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VO. x. XXMA NNING,S. C., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20,1907. NO.21 MANY PERISH. Over One Hundred People Drown ed by the Sinking OF A LARGE STEAMER. It is l)hmbtful if the New England Coast Has Ever Had a More Ph-adful .ccident Th a tae one Which Otertook The Steamer Larch'nont Studay Night, Feb ruary 10th. A marine disaster with an appall ing loss of life and entailing suffer ing almost beyond the limit of human endurance came to light Thursday when a lifeboat of the Joy line steamer Larchmont. bound from; Providenee to New York, drifted into Mioek Island harbor. In the bor.t were several bodies of men who had died from the ef fects of long hours of exposure to a death dealing -temperature. In the bor-t ih'o were 11 men' whose 1 sufferings were so intense that they I eeaned oblivious to the fact that death was-in their midst and that .hey had escaped only by virtue of heir abiity- to withstand the rigor of zero weather in an open >oat ai. sea. The boat brought a tale of dis- c ister tLat has rarely been equalled 2 n New England waters and it is )elieved that when the final count s- made it will be found that not ess thu 130- lives were lost. Fol- C owing closely in the wake of. the a olitary life boat came bodies. cast I ipon the beach by angry waves. t 'hen .eame life boats and rafts. I ach of them bore their burden of I :rim death as well as a load of suf- I ering humanity, and each -brouhtk . tale of horror. Owing to the condition of the t ;urvivors of the tragedy it was in- a ossible to get from them an esti- I ate-of the loss of life. Anywherell rom 75 to 150 persons went to d heir death. and at a late . hoer 0 'hurstay night it was believed that 3 le latter figue is nearer correct 3 han the former. ,For several hours after he was a -escued. Capt. McVey of the Larch nont was not able to talk. -When e had partly recovered, he com mnicated with his home and later p ictated the following statement 'of u he disaster to a correspondent of 9 e Associated Press: . d "We left Providence at 7 o'clock t L brisk northwest wind was bloir- f ng and we were off Watch Hill t< Lt about 11 o'clock. I had gone welow to look over the passengerm aid freight, leaving a good. pilot t nd quartermaster in -the pilot t: iouse. passing through there on my b ay to nly room. Everything was- p . k. in the pilot house as I stepped to my room, and prepared to re ire for the night. Suddenly ] e eard the pilot blo w'ing danger an~d a hurried into the pilot htouse. There 1 as a schooner on the port side and t er crew seemed to have lost con- t rol of her. Without warning sht ! uffed up and before we had oppor- I unity to do a thing headed for us he quartermaster and pilot put he wheel hard aport. but the othe, - at was sailing along under heava . reze and in a moment she has rshed into our port side, directi: )posite the smokestack. I triec : signal tot he engineer and - mate ut the collision had broken tht nain steam pipe, filling that par f the 'boat with steam and cutting )ff communication with 'the pilot touse. -"After cutting into our vessel, the chooner 'fell away and disappear d to the~ leeward. Isent the quer ernaster -below and in a few minI tes he reported that the ship was filling rapidly. The officers and . rew were summoned to their- sta ons and when I saw that thr archmenlt was settling. I orderec1 all hands to prepare to leave th ship. When i saw that every ont was nmkingr endy-.to escape as fast s possible. I w:ent to my boat~ which was hanging on the davits.I ad took into it six of the jgrew and our p:asengers. When the steamesf ad -seutled almost to the waterh dge, we cleared away after we ha( tlade suire that there were no pas senger's on board who had not beet aken careof. A fter our boat hat dropped into the water we remainle< in the immediate vicinity until tht steamer sankr and then we pulle gy-ay. The boat. was a heavy one and we found it impossible to rov to the wijidward, so we turned tc the leward and started for Bloc] Island. The cold was terrible. struggled for hours and hours. an' the pain from our frostbitten hand: aud fee' w;as almost un bearable. Onmc of our men. a seamen. became crazec and commnitted suicide in the boat hv' cut ting . his throat. No one in te beat had streangth enough tc' preventt him from doing it. We arrived- here at 6:30 o'clock in the monin1I very much exhausted -and frozen.' The cause of the accidetit has not been satisfictorily explained. It ocurred just off Watch Hill, about 11 oc'ck Monday night. Feb. .11. when the three moasted schoonier. Harry K-nowkton, bound from South Amboy for Boston. with a cargo, of coal crashed in-to the steamers port. side r.ni::ships. Captain George McVealy. of the Larchmnont. declares thr th'-i Knowlton suddenly swerved fremi her course. luffed up into the wind ;::nd crashed into his vessel. Captain Haley of the Knowiton, as-; srts that the steamer did not give his ve'- el sufficient sea roomr and that the collision occurre-d before ho1 4e his schooner out of the na, of the oncoming steamer. The. steamer, with a huge hole* trn int her side, was so serioulY danae d thai no atrtmpt was made to run for shore. and- she sank- to h'e bot oml in less than half an hoii' The Knowlton, afer -she backed away from the wreck.' began to filb rapidly. but her - crew manned tht pmn: s and ktpt her afloat until she reahe p oint oft QuonochOntaug. where they put. oUt in the lifatoat and rowed asnore. Thert we-re no fatilitir s on the schooner, but the. men s: f ered from the extreme cold. Captain