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WRECK AND FIRE A tatngtr Trait Pltifes tkrwafk a Bttiaf Trrstle SoaAaj. THE TRAIN BURNED UP . HNgtam Hank Taylor ami Fireman Mmon DuaKnr, Colored, Go Down With ilRgioe.?Mail Clerk IIloom Hun. imrm ? wwuVXm Slightly Injured. Passenger Train No. 2. on the 8partanburg division of the Charleston and Western Carolina, due to arrive in Augusta, from Spartanburg, at 6.15 p. m., Sunday, ran into u burning trestle about a mile 'from Woodlawn. resulting in the total destruction of the train, the death of Engineer Hank Taylor, of Laurens. 8. C., and Fireman Simon Dunbar, colored, of Augusta, and slight Injury to sixteen passengers. "When the train was entering onto a reverse curve Haggagemaster (;?-o. Box directed the gaze of Conductor W. II. Verdery to large volumes of smoke, which he believed to blooming frum the trestle, t-hen a mile dinfant from the train, and which had bee a burned before. At thai time the tire was on the left side ot the train and could not have been seen by Engineer Taylor. Conductor Verdery watched the ' smoke until the train had rounded the reverse curve, when he saw that the lire was on the trestle. Immediately he pulled the danger signal, and ran from the baggage roach to the best class passenger ccach and pulled the emergency brake, but already the engine had run or to the trentla and plunged through to the little creek below, pulling with it the tender, baggage car and the front ef one of ?he passenger coaches. The Mach, tilting from the wreckage k? the road bed above, formed a flue, through which the flames t'roin the trestle debris were carried to the train proper, and in less than five Minutes the entire train was aflame. ngineer Taylor and Fireman Dunbar went down with the engine, and worn caught under the tender, whleh was thrown directly on tcp of fhw engine. Iloth of these were either mashed or burned to death, and the bodies are still In the wreckftUHBagem.inter Box also went down with his car. but succeeded tu esoaytng from the tre with hut slight InJonrtM. " Mhil Clerk Bloom, of Spartanburg did not leave his car and was seriously. though not fatatly, injured. He rehtained In the wreckage afi??r the concussion, working with his mail, and succeeded In saving (he bulk of it from the flumes. None of the passengers *ere injured hey on d minor cuts and bruises and of these the larger number wore among those In the negro coach and smoker.-- the white coach escaping any extensive damage beyond a severe sh.ike up, until the fli?m?s >? In ? statement by Superi. tendeut Anders*:!. Riven out after ini.luiRbt it Is shewn that the road had reason to believe that the bridge wa.s fired and investigation is beinR made In that connection. The la6t train to pass ever the bridge ahead ot the wreck, was six and a half hours earlier and the officials contend that this does away with any Idea of falling hot coals starting the trestle Ore. BITTKN IIY A RATTIJUt. While (ImuinR Out m Spi ing I.ig liattler Strikes. A special dispatch from Lexington to The State says J. A. Lucas, a prominent farmer of Kdward. th.it county, is lying in a precarious condition at his home as a result of a rattlesnak- bite, received while attending a singing school al Het-hH church at noon Friday. Mr. Lucas was in the act of cleaning out a spring wheu the snake leaped upon him without warning from the bush nearby, sinking his teeth deep into the left knee. The snake was killed by J. A. Ky/.er, who happened to be near when t.he snake did it work. It measured five feet in length and carried seven rattles and a button. Drove Buggy in Water. Harry Smith, a prominent business roan, Mrs. Bessie Hferd, a widow, and her Infant baby were drowned in kRandell reservoir, five miles out front Denlson, Texas. Sunday afternoon at 4.30 o'rloek. No one saw the accident and it is thought they drove into the reservoir to water their horse, supposing It to be shallow. They fell iuto sixteen feet of water. The horse was also drowned. * Hit them again Dr. you have them howling. If you can't specify let us name instances to bnck up your assertions, From candidate to editor. At home and near to nature's heart. FIEND'S AWFUL CRIME / ASSAULTKD A WHITK LADY AXL> SHOT A XKGKO MAX. The Fiend 1m IVelng Hunted by Lbi-?