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VOL. XXVI. t i BARNWELL, S. €., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1903. NO. 60. A TDNNEL HORROR. TU Colihion and Burning of Two ttafargrraud Trains? PA«IC OF THE PA88EHQXE8, Who, ■tilled by the Smoke end Bewildered by the Darkness , Strive In Vain to Find the Kxlts. » An awful catastrophe occurred in Paris, France, on Monday evening of last week, on the Metropolitan Elec tric Railway, which runs mostly un derground, in which many persons lost tifeir lives. One of the trains broke at Menllmontant Station, which Is in a poor and populous section of the city. This train, was promptly emptied and the train which followed was ordered to push to the repairing numbers of workmen, who, after their day’s work were returning to their homes in the populous eastern arrondissements of the city. On reaching the neighborhood of the Cemetery of Pere Lo Chktee, the eleci ricalmotor failed to act properly, and the train wafted at the station of Les conronnt's until the arrival of a second train, which pushed the crippled train forward, making a total of sixteen coaches.' After proceeding about two hundred yards towards Meuilmontant Station, the damaged dynamo set Are to the engine-of the lint train. The engine burned fiercely, raising quantities of smoke. Simultaneously the electric lights on the trains went out, leaving the passengers in total darkness, ex cept, for the light of the burning en- igne far ahead. This impeded the progress of the trains toward Menil- montant. The terror-stricken passen gers got out and tried ta grope' their way back to Les Couronnes. The powerful electric current, which con tinued in the rails, is believed to have stunned or killed^ many. A number of the passengers tried to reach Les ebeds; caught fire, but...the employees^ suc ceeded in escaping. Meanwhile, a cmwded ; train reached Les Curienncs, the preceding stAtion, and the officials, seeing smoke pouring out of the tunnel, gave the alurm. A panic en sued, the passengers struggling to es cape from the station. Amid the in creasing smoke many attempted. i<o return along the line towards Belle ville^ but they were suffocated. The firemen started in to flood the burning cars, and' shortly afterward they were able to enter the tunnel. They brought up the corpses of five men and two.women all belonging the working class. KIOHTY-KOUK -V ■ " have been recovered,- and the death list probably will exceed one hundred. The accident, which occurred on the Metropolitan Electric Railway as sumed the proportions of au awful ca tastrophe during the early hours to day, when more than four-score bod ies of the burned and suffocated vic tims were .removed from the subter- ranean passage. The work continues, and indications are that the death —Hat will perhaps exceed five score. Long lines of amhulaneefr were BODIK8 REMOVE The cause DISASTROUS EURRICAI1 Says John Temple Graves and Ton | —* ** . Will Stop Lynching!. 'uuur m Many Deaths and the Lbe* of | Ten Million Dollar*. A PRISON HORROR. x_ ; A White Woman Toils How She Was THE! ROBE TO DEATH. Brutally Whipped. The West Indian 'hurricane struck the island of Kingston, Jamaica with HE TALKS OUT VERY PLAIELY. | its full force Wednesday, inflicting ( SHE BAYS SHE WAS PUVISHXD damage. Port Antonio, on the , nbfth; coajlt, was completely over- And Say* Boldly That the I whelmed. Only six houses were left I Spnrned improper standing there. The United FruK company’s wharves, offices, hotel and plantations were utterly demolished. Five of the company’s steamers, in cluding the Simon Dumols, "Alfred Dumois and Brighton were driven e Will be Followed / In the Mouth by a ^ ’ ~ , • 'f Lynching. Proposal* from the Warden of the Prison Where Mhe Was Confined. Another Fatal Railroad Accident j Down the balnda Mountain. A dispatch from Spartanburg to! The State says a disastrous freight wrecked occurred on the Melrose grade j [of the Southern railway Thursday afternoon at 2.15 o’clock by whlsh En gineer J. H. Averlll, Jr., and Fireman Hair were killed outright, 11 cars| loaded with coal smashed into smith ereens, the locomotive ruined apd W. B. Sherrill, brakeman, whose home is| GIVES HIS REASON •r Pardoning Governor Heyward Beelines TO. AESWXE AE YORITIGIM. He Whs Moved on Account of the Advice of Prominent People. Couronnes Station, but the mailUmdy #th< of the passengers who overcome heat and smoke. On the way these two-trafaierf" A TKKKIRLK PANIC brought Into requisition and the bod ies were carried to the morgue and the nearby military barracks. After day light rj; TW CKOWiW AT Tint ENTRANCES to the tunnel increased to enormous proportions, obliging" thp police to form a solid oordorr, through which were admitted only those seeking to Identify their relatives among the victims. The