The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 19, 1909, Image 6
TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER.
Meet on a Curve at Hunted, Col.
Eight Killed.
Colorado Springs, Col., August 14.
?Eight are dead and 50 injured,
some fatally, as a result of a head-on
collision between No. S northbound
and train No. 1, southbound, on the
Denver & Rio Grande at Husted, 13
miles north of Colorado Springs, this
morning. ine trams, oom ruiiumg
at terrific speed, met on a curve and
their crews had no opportunity to
avert the collision.
Train No. 8, drawn by two engines,
telescoped the baggage car and
smoker of No. 1, and all three en/
gines went into the ditch.
, With more than 400 passengers on
the two trains the excitement following
the accident was indescribable.
All the passengers were thrown in a
screaming mass on the floors of the
j cars and many were hurt in the
stampede to escape. The unhurt
rushed to the aid of the injured but
so great was the confusion that it
required half an hour to clear the
cars, which were Enveloped in clouds
of steam from the engines.
Retlief trains, bearing surgeons and
nurses were rushed to the scene of
the wreck and the wounded were
brought to local hospitals.
It is said that the officials of the
road place the blame of the wreck
upon the crew of train No. 8, who
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were uiucicu iu *w. *. ??
Husted. It is claimed that the crew
mistook a switch engine and cars for
No. 1 and believed the track was
clear.
The dead: Frank M. Frederick,
St. Louis.; C. S. Brown, Jericho
Springs, Mo.; J. A. Gossage, Husted,
Col., fireman No. 8; B. F. Larkens,
Colorado Springs, Col.; J. K. Parker,
Denver; J. R. Parker, Chicago; two
unidentified men.
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Boy and Girl Wed.
Lexington, August 14.?A runaway
match occurred in the mill village
of Saxe-Gotha, about two miles
from Lexington last night, when Miss
Viola Risinger and Monroe Derrick
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ran away from their parents and were
married. Miss Risinger's mother ob|
jected to the marriage and had ordered
the young man to cease paying at4
tention to her daughter, it is said.
But the young woman left home some
time between the hours of 10 and 2
last night in her stocking feet and
met the young man a short distance
from the house and the two proceeded
tn the residence of Notary Public
T. E. Rawl where the knot was tied.
. * Both the parties are about 17 years
of age.
CHILD STABS STEP-BROTHER.
Inflicts Probable Fatal Injuries Then
Flees from East Side.
New York, August 14.?Hyman
Schiff, 6 years old, stabbed his step
5 brother, Isaac Rogers, in the abdomen
to-day and fled from the East
Side tenement house in which they
lived. Isaac probably will die. The
child has not been found. Hyman
was dozing on the sofa when Isaac
came from work. "Get up and find
some other place to sleep," said Isaac,
shaking him. "I want to lie down."
For answer the boy leaped to his feet,
y - seized a sharp kitchen knife from
the table and plunged it into his
brother's side.
Machinery on Farms.
Out at Goshen Corners and Fairfield
Center the boys now growing up
#111 not have to leave home to find
much of which your barren boyhood
was denied. For, over the country
v that you left, the new rural spirit has
waved this wand of progress. From
the fragrant fields comes the sound
Of whirring machinery harvesting ten
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ed before. Self-binders are reaping
acres of wheat at a cost of less than a
cent a bushel. Machines are milking
cows by the herd. Potatoes are being
planted at a furrow rate of five miles
an hour. Within the last two years
more than fifty thousand gasoline engines
have gone to work on the
American farm, and now there is an
auto-tractor that hauls to market
loads of produce tandem, like the
cars of a train. Farm life that was
once a struggle has become a pleasure.
'Last year a number of houses
sold more automobiles to the farmers
than to the city trade. Forty
touring cars at $1,250 apiece went to
a single Illinois county.?The DeliTiootnr
fnr ^pntprnher
Left Note on Coat.
Kershaw, August 13.?Out at the
home of his father, Hon. W. U. Clyburn,
near Haile Gold Mine, Mr. Ern?
est Clyburn committed suicide this
Hit c-Vi or VlimCOlf 1 Tl t Vl ?>
forehead with a .44 calibre pistol. He
had attended Wake Forest College
for two years, and was at home on
his vacation. He was a very popular
young man, about 20 years old, with
a bright future. A note was found
on his coat, pinned there by himself,
in which he said: "Blame no man
for this act. I did it myself."
