Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ?? FEARFUL CRASH ] Probably Thirty People Killed in Montreal Disaster. FIRE ADDED TO HORROR Supi>ort? of Sprinkler System Tank on iwoi 01 ncraiu udjiuiiik vm . Way, Precipitating Mms f Metal ' and Water, Weighing 35 Tons, to llasement. Between twenty and thirty people lost their lives Monday when the fct'pports of the sprinkler system tank, on the roof of the Herald building, at Montreal, Canada, gave way, and the great mass of metal and water, ( weighing thirty-five tone, went crashing to the basement. < Fire broke out Immediately, add lng Its horrors' to the disaster. The J firemen displayed splendid heroism tn rescuing scores of people from 1 perilous positions in the tottering ' walls. ' Some of the walls had to come down before the work of recovering , the bodies could be safely attempt- ( ed, and it w..s not until six o'clock in the everi.ig that the first body, charred and mangled beyond recognition, waB brought out. All of those who escaped agree that the first warning of the impend- , lng disaster passed almost unnotic ed. There was a slight creaking. | then a little more, somewhat more j pronounced, but it was not until the , ceiling plaster began to (all that a rush for the stairway began. Before anyone reached it there occurred a final deafening crash, and then chaos. Some survivors tell of falling one and two floors before awful crash died away, and then the> found themselves able to crawl through the dense dust to a place of , safety. The majority sought safety < by rushing to the front of the building , 1 Fortunately all of the floors held , for al>out thirty feet fnck from the front wall, and to this is due the fact that the death list does not run into the hundreds, for there were , nearly three hundred people in the building at the time. * When the first hook and ladder company reached the scene the firemen found the windows of the upper floors crowded with people, and the crowd on the sidewalk urging them not to jump. Not one did jump. Ladders were quickly placed in position and thoBe in danger were brought to the ground. One ladder was hoisted, reaching j to the fourth floor, on which the , bindery was located. It came be- ( tween two windows. From one of ( these a little girl crept along the cop- , Ing until she could reach the ladder. . Grasping a ring with one hand and placing a foot on another, she lent , a helping hand to eight other girls | twice her size. When all the girls , had reached the ladder and had been ] brought down to safety she came ( down alone. Fly this time the fire , had started and smoke was pouring , from the front windows. The little t girl fainted when she reached the bottom of the ladder. A dozen injured people were carried from the ruins by the firemen, many of them with broken limbs. ' Of the rescued that of Rred Vidal, a stereotyper. was the most daring. Half an hour after the firemen reached the building Vidal was heard , groaning, and was located under a girder, from which he could not be dislodged. Despite the fact that the ' flames were creaplng near three fire- ' ni?An began to cut away and stuck to their task. In the crowd outside was Father Martin. When he heard of the fight against j death, he went into the building, and administered the last rites of the church to the semi-conscious man. Finally, however, the beam was cut through and Vidal released, not a moment too soon. Itoth his legs and some of his ribs were broken. 1 PKLliA(jRA VICTIM Sl l(Tl?F,K. I>eranged Woman .lumps Into Mill Pond After Taking Poison. Becoming deranged as an effect of pellagra, Mrs. J. K. Pllsrtm, aged 55 years, committed suicide Wed- , neaday morning by drinking lauda- > nnm and uraping into a pond at the Pendleton cotton mills. A week ago 1 Mm Pilgrim inquired ot her bus- < band where the pond was do* pest t and when she was missed from home < a search was made and her body was i found in the spot declared to be : the deepest. On the bank of the 1 pond was found an empty bottle that ; had contained laudanum. Mrs. Pil- i grim is survived by hei husband and f several children. Youngest Yegg I odcr Aiwt. Post office inspectors iu Denver, c Ool.. have taken charge cH a 12-year- a Id Mexican youth who broke a safe f In Palm?rlee, N. M. He Is the