The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 31, 1911, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST, 31, 1911. Vo1 17 No 30
NEWS OF THE COUNTY 1
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NEWSY LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT SEC L
TIORS OF THE COUNTY
COMING AND GOING OF PEOPLE I
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Npwh Items of Interest to Herald |
Readers. Ebb and Plow of the
Human Tide.
Maple Dots. | ,
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Mr. Jno. A. Dove and Miss Elsie \ .
Cox were married Wednesday after- i ,
noon at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cox. <
The ceremony was performed by ,
their pastor, Rev. W. C. Wallace. ,
We wish them a happy journey ?
^ through life. ,
W. P. SurleSj of Dillon, was in ,
this section one day last week. ,
Messrs. John and Jasper Dane, | <
of Mullins, visited relatives in this
secticn Sunday.
? J. D. Garner went to Florence i
on business Friday.
Rev. W. C. Wallace is conduct- i
?tig a series of meetings at Pyer- (
ian church this week. i.
H. A. Dudney, of near Latta. was i
in tiiis section on business Satur-1 *
day. J
Mr. and Mrs. M. Jackson, of '
Dillon, visited in this section Sun- ]
day. '
Hot and dry weather has caus- j(
ed cotton to open fast and now !1
everybody is trying to pick it out 1
but the price ought to be higher 1
before it is sold.
Hurrah for the marriage license (
law. We will have better schools 1
now.
Robert Dane, of Darlington, is j(
up here this week. I ]
R. E. Bailey went to Fork Mon- |
day * 1
Simon. (
. ^ FIRE AT ROCKY MOUNT.
Sash and Blind Factory Destroyed,
Entailing a Doss of $45,000
Rocky Mount, N. C., Aug. 26.? 1
The plant of the Rocky Mount Sash
iz Blind Co., covering an acre of 1
three .*cres was totally destroyed by j
fire which originated from an unknown
source in the plaining mill j
, depuiuaent at 11 o'clock to-night.
The loss, including large stock on {
hand just at this time, is estimated
at $45,000 with $12,000 insur- '
ance. SftV*?rul urnplrmon > * " ? 1? ? *
nviauiQii at cut; piaut
personally lost tools valued at $200 1
each. The firemen responded to !
the alarm, working valiantly to
save adjoining property, several of J
them have been, overcome by the intense
heat. The office building was 1
saved. The stock was valued at 1
$20,000 and the plant at $25,000. It
is not known yet whether the fac- *
tory will be rebuilt. The pint em- '
ploayed 60 men.
IMUon Nine Comes Back.
It was only a kid game and there
are grown-ups who will say that a i
kid game is not of much conse- i
quence, but the man who never ;
played ball when he was a kid has I
missed something that will never I
come to him again. There is no I
kind of loyalty, town State and
country, that will measure up to kid ,
loyalty when rival teams are match-: i
ed in a ball game. The kid will
make any kinc of secrifice, he
it an arm, a leg or his life, to insure
victory for his home town in t
a hotly contested ball game. Defea'
at the hands of a rival team is
worse than death; the sun goes into
eclipse and a pall of gloom over- 3
spreads the entire earth. I-.ife is t
simply not worth living. That is \
the reason the fate of Detroit, 1
Albany or Columbia is forgotten for
tho timo holncr itfKon v* <**
vuv Viu?v /Vtiig n nt 11 mc niU LCO-LUO \
of rival towns cross bats. And so ^
it was in Dillon when the juveniles a
-of Latta and Dillon fought out an c
old score on the Dillon diamond v
last Thursday. It was a fierce bat- j
tie, but when the Dillon kids emerged
from the dust of the diamond t
there dangled from their belts 16 ^
Latta scalps while Latta could claim r
only nine. They say it was not due c
to Latta's inferior playing but to c
the superior batting of the two
Smiths, A. and M. The Latta pitch- c
er could not lose the two Smiths. ^
Every time, so local baseball his- v
tory goefr, they went to the bat the a
pitcher gave them bases to keep j
them from batting home runs. And
then there was R. Evans* pitching, ^
so the little Dillon fans say, which c
was so rattling to the visitors that ^
every time they did happen to j
reach a ball they would run to g
third base. The juveniles, or "Lit- ?
tie Giants," as they are styled came ^
back in great style and evened up ^
an old score' with their I^atta enemies.