DR. MELL TO QUIT CLEMSON
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT
HIS RESIGNATION.
Retiring Head Consents to Remain in
Office Until Suitable Successor
Can be Selected.
Clemson College, August 14.?The
Clemson board of trustees adjourned
this morning alter having been in
session since Thursday night. No information
as to the proceedings of
the board was obtainable until ad
journment. In the matter of the
resignation of President P. H. Mell,
the board accepted the resignation,
but asked* Dr. Mell to remain in
charge until a suitable successor
could be found.
For the purpose of looking out for
a president a committee, consisting of
Senator Tillman, Col. Alan Johnstone
and Hon. Richard I. Manning, was
appointed. The committee appointed
to wait on Dr. Mell early this morning
to oonfer with him as to holding
on for a short while consisted of Senator
Tillman, Messrs. J. E. Wannamaker
and W. D. Evans. Their letter
to him says in part:
"Fuller consideration of the environment
and a knowledge of your
own wishes have led us to arrange for
the severance of your connection with
the college. We desire to have you
continue in your office until such time
as we may be able to secure the ser
vices of your successor. Therefore,
we ask if it will be agreeable to you
to preside over the college during the
opening and until we can fill the vacancy
in the best possible manner."
Dr. Mell's Letter.
Dr. Mell has consented in a letter
to them as follows:
"I am perfectly wiling to remain
in the office of president until January
1, if necessary, in order that the
board may have the largest possible
time to find a suitable man. I desire
you to convey to them that I have a
warm attachment for the college and
that my friendship for the institution
remains unabated."
The report of the committee to revise
the by-laws was unanimously
adopted. These laws are based upon
an outline submitted to the committee
by Dr. Mell upon request and as
adopted they contain in a satisfactory
way the three general principles contended
for by Dr. Mell when he tendered
his resignation, namely, the
nomination of officers and members
of the faculty by the president, the
administration of the affairs of the
college by the president without interference
and the definition of the
duties and authority* of the commandant
and the president so that there
will be no conflict of these officers
and that the commandant will have
charge of discipline, military instruc
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Wishes to Travel.
Dr. Mell now wishes to retire from
active college work and hence under
the circumstances he insisted on the
acceptance of his resignation. Dr.
Mell is upward of 60 years old and
being in position to do so he wishes
to spend some years in traveling and
writing in permanent form the scientific
data accumulated in 30 years of
active work. Altogether, therefore,
he deemed this the best time to get
out of harness.
SNAKE CAUGHT IN WHEEL.
Gets Tangled Up in Spinning
Wheel.
Campbellville, Ky., August 14.?
Mrs. W. C. Grider, of Adair county,
was attracted to her weaving room
to-day by the sound of her reel and
opening the door she was horrified to
see a large snake going around with
the spinning wheel. When the reptile
crawled on the wheel it started
the wheel to running. The snake was
unable to free itself and a number of
spectators witnessed the remarkable
sight for nearly half a day. The
snake, which was finally killed, meas
ured five feet in length.
Five Hurt in Fight.
Winston-Salem, N. C., August 13.
?As a result of a dispute to-day between
Lee Bennett and Jack Tillotson,
farmers, near King, Stokes county,
regarding the location of the
boundary line between farms of Bennett
and Tillotson, there was a shotgun
battle in which several friends
of the two families participated, and
as a result Bennett and Tillotson and
three others were wounded, two seriously.
Washington's Plague Spots
lie in the low, marshy bottoms of the
Potomac, the breeding ground of malaria
germs. These germs cause
chills, fever and ague, biliousness,
jaundice, lassitude, weakness and
general debility and bring suffering
or death to thousands yearly. But
Electric Bitters never fail to destroy
them and cure malaria troubles.
"They are the best all-round tonic
and cure, for malaria I ever used,"
writes R. 3f. James, of Louellen, S. C.
They cure stomach, liver, kidney and
blood troubles and will prevent typhoid.
Try them, 50c. Guaranteed
by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.
EXPLOSION HURTS MILITIAMEN.
Results from Handling of Package of ^
Cartridges.
