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The Camden Chronicle I? I WW? I II I l .? ? i ? < l I . .Willi I, - .. i . . . ? .?-??? in VOLUME XXXVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924. NUMBER 5 ^LL.,.? J'.t"-B".i!e. - 1 1 " i 1 '? MANY DEATHS CAUSED FROM FIERCE TORNADO More Than Sixty Lives Lost in South Carolina ? Prop erty Damage will Rnn Into Millions ? Neighbor County of Sumter Hard Hit. Seventeen known dead, scoses in jured and property loss of homes, barns and livestock, running into the thousands of dollars, is the toll taken by a tornado, accompanied by hail ?nd rain, in the Horatio and Gilliards section of Sumter County about ono v'clock Wednesday. The known dead are: Ed Dick, prominent white man. of near Du Bose's Crossing; Katie Griffin, B. T. 0 riff in, Julia Jefferson, Elmeta Howard, Lailite Williams, infant of James Howard, child of J. Small, wife of Gene Howard, wife of Egg Jefferson, wife of Lear Williams, Kittie Jefferson, son of Kittie Jeffer son, baby of Gene Howard, three un identified negroes at Horatio. The injured are: Mr. and Mrs. Challie (T. C.) DuBose. Mr. DuBose has both legs broken; his wife and three children were found in a field, all injured; Harold Bradley,, whi^, three children of Mae Curtis, injured. Many of the injured were taken to the Sumter Hospital, but their names could pQt be learned. The storm seems to have broken over a portion of the county near Wateree swamp following a p^th probably a half-mile wide, striking at intervals on through to the Lee County line, wiping out house after house, but in some places, some houses appeared to be uninjured, while nearby trees were uprooted on all sides. . The wind seemed to strike in. all its severity at Gillian's Cross Roads. Here was the handsojwe Colcolough home which has been standing for more than a hundred years. The top was blown away and the house al most Completely wrecked. t _ Nearby stood the store and house of William Gaylord, white. Both store and house are a mass of timbeis leveled with ground. Mr. Gaylord was driving to his house about one hun dred yards away when his horse and buggy were blown to the ground and he escaped by lying prone upon the ground. His wife who was in the house was injured, as was his son, who was keeping the store. In sight of this house a short dis tance away, six negro tenant houses, known as "Parker street" on the Parker farms, were leveled to the j pround, and here the loss of life was heaviest. Seven negro women and j children met death. The body of , Julia Jefferson was f?und in a field ( 200 yards from the house with a two by four scantling stuck clear through her chest. It is also reported that; a large lumber mill at Bordens was completely destroyed. The damage to livestock was unusually heavy. It is said that Charlie Jackson suffered the loss of his entire drove of livestock. The damage to crops was negligible because of the early stage of the Roads were littered with fallen | growth. trees and in many sections were blocked, making it difficult to travel at all, and in this manner, informa tion was hard to obtain. The storm covered such a wide area that it will probably be days before the exact toll will be known. Mp" The sufferers in the path of the storm have lost household goods, cattle, livestock and everything, aru in a pitiable condition and are in sore need of help. Every cyclone produces more 01 lt'88 freaks and one worthy of men tion and one which is hard to believe is the fact that a horse was blown into the top of a tree near the home of Friday Kershaw near where three negroes mot death. Tfce animal h?*d ?vidently been picked up by the wind and lodged into the fork of a huge ? i N tree. The tree finally twisted off and fell to the ground, where the horse was still wedged between the limbs. It lingered for more than an hour in this position before death re lieved its sufferings. Many smaller animals, such as hogs, cats and dogs, were found at various places. ..Columbia, April 30. ? Destruction I wrought by cyclonic winds, which raged through the southeastern states today, assumed the proportions of a state-wide disaster in South Carolina, where tornadoes struck at<* intervals and in various sections throughout the day, and rolled up a toll which incomplete reports received here placed at fifty-six known dead, many scores injured, hundreds with out homes and property losses which are. expected to mount well above a million. ^Unconfirmed reports reaching here tell also of scores of others killed as a result of a series of twisting