Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P?BIilSHED THREE TI3 AWF?LO?f?E Hack Brat? C?ualiy Assaalb t W?ic Laiy in Celoidbia. TBE FIEND WAS CAD69T And Wae Taken to the Penitentiary, After Being Identified by His Vic -iim. Vi bo is Seriously HI From the "Terrible Ordeal Through Which She Passed. The Record says what was perbapa ? the most revolting of all crimes that have ever been committed in Colum bia criminal annuls occurred Tues day afternoon In the northwestern .sectiqn, of the city. A negro,, armed with a pistol,'compelled the-wife of a well-known paper hanger and paint er to yield to his fiendish designs. The lady was in a precarious condi tion Tuesday night, , but Wednesday .morning her condition was reported to be somewhat improved. No one ?hut her husband and an intimate ?friend are allowed to 'be at her side, tby the! advice of the attending physi cian. "She is completely prostrated. The home of the husband and wife is. on Uncoln street between Elm Wood avenue and Lumber streets. In the family besides the husband f and wife are two pretty children. Tuesday afternoon at about 2:30 o'clock the woman had just' told a visitor' goodbye and had returned to the rear of the house to resume her ' -domestic duties. A negro whom ?she had never seen "before appeared at the front door explaining that he had brought a letter from her fath ter. "From-my father?*' she ex <claim?d. being very much surprised ?at the negro's remarks, "what do you -mean?" "Here's what 1 mean. ' the negro said drawing the pistol. The circumstances of the attack on the woman are too revolting for ? publication. When the negrc left the house she sent one of her chil dren to a neighbor's, asking Cor im - mediate assistance. Making her way to a telephone she summoned the employer of her husband. The neigh bors informed Policeman Milette, . -w-ho was on his beat in the neighbor hood, and he soon learned the facta '-of the case and started in. pursuit of .*eewL whovi? about, 23 years of ? . ? V't .-">v r- ' ' V Before the criminal assault took - placed word was received from north \ Lincoln street that a negro armed fwith a pistol was. threatening to tthoot a number of persons inline neighborhood, and the reserve, offi cer, Policeman Hite. responded. He ? followed.??.Lincoln street to,-' Second Street, where he overtook and arrest ted Bird. The negvo seemed surprla ?ed at the arrest and demunded to Itnow the charge against him. "For carrying a pistol." replied the police matt, who quickly disarmed him. , " "While waiting for the patrol wag on, Policeman (Milett came up and recognized the negro as answering the description of the man for whom he was searching. The officers took the negro to the home of the woman and she in the presence- of the offi rers and a neighbor said without ap parent hesitation. "Yes, that's the man." The pistol which had beeu taken from Bird was shown her and she Identified the weapon as beinj* the one that the negro had used. Ed Bird is the full name of the fiend. He is a carpenter and claims lhat he went to Columbia from Or angeburg a few weeks ago. Bird was first taken to police headquar ters and formally placed under ar rest. Fearing lest public Indignation -would assert itself in u mob spirit. ;the police had the negro removed to the penitentiary a short time af - -terwards. An automobile with the prisoner aud the officers quietly left police headquarters and a few min utes afterwards he bad been placed behind the walls of the penitentiary and->before the news of the horrible -crhne had become generally known. 'Bird denies that he Is the negro ^who attacked the woman, endeavor in to establish an alibi, claiming ?that he had been hunting with Mose Pete, another negro, on Crane creek. ???Chief Cathcart has obtained from ?Pete an affidavit to the effect that his only companions on the hunt were negroes who reside in that com munity and who were found and left " here. John Franklin, colored, who claim ed that Bird attempted to shoot him. -said he saw Bird unload a pistol.! "Chief Cuthcart upon receiving this! (Information Tool* Franklin to the ?place where the pistol was alleged ? to have been reloaded, and there he \ found two empty shells und a cart ridge. This was at the S. A. L. turn ?"table in the northeastern section of the city. The husband of the woman who I ?was the victim of Bird, was not in The city at the time of the attack on his wife. IT<* was in Darlin?tou 1 engaged in work and Tuesday after noon a friend sent him a telegram stating that his wife was seriously til. -Not until bis arrival