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THE FORT MILL TIMES^I 16TH. YEAR. FOIlt MILL, S. <X THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1907. BRIDGE FALLS. _____ Carrying Sixty or Eighty Persons to Their Death. TERRIBLE DISASTER. % Unsuspecting Workmen Are Swept to Their Doom by Collapsing of Half of Long Bridge Over the St. 1-nwrence River?Men*Had Just Quit Work for the Day?(Grinding Crash Proceeded Falling of Structure. A section of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence River, five miles below Quebec, Canada, collapsed late Thursday, carrying scores of bridge workers and mechanics into the water. It is estimated that the loss is more than sixty and may exceed that number by twenty. The bridge was about a mile and a hair in length and half of it, from the south shore to mid stream, crumpled up nnd dropped Into the water. Ninety men were at work on this section of the structure and the whistle had just blown at 5:30 for the men to quit work for the day, when there came a grinding sound from the bridge tnld-stream. The men turned to see what had happened and an instant later the cry went up, "The bridge is falling." The men made a rush shoreward, but the distance was too great for them to escape. The fallen section of the bridge dragged others after It, the snapping girders and cables booming like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feet of the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward, hut only a few of them reached safety before the last piece of Iron work on the south shore was dragged into the water. Near the shore the wreckuge of the bridge did not go below the surface of the water and eight workmen, were rescued and taken to the hospital at I^evls. The steamer Glenmont had Just cleared the bridge when the first section fell. The water thrown up by the debris went clear over the bridge oi tno Hieamer. The captain at once lowered boats. The small boats piled backward and toward over the sunken wreckage for half an hour, but there were no signs of life. The twisted iron and stee! had its victims in a terrible death grip. A few floating timbers and broken stems of the bridge towa-d tho north shore were the only signs that anything unusual had happened. There was not a ripple on the smooth surface of the St. lawronce us it swept along toward the gulf. All the men drowned were employees of the Phoenixville Bridge Company and sub-contractors of Quebebc and Montreal. At ten o'elock Thursday night 16 bodies had been picked up and the S men in the hospital two are not expected to live throughout the night. The Quebec bridge was begun about seven yearB ago and it was to be finished In 1000. Subsidies had been granted by the Federal and Provlnical Governments and the city of Quebec and the estimated cost of the work was $10,000,000. The Phoenixville Bridge Company, of Pennsylvania, had the contract fn>the construction of the bridge and were working from l?oth sides of the river. Tin horror of the situation is in crossed by the.fact that tnere are a number of wounded men pinned n the wreckage near the shore. Their groans and shrieks can be her. id plainly by the crowds who have gathered at the water's edge, but nothing ho far can be done to relieve thoh sufferings. SAMK OLI> STOKY. Blames a Woman for His lleing c Thief. At New York Chester B. Kunyan the former paying teller, who stole nearly $100.Do. in casn from tht Windsor Trust Company last June told in the Court of General Sessions the story of his downfall. He charged that Laura A. Carter, now on trial charged with receiving some of his money, led him astray. Kunyan testified that he met Mrs. Carter on the street by chance and visited he at her home sev eral times. He toia ner that he had stolon sevveral thousand dollars from the hank and she 4 said: "Yon'rs In bad now, why don't you take some more and have enough for yourself." Runyau stated that alter he gave Mi's. Carter 110,000 In $i,000 bill? sho mmediately left her flat, where hi was hiding. She returned with the police, who arrested him. OKtOOKI) UIKIjM. A Man Arr?