Frank P. Haley. of. the schoo''r :tiys t hat the accident .a entirelv due to the seamer- H*e said that his lights were burning and he held to his course. with tile ex pectation that the steamer, having sighted him, would pass him with plenty of sea room. When he found that the steamer would not turn out. Captain Haley said it was too late to avert a collision. The impact was so terrific that %.he big, clumsy bow of the sailiun craft forced its way more than hall the breadth of the Larchmont., The schooner temporarily remained fast in the steamer's side, holding in check for a moment the inrushing water. But the pounding sea soon seperated the vesels, and as they backed away the water rushed into the gaping hole in the steamer with a velocity that could orly mean the swift doom of the passenger vessel. A49 the inpouring water struck the boiler rooms clouas of steam arose. and the panic stricken passengers. all of whom had been thrown fron their banks when the collision oc curred. were at first under the im ,pression that a lire had broken out on board. , e passengers rushed to the decks. Few of them had waited to; clothe themselves. Their fear was so great that the first penetrating: blast of the zero temperature was disregarded. but the suffering from the cold and water soon became so; intense thatpe rsonal safety was forgotten in a general effort to keep the blood in circulation. Those; who had not stopped to clothe them Pelves now found it impossible to return below and do so. Their rooms were flooded soon tfter they had been deserted and he steamer was sinking with a ra dity tha sent terror to the hearts >f the officers and crew. While! some of the seamen held back the 'rantic passengers by brute srtength Ahers were preparing to lower the' ife boats and rafts. The women iuffering more intensely than the en, were placed in lifeboats. the nab passengers and members o fthe rew selecting- the unprotected rafts' s the vehicle of escape., Capt. McVey remained on the up r deck directing his officers and rew until cvery one on board ap eared to have been caredf or. lie' dered all lifeboats and rafts cut nd before he stepped into his boat e stood on the upper deck a moment o see that his order was executed. 'hen he ordered that his boat, the, argest on board. be cleared away. ,very hand in the boat was too cold o handle a knife and ut the ropes, i hich, however slipped through the ackles, and set the boat adrift just s the vessel became submerged. 1 he pitable condition of the passen ers and crew was increased a hun- 1 red fold the moment they had i aunched their boats. Every wave , ent its dash of spray over boats< .nd their contents Soon a thin coating of ice envel ped every one. One man in the aptain's boat, although dressed rarmer than many others was rdiven msane by his intense suffering. He uilled a big ciasp knife from his ocket and gashed his throat. Those I rho sat near him either were too azed to interfere or looked upon i be act of self destruction as justi ed. The unknown man's body fell!2 the bottom of the boat. f Fisher's Point. the nearest point t f landing, was not quite five miles y the westward of the point where t be steamer went down and every I oat immediately headed for that c lace. A fifty-mile gale blew on beir backs as the men strained at be ice-covered oars in a hopeless( ndeavor to overcome the handicap gainst which they were struggling. 'he boats and rafts soon becamet eperated andt he only details ofi be terrible disaster which could be.a earned here were given when Capt. leye's boat came ashore.t Not a man on board was a ble to ralk. Thhir feet were so badly frozenI adly that the life savers carried the urvivors bodily to tne life saving tation. Shortly after his arrival Lere the captain said he had on card his smp between 150 and 200 assengers and a crew of fifty. KILLED) BY EXPLOSION. even Men Die Instantly in Accident on a Steamer. Seven men were killed. three in ured and considerable damage sus-. ained by the vessel by an explosion: board the German steamship Valdi a at sea on Wednesday. 'The ac ilent was reported when the steam r arrived at New York on last Sat trday. A donkey engine-s boiler expoded. hbrowing the steamer's funnel over nd ripping open the upper decks. (he seven dead were killed instantl: scaing steam eveloped the steam r creating a scene of great cou utsion. The chief officer on duty on the >ridge was buried in the debris. He said that when the explosion oc urred that everything seemed to a!l over the bridge on the fore' lek All the life boats were dam-. iged. All the inner structure mb;:ft the bridge were completely~ .orn at. When the exposioni occurred the :teamer' was stopped and every body tshed to the rescue of the im.gred.: ('he dead were so mashed that it wa~ i'.h difficulty that the bodies wver' eured. The dead were buried at: The cause of the explosion is not tuown, and will inot be until an ex-: irainationi can be made by the au horites at *New York. The explo si came without warning, and :aamd great excitement. Murder and Suicide. Leonard T. Brown. :36 years ot age, a merchant , and Margueret 3t:-awb, aged 26. were both found dlead in rear of the former's store at Washington, D. C. The discov or- was made early Tuesday morn i'ni when two employeesof the store. Claude C. Gaidner and Lee H. Smith went to work. The district coro oner after an investigation said that it was a case of murdr and smecide Miss Strawb and Brownl were found lying on a cot the latter with one bullet wound in his mouth. wvhile the former was shot four times. A re:olver was found on