at his home did he become acquainted with the real facts in the affair. Natural ly he was very much wrought up and his anguish was touching in the ex- j treme. Will Build Hospital. The Tennessee Conference of the (Methodist Episcopal Church. South, "has resolved to build a Methodist hospital at Nashville. IBS M WEEK." TALE OF GRAFT HEARSAY EVIDENCE OF CORRUP TION IS HIGH PLACES. Assistant District Attorney Reveals Alleged Confession of Bribery to Defeat Anti-racing Bills. Representative Otto G. Foelker, the man who was carried from his sick bed into the New York senate chamber to cast the deciding vote for the anti-racing bills urged by Gov. Hu,ghes, took the stand as a sworn witness and told the Merrit joint leg islative committee the details of an alleged attempt in 1908 by Former State Senator Frank J. Gardner, who is now under arrest, to buy his vote. Briefly It told of a dinner at Del monico's of.pbominent men friendly to the race track, of 45,000,000 sub scribed to a corruption fund, of the distribution of this fund to politi cians' and well known press corres pondents of the New York news-pa pers at Albany and of the secret grievance of the late Patrick McCar ren who worked for the hill against his own wishes, and his own asso ciates. "In the month of March," testified Mr. Elder, "i sent for- Gardner, through his lawyer, .who wanted to know what for. I told him for a I personal chat, and shortly afterward Gardner came, to myi private .office. I told him I wanted to know about the efforts made at Albany to de feat the race track .hills. I told him that I had indictments against cer tain men and that.his information might help. ?"iFinally Gardner said. '1 d,on't. mind telling you that there was a ?meeting at Delmonico's at which money wo3 subscribed.' He mention ed the names of several men who were there including members of the (Metropolitan Turf association and the. book-makers, i He said that among the men there that 1 remem ber were James R. Keene, D-ivid Mit chell, Mr. Parsons. Harry Payne Whitney and Charles H. Hyde." Charles H. Kyde Is now chamber lain of New York City and was form erly a law' partner of .Mayor Gaynor. James R. Keene in the well known racing; man i and millionaire stock market .operate?;. "Mr. Parsons was not ffr&^ "He /(Gardner),** continued Mr. Eider, "said thero was a dispute about who should handle the money. Finally he said $125,000 was given, to-James Gaffney to take care of three or four members .of the legis lature?rTammany men.v' he. said. I - James Gaffney,' is. president of the j Gaffney Construction company, which I has handled many municipal con tracts. ?j ' j "I asked htm - the total amount of this fund," the witness resumed, 'and he said, 'Oh, considerable.* I told him that I beard that it was $300.000. He said that if I had guessed $500,000 I would have been nearer the mark. "Of this sum he said, Senator (Grady got only $40,000 and I might j imagine what the others got. "Senator McCarren. he said, was j angry because he did not have the j handling of the fund and because a strange man was going up there ex pecting to gel away with such a proposition. He attributed the pas sage of the bill to McCarren's dis pleasure. McCarren was secretly in favor of the bill, he said, and wanted to be revenged because he had not been consulted." Then came mention of the press. "He (Gardner)." resumed Mr. Elder, "said the newspaper men were liber ally taken care of out of the fund.'* Asked the names of the men, Mr. Elder said: "I recall a man named Joe Mc Entee of The Sun got $3,000; that Patrick Rellhnn of The Press got $3.000; that Louis Seabold of The World got $3,000; George Jandria of the Brooklyn Citizen, $3.000. and TirrelJ of the Brooklyn Eagle, $300. He said The Times man of Brooklyn got $300." ?George Tirrell. secretary to Comp troller Prendergast and until January 1 Arbany correspondent of the Brook lyn Eagle, took the stand and testi fied thai Gardner had offered him $300. at Albany and he had declin ed it. Little light was thrown on tne part t:iken at Albuny by Mr. Hyde. "He (Gardner)." said ..Mr. Elder, told me he went to Albany witu Hyde because Hyde did not know the ways of Albany and how to ap proach people. "He said Hyde had secured at the meeting at Delmonico's for Wil liam Engerman who had failed to nuy. and that Hyde had put in a bill for personal expenses to relm bur?e himself. He said he had an appointment with Hyde by which he was to be paid for doing the work at Albany, but that Hyde did not pay him and that it was necessary for -him to take $10.000 out