Charleston, August 12.?Two members
of the first, or Charleston divis- '
: ion, of the naval militia, J. A. Fish- .
burne and Henry Decou, were injured
this afternoon in an explosion o: ,
a box of ammunition at the camp o: '
the battalion on the front beach o:
the Isle of Palms. Several men hai !
been ordered to the ammunition tent
to open a box of cartridges, and it
appears that probably through carelessness
in handling the package, it is
said that a hatchet was used, a cartridge
exploded and this was followed
by the igniting and explosion of
others.
Tent was wrecked. It is understood
that two of the men were badly
injured, but neither will die. Both
men suffered terrible laceration of
the flesh and burns. They were re- .
moved to the Fort Moultrie army
post hospital immediately after the
accident and are to-night under the
treatment of the army surgeons.
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Charleston, S. C.t August 12.?In ?
attempting to open a box of ammunition
with a hatchet, J. A. Fishburne,
an ordinary seaman, caused an explosion
at the camp of the first division,
South Carolina naval reserves, on
the Isle of Palms this afternoon,
in which he and Henry Decou, the
sentry who against orders had allowed
him to enter the ammunition tent,
were badly injured. There was
enough ammunition in the tent to
have destroyed a small town, but fortunately
only three cartridges were
exploded. Both of the wounded men
will recover.
DR L. C. STEVENS DEAD.
Was Surgeon of Hart's Battery in the
Civil War. (
Greenville, August 12.?Dr. L. C. 2
Stevens, aged 71 years and for half i
a century a practitioner of medicine 1
in South Carolina, died to-day quite <
suddenly, having returned only yes- J
terday from a trip to Caesar's Head. 1
He was surgeon of Hart's battery in
the civil war and had served the State *
Medical Society as president. He
moved to Greenville nine years ago *
from Barnwell county. J
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Three Greeks Were Killed. 1
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Bristol, Tenn., August 12.?Details
of the shooting reported from Dante, (
Va., last night reveal that three men .
were killed and two wounded. The }
dead are Greeks who were employed ]
in getting out timbers for the mines, j
Dissatisfaction among the foreigners
because of alleged delay on the part
of the contractors in paying their
wages led the Greeks to hide tools belonging
to their employers. An effort *
to recover these led to the shooting. (
The Greeks shot an American, follow- '
ing which William Trent, a young 1
man, entered their cabin. Securing
a gun, which one of the foreigners 1
was intending to use on him, Trent 1
shot and killed three. An American
on the outside was struck by a stray
bullet. Trent, who claims to have
shot in self-defense, was placed un- i
der arrest. 1
The Lesser of the Two Evils. 1
On the first Sunday of their visit in
Chicago the successful merchant escorted
his parents to a fashionable
church. Some of the hymns were familiar,
and in their rendition the visiting
pair contributed heavily, with
the credit of volume in favor of the
father.
Although not always in correct
time, and sometimes in discord, yet
the joy of the good couple jeaped
forth in joyous praise, and they did
not see the glowering looks of nearby
worshippers or the flushed face of
their devoted son.
"Father," observed the merchant
that afternoon, while his mother was
taking her accustomed nap, "in our
churches the congregation does very J
little singing; it is left entirely to the 1
chair." *
"I know, my boy," said the old i
gentleman, as he lovingly placed a 1
hand on his son's shoulder, "that it *
was very embarrassing to you this <
morning, but if I hhdn't sung as loudly
as I did the people would have 1
heard your mother."?Youth's Com- 1
panion. 1
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Seeking Girl's Assailant. 1
Fitze-pralri. Ga.. AuSTUSt 14.? 1
Posses to-day are scouring the sur- (
rounding country for a negro who at- 1
tempted criminal assault on a white 1
girl about 2 o'clock this morning. The :
negro had entered the girl's room
through a window. Awakened by the
noise she attempted to rush past him, j
but he caught her by the throat and j
tried to choke her. The young woman ?
fought desperately, finally succeeding i
in escaping from her assailant. Her *
brother-in-law, sleeping in an adjoin
ing room, was awakened by the noise f
ana rusnea 10 me gin s assistance, ?
but the negro had escaped. Feeling 1
is running high and a lynching is expected
if the negro is captured.
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PRIZED HIS RECORD.
