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mmmmmi ;V-v . . r?. ' ? AWFUL CRASH Engines and Trains Horled From Track Into Canyon BY AVALANCHE OF SNOW Further Detail** of the Awful l)i?aster That Overwhelmed Three Lioeo mot Ives, Two Trains and Four Electric Motors on the Great Northern ltailwuy. As further details of the disaster that overwhelmed two Great Northern passenger trains when an avalanche swept the trains and a portion of the own of Wellington, Wash., at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel, down the mountainslide, are received, the horrow grows. * Twenty-three lives are known to have been lost when the. mass of enow, loose stones and uprooted trees hurled the cars containing 70 Bleeping people over the narrow ledge of the high line down to the bottom of the canyon 2 00 feet below. When the last reports were received from the scene of the catastrophe, twenty five more persons were missing. Resides these a score are seriously Injured. Complete lists of th" injured cannot be obtained until rescuers have dug all the bodies out of the wreckage. The lists available at present contain only the names of trainmen killed and injured. The two trains that were carried away by the great wave of ice and snow were the westbound Spokane Limited and the west bound transContinental Vast Mall. The latter carries no passengers. Most of the dead and Injured are believed to have been passengers on the Spokane express, forty of whom were on the train at the time of the disaster. Resides these, thirty workmen, who had been engaged in the battle against the drifts that had been holding the two illfated trains Imprisoned in the mountains since February 24, were sleeping in the day coaches. The avalanche rolled down the mountain at 4.20 a. m. The two trains, three locomotives, four powerful electric motors, the depot and wat6r tank were swept off the ledge and deposited in a twisted mass of wreckage at the foot of the mountain. The nolBe from the snow slide, which was a mile long, could be heard throughout the valley, and the superintendent directing the work of the night Bhift, marshaled his men and hurried to the rescue. Groans and cries for help coming from the jumbled heap of debris at the bottom of the canyon indicated that many persons imprisoned !r. the wreckage were still alive and the rescuers worked with a feverish haste to relense them. As fast as the Injured people were removed they were taken to the hospital at Scenic, three miles away by mountain trail, but ten when the long winding course of the railroad is followed. A messenger was despatched at once for help. The first news of the disaster was brought by John Wentzell of Wellington. He staggered into Sky lloruish, IS miles from Wellington Tuesday and gasped out his story. "All wiped out," he cried. "Nothing but smooth snow where the tracks stood and the trains were dumped into the canyon." He was so exhausted from his long fight against the snow that it was several hours before he could give a coherent story. nit by bit, Wentzell's disjointed utterances were placed together into a connected nar rative. The avalanche came without warning. Wentzell, who was at W. R. tlallet's hotel, ran out to see the billows of snow settling over the tracks where the train had stood. Pater Wentzell saw men carrying women and children from the ifartl.v buried coaches which had been carried down the side of the gulch, lie thought that eight women and children were carried out while he looked on. Some of them moaned and be knew, therefore, that they were living. Pallet moved his family back into the tunnel for safet". The hotel, the saloon and the store at Wellington were untouched. The little railroad station was swept away by the edge of the avalanche which bad grazed the huddled houses and wrecked the trains standing directly in Its path. Messages telling of the disaster were sent to Everett where relief trains hearing physicians, nurses and workers were quickly made up. Owing to previous slides which have blocked the road and swept away i portions of tho track, the rosea tralnp can get no farther than Scenic. From there tho rescuers have to find a way on foot over the snow. Another train bearing wrecking equipment and carrying undertakers and more workers left Everett late Tuesday night. A third train with workmen and provisions enough to last r?00 persons ten days, was sent east Wednesday morning. Communication