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TRAGEDY hue nu iut mm i dllffUS miPEDE SEVENTY-TWO ARE DEAD P9M* Hm OUldran of CMomet, Mich- \ - ' • tgm’a BCriking Miner* Were Are—a Hage OhrletmM Tree «e«M One MaUdonaljr Shouted *TMre w , Storting the Fatal Panic. Hu the day Christendom ha* set hsi«* ap 6ne of rejoicing over the Mrth of the Savior Calumet, Mich., —token to the heart by an*almost unbelievable catastrophe, stood learning by the side of Its dead— the seventy-two victims, most of them children, of the frightful panic an Christmas Eve in the Italian Hall. This panic followed a false alarm «T of Sre daring the progress of a Christmas tree entertainment arrang- ed for families of thee opper strikers. AU bitterness and ill feeling that has existed in this strike-ridden com- manity for months past is wiped Mray hr the one great, common af- fltetioa. Christmas day the people at Calumet only saw tbelr neighbors, Mir brothers, their sisters and their Ifttle children staggering under an ataoat unbearable burden of distress aftd grM. A mass meeting of Calnmet citi* agos was held In the afternoon to ex ■ran sympathy and devise ways and asaaas to ameliorate the suffering aad sorrow of those families on ?hleh the hand of death bad fallen A committee of twelve was appolnt- ' ad to visit each home and ascertain Whaft flnanclal assistance was needed Faada are assured and no outside aid .will ha needed. The accident occurred Wednesday afght while several hundred miners aad their wivee looked on, the chll Area pressed eagerly to the stage to reeetve Christmas presents. At this ■eiat a man put his head in at the 4*#r at the hall and yelled “Fire!” The ary was taken up by those In the hail. Every one started for the 4*ors. The weaker were thrown -to M loaf, and those behind tried to gUmh over those ahead of them. .The stairway and other avenues of %ruas wdre blocked so effectually %at thoee Inalda could not get out, —4 thoee without could not get In to af4 the panic-stricken crowd in the kbl. The principal exit was a nar- TNr Stairway at the back of the hall. Whea this had. been cleared of the mldlas that filled It to the top and a —iek recounting had been made. If *faa foaad that aetenty-two corpses had baas piled up beside the hall % Id lag. It is thought that a dosen h|hera ware carried away by friends. The dead were piled up beside the i«U ladaded ST girls, 19 boys, nine —mea and five .men. Excited men —4 womea atood about the building, ■base daaed by the sudden change flhm holiday festivities to tragedy, Uthers ealllmg hysterically for a miss- lag child, and ft few even threatened vfstaaoe to the reseners for keeping thcaa hack from the long row of hpdlea. There was not much work for the alMy doctors who hurried to 'the —a as aecia-aa the atotm was Mtod, for thoaa Who were not klll- #1 hi the flrat rusk were held upright M4 aafa by the very force of the on nut towards the exit. Only three fejarad persons were taken to hos- fttsle. A few want home, assisted Hr Meads. Par many days the children of the dipper mine strikers had waited 6x paetontly for Christmas tree exer- otses, arranged by the Woman’s Aux flUsy of the Western Federation of ■laera. The entertainment was set fjMr the early evening, and the hall, — the second floor, soop was filled to Ha limit. Children selected to recite dhrtstmas selections and sing carols hito finished, aad the man selected to plky the part of Santa Claus had prepared to distribute the presents Hat were piled around the tree. The aides were filled with the toya and glfla, when the man thrust his head In at the door of the main hallway and shouted “Fire!” A wo Hum near the door realizing the Im port of the act, seized the man by (he shoulders and tried to counteract (he alarm, but her efforts were fu tile. The man wrested himself from her grasp and ran away and the cry •f "■re" was repeated througho (he room. V word was shouted In several as parents rose and rush- H4 forward to got their children. The ■res ware crushed, out In almost a twftUtttag. Then the physical Impos- Sfhfllty of farther movement brought PMjo-eCrtckea persons to their •hum, bat most of those In the hall Mid not get oat of the jam, they had CUT DOWN DELEGATES CABO LIKA LOBES WITH VJ?- REPUBLICANS. ’/V * -V Policemen and firemen bunded to i halldlng, to fl^i the hall oongest- * climbed the fire escapes •stored by the windows. In a 1 time the uninjured and the pulled from the tan mfi placed ifl fire 4e- e of Pfttrlok National Committee Beds Its Labors '•' '.3' ’ " "... 