The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 19, 1909, Image 1
PUBLISHED THREE
TWENTY KILLED
And Thirty Injured Out in Colo
rado in Fearful
RAILWAY SMASH-UP
"West Bound Passenger Train on the
Denver and Rio Grande Collides
With an East Bound Freight.
Victims Includes Many Women
and Children.
Glenwood Springs, Colo., Jan. 16.
?Twenty persons were killed and
thirty injured, many of them se
riously, in a head-on collision be
tween west-bound passenger train
!No. 5 and" an ? east-bound freight
train on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad, between Dotsero and
Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from
Glenwood Springs, at 9:36 o'clock
last night. Following is a revised
list of the dead and descriptions that
may assist in the identification of
the unknown dead:
The identified dead:
J. D. Mahon, Princeton, Ind.
A. A. Hamilton, Polo, 111.
W. C. Kettle, Ashton, Neb.
Mrs. Mattie Kettle, Asheton, Neb.
Mrs. Mattie Ezell, Willistou, N. D.
G. W. Oleson, St. Louis.
Dr. Arvilla Olseon, either from
Hildreth, Neb., or Axtell, Neb.
The Rev. R. L. Miley, either from
Brooklyn, N. Y.f or Mechanicsburg,
Pa.
Clarence A. Gooding, Washington.
John Williams, Clarks, Neb.
J. C. Davis, of Davis Brigham
Drug Company, Denver.
Henry Dunn, St. Louis.
Twelve-year-old boy.
Eight-year-old girl, wearing plain
ring on third finger of left hand.
Ten-year-old boy, light hair.
Six-year-old girl, light hair and
eyes.
Woman, full-faced, brown hair,
about thirty years of age, wore blue
?? plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch.
Unidentified woman; no discrip
tion; badly mangled.
Woman, black hair, dark -oinplex
iou, plain gold ring inscribed
"Nancy," shoes stamped Selby Shoe
Company, Portsmouth. Ohio,
Woman, with red sweater, blue
and white striped waist, about forty
five years of age. weight about 110
pounds.
All unidentified are women or
children, and the bodies are badly
mangled.
While nothing official has been
given out at to the cause of the
wreck, it is stated to have been due
to a misunderstanding of orders on
the part of i':^ engineer, Gustaf
Olson, of the passenger train. Ol
son, however, claims that he under
stood his instructions perfectly, but
that he misread his watch, thus
encroaching oh the time of the
freight train, which was being drawn
by two locomotives, the first of
which was in charge of his brother.
Sig Olson.
When news of the catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service and a
relief train was soon on the scene.
The werk of rescue was immediately
begun.
As the bodies were taken from the
ruins they were laid side by side on
a bier of snow amid the agonizing
shrieks of husband, wife and parent
as they searched among the dead for
{their loved ones, many of whom
were mangled beyond all recogni
tion.
A pathetic feature of the acci
deut was the killing of a father,
leaving two small children, the elder
being four years old, the younger
two. The elder boy told a nurse
at the sanitarium that his father
called him Benuie, and this is all
he will say. From a fellow passen
ger it was learned that the family
was en route to Grand Junction to
visit relatives.
It is supposed that Mr. and Mrs.
Kettle, whose names appear among
the dead, were the parents of these
two little ones, who are badly in
jured.
Another sad case was the destruc
tion of an entire family with the ex
ception of an infant of three months.
This helpless child was taken care
of by a family at Shoshone. who in
tend, to adopt the sole survivor of a
once happy family.
Another heart-breaking scene was
enacted in the wreck zone, when
kind hands gently lifted a four-year
old girl from the death claso of her
mother's arms. Nearby lay the body
of her father, decapitated, and on
every side were lifeless bodies, vic
tims of the disaster.
A train load of thirty wounded
and bleeding men and women ar
rived in Glenwood Springs at 7
o'clock this morning. The wounded
were taken to the county hospital
and to the sanitarium, and when the
cots and wards there had been filled,
room was made in hotels for the
maimed.
A woman died from her injuries
in the relief train, while on her way
to Glenwood Springs. It is expect
ed that at least a dozen others who
were brought here will die.
