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4 + MANNING, S. C., WED-NESA.JN 0.93 N.4 VO L. X VII.. __ __ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ ___,' A YAWNIN( CHAS-. tj Into Which an Excursion Trin s Loaded With Negro Phnge l. k OCCURRED NEAR WEDGEFIELD.a Five People Killed and Manty Oth 1; ers Wounded. Efrorts to Warn the Figineer (' Danger Failed. An excursion train from Nichols to Columbia on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was wrecked between Wedge-! ;ti field and Cane Savannah. about eight:i miles from Sumter. Wednesday morn ing. The train was taking a large t1 crowd of colored people to Columbia. F When eight miles from Sumter, going a at full speed, it plunged into a deep D washout. The engine, the baggazge car and three coaches were thrown in d a heap. and the crew and passengers ' crushed in the wreck. 01 The water which had been lying t< placidly beside the embankment had c become a torrent unlashed, and the I pent up force tore a gaping hole in fr the path of the train. Into this 'is- u sure the train plunged-and the At- c: lantic Coast Line service has lost one a of its best passenger conductors: four w excursionists are reported dead, and o others are suffering from severe :I- b( juries. There were 32 of the pas- l senger list of less than a hundred, who n sufered injuries of more or less im- se portance. si The illfated train was an excursion dI from Nichols, Marion county. and a was running just ahead of the reg'ular cc morning train from Sumter to Colum- h bia. The excursionists were negro preachers and their friends going to the commencement of one of the col ored colleges in Columbia. DEAD AND WOUNDED. J. J. Clements of Florence. conduc- 5 tor, kiled instantly by blow on head. in Frank Ross and Minnie Ross, his r wife, colored. Joe Davis, colored, Marion. i 'Ned Weston, colored, Marion. Died on relief train while being taken to in Sumter. In addition thirty-tive passengers were hurt. The engineer, George W. son, was also badly hurt. All the d killed and wounded were colored ex cept Conductor Clements arnd Eugi- e neer Wilson. c The worst cloudburst which has t been known in that section of Sumter county in a quarter of century swept L over Wedgetield community Tuesday night and for hours the water fell in sheets. The very clouds seemed to k have been drawn from under a sus pended lake. But the section fore- a men and track inspectors of the Coast b Line went over the line and could find cc nothing which forebode the terrible I disaster which blotted a train out c existence. The morning passenger train had passed over the same stretch of track on its way from Columbia to Sumter, and a freight train had also I passed along this very place and had " noted no weakening in the embank- li ment TRIED TO sTOP THE TRAIN. a The ominous booming of the break- r ing of the bank was heard by a negro ti farm hand, Alexander Robinson, who a lives near by, and terror stricken he p rushed from his cabin to warn the ap- t~ proaching train-for he knew that n the morning passenger to Columbia e: was due in less than half an hour. I Desperate with anxiety to convey the ti startling news, he ran down the track b toward Cane Savannah, a station two il miles east of the place where the wa- p ters made the breach, and six miles a out of Sumter. Had he not reached f< the station his signal of warning and s1 of distress might have been heeded, a or had the regular passenger train s been running ahead of the excuirsion it t would have stopped. But if Engineer a George Wilson saw the improvised p flag which Alexander Robinson flaunt ed in the face of the invisible influ ence which was ]uring the locomotive to its doom, no notice was taken, for ~excursion trains are not expected to stop at such stations as Cane Savan nah unless they have had orders, and the regular passenger train was run- a nling but ten minutes behind. Fran- h tically the negro waved in the face of the engine a long strip of ied paper which he had taken from his hat and:t eagerly he pointed down the tracK to the hole of horror beyond. But his well meant efforts were misunuder-d stood and the train dashed by att the6 i-ate of .35 to 40 miles an hour. There was nothing for this humble messen ger to do but to wait for the inevit able, and his heart sank with fear as he saw the train dashing on to its do struction. DEATH sTARED BllI IN THE FACE. - The train was within 50 feet of the.' I abyss when the engineer saw fate ~ beckoniog to him out of the terrible L chasmn. With great presence of mind t he applied the emergency brakes and 0 threw the reverse lever back to its L furthest notch. Had he not done so the weight and impetus of the engine would have carried it across, the coaches would have been piled in even a greater confusion than they were and ' the loss of life would have been far r greater. But with its feet tied by the r brakes, the locomotive settled serene- i lv into the chasm. its nose buried far;i into the sand of the side toward which t it had been approaching. The great'i driving wheels sank to their top rims i in the bed of sand the tires were- im- I mediately extinguished. The escap-< ing steam crooned a sad requiem I through the whistle, which had been the chronicler of the life and activity1 of the engine now useless but not a ruin, for it can be rehabilitated. And what of the men who rode in the caby The bottom of the crevasse wa the width of the engine, without the tender. and the latter was stand ing almost perpendicularly, its front: end having entirely demolished the I cab and its