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VOL. X. MANNIN G, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1895. NO. 51. APPEAL TO UNCLE SAM. THE NEGROES ADOPT AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. . The Result of Wednesday'- State Confer ence-Seem to be Very Anxious as to the Outlook For the Future. CoLUMBIA, S. C.. July 11.-The State conference of negroes. which was called by the Ministerial Union to consider the Constitutional conven tion outlook so far as the black race is concerned, assembled at noon yester day in the State Senate chamber. There were about seventy-five repre sentative negroes from the various sections of the State present. Among them were many of the leading negro preachers of the State, George Wash ington Murray, Bishop Salter and oth ers. The conference was called to order at noon by the Rev. E. H. Coit, of this city, as president of the Ministe rial Union. The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. I. L. Miller, of Orangeburg. On motion of the Rev. R. E. Hart. of this city, the Rev. E. H. Coit, of this city, was elect ed temporary chairman, and Judge of Probate Green, of Georgetown county, was elected secretary. The call of the roll by counties was then commenced. When Aiken coun ty was reached it was seen that so much time would be consumed that Murray suggested that they have the chairman of each delegation hand in the names of those who were delegates, and that the roll be made up in that way. This was agreed to. He also suggested that inasmuch as the "mighty Irby committee with all its powerful engines of election" and Conservatives had met with closed doors, they, the weak and helpless, should meet with closed doors too. This was agreed to. A session was than held lasting until 2:30 p. m. The con ference reassembled at4 p. m. and was in session until about 10:30 o'clock last night before any results were made known. At that hour the fol lowing address was sent to the repre sentatives of the press: THE ADDRESS. To the People of the United States: As a part of the constituent elements from which our National government draws its life blood in time of peace, and from whose life blood it exacts tribute in time of war, under the broad reciprocal relations that should exist among all the people of one common country, that should be elastic, offen sive or defensive weapons for every American citizen, however humble, at home or abroad, in order that the theory of government handed down by the fathers might be fully realized and enjoyed by every individual on every inch of national territory, we submit that a small, but desperate minority of the population has declared its pur pose to perpetuate its power by un lawfully trampling under feet all the rights and franchises granted us by the Federal Constitution as a means of protecting life, liberty and property. We have used every means in de fense of our constitutional rights and ,franchises known to law-abiding citi zens in this State, without effect and as a last resort are forced to call upon the strong arm of the national government for a defense of rights granted and E ut teed by itself. As the army and navy are held as a Weeve force to uphold local authori Wties in every State, the Federal gov ernent, in order not to be imposed upon and to support anarchy under the pretense of suppresn ishould see to it that a republican form of gov ernment, which we understand to be a government instituted by the sovereign will of a majority of the constitution ally qualifie voters, actually exists in every State. We humbly crave your influence with the constituted authorities of the nation, in order that their consciences and arms might be strengthened in ef forts to have the Constitution and laws of the nation upheld, so that each ~American citizen might have the equal \protection of the law, without which, constitutional guarantees are mere mockeries, and life itself a burden to the pope of the State. .We assure the fair-minded white Speople of thisState that we are willhng touse every means within our power to aid in the overthrow of the small but designing clique now in possession of the government, which has busied itself in thereorganization of the courts and militia for the purpose of per tu ating its power and which has ~en so emboldened with success in former revolutionary steps as to declare, un der cover of the unconstitutional reg istration laws, its determination to hold a convention of its own making and liking, and disfranchise the vast ~majority of the voting population re gardless of constitutional prohibitions. It assi'nas its reason for such un -constitutional and revolutionary steps that a Constitution must be made to prevent what they are pleased to call "negro domination" and to establish "white supremacy," which means, re Luced to its essense, the supremacy of ~efaction now in control. As the facts of history themselves iove, we deny that there has ever ena desire or attempton our part to Foinate the government. With the large body of us voting, most of whom are illiterate and poor, there is not as much danger of our control of govern ment as there is of the laboring classes in Massachusetts, New York or Penn sylvania, who with unlimited suffrage, contrasted with Tillmamte following, do not control. While we are entitled to participa tion in the government commensurate with our wealth ~and intelligence, -representation is only a secondary consideration compared with our right to retain our right of suffrage, which ~nnot be annulled by any constitu onal means. Under our theory of self-government in order that every man may possess the mens within his person to protect life, liberty and possessions, the gov erning power is dvedinto as many fractional parts as there are male adults, to each of whom is deeded an ~eual portion, designed to be used ina prsntative capacity and the ballot inae its instrument. As under our form of government 1officers and administrators of the awdesigned to be the creatures of the govern , and are therefore the ser vants of all, to whom they must look for return to all continuation in office, which means protection for all, the danger to the governed in such a form ofgovernment does not exist half so uch in poverty or illiteracy