4 - With Compromise Reorganization P , ’ . ' j a^fi Adjourns. ^ ' . The Republlcftn national comm^ tee haa concluded Us labor tor re form in party procedure, and launch ed .fits campaign for a reunion of warring elements, by adopting a res olution providing Tor a radical change in the basis of representation In national conventions which would reduce the quota of southern states ttpm thirty-three to sixteen per cent. of- 1 the convention’s totals _ ? The actionof the committee, criti cised in vigorous terms by several of its members,‘’"hut made unanimous before adjournment, mult be Indors ed by statee-entitled to eaet-a ma jority of votes in the electoral col lege before it becomes party law. • In order that such action shall be taken as promptly as possible the committee appointed a subcommittee of three, consisting of Charles B. Warren, of Michigan; Senator. Borah, of Idaho, and'Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia, to prepare an. address This address will be drawn up short ly after the Christmas holidays, and leading members of the committee expressed the hope that it would be met by early action. .!> Approval by the states will insure a call from the national committee for the national convention of 1916 along the lines laid down. The re organization plan adopted came as a compromise which reflected the views of many commltteemenltait southern representation should ^reduced, but not brought to the vitalshlng point. . .. * ‘ \ v According to figures submitted by the subcommittee, the new plan would reduce the total number of delegates from 1,078, as In 1812, to 993. Under It these states would lose delegates: Alabama 9, Arkansas 3, Florida 4, Georgia 10, Illinois 2, Kentucky 1, Louisiana 7, Mississippi 8, Ngw Yofck 4, North Carolina 3, Pennsylvania 1, Sputh Carolina 7, Tennessee 3, Texas 1(>, Virginia 9, and Hawaii 4. The southern states would have 164 dele gates in all. crush occurred at the foot of the stairway. He estimated there were about one hundred piled in a heap when he reached the entrance of the building. A boy of about six caught hold of Ryan’s hand and begged to be rescued. The fireman pulled the boy partly out, hut was unable to ex tricate the little fellow’s legs’. The human mass kept pressing down and the boy’s life soon was' snuffed. out. A girl of eight or nine grasped the hands of Angelo Curto, a fireman, kissed them and Implored him to save her. He made a heroic effort to pull her ont, but the crush was rs great he was compelled to give up the attempt and she perished. Mrs. A. Nlemela, one of the vic tims, was suffocated, while standing up. Leonard Wllman, fireman, took out a crying boy of alx, uninjured. Near him his mother and sister lay dead. His seven-year-old brother was .taken out later, An eleven- year-bid boy rescued his brother of nine by carrying him down & ladder. There were other similar rescuea. A child hurled from the building was caught by a spectator. Chief Trudell, of the fire department, caught another child thrown out of a window by a frantic father. John Saari killed his boy of five by falling bn him, and he, too, perished. Other men began to pul! the bp^s of the dead and helpless from the stalyway and place them In a room beside the building. This dis position' of the crumpled bodies was found inadvisable because of the hys teria it caused among the spectators, and the dead kerp carried back into the hall as soon as it was emptied of frightened spectators. All the chairs were lined with bodies and corpses had to be placed In the kitchen of the hall and beneath the, stage. Within an hour almost every per son in Calumet was as neat the scene as it was possible to get. Police kept back the crowd. After much effort a lane was opened and the bodies of the children were carried, through ranks of mourning and waiting wo men to Red Jacket Village Hall, which was turned Into a morgue. It was many hours before all the bodies were Identified. During the confusion several ies of children were wrongly Identified by mothers and taken away", only tp be returned later by the parents who had found their own offspring s^fo Other cases saw parents run about for some time un certain whether thelr children were dead or alive. Many mothers faint ed, while fathers cursed all those who Interfered with their mad search for lost boys and^glrls —— "t ■ m »'■' i Killed Near Former Daniel de Vllliers, of Sftn Antonio, Tex., waa shot and killed earl Thursday by Roy L. Glover, a wealthy land agent, who came to Los. Angeles, Cal., two m$nU»0 ago with the mother of De Vllliers’ chil dren. The shooting occurred In the doorway of (he Glover home, where De TlttM-dHMi TUNS Hi LOOSE FWU "”“ ,m !