rear end being held upright by a tangled confusion of trucks and running gear, upor. which three coaches had been miounted. From this vortex of death-dealing iron it wuld eewm that the engine men woujld ive been killeri instantly, ut. the i te wliich lured thern also saved. f:or ith the iupaet of the application of ie Lmergency brake, the fireman was lot lit Of the cae window as out of catapult. The entineer jumped to ep from being caught in his cab, rl ran upon the tender. When the igine settled and the tender careened pon its end. Engineer Wilson was ( so ,hirown to the front and to the de landed in a bed of sand. but so ,ar to the engi:e that he was scald I frightfully. He received several trial abrasionis and was hurt inter f!!y. The fireman escaped with ght bruises and ran all the way oim tlhe scence of disaster to Wedge Ad to gt help for those who were Iju11red. THE1S CONDUCTR's1t DEATH. The train consisted of a refrcsh- B ent car and tive coaches. It was in C ic former that Conductor Clenents et death. He had been sitting in ic middle passenger coaen tal:king to ie only white passenger aboard, 'Mr. W. K. Kellam .of North Carolina, fa traveling salesrnan. While they in ere talking two negro preachers. in euby from Marion and Moseley .trom U: ichels. caie up and asked the con- ta actor to assist thlem in some matter. w hey had just h-ad time to walk _N .rough the two coaches in front and of i get to the refreshment. car when w LmQ the awful crash. As soon as ti r. Kellam could extricate hims-)f ci om the t:angle of passengers thrown w pon him. lie made his way out of the I L, which was only partially derailed, Cc d went in search of the conductor, rm hon he found lying at the bottom as the ravine of the floor of what had ul en the refrtshment car, now roof- qi ss and shapeless and with its run- of ng gear 50 feet away. Mr. Kellam, a eing a terrible gash across the left nf de of the face of the insensible con- n( ictor, felt of Mr. Clements' pulse pi d immediately realized that the ac iminodating and popular c'>nductor o; id taken his last train order. fa ti WORK OF RESCUE. Kllam, making his way back to iose coaches which had not been de- it olished secured the axes and saws sc id got the uninjured to work remov- M g and caring for the suffering. The gman had gone back to warn the gular passenger train which was ap -oaching hard upon the heels of the Lstarred excursion. The porter was bi irt and helpless, his collar bone hay- d; g been broken. and there was no one tl the train crew left to look after ose who were burt. ti The most miraculous part of such K eadful tragedies as this is the fact at when it seems that no one could A cape alive there are really so few w .sualties. In this particular wreck st ere were many people who received e juries, serious and slight, but there i ere but tive fatalities. The cars in ir hich the injured and the dead had en riding were literally torn into b ndling wood, the destruction being e complete that even upon close ex nination it would be almost impossi e to tell whether two or three acbes had their parts so mixed in e mad confusion. May Be Warnings. a The Anderson Mfail says the most t llous and indifferent of men must be se apressed by the great destruction of is te and property by wind and light- g: ing and high waters, and involun- rc rily the question will come. Why SC e these things permitted? We may la tk our brains for an answer, and a ere can be but one answer: They ir e sent by the Almighty for his own e: irpose. It may be that they are sent tC >warn us as individuals and as ae ation that God reigns and his pres ice and his wrath are always at band. Smay seem to human minds to be a irrible and costly method of warning, ~ 2t mest of us will all too soon forget o iwithin a snort time after it has a assed. We are all hushed and silent hle the warning is upon us. How t) w there are who. in the time of ' orm and disaster, can look up to God id say: "I am not afraid." How n veet and restful it will be when the d e storms have passed and we can ain see the sunshine and the bow of I romise.a Like a Bird. b A dispatch from Giainesville, Ga., t< ys F'orman W. E. Bannister of the si ainesville Cotton Mills who was tught in the cyclone and was last d ~en about three hundred yards ini the c ir more than a mile from the mill a as been found. Bannister was on the fth floor of the Gainesville Mill when c a cyclone struck the mill through i. ae roof. ie was seen and recognized g y many as lhe was carried through a he air at a great height. lHe passed a irectly over the Southern Railway a epot and many identified the body. g, [e appeared to be a hundred yards be- e id the funnel shaped cloud, riding 1 the suction of the wind fiend. g -bout a mile from the mills lie was t aen by many of the emploves of the h acolet mill. They all say they in- 51 tantly recognized him. lie was then t 1 au attitude much as though swim- c ling, his arms and legs extended and e is face was downward. He was raveling at a high rate of speed much s a bird flies. Mrs. Bannister is re orted in an almost insane condition. p C May be Discontiunued. A dispatch from Washington says t determination was reached to in- e estigate all the rural free delivery d urs and ascertain whether a mate- V ial reduction in the total number h stablishied cannot be made. A rough t stimate has been prepared showing hat in the South there are one third. 