of the amount he did get elsewhere to make good ou two appointments, $5, 000 of this he said went to the pres ident of the senate." The witness was reminded that the then president of the senate. Lewis Sturvesant Chanler, had voted for the bill. "Did you understand that he meant Senator Raines, Republi can leader and president pro tera. of the senate?" asked counsel. "I so understand," said the wit THE FARMER'S WIFE PRESIDENT BARRETT PAYS HER DESERVED COMPLEMENT. In ao Address He Has Jast Made to the MLembers of the FamieiV Unions. That the farmer's wife is the most vital factor in the upllftlug of the agricultural interests of the coun try today is the contention of Presi dent Charles S. Barrett, in a state ment which he has just issued from his home at Union City. Qa.. and ad dressed to the officers and members of the Farmers' Union. Says Mr. Barrett: "Now about that wife of yours. I wonder If you ever think, what an indispensable inilu ence tihe has been for your own wel fare in this world, and for the gen eral advancement of the country? "I doubt It. A good wife we are too apt to take like we do the sun shine and the fertility of the fields? as a matter of course. Only when all three are missing do we discover the genuine blessing. "The wife of the farmer it is who keeps hope and ambition kindled on the hearthstone, who nerves tired bodies to the work of supporting the nation.' who rears up the men and the women into whose hands I he des tinies of the nation are to be handed. "I sometimes think that It is only within; recent years we have' come to appreciate the monumental and histioric sacrifices of these farm wo men. If you will indulge a slight personality I cheerfully bear witn^;.s to the fact that whatever1 I have ac complished for the good of the brein ren in this, world. Is due to the un selfishness, the industry and the courrge of the woman who is my wife and the mother ,of my children. "I know' that If ever thy sons shall work well In the battle for the common good, and live as i would have them live?an example to ail' men?it Is because of the untiring ?watchfullness and the almost incred ible self-sacrifice of their mother. "I talk -thus, that you may look i! bout you in your own home, and see what you can do to lighten the task of your' own wife, the mother of your children. "If all goes well with the farm, find out how much is due to her per sistent toil and forgetfulnesa of her own comfort. If your children got ahead*'in life^cohsfder her part in their succosa. If you have experien ced the common lot of passing through poverty and sickness ar,u misfortune? consider how hopeless would have been the outlook had it not been for her sustaining courage and energy. " ''They call , the farmer ? the -hope and the support of America. It la his wife that is the Inspiration of the hope and the bedrock of the support. Bear these facts in mind, when you are inclined to be a little mean, a little stingy with the pocket mouey. or u little vainglorious about your accomplishments. "Not all of Carnegie's medals coin ed 'between now and doomsday will reward the silent heroism of the farm women who are humbly uplift ing the agricultural life of this coun try." TO FLY IN COLUMBIA. Contract Signed for Two Flights Dur ing Corn Exposition. Two Glenn H. Curtis aeroplanes will make exhibition flights on two day-; of the South Atlantic States corn exposition, which is to be held in Columbia from December 5th 1.0 8th. so says a aepcial dispatch from Columbia- The contract was signed for the aviation meet by the Colum bia chamber of commerce. This will be the first aviation meet in the. StaLe. ARRKSTTD ON SERIOUS CHARGE. Robert E. Brlce, of Columbia, Accus? ed of Embezzlement. ?ir. Robert E. Price, manager of the. Columbia Grain and Provision Company. No. 715 West Gervais St., was arrested by Magistrate Jas. II. Kowles, Jr.. on Wednesday morning, at his home. No. 1215 East Gervais street. Columbia, upon a warrant, sworn out by Mr. Bunyun R. Cooner, proprietor of the Grain and Proviio.i Company, charging "breach of trust with fraudulent intent." to the amount of "approximately $iu,00u. I/ooted Farm Houses. Mrs. Mattle Jennings, aged t>0. and her two daughters. Mrs. R. E. Hay den and Miss Laura Jennings, were arrested in their fashionable home in Chicago Tuesday morning, accus ed of being the women automobile burglars who robbed a score of farm houses near Crown Point. Ind., and escaped with flu: loot. Cholera in London. Asiatic cholera has reached Lon don. A man died of the dread dis ease in the Royal Free hospital