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| The Bamberg Herald. jJ || ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 21.1901. OXE DOLLAR PER YEAR. |jgj HUNDREDS LOSE Fearful Cloudbui | ., West Virg A SCENE OF DESOLATION Mad Waters Rush Through the Pocahontas Coal Region Leaving Death and Destruction In In Their Wake. The entire section of Bluefleld, W. Va., has been visited by a flood, the extent of which in all probability will equal that of Johnstown in 1SS9, so far as the loss of property is concerned. Early Saturday morning, shortly after midnight, a heavy downpour of rain began, accompanied by a severe electric storm, which steadily increased in violence until 10 o'clock in the morning, then ceasing for several hours and beginning again with renewed violence. This continued throughout the entire day and night, and at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, while the storm had abated, the lowering clouds indicate*, another terrific ' downpounr at any moment. Many miles of the Norfolk and Western railroad track, bridges and telegraph lines are enureiy aesiroyeu sau i-vuuiumtatkra is entirely cut off west of Elkhorn. so that it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property, but officials of the coal operations located in the stricken district hare sent out messengers to Elkhorn, the terminus of both telegraphic and railroad communication, and have received a report that a conservative estimate as to the loss of life will easily reach two hundred. Some the drowned are among Vie most prominent citizens of the coal fields. The Pocahontas coal field is located in a basin with high mountain ranges on either side. Elkhorn creek flows : _ , through the center of the basin, v which ranges from one-fourth to one mile in width. From Ennis. W. Va.. to Vivian Yard, W. Va., a distance of ten miles, miners' cabins, coal company commissaries and coke plants fy x line this basin. Elkhorn creek, being fed by numerous small streams coming from the mountain sides, rises very radidly and this waterspout came so suddenly that tne entire basin between the two mountain ranges was flooded, and before the terror stricken people realized what was upon them they woro rarrfprf down bV the flood. Which swept everything in its path. A rough estimate places the numlr her ot bridges washed away between Bhtefield and Vivian yard, a distance of twenty-eight miles, at from fifteen - to twenty, and from present indications it will be impossible to get trains through to Vivian and points west of there under a week or ten days. This will render it impossible to get relief into the stricken district, and with those who escaped with their lives, homeless and without food, indescribable suffering is inevitable. Details Are Meager. Details of the great Pocahontas coal field flood are hard to obtain, owing to the inaccessibility of the mining district where the fnry and havoc of the angry waters caused the most appalling loss of life and property. At Keystone the water began to rise at 9 o'clock Sunday morning, and by 11 o'clock the flood had spent its fury - and at least two-thirds of the little city1 ha~ been washed away or demolished. It is known that sixteen residents of the north side lost their lives, and at - TO ASSIST FLOOD SUFFERERS, i West Virginia AuthoritiesTake Prompt - Action to Relieve Homeless People.. j , A Charleston, W. Va., special says. Secretary of State Dawson, in the ab- j ' sence of Governor White, sent a mes-1 / sage Sunday night to Colonel J. C. Hewitt at Bramwell to take fnll charge | of the situation in the flood stricken | district and to wire the governor his needs. The company of national guard at Bramwell was ordered out to assist in guarding the property, and i more troops win be sent as soon as i possible to get them there. A supply J of tents at Bramwell was ordered to! be given out to the suffering. - % DR. KERFOOT DEAD. Corresponding Secretary of Baptist X Home Mission Board Passes Away. Dr. Franklin Howard Kerfoot, corresponding secretary 01 the home mission board of the Southern Baptist convention, died Saturday night at his residence in Atlanta, Ga.. after an illness covering a period of eight weeks. Dr. Kerfoot went to the Southern Baptist convention which met in New Orleans May 9th against the advice of his physicians, and, being too ill to remain to the end of the session, returned to Atlanta on the lltn, since which time he was unable to leave his bed. ANOTHER BOER VICTORY. Redcoats Lose Eight Men killed and Sixty Captured. Advices from Cradock, Cape Colony, state that in an engagement at Waterkloof June 20th the British lost eight men killed and two mortally wounded and had four men seriously wounded. In addition, sixty men of the Cape Colonial Mounted Rides were captured. a Boer captain was wounded and a private killed. REWARD IS OFFERED. Governor Will Pay For Arrest and Conviction of Berta Jacksorfs Slayer. Governor Canaler, of Georgia, has j offered a reward of $150 for the arrest, wi*h proof to convict, of the murderer of Berta Jackson, the adopted daughter of R. F. Flowers, of DeKalb county. Ibe reward was offered upon the request of the ordinary of Dekalb county, that county having no county