young- o et safe-cracker ever arrested In F aser* a. ft L-. X. < w ? SHOT DOWN ON STREET DOMESTIC COMPLICATIONS WAS J CAUSE OF TRAGEDY. Victim Had Just I/t'ft Court Houw I When Met by Hb? Assailant, Who Opened Fire Without Warning. Two minutes after leaving the Court House, whiere he had been con- ( ducting a case in the Criminal Court, i S. D. Hursey, an attourney, of the Dillon Bar, was shot and almost instantly killed by R. S. Davis, at six o'clock Tuesday afternoon. There was a large crowd of people on the streets, and the shooting was don< at the corner, where is located the Evan's Pharmacy, one of the busiest parts of town. Three Millets entered the body, either of which would have produced death. A magazine pistol, carrying steel bullets, was used. iMr. Davis was engaged in the insurance business in Dillon, being the Junior member of the Dillon insurance Agency. His wife conducts the Central Hotel, at which Mr. Hursey was a boarder. The shooting la alleged to be the outcome of unfortunate domestic complications, which rlewloped at the hotel some months ago. Upon leaving the Court House, where Dillon's first term of Criminal Court was in session. Mr. Hursey walked across the street, and was passing in front of Evans' Pharmacy, when he was met by Mr. Davis. Eyewitnesses to the affair say that 110 words were exchanged, but when the two met, Davis pulling a gun from * his pocket and began shooting at Hursey at close range. The first bullet entered the right side and the second shot e.. red the forehead. As < :he victim of the tragedy whirled and i upon the pavement. It is stated hat Davis fired at him again, shoot'.ig him through the buck of the lead. The affair is deeply regretted by everybody. a Young Hursey was a graduate of , the University of North Carolina, . and was admitted to the North CaroI i 110 llur tt i u t n t f n 1 ir voti i*u aon recently he caiue into an inheritance a of $ 1,1,000 from his grandfather's t estate, and it was his purpose to go t West and establish himself in some s prosperous city. 11 Davis surrendered himBelf to the s sheriff immediately after the tragedy, v When seen at the city guard house f he said that he had no statement to c make. a r QVIKTljY LYNCHED. > , l] Arkansas Nlob Overpowered Officers j and Took Prisoner. 0 ii Will Hunter, a negro, was taken from the officers by a mob at Star City, Ark., Tuesday night and lynched. The negro had just been arrested ^ for entering Utoe room of a white woman, near Harnett, Ark., a few days *go. Overpowering the officers, the mob Look the negro to a dense wood near- 1J by, and after hanging him to a limb a af a tree, riddled his body with bul- n lets. after which it dispersed. So ^ luietly did the mob do its work that ? lothlng was known of the lynching c intil the body ot the negro was found r >till hanging to the tree Wednesday. G _ , a FOlKiHT WITH GAMHLKKS. P t f; V r? o Xc({n?es Are Dying as Kesult of j| lint tic in the Dark. V As a result of a Sunday night raid on an alleged gambling house " r Tear Waycross, Ga., two negroes are lying, five are in Jail and Deputy 1 Sheriff John P. Cason Is seriously ! wounded. Surrounding the house, ofilcers were able to approach without much trouble. When they wont inside the T house an inmate kicked the light out, ifter which the negroes began firing. More than fifty shots were exchanged. The wounded cannot recover. 0 Ml'llDKItKIt IX CAVK. 1 a A v Starr at ion Deputed I poo ns Safest Way to Take Htm. ' b With three revolvers and a fierce ii bulldog at his command, John Marks c thle fugitive. whom officers have been d hounding sine** the murder of three Jj foreigners at Shaw Mine, near Midway. Pa., last February, has been i< traced to a cave near McDonald, a * ttiburb <*( Pittsburg, which has bee^ g surrounded. t; Unless he can be caught unawares, It is the intention of the officers to a starve out the man. Marks is known b is a good shot, and every precaution r, will Ik* taken to prevent him from t< idding another name to the list of a alleged victims. lie is rhought to a iavp returned to his home to claim a tJ ihare of his father's property, which tl s tc be sold. He was recognized and 'olfowed. To Dentil Knthcr Than Altar. Miss Minnie Went/, committed sul- n Ida in a coal bin in the home of her w uint. Mrs. Annie Clearer, in Mpw ol Turk city, on the day she was to have F >btaln?