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be Maxing le. JARAEY 17, 184. LOUIS APPELT. APRIL 21, 1915. MANNING. S. C., MAY 12, 1915. PUBUS D EVERY WEDNESDAY I. I. APPELT, EDITOR AND PROPRETOR. STOURDUT. lmost every merchant in town was heavily -bit by the terrible tornado Friday after -noon. At frst it was thought that the entire stocks of goods were absolutely destroyed, but out of the wreckage large quan tities of goods have been re covered. In many instances some of the dry goods in build ings that were totally destroyed has been damaged very little. The business portion of the town has been practically wiped out, but all merchants have opened up in temporary quar ters and are endeavoring to dis pose of the merchandise that wIas left We are sure that throughout the county there is profound sympathy for the stricken mer chants. Sympathy cannot re place the dnormous damage sus tained, but every citizen of the county can in a measure help in a financial way, and at the'same ime obtain value received. We desire to make an earnest appeal to all citizens of the county to come toMaing and do their shoppng. If you have ever tadin Manning before, SDO SO NOW. Every dolla spent here will ae that much help. Even if you do not find exactly what you want, but find an arti cle that will serve your purpose, purchase it. Some varities of dry. goods is not effected by get ting we;, so do not refuse to -purchase on that account. A -little water does not hurt shoes.. The same applies to meilicines' and all goods put up in pack ages. The carton may be in Juied, but if the contenss are not effected the article is worth as much as it was before. ' The property loss is estimated . ab ever two hundred thousand"i dollars. That much of taxable~ property has been destroyed. It must be .replaced. It is the duty of every citizen of the county to come to the aid of! their fellow eitizens by making: their purchases here. A larger and better Manning will arise from the ruins. Let everybody in the county1 do his duty, patronise the strick en merchants; everybody who! spends adollar here will be do -ing that much in the work of rebuilding. This appeal is to YOU and we believe that You, ~wnrespond. THE EUIOEAN WAR. The end of the lEuropean war' seems further off now than it did last winter. Lord Kitchener said 1 -that when the spring opened up I *and his great army of- a million men landed in France, that they would speedily break the Ger- 1 man lines and drive the Germans back into their own territory, forcing them to sue for peace. The fall of Premnsyl, in the Car pathian Mountains, in March, was heralded as the end of< Austria. The Germans in the western area have broken the French and Bi-itish lines and fortified them selves on the other side of theC Ypres Canal, and all the efforts r so far have been unavailing to dislodge them. The Germans seem to have employed their time during the winter in making themselves as comfortable as possible and de vising new methods of warfare. By the use of an asphyxiating gas they drive the allies out of their trenches and occupy them themselves. On" the Russian battle lines probably the greatest military genius has been developed Eindenberg, He has before this' twice defeated the Russians, q.ptnring enormous numbers ofi nen and quantities of munitions >f war. The Austrian army is com nanded by German generals, md they took the Russians by ringing large reinforcements Tom Germany to the aid of the iustrians. We suppose that the ioriible actrocities committed by ;he Cossacks-men and officers -against the women of East Prussia, makes the fighting in ihis part of the war area in ensely bitter. It looks very much as if the ;uccess of Germany has pre rented Italy from entering the rar, as the Allies confidently mxpected. The human mind can hardly ake in the enormous territory >ver which this war is raging. %ore than a thousand miles iway the Mohammedans and Russians are fighting between 5he Persian Gulf and the Gasp an Sea, while another army of Iurks and Asiatics, said to be i million strong, somewhere in Dentral. Asia is preparing to strike at the Suez Canal. Aside from the humanitarian ispect, the South is immensely nterested on account of the affect that it will have on the