with Scenic is frequently interrupted by slides and it is difficult to get complete details of the disaster. ) v : 4' It*. . ' M ~ ' A SERIOUS CHARGE KATE PARHAM HELD CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. Says Spartanburg Woman Frequently Asked Her to go Away With Her and I/ond an Easy Life. Kate Parham, a young grass widow, was bound over to the higher court at Spartanburg Monu^y by Magistrate A. H. Kirby on the charge of abducting Miss Ethel Johnson, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson who on February 15 mysteriously disappeared from her home at 430 Magnolia street, and was not heard of till a week later, when she wrote home from St. Louis, Mo. The bond was fixed at $2 00, which was made good by L. fP. Epton. Albert E. Hill represented the prosecution and C. P. Sims the defendant. The hearing of the case Monday in magistrate's court attracted a large crowd. The small court room of Magistrate Kirby could not accommodate half the people that would have liked to have heard the testimony. Miss Johnson testified that Kate Parham had approached her on several occassions and talked with her about going from place to place and having lots of friends and lots of money. She said she told her how easy it was to live an easy life, with lawyers and doctors and professional men as good friends who would never see her want for anything. She said the Parham woman tried to get her to go first to Greenville, but that when she refused to go there, fearing her father would get In "ore she could get off, they a? to go to Asheville. u lid she left for Asheville on tl .rning of the 15th, and th? 1' ill i woman was to have joined 1. t > next morning. Hoping to t : < the Parham woman, she left Ashetille at once for Kno.xville. At Knoxville she secured an emigrant's ticket to South Dakota and rode as far as St. lxmis on this. At St. I^ouis she got work with a good family, and there remained till her father came for her. In her testimony, Miss Johnson said that Kate Parham often tried to get her to meet some of her men friends nnd to cnorif tlio D fto.nnnn at Rock Cliff. Sh? admitted that after many times being persuaded in this way she realy did begin to consider such a life as the Parham woman held out before her. SENATOR TILI.MAX IMPROVING. Has Reen Advised to Take Another Trip to Europe. An Incident of the visit of the Charleston delegation of Mayor Rhett, Collector of Port Durant and R. S. Whaley to Washington recently on matters of the battleship was their calling at the residential quarters of Senator Tillman. The delegation left their cards, but aid i:ot see the senator. They were inform 3d by Mrs. Tillman that the senator was rapidly recovering the use of his limbs and that as soon as he 's able to travel he will be taken to a hospital at Atlanta, where he wi'l spend some time before he takes the trip to Europe, which has been itcommended by his physicians. May Have to Get Ho.ves. Those of us who have no mail boxes in front of our residences a~e liable not to receive any mail ai home after .June 30, 1911. Certainly they will not if a provision of the PostolHce Appropriation bill becomes a law. The provision prohibits any letter carrier from delivering any mali at any house unless th^re is a suitable mail box on the outside to receive it. It means that Uncle Sam is tired of having hio uniformed carriers wait for people to take their time in answering their door bells. Here it is Again. It is now said that the innocent ' little postage stamp can easily he made the breeding place of all kin.ls of deadly microbes if they are not very carefully handled, so the postotlice department has issued the following instructions "Postmasters ur directed to instruct postofllce employes who sell postage stamps to hand them to the purchaser in such a manner that the gummed surface will not come in contact with the uaav ui me scamp window." Filial Mistake. Believing that he was drinking pure water in a glass handed to liiin bv a druggist of Wodlcy, (la., T. A. Hall, a prominent and wealthy planter. drank carbolic acid and died a few moments lat? r on Tuhvsday. The names of tlie passengers who are caugiit in the avalanche are not known at this time. Men who tired I of the delay in the mountain and walked out to Sky llomish say that fi t passengers remained at Wellington Monday night. Only forty of these slept on the train, the others staying at the railroad