1: n the north one fifth. and in the s torthwest one fourthi more routes than t .rc required by necessity. It is t lalmed that under the pressuret ~rought to bear by senators and rep esentatives. Machen established a r arge numbers of routes not justitied I >y the population or business. in ac- I eding to the requests of Congressmen, 5 VIachen sought to build a great politi - :al machine that would assist him C when the day of adversity came. here are now more than s.O00 rurali -outes. It will require much time a Lnd trouble to investigate them.;t lreat caution will be necessary before e handoning even one of them. as the >eople will complain and congressmen i vil violently object. We hope thatjt lone of the routes in this cunty willi' rIRE GREAT FLOOUS. be Situation in the Overflowed See tions Improving. 'REAT MENTAL SUFJFERING. any Rescues Efrected, bnt. Forty Eight are Known to he Dead at. Topeka. Great Loss ot' Property. A dispatch from Kansas City say ue sky was visible above Kansa ty Tuesday afternoon. The rain ve disappeared and the sun wa sible for the first time this week. The waters of the Kaw river hay lien eight inches are steadily declin g at the rate of about one-half at ch an hour. In the Mis:souri tht gh stage of 35 feet is still main ined. but this is due zo the ris< hich has been coming down th< issouri proper and has been able ti Rset the fail in the Kaw. It is thi iter of the latter stream. however at has caused all the damage in thi! ty and in Kansas City, Kas., an( ith it at a normal stage, business it ansas City soon will resume usua nditions. This city, by a narrov argin has escaped a serious short ,e in food, has faced the peril of fire terly helpless to avert its conse ences, has suffered nillions of dollar. damage to property and sustaine loss in life that in all probabilit3 ,ver will be accurately measured, anc )w it is commencing to believ( -omises of better things. The situation shows improvemen1 i almost every side; the waters ar lling: the gas has been turned int< 1c mains once more and there is n< mediate danger of a serious short e of food. The city has cared fo s own and is abundantly able to d< still, but there is not sufficient foot i hand to permit the relief committei id the municipal officers to feel easl ,er the outlook. The transportatiot .cilities at the present time are s( ited that not much freight can bi -ought in at a time and there i! inger that the demand may outrur ie supply. Two men lost their lives Tuesday it ie attempt to save others. Jus1 eenan was drowned while endeavor g to rescue some people from th( dams house in Union avenue and Ed ard Brooks lost his life in Libert3 reet, where his skiff was overturn by an eddy while he was endeavor g to get another man out of a build g. A number of bodies were seer ating down the stream, but ar flieved to be those of people drown I farther up the Kaw, probably al orth Topeka. Fully fifty people were brought t< e Twelfth street viaduct during th< Ly .by boatmen. None of them hat en in great danger. Many peopli e still in the warehouses and otlict ildings anid will remain there unti te riood subsides. They are entirel: ,fe and fairly comfortable. Thert very little probability of much eater financial damage than has a] ady been done. There have beer me reports of settling of varioul rge buildings in the wholesale dis ict but they appear to have settlec a remarkably even manner an< ~pert examination will be requirec prove that they are in a dangerou! mdition. MIENTAL ANGUISH. Without water, save for urgen eds, without beds, the upper par the town being unable to house ii iy comfort the horde of refugee: uesday night bids fair to be a repeti on of others since the coming of thi Jod. The wretchedness, however, is more ental than physicial, through thi scomforts due to herding largi dies of people in buildings not buil r the purpose and trying to feed a: my without a commissary depart ent. Leavenworth, to the north le only way by which the suburb zat entered with supplies, is the placi >which all turn- with hope. R~ation; llicient to last several days if care illy economized, were brought ir ring the day and additional bedding othing, medicine and other supplie re expected within the next 24 hours Much mental discomfort exists be use of the separation of members o tmilies who had little time to escap om the flood. Since Sunday fathers others, wives, husbands, brother id sisters have visited every part o wn, particularly the places of re ige, looking for missing members o ieir families. Something like order was brough Lt of the confusion Tuesday in th a distribution of such food as was a and. With the supply running shor became apparent that the distribu on must be made systematic and| ntral station for that purpose wa pened. DIsTRIBUTING FOOD. From there the food is sent in prc er proportions to the various schools durches and other camps of refugees Stemporary hospital with medical at andants has been established. Farn rs sold garden truck in the street uring the day and 900 sides of bee rere carried friom Swifts packing ouse. This is the entire number eeves saved at that plant. MIerchants of Kansas City, Kas. ae brought up large quantities c Lpplies which will be shipped int te suburbs as fast as possible ove he only line of road open-the ele< rc road from Leavenworth, Kas treet cars in the suburbs began t un after a fashion Tuesday wit ower furnished by the dynamos a aeavenworth. The lack of gasi verely felt and oil is scarce. Flags of distress from partly inur ated buildings in Armourdale coul e seen from Kansas City, Kas., dui rg the day and many rescues wer ifected. Possibly 10 bodies hav en seen floating since Sunday, bu stimates made from this are valu< ass. as some of