Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEVRE STORM Lyjs $lA REg age i t31 GOy WIND WAS YERY IGH Edr~ed of 10dowW Brokem. cummneys Blown Down. Tree CP rooted and Houses UnVrootd-T~e egraph and Teepho Poles Pros trated. A wind and hail storm of cyclon ac proportions struck Atlanta at 5:'0 Thursday afternoon, and left a trail of wreck and ruin behind it. Hun dreds of windows were brokec. chim neys were blown down. trees.uproot ed and houses were unrooted. The property loss is estimated at least $100,000. There were no ca. Ualties. The storm lasted only twelve minutes. but the wind attain ed and held a velocity of fify-l miles an hour. Pedestralns were blown against buildings, and in some instanoes through window. The covers of umbrellas were stripped from them by the hal stones. one of* which weighed fourteen ounces. Street car traMe was suspended for a time. and is not entirely re stored. Electric light wires strewn through the streets make t-avel very - unsafe. Telephone and telegraph wires are down in all directions, and several nearby cities are cut off. .AR.y STARVED To DEATH. Crew of a Schooner Brought so.hMe in Seeious Fix. Waterlogged. dismasted and with the decks barely above the water. as she was being towed by the Gut SCompany steamer Winifred. the Kate Flore. Captain Whitney .!Tom Mobie to Cuban ports. limped into Port Arthur. Texac. recently with what was left of the crew in the throes of starvation. Of the crew of seven which sa.ed trom Mobiwe feie are in the hospit with slight chances of recovery. whil another was washed overboard in the recent hurricane, and a sec ond died of starvation shortly be fore aid came to the helpless vessel Washed hundreds of mile out of her The Kate FIore saned from Mo bie about September 12. with a car go of lumber for Cuban ports. En countering the hurricane, the boat was stripped to the decks and wa terlogged. sank to the deck. What tores that were left were in the wa ter-filled cabin and the men took turns iving through the hatchway for canned meats upon which they barely subsisted until sucr came. MEBDER AND SUICIDE. fl.heed Bis Wife's Father and Then W. S. Wise. a wealthy farmer of inoncounty. N. C.. cut off the hed of his father-in-law.. wer Haflman. with an are Thursdef monnten barred the door of his home. set Sre to the furniture and was cremated. Wise appeared rtonal a feW moments before the tragedy, but strang, remarks caused hi wife alarm, and with the chil en she ran to her father's home and awaal him. Wise met the agman as he neared the house and seerd i head completely with one blow of the axe. and rushing back Into the house broke up the urniture wtih the same are and ar' ranged his own funeral pyre. The tragedy occurred at 3 o'clock. near Bethpage church, six miles wnot of' Lincolton. DIVES UNDER STEAX ROLE-. Man. Mentas~i Deranged. Meets Lagtng from beside his watchful keeper. who was accompanying 'him on a walk in Asheville. J. R. Giles. of Wilmington. N. C.. an innsate of an Ashevlle sanitaiu~m, jumiped headlong beneath the wheels of a 15-ton steam roller Wednesday Mf ternoon and his head was crushed out of shape by the ponderous wheei of the machine. operating on the - French Broad river road four milew' from Asheville. Temporary aberra tion for which Mr. Giles was being treated caused this remarkable mode of suicide. Telln Thrilling Story. A thrilling story of the escape from death of the captain and crew of the British schoner Florence M1. Hewon. which lies at the bottomu of the Atran4c. twenty-five m'.les nortwest of Havana. Cuba, wherq she was wrecked in Monday's hur ricane, reached gey West Thursday afternOon when the rescued met were landed tere on the schoon' Pleroma. herself badly batteted bI the ferce gale. -eoee Dsnages. Mrs. Robert MIcLees obtained vrdict in the circuit court at An derson on Wednesday against tb ity for $800. She was driving alon, the streets some time ago. when he buggy wheel dropped down in a hot and threw her out and hurt ho' and she sued for damages. WHi Be Hung. The Louisville State board of pai dons has refused to recommend commiutton of the death sentent f Avery Blount. convIcted of tI murder of Joseph Breeland, b. ife and step-dghter' 'In Tang -.po ,.ah 5mar1 months ago. SHOT PATRIOT DEAD PROP. FERER ECUTED) V &RCELONA. SPAiN. He Was convicted by Court Marti& foe lgdag a RevolutiOnar Move ment. At Barcelona. Spain. Francls. Ferrer. who was convicted of pro moting the recent Barcelona reb*1 lion, was shot Thursday mo:ia.; it Montjuich prison. In execution of the death sentence inposed up'u nmn. Professor Ferrer. Spanih educator and convicted revolutloa. t. fac:::1 tb firing squad without 11*nct... auA fell dead at the first votier. Except for a mom .