the floor he sde the cot. Brown was a muarried~ 'u:in with one child. and the pohce said that he attempted suieide re cttly by inhaling gas. Te'rriftic Ex'plosion. With a roar that was plainly heard above the street noises of New York a big oil tank in the Standard Oi! storage plant at Constable Hook. N. .. exoloded Wednesday. So great was the concussion that windows more than a mile distant from t-h" sc'e were shattered and build ings many miles away were shaken. For tunately the tank which exploded was an isolated one aind only three' persons wvere injured. GOV. ANsrtJS STAFV Appoint ments Announced by theG< ernor Includes Prominent .Men. Governor Ansel has announced the appointments to his personal staff. as follows: .Col. X. F. Stevenson. of Chera% Quarternaster General. Col. 13. A. Morgan. of Greenvill. Judge Advocate General. Col It. P. Hamer. Jr.. of .Uarje:. Commissary General. Cil. D. W. Daniel. ofClemson Col lege. Chief of Ordnance. Col. V. V. Aloore. of Barnwe. Aide-de-camp. Col. .os. G. Wartim. of York ville. Aide-de-ei-np. COL 1). 0. Herbert. of Orange burg. Aide-de-camp. Lreut. Col. D. A. Geer, of Belton. Aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. F. S. Evans. of Green wood. Aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. Alvin Etheridge, of Saluda. Aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. W. W. Ball. of Char leston, Aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. Win. .-anks, of Colum-! bia. Aide-de-camp. j Lieut. Col. T. B. Butler. of Gaff ney. Aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. Sam T. McCravey, ofI Spartanburg. Aide-de-camp. This number is in addition, of course, to General J. C. Boyd adjn- f tant and inspector general. .Under the Dick law the new col onels and lieutenants colonels have to be appointed on the staff of a : governor as prescribed for and forj that reason the staff of Governorl Ansel. is not as numerous as the! staffs of the former governors. buf what is lacking n numbers is made up in quality and soldierly fitness. The gentlemen honored by his e.x ellency are among the most sub stantial citizens of the state. MUST SEIVE', SENTENCE. *eorge Hasty~ Must Spend Ilis Lire t4 in State Prison. George lasty, aged 21. will spend] :he rest of his natural life in the i state prison The Stat- Supreme aourt Wednesday rend-red its de %ision ~ affirming the action of the :ircuit court, and the decision means hat the sentence of life imprison nent will stand. I Hasty murdered Milan Bennett mnd Abbott Davison a: Gaffney on the norning of the 1.3th of Decembher, . 1905. The case w:,s tried in Gaff iey last March ord created great nterest. for the 'eople who were tilled were membf-rs of a theatrical ompany and their brothers of the )rofession raised a fund to employ awyers so that the accused might iot escape punishment if he were 'uilty. The trial was dramatic in many 11 rays. The court horse was crowd d. several times there being 200 adies present. At tim'es there was Lppause which Jnudge Memminger vas iorced to suppress. This case t vas a test of the abiity of Judge iO Iemminger and he came to the ront. Thc arg-s-eyed attorneys for he defendart searched for every t rgue for a new trial. There were hirteen exceptions to his rulings. n every case ti supreme court has verruled the exceptions and Judge lemminger's rulings stand. The sympathy of the people of ~affney was w'it h the deceased and he conviction of Hasty was receiv d with pleasure. lie killed the wo men because they resented his nsulting approaches to tw*o young; vomen of the company, which was ilaying at Gaffney at thetinme of thet ragedy. Hasty will have to se-re:e tis time out, as there is no chance f his being p~ardonedl. LOST GAME. KILLED HISELF.b :1 'olicemian After Playing D~ominoes With His Wife, Shot Himself. That Policeman Ilouis S. Rouse. popular officer. who ran a beat in he Second Police District, Cincin iatti, determinrd his fate on the -esult of a game of dominoes with* lis wife, is the belief of the coroner ind. his friends. After a closely con ested game with her, played after ue went off duty late Wednesday 1 uight, the officer left the domino ta >le. went into an adjoining roon ind. drawing a revolver, fired a bul et through his brain, dying within t. half hour. The wife, who suspected nothing layed with great skill. .blocking1 every one 01' her husband's moves *klade enthusiastic by the joys of :ictory, she exclaimed: "i have v on. "I have lost." respondled Ro use. is he arose to fire the fatal shot. The officer was involved in debts and consequently comlainled of his lbad luck. Tuesday night he spent an hour with fellow~-officers and seemued unusually despondent. He made several remarks that they >ad little attention to, but w'hich in the light of what has happened. eads them to believe lie c'ontem alated eniding his hatd lutck by end lug his life. lHe frequently played dominuoe with his wife. and it is thought d -'ided to ac(ceplt the result of the1 last gam:e he playe.d with her as an augur of' what 'ihe future promised. Youthful IHusband Ibeserts. .