the bodies may has ,ated down the Kaw from Topek; he same bodies drifting in the evi hanging eddies of the flood may has The flood situation is very mul1 in' proved Tuesday night. The gas sup ply is ample: two electric stre-et car lines have resumed service and others? - will follow Thursday: the electrol light plant is ready to begin servicei,. but it does not. do so because of the ipossibility of fires from crossed wires: the waterworks will begin to pump Kansas river in the reservoir tomor row and the next day the wateer will be turned into the pipes; the food sup ply is ample on both sides of the " river, the vast quantities of meat in the packing houses having been reached by the packers; the predicted increase .f sickness has not appeared: the Kansas river is falling half an inch an hour and the Missouri river is expected to begin ro fall before day light. Eight persons are positively known to have been dr wned in the two EKansis cities since last Friday. They ; are: Policeman Eiward Keenan, - Kohle, Philip Ware. a negro hoy; Wnm. Ilelster, tiuck driver: Wm. Herbet, expressman: James Deerman: - John Ray, negro Edward irooks., WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS The Unspeakable Turk and M:r Cruei Deeds in Rloumania. - Horrible details are arriving here of the slaughter of the inhabitants of the viilage of Smerdash. south of Lake Presba on May 21, by Bashi-Bazouks. It appears that on the arrival of the Bashi- Bazouks. Chakalaroffs band of . insurgents wi thdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss. As no re bels were left in the village the in habitants experienced no anxiety, I until sunddenly, at sunset, the Turks, who had completely surrounded the place, commenced a regular bombari ment, whereupon all the villagers as sembled in the streets. Though the artillery ceased tiring during part of the night, the Turkish infantry tired all night long. The artillery bombard ment was recommenced at daybreak, but as it was ineffective the Turks set tire to the village on all sides and commenced a general massacre, slaughtering women, children and the aged. About three hundred houses were burned and upwards of two hundred persons, mostly women and children, were killed. The women and girls were murdered while resist ing outrage. Whole household were slain. One family of seven were slain and their bodies heaped on the hearth. Not a living soul was left in tbe' village. The survivcrs, many of them half-burned or otherwise injured, fled. Some of the fleeing fillagers were cap tured and had their ears and noses cut off before they were butchered. The report adds that 1,1500 villagers were in the mountains without clothing or food. One band of these, consisting of forty women and children, were caught by soldiers in a ravine and were killed after horrible treatment. Freed at Last. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the happiest man in South Carolina today, perhaps, is Cato Gadsden, for.nerly a colored citizen of Beaufort County, but who since 1880 has been a convict in the Penitentiary. He was sentenced for life for stealing $35 or $40 worth of cotton seed. Ie stole them at a time when the law was different from what it now is, and as the crime came un der the class of burglary, and the house where the cotton seed was stored adjoined a dwelling, Cato got the extreme penalty. It turns out that generally he had been a quiet, law-abiding negro, but somehow yield ed to temptation. His conduct in the Penitentiary has been good. Thurs day a delegation came to see the SGovernor in his behalf. They gave t him a good character as a rule, and 1as he had served four or five times the a term he would have served had the - crime been committed later, the SGovernor decided to pardon him. Forest Fires. The <.ntire state of New Hampshire is darkened with a pall of smoke from the forest fires in the North, so dense that the sun is entirely obscured and it is with ditficulty that one can work or read without artificial light. At Groveton the people packed their be longings Thursday to move away. The city of Berlin is entirely surround ed by flames which swept up the Am monoozue valley. In Carroll county vast quiantities of timber and cut lum ber are burned. In Groveton, 80 miles away, ashes are falling in the streets. f Killed by Lightning. 3 During a severe rain and thunder ,storm at Anderson George Hammock, s a young white man who lives at the Orr Cotton Mills, was killed by light - ning. He was employed in building some of the new operatives' cottages that the company is erecting. When t the storm came up he left his work & a. started for his home in company t witl4 his father. In a few seconds a t bolt of lightning struck the house and he was instantly killed. His body ~.was badly torn by the bolt and the s house was badly demolished. School Children Rescued. The rescuing party sent from St Joseph, Mo., to Topeka composed of 75 men with steam launches and row -boats have returned and their places Swill be taken by other volunteers. The St. Joseph men rescued 200 school s children from the Grant school, im prisoned there since last Friday. The child red were in a half starved condi ftion. The rescuers shot and killed a negro caught in the act of looting deserted houses. oJacked Himi Up. r John Dennis, a negro was lynched -at Greenville, Miss., Thurday after .noon by a mob of two hundred men. o The negro had attempted a criminal assault upon a well known young lady t who was returning home from the s telephone exchange, where she work ed, on Tuesday night week. ie wvas immediately arrested and placed in the d local jail.