The two Smiths?now fam- '
ous in baseball history?and R. j
Evans are heroes whose names j .
will live on every lip, not through
countless ages, but until the text ^
books are opened next month.
Horn! Issue t'nrries.
The election held Tuesday upon
. question of issuing bonds to the
amount of $80,000 for water works n
ana sewerage carried Dy a sare ma- "
jorlty. An election upon the same !'
question was held some months '
/ ago, but was declared invalid on ac- 1
count of a defect in the preparation ; 11
t of the notices, hence the election
Tuesday was but a repetition of J
the former election. E. T. Elliott, j
M A. Stubbs and E. R. Hamer '
were elected commissioners of pub- R
lie works. The commissioners will c
4 sell the bonds as quickly as pos- "
sibl and no time will be lost in e
Installing the sewerage and water 2
plan i
5 DEAD, MORE MISSING';
OSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY ACCOMPANIES
STORM AT CHARLESTON
T CAME WITHOUT WARNING
slniMlera (aught Like Ilotx in a
Trap. The Worst Blow Since
the Great Stty-ni of 18U8.
The Dead. *
' Elbert R. Smith, Columbia;
' Motorman Cutter, Charleston;
*A. J. Ooburn; Charleston; Rosa
' Robinson, Charleston; Eva My- *
' ers, Charleston; Tom Deely,
- ^iiHriesxon. i
Missing. *
' The (!assidy family, care tak- *
' ers at the Wapoo Phosphate *
' Works. *
Injured. *
* Number unknown; estimated *
' at 20. !
* Property lo6s estimated at * I
? 1,000.000.
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Charleston, Aug. 28. ? Charleson
awoke this morning to find ai:
tcene of devastation and ruin, folowing
a night of great terror with
he visitation of another cyclone
which surreptiously crept in from
he ocean with short notice of its j
mining from the United States!
weather bureau. The damages are
tot comparable to the losses of
jroperty interests in the great
itorms of 185 and 1803, but the
listurbance was protracted over
trobubly a longer period of time
han any of these previous hurri:anes
and with the roaring of the J
winds, torrential showers, the roll- ]
ng of tins off houses, flying of
dates, falling of trees and smash
>f buildings and parts of buildings,
while the storm waged during the
t?lack hours of night, a scene of
:onfusion and terror was created
which probably had its counterpart
[>nly on the night of the earthquake
nut in the previous hurricanes.
Besides the heavy property loss
reported or estimated, eight or ten
persons are believed to have been
killed. The disturbance, after lasting
20 hours in Charleston during
which the wind attained a velocity
uf i) 4 inilest an hour, moved toward
the west, and now according
to the reports of the weather bureau,
has gone well inland, passing
between Columbia and Augusta,
thus removing any further danger.
Residents of Sullivan's Island suffered
less than was expected, the
last reports being that the wind had
subsided and that there had been
no injury to islanders.
The damage suffered was shared
b.y the crop and by property in
Charleston, largely along the waterfront.
Beaufort is still cut off
from communication, as is Georgetown,
but no fears are felt for the
latter town.
Charleston, Aug. 28 (via Summerville,
Aug. 28.) ? Seven persons
known to be dead, many injure^
and property damage of more
than $1,000,000 seems to be the
lotal of damage wrought by strom
?cre.
The dead.
E. R. Smith, Columbia, drowned
.inder lulling wharf.
Motormau Cutter, drowned.
Ida Robinson, crushed by roof.
Alcnzo J. Coburn, engineer, kill-j
?d by flying timber.
Kva Myers, drowned.
Tom Deeley, drowned.
In addition to the above the Casiidy
family, number unknown, careakers
at thee Wappoo phosphate
vorks, are missing and believed to
lave been drowned.
