. 1,020, B. P. O. E. Any information as to Mr. Bran son's whereabouts will be gratefully received by his distressed family and his numerous friends at Florence. * STABBED SLEEPING SON. Father Kills Boy Alter They Had En tered Into ? Death Pact. Bad investments, sweeping away: millions of dollars, caused Henry Rudolph Amann, of Chicago, 111., to enter into a death pact with his 12-' year-old son.. The lad is now..dead., stabbed in the heart while sleeping' in his father's arms. The father was I taken to the hospital, where it is I believed his self-inflicted wounds will prove fatal. It was learned after the1 murder and attempted suicide that Amann would in a few days have re ceived a liberal portion of an estate in Germany. The crazed man, once a million aire, told a pitiful tale to the surgeon at Fort Sheridan. It appears he in tended suicide until the lad noted that his father was losing his mind and would not leave him. The boy pleaded that he be not left alone in the world and the father then tried to persuade him to take laudanum that he might be killed. The lad gave assurance that he needed no drug and that when the time came for carrying out the pact the father stated his son went to sleep in his arms. Then the father said he wait ed till he knew the boy was asleep, opened the son's shirt, and drove the knife into the calmly beating heart to the hilt. A thrust at his own heart failed to kill Amann and after lying unconscious for several hours he crawled to Fort Sheridan^ where soldiers were sent to the house and found the dead youngster, a smile on his upturned face.. . Amann was 43 years of age and stated that though he knew money was due him from several accounts and that he was sure to get it, he could no wait. * FOOTPADS IN COLUMBL1. One Man Sandbagged and Another Held Up on Street. A dispatch from Columbia to The News and Courier says W. 0. Sligh, an electrician, was held up and rob bed on Lumber street, on Saturday night, one robber having a pistol and wearing automobile goggles, while the other, a uegro, went through his pockets. As soon as possible Sligh notified a policeman on the beat and the robbers were seen and chased, returning the officer's fire, but eventually escaping up the Seaboard tracks. Ipesday night Arthur M. Rogers, I a lineman, was found by a street car conductor insensible in an alley off of Bull street, between Richland and Lumber, and a man was bending ov er him when Conductor Drake first saw the body of Rogers. Drake call ed for the police and two officers re sponded, but the robbers escaped. There was probably more than one. Rogers recovered consciousness, hut could not tell what happeden to him. The two affairs happened only four blocks from each other, but on dif ferent sides of Main street in the northern section of the city. WRECK OF AN AIRSHIP. The Gas Bag of ."Mammoth Dirigible Balloon Bursts. A mammoth airship, 300 feet long on iis trial trip in Berkeley, rose 300 led from the earth in view of 10, 000 spectators, tilted, burst and drop ped i(, ihr ground with its crew of 16 men. every one of whom w.is in jured. With the possible exception of one, all will recover. Seven were severely hurl while nine were cut and bruised. As the gas bag burst and the ship fell towards the earth, men. women and children screamed and ran in every direction. Several women fainted and children wore knocked down. A cry oT horror rose as several men leaped from the ship and hurled themselves to earth, where they landed with thuds that brought groans for the injured and created alarm among the onlookers,*' 4 $1.50 PEB ANNUM. SOUTH ATTACKED Republicans Trying to Revive tim Reconstruction Bitterness. GETTING DESPERATE Republicans Afraid to Let the Peopled Know How Much Money They are Given by the Trusts for Corrupt Legislation and Becomes Vicious Towards the South. A campaign contribution publicity bill, embodying an amendment by; Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana, provid ing for a reduction in the representa* tion in the house of the representa tives in those States having dlsfranch isement was passed by the house by, a vote of 150 to 125 following a live ly debate. The measure was brought up under suspension of the rules and but 40 minutes were allowed in which to discuss it. The Southern members in particu lar were bitter in their denunciation of the apportionment provision of tha bill. Mr. * Williams, the minority leader, was especially vigorous in his: attack, characterizing the bill as be ing an attempt to revive the condi tions of Reconstruction days. Ort account of the Crumpacker amend ment the Democrats voted against the bill in its entiretV . In brief, the provision regarding: publicity of campaign contributions; is applicable to the national commit tees of all present parties and th? national congressional committees at all political parties and all commit tees, associations or organizations which shall in two or more States in fluence the result or attempt to in fluence the result of an election at which representatives in congress are to be elected. The Crumpacker amendment pro vides for the re-enactment of certain; sections, of the old federal election law, except that the idea of the force bill authorizing the use of troops at the polls'Is eliminated. It also pro vides that the director of the census shall submit to congress a report on population showing the number of male citizens, white and. black, in eacu State and the number disfranch ised for the purpose of enabling con gress to ascertain the apportionment in representation to which &? Sta tes may be entitled. aix. Crumpacker explained bis amendments by saying they were de signed against fraud and intimida tion in elections. He undertook to? say, he declared that no member off the house would object to a law whose only purpose was to secure honest elections. In the opinion of Mr.Rucker (Mo.-?. if anything were wanting to demon strate that the leaders and manag ers of the Republican party in the house were guilty of deceit and false pretense the bill supplied that want. Expressing the belief that . Mr. Crumpacker, in including his amend ments to the publicity bill, did not represent the sentiment of the lead ers on the part of the majority in at tempting to revive the principles of the force bill, Mr. Lassiter protested against the measure. Mr. Gillespie warned the house that by passing the bill the condition of the negro would be made worse than at present. Following brief remarks by Messrs. Bennett and Bonynge in sup port of the bill, Mr. Williams made a vigorous speech against it. "The great old party," he began, "has re solved itself into a vaudeville 3tockr company." He charged the Repub licans with not daring to face any; great public question in a fair and: straightforward way. by combining several proposition in one bill, "What are you trying to do." he in quired. "Does the gentleman fromi Indiana think he can turn the hands; of the clock of time back half a cen tury? Does ne think he can produce the" days of the carpet-bagger and Reconstruction in the South once more? Does he think the business} interests of the North will stand for} a recurrence of the saturnalia?" The reduction in representation} amendment, he declared, had beea added to defeat the publicity bilL '?You have no idea of reducing the representation of California, Massa* chusetts or Connecticut. The people of the South, he said, are willing to take the issue. If it was desired to Ignore amendment and the Republicans wore willing to restore to Mississippi the power to Ox her- suffrage along racial lines, the people of that State were ready for the gauntlet. "Throw it down when ever you please!" he exclaimed. "As to the reduction of our representation in congress," he said, "in God's name take it and welcome to it; but be honest when you do it." Mr. Williams declared that if the publicity feature of the biii should be come law "it will damn your Republi can party and be worse for yon than the force bill which defeated Hani son." It was all false pretenses, he declared, aud he said to the Republi cans. "Like children you are playing with fire in a powder magazine." Ha . closed by asking the Republicans it they were fools enough to believe that the South would ever again sub mit to the polices to which she sub*, mitted when she was weak and help* less. *