on Tuesday. This is the first case of cholera recorded in Kngland in many years. David K. Hill Dead. A dispatch from Albany. N. Y., says David B. Hill. ex-United Slates senator and former governor of Now York, died suddenly Thursday at Wolferts Koost, his country home. s. c, saturday, oct< THEY ARE SAFE Crew of the Steamer Trent Gives tbe Facts of tbe Rescue of WELMAN AND HIS CREW Landed in New York With Only Bruised Hand, Walter Wellnian Declares He Will Again Attempt to Cross Atlantic When Gasoline Arrangement Can Be Perfected. (Walter Wellman and his party of five were landed at New York Wed nesday afternoon, by the steamer Trent, whkh picked them up at sea, after they had abandoned their dir igible, balloon-,- America and failed, in the first attempt ever made to cross the Atlantic through tue air. A bruised right hand which Wellman carried in a sling was the only phy sical injury that'resulted from their long voyage of approximately 900 miles and a rescue the life of which is unknown in all history. It was the Morse lamp, winking ts message through the darkness that just proceeded the dawn of Tuesday morning and not the wireless that first attracted the attention of those aboard the Royal iMall steamer Trent to the distressed' airship; IStanley Angel, an ordinary seaman of 18 years, and George Sangster, an able seaman, had the early morning watch. Angel saw ahead of him, high up In tbe northeast, a faint light. "At first." said the boy in narrating his experience, "I thought .it was the morning star. Then I saw two faint red lights beside the white one. and . next made o.i: a dark blur against the sky. The white light kept a-winking and I knew that it was a signal and reported it to. G. J. Fitgerald, the fourth officer in charge of the watch. "Fitzgerald notified W. H. Lani sou, the chief officer By this time the outline of the airship had been made out against the moonlight sky and Lanlson called Capt. Down out of his berth. 'H-e-l-p* the white light of the America was signalling to .be steamer." "When I came on deck," said Capt. Down, '"th? ?Irshjp was plainly visible. In the light, of the full moon, she looked, enormous, hanging low in the northeast and close at hund. ' In reply to our signals she told us her name and thj t she was in distress and asked us to stand by." Then the wireless was called into use, and between Louis M. Ginsberg, operator on the Trent, and Jack k. Irwin, the operator in the life boat suspended below the gas chamber of the America, passed a series of mes sages that will stand in history as the first wireless communication be tween a ship at sea and a ship in the air. "At this time." said Capt. Down, of the Trent, "we were In' speaking distance of the America. She was only 12 feet above our forestays and moving about 12 knots an hour. We kept beneath her with difficulty. Tor she swung to and fro in the air cur rents, and sometimes we were forced to go full speed astern as not to lose her. "Then," said Capt. Down, "tltej crew of the airship began trailiujc wire ropes, hanison, our chief offi cer, ga'bbed one and held until the skin was rubbed off his hands and no was llfred from his feet and nearly dranged overboard. After half an hour of this we decided that this method of rescue was hopeless and much to risky. So Wellman asked up to keep clcse while he and his crew let down their lifeboat, saying that he trussed to us to pick them up. "We got two boats ready ;ind sta tioned men along the sides with life 'buoys. I signalled "b-t's go. and Wellman lowered his airship until :,s lifeboat suspended underneath was within six feet of the water. The trailer composed of tanks of gaso line and weighing thirty hundred weight, was the greatest danger, and after the boat was launched this struck her and stove a hole in her .side about six inches in diameter, but above the water line. "Wjhen Wellman dropped bis life boat it struck the sea broadside, but quickly righted itself. N went full speed ahead and we had considerable difficulty in picking up the boat. Mr. Wellman injured his hand in trying to catch a piece of one of our ropes. "The last I saw of the airship slm was fifteen or so wiles away with one end in the water. Her valves had been opened and she udoubted ly sank soon, dragged down by her heavy machinery. "Wellman and his erew came aboard and after baths, dry clothes and a good breakfast appeared none the worse for the experience. "The Treat carried 151 first cabin passengers, most of whom had been making a pleasure trip to Derniudu. A majority of them, clad in night clothes over which overcoats and kimonos had been hastily thrown, watched the rescue." Jack Irwin, the wireless operator, figures that, the America sailed about 8,70 miles?from Atlantic City to a point off Nantiicket, 275 miles, from Nantucket northeast about 140 miles until the storm cauuht her and car ried her southeast to the point of rescue, a distance of 455 miles. }BEB 28. 