__________ 8 A Warning. e RI. W. McDaniel, a young white man t of Lexington County, will serve the balance of his natural life in the state *e prison for having taking the life of a . fellow man. The supreme court de - cided that he should not have a new 'e trial. The court was divided, two and two, and tie motion failed. vell known that any of these States urnished as many troops as did North .trolina, and did as hard ighting. In he "Medical History of the Civil Var," prepared under the direction if the then Surgeon (eneral Barnes, t was estimated that one man out of very 65 was killed in action, one out f every 10 was wounded in action. .nd one out of every 56 died of vounds. At this rate the losses of the )onfederates should have been 9,230 ostead of 52,954, and the wounded hould have been 60,000, while those vho died of wounds should have been omething over 10,000. but, on the ontrary, they were many times ,reater. The late distinguished Confederate urgeon general. Joseph Jones. esti nated the grand total of deaths in the onfederate army from battle, wounds Lnd disease, at 200,000. The federal official reports show hat of prisoners and deaths in prison he following figures are the round umbers: ederals in sout.hern prisons..270,000 onfederates in northern pri sons.. ..............220.000 Excess of federals.. ...5.0,00 )eaths of Confederate prison ers ................ ..26.436 )eaths of federal prisoners.. ..22.570 Excess of Confederate deaths.................2.866 Commenting on these figures, the >resent efficient and studious Confed rate Surgeon General Tebault says: 'According to these figures the per entage of federals deaths in southern >risons was under 9, while the per entage of Confederate deaths in iorthern prisons was over 21. These ortuary statistics show how faith ully and devotedly the Confederate aedical corps cared for the prisoners I the Confederacy in spite of the cant supply of medicines and .instru nents and works on medicine and urgery, and the most absolute 'essen ,ials for satisfactory treatment, these aving been made contraband of var." . That the Confederates, by reason t their smaller numbers were forced o fight with greater energy and to spose themselves more prodigally to he enemy's fire is shown by the re urns of losses in killed and wounded n battles, thus. Confederate Federal Battles. loss. loss. ickamauga ... ...15,801 11,135 lettysburg.......... 22,544 17,684 itlanta....... ....'. 7,500 2,522 ranklin........ ... 6,250 1,222 The above were battles in which he Confeder-ates attacked their ad 'ersaries in strongly intrenched posi ,ions, but in every case the losses of ,he southern troops were out of pro *rtion to their numbers but they iever received a blow without inflict ng tremendous lasses in return. Surprised Him. One of the biggest hauls of whiskey ver made in a single raid was cap ured by some of the local constables Vednesday afternoon about two miles rom the city. A constable approach d a well known gentleman on the treet and asked him if he would ob ect to a search of a barn on a farm n the county. "Why, no," Dr. Heise laughingly eplied, "you are welcome to all the hiskey you can find there." The constable was insistent and inally obtained the permission. Late in the afternoon when Dr. Ieise was driving along the road to 1s farm he met a wagon heavily aden with kegs. The constable was Iriving and Dr. Hleise accosted him. 'How much whiskey did you get?" ue asked. The answer appalled him, or the man of the law answered: Four hundred gallons'" This whiskey had been kept for ome time in a barn without any one ~ver being aware of it except the em loyes of the farm. The constable aid it was intended for a local and ell known blind tiger. Dr. Heise was for a time greatly dis ~urbed lest be should be arrested for 'unning a tiger himself.-Columbia state. Flowers for Camp Chase. Gen. John B. Gordon, comander-in :hief of the United Confederate Veterans, has issued general orders sallinig upo, the people to contribute lowers .for the decoration of the traves of Confederate dead at Colum >us, Ohio, June 11. Gen. Gordon ays: "The commanding general eels sure, although the time is very hort, that there will be no lack of owers at Columbus to decorate the ~raves of our dead at Camp Chase. To ~onor such dead is to ho'ior the iving. In this connection the grener L commanding finds great piasure~ in eminding the Southern people 'f the aitherto most generous course of Col. Kanan, of the Uniori army, and of he broad-minded people of Ohio in lecorating the graves of these Con Eederates independently and in erect ng the monument which adorns their resting place. Such acts illustrate he spirit of fraternity and unity which is the surest guaranty of the Republic's future prog-ess and per petuity."