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vol. xvra. BARNWELL, 8. 0., THUBSDAY, MAY 18.1906. NO. 87. TERRIFIC STORM. Town of Snyder, Oklahoma, Swept By Tornado. ONE HUNDRED LOST. N«t More thae a Score of Houses Left II Tlct ReHef Beiuf Sent Neiffeboriot Towns. Hre Followed la the Wake ; of the Storm. A dispatch from Snyder, O. T„ Thoraday night says that uptodate the number of known dead as a re sult of the tornado has reached 100. Arrangements hare been made to Conroy all the injured, who can be moved, to hospitals at Oklahoma City and Lawton. The havoc wrought by the tornado la astonishing. Out of a town that4J(U*ed, with bis companion a* mys housed 1,000 persons not more than a score of houses are Intact while two- thirds of the buildings are wrecked. The storm formed s< uth of Olustee, near the Texas line, and took a north easterly course, through a well settled region. At 8 o’clock it was observed by the people of Snyder, butthe usual funnel-shaped formation was lacking, and though the roar was plainly beard for aome time before the storm broke, aaany were of the opinion that it was a hall storm. Within a few minutes} the sky suddenly' became dark and a terrific downpour of rain began, last ing for several minutes. Then the rain stopped almost as suddenly as it started. For a few momenta, an omi nous calm Mlowed, and then the tor nado struck, tearing buildings to pleoes as though they were made of paper. Slgbty flve bodies have been recov ered, a dosen persons are missing and given up for dead, and of the 41 se riously injured, several are likely to die. More than 100 persons suffered less severe injuries.* Belief is going from neighboring towna Oklahoma city has sent 100 assn to dig graves and seek the dead still in the ruins, and a doien under takers with 100 ocfflns. Offers of financial assistance have come from numerous cities. Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has is sued a proclamation calling attention to the needs of the stricken town. It is still dtffloul t to obtain infor- ssation from Snyder. A single tele* graph wire furnishes an outlet, hut it is blocked private messages concern ing the dead and the injured. To add to the general confusion and distress after the tornado had passed, fire broke out and burned up all that remained of the buildings in one of the business blocks. So far it has not been oostlble to find out whether any bodies were cremated, but it is possible that such is the STRANGE TALK A Man and His Wife Found Rav- ^ s \'. *■ 8 ' ’ • •T'-Vi- 1 ing in their Home 1 After - Four D»y« of Treotment by a Pair ot California Faktm, Who Escaped. The police of San Jose Cal., are engaged upon a weird case of crime and hypnotic suggestion. On a re cent afternoon Frink A. f%ew, ~a marble cotter, whose home Is In Mil- tord, N. H., and his wife were dis covered by the police barricaded in a cottage, which they recently rented at 393 East St. John street, both rav ing mad. After a struggle Drew and his wife were overpowered and taken to a local sanitarium, and since then, as they have gradually regained their mentality, the strange story has been drawn from them. As a result warrants have been to ssed for the arrest of Professor Anton Weber, a German clairvoyant, whoje- oentlv occupied rooms at the Angelas house, and the woman companion, who to supposed to be his wife. Professor Weber went to San Jose from no one knows where, and has de BANK BANDITS • ' I In New York Act Just Like* the Old Janies Gang. TOWN HELD AT BAY gave as they left the village. They made their way easily to the out skirts of the town, where they got in to s wagon that they had stolen and started on a gallop for Mount Upton, five miles away. Several small possss were organised at once, and the chase began. The robbers were followedt until they resohed the bills. There they left their horse and wagon in tlve road and took to the woods, ef factually throwing .their pursuers off the trail. The Sheriff who was sleepy, quit the ohaae and with his deputy treturued home to finish his nap, a By Masked Men. While Their Coofeder- ates Blew Open the Bask Vault “ snff Cifrleff Oft 0*e Hundred Thousand Dollars is Cash* and Bank Notes. An unidentified woman was picked up dead, having been pinioned to the ground by a large si iter which enter- ad her left eye and came out through the been of her bead. Clarence Don ovan, a railroad engineer, and Miss Nina Feaenden were to have been naarried last night, but had just post poned the nuptials until morning Both ware instantly killed by the storm. Fred Crump, * boy, had started to a osllar when a flying timber decapl tated him. Debris was carried north west as far as Ooopertcn, 