The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 25, 1903, Image 1
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Pf the Sreet Flood that Destroyed
.. Heppner Oregon.
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DESCRIPTION BT EYE WITNESS.
Wall of Water Rushed Down Moun-
t ' ' v . . * y 1
tain Side. Waicon Loads or
...f
Corpses Are Casted to
the Cemetery.
Later news from Heppner, Oregon,
show that the first reports of the dis
aster were not exaggerated. The
casualty list wtlffoot up 500 and many
Of the bodies will never be recovered.
The property loss and destruction of
buildings alone will aggregate prob
ably a million dollars.^ This is re
garded as a conservative ^estimate:
One hundred and fifty of the best resi
dences Were sweptf frotn the earth.
The debris is piled along the railroad
track to the height of freight cars.
The relief work is progressing at a
satisfactory pace. James Kernan^ the
Oregon Railway and Navigation com
pany agent, met his death at the tele
graph key trying to eall Portland to
iu.orm the outside world of the im-
^Xipendlng calamity.
( w Oueof the most thrilling adventures
j&as that of Tom' Shuter. who with
^ his family, was carried down stream
in his house for a mile and a half. His
- wife and two children climbed into
tiie upper rooms. Below town it
crossed the creek to the west side,
where i% Jodged in debris 1«»0 yards
* from thS^anyon bank. Shuter then " , l *
took nils two little ones and swam a Persons in his residence, although tl
Ijundred yards. He landed the chil
dren and then rescued his wife.
BmrBTiurmxnmnNs-
The names of 18W persons whose
UkIIcs have been discovered or who ar?
missing and. believed to be de&icl^as a
result of the Heppner flood, have
been obtained. In addition to the
Ijodiesof seven Chinese, three Japanese
and 21 strangers and babies, names
unknowir, goto swell the list. Ellas
Connor, a stock raiser of : lone, re
turned from Heppner at 2 o'clock
Wednesday morning. He left- the
scene of the disaster at 6 o'clock that
night.
“It is known,'’ said Mr. Connor,
“that least 2J 5 or 300 people wefe
drowoed, 115 corpses have been hasti
ly buried in wooden boxes and some
were merely wrapped in blankets
'1 here were still Several jffagon Ifeads
of dead on their way to the cemetery
when 1 left. Heppner Itself has now
been pretty well searched, except in
piles of debris, where it is thought
great numbers of bodies will be found.
“lietween lone and Heppner,” said
Mr. Connor, “there are great piles of
debris, but the flood passed so quickly
that the roads have not been serious
ly damaged. It looks strange to see
. the heavy steel rails bent and twisted
like cork screws and heavy timbers
splintered like matchwood. In Hepp
ner Itself the flood swept a clean path
a mile long and two blocks wide
through the town, going generally the
course of Willow creek.”
entirely demolished. The Palace hotel
was the first building to stem the tide
and all the guests were saved, but the
houses below that structure were
blown out Into the street, overturned
and wrecked. The residence of G. A.
Rhea was carried away and the entire
family, consisting of wife and three
daughters, and Miss Adkins, a cou&in,
Were lost.'
“C. E. Redfleld, whose residence was
completely destroyed, was absent but
his wife and baby were drowned.
“A. Q. Geiger’s house was carried
away ana Mr. Geiger was drowned* His
family is in the east.
“George Consci’s house was reached
next but the family succeeded iu saving
their lives by rushing to the upper sto
ries, the house being carried down the
creek three-quarters of mile. Res
cuers found that the house had been
Significant Facts
- Scandals Being Unearthed.
BRISTOW S REPLY TO CHARGES.
but in two and Mr. Conser was stand
ing in water up to hjs neck, holding
Ids wife upon the roof and keeping
her from slipping from his outstretch
ed arms. Dr. McSwat and^J. Ayers,
who were living in the same residence
were drowned.- •* -
“Oscar Miner's house was next de-
mol'shed and Mrs. Miner drowned. The
rest of the family succeeded in saving
their llves.by ciqging to the roof. AH
of the Wells family but two were lost
and the house was carried away. With
the Wells residence went the house of
George Swaggert. Mr." Swaggert’s
two marri.d daughters were drowned
with their five children. Tiie Mallory
house was carried 150 yards and was
found lodged against a store and Mr
Mallory, a crippled old man.Vas found
safe, holding a baby. James Matlock's
was next. Mrs. Matlock was drown\
ed but his family was saved. Dr.
fiigg’s house also went.