________ A Fatal Wreck. A special from Paola, K(an.. says wo Sante Fe trains, a north~-bound Ld a special south-bou~d. collided ead on, one mile north o; Stillwell, Kan. Nine persons are C ad and bwenty-eight are said to be injured. rhe Wells-Fargo express messeng-"' is till under the wreckage. Fi'n' 0aches and both engines are in the litch. The dead are to be taken to Dlathe, Kan., and the injured to Kansas City. Is is reported that the two trains were to meet at Stiilwell, but one conductor misread his orders. Proved a Failure. The Ferris wheel, the massive struc ture, which was one of the main at tractions to visitors on the midway during the world'f fair at Chicago in 1893, and which was subsequently re moved to Lincoln park has been sold by public aution in .Judge Chyatrus' ourt. A junk dealer bid in the big wheel and the sum paid for the en ines, buildings, boilers, ect., was 1,800. The wheel cost originally 8362,000. Outstanding against it are bonds amounting to $300,000 and a WAR STATISTICS. Further Statement of Forces and I Loses on Each Side i IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. The Southern Soldiers Had to Fight i Against Great Odds and Take More Risks Than the Northern. Some days ago the New Orleans Picayune printed statistics showing that in the Civil war the losses of the Confederates in killed were in propor tion greater than were those of the I federals. This statement was questioned on the ground that the federal armies were made up in the ag;rregate of nearly five times the number of men possessed by the Confederates, and that, therefore, the largest army should naturally have suffered the greatest loss in battle. It was con tended, on the other hand, that the smaller army, in order to stand against the greater, was compelled to fight with more desperation and daring, and c that, therefore, its men subject to reater loss. Moreover, any force fighting at large odds would have to I endure the fife of a greater number of missels, and this would expose it to greater loss. Unfortunately, many of the Confed erate war records were lost, or de stroyed in the evacuation of and re treat from Richmond, and ther.efore the Confederate returns are not com plete and no accurate account is avail able. The war department at Wash- 1 ington, which has charge of all the Confederate war records, has recently begun the work of completing, as far as possible, the Confederate records as to numbers and losses of men, and a call has been made which should be promptly responded to, asking Confed erate survivors and State authorities 1 possessing muster rolls and other data of the sort, to send them, eitber as a loan or gift, to the war department at Washington, so that they may be copied and used to supply the lost records. So for as the figures are available today. The Picayune re peats with additions the figures print ed by it last Wednesday. The figures in regard to the union army are taken from the "Statistical Record" by Capt. Frederick Phisterer, then of the army, published by Charles I Scribner's Sons, New York, 1883, and declared to be compiled from army or ders, registers of regulars aud volun teers, reports of the adjutant general of the army, and from those of the pro vost marshal general of the army, the "Medical History of the Rebellion," and other sources. As to the union forces in the field, the summary of the men furnished by and credited to the various States by the adjutant general's ofice is given by States, and it shows, including Indians and negroes, a total of 2,772, 408 men and money commutation al lowed by the draft law, to represent 8,728 men, making an aggregate of men represented to be 2,859,132. Of Indian troops there were 3,530, and of negroes there were 186,097, all of whom are included in the figures of 2,722.408. There were 2,047 regi ments of all arms. After citing in de tail the figures in the reports of the adjutant general, of the provost mar shal general, Capt. Phisterer gives the following as the most complete and re liable statement: Killed in battle.. ..........44,238 Died of wounds........... .. 49,205 Suicide, homicide and execu- - tion............ .... ..... 526 Died of disease ... .... ....186,216 Died in r.outhern prisons. .24,184 Tolal..................304,369 Of the negro troops included in the above. 1,514 were killed in battle, 1,760 died from wounds, 29,212 died from disease, 837 died in prison, and 57 from other causes. The enlistments of foreigners in the federal army are thus given: Germans..... ...............176,800 Irish.. . ... ... ....... ... .144,200 British Americans..... . .. 53,500 English........... ....... 45,300 All others.. . .... ......... 74,900 Aggregate .... .. .. .....494900 The deficiency in the Confederate returns precludes any accuracy of statement, has been put at 600,000.] It should be remembered that the northern States had a white popula tion of 20,000,000, while the south had a white population of 6,000,000, be sides 4,000,000 negroes. The south ern negroes were slaves and were recruited for the northern army from the districts in the southern States that were overrun by the invaders, to the number of 186,097. As to foreign es, they were kept out of the south by the blockade of the southern ports by the federal fleets, but they were attracted to the northern army by the large bounty offered, and they joined in great numbers. If the six million of white people in the south sent one-tenth of their number, or 600,000, into the field, the 20,000,000] of the northern whites should at the same rate have sent 2,000,000 soldiers. These, with the 495,900 foreign~ers, and the 186,097 negroes, would make an aggregate of 82.680,997, or about the strength reported above for the total federal force. The Confederate losses, as coripiled from the the muster rolls eniant and onti fle in the war department in Wash ington, give the following: Killed in battle.. ... .... ...52,954 Died from wounds. .. .. ..... .21,570 Died from disease.. .. .... ...59,297 Total ..... ........... ....133,821 Died in northern prisons. ..26,436 Aggegate. ........ ... .. ...160,257 It is plain, however, that the mus ter rolls of the Confederates are ex tremely incomplete, because they give North Carolina 14,552 killed, while they give Alabama only a total of 552, and Virginia 5,328, and Georgia, 5, 538. and Misseinnipi --,807, when it is LOSES ALL HIS MONEY. Ex-Senator McLaurin Seems to Have ROught a Gold Brick. A special to The State from New York says John L. McLaurin. former United States senator from South Car >'ina, is in this city striving to gather some fragments of his forture, which )e declares has been shattered by the Mdorsement of notes. If he cannot W ealize on the collateral given to him Is security, former Senator McLaurin, .who was worth something like $100, )00, says he will scarcely have money mough to get back home. In his tight :o save some of his money, Mr. Mc aurin has obtained an attachment rom Judge Clark, in the supreme ba xourt, for $20,000 against property wo aid to be' owned by Frank A Umsted th >r Worcester, Mass., in ravor of Wil- frC iam Howard, Jr., who held the pro- be ested note. go A certificate for 17,809 shares of ni tock of the Brunswick and Birming- an iam railway has been attached. The S1h iote in question was made by Mr. Mc- ab aurin on April 21 and was payable at ed he Mercantile National bank of New wc ork in ore month. The note was not un )aid at maturity. Mr. McLau;in had th )resented the note to the Guardian frust company, which paid him the cit noney. In an aftidavit Mr. McLau- nel in says he paid the money to Mr. ho! [msted. ho Though the note in question was we or $20,uOO it is said that Mr. McLau- TI in is threatened with the loss of $100- pic )00 and that several prominent poli- Tt icians of South Carolina are heavily sid nvolved in it. James W. Osborne, a W ormer assistant district attorney, and La )tto Heise, who have been employed Pe Ls counsel by Mr. McLaurin, are now frc ring to learn whether there are any ' prior claims upon the property given as Jej ecurity by the men who obtained the gr< mdorsement of the former United at states senator to their paper. wl Mr. McLaurin, who is staying at the ag mperial hotel, declares he was-not in 1, ;osition to say the security obtained W 3y him was wortbless. He feared he, re Ls well as other involved, would be m( ble to realize only a very small por- frc ion of their investment. Continuing ad, 1e former senator said: "I will say; ar iowever, that the property given us kn is security was represented as being th tlt edged and it is yet to be proven tii hat the representation is as stated. fej )ur security consisted of five notes of he promoters of the Brunswick and ou Birmingham railroad, given on April in I1 and payable one month after date: ne "They were endorsed by Mr. Um- foi sted. When they fell due, however, Je payment was not forthcoming, and th dince then myself and associates in the be ransaction have been using every in, means in our power to arrive at the se: ,xact value of the property. th "What we have learned is not reas- on luring." ne Mr. Umsted, against whose property Ti he attachment was issued, occupies wc partments in the Wellington. Ac- ph rding to a representative of Mr. tir Uimsted, the deal in which Mr. Mc Lurin is involved was a friendly one, sel md Mr. Umsted was making every to -ffort to guarantee the amount due to sa he former senator from South Caro- to ina. - ti4 Former Senator McLaurin said that of de was unable to say just how long he 10] would remain in NTew York, but that th be had been advised by counsel to stay ed ntil something definite was done. he egal steps will be taken in a few days. w~ That the situation is critical was evi- wC Senced by the fact that both Senator A. hicLaurin and Col. Brown were in ga lose consultation with Attorneys Os borne and Heise at the bar asso~ia- h( ion rooms until nearly midnight Tl uesday. Col. Brown came to New p1: York with Mr. McLaurin several days be Igo. c________a THE DEADLY LIGHTNIN~G- tr; of Several Persons Are Killed in Differ- So wl ent Parts of the State. A severe storm passed over South Carolina Tuesday week resulting in the loss of several lives and doing re considerable damage to crops. o At Anderson Geomge Hammack, a t young white man, was killed by ligth- cil ning. He was at work on one of the tr cottages being built at the Orr mills. tr At Congaree the storm was particu-a larly severe. A negro house on Hagar a yones' place was blown half an acre c and a boy killed by splintering tim- tr bers. The large barn and stables of Raw-b linson and Weston were completely th demolished, killing one horse and in-t juring several others. d The Atlantic Coast Line depot was d unroofed and a great many barns and t stables were destroyed. ro In the Limestone and Jamison sec- th tions of Orangeburg county the windt was accompanied by hail which killed C sheep, hogs, dogs and other small an imals and completely destroyed the s crops. The farmers will probably re- do plant cotton and corn, but the other crops are an entire loss. th While returning from Spartanburgw to his home near Golightly, John C.e Lee, a well known farmer, was struck e by lightning. The bolt struck one of his legs, felling him instantly. The ha lightning tore off his pants from one m knee down, tearing off one of the ne shoes and sock. In falling Mr. Lee's re face was badly bruised. He was ren- at dered unconscious by the shock and s~ remained in this condition for several t~ hours. This is not the first disaster ec Mr. Lee has experienced from storms. fo In 1874 a cyclone struck his house. A tr nudebor's son who was sheltering in in it, from the fury of the storm, was pr kiled outright by the falling timbers sI and Mr. Lee was considerably bruised. At Laurens, Andy Garrett, a negro, was plowing a mule when a bolt of s lightning struck the animal, killing it p1 