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APPALLING TRAGEDY IN CHICAGO RIVER ?: St. -V jot-. . .. . V Hundreds Die in Accident Ai They Leave on Pleature Trip ? -Steamer Capsizes end En tire Party Thrown Into River Chicago, July 2-J4* -Moro tlian 1,000 I mthoiih, |H>*slhly 1 most of Jtbem women and children, wi)f? drowned to day within n few fee t of land by (he capsi/ln# of tin* Hteel H(eati|W Eant lund, iih It was about to leave It* whurf hi t Im? Chicago river with 2,600 relatives and fili-uds of employes of the Western Electric Company, for an excursion aotmn Lake Michigan. Thp ship rolled over on 1(h Hide in 25 feot of water within fivo minuter after it began to ilHt. The caUtfo of the capsizing had not boeh determined tonight but federal, city and Htate oftleera wore conducting investigations to deterinitie whether the nhlp wiih topheaVy from designing, whk Improperly ballasted or wiih poorly hand lad In warping from the wharf. Marino architects asserted that the Eastland wan faulty in design, that the top deek had boon removed ho eanne of the tendency of the ship to lint and also pointed to the posHihill ty that the Hhlp had been unevenly, or Insufficient ly ballasted. The East land lined water ballant, ho that If could pump out Homo on entering nhal Iow lake hurhoi'H, ho Home Investlgat orn are working on a theory that the ballant tank* were not tilled and the rushing of passengers to one Hide of the deekH eaiiHed It. to roll over. Under mlnty skies, 7,000 men, wo men and children wended their way t?? the ('lark street dock early today to fill five large lake stoamcrs with ' holiday mirth In a trip to Michigan City. The steamer Eastland, i brought to Chicago from Lake Erie, after an unsatisfactory career, woh the first to be loaded. , Uain began to fall aH the wharf superintendents lifted the gouts planks from the venae!, declaring that the gov ernment limit of 2,500 passengers had been reached. White dresses peeped from raincoats along the Hliore rollH aH thone aboard waved good-bye to friends on shore who were waiting to board the steamer Roosevelt and other ves sels. Then the passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship, as the other steamers drew up the river towards the wharf. A tug was hitched to the Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off and the steamer engines began to hum. The Eastland had not budged, "how ever. ? V Instead, the heavily laden ship wav ered sidewise, leaning first towards the river bank. The lurch watC*so startling that many passengers joined flip large concourse already on the liver side of the decks. The ship .never heeled back. It turned slowly but Hteaftiiy toward Its left side. Children clutched the skirts of mothers and sisters to keep from fulling. Thi* whole cargo was Impelled towards tin* failing side of the whip. Water began to enter tower portholes and the hawiiers tore <mt tin* plies to which the vessel whh tied, Scroii iuh from pa tfseugers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on the dt*"k awaiting tlx* next steam cr, Wharf men and picknlckers soon lined the ??? t v'?' <>f the embankment, reaching out helplessly towardH the wavering steamer. lor iicmly live minutes tin* ship turned before It dually dived under the swift current of the river, which owing to. the drainage canal system flows from the lake. Inirhig the mighty turning of the ship with Its cargo of humanity, lifeboats, chairs and other loose appurtenances on the decks slipped down the sloping floors, .Crushing the passengers towards the iIhIiik waters. Then then* was a plunge with a High of air escaping from the hohfl mingled witli crying of ebldren and shrieks of women, and the ship was on the bottom of the river, canting h ill id red H of living ereatures to the water. / Many wank, entangled with cloth lug and bundles and did not rise hut hundreds came to the surfaee, seized floating chairs and other objects. Those op who re threw out ropes and draped In those W)lO could hold these life