* Ci-owd and WU1 H? Lynt-bfd \Vhe? (taught. iMany possea have been scouring the woods around Axis. Ala., eighteen miles from Mobile, since shortly after one o'clock Sunday morning for Bill Walker, a negro, who had been loafing around the mill town, and who criminally assaulted Mrs. Nettie Gibson. :tl years of age. wife of J. O. Gibson, superitendent of a truck farm. The negro told Mrs. Gibson a friend was dead and that he had been sent to accompany her to the house, where she was wanted to .help prepare the body. Proceeding a few hundred feet from the Gibson home, the negro cegan using his knife and later accomplished his purpose. The woman is badly cut up. Her 8-yearold brother. Clarence Howell, hearing her screams, ran to the scene anil tried to protect his sister. He was also cut by the ne;ro. Walker, after forcing Mrs. Gibson to give him what money she had, left for the home of Jesse Brown, another negro. He slipped up t Brown's window and shot him while asleep. Walker then forced Brown's wife to accompany hint. They have I not been found. Citizens of the com| munity say that the law will net be needed If Walker is caught. Sheriff Drago, has his force working on the case. T.he sheriff promised the citizens if Walker is captured ho would ask Mobile Count> Courts to hold a special session to try him. Walker's crime is a capi tal offeuce in Alabama. Mrs. Gibson and her brother are not fatally out. but Jesse Brown will die. The neighborhood for miles Is stirred up ovei the affair. At midnight Sunday reports reached Mobile that the posse had caught and shot Walker, the fiend, after he had been strung up. So the State will be spated the expense of a trial. XKW (Wit IIKI.XG t'SHIK Klfi'tHr .Motor ('mi- Srivii'* lanugo- | rated oa Souther* K*h4. Blectrip uiotor car service is aoa being given oil the line of the South ern Railway and the Blue Ridge Railway between Oreenville and .1erson. the intermediate ?er: i. ?-> being peruaps the most thick!*' set tied milling section in the South, n eluding the important noints, Pi? i monf. Pelr-er, WMllaniston and Beltoa. Only one motor car is how opem ed and (*? round trips a d>v are Ttade. Though a large number ? stops are made the car has no trouble in making schedule time. The car no** in use is the property of (he Teneral Klectric Company and will be used uniil two ears being built by thai company especially for the .Southern Railway are delivered. Tienew cars will provide seats tor a", passenger? The car is run by elc triclty gen era ted b* a gtsoii e engine. The powerful machinery is compactlv placed rn the forward end. !t is easily manipulated and the <-ar ihandldd with perfect ease. The greatest interest is f?*R throughout the section in the motor car ai d it is crowded every trip. The tirst da* it was greeted by great crowds at every sta'ion. At one place a citizen was so auxious to get a viewthat he left tile barber's chair runnine to fix. alallAn ? ! '? 1*1- - ... ??.?#? III^ i.n t- ru - | ered with lather. The new service is in addition to the steam trains run between (ire.-nville and Anderson and is expected t prove a ureal convenience. The operation of these cars, the liist .1! their kind in the South, will Inwatched with sreat interest. <.hai*TKit or ti: \<;ki?iks. ! Caused by a Neurit K\riii-.|nn oi l.nst Saturday. Two negroes killed, another s *r iously slashed with a knile, av.d tn? promoter of the excursion robbed was part ol the results ?>t a negro excursion from .Macon to Hawkins ville, Oa., Saturday, when five carloads of blacks were hro'ight *.< Ilawkinsvlile. lia. At Oehr.in a ne gro fell under the cars and was cut in twnin. At the baseball game m the afternoon Deputy Sheriff Hon ? undertook to arrest Jim Harris, and when two other negroes attempted to liberate Harris, t.'iey tripped tip Home ?h'i, from (lie bottom i f the map. hug* ins way to freedom. A on?