failure of many men, women sod children to return home during the night gave many the tiist news of the catastrophe. Fathers and mothers came hurrying to the mouths of the tunnels Ux try and find the absent ones. The firemen found a great number of bodies massed near the ticket of- 41oe of the station, where many had evidently been overcome while .seek ing tickets. *They had been surprised by tjbe columns of smoke, and had ’sought to run back up the stone stair way leading to the street. A strug gle ensued, and some escaped, but the others had been trampled on. One Wi woman had fled within tlie tlcket Of- loe, where her body was found. The Xlsket seller, herself, succeeded ip es caping. At the station of Les Curonnes, the same scenes of death and despair thad been enacted. The accident oc- .of Menllmontant and Les Couronnes, t ' so that the work of salvage proceeded •from both ends of the tunnel. In ;addition to the blinding smokfi the itannel belched forth a terrificibeat, as •one of the trains was slowly burning within. The firemen succeeded In ■browing several streams of water In / the direction of the wreck, while some Bremen and military engineers, at great hazard, pushed on inside the tunnel. . j Further on, the firemen stumbled upon a . TBRR1BLB BAM OF BODIES. These were the passengers of . Ahe burned train.‘’They had fled from the - coaches when the-fire broke out, and, groping through the suffocation clouds of smoke, sought the exit at Les Couronnes Station. But the tunnel makes s sharp turn near the scene of the dlssster and at the angle the en tire mass of humanity apparently be came tightly wedged. The panic which took place at this point, with In this dark subterranean passage must havebeen terrible. M. Leplne, prefect of police, sum moned a large force of doctors and - municipal officials, Who superintended the removal of the bodies. The num ber of'corpses brought up from the ; angle where the mass was wedged was i so large that four and eight bodies were placed in each ambulance. Many . of the victims bad handkerchiefs : stuffed Id their mouths, they having .Evidently tried to keep out the v asphyxiating smoke, v The faces of ' . the And were red sod congested. " ; SouMMvomen held their children tight ly In their arms. Ssveral versions of the disaster are it “ '■ i thM main facts Which have been established, are n No 43, which caused the acol- trance to the Bols de Boulogne, , western part of Paris, sod pass- : Ing under the Place de L'Etoile, circl- ‘ “ northerly quarter of the city. ^ an sms northern quorter-a manufact- aection-the train picked up occured among those behind, and the horror of the situation was Increased by a third train crasiiliig’ , lnto the fiery mass, and adding another crowd of panid-stlcken passengers tp those sedking an outlet. The cars continued to burn until twenty were consumed. The burning debris gave forth a fierce heat, which puffed Out of the mouths of the sta tions of Les Couronnes and Menilmont- ant. Most of the trainmen escaped, but the conductor of the train caus ing the accident was seriously injured. The escape 'of the trainmen is at- tributed not to their lack of attention to the passengers, but to their supe rior knowledge of the subterranean, passage, which enabled them to hasten forward in spite of the-obscurity. A number of heroic incidents occurred. One of the employees of the road nearly k'tot bis life in seeking to make his way through the smoke to aid the victims, and is now in the hospital. Several soldiers and firemen risked their ieves in attempting to succor the passengers. Perfect Leplne himself took his lifein bis hands by entering the tunnel and proceeding a cunseder- able distance uuU^the smoke drove him hack. ACCOUNT OK AN EYE-WITNESS. The chief station master at Les IgQuronnes, M. Didler.Jias given a ^ graphic description of the events pre ceding the accident. He says he saw the flames running along the gear of the cars when the first train passed through the station and called out to the engineer to stop, saying there was nonBne Yo rach the next station, but the engineer declared he had ample time and proceeded. A few minutes later.