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THE FORT MILL TIMES ~ - - * ^ VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, S. Cm THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1909 NO. 24 FARNUM BRIBED Drawing the^Net Tighter and Tighter About the Defendant. EVIDENCE VERY STRONG k ? PThe Prosecution in the State Dispensary Cases Had a Regular Field Day?The Links in the Chain of Evidence Carefully Fitted Together by the State. The prosecution of the grafters in theJState Dispensary matter is becoming very interesting. Before a jury which is to pass upon J. S. Farnums' guilt or his right to liberty, Joe B. Wylie swore unreservedly that he had accepted bribes from Farnum. While Farnum la being triad for a particular offence, that of giving a bribe tor $1.126.to Joe B. Wylie. yet ^he testimony took wide latitude connection with Farnum. He alleged tttat Farnum had assisted in Wylie's campaign for election; that after being elected Wylie was approached to use his influence in bohalf of whiskey and beer concerns represented by Farnum; that in pursuance of agreement Wylie exerted that influence and therefore received the remuneration agreed upon. That Farnum had paid him in money at time, and at other times had given him drafts made payable to a third party, Henry Samuelf, for there was an investigation committee trying to get hold of Information and Wylie didn't wIbIi his name to appear in writing. The "defense attacked Wylie without vigor, but the general opinion of those who beard the proceedings was that while Wylie was preeented in a very poor light so far as his past conduct. was concerned, yet bis credibility was not impeached. The prosecution has pieced together what is considered a very strong case, and the defense will undertake to tear it down. Beginning with an unnamed draft presented for collection traced that instrument through the banks of Chester, Columbia and Charleston to the very cash drawer of Furnum's place of business in Charleston. The defendant could not l>o forced to produce it. but the secondary evidence of its having existed is almost unimpeachable. Wylle swore than Farnum gave him a draft for $1,125 payable to Henry Samuels and Samuels later testified that the draft was turned over to him and that he cashed It and gave the money to Wylle. . The motive for such transactions was also presented with skill. The "purchasing clause" of the old dispensary law was put in evidence, as were books, minute books, records of purchases and of awards and Invoice books. The minutes of March, 1906, showed that the board ? , QlLjphlch \\j 11 g wtys a _member had s^..pujb to-"order out " whisker only wfkn |Wo members of board t-ign. <1 a varrant a^horl/thg the commls1FJ#-St. Blorfer to do /o. Put in September of the same year a new rule was passed and the clerk of the board was authorised to order Hulk, goods when the supply on han dshould run low. The point was stressed that it was not making awards on bids that counted, but in "ordering out" the stuff already nominally pur chased. l hijne$?ire It whs worth while for n whiskey house to have as k friend in court a member of the board. Wylle swore that it was in part settlement for just such services that he was Riven the $1,125 on September 14, 1906. When court reassembled Thursday morning Wylle was on the stand lie identified several books of record and then got down to the sensational testimony published elsewhere. Raimiels Takes the Stand. Mr. Henry Samuels was then called. He is now mayor of Chester. Answering Mr. Abney he was 4 8 years or age and engaged In the iner cantile business, lie usually sigUHU his name "H. Saiuuels." He ha.4 known Jos. n. Wiiey for 16 or 20 years. Iu March. June and September. 1906, he was In Columbia representing whiskey houses. Mr Pa mude^ named a number of there Arms. He was agent under W. D. Roy for some of these concerns. On one occasion he went up on tho I Chester train with Wylle and he was given a draft for $1,126 by this dispensary director. The bank gave him about $1,000 of this In bills of $100 denomination. A few days later he turned over this money to The draft was signed by Farnum and drawn on either a bank or a Arm. he could not remember which. It was given to blm before Wylle went to bis home In Rlchburg. Afterwards he called up Wylle over the "phone and told blm the draft had been cashed. "Keep It until Monday." said Wylle. This was not the first time drafts had been glven blm In his name to be cashed for Wylle. Wylle told