as the mulations of vast fortunes by the ew, the influence of which may be to swerve the servants of the peo lto administer the government or w in the interests of a few to the detrimnent-of the many. Besides, if there is to be a privileged class gov ernment, restricted to persons possess ing a certain amount of property or education, what reasons are t ere for not further restricting the governing class to a few college professors or millionaires: By making the otlicers of the law. who shall be the servants of all, the dependent creatures of a class only. You make them the willing or unwill ing tools of that class alone. and they will be bound to construe and admin' ister the law to please members there of only, in which system itis apparent that the class shorn of power is with out even as much Protection as slaves whose masters' ballots protect them. Such a form of government we had in a limited degree before the late war, when the free negroes, the unprivi leged class, had to have guardians by whom many were deprived of freedom and property. Any form of government (if we may dignify it by such a term) which forces a class of people to con tribute to its existence without a voice, whose contributions in the hands of the privileged class are used as en gines of oppression is worse than that among savages, where all men are at least equal. By nature' God and the Constitution of the United States we have been made free men and guar dians of our own rights, and our bal lots given as peaceful weapons of de fense, and no honest and loyal citizen is willing to deprive us of them. and we shall tight the flesh, the devil and all his imps through every court and power in the nation before we shall be robbed of our rights by anarchistic nullifiers. A privileged class government pro duces on the one hand a class of cringing suppliant cowards, glad even for the poor privilegeof life fora short time, and on the other a class of arro gant, cruel and heartless murderers. because conscious of wrongfully ob tained power, whose members fear nothing from their creatures, the offi cers of the law who construe and ad minister it as suits the will of their masters. Such a government we have in thi; State today, and the ruling faction is in favor of handing it down in all its wickedness as a curse to generations unborn, but we are un wiling to entail such a legacy to future generations. Most of our murders and all our lynchings are immediately traceable to such government, and under it our State will continue to sink from bad to worse, until it becomes such a hell that no one can live in it. Man, naturally given to error, is impelled to right action from only two causes; the hope of reward or fear of punishment; and the law ante-dat ing the Mosaic age, that he that taketh man's life must forfeit his own as a penalty, has been abrogated, and the rule in this State is that a white man taking the life of a colored man does not pay the penalty with his own which has spread to others, and is no longer confined to the oppressed class. U pon the slighest provocation mem bers of the privileged class, without fear of punishment, murder or play the part of prowling savages or canni bals and dignify it by calling it a lynching, as the conscience of the State has been so seared that it is regarded as a virtue rather than a crime to lynch a fellow-being. Murders and lynchings are noxious plants flourish ing only under a privileged class gov ernment, and will surely die when the sheriff and court are made to depend for future favors upon the suffrage of every man. We believe in universal suffrage, because we believe in the right of all, which, under our form of government, cannot be secured without making the political power of each man equal in the creation of the administrators of the law. The most illiterate and humblest citi zen, possessing nothing' but his life and muscles, has as much right to the means of protecting his .porperty, though invisible, as the millhonaire. When deprived of our ballot, our influence with the administartors of the law is gone and we are absolutely without protection. While all members of the privileged class do not take advantage of our helpless condition, many do. and it is cruel and hope-destroying to deprive us of the power to aid humane and liberal men in the election of such honest men as will, in the dispensa tion of justice, hold the scales equally balanced, whether the subject weighed is black or white. The rule adopted by the Democratic Executive Commit tee, debarring all colored men, regard less of past political atliliations, from participation in the approaching pri maries of said party, and allowing all white men, regardless of past political affiliation, to participate in the same. with the declared purpose of counting in in the general election the ones named in the primaries, is violative of every principle of justice and honesty, repugnant to the doctrines of civilized government, and a practical repudia tion of the Federal constitution. We view with alarm the action of Conservatives, whom we are inclined to regard as broad and liber-al men when they, to our exclusion and in re pudiation of our rights, accept an equal divison with the administration faction and submit that it is most un reasonable to expect our support when failing to secure such concessions. We submit that the only honorable thing for them to do, if they mean jus tice, is to make a fair fight from prin ciple in every county in the State for the rights of all. in which they would get the support of every honest man in the State, regardless of i-ace or poli tics. We further submit that we stand ready to join wit'h any number of the liberal white men of the State. and to aid them in making a Constitution broad enough to cover the rights ol every man, however rich or poor. and will'only vote exclusively for delegates of our own i-ace and party, when sucha members fail or refuse to co-operate. To the men of our race, we announce that no legal constitution can be made with our united opposition. We must organize to continue to raise the means to prosecute the tight now pending in the Federal courts for the preservation of constitutional liberty to a final ter. mination, and to make such a show. ing in