# long blue tfame flashed, through the tunnel,jtollowed by a vio lent detonation. Cooking into the month of the tunnel M. Dldler could, see flashed from the burning cars. Great masses of smoke began to pour out, preventing the officials from en tering tiie tunnel. Meo struggled ont through the smoke. . Screams could be beard-in the distance amid the crackling of the fire. VICTIMS MOSTLY THE 1*00K. ^ The names and occupations of the victims give pathetic evidence of their humble condition. The names are chararterlstic of the French working classes, and their occupations are given jas given as painter, mason, plumber, tailor, seamstress, lock smith, etc. Outsiderfche workmen about every third name is that of a woman. Pitiful scenes were enacted at the morgue throughout the day Unique among all summer gather ings is the “Mob Confereuce’’ now in progress at Cliatauqqa, N?Yy The] increase of mob spirit shown by feuds, Jynchlngs, riots, assassinations and other lawless happenings gives great importance to this conference. Among Wednesday’s speakers was John Tem ple Graves of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Graves spoke on “The mob spirit of the south.” He lynch law as a remedy for the crime of rape, holding that though lynching is a crime it is justified by the crime which provokes It and will never be discontinued until that crime is eliminated. The remedy for lynch ing must be the elimination of the crime of rape and thus, he maintalne, could be done only, by the separation of the two races In the Unfted States. “The problem of the hour is not bow to prevent lynching in the south but the larger tjuestlon: ‘How shall we destroy the crime which always has and always will provoke lynch ing.” “The answer which the mob re turns to this vital question is already known. The mob answers it with the rope, the bullet and sometimes. God save us, with the torch. And the mob is practical. Its theory M effective to a large degree; the mob is the sternest, the strongest and most effective restraint that the age holds for the control of rape. I “The lyncher does not exterminate the rapist,” Atr. Graves contended, “but he boldsT him mightily in check.” As a sheer; "cold, patent fact, he said, the mob stands Wednesday as the most potential bulwark between the women of the south and such a carnival of crime as would and precip itate the annihilation of the negro race. The ihasses of the negro, he held are not afraid of death coming a regular way. The love display and the spectacular element of a trial and execution appeal to their imagina tions. * Expediting the processes of th« law would not be adequate to eliminate lynching. The repeal of the amend ments and the establishment or the negro’s inferiority In law and society, said Mr. Graves, though desirable, are | not sufficient. * “For the negro,” he added, “is a! thing of the senses and with his race | and with all similar races the desire ashore but are lying in easy positions. Port Maria, another town on the north coast, also suffered Similarly. The soast is strewn with wreckage of local sailing boats. The southeastern portion of the is land has been completely denuded of its crops, the rivers are flooded and many men were carried out to see and drowned. Considering the damage to iroperty during the hurricane, the life is comparatively smal though the present estimate is that the death list will reach 50. Hun dreds of persons were injured and there were numerous hairbreadth es capes. The property loss is estimated at 110,000,000. - * The entire eastern end of the island has been devastated. Villages have been wiped out aod public buildings and churches demolisji^d. Thousands of the peasantry, rendeted homeless and destitute, are wandering about Ing food and shelter. The destruc tion of the banana plantations has been complete and the fruit trade is paralyzed fofThe nenrtwelve months. Hundreds of prosperous.fruit growers have been brought to bankruptcy and -ruin. The western ^eul of the Island, which it was at -first supported had escaped, also suffered considerably al though not to the extent which the eastern end did. The new banam plantations planted there were partly destroyed and the orange and the coffee crops were also Jnjifred. The Norwegian steamer Salvatore did Giorgio was driven ashore at Annotta bay and lies in a dangerous position. Several sailing vessels were wrecked on the north side. i Thousands of houses in Kingston were damaged, the wharves were bat tered several coasting, vessels were sunk in the harbor. Trade is prac tically at a standstill. ACT OF A MADMAN Fire* a Shotgun Into * Crowd of Five Thousand People. of the senses must be restrained by the terror of the senses, If possible, under the law. “Na influence of suppression 80 mighty and effective could be hrtaight to bear is a law making amputktion the penalty for the crime rape. But this, like curfew edicts, separate laws for white and black, or the treatment of the crime of rape as separate and outside of all other codes but expedi- ents, he maintained, “there is no real but one. No statute will per manently solve this problem. Religion does not solve It. Education oompll- as! cates it. Polifcs compllcates IV “The truth which lies beyond and above alt those temporielng expedi-. ents,” he concluded, “Is that separa tion Is the logical, the inevitable, the only solution of the great problem of the races.” Discusslng the subject of “Mental and moral