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/ , - ~ *" v ' ' VOLUME LVII., NUMBER 13. ' NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1921 TV/ICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR limn i i I 1 > TRUANT OFFICERS !' MAY BE ABOLISHED SENATE PASSES BILL AND 1 SENDS TO HOUSE Duties of This Office Devolved on the ] Local Trustees?House Has I Not Acted. i / i ? The State, 11th. After a strenuous debate of more < than two hours the senate last night i passed the bill of Senator Wightman ( abolishing the truant officers in, the t state and devolving the duties there- } fwie+aoc! onrl I P Ul UU CXIC local OtUVUI l?i UOK?V0 I 2 s^nt the measure to the lower house. ( The senate killed the amendment of t Senator Williams to provide a fund of $15,000 for statewide truant offi- c eers to aid the local trustees in the t various counties. N ' * This amendment precipitated a * fierce debate, proponents holding this t out as a straw to the last remnants 1 y ' to # the compulsory attendance act. i Just a few minutes before midnight r the vote was taken on Senator Wight- c man's motion to lay the amendment i pn ""the table\ Wightman's mo-*- * -? * - J V? OA f A 7 C Xion CUTflCU uy a. vww vi wv t>w Those voting to lay the amendment t on the table were Senators Bailes, c Baker, Baskin, Beasley, Clifton, Cros- c son, Duncan, Goodwin, Gross, Harrel- t son, Hubbard, Laney, Mason, McColl, Moore, Padgett, Ragsdale, H. L. 'v Smitly Wejls and Wightman. Against I laying the amendment on the table s /were Senators Bethea, Johnstone; | Lightsey, Marion, Miller, Watkins and Williams. Pairs were announced as / follows^ Pearce with Alexander, .t Black with Young, Kennedy with c Jeremiad Smith and Dennis-with j After laying the amendment on the ? table the bill was passed and sent to 1 the house without any further com- c ment. IVofcbhents Of the amendment twpi?a ili aectire its Dassasre!^ dn order to assist the local trustees 1 in enforcing the law. The amend- * - , ment provided for % number of truant * officers to travel about over the ^ ... - stite wherever they were needed. * * Senators speaking in behalf of the t > an/endment and the truant officers were Marion, Johnstone and Williams and against the amendment and the j " truant officers, Senators Alexander, \Lanev. Wells* Wightman, Baskin and Moore. ^ t Discus* Tobacco Bill ' i 2 The other debate of the night was t oil the bill to provide for a license of $5,000 for all tobacco warehouses j in the state handling ungraded or ? ' untied tobacco. The "weed" came in ? t for a considerable discussion from 3 numerous angles. A number of sena- } tors objected to the bill and a number supported the measure. After a : lengthy debate which had begun in j the morning the debate was continued until this morning at the request of ^ Senator Black. < Proponents of the bill showed that ] v the tobacco growers themselves want- ] ed the measure passed, but se-^ral j senators did not agree with its pro- ] visions and a close vote is likely if < the measure comes to a vote in its original text. A number of amendments were offered last night and if j these are accepted exempting several ^ counties the fight will not likely be , "hard. Senator Clifton amended the ! bill so as to allow the board of coun- I ty commissioners of Sumter to fix the amount of license to be paid and Senator'Miller added the same proviso as to Darlington as did Senator Smith for Georgetown. SpeaJcing in behalf of the bill were , Senators Bethea, Baker, Harrelscn ^ and Ragsdale, and against the measure Senators Clifton, Jeremiah Smith ] ^d H. L. Smith, Jr. A vote will ( nrnhahlv he reached today. | A large number of committee report were made at the night session. : The judiciary committee returned : the workmen's compensation bill : without recommendations and the ' bill of Senator Wells to prohibit the : manufacture and sale of firecrackers ; known as "sons of a gun"? and others 1 J1?1 witll 5 inai rntve ui^icuibuv^ ...... unfavorable report. This was done due to a favorable report made on a house bill of similar import, Sena- ] tor Laney, chairman of the commit- < tee explained. i rENTS SHELTER STORM VICTIMS RED CROSS SENDS RELIEF SUP- J PLIES. Much buttering roiiows v-nange in . Weather?Offers of Outside Aid Received. * / Oconee, Ga., Feb. 11.?On the site ' >f the homes that were swept away n yesterday's tornado the Southern < iivision of the American Red Cross < ;oday pitched tents to shelter the j i lomeless people. A carload of relief j supplies arrived here from the head- i quarters of the Red Cross in Atlanta 1 ;his morning. 