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FIFTEEN WERE SILLED
Reports Prom Other Pisces Tell (
Death and Devastation Dealt by the
Winds?Probably One Hundred
Have Been Killed in Kansas, Okla/
homa and Missouri.
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heavy wind storm, attaining the
Telocity of a tornado, In some secf
tions, and accompanied by rain, hail
acd lightning, swept over western
- - ^ Mlusouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Wednesday,
killing 15 people, practically
destroying two towns, injuring almost
a hundred persons, wrecking
scores of buildings and putting almost
every telephone and telegraph
wire in the territory out of commission.
The tornado levied its greatest toll
of dead at Big Heart, Oklahoma,
where eight persons were killed, 10
Injured and almost every building In
the town wrecked. Whiting, Kansas,
was practically wiped off 'he
map. Sixty buildings were blown
down, 30 persons hurt and Mrs. David
Stone killed.
At Powhatan, Kan., a woman and
child were killed. A high scboo
building was wrecked at Eskrldge,
Kan., a number of houses damaged
end from 15 to 20 persons Injured.
At Hiawatha. Kansas, a school
house wsb blown down, an 8-year-old
boy, named Pelton, was killed, and
several buildings were struck by
lightning. Several persons are known
to have been hurt at Xetawaka, Kas.
A boy was killed at Manvllle, Kas.
The Kansas end of the tornado
started near Whiting and swept in a
southeasterly direction for a distance
of more than 50 miles.
It is thought manv more Dersons
vim killed or Injured than have I
been reported at this time. Telegraph
and telephone crews are working.
bow that the storm has abated, to get
"* the wlree in shape.
Two more deaths were reported :
from Hiawatha late Wednesday
ofeht Geraldlne Melsenhelmer. 10
years old, and a small child of Otis
Mel lot t are the victims. The Mei6en- j
heimer girl sought refuge with three
companions in a country school
house, and the building was wrecked
soon afterward. The dead giri's
companions were Injured. It Is not j
known now the Mellot child met its
death.
A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch saye a
tornado traveling in a southeasterly
direction destroyed the town of
Whiting, 25 miles north of Topeka,
late this afternoon. Sixty houses
were blown down and 30 persons injured.
Eskrldge is 25 miles south of Topeka.
The storm struck there shortly
before 4 o'clock. The high school
bnilding was blown down and 20 students
were injured.
A woman and a child were killed
at Powhatan. Mrs. David Stone, wife
of a farmer living near Whiting, was
swept from the steps of her home
Into a neighbor's yard half a mile
away. 8he was picked up dead.
An interrupted telephone message
from Netawka says many persons
were injured there. Only one telephone
wire is working between here
and Kansas City.
George A. Scott, an Atchison, Topeka
& Sante Fe engineer, who was
in Eskrldge at the time of the storm
says at least 15 houses were blown
down.
After he left Eskrldge, says Scott,
he could see the tornado sweeping
across the country for a distance of
10 miles, overturning houses, barns
and sheds in its path. He heard of
no one being killed in Eskrldge.
Benjamin Besch, a fireman on his
engine was blown out of the cab
window and fcuriea across me sireei. i
The only Injury he sustained wap a
light cut on hie head.
While Mrs. Ray Garnum of Powhatan
was sitting in her house, the
torm swept the greater part of the
building from over head. She was
but slightly hurt.
A Big Heart, Okla., dispatch say*
eight persons were killed and 10 Injured
in a tornado which struck that
place at 4 o'clock Wedceeday nf e>- j
noon, leaving but few houses standing.
The tornado swept everything In
it* path Houses were blown from
their foundations and the occupants
were whirled through the air. Tnis
town was demoralised and telegraphie
communication cut ofT. Relief
trains were Btarted from Avant and
Pawhuska.
Big Heart has a population of 400.
The St. Joseph & Grand Island depot
and box cars at Manvllle, Kan.,
were blown over by a tornado Wednesday
afternoon. A farm house was
also wrecked and one child killed,:
according to information received by j
the Grand Island officers at that
place. Telegraphic and telephone
wires are down.
Sisters Are Drowned.
While driving from Rrookport, 111.,
to Metropolis 111., eight miles away.
Mrs. Louis Herter and Mrs. James
Wilford, sisters-in-law, were drowneo
when a bridge across Massa creek
gave way. throwing both women into
the swollen strtam. The two horses
the women were driving, swam to
shore and thus gave the first alarm
(of the double drowning.
"Bad Man" Found Dead.
At Lawter. Fla.. John Bennett,
known In that section as a "bad
man," having been arrested many
times for shooting affairs, was found
daad on a street Thursday- There
were several ballet wounds In his
jr> body and It Is supposed that ho had
been killed by some chemy.