contagion.” Dr. J. M. Buckley of New York, after speaking at some length of the various transient and permanent changes that take place under different physlcial and mental Influences In human personal ity, took up the question of crime and argued that all crime implied-tbe ex- and its attritiei the relatives gathered seeking to iden tify thC bodies, which were arranged n long lines on white marble Slabs. The clothing of many of the victims is torn, showing the fierceness of the struggle. SCENES IN THE TUNNEL. A survivor named Jules Bou&t, des cribes the struggle during the panic in the tunnel as terrible. Women were screaming,“Save me!” An old man fell exhausted until they fell asphyxi ated. * ✓ ' M. Gauthier, the magistrate forAhe district, says one of the main causes. nf of the loss of life was that those escap- d j ^ committed I With the crowd fleeing, the man stood w* & Ujw at random STjw so crime. He showed the operation of I Policeman George Nichols confi this and bow far through thetr natur al causes epidemics might spread. In conclusion, he declared that as laws of association bring on such gen eral and feverish criminal tendencies, so the lasw of association must be em ployed to antagonize. Gilbert Tffgg, aged 30 years, sup posed to be Insane, appeared on the principal street of Winfield, Kansas, Thursday with a double-barreled shot gun and fired both charges deliberate- ly Into a crowd of 5,000 people who were listening to a band concert. He killed three persons, fatally injuring three, and shot 20 others, of whom six may die. Trigg was himself killed by a policeman. ’ Thfe dead: Sterling Rice, a carpen ter; Dawson Tillotson, a barber, brains blown .out; D. Bowman, a carpenter of Oxford, Kans.; Gilbert Trigg. The injured: Mrs. Johu Barnard, shot In the neck; James Clarkson, shot in the back and arm; R. E. Oliver, shot in the shoulder and badr; tffyde l v shot in the hip; J t *U. Sterry, tn the chest and knee; Wilkins, Charles Thomas Thirteen others Were less seriously injured. The hand had just finished playing a waltz when Trigg stepped out from an ally a half block distant and de liberately taking aim at the band stands fired two shots. IL E. Oliver, a bandman, fell at the first,shot, hut the crowd, not realizing what had happened, rushed toward Trigg, be lieving that there had been an acci dental shooting of some kind. As the CTOicdr^osed In the crazed man dis charged two more shots at them caus- a scattering in. every direction. The whipping of Miss Marie De- Crises in one of the Geargla Slate prisons is creating a great-deal of talk and indignation in that State. The matter was recently investigated at Milledgevillee where the prison is lo cated. Miss DeCris’ statement sub stantially, was that she was treated kindly at first. “Warden Alagood made improper advances tome-fn his when I did cicrical work, attempted to caress me. I jerked away. He went in the other room and sat on a bed. He told me to come In there. 1 refused. He told me not to tell or he would^make it hot for me, and he has surclv kept his word. I saw him kiss a white con vict Id the hospital. “1 talked with Mrs. Alagood the day before the whipping. 1 used no disrespectful language. 1 did not stop talking when ordered. I told another white prisoner about Mr. Alagood’s advances. Shssaid if I was a lewd woman to submit; if not to protest; that. I wouid have an easy time if I would submit as that was the only way to get along with him.” L The other woman denies being kjissed. She denied the conversation at first, but afterward she admitted itJn substance. The evidence of im proper proposals was not held, up by the other witnesses who say that Ala good never approaebed them^. At the whipping on the bed, It was ordered to draw the clothes tight and this was done. Miss DeCris continued: “A physi cian was present. 'I was severely and brutally beaten and I cried. I was put In the field, under guard, with negro women next day. 1 was kept there off and on for four weeks. I was terribly blistered. They allowed me no rest. I nearly fainted anB fell in the field once. I never wrote im proper notes to any one. “I waS so terribly brujeed by the whipping thatrl could not sit down. There were welts as big as mj finger and the bruises were dark and blue and deep for two weeks. This was substantiated by one other witness, but was denied by a woman who slept in the same room, but not in the same bed. She said she had to pnt a g cloth on her wounds. ■ . Other witnesses who heard the ticks and cries, b$v the whipping was severq. They hear&her “hollering:” Miss DeCris says she overheard Mrs. Alagood JelHPg the house woman this morning that the committee was com ing, and “you all must stick to me and the captain.” Witness and Mrs. Alagood all deny this. The DeCris woman says she was tantalized