Great rleief was felt when it
vas learned late to-day that the
eople on Sullivan's Island were
ill safe, many having been taken
>ff by the ferry boat Lawrence,
vhich tied up overn ight at the
dount Pleasant wha-f.
After a perilous night, clinging
o a roof top, Ernest Hiodge, a midlie
aged man, was rescued this
norniug at daybreak by the crew
>f the Consolidated Power Station
in the Meet'ng street road.
Hodge occupied a lonely little
nttage, located in the marsh grass
>ack of Cedar street. With him
vere two white women, Ida Morgan ,
ind Rosa Robinson, both of Chareston.
About 11 o'clock last night,
vith the storm at its worst, the
himney fell In. Hodges states that
le jumped through the window,
eaving the two women in the room,
iwimming around for a while, he
lung to the roof of the little I
louse which had fallen in. I
trough the wild night the deeper- j
te man held on, finally drifting1
r itu me wiuu iu?ara me power
tation, where early this morning j
le was rescued. The police were
.t once notified and sent the halfIrowtud
man to the city hospital.
Pumps were used by the doc-1
ors to get water from Hodge's
ungs. Late this afternoon he was
eported to be on the road to reovery.
No word has been heard
f the Morgan and Robinson wonen,
and no doubt, they were lost
n the seething sea which swept
he marsh lands in the upper
art of the city.
^.n account of the tragedy at
he Mount Pleasant wharf comes
rom an eye witness, Mr. William
j. Perry, of Columbia, a friend of
Ir. Smith. The two gentlemen, acompanied
by Mrs. Smith and her
leice, Miss Annie McDougal. arrivd
in Charleston yesterday morning
t 9:30 and proceeded to the Isle
(Continued on page 8.)
BEATTIE MAKES BftD SUP I
MAKES MOVE SHOWING FAMILIARITY F
WITH THE 6UN
THE PBOGRESSTF THE TRIAL 1
PixKwution Scores Heavily With V
Several lni|K>rtant Witnesses.
Ilrief Summary of Trial.
Cheeterfield Court House, Va.,j
August 30. ? The prosecution has s
scored heavily during the past I o
w days in the trial of young Hen- d
ty Beattie, Jr., charged with hav-jt
ing murdered his wife on a pub-1 f
lie highway near Richmond. De- fi
spite the fact that he has been p
forced to face the most damaging ii
testimony young Beattie main- a
tains ivis taim demeanor and there's
are 110 outward jigni of the terri-1 r
hie struggle that may be ^
waging m his breast to conceal hisje
real feelings. Summed up briefly t
the vvosecution has introduced tes- d
timony to show? t
'J hat Beattie concealed by the s
roa.'ls'de the gun with which the
gun was crime was committed. I j
That he was seen near the spot v
where the crime was committed c
just about sundown.
T licit it W a a t ho firct Ttic
wife had ever been out riding
with him after dark.
That a party of boys returning
from a dance passed the Beattie
automobile at a spot where the
crime was committed and that
Beattie appeared to be fixing a
tire while his wife stood on the
running board.
That it was impossible for the
woman to have been shot while
she was sitting in the automobile.
I That blood spots in the roadway
S could not have dripped through the
| foot board of the automobile.
That blood hounds trailed Beattie
I to the stump where the gun was
| concealed, then back to the auto!
mobile and the trail was losL
That Beattie's wife screamed just
I before the gunshot was heard and
that it was 10 minutes before the
automobile started.
An Unconsidered Trifle.
An unconsidered trifie ? just
the flicker of an impulse to action?
came nearer to wrecking the defence
to Henry Clay Beattie, the
young man being tried for his life
here, this afternoon than anything
that has come out of the
mouths of witnesses against him.
! Beattie would have betrayed a
(deeply incriminating knowledge
j concerning a certain exhibit offered
against him by the Commonwealth
if the quick hand of his
counsel had not stayed him.