the approaching election as will enable us to move Congress to action through petitions. Before' a final determination of th( litigation the proposed convention may be holden and all the wicked plans of our enemies incorporated int< a new Constitution, but if we shall prove to the satisfaction of the Federa] Supreme Court that in its making a1: the rights and franchises granted un by the supreme Constitution have been: ignored and trampled under feet of which we have no doubt, througi tration laws, the new Constitution will amount to nothing, and our ene meies will have their pains for their l'.bors. We congratulate all lovers of honest government in this State for posses sion of at least one judge, in the per son of Chief Justice MfcIver, whose judicial ermine remains unsullied, and grieve to feel that the time will soon come when our State will be deprived of the last of such triubunes. ORGANIZING FOR A FIGHT. After remaining in session i il nearly midnght, the conference finally ad journed. They gave to the press only the cut and dried, specially prepared matter desired, and withheld all infor mation as to the proceedings. There was a good deal of talk during the conference, but how the members stood on the adoption of the address is not known. The following resolution was ad opted: Resolved. That a State executive committee by the chairman of this conference, consisting of one member from each county to direct and man age the convention campaign for the State. each member of the State con mittee to be authorized to appoint one representative for each precinct to direet the campaign in his county. That we hold ourselves in readiness to join with the liberal white men in every county who ask or may ask our support, but if none appear, we recoin mend that a ticket be nominated by our people and be voted for by them at the election for delegates to the Con stituttional convention. Be it further. Resolved, That the above mention ed organization continue the wor: of organizing clubs and raising funds for the prosecution of the fight for honest elections now in progrsss in the Fed eral courts, and that this organization work in harmony with the Ministerial Union. Under the above resolution, the fol lowing were appointed: Abbeville, A. P. Crawford : Aiken. S. E. Smith; Anderson. T. J. Iarris: Barnwell,Thos. Clark; Beaufort. Sam uel Green: Berkeley, P. Gaillard: Chester, Moses Benson: Cherterfield, H. L. Shrewsbury; Colleton, C. P. Chisolm; Charleston, W. J. Grant: Darlington, Dr. L. P. Daniel; Fair field, Samuel Adams: Florence, S. W. Williams: Georgetown. R. B. Ander son; Greenville, L. F. Goldsmith: Hampton, R. E. Primus: Horry, T. .1. Gordon; Kershaw, A. W. Powell: Lexington, Jesse Hiller: Laurens, P. S. Suber: Lancaster, F. R. McCoy: Marlboro, J. L. Cain; Marion, W. II. Collier: Newbery, D. T. McDaniels; Orangeburg, C. W. Caldwell: Rich land, R. E. Hart: Sumter.R. 11. Rich ardson; Union, W. D. McMahan: Williamsburg, J. S. Tharp: York, T. F. Hunt: Spartanburg, H. Sims; Edgefield, J. A. Daniels; Clarendon. A. Collins. A 3Ierelless Mob. LorIsvILLE, July 12.-A special to The Post from Princeton, Ky., says: A mob of masked men went to the residence of Joseph Howton, at Lewis ton, eight miles from this city, during the nio-ht and murdered him and his scn dowlett Howton. Just as the clock struck 12 one of the mob knocked on the door and asked to see Howlett Howton. He came to the door and after talking a minute or two was seized and pulled outside and shot through the body. The mob then dragged him to the gate and shot him seven times. After they had linished him the gang went back to the house. The white haired father begged that they sare his life and the lives of his family, but his entreaties were unheed ed and they made him back up into a corner so they could shoot him with out danger to his wife and daughters. The leader deliberately counted ten five of the men fired at the old man. One ball struck him in the wrist, an other in the abdomen and a third in the groin. The men then left the house taking with them a boy who worked on Howton's farm. They car ried him to a vacant building and fas tended him up, telling him they would kill him if he attempted to es cape before daylight. One of the wo men was so badly frightened that she was utterly prostrated, and her death is looked for. There is no theor-y as to the cause of the mob's action. The Howtons were quiet, inoffensive peo ple and stood well in the community. The sheriff and a posse, with the coun ty attorney and the coroner, have gone to the scene of the double murder to make a thorough investigation and it is believed that the murderers will be appehended. If they are caught they will be lynched. Chanienge to a Contest. WVASHINGToN, July 12.-The follow ing letter has been sent from the ollice of the American Bimetalic League in this city: W'AS~HIN(TON, D. C., July 8, 1895. Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, Chairman Committee on Sound Currency. Reform Club, 52 William Street, New York. Dear Sir: The existence of the com mittee on sound currency of which you are chairman with existance at the same time of the American ]3ime talic League, which I have the honor to represent, evidences a wide diversi ty of opinion on the money question. Each organization is laboring to edu cate the people on ditferent theories of money, and each advocates a dilfer ent financial policy. They cannot both be right. The deep interest mIanifestedl on this subject throughout the United States and the importance of arr-iving at the truth that the people in the comning elections may act wisely has suggested that a candid discussion of the ques tion by representative men of the two organizations might conduct to a bet ter- undertsanding of the truth and be highly beneficial. With this view, the Bimetalic Lea gue respectfully invites the committee on sound cur-rency to a dicussion of the money question on distinctive prio positions to be argued upon and to be carried on by questions and answers. I would suggest that not more than five nor less than three on a side be selected to conduct the discussion to be held at some time and place to beC agreed upon. Should this suggaestion meet your approval. I would suggest an early meeting to agree upon the propositions to be discussed and the regulations un der which the discussion shall be con nected. Vey r respectfully yours, A. J. WAu:L. Prest American Bimetal ic L eague. A Fatal Fourth. Croaa~o, .July 5.