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VOL. XVII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17,1908. NO.46 THE GREAT FLOO. Some Scenes and Incidents Gathered from People Who SAW THE MILLS WASHED AWAY. Thrillin- -:xperiences and Narrow Escapes Anonz These Who Survive the Great Catas trophe at Clifton. The story of the great flood, says Editor .1. C. Garlington, of the Spar tanburg Herald, who has gone over the ground, still the absorbing topic of interest in Spartanburg, does not grow better or brighter as the minute details are pointed, out the most in teresting fact connected with the great disaster is the completeness and accuracy of the story gathered at the beginning. It was complete and yet communication was entirely cut off with the stricken territory and reporters had to depend largely on the uncertain mode of shouting across the turbulent waters of Lawson's Fork for tie facts. HOUSES ALL GONE. Mr. Garlington says that in the valley between No. 1, and No. 3, lately tilled with two long rows of cottages out from which bright faces and scores of happy children would greet the passer-by, there was a verit able desert of sand. Not a tree left standing not a house. In the midst of the stretch of white sand spreading out like a pararie. a dozen men were clustered. One was digging and we inagined that perhaps the body of some loved one waz being unearthed. The men were silent and disztrolate. The did not seem to notice our ap proach, but kept on watching the man who was digging. Investigation show ed that this old man was delving into the foundations of his former home. Two feet under the sand he found a wire bed spring and he was carefully pulling the mud out of the springs. He could have found a dozen springs in the debris on the billsides, but it was the last remnant of his home, and he togged away to reclaim it. lie said he had found a monkey wrench and a hat pin, and he prize'l them highly. AN EYE WITNESS TALKS. Night Watchman W. A. Rhinehart on duty at No. 3, had made his rounds at 3 a. m. At that time the river was at least ten feet out of its banks. At 4 o'clock it was 20 feet high. He was standing at a corner of the mill at 4:30 when a large tree floated over the dam and plunged through the boiler room roof into the room below. This flooded the machine4 shop and boiler room and this part of the build ing began to crumble. At this point the dam gave way and the power house was swept away. Next a corner of the old mill gave way. Mr. Rhine hart i-an up the bank to get a safer and better view of the scene and upon turning saw the smoke stack go down with a crash. In ten seconds after this and about 10 or 12 minutes from the time the dam broke, the magoiti centaly equipped 50,800 spindle mill wap 'washed from its foundation, crambled and the wreckage carried down Pacolet river. Nothing was left but about one fifth of the two mills, the cloth room :and picker room. At this mill 16s houses were washed away and eleven lives were lost. The street railway track between No. 1, and 3, is as complete a wreck as could be pos sible. The iron is turned and twisted into a hopeless mass, the track in places is completely overturned, in other places it is washed against the rocks adid all along the line the road bed is completely gone. The dam at No. 3 broke next to the mill and the torrent was turned directly on the structure. Exactly the opposite hap pened at Glendale, which-saved that mill. The water was diverted to the opposite bank. At No. 1, the old mill, there was no loss of life but some narrow escapes and many homes were swept away. The mill was badly A.~amaged. A THRILLING ENFERIENCE. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman were caught in the second story. The roof fell in and they managed Io climb ,ut unl it. Mrs. Colemao had a baby unider each arm. The raft tioated down stream and then came back near enough for the people to climb into the second story window of Mr. Pettit's house. Here they awaited the rescuers who were devising means for relief. The water meanwhile was rising rapidly and was half way up the window in the seconid story. The house was tot tering and it was evident that if any thing was to be done it must be done quickly. T. S. Upton and others found a well rope and Upton Cole man climbed out of the window, the mother still singing to'her two babies. Stout hands and brave hearts pulled at the rope and the raft moved shore ward. An angry wave dashed it to ne side almost upsetting it. There was an opening in the housetop and through this one of the little infants feli as the raft was about to capsine and just as it was going out of sight to certain death, one of the rescuers grabbed its clothes and the family were all finally saved. IN THE TREES. The thrilling experience of Mr. Stribbling, one of the clerks at No. 2. and the 5 others who occupied a tree with him for 8 hours, have al: ready been .recorded. They driftet until hope was almost gone and tinall; .lodged in the branches of a tree anc were rescued. There were others ir trees at No. 3. Mr. Wilson hung on tc the br-anches of tree for 11 hours. Mir Grier, an aged man, lodged in a pin tree and stayed there from 5 o'clc in the morning until 5 o'clock in th< afternoon. A\ hen he was rescued h< was completely exhausted and is nou~ in a critical condition. ON THEl COTTON IIOVSE:. James Elders. lBud Emontry. )livel Johnson and Lige IHail were ecaughi on the roo'f of the cot ton warehouse The ent down the river and a grea concourse of people wateculd anxiusly but could