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m | \ VOLUME Llllt M73EBEH 51. Fifty Score Dr x When Bi PLEASURE BOAT CAPSIZES FEW FEhT FROM DOCK 2,500 EXCURSIONISTS ON BOARD BOUND EOR PLEASURE TRIP. Most of *lie Victims Women and Cliildren^-Cause of Disaster Not Fully Known. Chicago, July 25.?The "bodies of 809 persons, drowned when the steamship Eastland capsized yesterday at its wharf in the Chicago river, K'.ad been recovered tonight after 40 hours of searching by divers. The total dead was put at approximately 1,000 by Coroner Hoffman. whose reports indicated that possibly 200 bodies were held in the mud of the river by the superstructure of tj:e boat. While only 1,000 of the 2,40S passengers of the Eastland have registered as saved, it was thought that' about 475 survivors, including d.el crew of 72, had failed to report. About three score bodies were re covered from the wreck before dark tonight, but after that Olivers discovered only one corpse before they quit work for the night. There was mucib confusion in the totalling of bodies recovered, owing to the duplications and removals. As a result all sorts of estimates were scattered about the city with guesses! from 1,800 to 2,300, but officers in charge of clearing the wreck have been unable to tabulate more than ^ 901 bodies listed. < The morgue was cleared tonight of all but a score of corpses, all other victims having been identified. . Tiie Eastland lies on her side with divers tonight still floundering through l.er interior and burrowing ? under her in a death search, while Chicago, appalled, is just beginning to grasp the significance of one of the greatest of marine disasters. "Wl'cile the grieving thousands who lost relatives walked through the morgue in the Second regiment armory gazing into the faces of the dead, Chicago citizens and city, State and fed-' eral officials turned their attention to investigations of the catastrophe and the work of providing relief for those left destitute. While no families wefe made wholly dependent by the disaster, it was said many victims had been working only half time or less in recent months. Chicago, July 24.?Approximately 1,00>> persons lost t)':eir lives in the Chicago river today by the capsizing of the excursion steamer Eastland while warping from its wharf with more than 2,400 employes of the Western Electric company and their relatives and friends on board, bound for a pleasure trip across Lake Michigan. After working ceaselessly ail day and far into ti':e night, the bodies of 842 victims of the catastrophe, most of them women and children, were collected in temporary morgues and taken to the Second regiment armory. When +1. ^ Viorl hQOn tn frcrp.f\ CYirOIlfir tilcac UWU1CO UUrVL uvwu 3 - ? Hoffman, taking into consideration estimates of bodies thought to be in the ; hold of the steamer, lying on its side in the river, and in the stream itself, said he believed the total dead would not exceed 1,000. The Eastland, said by marine architects to have been top-heavy and ballasted in an uncertain manner, turned over within five minutes after it began to list, pouring its gala passengers into the river or imprisoning them in its submerged hull. Every effort was made by thousands of persons on the river wharf to res ?I ? cue the drowning men, women ana children, but many went down almost witliin grasp of the river bfcnk. Motherg went to deatb, while their children were snatched to safety. Other cJbildren died in the arms of their parents. Hundreds of girls, freed for a day from, their tasks of making telephone and other electrical apparatus in the factor}* of the Western Electric company, dressed in-#fceir smartest white frocks, were browned. A pail of sorroW hung tonight over t&e entire West Side of Chicago, where owned mt Turns Over . I the majority of the victims lived. Kolin avenue, a small street near the factory of the Western Electric company, was in univeisal mourning. Every house lost from one to all its occupants in the disaster. And many of the residents of this street tonight i lay in the morgue or beneath the steel hull of the. Eastland, over which search lights shot t! eir blinding glare, while hundreds of men searched for more bodies. Efforts to discover tne cause or me | accident were begun long before the work of rescue was over. Federal and ! county grand juries