-.Y ex i of emotion immed-at.y pee'E his death. he retained his c'mwe'*are to the last. His attorney. M. Galcer an. who defended him so Qoyadly na to bring about his own arrest for im properly addressing the court. aecau ed permission for a brief talk %Ith him just before the execution. To his attorney. Ferrer spako feel ingly of the work for which he had sacrificed his life and of the fuLure of his daughter. whose brave attempi to save his life touched the Noher more deeply, apparently. than any other Incident of his trial and con viction. On Ferrer's arrest his family was left dependent upon this daughter. who at once secured employment In a biscuit factory. When it was known that her fath er had been sentenced to death the daughter made a personaW appeal to King Alfonso. calling upon him In the name of his known generosity to spare her father's 1it.. When these facts were related by Galeerai. Fer rer broke down for a moment. Ferrer declined to receive the last sacraments. and turned away from the two prieets of the Order of Peace and Charity who had been "eut by the prison authorities te ofer him the final consolation of the church. When Abe hour of execution arriv ed he 4dked bravely through the nr!on y rd to the ditch in the shad ow of the encircling wail. Without a quiver he faced the 1 infrantry men. who at the word of command. fre4 simultaneoualy. When the re port of the volley had d! 3d away. Ferrer lay upon the ground. Previous to the execution precau tions had been taken to forestall a posble attempt at rescue by doubl ing the sentinels upon the walls of the fortress. MAL CARWER ARRESTED. Trused Employe Under Bond on Charge of Riling MaIl. Consderable surprise was created at Asheville. N. C.. Monday after noon when Mail Carrier N. W. Fain .f the Asheville oSce was placed un er arrest ctaarged with rifling mal matter. Fain was released later on $500 bond for his appearance later before the United States commis slonr. it is alleged that Fain tamperec with mall matter that went out on another carrier's roate; that the mail matter alleged to have been opene:~ .nd otherwise tampered with was ad dressed to a woman resident of the Fain has been a mall carrier in :he employ of the Asheville omce for L9 years and in another year woul:1 &ave been retired with a pension de is district deputy of the Jr. 0. U. .. M. and a leading lodge man. 'he affair has created considerable talk since Fain Is the father of sev eral children. He has been sus pended from duty. LONG LOST BROTHER FNtSD. isters Meet Him as Oscer of Ger man Navy. Two sisters have unexpectedly found a brother who was lost when all of them were little children in Germany. Mrs. Clara Ptertzenmeler, f Chicago. came to New York to .lslt her sister. Mrs. Minnie Leb mann. of Brooklyn. during the Hud 0-Fulton celebration. Both attended a reception to the .mcers of the German warship .n :he harbor and there they were in :'oduced to Second ~Ient. Frltr - iehi. whom they immediately rec' gnlzed as the long lost brother. When eight years old he was Sen - market in Germany and lost nt ay. He was sent to an institution and from that was graduated Into the avy. He had not s'een his relatives or more than twenlty years until hi> tisterS learned the name of his homn HELP" NEEDEI) AT KEY WEST. Hundreds Are on Verge of Starva thou in Stricken City. Immediate assistance from the out side world Is necessary to carry o1 the work of clearing up the city an caring for the victims of the burr! cne at Key Wee?. The Mayor an I unced Thursday that the city i forced to suspend work because C lack of funds. Great distress an .suffering are already among the eni ployes of the large tobacco factories - Hundreds are on the point of staa 1 tion, is Is declared. The Newberry News and Heral says it believes the farmersi ougl tt sell their cotton so long as prici rman above twelve cents justa fast as they can market It. When gets below that price. If It shoul a thcen they should not sell a bal e The spinners are organized for cu e tailment in production. They mea s to hear the market. Why casn th tbfarmers organie ermy else aa. SIX IMES LOST Ceand sgame WMe"e o LAe E&M at Point Peee,0t. TWEVE WERE RESCUD Until Daybreak the Ship-Wrecked Crew Remained in the Forward Cabins and Pilot Houses and Then Began an Anxious Search of the Horizon for Passing Vessels. In the wreck