price of.cotton. There has been i slump in prices following the arder proinulgated by the Brit sh Mmistry against the re-ex portation of cotton from - the British Isles to any countries ex 3ept France and Ilaly. The sub mnarine blockade by Germany renders it equally as dangerous to get cotton into England, so that, with the surplus of the present crop, and the coming rop, it looks as if our State Warehouse system will be need Ad more than ever to enable us lo carry our cotton until the markets are opened up at the loseof the war. in the meantime, Japan -has presented an ultimatum to China which virtually gives her con rol of that vast empire, with ts 3000,0,w.3 people. The [nited States and England both iave treatiesawith China guar mieeing the integrity of the "hinese Empire. China is a non nilitary nation, and has appeal d to our country and England ;o maintain this solemn treaty. [t looks very much as if Japan dad taken advantage of this war situation to violate 'al1 of her reaty rights and force western nations out of the Pacific. Sec retary Bryan has made a state uent that the United States will 1ot tolerate the violation of her ~reaty with China; so that, un ess something is done, the Inited States must either back lown and lose caste and influ mce as an international power, >r deliver an ultimatum to Japan mnd be prepared to back it up. Altogether a surface view mdi. ~ates the proglongation and en argement of this war, rather han its end. We note that Senator Hoke knith, of Georgia, is very out poken in demanding that the ederal Administration take ome positive action about the >rder of the British government >rohibiting the exports of cot on. We think it is about time hat our representatives in con ~ress from the South were as ~erting themselves in behalf of >ur great staple. Last fall we iad nothing but promises and alk, and certainly the attitude >f the administration has been ne of weakness and indicision. t is the duty of our Senators and tepresentatives to demand that be commercial and treaty rights f the United States be faithfully >bserved. No nation has the nonopoly of the great ocean ighways. __ A Tribute of Love. We the members of the B. Y. P. U. ealizing a deep sense of personal loss a the removal to a higher sphere of nore abuddant life, the soul of our ister worker Miss Clara B~aggett, sod rhile we mourn her tragic death, we alize that our loss is her gain. De iring to express In a feeble way some egree of our appreciation of her life ,mong us, and her work as a member 'f our Young Peoples Union. Be it herefore resolved: That our Union has lost from this 'arth one of its most faithful members ad the community a true Christian in he removal by death of Miss Baggett, nd we desire that a paire of our min te book be inscribed to the memory f our deceased member, and that these esolutions be spread upon our minute ook. and a copy sent to her family d to die local papers for publication. ALMA BARRINEAU, SUSIE WALKER, MIAYBELL WHITE. CASTORIA For Infanls and Ch~drea in Use For Over 3OYears gnature o ~ 6 'o Drive Out Malaria. And Bunld Up The System Lake the Old standard GROVE'S EASTLESS chill TONIC. You know rhat you are taking, as the formula is rinted on every label, showing it is ninine and Iron in a tasteless form. Che ine drives out malaria, the CYCLONE CA PROPERTY DESTROYED, I TRIC UGH Just about 4 o'clock last Fri- C day afternoon, May 7th 1915.the ii worst disaster which has ever s befallen Clarendon county came h almost in the twinkling of an v eye, when a great cyclone b swooped down in the centre of a the town of Manning. The day b will go into history as one to be v remembered and reckoned, like t the night of the 81st of August t 1886, when the bowels of the m earth groaned, the surface shook v and trembled, and buildings i rocked and swa ed and people r were panic stren. But the f net result of that fearful disast- d er to lives and property in Clar- r endon county was small to com- I pare with what the cyclone did 1 in Manning last Friday after- I noon. Three persons were kill- c ed, and a number badly injured, I horses were killed, houses and I stores were blown down, stocks i of goods almost demolished, I trees torn down, and debris car- . ried for miles. When