were ordered, a! coroner's jury was empanelled and all of tf:e officers and crew of tht Easiland were arrested. I W. U. C>ieeie, secretary aiiu ueasmci [ of the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship i company, which owned the Eastland, j built on Lake Erie in 1903 and re-1 modeled later, because top-heavy, it is said, was arrested tonight and locked up at a police station. Tte steamer was leased by the Indiana Transpor- j tation company, whose officers said | they were not responsible for the li- i censing of the ship and did not control the crew. I Search at Under tf e glare of seachlights tonight scores of men worked in the hull of the 'vessel to remove the bodies. The steamer lay on the bottom of the river, one side protruding like a monument to the hundreds it had drowned ! as it turned over. 1 The cause of the capsizing had not I heen determined tonight, but federal and State officers were conducting investigations to determine whether the | ship was topLeavy from faulty designing, was improperly ballasted or was poorly handled in leaving the wharf. Marine architects asserted that the top decks had been removed because r>f the tendency of tJ':e shiD to list, and also pointed out the possibility that the ship had been unevenly or insufficiently ballasted. The Eastland used water ballast, so that it could pump out some on entering shallow lake harbors, so some investigators are working on a theory that the ballast tanks were not filled and the rushing of passengers to one side caused it to roll over. Flrwlr tn FtPiirslftll Bo&tS. Under misty skies 7,000 men, women and children went to the Clark street dock early today to fill five large lake steamers with l':oliday mirth in a j trip to Michigan City. The steamer I Eastland was the first to be loaded. Rain began to fall as the wharf su i perintendents nitea tne gang pmuKs from the Eastland, declaring that tJ':e government limit of 2,500 passengers had been reached. I The passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship as the otJ:er steamers drew up the river toward the ' harf. A tug Iwas hitched to the Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off and ti:e an<rinoc Kocrji n try h]]TTL The I tujjuivo ? _ - [ Eastland had not budged, however. Instead, the heavily laden ship wavered' sidewise, leaning first toward {the river bank. The lurd'a was so | startling that passengers joined the j large concourse already on the river side of the decks. The ship never heeled back. It turned slowly but steadily toward its left side. Children clutched the skirts of their mothers and sisters to keep i from falling. Water began to enter lower port holes and the hawsers tore out the piles to which the vessel was tied. Screams from passengers attracted t?e attention of fellow excursionists on the dock awaiting the next steamer. iWharf men and picnickers soon lined the edge of the embankment. reaching out helplessly toward j I ' ; ~ the wavering steamer. . * For nearly five minutes the ship ' turned before it finally dived under the swift current of the river. During the listing of the vessel lifeboats, chairs and other loose appurtenances on the decks slipped down the sloping I floors, crushing the passengers toward the rising waters. Then there was a plunge with a sigh of air' escaping from the nold, mingl'ed with cryitig of children and shrieks of women and tiie Whip was on ! ' / CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.) I { i i i NEWBERBf, 8. 0, TCESB Mr. Robert E. Allen Elect V iNUdit lytlCLlUI Ui ' ': :' : . ;- . : .; ' . - \ :;. . : ;: ':v:. ' ' '.. .':-':V;' Mr. R. E. Allen of Newberry has arid did been selected by President Byrd of larger c Chicora College for Women of Co'um- Durini bia as a member of the faculty of tha*. Mr. ^llei 8 I I * - - - 1 - - - - - J -N i < - : institution to teacn <mu yiy" i QirGCtor organ. The director of music of the|churcii : college is Dr. H. H. Bellamann, under | been ^ a whcm Mr. Allen received training 011 on many tae pipe -crrgan. ular d u Mr. 