winds. The storm was accompanied here as in other localities by darkness like that of night, terrific hail fall and heavy rains. This county (Richland) suffered the greatest loss of life as yet re ported. At Horrell Hill, twelve miles from Columbia, sixteen dead were counted tonight, and the county's total was brought to seventeen when Mrs, Carrie Hornsby was killed by lightning in this city. Complete raz ing of the school at Horrell crushcd four primary pupils to death, twc persons were killed in the wreckage of a home while the ten others ap parently had been killed in the fields or' streets as no other buildings were demolished. Two score or more of the seventy-five ? children in the school were injured in greater or less de gree. A tornado striking Anderson early today wrecked the Riverside Mil! part of the city, killing eight persons and injuring twenty-three others. Wires and poles were torn and blown down, cutting off communication with other points for several hours. Crippled press and commercial wire service with that city tonight prevented later reports on the disaster there. Four were killed in Lexington County. Reports from Sumter fix the deaths in that county at twelve, victims of the storm in various communities in the northern section. Most of the known dead in Sumter County are negroes. Reports received here tonight from Timmonsville told of thirteen deaths in the Peniel-Sardis section and other communities in Florence County from violent storms there this afternoon. Details are lacking. A single fatality was reported from Darlington County. Sumter, April 30. ? The tornado which struck Sumter County today at noon was the most disastrous which has ever come upon the people in this community. The wind bore down from the northwest and tore ?? path varying from a quarter to a third of a mile wide as it went along.. One cannot gain any idea of the dis aster until the scene is visited and the destruction seen. It was hardly more than an hour after the news of the tornado had first been received in Sumter that many were brought here to the Tou rney hospital to receive attention. Among the first brought were Mr. and Mrs. T. Challey DuBose and their three little children, who live between the DuBose and Gilliard crossroads neighborhood. Mr. DuBose had a leg broken, one little girl haa, a broken leg, Mrs. DuBose was mashed and bruised and the other children were bruised by falling tim ber. Several negroes from the DuBose section came in a little later and other negroes were brought in from the Horatio section. All received in? stant attention at the hospital. In the meantime many doctors and nurses from town had gone to the stricken area to attend to the injured who were not brought to town. There were about twenty men women and children in the local hospital to night receiving treatment for in juries. No names were taken as the V patients tame in ami it was impos sible to get the extent of their in juries. As reports continued to come in during the day and up to tonight* indications were that many more lives were lost than first reported. Tonight it was stated that uino lives had been lost on C. J. Jackson'* place, near Horatio, and three more on an adjoining plhce, when prior reports stated that no lives were lost there. It was also stated that three lives were lost on the Amaii place, at Meehanicsville, whtfn previous reports said there was no loss of life. Striking at Horatio the family of Friday Kershaw, colored, was wiped out, when their home fell in on them. Every building on the C. J. Jackson place was blown down. Mrs. Jackson was the only one at home at the time but by some miracle she escaped. The .Thompson plaint* was desolated but" no liy.es wen*1* 'reported lost. On the FolK 'place at.jPrpvidence, it was stated that one infant lost its life. All the old houses^ in the path of storm, buildings which' had stood for three and four generations, were swept away. The Rembert place, the Gilliard place, the Eden's place were destroyed* The Gaylord place was wiped away and his store was completely destroyed. The Burrow'* Clough place had the roof torn away and the Parker place was damaged, but not destroyed. In this section, wnere there was more open land, it seemed the wind did its worst. Every house was leveled and trees were torn up and broken off and piled in tumbled heaps. Challey DuBose's house was in the path of the storm and Dick neigh borhood came next. Here the old Clough Dick house had the entire top removed, but those in the building were unhurt. At the Dick place across