Commonwealth Attorney WendenI
burg was asking Luther L. Scherer,
I ehitl c l the secret service of the
l Chesapeake an*'. Ohic Railroad and
(the detective who has gathered up
: most of the evidence against Beat- ,
tie, to identify the exploded shell
(that lemained in tht* br#??r*h <?r tho
rusty shotgun believed to he the fc
one with which the murder of Mrs. I1
Beattie was done. Scherer ex-^
tracted the shell from the bore, said 1
it was the identicaJ shell that j1
| had been found therein on the |1
| morning after the murder, closed | 1
the breech and handed the gun to;
Harry M. Smith, Jr., counsel for
i the prisoner, at counsel's request. I
Smith turned the old style gun |
this way and that and fumbled '
with tfre breech. Just, then the ; j:
young man whom he is defending
leaned eagerly forward as if to as
sist and laid his hand on the
small of the stock prep- j
atory to breaking the gun at
the breech. His action was im- s
pulsive and swiftly sure.
Attorney Smith brushed the
young man's hand away, turned hi6 o
back on him and opened the gun, c
but Beattie's action did not entirely f
escape the eyes of one of the jur- c
nrc s- * "
i.mii ncimmjl Jt? It li> IlilUie illiu u
be is of the solid jawed, ruminating
type of juryman. The juror v
nudged his neighbor and nodded his s
head at Beattie. But by that time e
t.iere was nothing for juror No. 2 f
to see. h
This was the gun. archaic in its
breaking mechanism and altogether c
pulling, which according to young i
Beattic's story he had in his hands c
only so long as it took him to L
wrench it from the grip of the t
highwayman he has described as c
the murderer of his wife in the
dark of Midlothian turnpike and!
to cast it into the rear of the au- j
tomobile. Not since that time had j
he been able to view it or learn 1 i,
its mechanism.
Aso to how Henry Beattie will
stand the inquisition when the j
prosecution brings out strongly the
story of his life with Beulah before w
and after his marriage to Louise ?
Owen is not much of a question. He i i
has the steel nerves of a desperado. K
He can face anything from the bit- j d
ter grief of his father to the elec- i h
trie chair. jV
L. O. Wendenhurg, special counsel L
engaged by the Owen family to i b
prosecute Henry, has brought ter- j ^
ribly powerful evidence against the R'
accused. He has brought one of the f'
loaded shells found in the woods
near the murder. He has brought r
a witness who found the gun near
the scene of the crime. He has zi
brought witnesses to show the mur- li
der could not have been commit-11<
ted by a wayfarer while Mrs. Beat-; t<
tie was in the car, because there is tl
no trace of blood in the car, leak- e
Ing down to the road, and there v
was a great pool of blood in the r
road. a
He has brought witnesses to ?
JNDSAY BARLOW KILLED1
DLLS FROM TRAIN THROUGH 60 FOOT
TRESTLE CRUSHING SKULL
RAGEDY OCCURS IN MEXICO
Las Assistant Superintendent oT
IMllou anil Hjuner Mills, llnrtlier
of Mr. < . I>. llarlow.
Lindsey G. Barlow, "ormerly asistant
superintendent of the IJilln
and Hamer mills, met a tragic
eath near Chihuahua, Mexico, on
he 24th. A telegram received
rom his wife states that he fell
PfVlll fl cnriGtrnnUnn trntn ? v?/l
lunged into a til) foot trestle, nieetng
almost instant death His
rtn and leg were brkoen and his
kull crushed. Chthauhau is in a
ather remote section of Mexico and
Ir. Barlow was rushed tot he nearst
hospital 30 miles distant with
he hope of saving his life, hut he
lied several .hours after reaching
he hospital \A'ti '* regaining con
ciousness. v ^
Mr. Harlow is well remembered
11 Dillon. After leaving here he
rent to Winston-Salem where he;
ontracled a severe case of pncunonia.
His illness impaired hisi
lealth to such an extent that he
ras advised by experts to seek the
nild climates of the west. He went
rest, improved in health and reurned
to Winston-Salem where he J
ras married to Ella Layman, aj
iraduate of Salem Female College,
wcompanied by his bride he re-i
urned to the west and was in the
;niploy of a bridge construction
ompany when lie met his tragic
leath.