12 miles, and it is reported that there are more fragments at that town than in the tornado path at Snyder. The mayor of Snyder is having much trouble arranging for the burial of the dead. The confusion is great, owing to the fact that there are num bers of unidentified todies at the ■Virgoes. There is much suffering qwing to lack of provisions and places to stay What booses remain In the town are in bad condition and are unsafe for habitation. Besides there to not room enough to care for toe home less. Bedding and wearing apparel are both lacking, and despite the ef fort to suooor the unfortunates they are stllHn a pitiable condition. Many of tha injured oould not be oared for or given medical aid until nporniog, and by that time the wounds were aggravated. Dr. York of Hobart, who was active in relieving the suf fering, says that 20 per cent of the Injured will die, "v Killed by Nervpus Hboek. A dispatch to the Augusta Cbroui- da says Mrs. J. I. Campbell of Fits genld, Ga., died Wednesday after 111- imm superinduced by nervous shook. A fsw-months-old baby girl had a narrow escape from death beneath tha hjofs of a runaway bona, and dnoe then die mother has been in a teriously. Professor Weber succeed* d in obtaining 12,000 In gold from Mr and Mrs Draw and has three days the start of the officers. Mrs. Drew is still prostrated from her experience. Mr. Drew, a man of great physioil strength, to apparently perfectly well again. As Mrs. Drew told her story she appealed frequently to him for corroboration and together the couple told a lucid tale of their dealings with Professor Weber and his wife. ■ We first went to Professor Weber on Monday a week ago,” Mrs. Drew said, "upon seeing his advertisement in the papers. We had had some trouble in Oakland and went to con sult him about It. Professor Weber and bis wife treated us kindly and told us to call Wednesday. "Wednesday we went to his office and he suggested to us that he could aid us greatly financially if we had 12,000 to invest In corn, pork, lard or wheat. We talked about the matter and then Weber suggested that he oould give us a treatment which would be an effective relief from the trouble about which we had first consulted him. _ — We consented and from my hus band’s bead and my/own he clipped a small wisp of hair) and be also took a piece of the nails of our fore Ungers. These he placed in a receptable with some powder and Ignited them. The result was a heavy incense, which he swung at us with the command that we Inhale Jt. We both did so, and the result Was a sense of strsngulatlpn and tickling of the throat, which was fonowsd by s feeling of exhilaration. "At Professor Weber's suggestion we then went directly to our home aod remained On the house, wlthcu: seeing any one. On the«ollowlog day Mrs. Weber came to the house and gave us a treat mt nt. These treat ments consisted of passing the hands firmly over the forehead and drawing them away, snapping the fingers after every stroke. The result was a sense of relaxation and res: fulness which .was very pleasant. "Friday Prof. Weber told us to go at once to Oakland, draw 12,000 fn m the bank there and return at once to San Jose. We drew the money frr m tbs bank in gold and returned oh the afternoon train to San Jose and took the money to Prof. Web: r’s office. " ‘Take this money hr me, place it under your pillow tonight and return it to me at 11 o’clock tomorrow,” Le t-old us and we followed out his in structlocs to the letter. We turned the money ever to him the next day, 1-and were then advisOd to remain ki the house until we received a tele gram telling us where to meet him in San Francisco to get our money back ^ “This was on Saturday morning and from the Thursday before we bad scarcely anything to eat. We did not seem to care for food. * We stayed fight In the house Saturday and did not see anyone. On Sunday morning Mrs. Weber came to the house an j gave us both another treatment, and that was the last we saw of her or her husband. ,l When the police broke down the barricade at the Drew home, on Mon day, they found the couple in Vcondl tion pf actual religious dementia. "I am the Queen of Heaven,” Mrs. Drew declared, "and my husband is the King of Heaven." Only by taking oxth that they were emissaries from the King of Kiig oould the officers approach to remove fethem to the santarium. For twelve hours their ravings continued Violent. The police believe- that both were subjected to hypnotic Influence and while In this condition were prevailed uopn over their money. , Millionaire citizens of Gilbertsvllle, N. Y., are planning to offer a big re ward for the capture of five masked bandits who on Tuesday night, May 