commissioners. The authorities have made an earnest and thorough search for the criminal, but without success. Si?' - ' . ?, . . LIFE IN FLOODS pst Sweeps Down inia Valley. least fifty of those living on the south or lower side were drowned. At Burke, a suburb of Keystone, a number are missing and eign. are reported as dead. It is now certain that the total list of the dead from one <md of the Elkhorn valley to the other, will reach two hundred. A full list of the names of the victims cannot be ascertained at this time. Hundreds are missing, having taken refuge in the mountains to escape the fury of the flood. At leaat three hundred mine mules were drowned, and at least twenty-five could be seen swimming about in the flood and making an unusual fight for life. But little damage Is done to mines proper, as the drift mouths were high up the mountain sides, several hundred are reported flooded, but it is impossible to ascertain the extent of damage. On the North Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western, which is five and one-half mi.'es long, there was no loss of life as far as known, but hundreds were rendered homeless and are at preset*, camping in the mountains. The damage to property on this branch is very heavy, only one of ten colleries located on this branch escaping, the Ashland, it being located at the head of the stream. The McDowell Coal Company lost twelve residences. The Roanoke Company lost three boiler houses, and the one hundred horsepower boilers were swept four miles down the stream. The Louisville Company's storehouse is a wreck and the stock of goods a total loss. At Rolfe a large number of miners' houses were swept away, as well as the handsome residence of the company's physician. Twenty-five houses are jammed together in one complete mass of broken timbers and debris. At the Gilliam Company's colliery the powder house and fourteen houses are demolished. At Indian Ridge the company store was considerably damaged and the stock lost The house of Captain Botsford, the manager, is wrecked; also the North Fork track is nearly all washed away, all the trestles being gone except one. In the Elkhorn valley it is estimated that the loss to the railroad and coal interests will reach .nto millions. Out of tfvelve miles of main double track nnlv r>n? mile remains and all the bridges are gone. Some of them were of the heaviest masonry and iron, but they could not resist the force of the flood. The Cozer Company, one of the largest in operation, lost a thousand horsepower electric plant and many buildings and coke ovens. Their loss is said to be $50,000. The Tierney interest, consisting of four collieries, will lose $75,000. There are over twenty collieries whose damage is great, many miles of their tracks leading to ovens and mines being gone. In some instances nine locomotives and cars have been swept for miles down the stream. Fifteen hundred laborers have been rushed to the scene to work on repairs, and it is expected that telegraphic communication will be established in a short time. Later advices from the Clinch valley division confirm the reported drowning of ten persons. A family named Hook, living near the river at Rounding Mill, were all drowned, six perishing. STRIKERS AND GUARDS FIGHT. Trouble in Thacker-Matewan Coal Fields Reaches an Exciting Stage. The miners' strike in the ThackerMatewan coal fields, in West Virginia, is growing critical and resort to firearms has been the result. The whole field is in a state of excitement ?.nd serious trouble is feared. Already two or three conflicts have occurred between the striking miners and guards. The trouble has grown out of the | non-recognition of the union by the operators. The operators declare they will not recognize the union and the miners are equally as persistent in demanding that they shall be recognized. EX-CONSUL HAY KILLED. Supposed to Have Accidentally Fallen From Window of New Haven Hotel. Adelbert S. Hay, son of Secretary Hay and former consul to Pretoria, was found dead on the sidewalk outside the New Haven house, at New Haven, Conn., at 2:30 ounday morning. Mr. Hay retired to his room at 1 o'clock after spending the evening with friends in apparently excellent spirits. At 2:30 o'clock a passer-by noticed the body of a man lying on the sidewalk by the hotel. The night clerk recognized the young man as Adelbert S. Hay. DEMOCRATS SHY AT FUSION. Refuse to Join Issue With New Party Being Organized in Kansas City. The democratic state central comnf Vancac Vi a a rpfncpH an i n V i - I | tation from the populists to join in j the formation of a new fusion party 1 under a distinct name. This action j was taken at a meeting in Topeka Saturday night of the democratic commit! tee. Twenty-three members of the committee were present BRITISHERS STUDY CANAL. Question of Nicaragua Waterway Again Taken Up By English Cabinet. In a tentative, easygoing sort of way the British cabinet has begun to consider the Nicaragua treaty matter. Lord Pauncefote has explained many things to Lord Lansdawne, the foreign secretary, and the latter is once more grappling the problem. It is needless to say that the foreign office has no intention of hurrying, and in the course of a month or so it may come to a decision, ' irMfsnsjrsirsMMiMCN?j I SOUTH CAROLINA 2 1$ STATE NEWS ITEMS. cMCNjcMfsicMrvifsir^ DeKalb Tombstone Found. ! The original tombstone of Baron De: Kalb, who received a mortal wound at J i-e battle of Camden in 1780, has been : found, black with age, .n the cellar of the Presbyterian church of Camden. * * Machinists Not In Riot. Directors of the machinists' strike on the Southern railway state information has been received from those in charge of the strike at Columbia that not one member of the machinists' union were concerned in the riot, but that it was started by Irresponsible ?vmno*hi?6pa trifch the strikers and OJ w ?