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Injured On The List
Nearly One Half
Oat-Number Of
Loss Estimated At
Million Dollars
Anderson, April 30.—Nine persons
at* known dead, numerous others are
seriously and slightly injured and
property damage in the southeaster^
section of the city is estimated at A
iigure in excess of half a million dol
lars, as a result of a tornado which
struck a portion of this city and su
burbs this morning at 8 o’clock. The
largest portion of the damage occur
red at Riverside Mill village, a su
burb southeast of the city proper,
where half a hundred or more houses
were destroyed and the southeast
wing of Riverside mill was badly
damaged.
Damage to the mill and village was
roughly estimated this morning an
hour after the disaster at something
less than $500,000, while other dam
age in the city proper increased this
amount to a large extent. The names
of three of the victims at Riverside
Mill village are known. They are:
Mrs. Oscar Hawkins, 34, and two
children, Roy and Oscar, Jr., 8 and 10
years, respectively.
These three victims were killed
when their house was demolished by
the terrific force of the several
shocks.
Six persons at Anderson, in addi
tion to the three or more at Riverside
Mill, are known to be dead, late re
ports as to the result of a tornado
which struc kthe city this morning
revealed. The dead are:
Mrs. J. D. Rast, wife of Alderman
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Raat of the Anderson city council,'
killed when chimney fell through the
house. Two children of Lester Sadler
of Sadler Brothers Motor Company;
Mrs. Nixon, Jefferson avenue, killed
when house was rized.' Two children
of A. P. Stone, killed when house was
demolished. Numerous others were
injured.
J. D. Rast, injured slightly.
Martha Rast, daughter of J. D.
Raat, injured seriously.
Mrs. Leila McConnell injured
slightly.
Mrs. A. P. Stone, suffered broken
leg when house was destroyed, kill
ing* her two children.
Bad Communication
Columbia, S. C., April 30.—Ander
son was cut off from communication
with the rest of the state by a torna
do which is reported to have swept
between Anderson and Greenville
around 8 o’clock this morning, ac
cording to local officials of the South
ern Bell Telephone Company.
A report from the head of the field
forces stated that all available repair
men and equipment were out and
that so far no details of the damage
done by the tornado had been receiv
ed.
Later reports from the telephone
company here stated tha tan effort
was made to get in touch with Green
ville through Spartanburg but that
trouble had developed on that line,
with a number of high powered wires
down.
Connections were expected to be
resumed with Greenville within a
short while, according to word from
linesmen working between that city
and Spartanburg.
The company’s manager at Green
ville reported that several lives had
been lost around Anderson according
to rumors heard, and that a number
of poles were down and, 300 local
troubles reported in Greenville,
Anderson, S. C., April 30.—With a
death list of eight known dead, a
casulty list of probably half a hun
dred injured, slightly and seriously,
and property damage estimated
roughly at more than half a million
dollars, Anderson this afternoon
viewed the havoc of a tornado which
struck the county at 8 o’clock this
moniing.
While the extent of the stricken
area had not been determined early
this afternoon, reports having been
received from numerous suburban
sections of further damage, a con
siderable radius will represent the
path of the tornado.
Relief workers organized speedily
thia morning when the tornado pass*
ad over the Riverside Mill village,
leaving indescribable scenes of hor
ror, and the work was well under
way this afternoon. Clothing, feed
ing and bousing of the destitute per
sona, who nunaber hundreds perhaps,
was the chief problem. Local hospi
tals attended the injured, additional
facilities having been nude available
at local insgtutioiH.
A list of dead and injured compil
ed at 2 o’clock follows:
Thm dead:
lira. Oscar Hawkins, 34, and her
car
Nine Killed In Tornado
At School House
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Columbia, S. C., April 30.—Nine
persons are known to bo dead and
two missing following a tornado
which wrecked the Horrell Hill school
house, twelve miles from here to
day, and swept on through the coun
ty leveling homes. As reports trick
led in from the stricken section, it
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was feared the death toll would reach
twenty-five persons.
Four children were killed when the
School house was overturned by the
wind. A detachment of state troops
was sent to the scene this afternoon
by Governor McLeod to assist in res
cue work.
P. C. Loses Hard
Game To Davidson
Bunched Hits In Thirteenth Inning
Broke Tie and Won Exciting
Game.
