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STORM SWEEPS PEE DEE MUCH DAMAGE DONE AM) SEY KKAL LIVES LOST. Manning, Darlington, Klloree, and other Points Hard Hit When Drought is Broken. Manning. May 7.?A tornado struck the centre of the town of Manning shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon and caused fearful destruction of life and property. The principal force of the storm was limited to a radius of about one hundred and fifty yards of the Confederate monument, on the court house grounds, and in that area property to the ' " -v.1 /V /vn A amount 01 f-i1 ?,i?vu ?u? uc?nu>cu. Three lives were lost and several persons were seriously injured. In the New Idea Store, at the McLeod corner, .Miss Clara Baggett. saleslady, was instantly killed by the falling roof and walls, while her sister, .Miss Julia Raggett, is thought to be fatally injured. In the same store Miss Annie Thames, milliner, was so injured as to be rendered unconscious for some hours, while her brother, John Thames, was painfully injured about one knee. Two Killed in One Building. At the other end of the same block the upper story of the large Nettles building collapsed and killed two men, Mr. Beasley Davis and a negro porter. This building was only recently occupied by the Manning Dry Goods company with an extensive stock of entirely new gooas. Adjoining the Nettles building is Arant's drug store, which was almost entirely demolished. The intervening buildings, from the Bank of Clarendon to Ratsoffs Bargain Store, were either damaged or totally destroyed. In the McLeod block the walls of the Clarendon Millinery Store collapsed and narrowly missed crushing Mrs. J. M. Bradham, the proprietress. The roof of the Home Bank was blown off, and the walls of the Wilson Insurance company's office collapsed. Stores Unroofed. Across the street extensive damage was done to the roofs or front. wall6 of nearly every store except Zeigler's Pharmacy. The main building of the Plowden Hardware company was unroofed, while the warehouse in the rear was demolished. Cothran's tobacco warehouse and Glenn's tobacco warehouse were completely wrecked. Singular freaks of the storm were impressive, such as the new brick stables of Coffev & Riebv being un Toofed and damaged, while the frame stables of D. H. Bradham & Son, across the street, escaped unscathed. A number of small dwellings were demolished, but the full extent of the damage cannot be ascertained. Much Damage at Elloree. Elloree, May 7.?A fearful cyclone swept over Elloree this afternoon, its path ranging from a quarter of a mile to half a mile in breath and several miles in length, uprooting giant trees and demolishing a number of buildings. It seems a miracle that no one was seriously hurt, and so far Mre. J. D. Strock, who was passing the Methodist church, which was completely demolished, is the only one reported to have received any injuries. Mrs. Strock, who stopped in the porch of the church, was struck by a ?* ? - - * xi? u..ti n piece 01 uie itming jjuuumg. nci injuries, it is said, are slight. No casualties from the country so far have been reported, but it was learned late this afternoon that a number of farm buildings had been reduced to debris. The cyclone appeared to haVe started several miles south of Elloree, sweeping over the main business section of town in a northeasterly direction toward the Santee river, and it is roughly estimated that damage amounting to at least SS.000 has been sustained. The Methodist church was reduced to a mass of ruins. One of the three warehouses of the Elloree Warehouse company, containing about two hundred bales of cotton was completely wrecked, while the roofing of the adjoining buildings was badly damaged. The entire roofing of the stores of the Stack company and P. S. Jones was uprooted. The old Snider store room, owned by Dr. P. L. Felder, was badly damaged and the small negro church and lodge building was levelled to the ground. The barn and stables of W. F. Jones and of F. A. Fair were completely wrecked. The front of the store room of P. E. Heatley & Son was badly damaged. The cotton seed houses on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company's right of way were badly damaged, and so terrific was the wind that several box cars that were standing on the siding were blown several hundred feet up the track. A number of other buildings were more or less damaged and this afternoon the streets were strewn with debris and uprooted trees that were in the path of the cyclone, which covered only a portion of the town. A SAYS COl'NTY .MIST PAY. j Affirms Circuit Court in Cantey Clarendon County. Columbia, .May 7.?In an una mous opinion, written by Associ; ' Justice D. E. Hydrick, the State i J preme court affirmed tlie judgnu ; of the circuit court in awarding $ i (Mm) exemplary damages to Madis ! Cantev against Clarendon county i j the lynching of his son, .Marion Ci | tey, there 011 February 22, 1913. j .Marion was arrested on a warrs sworn out before Magistrate L. 1 Barwick, charged with assault a battery with intent to kill. He w given a preliminary hearing at Pt ville the same day of the alleg crime?February 22, 1913?and w 1 sent to the circuit court for tri That night the prisoner was sent, the care of a constable, from Paxvi to Manning. When they arrived Tindal's Mill, about ten miles frc Manning, a "mob" of eight or ni M..; t Ilieil lUUft .uai iuu liVM* v constable and shot him to death. Under the authority of section of article 6 of the constitution 1S95 the lynched man's