1 A drip in temperature resulted in* ?' :onsiderable suffering among the vie- < - - i ims of the tornaao. -1 . Hundreds of carious people drove lere today in automobiles to see for < hemselves the extent of the damage, j They reported that articles of wear ng apparel were found as far as 11 < niles from Oconee, and there was i >ne part a bedstead picked up 28 , niles awiay. s Identification has been practically < :ompleted. Twenty-nine bodies had \ >een accounted for tonight, but some 1 >f the negroes in at hospital at San lersville were not expected to live j hrough the night. 1 Governor Dorsey's offer of aid today < vas declined by Washington county >eople, who ^declared they would sub- ; cribe to a fund to meet the emer- : ran/>v \ J j' 11 Atlanta, Feb./- 11.?The tornado j < hat struck this section yesterday j :aused deaths to 26 negroes and Ben- ? amin Franklin Orr, a 14 year old j vhite boy, injured 30 oV mere per- j ;ons and entailed property loss estinated at $50,000, according to 1 :hecks macle today. !( Damage to property in Gardner, < ehere the lives were lost and most : njuries caused, was estimated by i ^eil Meier, president of the Cleve- : and-Oconee- Lumber company, at ' >35,000) with the remaining loss at ] )conee. Some 40 negro houses were ] lestroyed, the tornado centering on J ha-negro section of the mill settlenent. 1 Red Cross workers arrived at day- j >reak today from Atlanta and joined : jhysicians and civilians from San-|i lers'ville, Tennille and other nearby!; : dead IJ owns nx jicnuciiiig c*jv*. ~? md injured were placed on trains < md taken to Sandersville, where ] ;here is a large sanitarium. M^ny negroes who' lost all thfeis .< jersonal belongings in the scorm : seemed half crazed, while others spent hours in fruitless search for . relatives whom they learned later 1 rad been swept away and killed. ' A negro child was found on a torn v( nattress at the site of his former lome, his relatives, grandfather, * richer and brother, all having been ! ost. Outside aid would be welcomed : it Gardner, where hundreds have ' seen left homeless and in need as a result 'of Thursday's tornado, accord- ' Ing to a telegram today to Governor 1 Dorsey from A. W. Evans of Saniersville. x ____ ' Augusta, Ga., Feb. 11.?A story of j' how the heroism of three women j teachers in the school at Oconee, Ga., j probably saved the lives of manyj rm ic rinrincr the tornado there! r> Thursday afternoon reached here to- j iay from Wrightsville. I, One end of the school house was j crumpled .in by the wind and the! < roof at the other end hung precariously low above the heads of some 75 children when the three teachers rushed to the rescue. By main strength and unassisted they I 1 i At iinfil oil thp i neiQ Up llie d?lg?iii?; i uui uwvii w? , children could pass into the open, and ; then leaped to safety themselves. At the Brandson farm, 18 miles! from here, on the Augusta Southern I railroad, Thursday afternoon several; form houses were blown dqwn. Oiie j of the houses caught fire after it was! razed and burned to death the wife! and child of Jack Eunch, negro. The ?j ivovo r?5?n<rlit m the 1 woman aiiu tiuiu vv._n... ? ? structure when it collapsed. Speaking: of Fords and mud, Will;, Ford, colored, paid $10 at the re- j ?order's court Saturday for reckless driving of truck. ^ i ' HOUSE OFPOSED TO CONVENTION KILLS RESOLUTION AS TO STATE CONSTITUTION E V ; - h r- r Pnr'.pnal ( Jttpp lUdCd IV M. W4?W V ? . ~ ? Privilege?Rcil Call Saves Situation : rhe State, 11 tn. Hopes of submitting: to the people | Df South Carolina aL the npxt gen- j sral election the question of calling ' i constitutional convention went glimmering iast night shortly before tv,,"> cf reuresen tatives, by a vote of G5 to 25, voted so strike out the resolving wore'?, of l resolution which had been introduced by Representative C. N. Sapp of Richland. The vote was preceded by the sharpest exchange of words which has featured this session of the general asembly, during which debate Representative-Sapp twice rose to questions of personal privilege. Speaker J. B. Atkinson called upon the feprcsentatives engaged in the controversy to observe the rules of parliamen tary courtesy r.r.a ai one tunc ^ tense was the situation that Icpprssentative Hughes of Marion moved for adjournment. The time necessary for the taking of the aye and nay vote j on the motion gave the situation time j fco adjust itself to a certain extent' and immediately after the announcement of the result of the vote, Reprpspr>f-?tive E. A. Brown