not aid. Tbey finally went down with the exception of .as. El ders. who grabbed the limb of a tree and Lige Bail. who was found near P'aCtdet. Bruce McLure. was aroused as the water entered his rrom. le rushed out and suddenly remembered ,35o of his savings be had left behind. le turned and with great ditliculty re-en tered his home just as it was totter ing. le drifted for some time and tinally caught a rope handed by res cners. "I tell.you, Mister. I will never for get till my dying day the cries of the people as they toated down the river," said an old woman who stood on the bank almost crazed with the horrors of the scenes. "I hear the cries now, I hear them as I got to sleep, and I am sure I will hear them as long as I live." WAS IN OPERATION. The greatest loss of life occurred at Clifton No. 2. There were sixtey houses and forty lives lost here, and the beautiful mill is badly wrecked and the magnificent store with its heavey stock is gone. About six or seven bodies have been recovered. It is believed that several whole 'amilies were swept away in Santucbelo-v Mill No. 2. When the final crash cawe at No. 2, Clifton, the mill was in i'ill operation. The water rose higher, but the operatives were disposed to laugh at the situation. They did not dream of its seriousness. They stood by their looms and spindles and the little children iloated their boxes in the water and paddled around as thought it were a holliday. When the seriousness dawned and the order came to leave the mill, many had to be driven out by force. Clifton No. 2 is totally wrecked in one end and chord wood tills every room. There are bodies not yet recovered in the debris. The odors late Wednesday afternoon clearly indicated the pre sence of human bodies buried beneath the rubuish. Died Together. This pathetic incident of the flood is published by the Spartanburg Her ald: "Julius Biggerstaff was a board4 er at Eddie Robbes. In the next house above, Joe Hall lived. Hall had a pretty daughter named Lola and she and Biggerstafl were fast friends. In deed, it is related by the neighbors that on the morrow after the great storm. on Sunday morning they were to have been wedded. Biggerstaff went to call on Lola H all on Friday night and they planned the details of the marriage. At a rather late hour they retired each dreaming of the happy event. oblivious of the rising waters. On they slept until possibili ty of rescue was gone. They made frantic efforts to swim ashore. but both went down. The body of Miss Hall has been recovered." Tillman Asks Change. It has been announced by the coun sel for J. H. Tillman that application would be made to Judge Townsend in the Court of General Sessions, the latter part of this month. for a change of venue for the trial of Tillman on the charge of murder, which is set for the coming term in Richland county. The application will be based cn the claim that Tillman can not get a fair trial in Rtichiland, and aldavits will be submitted to sustain the contention. The prosecution will contest t-he motion for a change of venue, and will meet the allegations of the defence with affidavits showing that there is'no prejudice here against Tillman that will pre vent a fair trial. Made a aaul. James M. Watson, Jr., a clerk in the ottice of the auditor for the Dis trict of Columbia and the son-in-law of a wealthy retired railroad contrac tor, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of embezzlement of government funds. The amount is estimated at from $60,000 to S75,000. The warrant makes the specific charge of embezzle ment of 88,000, which represents only a portion of the alleged peculations. Watson was not bonded and in case he or his relatives, several of whom are said to be wealthy, fail to make good the alleged losses Auditor J. T. Ptty will be held responsible for the amount. A Fatal Fall. A dispatch to The State from Beaufort says Thursday afternoon the keeper of the lower range light Paris island, Mr. George Lehman, fell from the platform to the ground be low, a distance of 30 feet, causing instant death. He had been warned not to go to high parts of the ligut as he had suffered several paralytic strokes. It is thought his fall was caused from one of these attacks. Mr. Lehman was about 75 years old and had been a keeper of lightsfor the government for 30 years. School Rtoomu Struck. While the afternoon session of Cor sica academy was in session at Corsica Pa.. a storm broke in its fury. The students gathered in a frightened group in the big recitation room. A bolt of lightning struck the belfry, and descending through the ceiling Iran along the blackboard at which the two students were still at work, hurl ing them to the f1oor. The two dead girls had all their clothing burned from their bodies. and Professor Car rer, who was standing close by was also badly butned about the body. Shot to D~eath. For rcfusing to obey the command to halt, Albert Ilurley was shot and mortally wounded Wednesda'y night by John Maloney, a member of Comn pany A, Sixth United States infan try, who was doing guard duty in Kansas City, Kan.. wherea mild form of martial law has been in force since the flood. Captain F. JT. Taggart, who is in command of the soldiers, af ter investigating the ease, submitted a report to) the mayor exonerating Maloney. Too Slany 31ad I>0:4s. More than 2e0 casea of rabies have b en treateil in New York hospitals snce the tirst of the present year-an unprcedented number. unly a smul percentage of the cases treated result ed fatally, owing to prompt action: bu the ~icrease