him that Farnum had settled with him (Wylle). The wit ness bad no Interest in the matter He had traveled In May. 1906, foi Farnum "whooping up Long Horr i gin." He was paid $250 a month and expenses and Farnum had settled up promptly at the end of three weeks. Farnum represented a number ol houses, including the Richland Distillery Company, Lanahan, the Big Four and others. When working for Farnum he visited the dispensers, induced them to order the stuff. He sent a copy of this order to Far'num and another to the State dispensary. Under the cross-examination Samuels said he came here very often several years to visit a woman of 111 repute. He gave this woman money to build a house. He also played cards sometimes for money. "I got no rakeoff on this" draft," he cause I got my orders and made my money on these commissions paid me." The witness got checks from Farnum in 1907 and 1908, the largest being for $500. In 1906 the only check he received_was for $300. This was for work of three weoks but Farnum and Wylle fell out over the manner of shipping "Long Horn" to dispensers. He paid Wylie on 160 cases of goods one-half of the commission amounting to $300. "Nobody could get any business down tbere unless tbey paid commissions to tbe board," said tbe witness. The witness evidently bad considerable trouble with the dispensary commission. He was summoned to appear, according to hiB statement, and at once consulted an attorney now connected with tbe defense. This attorney said there was no occasion for a lawyer in a case where Samuels had been summoned as a wilness. The witness after considerable questioning Anally admitted the testimony brought out above. He said that he had been advised by his attorney, Mr. Paul Hemphill, to tell everything and it would probable be to his advantage. "And you are not going to be prosecuted?" queried the defense. "I understood that's what It meant but I have never been told so. My attorney told me not to worry," was the response. Samuels produced a little memorandum book showing the commissions paid and the schedule required hy the board. Wylle had prepared the schedule and he, the witness, always paid tbe rate Axed by Wylie. The book was Introduced in evidence and then tbere was a pleasant little spat between the attorneys on the admission of the book. Judge Memmiuger ruled that it was evidence. The commissions paid were given to Wylie. He was also paid by Farnum for work done among the county dispensaries but this amounted to little. J. A. V. Schmidt of St. Rotiis was then called and testiAed that he is employed by the Anheuser-Rusch Brewing association. This was all asked the witness. Mr. Stevenson then announced that the State rested its case. GIVES TEN MORE YEARS. Ti. a XI-.. in II? '? ? - niiu iihn n|H-ni lliirty Years Behind the liars. After serving nearly thirty years of his life in prison on charges of counterfeiting and passing bogus money. James O'Legrey, alias "Jack Mulvey," an aged man, was sentenced in the United 8tates District Court at Philadelphia on Wednesday to ten years in the Government prison at Atlanta. Ga., on a similar charge. He pleaded guilty, but asked for clemency on account of his age. Judge McPhorson In passing sentence said that he belived O'Leary to be beyond reformation, and in tho best Interest of society thought ho should be given a long term. The only witness at the trial was a secret service operative, who recognized the prisoner as an old offender from a photbgtaph taken a score of years ago. WILL SERVE HIS TIME. Murray, the Former Congressman, Arrested In (liicngo. Geo. Washington Murray, colored who in the nineties represented the Sumter district in Congress. and I being held in Chicago at the request of the South Carolina authorities to serve a sentence of three vean for forgery, refused to return here without requisition papers. Appli cation fior requisition was made to Oovernor Ansel. Murray flee while the Jury was deliberating up on his case and the peatence wai "Imposed in his absence. He ha; been in Canada since his flight. Mur ray has divorced hi6 negro wife, I is said, at his home, and marrie< a white woman. Tigers Pay Big Money. Thirty-one alleged violators of th dispensary ordinance have beei "pulled" by the Charleston pollc since September 1. the failure of th defendants to appear for trial In th Recorder's Court netting the cit treasury the sum of ear ; owner of an alleged blind tiger fot | ! felting bail to the amount of flft ' dollars. i Now in Jail. I Young Watson Burnette, the ma charged with embezzling the ban . , at Craniteville and who was arres r. ed. in-Chattanooga, was brought bac i jaad landed in Aiken Jail. e ) : DR COOK CROSS-EXAMOO i ' THE POLE FINDER SUBMITS T< GRUELLING INTERVIEW. Forty Newspaper Men Fire All Kindt of Questions ut the Explorer, but Can Answer Them All. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Becking rest and seclusion with his family after the boisterous welcome of Tuesday, dended himself to interviews Wedneeday and remained in his suit at the WoldLrf-Astorla, in New York, until late Wednesday afternoon, when he submitted cheerfully to one cf the severest crossexaminations since he announced his disoovery of the North Po'e. The ordeal of the Interview, which was conducted by forty newspaper representatives, Including several from fr?r?t?rr? nAvenannra nmviul ? that he was not afraid to meet the public. Incidentally the city of N3w York officially recognized his achievement Wednesday when the board of aldermen passed a resolution, commemorating his discovery and providing for a public welcome at the City Hall. The date of the reception will be announoed later. Ab the questions asked were put by laymen they did not go deeply into the scientific aspect of the expedition. But Dr. Cook was ready to answer anything pertinent to the Issue. The most interesting phase of the Interview was reached when Dr. Cook was asked If ho would object to showing his diary. He Immediately consented, and after retiring to his room, returned with a small octavo note book, which he showed freely to all. It was a thin book, containing 176 pages, each of which was filled with fifty or sixty lines of penl'l'ed writing of the moat minute character. The book he said, contained considerably more than one hundred thousand words, while he has besides other hooks embracing his observations and other data. Interviews Severe. The interviews were ratber stwere in regard to details, but nothing indicated that the Polar travellers' memory was at fault eveu in the most minute particulars. Sotno times when a petty question Indicated ignorance, he smiled with good humored sympathy at the luck of technical knowledge displayed. Not once did he refuse to reply, except wnen the name of Commander Peary was broached. Even then he anid that he had always and did now consider Peary as his friend, but' controversial subjects In connection with his rival he avoided entirely. saying that they coubrl wait. When requested to say what had occurred at his meeting with Harry Whitney, the New Haven sportsman, he said he pi-eferred to let Whitney tell his own story, n- Whitney was quite unbiased. His reasons in Imposing secrecy on Whitney, on Pritchard, Commander Peary's cabin boy, and the Eskimos, were prompted by his desire to be the first to tell the world his discovery. He had done the work, he said, and was entitlo to relate how It had been carried out. . Some of the Questions Aslced. Some of t he more important questions put to Dr. Cook during the Interview, and his replies thereto, follows: Q. Did anything ever occur in the life of yourself and Mr. Peary that would create iun enmity or bitterness between you? A. Nothing that I know of. Q. Would you he willing to meet Peary in a debate when he gets here? A. As far a? I am concerned th? Peary incident is closed. Mr. Peary is not the dictator of my affairs, and T do not care to say anything further about him. Q. Did you know Mr. Whitney when you met him on your return to Etah? A. No; he introduced himself. Q. What cnused you to have such confidence in Mr. Whitney that you entrusted your instruments to him? A. I knew him by name, and , circumstances that arose while 1 [ was with him Justified my confi. deneo. I gave him the instrumen t , to tiring oact because 1 tnought thev , w^uld be lc-'R liable to Injury on , board his vessel than If f took them . across glaciers and rough Ice-cover, ed country. I Q. What Is your opinion of the . story told bv the negro Henrou of 5 the Information he obtained fr.mi 9 your two Eskimos? A Well, tne Eskimos were bound f down by mo not to fell anyona where j fboy had been. I should like you to .invf Henson neii and cross-j.,egMon him yourself. Hen-'on's testimony Is entirely founded on hearsay. Q. Knowing that a ship was come lng North this summer for Whitney n why did you not wait for that rh'r e and coirte direct to New York in e stead of going to South Greenland e and sailing from there to Copen y hagen? h A. I knew that the Danish Gov ernment ship would get me home be y fore Whitney's ship. I>ay in State. Gov. Johnson's body was carrie< n to St. Paul, the capital city of Mln k nesofa Wednesday and Is In stat t- In the raplto! building. He was ttn k first native of his state to beconr It's chief executive. 