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PUBLISHED THREE MANY LIVES LOST Eight Hundred Mexicans Perish in Flood I MANY ARE HOMELESS Great Loss of Life and Property at Monterey, Mexico, as a Result of a Great Donwpour of Rain, Which Caused the Overflow of a Large | River. Word reached Laredo, Texas, late. Saturday afternoon of one of the most disastrous floods that has ever been experienced in Northern Mexi co, caused by the overflow of the I Santa Catarina river. There has been great loss of life and property in and near the city of Manterey. It is estimated that eight hundred per sons were drowned, fifteen thousand made homeless, and at least $12, 000,000 in property destroyed. The flood struck Manterey between one and two o'clock Saturday and swept j everything before it. A veritable deluge of rain had fallen for several days, which, to gether with the flow of water from the adjacent mountains into the Santa Catarina river, so swelled the stream that it reached a width of a mile and a half and completely overflowed certain portions of the city of Monterey, wrecking houses and causing loss of life as it ram paged on Its mad course. Not a train reached Laredo, Texas, which is quite near Monterey on Sat urday, and telegraphic communica tion was badly crippled between the two cities. In Monterey the tele phone communication is impossible, the electric light plant is half under water and out of commission, the entire street car service which de pends upon the electric plant for its power, is paralyzed, and the wa ter works has been damaged. Information reaching Laredo through reliable sources states that so severe was the flood that the inhabitants in the vicinity of the flooded s tream barely had time to flee for their lives; that the on rush of the waters carried away their chattels and In many cases drowned the occupants of the Jac ales of small huts used by the m tives." It is* said that a chaotic con dition exists, and that the plazas are crowded with the poor, homeless natives, who were providentially al lowed to escape with their lives. The flood conditions are not alone peculiar to the vicinity of Monterey, but extends as far south as Sal tillo, although no great damage be yond inconvenience to the citizens and minor damage to the roadbed of the railroads is reported south of Monterey. Telepraphic communi cation is partially interrupted, but it was learned Saturday night over a working wire that there has been no loss of life reported to the south of Monterey. The reports reaching Laredo as to the life loss in Monterey are so varied that it is impossible to state with certainty what the catastrophe really amounted to. The number losing their lives in the flood waters of the Santa Catarina river has been placed as high as S00, but it is thought that this number is a gross exaggeration. However, it is cer tain that the flood was the most ter rible in the history of the oldest in habitants and that the loss of life will be great. Monterey is a city of approximate ly 70,000 Inhabitants, and Is located 168 miles south of Laredo. It is set in a valley between huge moun tains, and Is traversed by the Santa Catarina river. According to advices from the Federal telegraph authorities, all wires south of Laredo and communi cation with Monterey was secured over this wire via Cuidad Porfiro Diaz and Chihuahua, a circutious route. The town of Golondrinas, with 2,000 inhabitants, eighty-five miles from Larodo, was entirely flooded and several kilometres of track on the National railway washed away. * TWELVE HUNDRED DROWNED. The Horrible Situation at Monterey Portrayed. A dispatch from Monterey says at noon on Sunday it stopped rain ing for the first time since last hurs day afternoon, and some idea of the horrors of the flood of Friday night and Saturday could be obtained. It was at first reported that eight hun dred lives were lost In the disaster, but Sunday it seems that the num ber of the dead will reach 1,200 and may be more. The river has fal len considerably, and while still high, the southside of the river still out and a half Inches of rainfall is the official record during Friday, Sat urday and Sunday. Fully 15,000 people are homeless, from the flood and are being cared for by the city government in the best way possible. At noon Sun day 5,000 people were given bread, coffee and soup at the municipal of fices, but there are many more on the danger is now over. Seventeen of reach of aid on account of the still overflowed river. Conservative estimates of the property loss place | the figures at $20,000,000 through-* TIMES A WEEK. FLOW INTO HARBOR 514 GALLONS OF CONTRABAND ARE EMPTIED INTO SEWER. Original Packages Kept?These Will Be Placed on Sale m the County Dispensary. By order of the Charleston county dispensary board, 417 gallons of beer and ninety-seven gallons of whiskey were emptied in a sewer at the main dispensary on East Bay street, being the first of the lot of confiscated liquor held for the prescribed period and then destroyed in accordance with the dispensary act. The beer and whiskey which were destroyed