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B KILLED AT AUTO RAGES OLDFIELDS CAR CRASHES INTO CROWD OF SPECTATORS CRASHES INTTgRAND STAND Oldfield Escapes Without Injury? ! Starter Refuses to Stop Race After Tragedy. * The Dead. . * The dead are: * ! * Claud Hamil, Hammond, N. Y. * * Charles Ballantyne, Syracuse, N. Y. ? * Jas, Coin, Alexandria Bay, N. * Y. * Fayette Funk, Farleyville. N. * Y. * * Leo Halpin, Syracuse, N. Y. * * Unknown man, 60 years old. * * Unknown man, 25 years old. * * Unknown boy, 10 years old. * ****** ********* Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 16.?Nine persons were killed and fourteen hurt, several of them seriously, as a result of an accident in the j 50 mile automobile race at the State Fair track this afternoon. A Knox racing car driven by j Lee Oldfield crashed through the fence on the return after leaving I the stretch in front of the grandstand and ploughed for some dis- j tance into the crowd causing the. causalties. Oldfield was not seri-1 ously hurt,. The blowing up of a j tire on Oldifeld's machine was responsible for the accident. Every ambulance in Syracuse was I rushed to the scene and vehicles at J the park also were pressed into service to aid in the relief work. Bad Tire Caused Accident. The woman's building was turn- j J ed into an emergency hospital. , The accident happened during the i forty-seventh mile of the race. Oldfield was a lap behind Ralph Dealma and running with him. Oldfield had a bad tire on his car for over 27 miles, but it did not blow * OUt Until tho rnno woo ...i >1 i.. *"V,...... miles of the finish. At the time it exploded DePalma and Oldfield were neck and neck. They had just taken the turn at a terrific speed that had the specta-1 tors in a frenzy. Then came a! crash that was heard all over the I field, followed by screams of wo-1 men and children in the stand. .the | paddock and inside of the track. Kef used to Stop KaceEffort^ were made by prominent j Syracusians to stop the meet at once. Starter Fred J. Wagner., of New York, however, refused to stop the race. He started another j race, the last one of the day with- j in five minutes after the track had , % been cleared. Death hist May Grow. The list bf dead may be increased,! as it is believed several of the in jured are so badly injured that they cannot live. Oldfield is! n among the injured. The accident came as the fatal i termination of the biggest day the j . State fair has ever had in point .of j attendance, as well as in matter of attractions. Taft Guest of Day. The honored guest of the fair t to-day was President Taft It was but a short time after he had left the grounds that the tragedy occurred. Just before he left President Taft took a short ride in an automoble on the track which was wet to keep i down the dust for the President and his party. This wetting was such as to cause drivers, who were to com-; pete in the fifty-mile event, to ! protest. Track in Ha<l Condition. When the race was called Ralph 1 DePalma and Bob Burman, who had j been driven in previousu races, re-1 fused to go on because the water had made it too dangerous to take chances. There was a delay, durr ing which the track dried some- i what and DePalma and Burman j were entrants along with Oldfield1 and six others. How Accident Occurred. The accident happened in the1 * 4 7th mile, DePalma was leading! by a lap with Oldfield trailing him i as they entered the first quarter of j ? thpt mile. The big cars, traveling, it is estimated, at 75 miles an hour, were running side by side as they ' swung around the turn, after passing the grand stand. j, As they took the turn there was | a report. The car driven by Old- j ] field leaped in the air. Then it j, swered to the outer side and I crashed through the fence. The crippled machine, beyond the oon- \ trol of the driver, plunged through hundreds of persons lined along the fenr>p ' Crippled for Twenty Mile*. For more than 20 miles OldV field had been driving his car with ! ] tors had been driving his car with j i cne of the shoes flapping, in the hope of beating out DeP^ma. However, his manager, insteaoSof topping him, it is said urged him to increase speed. j In spite of the fact that it quickly became known that many had- been killed and injured, the officials in charge refused to call off the race, and the last few miles were run while hundreds thronged the tracks. Oldfield, the driver., who is In a t h orriitnl J *"? mi, ID uciiiK n imiuru uj a. 11 j officer and as soon as he recovers i win be arrested. t Mrs. J. Monroe Rogers and little 1 ^daughter, Beatrice, have returned \ from a seven week's stay In Ala- t bama with relatives, 1 I ? ' - At y v v v tw ^ ** ** ** ?