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IN 1891.
WIND AND HAIL
BAD STORM PLAYS HAVOC IX
EASTERN MISSOURI.
Many People Were Killed and Injured
by It u It Swept Over
State.
A St. Louis dispatch says nine
persons are dead and nearly 100 Injured
as a result of the destructive
wind and hall storm which passed
over Eastern Missouri Friday afternoon.
In this city three are dead
and property valued at between $i,500,000
and $2,000,000 was dettioy
ed.
There was a remarkable participation
of hall stones. Some of these
are reported as being three Inches In
diameter. Hail caused the greatest
damage.
Thousands of windows in west-end
residences were broken. Green-!
houses were demolished. Churches I
in the path of the Btorm did not
escape and many strsined glass windows
were broken.
At Valles Mine, Mo., the tornado
killed four persons and serjou 'y injured
a score more.
At Cadet, Mo., two women art
known to have been killed and iu
persons are reporteo injured.
At Shelbyville, 111., hail stones
eight inches in circumference were
reported. At Anna, 111., growiug
crops were badly damaged by the
hail and wind.
The tornado which wrought destruction
in Cadet and Valles Minesswept
over and did considerable damage
to several points in Washington,
Montgomery, St. Francis and Jefferson
? the lead belt counties ? and
among the towns suffering heavily
were Flat River, Esther and Elvlns.
In the turee towns named fifty persons
were more or lesB seriously In
Jured.
TORE VP THE CROPS.
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Great Damage is Done in Barnwell ,
County by the Hail.
A special to The State from Barn- 1
well says the section in and around i
Zorn's mill, a few miles from Ham. '
well, was visited by a most disastrous ?
hailstorm Saturday evening, which 11
lasted about 20 minutes and did ! '
great damage to tender young crops '
and gardens. A light shower of hall-1
stones also fell here during the thun
derstorm of Saturday. <
The stories told of the storm and 1
the havoc wrought are almost unbe- '
lievable. The stones, many of which
are said to have been as large as ? i
good sizen marble, came down in a
veritable cloudburst, and the approach
of the storm could be nearu
at quite a distance.
R. L. Ussery said that in ditches 1
the drifts of stones were from !2
Inches to two and three feet deep. 1
Gardens were badly damaged, but 1
luckily no crops were up in his lm- '
mediate neighborhood. 1
C. B. Swann's garden and a fine
patch of- rye, waist high, were lit-1
eraly torn to shreds, as were sev- j'
eral acres of beautifully growing (
cantaloupe and watermelon vines. I'
**? Jhat ho had IllSt ! '
mr. owauu |
fertilized some 40 acres of land, us- j1
ing 1,000 pounds of fertilizer to the j
acre, and that the rain washed prac- !
tlcally all of it away. He will have '
all of his work to do over aeain, with '
the great loss of time and mouey 1
incident hereto. 1
A local physician, returning from '
a visit to a patient In the country, '
was forced to get out of his bURgy (
and hold the buggy seat over his '
horse's head to protect it from the 1
hailstones.
Stones which had been on the '
ground einee Saturday night were
from one-half to three-fourths of an 1
inch in diameter on Monday. T hey
must have been fully one inch in
diameter when they first fell.
It is impossible at this time to estimate
the great damage done by the
storm, as many farmers living in that '
section have not been heard from. 1
but it will likely run into the thousands
of dollars.
Selling Human Flesh.
"While the plague in Manchuria is
on the decrease, there is still much
suffering and want over tln-re. ?.u
man flesh is being sold for food.
Kumatao Hishara, in charee of ihe
crematorium in Kudzuya, was arrested
March 23, charged with selling
human flesh. According to The Kokurain
and other Tokyo papers, a
search resulted in finding a larg?
quanlty of human flesh.
Auto Turned Over.
At Kansas City Ned Crane, driving
T> ' - ? ? * ?. ? An* In r% nrnot i nn f f?ct i
a HUicjt raring ui m i |/i?vv.w w.>?
at Elm Ridge track there late Fri- <
day afternoon, preparatory to an at- (
tempt to be made tomorrow to establish
a new record, was instantly killed
when his machine threw two tires,
and turned over. An employe of
the Bulck factory, riding with Crane,
was dangerously injured.
Four Men Are Ix>st.
It is feared that four fishermen.
Otto Olsen. llolpe Johnson, Nels
Swanson and Harold Olson, have
been lost on Lake Superior. The
party left Two Harbors in the thiryfoot
gasoline fishing boat "Flyer,"
on March 31. bound for Isle Rovale.
The boat was last heard of at Grand
Marias, which point it reached April
1.
Shooting Scrape.