were seized during the first week of this month. While keg beer and all opened bottles of whiskey will be destroyed in accordance with the act, the goods which are taken in unbroken pack ages ' will be sold through the dis pensaries, and there is now a lot of contraband liquor awaiting purchas ers. The stock of seized goods is estimated to be valued at between $1,500 and $2,000, being of the saleable goods which have been seized during tbe past few weeks. In the lot of goods to be placed o . sale are sixty barrels of export beer of various brands. The beer will be sold at about eight cents a bottle, whereas it usually retails at from twelve to fifteen cents per bot tle. There are ten dozen bott'es to a barrel, and it is to be seen t.hut there Is a good profit to the city ar.d county from this source alone The beer will be sold by the bottle and not by the barrel, for the rea3?.n that the law forbids the dispensary to sell more than four and a half gallons to one purchaser, and tnis provision of the act keeps the board from putting the contraband stuff on sale by the barrel. A lot of liquors are also to be offered for sale. The liquor which is to be sold will be only that In unbroken packages, all other seizures being destroyed for fear of contam ination, and to save the cost of an naalysis being made. These liquors which are to be sold will be of fered at the dispensary price for goods which are carried regularly in stock by the dispensary and at specially reduced prices for all oth er brands.. The county board will meet in a few days and make awards of con tracts for liquors for replenishing the stock of the dispensaries, now much reduced. The stock of the va rious dispensaries has been taken and everything is in readiness to reopen the establishments as soon as official notification is received from Columbia that the dispensaries can be reopened. * South Carolina, the Fastest. The battleship South Carolina finished her official trial runs off the Delaware capes Friday and the con sensus of opinion of the experts is that she is the fastest and most eco nomical in coal consumption of any battleship in her class. On the four hour endurance run the South Caro lina consumed one and four-tenths pounds per Indicated horsepower. * Killed by Accident. Mrs. Robert Noblin was accident ally shot and killed Friday at Fisk, Ala., by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lassater. The young woman was handling a shot gun, which was dis charged, the full charge striking Mrs. Xoblin in the head. * Killed in Columbia. The police of Columbia had to kill two negro prisoners since Saturday afternoon. They were both drunk and fought the policemen like mad men. Ono of the prisoners was shot and the other was clubbed. out tb city. All through the day and up to late Sunday night bodies were taken from the debris and ruins in the path of the flood, and over 500 have been recovered. The greatest loss of life occurred Saturday morning between the hours of 9 and 11 o'clock when the large buildings on the south side of the river commenced to crumble and fall. Many of the houses had from ten to one hundred people on their roofs, and all disappeared in the flood. In one school building, on the south side of the river, nieety women and children were drowned when the wlls of the building col lapsed. This was one of the most pathectic incidents of the flood. The women and children fled to the school for safety, but the water reaching there drove them from room to room until they were all clustered in one room. Two priests were with them In the room, and while in the act of bless ing them the walls fell and the whole ninety were swallowed up in the flood. Thousands of people were stand ing on the north bank of the river unable to render aid to the unfor tunates on the buildings on the south side, for nothing could have lived in the current of the Santa Catarina, which was half a mile wide and flow ing at the rate of at least twenty miles an hour. Watchers saw build ings loaded with people collapse, and the people disappear in the wa ters. It was a sight n?-ver to be forgotten, and there is practically no establishment in the city that has not some story of the loss of em ployes. * OBANGEBTJKG. S. GIVES NEGRO TO RRE SLAYER OF MEMBER OF POSSE IS BURNED 'WITH RUBBISH. Roamed the Country Armed With Shotgun, Rifle and Automatic Pis tol and Wearing Breast Plate. After killing one man and serious ly wounding two others in a posse, which was chasing him, B. Clark, a negro convict, serving a life sen tence in Bibb county for murder, was killed a few days ago at Soper ton, Ga. His body was burned on a rub bish heap, and further trouble with the blacks of the community is fear ed as a result of the intense ex citement aroused. Clark had escaped from the chain gang and was roaming the country armed with a shotgun, rifle and automatic pistol and wearing a steel breast protector. When finally located by the pos se bet?re dawn he began firing and more than 100 shots were exchang ed. James Burden, a member of the posse, was instantly killed while Sheriff James