by negro women as lazy, no good, a diamond queen, no better than they, etc. She says that Mr. Foster saw-her in the field and protested against the same; he had to order Alagoed to sehd her to the house two different times, and at hist he did so, but put her to ;fie potato patch backbf the house afterwards. She says her re fusal to see aYeporter was dictated by Alagood and "through fear. • Alagood says She refused of her own accord to see correspondents. ^ -r — Dr. Adams' evidence was only In his official capacity as physician', did not consider the ally severe. Warden Moore left for Atlanta torn There Is a rumor that the legists live committee is coming tonight. Mrs/ Alagood says she asked her bush&ud to whip Miss DeGris for in subordination and for impudence. "" The leather strap was at Baltimore, lost his legs, these mem bers being severed by the car wheels. The tragic happening occurred a short distance below Melrose station; almost midway between Saluda and Tryon. The distance that the road bed of the Southern rises on this heavy, treacberouagrade of five miles, from a little above Saluda to Tryon, will open the eyes of the average traveler, provided he has had the time to inspect casually, even, the route. This afternoon, freight" No. 02, headed for Spartanburg, with Con- Howie in eharge, was running from Asheville. This train was com posed of one of the Southern’s brand new mammoth locomotives and 13 cars laden ' with coal. Engineer Averlll was in charge of the locomo tive, and the trip was uneventful un til his train was passing along a short distance above Saluda. As he had to check up for that station, he applied the brakes; the train was running at a brisk rate of speed, which momen tarily increased. The brakes would not work and ip a minute the train was beyond human control. « As the freight passed Melrose sta- i at a fearful rate of speed Agent Hetheriy say, Fireman Hair, seated in his cab threw up his hands, indicating a perfect comprehension of the danger ahd peril awaiting the ill-starred crew. Faster and faster grew the speed of the uncontrollable train and finally the locomotive diverged from the iron rails and, plunged down Into a cut. The result of this abrupt check was fatal R) consequence. The falthful'Cnglneer and his fireman, true to their posts until the end, were crushed to death. Their bodies are under the debris and ruins. Conduc tor Howie and the flagman escaped without harm. Eleven of the cars were demolished and the engine is a complete wreck. The coal is heaped about the spot in huge, ill proportioned mounds. About the scene there ate signs of sorrow and grief, as the friends and relatives of the dead weep and wring their hands for those who wll never come back to their homes. Engineer Averlll was a bright young man 23 years of age, a son of Col. 7. H. Averlll of Charleston. His father, mother; wife and two little children, brother and sisters are spending the summer at Saluda, three milesfrom where he met his untimely death. He stayed on itaeagine with the faithful fireman, doing all he could to check the speed of the train until the engine buried himr- As tbp runaway train passed Melrose, the operator, J. W. Hetheriy, ran out and Fireman Hair threw up bis hands and smiled. The operator fainted. Conductor Howie ajyd his flagmen^ Bishop and Ward, were un hurt. * In The State Wednesday Mr. L. T. Boatwright of Ridge Spring critldsed the governor for his action In pardon ing Fletcher Lott w^o was convicted of murder in Saluda county fn 1902. • Mr. Boatwright charges, that “Gov, Heyward’s action In this case is round ly condemned by the best citizens of our town and county.” Mr. Boat wright goes on to say that Lott walk ed a mile after having had a dKBbultv with the man be afterwards killed, , got his shot gun, walked back to the house and deliberately fired upon the murdered man. “Tb$ people of this community/* he writes, “cannot see how the govemdr could pardon this negro without mak ing Inquiry of the community where the murder took place. Your coma- . pondent cannot find a man who knew anything about a petition being cir culated in Lott’s behalf.” THE GOVSKNOR'S kbAson. The. State says Gov. Heyward de clined to talk of the matter Wednes day, but at the saggestion of bM friends the following reasons were made pubic—the reasons which, ac cording to the constitution, must ha inscribed on the records to bs submit ted to the general assembly next year: $1,500 in Reward*. A special from the Stats Wednes day says the governor offered a reward of 1200 for the arrest and conviction of James Evans, the mulatto who is alleged to have killed the aged farmer, My. Phillips, as he sat at hla supper table In ills home in Norway. If one man could collect all of the rewards outstanding for recent acts of lowless- ness In that