\ special from Spaitanbturg t The State says Mr's. .Martha AXrant. aged 70 years. who lived near Swit :zer, is searching for her husband. J. T. Arant, a young man about 18 years of age. who disappeared sonme time aao. The young man first met his wife when he wvent to work on heri r'ar'm as a laborer. Aftera short time Cupid began to shoot his darts and both fell victims to the arrows and wet'e married. Young Arant took his departture some time ago. carrying with him a snug sum of his wife's savings. The de serted wife is anxious for her huts-: h-ad to return, as the season is readly for making arrangements for anotther' cro). D~ashed to Pieces. E'llis Rare, w'ho lived just beyond the 101) of the Blue Ridge mounttain. in Ashe conuty. wvhile on his wvay from Wilkesbor'o witht a- loaded wa tonl and team. lost his footing on what is known as the 'iumup ing off pilace" on the Bltue Ridge, and with wagot3 and team was precipitated downl the awful precipice several hundred reet. Mr. Bare was walo lng along the precipice holding the ines wh'en his f'oot slipped. Hold m;a to the, linos he was dashed don the t~ami followiug. The preciplice is a solid rock almost per'pendiulhar and in) places is 500 feet high. Blare and his 'tem were totri to- frog WON'T HANG. A. Aams Convicted of Murdcr Goes Up Life. H: KILLED JACQUES. Th1 -Pardon Board Acted Upon a -Number of Other Prominent Cases as WeUl as Many Minor Cases, A Complete List of Which is Given Below. Gov. .Ansel Sat With the I Board. On the recommenjdation of the Boaird of Pardons. Gov. Ansel on I last Wednesday commuted the death seutoce of R. A. Adams, of Colle ton County. to life imprisonment. Adams is the white man who has ] t1ree timies heeni under the sertence of death, was once a fugitive from justic with a reward of $1.000 of fered for his capture; and his case I caused an en lbanc session of all the C justices and judges of the State. r Adams k3Hed 'HenryJacques. a white d neighbor. -in 1903. He was tried L ind on ter.viction sentenced to death. tE The foillowing pardons were rec >iunended: 1. Ex parte Samson Brown, Mar- Y on, murder with recommendation .0 mercy: The board recommendslf hat the petition for pardon in this .ase be granted upon the ground )f tl physical condi'im of the piis 2. Ex parte Hu-irriett Williams, Bauilort. murder with recommenda ion to mercy: The board wil recom nend that a full pardon be granted d Jkz he prisoner. and this recommenda- be ion is basted upon doubts which le: een:ed to have surrounded the cir- de umstances of the killing, the char-! icter of the deceased, the length of ha erm already served by the petitio -e r, and her exemplary character er hile in the penitentiary. to 3. Ex parte Daniel Grant, Barn- th Vecll. car breaking: The board rec- w( >mmends a full pardon in this b :ase based upon the extreme youth :rime, the recommendation of the gla f thep etitioner at the time of the pa olicitor, and the exemplary conduct t ,f the prisoner while in the peniten lis iary. The following commutption or! entences were rcomiended: 1. Ex parte R. A. Adams. Colle- I on. murder: The recommendation pe f the board in this case is that the rh entence be commutated to impris-- his nment for life in the penitentiery i t hard labor. The board was moved cu a recommend this clemency largely st pon the grounds that in the judge 1ent of the board the verdict should thE ave been murder with recommen-! lo at ion to mercy. i ab 2. Ex parte Geo. C. Bell, Ilorry. a manslaughter: The board recom ta ends that the sentence' in this '.ase a I e commuted to two years 'confine- ro' ent in the penitentiary at hard of ibor. This recommendation isbasted pon the facts set forth in the peti ion and 'the recommendations there a attached. an 3. Ex parte John Hall. Orange- pa: urg, burglary: The board recom- itoi 2ends that the sentence in this case ti e commuted to ten years' imprison- Th ent in the penitentiary at hard sic bor. The board is moved to make1 mi nis recommendation largely upon tin be ground (1) that the se-ntence un eemed to have been severe and (2) cal pon 'the recommendation of the gil rosecutor. tal The following petitions were re- soi used: .thi 1. Ex parte Luther Woodson. An- of erson, manslaughter. The board de especfully recomnmends that the pe ition in this case be not granted. 'he verdict was manslaughter and he sentence imposed was threeyears a t hard labor on the public works or tir n the Stare penitentiary. coa 2. Ex parte R. F. and J. H. Rich-| Th y, Anderson, assault and battery w md resisting an officer. The board wi ecommends in this case that the pe- be. ition be not granted. The assaultI ey vas upon the sheriff while in the' i lischarge of his duty in an attempt lie o preserve the peace. \ttention is i alled t~o the fact that though these th< ;rties were tried and sentenced atju ie fall term. 190.5. Anderson coun-' , that the prisoners are still at arge and have not yet commenced erving their sentence 3. Ex parte John Whieatley. Spar- th: ,anburg. assault and battery with in-m et to kill: The hoard recommendI~s .hat the patiiionm be not granted- th:; . Ex parte Levi Manigault. Char-sy eston. murder with the recomm renda- an :ion to mercy and implrisonmlent in the lhe penitentiary for life: The board ca: ecomnends that this petition be not wa ;ranted. on 5. Ex parte Milford 3MeComnbs- va herokee. manslauighter: sentence are? years hard labor on the public 'orks or in the penitentiary:Tc oard is of opinion that all umitiga- m ing circumustanes must, have i)('n cri :onsidered by the trial judge. ne 6. Ex partle Oscar Biackmnore.tr .airftld. foi gery; sentence two al retrs in thm" penitentiary: The boni d be 'ecommflends that the petition be not w ;ranted. J 7. Ex parte Verner Honlowa; au Greenville. arson: sentence flfte.not rears in the~ penitenltiary: The board of recon enas that this petiLson be W4 not granted. El S. Ex parte Miley Best. lHorry, ar assault with intent to ravish: sen ence 10 years in lhe penitentiary: The board recommends that this Pe tition be nor granted, in 9. Ex parte . .il Kenney. 