instantly, but the negro escaped u n hurt. bt________h A Sea Disaster. b A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile,. says the Pacific Steam Navigation company's steamer Arequi pa, which duringr a lull in Wednesaay's great storm at Valparaiso left the port in 0. an endeavor to ride out the gale at n: sea. The agent cabled that the steamer, which had 80 persons on board, was lost. Capt. Todd, his wife, S1 fifty of the crew and many of the pas- a< enger of the Arequipa were drowned. f A HOT TJME. Colored Picnic from Chareston Kroken Up by D TEN MILX HILL NIGGERS be Attacked the City Folks With Guns and Clubs. Six Car ried Back to the City Wounded 'The Charleston Post says a fierce ttle with gvuns, pistol and knives S fought at Ladson, a station on e Southern railway, seventeen miles >m Charleston. on Monday. June 1, tween Ch'-lcston negroes, who had ne to Ladson to take part in a pic given by the Jenkins Orphanage, d several hundred country negroes. ooting irons were used freely and ut twenty-five negroes were wound though not seriouwly. A man, man and child. whose identity are known, are said to have been killed, augh the report is discredited. rhe excursionists returned Io the.. y with the wounded Charleston-. roes. Six were sent to the city spital, and others went to their mes. Tbe country negroes who ; re shot did not come into the city. ie negroes sent to the hospital were ked up on -the streets by the police. ey were: William Grant, shot in e and leg, found on America street; 11lam Pryor, George Kenzie, Henry ngston, James Allen and William rrin, found on Line street, suffering m gun shot wounds. Wonday the annual picnic of the 2kins Orpanage was given at the )unds of the Jenkins Reformatory Ladson. - The Rev. D. J Jenkins, o is at the head of both the orphan- .. a and the reformatory carried about, 00 negroes on a special train. en the reformatory grounds were ched, the Charleston negroes were' - t by a large number of negroes: im Ten Mile and the country : 'i ' jacent to Ladson. The latter were ned with guns, rifles, pistols and ives. They told the city neg at they had come to have a ne and that they must not In .e. 'S The morning hour passed off with t trouble, but along about 2 o'cloc the afternoon the Ten Mile Hill groes wanted to dance in the re matory building, and the Rev--, nkins put a stop to it. d at he would not allow his picnic to>11 turned into a -dance. His actione 2ensed the country negroes, and rious trouble commenced. One.Of: o- 7 e Ten Mile Hill crowd drew a pisto the Rev. Jenkins, and the city groes rushed up to taken his iere was much wranging, blow re passed and fire arms were tyed. The trouble was settled for a. ne. The country negroes organied them ves into a regiment, and sent word the town negroes that they wanted tisfaction, and invited them dow' the road near a creek. The invi > was accepted. The ring leader~i the conntry forces,. armed with a ig rifle, led his -:ommand against $4 e picnic crowd. He was overpower ,his gun was taken from him, and was shot with his own rifle. He ts also badly cut, but none of his ] >unds are thought to be serious ter being shot he retired from the me. The battle was kept up for several urs, and shot after shot was fired. ie Rev. Jenkins gathered his or ans together and the female mem rs of his crowd and remained under ver until about 7 o'clock in the ternoon the hour for the excursion in to pull out of Ladson. Hundred~ negroes made for the station as on as the shooting commenced, ~ ere they remained, all the after on, fearing to venture forth. Some re *so badly frightened that ey walked five miles to Summerville, urning to the city this morning. hen the excursion train, consisting seventeen coaches, was made up bring the picnickers back to the y, everybody thought that the >uble was over, but, just as the in pulled out from the station, a country negro fired into it, which is the signal for other shots and a nstant firing was kept up until the tin was out of range. When fire was opened on the train the angry mob of country. negroes, e wildest excitement prevailed in e coaches. Men, women and chil en crouched under the seats. Some ked themselves up in the toilet - ms, and small negro boys climbed into the bundle racks in the top of e cars. li.very pane was powdered d it is said that the train came in earleston Monday night with not a igle head out of a car window. The ots fired into the coaches broke win w panes and several passengers were ppered. One woman was shot in e arm, and a small colored boy >unded in the back. None was kill The Southern railway authorities ve taken the matter up, and will tke every effort to apprehend the groes who tired into the train. A ward of $50 will be paid for the rest of the parties that did the ooting. The Rev. .Tenlkins says tnat e wildest kind of excitement prevail ,and the country negroes thirsted r blood. They swarmecd about the tin like Indians, all the time keep g up loud shouts. As the train ssed Ten Mile Hill, some one fired a ot into a passenger coach. Chopped off Man's Head. A special from Tazewell, Tenn., ys Sam D)avis was killed near that ace late Tuesday afternoon, Fale inton chopping his head off and rying an ax several times in his dy. The men engaged in a difficulty Ninton's house. Minton was put ~ the Tazewell jail Tuesday night d the sheriff made preparations for otectiou against mob violence, fears which were expressed Tuesday ght. ________ . sad Case. The infant child of Col. W. G. ~epenson of the King's Mountian :ademy. Yorkville. died on Monday urm swalnwing broken glass.