hotel and i nearby cottages. ? DEFENDS COOK " / Minister to Denmark Believes That the Explorer Was HONEST IN HIS BELIEF "I Shall Believe That I>r. Cook, the , Kxplorer, i.s an Honest Man l*n- s \ til There is Definite l'roof to the Contrary," Declares Dr. Maurice s F. KgHii. f c "I shall believe that Dr. CooV .he j explorer, is an honest man until ? nit-it? i? uvuunt? jirutii 10 me con- i trary," Dr. Maurice F. Egan, minister to Denmark, declared to the mem- ( bers of the University club at Wash- t lngton. Dr. Egan was the first Amer- t lean citizen to greet Dr. Cook upon I his arrival at Copenhagen from his t trip in the artic. t The statement followed the expla- s nation by Minister Egan that the a Danish board which passed on Dr. I Cook's record's has simply declared 1 that the records furnished them by a Dr. Cook were not sufficient to en- c able them to say he had been to the J north pole. He also explained that 1 letters to him recently indicate that t fully half of the people of Denmark i still believe that Dr. Cook will prov? himself honest. r Minister Egan gave many inter- 1 estlng sidelights on Dr. Cook in the a course of his address at the univer- g sity club, based upon the incidents of the explorer's reception in the t Danish capital. v The opinion of Longsdale, who v acted ap '>r. Cook's secretary until * the explo r disappeared, was one | of the interesting features of the f lecture. t Minister Egan said he asked Lons- s dale what Dr. Cook's mental condi- < Hon was when Lonsdale left him to c take the records from New York to f QopenhagVn.. < "He's half mad," Lonsdale said, according to Minister Egan. "He is 1 possssed with the idea that he 1b ' going to be assassinated." ! Dr. Cook's disappearance followed shortly after Lonsdale said he was in 1 this condition. Dr. Egan's talk on Dr. Cook was spontaneous. In introducing the speaks, Claude N. Dennett, chair- j man of the entertainment committee, referred to the ninny honors which have come to Dr. Egan as a teacher, a writer, a poet, a Christian layman and a diplomat. "He forgot one of the attributes, 1 which I think I ought to mention," ' remarked Dr. Egan. with a twinkle 1 in nis eye. "He ought to have said I was the man who discovered Dr. Cook." Minister Eean began by announcing that he had no outlined remarks, and asked what the members wished to hear about. "Dr. Cook," came from the back of the room. And Dr. Cook became the subject of the discourse. Dr. Egan prefaced his account of the reception of Dr. Cook in Copenhagen by an explanation of his own duties in the premises. As the American minister, he said, he was obliged to be hospitable to any American citizen, who came to the Danish capitol. To cast doubt on the word of any American citizen would have unAniereian, in Dr. Egan's opinion. After news had been received, he Haid, he looked up Dr. Cook's record, found that there was nothing against him publicly, that he belonged to several clubs of good standing and seemed to stand well as an explorer. AtwI t.r, I ? H I - ..v/ nikiiuutiu 11 i-<tnit* 10 mm hi I the tini<? from any American sclent- > ist that Dr. Cook's Integrity should ho questioned. 1 "Not that is would have made any 1 difference in my course, unless the 1 charge was one that carried proof I with it," he commented. Upon hearing that the Crown i Prince of Denmark, as president of < I the ltoyal Geographical Society, was ] I to meet the explorer. Minister K;an i decided to go with the party of rep- I resentatives from the society. i "He had an honest face, if it i were not clever," commented Dr. Egan, describing his first impression of the explorer. "And he was always very modest." i The popular reception given Dr. , Cook on the dock was described as | a gr. at ovation. Children of Denmark. Dr. Egan explained, ar* told stories of north pole expeditions just ( the same as American children are ( taught the story of Genre * ton and the cherry tree. the Danes turned out in hordes to greet tlie explorer returning from the* ( north. "Some one in the crowd got one ( of his run's," remarked the mini iter. "Then pieces of his clothes were tjin off. lie was disintegrated hy relie hunters, so that his personal appearance became almost improper." Suicide's Queer Request. That he be hurled with his head six Inches lower than his feet was the single request left in a note by Diehard Howard, prominent among farmers living near Owenslioro, Ky., when