lines. Employes Of commission firms along the river threw era ten, chicken coops and other floatable things into the cur rent, but most of these were swept ayvay by the stream, which runs five in lies an hour. I ton f h put out, tugs rushed to the scene with shrieking whistles and many men snatched off coats and shoes and sprang into the rver to ?ald tin* drowning. With thousands of spec tators ready to aid and the wharf within grasp, hundreds went to ''death despite every effort at rescue. One mother grasped her two chil dren in her arniH as she rtlliiped from the steamer into the water. One child was torn from her but she and the Other were saved. Fathers were drown ed after aiding their wives and chil dren to safety. ?Instances of heroism were almost as numerous as the "number of jiersons on the scene. Hoots as soon as full took rescued passengers to the- wharf or to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt, which was tied up opposite the East land. Iu an fiour the water >vas cleared of excursionists. Those who had hot ? ' hecn taken to land had sunk or were swirling down the river towards the drainage canal locks at I.ockport, 111., many miles away. The looks were raised to stop the current and ar rangements were made to take bodies from the river along Its course through the southwest part of Chicago. Shortly after the water was cleared, city firemen, ship engineers and help ers were on the exposed side of the Kastland's hull, cutting through ltn steel i tin tes with gas ilumos. Divers yird hurried Into underwater suits. A tug wits moored as H brdge In-tw een tin- ph.r and the et)j|||ad ship. Am the* diver* valued entrance to the hull, the scene of dist rt**s moved for Hie time being from the river to the ?x(Miip0fli(0i| morgues. Warehouses of wholesale companies along tho river wore thrown open and IhmIIm were placed, In rows on tho doors, Scores of pcrson? rescued from the watcr wi-iv Injur*-*! >tu<l Ihcse were l,i! in (o the Iroquois Hospital, built In mem ory of fho 600 wotuett, children and a few men who were burned and crush ed to death )n the Iroquois Theater New Y ear's Eve sojnc yearn ago. ? KtTortH to resuscitate thom* taken from tin* river WOW generally uii.mic cewful, Only two or three were thus saved. It wuk also said that many of tho Injured would die. Htnduew men sent their automobiles and motor trucks to help aid tlu* In jured and curry away the dead. One warehouse soon was tilled with bodies and other dead were taken to the Second Itcgliucut armory, a mile away, j While those oh laud were dlaposlm;; of the dead. Injured and rescued, the divers in thO heart of the sunken ves sel sent up {in almost constant stream of corpses from the submerged decks. Flr't it was a girl in her teens who Im been caught between a pile of chairs and a cabin wall. Next It was a rilluht hoy, gathered from tho life less arms of a fond father*- who had clung to his offspring even in death. Then followed an old woman, who bad gone aboard the ship to watch tho youthful pleasure of her grandchil dren, or a little girl with bare legs and hooters and with gay ribbon# sod den against the lace of her holiday I gown. , Olio thrill panned through the crowd n? word came from the steamer that I a girl haby liad been found alive anions the hundreds of dead In the ship. The child was discovered in a starbojml stateroom, where she had been hold from the water by a chair that jam med against tlie berth. The baby only half awakened as it was carried to land. Its mother could not be foifml. Two women were found alive in ?another stateroom in a protruding side of the Eastland but that ended the hopes that any number had escaped death in the trap. There were still i 300 persons in the hold when these three persons were taken out alive and the explorers of the hulk said that nil were dead. vk of taking the bodies of the dead and placing them in accessible places for ldentliicatlon pr<?coeded all dry and night. Identification was slow and scenes at the morgues were as