* ? ? n n * A TT*">r' + r????, I * I DILLON C( < + > <{ i < !* : : < < > > > * < > > <? > > > <$ : < > < > NE(tK() SHOOTS ANOTHKK. Nathan Foster Shoots and Seriously Wounds .lake Paige. A shooting affray that my terminate fatally occurred at the corner of Main,street and Railroad avenue, directly in front of Morris Fass' department store, Saturday night about 9 o'clock. The streets were thronged with shoppers at the time end that some innocent bystander was not killed or wounded by a stray bullet seems almost miraculous. Foster, the negro who did the shooting, is a trifling sort of boy I who has been doing odd jobs around ! the Price Court Inn. Page, the: victim 01 t.ne near-irageay, poses as a cook, but is said to be a worth- j less fellow who does not exert himself to do much of anything. It is the same old story of too much whisky, the ever ready gun | and the brute passion being stirred by jealousy over another woman, j Page and Foster had been paying attention to the same dusky dam- , sel and it seems that Page was mak-j ing better headway than Foster. ! Anyway there was occasion for jealousy and wihen the trio met Satur- I day night a conflict was inevitable, j It is said the woman attempted to walk off with Page when Foster j pulled a pistol and began firing. One | bullet entered the negro's elbow, i another entered the right thigh and another ploughed its way I through his side, piercing the lungs j and liver. The wound in the side ! is the one that may cost Page his life. Both negroes ran in the same direction and in the confusion that followed Foster made his escape. Two blocks away Page was found Jying upon the ground where her had fallen, bleeding profusely from the mouth. The doctors say his wound is dangerous and he was urged to make his ante-mortem statement I Sundav afternoon hut ho rofn??H tn discuss the affair. "The woman in the case" resides somewhere in the jj Tenderloin district, but she does' i not appear to know much about the Risk* hifp to Save Baby. !1 i 1 Denver, Sept. 19. ? Glancing up I from her work as she heard the ' < whistle of an approaching train j Mrs. Ellen Hides, of Sable, ten miles north of here yesterday was j horrified to see her fourteen-j months-old baby sitting in the ' middle of the railway tracks direct- 1 ly in front of the osrushing flyer. ! In a mad dash she succeeded in I 1 catching hold of the child's dress, ' but the locomotive tore the baby < from her grasp. Trainmen found 11 the mother unconscious beside the mangled body of her baby. ACTRESS GOT A GOOD SCARE. J IT t Bullet*, but one Failed to Melt. i Trinidad, Col,. Sept. 16. ? Mrs. j ^ Frederick, the "human target," i who has been thrilling vaudeville i ludiences here by apparently catching in her teeth bullets fired at her j Trom across the stage, last night i horrified her audience by dropping j :o the floor with what appeared f :o he an ugly wound in the head. v Examination showed, however, that j Jhe was not seriously wounded, that r nstead of lead the bullet was1 j wax, the accident revealing the se:ret of the "act." t The wax bullets were shown to ( he audience and placed in the J <] 'Jfle, the heat of the explosion i r netting the wax and the "human ! arget" displaying in her teeth a Juliet which she had oonoealed in c ler mouth. Last night one of the I vax bullets failed to melt and gave ( he performer the fright of her, ife. ft**********"************** m i.-jjtgj'S&r ZVi'lMTjlHgteRfrt IPSmp '! - ss m ;f? ,t? %t ' -; \)$*?Ma?: v' .? : > ~ s . ? > ' ' ' - * r 1 I ' ' ' ^ . . i DUNTY'S EIGHTY-THOl > *;* > >: *> : > * : * : * > :> > > > : : : >< < < : >? TO IMPEACHGOV. BLEASE STATE'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE IN FOR A BUSHEL OF TROUBLE MFrTINR IN TFinFR'Q OFPIPP IllkkllllU 111 I LLU L_ 11 U Ut I IUL The Atlanta Ijimjit ttiuiipiug 011 Mease's Trail. hyon is Silent on the Matter. According to a story from Atlanta the rumors that impeachment proceedings will be instituted in the coming session of the legislature in South Carolina against Governor Cole L. Blease are rapidly crystalizing. Indeed the definite statement is made that, at a conference held in Atlanta Saturday attended by several prominent