* * without the local officers of the union at Columbia. Every effort, the officials of the district lodge, say, is being made to keep down trouble of the kind at Columbia. * * * Alleged Murderer Arrested. H. Harris, a negro who has been employed as cook at the Sea Island Hotel in Beaufort for some months, was arrested a few days ago on suspicion that he i3 Sam Jackson, wanted for the murder of Sheriff Kennedy and the wounding of Deputy Donaldson, near Statesboro, Bulloch county, Georgia, on October 12, 1898. Harris answers perfectly the description of Sam Jackson as set forth in .he reward offered by the Georgia authorities for the murderer's apprehension. The Statesboro officials have been notified by wire that the negro will be he.- by the authorities pending identification by them. % Road Made a Mistake. A Columbia dispatch says: The Seaboard Air Line management seems to realize that they made a mistake in coming into Columbia as they did. The road, wishing to get near the heart of the town, purchased Sidney park from the city .or the almost nominal sum of $30,000. It cost about $50,000 more to cut down hills and flu up valleys in the park. Then at least another $100,000 was spent In buying valuable property for rights of way tnrough the city, and the construction in getting into and out of the park cost probably $75,000 more than if the road had come in with the Southern and gone to the union depot Now the old park is an immense clay hole. The Kill sides are caving in with every rain and will have to be held up by retaining walls. It will require heavy expenditure to make the place sightly. And the Seaboard has yet to build a passenger sta-1 tion. * * * Gaffney Criminal Court. In the court of general sessions at Gaffney, Judge Gage presiding, Jim Jeter, tried for murder and convicted, was sentenced to hard labor for life in the state penitentiary. Nero LittleJohn's jury agreed on a verdict of manslaughter and he was sentenced to hard labor for three years. Eliphas Dawklns, for burning his wife to death last January, spends the rest of his life in the penitentiary. Five white men have. been arraigned for riot and assault and battery of a high and aggravating nature with intent to kill. At the calling of the case their attorney, G. W. Speer, made a challenee to the array of jurors on the ground that there was no law in the state for the drawing of juries, and if there was then it was unconstitutional in that it was local and special law. Judge Gage practically admitted that the law was unconstitutional, but preferred that the supreme court decide the mater and overruled the motion. The defendants were convicted of riot and the case will go to the supreme court. There were eight murder cases at this term of court, but five of them were continued till next term. * * * Prosperous Year for Clemson. Clemson college has closed the most successful year in its history, i he college has had 450 cadets on its rolls, and has been forced to turn away dozens because of lack of room. The new barracKs being built will accommodate 150 boys, so that an attendance of 600 is expected next fall. The annual orator was Senator Tillman. It was a characteristic address, having a lot of hard common sense in it. He uad not made any attempt to prepare a speech, and declared he never in his life tried to write a finished address with rounding sentences?his object was to get his hearers to think as he did. The senator has been soft ened in his views about some things. A dozen years ago he spoke of the citadel cadets as dancing dudes. In his address on this occasion he congratulated the management that they allowed dancing. The boys should be given a chance to meet the girls twice a month. There was no harm In dancing; like all other things, it might be abused. He expected the preachers to "cuss him out" for these views, but he noticed the preachers' daughters entertained the same opinions as himself. * * * Georgians Anxious to Exhibit. That the commissioners of our sister state of Georgia are working hard to obtain an exhibit for the Charleston show is evidenced in the following appeal Issued by them: To the People of Georgia: The legislature at its last session appropriated $1,000 for an exhibit of Georgia's products at the Buffalo and Charleston exnnsitions. We went ahead and made the best display we could under the circumstances at miffalo. While other states had their thousands for this purpose, we had only a few hundred dollars. The matter of transportation and installation exhausted nearly all of the appropriation. We find that it will be