affecting as those at the 'river when the steamer '"apslzed. Mothers fell across the biers df children . whom they had sent away a few hours before on what was in tended to be a day of pleasure. > You can have all these great~ artists sing for you in your own home The world's greatest singers to provide an : evening . of music for yourself and friends ? whenever you wish, as often as you wish. A performance such as is never even witnessed in the world's greatest opera houses ? no management could afford to payi the ^thousands and thousands of dollars necessary to engage .all these* artists for a single performance, even if such a thing was possible. And yet you can command their services on the" Victor and have them sing their greatest arias ? and enjoy their voices just as much as though you heard them in person. .^ ... Come in ami hoar these famous singers, ami let lis show you the different styles of the Victor ($10 to $100) and the Victor-Victrola (SI 5 to S250). CAMDEN FURNITURE CO., Phone 155 Camden, S. C. - ? .?*% >? IVOGBAMIfB or the nih Annual County Hund?y Mchvol Convention. ' . Tin* 37th annual County Sunday Scbpol Convention will bo hold with DlSUUWQI Sunday aetkOO) at West rllks sixteen inlh'K north of Camden, \V<-dnes<bi> and Thursday, August 1th and Bib, 101ft. HrfTjr white Sunday Sch**4 in the county including the town schools aru urged to send delegate*. l'aators and superlntendant* of Sunday school* are ox otllcio members of the conven tion, Sunday s<h?>ols arc entitled t<> n|tr<'.s?Mitatlon upon ? tit* basis of one delegate for every twenty-five mout hers and one for every majority frac tion. The following programme haw been arranged > Wednesday August 4th. 10 A. M. Devotional aervice, con ducted It v Rev. C. H Smith. 10.15 Welcome address, Itev. S. I>. Mailey; resi?onse, O. W. Birchmore. 10.30. Enrollment of delegates 1 re l>orts from schools. 11. 00 Round Table, conducted by Kev. .1. )t; Forbls. 11.30. Home Department, diss?uss ed by W. A. Harrison, superintend ent of the Home Department of the South Caroline Sunday School As sociation. Recess for Dinner. 2.30. Some weak points in our Sunday School worki and how to Item e<ly them, Rey. K. Ia Acklss. 300. What Can a Young Man Do for the Sunday School, Dr. A. W. Humphries. 3.30. Misscellaneous business. Thurgd^iy Morning. 10.00 A. M. Devotional exercises. 10.15. The Sunday School and Temperance, Charlton Durant. 10.45. Election of officers and mis cellaneous huslucs. 11.45. What kind of a bible class at tracts men, and what a wejl organ ized men's class means to the church, Rev. C. B. Smith and Mr. Charlton Durant. ? Adjournment. It has been the purpose of the ex ecutive committee to make a pro gramme that will be of direct benefit to your school. Yon are asked to make a contribution for state and county work. Make this as liberal as you can, for every dollar will be wise ly used. J. C. Humphries, . ?? President. A. W. Humphries, M. P., Secretary. - ? ; ? - ? ??? '? TIMELY POINTERS FOR ORCHARD AND GARDEN (Clemson College Bulletin.) Plant a few rows of garden i>ea8 for early fall use. Plant beets now for u&e during fall and winter. , Make a planting of garden corn to come in just before frost. In transplanting truck plants at this season It pays to set the plants deep. They will take root and grow off bet ter. ?*". Continue to spray late varieties of peaches. If spraying isstopped now, they will rot badly. Note 4* how small are the locally grown j teaches. Properly cultivating the trees and thinning the fruit would have made them larger. Never let the garden grow up in grass and weeds at this season. Keep a succession of tender vegetables In the ground until frost. If you have vegetables to sell, see that they are cleaned and arranged neatly before being placed on the mar ket. Tills practice will increase the number of your customers. Plant several, rows of beans and can them for winter use. There is' yet plenty of time for this and you will feel well repaid later when you have a good supply of the vegetables- on hand. I?o not lot dead or vyounded branches' of fruit trees remain through the sum mer. They become infested with shot hole borer; which will spread to healthy neighboring trees. It is not yet too late to put out sweet potatoes. If no provisions have yet been made for the winter's supply, get vines from a neighbor and set them out at once. For use at this season, vines are better than slips. How Germany Saved Her Ships. J.t .July ??. ? "War has been de elarc'l on England; make as quickly {is "<>,< van ?yr a neutral port." This Message, flashed for a radius < f -.