of the steamer Geo. Stone. of Cleveland. Ohio. on Po:nt Pelee. Oat.. Wednesday. upper Lake Erie added a gruesome chapter to the aistory of marine disasters on the great lakes. Six lives were lost and twelve were saved. Wednesday night the tall end of the recent gale lash ed a hopelessly broken vessel that was not insured and belonged to 31. A. Bradley of Cleveland. The six victims lost their lives when Captain Paul Howell Peter Dai ey oi Erle. Pa.. who was a passenger. and six members of the crew were capsized in the surf. attempring to go ashore for assistance. Two of the crew clung to the over-turned bot four hcurs untU they drifted ashore. The wooden steamer George Stone began to feel the effect of the South west gale about 6:30 Monday evening and at midnight she began a desper-' ate battle for life. All day Tuesday she fought val iantly against the storm but towardb evening It became apparent that the pumps were unequal to the task of removing the water that poured into the hole through the seams opened by the buffeting of the waves. About nine p. m. the captain and crew realized that the storm had taken the vessel out of their control. About 2:30 a. m. the Stone struck with a terrific jar upon the sand bar known as Grubbs Reef nearly five miles of the western shore of Point Pelee. Until daybreak the ship wrecked crew remained In the forward cabins and pilot houses and then began an anxious search of the horizon for passing vess'ls. One man was sent aloft with a bed sheet which he waved from the forward mast. But though three or four steamers came within sight none responded to the signal of distress. Fire added to the dangers of the situation at -his point. the pilot ouse being burned to the d*eck. Towards nice o'clock a. m. Wed nesday the danger of the vessel be ing broken to pieces became acute and Captain Howell picked his crew for an attempt to reach shore In one of the small boats, when almost out side the zone of danger a mountain comer capsized her and left her eight passengers struggling in the icy breakers. CONVICT DROWN ED. Attempted to Swim Across Pee Dee River for Fish.1 Dave McDonald a memb' of the Marion County chaingana. was drowned Saturday afternoon in the Little Pee Dee River..just beluw Harley's bridge. The body was found y Mr. Jeff Hamilton. who was in boat and was sounding the bot om with a long pole. Ta'. man was n the opposite side of the river from Sallie Drake and Rilla Hayes. olored women. who were fiahing. Sallie Drake offered to iseli him soe fish she had caught. 3nd he plunged into the river with shackles on. and attempted to swim across for thema. but failed to reach the shore. He lied in plain view of these women and others of the chaingang. MURDERER CONVICTED. Klled Yorag Woman Who Refused to Marry Hum. At Douglass. Ga.. late Wednesday night the jury in the case of Wil 11am Mct.eod returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mer cy and the defendant was rat once sentenced by Judge T. A. Parker to life imprisofnmenlt in the State pen tentiary. On August IS McLeod killed Miss Mlattie Graham. Accord ing to the evidence he was insanely jealous. He asked .permission to shake hands with the jury for sav ag him from the gallows. Evi-. fence was introduced indicating the weakness of McLeod's mirnd. Much Damage at Rome-. A terrific rain, wind and hail storm f fifteen minutes duration shortly ~fter 5' o'clock Thursday af!ternoon. smashed thousands of win-dows. in cluding plate glass store fronts; up root-d trees, tore roors from build ilgs in all parts of Rome. Ga.. and wreaked damago generally. It is b elieved that crops in that section -have been practically ruined. The street railway and electric light sys em are out of ccomission. Hal stones as large as oranges fell. LCharged With Bigamy. -Oscar Alexander. an operative at the Brogon mills. Anderson. has been arrested on the charge of bigamy. He married the 1 7-year-old daughter of Mr. C. N. Prince on the 2nd. hay d lg a wife already. who is Wring ina G ines~ville. Ga. He is 23 years K~illed by Train. e.J. E. Edgar and wife, an aged r ouple, were instantly killed at Win. m ton. Ga.. by Southern Railway trait N o. 29, while trying to cross the , ? a tracks in the face of a srn WILL PROUVE IS CLA DR. COOK RELIES ON ESKD BOYS TO VINDICATE HIM. Says He Will Convict Commam Peary Out of the Moutbs of E Own Witnesses. A dispatch from Buffaic. N. says Dr. Frederick. A. Cook arriv, there Wednesday morning frC Cleveland in the midst of a hea snow sto-.n. He went directly to t Iroquois