“ T NAS 010 SFARTANOOR6 H8RDEREI SETS IPIRMNIN HILL KILLED MAIRIED Was Tried for Hi* Crime and Al though Represented by Learned **- [ . -r • r Legal Talent He Received Death Sentence, Which Was Later Com- )- ■ T** L r. »mated by Governor Blease. - Joe Bates, the convicted murderer of Docia Bolter, a white man, who was pardoned Monday by the gov ernor, arrived in Spartanburg Mon day night and is at the home of his father. He was met at the train by his father and brother, Jack Bates, who have been untiring in their ef forts to have a pardon granted, and a number of friends. Joe Bates was at ofte time a police officer in Spartanburg. He was con victed in 1909 and sentenced to death, but after many delays his sen tence was commuted to life impris onment by the present governor, who now grants him a full pardon. Mrs. Docia Bolter, aged 18 years, wife of J. R. Bolter, a farmer living near Fairmont was shot at and instantly killed by Joe Batee^ a'former police officer, but at the time of the cr.ime a guard of the city chftlngang, on Sun day morning, August 29, 19(19. at 11:30 at the home df W. B. Cox, 108 Thompson street. Mamie Cox , the elght-ye&r-old daughter of Mrs. Cox, whcF was stand ing near with hdr little baby sister In her arms was also shot by -Bates and seriously wounded. Bates was caught In the hallway of the house by Mr. Cox before he could get away and was held until the police officers ar rived. Officers Lockman, Cudd, Gash and Crocker arrived and took charge of Bates, who was, carried at once to the county jail and turned- over t<r Sheriff White. When the case against Bates was called In the general session^ court for October, 1909, he was repVesent- ecTby learned counsel and It was one of the hardest fought legal battles ever waged In the Spartanburg county pburt room. The.principle defencexlfcr Bates was a plea of in sanity. He was convicted and sen tenced to hang, an appeal to the su preme court was made without suc cess and after two years confinement In the"~cbunty Jail the governor com muted his sentence from death to life Imprisonment. The pardpn restores his citizenship. The Spartanburg Journal telle the following story of the tragedy for which Bates was convicted: Docia Bolter, until a few weeks previous to the shooting, was Docia Moore. Ske lived with Joe Bates at his home At NO. 160 Thompson street -as hA lu/usekeeper and alleged para mour. She had jived with him for about two years, when a month pre vious she left him and married J. R. Bolter. Since the marriage it was thought that Bates was crazed with jealousy. It Is said that Just before she left him, the Moore woman sold a cow Bates had and a number of household articles. For this Bates had a warrant sworn out for her ar rest, but before the case had been taken uj> the woman was dead. Mr. and Mrs. Bolter were coming to Mr. Cox’s house to spend the day As they neared the house, Bajes was in the road, so was Mr. Cox and his son William. Bates said to Mrs. Bolter that he would put "them to the bad”, and followed them to Cox’s house. When Mrs. Boltpr got out of the buggy Bates followed her to ward the house. Suddenly he left her and passed around to the front of the building. He, entered the frpnt door as Mrs. Bolter entered the back door. Mrs. Bolter took hold of the hand of little eight-year-old Mamie Cox and was in the act of placing a ring on her finger when Batto fired upon her from the door of thwjaack porch. Three shotd entered Mrs. Bolter’s body on the left side, one ball broke her arm In three places, the other ball entered her right temple. She died almost Instantly and as she fell she exclaimed: "Oh! my God.” The ball that broke Mrs. Bolter’s arm Is supposed to have entered the body of little Mamlq Cox, dangerously wpundlcg her.’ * Fatally Wounded in Explosion. Mrs. Harriet Adams, temperance leader and author, la expected to die in a hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, of burns received Saturday afternoon in a gas explosion at her home. She is 75 years old.