Lester, of Montgome ry county, is believed to be fatally I wounded. Walter Simons, another ' member of the posse, also received j slight wounds. * NEGRO "KNIGHTS" STOP RIOT. Black "Pythians" Intervene to Pre vent Race War. At Kansas City, Mo., swinging their swords above the heads of the belligerents and declaring that un less the trouble ceased they would use them, a company of negro "Knights of Pythias" a few days ago prevented what promised to be race riot during a parade of the supreme lodge of the negro "Knights of Pythias." The trouble began when S. W. Jarbol, a laundryman (accompanied by his wife, drove through the pa rade of 5,000 negro "Knights" at Twelfth and Central streets. Sev eral negroes not in the line of march seized the bridle of the horse. "You can't pass here," they shout ed. Mrs. Jarboe seized a whip and struck at the men. Instantly a hundred excited negroes crowded about the wagon. One wrested the whip from the woman, striking her a number of times and inflicting painful bruises. Many white men rushed to the aid of the laundryman. A riot call was sent to the police headquarters, but before the police arrived the armed "Knights" had restored or der. * EDITOR'S FRIENDS FURIOUS. They Threaten to Lynch His Cow ardly Murderer. A special dispatch from Panama to The State says the feeiing there against Gen. Herbert O. Jeffries of New York for the killing of Wil liam Nichols Chandler, a South Car olinian, editor of The Panama Press, is very bitter and .threats to lynch the slayer are being openly made. Gen. Jeffries, who commanded Panama's Pacific flotilla when this I republic came into being, went to Mr. Chandler's newspaper office. Jeffries was furious at an article which, while it mentioned no name, he took to reflect on Mrs. Claude E. Guyant, his sister-in-law, aged 18. While repeating that he is "sorry" for Chandler's death, he says he has enough powerful backing in the Unit ed States to get him out of the "scrape," as he calls it. Chandler was popular and his friends are the more infuriated by Jeffries' attack on him because they insist that the story at which Chan dler hinted in his newspaper has been common property for some time. * FATAL AUTOMOBILE RACES. One Man Killed and Another Wound ed at Brighton. At Brighton Beach, Louis Cole, mechanic of the Stearns car in the 24-hour automobile race, was killed Friday night and the driver, Laurent Gross, was fatally injured in a col lision with the Acme car shortly he fore midnight. Patcheke and May nard, the crew of the Acme, were only sligfrtly injured. I Both cars wre wrecked. Gross and Cole were thrown from their car in the collison. Cole was almost instantly killed; Gross' spine was broken and he cannot recover. The race was stopped, but resumed In ten minutes. Less than fifteen minutes later, to avoid another collsion at the same point, 'Van tine, driving the other Acme entry, risked death by steer ing his car 'straight through the heavy infield fence. Both he and his macbanican es caped injury, and his car was dam aged only slightly, losing a front wheel. The machine was dragged hack to its quarters and started again in a few minutes with a new wheel. ? C TUESDAY. ALTGUSr IN OTHER DAYS Mrs. Besant Says You Have L ved Before Now. SHE TELLS ABOUT IT She Says You Get Better and Better Every Time You Hit the Earth, So That After a While You Won't Have to Bother Abont Coming Back. Mrs. Anna Besant, high priestess of the occult, leader of the Tbeoso phists of the world, is back i.i this country from India to give Ameri can audiences the latest dope on what's gojng to be what in the next few hundred years. Mrs. Besant's general religious sj'stem is well known?a kind of modified Buddhism, teaching that one lives again and again, accumu lating all the good deeds and all the bad ones, but gradually weading out the bad ones till perfection Is at tained, after which one won't have to bother about coming back any more. A criminal can't help being bad, she says, because he has been bad through so many lifetimes. But every time he lives he gets better. An ultra good man or a genius de serves little credit, for both are liv ing out their lives as they have be fore, living better and getting smart er. This time, however, Mrs. Besant presents some startling news, fresh from the innermost regions of the occult. Christ is coming back to earth, she says, soon. He has lived sev eral times, she declares. This time he will appear in the specially pre pared body of some one in the mid dle west; perhaps a woman, more likely a man. "Will we know Him?" she asks and answers: "Yes, those who knew will know. Those who understand will understand." With His coming will come a new age of man?the sixth root-age is her phrasing of it. It will be an age of advanced Christian socialism, when all men will be equal In the spirit, when grabbing for gold and trusts and taxes and tariffs and public office and rents won't seem worth while striv ing for. The industrial and social problems that vex us now will disappear simp ly because people won't be interested in such things. Money will be the