* time it looked as if a riot would be the result, but Sheriff Rogers brought order after arresting in "v 'han a dozen negroes. Iboiin W hen Itont Overturns. lfarry and Alvin W'lnfield, brothers. and well-known young men. were drowned In Krie harbor (Pa.l Sunday when their sail boat capslzi ed. They had Just taken n picnic party safely across to the peninsula and were returning for another load of young people, when a gust overturned them. * WILL HOLD CROP 4 Sckeae Landed It Rerdrfwuze tkr CattM bdaslry. STAPLF TO BF. STORF.D .a \vnith?ahe to bo Kstnblished Id the Sections Wlui* thr Cotton In Giowh.?The I*roJector.?? Count on SutIdr fttvo,000,000 a Year to the Farmer* and Spinners. Having for Its purpose revolutionizing the cotton industry of the t'niled States, a conference was heldFriday at the home of John Hays Hammond ut Gloucester, Mass., at which there were present besides Mr. Hammond. Daniel J. Sully, the New York operator, and Scot Del-J geish of Cairo. Egypt, the representative of the Hirsch syndicate 01 London. Briefly, the Idea is to establish warehouses in all parts of the cotton producing district of uhis country as well us in the manufacturing centres for storing the cotton crop, mi that instead of selling it from ha. d to tnoutn. as has ''-en the practice heretofore, it will be marketed through tile entire year when desirable. it is believed that economies will be ({fleeted ill the marketing of iottou. which will result in a saving ot uot less than $*.0,000,000 .111 nually. The General Cotton Security company, of which Mr. Hammond Is the piealdent, and Mr. Sully is vice-president and general m nuier, is It ie the organization through which tills economy is to be effected. Tn< ilirsch syndicate, it is understood, has already uuderwi itten the pi ject. "Any formal statement of oui i dans wo Id he premature, as we have met only lor an iuiotnial di.-tusaion of the possibilities of the >lan to etiahlish warehcn.es.' was he answer that .Messrs. Hammond, Sully and Del glelsh hade wlu-n luestioned concerning the results cl their conference Friday. I'ae coaerees wished to make It plain that heir object in considering sueh a plan was not to corner hut io help the cotton raiser. Should their plan be consummated, they said, they hoped to bting about the standardization ot cotton and to assist the grower in selecting the proper seed. \'o definite steps were taken today nd probably none would be for sont?time, they said. A dispatch from Atlanta says the project of Daniel .1. Stilly and associates to establish bonded cotton warehouses throughout tta- South <nd at various manufacturing rt nteres throughout the country, the) entative plans of vhicit already! hate been laid before barkers and not ton factors of the south by AD. -?ull\ in person, has met with a ta? orahle re> eplion throughout the co? ion ?rowiiR stated. KollowiiiR tbe visit to Atlanta l.? -1 week of Messrs. Sully and I>cl gleleli. the Atlanta Chamber of Co tunic ret i t loptcd a resolution favoring the I establishinent of a chain of wareI touscs. such as Mr. Sully proposed. 'rcMiifiit Fred J. Fax ton of the I Thamber of Commerce, >aid the sus.essful operation of the Sully plat vould greatly aid the outh in n aancing 'in* cotton crop a d believed >t would result in the saving of Millions of dollars yearly to the cot ton growers. During the reeeut visit <?l Messrs. Sully and Del sleish to Atlanta it was announced that tin* wa eliou.se-. A'hich it was planed to buy or built hrough out the south in time foi lundling much of Hit Hi 10 crop 'ould !? horded by the Hirs-h s\ n irate of l.ondon. On the cotton i ioi ei! in the warehouses iicgoliaDh J ertilieates are to be issued, Ititetid1 <1 to b>- available as collateral in ither thi? country or Kurope. >leet After .Many Veal's. ludge A. M. Unfile. v,f Malvern. Vrkanxas. arrived recently and will spend sometime with his brothei ?/?>v I* 1 r *? .. .. ik. 11, i?uine, iii Westminster, le has l?*'??n circuit judi;e for sixti-cm ears. It has hcru vears shut he brothers last met and you r<i nit fairly imagine how good it is o them m n.eot HKain and talk o .he days of yore. Tired of Life. Kxplaiiiinu that -he was terribly ored with life, a man named .los ph Iteslowskv. committed suicide it Itudapest. Ilnnirarv, at the aye of 102. lie left a letter sta'iry th. t fter wailing patiently for half-aeiitury he decided to take the mater into h's own hands. They Itie From Ileal. Men and animals are sncc.umbin; o the intense heat in the vicinity ot Calexioo. on the intense heat in the ^aloxico. on the border of Mexico Vlight men and as many mutes ataeht d to a cane camp are said tc lave died since Saturday. Theri ?.