-Five killed andi~ thirty-three injaired is the record of ac cidents for the -4th of July, 1895 here. The fire department was kept busy yesterday and las~t night. Eight were hit by bullets. THE OTHER SIDE. FURTHER STATEMENTS ABOUT THE DARGAN AFFAIR. The Account. Given by an Edgefield Pa per--What the Sheriff Says of the Action of the Committee of Citizens. (From the Fdgefield Advertiser.) On Tuesday last pursuant to notice, Col. J. J. Dargan of Sumter came to Edgefield to speak, to promulgate his latest ism. He spent the night in our towin. On Wednesday morning he made his appearance on our streets. About 10 a. in.. a number of our citizens. from the county and the town, assembled in the law office of J. Win. Thurniond, Esq.. and the matter discussed, decently and quietly, as to whether he should be allowed to discuss a subject that would be in the opinion of many people in Edgefield county precipitate a very bad state of affairs and perhaps bring about riot and possibly blood shed. After due deliberation it was agreed that a com mittee be selected to wait on Col. Dargan to know exactly and definite lv what he advocated and what lie would say if permitted to say any thing, so that there could be no doubt in the minds of any. In accordance with this programne, the following gentlemen were selected on the com mittee: Sheriff W. I. Outzs, Treasur er W. L. Stevens. D. R. Durisoe. Esq., i. P. Holloway, E. R. Stead itan and E. L. Ryan. These gentle men waited on Cil. Dargan and pre sented the following bill of indict inent and asked if it was a true bill: "1. for one, have gone to tne ne gro." Daranl in reply to Evans. "Tiiat I ani either ashamed, nor afraid, nor in any degree reluctant, but rather glory in going to the ne gro. --Dargan in reply to Evans. "I favor placing negro representa tiis, according to competency, on each county ticket. This will give minority representation to that race and thus enable us to make a consti tu'ion by all the people, for all the people. -)argan in the Freeman. * 'U-versal suffrage for women and men, rich and poor. black and white, now and always.'--Dargan in the Freenan. The committee asked if the above utterances and publications appearing in last week's Advertiser were his. He replied that they were. le was asked if he expected to be allowed to teach such doctrines in Edgefield. le said he had his doubts about it. The committee then told him that he would not be heard if he undertook to speak as indicated by the above ut terances. He asked if the right of free speech was to be denied him, the com mittee replied that he could speak but he would not be heard. He said he did not wish to be hurt. The commit tee assured him that he would not be hurt, no personal violence would be offered him but he would not be heard. In conclusion he said that if six men will ask me to speak I will make the attempt. With this the committee left, Col. Dargan was es corted to the depot and left town. SHERIFF OUTZS REPLIES. Having read the account given by Col. Dargan in the daily papers of the treatment he received in Edgefield and the comments of that paper there upon, I feel it my duty to make the following statement of facts, in jus tice to myself and the committee ap pointed by the citizens of the town and county to act with me in inter viewing Col. Dargan, notice having been given by the Edgefield Chronicle that he would deliver an address in Edgelield. e The people had heard and read of Col. Dargan's utterances elsewhere, such as: "I for one have gone to the negro,"-"That I am neither ashamed nor afraid, nor in any degree reluct ant, but rather glory in going to the negro. "-"I favor placing negro rep resentatives, according to competency, on each county ticket. This will give minority representation to that race and thus enable us to make a consti tution by all the people for all the peo ple."-" Universal suffrage for women and men, rich and poor, black and white, now and always." The com mittee submitted the above quoted re marks to Col. Dargan and desired to know of him through the committee if these uttei'ances embodied his views, and if it was on that line lie proposed to speak in Edgefield. The committee, in the discharge of the duty imposed immediately repair ed to the Chr-onicle ottice where we met Col. Dargan alone~- except the employes of the Chironicle oflice. 1 introduced myself chrd the com mittee to Col. D~arga u, who said lie was glad to see us. 2 told him wve had been appointed to call on him and asked him if he had come to mlake a speech, lie said he had. I inquired upon whose invitation lie had come. lie declined to say, I then called his attention to the above alleged utterances, and asked him if they- were his, and if lie intend ed to speak on that. line, lie answver ed, " Yes.' WVe then, as a conunittee, requested him niot to attempllt to speak, as we did not think he would be heard, inasmuch as~ the people of Edgefield were niot yet preparedl to hear himt or any cue else talk on that line, and that we thought it best for hinm and for the town ;hat he decline to .Nipeak. Hie said lie was sorry: that lhe once thioughit as our' people did,but if he were allowved to speak lie thought lhe could convince them of tile error of their warv. H e was told that nothing that lhe could say would, in oui' judgment, convince Edgelield people of error on that line: that lie had no following here, and that while we did not be lieve lie wvould be treated roughly or receive bodily harm if lie should at tempt to speak, we thought it best to advise him to save himself the mortili cation of being' hissed dIown, and per hiaps arousing the indignation of the peopl1e not to make the attempt. He repliedl that lie would consult with ** and would soon give us a reply. The interview was not at all an un pleasanit at~air-, and I ami'sure I am ex pressinig the truth when I say there was not in the mind and heart of any miembler of the committee any ill-feel ing towards Col. D~argan, and what we (lid wvas in his interest and 'n'ompted by the kindest feelings. Our' commnittee