Train No. 5 was made up of an j
engine and tender, a baggag-i car. a i
smoking car and a full complement'
TIMES A WEEK.
COUNTY SYSTEM
DISPENSARY PROVES A GOOD
MONEY MAKER.
The Old State Dispensary Had More
Dispensaries but Less Profits.
Sales, by Counties.
The following tabulated statement
of gross sales and net profits for the
years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 is
given by Dispensary Auditor West in
his report, together with a similar
statement of the business done under
the county dispensary system for
rhe years 1907 and 1908 for the pur
pose of comparison. It will be noted,
however, that the year 1907 em
braces only about nine months, since j
the law did not go into effect until
March 1, and many of the dispen
saries were not open for business for
two or three months following. The
year 190S is complete from January
1 to December 31, inclusive.
November, 1903?Number of dis
pensaries, 138; sales, 82,489,894.79;
total net profit, S638.482.35.
November, 1904?Number of dis
pensaries, 146; sales, $3,012,402.
59; total net profit, $775,375.95.
November, 1905?Number of dis
pensaries, 145; sales, $3,122,796.09;
total net profi'., $870,318.07.
November, .906?Number of dis
pensaries, 122; sales, $2,585,137.16;
total not profits, $575,975.94.
March to December 30, 1907?
Number .of dispensaries, 100; sales,
$2,691,663.43; total net profits,
$695,056.61.
January i to December 31, 1908
?Number of dispensaries, 92; sales,
$3,644,21 1.81; total net . profits,,
$934,600.90.
From this it will be seen that
the profits of 92 dispensaries were
much lagfer than the profits of 145
dispenaries under the old Slate dis
pensary system. A large part of this
total net profit under the old system
really never materialized on account
of the method of crediting the school
fund as an asset.
Sales and Profits.
Auditor West also gives a table
showing the sales and profits for
the past year by counties. They are
as follows:
County Sales. Net Profits.
Abbeville . $153..377,07 $ 58,375.20
Aiken . .. 315)623.31 72,167.46
Bamberg . S2.388.26 22,733.78
Barnwell . 175,486.58 39,833.17
Beaufort . 12S.535.31 31,463.57
Berkeley . 67,556.79 10,654.35
Calhoun .. 19,563.06 4,627.37
Charleston 606,146.9? 118,061.49
Chester ... 83,741.06 18.S27.71
Chesterf'ld 22.223.S5 922.13
Clarendon . 41.698.36 7,467.36
Colleton .. 78,024.53 3 6,146.06
Dorchester 67.SS4.84 14,952.12
Fairfield .. 70.229.S5 11,935.05
Florence .. 14S,192.30 52,612.07
Georget'n . 116,454.85 35,465.82
Hampton . 60,131.02 12,501.84
Kershaw .. 114,001.22 40,116.21
Laurens .. 138,093.90 29,793.03
Lee. S2.641.9S 22,249.14
Lexington . 71.692.06 15.706.24
Orangeb'g . 220.21S.65 78,530.22
Richland .. 506,076.58 131,749.65
Snmter ... 185,565.34 56,929.20
Williamsb'g 87,437.29 22,724.34
Total .$1.644,214.21 $931,600.90
The counties of Chester, Claren
don and Laurens would have shown
a greater profit if the gain made
from October 1 to the time they were
voted out had been reported. Ches
terfield county showed the usual
profit at the time it was closed, but
the stock had to be sold at a con
siderable discount, which accounts
for the very small profit shown
above.
The largest percentage of profit
was 60 per cent in Abbeville county.
The percentage in Richland was 38
per cent. *
QUEER CLAUSE IN LAND DEED.
Granter Expected to Be Born on
Earth Again.
New York, Jan. 15.?This curious
clause has been discovered in an
ancient deed just unearthed at the
county clerk's office. It relates to
a few acres of land in New Jersey,
which William Patterson deeded to
his sons in 1852, and reads as fol
lows:
"If at any time the granter shall
be born on earth agaii the within
described parcel of land shall re
vert to him. In1the event that he
is not born again or that the second
coming of Christ is delayed more
than 999 years, then the said Wil
liam D and Samuel Patterson shall
be possessed of the property," etc. "*
of standard sleepers and a dining
car.