2, blew open and rc bbed tbs safe jf the townliaifk, and then at pistols’ points made good their escape via Mount Upton and Norwich, This rebbery, wM -b netted the thieves upward of 1100.000 in cash and negotiable secu rities, was one of the boldest that has ever been perpetrated In New York State, and ranks with the deeds of Jesse James and the Dalton Brothers for skill and daring. A fl >od of telegrams and telephone | messages have been sent all over the country, giving a dialled description of two of the bandits and a general description of the other three. - De tectives In the larger cities who have been consulted declare that the men who dynamited the safe were experts at the work, and that they have be fore now converted their securities into mnuey, divided their cash and disappeared!-—^ "It to a case of dyramite, division and silence,” said the Sheriff of Chen ango County, as he announced his search for the men had ended at the depot at Norwich. “They had every move planned; they knew every train and every ft»ot of the ground, and as soon es they had turned the trick, and had the money in their pockets, they simply dusted and got clean the robbers lay close in the woods all day. That night they stole a team from a nearby farmer and drove to Chenango County, nine miles across tbs hills. They reached there short- and as the Sheriff Work of the Terrible Wind and of the bounty bad not received word of tlie robbery he had. no one watch ing, the trains. About 1 a. m. the bandits boarded a train for Ojwsgo and got safely away FRIIOHXH SHOT HiMULF. Held Deputy Sheriff at Bay Until He | Committed Sulqlde. dispatch from Anderson says Weatderall, s young negro s* A Negro Killed. Saturday as a special freight train passed Lockhart junction in Union County it was boarded by a young ne stAfieof fear for tbe safety of the lit- fgro named Con. Byas As the train tie one. The ibcident whjoh precipi tated tbe attack that terminated In death occurred two-weeks ago when Ml an to, driven at full speed, came suddenly to a stop directly in front of up (ff. Mrs. Campbell’s home, Tbe baby | tom and be fell fist on top of the car girl had been playing on the porch * *—‘ ■'—’■— # and, struck by tbe thought that she had wandered Into tbe street and had bean ran down by tbe machine, Mrs. Campbell rasbed out of the bouse, but before she reached the street she fell and was picked up unconscious. She rallied from the shock and grow Mil passed by that place the-negro was seen standing on top of one of the freight cars. The spout of the water tank struck the negro on the head at d It is supposed knocked him sense About a quarter of a mile farther the track the young negro rolled the Kip of the ear dead. Tbe negro worked around the depot at Lockhart junction and has been in the habit of riding to Spartanburg on lucal freight* the past year. When the train passed Lockhart it was going at about 86 miles an hour. away.”'* The fact that every telephone and telegraph wire that led out of tbe town had been cut shows that the men knew exactly the lay of the land. Wi.en tbe first explosion wa heard by the citizens of Gllbertsvilie they made frantic attempts to call tbs police of acj lining townships, btft the wires wer§ severed and they could not even call their next door neighbors. The bank which was robbed is in a private institution owned by E. C. Brower, one tf the wealthiest men in the town. A number of New York millionaires have residences here, and they make use of the bank safe to store their securities, jewels and even their cash. Owing to the large sums that arejjenerally drawn by the richer depo-iiorg the hank makes its rule to have a large sum of cash on band all the time. . * Al^ this the safe blowers seemed to know full well. They slipped into town on Tuuday night es soon as tbe five hundred inhabitants were in bed. Then they cut the wires, and then ffecUd an entrance into the bank tself. All five of the men were |jpasked. Two of them stex d on guard outside tbe bank r while the other three went inside to superintend the bltffeing of the safe, it took four heavy charges of dynamite .to finally wrench the doors from tbe big steel box, and while these charges were being exploded the two guarus on the outside held the town at bay with six shooters. When the notoe of tha firw^, expln. sion roused the sleeping Inhabitants Klward E. Steckweli hurriedly dress ed and ran into the street. HeYkn into the arms of one of the bandit guarus who threw him to the ground in an Instant. With the aid of hto companion he bound and~ gagged Stockwell, and then oooly robbed him of a large sum of iponey and his watch and chain. Stockwell had with him the money belonging