'Allen came to Newberry only willing two years ago, but immediately identi- ar.y gooc fied himself with the social, religious The m and business life of the community and /.lien ha has made many friends by his pleasing however, manner and the enthusiastic interest has been he has taken in all that goes to make teaching a better town and community. He has ber of pi filled the position of assistant casi-ier he could at the Newberry Savings bank with successfi efficiency and to the satisfaction of the popular officers and is popular with the pat- of tf e d rons to whom he is always uniformly Newberr; courteous. and in or Mr. Allen is a native of Greenville Allen re and was educated in Greenville and communi Baltimore. He took pipe organ lessons wit';out under JoseDh Hagstrom and H. H. fere witt Bellamann and voice under Mrs. Kath- j^r ^1 erine Bellamann of Chicoga college tjon wjt] and Lucien OdendT:all of Baltimore. Septemb* For three years he was organist and two year choir master for the Second Presby- While terian church of Greenville. For a year leave Ne before coming to Newberry Mr. Allen Presiden held an important and responsible po- curing tf sition with one of the large bankins tent, in institutions in Baltimore and at the >n his wc same time pursue J his musical studies well in ] NEGROES CLASH WITH OFFICERS 50 yards. with thr i One >egro Killed, Another Mortally The mag Wounded and Officer Slightly j returned Hurt in Exchange. I came to J of which The State. * and ente Mulleins, July 25.?One negro was The ne * - I V* J - J ~ ^ A ? _ Q I killed, another mortaiiy wouuuea auu twu oi u ; an officer less seriously hurt in a bat- then cap I tie at Xicholls, eight miles from Mul- vis made | lins, yesterday afternoon. The shoot- not live ing affray took place in front of a je? g( negro church in the center of the town. jze(j tjje Walter Rowell, special deputy, was months < shot in the arm. his ( Participating in the encounter were (said to a number of officers of the law. in- \Fairmou: eluding Magistrate H. L. Ayers, Po- pade. liceman Hoyt Kelly and Special Deputy ^ rep( Walter Rowell. K. Brow Negroes engaged were: Jeff Bethea, was ^is] who 'as killed; Jake Davis, mortally spondent wounded; Jim Davis, who made hhr escape, and Wesley Dans, father of Sheriff two of the participants, who was cap-. n:3o lured. stored. An altercation seems to have arisen an(j secu | between the negroes at the church jnvei [and a general fight was in progress morning. when the officers proceeded to Nicholls to Quell the disturbance. The negroes Autos met them at the road and began firing places p with shotguns before the magistrate week. 1 and his companions were closer than of travel ! . ''J?. - ,i MY, JULY 27, 1915. ' BUT COT hicora College _ 1 EFFECT OX SOI7 OX C( Remarks of Hon. , Farmers' Meet burg on j Special to The Hei Orangeburg, Jul: of his address to angeburg county, : ere today, Hon. J discussing the pos I South has been world war now in "It is remarkabh < est man comprehe ing effects of thi The first impressi this country was U would be absolutel business be practic until tl e end of th timates from the perts giving figure consumption of Am be less than ten m: realized the new i would create for cotton. It is estim ! lion bales of cott turned in the raai sives. This seems gant statement, | tents, uniforms, ? j probably falls slior I cording to an estin I ^ + T ? 44*- Ay A fl I UCIALIV U c ? j tv-nine million me solo work for several of the ! countins the arm arches of Baltimore. powers' whieh are , . . , order to protect t ; his residence in .Newberry The witidrawal 0 1 has been organist and choir from th{, producti, at the Central Methodist . , decreased the out and his artistic singing has ^ an(J crea(ed rd with pleasure in Newberry ponstantly jncrea: occasions apart from the reg- American goods of rch services. He was always ? to lend his talents to help i"" is perfectly a] I cause United States coult ost valuable service that Mr. ec* ^ e uar ^as{: ^ct s rendered to the community, on tiie shiPment ?f - - - .. I Thic would have m during his brief residence, " . in the work he has done in umPh of Germany voice. He has a large num. ma- seem> she j c i. prepared for war. jpils, and in fact as many as y * attend to, and has been very tile present ll in his teaching and very ance in favor of tJ:. with his pupils. The training amount to one and tiany fine 'voices that are in lars' more than < y was a thing greatly needed point which it has < ganfzing his voice Ci-.sses Mr. It is ti e generally ndered a real service to '.he this large trade ba ity. And he did 'his work munitions 01 wax, letting it in the least inter- commerce in its t his duties at the bank. n?t to be the case, len will not give up his posi- the most Pr0" 1 the bank until the first of Unless the United . 