1910. WOFFORD COLLEGE FOUNDERS DAY OBSERVED WITH FITTING EXERCISES. Dr. Snyder Announces That $30,000 Has Been Given for Erections of Carlisle Memorial Hall. 'A special dispatch to the State says founder's day commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Wofford, was observed at Wofford college today. The stu dents were given a holiday and in the evening exercises were held in ,the college chapel, the principal fea ture of which was an address by United States Senator E. D. Smith of the class of 18S9 on "The Mission of. the Christian college." iDr. Henry N. Suyder, president of the college, aroused enthusiasm by announcing that $30,000 had been raised for the Carlisle Memorial hall, a much needed dormitory, which will be erected in memory of the late Dr. James H. Carlisle, formerly presi dent of the college ,at a cost of $50, 000. fThe list of contributors and the amounts they have given, as annun ced by Dr. Snyder, includes: B. L. Archer, of Spartaburg, ^10,000. Mrs. L. O. McCalla, of Anderson, $5,000; Mr. Robertson,, of Anderson. $2,000; R. E. Caston, of Cheraw. $1.000; .1. M. Jackson, of Clio. $500; L. W. Parker, of Greenvill?. $500. There v:'s a goo i attt.ii? anu* ?? the exercises, despite the rain. Dr. Sny der made the first address, which was a review.- of Wofford's history. He told of its foundation in 1851, of the difficulties It met -with in the War of Secession and of Its renewed power in the Reconstruction days, when it was practically the only In stitution of higher learning for wnke students in the State, the State uni versity being under tre control of negroes and carpet baggers. He presented almost forgotten facts about the college's first faculty and students and. the curriculum In the early days. When the war broke out, he 8aid the 79 students volun teered to a man, but the governc wisely would not accept the services ef all. Forty entered the Confederate service, however, and one-fourth of them died on the field of battle. VERY SENSATIONAL CASE. \i Doctor Convicted of Poisoning Hi* Patient. A very sensational trial has juaf been concluded at Swainsboro. Ca. After being out all night the jury In the case of Dr. W. J. McNaugh ton, charged wjth poisoning Fred Flanders with murderous-intent last June, returned a verdict of guilty early Wednesday. Judge Gilbert sentenced McN'augh ton to hang December 9. Counsel for the defendant filed a motion for a new trial. If will be heard in Co lum/bus November 23. Judge Gil ibert signed an order stayiny *.he ere cution pending the disposition of the motion. This case has attracted widespread attention throughaut that section of the State. Flanders' wife was indict ed jointly with McNaughton on the theory that she and the doctor con spired to kill her husband so they could marry each other and enjoy Flanders' property. The wife has not been tried, her case having been severed. The fact that Flanders had been murdered almost escaped'the notice of the authorities in Emauuel coun ty. Flanders had been buried sel'er al days when the conduct of Mc Naughton and Mrs. Flanders aroused the suspicion of people at Swainsbo ro and s'rarted an investigation which resulted in a postmortem and bringing of. the murder charge: ?The trial of Mrs. Flanders was contlnyent upon the verdict, of Dr. McNaughton as her part in the crime is alleged to have been that of an accessory. Her trial has not been assigned. Six Killed in Explosion. At New York a boiler explosion killed six firemen outright, fatally wounded two other and Turew two thousand women and girls and half as man ymen into a panic Friday at the .bagging and rope plant of the American 'Manufacturing Compay at Greenpfjint. across the liast River. She Deserves Help. Governor Davidson, of Michigan, has received a letter from Mrs. Har vey Johnson, of Tepimau County, in quiing about a state bounty due her for being the mother of three sets of twins. She says she has beeu informed that she is entitl-d to fi nancial recognition. Receives Heavier Sentence. Out of the frying pan into the fire was the literal experience of U. F. Perdue, or RaresvlHe. Ga., Thurs day. He had appealed from a ten year sentence in the penitentiary, got a new trial, and