“The house of Mr. Boyd and Mr.
Walton were alstt destroyed and both
families lost
Many Irreifularlties Are Bhown by
the Official Papers Being E*-
* . • . . .. . ;«v*’ '*
amtried by the Govern
ment Officials. •»'*-
Postmaster General Payne Wtfdnes-
nesday made public the reply of
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral _Ilristow to the charges of Sey
mour W. Tulloch, former cashier of
the Washington city postoftice, kk
garding the irregularities in the postal
administration, and also reports of
of inspection and investigation of the
Washington postoftice by inspectors
between June 30, 1899,
1900, together with tiie transcript of
the Tulloch charges some years ago
and the conclusion therebn then reach
ed by Postmaster General Charles
Emory- Smith. 'These papers con
stitute bji far x the[ most significant
documents'yeLmade. public as a result
of th€ sweeping'postal investigation.
The reports show the existence of
many irregularities during the period
involved. The inspector .who investi
gated the irregularities reports Dial
the files of the postoftice cashier show
direct orders from sueprior authority
for the disbursement of all tiie ques
tionable items cited. The inspector
urged “that the responsibility for the
many Illegal appointments, the pay
Ury.roll," while the “military roll”
shows 34 nam^s as having been paid
by the oaabier of the Washington
office. "7' l
There wa£ also found a “special
roll of employes, paid for miscellan
eous allowances, said appointments
being under the control of the post-
office department.” This roll con
sists of nine “cleaners”, with salaries
from $400 to 1600 and onb-“physi
cian” at a salary of $1,700. Some of
these cleaners appear to have per
formed very little service and others
none at all.
The most Important exhibit is the
report of Postofflce Inspector In charge
Smith of Washington division, made
in July, 1899, setting forth irregulari
ties whiclu he urged should be Investi
gated. He names four employes on
the military roll who appear not to
have performed any service in con
nection wit)! military postal matters
and for whose original appointment
ny ^^nnt.inllanoc on the rolls no good
reason exists. The payment to W.
S. Larnerrs military postal cleric, xm-
der protest, by the cashier of $118.93,
subsequent!y disallowed the au-
and JulyJHt-jdJtor of theTreasury 6n Jan A 4, 1899
is gone into at length and It is shown
that this matter ..was jwtirdy irreg
ular and that payments were directed
without proper vouchers.
-ATtentioff is called to-certain items
of expenditures authorized for the
military postal service of supplies,
furniture, traveling expenses, aggre
gating 28,750.70, with the statement
that the prices paid for some of tbe
articles enumerated, such-as . .wash
stands at $40 each appear’To have
been highly excessive.
Attention also is called to addi
tional irregularities in connection with
payrolls of clerks and laborers, and to
charging premiums on the bonds of
military postal clerks, notwithstand-
Politically it What Senator Tillman
Say* About the Negro.
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE.
Senator Tillman Hays Roosevelt la
Always on Drem Parade and
Alwaya Will be While
, He'n President.
In conversation, with f reporter of
the Augusta Herald recently Senator
with Congressman ll#rdwick on his bill
CCTlt
The house*
they
itself
a survivor's story.
Three men who, survived the
flood
-have arrived at
Portland Oregon, after having wit
nessed the destruction of the town
and assisted in the work of rescue.
Mr. Kelley said: “The rain was not
falling in Heppner, but could be seen
some distance away. Sharp flashes of
lightning were accompanied by the
were badly bruised,
was washed away. • ” -
“Perhaps the greatest loss of life
occurred at the Heppner hotel. —-
“This house, which was run under
tire managemen t of J one s & A sh baugh,
was carried away. It is supposed
that there were about 50 guests in
this hotel, all of whom are reported to
be lost. The proprietors themselves
were saved, but their families j^re
among the dead. * —>
“The house of Benjamin Patterson,
Mr. Dunn and Mr. Noble were entirely
demolished and all persons in these
three families drowned, as were the
families of James Jones and Henry
Birk. The barn of Dr. Swlnburn and
the big livery stable of White &
Meadows were Entirely destroyed. E.