Rock Hillj April 29.—By bunching
hits in the first half of the thirteenth
inning, the Davidson nine broke the
tie which had marked the game
from the sixth inning and snatched
a hard fought game from the Pres
byterian College here this afternoton
by a score of 7 to 4.
The thirteenth inning was opened
by Vance getting a triple into left
field, followed by a single from S.
Alford which scored Vance. F. Al
ford then drew a base on balls and
Laird singled through short, takinp
Alford to second. Boushee then put
the game on ice with a triple into
left field, bringing in Alford and
t-aird. The South Carolina Presby
terians attempted to contest the game
further when R. Moore opened the
last half of the thirteenth with a sin
gle, but Miller, Lewis and J. Moore
failed to produce and the game was
called. Laird’s pitching was a fea
ture of the game, claiming twenty
strike-outs and proving very effect
ive after P. C. had scored- her three
runs in the first two innings. Han
nah of the Blue Stockings deserves
credit for his work in the box.
Score by innings:
Davidson 000 013 000 000 3—7 17 3
P. C 120 010 000 000 0—4 7 3
Laird and Alford; Hannah and
Moore. Umpires, Roddey and Ber-
hardt.
New Schedule
Seaboard Trains
and On-
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Effective Sunday, May 11, the fol
lowing change in schedules at Clin
ton Is announced by the Seaboard
Air Line Railway:
Train No. 5 for Birmingham, due
at 11:30 a. m.
Train No. 29 for Atlanta, due at
2:00 p. m.
Train No. 11 for Birmingham du*
at 1:48 a. m.
Train No. 12 for Portmouth due
at 2:51 a. jn.
Train No. 30 for Monroe due at
2:00 p. m.
Train No. 6 for New York due at
5:50 p. m.
W. H. SHANDS,
. Agent S.A.L. Ry.
ed whep their home on Riverside vil
lage collapsed.
Mrs. J. D. Rast, of Elizabeth street,
killed when chimney of house sunk.
One child of Lester Sadler killed
when home on Jefferson avenue was
razed.
Mrs. Frank Nix, killed when home
on Franklin street, was destroyed.
Two children of A. P. Stone, age
eight and three, killed when house
was destroyed on Brock street.
Partial list of injured:
Mr. John D. Rast, alderman ward
three.
Miss Martha Rast.
Mrs. lister Sadler’s mother (name
unknown), broken leg.
Mrs. A .P. Stone, broken leg.
Fred Hawkins, four, severely shock
ed and injured.
Jno. Yates, Riversidetmill,broken leg.
Mrs. Frank Wheeler, leg broken.
Frank Wheeler. i
Fred Lee Meridith, cuts and bruises.
Child of R. E. Rogers.
Abel BrockWell, Melvin Brockwell.
Suanwanee Brockwell.
Ethel C has tine, Henry Vaughn.
Baby of W. J. Peke.
Child of Mrs. Nettie Coker.
Melvin Gilwreath.
Lula Meredith, Fred Meredith.
Mr. and Mm.' John Alewine.
Mrs. H. C. Campbell, and child.
Alp Alpamler, and S
Mrs. William Wheeler. .
Tammany Chieftain
Stricken By Death
Charles F. Murphy Dies Soddenly in
New York. Power in Polities
For Twenty Years.
New York, April 25.—Charles F.
Murphy, grand chieftain of Tammany
Hall and for many years a powerful
factor in Democratic councils of the
state and nation, died today of heart,
failuve induced by acute indigestion.
A product of the East Side's pic
turesque “Gas House district,’’ he had,
fiMt with fists aad then with brains,
fought his way from the stokehold of
ward politics to the quarter deck of
party fame and financial fortune.
In a spaii of 66 years he had been
poor man’s son, ward heeler, bartend
er, saloon keeper, office holder, finan
cier and finally local director and na
tional adviser of his party.
He had graduated from the sobri
quet of “Fists Murphy” through that
of “Hurly-burly,” “Sport,” “Silent
Charles,” and at the last “C. F. M.,”
the initials by which all knew him, al
though few of those who obeyed his
commands ever had seen him. And
always from merest youth, his name
and that of Tammany were linked to
gether.
' He retired last night after a busy
day and a hearty dinner, to be awak
ened this morning by feverish chills
and the pangs of indigestion. Char
acteristically, he insisted upon break
fasting at the usual early hour. Im
mediately he became alarmingly ill
and died a few minutes later in the
presence of his physician, a priest,
his daughter, Mabel, and her husband,
Surrogate James A. Foley.