The locomotives are up on end
and joined together as one piece of
meehanicism. Their wheels were
rolled down into the Grand River
and pieces of machinery are scat
tered all over the scene of the wreck.
The smoking car was only partly
derailed, while the chair car im
mediately following was comletely
telescoped by the tourist sleeper.
None of the standard sleepers left
the track and no one was killed or
injured in these cars, most of the
dead and injured being removed
from the ruins of the chair cur which
was split completely in twain. *
TEDDY HAS BEEN CAUGHT.
Government Pays for His Barber and
Wife's Messages.
Washington, Jan. 15.?President
Roosevelt's taking Senator Tillman
to task for abuse of the franking
privilege and tne general row be
tween the president and congress
over secret service investigations of
congressmen has led to the rather
startling revelation that the presi
dent's barber is on the rolls cf the
government as an "accountant" in
the navy department, and that while
not accounting anything he is get
ting a salary from the government
of $1,600 a year for shaving the
president and occasionally cutting
the presidential hair.
It has also developed that Mrs.
Roosevelt's messenger is on the pay
rolls of the bureau of printing and
engraving, and that he draws now
$920 a year. The only thing he en
graves is an occasional footprint on
the sands of time. Both the account
barber and the engraver-messenger
went to Oyster way last summer with
the Roosevelt family.
The revelations have caused a
considerable stir here today. The
members of the house appropriations
committee who replied last week to
the president's charges against them
express regret that they did not
know of the president's misuse of
the civil service when they spoke.
Zach MeGee. *
THORNTON HAINS ACQUITTED.
His Brother, Captain Hains, Will
Never Be Tried.
Flushing, N. T., Jan. 15.?After
reviewing the evidence for 22 hours
and taking 14 ballots before ail were
agreed, the jury in the trial of
Thornton Jenkins Hains this after
noon found the prisoner not guilty
as a principle with his brother Capt.
Peter C. Hains, Jr., in the killing
of William E. Annis.
For the second time in his life
Thornton Hains has been found not
guilty of the charge of murder, as
he was acquitted of murder in shoot
ing a companion named Edward A.
Hannigan in an open boat in Hamp
ton Roads 17 years ago. *
Rarely in any court of law has
such a demonstration been witness
ed as that which occurred when the
jury made known its verdict. The
packed court room of spectators rose
as one man and cheered and applaud
ed with such mighty vigor that the
gaval falls of Justice Crane on his
desk could not be heard.
Officials of the district attorney's
office in Queens county are quoted
as saying that the verdict in this
case probably means that Captain
Hains will never be brought to trial
and that ho will be surrendered into
the care of his family or the federal
government. *
Kills His Uncle.
Vienna. Ca., Jan. 17.?P. G. Mc
Donald, farmer, merchant and gen
eral trader, and one of the most
widely known men in Dooly county,
was shot and instantly killed this
evening hy W. Theodore McDonald,
his nephew, who worked for and
lived with him. The shooting oc
curred in a room in the McDonald
home. Mrs. P. G. McDonald, two
daughters, and a young son were in
the house when the tragedy was
enacted. *
TAFT'S TAFFY
In big Atfanta Banquet He De
clares That The
SOUTH HAD WON HIM
Makes Fair Promises in Regard to
the Character of the Officials He
May Appoint in the South, and He
Will Bear Them in Mind After
March.
Atlanta, Jan. I?.?President-elect
Taft attended a big banquet in At
lanta Friday night, given in his hon
or. Judge Taft had given care to
the preparation of his banquc-:
speech, regarding it as his important
utterance of the day, and in its de
livery he followed his manuscript
closely.
Mr. Taft said with feeling that
he was proud to have been the first
revolution candidate for the Presi
dency who had carried his canvas
south of Mason's and Dixon's line.