J. Farnsworth and Phillip Cohn were
also drOwned. The entire residence
portion of Heppner was destroyed but
the bus)Qess_houses, being on higher
ground and .being generally built of
brick and stone, were dot so badly
damaged. The school house and oo urt
house, which stand on a side hill, were
saved, but two chgrches, the Metho
dist and Presbyterian were completely
wrecked.
“Around the depot the rising water
left great heaps of driftwood piled
higher than the rqof of the station and
the rescuing pasties were forced to
demolish these pyramids of timbeF^-ki
order to extricate the corpses which
were tangled in the brush. *Undoubted-
ly many of tin drowned bodies were"
carried by the running waters down
the valley.
“Gangs of men are at work clearing
^ame person and the disbursement of
thousands of dollars for which practi
cally no service was performed, shpuld
be placed where it properly belongs
and the many abuses corrected*"
i In a summary of the several reports
the postmaster general says:
“The charge of Mr. Tulloch Is.In its
essence against President McKinley
nfid postmaster General Smith. Presi
dent McKinley is ho longer living:
Postmaster General Smith, who car
ried out-President McKinley's, policy,
has answered for himself. With re
gard to the present manag^yent of
the Washington postofflce and the
conduct of any and all men charged
with wrongdoing who have _heeniu
the postal service under the present
administration, a thorough and
searching investigation is now being
made.”
The postmaster general also says:
“It will be sren that the Mtule sub
ject was taken up by Postmaster
Gneral Smith and investigated by
him., All expenditures referred to
were allowed by the auditor and comp-'
trailer, with the exception of $HH*.”
Tiie documents made public Wed
nesday show that on May 1 last, Mr.
Payne wrote a letter Ur Mr:. Bristow
calling attention to-the published In
terview with Mr. Tulloch, and asked
Mr. Bristow ‘what truth if any there
is in the statements."
Mr. Bristow's reply dated three days
latex, transmits reports of three in
spectors relating to the Washington
postofflce.. v .
Mr. Bristow says that after tiie in-
at Heppner—U. D. Ball, J. J. FpIW I ^ay the piles of debris, rocks and •
and A. P. Bradbury—have arrived at timbers which He piled in heapsin the*
streets and taking, out the corpses
which are thus concealed."
howling thunder. Then suddenly the
Umnder died away, and a low noise
was heard, very faint at find but grow-
.louder. The city Is situated on Wil
low creek, which makes a sharp turn
above the city. As the noise grew
louder and louder, the people became
frantic. ’Then in a moment the van
of the Hood biirst lnu> -^lew around
No Vulgar Murder.
{>In speaking of, the murder of the
king and queen of Servia the Chatta
nooga Times says at a fly rate, it Is
interesting to note that the affair was
not an ordinary, vulgar mur
der, committed by an anarchist, but a
regular gentlemanly assassination,
conducted after The most eminent
precedents and the best accepted tradlj
the curve of the creek, carrying on
Its crest the cabins and houses which
stood in its path. The people made
a rush to the hills, but were too late.
The flood was upon them. The little
river in five minutes was transformed
into a roaring torrent 400 feet wide
and 20 feet deep. Houses
from their foundations and-carried on
the swirling waters. People were car
ried away in their homes and forced
to crawl out on the roof. Then as
the houses moved down the stream
they caught on to the trees and hung
there until morning, when they wejre
rescued.”
: HK SAW JT ALL.
David McAtee, a business man of
Heppner, was an eye witness Of the
disaster. In company with Frank
SfMulding lie left Heppner about 10.30
o'clock Sunday nigbt on horseback.
“On Sunday afternoon,” said Mr. Mc
Atee, “there had been a severe rain
storm, accompanied with much wind
and lightning. I was standing in front
of the house and noticed that a cloud
of remarkable density approached the
top of tBe bill on the east side of the
canyon. I turned for a moment, when
a roar caused me to look again at the
bill. I saw a wall of water, the height
of which I would be afraid to gauge,
rushing down the mountain, carrying
immense trees and timbers on its crest
and tearing away the very rocks from
their foundations. The terrific storm
struck the upper part of the town first.