-#> been Numerous prostrations be sides. COTTON IN BAD SHAPE DltOl'CHT HAS Hl'irr BOTH TKAAS AXD OKLAHOM.V. There Ha> IWu Some Improvement io the Other State*, Hut the Weed 1* Small. The Memphis Commercial Appeal published this summary of the cotton crop condition ou Monday: The cotton crop deterioated during the week in Texas and Oklahoma by reason of drought, but improved elsewhere on an absence of rain. The situation in Tevn? ar,a nui . homa is fast becoming serious, seme shedding being reported in tue driest places. Temperatures were very high at most times, wJiich makes the luck of moisture more acute. A good rain immediately would help the crop wonderfully, but its growth and i fruiting has already been arrested. The fieklB east of the Mississippi River are now nearly clean and the cotton will be "laid by" in a fairly xood sta'e *f cultivation. The process of cleaning some of them has. however, been severe and the plant has not yet recuperated and drought continued for long will work great injury. During the coming week moderate showers would be helpful. Reports are irregular. - There are ->ome that are indifferent and some that are exceedingly poor. The plant is genera!)* small and is now begluuing to bloom freely and make bolls, it will be cultivated much later than usual, and if the frost date is delayed and the August and September moisture supply is suftiicieut to enable the netting of bolls to continue lat?. there is yel hope for a .air or good crop. Without a late autumn reports ia.licate a very moderate out turn in .he valley and Atlantic States. TOOK THK KOI'K HOI TK. lilac!. fiend found in Young (iiil's Itoom l.yuchcd. . . Screams of the young daughter r?f John Wade, ten miles northeast of Cairo, Ci.. Sunday night, resulted in the capture ana lynching of a negro who had ? ntered her room ai d was discovered at her l>edsiile. T-he negro, enteilng through a window, made a noise iu the room and the your g girl awoke. She it mce t^Ran to fteream and the rneinhers of the family rushed iuto ttie room. The negro had no t'mo to ??svape, hot dived under the hed a.:d lav still in an effrot to save himself. He *.a? dragged out from h!s hiding plate at once. NV of the capture was sent from house to house among tJie neighbors. s?r d a body of men quickly gathered. A conference was heui. ! and it was decided to punish 'he nerro immediately. He was placed in t wagon and o e end of a rope was tied around hir. neck and th.- other tie.l to a limb. The wagon wa* | driven from under him and u voile;, of siio's rang out. AITOIST K1M.F1> AT ATLANTA. ! Spcrdway I tares bo on, However. "Without Accident." I'Vtv iu the big crowd which witncsse l Saturday's automobile races at l.he Atlanta speedway knew thai two hours before the meet began a life had been sacrificed to high speed on the truck. As the pistol cracked for tne tirst event the body of T. 15. ''i ll. . I Atlanta, was o? | from the .rounds. 1 >1:?1 was a nie| huuiciun. and his car a Marion, ?vhile o i a practice spin became itnmanip.able. ripping tin over inn tVet o.' t be inside fence en the first turn of t.">e track and then t train: wo c iinplete some: vaults. The median.rim n.id one side ol his hca-i unshed No one un.; near euottph to see exactly how l.p met death, le lived twelve minutes a.ter the iccident. The races were run withmt an atcident, both ama'etir and profession at drivers participating. Manic* His Mothcr-iu-l.atr. At Louisville, Kv.. Henr> Knitz bavins lived to the ripe old ape oi 7."? years Sunday upset nil traditions >f tlie comic papers by wedding his noiher-ln-ln w. tip years old. whih he thermometer stood 100 degree* n the shade. Mis bride before the I werldiup was Mrs. Klizubebh Kuehs. \hos-* daughter divorced Krir.tz sev rnl years ;:go. Three .