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Floods and Fires
Interrupt Traffic
The fire Monday morning which destroyed
seven spans of the Watoree
river bridge recalls, In the minds of
older residents, that within threequarters
of a century period the Wateree
river, by fire and turbulent waters
has played havoc with truffle
over the road now known as Highway
Number One.
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The first bridge, erected during the.
period known as the horse and buggy
days, was a wooden structure, which |
carried pussopgoru across the river at
a point approximately a mile and a
half from the city of Camden. Signs
of the old roadwuy leading to this
bridge may be seen Just to the left
of the old Quaker cemetery. This road
cairios farmers to the fertile field of
the low-land which has been enriched
with "flotsam" and "Jetsam" of centuiles.
For many years, what was
left of the old bridge in the form of
giant pillars of cement, earth and
rock could bo seen on each side of
the river and also In the middle of
the stream. These pillars supported
the original wooden bridge and were
silent sentinels of the war between
the states.
This wooden bridge was destroyed
by Confederate soldiers In an effort
to keep the Yankees from crossing;
the stream. However, the burning of
the structure proved to be a short delay
for the Federal forces, who crossed
the Wnteree at Chesnut Ferry and
also a point farther north whore the
river was shallow enough to permit
crossing on foot. History records
that after crossing the Wateree the
Yanks struck Camden, Columbia, and
other southern cities and by fire and
pillage laid them, as well us the entire
country sldet In waste.
After destruction of the old wooden
bridge by the troopB, a number of
years elapsed before a group known
as the "Camden Bridge Company" organized
for the purpose of constructing
a bridge over the river. The late
Henry -G^-Carrlaoiv headed?t-bfs project
and It was a stock company The
bridge-builders of those days failed
to reason correctly with the problem
of high water. When this bridge was
constructed u toll-house was built on
the western side. Frequently when
the river ran high thie house was surrounded
by a raging torrent.
Very few of the younger generation
nre aware of the fact thai there
was a place for the buying of cotton
seed and for barge service up river
from Charleston near this old toll
bridge. It Is a fact, however, that
these barges docked at this point on
the Wateree river.
It Is Interesting to recal\that the
toll first charged at this bridge was
6c for a man on foot; luc for a man
'on horseback; 16c for a one-horse wagon;
20c for a two horse wagon and
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40c for a four hoi at) wagon.
About thirty yearn ago, following a
sorlek of heavy ruins, the Wateree
river went on u rampage. The bridge
wuh swept away. Just prior to this,
when the angry wuters carried the
structure from the foundation, many
people on the structure made a dash
for the shore. They had been warned
by the trembling and cracking of
the timbers thut the bridge wan about
to go.
Among ine men on the bridge was
Henry Savage, Hr. Mr. Savage could
not swim, but when the bridge broke
loose he caught hold of a limb of a
tree which wus boating in the torrent
and wus carried down streum.
He was sixtoen miles down stream
when rescued after an all night Journey
in the flood waters. History records
the fact that several , people
were drowned in this flood. Hundreds
of people had flocked to the
bridge to see the debris rushing down
Htream?horses, cows, bales of cotton,
logs and an accasional wooden shack.
All being carried on the rush of the
tide.
It was at the time of this flood water
period that a black bear Invaded
a big hive of bees that was the property
of Mr. Amnions, who lived on
the west side of the river. The presence
of foot prints Indicated that the
thief was a bear and word was sent
ito Camden and from this point huntr
ers and dogs started out to locate the
bruin. When the anlmul was killed,
it was found to be one of the largest
j black bears ever to bo found In this
' part of the state.
Following the wash-out of the corporation
bridge, the organization was
dissolved and the next span over the
Wateree was built by 'the county.
This bridge, when completed, was oi>ened
with a great deal of ceremony.
To nil appearances it looked strong
enough to withstand any rush of water
that might attack it. In the Hummer
of 1918 another flood came and
again the rushing torrent was victor
over tho bridge. Along with the
highway bridge went a portion of tho
Seaboard Air Line trestle. With both
the H IgTTwa y bridge and railroad
bridge out. Camden was isolated except
from the north. Seaboard trains
had to detour over the Southern system
and Camden people gasped in
amazement to see the heavy Pullman
trains of the Seaboard pass through
Camden over the Southern trucks enroute
to Columbia and other southern
points.