of Barnwell disclaimed the intention of being discourteous to Representative Sapp or to any member of the house. Representative Sapp accepted the statement of the Barnwell representative and the debate proceeded. The debate on the question of putting the matter of a constitutional convention Jbefore the people had oc-j 2upied the greater part of the evening when Representative Brown j arose. Representative Sapp ur^ed I that no vote be taken on the matter, holding that it was one of great importance and that many house members were absent. He said he merely wanted to be fair in the matter. Of Personal Privilege Representative Brown, who had the floor, in response said, "Watch his maneuvers in opposing members who take the other side of debate and irnn Mn iudsre for yourselves how J fair he is." Representative Sapp at once jumped to his feet, saying that he rose to a point of personal priviT lege and asked the Barnwell representative if he could construe as unfair anything he (Sapp) had said. Representative Brown said "Oh, no." After some further exchange of words. Representative Brown said 10 thp Richland representative, "You can not intimidate me" at which time \ the speaker began pounding for or-! der. The house members and a con- j sidera'ole audience were watching the J situation with intense interest when j the motion to adjourn was made after j which Representative Brown disclaimed any intention of being discourteous. Seilers Gets Floor The debate on the constitutional j convention was featured by another j - - - -1 I speech, remarkable lor its venemenee.; Representative S. J. Sellers of Ches- i terneld, who never fails to attract at-! tention of the house, when he gets the floor, attacked the resolution vigor- j ously, declaring that he was for white ; supremacy, that he rode with Hamp- j ton, muleback, that, he stood for the i rights of the home and the open Bible.! To adopt the resolution, he said, j meant the over-thorw of the govern- j ment; the people, he said, will be led , - 1 4-Ua AnnrocCAV ! sstiTij7 ana tn? nunu ui uiv \syy*. I will be heavy upon them. The speech was delivered with all the force and power at the command of the Ches-' terfield representative and he was heard with interest. Representative Hanahan of Fair-' field, in opposing the calling of the convention, held that the people had ! not asked for it and that it would ( cost not less than $S00;000. Repre-' sentative Harnblin of Union also op-j posed the resolution, as did J. Lyles Glenn, Jr., of Chester. Representa-' tives J. R. Bryson of Greenville and; J. C. Kearse favored the resolution, i as did Thomas 3. McMillan of Char-i leston, who said there was something wrong in South Carolina today andreferred to the meeting of the tax-' I INTEREST IS SHOWN 1 IN SMITH'S CHARGE | THAT COTTO^ FIGURES IN'' UNITED STATES MISLEADING | South Carolina Senator Presents Census Report to Back Up Statement. News and Courier. Washington, Fob. 10.?Ivluch I:i-( terest was shown in the senate lodr;y ] in a statement made by S?i.ai?jr i E. D. Smith of South Carolina in sup- i port of his resolution, which the ?on-' j ate passed directing i>.e committee I on agriculture, of which h? is a mem-!? ber, to mate a*: investigation a'.> to' the amounts and grace- of cotton and j wheat now held in u'c iJnitad Stales Mar.y other senators from cc.ito:! <er-!< riiory participated in the di.-^c ussion, j I ? ? o *-? -/y* 4 l?t/? Xkf tiS*' | j as (iiu aujii*,- 11 LJm | , The point which the South Caro-j] lina senator made with telling olFect: j was that figures which he had ob-1 < tained from the director ol the ccn-1 i i sus covenng tne past six years Sjigw- j ] ed a total production of cotton in j ] this country during that period of;! 72,818,000 baler, whereas, the same 1 bureau's figures of the amount of 1 cotton consumed in this country and ? exported from this country during ^1-- lmm-c tAtci! 1 P.-I 71. me cuncspuuuiinj w ... . 