*?tefl on Description Given By Victim. At New York Abraham Blakeman *? j held on $200 bail in Coney Islanw court. He Is charged with being1 one of the men who drugged and attacked Adele Roberts and Anna Ruiisel. The girls were picked up in rthc roadway unconscious. Blakeman was arrested on a description given hy ^e girls and was positive'? Idon& ' M ' -'v'v h A STRANGE STORY. Young Lady Left by Herself Short J Time Disappears. Later Her Body Is Found Flouting in a Nearby Lake by Some ' Friends. * A strange Btory conies from Dover, | N. J. Five minutes after her arrival at Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong, Saturday night In company with her cousin, Charles Maguire, of Dover, Miss Agnes Maguire, a public'school teacher, of Brooklyn disappeared and no trace of her was found until her body was discovered in a nearby lake Wednesday. Their destination was a ( cottage known as Camp Looy, where t Charles Maguire who is a clerk in the f uvftci injoiuiuce, naa oeen B|>cnding * his vacation. c Whether the case Is one of foul j play or accidental drowning is yet to \ be determined. 1 Miss Maguire, who was a daughter ' of Mr. and Mrs. John --agulre, of No. 26 Second place, Brooklyn, came * up on Thursday with her father and ' mother, intending to spend some time s at the home of her uncle, Bernard v Maguire, at Marysville. Her father returned to Brooklyn that evening, Mrs. Maguire remaining with her 1 daughter who is recuperating from a ( long illness. ' Saturday evening Miss Maguire's cousin proposed a drive to Camp Ix)oy, his purj>o8e being to get some personal belongings. Miss Maguire 1 consented and they started at 7:30 H o'clock, when the heavy storm of 8 that night began they were near the 8 cottage but could not get up to the pluce on account of a steep declivity c Tying his horse to a tree young Ma- ' guire bade his cousin stay <u the * buggy while he went after his suit 1 case, promising to be gone only a 8 few minutes. t; He was back in less than ten minutea and to his great consternation 1 found the buggy unoccupied. In great alarm, for it was dark as pitch. 11 he shouted his cousin's name and ' when there was no answer he ran bacK to the cottage, thinking that, * becoming frightened at the storm, ' she had started for the house and passed him unnoticed in the dark- 8 ness. f When he found she was not In the 1 cottage he and several men began 1 scouring the woods in the vlclnitv. 8 The alarm spread quickly to neighboring camps and cottages, and soon 1 scores were engaged In the search. 8 While some of the searchers continu- 1 ed the hunt In ever-wluening circles ' on shore, several took to l>outs. Sam- 8 uel Hopkins, of Roonton, plunged in- 1 to the lake and dived In search of I the young woman's body, for it was feared, that, becoming l?ewildered. f Miss Maguire had walked into the r water and drowned. All ni^ht the 8 search was kept up without result. v Ry morning hundreds had heard of v the affair and took up the search. At 1 Hurdtown, a few miles from Nolan's f Point, there are abandoned mines and it is quite possible for any one r wandering about in the darkness to I fall down some unprotected shaft, of 1 which there are a number. f Tt'HKlSH OLTItAGKS. t t Many Persian Villagers Slain and Much Property Wrecked. Advices from Teheran, Persia says Gen. Samson l>owle and other Persian officers, according to reports, have been killed by the invading t Turks, after having been taken prts- ( oners. Many Inoffensive Persian villagers, ' including women and children, have j ?een slaughtered. Women have been :arried off, a church has been defiled ind much grain and other property . aken or destroyed. Turkish regular troops with artll- ( 'ery were within four miles of Urumiah on August lf>. There were no dgns of the withdrawal of the Turks ' from Persian territory. Another report says the Turks have occupied Merivan in Persian Kurdestan east of Sulemanla. In a telegram as ting for help, the :lergy and inhabitants of Merivan add that if the Persian government [ Is powerless the people must beg Russia. TAIMJKT FOB HI'LLKTS. Kevenue Officers Shot at By Moon shiners in (teorKin. C. I>. Williams and E. I). Hinton, attached to the omce of Revenue Agent R. V. Bams, of the Atlantic division, have just returned from North Georgia, after an exciting experience. They refuse to give the location, but they went up in the mountain part of the state to destroy a still which had been located. In this mission they succeeded, but i as they were returning, they were