hotel, stating that he wou see the newspaper men there at oj o'clock. "I can only say that the actu living human witneeees of my Jou ney to the pole will themselves I able to disprove the declarations pl into their mouths in the statemel ssued by Commander Peary.'' sal Dr. Cook to the Associated Press "There could not bs better test ony than that given by the m( themselves before an unbiased bod of inquiries. Commander Peary ev dently regards their evidence as i the mos. profound importance. an so do I. It seems to me that I might have brought them alo with him if he was so confident thi they would corroborate his stor He, however. choose not to do im Swill, therefore, send for them a oon as possible and place them a the disposal of any scientific or otbe body that may desire to euami them with the aid of any compt ent interpreter whom the examix tg board may appoint-" Asked whether he would make irect reply to Peary's statement. a ad been intimated in the intervie Lt Cleveland. Dr. Cook said: There is nothing to add to who las already been said. I do not i and to enter a newspaper contrc ersy with any one. I shall dop-n upon wfitnesses who have alread een brought Into the case, and b em. ' Dr. Cook w-'s given a pubie rt eption at Buffalo on the "change loor of the chamber of commerce. BOY KILLS HIS FATE. L North Carolina Farmer Meets Tragc Death. Col. Robert L. Abernethy. one a e best known farmers and stoc 'asers in North CArolina. was she nd instantly killed at an early bou rhursday morning, in a desperat acounter with his son. Reuber ged 20. after the father had mad Lu unsuccessful effort to kill the son e tragedy occurred at the famil: iome. "Open View" farm. In Gasto! ,ounty. and was witnessed by th rife and mother. Abernethy enter -d his son's room. precipitated iuarrel over a trival matter, an iraaing a pistol, fired three shot Lt the boy, neither taking effect rhe son grappled with him, and 11 he fierce hand-to-hand struggle tha runed, the pistol was discharge< wice. both shots taking vital effec the father. The coroner exos ~rated the son. There had been bal lood between the two because c e father's treatment of his wifi 'hlch the boy resented. Two Perasons Killed. A storm amounting almost to ornado passed cver sections of Tes essee about 7 o'clock Thursda lgh. Al Barnes. a prominent cd en of Denmark. Madison count: as killed, and Mrs. Barnes hur heir home was wrecked. Tom Helt as kIlled in Lincoln county, nea dulbery, and Homer Ashby and wil were severely hurt. C'arter Arnolt returning home fro'n senool at Wai trace, was caught in the storm an bas not been heard from. Many res dences were wrecked in Tennese Editor Kills Assailat. In a pistol duel at Harrodsbiri y.. Wednesday night between Ed tor John F. Pulliam and John V Robards in Pul'iam's offee. Robart was fatally wounded and Pullia: inay have to have his arm amp1 tted as a result of a bullet. whic crushed the bone. Robards is sa to have entered the offce of the Ha oosburg Herald and opened fire< P'llim. who returned it. A triv iuarrel is believed to have been ti cause of the affray. Both are pron Wanted to See Him Hung. At Wilkcesbarre. Pa.. on Thursda Stanley Nazarko. a Slav. was hoi or murder. More than the usu iterst was taken in the executi< of Nazarko. whose wife came to t. Jail with the man she intends marry and req uested penrmission witness the hanging. The re'que was refused by the sheriff. althou; the condemtned man was willing tb his wife and her future husba: should see him dia. Leaps Into a Well. Temporarily deranged by old. jumped into a well at the hol of her sister. Mrs. B. F. Gulledge. the southern part of Anson coun . C.. at midnight Thursday nig and was almost Iustantly kills PP'rsued b' a brother, who divit her intention, she outran him a leaped into the well head-first. E wa prominently connected and cntly held a position at the Sou r Railroad at Charlott. Wants to Move Away A commiittee of three from ien city council has been appo1 eedto confer with Miss Mary KKrk. the alleged leper, or her age inrgard to tbe sale of her prope i the city of Aiken to the city ores. It Is stated that 1 irk desires to sell her propt I POITS TO MUMK O A GRUESOME FIND MADE BY RU RAL MAIL CARRIER. er Discovered Severed Limbe of Woman [s in Dress Suit Case in an Outlying Portion of Thverton. FR. L The hnding of the severed legs of d a woman in a dress suit case among m some bushes in an outlying section Y of Tiverton. R. I.. Monday brought e to light what the authorities are con d vinced is a case of murder. The e