to the store he conducts, and it to reported that his loss will seriously embarrass him unless the company charges tbe Run to profit and loss. *—' By the time tbe bandits had dto posed of Stockwell other citizens be gan to pour from their homes, only to ne met with six-shooters in the hands of desperate men. "Keep back, from here,” said the bigger of the guards. "The first one wuo approaches will be shot full of holes.” The citizens were awed, and as they paused a second and then a third ex pi sion was heard In tbe bank. Then came the fourth explosion and the sound of the three baffk rOi bxs ripp ng the broken safe to pieces with crowbars and pickaxe^. The inner compartments of the safe were easily wrenched open and the large store of money and jewels quickly taken from their resting places and thrust into the pockets of tbe thieves. As sooQi iK8 the last of the Valuables had been swe&£ up, tbe bandits ran ut to reinforce tbe guards at the Lout of the hank. Behind them they ieit a wrecked building, before them was a crowd of timid, badly scared citizens. All the money and valua- oles were transferred to one of the gang, and then the other four sur rounded him as a body guard, apd the break for liberty was made. - r Groups < f men stood in the street but they opened the way for the five men who carried six shooters in their bands as they marched by. "fhe fl^t man who attempts to follow us will be shot like s dog,” tbe last stern warning the robbers A Tillman weatderall, a _ confined in tbe county jail on a charge of housebreaking, committed suicide about noon Wednesday by shooting himself with a pistol. How he manag ed to procure tbe weaaon Is a mystery to tbe officers. When Deputy Sheriff W. N/ Scott opened Weather all’s cell door Wednea-1 are suffering day night to place some water in tbe cell tbe negro suddenly thrust a pistol Into hto face and commanded him to stand aside. Mr. ScjU slammed tbe doorahul, and the prisoner crept back into a corner of tbe cell without fur* ther attempting to make immediate use of the pistol. The deputy sheriff secured two gentlemen to asust him in disarming the negro, and when they attempted to do so he fired one shot at them. Fortunately it went wide of its mark. Toe officers then left the prisoner securely locked without sue ceeding in disarming him. He remain ed in possession of tbe weapon during the night and Wednesday morning and held tbe officers at bay until he ended his life by his own band. About noon Wednesday tbe offloers at the jail were attracted by a shot, and an investigation showed that Weatherall had shot himself through the breast, Inflicting a wennd that caused death In a short time. Wsatherall was a bad negro, and had served a term on tbe county chaingang for housebreaking. He ould have been tried at the sessions court at Auderson next week on a sim ilar charge, for which be was being teld at the time of hto suicide. He bad been confined In jail for a month or more. Hjw hs secured tbe pistol by which to try to effect his escape to a mystery. DEATH DEALING Tornado Kills Twenty*Six People at Marquette, Kansas, - THE TOWN WRECKED Death and Destruction Followed in the Rais. Many Residences and 1 Public Buildings Blown Down and Wrecked. A dispatch from Marquette, Kansas, under date of May 9, says when dark ness fell upon tbs,tstricken town Tues day night It was known that 26 llv^s had been lost - in the tornado that wrecked paf$ of Marquette early Tues day and did much damage In that vic inity, and that 44 persons had been injured. Of the injured :i5 were serl ously hurt, and some of the may die. During the day two victims dlM^- of their Injuries. Several of the others! * from broken limbs -and | Internal 4 njurles. In Bf veral cases entire families have been killed. A man named Switzer, night watchman at the railroad PENSION LIST GROWS. Bolls Shew Many Additions lines the ] Last Report. Formerly Residue Wa* Returned to Pension Fund, But Now Goes to General Fund. Over 800 names have been added to the pension rolls of South Oarolina {since the last report. Thera were 617 deaths during the year but there was a net increase of 247. The pension funds are distributed as well as they can be apportioned by comptroller General Jones. The work [of the pension bureau is extensively j arduous, as there are so many stalls- tlos and conditions to be recorded. Wednesday the comptroller with the aid of bis efficient peneion clerk, Mi s Kate Maher, made out a state ment of the ~dfttrlbutlon as follows for the year 1905: COUNTY AXOTTNT. Abbeville ...I 3,540 00 Aiken..,.. 