Sample Oolphin. a negro, has surrendered
himself to the sheriff of
Aiken county, he having killed an- j
other negro, John Black, near Silverton
seme days ago. The negroes met
near Golphin's home, and It Is said
that It was about Golphin's wife. A I
shotgun was need, and Black's brains i
were blown out. He died a short i
time after he was shot. t
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FAIL TOWORK
The Democrats Block the Scheme of the
Republicans to Kill
THE PUBLICITY BILL
Discover Just in Time that Accepted
Amendment to Rucker Bill For
Publicity of Campaign Contribu
lions Before Election Would Apply
to Primary Elections.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says the Democrats
of the House of Representatives
continued to-day their schedule
of sending something warm to the
Senate. While the latter body hab
been licking its committees into
Bhape, the House has been passing
things which will give the Senate
a lot of trouble, and to-day the
Rucker bill for publicity of cam
palgn contributions before election
was passed.
For the first time In the session,
the House Republicans caught the
Democrats napping and came near
throwing them off their balance.
The trick was worked by an amendment
making the campaign publicity
bill apply to primary elections also.
It took the majority some hours to
recover from the shock and defeat
the amendment, on the ground that
It would throw the primaries Into
the Federal Courts.
Tho InoiriATit nhnwed that tue Vj.
0. P., though down, Is still dangerous
from & parliamentary point of
view. But for the vigorous use of
the Democratic party whip, an Important
Republican amendment extending
publicity of candidates for
Congress would have been retained
la the bill when it finally passed.
As It was, the amendment was adopted
over the protest of the Democratic
leaders, by the support of 52
of the Democrats who voted with the
solid Republican strength. Resort to
a. parliamentary move enabled the
Democrats later to get rid of tne
amendment, but 28 of their number
refused to change their attitude
and stuck with the Republicans. The
Rucker bill passed finally by a unanimous
vote, but only after a stormy
jcene.
The amendment, offered by Mr.
lackson, a new member from Wisconsin.
provides that candidates for
Congress shall file list of moneys used
in their Individual campaign.
The amendment met with instant
support from the Republicans. Mr.
Rucker, of Missouri, chairman of
the committee, in charge of the bill,
asserted that it would 60 change the
form of the law that It might endanger
its final passage.
This did not deter fifty-four Democrats
from supporting the Jackson
amendment and the announcement of
the vote was followed by a storm of
applause from the Republican side.
As soon as the vote was announced,
Mr. Rucker moved to recommit the
bill, with its new amendment, to the
elections committee, with instructions
to that committee to send the
bill to the House without the Jackjon
amendment.
mis pariiuuieinai) i.w
jquecze the amendment out of the
bill brought about a split in tht
Democratic ranks. Twenty-eight of
:hem stood by their former action
md voted against the motion to recommit
the bill but the Democratic
leaders mustered enough votes to
carry their point, 157 to 14 9, and
:he bill technically was sent back to
the committee.
Mr. Rucker gathered the members
jf the committee around him and,
without leaving the floor, they instructed
him to report the bill again
without the Jackson amendment.
As soon as the vote had t>e<m announced
he again reported the hill
to the House with the Jackson
amendment left off, and the motion
carried 164 to 13?. The bill in its
original form then passed the House
without a dissenting vote.
The Rucker bill, as finally passed,
makes more stringent the campaign
publicity law passed in 1910. "he
Rucker bill will require publicity of
funds by the campaign committee ten
days previous to election and tne tiling
of supplemental statements every
three days thereafter.
The bill limited publicity of campaign
expenditures of sums of $100
or over, but Mr. Rucker accepted
an amendment of Mr. Kopp, of Wlnconsin.
Republican, requiring the
publicity of all payments In sums of
$100 or over for campaign expenses.*
Ear Sewed On.
At Chicago Edward W. McCarthy,
51 years old, fell down stairs in an
office building Wednesday night, sev
ering his left ear. He was taken to a
hospital, the ear soaked in warm water
for a while and sewed on again.
Ambulance Physician D. M. Wall declared
the ear would probably become
securely attached to the heacf
and said McCarthy's hearing would
not be injured.
Damaged by Storms.
Considerable damage was done to
crops and property in central Louisiana
Wednesday by rain, hail and
wind storms. At Covington, on Lake
Pontchartrain, several residences
were shaken from their foundations.
In New Orleans the streets were
flooded. Reports from Raton Rouge
say the storm was the worst experienced
there in several years.
Train in the Ditch.
Mobile & Ohio passenger train No.
4. leaving Mobile Tuesday morning,
went into the ditch two miles south
of Muldon, Miss., that afternoon. The
engine and baggage car was derailed,
the engine turning completely over
and killing Engineer Jasper Adams
ind injuring the baggagemaster, por:er
and five passengers.