"In the presence of Democrats aim
Republicans here at a non-partisan
banquet expressing the welcome 01
the whole community, it would neith
er be courteous nor appropriate for
me to go into a partisan discussion,1'
Mr. Taft continued. "I can on'y
refer to the fact with gratification
and congratulation that today the
expression of any political views in
the South is possible without in
volving social ostricism or any of the
penalties with which it might hav?
been visited in earlier times. Ten
years have made a great difference
in the situation which the controll
ing people of the South occupy to
wards the North and the govern
ment."
The President-elect then summar
ized the causes which had worker!
and were affecting the change?the
Spanish war; the attitude of Me
Kinley, his lovable character and the
principles he stood for in his cam
paign; the succession of Roosevelt
with his Georgia mother; and final
ly the wonderful business develop
ments of the South.
"I am a Republican but I concede
fully the great advantage to the
country of having a Democratic pa
ty sufficiently powerful at times to
win the Presidential elections and
always to put the Republican party,
when in control, in fear of a pos
sible or probable defeat. And so i"j
the South no one can deny the ad
vantage that will arise in local and
State governments when there is a
substantial and intelligent minority,
which may become a successful ma
jority in punishment of the abuses
that are likely to grow out of the
long continued and undisputed con
trol of one party. Added to that, the
uncertainty which may attend the
result of national elections in a Stale
is certain to give it additional im
portance to the councils of the na
tion.
"I observe that among some prom
inent members of congress there is
a disposition to charge me with an
attempt to win the South over te
Republicanism and a somewhat con
temptuous expression of opinion that
this is utterly impossible. To them
I would say that I am not hopeful
JARY 19,
?Gillam in St. Louis Post-Oiapatch.
of winning the South over as they
say, but that the South has s'rc
ceeded in winning me.
"If my coming has been partisan
no such meeting as this tonight
would have been possible, and so I
may say of all the receptions and
expressions of good will and welcome
that I .have received from point to
point throughout the Southern coun
try. The very success of my trip,
the very reason why it gives me so
' much satisfaction, is the pronounced
nonoartisan character of the we'
come which has been so kindly ex
tended to me.
"Now if this Indirectly makes, not
for a partisan advantage, but for n
continuance of the movement in fa
vor of independence of speech ai:d
action and political tolerance its
result is one that all citizens of what
ever political party must rejoice to
have brought about.
"The direct local effect of a nv
ional administration upon the South
is chiefly through their functions
through the section, and therefore
the expression of the Administra
tion toward the Southern people
takes its color in the character of
those officials, and there the admin
istration may be properly held ac
countable and its policies determin
ed by the qualifications fitness and
standing of the men appointed to
represent it in the districts and
: States of the section. I realize,
therefore, that expressions ol sym
:pathy with the South and an earnest
' desire to bring it closer to the central
' government in thought and action
I and feeling will have comparatively
I little weight unless this expression
j is accomplished by such appoint
ments in the South as shall prove
this sympathy to be real and substan
tial.
"All I can say with reference to
the future policy of the administra
tion in the South on this subject
is that I expect to spare no effort
to find out the facts in respect
to the character of the proposed ap
pointees, and so far as in me iies
to select men whose character and
reputation and standing in the com
munity commend them to their fel
low citizens as persons qualified and
able to discharge their duties well,
and whose presence in important
positions will remove, if any such
;' thing exists, the sense of alienism in
the government which they represent.
"Of course, the immediate great
work of the administration must be
the revision of the tariff," he said.
"In that work the South is quite
as much interested as the North, and
would have an honest and genuine
j revision such as has been promised
by the party in power."
He gave assurance to the Southern
people that "no 'ntercst of the
South, whether it share that interest
with the North, or whether it has
a peculiar interest of its own, will
be neglected in the conduci. of the
government in so far as that conduct
shall be under the control of its
Chief Executive." In concluding,
Mr. Taft said:
"I beg of those of my hearers who
differ with me politically not to sup
pose that their cordiality and courte
ous reception are misunderstood by
me. I know that they spring from
an earnest and patriotic desire to
pay proper respect to the great of
fice to which I have been elected,
and that they grow out of a sincere
wish and proper assumption, that
having been elected to the Chief
Magistracy, I shall become the Pres
ident, not of a party, but of a whole
united people." ? 1
TW<
DEAD IN BATH ROOM
A GRIM TRAGEDY ENACTED AT
SEATTLE.