<l her license he wed Ludwlg tl toiehold. The cause for ho- ^ct is y< navatery. hi i AM NOT GUILTY" HcNAFGHTOX DECLARES HE IS INNOCENT. Declares He Did Not Poison Fed Flanders, and Says "Mrs. Flan* ders is a Good Woman." Fear that he woul \ h? vnrhe.l Irove Dr. \V. J. McXaughton fv.rm Emanuel County, Georgia, to Augusa. whore he was placed under ar est charged with the murder of F?' Plunder, of that county. This statement was made Thursday by the iccnsed physician, as handcuffed he was brought to the Chatham county iail at Savannah, for safe keeping unit time for his trial at Swainsboro. jrU. "I am not guilty of killing Fed ^landers," he said. "Mrs. Flanlers is a good woman, and 1 am tot to blame for anythingthey charge ne with." He refused to go in details ibout his relationship with the 'landers family, but it is stipulated hat he will not be taken back to Iwalnsboro until his trial comes off." He is a large man and apparently egards his imprisonment coolly. He urprised the officers who had him n charge by taking his wrists from he* handcuffs here and Informed the illicer that the cuffs "were not worth i cent." Before bringing the prisoner to Savannah Sheriff Fields telephoned Swainsboro that he was being taken h re. in order to avoid any trouble >etween Augusta and Savannah. HI'NG 11Y HIS TKKTII. "ariiivul Performer in Deadly Peril Over Niagara's (Jorge. The first international carnival at Niagara Falls came near producing mother tragedy in the gorge in low he falls. Oscar Williams, a stecpleack, essayed a trip across the gorge ?n a wire hung at the base of the catiract, sustaining his weight by his eeth. Trouble began when he left he American side and when he tarted up the incline toward the Catadian shore he came to a stop and wung back to the middle of the lire, which cleared the water by 1'2."> eet. There he hung for 4f> minutes il* lintil HroniPn ritrcrtwl ti?? ? nnllm nd sent it out. Hand over hand tin nan descended to the Maid of the list, which had taken its position inder .him. During the day an undentified man jumped into the rapds above I.una falls and was swept ver the falls. Luna falls never gives ip her dead. MINlSTFlt'S NOSK ITNCHKli. le Culled u Man a l.iar ami (Sot tin Worse of an Argument. "If a minister says you are a liar, lunch him on the nose," was the dvice that Municipal Judge Gemilill, of Chicago, 111., gave to Michael Velss and then discharged the prlsnxr who had been arrested on a harge of disturbing an open air eligious meeting. The Rev. Perry 11m, his probiscis swollen and red, ppeared as the prosecutor and comlained that Weiss had crowded his ace with fists while the evangelist ?na exorting him to lead a better Ife. "He called me a liar," pleaded I'eiss. "Any preacher that culls a man a iar isn't lit to preach the Gospel, tiled tile court. "Ho rtiH Inot rlorht u punching you, Mr. Gim, and he i discharged " I HOT AIl< MSTt'RIlANf'KK. 'rouble llolnrcn rntlHilim and Baptists in Koine hiscuswd. Details of the escape of a party f American Baptists clergymen from he hands of a superstitious tnoii at ivellina, says a dispatch from Rome, rere laid before Premier Laiz'/zatti on 'hnrsday by James P. Stuart, of St. ,ouis, who was sent by the American toard of Baptist missions to Italy to ovestigate the Baptist mission in this ountry and who returned a few ays ago from the privileges of Avelino. .Mr. Stuart reported to the prettier that the situation in the district fas very serious owing to the strug1? between the Catholics and Bap istfi. On the night of the earthquake he nd ills companions, he said, were rutally attacked. The popuuaee eemed to attribute the earthquake o the presence of the Baptists and crowd numbering into the thousnds set upon the Americans with he avowed intention of hanging hem. ' ( .Minister Elopes. i The Rev. Joseph Walsh, pastor of le Washin/ianville Methodist church ear Poughkeepsi*. N* V., eloped tth Miss Maggie Harness, daughter i P John Burnett, of Wapplnger's alls. N. Y., last week. They made ?eir run in an automobile while th< 1 lung woman's father was away from h Dme. 1 . * FOUND MURDERED STRANGER SLAIN IX HIS ROOM IN HOTEL. Instant Death from 'Juliet. but No Revolver Found?Supposed llrother lias Vanished. A man, whose