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SLUSH FUND STORY
ATTOR.VEYS DISCREDIT THE DENIAL
OF HINES.
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Drawing the Lines Tighter and Tighter
Around Hini and the Other Corrnptlonists.
Developments in Thursday's Dealing
at Springfield, 111., of the State
senate committee Investigating the
election of United States Senator
William Lorimer were attempts by
attorneys and Investigators of the
committee to discredit the denial of
Edward Hlnes, a Chicago lumberman,
accused of having collected a
fund to elect Senator Lorimer, and |
the practical refusal of Edward Til- j
den, a Chicago packer and banker,
to produce before the committee his
accounts In the various banks
through which he does business.
Mr. Tllden's attitude on the witness
stand resulted In the serving of
a Becond subpoena upon him as he
stepped from the witness chair this
afternoon.
It commands Mr. Tilden to produce
before the committee next Thursday
the records of his various bank accounts
In the year 1909.
Refusal to do so, Mr. Tilden was
given to understand by the committee,
will result In an order of contempt
being issued against him.
The testimony given a week ago
by Clarence S. Funk, general manager
of the International Harvesiei
Company, was corroborated to a considerable
degree by Herman H. Hettler
of Chicago, president of the Herman
Hettler Lumber Company.
Although Mr. Hettler stated that
Mr. Hines said nothing of the use of
money or Improper methods In the
election of Senator Lorlrner, Mr.
Hlnes was quoted as boasting a personal
achievement In "putting Lorlrner
over."
Mr. Hettler said he had the conversation
with Mr. Hlnes In the Union
League club, the same place in
which Mr. Funk testified that he met
Hlnes when an alleged proposal to
contribute $10,000 to the Lorlmer
election fund was made to Mr. Funk.
wunv Tim WAR REfi.AV.
Half a Century Ago Fort Sumter Was
Fired On.
Thursday was the fiftieth anniversary
of the firing of the Confederate
forts and batteries on Fort Suinter,
then garrisoned by the I'nited States
troops, precipitating the civil war,
culminating In the surrender of Fort
Sumter two days later, are comparatively
few and fast becoming extinct.
The battle was witnessed by thousands
of people, who crowded the
water front in Charleston.
For two days tht battle endured
at intervals, more or less protracted
and by night as well as day, the
crowds of Interested and enthusiastic
people lined the lo^er water front
and witnessed It. The booming of the
i guns would call the crowds to the
water front, as quickly as a temporary
termination of hostilities would
1 result in a dispereement of the spec'
tators. The engagement was particularly
beautiful at night with the
hurling of the red hot projectiles
through the air and the bursting of
many bombs, causing fires frequently
wherever the shells landed.
A three-cornered fight was In progress.
From the "Iron Battery" on
Morris Island, so-called because It
was constructed of railroad iron, laid
at angles to deflect projectiles, from
Fort Johnson, from Fort Moultrie
and from a floating battery at the
end of Sullivan's Island, near the
wharf of the old ferry company, a
steady stream of shot was poured at
Fort Sumter and the game little fortress
returned the fire, plucklly holding
out to the last before Major An
derson was finally compelled to surrender.
Admit Negro Women.
Jacob G. Schurman, president of
Cornel University. Monday brought
to an end the controversy which has
been in progress for a few weeks over
admitting negro women students
to Saee college dormitory. In a statement
Issued to Mrs. F. S. Martin of
the women's advisory council, he siv3
that all negro women students are to
be admitted to the privileges of the
woman's dormitories if they request
admission.
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Perish in Flames.
At Bombay, B. I., two hundred
men, women and children were
burned to death Monday night in
fire which destroyed a thatched structure
in which they had gatherd for a
festival. Five hundred persons were
in the building when the fire broke
out. There was only one exit and an
indescribable panic ensued.
Took His Own Life.
A. C. Hutchins, formerly of Charlotte,
N. C., president and treasure!
of the Alt a Vista cotton mills at Alta
Vista, a short distance south of
Lynchburg, Va., shot himself through
the head Wednesday, death being ini
stantaneous. A coroner's Inquest returned
a verdict of suicide but the
evidence wirew ?u ugui. uu i ? - mu.-t
i leading to the act.
Cloaks His Calling.
After the arrest of Andrew Ructus
at Chicago on a charge of counterfeiting,
United States secret service
men found a counterfeiting plant for
raising $L' bills to hidden under
a pile of Bibles in Ructus' room.
When arrested, Ructus said he was a
Rible salesman.
Booze Makers Shot.
In a gun fight between the "moonshiners"
of Van Buren county, and
a posse led by several revenue officers
Henry Sullivan, a distiller, was killed,
and two others were badly hurt, according
to information that reached
Sparta, Tenn., Monday.