he ended his life with strychnine Friday. He said ho was tired [ of living. SCENE IN A CHURCH I MAX CREATES EXCITEMENT AXI? IS REMOVED le Vehemently Objected to a Marria^e Because the Crooni Was a Divorced .Man. Hurlick. in. Dorchester county, dd., has tho past week been the iceno of much excitement First it vas the arrest of a school teacher ind on Friday it was threatened by md on Friday It was threatened by it the marriage of Miss Maggie Ford, i young lady of ituriock and Tony Sanders, a divorced man. which took ilace in the Unity Methodist Prot^stant church of that town last Tueslay. The church was crowded to Its opacity when the bridal party enered and took their stand before the iltar rail to l?e united in marriage >y Rev. George R. Hooker, pastor of he church. The pastor commenced he ceremony, and had gotten so far is "If any one can show just ind lawful cause why these two peo>le should not be joined together, et him now speak or forever hereifter hold his peace," when a man >f the Holiness profession, named lohn Harper, who had come in just tehind the bridal party, rushed up he aisle with Bible in hand, reading t and at the same time crying out: 'Stop it! stop it! He is a divorced nan! It's against the laws of God! 'on have no right to marry him-! You ire violating God's law! You will all ;o to he'l." This he kept up all during the inie the minister was praying. He vas told to stop. Mr. George Trice vent to him and tried to keep him (till, but could not. Then the readier ordered him put out. Sev ral went to Trice's assistance, and he man was taken down the aisle, ihouting, kicking and catching hold if the columns to keep from being arried out. Finally he was gotten mt and the marriage ceremony pro eeded. He took the same train as dr. and Mrs. Sauders and went with hem as far as Preston, preaching o them all the way, telling them that they would surely go to hell and io forth, as they had violated God3 aw. TRICKS OF FAKE OPTICIANS. I*ress and I/eglt iiiiato Practitioners Warn Against Them. This State as well as other States hat have not passed the Optometry Law, to protect the public are now nfested with scores of traveling opticians, who offer to sell five dollar ;old eye glasses for one dollar. These !akirs either peddle from house to touse or open up in stores in one ity or town after another, generaly remaining in a place from one day o four weeks. Big signs and hand bills announcng the Bargains in eye glasses and spectacles draw crowds. The trick is described Is to tell each customer hat his case Is a little peculiar or lifferent from the ordinary so as to equire 'specially ground' lense, instead of the five dollar glasses for me dollar. By this deception, the uke optician succeeds in getting exirbitant prices often from $10 to 525, and you get no satisfaction for .'our cash. When he finds a town jetting too unfriendly to him because of the complaints of dissatlsled customers, the traveling optl;ian closes his store over night, akes away every thing of value and >ften leaves a lot of unpaid local lills and goes to the next stopping dace, where he begins all over again inder a new name. Twent"-six States of the Union lave alieady passed the Optometry aw, including Xorth Carolina and Florida on each side of us, therefore the people of this State is an sasy mark for a traveling fak:-. !t s to be hoped that the next >us?ti.ig if our law makers that Ih y wili irotect the innocent purlic from su?!? nipositlon. If such a law is goe. ' for so many other States why woulu t not he Rood for the grand */l State of South Carolina Might Have (Icon Serious. Miss Willie Elzy, daughter of Mr. R. C. Elzy, of Denmark, suffered a painful accident late Wednesday afternoon while out driving with two friends. Th'ough severely bruised about the face and side, and having one fin-'er broken, the young lady's condition is not serious. The hors" which she was driving became frightened and ran, but could easily have been controlled had not one of the shafts come loose. The buggy was turned over and all thre^ of the occupants thrown out. However, only Miss Elzy was hurt. Look Out for the Comet. The comet may be visible to ?be naked eye in this month at the speed it is traveling. To locate it, take the line formed by the two lower stars of the constellation Arion and follow it north to a point just above the planet Saturn. . On that line above and slightly west of Saturn the comet