The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 20, 1910, Page 2, Image 2
FIVE KILLED IN WRECK.
RUNNING AT TOP SPEED TRAINS
CRASH NEAR McCORMICK.
Dispatcher Fails to Deliver Meet Order
and Passenger Trains Collide
with Fatal Results.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 16.?Owing to
the operator at McCormick, S. C.,
failing to deliver "meet order" for
train No. 8, leaving Anderson, S. C..
for Augusta at 3:50 p. m., Passenger
train No. 3, leaving Augusta at 4:45
o'clock this afternoon for Greenwood,
S. C., collided with the Anderson
train at 6:45 o'clock at the forty
and a half mile post, two and a half
miles this side of McCormick, S. C.
The trains were running at top speed
I and came together in a head-on collision.
As a result of the collision
five trainmen were killed and seven
trainmen injured and ten passengers
injured.
Five Killed.
Both engines were completely
wrecked, the two baggage cars being
telescoped and the next two cars on
both trains badly damaged.
The list of dead is as follows:
Engineer Arizona Rivers, of Augusta,
train No. 8.
Fireman Jim Sprowles, colored, of
Augusta, train No. 8.
- - o
Jb'ireman james ware, cuiureu, ui
Augusta, train No. 3.
Mail Clerk W. F. Acker, of Anderk
v- son, train No. 8.
Train Porter Heard Searles, colors';
ed, of Augusta, train No. 3.
List of Injured.
The injured are: R. L. Hartley,
of Elberton, Ga., leg and ankle
I?, * broken; A. S. McNeal, baggage master
on train No. 3, of Augusta, mashed
in chest and shoulder, condition
! serious; Engineer F. S. Hughes, of
t ' Augusta, of train No. 8, fatally injured;
J. G. Stilwell, of Augusta,
road master of the Augusta-Anderson
division; Conductor Joseph Hernlon,
of'train No. 8, body mashed; Baggage
Master H. K. Burns, of Augusta,
of train No. 8, slightly hurt, and the
following passengers were injured:
W. F. Smith, Hartsville, S. C., leg
|V; hurt; W. E. Cutliff, of Albany, Ga.,
slightly bruised; B. N. Sego, of
Greenwood, S. C., chest and hip injured;
Miss Alma Williams, of Greenwood,
S. C., body bruised; Lorenzo
j?-' Rivers, of Augusta, son 01 tungineer
Rivers, slightly hurt; Jenny Payne, of
?|<v: . Greenwood, S. C., seriously injured; i
Ross Dawson, dead-head flagman,
head scalded and leg bruised.
All of the above passengers were
'on their way to Greenwood and were
j? * - sent to that city in a physician's
charge. A relief train was made up
?js? at Augusta on receipt of the news of
l|& the wreck and this train is expected
s??. to arrive in Augusta at 2 o'clock.
% The Dispatcher's Plea.
Shortly alter tne wreca jL?isyau;uei
$ Browden at McCormick telegraphed
* the local office of the C. & W. C. railjj?>
road and stated that he was so busy
%% selling tickets that he forgot to show
gS? jr." the signal to stop train No. 3 for
Augusta for orders. Train No. 3
registered at McCormick and left at
|sv once for Augusta. Conductor E. L.
ptV Foster, who was on train No. 3, es,
caped injury and walked the two and
a half miles to McCormick with the
fc* ?ew8 of the wreck. There Capt
??v Foster secured an engine and ran
Jjj&V t0 the scene of the wreck and
took the coach from the Augusta
?bv bound train back to McCormick.
The young son of Engineer Rivers
was on the train with his father, go
'. . ing to Anderson, and was sngnuy mjured.
Two boys, whose names have not
yet been learned, are said to have
been hurt. One is known to have
f* had his arm broken and the other
"s boy was badly injured.
Wife of Deputy Gets Damages.
Columbia, Oct. 15.?Five thousand
dollars is the amount awarded Mrs.
Mary W. Fanner to-day by a Richland
county jury, after deliberations
extending from 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
until early Saturday. This
is unique in South Carolina. Mrs.
Farmer is the widow of Constable
James P. Farmer, who was shot and
killed here two years ago by Wade
' Hampton Sellers, known as "The
Blind Tiger King" because of his extensive
operations in the illicit liniior
traffic.
?
Farmer, search warrant in hand,
was slain while seeking access to a
house whfere Sellers boarded. Mrs.
Farmer asked the court to award her
$25,000 damages against Sellers for
her husband's taking off. Sellers will
probably contest the case further.