Mill
IURSDAY, APRIL
cajllT them down
PRESIDENT TAFT SERVES NOTICE
ON MEXICANS.
That American Soil Must be Respecte<l
and Lives of Our People Not
Endangered.
President Taft Is determined thai
battles between Mexican Federals
and insurrectos shall not be fought
on American soil. He is equally determined
that the lives of American
non-combatants shall not be endangered
by the forces of President Diaz
and those or uen. iuaaero.
Future combats between the rebels
and the forces of the Mexican Government
must not be fought out so
close to the American line, as to put
In Jeopardy the lives and property
of Americans.
Through the State department, the
President Friday night notified the
Mexican Government that It must see
that In the future no such unfortu-i
nate Incident as that at Agua Prleta,
when two Americans were killed and
eleven wounded, be allowed to occu'*
Through the war department and
through the department of Justice
the President sent the same sort of
warning to the leader of the lnsurrec- {
tos at Agua Prleta. The belief Is expressed
that these warning will be
obeyed to the letter.
Neither the President nor any of
his advisors was Inclined to regard
the Incident as Agua Prleta as a
forerunner of anything more serious,
but they did conclude that It must
not be repeated.
President Taft feels now that his
order sending the troops to Texas
has been Justified by the deteiupdents
of the last few days. He is
mnro eortaln than ever that condl
tlons In Mexico are alarming.
He Is hoping that there will be no
need for any further movement to
the South, but If there should be, he
knows that 20,000 American troops
are near the Rio Grande and that
along that river the Mexican force
Is very small.
The Douglas, Arizona, Chamber of
Commerce has reported to the State
department the casualties of Thursday's
battle. In reply to this, the
Preeldent said In a message:
"Mr. E. P. Hill: This Government
Is much distressed at the situation
as you have described It.
Steps will be taken by which a deplorable
Incident will he avoided in
the further. In the meantime, I
hope that the Chamber of Commerce
and the authorities of Douglas will
use all Influence possible to keep all
as far away as possible from the zone
of fighting and to avoid taking sides
in order not to aggravate the situation."
NEGROES XOT WANTED.
I
The Lily Whites So Declare at Their
Meeting.
Indorsing the administration of
' President Taft and pledging him the
is Hpleeatea from this State for his
renomlnation and placing Itself
squarely against the appointment of
negroes to federal offices In the
South, the executive committee of
the white Republican party of South
Carolina, numbering 25 men from
all of the congressional districts of
the State, met in Columbia Wednesday.
The meeting was held by call
of John G. Capers. The meeting in
Columbia was held for the purpose of
perfecting the organization set on
foot In Columbia last October when
the negroes were eliminated. The
resolutions adopted .. ?re mosr tavorable
and indorsed the Taft administration
throughout. This white organization
has not yet been recognized
by the national party.
HI case Satisfied.
Govenor R lease said Thursday,
upon his return from the Red Men's
convention in Greenville: "From inquiries
among the 152 delegates and
the people from the cotton mills and
elsewhere, I satisfied myself that I
was much stronger politically with
the people who elected me than ever
I was before."
Hlown Into River.
At St. Louis an eight-story grain
elevator valued at $700,000 located
in the extreme northern end of tnt,
city on the Burlington tracks, was
blown into the 'Mississippi by a severe
wind storm Thursday night.
Two women are reported to have died
from fright, making three deaths up
to the present, traceable to the storm.
Killed Himself.
Jacob W. Cluie, three times mayor
of Schenectady, N. Y., killed himself
with a pistol in the bath room of
his home Wednesday while the sheriff
and under sheriff were waiting at the
door with a hody execution for him,
growing out of alleged irregularities
in the handling of an estate.
Wanted Him to Preach.
"I think that the aged mother of
McKinley was sorry her son was only
a president, instead of heing a
odist minister." said itishop Thomas
: 13. Neelev of New York, before the
j Vermont Methodist Episcopal conference
in session at Watesburv, Vt. *
Schooner Wrecked.
Two more bodies of the crew of tut
schooner Ottawa, which was wrecked
at Claybank. Mich., Friday, were recovered.
Three bodies, one of them
that of Clatis Weberg, were recovered
Thursday. One more man is believed
to have been aboard the schooner.
Glren Damages.
W. H. Brown and Rosa Brown
were given a verdict against the western
Union Telegraph company in
Charleston on Thursday for fl,50o
damages for "mental anguish" for
j the non-delivery of a telegram.
Tev
20, 1911.
LEFT THE RAIL
Soothers Railway's Fast Trail Wrecked
Near Blackville.