cheaper thing in the world. It will be a world where Budda, the spirit, will dominate over Manas, the mind. Mrs. Besant admits that so far Manas has a pretty tight cinch on things. But it won't be long, is her reassuring announce ment. We are .getting more sensitive, more nervous, more susceptib'e ev ery year, she 6ays. This Is the pre paration for the coming of the new era. The Rockefellers and Harrlmans and Morgans today are. in spite of themselves, laying the foundation of the new age to come. Thev are organizing the means of preserving life so that the new state?selfish ness and self interest being killed ?will be able to operate the big organization without difficulty. Curiously enough In her analysis of the society of tomorrow, where all will be equal and the brother hood of man will become an actual fact. Mrs. Besant admits that there will be those who lead and those who follow. "The people who are most sensi tive, most closely In touch with the spirit world, will rule," she says. "The rest must obey." Mrs. Resant was born in England in 1847, was educated In England, Prance and Germany, specializing In science. She took up radical and free thought philosophy, advocated socialism, encouraged union labor, helped lead a match strike in the late '70s, and became a pupil of Madam Blavatsky, the former head of the theosophlcal movement, In 1SS9. Since then she has studied and lectured continuously on the osophy. On the death of Colonel Olcott in Inc^ja. who succeeded Madame Blavatsky, Mr&. Besant was advanced to the presidency. Colonel Olcott declared before his death that "the masters" had pfck?d Mrs. Besant for the place. She had some difficul ty getting American members of the , sect to listen to "the master's" voice. Mrs. Besant was very fond of croquet, checkers and horseback riding. She married an Episcopal rector in 1867, separating from him six years later. * STRIKE-IJREAXERS STRIKE. Imported Men Leave Plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company. Imported men, numbering 200. quit work at the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKees Rocks. Pa., and in a body marched to the bank of the Ohio river, where they say they will camp until the company has paid the mfor their work. After getting the money due them, it is their intention, it s said, to return to ther homes in various Eastern and Western cities. I r 31. 1909. SHOOTS A WOMAN AN EX-POLICEMAN KILLS HIS FORMER HOUSEKEEPER. Spartanbnrg Man 'Slays Docia Baiter, Wife of Fanner, and Wounds Eight-year-old Girl. A dispatch to The State say Do cia Boiter, aged 18 years, wife of J. R. Boiter, a farmer living near Fairmont, was shot and instantly killed by Tr>?. Bates, a former police officer, now guard of the city chain gang, a few days ago at the home of W. B. Cox, 168 Thompson street, Spartanburg. Mamie Obx, the 8 year-old daughter of Cox, who was standing near with her little baby sister in her arms, was also shot by Bates and seriously wounded. Bates was caught in the hallway of the houe by Cox before he could get away and was held until the po lice arrived. Officers Lockman, Cudd. Gash and J. Crocker arrived a few minutes after the shooting and took charge of Bates, who was carried at once to the county jail and turned over to the sheriff. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. Docia Boiter was until a few weeks ago Docia Moore. She lived with Joe Bates at his home. 168 Thompson street, as his house keeper. She had lived with him for about two years, when a month ago she left him and married .1. R. Bolt er, a farmer living near Fairmont. She was married to Boiter by Magistrate Lawrence Berry. Since the marriage Bates has been crazed with jealousy. It, is said that just before she left him the Moore wo man sold a cow Bates had, and a number of household articles. For this Bates swore out a warrant for her arrest and the case was to have been tried in a few days. The crime came as a shoci: to the entire city. The inquest was attended by a large crowd. The verdict was in accordance with the facts. Bates is in jail and has made no statement. He was severely beat en by citizens who captured him and these wounds have been dressed by physicians. Bates is one of the best known characters in the city, hav ing been a member of the police force for years and a terror to the negroes of this section. He has em ployed attorneys. NEGRO ELEVATOR BOY SLAIN. Tragedy Occurs in Exclusive Apart ments at New York. Tenants of the exclusive Ardsley Hall apartments, In Central Park, West, New York, had little sleep a few nights ago because of the ex citement following an encounter be tween George E| Gethln, the tele phone operator, and Joseph Hard ing, a colored elevator boy, in which Gethin wounded Harding so serious ly by a bullet from a pistol that the elevator boy died a short time lat er in the hospital. Women and men living in the Ardsley Hall buildings were attract ed through the great marble cor ridor b ythe loud quarrel between the two enployees and many of them witnessed the shooting which was the result of a long standing quar rel. Doctors