Camden was also without newsj apers,
except those from the north.
The late Sam Hammond, established
a bateau line across the Wateree and
brought Columbia papers into circulation
again by that means. Incldently.
these papers were sold at a
good premium.
Shortly after tho washout of the
second bridge a ferry service was inaugurated
at the scene of the highway
bridge. Tills ferry operated for
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u year or more and the toll was, according
to good authoritiea, 60c per
car. It is stated that at times cars
were bucked up on both sides of the
river for a half mile to a mile.
After the passing of this ferry, a
bond issue was floated for the purpose
of building a new bridge. Bulwarks
on tho west side of the river
were clulmed to be defective by the
county and suit was started agaiust
the Pejnnsylvanla Bridge Company
One night there was a loud explosion
j lu the wegt bulwark and the western
bulwark wus sent down stream. The
litigation in this suit was carried on
for some time, costing the county a
large sum of money and eventually
resulting in the county losing the
I case. It was about this time
that another , bond isBue was
floated to build the present
bridge. This structure was made a
toll bridge and remained for many
yeurs us such and it is stated that
the tolls received more than uald for
the_brldgo construction. Eventually
the bridge was sold by agreement to
the state highway department, which
organization has since operated It as
a free span over the river.
Former sheriff G. C. Welsh tells of
an interesting experience which ho
had with a criminal near the Watereo
bridge. It was customary when
watching out for a criminal, to take
up a watch ut tho bridge. It was upon
such an occasion the sheriff, with .
a fellow officer, G. F. Cooley( was
watching tho bridge on a tip that |
criminals were headed that way in a |
car. A car that had crossed the I
bridge was stopped and as the sheriff ;
approached the car with the deputy,!
a young man stepped out with a lev-'
el led gun. When Sheriff Welsh saw
the weapon, he fired at tho stranger;
with the intention of blasting the gun j
out of the man's hand. At the crack
of the sheriff's weapon the man fell
like a log As tlie sheriff bent over
him to see where he had been hit. he j
was amazed to find that there was no
evidence of a bullet wound. Later it
was found that the young man had
fainted from shock when fired at.
lent in its day and it will probably
continue to stage a rampage at regulur
intervals. With long trucks now
being used for transportation service
the present bridge is unsafe for travel.
Citizens of Camden and motorists
who have had occasion to use
tho Number One highway are hoping
that out of the recent fire a structure
will urise of cement and steel that
will withstand fire and water for
many, many years.
DARKNESS HALTS GAME AFTER
LOOSE NINE-INNING AFFAIR
(By Skipper)
Camden and Bishopville highs
staged a nine-inning tie fracas which
offered up as complete an assortment
of how-not-to-play the national pastime
as any seen in this bailiwick in
many many moons, Tuesday.
Both teams gave demonstrations of
acute jitters and it is perhaps just
as well that darkness put an end to
the show at the close of the ninth
when the shades of night started to
waft slumberous suggestions over the
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j battle area.
Wilbur Williams went eight innings
' for the Small gang and had he been
; given any kind of support would have
| won a ball game. But the laddies
; back of him played a brand of ball
that sparkled in one round and then
descended to dismal depths of mediocrity
in the next. The same \sas
I true of the Bishopville gang, who for
about six rounds-?or it might have
been seven- played about as good a ;
game as we have seen in some moons ;
But after that the gang from oxer;
yonder seemed to try and go the
home hopes one better in a presents
tion of baseball acrobatics. Bed
Lynch staged the ninth inning hurl-;
ing exhibition for the locals and while.
Bed did not vote a trio of strikeouts,;
his speed ball had the opposition
looking glassy-eyed.
It was a game that had the crowd .
alternately weeping and cheering and ,
because of those ding (long penjui-t
sites, It was a scrap that appealed to j
the average fan. j
In general the local hopefuls l6bkedj
better than they did in tho two Br-.
I thune games and now that they have
all the toxic poisoning out of their
systems we look for them to do some
baseball playing.
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Private estimates predict that the
1938 winter whoat crop will total j
754,000.000 bushels, the largest crop
since 1931.