SAVED BY STEEL CARS
Luckily No One Was Seriously Hurt
?Cause of the Accident Not Determined
Yet?The Wreckage Was
Soon Cleared and Regular Traffic
Resumed.
Steel framed cars saved the lives
of more than a score of passengers
Thursday, when train No. 31, the
Southern railway's "Southeastern
* ' " 1 " 4% r?#Ani? mllna
I Liimuea, icil tut? uativ iuui ui*?vw
south of Barnwell, 8ays Joe Sparks
In the Columbia State. The train
was running over 45 miles an hour.
The officials failed to determine the
cause of the accident,
i There were 43 passengers on the
train, but none were seriousiy injured.
The passengers were slightly
Jarred. The train was In charge of
Conductor J. W. Blanton of Charlotte.
All of the seven cars were
thrown from the track except the two
Pullmans. Not one of the train crewwas
Injured. The wreck occurred at
10:10 o'clock Thusday morning, and
the track was cleared at 8:45 o'clock
the same night.
The following Is a list of those injured
as announced by the officials ot
the road.
Mrs. Alice Hard, Allendale, hip
sprained.
Mrs. Etta G. Hahn, Chattanooga,
nervous shock.
M. S. Iverman, Cleveland, Ohio,
bruised about forehead and leg.
C. C. Ferris, Winston-Salem, N.
C., knee sprained.
Employes Injured Include the following:
J. E. Buster, expresa messenger,
ankle sprained.
N. H. Bullock, special agent, left
hip bruised.
B. A. Overstreet, mall clerk, right
hand cut.
J. P. Thompson, mall clerk, right
arm Bpralned.
Sam Millen, colored, porter,
bruised.
"No one can tell what caused the
wreck, and It Is very probable that
the cause will never be known," said
Henry Williams, the veteran railroad
man and superintendent of the Columbia
division of the Southern rallv.-ay,
who personally looked after
clearing away the wreckage. Vari
oils theories as to the probable cause
of the accident were advanced.
John G. Richards, Jr., a member of
the railroad commission, inspected
the wreck. He failed to find the
cause, and sa'.d that it was a wonder
that all on the train had not been
killed. The general conclusion Is
that, the wreck was caused by a decayed
crocstie, a broken flange or a
broken rail. There was no testimony
to support any of these theories.
Train No. 31 is the Southern railway's
fast flyer from New York to
the Florida winter resorts. The train
was composed of two Pullman cars,
a dining car, passenger car, combination
car and a mail and an expresB
car. The engine was No. 1913. The
engineer was D. G. McAllister of Columbia,
considered one of the best
men in the service of the company.
All who witnessed the tumbled
heap of wreckage along the track for
over 500 feet wondered how it was
possible that no one was killed or
even seriously injured. engineer
McAllister said that he was running
about 45 miles an hour. He heard
a grinding noise. Turning in his
seat he saw the front wheel of the
tender leave the track.
Th- engine tore itself loose from
the train and was brought to a stop
several hundred yards away. Seeing
that the tender had jumped the track
the engineer applied the emergency
brake. This brake is almost instantaneous
on the new type of locomotives
used between Columbia and
points South.
The mail car. Just behind the lender,
gave a sudden lurch forward
and landed 75 feet away from tne
track in a cotton patch. The coach
fell on its side. E. O. Overstreet and
J. T. Thompson, the two mail clerks
were not injured. It happened so
I quick that they did not realize that
an accident had occurred until they
tumbled from the side of the coach
through a door to the soft sand.
The express car was thrown across
the tack. It required some time to
remove this car. The combination
passenger and baggage car, used by
negroes, was thrown from the track
and one end was buried several feet
In the Boft sand. There were a
number of negroes in the rear car,
all of which were very excited.
The passenger car, occupied by
about 20 passengers was thrown off
the track. The dining car left the
rails. The two Pullman cars did not
leave the track. Although there was
a general shaking up, not a windowglass
In any of the cars was broken.
The trucks of all cars were torn
away and massed into a heap.
A wrecking train was hurried to
the scene as soon as possible. The
through trains were delayed for
only one hour, having detoured by
the way of Fairfax, over the teaboard
Air Line.
Twenty \\>re Drowned.
It is belived 20 lives were lost
when the little wooden steamer Iroquois,
plying between Sydney, Vancouver
Island, and the Islands of the
Gulf of Georgia, capsized soon after
leaving Sydney Monday.
Buys Land.
The turstees of Clemson College
have bought three tracts of land ad
Joining the college property, aggregating
235 acres, paying for it $18.000.
The college now has over 1,50
acres.
1ES.
SI
A POPULAR SENATE
HOl'SE VOTES FOR DIRECT ELECTION*
BY PEOPLE.