the road the house was left a pile of ruins. Here it was that Edward Dick was killed by the force of the wind. A new residence built by DuBose Frazer was a complete wreck, the top carried off and scat tered, Mr. Frazer, his wife and chil dren were in the house. Mr. Frazer stated he started to close the door, as he heard the wind approaching, but then he did not know what hap pened until he regained his senses as his little child was trying to get out from under a pile of brick. ;nMtr. Frazer, a sister of the dead man, re ceived a slight cut on the forehead ?and one child was badly bruised, but others were unhurt. One negro boy living about a hun dred yards away received injuries from which he died later, as he was being taken to the hospital. Numer ous other negroes were injured, sev eral of them seriously but no others were killed. The roof was torn off the old Aman house, where Mr. Tom DuBose lived, but no one was hurt. Later reports said that three negroes were killed on this place, but this report could not be verified tonight. Everywhere it struck the wind stripped the trees,5 uprooted them or twisted them and dropped them. Where there <vas an open space it MAN K ILLS HIS WIFE Will How man Shoots Viola Bowman. Killing Her Instantly. . Will Bowman, a negro, residing on the Southern Oil Company's property and employed by the mill shot and instantly killed his wife, Vipla Bow man about ten o'clock Tuesday night and made his escape. The woman had left 1 her husband and was making her home with Alice Thomas on lower Mill street. Bow man called at the house to ask her to return home with him. The woman refused and Bowman pulled his pistol and fired into her face, the wound producing instant death. She waa found by inmates a few seconds later still sitting in her chair, , <*?. ? , Bowman is considered a bad character, having served one year on the chain gan^ recently. Although^ a diligent search has been made for the negro nothing has been heard of him since the shooting. The lifeless body of Will O^lesby, a negro, was found in a pond neav Union Tuesday. He had been missing j from home for six weeks. He was 48 years old and leaves a wife and sev eral children. , Mrs. Zebulon B. Vanee, widow of North Carolina's war governor and former senator died at her home at "Goombr.oom," Black Mountain, last Wednesday. Fires that have been raging for many, days in the Everglades of FJorida, have been quenched by rains sinee Tuesday. Prince Nuruhiko, Japanese prince, who has been traveling in Japan, and who intended to visit the United States this summer, has canceled his proposed American trip. No reason is given, but it is probable that the step is taken because of the immi gration exclusion act recently passed by congress. seemed to give the wind renewed force, for the next obstruction seemed to feel more the force of the tornado! Nothing like it has ever been experienced in this county be fore. . 1 At Horatio it was stated that h horse was thrown thirty or forty feet in the air, into a tree, where it had lodged before the tree wfas blown down. Those who haw and passed through the tornado . say itvwas all over in a second. They could hear it roaring but- the wind was blowing and rain pouring and they did not consider it anything serious until it was upon them. There was jjo time to do anything. 1 Atlanta, April 30. ? Sixty-three persons are known to have been killed, more than 400 injured, many perhaps fatally, hundreds were made homeless and untold property damage ,was caused by storms of cyclonic pro portions which devastated sections of the Southeast today. Fragmentary reports continuing to trickle in from the storm area wrote a steadily increasing list of dead and injured early tonight as the disturb ances swept into North Carolina, the fifth state to suffer. SUFFERERS NEED HELP! Just a little less than one year ago the people of Sumter city and county responded generously and nobly. to the sorely stricken Cleveland School community of our own county when the Iokb of life was far heavier than that which has befallen Sumter county and other sections of our state. It is a far different cry in the catastrophe of Wednesday. While the Joss of life was not so heavy, as first accounts would show, the property damage was complete. In most instance# not even a vestige of house an J home was left, and these stricken people will have to begin life anew. We are trying to convey in our news columns today a partial account of "what happened, but the territory affected and the amount of damage done was too vast and