should be found, but not as yet without the aid of at least four inch glasses. In a few weeks it will be visible to the naked eye. FIEND LYNCHED Texas Mob Hurled Rapist From Court House Window to Death CHARGES COURT BOUSE Five Thousand Citizens of Dallas, I/'d by AgtHl Negro, Wreak Vengeance Upon Man Accused of Assaulting White Child and Stormed Jail Hunting for Murderers. r rom inu very grasp 01 me law, Allen Brooks, an aged negro, charged with criminally assaulting a twoyear-old white child, was torn by fifteen determined members of an angry mob of five thousand men at Dallas, Texas, Thursday and hanged for his crime. Brooks was seized in the Court room, where he was to receive the law's justice, tossed through a window to the main body of the mob. which waited like a pack of ravenous wolves for their prey, in the street below. His broken body was dragged through the streets and he was hanged to the Klks' arch high above the heads of the avenging citizens. The mob was lead by an old negro. With it all hardly a loud word was spoken, not a shot was tired, and above the dull niurmuriugs of the mob could be heard the aged negro's trembling shrieks for mercy. After Brooks was hangedt for nearly three hours Dallas was in the hands of the mob. The jail was stormed and death threatened to three other negroes held on murder charges. Th?y had been spirited away, however, and after searching for them in vain the mob dispersed. The crime for whirh Brooks paid the penalty was one of the most brutal in the history of Dallas County. Immediately after his arrest last week the negro was taken out of the city for safekeeping. He was returned early Thursday morning and taken to the Court House at daylight to await the calling of his case ia the Civil Court. A great crowd had gathered early, and when attorneys for the defendant, who had been appointed by the Court, began arguments in behalf of a postponment ?f the trial until the next day, rumors started through the crowd that a change of venue had been granted. This statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations iever seen in Dallas County, and the Court House was charged by the mob. Scores of otflcers, hastily summoned, were overpowered, the locked doors of the Court room were wrecked and the negro, crouching in a corner praying, was seized by the leaders of the mob. This was in the second-story of the building. Outside the body of the angry crowd was waiting. A rope was ready with a hangman's knot tied in it and when it was announced from the window that the negro had been taken, the rope was thrown into the room. The noose was placed about the prisoner's neck and he was pulled and thrown to the ground, fighting like a tiger for his life. He struck on the pavement on his forehead and, it is believed, fractured his skull in the fall of about Liuny leer, insianuy dozens of men jumped on him with their fee:. and his face was kicked into a pulp and he was bruised all over, probaoly dying within a few minute, A score of men seized the rope, and at the head of the mob, dragged the negro's body twelve blocks up main street tithe Elk's arch where it was suspended to a supporting telephone pole. The police cut the body .lo mi in about fivt minutes. It was ink. n t the City Ilall and late- tut* I oveto an undertaker. After the lynching thor? c eri s to the effect that other negro prisoners in the county jail. eso*cia!ly two who have murder charges pending against them, l'.nrrel Ones and "Hluhber" Robinson, should be hanged by th<? r.iob * lsn. A marcli was made to the com . v jail. The sheriff announce i ti. <t the men want d we n it th'.v aid allowed committees at'er-tej >v ?ne mob to search tho prison. Tae hp IKiim-s roil id nru jo roll mi, 1> 111 Sliil they could not h 1 saCided. They battered at the jail door with a steel rail until an oflleer fire I a blank shot into the ground in front of them. A committee announced the negro s were not in the ja.l end finally the mob moved away. It developed that deputy sher'ffs had taken the negroes out of 'lncity in automobiles and a repor* ov wire says they passed through Tort Worth en route to Weatherford, Texas. The mob announced plans to hoard a train and pursue the automobiles, and while they were at the station making such arrangements a report was started that one of the negroes wanted was in the City Hall look-up. Then the thousands of men went to that place, hut did not