The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 22, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
COWS DERAIL FAST TRAIN.
Coast Line Engineer and Fireman
Painfully Injured.
Florence,-January 15.?Train No.
209, the fast through freight from
* Florence to Augusta, known as the
Coast Line's package train over the
Manchester and Augusta division,
was wrecked at Remini about 12.30
o'clock this morning. Engineer J.
H. Capell was seriously injured, and
his fireman, Henry Serious, colored,
painfully hurt.
mho train lpft Florence last night
* about 9 o'clock and was running
about on time. Near the section
I house at Remini the monster locomo%
tive, No. 904, struck two cows that
were standing on the track, derailing
the "pony truck." The train
then ran some fifteen-car lengths
when the engine turned broad-side
across the track and eleven box cars,
two loaded and nine empty, piled
\ up against the engine and were
wrecked. One of the cows got beneath
the engine and was wedged
there, causing the derailment. A
train was dispatched from Sumter
with doctors and medicines and soon
reached the wreck and rendered
medical assistance. Shortly after a
wrecking train from Florence was
.? dispatched and the track was cleared
late this afternoon. Engineer
Capell and the fireman were brought
* to the city on a special train to-day
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and were carried to tneir nomes. -ur.
Capell was scalded on one leg and
was badly cut and bruised about the
head, face and body. Serious, the
^ colored fireman, was badly cut and
bruised and scalded. The attending
? physicians state that both men will
get well.
| West Virginians Flee Before Raging
Flood.
Cumberland, Md., January 15.?
Huddied in rude shacks and about
blazing camp fires, hundreds of flood
refugees to-night watched and waited
in West Virginia while the northern
branch of the Potomac River,
swollen to an icy flood, swept
through their homes in the town that
dot the valley below.
. A wall of water, starting from the
broken -dam of the West Virginia
Pulp and paper Company, on Stoney
Creek moved down to the Potomac
inundated the town of Scheli, W. Va.,
. where the two streams meet and
, started a flood wave, laden with
wreckage and ice, down the Potomac
Valley.
Warnings of the approaching flood
sent the residents of small towns
along the river scurrying to safety {n
the hills, where to-night from vantage
points they peered through the
darkness in an icy gale toward the
swollen waters below.
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Telegraph and telephone communi"
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* cation was cue on uy me nuuu
the day, but was re-established tonight.
Rumors of several men caught
at Shaw, W. Va., twenty miles from
Schell, which could not be confirmed,
were the only reports of casualties
attending the flood. The flood warning
emptied the town of Shaw and
sent many . residents of Blaine.
. Harrison, Kitzmiller and other
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smaller places hurrying to the ridges.
Fear that the waters might rise still
further prevented many refugees
from returning to their homes, even
in towns where little damge was
f done.
The flood wave apparently expended
its energy in a mad twenty-mile
dash down the valley of Stoney Creek
from the burst dam of Schell.* 1 his
valley, however, virtually was uninhabited.
It was owned by the West
Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
as a right of way and watershed.
The big dam, which impounded a
lake of water five miles long and
which was 65 feet high, had been
weakening for several days. Last
night it began to crumble and a farmer
from the mountain village of
Mount Storm rode down the valley
warning the few inhabitants of fhe
* * impending break. A part of the big
structure gave way early to-day and
at noon the sweeping waters carried
away the greater part of the face of
the dam.
A Strong Man's Job.
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Some time ago, a colored man ap^
plied for work at a building operation
and was taken on. The first
4 duty assigned him was carrying
planks from one corner to another.
The planks weighed a whole lot more
than a heavy conscience, and as the
colored man wearily trudged along
he became exceedingly thoughtful.
"Look heah, boss." he remarked,
/ finally, going over to the foreman,
aia T t#?ll vn' what mah name was
when I started in to wo'k?"
"Why, yes", answered the foreman,"
wonderingly. "You said it
was Thompson."
"Dat's jes' what I did, boss. Dat's
jes' what I did," was the smiling rejoinder
of the colored party. "But I
A was afraid dat yo' done gone made a
mistake an' fink it was Samson."?
, Philadelphia Telegraph.
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CHILD Bl'RNED TO DEATH.
Parents Rush to I^end Aid, But I
Beach House Too Late.
Nichols, January 15.?News has
just reached here that Curry s
Gilchrist, his wife and four children, c
living on the plantation of Gilbert E
Price, about four miles from this r
place, had just left their home and r
gone to their tobacco patch, when I
hearing a cry they looked back, saw r
their eldest child, about four years t
old fall in the doorway. By the time C
they reached the child it was dead. It c
seems that the child had gone too t
near the fireplace and caught fire and o
rushed for the door, dying on tne i
threshold.
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A Cow With a Wooden Leg. t
James M. I. Galloway, veterinary
surgeon of Kirkintilloch, Scot., arrived
yesterdav from Glasgow with F
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photographs of a cow with a wooden
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leg on the starboard quarter, which .
the veterinary says is almost as gjcd 11
to the cow as an ordinary leg of beef
and much more effective in knocking
out folks who try to milk her on the
wrong side.