name is given by the police as Frank Stickett. and who is believed to have come from Baltimore. was found murdered Tuesday in a Bowery hotei. A revolver bullet had entered his left t? mple, causing instant death, physicians said, but there is no trace of the revolver. The victim registered with another man at the hotel early Tuesday as "John Stickett and brother, Frank." The supposed brother was not to be found when the body was discovered. The clothing of the dead man apparently was purchased in Baltimore. The name of that city on his clothing and the card of a New York elec-i trlcal concern in the coat pocket wertr the only clues left to aid a search for the man's antecedants. He was apparently an Englishman about twenty-three years old. FIGHT NOT AMAJWKD JefTries-Johnsou Contest Vnder Ban of California's Executive. Stirred to action by insistent protests front all parts of the State and Country, Gov. James N. CIillett Wednesday took sb> ps to prevent the chacpionship fight between Janes .1. Jefliries and Jack Johnson, scheduled to be held in San Francisco on July 4. In a letter to Attorney General I S. Webb, the governor expressed his dlsproval of prize fighting in unmeasured terms and directed that the aid of the courts be invoked to nre vent the match. He concluded wit.h a positive order that, in case th plea for a restraining order he noi granted and the Unlit be held, l.he attorney general pro<* ed to gather evidence and prosecute the principals and those interested in the fight for violation of the p* nal code of the State. * The governor declares that the supreme court of California has never defined a prize fight and suggests that an opportunity be given it to do so. This is taken by those interested to indicate the governor's iutentiou to press his opposition to the end. Glltl/S IMTIFfL riJGHT. Mentally l iitmllaiMed Is Found Wandering in Woods. While making a search in the woods near Greenville Tuesday for a in gro wanted on a trival charge. Sheriff Poole cnin<* upon a young white girl about 1 years old, who hud almost gone back to the primal state. The girl was asleep when found lying on a bank of moss near tin* river bank, and when accosted by the officer she declared that for several weeks she had made her houie in the woods, living in berries and sleeping in the open. The girl's clothing was wet by the continued rains and she appeared in a somewhat exhausted condition. Tim olmvirr tnnb ? V.-I i - and placed her in uharge of the authorities at the cnit rK' licv hospital in the Salvation Army citadel. She was later identified as Reonie Anderson, and physicians s.i> she has been suffering from t? mporary mental aberration. Al'TO INTKItlU PTS SUA VK. It U'H|ts Through a Window and Struck a laitlieced Man. While gettin" a shave in Muncie, Ind., Conroy l)?lan<> felt a sharp, stinging sensation in his knee and when he came out from under th> "boiler cloth" he was startled to see an automobile resting heavily against that part of his anatomy. One of the big lamps had iust grazed the sitter's face and the wheel grazed his leg. T.he driver paid for the window and went away without leaving his name. The shop was in the basement of a Main st:e**t building and the auto had run over the curbing across the sidewalk and then through a double window Klections Ccnlirnird. The election of Represent at i veRegare. Patterson and Rover, all iK-mocrats, representing, respectively. the first. ? cond and seventh congressional districts in South Caro iino. us i uursuay connrincd by the house election committee number three. The committee's action follows hearing of the cont sts of A. P. Priolean, a negro, Isaac C. Myers and R. H. Richardson, all Republicans, for the three seats re-ipsfctivr ly. Convirt'-d of Murder. Henry Lyles, a negro, was convicted In the general sessions court i it Lexington Thursday for the inur- i ier of h*s wife. Silla Uyles. on th? < ?6th trfv January, this year, and was i senNwieed to serve the remainder ol lir. life in the penitentiary. I V V JEALOUSY THE CAUSE M1T.i)KKKD LOVER KKKOltK PERJUTTIXC DESERTION. lYlnif AIIprwI to Have Reon Aceidcnlal Due to Habit of I'lnying With a leaded Revolver. Mrs. Eliza Robinson, alias Liddie Pnrortn ti n/lor nreoet J > i ? |W ?4 WV4V * niiroi ill l ruu&uur, N. J.. charged with