Woman Honored by Aviation Society.
f-y-y.
New York, Oct. 14.?The Aeronautical
Society has awarded its gold
aviation medal to Mrs. Frank Raishe
of New York, who recently made successful
flights for short distances in
an aeroplane partly of her own invention.
She is the first woman to
receive recognition from the society.
?Columbia Record.
STOLE A GREAT BIG BELL.
Firemen of Salt Lake are Accused of
Theft of Great Tocsin.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 12.?An
historic bell, weighing several thousand
pounds, has disappeared from
the cupola of the Salt Lake city hall
in which the police department is
quartered.
Two members of the fire department
with headquarters in the same
building are under arrest, and have,
the police say, admitted the theft
of the bell. They are said to have
lowered it to the ground with block
and tackle, broken it with sledge
hammers and carted it to a junk
dealer in a fire department wagon.
The junk man grew suspicious
when he found the date 1853 stamped
on a piece of the brass. The bell
was cast in that year by an early
Mormon foundry and was the official
tocsin through the territorial days.
TELLS OF MIDNIGHT SUN.
Steward on Steamship Talks of Visit
to the White Sea.
Mr. Thornton, steward of engineers
of the British steamship Duart,
which recently discharged her cargo
at the Columbus street wharf, talked
interestingly with a reporter for the
News and Courier concerning a trip
? " 4-V.^S. Till loflf Tllltr f A
XilctUC U > tuc JL/Uail laoi UU1< lu mv.
White Sea, off Northern Russia. One
of the most interesting parts of Mr.
Thornton's narrative concerned the
"Midnight Sun," which is seen in
the White Sea. In speaking of the
phenomenon Mr. Thornton said:
- "We were in the White Sea twenty-five
days, taking a load of lumber
from the Czar's own saw mill at
Solombolo, just inside the Arctic
circle. I cannot say every night, because
there was no night while we
were there, but every day after tea
at six, there would be a severe drop
in the temperature. This was during
the half hour or so that the sun disappeared.
While the chief luminary
did disappear for a short time, it did
not get dark, but it resembled our
late afternoon when it draws toward
the twilight.
."The people of the region around
about eat black bread and salt fish.
They are Russians and, as none of us
could speak the Czar's language, we
beld no discourse with them. We often
went into the town of Solombolo,
and there we saw many quaint
things. For instance, the houses
were all of logs and there were no
public buildings of any consequence.
Even the jail was of logs. Though it
was a frail structure," no one imprisoned
would dare to break out, because
the officers go armed with
swords and pistols and they do not
fall to use their weapons on the
| slightest provocation. One of the
most curious things to me was the
fire alarm system of the town. An
old man would go about through the
streets at night with a wooden rattle
in his hand and we were told that
in case of fire he was to rattle the
instrument. Just for fun we thought
we would try the alarm system. We
persuaded the old man to let us
Ipok at the rattle he carried, and,
while examining it, one of the fellows
shook it; but the old man was
too quick. No doubt he was anticipating
trouble and before we could
test the alarm system thoroughly he
was whacking us over the head.
"The expense of lighting the town
of Solombolo is not heavy, as it envoys
so much daylight. I do not remember
having seen a single lamp
while we were there.
"The custom official who came
aboard our ship in his official capacity
was a queer sort of a human. He
was a very nice fellow, as far as that
goes, but the trouble was that his
salary did not go far enough to prevent
his personal appearance from being
ludicrous, as touching the cut
and fit of his clothes, j This poor
custom official, I am told, earned the
the princely sum of 25 cents per day.
He told us that he employed his spare
time doing carved wood work, and at
this he was certainly a master. He
carved a pair of wooden shoes, which
were models for an artist.
"The black bread eaten by the inhabitants
of this region is baked in
loaves as rouna as a can wawi auu
nearly as large, being eighteen inches
in diameter.
"There was one amusement in Solombolo
which I had almost overlooked,
and that was a moving picture
show, which gave a very creditable
performance."
Forced to Leave Home.
Every year a large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to go
to another climate. But this is costly
and not always sure. There's a
better way. Let Dr. King's New Discovery
cure you at home. "It cured
me of lung trouble." writes W. R.
Nelson, of Calamine, Ark., "when all
else failed and I gained 47 pounds in
weight. Its surely the king of all
cough and lung cures." Thousands
owe their lives and health to it.
Its positively guaranteed for coughs,
colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup?all
throat and lung troubles. 50c and
$1.00. Trial bottle free at People's
Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.
$60,000 IN FIVE MINUTES.