31arlboro. ce ~urglary and larceny; sentence two g years and six months: T he board h< recommends that this petition be not e granted, in * .Ex parte Carey Liles. Marl-g boro. burglary and larceny: The Idi board recommends that this petition hi be not granted. . h 11. Ex parte Green Franklin ci Marlboro. manslaugo ter: sentence three years in the penitentiary:The board recommndts that this petition be not granted4. 2. Ex par!" l)avid .Jamt's. Spar-~ tanbur'g. violation dispensary law:s sentence six mnonths and a fine of B $100": The board recommends that the pardon in this case be not granted.a :1. Ex porte l~ennis Bird. Ker- t s. nansanwhter sentence v'e years on the public, works or peni tentiary at bard lobor: The board recommends the petition in this case be not granted. Gov. Ansel acted in accordance with the above recommendations. He sat with the pardon board and heard the arguments, but was not with them whie they deliberated. PROHIBITION BILL CONTINUED. How the Members of the House Vo ted on Prohibition In the House last week Mr. Rich ard asked that Mr. Nash's prohibition bill be taken up out of its regular or-, der. He said he wanted to put the House on record in the matter. An tye and nay vote was called for on Hr. McMaster's motion to continue he bill and the vote was as follow's: Ayes-Arnold, Ausd. 1aalentine, 3eattie, Banks. Brantley. A. G. Brice, 3ryan, Clary, Carey, Cosgrove, Coth-1 an. Courtney, Cox, DeVore, Dixon. . H. Dodd, Fraser, Frost J. P. Gib-. on. W. J. Gibson, Greer, Gyles, Hall, [arley, Harman, Harrison, Hemphill, lershaw, Lawson. Legare, McMaster. [ann, Miller Nesbitt. Niver. Parker, atterson. Richardson, Rucker, Saye, carboro, Sellers, Shipp, K. P. Smith, homas, Todd, Tompkins. Vander- T ost, Verner. VonKolnitz, Wade, Valker, Wallace, White, Wiggins, Nniberly. Wingard,-58. Nays-Ayer, Bailey, Bethune., I oyd, T. S. Brice. Cannon. Carsonjc tiller, Derham. Dick. Dingle. J. B. od, Douglass: Gary, Glasscock, Good 'in, Harris, 'Hinton, Hughes, Hy rick, Jones, Kirven, Lester, Leitnr, c ittle, McCoa McKown, Miley, Mor- f c r, D. L. Smith. J. E. Smith, Stil- a 11, Nash, Reaves, Richards, Robin- I n. Sawyer, Scruggs, Sharpe, Slaugh ell. Stubbs. Tatum, Woods. Wyche, 0 ldell-4 S. rhe line up was clearly dispensary id anti-dispensary with one or two ceptions. BODY PUT ON TRACK. r Someone to Hide the Crime of Foul Murder. r! A Roanoke. Va.. dispatch says it . veloped Thursday that the un-' own man who was thought to have C en killed on the Shenandoah Val- t - division Saturdty night. was mur- a red and th6 body placed on the th tek. The identity of his slayer s not been ascertained. 01 Saturday night a man with sev- nc il L' .ding gashes in his head went fr, the depot at Hollins and stated tr: it he and a friend who had been rking on the Tidewater road had fe n made drunk by a third man TI o tried to rob them. In tthe strug-! is which ensued, he said his com- is aion was killed and placed on the m .ck by the man who had killedhim pe e man gave no names, and has wj appeared. lei he engineer says that he did not 00 the man on the track unti al st on him, and that he appeared fi ecty lifeless, with his head on an rail. There was a long gash on hu throatwhich could not have been mi sle by the engine, and all the cir- m4 n!stances seem to bear out the ho y told by the other man.t. flo he dead man was buried besile eil tr.ack near the spot whero he ho t his life. Ie was apparentty pe t : :ea~rs~ of age. and weighed nI ,I 5) pournds. He had light mus- wl e aid hai, and was dressed in ie flannel shirt :md light cordu- jfr< trouser's. He had own two suits! th< undrlothing. w - - to Killed in Explosion-- ov he boiler of the engine pulling ac Ontario and WVestern railroad of ~seger t.rain which left Middle- m~ ~-n. N. Y.. Thursday afternoon at pr ee o'eloek exp.oded near' .Luzon. th train at ihe time of the explo ii was running at the rate of 40 yo les an houri. The fireman, Mar- de Mullen. of .ilddletown, and an a snown man woo was riding in un of the engine, were killed: En-im er eadlwood of Walton. was mor- ho y injured and several other per- ha s were seriously injured, among su mi being Conductor C. E. Doell.al Middletown, who had his shoul- Ian Sbroken and was hurt internally. di: ori Fatally Burned. Ith' t Covington. Ga.. Nettie Smith. niddle-aged negress. was the vic- co of a frightful accident at the an ton mills Wednesday afternoon. cli e woman was working around a Ial sh plot in the yard of her home abj en some of her wearing apparel on ae ignited from the blaze and lai ry vestige of her clothing was bu ned from the body before re- It could be obtained. The physi- Cl n attending the case says that 00 woman cannot survive her in-fa ies. til Steel s From Moving Train. t Mt. Vernon. Ill.. Will WVilliamns th s captured Friday night, while gr owing freight from a car on a ra ing train of the Louisville and of shville Railroad. lHe confessed a t for years he had carried on a s ;teatic robbery along this line.-i i that his spoils would amount to Ici usands of dollars. On this oc- th on the right of way for a mnile St s strewnwithgoods he hadthrowni i . and the amount recovered was be ued at $500. teo Train Ran into Coach. S wo wromen were killed and two a n badly injured at a railroad d )ssing in Long Island City \fed-. an rdav when a Long Island railroad sk in 'struck and demolished a fuit se coach containing three persons ha tides the driver. Mr's. Nelli-e Ter' liger and Miss Sarah Hallady of th sey City were instantly killed i - Eliott Terwilniger. husband ofth of the women, and James Hlealy w Brooklyn, driver of the coach. i e seriously injured. Edward be iott, the engineer of the train was 'ested. infernal Msachiine G'alor'e. to There seems to be no-end to the -mr' enal machines in Russia. R(- '.a ittiy as Count Witte opened ms m int door and started into the hall, stumbled over an internal ma- tr in. In his bedroom, while search g in the dark for mnatches. hishandm llupon an mter'nal machine. tOn- a 'essed, he pushed hisrevolveCr uinder a pillow bhtt it struct something rd and cold--anlother internal am-a in. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Boy Prievenlts Wreck. Madison C- .Jones. aged 12 years. w that a portioni of a six hundred t trestle bad been burned near larks Gap on the Southern near ringbamf. Ala.. flagged an ap- t 'oachig passenger train from Bir- .'H ingham. The rain came to a halt ii id the pasengers upon - discoverimg:ii te situation made upi a lImrT~e for i i te boy GAUNT FAMINE. Hunger Kills Millions of People in Chinese Empire. CHILDREN DEVOURED. Thousands of Chinese Turn Into Cannibals and Eat Dead Hunan kings. European and American i Countries Slow to Aid the Starr inlg Millions in China-Detais of Wide-Spread Horror. Guant famine is stalking abroad ver 40,000 square miles of the Chi iese empire. Hunger has claimed he lives of over a million Chinese nen, women and children. The :r ible god of want day by day grows nore gluttonous in his appetite for uman lives and countless Celestialb re offered to the grim monster, De ause food cannot be obtaired for )ve nor money. In the foreign countries no con eption of the utter misery "11t louds this area of China, in exteit C c s large as North Carolina and Vir-1 inia. is possible. Imagine a stte [ affairs in which parentsare brought eating their own chilJ1rci and ildren driven to devour'ng the wvn grandmothers and grand fathers! ! uch a condition faces over I 400, )Q Chinese. and the cond:timns are s ,coming worse every day. In the heart of the stricken di et the survivors have hecoie so I eakened from lack of foodthqycan- 11 t properly bury their dead. As a 10: nsequence diseases of the wor.e u ye may break out at any mome::t 0: d the scourge may sweep the tr e whole vast Celestial empire. The, ly thing that will save the millions S( w on the verge of death is he! N >m European and American Coun- tr es. ti Appeals have been sent out but in iv answers have been received. I fr is is unaccounted for, ais fanaue i s considered international. Hungeri'n above politics, religion and diplo-It icy, and the Chinese and Eniro- F ans in Pekin cannot uader.stand 3. h some means is not foi:rl to nl- ta riate the suffering of :h- '. 0P.- si 0 famine-stricken Celhsti:,Is. I ar Daily. men, women and chi!dre:1i th ht like beasts of the forest over; ounce of rice. The pangs r.f led nger gnawing at the vitals of the 1 th llions have turned men and wo-:s m into beasts of prey. Since their th nies were destroyed by the great bE od of the Eaugste Kiang river. 2 ,ht months ago. whole armies of:' meless people have fought des rately for food and life. Many W tde their way o the large cities in tile they had srength to walk. in Those who put off their exodus bi >m the flood-swept district until tiE Sfinger of starvation pointed to .rd them, had not strength enough wak wo miles a day and so were;f rtaken by death, dying in char :eristic of starvation. In the belt death it is not uncommon to see t in and women going through im 3ssive ceremonies before killing g ir children for food. bI Thousands upon thousands of h ug Chinese have been so put to G ath, that their parents might live . little longer to wrestle with th. - compromising god of famine. Olii m and old women. dogs, cats. res, rats, snakes and carrion birds ye been devoured by he strongest* rvivors in the belt of hunger. Now t he old people and the birds and: d he rats and the cats have been C posed of as food and the surviv- ht 3 who were now fighing among h. amselves. ' r The famine district of China is aprised in tpie provinces of Kiagsu t d Chekiang. These two provinces gi im about one-fourth of the popu-a ion of the Enmpire of China, or out 100,000,000 souls. It is st ly a partofthisterritory and popu- T on that is affected by the famine't t stiil the figures are applallmng. at is estimated at he present time by l iese officials that about 10,000, 0 are feeling the heavy hanmd of nine and .its sister destroyer. pes-1 i ene, and of this number there are )00. Twenty per cent. of the people m e famine district are eating only iel at the present time. and the: ages are only beginning. Many. this numbler have only one mealN hty. The meal to make gruel will m an he gone, and then the people, th the wonderful patience of the inese. will sette down and await. time to reap their rice crops5 next; ie, knowing full well that the ijorityor the famished waiters will e dead before the season comes. cc But the famine in the refugee ceni-t s is nothing to what it is in then :erior. Here everything is gone. w dl the gaunt hand of famiue isw y clutching the throats Of thlous- m ds who ba'.e wasted away to liyig r letons. It would bc useless to p ad these people monley as theym e nothing to bny. Thousandsm bags of rice ar being sent up. but g ese are all consumed on the mere! tb nge of t he vast5 area. Deep) in'. e interior the p~eop~le are lying a ereever they ral,. too weak to e ve, and wait for the end that has hE n aproaching for months. hi Wanted 1Four Thousand. At Spencer. La., Miss \Iable 1,.ut man is suing Geo. A. Romney. a t -h1 banker. for four~ thousand dol- \\ rs. n her j)etitionl. Miss Lutter- sc an declares that while Rlomey was