'A DOUBLE CRIME > A Greenville Man Kills His Wife and Blows Oitf His Own Brains. > MAN USED A SHOT GUN The Tragedy Took Place in the Woodslde Mill Village Near Greenville and There Were Only Small Children In the House When it Was Enacted. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says one of the most horrible domestic tragedies that has ever taken place noar that city In a number of years, occurred at Woodslde villftffO lTrlllov mni*nlni? n T,; . ...w0w % ? / UAV1 UIU0 " ucu U. TV. Qallaway, a mill employe, shot and Instantly killed his wife, and then blew his brains out with the same weapon, a double-barreled breech loading shotgun. The crime was committed about 5 s o'clock, and there were no witnesses, save two small children, who can not give a coherent account of the i terrible happenings. It Is supposed that Gallaway and his wife had been on unfriendly* terms for a long time, having had sharp words about their son, Ben. There is also a rumor that the husband was suspicious of his wife. When found by Deputy Justice of 1 the village the two bodies were ly- i lng coddled up on the bed, side by ' side. The woman was shot through the '! back of the head and the entire face of the man had been blown in- < to a mass of bloody flesh. In the 1 arm of the man lay the weapon which ' had been the instrument of the trag- < edy, a short double-barreled breech 1 loading shotgun. In which were two J discharged shells. A lamp was burning in the kitch- { en. Tiny clots of blood and brains w*re scattered over the bed and over 1 both bodies. Neighbors heard two shots In the ' early morning, one within minute or 1 two of the other. No notice was 1 taken of them, however, until about ( 8 o'clock, when the older daughter of the Callaway's came frightened and crying to Deputy Justice saying 1 that her father aud mother were dead. The officer Immediately went to the house, took in the situation, and ] notified the coroner. THEY BUNCOED HIM. 1 A Maryland Farmer Rig Sum i i Ill Jill UIU litlllM'. William A. MofTett, a prosperous 1 Maryland farmer, is out $5,000, the ' victim of the Spanish hidden treasure 1 swindle, which has been operated 1 for many years. He is at his home" 1 near Hanover, having just returned ' from Spain, bewailing his fate and seeking some plan whereby he may ' recover his lost money. ' Mr. Moffatt some seven weeks ago ' received a letter bearing the post- 1 mark of Madrid. Spain. The writer 1 claimed to be a Russian nobleman, 1 who had robbed the hank of which he was president and fled to bpala. The money was hidden in a satchel. 1 While 1n Spain the Ruasian was ar- 1 rested for political reasons and thrown into prison at Madrid. Suspecting that he was In danger 1 of being arrested, he had previously hidden the satchel. The letter proposed that Mr. Moffatt come to Spain with as much money as he could ".ise to secure his release and the recovery of the money, one half of which was promised him for his goodness. Gathering all the ready cash he could lay hands on and borrowing from a few friends, who were taken Into the secret, Mr. Moffatt journeyed to Boston and thence to Europe. This was six weeks ago. What happened after he arrived in Madrid is not known, a? Mr. Moffatt refuses to tell. He handed $2,800 over to the man dsignated in me letter, and never saw him analn. After waiting In vain for some days, he realized that he had been swindled, and set out for home. PEARY FUNKS. Instead of Making O)od His ChiU'fte Serlud'-a Himself. A dispatch from New York says the sudden determination of Com, mander Peary to remain In seclusion at his summer home at Eagla Island, Maine. Indefinitely, has caused considerable conjecture. It was ' believed that Commander Fcary would hasten to New York and subI mit to the public the proofs which bt k said he possessed that Dr. Cook had not reached the pole. While It is not known Just how long Commander Peary will remain in seclusion It is believed that he will wait until Dr. Cook has submitted his data to the University of Copenhagen, and it is made public. Dr. 1 Cook la at work on this data now. - and it Is understood that it will be e on it? way to Denmark within two a weeks. Peary's action indicates that | e I he Is not to sure of his ability to 1 prove his charge against Dr. Cook. COMMIT FOUL CRIME SIX PER80NS ARE MURDERED BY i BAND OF ROBBERS At Barley, \Y. V?., Who Burn the < House (?