were called to attend sev eral of the more hysterical women, whose nerves had been unstrung by the shooting. * PECULIAR ACCIDENT. Little Boy Killed by Brick He Shook From Chimney. An'Anderson dispatch to The State says a peculiar accident caused the death of the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Strickland. Ten days ago the lad was visiting his grandfather about five miles from Anderson and while playing In the yard he caught hold of the lightning rod running up a high chimney. The brick fell, striking the lad on top of his head. A physician was called in and five stitches were taken to mend the wound. To all appear ances the gash was the only wound, but two or three days ago the child became sick. He was taken to the county hospital and an examination disclosed the fact that the brick had crushed his skull. All that was pos sible was done to alleviate the suf fering of the child and to save his life, but all was in vain. The lad was a particularly bright one and his parents are greatly grieved over their loss. * STRAPPED ON CAMEL'S BACK. Morwoccan Pretends Being Pun; hod by the Sultain. I A dispatch from Fez, Morocco, says Confined in an iron cage, strapped to the hack of a swaying camel, El Roghl a rebelious subject of the Sultan of Moro^o, capture] recently by imperial troops, was marched through the streets of Fr-z a few days ago, escorted by a strong guard. The plc'uresque pretender to the throne sat erect in his moving pris on, and calmly and disdainfully ig nored the jeers of the populaco at his heels. After an interview with the Sul tan, El Roghl. still in his cage, was taken within the palace walls. * KILLS NINE MEN WORKMAN THROWS LIGHTED CIGARETTE INTO FUSE BOX. ! Dynamite Goes Off Under Group of Workmen at Bocacchaca on Flori da East Oesrf Railway. As a result nf *hc- explosion at noon Friday of 700 pounds of dyna mite at Bocacchaca, 12 miles from Key West, Fla., on the Florida East Coast railway, 10 men are dead, five others probably fatally wounded and at least a dozen others less seriously injured. The explosion was caused by a member of the railroad con struction force carelessly throwing a lighted cigarette into a box of fuses. Nine of the workmen met instant death and the tenth died while be ing carried to the hospital. The men were hurled high into air and the bodies of the dead were almst be yond recognition, arms and legs be ing torn from the bodies of some, while the fcces of others were mere masses of flesh. When the explosion occurred the workmen . were standing in water four feet deep and directly beneath tftem was the 700 pounds of dy namite, ready for the blast when the men should stop work for dinner. According to one of the wounded, a workman?one of nine to meet instant death?threw a lighted cigar ette to one side, not noticing that it fell into the box containing the fuses which were connected beneath them. A few seconds and the men, water, mud and tons of dirt were thrown 70 to 90 feet in the air. Tugs at once brought the dead and more seriously wounded to Key West, the latter being placed in the Louise Maloney hospital. Those less seriously injured were placed on Stock Island, opposite Bocacchaca and will be carried to Key West later. ? DEADLY MOWING MACHINE Cuts Off the Leg of a Young Lad in Union County. A distressing accident occurred near West Springs Wednesday in Union county, when Johnnio Lucas, a boy about 15 years of age, got entangled in a mowing machine and had one of his less cut off. Jt seems that sonv: glass uns 1 e ing mowed and tint tb^ mowing blade was frequently gering hung. The boy loosened it up several timts, and had been told, it i?. stated, to be careful not to get in front ol the blade, but in some way he* failed to observe carefully when a turn was being made and the blade struck him and before the mules could in stopped the limb was almost com pletely severed about the ankle. Drs. A. Clifton Smith and Lancaster, of Glenn Springs, were promptly sum moned and amputated the limb. The boy is the son of Herbert Lu cas, a blacksmith, who had his shop literally torn to pieces by a cyclone several years ago, on which occasion the same boy had a most miraculous escape from death. * FIVE LIVES LOST AT SEA. Alaska Steamship Company Liner Sinks Off Alaskan Coast. Five lives were lost in the sink ing of the Alaska Steamship Compa ny's steamer Ohio, off Steep Point, Alaska, early Friday. There were 128 passengers on board, but all these escaped, the victims being em ployes. The loss of the steamer and the cargo is total. The wireless dispatch says the [ Ohio sank In three minutes. This probably means she was on a rief a considerable time and that the passengers were all off before the ship slid into deep water, which she did so speedily as to carry down five of the crew. Some of the passengers were taken ashore in life boats and taken by the fishing boat Kingfisher to Swanson Bay. Others were taken on the Humboldt and the Rupert City. The Humboldt's rescued passengers will be landed at Ketchikan, while the R?pers City is taking her passeng ers to Vancouver. * SODOM AND GOMORRAH Were Better Than Chicago and New York Are Now. According to statements made by former Governor Robert B. Glenn, of North Carolina, the cities of So dom and Gomorrah, destroyed with brimstone and fire for th?