The greater part of Mr. Barlow's
ife in the west was spent in Colorado,
Ariz, Oklahoma and Californa,
doing open air work. He was
in excellent manaeer of labor and
he company that had him eruploy*d
shifted him from one state to
mother in its brige construction
vork. He had heen in Mexico only
i short while when he met his
leath. His wife who went with
tim in his travels was at El Paso,
Pexas, when she received news of
lis death.
Mr. Barlow had many friends
lere and elsewhere who will be
leeply grieved to hear of his unimely
and tragic death.
He was a member of the First
Baptist church of Lenoir, N. C.,
lis native home, and a member of
darkey Lodge A. F. M.t of Dillon.
Be is survived by his father. Mr.
iV. L. Barlow, of ljenoir, and the
'allowing brothers and sisters:
j. D. Barlow, of Dillon; J. K.
Barlow, Miss Ida Barlow and Mrs.
hllie Stee, of .Lenoir.
Mr. G. D. Barlow will meet the
lociy en loute home and accompany
t to Lenoir where the interment
vill be made.
ihow that just before the murder a
nan resembling Beattie, in a Buick
:ar, was at the spot where the murler
was committed and that a wouan
dressed as Mrs. Beattie was
in thf? riiniitni*- hnawl nf (ho .mil
?ot In the car.
Order of Execution.
In the last throw of the dice in
his game of two women and a
nan should bring Henry Beattie ino
tlie high walled penitentiary in
tichmond to meet his doom, the
'oung man will have need of every
iit of his remaining nerve, for the
hair in the death chamber of
tichniond peuitentiary is in the
iame room with the switchboard
vith its dials and lights.
In New York all this apparatus
if death is hidden from the conlemned
man. Here it is all heore
the gaze until he sits in the
:har and the black cap is shoped
ver his head.
Some believe that his suicide
vill close the case, as he is given so
nuch liberty that it would be an
asy matter for him to secure a
ew grains of potassium or even a
nstol.
Henry spent to-day in a large
omfortable cell in the Richmond
itv jail. He was taken from
'hosterfield last evening because a
aige number of rats, attracted by
be focd. bothered him in the tiivy
id fashioned lockup out there.
TWO HKM> FOR MURDKR.
i. (?. Crapse and I>. I*. Padgett !
Cliaiytil With Killing M. I(.
Ijong.
Hampton, Aug. 26. ? Special: A
rarrant, charging Luther C. Crapse '
nd County Commissioner Han P.
'adgett with the murder of Manning
l. Long, has been issued, and the
efendants are now in the jail
ere. A preliminary was'held yessrday
before Magistrate Murdaugh.
laioas corpus proceedings will no
nken out the coming week. Geo.
Varren has been employed to asist
the prosecution, while the ?le- ,
endants will be represented by
iajor W. S. Tillinghast and B. R.
Hers.
Mr. lxing was a prominent citlen
of this county, and, it is al- j
eged, was shot while attempting
:> prevent a difficulty between the
wo men, who are now held for
he killing. Mr. Long was woundd
on August 4 and died in a Saannah
hospital on August 18. The
eported details of the affair have
lready been published in The
lerald.
AIRMAN BREAKS RECORD
ATWOOD, OARIN6 AVIATOR, REACHES N.
Y. THURSDAY
DISTANCE 077,265 MILES;
The St. IjouJb to New York Aeroplane
Journey, which Ended Successfully
Friday Puts Flying on
a New Plane.
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* Distance covered, 1,265 miles *
* Detours bring total to 1,365 *
* miles. *
* Started from St. Ixmis Aug. *
* 14th.
* Finished on the 12th day *
* August 25. *
* Time for trip, 28 hours *
* Number of stops, 20. *
* Surpassed world's record by *
* Average speed per hour on
* flight from St Louis to New *
* York. 4 6 miles.
* * * ? * * * * j? aj: * ?