ambushed, supposedly by a party of moonshiners, who tired upon them as they drove along ^^e road. The horse of one of the revenue men was struck Ave times, being shot from uuder him. In the darkness the two men managed to get away without being struck. The matter, it is understood, will be taken up with the department of ' justice, with a view to ascertaining who the guilty parties were and 'jrlugiuj them to trial. i GIRL RESCUED After Being Held in Captivity For Three Weeks BY NEW YORK POLICE 'annls Received Mcssaip-s of l?istres* from Hrr, and the Police OfTl- i cent Finally Jjocate and Rescue I Her From the Men Who Were Holding Her as a Prisoner on ' Coney Island. 1 New York has had her full share ( >f criminals this summer. Recently he police has rescued a young girl j rom some men who had held her . :Hj?tlve for some time. "Aunt Sophie: For God's sake :ome and Ret me out of here! I am n Coney Island, hut God alone knows vhat house they have locked me up n. I can't describe it to you. A man s abusing me terribly." With this not as their only clew, he police rescued seventeen-year-old day Schick, of Newark, N. J., after he had been held captive for three veeks by two men, who, she says, ured her to a low resort and locked ler in a small room. The rescue of he girl was followed by the arrest if the men who. she declares, ill reated and abused her. Relatives of the girl and the police if three cities have been searching or her ever since she disappeared, >ut not until five days ago did she succeed in getting the note to her unit out of the house, so closely was me watched. The men whom Miss Schick accuse if abducting her said they were Wlliam Iligglns, eighteen, of 188 Italic street, Brooklyn, and Frank Marin, who said he lived at South Fifth treet and Bedford avenue, an adIress that does not exist. May Schick lives at 807 Park street <ewark, N. J. The home of her aunt, drs. Sophie Fuiier, is at 4a Montrose ivenue, Jersey City, and the girl ofen visited her. Three weeks ago May, with Llllie 3onklin, of 474 Chestnut street, Aringlon, N. J., went to Coney Island. During the evening they became leperated, and May. asked two strangers to direct her to the cars. The nan. who she savs was Martin hauI le would show her the way. Higgins iccompanied them. "I thought they were tuking me to he station," the girl said, "but initead they took me to iae house vhere I have been held prisoner, flartin told me he wanted to get lomething out of a room and asked lie to go up with him. When I did le locked the door. "I screamed for help, but I was tagged and thrown into a closet. The nen said they would kill me if I creamed any more. They kept close vatch on me, but one day last week I vas left alone. I scribbled the note o my aunt. I got a woman in the louse to mail it for me." When the girl's aunt received the lotc she turned it over to the police, detectives made a house to house ' -anvass of the resorts till a man was bund who recognized the description >f the missing girl and he led the deecvives to the house, at 17 Mermaid ( ivenue. , CAI SKIl A PANIC. V liiou Attacked a lauiy at a Pittsburg Kesort. Torn, bruised and suffering from n.ock, Mrs. Anna O. Aiucken, sixtytive years old, of FMttsburg, Pa., lies it her home tonight in a precarious condition, as the result of an attack l?y a lion at I.una park, a summer report, Thursday. The park was crowded with women and children, when, without warning, i I he lion appeared from behind one of the buildings and with a roar, sprang upon Mrs. ilucken. The woman i icreanied, and soon screams of the hundreds stampeding for the exit, were added to Mrs. Hucken's cries. \V. A. Downing, chief of the park police, emptied the chambers of his revolver into the beast. Others secured rifles from the shooting galleries and from the concessionaries, and soon a score were pumping lead at the lion, which stood over the prostrate woman, gnashing his teeth and lashing his tall. Finally the beast turned and rushed towards the show known as the "Mystic Kiver," and here he succumbed, turning over on his back, and with a few kicks he died. His skin was completely riddled wiui small calibre bullets. Mrs. Hucken was bourne to the park emergency hospital, where her injuries, were dressed. C AT S HITK Kl l.l?S \\<>MAX. Dies of Hydrophobia in Seven