the killing of Walter Harvey with whom she had been liv'ng for several w- eks following her desertion of her husband The woman is laborlng under great excitement. She weeps constantly and asks to see her victim. She declares the killing of her lover was accidental, but vitness declares that it occurred after Harvey had announced his intention of leaving the house she was keeping. Mrs. Robinson is a woman twenty seven years of age and has had many ^admirers. Several years ago she was married, but recently she has not lived with her husband. Her latest catch was Wait/ r Harvey, aged 22 years. She and Harvey rented a house in Pennsville and were living together as man and wife, she keeping the houae and he working in the DuPont Powder Mills. On the evening of the murder it is said Harvey announced ho was through with his companion aud was going to leave. The woman ate no supper and after the meal called young Harvey upstairs. Loud words followed and two pistol shots ended the life of the young man. One passed through his heart and the other through his bruin. Mrs. Robinson declares the shooting was accidental and when nsk?d why she had a revolver declared that she and Harvey frequently playid with the weapon, but she didn't know it was loaded. MKD1C1NK MAX SHOT. Old Chief Took Summary Vengeance on Helpless "Doctor." Heath in quick succession of three bucks uiul "four Indian squaws in an iiman camp on me oesert near the Nevada and California state lin'-s, sealed the fate of an aged medicine man. He was slain by the father of the squaws, who happens to be chief of the camp. Recently several Indians became ill and the medicine man was called. All his herb medicL.es and calls on the sun proved worthless and one after the other the sick persons died. The old chief brooded over the deaths and decided the medicine man must die. He was shot by the old chief, assisted by several young bucks. MKT WITH .WISHAI'. Hose Wagon Team Overturn While Making Practice Hun. While practicing Thursday afternoon for the tournament in Sumter. the light racing how- wagon, which the members of the Columbia fire company's team wore using was overturned. Although strapped to the wagon seat, W. 11. Sloanc. the driver, escaped with a few bruises. None of the members of the team were on title wagon at the time. The horse, a l>orrowed animal, bolted and swerved into Washington street. The shafts broke with tV strain and the wagon turned completely over with Sloane underneath it. The wagon was lifted oft of him ana ne was round t?? be practically unhurt. cLonmt itsT kiliiiS man v. ( it'al Ixiss of l.ifc .\iiioii? Laborers III (it'l'llllllif, Great loss of lit'.- lias occurred in the Ahr Valley of the Kifel region, says a dispatch from Cologne, Germany. as the result of a cloudburst which swept the district late Sunday night. estimates place the total tiinher of chad at lf>u. News of the catastrophe readme Cologne Monday. Numerous storms in the region hud the streams unusually high and as a result of an unusually heavy downpour Sunday night the river A.hr suddenly overflowed, the water carrying death and .1 ? ? d 3 ? : - m-ai ill J mil ill ICS puill. The greatest loss of life occurred where two barracks containing laborers employed on the railway were swept away. The inmates were surprised on t.hp railway and many were unahle to help themselves. Thirtvseven bodies have been recovered. Itiinion Kills a l-'ireinuii. As the result of having a bunion on his right fool treated five weeks ago Peter Margon, a iireiuan, aged 60 years, and in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company at Altoona (Pa.) shops, died last week Blood poison and gangrene caused 1 his dr-ath. 1 m I Severed Blond Vessels. i Mr. J. A. Marshall, who lives about tlx miles east of Kingstree. while using a hatchet Tuesday, cut his arm ihove his wrist, severing several of i he blood vessels. Beforo medical issistance could be reached he had t ?!ed considerably. > EVANS INDICTED ' A l: D-L.*? nujuui ncHiej. A COMPLETE SURPRISE 1 Defendant Immediatidy - urn n i i. .1 fl V t<i Newberry Sheriff and Was K'* IcumsI on Hail.?IVfrnce !*.?? ! fl for Immediate TruU.?Sever Rc. I bates Churned. I On a bill of indictment, handed ^ out by Attoney General J. Kris r 1 Lyon and Solicitor R. A. Coo,?? < . the d grand jury, in the Gen'-rai MJlipilta Court for New bey ry County. Tuesday H neturned a true bill against it. I.'