The tactiturn genius who had ruled
the destinies of-Tammany Hall for
22 years, as successor to the late
Richard Crocker, remained conscious
to the end, unaware that death was
near. He submitted to the hypoder
mic injection when his physician
recognized that collapse was immi
nent and his only comment was of
surprise that indigestion should have
awakened him and that his heart
caused him pain.
Mrs. Murphy, who was in Atlantic
City, was summoned home. Although
her husband died before she could
entrain, she was not aware of it until
she was met by friends at this end
of the journey.
Tammany Hall was the first to
learn that death had invaded the home
of its leader.
The party’s Big Wigwam on Four
teenth street half staffed its flag and
went into mourning. Party chiefs
and Tammany workers assembled 8
from all outlying wigwams to pay
tribute to the memory of its leader
and speculate as to his successor.
Police and traffic reserves controlled
the throngs that gathered above the
old fashioned mansion where he died.
Coming at a time when Tammany
was girding itself for a strenuous
presidential campaign and so soon af
ter his protege, Gov. Alfred E. Smith,
had formally entered the lists for the
Democratic presidential nomination,
Mr. Murphy’s death was mourned by
high political leaders as a party mis
fortune, if not an actual calamity.
Fear| in some quarters that UoYer-
nor Smith’s aspirations would be se
riously handicapped were offset, how
ever, by assertions of Murphy’s team
mates that the leader had schooled
his organization so perfectly and laid
his plans so carefully tha this death
would have ho detrimental effect.
Tammany’s greatest concern to
night was the choice of a man big
enough to carry on where Murphy
left off. A meeting of the executive
committee hastily was called to dis
cuss the situation, although it was
understood that a new chieftain would
not be named until after the funeral.
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It was considered probable that the
committee would follow the precedent
set at the retirement of Richard
Croker in 1902, when a triumvirate
of district chiefs was appointed tem
porarily to administer the organiza
tion. Murphy was a member of this
trio and it was only after he rose
head and shoulders above the coru
lers that he was named all power
ful of the society.
Som6 of the names mentioned as a
possible successor were Governor
Smith and “Tom” Foley, Murphy's
right hand man for years.
Murphy was particularly fond of
the governor and those familiar with
tise political machinery of the metro
polis attributed much of Smith’s poli
tical success to the silent man in the
wigwam.
The funeral will in all probability
be held from St. Patrick's Cathedral
in Fifth avenue. -
Bishop John P. Dunn, in charge of
the arch diocese of New Yoric, in the
absence of Cardinal Hayes,, on leav
ing the Murphy home, tonight said
that while no arrangements for the
funeral had been completed, it would
undoubtedly be held from the cathe
dral.
“There’s no other church large
enough to hold the many friends of
Murphy who will want to be present,”
hi Mid. '
Bishop Dunn said the death of
R. C Lake Appointed
To Whitmire Schools
Newberry, April 28.—R. C. lake,
who for the past five years has been
and baa had eight years of success
ful experience in rural, graded and
high schools. He was reared in the
Pomaria section of Newberry county.
Whitmire is one of the most pro
gressive mill towns of .this section,
superintendent of the Kershaw with a well organised four year high
schools, has been elected to a similar school. A. T. Quarts and L. E. Beard
position at Whitmire. to succeed C. tha Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing
M. Wilson, who leaves to become full “ J
time secretary-treasurer of the State
Teachers’ association.
Mr. Lake comes to Whitmire with
a fine record at Kershaw, where he
had accomplished splendid results. It
is understood that the Kershaw trus
tees offered Mr. Lake a substantial
increase in salary to remain. Mr.
Lake is a graduate of Lenoir college
company, with M. E.
the leading business men of
mire, compose the board of
WHAT DO
P. S. JEANS
DO?
Murphy was a great personal loss to
him. “He was my friend for 40
yearrf. He was just plain Charley to
me,” said the bishop.
It was announced at the Murphy
home that funeral services for the
Tammany leader would be held at
10:30 o’clock Monday morning in St.
Patrick’s cathedral. Bishop Dunn,
acting head of the arch dioceses dur
ing the absence of Cardinal Hayes,
will celebrate a solemn high mass. It
was announced there would be no par
ade nor display of any kind.
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