- The. explosion was caused by Mrs. Adams striking a patch in a room filled with gas from an open Jet \ Three Killed at Crossing. Two men and one boy were killed at a grade crossing at Hammonton, N. J., Wednesday when a Reading Hallway express train struck a wag on and demolished It - Earthquake at Beattie, A light efiithqsak* shock forty seconds’ doratton waa felt at Seattle, )R CALLS FOR; BILL TO FRH^fiNT FRAUD.' s'-,,,-. ' - ' - r- Weald Provide Penalties for "Irreg- ularitie*”-—Present System Leaks REmED CURRENCY BILL PASSES IR0iE,29S Tl tO Like a Sieve. f It is our purpose to pub lish a few articles on primary reform Written by a member of the legisla ture. They are strictly non-partisan and are designed to-point out the changes necessary to eliminate fraud without taking the ballot away from any South Carolina Democrat. The articles are in no way inspired by any candidate for office,' and none know of their preparation. They are designed solely to assist the mate of Democratic primary votes to clean house. Bills to thjs end will be act ed on^ln the next legislature and South Carolinians are of course in terested in the subject at this time. USED ft BATTLE SPANISH AEROPLANES D] oorish Tribesmen. r A: Before Spaniards Every lover of pure l (l® mocrac y must rejoice In those -features of our primary system that give every, true Democrat in South Carolina the right to vote whether he be_ rich or poor, learned or" Illiterate. Perhaps no where else In the world is there such universal white manhood suffrage. The problem Is to make the vote pure as well as free. No matter who the voter Is he does not want his vote killed by the- bal lot of some repeater or outsider. What use Is It for one county to be honest when some . other practices wholesale fraud? or for you to vote once when others are voting twice, To decide on a remedy we must Freedom has to be guarded, first find exactly where the trouble k lles. I am going to cite some In stances. See If you d<f not agree that the fault is twofold, first with you and me and th6 rest of the rank and file who have been unwilling to be put to the trouble 6f obeying even the loose rules we have, and then with ^ these rules which are so powly *r* f wen a 8 reed not to P re88 th ® re P° rt A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY Prolonged and Uproarious Applause Greets Voie—Many Republicans and Progressives Join With Major ity in Pushing Measure Along Its Congressional Career. The House passed the cojhfesanc® report on the ad/nlnistration cur rency bill at 10:46 o’clock Monday night by a vote of 398 to 60, and sent the report to the Senate, which iiad waited in session to receive it be fore adjournment for the night. Prolonged and uproarious cheers from the Democrats greeted, the-an nouncement of the vote by Speaker Clark, and many members of the House hastened over to the Senate to see the report received there. On the final vote thirty-four Re publicans, eleven Progressives and one Independent, Rent, of Califor nia, voted with the majority for the report, and two Democrats, Calloway, of Texas, and Witherspoon, of Mis sissippi, joined the opposition. The vote followed a debate of nearly three hours, during which the galleries remained crowded with spectators, including many pi;onil- nent figures In official life. • The House 1 adjourned until 2;|0 p. m. Tuesda^Svhen the leaders hope to put through a joint resolution for a recess iintll January 12. The decision to take a final vote on the conference report in the Senate not later than 2:30 Tuesday after noon was reached by unanimous con sent before 10 o’clock Monday night. At the suggestion of Senator Gallin- ger, the Republican leader. Senator Moon Fine Holey Abselam When Air Craft .. j. ti., 1.— X:. ranged that the most conscientious election managers are helpless where voters set out to cheat. . — Tammany Methods. "There may have been some minor irregularities In this county, but we believe that It was a fair election so far as county Is concerned;" reported one county chairman to the investigating committee a year ago. He adds, however, "I found that the club lists had disappeared. Our com mittee has been unable to locate them.” '• . * r Over night some one stole. ...the record from the ballot boxes. A familiar device of Tammany thugs In the good old days practiced right here In a farming county of South Caro lina. The chairman was honest and sincere, though; when he callqd this a "minor irregularity”, for every one of us who lias anything tp do with our election management sees rules so violated on every hand th^t only downright bribery is considered se rious. « Early or Not at AIL— y In another important county it is no uncommon thing for a voter to find on going to. the polls that some one has cast a ballot in