Raised to Build a New Presbyteriai
Church in Middletown, N. Y.
Middletown, N. Y., Oct. 12.?Sixt;
thousand dollars was raised in a fev
moments at the service of the West
minster Presbyterian church in thi
city on Sunday for the purpose o
building a new church. The ne^
church will cost $75,000. On Satur
day the pastor, the Rev. Dr. E. Vai
Dyke Wight, notified his parishioner
that he would ask for $60,000 of th
amount needed on Sunday. At th
conclusion of the service he called to
subscriptions and inside of five min
' utes all but a few hundred dollar
had been subscribed. Mrs. Webl
Horton subscribed $20,000, he
daughter, Miss Carrie J. Horton, $5,
000 and the balance was from 20i
members. The Ladies' Aid Society o
+ U,/?v V* AVI ^ HA A fnnror/
LUC LU1 ULU OUi/oviiwvu vv>vvv tunu*<
a new organ for the cliruch.
A Chat With the Boys.
I suspect you will accuse me o
putting the cart before the horse be
cause I have written of spiritua
things first. Hear this: "Seek y<
first the kingdom (kind love) of Go<
and His righteousness and all thesi
things (these material things) shal
be added unto you." That means
boys, if you take God and His son
unrisi, lnio your uvtrs U<11 we ueei
not worry one minute about what w<
shall eat or what we shall wear
God knows we need these things ant
if we do our part He will certainly d<
his. Man is trying to reverse this. h<
is spending all his time even a par
of the Sabbath, planning what he ii
going to do Monday. With all hi:
forethought he is getting poorer ant
poorer, just because he is not livinj
as God wished him to.
r Worry is the great big fear of life
It kills people quicker than anything
else.
It is the greatest folly to be re
bellious against God. Ybu are onl:
clay in his hands, remember you
place and be respectful. What j
comforting thought this is: If y<
fear God, "ye shall grow up as calve:
of the stall," not pasture fed, some
times abundant, sometimes scant, bu
an abundance all the time. The lat<
Moody, America's greatest evangei
ist, says: "I believe this is the bes
land God ever gave to any nation,
land flowing with milk and honey
and it is a poor man's paradise." I
he will let whiskey and tobacc(
alone, he can have his own home
See the millions of money put int<
tobacco and whiskey and then the]
complain about "hard times." Wha
we want to have is a revival o
righteousness, and we shall hav<
"good times." How long are we go
ing to wander around in this wilder
ness of sin, when the promised lane
is so near? God is a just G<-d anc
when we sin He is obliged to punisi
us. We cannot blame God for whai
we bring on ourselves. Here Is
something to think about: "Whei
truth springs from the earth anc
righteousness looks down from heav
en, then wil our land yield her increase."
How long will it take us tc
learn this lesson and put it into practice?
The sooner the better for al!
concerned.
For tweny-one years, boys, you arc
undergoing training to be something
of which every boy should be verj
proud?you will then be an American
citizen. Do you realize what ar
honor this is? Why is it more of ar
honor to be born under the American
flag than any other? Those oJ
>ou who have studied history knov
that the object of its settlement was
to find "Freedom to worship God.'
Here we are allowed freedom o1
thought and speech, so long as il
does not interfere with the happiness
of others. If there is anything in ?
boy, it has a chance here to come out
This should be encouraging to the
young folks to do their very best anc
make themselves worthy citizens. Bj
your lives you are keeping our flaj
proudly waving in the breezes or yoi
are dragging it down in the dust
You were made for a purpose; arc
you trying to find out what it is anc
help on the world's business? Be
stir yourselves, boys, valuable time ii
passing. There is a terrible onenesi
about life, humanly speaking, on<
time to live, one time to die. Onl:
one trial, how particular we shoulc
be! With our best efforts we mak<
miserable failures, then when peopli
are so careless and indifferent, hoi1
sad it is. Enough to make the an
gels weep. Perhaps some of yoi
don't know how to get about lovini
Christ. Read about Him, see ho\
good, how gentle, how free from al
- i. ?-'i. l 1 _
Sin, wny you just can L neip luvuii
Him. Then think how much he ha
suffered to save you from sin. Whei
you do wrong you are crucifying Hie
afresh. I saw a picture the othe
day that made it very plain how w
should love our heavenly fathei
Not a picture that you hang on th
wall but sure enough people, i
father looking lovingly upon his onl
child. It was not difficult to see ho^
dearly he loved that child and ho^
she loved him. The father should lov
God just as tenderly as she love
FIGHT LABOR CONTRACT LAW.