Other veterinarians laughed at t:
Galloway, who is young and of an ex- c
perimental temperament, when he r
decided to save the life of a cow, af- v
ter the leg had been cut off by a lo- c
comotive. He insisted on fitting the t
wooden leg, which he regards as t
much more useful than wooaen p
heads on* Scotch veterinarians. t:
The only time the wooden leg gets t:
the cow into trouble is when she t
stands too long in a damp field and s
the leg sinks in a foot or so. Mr.
Galloway is going to visit his brolii- h
er, a veterinarian of Washington.? o
Ne^ York Sun. v
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Attacked On the Highway. ,.
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The negro, Wolfe, alias Sam a
Thomson, who assaulted J. A. Shannon
as he was returning home Sunday
afternoon from a < visit to the
family of Mrs. Wade Osborne at s:
Lockardt, has not yet been caught, tl
Mr. Shannon was driving along the h
road about three miles from Lock- ii
hart and did not notice the negro c;
approaching until he was standing
right by the side of his buggy, curs- c<
ing him. Mr. Shannon stopped his fi
buggy and asked the negro if he was s
cursing him, there being no one else n
in sight. The negro replied that he n
was and advanced towards the buggy n
with his hand in his hip pocket, d
Shannon jumped from his buggy and d
discarded his overcoat and gloves, tl
Having nothing to defend himself si
with he picked up some rocks and t<
threw them at the negro, who contin- w
ued to advance on Mr. Shannon, ii
brandishing a knife or razor. Mr. ti
Shannon was able to keep the negro n
back far enough to prevent himself
from getting cut, though his clothing fi
was badly, slashed. He finally sue- a
ceeded in striking the negro a blow ii
between the eyes with the butt end a
of his whip, which so stunned the p
negro that he was unable to advance S
again. The negro was carried off by n
another negro who came upon the
scene about this time. Mr. Shannon
had never seen his assailant before
and could not give the officers his
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name. Before the officers were able
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to capture him at his home on W. C. ^
Thompson's place he had escaped.? g,
Sharon special of January 15, to
Rock Hill Herald. C<
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Safe Blower Reforms. $
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Lawrenceville. Ga., Jan. 15.? v
John Wilson, who broke jail here l
several years ago. and who ended a v
five-year sentence about eighteen
months ago, returned to Lawrence- ci
ville to-day with a record that few a
men who have been convicted as safe si
blowers have ever made. He came fi
on a visit to pay his respects to f<
friends here and to those who befrienripd
him while in jail. He b
brought records to show that for the 2
past twelve months he has held a B
$100 per month job in Spartanburg,
S.C., and stands high in the regard 4
of his employer. 1
He made no secret of his past re- w
cord when he applied for a job on
getting out of prison, and he declares 1
that he intends to keep the confi- b
dence of his employer. He is still a $
young man and was the youngest of
the trio of safe blowers caught at tl
Carl. Ga., in 1904. The other two r<
were John Cooper and "Dutch" Wil- g
liams. -ft
REMANDED TO THE TOMBS.
Youth Advises Young Men to Keep
Out of Wall Street.
New York, January 14.?Frank n
Henning, the youth who confessed to P
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naving stolen irom uie pc- sonal
accounts of directors of the 1J
Farmer's State Bank, #of Schaumberg, t!
111., was arraigned in police court to- 0
day and remanded to the Tombs until il
Friday, Henning was dejected. '
"I would advise every young man v
to keep out of Wall street and stock a
speculation," he said. "It looks a
mighty good at first, but they will a
get you in the end." b
HOPEFUL OF ROAD MEASURE.
Syraes Says His Bill for $25,000,000
Appropriation Will Pass.
Washington, January 16.?Repreentative
James F. Byrnes said to[ay
that the bill unanimously reported
to the house Thursday by the
oads committee, of which he is a
nember. would almost certainly be
passed by the house within the next
nonth. The bill is a compromise
ietween the measure fathered by
lhairman Shackleford and one introluced
by Mr. Brynes, and carries
10th plans, leaving the States the
ption of choice. The appropriaion
made by the bill is $25,000,000.
Mr. Byrnes thinks is quite possible
hat the road bill will be attached to
he postoffice appropriation bill, now
ending, as a rider. A rule will be
btained from the rules committee
ermitting this method, which was
luccessful 'in the house with the
oads bill which afterwards failed
a the senate. The senate is likely
o pass a roads bill this year.
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To Push Measure for Good Roads.
Washington, Jan. 15.?Represenative
Brynes to-day told The State's
orrespondent that the committee on
oads, of which he is a member,
rould in all probability secure a speial
rule from the rules committee cf
he house within the next day or t^o
o have the pending good roads bill
assed with the postoffice appropriaion
bill. Mr. Byrnes thinks that in
his way no objection could be raised
o the measure and that it would
oon pass both the house and senate.