impossible to make a proper exhibit at Charleston unless the liberal hearted citizens of Georgia come to our relief. It will take $1,000 to make any exhibit at all. It is not necessary to prove to you ! the importance of Georgia being repre- { seated at the Soutn Carolina and West ! Indfan exposition. South Carolina is , our neighbor and we ought to be willing to 6how them the same courtesy I that this great state has always ex- , tended to us. We. therefore, appeal to J , ; the citUens of Georgia to contribute j : for this piypose. WILY FILIPINO WEPI Cailles and His Band of Warriors ; Surrender to Americans. A SrtUAlllLAK lArlllJLAIluN I To Music of Native Bands Insurgent Leader Marches Into Santa Cruz, Gives Up Arms and Receives Congratulations. Advices from Santa Cruz, Province * of Laguna, P. I., state tnat when Gen- j eral Cailles surrendered there Monday with 650 men and 500 rifles, he entered i Santa Cruz to the music of native bands, which were drawn up in six < lines in the churchyard. Cailles and his staff entered the church, where mass was celebrated by Chaplain Hart, of the Eighth United States infantry. I The column passed in review before the United States army headquarters, with arms at port, returned to the con- < vention enclosure, there surrendered < their rifles and received receipts en titling them to thirty pesos each 1 During the surrender of the arms i Cailles and his taff, who were outside i the inclosure, wept ] The officers afterward walked to \ headquarters, where Cailles tendered i his sword to General Sumner, who gal- ] lantly handed it back. General Sum- ] ner also handed back the revolutionist i flag. Which Cailles will, personally, pre- j sent to General MacArthur. ] General Sumner congratulated i Cailles on his r -render and the latter ] responded mat it was a happy day for j Laguna province. Frank Mekin, the deserter of the j Thirty-seventh infantry, who had been \ acting as a lieutenant with the insur- ] gents under Cailles, was placed in irons. i I 4 MacArthur Reports. , General MacArthur has cabled the ; war department announcing the sur- j render of General Cailles in Northern Luzon, with 396 rifles, 4,000 rounds of ammunition and 600 officers and men. Cailles has taken the oath of allegi- < ance. General MacArthur has announced the arrival of Lawton at Manila, with , Companies k and L, Eleventh infan- . try. # i MANY THOUSANDS HOMELESS. ! 1 Details of Flood In Pocahontas Coal Region Shows Terrible State ] of Affairs. { Advices of Monday from Bluefleid, 1 W. Va., state that details of the flood ( in the Pocahontas Flat Top coal re gion iuuy Dear out ine worst tears ut i the extent of damage done. The work ( of repairing railroad tracks, telephone and telegraph lines is being pushed "with the vigor that the occasion demands. ( Thousands of people are homeless and it is feared are without food, or at the best with only food enough to last } several days until railroad communica- ] tion is established. Men are at work , clearing away debris, recovering the 3 bodies of the dead. The dead are be- , ing augmented hour^gjj* Relief trains ] are running between Bluefield and the ( stricken district and everything possi- 3 ble is being done to relieve the suffer- t ing and destitution. l The latest estimate is that It will . take ten days to repair the Norfolk j i and Western track. Information from { | the Tug river district is to tne effect : I that the damage to the coal operations in that region is not great, but that the lumber interests have suffered coni siderably. : Over 100 miles of track belonging to ( the various operations are practically . a total loss. The rails are bent and j twisted like wires. Even the heavy j j iron girders of the collapsed railroad j j bridges were rendered useless. The j force of the flood is better understood when it is explained that by reason of a long fill and a low iron bridge the flood was dammed and a monster body of water accumulated, probably as large, a volume as was contained in the famous dam at Johnstown When this obstruction gave way it let down an immense volume of water on the village and mining camps below. QUAKERS CANNOT BORROW. Philadelphia Fails to Dispose of Nine Millions For Improvements. For the first time in the history of Philadelphia a loan offered by the city has failed. The municipality recently offered 3 per cent for a $9,000,000 loan to be used in improving the city's water supply and on Monday, the time having expired, one bid for $5,000 was receiveu. Mrs. McKinley Still Improving. Mrs. McKinley continues to Improve and the arrangements to go to Canton | are unchanged. The date of departure has not yet been fixed. WANAI..AKER OFFERS FORTUNE. Is Willing to Pay Three Millions For Erstwhile Free Franchises. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Following his offer to Mayor Ashbridge last week to pay the city $2,500,000 for me street railway franchises granted *.o certain capitalists in u.is city and .. oAfm/nH tn whirh hft re U) U1C UIJ LUUUVK, vw ceived no reply, ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker hriday night sent a communication to Robert H. Foerderer, one of the capitalists to whom franchises were granted, offering him a half million dollars for the franchises in addition to giving to the city the sum already offered. ACTEt9 FOR SELF PROTECTION. Negroes Vynched Because They Were Avowed Enemies of the Whites. The lynching of "Prophet" Smith and F. D. .dcLand at Benton for connection with the murder of John Gray Foster, caused no commotion in Shreveport. The two negroes were regarded as dangerous characters, and there is little comment on the mob's action. Evidence was discovered sc clearly establisning the identity of Smith and McLand as enemies of the white race and dangerous elements among the negroes that their extinction came to be regarded as essential to the preservation of order in the parish. AS 11 UCLUUIC LUt" gcuuai ucun umi Prince Edwards, the negro accused of the killing of Foster, would never be captured, the mob determined to act without further delay. Smith confessed, just before he was lynched, that he loaded the gun with which Foster was killed. Many letters of an incendiary tenor written by Smith and his followers, were found. Indications of conspiracies against Cniei Lake, of the Shreveport policy, Foster and others ran through the missives, and In connection with the minutes of a meeting of the "Church of the Living God." of which Smita was the head, precipitated the lynching. WILL ISSUE MO/IE STOCK. Plant System Lines to Be Consolidated Under 6. F. and W' Corporation. A special meeting of the stockholders of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company was held in Savannah 'jL-.ursday, and it was decided to issue 155,671 aaaitional shares of stock. The par value wil. be $100 a share, and 125,000 shares will be preferred, witheut voting power, while the remaining shares will be common stock, wltn full voting power. The meeting was held in accordance with a plan reached some months ago to consolidate the lines of the Plant system inder the corporation of the Savannah, Florida and Western. The roads to be consolidated are the Savannah, Florida and Western, the Charleston and savannah, the Brunswick and Western, the Alabama Midland, the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf and the Tampa and Thonotosassa. All have long been under the Plant system, with the slock ownea by the Plant Investment Company. Another meeting Df stockholders will be held on July 1st, when further details will be completed. PRESAGES CONVICTION. Sallows or Long Sentence Faces Jessie Morrison, Slayer of Mrs. Castle. A special from Eldorado, Kas, says: Thus far the second trial of Jessie Morrison, on the charge ef murdering Mrs. Clara Castle, is very much against her. The defense has not introduced evidence of any consequence to support its claim of self defense. What is considered a very important point was gained by the state Thurs3ay morning in the refusal of Judge kikman to admit as evidence the clothing worn by Jessie Morrison on the lay that she gave the mortal wound to Mrs. Castle. The clothing is cut and blood-staiifed. At the first trial it was all admitted to the jury, while the nothing of Mrs. Castle was excluded. VAST COLONIZATION SCHEME. Officials of Santa Fe Railway Send to Italy For Colonists. A Chicago dispatch says: The management of the Santa Fe railway has begun to carry out a vast colonization pian, which will result In bringing many thousands of Italians to this :ountry and in locating u.em on lands In Southern California. New Mexico, Oklahoma and \exas. Agents of the road have been sent to Italy with literature for distribution. These books *re in ihe Italan language and are plentifully illustrated witn views taken from picturesque spots along the line >f the Santa Fe in the states and territories mentioned. Casualties Among Insurgents. A Manila dispatch says: It is estimates that forty insurgents were killed or wounded during the recent engagements which have occurred in Albay and Sorosogon province?. Many Insurgents are returning to their homes. FOUR STORM . ICTIMS. Storm Near Pittsburg, Pa., Causes Fatalities and Great Property Damage. A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says: The storm and flood which broke over Allegheny county on Saturday afternoon besides causing much damage in ever}' part of the county is known to have caused at least lour deaths besides bringing injury to others. Chaffee Is Military Governor. Following the order issued Saturday making Judge Taft civil governor of the Philippines, an order has been issued naming General Chaffee as military governor of the archipelago. GEORGIA STATE FAIR. Work Well Under Way for Big Show at Savannah In November. The date for the Georgia state fair to be held in Savannah next fall has been fixed for November 6th to 16th. It may and probably will run beyond the latter date. The premium list has been made up and will soon be distributed. It aggregates $14,759.75, exclusive of the purses which will be offered for the races. DIPLOMAS LONG DELAYED. Princeton University Recognizes Two Students Who Graduated in 1861. Captain J. H. 0 Deal and Thomas Helm, prominent citizens of Jackson. Miss., have received from Princeton university the degrees which should have been conferre.. on them forty years ago. They were members of the graduating class of 1S61, but left the university