in the nu moe r cases is regarded as so Se rious that te C.ity Council has beeni asked to pass laws -against unmuz'zledl dogs rnnniner in the streets. UNDER WATER. Thousands Flee From East St. Louis to Escape Flood. THIRTY PEOPLE ARE DROWNED. The Wildest Excitement Existed in All Parts of the City. Heavy Loss of all Kinds of Property. At St. Louis the river Wednesday morning reached a stage of 87.9 feet, highest point during the present flood. East St. Louis, with a population of 32,000, having large manufacturing interests and the terminal point for railroads from the north, east and south. is partly under water and will probably be~ totally submerged by noon. The southern half of East St. Louis is deep in the flood and the city'" 2,500 levee builders have fallen back to Missouri avenue in the atttempt to save the remainder of the city, menac ed by swelling waters from three sides. Broadway, the central east and west thoroughfare, has been abandoned to the flood. Lee Harper, former city attorney, says the water will be two feet deep in front of the city ball be rore 6 o'clock. Seven miles of water pressiug from the south and southeast overcame the citys line of defense Wednesday morning and 5,000 persons were driven from their homes. Numerous reports or drowning have beep received, but the East St. Louis police have thus far learned no namesoof victims. One thousand men were working on the levee when it broke. Several hours before the final break they had the active assistance of hundreds of women and children. The break came at the St. Louis valley crossing of the Illi nois Central embankment two miles south of Relay depot. WOMEN AT WORK. While as many men, women and children as could stand on the em bankment were packing sand bags to the rails to prevent a break, the re sistless current broke through the wall of earth and spurted in rivulets in the face of those who were carrying sandbags up the bank. Bags thrown into the openings by dozens of men were tossed by the waters like feathers when the workers fled from their use less task and the alarm was given by the ringing of bells and blowing of whistles in every part of the city. A few of the workers in the embank ment remained at their posts until the rushing waters made it necessary for them .to swim for their lives. Then they joined their companions in warn ing the residents of the thickly settled district of their danger. THE PEOPLE FLEE. Awakened families saw the water in the streets. When they were ready to leave with their hurriedly collected stock of necessities the flood was at. their door sills. They fled to the north. The Washington school was the nearest point of safety. Many made for the high ground near the, Illinois Central tracks. Men from Alta Sita and Denver side, who had been working on the abandoned levee, hastened to those localities to tell their neighbors of their danger. Every locomotive and factory whistle joined in the clamor of alarm. The water is not expected to reach its level in the flooded part of the city before noon. Mayor Parker predicts that when the level is reached the water will be two feet higher than at o'clock Thursday morning. Dismayed by the defeat which has come in their seven day's battle with the flood, the greater part of the levee builders fell back to Broad way, where it was at first decided to resist the water. A half hour's work and sur vey of the prospect convinced those in charge that it was useless to try to keep the water from Broadway and the flood fighters fell back upon Mis souri avenue, which runs east from the Relay station. NEGRO SHOT DEAD. Here the scenes of the past week were repeated as the streets were quickly transposed into a dike. An appeal from Mayor Cook to the gover nor of Illinois for state troops to aid in guarding property was answered by the promise that details of militia would be sent to East St. Louis at once. A few hours before the break in the levee Ned Roberts, a negro employed as a levee builder was killed by mem bers of the levee patrol for attempting to tear down a portion of the dike. His act was caused by anger because he was not allowed to draw his pay at once. Rtelief boats started from St. Louis for East St. Louis early Wednesday morning. Congressman William A. Rodenburg issued an appeal for aid for the hlood sufferers. Food, he says, is mostly needed and means must be had for delivering it to persons who are in upper stories of their homes and in box cars. At 9 o'clock water was threatening the north and east sides, preserved temporarily by the lBaltimore ano Ohio railroad embankment and had reached to the viaduct only seven blocks east of the city hall. In this public building a foot and ai half of side water had already collected. All low points of the city are under water. EVERYBODY WARNED. When the break occorred warnings were tirst sent through the city by messengers who discharged fitearms, blew horns and shouted in stentorian tones the news of the flood arrival. Lights gleamed in houses where the~ occupants had confidence in the emi bankment. IPersons scantily attired emergecd fom their homes and in a few min utes the whole populace of the low dis trict attacked, six miles in area were 1eeig to higher ground. As the nose of the approaching tlood was herd the light at first a rapid retreat wih some semblance of order, as suied( a panic stage. All elTorts to assure the inhabitants that~ there was sufiient time to escape unless a gap failed to convince them and most of them fied without any effort to save property. Messengers