(K. i miles over the system of Ger nmri v.lrelcss telegraph stations at 5 V- uk on August 4, lt>14, saved Gcr nmrry : ho bulk of her merchant ma nne, .:<voidJng to Godfrey Isaacs, niaiv atfng dl rector of Marconi's wireless ?com Tinny. limited, At a meeting of the cmnjw; wy ItMlfty. 1 he Njwh-g of the Hamburg- Ameri can liner Vnterland alone, he added, ?orc than balane .1 the $10,000,000 Germany had expended in erecting the stations. Tribute of Reapeet. * Whereas, 111 HI* infinite window it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove by death our en teemed brother and friend, 'A. V. Morgan, l?e it: - Itesol ved, 1. That we, the member* < ?f J It* t Iiiiiii* pound I, No. 57, Jr. i) I A. M , mourn the ahnenee of our broth' ?*r, whose pleasant smile und warn* handshake will be missed from our I iMIIM'ilH. 2nd. That the loss to ids family in irreparable i? the removal from it* circle of the husband and father, and our town has Joat a gqod citteen and friend. 3rd, That we bow in humble sub mission to the wil| of Him who doeth all tbliitfs well. 4Ui. That our profound sympathy is hereby exuded to the bereaved fami'y, whom we commend to the Giv er of all thiiiKS, who Is able lo extend healing to the woujmI that has been Inflicted, nth. That a pane in our minute book be inscribed to his memory, that a COpf of these resolutions be published in the Camden Chionh lo and that u eopy be scot to the family of out <i?'<eased brother. J. M. (Jlyburn, , I j. W. Wept, I*. 1/. MeNaughton, Committee, IPPPV; f.'.V In MemorUaa. i Mrn. Nelaon, W yVMr* . Mi W. li. NeUoi), died at wr uear IHaney, Monday ulght, July a Mr*. Nelaoii waa a very . inmUwS 11 1 l one of the numt loved iu ))Vlr* uiuiiity. Hh? have* tmrvivlug t la b?p4 ami nine children, n^rty JJ whom wci'1' wltU hur when de*iU?J Her death waa h great Kt*<k family audt rlend*. *h?? Mii* HUi ?S day ami night. It Ik Indeed t,i ? think of tin* death of out r loved aa was thW uohle Wm. Hhe wtotopored hi an umWU wus understood to Kay that ?hv noon fly ti> the renting place. ^ The remain# wuk laid to r?t i Union Baptist church hi the pr*J of u large nuntijfj d ' ?mmh hi the i-rtmij of u largo number of friend* ai>4?3 itvf.s who had gathered to pay S3 lunt rwiHM-tH. The f unci ul s?tvuVw5 conducted by ii<? pa*t?>r, Hev. Gmwtld 1 Dear children, ?l??u't weepntoiMijl for we feel confident that motto* u lit r?'st. Slu> has fought a good ty] has lliilrtluMt tiiM coarse and ha*fi| t lie faith; henceforth there U Uttl for tier a crown ?>f righteous***, jtUe Lord, the righteous Judge, j3 give her at that tiny, and not toy only, hut unto all them also that Q hi* appearing. } < hu> that l^oved Hwr.1 Annual Popular Excursion TO CHARLESTON, S t VIA Southern Railway THURSDAY, AUG. 5TH $2.25? Round Trip-$2.2! t A,, . Special train will leave Camden 1:51 P. M., and tic? will be good returning on any regular triin up to and incU ing No. 15, leaving Charleston 3:20 A. M., August 10, 191^ Four Days at Seashore Finest Surf Bathing ' W. H. WILKIE, Agent! CHICORA COLLEGE FORVOMEU A #fem&ttr2k Collie of Reftnwiwttt, Hiattnrtfon ttttd tfrmtitt] ?J Christian Influences. <| Home-like Surroundings. Select Student-body. q College of Liberal Arts end Sciences. ? . Conservatory of Music. \ Schools of Art; Expression and Business. An Idea] College for Women 9 For Catalogue and Information Address . REV. S. G. BYRD, D. 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