South Carolinians. plans for presenting the impeachment proceedings were gone over in detail. The story of the conferenoe held in Atlanta Saturday to discuss plans for bringing these proceedings, is as follows: From the Augusta Chronicle Bureau Impeachment proceedings are practically certain to he instituted against Governor Cole G. Blease, of South Carolina, when the South Carolina legislature meets in January. This action will he a direct result of efforts of Governor Blease to have TI106. B. Felder, a prominent Atlanta lawyer, extradited to South Carolina for trial on charges growing out of the State dispensary muddle. That the impeachment would be attempted was indicated Saturday, when a prominent attorney of South Carolina and soune other prominent South Carolina peopje came here to confer with Mr. Felder. It is said on good authority tliat the details of the plans were gone over at length in this conference. The South Carolina attorney and those with him, left in the afternoon for South Carolina before their presence in Atlanta had become publicly known. Mr. Felder was asked for a statement about this matter but declined to discuss it. Rumors to the effect that there would be impeachment proceedings ire not new; in fact they have oeen in circulation for some time, jenerally coming front Columbia. Saturday the Raleigh News and Obterver printed the following, sent >n by the American Press Association: "Columbia, S. C., September 15. ?Leaders of the opposition to Gov>rnor Cole Blease are trying to set evidence against htm as a >asis for impeachment proceedings, which they propose to begin whe.t lie south Carolina ieg'slature convenes in January. The governor viII be generally charged with malfeasance in office and there vill be specific charges. "A resolution is to be introduced, t is said, to impeach him. If this s passed the articles of impeachment will be ready to be filed at >nce upon which the State Senate \ vi 11 try him. His opponents beieve that nearly two thirds of the neinfcers of the legislature are nimical to Governor Blease. "Chief Justice Ira B. Jones of he state supreme court has resigned that office to become a ciuidilate for governor against Bleane lext year." The Story in Atlanta. The Atlanta Constitution Sunday arrfced the following story: "Attorney General Lyon, e>f South 'arolina, was a visitor in Atlanta (Continued on png?e 8.) / / / I / * ******** ::-*** ************-:-?h ' Rft- N aik'iHB [W . M flW HK rtavn LJSAND DOLLAR COURT > > > > v > < > : : : > : :* : > : * : : : : : * NEWS OF THE COUNTY ___ NEWSY LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY j COMING AND GOING OF PEOPLE ? I News It .'ins <tf Intrrpsi to Herald [ Headers. Ebb ;uwl Flow of tJie) Human Tide. Fork. All the farmers In thus section 1 are busy gathering their crops. Miss Annie Kay Carmichael left j the first of this week for school at | Union, S. C. Mr. Milton .Rogers has declined ! the idea of buying an automobile, j He will buy a small gasoline en- j gine instead. , Kev. Dick Simpson seems to be, one of Fork's greatest sports. He | has got Mr. L. B. Fort "going , some." The Fork Telephone Co. will soon | j be in operation. It will be a, | great help to this community. Mr. Hoy Edwards, of Dillon, was ! the guest of his mother Sunday. Mr. Marion Fort, another one of Fork's dead sports will leave forj school sometime this week. Miss Fleetwood CarmichaeJ spent the week at Mr. J. T. McQueens. Prof. L. -M. McMillan has got some of the boys going around here. j He will leave for the Medical College of .South Carolina, October; 1st. Mr. W. 1<. Rogers will leave this week for the Medical College at, Charleston, where he will take a pharmaceutical course. Cor. < 'aJvary. "icijluuiiK -is very quiet in mis section at present. The gathering of the fleecy staple is the order of the day and everyone is tookiug [ forth to the most interest-j ing time (the marketing.) ' Messrs. Willie ittitler, John New' and J. E. Jernigan, of the Free State section, were here Sunday. Mr. Percy Moody, of Pleasant1 Hill, made a brief trip over here Sunday., and as he didn't see anything of his girl at church, he!; knew too well that there was nothing doing for him, so he didn't tarry long. Come again, old boy, when y.ou can stay longer. j1 Rev. J. H. Moody was in the j ( Pleasant Grove section Sunday af-h ternoon. i Messrs. 