the big dark blue cloud seemed to slowly assemble in West, and extended all the way from north-west to south-west, it was hailed with welcome and delight, as people were wishing for more rain, and only those who were more easily alarmed by disturbances among nature's elements, had any cause to fear. The cloud seemed to move for ward in normal innocence, when presently there could be heard a roaring in the south-west, ap parently up in the air, but the great width of the cloud did not indicate more than a general blow and a rushing of air usually incident to such conditions. But e as the large drops of rain began t to patter down and were hailed t with welcome, or about thirty e seconds afterwards, the great circling, whirling, rushing cy clone seemed to swoop down a from the south-west, .like a f mighty ball which had been struck somewhere in that' di- c rection and went bouncing andj bounding along in its route of a destruction, with the centre of 1 the town of Manning as one of 1. the places where it chose to hit the ground and then bound r again in the air and go rapidly a in its north-eastward direction. i; The real cyclone came so quick- 1 ly, and the path of its course r was so narrow, that people in I the southern and northern ends t of the town had no idea that t anything so unusual was hap- 3 pening, and in fact were start- e led and shocked when told that t the blow was severe enoug to C blow down trees and buildg. j It came down about the section a of the residences of Treasurer i Wells, Mr. W. T: Sprott and Mr b W. R. White, and in the street d there many trees were blown t down and torn up. It seemed r to lift itself over the residence e of Mrs. Ingram Bagnal, to im- b mediately descend again and lay a fat the old dispensary building t1 and almost completely demolish b the large brick sales and feed I stables of Coffey and Rigby, a killing or fatally damaging two , horses. Part of the front of t the stables of D. M. Bradham ~ and Son was blown down, Dr. , Charles B. Geiger's office and Capt. W. C. Davis' office came in for severe damage, a large~ warehouse of the Manning Hard ware Company was. blown down and numerous small buildings in that.block were bkown down or more or less badly damaged. But the most intense severity of destruction and disaster to life and property semed to be re served for the strictly business blocks of the town. In the store known as the Nettles building, or the old Jenkinsoa store, the Manning Dry Goods Company, composed of Mr. T. Morgan Davis and his son-in law, Her man DuBrow, had lately opened business with a new stock of goods, and this building was blown in from the second story and completely wrecked. Dr. 3- E. Arant's drug store was, ompletely wrecked; as he and a is little boy miraculously escap-. ed. In the Davis DuBrow store two persons. Mr. Beasly Davis u and Tom Carter, a negro porter, about 18 years old, wcre killed, B while many others were badly jg injured by falling brick walls nd timbers. At this building b and in the Katzoff and New Idea ompany store were the places ji where the most heart sickening j spaes were presented. Miss Ia USES A QUARTE IVES LOST, SEVERAL T LINES DEMOLISHED ,lara Baggett being also kille i the latter building. It was ight to make the stronge: earts sick with grief as th rinds went bounding away I e followed by torrents of rail nd in these buildings huma eings were mashed and covere p, groans and cries courd I eard coming from under ti rick and mortar and timbers obody knowing how man rere buried beneath the debri while heroic men rushed in at isked danger to their lives fro alling walls and timbers ax lug faithfully until way aft Light trying to rescue the bodii n the Davis building the dea mdies of Beasly Davis and ti orter Tom Carter were tak iut, and T. Morgan Davis, I d. Smith, Joseph Graham Poreston, ane two negro womi rere dug out of the ruins, He )uBrow also making a narro scape. On the other corner he block in the Katzoff stor he scene was also a heartren ring one, as Miss Clara 'Bal ett was killed or died as sl ras being taken out, while hi ister Miss Julia Bagget, w, ound helpless close by her az diss Annie Thames was tak iut of the wreckage badly i: ured. When the gust of d truction came, Morris Nes: he manager of the business w n the second story closing ti rindows, and how he escape lobody can explain, but .as I ~ot to the ground his cries wel mmediately heard calling fe elp to save the ladies' from ti nined building. Over at i )avis building it was equall ouchiung to see the soliattade< he part of Messrs. DuBrow ax ',M. Davis in wanting the otl rs-covered under the wreckag o be rescued first. Over at i loffey and Rigby stable MI Laynard Davis biad just gonei nd was badly injured by fallira imbers striking his face at ack, and scrambled out in, ased condition and was tryin o get home in the torrents< ain as he was called into anotl r building. Dr. Ned Barrc ad also dashed into the stabl rith his horse and buggy and E hie building fell in he manage a back out unhurst. Mr. J. V tigb~y had gone in the countr nd Mr. Coffey was up strei rhen the building collapsed, a b'at none of the regular occi ants of this building were rhen the crash came. The two story frame buildin f Israel James on Depot strei as blown down while a womia 2d a number of children aver tit, but somehow they wer ainjured. The list of dead is as follows easly Davis, Miss Clara Bag at, and Tommy Carter, colored The list of injured, as car ast be obtained, is as follows T. Morgan Davis, painful in ries to shoulder and arm. Maynard Davis, cut in fact id injuries to back and hips I OF MILLION DOLL INJURED, TREES RUINEI AND BUSINESS DEMOR) d Herman DuBrow, cuts abot a head and face. It Joseph Graham of Foresto e painful injuries to head. 0 Miss Annie Thames, slight. 1 John P. Thames, slight. n Morris Ness, slight, cuts i d head. >e G. M. Smith, ankle orushe ie and injuries to chest. 4s Two negro women. names n< Y obtained, injories about sbol< 1 ers. d S. Katzoff and Mrs. Katzoy m bruises and other injuries. Ld Miss Julia B.Lgget, serious i1 ,r juries. s A. S. Jenkins, cut in hland. d Ben Cantey, cut on neck. le J. E Reardon, hurt in ches in Jake Iseman, cut on forehea 3- It is 'out of the question f give a detailed account of ti n property damage, or its extei r- but the tollowing is a parti l summary: >f New Idea Co., stock of $20,01 e heavy loss. The building ow - ed by J. Lawson McLeod, cor - plete wreck. e S. Katzoff, stock of $12,01 ar heavily damaged. Buildit S owned by J. Lawson McLeo id complete wreck. - * Dickson's Drug Store, sto< "- of $5,000 badly damaged. Buil B- ing owned by Dr. Dickson, cor " pletely wrecked. " 'ID. Hirschmann, store ro le damaged, stock slightly dai A aged. ie Five, Ten, twenty five. cen i'e store, stock and roof slight yr damaged. ie T. Nimmer, roof damaged. ie Player Furniture Co., ro, 1Y destroyed and considerable dar in age to stock. Ld Candy Kitchen, roof part: 1- destroyed. e Manning Auto Supply 0c e roof damaged, front blown ou r- B. A. Johnson, roof destroy4 n and stock damaged. g Bank of Clarendon, roof de Ld stroyed. a Arant's Drng Store, buildin g destroyed and stock of goot > terribly danuaged and glass4 & broken. Dr. Arant is perha] n the heavie'st loser in the stora le proportionately. es Manning Dry Goods Compan d store owned by Rev. S. A. Ne r ties, destroyed, stock of goo( 7 heavily damaged, carried 12 at 15 thousand dollars. 0 Manning Hardware Compan. warhoseblown down, plat nglass broken, store unroofed. .Peoples Bank, roof bad] gdamaged. t W. C. Davis, law office. roc 2and building badly damaged. Dr. Geiger's office, badly damn aged. BCoffey and Rigby's stable. de mnolished, and heavy damage t< buggies, wagons, feed stuff, tw< horses lost. Old Dispensary building, own ed by D. M. Bradbamn, complete ly blown down. Stables of Bradhamn and Sons front of buildings blown down SMrs. I. I. Bagnal's residence chimney down and roof dam AR DAMAGE, ), TELEPHONE AND ELEC LIZED. it aged. McCall hotel, damage to build SIng% Mrs. Maria Brown, several tenant houses destroyed. Clarendon Millinery Store, n building totally wrecked, stock beavily damaged. Building d owned by Mrs. Sue McLeod. Wilkins store. roof damaged, owned by Mrs. Sue McLeod. Sumter . Motor Co., repair shop totally wrecked, roof main building damaged. Home Bank and Trust Co., roof torn off and library of Charlton DuRant damaired. Abrams store, owned by W. P Legg, roof damaged. SManning Furmture Co., un roofed and stock