Plying in the same aeroplane,
driven by the same motor with
which he started from St. Louis 12
days ago, Harry N. Atwood Friday
afternoon finished splendidly his
record-breaking air journey of 1,26f>
miles and landed safely on
Governors Island, at New York. |
The previous record of 1,1 f>4
miles, made by Koenig and Iluechner
in Germany, required thirty
days under conditions far less trying
than those which the American
aviator pluckily surmounted
Starting from the metropolis of
i the Mississippi Valley at five minutes
after eight on the morning of
August 14, Atwood has flown oveT
the Mississippi river. the Illinois
river, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie,
the Mohawk river, the Hudson and
' many lesser streams and inland
lakes too numerous to mention. He
has traveled over the table-like
praries of Illinois, the wild desoi
late sand hills of upper Indiana,
! tlie thickly populated agricultural
1 country of Ohio, the manufacturing
regious of Pennsylvania and the
rugged, picturesque landscape of
! northern New York.
In uirtnalUu f1ui.,n Vi.,tf ,1.21V
biplane.
In these feats, Atwood, during liis
flight from St. Ijouis to New York,
has opened entirely new phases of
aeroplane possibilities. He has achieved
the things that Wilbur
Wright and other eminent authorities
have pronounced impossible.
He has shown that the aeroplane
can land and start from the moun-:
tain peaks as well as from valleys.
This practically means that the
aeroplane has subjugated all conditions
of the earth.
Threw Away at least $30,000,
He refused to flv to shppnshAad
Bay race track because "iie did not
like the way the prcynoter of the
enterprise had planned the event.
"1 don't care to finish this trip in
this way for the sake of a few thousand
dollars," he said last night.:
This is characteristically Atwoodian.
Because something about the'
proposition offended his fastidious
taste he declined to grasp opportun(Continued
on page 8.)
'J J
i across the American continent to his
; goal on the Atlantic coast he has
; passed over the cities of St. Louis,
.Springfield, Chicago, Elkhart and
! Cleveland and has made detours
j around Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Sy!
racuse, Utica, Schenectedy and Albany
and flown the length of New
York City.
In the course of his special journey
Atwood guided his craft thru
the atmospheric conditions that prevail
over virtually every section of
this continent. He has flown
against winds that blew with such
velocity that his craft almost stood
still. He has scudded over the
countryside with winds that drove
his aeroplane so fast that he traveled
120 miles an hour. He flew in
.sunshine, in rainstorms and with
tnunder and lightning playing
aiound his frail vehicle of laths
; and canvas.
He has done these things flying
; continuously day after day. Yet,
in spite of the fact that his ma;
chine began to show the signs of
terrific strains when he landed at
Charleston, near Albany, on Wed-,
i nesday, his pluck and perseverance,
I backed by his marvelous skill as a
pilot of the air, enabled him to finthe
remarkable journey with no
'essential part of his craft changed.
The motor in Atwood's biplane is
practically wrecked. It will need
overhauling and it requires a
tuorough rest. But the biplane itself,
which has passed through such
unprecedented vicissitudes, is as
good to-day as on the morning it
hegan to carry the young aviator on
his flight to New York.
But Atwood seems brighter and
fresher now the flight is done than
when he started. His reserve of
nervous power seems inexhaustable.
His lean face shows no sign of
weariness, his blue eyes flash a
imperiously brilliant as if he bad
just started. The flight that would :
have wrecked almost any living aviator
has seemed a diversion to
him.
On Thursday Atwood landed with
the wind on a narrow peak 1,300
feet above the Hudson. He cleared
it like a bird when he started
Later in the day he landed in the
killside arena at Upper Nyack. sixty
feet square, which stood rockily
at an angle of fifty-five degrees.
From a similar slope yesterday he
took his flight passing between
two trees that just a few inches
further apart than the width of his
37 CRUSHED TO DEATH
SCORES KILLED AND INJURED IN RAH
ROAD DISASTER
MORE THAN 60BADLYINJUREP
(Who, of l^eliigli Valley TnU'?
Plunge l>owii Kmbankincnr, Bury*
inj; Victims Under Ruins.
Manchester, N Y. August. 2 a.?
At least thirty-seven persons are to
night believed to have been killer
and more than sixty injured, as a
result of the wrecking to-day o?
l^ehigh Valley passenger train No
4 Speeding eastward behind time,
the train ran into a spread rail on
a trestle near here, and two day
coaches plunged, crashing downward
40 feet striking the east embankment
like a pair of projectiles.