it will be many days before the full effect of the storm'R fury can be told. It ?b almost impossible to describe the completeness of the destruction and those on the scene stood aghast at the wreckage wrought. Wagons loaded with what could be picked up of household effects could be seen on all roads wending their way to neighbors who were more for tunate, where they were to make their temporary quarters. Many were without a place to lay their heads or find shelter Wednesday. Their all gone! These people arc in need of immediate help and need it badly. We be lieve a generous public- will be willing to come to their aid in this their time of sore distress, and The Chronicle is starting a fund today to help them out. Any donations handed in or mailed to ua will be forwarded to responsible parties who will see to it that the funds are properly dis tributed where it will do the most good. A canvass of a few business houses Thursday morning resulted in the following subscriptions: City of Camden $100.00 Bank of Camden * 25.00 Camden Chronicle 25.00 J. B. Zemp 10.00 C. H. Yates 10.00 W. R. Zemp H. G. Carrison, Sr* H. G. Garrison, Jr. The Wigwam ! . . 10.00 ... 10.00 . . ^ 10.00 5.60 (.11 AMMAN SCHOOL LEADERS Camden Pupils Who Served With Honor During I. as! Two Months. First Grai le Peggy Baldwin, Charlotte DuBose, Eleanor Hopkins, Dona Mae King, EateRe Myers, Vir ginia Hose, Marie Trapp, Ruth \N il liams, J. B. Gaskin, Sarah Gardner, Jerome Hotter, Mary Moore, Mary Richey, Lonm Hose, Dinnie Smith, Eleanor Watts, Second Grade- James (Ay burn, Harvey Oavis, Edwin Johnson, Fletcher Moore, Edward McCaskill, William Moseley, Elisabeth Haynes worth, Mary K. McCaskill, Kate Shannon, Lpirtrie Strak, Pollyo West, Mary Lep/nlakeney, Esther Furcron, JWfiSRTHarty. Rosalie Moore, Golda Shirley, Mary Zeigler, Nataline Zeig ler, Marion Bailey, Herbert Black i well, Marion Evans, John Flowers, William Gardner, John Hilton, Ham ilton Osborne, Bill Rhame, ? Luthci Shaw, Harry Snyder. Third Grade? Margaret Barnes, Addie Jitogdon, Betty Garrison, i Elizabeth Gardner, Katherine Ken nedy, Sarah Kirkland, Meta Mogu lescu, Emily Zemp, Vivian Williams, Benton Bruce, Jack Boyd, Homer Baldwin, Richard Capell, Samuel Mc Caskill, Olivia Buddin, Nancy Brown,, j Virginia Drawdy, Mary J. Mackey, Lila Ross, Margaret Watts. Fourth Grade? Leonard Hasty, Clyde West, Ruby Burns, Frances Chewning, Marguerite McCaskill, Mae Morris/ Lois Turner, Mario Haile, Phyllis Garrison, Margaret Goodale, Emily Goodale, Margaret McCoy, Eloise Rhoden, Sara I.. Richey, Grace Robinson, Edith Web ster, George Rhame, James Seagle, Grayson Shaw. I: Fifth Grade? Moise Evans, Kloise ( Shirley, Elizabeth Zemp, Lenort Rhame, Ben C. Lingle, Geneva Jones, Henry L. Clyburn, Elizabeth Mc Caskill, Carolyn McKain, Adele | Savage, Charles DeLoach, Mattie Shaw, Pearly Welch, Ruth Williams, Houston Shaw .Ethel Snyder, James Chewning, Thornton Evans, Allen j Hardy, Ernest Ross. ! Sixth Grade ? Helen Baker, Betty j Cureto'n, Nannie R. Gardner, Inez I Gardner, Sarah Moseley, Sarah Mills, j Annie Turner, Arthur Davis, Marvin Huckabee, Paul Gardner, Walter Stokes, Catherine Boykin, Carolyn Burnet, Nancy Pearce, Ellen Stewart, Louise Drawdy, Benton Burns, Dun can Lang, Rochelle Sheorn, Robert Kennedy. Seventh ' Grade ? Mary^ Boykin, | Evelyn Bruce, -Virginia DeLoache, ! Willie B. Gardner, Joe Mogulescu, Frances Owens, Evelyn Moseley. Rebecca Zemp, Louise Trapp, Hazel Moseley, Stanley Babin, Elmer Watt:*, McCready Dunlap. " Honor Roll Seventh Month. First Grade? Eleanor Watts, Dorothy Watts, Mary Waters, Loma Rose, Jennie Cullen, Charlotte Du Bose, Dona Mae King, Virginia Rose Marie Trapp, Ruth Williams, Daniel Carrison, Herbert Wilson. Second Grade ? John Flowers, Harry Snyder, Mary Lee Blakeney, Esther Furcron, Annette Hasty, Mary E. Wooten, Harvey Davis, Edwin Johnson, Kate Shannon, Lorine Strak. Third Grade? Margaret Watts, I Lila Ross, Reuben Pitts, Margaret ; Barnes, Ruby Marshall; Vivian Wil ' liams. Fourth Grade? Alice DePass, Mar garet Goodale, Grace Robinson, Harold Hough, Grayson Shaw, Leonard Hasty, Clyde West Ruby Burns, Minnie DeBruhl, Doris hvans, Marguerite McCaskill, Mae Morris, Genevieve Moseley, Lois Turner. Fifth Grade? Henry L. Clyburn, Ben C. Ljngle, Pearly Welch, J. <? Johnson, Allen Hardy. Sixth Grade ? Rochelle Sheorn, Catherine Boykin, Carolyn Burnet, Nelle Goodale, Nancy Pearce, Caro line Richardson, Betty Cureton, Inez Gardner, Nannie R. Gardner, Lucy Kirkland, Sarah Moseley, Annie 'Turner, Arthur Davis, Marion Hucka bee, Paul Gardner. Seventh