-ir wick edness, wen? places of sweetness and light compared to Chicago and New York. In an address at Chautauqun, N*. V., 'he North Carolina man de clared he had seen sights In the streets of both New York and Chi cago so unspeakably vile that if he were to describe them the men in the audience would pull him from the platform and trample him under their feet for daring to tell it be fore their wives and daughters. The wrath of the Almighty will descend en the land in some ruinous nnlamity unless the great cities mend their ways, said Mr. Glenn. As Governor of North Carolina he came promi nently before tho people of the coun try two years ago. * 0 TO CENTS PER COPY THEY AIL QUIT Strike breakers Leaving the S eel Car Works TELL AWFUL TALES Tho Imparted Steel (_fcr Workers Deelare They Were "Treated Wor^; Than Dogs," Served "Rot ten Pood"?Repetition of "Bloody Corner" Riots Expected. At sun-*~wn Friday night sixty State trt , mounted guard at the plant of the Pressed r eel Car Com pany in Schoenvilk, where 3,500 employes of that concern are strik ing, anticipating before another 24 hours a repetition of the "bloody corner' riots of last Sunday night. Trouble is feared for several rea sons, the principal one being the fact that all during Friday imported workmen have been deserting the Pressed Steel Car plant In droves of from two to two hundred. The men declare unequivocally that they have been misused, subjected to ibdignities and forced to work whether they chose or not. Friday night a spirit of unrest pervaded McKee's Rocks and the strike zone. The strikers declare that before morning the Pressed Steel Car Company will be forced to suspend operations. But 300 workmen were left in the plant Fri day night" at sundown, so the de serting workmen declare. The grounds surrounding the river gate of the Pressed Steel Car Com pany presented a picturesque sight Friday night. Encamped there were over 3 00 workmen, who left the car works during the day and who say they will ?tay near the car plant, offices until they get at least a por tion of the wages due them. The encamped workmen declare they will stay on watch at the car company gates until they are forced to re tire by force. Stories told by the workmen who have quit their jobs in the car plant are almost unbelievable.' Conditions, according to these workmen were practically unbearable inside the car plant stockade. Soup prepared from rotting vegetables was served them, they declare, by filthy negro waiters, picked up from employment agen cies in the1 slums of Pittsburg. Beds filled with vermin were givea i them to sleep on, they declared,, while they were charged exorbitant prices for clothing, even two cents stamps selling at four for ten cents in the car company commissary. These stories were made the subject of affidavits late Friday in the gov ernment probe ;into alleged peon-* age conditions at the car plant, Sensational developments in the session of the government peonage probers were developed tonight when several witnesses declared on affida vit that they had been "treated worse than dogs," had been served "rotten food," the car company had "failed to keep financial promises." and car company bosses had "threat ened to blow heads off with revol vers." Charges that gambling was allowed to go on unchecked In the car company commissary were also made. ? ENGINEER STAYS AT THROTTLE. Right Eye Cut Squarely in Two by Gunge Exploding. With his right eye cut squarely in two by a piece of flying glass, En gineer Andrew Horn ran his first Lackawanna express train from Maplewood into Summit. N. J., be fore be asked for relief, and now he is in a hospital where he may lose the sight of both eyes because of his heroism. While making fast time the glass gauge on an oil cup in the cab ex ploded, a piece of its striking Horn in the eye. Horn gave one short blast on the whistle, summoning the fireman from the tender. When the fireman reached him, Horn's right eye was bleeding pro fusely, but be had his right hand on the throttle and his left on the airbrake. He said to the fireman: "Just stand near me as I may fail in try ing to run her in." When the train reached Summit, Horn was taken off and sent to the hospital. ? A SEAMAN DROWNED. Member of the Crew of the Revenue Cutter Fell Overboard. It was reported a few days ago along the waterfront that a seaman of the United States revenue cut'er Yamacraw was drowned down the harbor, at Charleston, falling over hoard and disappearing from view before he could be rescued. N'o report of the accident was made to the coroner's office, and only the rumor was heard at the tiflic,' of the customs department. It could not be learned whether there was any truth in the story. The absence of a report being made by Capt. Dunwoody at the coroner's office or at the custom house would seem to indicate that there was no truth in the story. ?