were sent to the iain portion of the city telling of the dan ger and the greatest excitement pre vailed. As the bottoms tilled and the river gained a larger entrance the terror in the business section of the city grew intense. It was all the greater because of the darkness and fear that while guard was maintained in one direction the torrent would break through at another point and engulf the luckless inbabitantl te tween two floods. By the thousands they began to desert thcir homes and run vainly up and down the streets seeking a place of succor. FLEE IN SCANT ATTIRE. Hundreds of families from the choicest residence portions of the city carrying trunks, grips, bundles of clothing and valuables began to cross Eads bridge towards St. Louis. Most of the refugees were scantily clad. Strong men carried aged women in their arms. Barefooted children were in the procession which continued steadily over the bridge. Hundreds oi others sought protection in the second story of the public library building. As the water encroached about many dashed through the shal low overflow to find a more secure re fuge. In terror of the rising tide'of water refugees in hundreds thronged the streets crowded the cars and be sought public officials. At the city hall alone, 500 homeless persons with scant belongings as they had been able to seize on short notice were as sembled. Provisions for the time be ing were supplied them. Business is totally suspended. The streets are filled with almost panic stricken inhabitants. Women with children in arms, men carrying house hold furniture, horses. dogs and other remains of once comfortable domestic establisbments parade the streets. The common direction of all move ment is toward the bridge over which the refugees are hurrying to St. Louis. All tratlic to East St. Louis from the west side has been suspended and policemen turned back all who at tempted the trip. DEAD NUMBER THIRTY. At 9 o'clock Wednesday Congress man W. A. Rodenburg estimated that thirty lives were lost on the tloodingof the lower portions of East' St. Louis early that morning. While general alarms were given by the police and retreating levee workers with shouts and pistols there was not time to call t evnry house in the thickly settled district and it is believed many fami iies in first story cottages awoke only when it was too late to escape. Levee workers who laid down to rest on em bankments worn out with, hard labor were caught and drowned by Ilood like rats. It may never be learned how many died in this way. Among the drowned Wednesday night previous to the break in the Illinois Central levee was E. D Sher wood and John Collish and three. chil ren. They lost their lives by the Dverturning of a boat in the northern part of the city. A negro was drown; d at S o'clock Thursday morning in the waters which are climbing up the side of the embankment supporting Broadway East St. Louis. The man was trying to get his team - to higher round and remained in the rising waters until the swift running cur rent upserj the wagon. The team was drowned. Everything obtainable is being used in the rescue of unfortunate people from the second stories of d wellings in. the submerged district. Rafts are being built, boats improvis ed and wagons even are put into use, the horses of which flounder around with only their heads above water while on their errands of mercy. NAVAL M11LITIA BUsY. The naval militia of St. Louis and Alton are on duty. Lieutenant Gray commanding the St. Louis Naval militia, has his force spread out along the embankment, guarding against levee cutting and depredations by hordes of negroes and bums that are to be seen everywhere. Arms are stacked at police headquarters where reputable citizens may obtain carbines and ammunitation to guard their prop erty. A large number of arrests have been made by the police who are marhing their prisoners across the bridge to St. Louis as there is no place to keep them in the ilood city. The East St. Louis city lail is also being emptied and the prisoners taken to The Four Courts in St. Louis. for safety. There is no place in East t. Louis to feed and pay off the hundreds of men who have been at work strengthening the levees about the city. It was found necessary Thursday morning to march themr over to St. Louis for their meals and then back again to work. BROADWAY UNDER WATER. Broadway, running east and wesi; through East St. Louis, divides that city in two. it is built up in places, stading 15 feet above the surround ing country. It is lirst thought this street would serve as a protection to the northeast half of the city but the lood that covers the .southern part has broken through in a small stream between 8th and 9th street. Should the embankments formed by Broad way give way as it is threatened it will send a wall of water 15 feet higher over the remainder of the city. The flooded district in East St. Louis due to the breaking~ of the emblankments early Thursday morning is one mile wide south from Broadway and four miles long from east to west. it com prises about one-fourth of the city. That part of East SU. Louis known as the "Island" was flooded several day ago. The crisis of the Ilood situation has passed. Ioat crews which have been ~uy in rescuing victims oZ the >od devoted themselves Thursday to savng property and bringing to Jtihr ground belated refugees who peiously had not themselves been mn immediate danger. Tlhe Deadly Railroad. Four men were killed and three badly injured in a collision between a coal train and a freight train three