discovery of a New Bedford news paper of Sunday's date with the por at tions of the i'-ibs is regarded as the most important clue thus far obtain ed. indicating possibly the place of the murder. if murder there was. The authorities Monday night were of the opinion that the woman was murdered in New Bedford. that the legs were placed in the suit case there and brought by team or auto mobile to 'verton Sunday night. According to the medical examiner, d Dr. John Stimson. the suppo;ed mur der was committed not more than e twelve or fifteen hours before the g suit case was discovered. t That a murder was committed, and that the cutting was not done by tha a experienced hands of a surgeon or t by a medical student. Is the belief I of the medical examiner, who eas e that apparently a common handsaw was used to sever the legs from the . trunk. A search for the other por tions of the body in the woods nearby a is being made. a The body might have lain undis , covered for days had not a rural let ter carrier. George Potter. chanced to ,t go to the spot. Potter was making his rounds, passing along the road. when he noticed three portions of I human legs aprtially wrapped in y newspaper in the case. Later in y vestigation by the medical eaminer showed that the suit case contain ed the upper portion of a right leg. - that from the thigh to the knee, and the entire left leg. cut in two pieces at the knee. * The medical examiner, after tak ing measurements of the limbs. es tiUmated that the woman (or girl) probably was live feet, three inches high, and weighed perhapus 120 pounds. -A large callous spot on f the bottom of the foot !.dicated that c the girl was accustomed to walking t much or to standing, and suggested r that she may have been a working e girl. ]DECREASE IN CONSL-MPTION. F Cotton Mi!!s Are Changing From a coarse to Fine Products. According to a preliminary state ment prepared by Commissioner 'A atson. the consumption of cotton -by the mills of the State this yaer will be 45.919 bales less than last year. The consuming of a less number or bales this year is caused by the fact that most of the mials are changing or have already changed from a coarse to a finer product. Chang ing from a coarse grade to a finer grade materially increases the value of the product. It does not mean that there has been a curtailment 'n production, but rather increased value of production, a product which can be placed directly from the mills on the Southern markets. Only about 15 mills, and half of -their production. tuirn out expert goods. according to the statement. rUp until a few years ago all of e the mills manufactured a coarse grade of cloth. Since 1907 there has been a gradual change from the coarse to the fine goods, all of which is beneficial to the manufacturer. farmer and consumer The total number of bales used in 190i8 was 793.396. The follow -ing, giving bales consumed by mills. will prove interesting: 1880S. 33.624 bales: 1S90. 133. 181342 balee: 1900. 485.024 bales: 195. 555.467 bales: 1907. 114.905 Ibales; 1908. 793.396 bales.* d FIREMAN IS KILLE~D. r I And Eight Persons Are Hurt by Ac ient to Train. Fireman 0. J. Sutton was killed and eight persons were injured when an engine and two cars of the Aus, y. tin & Northwestern railway plunged i Into a burning bridge over Watters al1 creek. The seriously injured are: > Benj. Coyne. mail clerk. skull and e spine injured; B. Wille'rs. brake 'a man. McNeii. Tex.. two ribs broken. to as a heavy mist obscured the fire and *t the engineer could not stop his train ; in time to avert the accident. t __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ldd'Scarlet Feve at Columbia. A dispatch from Columbia says in viw of the fact that there ia some scarlet fever in that city and in ll other parts of the State. the local Ls board of health has issued a formal nstatement, setting out the best means in of preventing the spread of the dia ry, ease. There is nothing startling b, about the situatlonl there, the board ed. of health desiring only to be on the ed safe side. he Killed in Auto. re-1 Ms. H. C. Edwards and C. N. An th-' argyrous were killed and seven oth er injured in an automobile acci dnt in a suburb of Oakland. CaL Frday night. All the ;victims were t n an automobile. v. Fatal Gip Accident. nts NH'nry Ward. the 12-year-old so! rty of Mr1. J~sse Ward. of Plckens, had au- his hand caught in a cotton gin 0: uss Tuesday and h~s arm and one sld4 e of his bod~y were tom-ly4 mangled TWELVE PERISH Storm Ca S Of I.Ief a &rd East Cast Etsin PROPERTY