section of the State he would receive over 11,500. In addi tion to the 9200 for the conviction oit James Evan*, there Is a reward of 9150 offered for the conviction of the man Green, who in such a dastardly He I manner killed a Jew peddler, Zurasky, Fletcher Lott—Murder, with re- ' commendation to mercy; Saluda county. May term of court of general sessions, 1900, before Judge W. 0. Benet. The petition for the pardon was signed by CT. 6. Laffltte, former Intendent; A. R. Williams, W. T. Durham, former wardens; F. Nichol son, former clerk of town council of Ridge Spring, where the crime was committed. The petition seta forth / that Fletcher Lott waa ebarged at the May term, Saluda county, 1900, for killing Till Artimus. The petition sets forth further that at the time of said killing they were officials In th$ ~ town of Ridge Spriog, and were famil iar with the facts and oircumatanosa of said killing; that the defendant, Fletcher Lott; was horribly cut across the face anclneek before the fatal shot was fired, and under all the circum stances believe that be baa been suffi ciently punished and earnestly reoom- mend the exercise of the pardoning power, and recommend that the par don be granted at once. In addition to the petition of these town officials, Hon. B. L. Oaughman, railroad commissioner, la endorsing" the petition says: “I have known the petition, Fletcher Lott, for a long time and known him to be quiet and bard working; am with the above case and join In the above petition.” B. W. Crouch; Esq., makes the fol lowing .'statement: ‘ I wad clerk of court for Saluda county when Fletcher Lott was tried at the m. term of court, 1900, for the killieg of Till Aril- — mus and made the testimony In that case. Fletcher Lott was convicted of murder with a recommendation te mercy and sentenced to life Imprison ment In the State penitentiary. In my opionion be has been punished suffi ciently and I earnestly recommend that your excellency exercise your par doning power tn his behalf. He was dangerously cut In the face and neck before, according to the testimony of some of the witnesses, the total shof was fired, and more cases have gone Hon. J. W.. Thurmond, ofrouit solicitor, made two recommendations as follows: “1 recommend the pardon In tills case, the only homicide earn in letting out to the street, while the other was barred, as it was usually for admitting passengers. Many of the victims sought the barred exile, and were found massed against the wall, where they had been slowly suf- focoted. . M. Bienvenue, the chief engineer of (She Metropolitan Railroad, says from tiie techffibal point of view every pre caution tb avoid danger bad been taken. The chief misfortune w$s that the Vmployees did not organize assistance with sufficient rapidity to permit the passengers being quickly drawn out. ■A -!*< v - ■ r Railroad Casualties. In the first three months of the cur rent year says the Hartford Courant, 827 Amerlclanns were killed and 11,- 481 wounded in accidents reported by the interstate railroad- companies to the interstate commerce commission. In the, “train accidents” 300 were killed and 2,834 were wounded. 'Of the killed 94, and of the Wounded !,-■ 609 were passengers, the rest were railroad servants of one class and another. The number of tralnmeu. killed was 534; the number wounded was 6,630. Collisions killed 46 and wounded 753 of the passengers; they killed 131 and wounded 864 of the trainmen. Sixty-four of the traln meu met death and 6fi6 incurred their wounds while coupling or uuooupllDg ne- oyea w anragomzc. i In the afternoon mob conference, him dangerous, John Temple Graves answered ques tions. The north and south were equally sepresented. Mr. Graves’ plan for the solution. ot the race troubles is a state set aside for groes and disenfranchisement out of that territory. He said the would not object to the loss negro and. for It ority of white labor. “Is mob execution,” he was asked, “a matter of economy to the south*” i i .. . m • a.%. x Trigg and fired a bullet into his head. Bpfore llfe was extinct the demented man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a shot Into his own body. Gilbert Trigg was a miller by trade. He was commonly referred to as >» no ona tijOUght punish- and 301 pounds, but no oue . -*v No,” he replied, “the south never weighs money in the matter of wo man’s honor.” \ Another question w9$, -“Are not the southern mobs largely.white trash and men of murderous intentions?” He answered: ~ B . “By no means. The mob have in cluded the highest In the land, of ficials and professional men.” He declared that a white man would be lynched as quickly as allegro an offense against Ajchite worn: honor. He Instanced In proof the only lynching in New. Orleans in re cent yean. Saved from a M<i>b. Eight negroes were