retired and reported to our body what had transpired. I, in making the report, assured them that our interview with Col. Dargan thioroughly _convinced me and the other comimitteemien that no sp~eech would be aittemnpted, and that it would not be necessary to take further steps to thwvart the Colonel, as we were pretty sure lie would leave on the f irst dispersed, I going to my office and at tending to my duties not thinking further of Dargan. After some lapse of time. a good citizen of our county, not a resident of our town but livinz very near, came over and reported that there was a crowd near Penn's drum store cursing and abusing Dargan anI he thought it wrong to take that ad vantage of any man under such cir cumstances. I fully agreed with him, and our worthy intendant. Mr. Ken nerly. said to me immediately upon hearing the statement, "Sheriff, let's go and stop such conduct." I said, "yes, of course." We looked in the direction indicated and saw that the crop;d hid dispersed and Dargan gone on. Col.Dargan perhaps drew to someex tent on his imagination as to the num ber that composed the so called mob. Possibly the Colonel was thinking of the prophecy in Acts when old men would dream dreams and young men would see visions. le must have had a vision as there were not more than lifty white men in town from the country during the day. The News and Courier in its editor ial said: "The sheriff was in exceed ingly bad company: for lie is the highest law peace officer of the county and it need hardly be said bears the largest measure of responsibility for the lawlessness in which he took so prominent a part." That was the very object I had in view-to preserve the peace of the town and protect the per son of Col. Dargan from probable harm. Had Col. Dargan taken the ad vice of the committee, there would not have occurred any unpleasantness. There are not in this, or any other county, live more reputable, law-abiding citiz ens that are those five men that were on that committee with myself, and if they had not been actuated by the best of motives-the desire to prererve the peace and harmony of the county and State and prevent violence to any person--I would not have acted with them. No ran deprecates more than I do the treatment Col. Dargan received en route to the depot, I feel sure it is regretted by the entire committee and a large majority of the people of the county. It was a paral lel case you intimated, with the downfall of Chamberlain and his crew in 1S76. The same iden tical issues were agitated with this difference as I see it-they then had us by the throats with their feet on our necks and it took a tremendous effort to extricate ourselves when placed at such a ..sadvantage. But you say it was permissible then and endorsed by a large majority of the people and the press of the State, among them the News and Courier. This movement is being brought, it seems to me, for the same purpose with'this exception, that this move mentis being agitated by disappointed office seekers who know they have no chance in this government which they are seeking to overthrow through the suffrage of the negro. In 1876; these iWfft tere called "scal lawags" and "independents." They are now called "true blue Democracy of the State." God deliver us from such Democracy: I for one am not willing to quietly submit to have the shackles placed upon me, and I don't think a major ity of the people are any more willing than I. I am for white supremacy, first, last and all the time, anything to the contrary, notwithstanding. WV II. OuzTs. Condition of the Crops.. WASHINGTON. July 10.-July re turns for cotton make average condi' tion 82.3 against SI. in June, an im provement of 1.3 points. The condi' tion July 1, 1894, was 89.63 and the same date in 1S93, 82.7 per cent. The average of the States are as follows: Virgina, 100: North Carolina, 74: South Carolina, 84: Georgia, 88: Florida, 9:3: Alabama, S3; Mississippi, 86; Louisina, 77: Texas, 763: Arkansas, 93; Tennessee, 92. The July returns of the statistic of the Department of Agriculture by the correspondents thereof, make the fol lowing average condition: Corn, 99.3; winter wheat, 65.8: spring wheat, 102.2 oats, 83.2; winter rye, 82.2; spring rye, 77; all rye, 80.7; barley. 91.9: rice, 84.4; potatoes, 91.5: tobacco. 85.9. Acreage of potatoes compared with 1894, 107.9, and of tobacco S4.8 per cent. The report on acreage of corn. which is preliminary, shows 197 as compared with the area planted in 1894, which was a little over 76,000, 000 acres, being an increase of 630,0001 acres and aggregating in round num bers 82,(00,000 acres. The averages for the principal corn States are: Ohio. 1014: Michigan, 1061; Indiana. 104. Illinois, 1105: Wisconsin, 105,: Minnesota, 312: Iowa. 101:: Mis souri, 1017: Kansas. 117. Nebraska. 1017: Texas, 112: Tennessee, 1107: Kentucky. 102. The average condition of corni is 99.3, against :15 ini .I uly laist year' and 93.2 in 189:1. Tile averages of cond(itions~ ini the principal States are as follws OW >hI1io. 91; Michigan. 901: illinois, l.: Joa 105S: .Missouri. 109~I: Koas.~i' 104: Neb raska. 9l5: Texas, 118: kentucky, : Tennessee. 98. The cor ditin of win ter wvheat is (5.8S. against. 71. 1 in .Junec and 83.2 last Julyi. The p)er'cL:.:ges of the prlincipal Statcs are: New York, 78:1 Pennsy l vaniia, SS: Kenmucky. 85: Ohio, 601: Michigan, 139: Indiana. 52: Illinois, 511: Missouri, f:s: Kansas. 42: California, 82:; )iregon, 95; Wash ington,. 9:1. The condition of spr'ing wheat is 102.2 against 7:1.8 in J i u atnd t8. 1 in Crunshed in thet Cars. Q~UEBEEC, d1uly 1:.-A terrible ac' cident occu red at :; o'clock at Craig's Road station on the grand Trunk r-ail way, about 14 miles west of Levis. A very large pilgrimage from Sherbroke Windsor Mills and Richmond had left the latter town about I(1 o'clock p. m1. for the shrine of St. Anne de Beauprc There were two sections of tile tr'ainl one runing a few minutes b)ehind the other. The first section was taking water. when second standing at tile Craig's Road station,. section, passing the semaphore. dashed into the rear Pullman coach of tile first section. smlashling it to kindling wood and killing, it is sraid, everybody in that car- except tihe Puill man'condultctor, who jumped. Ex; gi neer McLeod and Fireman Perkins. of the second section. were both killed outright. Tile Pullman coach was telescoped into the lirst section, kill ing a number of passenge'es ridinlg in them. Among tile killed are thr'ee priests. The number killed is now placed at 25. and the nlumber injured 34d DELUGE OF DESTRUCTION. DESCENDS ON THE EASTERN WATER SHED OF THE ROCKIES. From Nebraska to Texas Seas of Rain De scend-Forty Three Lives Lost and Mil lions of Dollars in Property Destroyed. ST. Louis, July 7.