>f Their Victims With Five of the Bodies. An entire family of six persons were murdered aud the bodies of g all but one of the victims were burn- t ed with their home at Hurley, Bu- t( chai.an couuty, Virginia, early Thursday. The imotive was eveidently robbery, aB the owner of the house, (3 an aged woman, known as "Aunt ? Betty" Justls, wub supposed to have j, kept a large sum of money about the place. n Mtb. Justice, her son-in-law, George Meadows, his wife and their three children wero the victims. ? Meadows' body, badly mutilated, s was found lying In the yard of his o destroyed home, the funeral pyre of G his loved ones. Two bullet holeB o (through the body and a ghastly t< wound in the neck, which almoBt a severed the head from the body, tl gave the discoverers their first evi- ct dence of the extent of the tragedy, o A search of the ruins of the house disclosed a sickening spectacle. The T blackened masses of half burned si flesh and charred bones of two wo- tl men and three children were found " beneath the debris, each body beat- " Ing evidences of murder committed * before the house was destroyed by at fire, evidently for the purpose of M biding the crime. The elder woman's tl Bkull was upturned Borne distance O from the remainder of her half e< burned body amid the smouldering ruins. p< Another daughter of Mrs. Justls B told the police that her mother had A a large sum of money burled under ni the sill of the house, and they sue- Is reeded in digging up $950 in gold ai and silver. The murderers are sup- f? posed to have secured the $600 7< which "Aunt Betty" always carried sc jn her poreon. Bloodhounds were rushed to the In jcene and in a short time they took dl the trail of the supposed murderers g< In a cornfie'd which joined the Jus- w lis home. There the foot prints of m three men were found impressed in ei the soft soil. A posse of citizens, ni hoavlly tanned, are following the tl bloodhounds, bent on lynching the ol murderers If they are captured. el YOUNG MAN GONE WRONG. ni _______ Ir [lobs the Gi'iiititvillc Bank of Seven '7 pl Thousand Dollars. tl P< The Augusta Chronicle says the js Hank of Granitville is short $7,8(10, and the shortage Is charenH m> 5. C. Hurnett, a son of Dr. II. J. tf Hurnett, of that town. Mr. llurnett j,, was a bookkeeper In the bank, havng charge of the personal ledger. A'hon confronted with the accusa- tl :lon he admitted moBt of. It and his a, people have promised to make the rf unonnt good. ]{ It Is stated that young Hurnett n1 has been extracting money from the tl bank for some time but It only bo- 01 'amc known to the bank officials tl while the young man was away on ta ? summer trip. On Friday a war- ir rant was Issued for the young man. but he had left the community. Sunday Mr. W. A. Giles, president r>f the bank, received Information that led him to believe young Bur- f nett was in Chattanooga. He communicated with the police of that city and Monday Mr. (.ties was informed that Hurnett was boing held p( In Chattanooga awaiting Identifies- p| Hon. Mr. Giles at onco delegated an officer qualified to Identify Hurnett '* and also to bring Hurnett back to N Granltevllle, If the prisoner proves ll to be ho. w Mr. Giles denied that the Bank ^ of Granltevllle felt any embarrass- v ment from the shortage of $7,800, d charged to young Hurnett . He says w that the statement that a State hank examiner will try to prevent a run a on he bank is absurd. Whatever Vi loss the hank may sustain from Hur- 1 nett's alleged misconduct may be (t readily absorbed by the bank's sur- ' plus. v A dispatch from Chuttanooga says ft V. P Unrnoft f r\ r> rr\ oeltf - 11 - ???(( nvti-i iv/1 iiici IJ icnn U1 ill** Bank of Oranitevllle, S. C.. was arrested there on a telegram from (Jranitevllle stating that he was I1 wanted there for embezzlement. ^ Burnett Is In jail awaiting the arrival of officers who will take him bacq to South Carolina. f Murderers Executed. At Valence, France, three men were gullotined on Wednesday for a series of atrocious crimes in the { department of Drome which created a reign of terror. No Jess than ^ twelve murders and 2A0 robberies are laid to the doors of these men. Thev often tortured their victims with red hot Irons. A groat crowd witnessed the executions and applauded wildly every time the knift fell. ( 1 Burned to Death. , At Redding