Weeks After Infection. Mrs. Rachel D. Harry, widow of Antos C. Barry, who was bitten by a cat seven weeks ago at her Kastontown boulevard home, I^ong Island, died early Wednesday, a victim of hydrophobia. Sne was dying for 8 hours. Her spasms were so severe that she had to be strapped in bed. Mrs. Barry was forty-six years old and the daughter of the late John Cuilom. of Oxford, Pa. She leaves five children, a daughter and four son*, / I ^ I .... _ . KILLED LITTLE BOY. Because a Pretended Prophet Said He Was an Anarchist Man, Who Claimed Supernatural Power, Persuades Parents of Lad that He is an Anarchist. A terrible story conies from Moscow, Russia. In the village of Sysoeva, Mogiloff government, there lived a peasant called Michael Kolchevosky, who called himself a prophet," and always gave out that he was "not of this world." On July 29 Michael told his fellow-villagers he had had a revelation from heaven to the effect that all jarthly misfortunes proceeded from \ntichrlst and that it was necessary to kill Antichrist, who had become Incarnate in the person of a two-yearild boy, the son of a peasant called [Jrobotchevsky. The parents of the child were per siuiuou to concent to tne sacrifice, and the mother having pointed out the >xact 8pot wnere the child had been l>orn, the "prophet" laid the victim there and began to press him to ieath with his feet. In a quarter of in hour the child was dead, but to muke sure the "prophet" gave him 20 lows on the head with an iron hammer. The l?ody was then cut in two lialves by the "prophet." who afterward again divided each part in two, uraying fervently ail the time, the villagers looked on reverently. At ast Klotchevsky put the fragments if the iHidy in a sack, tied the sa^k :o the tail of a horse, mounted the norse himself and rode through the tillage, followed by the inhabitants, who bore lighted candles, it being low night. The child was then bured, while the mukhiks sang songs of j raise. At daylight the "prophet" went lome to sleep, after inviting the peastnts to come at 8 o'clock ia the evenng in order to see him ascend tut leaven from the roof of his hut. But ? o'clock found hiin asleep in bed, ind after watting patiently for a long ime the villagers resolved to wake liin. Klotchevsky was in one of lis lucid intervals, however, and af er hearing what had happened ~he light liefore he attempted to explain he ascension to heaven could not ake place just then because the permission of the nearest priest shot t?I i lave been obtained before Antichrist was put to death. Finally the peasants began to beat he "prophet," who would probably lave been killed had not some of the ocal police inspectors happened to ie passing within earshot. 1'he 1.. ,1 1 a "" > r.# O'l [ii w|iuct io uuov i A wru <10 u mail wi *-u ies in the village?thirty-two men? were then arrested and will he trl *1. Among the accused is a man lu2 rears of age, who took an active pari n the murder of the child. The 'prophet s described as a man of 2.5 rears of age, but looking much older, vith an intelligent face, long flowing lair and restless eyes. BOTTIiE POUND ON BEACH. rhc Contents Tell of the lioss of a Steamer. One Saturday last at Miami, says :he Maiml Morning News, while talking along the beach, a little boy, named Granville Rockmer, found a Dottle which contained a piece of paper and on which a message was written. Not realizing the mportance Df the find, the boy tore the paper into fragments. Some older persons happened along Just at that time and gathered the fragments together and proceeded to arrange them in order that the message might be read. It was subsequently learned by piecing the paper together that the contents stated that the steamer Mom us had been lost in a storm at sea. It was signed P. V. P., and requested that F. Gilman, New York, ne nounea. 