3r, which will just round out the ^ar wit^ an 6 s with the institution. ture of men and ] we regret to see >Mr. Allen riclier at end 0 iwberry, yet we congratulate na^ons n01 t Byrd and the college on se- This enormous tn ? tutes a debt that e services oi uue &u his line and so enthusiastic ^ mer^c3- either in >rk, and wish Mr. Allen mighty some kind- ;Some his .new field. tbe sale at a lo\ in American corpo: has gone to enric They accompanied the shots York. The iron 8 eats to "shoot up the town." of Pitfsburg and tl istrate, deputy and policeman fabulous profits. 1 the fire and W. J. Connerly is growing rich fr< the door of his store, in front Here in the Sout i the shots were beins fired, grow the greatest red the fray with a shotgun. world, have had it 'groes continued to shoot until hands, and a fe\^ leir number fell. The officers pocketed somethinj tured Wesley Davis. Jim Da- million dollars out > his escape. Jake Davis can of the South, longer than a few hours. "We are confroi 3thea, the dead negro, terror- complete embargo town of Pages Mill a few cotton. Is the Soi igo and rewards were offered only sufferer? Th< capture. A bench warrant is sitania shocked Itave ben issued for him at depths; but, after at, X. C., for a similar esca- hundred and twent into insignificance >rt that Rural Policeman W. freedom of the n was wounded in the affair ancestors shed oc Droved by the State's corre- expended millions who visited the scene after "I l-ave great cc gacity and the pati J. M. Dozier reached Nicholls Wilson, and I fully o'clock and found order re- dous problem whic frvr thp. nast \ "1 toe coroner was summcHiea ?? ? ?- ? red a jury at 1:180 o'clock, but the neutrality of stigation was not begun this toe whole wo impossible for hir ^ else, to fcave fore from Baltimore and other mand made upon tl assed through Ne#berry last food and ammunltS 'his place is on the highway sible it was for E from all directions. tagonized the Unit TWICE A WEEK, $L50 A YEAB. fFTQ RlfH ducted this war as successfully as she ULiIJ iilvll has. So far as I am concerned, my TON PI ANTFR sympathies are wittl neither side and *FLiHl 1 LilY witj, both. I regret impartially the bloodshed, carnage and ruin which has TH OF EMBARGO visited all of these nations, but I am )TTON. * for America, first, and for the South ern end of America primarily. I do Fno. L. McLaurin to not 'believe that England had a right ilng- at Orange- to declare t)-e whole North Sea closed July 24. to our trade, and run the exports to Germany down from four hundred mil-ald and News. lions to about fifty millions, largely j 24.?In the course at the expense of the South, while our the farmers of Or- sales to France and England have run at a meeting held Up from six hundred millions to about no. L. McLaurin, in one and a quarter billion dollars. Much ;ition in which the 0f this was cotton forced out of tfce nlaced durins: the h q c r\ f t V* o nrA^ 11 of from fira f c\ x ? v_? l* j.4. VI fcj VI HA V_- pi VUUVV1 11 VU1 " ' V progress, said: seven cents a pouDd. Nor am I ready ? liiow little the wis- to consent to the sequestration of annded the far-reach- other crop by similar methods. I bes world-wide war. neve that if, when England issued this on that we had in order, the United States navy lead been lat our export trade assembled and a fleet of ships bearing y destroyed and all American cotton started to Rotterdam, :ally at a stand-still that not an English gun would ever e war. We had es- have been fired, and the freedom of the greatest cotton ex- high seas been assured to every neutral s to show that the nation. TV: ere would have been no sinkerican cotton would ing Gf the Lusitania by a submarine illion bales. No one warfare that has shocked the civilized ises wnich the war world. "While England was securing tl:e consumption of from the United States guns, powder ated that three mil- and other contraband of war, slie deon have been con- nie<i to us the right of shipping food,, lufacture of explo- cotton and other non-contraband to to me an extrava- any of the countries with whom she but if you include was at war. It is well for the people ;un cotton, etc., it 0f the United States to get these facts A. c /v A /?_ -i 1 ? -5 ^ ?- -? J - - ? l ul uiie uguics. cieany ana nrmiy m uieip minus m iate that I have re- order to draw correct conclusions, ire now about twen- Most of us in tfce South are of Scotch m under arms, not and English descent; we speak the ies of the neutral English language, and the heritage at the maximum in 0f race inclines us to side with Engheir neutral rights, land in a contest against any other naf ti-is vast number tion. But never before in the 'history re walks of life has 0f the world l as any nation underput of foreign fac- taken to prevent trade by a neutral an enormous and nation in non-contraband of war, exsing demand for Cept where such a Dation was able to every kind. maintain an actual blockade. ^parent now tf:at the "I i:ave read everything that I can i speedily have end- get my hands on with reference to this ober by an embargo war, especially English papers. At food and munitions. grst i was under t':e impression that eant the speedy tri- the real cause of this war was the de, for, strange as it sire on the part of Germany for colonis the only country ial expansion. I doubt if this is strictly true. It seems to me that the great rate, the trade bal- ambition of Germany is to develop fore -United States will eign markets for her surplus products, I a half billion dol-J and tne "made in u-ermany' prooaDiy double the highest nas Itad a good deal more to do with ever reached before, bringing about the war than colonial accepted idea that ambitions. 'When the Franco-Prussian ilance is due to the war closed Germany was not a maaubut the department facturing nation, and she found a i figures shows this ready market in England for iher suras foodstuffs occu- plus agricultural products. She did linent figure in it. not begin to develop her manufacturStates is drawn into ing interests until about 1880, after ;x):austing expendi- the perfection of ti-e Bessemer steel money, she will be process. Her progress was so rapid f another vear than in manufactures that within the past n at war combined, ten years, instead of producing suffiide balance consti- cient food for her own people, she, like Europe must pay England, became a food-importing gold or products of country. She began to look for world of it has been met markets for the product of her factov price of securities ries, and became a competitor with rations. This money England, not only in selling those h Boston and New products, but in the purchase of raw md steel industries material and foodstuffs. She began by le West are reaping subsidies to create a great merchant rhe Western tarmer marine, ana me ueraian nag uegau ii> Dm stonk and grain, invade the markets heretofore monoph our people, wl:o olized by Great Britain. T! ere are but money crop in the two causes that have ever produced forced out of their great war?religion or money. r middle-men have "j said that I sympathize with all of % like four hundred these nations, and I do, because you of the cotton crop could not get men to fight and suffer the hardships ti'cat they are now ited by an almost doing if each nation did not feel that on the shipments of its cause was a high and holy one. I ith again to be the saw in the papers coming down herd j sinking of ti':e Lu-' on ti e train how the Arohduks Nichothis nation to its las of Russia issued an address calling all, the loss of one upon all the churches of Russia to - y human lives pales pray upon a certain day for the suewhen compared to cess of Russian arms, and devoutly ex- i seas for wfcich our pressing his belief that they were eans of blood and bound to win because the God of batof treasure. ties was on his side. A few days ago nfidence in the sa- I saw an address from the Kaiser in riotism of President wltich lie proclaimed nimseir as tne realize the tremen- servant of God, bound to win because ;h he Itas been fac- of the approval of Jehovah. If it was ear in maintaining not so serious it would be almost the United States laughable. rid at war. It was "j was jn a barber shop a few day* n, as for any one ago in Atlanta, and a German barber seen the great de- showed me a pap?r published in Berle United States fdr and witn sMhfng ?ves and a vdtcfc on, and how impos- trembling with emotion, said, 'Look ngland to have an- _ ed States and con- (CONTINUE DON PAGE 4.) V - > L