is now sent up for life, with no prospect of getting this second decision reversed. Con?ts Suicide. IHia mind perhaps impaired by h long illness. George V. Kleekley, a farmer, committed suicide early Fri day at his home in Lexington county by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun. His wife and six children survive him. BRINGING IN CATTLE FARMERS FATTENING THEM FOR THE STATE MARKETS. Thirty Cars of Beeves Brought in During the Post Week and Forty Will Come Nexk Week. The State says during the present week over 3 0 cars of beef cattle have been brought to this State by South Carolina farmers. This means that within one week the farmers have brought in over 1,000 animals to be fattened for the market. -The cattle have been brought to the State under the direction of the TAnited States farm demonstration ofn?e. The government recently de tailed Dr. C. M. Morgan to promote live stock in this section of the South He is located in the office of Ira W. Williams at the capitol. There will be forty carloads of cattle 'brought to the State under the direction of the farm demonstration work within the next week. These will be distributed on several farms. Lost Sunday morning there was a special cattle train of 19 cars mada up for Aiken. Of the 1,000 cattle brought to the State last week 400 were for the Tay lor farm, which is located near Co lumbia. ?The feeding of beef catte follows the programme as outlined by the demonstration work. There has been a great interest in corn production In the State and the farmers are in .better posittion to feed catte for the markets. There are many agencies in the State working in the interest of live stock and reports received by the several departments indicate that there is money in cattle feeding. There is also a special agent of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association working in the interest of live stock. [The extension work of Clemson coi I lege will place a man in the field to [interest the farmers in live stock and B. Harris of the department of agri culture is doing work along the same [line as is A. G. Smith of the office of farm demonstration. FOUR DEATHS AT MIAMI. I Schooners Wrecked. Houses Demol i^hed Jiad Railroads Washed Up., . A dispatch from Miami, Fla., says communication ? was established with the outside world Thursday after noon for the first time since last [Sunday, when all wires went down in the midst of the West Indian hurricane. While storm losses in the I city were not great, reports are com ing in of extensive damage to ship ping all along the southeast coast of Florida. :' It is reported that there are 3t> washouts on the East Coast Railroad ?between West Palm Beach and Stewart. It is hard to tell when Miami will have mail and train ser vice. Only four deaths in all have been reported as the result of the storm, which is said to have been the worst in the history of the Flor ida coast. The schooner Harry T. Haywood from Boston, was wrecked off the reefs at Boca Ratone, and three of the crew drowned. The others were rescued. Harry T. Geering, of Ghent, Ky., was killed by Calling timbers at Indian Key. Scores are reported in jured when their homes were demol ished by the terrific wind and rain storm. ELEPHANT CRUSHES KEKPKK. Trick Beast Hurls Man Against Wall and Tramples on Him. 'Queen, a trick elephant, became enraged at Robert Shields, a new keeper, who tried to shackle her in her winter quarters in Jersey City Thursday and crushed him to death. She seized him around the watst with her trunk, slammed him against the wall, threw him to the floor, and then trampled on his face, knelt on his body and finally gored him. The body was unidentifiable when recovered. ('aught After Long Cha.s?-. After a long chase by detectives from Scranton. Pa., to Orkney, NV.7 Zealand, and back to this count'y, John Majoros was arrested late on Thursday at the Charleston navy yard, being accused ol embe/.zleraent of $t;,00U. He admitted his identity, but denied his guilt. He representeu foreign bankers and shipping inter ests. He will be taken to Scrunton. Charleston and (.'oluinbtM. ?Population statistics if the thir teenth century censu?? were made public Thursday night \iy the fol lowing cities: Charleston. S. C. 58,8'!:', and in crease of 3.02(1 or 54 per cent over 55,807. in 1900 Columbia. S. C. an in crease of 5,211. or 24.7 per cent over 21.108 in 1900. Teacher Fatally Stabbed. fWhile disciplining Baruey Brad berry, a seventeen-year-old pupil in the public srhool at .luno, Texas, on Thursday. Wirt Pauley, a teacher, was fatally