11 is neiievea me message is genuine. A similar find was made three years ago near Cape Florida light, by Mr. R. D. Maxwell, of Miami. It told of the loss of the steamer Ampersand on the west coast of South America many years before. he matter was investigated through the underwriters' agency in New York and it was learned that a vessel by that name was missing and had never been heard from. Finally, Mr. Maxwell received a letter from the widow of the captian of the Ampersand, which told the story of the sailing of the vessel from an Knglish port. It was the first hearing she had of her husband's fate. The liottle was fourteen years in making its long journey around Cape Florida. It is understood the news about the Momus has been sent to a New York underwriters' agency for investigation. RUKNED IIIS MONEY. Then Killed Himself in the Presence of a Crowd. A special from Webster City, Iowa, to the Record-Herald says: In sight of an astonished crowd Carl Pressley an actor, maue a l>onflre in the street of his paper money: threw his jewely In the sewer and then announced to a group of friends that he was going to kill himself. He drew a revolver from his pocket, walked across the street and, calling to a number of persons In the vicinity to watch him die, fired a bullet into his brain. i WORK OF FIEND. Farmer's Wife and Her Servant . Victims of a Brute WHO HAD FIRED BARN While the Men of the 1-aniily Were Fighting Flames the Negro Tried to Pillage the House, and When the Women Came on the Scene the Ilrute Attacked Them With An Axe. The people of the North are fast findng out the vicious negro, and in consequence they are loosng their sympathy for the whole race. Ihey must not judge the whole negro race by the black fiends who committed the crime described below. Wo are glad to say that such robbers and murderers does not fairly represent the negroes of the South, a large majority of whom nre held woiking honest citizens. But still we can't blame the people of the North for judging the negro race by those who go up to live among them. A dispatch from Camden, N. J., says Mrs. Frances Horner, aged 67 years, wife of Edward Horner, a farmer on the Browning road near Merchantsville, and Mrs. Victoria Napoli, a servant, were chopped to death Wednesday in their home, it is charged, by Charles Oihson, a negro who was formerly employed on the farm. The assassin first set fire to the Horner barn. While Horner and Mrs. Napoli'8 husband were trying to rescue some of the horses from the barn Mrs. Horner and her servant came upon the negro in the act of robbing the house. The robber attacked the women with an axe and practically cut them to pieces. Mrs. Horner's head was severed and Mrs Napoll's head was crushed in and her body covered with gashes. Horner and others, who were at the fire returned to the house, found the body of Mrs. Horner lying nearby in a pool of blood, and Mrs. Napoli still alive was lying nearby covered with blood. She died wthout regaining consciousness shortly after being admitted to a hospital in the city. Two gold watches and a sum of money had been taken from the house, and the police located the watches in a pawn chop in Philadelphia, where they had been pledged by a negro. The pawnbroker, according to the police, identified Gibson as the negro who pawned the watches, and he was arrested. Tickets for the time pieces were found in his possession. Steven Dorsey, another negro, who was with Gibson when it is alleged he pawned the watches, was also arrested, through the police do not believe he had anything to do with the murder. Gibson, who was discharged by Horner some time ago, applied for work at the farm yesterday and was told he could sleep in the barn and start work in the morning. Early this morning the farmers who were running to the fire declare that they saw the negro fleeing from the Horner home. Gibson refused to make any statement regarding the murder, and his supposed connection with it, but when one of the watches recovered from the pawn shop, and nf>ilnk nrnfl m..?lr /vrl n/it V? r* iiii.ii ** ao uiai ivru nun iuc nainr "Horner" was shown to him, and he was asked if he knew the owner, ne is said to have replied: "Yes, I'm sorry for him." FINK1> FOK IIKi(iIN(i. Pittsburg Swain Caught in tlx* Act on the Street. "Thou shalt not kiss or hug on the street"is the latest commandment laid down by the authorities of Pittsburg, Pa., and it is being enforced. Paul Carr, a young man of Mellen street, was fined $10 and costs for hugging his girl on the street Wednesday night. He was also told by Magistrate Walker that he would be sent to Jail if it occurred again. "Do your kissing and squeezing at home, not on the street," said the court to the downcast lad. This order fallows another issued in Allegheny some time ago by