•The residence of Thomas Howard was
the first to fall and bis entire family
'was drowned. In the Krug home also
every person was drowned, as was the
case in the Hale and Baling residences.
All of these bouses were about four or
five blocks above the business centre.
Af Abram was
re
specters had reported irregularities he
directed that reports be made in the
regular way.-
“I)urlng>-the progress of the inspec
tion I was ad vised "r>y' Ttt6~ < r !rK r f~fn*
specter that George W. Beavers, chief
of the salary and alluwance division,
had suggested to one qf the inspectors
that when he came to certain ap
pointments in some ut- the* stations
that appeared irregular he had better
make no reference to them as theyj opinion
had been ordered personally by the
eraf. 1 told the chief
Inspector, to instruct the Inspectors to
report the facts as they would in any,
other Inspection; that ! did not he-.
Uoqb of the EaropeAn qwirtr-. furolgh-1
of the ample justification for the mo
mentous anxiety of croWned heads for
theirown personal safety. j~
Got It In the Neck. ~
Krousbevan, the notorious Jew
baiter and the editor of the anti-Semi
tic organ in Kischineff. The Bessar-
were lifted-jirbetz, the articles in which are be
lieved to have been largely responsi
ble for th„ massacre of the Jews in
(Jlschineff, was attacked by a party
of Jews in the street of Petersburg,
Russia, Wednesday. He >was stabbed
in the neck by one of the jews. The
wound is not believed to be fatal.
His assailant was captured and prov
ed to be a former student of the poly
technic school at Kieff.
Reviewed the Cadet*.
... «£
A special dispatch to The State
from Lexington, Va.,. says Governor
D. C. Heyward of South Carolina,
upon the special invitation of Gen.
Scott Ship, superintendent of the
Virginia Military Institute, reviewed
the battalion of cadets Wednesday af
ternoun. A salute of 17 guns, the
governor’s salute, was fired in honor
K>f the distinguished Carolinian. Gov.
Heyward expr^«ed himself as much
pleased with the military bearing of
the young soldiers. - i
A (Steamer Bank*
Part of the crew of the Belgian
steamer Rubens, which sailed from
Sunderland on June to for Pillau,
Prussia, were, brought here today,
The men reported that their vessel
had capsized and sank. Six of
to tiie United States.
An interesting feature edneernair
regularities in the appointment, com
pensation and promotion of Oliver H
Smith. Oj? Nqy. 2o t 1897, the first
assistant postmaster general author
ized an allowance of $(>00 per annum
for his appointment as laborer, stat
ing that the free delivery division
would allow $2 per day, to cover ear
fare and incidental expenses. Smith
drew pay from Nov. 23, 189T, to Nov.
30, 1898.,. making his compensation
for one year approximately $1,348.00.
The tnspwtnr - reports ban
certified to the actual time 4Smitli
was employed nor has any statement
l)een attached to his pay vouchers
showing what particular service he
rendered.- He was continued in the
dual capacity of clerk and mechanic
until April 1, te99, when he waefe pro
mqted to he finance clerk at $1,700
per annum.” The inspector says he
knew of no authority of law for his*
appointment or promotion.
Attention is next called by'the in
spector to certain vouchers, author
ized to be paid by tiie first assistant
postmaster general, such as expenses
of Perry S. Heath and George W.
Beavers, traveling oir official business.
The inspector states that these vouch
ers do not appear to have been itemiz
ediajhe proper manner, nor Is the
necessity for the expenditure of this
money by the Washington postofflce
appearent. , - ..
Attention is called to seven cleaners
placed«3n the pay' roll of the Wash
ington office under authority of the
first assistant postmaster general, to
be charged to the appropriat ion for
miscellaneous expenses. The names
of these cleaners-all females—are
•gtven,
TlMi inspector states that neither
ties
“Capt. W. -B. Smith, inspector in
charge, submitted a special report.