di a visit tol her hlome in the coun- inl - he pat ted her on the back, pinch- \ he armlfs. petted and tickled her w dr tihe chill and Lwied to put his H] m around her. She said the acts s used her to be ill and nervous a; id gave her much mental anguish.w mey is prominent in state bank- i g circules and* reputed to he ap illionaire. S After thle Papers. A special from Lebanou.MKy.. says ocounty grand jury Thursdayn gt returned indictments again-st a e Cincinnati Enquirer. Louisville a era. Louisville Times and Even ~Post for printing and circulating dI this country rhe "offensive and:i decet" proceedings of the Thaw n1 'lal. b SERIOUS WRECK. The Engineer and Fireman of One Train Killed. The Flagman is Held Responsiblfe for the Collision and Has Been Ar rested and Put in JaiL The State says Engigeer Nor ton, recently of Columbia. formerly." of Pawnell, N. Y.,' and his fireman, Sevier Dean, colored, of Ninety-Six, were killed in a rear-end cbllision at Johnston on Tuesday, Feb. 12th,. Ex tra freight train No. 263 was run into by extra through freight train No. 344 i'n the Southern Raijway yards it Johston early that. morning. Engineer J. E. Stewart and Condue tor Black and a negro brakeman by the name of West Goodwin were njured while'a callaboose, supply car ind two box cars were destroyed by ( Ire, a new l6comotive badly damaged i ind the main line t rack consideraby :orn up as a result of the accident. t The entire cause of the wreck was 1 0 lue to the wilful neglect of Flagman I W. Mooring, according to the ver ict of the coroner's jury rendered at e ohnston the same afternoon, and he f s in the county jail to await n1 evelopme . It was also brought 0 ut at the inquest that the crew had h een on duty over 32 hours when the a Dllision occured. When the news of the wreck C eached Columbia a wrecking train b: arrying a wrecking crew of work ien left the union statffil about 4 t 'clock with Chairman B. L. Caugh ian of the State Railroad Commis- 0 on and several of the division offi- .s als. aboard. c On investigating the cause of the reek it was learned that the train T o. 263, original No. 45, going south, s the charge of Conductor D. C. 'right and Engineer Latiner, was t the main line preparing to take t loaded cars from the cotton seed r I mill,w hen it was run into by to ain No. 344, also going south,and hi charge of Conductor J. E. Stewart m The two trains were running on hedule time and. when Conductor s right of train No. 263 stopped his th ain on the main line to, take on P1 e box cars he sent Flagman Moor- tel g out to flag the extra through af eight No. 344, which was due on ortly and it is alleged and an mlaced in the coroner's verdict gr at it was through the failure of w agman Mooring to give train No. -i 4 proper warning that the ca- thi strophe occurred. The colis- be D took place on a sharp curve hu d Engineer Stewart did not see .c0 e danger until it was too late. frc Engineer Norton, who was kill- in in the accident, was in thi e conductor's cab of the train Piz anding on the main line when ou e - collision took place. He had en on the engine of train No~. cal 3 making his initial run in com- ex ny with Engineer Latimer and thi .d left the engine to take a rest tra ien the through freight dashed W1 o the cab in fhich he was sleep- wb . killing him instantly, and pit rning his body beyond recogni n. When Engineer Stewart of trail I .344 saw the danger he jumped Isal >m his cab and escaped, being at ly slightly injured. The fireman,!th vier' Dean, however., did not see' h e danger in time and his body is found in a car box under a !COD le of guano sacks with his head dly mashed. He is supposed to m2 ye been killed ~outright. West >odwiu. the ntgro brakeman, who er is injured, sustained a fracture NE Sleg, while Engineer Stewart Fr d Conductor Black are only slight I -~ injured. Tuesday afternoon while sup rintending the work of removing e wreck. Foreman Winters of thc fiv ecking train and a resident of ral lumbia, was struck on the fore- Oi ad by a link which flew out of a suj )yifs chain and received ihju- th< ts which will probably prove fa- sa: I. The engine of the 'wrecking Pc ini was moving the wrecked en- Jfrc ne of train No. 344 by means of fet large chain when one of the links thi rted, with the result that a link ruck Mr. Winter's in the head. ie injured man was brought tc - e city late WVednesday afternoon No di was placed in the hands of a wh: yscinn. At a late hour last !.er ;itwas le~arned~ that he; Wa: ii in a au nuconscious condi- H ml and little hopes are entertaiu-n for his recovery. .s The work of removing the debris ;et is co0nclud~ed Wednesday af'ter sou and afi tri'nu !ast night passed rough. The body of Enginecer I >rton has been sent to Pawnell- el Y.. to rela tievs, while the re- m ains of the rnegro fireman will be bei ipped to Ninety-Six this morning. o sir Mur'dere'r at Large.-co A reward of $!5,0 is offered by the a ite of \'ir'ginia and by Nottowa. nto tnty of that state. for the recap re and cieliver'y Algie Stokes. a fr gr'o. who escaped from the Notto- in jy county jail January 18. Stokes is sentenced to be hanged for nrder on Miarch S. Xotice of the. ward was received by Chief of m lice Owen D~aly, who read it to hia hei n. The description of the escaped Fr uriderer is as follows: "Light, gin- av' irake color. t'ull face. five feet he. rec inches high and weighs about 'Mt u p)ounds5: twenty-seven years old: iph s dark scar' on nose bctween the.iju es. Round bald spot on top of wi ad. Has dragging walbc. throwing he; s feet. W\ore no beard." Killed Himself. .