find the negro. Hy that time it was late in the afternoon and the mob dis} persed. r.. :>r v. ' ?v x . *\v - . . i--- *^y>iis "SHE RUINED MY HOME" A YOUNG WOMAN Ml ItDKKED BY A MARRIED MAN. Traswljr Was Knurled Under Bright Arc Light I" the Residential district of I/ouisville, Ky. At Louisville, Ky., Arthur Miles, a ^ married man, Wednesday night, shot and instantly killed Bessie Stiff, agel 24. under a bright arc light in tho residence district of that city and then engaged in a duel with two policemen, who had been attracted by the shots, making his escape only to be arrested at the depot as he was about to board a train. Miles' personal appearance at tho depot excited the suspicion of policemen. He was intoxicated and his clothing was covered with mud. Ho had a number of cartridges in his hand and a revolver in his pocket when examined, which gave the odor of having been recently discharged. He was taken to the station and held for drunkenness and carrying concealed weapons. It was not until the brother of the dead woman told of an affairbet ween his sister and the prisoner that Miles was connected with tho shooting. Then, though the fact that the woman had died was withheld from him, he made a confession, saying they had met on thy street and quarreled. "She ruined my home," he said, "and when she wanted my wife to leave town and made ugly remarks about her, I shot her. 1 don't know what happened after that." Miles' wife, it is said, litis been living at Erin, Tenn. lie came to Louisville Tuesday. lie had been employed as a shipping clerk in a factory there. The dead girl stayed at her sister's home, where she told them she was married. Miles, it is said, has been posing as her husband. MUltDKIlKK FOl.NI>. Man \\ ho Slayed Wife in New York IiOcatcd in Mobile. Julius Venner, alias Alexander Klein, alias Johnson, was positively identified in Mobile, Ala., as August Peterson, who is alleged to have murdered his wife, Sophie Peterson, in a tenement house in New York fin gplirnoru T 1 ? ' * -...j . moi, iinci concealed the body unc|er the floor uf tho place. The identification was niado by Johnson, a brother of the woman, who arrived at Mobile Thursday morning, accompanied by Police Sergeant John Wagner, of the New York police department. Johnson or Peterson, as ho says is his right name, after identification broke down and confessed to the crime and expressed a willingness to return to New York without requiring r> quisition papers. TO GIVK AWAY .MILLIONS. Standard Oil King is Seeking Methods of Disposing of llis Wealth. A dispatch from Washington says steps were tako Friday to Incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation in tho District of Columbia. The bill for this purpose was introduced by Senator Gallingcr and was referred to the committee on judiciary. The purpose of tho foundation is to provide for a general organization to conduct philanthropic work along all lines. It is uud< istood that tho foundation will be endowed largely by John 1). Rockefeller and that he takes this means to dispose of a largo t.<ni ui ins enormous wealth. Tho Incorporators named in the bill are John D. Rockcfell r, John 1). Rockefeller, Jr., Fred T. Gales, Starr J. Murphy and Charles O. Ileydt. Flee From Their Homes. A big ice gorge above Tiflin, Ohio, broke and Mechnnicsbur 4, the factory district is inundat d and tho people are fleeinR from their homes. The fire department was called out. to assist in thi* reseu ', usiiiR boats to Ret. out many families in the flooded district. For miles to the south, farmers are rescuing their stock with boats. *4 - -4i Flood in Ohio Valleys. At least two dead, many hundreds homeless, scores of factories preparing to close down and property losses reaching into hundreds of thousands of dollars?these are the main rej suits of the Hood which has devas| tated the State of Ohio during tho last two days and which has not yet reached its full volume. Seven Miners Killed. Twenty-three miners were killed Thursday night by an explosion of a powder magazine in the l,IOn-foot level or the Mexican mine, one of tho group of Treadwell gold properitles * on Douglas Island. Eei.rht men were seriously injured and four of these may die. Dentil of an Old Minister. A. J. Stafford, one of the oldest ministers in tlie South Carolina Methodist conforenre, di <1 at his homo at Spartanburg Thursday night at ten o'clock, after an illness of several weeks. \