several weeks beiore commencement and returned home to join the con/drate army, inursuay iue> received their diplomas for the B. A. degree. / ? i DEATHAND DISASTER | I 1 * I Follow In Wake of Two Terrific. Explosions Among Fireworks. ! ? ! SIXTEEN LIVES REPORTED LOST ! Many Harrowing Scenes Witnessed While Building Burned?Force [ of Concussion Was Felt For Many Blocks. ? I Sixteen people are believed to have been killed and a number injured Frl- J ' aay in a fire following a series of ex- j , plosions among a quantity of fireworks ; j in the store of Abraham M. Rlttenberg, at Paterson, N. J. The store wtu orf : the ground floor of a four story frame tenement building. The cause of the explosion is not known. The property I loss will not exceed $35,000. The explosion occurred shortly af- . ; ter noon and many of the occupants | of the building were out at dinner. The | building in which the explosion oc] curred was a frame tenement, four l stories high, with stores on the ground j floor. The middle store was occupied j by Rittenberg. Ten families occupied ; the flats in the building, i So great was the force of the explo! sion that a boy playing in the street j half a block away was lifted from his j feet and hurled against an iron fence. One of his legs was broken. A trolley car was directly in front of the building when the explosion occurred. The hurst nf flamp hlown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and singed the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the upper floors of the building when the explosion took place were either stunned and then burned to death or found escape cut off and were suffocated. After the first explosion there was a series of smaller ones and then came a second big explosion, which was muffled and deadened and probably occurred in the cellar." Every window 6eemed to be emitting flame within a minute after the first explosion. A woman, with her clothing on fire, leaped out of one of the windows and fell to the yard below. Her dead body was dragged out of reach of the flames, but tue flesh was roasted and dropping from the bones She later proved to be Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams's husband was a cripple. His wife is supposed to have remained longer than she could with saiety in an effort to save him. He was found burned to a crisp in his bed. Some of the occupants of the rooms dropped from the windows and were bruised; others hung from the windows until the firemen came ana twenty persons were taken down in this way through the fire and smoke by the firemen, while others dropped into life nets. Dan Dooly, who was in the yard . when the explosion took place, saw the two Rittenberg children in the rear room and rushed into the flames for them. He got one of them and carried it out and tried to go back for the other, but the room was then one mass of fire and he was too late. He was baly scorched in rescuing the first child. While the rescues were going on the firemen were fighting the flames. Captain Allen led with a hose line in an efTort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where it was said many were penned in. The men had hardly taken their positions and begun on the sidewalk to throw water into the npper floor when without any warning, the whose upper part of the building above them sagged outward and fell. The captain and two of his men were buried under the blazing debris. One of u.e men is badly hurt. The building in which the explosion occurred vu entirely destroyed. MOTHER AND BABES BURNED. Pathetic Tragedy Caused By Explosion of a Kerosene Can. At Rogers, Texas, Friday Mrs. Miley Calhoun and ner three children were burned to death by the explosion of a kerosene can with which Mrs. Calhoun was filling a lamp. One of the children struck a match causing the catastrophe. Mr. Calhoun was alto badly burned. Rockefeller Donates to Cornell. At a meeting of the board of trustees of Cornell university at Ithica, N. Y., Wednesday, President Schurman pre sented a letter from John D. Rokefeller donated $250,000 to the university on condition that an equal amount is contributed by others. Carnegie to Erect Monument Andrew Carnegie will erect a monument to James G. Blaine. A personal friendship for many years and a warm admiration for the great champion of American industries inspire the philanthropist in this his latest undertaking. COLORED PARSON LYNCHED. Charged With Assaulting White Woman He Meets the Usual Fate. D. B. Jone6, the negro preacher who, it is alleged, attempted to assault Mrs. j Noah Davis near LaGrange, N. C., ; Tuesday, was taken from the guardi house in that town Wednesday night j and lynched. Little can be learned I at LaGrange cf the affair, as the mob j did their work very quietly. BIG REWARD OFFERED. j Seven hundred Dollars Will Be Paid For Murderer of Atlanta Policeman. i Chairman English, of the At&nta, : Ga., police board, and Chief Ball held j conferences with Governor Candler j and Mayor Mims Friday fooking to the offering of rewards for the capture of Policeman DeBray's slayer. The governor agreed to offer a reward of $200 and Mayor Mims recommended to council that a reward of $300 be offered. The council tfnted unanimously to offer