\rrested at Lake City, Fla., onle e charge of blowing open a safe. thi alter Hemmingway, of Savannah. di, on after'wards took poison and tr: ed in his cell at the jail. The safe ny the store of John L. Rober'ts, at e ingiieid, six miles from Lake Ci'~y. th as blown open Wednesday night enuni-igwry was found near the. ene and placed under arrest. Soon 'ter he wsa taken to jail Hemming- w ar sw:;llowe'l poison 'and died. O e iom known hows he see"nred the cc 'ison. Hemmiingway was from >uth Carolina. w Bull Dlog Kills. Mirs. Leiia Smith. of Philadelphia. h'o -was terribly torn and biten by vilns hulldo:; at her home, died Shospital Wednesday. The dog -:;s hiipped by Mrs. Smith on Mon iy ch 'I nesday wnen she wenth 110 te kitchen with a plate of 1 ear for the dog she was attacked jk y the animal. : FATAL WRECK Seventeen Bodies Have Been Ta ken From the Ruins. MANY HURT WILL DIE Heavily Loaded Electric Train Jump ed the Track at- Sharp Curve Near Woodland Road, in the Bronx, New York, Carrying Death and Destruction in its Wake Saturday Night. The White Plains and: Brewster xpress, a six-car electric train- on he Harlem division of the- New York 'entral and Hudson River railroad, umped the track at a curve -near Voodland Road, in the Bronx Sat rday night, bringing either death r injury to probably three score of s 150 or more passengers. At 9.45 o'clock the police report d that they had removed 17 bodies -om the wreckage and that there ight be other victims in the ruins the train Of those removed to. )spitals it was said that a dozen id prehaps double that - number ould die of their injuries. The train, No. 25, left the Grand entral station at 6.13 p. m., drawn * two heavy electric motors, loaded ith a matinee crowd and commu rs on their way home from busi ss in New York. It was made up the combinatation baggdge. and noking car and five passenger aches. Afer stopping at- One Hundred and wenty-fifth street the train :was heduled to run express to White ains. At Woodland Road the four cks run through a rocky cut and ke a sharp curve. When the train ached the curve it was according tahe pasengers, running at very h speed, estimated by some at 60 es an hour. Both motors and the smoking car oung safely around the curve but a cars following left the rails ,ad, inging over on their sides with a -rific crash, tore up 'the tracks and :er sliding 100 yards collapsed in e mass. Of those instantly killed, the ,ater number were women. Many re mangled beyond recognitiom bulances and surgeons from all. hospials in Bronx and from the ievue in Manhattan responded 6o rry calls, as did two fire' engine npanies and the police reserves >m many stations. Many of the ure'd were quickly- extricated from wreckage, while others were so ioned they could not -be :taken t for some time. Fire started in the -.verturred s but the flames were quickIy. inguished and the fireman lent ir aid to the injured. Special ins carried many of the injured ite Plains and - Mount Vernon, ile others were carried to - hos als in New York. increase Wages. An increase of 10 per cent in the aries of telegraph operators at the company's principal offices -oughout the country was announ by the Western Union Telegraph pany Thursday. The announce :nt of the increase of-salaries was de in a leter fronm}. obat C~ ~sident of the- company tot the ti superintendants, k%. b~rq.s, w York; T. P. Cook, Chicago; ank Jaynes, San Frkncisco, and Levin, Atlanta. - Many Frost .Bitten. With the temperature averaging a degrees below zero, the natu gas played out at Martin's Ferry, .io, ~nd hundreds of people are Tering severely. Reports all a.ong . Snatural gas line in that vicinity Sthe same condition prevails, ple in many homes are. actually st bitten and are ltearing- down - cesin order to get fuel to warm~ r hands. - The Butcher Bird. . strange little creature is the rthern shirke, or biutcher bird, ich goes South nearly 'every win .About as big as a robin, the cer birid genierailly travels alone preys on mice and smaller birds, ich lie hangs on locus thons. Lrp twigs or the poinits of a wire ce while he makes his meal. WVants to Get [Aoose. Sovernor Ansel Wednesday .re ved isitiful plea from a Latta n whose wife has left him. The -eft hlu:hand is illiterate, but very Ech in earnest. He says: Dear 1 wright you for 'enformation icrenl a man? uarrien and in mt too months she eloped and has b ini hurid from sence that was ut seventeenl months back. What rant is to know how I can get loos nm hur as there ain no dlivree law S. C.".. Comiths SuiCide t Chiccgo, Il., B. Kuppenhemier, nger of the nirm of B. Kizppenl mer & Co.. was found unconscious day in his residence . in Prairie ~uue. with a bullet wound -in his .d A revolver lay heside hi. Kunppenheimer -died before a siciani arrived. -.The .coroners s v returned a verdict of suicide le desponldt because of ill aith. Burnt to Death. At Pantoc. Miss., whie burning Lves in the yard. the clothing of small son of Mrs. Charles Maul , cought fire and the mother, im ~ing to extinguish the flames, set e to her own dress and both burn to death before help couild reach. em . S4ome Queer Prizes. At Findlay, Ohio, one night last sek a free divorse. a load of crush stone, a monkey-wr~eh, a ton of a, a n:eal ticket and the free ser ces~of a blacksmilth to shoe a horse are the prizes awarded at a card irty given bjy the City Federation1 Women's CIui-. A free fanerai as offered as a prize by an undr ker, but it was declined. Town Wiped Out. News has been received that a Sric;U - ' - pt' on ives were' orth Austrai!ia. ~o lie w00r s. The monetalry loss is $2,00,