IS DAMAED The Floating Equipment and Incom plete Work on the Rairoad is Vera Badly Torn Up, As it Was Mad Exposed to the Fury of the Heav Wind. A dispatch from Miami. Fla.. say1 news reached there late Wednesda] afternoon of the sinking of the tugs Sybil. Sadie and Bahia Honda during Monday's hurricane and the loss o: the eleven members of the crew the Sybil. Including Capt. Parker The crews of the Sadie and Bahis Honda escaped. This news was brought to Miami by the relief expedition sent out by the Metropolis, the local afternoon news paper. The loss of life on the Sybil Includes, besides Capt. Parker, En gineer Fox. Pilot Whitmere. Engi neer Peterson and seven deck hands. The following statement was given out by Engineer Ernest Cotton of the Florida East Coast railway: "Loss of life on the Florida East Coast eztension s limited to the crew of the tug Sybil and Timekeepw Brown at Marathon. a total of twelve persona. The floating equiptment of the road and uncompleted work were adiy damaged. There was, however. no damage to the concrete work at any point. All of our camps were =ore or lew wrecked. but the large foroes of our workmen are being car ed for and have suffieent supplies of food. The men behaved well and al ready every gang has gone to work learing away the wreckage and preparing for reopening the eXtension to trazc." The track north of Marathon is washed out at several points, but the extend of tdamage has not yet been determined. Timekeeper 3. H. Brown, an old employe of the Florida East Coast railway, was drowned at Marathon. The Metropolis expedition reported , washout of 4.000 feet of track be tween Manitee and Jewish creek. on the Florida East Coast extension. The track was also shifted ifty feet. The rovisions of the colony at Jewfi'h re running low: COrNTRY EDITORS POPULAR n MI'nesom Where Many of Them Hold Ofice. The late Governor Johnson. short ly before his death, wrote for the Youth's (%>mpanion an interesting article dealing largely with the news aper man in office. He said that t has often been obser'ved that Min nesota is "governed oy the country editr." and shows that the assertion s not without. good foundation. Here is his partial summary of the situation. "The governor, his pri vate secretary, and executive clerk are country newspaper men: so are the labor commissioner. the execu tive agent of the game and fish ommission, the State oil inspector, the State librarain, the secretary and assistant secretary of State. the as sistant labor commISSIOner, the State fre warden, the assistant fire mar shal, the deputy public examiner, the secretary of the dairy and food com mission, the assistant clerk of the supreme court, the secretary of the board of control. Both political par ties have recognized the capabIlity of the country editor for official po sition from the earliest history of the State, and be has always been an active force in legislative coun cls and in the minor places undei .he national and State government. WIRELESS I8 WORING WELL. Success of the Military Stations U More evidence of the successfu working of the military wireless tel egraph stations n Alaska is shown tr a report from First Lieut. E~. A unet. Thirteenth infan'. at For Gibbon. On the night of September 23 the station at Nome worked well bot] ways, with the steamer Minnesota. ei route to Japan. At that time th< ess~l was about two hundred mile south of Mimak Paas and about 1.30s miles from the wireless station. The Minnesota also reported hearing mes agsa from Fort Gibbon strong an More than 500 miles of the dis ance traveled by messages from For Gibbon was over land and the statio1 at that place also picked up mei sages from the steamer at Mimall Office r Comts Suicide. Liet. Carl. A. Richster. U. S. N tat ioed on the Marietta. commi1 ted suicide bf hanging himeselfi is quarters .Aboard the Marietti His body was found hanging fro: two bell straps In his room at oclock Thursday morning. He ha een ashore until a late hour We< nesday night. The body has boe carried to the naval hospital at Porta mouth from the Marietta. which till in Hampton Roads. Lieu Rlchster was from Iowa. Decatur Flooded. A terrifle hail and rain stor broke over Decatur. Ala.. short a~ter 5 0'clocky Thursday night. du (nng which many windows were bro: e n by hai stones as large as we n'a. Th seet; are fdooded. VICTIMS OF STORM MAY GO TO FIFTY WHEN ALL REPORTS .RE RECEIVED. 