miles east of )seola, Tyrone division. Pennsylvania railroad. Wednesday. When the train was nour the top of the mountain between ().sceola and Tyrone, boyer's enginge.could not hold it andl fourteen cars were publ ished a on the.ap-,mhina train. ABOUT MAD DOGS. They Never Frth at the Mouth Nor Fave Bloodshod Eyes. HARYLESS IN FIRST STAGES. A Good Rule Is Always to Turn Out for a Dog that Won't Turn Out for You. The following article from the .New York Journal on mad dogs will be read with interest by our readers: "Nine~y-nine out of a hundred-peo-. ple don't know a mad dog when they see one. The very symptoms which they believe indicate rabies are the surest tests that a dog is not mad." Dr. James McDonough,, of the Watchung Kennels, who invited the school children of Montclair. N. J., to visit his d'ig sanitarium last Saturday and observe from a safe place the ac tions of a dog in the second and final stage of robies. made this statement: "In all my experience," said the doc tor. "and I have been treating dogs for tifteen years, I have never seen a mad dog froth at the mouth. On the contrary, the mouth of a dog that is really rabid is dry and parched. Nether have I ever seen a dog with rabies rush about like the dogs we read about, with head lowered and eyes bloodshot, snapping and biting at everything with which he comes in contact. "The real mad dog seldom attacks unless he is interfered with. I have followed a mad dog over a country road and seen him trot by within two inches o: people who were quietly con versing, not knowing that the animal was iad.'' The sudden hot weather having re vived the fear of mad dogs, an Ameri can reporter visited Mr. McDonough at his dog sanitarium in Montclair, and asked him about the prevalence of rabies and the manner in which the danger may be averted. Dr. M3Donough smiled as be replied: "I can speak only for Montclair and I am most positive that there is no epidemie. of rabies here. I don't be lieve'there is rabid dog in this town? I have cne-dog here in my sanitarium that I am keeping under observation. le is very active and might bite you if you gut too close to him; but I don't believe he is mad. "There is a great popular miscon ception on the question of rabid dogs. I firmly believe that if the public were properly educated in the observance of dogs the cases of rabies would be fewer than they are at present. And rabies is a rare disease at that. "I think it desirable that the sum of information among the people be increased regarding dogs, both for the purpose of insuring greater safety to the people and for the prevention of the slaughter of a great number of pets who do not merit death. "Let me tell you the symtoms of rabie'. There are two stages of the disease. In the first the dog is rest less and uneasy. He can't keep still. He shifts about from one place to another, has a hacking cough and to ward tlt e end of the first stage begius to bite itfulily at the seat of inocula tion, wherever it may be. "This~ stage lasts for from twenty four to thirty-six hours, during which time the dog is absolutely harmless. Any one who has been educated to observe these symptoms can detect rabies at once in the dog. I have often thought that nature has made this provision in-order that sullicient warning of the a.p.proach of rabies may be given before the dog becomes dan gerous. "We]l, it is only after the dog has passed from the first to the second stage of the disease that he becomes dangerous. And even with regard to the second, or violent stage, there is great popular misconception. "A general rule to follow with re gard tc- all dogs is this: Always turn out for a dog that wont turn out for you: If you follow that rule you will be comparatively safe from any rabid dog that comes your way. "When the dog passes into the sec ond stage of rabies he becomes still more restless. It is then that they wander' off. They do not go at a rapid pace, they do not froth at the mouth, their eyes do not become bloodshot. Perhaps they han.g their heads--all sick dogs do that-and they run until they drop from exhaustion, stopping by tits and starts to rest, but never being able to rest long because the nervous tension of the disease keeps them going. If not intercepted and iilled they will finally fall dead. I have seen them wear their toe nails to the quick. "During this time they will bite things that come in their way. Un derstand that. But they will not go out of their way to attack anything "Ilere is an illustration out of my own exsperience. It happened right here in Montclair. An inoffensive looking dog sauntered along the street, attracting no attention whatever. In appearance, to the unpracticed eye, he resembled any other healthy dog. A little child got in its way, and ~the dog threw the child down and bit her. "1A erowd gathered, but no attempt was tr ade to stop the dog. No cry of mad c og was raised. I happened to pass aLnd stopped to make inquiries and learned that the child had been bitter . I got a description of the ani mal and startedl after him in my wagon. "Illalf hour later my attention was attracted to a dog on the outski rts of the Gown which resembled the dog that had bitten the child. lIn two minu tes I discovered that it was mad. I foliowed it. The dog sauntered along, winding in and out between fence-s, lying down, then getting up nervously and starting off again. "Once a small dog got in the mad one's way, and the latter bit him once and started on again. T wo hun dred yrsfurther clown the road a man ards awoman were standing at