This report disclosed what seemed to
me glaring Irregularities, and I sub
mitted it personally to the postmaster
general., suggesting to him at the
time that it contained matters to
which I thought he would want to
give his pesonal attention. >
“The third report sets forth a num
ber of irregularities that prevailed at
that time in tiie Washington post-
office. 1 was informed by the chief
inspector that complaint was made
to the postmaster general that inspec-
to* Little, who was engaged "on the
work, was asking unnecessary ques
tions and seeking to obtain informa
tion which was. not called for on in
spection. I advised him to instruck in
spector Little to make the same kind of
an investigation of the Washington
postofflce that he would make of any
other office under similar circumstan
ces, and to submit in.a special report
anything which he thought should be
called to the personal attention of the
prtstraasfter general. This he did.”
In |he first pf the inspector’s reports
submitted by Mr. Bristow it appears
that Robert V. Willett, a son of the
then postmaster, drew two salaries
from July 1 to Dec. , 10. * 1898,
one as a laborer at the city postofflce
the pustmasier nor any
with the Washington office was able
to give any information as to where
they were employed or the nature of
their work, and tiie inspector is of
that practically.^ no service
whatever has been -rendered for the
money expended. ^
The inspector says that hy the over
lapping of a lease executed In 1887
Dm government lost. $<>25, an d that
the building was paid for one month
beyond its occupancy.""
The- Inspector reports that when
the cashier of the Washington post
office on letters from the comptroller
suspended payments to Certain per
sons mentioned he was required to
continue these payments upon direct
written order from the postmaster
who states he was verbally instruetec
in ids action hy the first assistant'
at $600 a year, and the other as a office, dated July 31, 1900, says that
were
lost. Seven of the crew drifted about
for 22 hours. Before they were pick
ed up three of them died from expos
ure.
postoftice roll April 29, 1899, at $700
the per annum and on the same date as a
mechanic at $2 per day for each work
ing day on what appears to have been
a special roll of the free delivery ser
vice, and that N. H- Baker likewise
was designated as a laborer on the
at $2 a day. . The Inspectors continu
ing sayuthat on Jude 30, 1899, 22 em
ployes were borne on the rolls and paid
on what has been knqwR as the “mill-
postmaster general
Tha payments were>made under the
cashier’s protest
The Inspector cites payments to
Catherine Endsley, Charles A. Mach
en, A. B. Ifurt, H-Jj- Lorenz, John
S. Leach and F. W. Wait, on the au
thority of the, first assistant post
master general of per diem iuoQitoiec*.
tion with claims of letter carriers tar
overtime charges, aggregating $4,655
The inspector says this account, dis
bursed from July 1^1898, wasdisburs
ed without authority of law. Machen
Lorenz and Hu ft it appears were paid
per diem covering the same period by
the disbursing clerk of the department
of justice, from the appropriation for
defending suits ' in letter carriers'
claims against the United States be
fore the court of claims. These par
ties continued to draw pay until the
comptroller called for a statement
from them.
The report of Inspector Little on
the investigation of the Washington
number of clerks were, added to the
rolls without request of the postmas
ter and that the postmaster states
that at times it has been difficult to
find employment for all assigned to
his rolls. Th$ Inspector says the
rtater appears to be Elastic, to be ad
iilman said: ^
“T havg not see
r^fthe
interviews
to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and dont know Just
what it is, hut 1 do know that Just
such a thing is inevitable. The negro
is coming down to his proper status. ”
It was thus that Senator B. R. Till
man spoke recently while waiting in
Augusta to take a train MS Louisiana,
where he is going to lepturc at a cha-
tauqua. The senator says he will i>e
away on tills trip of lectures for alxtut
ten days, after which he will return to
Hs home in South Carolina.
There is nothing going on in
tional polities just now except "the
usual dress parade of Roosevelt^” he
said and in reply to the question ,of
M>w long he thought these dress pa
rades would last:
“Oh, that’s going to keep up just as
long as Roosevelt is President.”
Speaking of the coming convention
and the outlook for Presidential tim-
ber In the Democratic party Senator
Tillman said that he had never seen
4>he eoqjntry so barren of-'material to
Work upon asHt is at CTits time. He
spoke of Parker and Gorman but said
he could not tell which, if either,
would-be the man for the place. He
said they would both be mentioned in
the convention and one of them may be
hosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. He did not know
enough of tiie standing of either to
say what their relative strength is,
but thinks that Parker has the advan
tage of haying no record behind him
except Wt»rtr-of -a judge.