badly damaged. Wilsob Insurance Agency, to building unroofed. le t Louis'Levi. roof torn off and ' stock'damaged. alz: Levi Mercantile Co., building partially unroofed and large warehouse and barn demolished. S. R. Venning, building own ed by Levi Estate, damaged. R. R. Jenkinson, building own ed by Levi Estate, unroofed and stock of goods badly damaged. Plowden Hardware Company, warehouse blown down and heavy damage to stock. Manning Grocery Company, roof damaged and stock slightly damaged. Well's Barber Shop, building unroofed and glasses broken. Leon-Weinberg, building un roofed, front plate glasses blown out and damage to stock of goods.' Cothians tobacco warehouse. 0 biilding owned by Leon Wein -berg and filled with cotton, building blown copnpletely down n di ts -' ly Central Hotel, roof damaged Land chimneys blown down. t.Old Langston stables, owned dby F. P. Ervin, blown down. R. R. Jenkinson's residence, Spiazza down from flying timbers. Isreal James, colored, two .houses blown down. s Boswell residence, roof dam. 1s aged. >s House of Rev. Totally, color 2 ed, badly damaged. The new flour mill erected by y F. P. Ervin was severely injur t ed and partly blown down, and i several tenant houses in this : neighborhood also owned by Mr. Ervin werd blown down. ~'The Glenn tobacco warehouse ewas also totally wrecked. The old Dinkins residence re' y ceived heavy damage, to chim neys and roof, and the Strange >f residence also come in for some - disaster. The top of Bettie DeLiaiu's house was blown off anid the house of Ed Rhodes was badly injured, as were also the houses of Tom Flowers and Paul Hicks. The Court House had port~ions of the roof torn otY and heavy losses were sustined on the in side by breakmng of windows, doors etc. Mrs. Brown's residence was injured by flying timbers. Fred Lesesne's automobile was Mat- brokei and the Iine black horse of Mr. Englishi Plowden, which was in a .;tall in the Levi lot, was so badly hurt that it had to be killed. - Many trees in the court house square were broken and torn .down and thle beauty of thek ) square will be permanently y marred.1 Hughes well digging mnachin- r -ery was destroyed. .In the panic and demoraliza tion following such a terrible t ,disaster there are many inci- E .dents of heroism which might t ,be mentioned, but they cannot 1 )f the instances which deserves nol special mention for bravery and vil levotion was that of Miss shep pard, who was in charge of the :entral telephone office, and wa while the winds raged and the rer rain beat and the office was al- pa most ankle deep in water she tw tood to her post and gave con- te aections as long as she could,.so be bhat news of the terrible - disas- dei er might be spread to the pub- M lie and homes in the town who tin were alarmed about loved ones a aught in the various wrecks. SUMTER'S BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT. g One of the most appreciated st things in connection with the pa entire disaster was the beautiful go and magnanimous spirit with re which the citizens of Sumter by came to Manning s rescue. In an the pandemonium which raigned It ofcourse the reports which went wE out.were somewhat exaggerated, an as many wires were down, but of when the Sumter people heard ge of our plight the fire bell was an rung and continued to ring until hundreds of people were assem bled, and when they were told on of the trouble at .Manning about le seventy five cars with probably mi one hundred and fifty people, re doctors, trained nurses and cit- pa izens, with bandages; surgical G< instruments and. other means as with which to alleviate suffering. gr came to Manning to render all R. the assistance they could. The th Se ra ca . .re hr of co - fr citizens of Manning will never af forget this beautiful spirit on the part of the people of her sis ter city, Sumter. di On the night of the storm the pl town was in darkness, and the in electric current could not be he turned on, as fallen live wires m< would only have added borrors inl to the already heavily stricken ru community, but Mr. L. H. Har- ins in, the electric plant manager, PC was equal to the occasion, and ed by the next night the wires-were th up and the town lighted as w~ tisual.th This cyclone was the most ho panic striking disaster which dii has ever happened in the history tri mf Clarendon county, and since bre 'riday hundreds of sight seers ] ave visited Manniing from ad- ste joining counties to look upon the ne: ruins. The papers report that.a Id< storm visited Ellpree on the st< me afternoon, and also one in S. darlborough county, killing four sto )eope in that county. We have WI .at received reports of any oc4 reat damage being done else: T~ vbere in the county. except that pai ome damage was dlone on the lot Nilon place near Sumnmerton,.. 