Mayor Kirsshler to the effect that there should he 110 more love-making in the city parks, and instructing the proper authorities to place electric lamps to shine in all dark corners. MOTH Kit AM) SON |>KO\VNKI> Youth Tries to Have l'nrcnt Wlieu the Boat Upset. In a double drowning accident in Base Lake, near Pentwater. Mich., Mrs. George Grove aim son, Raymond, aged seventeen, of ago. met iiieir death. Mrs. Grove and son were sailing in a rowltoat with Mrs. Henderson and son from Chicago, who were guests of the Groves at their summer cottage. A sudden gust of wind overturned them. Young Grove, who was a good swimmer, dived after his mother and never came up aguin. Mrs. Henderson, and her son succeeded In gaining the overturned boat and clung to it until rescued. CONVICT CAPTURED I North Carolina Manslayer Caun In Greenwood. I Had Settled at Hodges Undfl Another N amine and Stood Wfl With His Neighbor*. I A diapatch from Greenwood to ThB News aud Courier says Saerltf M<fl Mil hi n captured Thursday afternoon I man very much wanted in North Cafl olina. This man, J. B. Watson, wtfl sent up from Vance county, Nortfl Oaroiina, for twenty-flve years, f? the killing of Joe Buskins in 19ol Watson served oniy six months of hH sentence in the penitentiary and thrH made his escape. The North Cartfl lina authorities offered rewards fcfl his capture, but he was never locatetfl About a year ago ?* atson went tl Hodge's wltti his family. He wal known as J. K. Brooks. He hal been living near Hodge's ever aincl and has made a good reputation among his new neighbors. Sherifl McMillan InratiwI Hlo " mo OUIIIC 11111*3 and Thursday, wL?u he came in witlfl a load of watermelons, he and Deputy! Sheriff Dukes arreuted him. " Watson offered no resistance. He was said to he a dosperate and dangerous man. but he made no move to escape. He acknowledged his Identity and is willing to go bacn. to *\. Carolina, lie has wired an uncle in Blberton, Ga.. and another In Royston, Ga., and asks to remain here until these two men can come. Sheriff McMillan is a very aWt ofllcer and keeps a lookout for escaped criminals as much as he did when he was the efliclent chief of ponce of Greenwood. PKTKKH TO BIO HANGED. York County Man to Pay Heath Penalty for Murder. A dispatch from Richmond, Va.. to the Roanoke Times has the following to say about George A. Peters, a native of York County, who has been sentenced to death in Carroll County, Virginia. "George A. Peters of Carroll county, is to hang for the murder of Rev. Joseph Easter, a Drunkard preacher, who was killed in the county several months ago. This conclusion was reached by Governor Swanson the other morning after going over the application for commutation. "The Governor says he has not found a solitary thing upon which he could base any interference with the the sentence of the jury which tried the prisoner. The papers have been in the hands of the Governor for some time and he has examined Into the merits of the case with unusual care. "Peters' according to the records in t hp psiuft WDiil In I hnmn nf !*<? I minister one night in May, after the minister had retired, called him to the door and shot him down in cold blood in the presence of the man's wife and children. There was absolutely no provacation for the crime, and the attempt of the defence to show that Peters was drunk at the time fell flat, the contrary being proven. Peters will be hanged on September 20." BEUEVKI) IIGil A Wat'li Because He Had Had Luck Nearly Killed His Wife. Amelia Cyniano, believed by her husband and neighbors to be a witch, is in a dying condition at Adrian hospital, the result of punishment inflicted by her husband, John. The husband, in common with the neighbors, believed his wife was endowed with power to work evil, and Saturday he beat and kicked her almost to death because his pay envelope did not contain as much money as he believed it should. The State constabulary is searching for Cyriano. rne cyrienos live at wallston, Pa., a mining town. Recently a series of misfortunes befell the neighborhood. Garden truck did not come up to the standard and cgttle and poultry died. The people complained that Mrs. Cyriano was the cause of their misfortune. Saturday was pay day in the mines. Cyriano had bad luck and his tonnage fell off, thus reducing his