\itiei icons Ivilbul. N*"- was rnmiv"(1 of the ass.is sinntion on .Inly 21 in the Ynqnii valley near C'occorit. Mexico, of Mrs lennie fv?oudeler. an American wtman, and her two sons. Slain About Whiskey. In a quarrel over a liottle of whiskey William M. K -ed was sh't lr death in ("apt. Charles. Va.. by WII> Mam Richardson, his brother-in-law Reed was accused of not having paid his share on the bottle. ^ ? We niay later have occasion to tie scribe him as described 10 us by h:i fellow citi/a*u. A RACE RIOT Several Nefraes Were Killed aad Several Wkite iea WeufaL OCCURRED AT SLOCUM Some Reports Uo So Far as to PI*"* IW';?th (toll of Xcjtroes Fo? jr. Disturbance (Quieted by the An. ill of f? ? Trouble Br wring for Several !) ) ?. At least IS negroes were killed la a racial clash lr the extreme em ern section of Anderson coun?y, Tex., | Friday night and Saturday, the culmination of an enmity between the races brewing ~ for several weeks. Eighteen is the number of the dead, according to more conservative estimates which have reached Palestine from the isolated section where the disorder occurred. Other reports place the total fatalities at between HO and 40. It was reported that several white men were either kitted or wounded, but each rumor as to casualties among the whites has met an auauthoritalive denial. Saturday night troops reached Palestine and immediately began an overland march of about 23 miles to the sceue of the rioting. The arrival of the soldiers had a wholesome effect, and t-he bI'll ge rents are reported to be dispersing. Further bloodshed will in all probability be averted. The fir*l advices of the disturbance reached Palestine Saturday morning. Officers were sent to the scene, local .inimunitiou stores order *d to suspend sales and the saloons closed. It was quickly apparent, however, that the situation was beyond the control of the local officers, and troo|>s were asked for. A company of militia under command of Captain Codfre> [Fowler, former United States arm* j officer and more recently engaged in Nicaragua in the cause of the insurgents. dispatched from Marshal, Texas, arrived Saturday night. The rioting began near the village of Slocum. Several reasons are assigned as the cause for the racial feeling. First, the refusal of a negro to pay an obligation on which a white farmer stood sponsor. This was seme days ago. Later a white man received notice that he should >erforin road work under the supervision of a ne^ro The white maa refused. loiter came reports of secret meetings among t.ho negroes and an alleged confession of a negro that the I murderer of the man in question. ' lames Spurger, and his family, was planned. The situation reached a climax, however, when a negro was discovered advancing on Spurger from the rear, armed with a shot gun. He was trailed for some distance and shot by a posse when he refused to surrender. With the shooting of the negro hose of both races armed themselves md the rioting began late Friday light. Throughout the right the uepting of parties of the two races was the signal for a resort to arms, 'arn titles attending many of the er.ounters. Finally the negroes were "riven to the cover of a heavily timbered section and the crowd of w hites, about 200 in number formed llltO posses and followed sen?t<?vii?.r | ??\?*r a wide area. As the small hands met they clashed and, according to those returning to Palestine in each instance the negroes were forced to give groud and finally disappearing * It AII, ItOAI> SHOPS BURN*. Carolina and Northwestern* Sutler Prom Bla/.e. The shops of the Carolina andNorthwestern Railway located at Chester were burned Friday morning. The tlames spread rapidly and in a short time the whole building, including the engine room, machine | shop, car shop, storehouse and sttaj ;.ion room were enveloped. The result was total d?*siructlon oi these lepnrtinents. with all their contents. One first class passenger coach was likewise destroyed. Of two passenier locomotives in the shop, the wood work of one was burned off. the other is badly damaged, the t.M.-h iimi wnreis netng a11 thai is left. The loss is estiinatetl to reach more titan $100,000 and the insurance will but pnrtia My cover t.he loss. * Cigarette Smoker* I tarred. J My an order issued by Chief K. I O. Mesnar. of the Fire Itepartinen', I of Canton. (>.. no cigarette smoker.* ; need apply for jobs under hint. H? I admits they may have brains, hut claims they lack nerve and physical i stamina. toying Farmer Killed. Near Waco, Texas as the result of an impromptu sparring match Robt. V. Gilber. a farmer, is dead and his opponent has been arrested. Gilbert was knocked down during the ; bout and his neck was broken b> the fail. THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A UTTTlK GIRL IS *Qt~ICKLY AVKNGKD BY CTTtZKXS. Ih#. Fl * !>? Lajr In Wait fo* Ibrfr Little Victim.?Hf?r Body Koua4 im m. Pool ?