the reward. Tills makes tfc? rewards $700, - - ... . - . . .J S SAYS BROTHER IS MURDERER.1 ( Negro Implicated In Assassination of Atlanta Police Officer Makes a Startling Confession. ^ Monday afternoon Ike Hammond made a confession to the Atlanta detectives in connection with the murder of Officer DeBray, which occurred J in West End one night last week, implicating his brother, Tom Hammond, as the man who fired the fatal shot ^ and Oscar Hammond and Jim Erwin as the two men who were with Tom when the policeman was shot to death. T- ? ? ? AtA ?ta an for flQ IBttttt', iiUWCKI, U1M UW Jjv ?v 4M? ww to say anything about his being in the plot or about decoying the officer into the death trap. * The three negroes wnom ho accuses 8 deny any knowledge of the affair. Ike ^ Hammond is the negro who was with j Officer DeBray when the latter was murdered, and he was held by the po- 8 lice on the suspicion that he was con- i nected with the killing. a Harry Baker, a white boy of 256 Decatur street, makes a statement ? that may furnish the last link in the j line oi evidence pointing to the guilt ? of Jim Erwin and the three Ham- j mosds. Young Baker says he over- \ beard the plot to kill Policeman Defray?heard the four negroes whom * le later identified in earnest conversa- ? tion on Lee street and distinctly heard ? them instruct one of their number, j fsaac Hammond, to go back and get ] he policeman in order to lead him into ? .he trap. The statement of the youth is clear j md straightforward, leaving no doubt i in the minds of the officers as to the juilt of u.e men unaer arrest. i Hammond's Confession. "I want to tell the truth," he said ko the detectives, "for I am not going to stay in here and maybe get hanged lot somebody else, even though it is my brother. Tom killed Mr. DeBray. I saw him and Jim Erwin and my brother Oscar together going down Gordpn street I met Mr. DeBray and told him about three suspicious negroes. I knew two of my brothers were there, but I wanted to help the < police. I knew them niggers were up to some mischief. Mr. DeBray locked bis bicycle to a water plug with his handcuffs and we walked together down Gordon street The three ne groes were ahead of us and they went beyond the city limits. I started to go home, when Mr. DeBray asked me to 1 stay with him to see if the negroes l would come back. We hid under a < tree, and soon saw the negroes coming back. They went into the middle { of the street and Mr. DeBray stepped j out and called to them to halt Jim ] Erwin and Oscar stopped, but Tom ( kept going sorter sideways across the ; street I saw him keeping his hand , his side coat pocket and I knew he ? meant to do Mr. DeBray harm if he could. I saw Mr. DeBray's pistol in i his hand and I thought he would be i able to take care of himself. Sudden- , ly Tom whiled around and shot at Mr. ( DeBray and then he ran. As he was running off Mr. DeBray shot at him , twice. Tom then wheeled and shot . again and that shot killed Mr. DeBray, < for he fell in his tracks. That Is the , truth and the whole truth." i GOVtRNOR ASKS AID. J V 1 West Virginians Are Asked to Gener- M ously Help Flood Sufferers. Governor White, of West Virginia, < issued an appeal to West Virginians < only asking for "generous gifts of < money with which necessary supplies 1 can be purchased" for the flood suffer- 1 ere. 1 The governor also sent a reply to a ( telegram from Governor Nash in part i as follows: 'The suffering probably will be great. Aid must be sent via Bluefield, i which requires roundabout circuit 1 through Virginia. Any outside aid had i best be in money and can be sent to i the adjutant general at Charleston, or t to any bank cashier in Bluefield. Thousands of miners are homeless. "A. B. WHITE, Governor." Institution is Sectarian. Joseph Br&dfieiu has begun suit in "" Washington against the treasurer of the United States to enjoin him from paying $50,000 appropriated by con- ( gress for erection of a nurses' home at Providence hospital, a Catholic insti tution, on the ground that it is a sec- j tarian institution. i PROFITABLE LAND DEAL. Valdosta Citizens Make Big Money < Handling Florida Real Estate. The Georgia and Florida Land Compnnv had a meeting in Valdosta the , past week to divide the profits which inn company has earned since it was organized a little lass than two years ago. The dividend amounted to $58,- 4 000, making a profit of something over " * lV- TOO. nrffOn. $75,UUU since me cuuvau/ v.e? ized with $25,000 capital two years ago. The company invested in timber lands in Florida which were held for awhile and then resold. Half of their holdings brought $90,000. RAN |NTO OPEN 8WITCH. Five People Killed and Forty Badly Hurt In Wreck of a Train. By the wrecking of train No. 23 north-bound on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, which ran into an open switch an Monaca, Pa., twenty-six miles from Pittsburg, Mcmaay evening and went over an embankment twentyfive feet high, two persons are dead and three fatally injured and forty others more or less hurt. PLAGUE INFECTED SHIP. Arrives at San Diego?Five Deaths - I From Bubonic occurred on dv? Surgeon General Weyman at Washington has been Informed by Dr. McKay, quarantine official at San