pay. He went home determined to drive out the devil he believed possessed his wife. Cyriano knocked his wife down with his fists then kicked her until she became unconscious. She begged for mercy, but her pleadings did not save her. STAItVKI* HIMSIXF. Wife and Children I,oft llim Because of His Stinginess. Oeorge Gould, 65 years old. of New Rochelle, N. Y., died in a hospital there last week of starvation and ex posure, according to toe pnysjcians. Gould, who had acquired a fortune of $100,000 in the plumbing business, and In real estate, lived alone in a house in which he allowed no person but himself to enter, ills wife and children left him years ago because of his alleged stinginess. Gould had been sick for days and neighbors who forced an entrance into his home found him helpless from the lack of nurishment and exposure. i the deputies and trusties, put double bars on all the entrances to the prison, and had the entire police force stationed about the jail. The prisoner was taken from his cell and hidden in a remote corner of the prison cellar. After waiting until day for the arrival of the supposed lynchers, the ofibers were dsmissed. The murder of Shumnn was most foul. Til'- policeman bad heard of he negro insulting a woman in a lonely section of South liothlehem, and went to that quarter to make an investigation, lie found Handy, and when he attempted to place him under arrest the negro opened fire. Two bullets entered the policeman's body, and he died. Policeman McCue found Handy in a board yard and jumped upon him before he could get his revolver, which had been reloaded, into action. A crowd of angry men surrounded the prisoner and he was badly beaten. Ho was rushed to jail in an automobile. Handy pretends to be ignorant of the happenings of Monday night. COI RAGE AMI ItltA YKIIY. Of >len on Dynamite I,uden Ships Prevent Disaster. With enough dynamite, powder and old explosives in her hold to blow up the Rock of Gibraltar, firewhipped and faned by gales of hurriean forces, the steamship Eureka. Captain Goligbtly on her voyage from San Francisco to Seattle, Wash , but for the heroic fight of the crew would have been blown up and every soul on board lost. The Eureka left San Francisco on August 15 with a cargo of 900 tons, including 250 tons of powder, 200 tons of gasoline, a large quantity of oil. and fifty-six carboys of nitric acid. When off Mcndlclno Head alKMit 2 o'clock on the morning of the 1 !)th, the gale was Idowing fifty miles an hour and the ship rolling heavily. A carboy of acid, which was lashed on the upper deck, broke loose from its moorings and smashed. The fluid came in contact with wood and instantly ignited It. Lute a flash the ropes binding the carboys were eaten away by the fiuntes and entire cargo of acid was aslide and aflame on deck. Hands were summoned, the life and death fight began. Man after man fell upon the slippery deck, and although at times nearly overcome, would when revived, rise and fight the flames like demons. Their clothing took fire and Mate William Reed had li Ik legs badly burned. They kept their struggle up until the flames were extnguished. Capt. (Jolightly asserts that no vessel was ever in greater pern and that only the courage. and bravery or nis men prevented an awful disaster liAIKJH SNAKK IN AIKKN. v A "Water Itattler," Weighing Forty Pounds, Killed Recently. A real true snake story comes from the Level's section, a few miles from Aiken. It is stated that a "water rattler," which Is related to the rattlesnake, was killed in that section, that measured six feet and tipped the scales at forty pounds, and was almost six inches in diameter. The huge reptile was found by a colored man, who prevented it. from escaping Into a nearby pond, while assistance was called and the snake shot. The snake is said to he a very dangerous one, though it has no rattles as the common rattlesnake has, but is equally as poisonous. Sl l/r.W Ml ItDKRFD. \i?nu>in in \n? In Danger of Heign of Anarchy. Danger of a reign of anarchy throughout Morocco la Imminent and a report has It that Sultan Abdul Aziz haa been aasaaalnated. The report la generally credited aa It la realized that the followera of the new aultan 'have a powerful Incentive to put Abdul Aziz out of the way and bid for the favor of the newly proclaimed ruler. j