1-uther and John Bryan, j, of Pages Mill, were here Sundayh last. Tom Scot, of the Gaddys Mill section, was here Sunday last. 1 j A second series of meetings be-m gins at Mt. Calvary church, Thurs- s day night, Sept the 28th. We ( trust to have a great revival and ] that many souls may be converted j Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Harrelson, of! ( the Pleasant Hill section, were , among relatives and friends her' ] I Sunday last. g Mrs. W. C. McKenzle, of Ber- j j ( muda, is spending this week at Rev. i J. H. Moody's. f We beg leave to state in this ad. r an error in last week's paper, and s wish to correct same "The mar- i riage of Wrenn and Moody." The s bride is of Due West, S. C., and the groom is of Dillon, S. (\, the bride \ ^ being a Miss Wrenn, but stated in j j last week's paper a "Miss Moody." ^ The ceremony took place at Due West, S. C. Sub. Miss Helen David left Tuesday * for Coker College, Hartsville. j ii < **** < ************** ***** 11 ? ll 11 I c * * * HUH i HOUSE | << * ! # * ,1 * . < * i * ! * ! OPPOSE 8KNATOR TIM-MAM Col. \Y. .1. Toltwrt, of Kdp-fit'ld Will itiin Against Him. A dispatch to the News and Courier from Columbia says should Senator B. R. Tillman enter the race lor re-election in the coming Democratic primary, as it is generally understood he will do, he will he confronted with an opponent for this Senator-seat in tin* person of Col. William Jasper Talbert, of Kdgefield. The rumor that Mr. Talbert. would enter the race for the sen- i ate next year has been cnrrent in this State for several weeks, but it is now kuown that he has made the positive statement in a letter to his friends that he will be in the race. Providence permitting. li is understood to be the intention of Col. Talbert to enter the race for the Senate in the next primary no matter what other can- i didates are in the contest. This means in simple language that he! will run whether Senator Tillman ; is a candidate or not. That Sena- j tor Tillman cherishes the desire to be given another term is very well understood throughout the State. .Marion Nrw Hunk. T|ie Planters bank opened its doors last Saturday morning under the most auspicious circumstances and the books at the close of that i day more than exceeded the hopes ol the business men who are backing 't The president, W. S. Fox- i wort I. .. aolf - - . .o ? jv.i-iii,iur :JIUJI OI iiiiu-) I die age and is regarded as one of i Marion's best and wealthiest eiti- < zens. The vice-president is J- Cle- ] nient Davis. H. A. l.**wis, for- ] merly cashier of the Bank of Mar- , ion, is cashier. S. P. Bolyn is rfs- i sistaait cashier. i The directors are: \V. S. Fox- j | worth, J. Clement Davis, H. A. , i Lewis, E. M. Basque, E. B. WheeJer, C. E. Dozier, E. T. Hughes. Or. < Z. G. Smith, and Thos E. Cooper. < MISTRIAL IX DEIBLEH CASE. 1 j] Jury t'nable to Agree In Case off ! Contractor Charged With Issuing Dad Check. The case of the State vs. Jno. E. | Oeihler, charged with issuing a , rthles.} check, resulted :n a mis-11 trial after being heard in Judge h McRae's Court Tuesday. Mr. Deibler is a contractor at ! ; Little Rock and has been doing j quite a lot of work in this section.'; The warrant, alleced that he n?i<t tne of the workmen by check and j when the check was presented the 1 hank turned it down because the ] iefendajit did not have sufficient \ funds in the bank with which to meet it. I The defence held that it was not \ i violation of the law to give a | worthless check in payment for j something that had already been t tbtained; that is if the check had !>een given previous to the time hat the debt had been made, but hat i/ goods or labor were obtained tpon a worthless check given for lie purpose of defrauding the perton to whom the check was given t was a violation of the statute. Vs the labor had already been pe?* orined it held that Mr .Deibler had lot violated the statute. The jury 1 eemed to disagree on this point of i? aw, however, and the case re- 1 ulted in a mistrial. n The prosecution was represented ' >y Joe I*, l.ane, Ksq., and the de- e ense was represented by N. B. Har- a ;rove and J. B. Gibson. 