Country Poloists
Upset Townsmen
Bright sunshine brought oU* a ?
th^got spectator, to "? ??<<
u.?uitty afternoon lo aee Country uy
LT towu 7 to 4 and tie up the aerte.
for the club title ure
The ability of Country
while Town was uileatng counting
market b by inchea w?? the me..ure
of difference between tw
.njima in thla club claBBlc. Town
to "pot Country one goal because of
irh
" irrr"~ ss
allots was doc 10 lllc
nf the Country four.
u looked Ilk.. Town waa going pj?tj
e. when Floyd-co But Boykln
thirty seconds of play. ^
? Cuuuu, got hoi and w.U.B next
few n.h.uie. hail .cored wo
goal, and given Country a i to 1 leacr
ehirk?3Them:eeco8:r:enr com.
pletely blank. ,o ZZ
divided honors. luppei
aw, o rp/xHin eaeh scoring,
and Hulhrauft of I own earn
In the fourth Pomeroy of Couniry
came to life and blared hi. way down
the deld after two face-offr to put his
leant In the lead, b to 7. _
Bate, raised the count to . n h
??h hut Floyd and Unllo.e took th
shame off the Town showing by I
lug in counters to make
score 7 to 4. The two teams play
again next Sunday.
The lineups. Town <10> goals lmHose
No. 1. Ughtfoot No. 2 Ho> d .
3. and Ruthrauff No. 4. bu ^
I goals: Tupper No 1. Bo)'kin . . ~
Pomeroy No. 3. and Rates No. _
|ini; Floyd 2. Boykln 2. Romero) 2.
Hates. Tupper. Ruthrauff. DuBose.
' Referee, Colllster
Seven Dead
From Serum
" Orlando. Fla.."^ ".-A seventh
woman died today while a coroner s
tury assembled medical witnesses
an investigation of a series of deaths
which followed injections of ft serum
4r\ PAncor t r 6 & tmcnts.
Mrs F E Moonert. 03. of Winter
Park. Ftft . succumbed early today.
Six women who had been gtv
lections of the serum died yesterda .
Four other persons are In hospitals
with symptoms resembling t os
10 Dr "t A Neal sn?d 'he seven dead
and the four ill had been given ftSections
at his clinic. The scrum
came from one bottle. Physicians
said one other person may have been
treated from this container.
The bottle was sealed and give" .o
agent, of the federal food and drm.
administration for Investigation
! the remaining contents.
I Dr ,j J Durrett. chief of the e<
Ural bureaus drug division, said all
lensol in the country would be seized
| pending a final report from m%c.
I^Dr" Neal said he had been using the
! serum for more than two years with
remarkable success and with no p'"1'
[lou. iH effects." he said he wa, com
vlnced the serum in the one ..utile
i had become contaminated.
(Coroners Jury met late yesterday
but adjourned until today when t or|onor
Kugene Duckworth learned ?nidertakers
had embalmed the bodies
'of the six women who died >e.-tei(
without waiting for autopsies.
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FLEES FROM PRISON FARM,
CHANGES MIND, GOES BACK
With the announcement he had
4 ~ V, ,1 V, J _ mtnd" * /I K ?? /I M 1 * M'U nK
CitUJlftCU 1UCJ 4 44 4 4 4 V4 ?4**V4*4 V
ed to escape anyway, a wet and bedraggled
negro convict, who yesterday
ipomlng (led the state prison
farm near Camden, showed up at the
prison farm gates late the same afternoon
and surrendered.
Penitentiary authorities in Columbia,
to whom the negro's break and
later return was reported by Capt
John M. Glenn, head of the prison
farm, said it was the first, time within
their recollection a prisoner had
made good an escape, then voluntarily
had come back and given up.
The prisoner. Will Rosborough, 40year-old
Lowryville negro serving a
life sentence for murder, bolted from
a group of convicts on a road near
the farm and dJved over an embankment
into a dense patch of woods.
It was Rosborough's second try for
freedom. The first time, however, he
neither was gone for a mere six hours
nor did "he come back to the prison
farm after a change of heart. January
24, 1932. he fled the prison farm and
was recaptured July 31, 1935, three
and a half years later, according to
the prison records.
RosborqugJl'a.. hreak .occurred -about10
o'clock yesterday morning, a short
distance away from the farm. The
farm itself is located a mile and a
half toward the Wateree river from
the Roykin's station, situated approximately
nine miles from Camden between
Camden and Sumter.
Rosborough was committed to the
state penitentiary in 1928. He was
sentenced to life imprisonment in
Chester county court of general sessions
court by Judge J. K. Henry,'
after he had been convicted of murder?Saturday's
Columbia State.
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THIRTEENTH CHILD BORN TO
MOTHER OF FAMOUS GIRLS
Callender, Ont , April 5.?The
Dionne quintuplets have a new brother.
The boy, weighing 7 1-2 pounds,
was born hist night to 29-year-old
Mrs. Oliva Dionne and is the Dionnes'
thirteenth child
Before quints .Marie, Yvonne. Ann?*ttC'l-r;,.
,ti,l Kn.ilie were born
Ma> 2>. 1931. there were Rose. There
sa, Paulino, Kriiest and Daniel.
Oliva. Jr. was born July 9. P.CPh One
child died in infancy.
Dead Whale Is Problem
San Diego. Calif. Matvh 31.?When
residents of suburban Pa Jolla sniffed
the brec/.e today and sighted a dead
whale drifting toward the beach, indignant
phone calls flooded the city
hall. Officials passed the problem to
the coast guard patrol at San Pedro,
which agreed to send a boat to tow
the carcass toward China.
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MUSICAL PROGRAM F6R GOOD
FRIDAY AT GRACE CHURCH
The following is the complote pro- ?
gram of ^he "Crucifixion" by Sir John
Stainer to bo given at Grace Epiuco?^i
pal church, on Good Friday evening, i
April 15: ~ ^
Recitative?"And they eame to a 4
place named Gethsemane," by Eldon 4
Jones.
The Agony?A. "C. McKain and cho- *1
rus: Eldon Jones and Charles Sal-^ :r
mond^
Processional to Calvary?Organ
solo and chorus, "Fling wide the
gates." -a
Recitative?"And when they were
come," Rev. Ixmis V. Thomas.
Recitative?"He made himself of '
no reputation," Rev. IxjuIs Thomas.
"The mystery of the Divine Humiliation,"
Mrs. Charlotte Brunson.
Recitative?"And as Moses lifted
up the serpent," A. C. McKain.
Chorus?"God so loved the world." ^
Recitative?"Father, forgive them,"
Eldon Jones and men's chorus.
Duet?"So Thou liftest Thy Divine ^
petition," Rev. Louis Thomas and Mrs
Brunson. j
Chorus?"The mystery of lnterees- ??
sion." j
Recitative?"And one of the malefactors/'?Key,
iv>uJ8 TTiomas and -Br.?
A. W. Humphries. J
Men's chorus?"Today shalt thou be -4
with Me."
Recitative?"When Jesus therefore
saw his Mother," Eldon Jones and
men's chorus.
Recitative?"There was darkness
over all the earth," Rev. Louis Tho- \
mas and men's chorus.
Chorus?"The appeal of the crucified."
Recitative?"After this," Eldon 1
Jones and men's chorus.
ROTARY CLUB NOTES
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Milton Smith, manager of the Kirk- 1
wood Hotel, and a member of the
New York World's Fair committee of
the Young Men's Board of Trade of
New York, presented a very interest- 4,
ing talk on the plans and progress c
of the 1939 New York {^orld Fair at J
the luncheon of the Camden Rotary
Club held at the Camden Hotel Thurs*. J
day.
Kotarian George Griswold, of Old
Lyme. Connecticutt, who has spent j
the winter in Camden and while here
has not missed a Rotary meeting,
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made a few farewell remarks. -4
Visiting other clubs this week were j
J H Osborne, who attended the Co- i
lumhia club; John Vlllepigue, Dick
Reiger and Henry Savage, Jr., who at* ?i
tended tho luncheon Monday of the
Sumter club. . ?
John M. Wilson, 79, farmer of Cald' 3
w?di county, N. C., first shot his wife
to death and then turned the gun on
himself, committing suicide.
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