First Bill on the Democratic Program
Rushed to Its Passage Over Protests
of Republicans.
The house of representatives, by a
vote of 296 to 16. early Thursday
evening- passed the Rucker resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment.
for the direct election of
United States senators. This Is the
first of the Democratic program
measures passed by the house. Backed
by a solid Democratic phalanx, It
went through without modification
and with a speed that brought protests
from the Republicans.
The resolution, as the house approved
it, is in the form of the Borah
resolution reported out of the
senate Judiciary committee in the
I closing days of the last congress. Re
publican opposition to the Rucker
resolution in the house was based
| on the fact that It did not contain
the change afterward made In the
fight In the senate, which assured to
congress continued control over elections
In the several states.
After six hours of debate, In wniei.
many demands were made for this
change In the resolution, all but 15 of
the Republicans voted for the passage
of the resolution.
Mr. McDermott (111.) was the only
Democrat voting against the resolution.
Jos. O. Cannon, former speaker,
Jas. R. Mann, Republican leader, and
others of the Republicans who voteu
against the measure declared that Its
form was such as to threaten federal
government with the loss of the control
over senatorial elections In the
States given to safeguard the Integrity
of these elections. They Insist,
lad did other Republicans who ultimately
voted for the resolution, that
the direct election amendment should
be offered without any language attached
that might be dangerous to
the future congressional supervision
of senatorial elections.
Democratic leaders declared that
the resolution was open to no such
construction and that It offered the
most nearly perfect constitutional
amendment that could be devised. \n
amendment offered by Representative
" /**1 "** x ? J .1 I ^ Inn into tra fVlflf
YOUng (Alien.; auuiii? iau;uat,u
resembled that of the Sutherlana
amendment adopted In the senate two
months ago. was defeated by a party
vote, 121 to 190.
The Republican Insurgents, led by
Representatives Lenroot and Cooper
of Wisconsin, forced a record vote on
the final passage of the esolution.
The house voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the measure when Speaker
Clark called for the viva voce vote,
but the Insurgents demanded a roll
call In order to put the house on
record on the subject. The Democrats
quickly seconded this demand.
It was a day of lively debate. Practically
every man who spoke favored
the direct election amendment. The
difference arose mainly over the constitutional
argument of whether the
powers of the federal government
were in any way threatened.
HE DECLINES TO GO.
The Governor Is Invited to Go to thf
Hot Place.
While at Greenville on Wednesdaj
Gov. Blease made the following state
ment:
"I will show the people that f
county officer like Goodwin can't tel
the Governor of this State to go t<
Hades. I expect to pursue the regu
lar course in presenting papers foi
the collection of the salary of Detec
tive Head, and, if the county ol
Greenville refuses to pay the money
I will secure the services of a lawyer
and take the case to the State courts.
If that fails, I will take it to the Supreme
Court."
The statement was made In connection
with the Supervisor Goodwin's
refusal to pay the salary ol
Officer Head, dispensary constable ap
pointed by Governor Blease, for the
reason that the county delesatlor
failed to make appropriation for the
i salary and therefore the county hat
no funds to apply to this purpose
The Greenville view is that the Governor
has misunderstood the situation.
Supervisor Goodwin, in an in!
terview savg he has always treated
the Governor with utmost respect,
especially in the matter under discussion.
Bitten by Mad Dor.
Two boys and one man was bitter
by a mad dog at Beaufort on Fridaj
week ago. The dog was killed and
its head sent to the Pasteur institute
[ In Columbia for inspection. A telecram
was received promptly, statin?
that the dog had a bad case of hydro:
phobia, and that the bitten one:
, should bo treated at once.
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('nilglit Ilirn at fast.
Followed from St. Louis for sever
years by a negro detective, William
r?nQ<dp Francis, who is charged with
1 murder and rape In that city, wat
taken from the chaingang at Durham
N\ C., Tuesday and held for Missouri
officers. Francis had served five
years for highway robbery and v.m
serving sentence again for larceny
Serious Charge.
E L. Large, a rural mail carrier ol
Society Hill, Darlington County, waf
arrested on Saturday on the charge o)
breach of trust with fraudulent Intent?receiving
money for money or
dera and failing to turn it la.
Dead on Lonely Road.
With a bullet hole through hi
head. Aqulllna Diaz of the firm o
' s Diaz & Co.. cigar nianufac
t rcr.-5. was found Monday 17 mile
' Tampa, Fla., on a lonely read
J 's oat. had been neatly folded ant
' is h?ad placed on it.
.25 PER YEAR.
TOOK A HAND i
Uncle Sam's Bays in Bine Cross Border
and Stop Mexican Fight.