Diego, Cal., of the arrival at that port of a plague Infected ship. The vesel is the Carlisle City, sailing from Hong Kong May 16th and coming via Yokohama and Honolulu, reaching San Diego late last Saturday. Dr. McKay reports that there were six deaths en route, five of which were certainly caused by plague, .: & *-vt: :alled on the lord | legroes Prayed While Meeting i Death at Bands of Hob. ||11 fCCUSED OF FOSTER'S MURDER M lob at Benton, La., Finally Satiates Pent Up Anger By Hang- /;.,5 ing "Prophet" Smith and McLand. A special from Shreveport, La., says: ''rank, better known as "Prophet" imith and F. D. McLand, held at Benon for complicity in the murder of .V-|| ohn Gray Foster, were taken out by sWm i mob Wednesday night and strung ip to a tree. They were left dangling - ^ side by side. The lynching occurred on the Arkan- ^ :as road about one mile and a half t'M rom the jail. Both negroes made -d statements before death, denying that hey had anything to do with the killSmith, who was the head of the 'Church of God" movement in that . $ section, and was blamed as being reiponsible for the sentiment against. * *~/J| he whites which led to the death of Foster, died praying. McLand was tilent as he was swung up. As Smith was being led from the ail prior to the execution he was leard to say: i-gSM "Lord, you promised to be with me There were about 200 men in the :fd nob and they overpowered the sheriff and Jailpr, taMng the keys away "qja : 'rom them. The lynchers claimed that -'-j$ the execution of these negroes was p! necessary to the preservation of the .'i ' - ? lives of white men in this locality. MET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 3 Coroner's Jury Investigating Brutal Murder of Little Berts Jackson 1.', Holds Fourth 8ession. The fourth session of the coroner's ^ fury, investigating the murder of Berta 'jjj Jackson, was held behind closed doors'^^S.., it Decatur, Ga., Wednesday afternoon, w the newspaper representatives being ^ | excluded as well as spectators. ^ When the Jury filed from the room, m ifter four hours of work, the an-. "f_| aouncement was made that nothing txad been done which could be given ^ ~ out The only matter that Attorney Hooper Alexander inade public was that the jury would meet again June Judging from the witnesses who tea- |S tifled before the jury, the same old ' ? ground was gone over for the fourth time. The witnesses were R. S. Flowers, Berta Jackson's adopted father; Mrs. Flowers, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Flow- '-B era' sister; the negro boys, Gathro En- g;?p?iish and Matt Willingham, and Lewis ; Gillanj, a negro who works on a farm sdjolnlng Flowers' dairy. All of these witnesses had been before the coroner's jury, and they inKatanHfliir the sAmfl statements y that were made at prior sessions of -'IBBThe Jury seems to be out gunning jgjj ; without any ammunition It is the m concensus of opinion mat if a skilled || detective had been placed on the case jj| Immediately, he might have been able Is by now to furnish the jury with some- j|3 ,5 thing more tangible than suspicions. $& Outside, werk by a detective has been g M needed as well as inside work by a | It seems now as if suspicion is being lip .' directed to Matt Wijllngham. He Is amthe one witness who was caught in a M number of contradictory statements as to his whereabouts on the day of p the murder. NEW BANK AT ELBERTON. Hustling Georgia Town to Have Her > ja Financial Institution. I days a new bank will be organized* and^ready for trusinesa^ in Elberton, Ga., wuh a "f * 000. It will be located in the Long - :<? building on the public square. This will be Elberton's third bank. The offleers have not yet been selected for the Institution. FIRED ON NEGRO SALE8MEN. White Employees of a Mississippi Rail* '|j road Draw Color ^ine. ;3 A report reached Jackson, Miss, jj Thursday that a Gulf and Ship Island ? % 'M freight train was flagged down hy white men near Magee and fire negro salesmen in the caboose were fired 9 upon and one was instantly killed. % The other negroes aboard escaped by jumping and taking to the woods. The affair is the result of a declaration by ! " 1 white employees thai negro salesmen shaii not be allowed to work for the read, and this is the method taken to get rid of them. ' , Big C6tton Blaze at Houston. The compress owned by Inman, i.elms & Co., at Houston, Texas, was "j?*! burned Friday morning with 2,300 ' jf| bales of cotton. The loss is placed at pJf $123,000. Governor's Salary Not Raised. The Alabama constitutional conven- VffS tlon Friday refnsed to increase the " /M governor s salary from $3,000 to $5,000 per annum, but adopted resolutions re- ,y?S2; questing-the legislature to do so. 43&ES * r ??? GRAND JURY INDICTS ''Hi ? |1 New Turn In Alleged "Slaverj^paeee In Anderson, S. C. A Columbia, S. 0., dispatch says: The Anderson grand jury has found "7; true bills ki four cases against J. 3. Fowler and J. Q. Hammond for spiracy, false tmprisonme^w assault :f and battery of a high an^PRrayated isSj: nature and against six othee^kndercott ~ plantere on the same charge in one f#9 case eaeh. It had not concluded work. |? : i These are the famous "slavery c?|flj$j9v'|l exposed last March,' || H