0 The Hurricane Was the Worst That Ha Visited That Section in Many Years. A dispatch from Memphis, Teun.. !says with the known death list al I!ready reaching a total of 37 human lives and with 13 others reported dead. with scores seriously injured and- many others painf u)ly bruised. and with the property damage run ning to a million or more dollars. the toll of the havoc and deste u tion of the storm which swept mid dle and west Tennessee. Alabama. Georgia and portions of Arkansas and South Carolina last Thursday afternoon and Thursday night grows hourly as reports are received from remote districts anu as wire com munication is gradually restored to a normal condition. The storm of Thursday night was the worst that has visited this sec tion of the South In years. being intense in its destroying fury and widespread In its area. Whole sec tions of counties were laid in waste. towns destroyed and plantations greatly damaged. The dead: Denmarkt, Tenn.-Albert Barnes. Mulberry. Tenn.-Thomas Hlelm. Stantonville. Tenn-Thirteen peo ple reported killed (unconSfrmed). Pittsburg Landing Tenn.-Mrs. West McDaniel. Otis Littlefeld. Lu ther Little, Marshal Jordan. Ruby Jordan, L F. Lemons. Near Stantonville, Tenn.-Charley Moore, wife and Infant; Terry Wil bank. Mrs. Wilbank and their two children; Mrs. Slasom. Near Cartersville, Ga.-Mls Prit chard. Scottsboro. Ala.-Miss Houston Skelton. Milas M. Suder. a child of Jim Gale. Wyeth Cove. Ala.-Eight people killed. Near Scottsboro, Ala.-Mrs. R. H. Skelton. Stanton, Tenn.-Andy Johnson. a negro. Nixon. Tenn.-FIve people killed. Near Marmaduke. Ark.-Arthur Liggett. Apparently the storm broke in all its fury over middle and west Ten nessee and proceeded In a south easterly direction across the State into Alabama and Georgia. assum ing the proportions of hurricane. It came practically without warn ing and in some places the wind attained a velocity of 90 m.les an hour. While only one death oc curred at Denmark. Tenn.. the bor rors of the storm were greatl3 heightened by the Are which follow ed the wrecking of that town. The feroe Uames rapidly consumed what few dwellings and stce houses that were left standing and now a scen of utter desolation is presented. -Two hundred people were rendered homeless and have appealed to neighboring towns and cities for immediate aid. Reports of flve deaths and heavy damage come from NcNairy county. Homes and stores were leveled to the ground and great trees uproot ed. Many handsome and imposing State monuments in the Shiloh Nat ional park were torn from their pedestals and the superintendent's lodge and oth':r build~ngs were de stroyed. The property damage in this section is estimated at $100i 000. Wire communication with Stan tonville, where 13 lives are reported lost, has not yet been re-established. At Russellville. Ala.. 27 pe-ople were seriously, several fatally. in jured. A property damage of at least $50,000 Is estimated at Cartersville. Ga.. while that at Atlanta will run between $80.000 and $ 100.000. One life was lost at the former place. Rome. Ga.. Gadsden. Ala.. Hunts ville. Ala.. Decatur, Ala~.. and other smaller towns in the path of the storm report heavy property dam age. RTT.T. WIFETHEN EDLSELF. Insanely Jealous Man Commits Mar der and Suicide. At Erie. Pa.. Fred F. Link. of the Link Manufacturing Company. of that city, aroused his wife from her slumber Sunday morning and a quarrel ensued, during which. It is said. Link announced that he had decided to end both his own life, and that of his wife. He drew a revolver and Mrs. Link seized him and fought for her life, but the insanely jealous man overcome her and shot her four timee, one bullet penetrating her heart. Link bred the remaining bullet through br~s own head, dying instartly. Hanged Man's Policy. The question whether an ordinary Insurance policy insures a man against death by legal hanging is raised in the case of the Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. J. WiI 1am McCue and others, which was 2 resented Monday to the supreme court of the United States. McCue sis one- of the children of fornfer May or MfcCue of Charlottesvlille. Va., who ws hanged for the mrurder of his wife in 1905. To Disprove Peary. Drt. Frederick A. Cook. the arctic eplorer. said to the Associated Prese at Philadelphia on Thusa.: -There is a mistaken impressIon that n~ I amn bringing the Eskimos to New ly Yrrk to prove that I have been tc - the pole. The real reason of the'i: - icoming here :s to disprove the smory .1- tbcy were madA to tel! by3 C.zaud or ?a7 ad hs pety. TOOK HIS LIFE Fashionably Dressel Rbber Gleats His Pf3aers by Cay COMMIIING SUICIDE He Held Up the Cashier of the High. land