Cal.. Mrs. J. E. Hard- < ing. nurse, was burned to deaih and MIrs Constant Rain^berry, the I matron, was seriously injured in a ' Are that destroyed the St. Carolim 1 Hospital Sunday. Seven patients i jaq pun uoivsta aqt Xq panase.t aja.v. assistant, Miss Bertha Ltmpkin < FRAUD ALLEGED IGAINST THE DORCHESTER BOARD OP REGISTRATION. Governor Ansel Makes Rigid Investigation and Issues an Order to Show Cause. Charged with uialfesance in office, eneral misconduct and negHgence, ho board of registration of Dorcheser county has been summoned by iov. Ansel to appear in Columbia o show cause why they should not e removed. A dispatch to The tate from St. George gives the foljwlng about the matter: The board of canvassers took rogizance of the discrepancy and made report of their findings to the govrnor. As the result of this report ollcltor Hildcbrand, at tho request f Gov. Ansel, came down to St. eorge a couple of days later In rder to conduct an investigation in> the affair. He made a thorough nd complete examination, going arough all of the records In the tatter and his report confirmed that f thfl hnorH r\t ? MWM1M V4 VUU t rtOOCi O. One day this week Mr. W. H. owsend of Columbia, former asstant attorney general, was here for ie purpose of further looking Into ?p matter. lfo secured a numbc f afiidavits as to the handling ol he books [Immediately prior and Tter the election. Immediately after tr. Townsond returnod to Columbia ie summons were sent to Sheriff wens for service and they were serI on Wednesday of last week. The hoard of registration Is comosed of Ellas Doar of Summervllle. unk LImehouse of Beech Hill and . W. Humph of Grover, the first amed being chairman. Mr. Doar CR&hler of the Bank of Dorchester nd Mr. LImehouse Is a prosperous irmor. Mr. Rumph. who is abou* 0 years of age. Is an ex-Confederat? >ldler. An effort was made to secure an itorvlew from Mr. Doar over long Istsnoe phone hut he could not b? at on account of the fact that the ires between St. George nnd Sumerville are down. The alleged false ltries are supposed to have been ado on the first Monday in August, lis being the last regular meeting [ the board before the prohibition ection. At this meeting Mr. Limchouso was at. present and Mr. Humph, accord ig to some of the affidavits, authored O. B. LImehouse to act in his lace. Mr. Doar. it is claimed, wasie only member of the board in jsition to issue the cert ideates. It claimed that the majority of thf" Iditional names were negroes am* lat they did not appear in person ? get tin* certificates ns? is required J law, but that they were secured v other parties. The precincts where the irregular! es are alleged to have occurred re all In the lower section of th?" >unty. The affair has cheated nr ttle Interest In Dorchester count? rid the action of the governor, it is nderstood. will employ attorneys In rder to defend themselves against le charges preferred against them 11 three members maintain t h i * inocence. ? KILLS HIMSELF AND WIFE. lieMer Negro the Principal in a Dual Tragedy. Jack Davis, colored, shot and kill1 his wife, Ilelle Kennedy Davis arly Monday morning on the planition of Mrs. E. R. Jamison, near lackstock, Chester county, and golg into the woods near the house, here he killed the woman, ended is own life. The body of the Dais woman was found early .vlonay morning, when another hand rent, to summon her to work. Word was sent to Sheriff Colvin nd Deputy Sheriff Dye, and otherf rent down from Chester to pursue he fugitive, hut later in the day elephoned back that Davis' dead ody had been found in the woods there It is supposed that he put n end to his own existence shortly fter killing his wife. The two had lived apart since une, and the dual tragedy Is supoaed to have been ih. outgrowth of omestle unhappiness. FRENCH AVIATOR KILLED. "apt. Ferber, of the Army, Crushed I'nder Aeroplane. At Boulogne, France, rapt. For>or. an officer of the French army, vas killed Wednesday morning, chile testing an aeroplane. While n the air the machine turned com[>l?t*?Cy tover and /then dashed to he ground. Capt. Ferber was crush'd to death by the motor. After making a short flight, the aptain attempted to alight. A wing if the aeroplane touched the ground, lowover. and the aeroplane turned i somersault and crashed to the larth. Four years ago Capt. Ferber was In the United States to examine the Wright aeroplane on behalf of the French government, lie opened negotiations for the purchase of the American machine, but without suc:?89 SIXTY