hj’s name. Friends who had this experience laughed to me about it as a part of the regular order of things, remark ing, "Next time we must be at the polls when they are opened." The State executive committee called on the party authorities from that coun ty for a repBrf6n the election and the reply was "no irregularities found”. There so mild a term as "irregularity” is too harsh & name for the most flagrant frauds and everything goes. Why Roles Among Friends? In still another big county the Ipcal executive committee found among other "irregularities” that: Men were alleged te^vote whose names were not enrolled on the club lists. . X ' At one box 128'names of those who voted were found after a most searching examination to be ficti tious. • The average of the poll lists of all the county boxes showed from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, that could not be identifiedr, At other boxes 340 names of actual persons were found to have apparent ly voted from two to five times, and after making -allowances for a pos sible proportion as proper, a large number were seen to fie repeaters. In a very few instances was' the dub' roll certified to. - Bystanders were called In by man agers to assist In counting the ballots, one of whom did destroy or attempt to destroy tickets. Managers of election were not sworn and other voters took no paths. Yet this committee in summing up spoke of these things fts "numerous irregularities”, hut found no evidence of fraud. - for consideration in return for an agreement to vote Tuesday. By un animous consent it was agreed that the Senate should meet at 10 o’clock take up a vote not later than 2:30 o’clock. With this arrangement made the Senate just before 10 o’clock took a recess until 11:15 to await the ar rival of the report^from the House. Representative Glass appeared In the House with the conference report' Just before 6 o'clock, and the clerk began reading there was a rush for the lunch rooms. An hour was re quired for the formal reading, and U was understood that thero-would be about two hours of debate before the final-vote. p —-—_ In the meantime Senator Owen had presented the agreement of the con ferees to the Senate and that body, after ordering the report printed, re cessed until 9 o’clock to await action by the House. The Senate leaders hoped to hear from the House soon after convening and were prepared to hurry action^ on their side so as to send the completed bill to the presi dent before mldnighti' After the announcement of the vote a joint resolution proposed by Majority Leader Underwood that the House recess upon -^adjournment Tuesday until January 12 was adopt ed. Senator Owen announced that separate bill tP provide for guaranty of bank deposits would be considered in the near future. 'This had been intimated in debate by Chairman Glass, of the Hodse banking com mittee. A large force of Moorish tribesmen Was routed with heavy loss Thursday by the Spanish troops at Muley Abse lam, Spanish Morocco. Spanish mili tary aviators threw the Moors into disorder with showers of bomb*. The Spaniards attacked the Moors with brigade of sharpshooters,, a battalion of infantry, four batteries of artillery and a large body of native auxilia ries. ’ .. > When the order for the general ad vance of the Spanish column was given the advance guard discovered several thousand Moorish mountain eers concealed In the Irregularities of the ground. A flotilla of military aviators waC sent up to reconnoitre. By means of flag signals the aviators guided the column of Spanish troops., A heavy artillery fire was opened by the Spaniards without effect. The aviators then ascended to an altitude out of range of rifle fire and- flew directly over the place where the Moors were in the greatest num bers. Then came what the dispatch to the Spanish war office describes as a "veritable rain of bombs, tossed by. hand by the airmen, into "the midst of the Moo?s”. After this bombardment the Spanish infantry charged with the bayonet and dislodged the Moors from their positions, causing them to flee In great disorder, leaving large- numbers of dead and wounded on the field. The Spanish troops also lost a considerable number of men, as the rifle fire of the tribesmen was very accurate. A dispatch from Waahtagton says experts In the si goal corps at the war department heard with keen Interest the report of the successful bomb dropping by the Spanish aviators the battle with the Moors at Muley Abselam, Spanish Morocco, Thurs day. "That