Since Mr. Byrnes entered the
ouse he has worked for the passage
f a liberal good roads bill, one that
'ould meet all constitutional reuirements,
and to-day he said he beeved
this consummation to be near
t hand.
How a Girl Went to College.
A young girl who lived in Missisippi
asked her brother to give her
he money to go to college. He told
er he could not afford it, and tossig
her a nickel, added, "Unless you
an go on that."
The plucky little girl took the 5ent
piece and bought some calico,
rom which she made a bonnet that
he sold for 25 cents. With'this
loney she bought more calico and
lade more bonnets. After she had
lade several dollars in this way she
etermined to raise potatoes. She
id all the work in the field except
le ploughing. The venture was a
access, and she had enough money
) start at school. She did not stop
ork, however, and it is not surprislg
that a girl of so much determinaon
was able to borrow enough
loney to supplement what she made.
She was graduated w;ith honor
om the State College for Women,
ttended a medical school, still earnlg
all her expenses, got her degree,
nd is now a successful practicing
hysician in a large town in the
outh; and it all began with a
ickel!?Youth's Companion.
Six Million Dollars Gain.
Approximately $6,000,000 repremts
the total increase in the value
f all property in South Carolina for
ixation according to the annual
tatement issued by A. W. Jones,
amptroller general. The total value
f all property for last year was
297,431,000, as compared with
291,531.003 in 1912. The total
alue of all railroad property in
913 was $43,783,509, as compared
ith $42,742,671 in 1912.
There has, however, been a derease
in valuation in Barnwell
ounty of $23,350, while Bamberg
hows an increase of $50,670. The
gures for the two counties are as
allows:
Personal property in 1912: Bamerg
$793,270; Barnwell, $1,316,50;
in 1913: Bamberg, $830,030;
arnwell, $1,271,280.
Real estate in 1912: Bamberg, $1,36,700,
Barnwell, $3,000,870; in
913: Bamberg, $1,450,060; Barnell,
$3,018,800.
Totals, 1912: Bamberg, $3,080,90;
Barnwell, $6,198,470; 1913;
omhoncr $2 120 SfiO* Barnwell.
6,175,120.
From the above it will be seen that
aere has been an increase in both
sal and personal property values in
tamberg, while in Barnwell there
as a decrease in personal and an
lcrease in real property valuation.
' The Ford Motor Company of Detroit,
which recently divided $10,00,000
among its stockholders, has
ow "cut a melon" of even larger
roportions for its employees. Uner
a plan of profit-sharing which is
erhaps unexampled in magnitude,
lie company will distribute $10,000,00
annually, or approximately half
s earnings, among 22,000 workmen,
'he program includes eight-hour
ork-days. a minimum wage of $5
day which is more than double that
r nrpspnt in fnrrp and in addition
benevolent supervision of the welleing
of employees.
EDISTO PROJECT.
War Department Recommends Tliat
It Be Carried Out.
Washington,' Jan. J 6.?Federal
improvement of waterway? from
Orangeburg to Charleston, S. C., to
maintain a cleared channel was recommended
to congress to-day by the
war department. The initial cost
wouia oe ^o.uuu aua annual maintenance,
$5,000. The waterway
steamboat navigation plans for which
are being prepared, would include a
cut-off from Edisto river to Ashley
river to provide more direct route.
IX MEMORY OF GRANDMOTHER.
We, the children and grandchildren,
wish to extend our hearty
thanks to those throughout the entire
community that helped us
through all the sufferings of our
grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Kinard.
0, the sweetest place in memory is
that lonely mound of earth, and the form
of that dear grandmother that j
we carried there the third day of
January.
So we journey on in sadltess over m
life's dreary, barren waste, hoping I
that some sweet day we may meet I
and 6ee her lovely face again and J
abide with her there forever more.
JESSIE AND ANNIE.
Ladies
We introduce a new
firm to you.
Just keep on your hats
and listen a moment }
Rentz's Millinery Store,
will hereafter be run as
usual but under the firm name
of LaVerne Thomas & Co.
The new firm will continue
to keep up the reputation
of the old firm in new
things by always having for
you the newest to be had
of everything in our line.
Hats, Silks, Laces, Embroideries,
Dress Novelties.
AD new, novel,
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And again remember the
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The flower buds are already
forming fop the Spring.
"We are preparing for you"
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Sale at Auction
I will sell at auction on
Monday, February, 23d,
at 1Z noon, my two- story
House and Lot,
also the adjoining lot, on
Washington and Franklin
Street, at Ehrhardt,
S.C.
C. A. ECKARDT
DR. THOMAS BLACK, JR.
DENTAL SURGEON.
Graduate Dental Department University
of .Maryland. Member S. C.
State Dental Association.
Office opposite new post office and
over office Graham & Black. Office
hours; 8.30 a. m. to 5.30 p. m.
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