Continuing along the line of the
lardwick bill that Is b£ presented
at the next session of Congress Sena
tor Tillman said:
‘About the only thing that is at
tracting much cq.nmcnt in national
political circles now is that Ohio plat
form, and it has not gone far enough
for us to see whether it is to be a local
or*a national measure.”
HCj£*plaincd that this platform Is
a measure that seeks to allow Che ne
gro to govern where he is in the ma
turity or else to cut down the repre
sentation of the white man, and is of
the opinion that if it is made a na
tional affair it will undoubtedly be
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
-If'this is to be a national rather
]tban a local issuc-R will mean the re
organization of the old ante-bellum
days. I mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then a question of 4his is a white
man's country and he must rule the
government, majority or no majority.
don’t mean that it will be a condi
tion of affairs like those of tiie days of
the sixties. Then it was a question
o? slaTciy but'Tiow it* * wHTbe a TpYeS-
ttorr simply of the negro or white
man. -—_ -
Senator Tlllmap says the matter of
repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments Is certainly inevitable
and is a,questlon of only a time. He
thinks tliat for the Ohio platform l>e
pushed upon-the* people of the coun
try, asking for the guarantee ot the
provisions of these amendments
would merely bring the matter to a
crisis sooner.
“We are waiting for them to play
their cards or show their hand, so we
will know what move to -make,” ke
-ggldr ~~
Speaking of^ conditions in South
Carolina, the Senator said:
The Spartanlmrg Journal says a
busy scene greeted the visitors Tlmrs-,
day along the banks of the recent
turbulent Pacolet river where the
fury of the waters worked such ex
tensive destruction. AC the Cllftons
and at Pacolet scores of laborers are
busy cleaning away debris and recover
ing cotton and the- mill products from
the mud and wreckage. The HJtt
Salvage Company has fifty toseventy-
Hve men at work, scouring the fiver
banks and the recesses (it tiie stream,
looking for cotton, many imle$ ol
which are being recovered.
The plan of the Clifton Company for
securing what macldnery they can
from the river is to drain the big pond
extending from the site of Obe de
stroyed Mill No. 3 t6 Mill No. 1. The
work will be in charge of a salvage
company from New York who will put
a force of men to work at an early date
to .drain the pond*and search In the
mud and debris for any machinery
that can be found. The same com
pany will’also recover as much of the
property of tiie electric railway as
possible. The electric company wdl
lose at least one mile of track at Clif
ton. The trolley wire and rails are,
however, being recovered as rapidly as
possible. * , , ■ _
The machinery on the immediate
sites of tiie Clifton Mills will be re
covered bvJ. B. G&rfunkel (>f Colum
bia who will begin work on next Mon
day morning. Mr. GarfubRel has pur
chased all the scrap iron that may be
found among the wreckage while the
mill company will retain such machin
ery as can be used. The big fiy wheel
at Mill No.-3 which weighs about
100,900 pounds lias also been purchas
ed _hy Mr. Uarfuuicel. The.wheel was
broken to pieces by the force of the
flood and is absolutely useless to the
company. .. ,
* By next Monday the banks of the
river will be crowded with busy work
men who will repair as far as possible
the storm's work of destruction. Later
on work will be started by the mill
company repairing Mills, Nos. 1 and
2.' The Souther^ Railway was one of
the heRvleaMosers in.;the county by
the flood of June 6. A -prominent-
railroad than says that the Southern
alone will lose half a million dpllars.
The roads will lose more than their
net earnings from the entire state
for the current year on account of
the flood damage, trestles washed
away, etc.
It is now estimated 'that 25 per
cent of Hie mill operatives have left
the Clifton Mills and Pacolet having
secured other jobs. At one time last
week there were no less than seven
teen mill representatives at Clifton
and I’acolet who had come to secure
mill labor from lfieTanks of the opera
tives. It is said that some of the
operatives have evinced a market! de
gree of unwillingness to leavtv their
jiomes for other mills, thinking that
if they remained they would,lie
recipients of aid from the relief com-’
mlttee.
