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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.
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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.
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DEFENDS COOK "
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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
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til There is Definite l'roof to the
Contrary," Declares Dr. Maurice
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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