-Thursday morn ing last, telegraphic reports began to arrive in this city of rains at Western points. These reports grew in num bers Friday and covered a large terri tory, indicating that the entire eastern water sheds of the Rocky Mountains of the Nebraska and Iowa lines to Texas was swept by a storm. Friday night the severest blow came. Reports of loss of life and destruction of property came with every telegram and the downpour, which was at first regarded as a blessing. grew into a wave of de vastation. Fields of grain that prom isued the most bountiful yield in many years are today swept bare of vegeta tion. In several instances the seas of rains were absetted in their work of de struction by tornadoes. It is too early yet to sum up the loss, but the total must be appalling, and those to whom the angry elements spared life have little left to sustain it. The stories of storm are so similar that a statistical summary is all there is left to tell. The storm's focus embraced an area of 200 square miles. with the south western corner of Missouri as the cen tre. The greatest loss of life is re ported from Winona. Mo., where eleven corpses have been found with as many more missing. At Baxter Springs, in southern Kansas, five were killed and eleven seriously injured by a cyclone that accompanied the storm. One was drowned at Columbus and two at Ottawa, Kansas. At Vanburen, Arkansas, a woman and her child were drowned. A family- of five were camped on the bauks of Fish Creek, in the Indian Territory. Yesterday nothing of them or their belongings was found, except a part of their wagon on a pile of drift-wood. At Thomasville, Mo., where the rainfall was four inches in one hour, five lives were lost. Unconfirmed reports are received of loss of life as follows: Three at Fayetteville, Ark.: one at Paoli. Kans.; one at Richards, Kans.: and six of a hunting party in the Indian Territory. This gives a known and probable loss of forty-three lives. This total will be increased when the receding cater permits a thorough search. The loss in property can be placed in the millions. Dwellings, fences and farm buildings were carried off and wagon and ralroad bridges swept away. Thirty of the eighty buildings in Winona succumbed. 'ive residences, a church and a warehouse went down at Baxter Springs. Six bridges went out in Russell county, Kansas. About Jefferson City, Mo., many square miles of growing grain were covered with debris. Traffic on the Fort Scott and Memphis railway is temporarily. suspended. Reports of damage to property other than above noted come from five points in Kansas, nine in Missouri, six in Arkansas and two in the Indian Territory. The storm spent itself in Illinois, but hav ing lost its force, proved a blessing to crops. The above summaries give only a fraction of loss in property. The ,greatest burden falls upon the farmers as the season is too far spent to plant new crops and suffering must surely follow in the storm's wake. Details of individuals suffering and expe-i ences recall the horrors of the Johns :own disaster. DEATH ON THE LAKES. CricAGo, July 7.-There was a terri ble storm in and around Chicago late this afternoon. It is reported that a number of small boats were capsized on Lake Michigan and their occupants drowned. Three bodies have been washed ashore on the lake near the Auditorium. At the outbreak of the storm the eyes of anxious thousands were turned lakeward for sail boats and other small crafts which might be outside the breakwaters. Off twenty-second street several persons, including polite officers and Illinois Central railroad employes, noticed a sail boat contain ing three men, whose fate was to be the victims of the hurricane. An ef fort had been made to turn the boat to wards the shore, but the men were poor sailors and the waves tossed the boat like a toy for a minute and then it was seen to capsize, carrying all oc cupants to their death. Nothing more was seen of either boat or the men and the shore is being watched for the re covery of their bodies. People on the lake shore oilf the north piers perceived a row boat with one man in it as far out as the two mile crib. He was pulling for shore and made a vain effort to keep his frail crat t from the trough of the white capped waves. After a fe w mhinutes of struggling the boat capsized and the occupant was unable to grasp it. He was lost to view and his body has not been recovered. The damage to property thtroughiout the city was grea.t. anld especially in the~ buisiness por1tion. Thousands of dollars worth of plate glass windows were broken and many buildings were flooded by the breaking of pipes, rof~s and other parts of the buildings A (C( Lo NE IN GiEoRItiA. \iN-ra July 7.-Two persons were killed by a cyclone in Putnm coluty, Ga.,'late this afternoon and probably twenty were seriously in jured. The list of fatalities may run up to teln. A special to the Constitu tion from Eatonton says that a con ductor on the Middle~ Georgia and Atlantic Railroad rep~orts that at Will ard Station everythuing in the storm's p)ath was blown down. The conduc tor's train had a race with the cyclone, which barely missed it. Henry Adams. white, and Bob Hardy, colored, were killed. Henry Penick and his young wife were caught in the debris of their house. Penick was injured internally and is probably fatally injuried. Jim Collier, colored, escaped himself but two of his children were pinned under the wreck of their house. The chil dren were mangled and can hardly survive. The M1artin plantation was devastated. AN ALA1i11NG RtEPOT 'WArgsrAt, W\Xis., July 7-The report reached here in a roundabout way late tonight that a score of people had been drowned during the progress of a terrific storm at Lake Geneva late this afternoon. All efforts to reach the little city by telegraph and tele p~hione are unavailing, as all wires are down. The wires were in wording order until G o'clock this afternoonm. when all communication was inter rupted. Lake Geneva is a well-known summer resort, and is frequented an Eastern people. WORST IN HISTORY OF PEORIA. PERIA, Ill., July 7.