Grade? Molly Blaclcwell, Mary Boykin, Evelyn Bruce, Virginia DeLoache, Evelyn Moseley., Rebecca Zemp. Louise Trapp, Lillian Trapp, Hazel Moseley, Elmer Watts, Howard Hinson. May Day at Wateree Mills. Wateree Mills will have its usual May Day celebration on Saturday, May 3x*d. The exerciscs will includc a May Pole dance, tamborinc drill, th*> appearance of the May Queen and two ball Kama*. Music for the oeca nion will be furnished by the Wateree Mills Band of twelve pieces. The Goodfellows ball team will pla>^ the Camden boys, while the Wateree ftills team will play the Hartsville Cotton Mill team. When thase teams meet a good game is always assured. The Wateree Mills ordially invites the public to attend. democratic; c lubs met Office** Elerced and IMcitatoN Named to County Convention. The Camden l^tngcratic club met Saturday and elected 1.. T. Mills president, W. F. Russell, vice jiresi dent; C. W. Birchmore, sue rotary and treasurer; enrollment committee, U A. Wit|ko\vsky, II. I). Niles, M. M. Johnson', Mrs. S. C. Zemp, Mrs. W. May field, Mrs. W. h. Jackson; exocuJ t i vi* committeeman, M. L. Smith. A resolution was adopted indorsing William C!. MeAdoo as candidate for president. Judge M. L. Smith was indorsed for president of the county convention. Delegates to the county 'convention were named as follows: W. K. Hough, M. L. Smith, L. T. Mills, C. \V. Birch more, II. I). Niles, G. (', Welsh. J. H. McLeod, .1. M. Moseley, t!. A. Mose ley, W F. Russell, I). M. McCaskill, R. N. Shannon, W. .11. Pearce, M. C. West, A. J. Beattie, Miss Louise Nettles, I. C. Hough, H. 0. Garrison, Jr., M. M. Johnson, G. G. Alexander, J. H. Clyburn, Arthur Clarkv, Hubert Wilson, Ix. A. Wittk,owsky, W. J. Dunn, Mrs. W. J. Mayfield, Miss M. A. Clyburn, Mrs. S. C. Zemp, W. L. Jackson, J. W. Wilson, David Wolfe, W. F. Nettles, E. C. Zemp. Wateree Club Held Meeting. The Wateree Democratic Club met Saturday and elected the following officers and delegates: President, W. T, Player; vice presi dent, G. C. Davis; secretary and treasurer, W. L. Sanders; executive committeeman, W. R. Hamcs; enroll ment committee, T. J. Truesdal, B. L. Shirley, C. M. Brown. Delegates to county convention. B. T. Davis, J. L. Player, G. B. Gard ner, H. C. Christmas, R. O. Terry, C. M. Brown, John Morris, Cullie Conyors. Alternate, W. T. Player. Hermitage Club Met. The Hermitage Denioeratic Club met on Saturday, April 26th, for the purpose of reorganizing. W. A. An derson was elected president; W. T. Gardner, vice-president; W. T. Mat tox, secretary; N. C. Lominack, treas urer. W. A. Anderson was re-elected executive committeeman. Delegates to county convention: S. H. Mickle, G. B. DeBruhl, W. B. Player, E. C> Riley Enrollment committee: J. F. Gardner, W T. Mattox and G. B. DeBruhl. Doby's Mill Club Met. The Doby's Mill Democratic Club met on Saturday, April 2G, and re organized. The following officers were elected : M. D. Peak, president; Douglas Aldrich, vice-president; J. M. Porter, secretary and treasurer; A. E. Ken nedy, executive committeeman. En rollment Committee: Thomas Mc I^od, J. B. Hranham and George Aldrich. Delegate to county con vention: H. A. Hawkins, D. G. Mc Leod, George Aldrich. William G. McAdoo was endorsed for president. Mr. Aull Resigns. Judge W. H. Townsend has ap pointed VV. L. Marshall official court stenographer of the Fifth judicial circuit to succeed John K.^jp\ull, re signed. Mr. Marshall ranks among the able stenographers of the statt; .. and he has served the circuit court acceptably on several occasions. Mr. Marshall will take his post in the Richland county court house next Monday, John K. Aull tendered his resigna tion to Judge Townsend after serving the circuit court for a number ' of years. Mr. Aull resigned because of ill health. His numerous friends hop*' for his early restoration to good health. ? Columbia State. JACKIE COOGAN HERE AGAIN Will Play at Majestic Friday Ni^ht With Novel Contest Featuring. Jackie Coogan in UDaddy" will steal your heart away, with his fiddle and his smile ? and his pet pig, "Mildred" and his thousand and one adorable tricks. 110*3 a greater "JACkie" than you've ever known and he will creep right up next your heart and snuggle there. Also as an added attraction Hal Roach offer a his rascals in a new Our Gang comedXr ? "Big Business." During the night shojqr a Jackie Coogan contest will be staged in which a prize of $10.00 in gold will be offered to the boy or girl best imitating Jackie, in dress and manner*. Three judges will de cide from the applauee of the ?udi ence as to the winner.