the side of the ro)ad talking. The dog walked right past them without at tempting any violence. Next he ap proached a stoop where a man was about to descend. Fearing that the man wmuld hr. Littn. I shouted a warning, but the man merely laughed at me, and, coming down the steps snapped his fingers at the dog, which actually dodged him and ambled on down the road. "The fingers of the foolhardy man were within two inches of the dog's mouth, yet he was not bitten. "After this the beast wandered along the side of a creek, tried to drink, but couldn't, and walked two hundred yards up the bed of the stream before I finally killed him. I had a policeman with me, and do you know that officer refused to shoot the dog. He said it wasn't mad, and he saw no reason for putting it out of the way. "Nevertheless within twenty-three days the dog that had been bitten up the road died of rabies, and thirty three days later the child died of the same disease. I sent the brains of the two dogs to the Paeteur Institute and in course of time learned that both dogs had been afflicted with ra bies. "On the other hand. I had a dog at one time, the- property of two maiden ladies in town, that was sent to me to be killed because it was frothing at the mouth and showing other alleged signs of rabies. I put the animals under observation and in the course of a week had him in such condition that I was able to restore him to his own ers. The difficulty with him, as with many dogs, was that he had been over fed and lacked exereise. "You ask what I would suggest to prevent the spread of rabies. I would do this: First, I would have passed an ordinance giving the police the right to destroy all the curs and mon grels that run abroad without homes. "After that 1 would educate own-. ers of dogs, through the newspapers, to observe the first symptoms of ra bies so that they will be able to detect the disease in its first stages. The dog will do no. harm then. It will. stay right at home and can be de stroyed there before any damage is done." KILLED BY POISON. A Beautiful Girl Bride Charged With Husband's Murder. A special dispatch from Gainesville, Ga., says John W. Tanner, father of Wiley F. Tanner, who died under sus picious circumstances at his home in Clinchem district. this county, Satur day May 23rd, Tuesday afternoon swore out a warrant against Mrs. Onie Tanner, wife of the young man who died, charging her with murder. The warrant was turned cver to Sheriff M. 0. Gilmer of Hall county at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and he immediately left for the home of I. Frank Duncan, father of the young woman, where- she is staying, to make the arrest and bring her back to Gainesville to be incarcerated in the Hall county Jail. The state chemist Tuesday morn ing, forwarded the result of his inves tigations to Dr. J. P. Mfaudlin, of Flowery Branch, who immediately communicated the same to John W. Tanner at his home near Chestnut mountain. Tanner at once hitched up his team and came to Gainesville, where the warrant was sworn out at 5 o'clock. The chemist's annalysis showed nine-tenths of a grain of strychnine in the stomach and glass from which the milk was drunk. This was* sutficient to satisfy Tanner and heat once pro eeded to swear out a warrant charg ing his daughter-in-law with murder. The sheriff will likely reach Gaines ville early in the morning hours to morrow with the fair prisoner, who will, in all probability, occupy z cell in the county jail until the term of Hall superior court, which convenes the third Monday in July. The case is 'one of the most sensational eyger occurring in this county and has caused great in-. terest. Saturday May 23rd. Tenner sat down to his noonday meal, ipparently in the best of health, and in the en joyment of a contented home with his bride of two months. She had aJready partaken of her meal when he arrived, but, like the happy wife she was sup posed to be, she sat down by her hus band and talked pleasantly to him. The meal had only proceeded a short time, when Tanner turned to his wife and remarked that there must be something the matter with the but termilk at the same time asking her to taste it, which she did. She spat out what she drank without swallow ing any and Tanner poured the re mainder in a slop tub, which- was afterwards given some hogs, which, after drinking the milk, died. In a few moments he was deathly sick and, screaming to his wife that he was poisoned, Tanner ran to the home of his uncle, Henry Tanner a short distance away, crying to him that he was deathly sick. His uncle ran towards him and caught him in his arms as he was about to sink to the earth. To his uncle, John Tan ner repeated what he said to his wife, that he had been poisoned. All was done for him that his people knew, but in forty-five minutes life was ex tinct. his body assuming a rigidity that usually attends the administra tion of strychnine or similar poison. A Land Slide. The side of a mountain caved in on the Southern tracks between Spartan burg and Ashville at noon Friday. Thousands of tons of rock and dirt plunged downward completely tilling one of the largest railroad cuts in the mountains of western North Carolina and effectually shutting off all traffic from the south. The landslide oc curred near Tryon, N. C., just at the foot of Saluda mountain. The road had just succeeded in resuming opera tion of trains which were blocked by washouts in Spartanburg county. The present disaster will cause annullment of all trains on this road for at least seven days as tihe