The time of the year at which the
flood occurred lias proven a very for
tunate circumstance for iiad it oc
curred in winter or early spring much
additional suffering would have been
entailed. The cars of the electric
comany pontinuc to carry many visi
tors to Clifton, but it will probably lie
only a few weeks before the signs of
wreckage are completely obliterated
twd- the Wg storm -will have been a
thing of the past.
Belgrade Palace i« Red WlUi
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Blood of Royal Victims.
THERE WAS NO WAY
najor
lat is i
‘The thing that is most interesting
over there now is*a few days sunshine.
1 have just cotne down from Clemson
and through tiie upper part of the
State to Columbia and 1 must say
that 1 never saw the crops In such a
bad condition. The grass has taken
everything. Why. the country v Js
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all.beeu washed away antPwill
have to be replanted.
“Np there'is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this is
an*off ycar. _The only thing going on
that 1 know^tf is wilh the Governor.
You know he 1} shooting a few'tigers
now. Every time he sees one he
shoots him down.”
Senator tiilman looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is as much as ever in
terested in the affairs of the Ameri
can government, he seems more taken
up Just at this time with the condi
tion of farm lands in his o wn State.
The fact that be Is not hlpirelf a man
of a gloomy disposition, -rather being
inclined to be an optimist than a pes
simist, when be makes the statement
that the crop conditions.of the Pal
metto State a^e worse than he has
ever seen themPbefore, it would indi
cate at once that there is time for
some concern. .* “ - - -
Bride Killed Heraelf.
Within half an hour after her second
marriage, having been previously
We Arc Not Carper*.
A negro lynching in the city of In
dianapolis has quickly followed the
affair at Belleviiie. 111. Just what
degree of guilt attaches to a negro's
act in apparently forcing bis remarks
upon a white girl in the street ts not
easy to decide perhaps. At any rate,
reasonable people would say that the
girl's testimony as to the character of
the offense should first be taken be
fore resorting to summary measi
against the negro. The Indianapolis
mob, however, oo- tbs-msce fact that
The Koval Red Chamber W
- Boldiera Blew the Klnjc and
Gneen Described In
Detail.
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The correspondent of the Associated
Press at Belgrade, Servia, was on
Wednesday allowed to Inspect the
place'!n which King Alexander and
Gueen Draga were murdered. The
room, which was furnished in empire
style, remains in the same condition
as when the king and queen fled from
it on the approach of the assassins.
The French novels lie on the queen’s
table and the queen's tollet articles,
perfumes and cosmetics- covered her
dressing table. ‘ 7 - r
The costly silk bed coverings are full
of hullet- holes, the conspirators hav
ing shot wildly In all directions,
through and under tiie bed, chairsand
tallies In their efforts to find their
victims. A simple wardrobe room lead
ing directly from the bed room was
Die scene of the final act io the drama.
The apartment is lofty but scarcely
seven feet wide and fifteen feet long
and Is fgrnlshcd only with three great
wardrobes. The officers who attended
the corespondent showed the latter
the blood-stained floor at one end of the
ro >m where the king and queen fell
and the broken Venetian shutter at
the window through which their bodies
were thrown to the groqqd,below.
A secret stairway leads through the
floor to rooms In the southern end of-
the palace. By this stairway the bap-
1 ‘ss couple might have attempted to
escape, but they were unable to do so
because the opening of thla stairway
was covered by a heavy chest. Escape
in any event would have been impoesi-
b'e, as the soldiers who had surrounded
the palace were so dfltarrajnefl to kill
the king and umegn’fhat they had even
placed cannon^^front of the palace
and were pre^areef to destroy the build-
mg in thee vent of failing to find their
prey.
Each of the three roomrbetween the
vestibule and the bed chamber show* d
marks of the tragedy. Mirrors were
shattered, pictured were shot through,
furniture was brokon,' there waa bul-
j£tJioles in the ddprs and in the oil
portraits of the king which were lu
every room and most of the latter were
otherwise mutilated.
Contrary to the general understand
ing liut little effort has been made to
renovate the apartments except where
the caVpen.ers were making two new
doors to replace those which ^ad been
blown to pieces at the time the con
spirators forced their way into, the
rooms occupied by the king and queen.