6,828 60 Anderson 11,130 50 A FATAL WRECK After Collision Two Can if Dynamite Exploded. FIFTY FATALITIES. Moqe Than ■ Hundred Hart. A ger Train on PtauyfvaaU Runs into a Freight Train. s a around Strew* With Dead and Dying. Bamiierg.... : y....... 1,654 00 Barnwell 3,267 50 Beaufort 652 50 Berkeley 2,340 00 Charleston :.. ' 3,Ol7 50 Cherokee 5.001 50 Cl tester 3.628 00 Phesterttekl •...» 5,636 50 Colleton '6,912 00 Clarendon 3,287 50 rlington... ^4,941 60 poh>hestey „l.„.— 1,678 20 j K(TKe(OT„....... ;7. . 2,823 60 Fairfield 3,237 00 Florence ....TSv 3,835 50 RURAL MAIL ROUTRS COSTLY. Government'* Doe* lor Present FI*- o*l Year I* $13,000,000. The net loss to the government the of operating the rural mall routes of the United States in the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1905, will not be less than 18.860,080, and probably several millions in excess of that amount. The minimum estimate of loss to obtained after allowing to the credit of the rural service every cent of revenue derived from mall sent by patrons of the routes and from mall received by them, but as a matter of fact, only a part of these receipts are due to the establishment of rural ser vice. It to impossible to tell what proper tion of the rural mail business should b 3 credited to the establisbment of rural service, hot it to estimated by competent authorities that the real Ions for the fiscal year will be nearer *12.000,000 than *8,860,080. The law rasing the salaries of rural carriers is in effect in the present fis cal year. It Increases tbe most of service to $58 per month for each route, exclusive of the expenses of the field inspection service. It is the cost of rural mall facilities that pre vents the financial waistcoat and pan taloons from meeting In tbe postoffice department Without this endt and increasing-expense the depart ment practically would be self sus taining. Society Woman Suicide*, x Death by suicide, while suffering from what her physicians say was temporary insanity, induced by poor health, was chosen by Mrs Benjamin Strong, Jr., the beautiful and talent ed daughter of John L* B^utillier, a merebant prince of New York city, at her home In Englewood Tnnrsday. Unusually pathetic rtreumRances surrounded the case. Mrs. Strong had been suffering from nervous ex hi us ion for aome time, and, although her illness bad not been regarded as peute she never had fully recovered her health after the birth of her fourth obili} six months ago. Mrs. Strong shot berself»>~4hrough the heart with a revolver that bad been it her home since a burglar icare, some time ago. yards, lost hto three children. N. P. Nelson and bis wife and three children were found dead. Two other children were not at home and escaped injury Tuesday night order bad practically been brought ont of the chaotic con ditlqn that prevailed Tuesday and a relief committee had begun dtopensing aid. Among the relief sent from out side were 25 pupils from Bethany col lege, who acted as nursis Tbe tornado struck the southern end of the town and out a clean swath 100 yards In width through its entire Imgth. Coming as it did at midnfgnt all tne people were caught without a moment's warning. A heavy rain storm had pneedsd tbe wind. When dayl gbt broke oyer the town It found the entire population in a state of panic. Business was entirely suspended and every one who escaped Inlury turned hto attention toward aiding the Injured. Tbe tornado seems to have formed three mileilButh of Marquette and did not spend its force until It had passed many miles north of the town. In Marquette tbe residence portion west of the main street suffered tbe principal damage. The houses In tbe course of the tornado were all, with two or three exceptions, completely wrecked. In this section there were a number of modern residences, of which only one was left standing. The Swedish Lutheran and Metho dist churches were among tbe first buildings struck, and they, together with tbe parsonage adj fining the Me tbodtot church, were demolished. Monday afternoon was hot and op pressive. Late in the evening a ter rific rain storm broke over the town The rain continued to fall in torrents until midnight, when the tornado struck. Within less than fiva minutes It bad wrought its terrible work an passed on. Telegraph and telephone wiree were carried down) and it was several hours before the outside world oould be apprised of the plight of the city. It was not ontlt 8 o.clock Tuesday morning that physicians and surgeons began arriving from surrounding towns. In tbe meantime dozens of vol unleers set to work to clean away the debris and extricate tbe dead and in jured. Tne Swedish Lutheran parson age and several private reside were turned into temporary hospitals. Tbe dead were taken to a storeroom nearby. Dr. Lund, the