authorities say it will be impossible to clear the track before that time. It is also given out that another crack is seen in the rear of the cliff from wbich Friday avalanch descended and it is predicted that another tumble of earth and rock will occur in which case railroad peo ple say t.hat it will be at least 12 days before the running of through trains ann he resumed. KNOWS ALL ABOUT-IT. Gov. Heyward Feels Deeply for the Flood Sufferers. Ten years ago the governor of South Carolina witnessed the suffering that followed the great tidal wave which swept the coast of South Carolina. His own plantation was wrecked, neighbors were rendered penniless and a thousand persons were drowned. Having been a participant in the work of restoring life to the section made desolate by the sea which swept inland for many miles, his sympathies are enlisted with those who are en deavoring to succor the needy, the al most starving people of the Pacolet valley. Having seen the destruction, the desolation of his own section his heart is filled with pity for the doom ed valley of industry in the high lands. Tuesday, in speaking to a repre sentative of The State, Gov. Heyward said: "I am deeply concerned at the appalling disaster that has carried such loss and sorrow to so many South Carolinians. This is especially true regarding the operatives in the mills which were destroyed, because they havi lost all of their property, their homes. many loved ones-everything. Sorrow and sadness go with the des titution and loss of life so suddenly wrought by this awful disaster, and I have cancelled engagements for the next few days in order to remain at my ofice where I can immediately respond to any call made upon me b the exigencies of this calamitous situation. "I have just wired that I cannot be present at the Furman alumni ban quet on Wednesday night, be-ause I wish to give prompt response should my services be needed at any time. "Generous and sympathetic respon ses are being made to my call for help-this assistance coming not only from our own people all over our State, but also from those who live far away, whose hearts too, have been touched by the calamity that has fallen upon us. "In the name of all of our people, and very especially in behalf of those stricken ones upon whom the gloom of sorrow and of suffering has so heavily fallen-I thank all most sincerely for the prompt response which comes with such tender sympathy. "I am doing all I can to render such assistance as may be in my power, and I rejoice to see the pluck and courage shown by those whose loss and whose sufferings are so great. Such faith amid'such trying surround ings can and will strengthen the faith and hope of us all."-The State. HPAVY LOSERS. The Piedmont Floods Have COst the Small Farmers Heavy Losses. A dispatch from Spartanburg to the Charleston Post says a complete list of those who have lost their homes and household goods by Saturday's flood has been completed. It shows the number of sufferers to be 330. Most of these were at mill No. 2, at Clif ton, where the greatest loss of life also occurred. At Pacolet the work of clearing away the debris is progres sing rapidly. Representatives of out of town mills continue to come in and are securing many families from the stricken districts. The directors of the Clifton mills will hold a meeting Thursday night in that city. The company has figured up its loss in a general way, but noth ing was given. cut Thursday. The machinery in the wrecked mills is regarded as a total loss. The com pany is unable yet to estimate what cotton and cloth will be saved, as the goods are scattered down the river for miles. Reports sent to outside papers stat ing -that many sufferers at Clifton were being badly-neglected are strong ly condemned here and denied in toto. Several cars of provisions and cloth ing have already been shipped to the flood district. The committee is do ing all possible to prevent suffering. The loss in the county on account of bridges destroyed was placed at $50,000. Temporary structures are being built as rapidly as possible to render travel possible. The small farmers are sufferers to a much larger extent than is generally known. Many of them have lost half their crops or over. -White Caps. The State says Gov. Heyward was very deeply moved by the story of G. G. Hogan, "Dock" hogan, the young farmer of Dent's,, who was whipped by White Caps Saturday night. He declared that he would of fer a reward of $200 for the arrest of the parties who committed this high handed piece of lawlessness. Detec tives have been put on the case and the governor sincerely hopes that the law will be vindicated in the arrest of the parties guilty of this shocking crime. As yet the governor has no intimation of the identity of the par ties who visited Hogan's home and called him out in the dead hours of the night. Cloudburst in Texas. Seven bodies, the greater portion of which were those of women, have thus far been recovered at Clifton, Ariz., after the torrent from the cloudburst of Tuesday after it spent its fury. The property loss will esti mate $100,000. Houses and stores were swept from their foundations and the persons caught in the flood were drowned. Eight miles of the Arizona and Mexico railway track was washed out and the evening passenger train ias blown over into the canal. Tele graph communication was cut off and word were sent to surrounding towns by runners. An Editor Killed. Editor K. J. Hawkins of the Times and Farmer Thad Bostic had a fight in Dublin, Ga., on Tuesday. Hawk jnls