KILLED New Orleans and Surrounding Country Struck by Hnrricane. PROPERTY LOSS MILLIONS DaniAge to Crops lncnlcuable? Dwellings, Cotton (iiiiN and Sugar Mills Levelled?Miles of Territory Laid Waste?New Orleans Recovering from the lilow. Gradually New Orleans and the fprrl tnrv unrrnnnJInn #1%^ ^ ? A .V.IUUIUB l no VICBWUl City Is recovering from the first effect of the tropical hurricane, which, starting Sunday, continued throughout Monday and Monday night. Sixty-three human lives are now positively known to have been claimed as victims of the storm, and forty others are reported to have been lost In lower Tcrre Bonne Parish, but as yet this report has not yet been authenticated. The property loss will run Into the millions. Miles and miles of torrltory have been laid waste. Crops have practically been ruined. Dwellings, cotton gins and sugar mills have been leveled. New Orleans ib sadly crippled in the way of railroad facilities and telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world. It was not until Wednesday night that tho Western Union Telegraph Company was able to get a working wire out of the city. For two days the city's only communication with tho outside world wns over an imp ovised long distance telephone circuit of the Associated Press. Both the Illinois Centra^ and the Louisville and Nashville railroads have suffered heavy loss, miles of their tracks having been washed sway. It will be several weeks before tho Louisville and Nashville will again be running irains over their own tracks. From ?arly Wednesday morning, the death list in the lower portion of Torre Bonne Parish increased as details of the hurricane's destruction were hourly received until Wednesday night it numbered twenty-nine. It Is reported that at least fifty others are missing, they are said to have been drowned or crushed In the flying debris of wrecked mills, dwellings and fishing camps. Thrilling tales of narrow escapes and daring rescues came from the storm swept area. One of the victims of the storm in Torre Bonne Parish was M. F. Smith, of New Iberia, who .with his brother, A. F. Smith, and a dozen friends, made up a fishing party at Heabreeze. The brother of the lriiu'n...l -- ? " 111?& 11 ii-iii'iu'u iiuuna, lai., Wednesday, bringing t!??* news of Ills brother's death. Pleasure craft and shipping of all kinds in the bayon inlets were totally destroyed and the loss will bo heavy. Store houses, sugar mills and other villages suffered heavily and scarcely a structure was untonnched by the hurricane. The damage done by the storm at Grand Islnnd, Chenlere, Caminda, was very heavy, but at. these places here was no loss of life. The crops if these inlands were totally destroyed and the orange groves were stripped clean of fruit and foliage. The first news from these Islands was received Wednesdny when the nrriil steamer tirand Isle reached New Orleans. It was feared before he arrival of the boat that hundreds bad lost their lives. In the tropical storm of I8!?3 no less than fifteen hundred were drowned on Chenlere Caminds. One man lost his life it Hay St. Louis, a fisherman, name unknown, who was drowned Monday. V number of other places nro yet to be heard from. The long railroad bridge at Hay St. Louis is a complete wreck, and will be weeks before it Is repaired. When the storm struck this bridge 'jeo. Doherty, a Western Union lineman. was attempting to repair the wires. Hi- and three negroes were "arrled down. "The waves were nutting at least fifty feet high." said Dohetry, "and if wo had not lashed ourselves to u raft with wire we wottld have been tlrnwnt.il T)w. bridge went down Sunday and wo were washed around in the bay until Monday afternoon, when we were nicked up by a fishing schooner." Refugees were arriving In New Orleans all day Wednesday. List of the Dead. Terre Bonne Parish, La., definite 20: reported 4fi. New Orleans, definite S. Frenler. La., definite 4. Desair, La., definite 3. Jackson. Miss., definite 2 Baton Rouge, La., definite 1. Mandevllle, La., definite 1 Bay St. Louis, Miss., definite 1. Donaldson, La., definite 1. Gramerry. La., definite 1. Grand Point, La., reported 4. Barataria Bay, La., reported 1. Pass Mauchae, definite 3. Total definite 33. reported 45. Morgan City, La., definite 10. Eastfbrd, Miss., definite 7. Doing Much Damage. It has been discovered that an insect known as the Red spider is doing much damage to the cotton crop In Lexington and the Department of Agriculture will send an expert to Investigate the trouble. . 19