*# W*!?? Two negroes, pleading vainly for their lives, were strung up T>y am infuriated mob between Honlfay aud Dady. Fla., Saturday afternooD. and while they were dangling from the ropes were perforated by the bullets of from fifty to seventy-five white men of the surrounding countvy. The crime which caused the lynching is one of the most brutal ever known in that county. The two negroes confessed to murdering little Hostile Morrison, the 12-year-old daughter ol Mrs. -Mary Morrison, who lives near Dady, in the extreme western end of Holmes county, whose body was found Saturday morning in a pool of water between the Morrison homestead and the little school at Dady. The little girl started for school Friday morning alone, the first intimation of a tragedy being when she failed to come home iu the afternoon. After a reasonable time had elapsed a searching party was formed and, after a quest lasting through Friday ulght. found the mangled remains of the little yirl in a pool of water in a swamp sear the girl's home. Her body was ba-dlv mangled and the shrubbery iu the vicinity told of the one-sided fight of the girl against the two negro fiends. After committing the niuider the neg-rees dragged the body into a nearby swamp and threw ber remains there, wheis they were found i>> the Searching party. As soon as the significance of the find dawned en the residents, the searching party was transformed into a mob searching for the etilprite. The sheriff of lionifay was notified and he. together wiuh twe assistants, went to Dady where the twe eegroi-n were already arrested. A oanfosslon, giving some ef the grewiwme details of the criminal assault and subsequent murder were made by the twe men and feeling was runliln .. h; .k uifill mil rooi neaos prevented a lynching on the sspet. The sheriff saw that the only thing to he dore was to vwsh OUe two men to the county jail, a?d a.f once started out from Dady. out the itbidents. who at this time wero arignienfed h> the arrivals of el b? ks. got wind oi the sheriff s plan and started in pursuit and overtook sh? sheriff on a lonely road, teryowiring him and taking the rwo ?egl'?ei to the n?aresr tree, ropes new already provided for sad it was only a short time before the negroes wero Btvun; up. The two negroes were employed ? a turpentine camp and wore know to be of a bad character. They, accord ing to their confession, laid along the road io wait fo? the little girl, who would be going to school in the morning. Thru was after they had looked around and found that there was no white men in the vicinity. The details of tn* tragedy are ertremely gruesome The sheriff of Holmes county arrived in Honifay Saturday night and told the full details of the crime, as far as he knew it and of 'ho lynching. .'wording to the sheriff the mob was in such a nic.od that it could not be controlled, and be readily saw that white hlood would be spilled if he did not turn the negroes over to them. No further trouble Is apprehended by the nheriff WANT Til Kilt SIIAJtf-.. The Xegroes Are Holding a I'olitjiul War Ounce. At Washington the negro Republicans are war dancing beca'ise no patronage plums have come their way. Various organs of t.he negroes are teemir.g with unpleasant things about the administration. Complaint Is made ihnt the President has tailed to give a single original appointment to the colored wing of the party. Also, that he has actually deposed a large number of colored office-holders and gi\?:n their jons to whites. The number of places so lost is placed at 7f? to I On. They are talking of reprisals. In Indiana they are threatening to vote the socialist ticket and also lor Heverldge, because lie has fallen out with President Taft, Made I'ust Tme. With contract requirements calling for a speed of only 28 knots an hour, the torpedo boat destroyer. Roe made 1 1 * ..i minis in standardization 'tests off the Delaware breakwater course according to a report received at the navy department from the-board if inspection. She burns oil as fuel. Mifts Death I'nder Tmin. Sacrificing his life by gallantry in picking up a handkerchief dropped i on the tracks by a child unidentified, e sebwav emninvee wis marefed to death under a train at One hundred ? 1 thirty-fourth street station iu New ' York Wednesday. / k