a Peonage Case From Georgia Before
U. S. Court
y Washington, Oct. 16.?Believing
v that hundreds of Southern negroes
are being deprived of their liberty by
s big planters under forms of law the
f Federal Government will endeavor
v this week to induce the Supreme
- Court of the United States to strike
a a telling blow at the alleged evil,
s This it will do by asking the court to
e declare unconstitutional the so-calle
ed Alabama "labor contract" law.
r Similar laws have been passed by
- several of the Southern States and
s the decision is expected to apply to
b them all.
r The treatment of negro farm hands
- under this law is interpreted by the
0 department of justice as a reduction
f of these laborers to a state of peon1
age. Compulsory service to satisfy
debt is taken by Attorney General
Wickersham as the object of the legislation.
The State of Alabama will appear
f in court to defend its enactment. It ?
" is claimed by Attorney General Gar1
ber, of that State, that the law in
e question is not aimed at the negro as
* a class, and?anyway this is a proper
5 exercise of the police power of the
* State to stop fraudulent practices
? from which the South has suffered
? severely.
* ,The case comes to the court on the
- appeal of a negro, Alonzo Bailey,
* from the decision of the Supreme
* Court of Alabama, which held the
5 law constitutional and punished
- Bailey for violating it by assessing a
t fine equivalent to 136 days hard la3
bor for the county. -a
3 Bailey entered into a written con- a
1 tract to work as a farm hand for the
? Riverside Company duinrg the year
1908 for the sum of $12 per month,
* the contract reciting that Bailey had
* received $15 in advance and was to
rereive the balance due him at the a
rate of $10.75 per month, He work '
ed a month and a few days and then <
r quit, it is claimed, without just |
1 cause. He had failed, the record al- 1
3 leges, to refund the money advanced 1
5 him. J
The negro was arrested under "the x
1 labor contract" law. This law pro3
vides that in contracts of service, entered
into by a laborer with intent to
1 defraud where money was advanced,
1 the contract broken without just
' cause and the money not refunded,
^ the laborer should be deemed guilty 1
5 of misdemeanor. An amendment j
* the law in 1903 provided that fail- ?
* ure to perform the service and to re'
fund the money should be prima facie ?
t evidence to defraud.
f f
1 Attorney General Wickersham lays
3 stress particularly upon the argu
ment that the natural and reason"
able to effect the statue was not to
* stop fraudulent practices, but to im*
pose compulsory services on negroes. ?
1 who made up the bulk of farm labor =
t in the State, in satisfaction of debt.
i _
1 him, if he fails here he will deprive
' her of the greatest blessing he can
bestow upon her. To make life a
success there are three qualities you
} must have: You must be truthful,
honest and industrious. Remember
^ "dishonesty doubles the journey to
success." (This thought is borrowed,
? but it is just what I want.) Get a
? pencil and piece of paper, draw a p
straight line to any given point, now
draw a crooked one to it, which gets
1 there first? The straight one, of (
1 course. Keep in the straight and
narrow path, boys. That is the only
f safe way..
The schools are now opening;
j great opportunities are ahead of you;
use them wisely. We need clean,
^ healthy, intelligent boys to carry on
^ the world's business. When some one
5 offers you a cigarette, politely refuse
1 it. Tell them you value your heal
thy body too much to destroy it. It
J would make me real proud to know
* you had that much grit about you.
7 There are big problems ahead to be
? solved. I don't profess to know so
1 much about business, but I can tell
when things are going wrong. Ev?
erybody is living beyond their means;
* this credit system is ruinous. Boys, 1
" when you make a dollar, spend not
5 quite that much, lay aside a few 1
5 cents for the rainy days that are 4
5 sure to come. I have been amazed
r' at the shortsightedness of the farm*
ers, buying so many high-priced mules
5 and sometimes even hay and corn to
e feed them on, to?inake cotton. The
v South with its mild climate is an
" ideal place for stock-raising. Here
13 is a good chance for some enterpris?
ing young man. Start on a small
v" scale and gradually increase your ?
1 business. Brighten your wits, boys.
? and see if you can't help to bring
s about a better state of affairs. Ben
Q Franklin says: "A small leak will
Q sink a great ship." With so many
r big leaks staring us in the face, the
e situation looks rather gloomy. But
' there is a way out of it, we must find
e it.
^ Get yourselves straight, then evy
erything else will soon be working
v smoothly. P. B. P.
v ?
e Why not send us that subscription
s you were talking about?
.
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