-One of the worst storms in the history of Peoria swept ovcr the city this afternoon, followed by a light rain. Great dam age was done to buildings, several be ing twisted and moved from their foundations. The roofs of several business blocks were blown to the street and the running of street cars was seriously interfered with. Awn ings were torn down and windows smashed in. It was also the hottest day of the year the thermometer reg registering 9S in the shade. West of here on the T., P. & W.railway, the damage was great. I>A3IAGE DONE IN KANSAS. PEABODY. Kan., July 7.-A terrible rain and wind storm visited the town and its vicinity this afternoon and much damage to barns wind-mills and crops by the wind is reported. The streams are higher than they have been for ten years. The Doyal river rose eight feet in three hours and many bridges are in danger of being washed away. A BIG MEETING Or the Christian Endeavor Societies at Boston. BOsTON, July 12-The Christian :n deavorers at 6:31) gathered by the thou sands in twenty-one churches of Bos ton, Cambridge and Somerville. where payer meetings were held. All the meetings were upon the same topic: "Fith, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength." Nearly all the leaders were visiting clergymen and delegates. The meetings were conduc ted upon lines similar to those of the regular Endeavor devotional societies. MIechanies Hall was filled at 9:30 when trustee Rev. M. Rhodes, 1). D., of St. Louis, Mo., called the meeting to order. Rev. Wzyland Hoyt, D. D., of Min neapolis, with a brief address, present ed the State banner for greatest pro portionate increases in local societies to the British territory of Assiniboia, in which fifty-three new societies were organized last year. At Tent Endeavor, Prof. Howard B. Goss of the University of Chicago, was the presiding officer. The meeting was full of enthusiasm over the Chris tian Endeavor movement and the gen eral testimony was that the Christian Endeavor Society is a natural and ef fective ally of the Christian church of whatever deromination. In Tent Williston, President Fran cis E. Clark presided. Mr. Percy R. Foster of Washington. D. C., led the praise service. Rev. Mr. Mitchell of Wilberforce University, Iowa, offered prayer. The joint rally of the African M. E. Church and the African M. E. Zion Church was reported by Rev. R. Hay wood Stitt, a witty and able colored man, who said he represented the 2,000,000 black children of Father Clark. They had been following white men for many years. They had fol lowed them to America. White men. came to America as interlopers. Colo red people came because they were in vited and urged to come. They had followed white men into the Congress of the nation. They had followed them to the jails and the penitentiaries. They did not want to follow any longer. They would say to the Chris tai Endeavor "We are not following you, we are with you." An important meeting for thre forma tion of a Worlds Christian Endeavor Union was held in Mechanics Hall at 4 p. in.. with nearly 3,000 present. Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., presi dent of the Union Society of Christian Endeavor presided and stated that this was no new thing as it had been con sidered more than a year. It was unanimously voted to form a Words Christian Endeavor Union and a com mittee of five was appointed with Rev. Close chairman, with power to formu late a constitution on the lines of the one read to the meeting. Rev. Mr. Close then proposed that the meetino elect Re-r. Dr. Clark as p resident ana this was done unanimously. Dr. Clark accepted the office for one year and suggested that the first gen eral meeting be held in Washington next year with the United Society con vention and this suggestion was ad opted. J. Willis Bauer was elected sec retary tentatively and Mr. Willam Shaw, of Boston, treasurer. The accommodation committee at 5 o'clock this afternoon had registered 40,362 delegates from all States and Territories. A Mob Di-persed. GREENVULLE. July 1.-Since the killing of young Langford at Pied mont. this county. by the negro. Ira Johnson, there have been rumors of lynching the murderer, who is lodged in the Greenville jail. Every night large bodies of negroes ha ve collected about the jail, well armed, claiming that they- intended to protect the pris oner. Protestations anid arguments having failed to disperse the miob. last night. about mnidniight, the whole po lice force, under commiiand of Mayor Williams and Chief of Poice ken ue dy, charged the crowd. disarmed three, arrested three and scattered the balance. The three negroes appeared at thre mayor's court this morning, and one was lined 8a00 and the other- two $5U each. It is thought that this will break up the mob. Epidemic of Craizy Crimej. P'ITTsBL-Ia, Pa., July 10.-A terri ble trarredy occurred in Allegheny to night fromi which two persons are dead and a thir'd will die. Mrs. Lena Roesener, the wife of a tanner resid ing on Spring Ilill, Allegheny, has been in poor health for the past ten years. Today, while her husband was at work, she hung her three-year-old datughter to the head of a bedpost. She then tied a cloth around the throat of her seven-months-old baby, from the effects of which it will die. After committing these crimes she hung herself by placing a rope around the hinge of a cubboard and then arournd her neck and allowing herself to fall to the floor. Fortunately, t wo other children were away visig relatives. or they might hav-e suffered a similar fate. "The cause is attributed to ill health. A Fearful Expldosion. P.M. .1ulv I1. -The Star and IHerald says: Further news of the ex plosion of a b)oiler in the electric light plant at Carthiagena on .Julyv 2. result mng in thre destruction of the building and the wrecking of part of Sandiego prison, was received here today. The pecuniary damage is placed at 824,000) and the casualties were twenty killedI and injured, most of the number be - ingaong the killed.1 A FEARFUL ACCI)ENT. TRAGIC CLOSING OF THE ANNUAL REUNION OF THE ELKS. Floor of the Casino Collapses During a So cial Meeting of the Elks--Many People Injured--Some will Die. ATL ANTIC CITY, N. J., July 10.