stabbed by the youth. Young Bradberr.v was arrested. ... i ~* -WO CENTS PEE COPY HEAVITOILS Claimed by the HarrkiBe Taat Svegfc Cobs and Southern flerida. ONLY FEW LIVES LOST Bat the Property Has Been Damaged . .to Untold Degree.?Storm Worse Than Last Year's.?Orange Crop' Damaged Twenty Per Cent.?Crew of Sloop Nabob Perish. With telegraphic communication between that section of Florida and the outside world established Thurs day, says a Tampa dispatch, a recapi tulation shows a devastation of hun dreds of thousands of .dollars in the wake of the West Indian storm, that swept across the peninsula Tuesday;. The toll of life,-so far reported, is limited to six sea-men, .who are sup posed to have perished when vessel* on which they were quartered broke from their moorings at Maaquesus and were driven, out to sea. rWlre communication with points south of Tampa has not yet been es tablished, but dispatches brought by mail, indicates that the storm passed south of Tampa, devastating orange ?groves, levelling frame houses and doing much damage to small. ship ping in many passes along the Flor ida inland waterways. So far reported Key West was the worst sufferer. Despite che optimistic dispatches sent out by wireless in which the damage there was min imized, passengers coming in on the steamship Olivette Thursday after noon report the general damage to the island city greater thar that of ", a year ago. The electric light plant was wrecked, the wireless station blown down, half a dozen of fho. largest cigar factories, which with stood the blow a year ago, are in truins, with half a hundred other building damaged. . Reports of the severe damage at ' Key West were confirmed at Tampa, by the exhibition of photographs,, showing that bouses had been moved from their foundations and carried a distance of several blocks. Some of these' were deposited without ma terial- damage to the buildings them selves. Six of the lives reported ta& were seamen on the sloop Nabob, ' which slipped its moorings Tuesday morning ad was washed out to cea. One of these was a white man, the other five being negroes. Two other lives are reported loet. on the East Coast Railway extension. The American steamer Herman Frasch. which has been the source of much interest, is ashore in tbreo fathoms of water at Crocker's Reef. There are no tugs available with which to send relief to the vessel. The steamer Florida, about which there has been much concern, is re ported safe. She has a barge in tow which is leaking badly. Many other strong vessels, seeming in distress, have been reported, but it will he several days before a list of the miss ing is obtainable. /News is brought from Key West^ the present Southern terminus of the Florida East Coast Railway, is entirely cut off by washouts and breaks into the cement roadbed, and that it will be two week3 before the trains will be running between Miami and that point. ?Belated reports ar coming in from all nearby towns, but so far none of them have reported any loss of life. The most serious damage in this section is to the orange crop, which General Manager Temple, of the Citrus Exchange, says will not be over 20 per cent. (During the height of the storm, the sloop Nabob broke loose from her moorings at Marquesas and was swept to sea. Six men aboard per ished. The American steamer Herman Frosche is ashore in three fathoms of water at Crocker's Reef, northeast of Alligator light. The British steamer Inventor ra ports having rescued six men from the schooner Harry T. Hey ward and ten men from the bark Huga, both vessels being adrift in the Gulf. The Inventor proceeded to Liverpool with the rescued. The schooner Huron is safe, b'tt it was necessary to chop away her masts. The Norwegian steamer Fot>, loaded with naval stores from Tampa to Germany, is wrecked in quick sand ar Marquesas. The schooner Vivian was swept to sea and loat. There was no one aboard. Th* schooner Standard broke from her -moorings at Marquesas and drifted to sea. Washouts betweftu Tampa aud ?Jacksonville on the Atlantic Coasfc Line make it necessary to transfer passengers and baggage by boat. The Seaboard service is uninterrupted oe tween these two cities. Bobbed a Saloon. A lone bandit held up a saloon at Memphis. Tenn.. ?backed out with $75, then robbed a man with whom ho collided und made his escape in the space of three minutes early Wednesday. Suffer* a Stroke. The Hon. James M. Sullivan, mem ber of the railroad commission, watt stricken with apoplexy on Tuesday morning, while :tt work in the officer of the commission in Columbia.