The wreck was one of the most
disastrous ever recorded on the
system. Crowded with passengers.
many ot whom were war veterans
and excursionists from the G. A. R.
encampment, at Rochester, the train
was made up of fourteen c are.
drawn by two big engines, was 4 0
minutes late when it reached Rochester
Junction, and from there
sped eastward to make up time before
reaching Geneva.
The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the centre of a
400-foot trestle, over Canadaigua
Outlet, 15o yards east of the station
at Manchester, at 12.35 o'clock,
when the Pullman car "Austin."
the third of a long train, left the
rails. It dragged the dining car
with it and two day coaches and
two Pullmans, in this order, followed.
All bumped over the ties a.
short distance when the coupling
.between day coach No. 237 and the
rt'ar end of the diner broke. The
forward end of the train dragged
the derailed Pullman "Austin" and
diner, safely over the trestle, after
which t?bey plunged down the south
|embankmt-Dt and rolled over.
The fore >f.nd of M fated Lehigh
Valley uJ>' touch, in which
most of the viciiu18 were riding,
with a Grank \Trunk day coach
stripped the rear ?uard of the
southside of the tresi]e and plungjed
to the shallow rive.*" bed more
I than 40 feet below.
1 The end of the first da-*'_ coach
that went over struck the c^asL e ~
bankment of solid mafioni.v.
with the other 60-foot car behi. o
both shot against the wall with t<'r*
rific force.
Both cars were filled with pas- "s
sengers. in a few moments the
cars lay a chaotic mass of shattered
wood, metal and glass, under which
a hundred men and women and children
, many of whom were killed instantaneously,
were buried. The
greatest destruction occurred in the
day coach, which, after following
the first over the trestle, snapped
its rear coupling and thus saved the
rest of the train from being dragged
along. This second day
coach struck on the bottom end up,
the rear end projecting a few feet,
above the top of the trestle. All of
the passengers in this car were piled
[ in a tangled mass of broken seats
at the bottom of the car.
Indescribable pandemonium followed.
The Pullman car "Evelyn,"
which remained on the bridge, with
one end projecting over the gulch.,
and several cars behind it derailed
and in immediate danger of going
over the mass of wreckage below,
were soon emptied of all their
passengers, who, aided by gangs of
railroad employees from the big
freight yards at Manchester, rushed
to aid the injured. It was several
minutes, however, before anybody
reached the cars at the bottom
to help the victims.
The cars did not catch fire. Axes
were secured and body after body
.xmvicu niiu iHiTieu uy ine
rcscurers kneedeep in the river
bed to the bank on the west side
of the trestle. There the dead and
injured were laid out on the ground
and a field hospital established.
It was more than an hour before
many of the injured eouid be removed
and special trains from
both Geneva and Rochester brought
physicians, nurses and medical supplies.
Hundreds awaited treatment,
and the railroad station at Manchester,
a cider mill and an ice houso
were used to give temporary stiei
ter and treatment to the suffering
It was necessary to chop throug i
the sides and bottom of the di:coach
at the bottom and the work
of removing the victims moved with
painful slowness. Death had come
quickly to many, a large number (t
the dead having their skulls crush
ed in when they were throwi
against the car seats and projections.
The mortality was high
among the older passengers, most
of whom were veJt*rans of the civil
war, and their wives.
The dead removed from the
wreck and brought to a moreue ai
Shortville, near here, at 9 o'clock
to-night number 23. Two other persons
died in Rochester from their
injuries. Several other persons arc
lying in hospitals at Rochester,
and Clifton Springs with probably
fatal injuries. The number of injured
will reach sixty.
Owing to the fact that the derailed
dining car, in going into the
ditch east of the trestle, had
brought down several telegraph
poles, with scores of wires, tele- v
graphic service was broken, and will
not be restored until to-morrow. At**
had to be summond by telephon
Coroner D. A. Elsline, of Shortsvlll
took charge of the work at th?
wreck, assisted by Coroners Arm
(Continued on PMte 4.)
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