. H Evans. ex-qrember and ex^iiairihau of the o!d State dispensary board of jg directors, charging h.in with i->* : /- iS Lng rebates while in ofliee. Ira Immediately following the return- fl ing of the true bill by the gruml jury Mr. Evans surr?ndered :?i tl-.e sheriff, and upon motion of Uut at- && tornev. Eugene S. Bie<tbe. Esq , was Ht admitted to bail in the sum of oos thousand dollars. Attorney Gei.erai Lyon contended for a bail of at least ten thousand dollars. Tho <1<'fendant's attorney stated that it would be no hardship upon *he defendant to give this amount, as L?? was at home among h.e friends, but that he felt such amount was excessive, and would tend to prejudice the case. Judge Aldrich he.d that the letter and the spirit ol the law was that bail should riot be exi?*k5ive. and. inasmuch us the maximum tine for the offeuce charged was only five hundred dollars, be thought the amount of the maximum tine provided would be sufheb ut Accordingly he admitted Mr Evaus to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. rne ball was immediately given. the sureties being Messrs. E. M. Evans, a brother of the defendant: C. White 1 Kant, of this city, and .1. E Norwood, easJiier of the Newberry Savings Bank. Mr. Evan'ss attorney. Mr. Kogen ? S. Blease, pressed for ;,i iinm?<liete |S| trial at this term of the Court. The $V Attorney General stated that one of the witnesses for the State was in Ohio and another in Virginia, as the |H defendant himself, if -his counsel did gang net," he said, ouchr to know, and that the State could not go to trial at this term, lie said .h?- hoped the defence would be as ready at the A" next term of the Court as it was now, and that the Stat* would then '' gal accommodate tho defence. In reply the attorney lor the defendant said that die would let the next term speak for itseif, even as the counsel for thv State were basing their action upon matters as they presented themselves to th?un at thiR term. Judge Aid rich said that, on t.he motion of the State, he would grant the continuance to the next term, as the Attorney CJeneral and the solicitor were in command of the case foi the State, as he would have continued it for the d< fendaut upon i similar showing at th<" first term at which a true bill was found. Mr. Evans was elected a member of tlie board of directors of the old State dispensary in 1 f*00 and served four years as a member of that board and tlien for two years as chairman of the board. Ills home is in Newberry, and since his retirement from the board he had devoted himself principally to farming. The indictment charges two rebates, one of two hundred and fifty dollars and one for two hundr< d dollars, from M. A. Goodman, who, at the times mentioned in the indictment, had his headquarters in Savannah, Ca.. and re- i presented various liquor houses. it will be recalled that recently in the Richland County indictments against (foodin in were nol pressed. Attorney General Lyon said that, from the experience which he had with similar cas s in other counties, he had no idea that defence would he pressing for a trial, and that some of the State's witnesses were in other < States and the State could not go to trial at this b rm. The motion, on the part of the State, for a continuance until the next term, was. thereupon, granted. This term of the Court for Newberry, is only one week, and had t.he trial b'-en ordered for this term it must have been held this week. Air. Rvan* I r* * ** ? ~.v.. ... .-*( CIH'III spirits when he came into Court, immediately following the finding of the true bill, and surrendered to the sheriff. Sentenced for Life. KJnore Koon, a negro, charged with murdering H. Johnson, another negro, at a hot supper near Cayce, Lexington county, on the night of February 12 last, was convicted of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and was sentenood to servo the remainder of his natural life at hard labor in the Penitentiary. The * trial took place at Lexington Thura1a y. Arrested on Serious Charge. W. N\ Kennedy. wh*< was arrested at the Arkwright Mil-] Village near Spartanburg Friday charged vlth attempting criminal awsiult on iev?ral negro ;airlc.