850,000 bales. This indicates ar. amount on hand of less than 1,000,000 bales in "the United States. At the same time the senator an- ( nounced the ..census bureau's estimate of the whole world's produc- ! tion and consumption of cotton during the same years, the production . total being 114,052,000 bales and the consumption total; 113,0*74,000. bales, j On the basis of these figures tne senator wanted to know how the English .cotton periodicals and Secretary Hester of the New ' Orleans cotton exchange got their authority of estimating, as- they do, that there now is an American cotton stock on hand of 5,4^)0,000 bales. K. F. M. I NEWBERRY BEATS JCLEMSON TIGERS Both S'desi Fight Gamely in Close i Contest-^iWon at Last j - Minute. The State. * Newberry, Feb. 12.?Continuing their drive for the state championship, th'e NewbeiTy Indians defeated tfie Clemson Tigers in the fastest basketball game of the season here tonight by the score of 15 to 14. The . ti game throughout was a steiiar performance, with first one side in the lead and theu the other. The score at the end of the first half was 7 to 6 in favor of the Lutherans. Both sides had much difficulty in getting close enough to the goals to shoot into the baskets. The deciding score came in the last five seconds of play. Shealy for Newberry did brilliant work on the defensive while McPhee also was a stellar performer. Col . ? .. I : bert and Newman featured for tne , visitors. The two teams will not meet again this season. The lineup was: Newberry (15) Clemson (14) i Czarnitzski RF JSchilletter 1 Thomas. LF : Colbert McPhee ..C Newman . Shealy RG Hines ] Bender.., LG Coles; Referee, Norman (Greenwood)). ? 1 The Columbia Record one day last week fined a negro $20 for cruelty to J animals. Every man cruel to ani- 1 mals ought to be fined heavily and j( severely punished otherwise. jJ payers held in Columbia this week.' j Representative E. R. Buckingham < held the convention would cost too ( much. Representative Brown wanted 1 the house to keep in mind the fact 11 that to call the convention would de- j i stroy all laws and that the state ' < would begin again at the beginning!* to make a new "magna charta" for i the people. He said B. R. Tillman, whose portrait hangs upon the wall of the house, would turn over in his 1 grave ifx he could hear some of the ( arguments advanced for holding the j i convention. 1 A ftpr ftpnrosentative Brown's ar- t gument against the resolution the J i vote was taken and the resolving J words stricken out, which kills the, i resolution. Is REACH AGREEMENT ON TAX EXTENSION v lAXPAYERb GIVEN UNTIL MAY 1 WITH PENALTIES Fetal' of Three Per Cent, for De Ir.yed Payments?1 ruck License Bill \ fhe State, 11th. Adoption of the free conference report on the house 'bill and the senate amendment as to the time for extending taxes and providing that the time :o; payir.g tixes this year be extended :o May 1 was the main action of the icr.ate at the morning session. J IIC 1ICC kUtUClbllkb 1VUU4X VU..W [?;r the time to be extended to May 1 v/iih 1 per cent, in January, 2 per eiit. fn February and 3 per cent in March and April., with a provision :hat the. penalties shall not he cumuativs and compounded. The report further provided that the total penalties shall not exceed 3 per cent, up until ?tlay 1, but after May 1 the nonaltv shall be 7 per cent., provided I no N executions arc bcgun\unlil May 15. This report was adopted by both ihe senate and the house and ends ;he long fight started the second day Df the present session. House Resolutions By the report yesterday the original house joint resolution is retained to a large extent in its originality, the senate amendment for only I per cent, throughout the period from January through April being lost. The -appropriation bill came over from th? house and was immediately placed. oh the calendar in order to have it printed. It was referred to the committee on finance and "Will be under consideration for the next few days.* No extended open hearings ? 4-~ Un t^ip hill bv the fin die tu ut ubiu v? .... ance committee, Senator Christensen, the chairman, said. These hearings have already been held jointly with the ways and means committee, and, therefore, only hearings on specific items .by request will be held. When asked as to how long the bill would remain in the finance committee room, Mr. Christensen said he could not say at this time. However, it is believed that the measure will be reonvlv next week. Just P I > 1 ItU \J\JL\J ? what the committee will do is, of course, unknown, but no material increases are expected, while a few advances will likely be made. As received by the senate the bill carries a tot^l appropriation of $G,564.361.71 and a levy of 11 mills. The senate reconsidered 'its vote i*f cpnt. to the house a sub WI1CIGUJ iK MV... stitute resolution to the one originally passed asking the treasurer and the comptroller general to furnish the senate with a payroll list of the state by allowing the payroll to be furnished for the 1922 session and referred the resolution to the'senate finance committee. Senator Williams explained the great amount of work necessitated on compliance with the AeAintjnn and moved to recall it. 1 COViuvivit This was carried.