PROTECT OUR PEOPLE
Shots From the Battlefield Endangered
Douglas, Arizona, Where a
Number of People Were Killed by
Stray Bullets, and American Soldiers
Put an End to the Battle.
A dispatch from Douglas, Arizona,
says during a battle which lasted all
Thursday afternoon and resulted In
the capture of Agua Prieta, by the
Mexican rebels, the American troope
crossed the border and stopped the
fighting. The action was taken after
three men had been killed and several
wounded in Douglas, and the continued
firing was endangering the
lives of Americans on United States
soil. Douglas was under constant
fire for three hours.
A dispatch from Agua Prieta, Mexco,
says the rebels have attacked
Auga Prieta and a fierce battle is In
progress. Two Americans havi been
shot. One of them, C. W. Crow, is
( dead, and the other, Ben Armstrong,
I has been taken to the hospital, icrl
ously wounded. Both were on tho
American side of the line and v?re
struck by stray bullets.
Americans rushed to the International
line, but as the firing contlaueded,
they had to seek shelter behind
buildings and in ditches. About 15
minutes after the firing on the town
began the headquarters of the commissariat
blew up with a terrible report.
It Is not known whether a
rebel bullet struck the magazine at
the headquarters where the dynamite
was recently stored or the federals
blew up the magazine to prevent
the rebels getting supplies.
The rebels arrived on the train
they captured at Fronteras earlier in
tho day, and their appearance was
entirely unexpected. The federal
garrison of 65 men had Btood Its
ground well, as is Indicated by tha
fierce fighting.
The rebels attack Is from the
west. Detraining Just below the
town, they marched to the west and
then with little rushes took shelter
behind the railroad embankments,
resting their rifles over the rails as
they shot into the town.
One fedeal office on top of the
i cnmmissarv at headquarters remain
ed and directed the movements of
the federal troops. The federate Hied
from doorways and from any barricade
that could be u.eod.
Two groups of rebels advanced until
they were in the shadow of the
American custom house, where they
continued to fire. The federals, a
few minutes later, essaysd a rush
from the centre of the town and took
possession of an adobe almost within
the rebels' ranks.
The rebels retreated before this
1 sortie. One dropped within the shadow
of the custom house and is still
lying there. His faithful dog lies
beside him watching over the body.
The rebels, cheered on by the cries
of "Vivia Madero" from a thousand
, Mexicans lined up at the American
custom house, repulsed the sortie af- ,
ter a few minutes' firing. Soon a
thin line of federals began pouring
out of Agua Prleta straight for the
American boundary.
At this juncture, with a cloud of
1 dust, the United States First Cavalry
' troops, under Capt. Guajot, chargod
' down the line from their headquart"
ers, and the fleeing federals stopped.
Some took refuse in the adobe house
on the line, while others dropped
into trenches partly filled up some
i time ago by order of MaJ. Garnder,
then commanding in Douglas.
Later a third American was shot
in Douglas. In an adobe building
near Forth street a man was killed.
'Many bullets fell in Douglas, ?h the
| rebel force of the southwest fired
Into northwest Douglas where the
Mexicans live. Cries of "Viva Madero"
were stopped by the Americans
1 as it was feared the federals might
fim nn the American custom house.
! Twenty minutes after the battle
bet?an a squad of rebels took their
station at the American custom house
and fired from a distance of 10 feet
from the sight-seers. The rebel commander
claims that reinforcements
' are coming Immediately.
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Fell Into Boiling Soap.
While playing with other children
in the yard of her parents' uome,
1 near Friendship Baptist church Wednesday,
Gertie Hargrove, aged 12,
' stumbled and fell into a kettle of
boiling lye soap, sustaining burns
from which she died early that day.
: |The child was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Hargrove, a proroi'
nent family of Stokes county, N. C.
Paid Not to Marry.
Three New Haven, Conn., girls, the
1 Misses Belle, Henrietta and Marion
'Feuchtwanger, will receive $10,000
1 each from the estate of their uncle,
5 Meyer Feuchtwanger, who died in
New York Anril 6. for not marrying
1 durin* his lifetime. The young women
have just filed a petition, saying
' that they had complied with their
uncle's wishes.
Found Dead in Stable.
Dr. D. M. Hollingworth, one cf the
1 leading physicians of Mt. Alrey, N.
C., was found dead In his stable *sr'
ly Tuesday. He nal Just returned
' from a professional visit and was
putting up his two horses when he
was stricken with ne&rt disease. A
wife and two childm survive
s ?
f Fatally Injured.
At Chevreuse, France, Lieut.
s Ralsson, of the navy, while making
an aeroplane flight Friday fell with
I hie machine and was mortally lnjur1
ed.