Lutheran pastor, passed about among tbe suffering, ministering to their comfort, while 36 or 40 other persons, working under his direction, cared for tbe injured at other points. There were many narrow escapes from death. Tbe Ibfant daughter of Charles Sal Ion was lifted in her bed and carried to the middle of the street, receiving only a few scratches. Sailon and hto wife were seriously injured The. jpattress upon which tne baby daughter of the Rev. Smith lay was doubled up In such a manner an t- cover the child and protect it from falling timbers. In spite of the de siruction of the Smith house, the en tire family escaped uninjurei. Mr. and Mrs. O S. Edvln were car ried on their bed a distance of 600 f*et and laid down withouthelng serliusl injured. 967 00 10,928 50 3,248 50 4,111 501 ■ 00 bfiir 8,650 - 2.882 50 n 50 Georgetown.. Greenville Greenwood - x ttampton..:.................. Horry.. Kersiiaw Lancaster. Laurens Lee Lexington..... 6,684 00 Marion 5,436 00 Marlboro 3 456 Oi Newberry 3,675 00 Oconee 6,835 00 Orangeburg 4,305 00 Pickens 5,260 OT Richland..., 5,656 50 Saluda 3,701 00 Spartanburg .*.. 17,410,50 Sumter ’.T.....;*.... 3,036 00 Union 4,98150 Williamsburg...: 3,934 00 York '. 7,581 60 Total ; *196,583 00 Statistics. An interesting table follows: Names on roll 1904 ,8,544 New names added 1905.... 829 Total 9,376 Less those who died 1904, 517; those off for other causes, 66; «582 ■v ___ Names on roll of 1905. 8,791 Net increase....... 247 Number of pensioners on tbe roll in' 1905, showing as compared with 1904, showing increase and decrease by Chtoses. < , = ]UfU Class A'. 67 Class B 202 ' Class C, No. 1.. 572 Vlass C, No. 2-4,020 Class <J, No. 3... 728 ClassC, No. 4..2,954 •lAecrease. •* The above classes cover 4.862 soldiers in 1904, and 4,911 in 1905, an increase of 4.1. . — Paid expenses of the department amount to: Joint resolutions and legisla tive expenses • 84 00 •Expenses State board 119 00 Stationery and stamps 102 35 bounty boards and commis- : —- sioner* ^- 2,342 30 Salary pension clerk 600 00 Balance on hand..... 169 35 Total number of widows on roll i:*04, 3,682, and in 1905 3,880, showing an Increase of widows drawing pen* sion, 198 . ’ ■*- Formerly the money left from the fund in each county was returned by the clerks of court to the pension fund of the next year but it now goes to the general fund of the State and last year *6,6oo was reFurned. Great Forest Fire*. One thousand men, including fira* raeq, laborers and volunteers, strug gled Wednesday night with the forest tire which, starting near Plymouth. , four days ago, has extended into four towns and shifting fre quently with the wind, has threaten ed first one settlement and then au other. The front of the fire extends two miles, while its side lines reach back six miles. It has laid waste seventy five square mlhs and to by no means under control. Nothing but a heavy rain, will, the fire fighter sty permanently stay the progress of tne flimes. The land burned over includes valuable tracts of tlmbei and tbousandH of cords of cut wood S me small buildings have been burned nut the fire-fignters al led by favora hie winds, have saved the villages near tbe fire zone. The loss will be large.- * A dlipatch from Harrisburg Rl, says that fifty passengers on the Peunsylvanla Express train No. It, from New York and Piiiladelphia, »ere killed and more than a hundred injured, some of them fatally, in a dynamite explosion, which followed a ■ollislon of tne express train and the esst bound freight In South Harris burg at 1:10 Thursday morning. Of the 169 passengers op the exprora train not one ir reported to bays Following the- lot xplosion there came two others, greater in violence than the one ceding It. Then came fire whieh seemed to start in every one of the overturned coaches at the rams la* stant. The lire found its way to the dead and dying and injured planed under tbe wreckage. , The wteok was caused by the bant* the air hose on the freight. The seetton of the Cteteltaft tad Cincinnati express plunged into tbe wrecked freight train, exploding two oars of dynamite and strewing the ground with the dead and mangled bodies. Tbe explosion broke all of the windows of the city of South Har rlsburg. Tbe engineer of ger train was H. K. Thomas, delphia, who was klUod His fireman, B. H. Dickey, of Phlla-X, delphia, was thrown dear pf the wreok down the embankment and escaped with a few slight scratches. Mr. sad Mrs. Tindell, the Utter a daughter of Senator Knox, are among those of prominence reported to bo injured. Many who escaped death wen had* ly burned; in aome oases, tbe atothaa were almost eatirely boned their bodies. Samuel Sbubert, rloal manager, of