- Senator Wightman opposed the recalling the resolution, saying that he had investigated the matter and found that it could be compiled by next^ year, and that he understood that the comptroller general was willing to furnish the information if given a year's time. Senator Williams took occasion to highly compliment the comptroller general, Walter E. Di*ncan of Aiken. Mr. Williams said so far as he^new Mr. Duncan had never supported him politically, but he knew that the comptroller general was a man and a gentleman of the first rank. Mr. Wightman charged that he had found the task to be a big one, but ?oulj hardly understand why the. iomptroller general said his force ivas too small to do the work, when ipon investigation he had found that H. F. Jackson, chief clerk in the 2omptroller general's omce, was uisu uhief clerk of the engrossing department. V Bill Must Wait Objection by Senator Wightman that the measure of the agrieuuture :ommittee providing for the Califorlia or Sapiio marketing plan had not seen on his desk 24 hours, was susained and .efforts to advance the bill .o a third reading were iost. Senator Johnstone's bill to provide or trucks on plantations used excluiively for plantation purposes to be i COLUMBIA LOSES ANOTHER PASTOR THE REV. C. A. FREED, D. D.t GOES TO NEWBERRY Council Postpones Action Until Next Tuesday??-In Columbia for | Eighteen Years ? The State, 11th. I The Rev. C. A. Freed, D. D., last i night tendered his resignation as pas- j tor of the Ebenezer Lutheran Church J of the Redeemer, Newberry. The res- j ignation was handed to the church j , council at a meeting at the Sunday j school building, but the council post-; poned action until a meeting which! had bee^i called for next Tuesday. Dr. Freed received the call fro/n ! Mewhorrv church about two j weeks ago and since that time has j i had the matter under consideration^, | "It was a very difficult matter to decide," Dr. Freed said last might. Eighteen Yean Eighteen years ago Dr. Freed came 1 to Columbia to assume the pastorate ' of Ebenezer church and he has seen his charge steadily grow during his service here. He came to this city j from Middlebrook, Va., where he' served for ten years. P'hese are his. ! only two pastorates since graduation | from Mtj. Airy seminary, Philadelphia. Prior to his theological course he finished at Roanoke college. Dr. Freed j was born and reared near the place j where he was first called to preach. I Dr. Freed leaves one of the strongI est churches in the South Carolina synod and goes to a church of about the same size congregation, but a church of older years. He also has, in his new field- the opportunity of | | preaching aqd ministering to the stu-' i dent body of Newberry college. j During his 18 years in Columbia Dr. Freed has made a wide circle of friends, not only among the Lutherans ' but among the other congregations,' and it is with regrety that Columbia gives him up. In Near Future x He asked that his resignation be| come effective in the near future at i ' a time to be agreed upon mutually. I j Ebenezer Lutheran is the third: | large Columbia church to lose its. j minister recently. The -Rev. A. W. i Blackwood, D. D.', beloved pastor of I I the First Presbyterian church, has j asked that the relations between him j and his congregation be dissolved j that he might a^ept a call to Colum| bus, Ohio. The congregation will act ! upon this request 'a week from Sun| day. The Rt. Rev. Kirkman G. Fin- j 1n n vorpntlv resigned as rector < i lay,, -v.. ^ 0 ' of Trinity to become bishop coadju- j ; tor of the'diocese of South Carolina, i but fortunately his change did not necessitate his leaving Columbia. Nearly everybody has been in-! dulging in talk about the cut up con- j dition of the streets, people having j ! been stuck in the mud right in town.; j Supervisor Joe W. Wertz wants the j inhabitants of the community, indiv 1 icluaiiy ana couwuvci^ capctmn,; ... (the residental portions, to>. know that i he will have his handg around as soon ; as possible. There are other streets besides Harrington and vicinity need-1 j ing attention. It's bad but it could I I be worse. [ licensed at one-naif the regular price I was passed to a third reading with : ? .: ?. ~TVio moninrp I iiunctr ui diiiciiuin^iiko. i?v ~?? j originally provided for one-third the J price of other trucks, but was amend' ed by the committee so as to make the 1 .fee one-half the price paid for other i trucks. The amendment was accept-! ed by Mr. Johnstone and the measure , sent to a third reading. * Senator Johnstone explained that, : ample provision is contained in the | bill to punish any violators who at- j j tempfto take advantage of the "plan-; i tation" feature. Senator Baskin off; an nrr.nndment to exempt trucks | used exclusively for school purposes I [ from buying licenses. This amend-! ment will come up in third reading, j I A resolution bv Senator Miller to | ; allow the sergeant-at-arms to make, j repairs in the senate chamber out of' j what funds he may have was adopted. I The committee on medical affairs returned a favorable report on the j bill of Senator Pearee to amend an _ act to license embalmers in the state.! The amendment would pVovide for [reciprocal action between South Car-i, I olina and other states. j, i 5 TOIL OF LIFE BY GEORGIA TORNADO TWO WHITE PERSONS AND f* THIRTY NEGROES KILLED Territory Five Miles Long and One- V halt mil? wtae i-ert as rraine With Not Building Nor Tree Left Standing. Great Property Damage ' Oconee, Ga., Feb. 10.?A tornado ' that struck the Gardner settlement one mile from here shortly after the noon hour today,-brought death to two white persons and nearly thirty negroes, and serious injury to .five white persons and more than a score of negroes. A nf l.mH pvtendincr front .. ? ^ , Oconee almost to Toomsboro in Wash- * ington county, nearly five miles long and about one-half mile wide is as _ i barren as a prairie tonight, not a building nor a tree being left standing. Among the dead is ^Benjamin a. Franklin Orr. 14 year oldvyouth who was decapitated. His head had BOt been found at a Jate hour tonight. : The only other white person who met death in the tornado is the three \ year old daughter of E. L. Minor, ^ \ manager of Shepherd's commissary at the plant of the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber company. White persons injured include: L. . L. Thompkins, C. 0. Thompkins, Ed. - - . *'/ gar Thompkins, George Lord, Marion Hodges, Mrs. Harrison, mother of J. M. Harrison; Tolbert Bnnis, Emma Jolly and Emery Shepherd. The Jolly t _ girl was hurt at the school house. Many Children Escape Eighty-two children and three I teachers were in a school building qn, the edge of the Gardner settlement ? when the tornado struck. The building was laterally twisted to pieces > : and the fragments were scatters! for miles around. Children were picked up by the wind and cartftd for some distance, but it is officially announce ed tonight that only one child was seriously bruised. Approximately 40 "houses were blown down in the Gardner settle ment. The Shepherd's brothers commissary at the big lumber plant was deduced to kindling wood, Orr and ; v four negroes meeting death there. Ten feet away from the commissary was the general office Of the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber company which was untouched by the storm. . \ The 15 acre plant of the lumber company, which practically owns the settlement site of Gardner, was not seriously damaged by the wind, although millions of feet of lumber v piled in the yards was scattered. The tornado spent its force locally immediately beyond the plant of the lumber company in the settlement of 40 houses ana four stores. Most of the people residing in this section were negroes the white people of the town residing on higher ground a short distance away. ' These negro houses and stores faced the tracks of the Savannah di? s % vision of the Central of Georgia rail- * road. In the rear of the houses was an open field, extending for nearly a mile from the Oconee station to the lumber mill. It was into this field that men, women and children were carried to their death from their seats at dinner tables. Freight Train Helps v . Ten minutes after the tornado wiped out th.e Gardner settlement a Central of Georgia local freignt trai^ running from Savanflah to Macon, arrived on the scene. W. 0. King of Wadley, conductor in charge, viewed the bodies scattered afcout the ground. The conductor ordered his locomotive detached from the train 0 and with his crew hastened to Tennille, 11 miles away, for aid. Coach1 j * es were commanaeereu uuai mc Wrightsville and Tennille railroad, four doctors and 46 persons were obtained in the relief party. The train returned to Oconee as speedily as possible. Chickens that escaped death in the path of the storm were in many instances plucked of their feathers. There were many animals killed. Doctors found one negro boy with a board driven into his head. They removed the board and gave temporary * relief. 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