Park Bank Near Chicago and Flees With the Funds and Whem Closely Pressed Deliberately Shoots Himself. A fashionably dressed bandid who early W eunesaay afternoon robbed the savings bank of D. M. Erzkme & Co.. in Highland Park, Ill., an arts tcKratic suburb on the lake shore 25 miles north of Chicago. committ e.i suicide by shooting himself in the mouth when driven to bay by the Highland Park Marshal and a posse of citizens. A companion of the robber, who had driven him to the bank in an .utomobile, was captured immediate iy following the robbery, forcing the principal perpetrator of the daring daylight crime to flee on foo. He was engaged in a running duel with Town Marshal John Sheehan who was the target for many bullets from the fugitive's revolver, one of which went through the sleeve of his coat. After runn.ng several blocks and faiing to drive back his pursuer. the robber ran Into a shed :losely pursued by Sheehan. When he saw Sheehan enter the shed with his revolver leyd it his head, the fr6gtive put the mus zle of his own revolver in hs mouth tad fired a shot which resulted In his eath almost instantly. The identi .y of the dead man and his compan ion is unknown. The robbery was conducted in a eliberate and spectacular manner. he bandit securing about $500 in ,i1 coin and Dills after he had fore ! John C. Duffy, the cashier of the unk. into the cash.er's cage just fter the closing of business for the lay. "Call everyone in here Into that :ge or I'll blow your head of2. flur. ry up," said the robber as he cov -re I the cashier with a revolver. Duffy. unarmed. complied with the !emand. The bookkeeper and the eceving teller came Into the cage while the intruder helped himself to 11 the money in sight. He carefully uckei the 4old and bills into his >ockets and then exclaimed: "If any f you attempt to follow me I will (il yoU." - He started for the door and Di!y mmediately phoned the marshal's 'ace across the street. By the time le robber reached the automobile seehan was runmng toward the ank. At the sight of him the robbyr >roke Into a run, and citizens held h.e chaufeur. The chase after the fugitive was a brillng one. but ended in his su ide within a few minutes. All the noney taken form the bank was onnd in his clothing. The robber ~ad called at the bank earlier In the ay. QUEER CASE IN LEXINGTON. Drug Company Sued for Wrong I-eln Botte. A dispatch from Lexington says a case without precedent in -that :ounty, and with but few, If any, In he State has recently been fled In he oflece of the clerk of court. t is a suit for $10,000 damages In stuted by Louis Ernest Spann, Jr., y his guardian ad ltemn, L. Ernest Spacn. against the Crosson Drug :ompany of Leesville, for the alleged rong labeling of a bottle of medi ine. purchased by Mr. Spann for his hild, an infant of two months. It is alleged that the parents gave the :nedicine to the child, believing it to be one certain kind of drug. when n reality it was not what It was labeled on the bottle, and that the medicine made the child ill EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE In a Stove Causes One Death and a Destructive Fire. At Fitzgerald. Ga., on Wednesday, a fire originating from an explosion of gasoline in a tailoring establish ment, destroyed the Grierc block on Pine street. caused a loss of $25, 400 and injuring two firemen. It is believed that a negro who at tempted to fill the gasoline stove with the flames on lost his life. The buildings destroyed included the Commercial hotel, loss of $12,000; Smith's tailoring establishment. loss $3,000. Firemen Homer Watters and James Parrott fell through the hotel root and were badly hurt. Tennessee Did Not Escape. That a destructive storm of wind and hail swept over West and Mid dle Tennessee and North Alabama, early Thursday night. is evidenced by the fact that no communication of any character can be had with these eions Telegraph and telephone wIres are down and reports from smal1 towns in the extreme western counties of Tennessee state that a severe wind storm occurred at 6 o'clock Thursday night ,unroofing houses, leveling telegraph poles and doing other damage. No loss of life Is reported from these poInts. hsr. Motivem for te Deued. o oThe Georgetown Item says the ease asuming very grave proportions. It Is now authoratively stated that Mrs. Bilngham was the only eye-witness to a killin of a negro by the Doo ?or several months previous te his visit down th.s way. If such be the - esse, here Is the motive for M4ra, Bmrhgla'a death. 'VOpf ln n S.es.___