arrested for aa | ^_ e _ mpted ^criminal assuU on Misg art, a white woman, at Wbitestone, Tex., on Wednesday. Seven were re leased and the eighth man was held for Identificantlon. A mob appeared at the Jail aa4 took - the banged him to a tree nearby. Before he bcame unconscious officers appear- ed and rescued the negro and ft is an awful instrument of meat—about 3 inches wide, inches long, weight, say 3 solid leather, no boles. > Warden Moore- instructed every witness to talk freely and without fear as he would protect them. The general impression is that Ala good will be discharged as the im mediate circumstances did not at all juatify whipping and the punishment was entirely too severe In any event; woman should ^not have been worked In the field contkiuously In the hot sun. The affair is at fever heat and Is the entire topi* of the town. The telegraph offices is crowded with on the subject from ever; where. There Is also a reward of 9500 for the, CohVlctloirof the parlies who lynched and v Charlie Evans and 9500 for the con vie- 1 ,niena » n ‘' aDa 1 tton of the parties who lynched the negro at Chinquapin, In Aiken ooun- ty—the negro who was indirectly implicated in the killing of young exhibited. iWiUie Hall. For the arrest of the murderer of V «*^rd of 9150. of Willie Hall there is a re- More Mill* Clo*e. The Whaley MiHs ln Columbia have decided to run three day*of each week until the new crop of cotton comes in, which will be the first week in Sep- temter. The mills shut down Thh day night and resumed operation Mon day, running until Wednesday again I for about four weeks. The statement ] A tion signed hy the wardens of Ridge Spring.” v He. further" recommends: “I am sat isfied that the law has been vindicated In tills case. Have considered tbs peti tion and the facts of the case very carefully, and feel that it is say duty that the prayer of the petitioners be granted. Fletcher Lott was badly cut In the combat that resulted In thr death of TUI Artimus, and had a good reputation for peace and order.” Hon. W. C. Benet, presiding Judge, makes the following endorsement: ‘‘I concur with the solicitor.” Pardon granted Aug. 10,1909. ‘Harder Will Ont/ hurrying him to Sbermon for safekeep ing. The mob Is gathering to pursue the prisoner and it is said other com munities will join the mob. After the negro Brown had been forcibly taken from the mob, its meffi- bers turned their attention to the nul- ored residents of the town were fired promiscuously in the Sol Benje and wife Katherine Baughuas of Wilkes county, N. 0., have been arrested and committed to jail at Winston-Salem, N. C,, on the charge -mjirdertog Benje’s daughter Sarah, about Feb. 28tb, 1902. Ou March 24, 1902, the body of the dead Guns | girt was found to a nUU pond. At th« negro was made In a Cbasfette paper recent ly that the mills of Oolumbia would lie idle for several months, but offi cers of mills state that this la nothing it a sensationjtory. Tbs mills have just about enough-cotton on hand to run In this manner and as soon as the new crop comes in full time wlUhe re-' sumed. ^ Rode to His Death. Henry F. Spalding, aged about 49 yean, an expert automobllist from West Orange, N. J., rode to bis death four miles east of Whites Plains;N. Y., Wednesday afternoon. He was on the Wholesale Poieoalag 1 . i of ptomaine poisoning ^-j^NCted from Ashburn, Vs., some 20 miles outside of Wash ington last Wednesday. ▲ large num ber of persons had gathered to attend the sale of the dairy tarm warned by Senator Stewart of Nevada, tor served the prospective buyers ght luncheon consisting of ooffe ham and beef sandwiches. Shortly afterward at least SO parsons were taken violently ill, samvinf. ptomaine poisoning. One after anoth er they fell to the ground, writtilBg In agony. Horsemen were dtepatdfred hi all directions tor doctors, and a num ber responded and took prompt meas ures to relieve the sufferers. In a statement issued at section and the terror-stricken negroes when they came from their were ordered to leave town stance Nonviolence further than-thia intimi dation has been offered so far. ’ As result outgoing trains on all roads are Bauglmss as the perpetrators ot the crowded with negroes. crime. ;. being thrown into the pond. Recently (plunged Into the water. Two lineman l- evldenoeLiMA. developed pointing^ to-(rushed to aid flpaMIng but in their a ward Benje, his wife and Katherine ] excltotnentlet go entirely u< the ropes, tow path of the Erie canal. Owing to the muody condition of the path ^ . coroner’s inquest tt- developed that and while turning out for » Uni man's nesday night, the doctora were many bruises on the girl, Indies- rig, his automobile swerved more than patients out of danger - killed- before 1 he Intendad. aml man -aml inschineiare qoUe IU. we quite oped too J AnJ '> -v'.