is but another instance,” said Col. Samuel Reber, in charge of aviation in the army, “of the valpe of the aeroplane in actual reconnols- sance, and Its use as a weapon of of fence during an attack. It confirms the experience of other nations in us ing the aeroplane In actual warfare and If a practical demonstration of tho 'use of ttHT aeroplane in a cam paign.” . / Other officers recalled that the usefulness of the aeroplane in bomb dropping first was demonstrated in the Italian-Turkish war, when Ital ian aviators claimed on several occa sions to have dropped explosives on Turkish-warshih*. It Is presumed that the Spaniards flew lengthwise over the enenfy’s lines, and by con tinuous dropping of bombs while so flvjng had innumerable chances of hitting them. It--yas pointed-out that the chances of dropping an aero plane bo&b-on a battleship would be slight compared with the opportunity an airman would have while flying lineally over, a column of troops op, land. —X " • . -—— x KILLED IN CAR. <M Man Oemafed. Robert E. Lee, .70 years old, care taker for Joseph B. Sellars, of White Plains, N. Y., waa burned to death Saturday night when the Sellars' place, near Greensborofl N. C., /was destroyed by fire. Neighbors attempt ed In vain to rescue -Lee, but the heat dreve tbem lnKfl. T * men’s names by the score and scores of other men who had mo^d. away written on loose sheets of pafidr and In -old Stacks years ago were used. But mind you, the party rules require that each list be certified to by the officers of the clubs. "Where We Are at.” These instances might be multi plied, but -sufficiently Illustrate the free and easy condition we have reached, when the most glaring in fractions of party rules ard held in the highest quarters to be merely.Ir regularities that do not Impair the Integrity of an election. {, Don’t blame the managers. All of us are to blame. For years we have shouted from the housetops, “It Is better that ten dishonest men should vote than that one honest man be de prived.” We have tolerated and in slated on these lax rules and laxer en forcemeat until any man can vote, be he resident or non-resident, over age or under age, whether he haa. voted before ten times or not at an. Dillon Merchant Loses His Life in Auto Accident. W. Aaron Pass was instantly kill ed and Miss Mai? Moore w2s serious ly Injured Sunday afternoon at six o’clock when an automobile in which they were riding ran Into a deep ditch one-ljalf mile from Dillon. Miss Moore, daughter of John B. Moore, of Latta, was rusbM to Dillon ln an“ automobile, where she was given medical attention. Mr. Fas* Is a well known merchant of Dillon and is a native of New York. A spoke the steering whell severed the Jug ular vein of Mr. Fail." Mr. Fass and Miss Moore had been for a ride through the county and were returning to Dillon late Sunday afternoon. Just after passing the Maple dairy the — sharply to the right and plunged Into a ditch. The car.was badly damaged. Several persons In an automobile > passing 30 minutes later found the wrecked car. Mr. Fass was dead and. Miss Moore was unconscious/ -^hose who viewed the wreck were unable to account for the accident. It is sup posed that the steering gear broke, sending the machine into the ditch, which is about six feet deep. The car was overturned. * 1 Sent to Prison. > . Raymond Shubert, 28 years old, and wealthy, of Milwaukee, Wla., was found guilty Friday of murder in the fourth degree add sentenced - to one year In priaon for running down and killing Mabel Lehman, four years old, with an automobile. / Saved by Safety Device. Summarized in Another Way. Managers omit to take the hon esty obligation oath the party rales require. 7,. . Regarding the rales, they allow mea to vote Whose names are not on the Ifrlt * These voters and others east their ballots without swearing at to their Jotie A Remedy. • Goes It not-seen; to you that the time has come to replace this loose system that leaks like a sieve at barely •very Joint by a law that will be short, simple, definite and carry pen- altiea? I have no bill of my own to pre- serious wreck was prevented at tkepa*. km _ Train Kills Two, HPUP Dillard Hunter, a farmer, sent bat later will further describe nlfiee, Mias Nora Hunter, the way frauds are carried out so you can mo Bow to stop the leaks. let. 111., Thursday by an autoniat- It derailment switch, which ;*ent a runaway freight train Into the ditch In time to allow a passenger flyer to shoot by. 7 - ♦ in- Ills near NkhottviHe, Kyi,