The royal apartments wereaimply Mid
tatefully furnished chiefly in Oriental
style and presented a homelike appear
ance. The. interior of the palace
might have been that of a country
house belonging to a prosperous
American. The house of the king’s
adjutant, Lazar Pexovics, which wan
the first attacked, is even a greater
wreck than the royal apartments in
the palace. The entrance was com
pletely destroyed by dynamite. The
adjutant then escaped unhurt, but he
was killed later in the veotlbule of the
palace.
A large blood stain marks tbe spot
where the officer died. It was in a
bare, white washed room of tbe com
mandant’s quarters, adjoining tbe pal
ace, that Queen Draga’s two brothers
were shot while sitting on wooden
chairs, which bear marks of the| bul
lets. The proceedings in tbe palace
showed the same absolute callousness
which has characterized the actions
aqd demeanor of everybody in Bel-
V'
delivery-roll ded to as Giroumstaoces ariae whether divorced, Miss HatUe.A. .Thomas of
the postmaster requested It or not. New Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a, no more sense of the fitness of things
The aggregate salaries paid to those
not connected with the office amount
ed to $16,100.
i
the negro was seen to address'the gTrT
in public somewhat persistently, al
though he soon passed ottc pursued
him at once to his death. One* fel
low in the mob carried a pistol and Pc'
completed the job. No arrests, ac-
cording to tbe reports. The middle
West fir-oow a fair mark for Southern
criticism.—Springfield Republican.
Heed Farm*. '
The seed plantations around Safi
Jose, Cal., are said to receive $3,000,-
000 a year from the sale of seed. Tb£
first experiments of the planters in
this line were made less than half a
dozen -years ago. One onion patch
now covers 3,000 acres, with furrows
almost two miles long. ' A single plot
of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, A bed
of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce
tied 2,100 acres. These are within a
radius of eighty miles around San
Jose, 14,500 acres devoted to. raising
plants andjlowert for their seed alone,
v A Bad. Record. _ , .
One hundred rulers of countries have
been assassinated since the year 946,
when Edward I, of England, was
stabbed with a dagger. Of the num
ber seventy-three .were assassinated
during the century just closed'which
marked it as a singularly unfortun
ate hundred years for royalty. Al
ready, in this new century, there have
been four heads of governments as
sassinated. and the century is not four
years old.
A Moving Matter.
Down in Texas the other day a man
named Wbele married a Miss Barrow,
and the editor of the local paper had
~ Village* Destroved.
The British consular reports of tbe
recent earthquakes in the vilayet of
of Van confirm previous advices that*
twenty-three villages were affected and
some completely destroyed. Seven
hundred and" eighty-five lives are
known to have been lost and it Is
feared all were killed in outlying dis
tricts not yet enumerated.
Fourteen Killed.
A terrifiee and fatal explosion oc
curred in the lyddite factory at Wool
wich, England, Thursday morning.
Five buildings were completey wreck
ed Reports of casualties are conflicting
but the latest places the dead at 14
and injured at 13. The killed were
blown to atoms and their remains
were gathered up in buckets.
dose of laudanum that proved fatal,
leaving a note to her parents to pray
for her. r*
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than to print his acooui
ding under the head of
row.”
account of tbe wed
“Whele-Bar-
i
“■ Will Now Haag.
John Brownfield, colored, who kill
ed Deputy Tax Collector Jas. C.
Scurry while in the discharge of hi#
duty three years ago, and who appeal
ed to the Supreme courts of the state*,
and tbe United States, was resentenc
ed on Tuesday by Judge Gary, tta
date of his execution being set tor
Friday.. ■ . / ■ 1 ■—---r-
A Bad Death.
John C. Harveley of Greenwood,who
was acting as telegraph operator at
Hamlet, N. C., was run over and kill
ed there by a train Oh Tuesday. He
was only nineteen years old.
Gave up tbe Straggie.
J. H. Williams, a farmer of Lan
caster county, aged 35, committed
suicide on Tuesday night with a shot
gun. He was despondent on account
of 111 health and inabtHty to work
crops.
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