Now York, jumped from his berth just In Unoe to aaee himself from burning to depth, hot hi* legs were bady burned. Nearby shanties and other places of .sheltwr were found after the wreok, for many of the passengers were so tired in their night clothes. AH provided for the beet pomlbie. In all 50,000 pounds of powder exploded. The entire _ ger train of nine care and the Iooqsso* live were destroyed as well as nine fretaht dart. Two Klfpxl In Wreak. _ A dispatch from Union to The State raysUte Wednesday afternoon at the passenger train on the Loekhart railroad was rounding a sharp earn shout one and one-half miles from Lockhart, going at a moderate rite of speed, the tracks spread and the gine and tender were completely over turned. Tbe terrible shock of tbs aft- cldent was in but a short time suc ceeded in those who were unlo jured by the desire to rescue and relieve those uider the wreck. Their search soon showed that the cuualties were: Killed. ■ B T. Hollaman, fireman, of Gecg- gta, died instantly. Richard EL Wilburn, aged 18, a pas senger, caught under tbe anghm and s-aided so terribly that he died within an hour. Injured: Edward MoOhesoey, engi neer, hurt lntsrnftllj r may die. Mrs J. H. Wilburn, the mother of' the young man who was killed, la al Union under a physician’s eare lor a week and tbe terrible news WednnaUy night completely prostrated * t r* „■ • Italian! In Lontaisn*. List week a vessel brought 176 Italians from Palermo to New Or least AU'but about 20 were permit ted to land. Those refused were afflicted with disease or did not meet the requirements of the law in some other particulars. /^Tje Immigrants were landed at Net* Orleans^at the suggestion of tbe Italian ambassador, through whom southern planters made an appeal for Italian laborers. They will be employed largely on tbe plantations of Louisiana and other Southern atatra. * ' Wank the Dl*pen«*ry. A disparch from Washington to The Columbia Record says. Sue re ary Shaw and Iowa people in Was liugtoo are deeply interested in the announce ment of E. W. Weeks, a prominent member of the Iowa legislature, that, he proposes to introduce into tbe nex session of the legislature sod pu.h to utmost abiltty ~a btrt estabitemug a dispensary law in that state m xtoltb cluaely after the South Carolina law, Mr. Weeks l^ secretary of the Nation al Association of Republican Cluti* and stands well In the leg stature. He has recently made a vibit to South Carolina, where be has studled'^ths operations of tbe dispensary system sod is pleased with la He believe>|{ 0/ s.ightest ptln from thaoper that the long standing contention* of la feot, “t>unay” appears to Iowa people over tbe control of liquor en j 0 y it, lytag quietly In the lap oi oan be settled by tbe introduction of the op-rator outing tbe »«*n<pni*- the Sooth Oarolina idea. tt0 o Made of Rabbit Hair. One of thp strangest of modern in du>trlei to that oani;d on in the Jura nl trict in ' Franci. It consists it taking the fur from live rabbits and weaving it into a textile fabric whiot tiaki s the warmest kind of clothing miterlal kmwn. The ep^clerof rah b:ts which furnish the “raw” mate rial for the manufacturing process is be Angora rabbit, wuicbhaa receiver; toe name of the silk rabbit. Every t nee months the rabbit sheds its fur, and several days before this takes place nature to anticipated by female hands,-wnlcb remove the long silken hairs by gentle friction. The skin.ia alrcsiy^ripe,*’ and the fur comes off easily and without the rabbit suffer in/ the A Fatal Fifths. A dispatch from Houston, Tina, says Edward Calhoun was mot and killed on boast an incoming San An- tenia and Afansas Pass train at Walllt Wednesday by W. T. EldridgeoC < Antonio, Texas formerly floe . lent and general, manager o! IheOant Belt railroad. Calhoun is a brother-ta- law of Oapt. Wm. Dooovant, who was killed by Edridge about three yean ago on a p wronger train on the tame ro id, E diidge was recently acquitted of murdering Oapt Dooovant. Tha tragedy grew out of the murder ef Don ivant -and sober quent attempts nade upon the life of Edridge. Mid- ridge was shot through tbe lungs by an unknown party bat recovered. Die- -tension over the control of the Belt railroad in whieh Sldrldge i HoQowuat were jointly interested suited la the killing of Dooovaat, i whieh time a feud is said to hay* i toted bitween relatives of the i ' ed and E drldge. AU of in M n M-lramil'R- prOBUBODt* * / ——*— Ml** Fit* gurmek It Blsh. Ml* Francis Fits, who left Batin, five yean ago sad went with e to Alaska sent out, bf a ork syndicate, -»ome in Medford with a mated at o*f I600,*0ft. been United States owner of a i Ins roe woman, owoer, mine« nead of a big: