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The Barnwell People. VOL. XV. I’.AHNWKLL, SrC'., TIII HSDAV, MAY 22. 1»02. NO. 37. WORSE AND WORSE. A Stream of Stone and Mud Half a Kile Wide. . " ' PARTICULARS FROM ST. PiXRRE. ThoiiHaiHlf) of People are Killed on tiie ItdamU iiy tlieliiiva That Kuna Down Monti'* tain Side. A dispatch from Fort de France says the United States (government tii(r 1‘otomac left there for the island of St. Vincent where conditions are re ported to lie worse. La Soufrieret on St. Vincent, was In full eruption May W. A st ream <4 stone and mud lialf a mile wide wa> then Imuingfrom the volcano. Ktnoea two inrfica th dlftn- ctcr fell twelve away. At kHH(st44>.. lla* capital of the hdaiid. tIk* wsIhw were tw« Intdtsdei-p. Seven huiativd dead were reported Sunday. May II. It la e»t I mated that U>e to tal Dumber uf death* no St. Vloretit reachewtwn tlKNiaaml. Most oft lie part was such that the sea receded for '•'tdO feet for miles t^lonc the western 1 coast. Loud detonations followed at ! short irregular intervals, absolutely j aw-inspirlnjr and so loud, that they -were heard :t0() miles'awav. At nicht the* volcano crater was a mass of lurid J. flames wliich shot lii({h up over th'* mountain, while ail the time the ran- .JionadinV went on. . It continued at intervals on Tuesday and Wednesday. I On Thursday morning it was relative- 1 ly still. St. Pierre was as usual, early | astir and business was partly going on about 7 o’clock, when a sort of w hirl wind of steam, boiling mud and tire suddenly swept with incredible rapid ity over the city and roadstead. At once the town was in a blaze. The tire seemed to run overall. The ships were instantly canted over and lx>gan simultaneously to burn and sink in the sea, which was then raging cauldron. The whole destruction had Liken place ' within less than 20 miifutes of the eruption. '• lit'KNI NO HOUIEW. In the destroyed city of St. I*1em\ j the Wlirk aluoag the rums is U‘ing j continued In an nnsatlsfactory man-! ner. says a Fort de France dis(Kitch. to { 'The Herald. The dead are living j j burned, the pyres tH-ing fed with (wtro-1 CAUGHT IN CANADA, volcanoes caused by steam. Green and Gaynor, Fugitives from Savannah Kidnapped Immense Force Stored Ilenrath S. J Farth Dnrsts Forth. . AND THEN ARRESff ED IN QUEBEC. a ri r> If.tl f: In mn rrtruiiijilm .‘iffUlflf*** tar. (treat night 11 kept c Ttie Defenilants Were SmiiKCleil Out of City Ry Oflicers and Were ('aught llefore Tliey Knew It. Colonel John F. Lay nor, who for feited his hail of $40,000 liecause of his disappearance from Savannah, La., where he was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the 1 'nited States government and his partner. Captain V\. I>. Greene were smuggled out of (Quebec Thursday by an American de tective named Heonett and live aa- sistants. _. _ — llennett hail tiren In t^ut*b»«c since' Ur* arrival of Lavnor and LrrctM* and Ut* kept I keen watch on thrir move- I>r. L. Martwig, in his Ixxtk. “Vol canoes and Karthii(lakes,"gives tlte following as his views of the origin of t volcanic eruptions: . The phenomena attending an erup- ition can leave no (Nmht .that below every active volcano a large subterra- ! nean cavity must exist Id. which melt ed lava accumulates. The partisans of the theory wliich {supposes the earth to consist of a central fluid mass, with a solid shell resting upon it, attribute the formation of volcanoes to rents or tissnn-s in this crust, through which I the lava is cast forth: but the local j development of heat by chemical ac-1 lion or .some other-unknown cause, is ' quite Bufticient to account for the ex-1 : isteneg of fiery lakes imlx-ddcd in a - solid nuiss. and which, though inslg- , iu;u int wlicn comparisl with the sur- fai-e of the gkioe, BUiy Itfll U large • Hough to produce v »li anic phenomena ' on Hr- gr.indi-st s»"il«; TIr* «'aiise of Um* leadi>id uf sue i a ♦ re-aTv. ir again«i Dm-Mirface «>f the A SALUDA MYSTERY. An Illiterate Mulatto Preaches Ad mirably While He Is Sleep. A TEST IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE IS- Li hi ig MS-. Ilii'lllA. .••♦Tl. 11 tl Thursday i > Sti- on.* re well laid pli Als.ut II «■ tg he «ta arsitsl out; -antuo- (ht must, in l fi*T Id (lie for wlien it cr»-» (.-.-h oi a i» i • L he v of • ting rau. -atrd it II By Leading ('itizenTt of Itie (Nmnty anti l he Proof is COiifltiHive " ^ That It Is No ‘ . _______ Fake. °A despatch from Saluda to The" News ami Lourter says the ‘■.Sleeping Preacher" was here Thursday night, a large crowd went out to hear this strange man. “Major Pebry." for that Is the preacher’s name, was in the charge Messrs of II. P. Itouknight and J. P. il»jdic.J.wu of Uits CJunty’s most reliihlr citizens. IVrry has I teen liv ing with Mr. Itouknight. a few miltst Ik-Iow this plaiv. for twelve "or four teen yean* and. with the exception of ■\ few nights, lie has never failed to proaeti a sermon on going tt> sleep dur ing this long pi-ritMl. IVm Is 5t team of age. of medium dsr. roppertailored and wears a flow ing ls-ant Hr was nixed In Falnteld I •Mtrrl* ImH n*S ha a llapllxl pfraclier. frightetietl ft»r the moment. Although he had greatly exerted himstdfbteveral times during his sermon .Tie stated that he did not feel tired tlr at all ex hausted: yet hl.s pulse t»eat rapidly and his breath canie quickly. Whatever else may Ik- said of the strange “sleeping precher,” the per formance is no fake. Time after time .various citizens in this county have gone to Perry’s home after night and secreted themselves to detect the fake as they supposed, but Invariably af ter watching him through the cracks in his house go to Ix-d, and giving him time to go to sleep, he would sing a hymn, alfer a prayer, announce his text and preach a sermon. H>' never uses the same text and the body of his discourse is always different. He rarely ever fails, however, to give the preachers “Hail Columbia." The effect of this strange phenom enon on a spectator cannot Ik? imagin ed. Perry’s father Is said to lie a white | man and he has Indian bloudjn him > also. Tills lit* shows unmistakably. ! as does his wife, wlio^pf late years al ways atNffinpanteiCtiffn tn prevent the [cruel experiment* which were at first | practiced hy some in Irving to awaken I her hustiand while in Hie midst of a M-riiRMi. Med of a scientific turn of mind have an Interewting sultgxt in ’ 'sleeping preacher."’ aud Salutla t ’oiin- tv hi ht» person ptsmmMxv one uf the mixLerira nf the n«*w ivnturv NAPTHA EXPIiODEg^ A Terrible Disaster in the Railroad Yard at Pittsburg. TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE HURT. FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY lar: %• Fell I'llVrew I’mM W ee |Ae*(M-«l la. |*|rc •-«. The Yalatila Fluid Rurns Over a , „ Wide Area, Causing Injury and Rain, anti Kflllng Many Peeple. The Shcraden yard of the Panhan dle railroad at Pittsburg, Pa., wait the scene-Wednesday afternoon of one of the mtsit disastrous exploolons and tires known In that section for many, years. At least twenty-one lives were lost and about 200 persons were I so tiadly (turned that, according to the judgment of physicians In attendance. J 75 per cent of them will die from the effecta of their Injuries. The cause of the catastrophe was the ripitMltwi of a train of naphtha ears which was bring switched at the yard, and Id the switching the rear : car telescoped the car forward. The leaking naphtha Ignited from a switch tight. canalng an eaptnattm. which threw tlir flames flftj feet high Much «f the nuaping naphtha ran an , j I rtilaifuugh. Iiair miles. rag u» atoms tyr- • a • - • 4h x* • 4 re- » • ^ mam 41 Areagev a Hire wr«ew* hail s U» DUtWWS if# amt mto ttnu •WMS la fret w V : Me. V— amm Ht RoriD BJtLI TR at »re i» rew*««f rahahv twfwiw TW Am um *4 sw< W Ml «i C#(4R % **•.44^0 reJh0 IUmM a^R MiitIM Utot f^UPMl #iMM| I m ^vfi ■a mmgr* gP #0 w tltarf Ml * 4 C mHMMI MNK ilHF —I ire. #» wgw I mm aaaih I a area thai reamv %w hagad hw awrere Mat Hh» mast aR HmHHMAhm asaHg hre ■a waare xwtuaaw *-eta are lire (area areaagHag kresa masiai ex area a «amim* ared an* a Hhsreaa aa ■mre irewms nrewsamhg re a amrei amts Ihrei hshareaH toaggaaa gw ’ha awreaaaa«a agpaaremw Aw are re aware are aataare Ire usswl «agreaMHk reregg m wmawmsaMw aa was aa ami Iha gaaauare •• w#w. reg arerered area t wreaw tire mm areugs awwa Mre agssaad i are a ma •f tsaaare mgaregsm xr-Wk-.x W xrewt ••ctavxw haw 7•..FT mta w # . ^■reg * lt r ^ L? ■, gr hr-w-fv-ai eu reachtlRMii. Millr l.iiircnt.kltlitmgli she lived for some tlnu- after tieitig taken to Ur* tHwpItal and was om- .xcItMis white tmderjhe care of physi- vians. dksl without being al*le to im part any additional information con cern i ng t (h* cat .ist r« *p!ie. STHANOB HlOlfTB. Thd path of the volcanic torn-nt which swept over St. Pierre is marked out in a strange manner. The vicinity of the shore where vessels anchored was swept hy a whirlwind of volcanic gas. which lipped, tore and shattered everything in its passage, but left few traces of cinders InTilnd. On the oth er hand the fort, centre and adjourn ing partsof St. Pierre are buried under a thick bed of cinders which consum ed everything tieneath it. Thescenes within the dead city arc strange and gruesome^says the dispatch. In the section of tiie city known as the Moul- ege, no sign of tire is visible, hut everything seems to have been rent and scattered as though hy a tornado. The iron bedsteads in the hospitals are twisted, but In-ar no mark of heat. The bedclothes and all textiles In the hospital simply vanished. About two hundred corpses have been found in the streets of St. Pierre, imurt of them lying face—downward-. The- cent rat quartcr-of the town and the fort are iKitied several yards under cinders. In Ur* nclghliorliood of Um* erfekf •ev en I liouv-* were hiuitd Intact. (Hit their inhabitant* w. n* oil dead and ■mu-*rvd to have tx-en killed hv Ilirht- SwTlIrrrUie tosllru Web* lying. d t" H I d. n rent, n while l ing on w xwi.ti •ixlly over iere were at Fort en i*> a niuuny lor- rtowtsl. (hi May s. still delllM-rat ions gli de France and St. IVrrc, wiiere the night hail passed in anguish and ignorance* as to whether the eruptioh of mud was the precursor of the end of the disaster. St. Pierre was within ten minutes annihilated.'' ONLY OXK LEFT. Margaret Stokes, the nine-year-old child, who is one of the survivors of the Steamship Koraima, which was destroyed at St. Pierre, is the only re maining member of'a family of rive that lived in P.rooklyn up to a few months ago. The child’s father was Clement Stokes, at one time a well to no merchant of Barbadoes, B. W. L, but for the last few years bookkeeper for a department store in Brooklyn. Stokes died recently and the widow decided to return to the home of a wealthy sister in Barbadoes. The widow packed her property and with a faithful colored nurse, Clara King, who had been with the family in Bar badoes. she started op the journey that was to lie the last undertaken hy thi* family. Rurned In a Hole 1 t< lit U tl tl were* wtanti ix freni •rn?«-t. At tl Five persons were burned to death in Ur* American Hotel at Point Pleas ant. W. \ a. on Thursday night and, lhrr«- other per-Ki* were* terioualy lturned. The dead John Slack of Kanawha countr. Wire Mambr. - xpi-etal train was over Um* Canadian Pacific railroad and at 3:50 the ctiasc l«-gaii. On train are Messrs. Cannon avid Chau lean, attorneys in Ur* case, who art* hearers of Ur* petition: high Constable Lale and eight detectives. WMK$ THEY ElM AI'KIV It. 1*. Greene and John F. Gaynor escaped from tiie Savannah federal court several wi*eks ago while their cast* waspending before Judge Emory Speer, of the United States court. Both defendants had boon realesed on bond and were guests of the DeSoto iMitel.await ing. supposedly, the hear ing of the court. Saturday preceding Monday, the day set for their hearing, they left the city, either in disguise or by a circuitous route. Their attorney’ ex pressed even as great surprise as did the government when neither one of the defendants-was present in court on Monday, It was declared by counsel represent ing Greene and Gaynor that they had ^ither been in error as to the day set for trial or were unavoidably detained in New York. The-court ordered their arrest at any cost, hut the officers had not the slightest clew to work upon until the. court was informed hy press reports that the two fugitives were,In 'New York, Almost Instantly, came the re port tliat Greene ami Gaynor hail (led to Canada, where they smilingly ad mitted their identity, declaring the) would remain acrw* the L.rder just as Finally, srei •pend upon a «n and the ia I to gt* into >mp Um tliat they.could n.«l askiMaiHT. the mill v« nn-n delcrinin- (inning t»u>inexv Tin* cotton veil oil mills in Texas an* now erecting ginneries at which they will gin thecotton free,'retainingonly Cite seed for their mills. The compresses are now buying seed cotton and doing the ginning as w-efl as the lulling. In fact, all four inter ests, the oil mills, compresses, ginners and round hale men are prepared to gin and will bid on the seed cottori this fall. It is thought that the Deal gins will be the worst sufferers from this too active competition. spoke in a IM*. blit OC- issioned and •Col. A. I*. Rutler Dead.. 0ol. Andrew Pickens Butler of Ai ken Cohnty diexl Wednesday at the Butler home. Colonel Butler w-ns trieken withparalysisof the heart Sat urday night. He never regained con sciousness. He was 70 years old. Tie leaves two daughters, who are mar ried. a son and several grandchildren. The funeral was held this morning at 11 o’clock from Sweetwater Church, near Aiken.. long re lb Kvrf) r to o<woai|i t tir m acre ,| FverytliiiiK lilKber. There is nothing in the way of , household*suppUe>N which has not t>een made dearer by the protection offorded monopolh-s and legislation in favor of <:lasM-s. The tt.ne* an-suppi»ed tone gi«id, iRit the man wImikeep*a.family •»n f I.(mk» a y*^r fCnd* that it will go no farther than ♦'•hi would a year ago. Alt I iu punTtaxing capacity lx xtraitily (IrcrraBirtR Tlte tEUxt^aml Hr- lar- Fail ini For Um* irewt part Im* sum iot lr. coiivcrKStiotial t vreionaliy lie iK'came imp made Um.* welkin ring. Twloe duping the sermon be ipid vimething like convulsions, and when ever seized tty one of these, he Immedi ately left off speaking, his heart and pulse ceased to lK*at and, except for the Strange movement of his muscles, one would suppose life extinct. These convulsions lasted but a minute and as soon as over he would commence his sermon just where he left off and in the same tone. An examination of the eyes while preaching showed the pupils motion less and.a bright light placed close to his face while the’ lids w6re pushed back did not cause him to move or flinch. During his preaching po'riod it has .always been found impossible to wake him. Pins have been stuck into his ilcsh, burning-, acids have been put alxiut his eyes, but all to no effect, save that he suffered-from there ex periments on awaking. Perry Is particularly severe in his criticisms of the present-day preach ers. He stati*d that “we are told there were twelve disciples or teach ers. and one of those was a devil.i But today 1 think about eleven and a half out of twelve are -devils." In elahorati'tfi of this statement lie re ferred to Um- *'man-sent prraclM-r" and Um* st-lf-M ol preaetter ainl Um* dm mrt-making preacher." IVrry mode ou gmlurvx at all. but iMNMtaWF Mi vMBMNU ■f* firere iregs areYwt trerere grew wreS re Ire SAB lArere areA prei mt retrery areAJMAt ?»»l* <•!*(!» f t*Wfftii | * * I r* ■ ■ I % bur- t m >* •H* it all reSti&k aTtWV •» AM ait la Hirer pure** kre tire Irirkaa vis- urea and all tire tltaferevg arefarelsrerere •err imirerdlataiy dtopreugred Is Ure ••as wiUi a re wire of phyreetaas tfaayidUMr not vrViusJy bunred •err rramvod to thrir (vanes la Khrra- Tea. white oUren wort seat to tire varbiua ItUahurg tvwpttaia. sad the 'lead removed to undertaking retab- liahment* to Kheraden and vie!ally and to the Pittsburg morgue. The Paahaodle Railroad Company ha* thirty-six tracks through den and has succeeded In keeping! munlealion open. The property tare will amount to atleret M00,000. The list of known dead numbers twenty, all residents of Kheraden or vicinity. Several died last night in hospltak. A mong them Is Carl Eatings of Tip- ton, Tenn., who was badly burned about the head. A complete list of the wounded could not be secured last Ure UAs af P «ti | soph turrd rruxli FOR A. r. h reinci and lad mL wax I w« wen II •ft i ■ ot a RAILROAD COMMISSIONER Jr|tMin. A l*<>|>ular ('lllorn Flormre. in the ttacr. of The Florence Time*. May 12, says A. C. Jepson. one of the liest known veterans of the Atlantic Oast Line, announces poKitively that he will be in the race for railnad commissioner. He has talked with his friends In Flor ence and elsewhere, and has received theVrcatest.encouragement.. Mr. Jcp- son has been fort y years a practical railroad man. and as years creep up on . .. . .... ... . him hQ,wanU-to retire from the throt- A 11,100n, *"“ lwent J tie and give the younger men a chance to run the trains while he runs the railroads a little. TJie life of an en gineer is a hard and exacting one, and takes him away from home tbo much of the time. Mr. Jepson came to+Torence in.1884 and has been with the Coastline con tinuously ever since, and Is one of t|iq best men on the line. He has served many roads in his time,—the Louis ville and Nashville, Central of Geor gia. and Mobile and Girard among them. lie says that In his fjjrty years of service he has never been dismissed, suspended or reprimanded. He wax Jive years In the employ of Ur* conxiructlun department and the rest of Um* time In Um? engineering. He I* a skilled workman, and among other employment* in his life be made prrciuwtun Capa for the use of the Con federate government He claim* to havec.kt- -#-xrlv half of Uie number Mi MSSitotsd *4 recArewA kg tkre rerei * mms -f l sA kre resyw* i wtnax^MW * re * ' fw reres •%#* iUre* At MM rerererere re rererewAM •D" ■M names. • The accident happened in the rail road yards at Sheraden, where the Panhandle railroad makes a turn, near Corks run. Banked by two high hills hundreds of people were caught. At this point, which is about one-fourth of a mile from the city line, there are thirty-three tracks. Upon these tracks were several hundred cars. Near the middle of these tracks about 4.45 o’clock a heavy freight train was being made up for the west. In this train were ten tank care, containing retined petroleum and naphtha. In the shifting necessary to prepare the train for her journey a switch was made with too much force. Five tank cars, two of them'filled with refined petroleum and two with naphtha, were switched with too much force and one of the cars of naphtha was broken. InaUnUy the Inflammable by-product poured out In a stream The Iralomen, seeing that ures uf tar car* was damaged, started to pul) Urere all uret of the way. «T Ure Hgttf ure Isgreia' ■ i