-A frightful accident terminated the Elk festivities at the Inlet Casino to-night, in which a large number of persons sustained terrible injuries, from which some will die. It was at 9:30 o'clock, when the grand exalted ruler of the Buffalo body, Meade D. Detwiler, of Harrisburg, had finished his address at the opening of the social session of the Elks and was about to introduce James J. Armstrong, of New York, when a cracking sound was heard. A moment later the floor upon which were almost a thousand people slowly opened. and the mass of humanity was precipitated to the first floor, a dis tance of twenty-five feet. Men, wo men and children were plunged into the hole and upon one another. The cries, shrieks and groans were deafen ing and the direst confusion reigned. An alarm was immediately sent out and all the physicians in town re sponded. By 9 o'clock more than 1,200 people had gathered on the second floor of the pavilion, anticipating a pleasant evening's enjoyment. The bands at tached to the visiting lodo-eshad given a fine concert and Capt. Bamuel Per ry, of the Atlantic City Lodge had just begun the preliminaries of start ing the social session. The night was a lovely one and as the strains of the music floated out - over the ocean it seemed that a more joyous crowd could not have been gathered together any where. But tnere were several hundred of the peo ple who had noticed the vibration of the floor and left the pavilion, fearing that the great weight would lead to its destruction and the consequent injury of the merrymakers. Among tnese cautious people were a number of members of the Camden Lodge, prom inent among whom were Ex-Assem blyman Wm. Thompson and County Clerk Robt. J. Barber, of Camden. Fearing to create a panic they quietly approached some members of visiting lodges and discussed with the advisa bility of bringing the affair to a close. so as to relieve the floor of a portion of the weight. While they were yet talking the crash came. A portion of the floor, some thirty feet square, about the mid dle of the pavilion, and near the rail ing on the board walk alongside, came tumbling down, bringing along prob ably one hundred people. In a second the electric lights on the second floor were extinguished, but luckily those on the lower floor kept burning long enough to permit some of the panic stricken people to get to the stairway, which remained intact, and reach the broad walk. Men, wo men and children were jammed to gether tryino to escape by the stair way, while the victims of the crash were screaming for aid to extricate them from the falling beams and tim bers. When the first feeling of panic had subsided the surviving Elks gallantly rushed to the rescue of their injured brothers and friends, indifferent to the danger that confronted them, as they did not know what instant the remain der of the pavilion might bury them beneath its ruins. While the work of rescue was going on the light on the floor became extinguished and they were placed in darkness. Men ran to the car barn of the trolley road near by and obtained a number of head lights from the cars. These were most useful in assisting the work of the res cuers. In the meantime the people who were seated in the vicinity of the break found themselves in imminent dan ger of falling through the hole. In deed, some were obhiged to clutch the edge of the floor to'keep themselves from going through. Maurice A. Rogers, ex-president of the Senate of New Jersey and a member of the Cam den Lodge, was seated by the side of his wife in the section that fell. Mrs. Rogers was precipitated to the ground sustaining only a nervous shock. Sen ator Rogers had both hands caught be t ween two beams and hung suspended in the air until released by someone unknown. An alarm of fire was turned in, but when tile firemen arrived all the vic tims had been released from the wreck. Before the arrival of the ambulances a number of omnibuses were pressed into service to carry away the wound ed to their hotels 0or to the City Hlospi tal. Ft-RTHER P'ARTICULARS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 11.-A visit to the scene of the Atlantic Ave nue Casino accident this morning showed that one of the big pillars holding tile floor had given way and tile weight on the floor gradually pressed the othler pillar sutliciently to weaken it and the floor opened like a trap in the centre. The floor, howev er-.'sipped down gradually, and th~e disaster was thus not so serious as it would have been had it crashed through suddenly. The injured are all people who wer-e the first to reach tile lower floor. 3Iayor Stove this morning condemn ed the buildi'ng and directed the build inig inispector to have it torn down anid also to make an investigation ' the unfortunate affair. At the Elks' Grand Lodge session this morning an air of gloom pervad ed the room. A committee was ap pointed to looked into the condition of the injured with power to render whatever assistance they deemed ne cessary. Those seriously hurt are im provinig excepting Frederick Kiap roth, thle Camden musician who was so fear-fullycr-ushed beneath the beams. He is still alive, but is ill a critical conditionl. The only other person who was reo)rted as being critically hurt, MIrs. Rtockwell, of Philadelphia, was imlproved this morning, and will recover-. It appear's that many people who were reported as seriously hurt were only slightly buised. A Careless Motorman. C~isvEtas1>, 0.. July 11.-T wo lit ie girls were ground to pieces under a motor on Lor'aine street this after noon. They were Stella Schlaubeck r, aged 8 years. and her cousin, Elea nor (Grop, aged 7. They were cross ing the street and stopped on the car track to pick up something. The mo torman was not looking ahead at tile track, and without thle slightest warn ing. the car struck the little ones. Their bodies were so terribly mutilat ed that they were hardly r-ecogniza ble. Grant Kerns, the motorman, was alrested, charged with criminal care iesnae~