A Man, His Wife and Their Twenty
Two Years Old Daughter Are
Found Dead.
Seattle, Wash., Jan.. 17.?W. L.
Seeley, an attorney and former nat
ional bank examiner for Illinois, his
wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and her daughter, Miss
Irene Seeley, a student at the Uni
versity of Washington, were found
dead in a bath room of their home in
the fashionable Capital Hill quarter
today. i
The victims had been dead since
last Thursday. The women, clad
in night robes, had apaprently been
murdered with a hammer. There
was no mark of violence on Seeley.
He is believed to have been partly
chloroformed and then drowned in i
the bath tub.
That Seeley killed his wife and
daughter while insane over worries
and then committed suicide is the
theory of the police. His night
gown, blood stained from the bodies
of the two women, was found be
neath a clean pillow in the room oc-'
cupied by him and his wife. The
pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been
sleeping was saturated with blood.
Seeley came here less than two
years ago from St. Joseph, Mo. He
moved there from Ottawa, 111. He
was 55 years old, his wife about
three years his junior, and his,
daughter 22.
The bodies were found by Guy M.
Smelzer, affianced husbf J of Miss
Seeley, and E. R. Seibbel, a friend
of the family. The family c uld not
be communicated with after 9 o'clock
Thursday night, when Smelzer talk
ed over the telephone with Miss
Seeley.
Although keeping up the appear
ance of prosperity, Seeley had been
forced to borrow money for his last
month's house rent from W. W.
Wilslfire, an attorney, from whom
he rented desk room in the New
York building.
Detectives were unable to find any
blood-stained implements in the
house, although a hammer was
found. No article of jewelry or any
thing or value was taken. Every
window and door was securely lock
ed. ?
MOST FATAL DISEASE.
Consumption Kills More People in
Augusta Than All Others.
Augusta, Jan. IS.?The most fatal
disease in Augusta in ] 9OS was con
sumption, or "tuberculosis," as the
board of health authorities term it.
Out of every eight and five-tenths
deaths during the year, one resulted
from the dreaded "White Plague."
Records of the department show that
the spread of the disease is not be-!
ing restricted, to any material extent.
The ratio of tuberculosis to mortality
has, vlthin the past 25 years, been
only a little greater than it was in
190S.
During the fiscal or board of
health year of 1908, 861 people died.
Of these deaths 101 were due to tu
berculosis.
USED JUG FOR BANK.
Farmer Had One Thousand Dollars
Stored in One.
Anderson, Jan. IS.?A rather
unique deposit was made at one of
the local banks here yesterday just
before the clock struck the closing
hour. A well-to-do farmer of Rroad
away township, who is considered
a good business man and a prosper
ous one, walked into the bank, and
in his hand held a little brown jug,
stopped up with an ordinary corn
cob.
The cashier pulled out the corn
cob, and protruding out of the neck
of the jug was a crisp ten dollar
bill. The cashier then got busy and
with the assistance of all the clerks
in the office managed to draw out
$1,000 in new bills, resorting to j
a hat pin to extricate the money.
The farmer had decided on this
unique way of keeping his money for
deposit. *
Shot Wife and Self.
Alliance, O., Jan. 15.?Albert
Lazinvvood, 50 years old, a farmer
living near Rergesolz. shot and kill
ed his wife, 55 years old, and then
killed himself on the road near
Annapolis last night. Jealousy is
supposed to have been the cause. *
Dancer Dies Suddenly.
New York, Jan. 16.?During the
heigh: of festivities of a public dance
at the Grand Central Palace shortly
aTter midnight a middle-aged man
who. according to papers upon him
was William Schoerd, a clerk, fell to
the floor dead.
Miners Are Killed.