11 a Miss Mattie Hood has gone to | tennettsville to relieve the operator . r t the Bennett8ville exchange who ^ i off on her vacation. HAY FASTEN THE CRIME OACHMAN'S STORY MAY EXPLAIN MYR TLE HAWKINS' DEATH IOTE READ ?THE INQUEST ltradloy Oenies Respoiisihil ity for (iirl'ti Dcatli When Ask?si lMrect (/nfsiion. Hendersonville, N. (\, Sept lb ?George Bradley, ;i young inai rien nan. was asked t<i-day at the reopened inquest in the case of 1 it "ear-old Myrtle Hawkins, whose tody wa6 found floating in Osceols ake last Sunday, after a criminal peration had been performed, if te was not responsible for her ondition and if he did not conspire citii his wife and his partner in a dumbing establishment, A. M dcCall, anil the latter's wife. Mrs lentrice McC'all, Myrtle's most ininiatc friend, and Mrs. Mi-Call'S ntlier, Daniel M<*('all. and a strange voman from Aslieville. to perform he operation, and if Myrtle did not lie tinder the eholorol'orui, and if ier body was not eomealed for a inie in one barn and then relieved to another and kept, there ilitil midnight, and if three menlid not place it 011 a plank and then arrj it to the like anil throw it n. All five of those named steadfast* y maintained their complete ignoruice of tiie alleged circumstances idduced in support of the theory, md so unfalteringly returned the tvtiieiing fire of questions and ross questions as to leave the mystery as far iroia solution as ever, in the opinion of many of those who attended the inquest. Ten witnesses were examined between 3 o'clock This afternoon and R o'clock to-night, when the inquest adjourned until 10 o'clock *.ontorrcw morning. I.ike Ciirl in "Adam Ikilr." How Myrtle Hawkins found hers.*If confronted with ilisirrnco ami like Hattie Sorrell, in "Adam Bede," knew nbt whither to turn, and how, unwilling to meet her mother and confess her pitiful plight, the left a note absolving the man irom blame and declaring she never would reveal his name and saying she would go out into the world and fight her battle alone, telling her parents that they must not search for her, thus was the disappearance of the girl explainThere was moisture in the cyv many when the wretched girl's brave little note, showing so clearly her despair but withal her unselfishness, was read and introduced in evidence. 1 he examination of witnesses was conducted for Dr. W. R. Kirk, the coroner, by Solicitor A. H. Johnson., who was assisted by R. H. Slaton, mayor of Hendersonville, and Mr. Slanton's law partner. NVylie Rector, Morgan Bradford, Jr., of Washington, a detective, also suggested questions to the solicitor. Coachman Was Stan Witness. The witnesses were admitted into the room one at a time and not permitted to hear each other's testimony. The State's star witness was Robert Waddell, coachman for Daniel MoCall, who lived in hitter's house occupied jointly by Mr. an* Mrs A. M. McCall. and Mr. and Mrs. Ueorge Bradley, and not far from Dsceola lake. Wednesday night a week ago, the eve of Myrt'e Hawkins disappearance, he was aroused from slumber from some sort of fommotion, he said and the next morning Mrs. Daniel McCall, A. Mcrall and George Bradley complained of not having been able to sleep. Through the Questioning of other witnesses the State attempted to show that Myrtle Hawkins visited the Bradleys and that Mrs Bradley quarreled with her because of her husband's attention to the girl, and slammed the door in Myrtle's face, and that on that, night, in order to save Bradley as well as Miss Hawkins, the plot to perform the operation was hatch?d. The following night, Waddell testified he attended religious services, returned home at midnight N'ext morning. Friday, he said the MeCalls and the Bradleys were together in little groups whispering tmong themselves. Bradley and A M. McCall did not go to their place of business at the usual time hat morn'ng, Waddell testified. He asserted that on Saturday night he MeCalls insisted that he go to i church meeting. He went to lown, returning at 11 o'clock, and en minutes after he went to bed, ?e testifec, he 1 eard two or three people pass ever a bridge leading o the lake. Peculiar Odor tVmnect.ing Link. Shortly after Mvrtlo Hawkins' >ody was found in the Osceola lake he next Sunday morning, he saw he body at the undertaking estabishment. He said he could not orget the odor. NVaddell said that ie noticed Saturday that eight burap sacks in one of McCall's barns lad bee,n moved. He found the lacks Monday in the other barn. They were laid out, he said, as tf i body had been laid on part of hem end the others used as a covring. There was the same odor bout the sacks which he said he loticed about the body, and he assserted that it was so powerful hat he could not remain there. Gong to the first bam he said he Dlinrt n nllo r\t -h,-k 1? ? * vx iicwii *v uiv,?i Hjuntm (Continued oa page 8.)