'i bere a barn and some buildings ho vere blown down, anud some lit- and le damage near SM. Paul. It is ter )ossiole0 that the cyclone made me leap from Eiloree to Summer u, at the Wilsin or B~enbow w< lace. then another biunce to an :arth again, striking at Man w< ing, and then leaping to the hon )arlington and Marlborough g~ ections. in as miucb as when it gests Ha eached the depot section in ranninig it seems to have arisoni Q ver Ox Swamp and went high - 1air in a northeastwardly di- % ection, qiVJ rings: FORMER DISASTERS. lo Among the former disasters ga visit Clarendon county per TI aps the earthquake on the eg ight of the 31st of August 18S6 the most remembered, but the and out amageo to property then was Rnik so great except at Summer [e and Charles ton. bout the beginning of the r, a tornado which is well embered by olaer citizens ;sed through the county be en Jordan and - Santee, cut g a wide swartb through tim -s and blowing down 'the resi ice of the father of Mv. J. J. tchum killing two persons. e path of that storm is dis ctly visible yet, in many ces, by the old timber being ae. .n -February 1884 another rm on the order of a cyclone 5sed below Oak Grove church ing very much the same di-. ,tion as this one, killing a man the vame of James Cubbage d a young man, John Baggett. - is a notable incident that he Ls an uncle of the Misses ClarMa" d Julia Bggett, and a brother their father, Mr. Harvey.Bag-. tt, who was also in that storm d made a narrow escape. ASSISTANCE OFFERED. In addition t0 the assistance ered by Sumter, the terrible ws spread abroad elicited - mny telegrams of inquiry after latives, expressions of sym ,thy and the offer of services. - >vernor Manning offered, the sistance of his 'fice in a tele am to the Mayor, and lMr. J. Kenley, general manager of e Atlantic Coast Line, sent his* cretary, Mr, Murchison, in rson to Manning to see if - the ilroad company could -be of y assistance by the offer of rs or special trains or any her services which -could be ndered. BURIAL OF THE ADT. Miss Clara Baggets body *as ned at Oak Grove churcn Sat- - day afternoo, and the body Mr. Beasley Davis was buried the Jordan cemetery Sunday >rning with arasonic honors in e presence of a l-arge con. urse of people, .many masons >m the various igdges in the - - unty taking part in the 'cere any. The colored boy. -Tomn'. irter, was also buried Sunday ernoon. THE BUILDING SPIRIT. Notwithstanding the temnble -2 saster, and that very few peo a had storm insuranoe, which - Les -the property loss very avy upon -them, Satuvday >rning work began in earnest clearing away the debrns and - bbish, and repairs and rebuild Swill go forward as fast as, ssible. The street han'ds clear the rubbish, and limbs out of a streets and thbe chain gang s brought in to clear away 5 fallen trees from the court use square, while private -in- - - riduals also went forward and. ed to meet the situation as vely as they could. Dr. Ararit will open his drug' re in the old bank building et to Rigby's store. The New a Company have moved to a re next to the post office, and Katzoff has moved into the re lately occupied by E. L. Ikins. Dickson's Drug Co., has n pied part of Thbomas' stable. e Manning Dry Goods Coin ay have not yet been able to ate permanently, since memn -s of that firm were bodily - ured, but in a short whbile we - -e to see thiem also located I open for business until bet and more permanent arrange uts can be made. How's This r Soffer Onc Hundred Dollars 1?'ward 6,r - case of Catarrh that cannot be cured bi - s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props.. Toledo, 0. the undersigned, have kno wa F. J. 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