struck Bostick with an umbrella, when the latter cut his throat with a knife, making a mortal wound. The trouble was the result of a longstand ing feud over a lawsuit.. BEATS DR. TANNEt. Dr. Wilkerson, of Augusta, Ga., Has Fasted Forty-three Days. ANN THE END IS NOT YET. He Has Been a Great Sufferer from. Acute Indigestion and is Uz dergoing the Fast Ing Cure. The Auguta Chronicle says Dr. W. Sterling Wilkinson, a wellknown young physician of that city, and an honor graduate of the medical depart menj of the University of Georgia, -s on a fast that piomises to break the world's record for length. Dr. Tan ner's record is already discounted. " Tuesday v-as the forty-third day that Dr. Wilkinson has taken nothing in the iay of nourishment, limiting hima self exclusiv'ely to water. He has- par taken of water freely during the fast.' Throughout the fast he had suffered, no inconveniences,' although he has lost weight yery rapidly. Naturally a man of slight build,~although tall, he is now a living shadow of his former self. Dr. Wilkinson resides with h father,. Mr. Win. M.! Wilkinson, a 417 Secon6d street, and throughout,the fast has confined himself to the home" and its grounds. TAkG D.ATLY EXERCIsE. Dr. Wilkinson takes daily exercise, including walks about the house grounds, and is also using a pair z",' light dumb-bells. 'He declares thather- . feels strong all the time, although any.- , exertion he uidergoes proves to h that he is quite weak. His stomach giving him no trouble whatever. Dr. Wilkinson and his family,. kept very quiet about the matter, only a few intimate friends have b advised of the treatment to whichhe young man has been subjecting hirn self for-the past month or more. 'O in the last day or two has the doctors fast become general property in a news sense and reached tne ears of newspaper men. 4 SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT. The fasting of Dr. Wilkinson is the nature of a scientificstreatment for an aggravated case of idig or dyspepsia, with which he is afi ed. For years be has had the troubl and failing to get relief from all other treatments, adopted the fasting treat-' ment. Recently fasting has been advocat ed for the cure of digestive derang ments, and where tried has beenh ly recommended. It is claimed by' advocates of the method that itp duces permanent cures in nearly istance, and that where it fails, it Js because the treatment was not sisted in long enough. The theory is that the perfect rest afforded by the fasting practically gives the patient new stomach or digestive organs While the organ is not at work it claimed that nature repairs all thegt - damage to the organ from OVerworl and past abuses. - FOLLOWs X'FADDEN. It is 'understood that the treatment~< is nothing more or less than an extend ed use otthe advice of the Physical."Z Culturist McFadden, of New York, who recommends that whenever there is stomach tronble that his pupils fast cue r ikno eivstafor a few days, in order to effect^IN theory of fasting for stomach trouble is the correct one, and be is demon strating its usefullness. Dr. Wilkinson has not yet complet-e. ed .the fast. it is his intention tocon tinue the treatment until his appetite returns, when he will gradually returni to a normal diet. The return of - the-" appetite is said to be an indicatIon that the cure is complete. Of course the appetite must be normal, and must be constantly with the patient. That is, it must not be of the kind that comes and goes, but the desire for nourishment must be continnous. FELT HUNGRY TWICE. Dr. Wilkinson has already at times felt the return of his appetite, but as yet does not think that it is constant and normal. He believes that the next few days will see the return of his normal appetite and a complete cure of his trouble. If the _experiment proves successful, and Dr. Wilkinson has no doubt in his mind that it will, it will be a val uable addition to the medical know edge of the profession. Thousanids are sufferers from derangements of the digestive organs and would gladly un dergo a season of fasting if they knew it would afford them relief and a' per manent cure. Dr. Wilkinson in no - way desires notoriety as a faster and is not refraining from eating in order to make a record along this line. It was his desire that nothing be said about the treatment he is undergoing until it is completed and the degree of success could be definitely reported. Queer Advertisement. Here is a curious advertisement, re published in The Cornhill Magazine from an eighteenth century paper: "Wanted-For a family who have bad - health, a sober. steady person, in the capacity of a doctor, surgeon and apothecary. He must occasionally act in the capaCity of butler and dress hair and wigs. Hie will be requiredt~o read prayers occasionally and to preach a sermon every Sunday. The reason of this advertisement is that the fai ly cannot any longer afford the expense of the physical tribe, and wish to be at a certain expense for their bodies and souls. A good salary will be given."_________ Smothered in a Bin. T wo boys were smothered to death while playing in the wheat bin of the Gallatin mills at Nashville, Tenn. Wednesday afternoon. A search was instituted when the boys failed to put in an appearance for supper and it was not until Thursday morning that their naked bodies were found at the bottom of the bin in which they had been drawn by the suction of the rapid exhaustion of grain through the elevator chute. The lads were Henry Smith and Hugh Lanier and they [wer between S nde 9 years old.