Veszprim, Hungaria, Jan. 15?An
explosion of fire damp in the Auka
coal mine yesterday resulted in the
death of fifty-six men. Of the 240
men ?ntombed 1S4 were taken out
alive. *
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BRUTAL MURDER
Choked His Wife to Death While
She Slept
TWO MEN ARE IN JAIL
At Afken Charged With the Awful
Crime?Verdict of Coroner's Jury
Results 'in Holding of the Wo
man's Husband Principal and
Another .Man as Accessory.
Aiken, Jan. 17.?Coroner John
son returned to Aiken last night
from Sleepy Hollow, bringing Sov
ereign Lowe and Lee Boyd, both,
white, who were placed in ialil,
charged with the murder of Rainey
Lowe, wife of Sovereign Lowe, at
Lowe's home in the Sleepy Hollow
section. The arrests were made as
a result of an inquest held yester
day afternoon by Coroner Johnson
and a post mortem examination con
ducted by a physician. Mrs. Lowe
died last Sunday night, and was in
terred on Monday; but at the re
quest of Mrs. Counts, of Augusta,
mother of Mrs. Lowe, the authori
ties had the body disinterred yester
day and an inquest held.
The evidence at, the inquest show
ed that on Sunday night Lowe came
to his home accompanied by Boyd,
both being in a drunken condition.
During the night Alfred Glover, a
negro residing nearby, heard a wo
man in Lowe's house and begging
for her life. The screams were also
heard by other parties. Next morn
ing the woman was found dead.
Mrs. Counts came over from Augus
ta and said that she found bruises
on the throat and body of her daugh
ter, and was not satisfied as to her
death. After the burial she became
so convinced that something was
wrong that she came to Aiken and
asked for an investigation.
Boyd and Lowe both testified to
coming to Lowe's house in a drunk
en condition, and said that they re
tired soon after arriving. During
the night, Boyd said, he went to
Lowe's bed, called ihim andj told
him to get up, that he had a long
way to go to his home and that he
must have an early start. Lowe
got up, and when he looked at the
clock he saw that it was 3 o'clock
and they went back to bed early
Monday morning.
Lowe said that he called to his
wife, who was sleeping with him,
and that she did not answer. He
shook her and found that she was
cold. He then called Boyd and they
found her dead. When testifying,
Lowe'is said to have almost broken
down. The examining physician
found bruises on Mrs. Lowe's throat
and body, and that there had been
sufficient external violence to have
produced death. The verdict of the
jury was that the deceased came to
her death from choking at the hands
of Lowe as principal and Boyd as
accessory.
The two men staunchly maintained
their innocence. Lowe is about 25
years of age and Boyd some years
younger. Boyd is unmarried. The
deceased ' was the mother of four
children, the youngest of whom is
only seven months old, and was her
self about 22 years old. The case
has created a good deal of interest
here, and any further .developments
will be closely watched.?News and
Courier. *
Deinnnds Enquiry.
Washington, Jan. 16.?Based up
on a report which reached Senator
Tiilman today that the senate does
not Intend to accede to his request
for an investigation of the charges
made against 'him by President
Roosevelt in connection with Oregon
land cases, the senator announced
today that if necessary to obtain an
inquiry he would himself introduce
a resolution providing for it. *
Robbed by Masked Men.
Kalamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 16.?
The Kalamath Falls County bank at
this place was robbed of $3,000 by
two masked men who entered the
bank this afternoon with drawn re
volvers and compelled the cashier
to pay over the counter all money in
sight. Several citizens who were in
side the bank were held at bay while
the robbers escaped. ?
General Butler 111.
Columbia, Jan. 17.?News was re
ceived here today of the serious ill
ness of former Senator M. C. But
ler at his home in Edgefield. The re
port is that he is suffering with
pneumonia. He has a remarkable
constitution, and this, his friends
hope, will pull him through this
attack. ?
Minister Convicted.
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 16.?Conclud
ing a trial which extended into three
days, a jury in Nansemond circuit
court, brought a verdict giving Rev.
Kniest Lyons, colored, 18 years for
the murder of Rev. James L. Smith,
also colored. ?
This Takes Prize.
Washington, Jan. 16.?The snow
flakes, the size of an average hen
egg, fell in Washington today.. At
the executive mansion a number of
flakes measured two and one-half
Inches in. diamater.