Engineer Samuel Bush Faithful to
the End.
Atlanta, Ga., August 13.?Passengers
who were on the Southern train
wrecked near Eristol, Ya., last evening
arrived here to-night, bringing
details of the bravery of Engineer
Samuel Bush of Knoxville, who died
:o-day as a result of his injuries.
ti-oo cIao-K' ktiH nsinfiillv wnrk
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ing his way out of the wreck of his
engine, scalded and frightfully
bruised, when the few passengers
tvho retained their senses dug into
:he mass of twisted and burning iron
:o meet him. He was lilted out on
:he ground and a hurried call for
physicians resulted in the discovery
:hat there was not a doctor on the
:rain. The passengers began a hunt
:or whiskey to stimulate him and
**ere breaking open suit cases in
;heir search. Bush asked for a last
ook at his old engine, as hopeless a
nrreck as was its engineer. When
:hey came to him with the liquor, he
aegged them to look after the com:ort
of the passengers. Told that no
passengers had been injured, he said:
'That's eood. But before I take this
whiskey, I want you men to smell my
Dreath and testify, if need be, that I
iad not been drinking when this happened."
Although suffering horrible agolies,
the brave engineer would not
:ouch the stimulant until four of the
nen had smelled his breath and
promised to bear witness to his sopriety.
"All an engineer has is his recprd,"
he said feebly, "and he cannot
ifford to have anything against
:hat." Engineer Bush went out uppn
his last run with his record spotess.
Thrown from Train.
Anderson, S. C., August 13.?Robert
Morgan, a white man, about 30
rears old, was thrown off an Augusta
excursion train on the return
;rip to Anderson early to-uay during
i drunken brawl and severely injured.
He was found several hours
ater and brought to a hospital here.
The man's jaw bone is broken
ind he is otherwise badly bruised up.
The fight on the train was a free for
ill affair and it is said that Morgan
aad fired through the car when he
tvas seized by several men, the gun
:aken from him and he thrown
Dodily from the platform.
The row occurred in Abbeville
:ounty, hear Bordeaux, and warrants
ire to be sworn out there for the arrests
of several parties who are beloved
to have had a hand in the
ight.
A Wealthy Man.
Bristol, Tenn., August 13.?Engineer
Bush was a native of Bedford
jounty, Virginia, being a member of
in old and widely known family in
;hat section of the State. He had
Deen in the service of the Southern
ailway for more than 30 years. He
eaves an estate valued at $100,000.
Two Charged with Assault.
Cartersville, Ga., August 14.?Two
white men, Dick Worthington and his
lephew, Jack Worthington, were
jlaced in jail here to-day, charged
with criminal assault upon a young
jirl. Acocrding to the sheriff both
nen have confessed. The assault oc
jurred in the northern part of Bar;ow
county Wednesday. Excitement
n the neighborhood of the crime is at
'ever heat and threats of lynching
lave reached the sheriff.
Both men were captured after an
;xciting chase by Sheriff Smith and
lis deputies. They are held without
iail and will be tried next month.
Residents of the Euharjee neighborlood
make no secret that unless they
tre legally executed they will be
ynched.
Italian Kills Edward Harris.
Rome, Ga., August 14.?Edward
Sarris, aged 25, a member of a well
mown South Carolina family, was
(hot and killed to-night by Frank
lossi, an Italian restaurant keeper.
Hossi and his bride of three months
ire in jail here charged with the
:rime.
Eye witnesses say Harris and the
voman were talking on the porch
vhen the woman cried out: "Kill
lim, Frank," at which the Italian
ired three times. Rossi claims he
leard Harris make improper projosals
to his wife and when he orderid
him away Harris attacked him and
le shot in self-defense. Harris leaves
i wife and child.
LETTERS DISMISSORY.
On Monday, August 16th, 1909, at
:i o'clock a. m., I will apply to Geo.
?. Harmon, Judge of Probate for
3amberg county, for letters dismis;ory
as executor of the estate of An1a
E. Guess, deceased, at which time
will file my final accounting as such
ixecutor. All claims against said
istate must be presented on or beore
the date mentioned, and all
imounts owing said estate must be
>aid by that time.
GEO. W. GOOLSBY,
Executor.
Bamberg, S. G., July 24th, 1909.
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