father, .Mai son Cantey. sued Clarendon coun for $2,000 exemplary damages a won the suit in the circuit court the same county before Judge Rii Attorneys for Clarendon county th applied to the supreme court for new trial on alleged errors in the pi siding judge's charge. The opinion says in part: "By section 6 of article 6 of t constitution and the statutes enact thereunder, the law-makers undt took to make a law which would least aid in preventing the crime lynching in this State. The cons tution provides that, in case a prise er lawfully in the custody of an < ficer is taken from his custoc through his negligence, permissii or connivance, "by mob or other u lawful assemblage of persons," ai at their hands suffers bodily violen or death, the officer shall be guilty a misdeameanor, and provides for 1 prosecution and suitable penalties i conviction. The same section pr vides that, in all cases of lynchii when death ensues, the county whe such lynching takes place shall liable to the legal representatives the person lynched in exempla damages of not less than $2,000. "Appellant's sole contention is th the trial judge erred in instructs the jury what constitutes 'a mob other unlawful assemblages of pe sons,' and in not leaving it to the to nnd, witnout sucn mstructio whether the persons who lynch' Cantey constituted 'a mob or oth unlawful assemblage of persons' wit in the meaning of the constitute and statutes. "It was clearly the duty of ti court to instruct the jury and expla to them the meaning of the wor used in the constitution and statutt It is a well settled rule of constru tion that technical words or phras used in a statute?especially 01 dealing with legal proceedings?shi have their technical meaning, unle a contrary intention appears. T] phrase 'unlawful assemblage' has technical meaning, and by using it the alternative of the word "mob' clear that the law-makers intend' that 'mob' should mean the same 'unlawful assemblage.' Therefoi the court correctly defined the wo 'mob' as an 'unlawful assemblage persons' and correctly defined the 1< ter phrase according to the standa text books and our own decisions. "Judgment affirmed." Mary Pickford in "The Eagl< Mate," in 5 reels, Thursday.?adv. Glendale Spring Water deliver at house for 50 cents per five-gall bottle by J. A. Murdaugh.?adv. heavy rainfall followed the storm. One Dead in Darlington. Darlington, May 7.?A severe c clone passed over the upper part this county and the lower part Chesterfield county this afterno doing considerable damage to prop* ty. The only fatality so far learn is the death of one negro on t plantation of Mr. David Mclntos twhere several buildings were destrc ed and seven negroes received min injuries, the most serious being fractured skull of a small girl, w was taken to a hospital by auton bile to-night. At the plantation Mr. Wilson Maloy, a dwelling cc taining a number of white people'w severely damaged, but none of t occupants were fatally injured, s* eral of whom reached here this aft< noon by rail. No further details fr< this territory can be obtained, as t telephone lines were destroyed by t storm. About four miles north of Darlir ton several buildings were destroy on the plantations of Messrs. J. ?' *T u ~ ~ d I/* . t\irveil, \angueui ctiiu u. r. nciin but so far as can be learned no c was injured. The wind was accompanied in t district by a severe hail storm, a I at this time there is falling the fi jheavy rain since last March. STATK IM)HllO\VI\(i IJOAKI). vs.! T? Meet to Consider Horrowiii $300,000 for Kxpenses. ni- Colmnbia, .May tl.?The borrowin ate j board of the State will meet on Ma su-|21 to consider the advisability c ?nt j borrowing $500,001) or $600,000 t 2.-' meet the running expenses of th on ! State Government until taxes come i for during the fall. The board is con m- posed of Governor Manning. Conii J troller General Sawyer and Stat int I Treasurer Carter. The State last yea S. { borrowed $460,000. some at :> 1nd ! per cent, and the balance at 6 pt I t It line hoan nofocearv for <SP^ ar> | vciu. iv ?'uo %, - ?? ? ix-1 eral years to borrow several hundre ed , thousand dollars to meet running e: as | penses, and it is likely that at leas al. j SO-UO.hOO wil liave to be borrowed thi in i yeai. lie i The financial board had no stat< at I rnent to make this morning oth >m than that a meeting would be hel ne on the -1st to consider the mattei he LIGHTNING STARTS FIRE. Ginnery Burned in Sumter County of Loss $3,500. 3i ty Sumter, May f>.?During an elec nd trical storm yesterday afternoon th of ginnery of J. W. Brunson, of Cor :e. j cord township, this county, wa en'struck by lightning and set on fir< a;the building and all the machiner e-1 being destroyed. The loss was est InintoH at Sit "ilifl with S1 r> 0 0 insui ance. he eJ PUKK PIRACY, SAVS TEDDY. ;rat Col. Roosevelt Comments on Sinkin 0P of Lusitania. ti- * n_ Syracuse, X. Y., May 7.?Theodor Roosevelt, former president of th (v United States, after learning detail Dn' of the sinking of the Lusitania tc n_ night, made this statement: "This represents not merely piracj ce but piracy on a vaster scale of mui der than \ny old-time pirate eve praoticed. This is the warfare whic on destroyed Louvain and Dinant an hundreds of men, women and chil Qg dren in Belgium. It is warefar against innocent men,, women an children, travelling on the ocean, an of to our fellow country women, wh are among the sufferers. "It seems inconceivable that w at can refrain from taking action in thi matter, for we owe it not only t Qg Qr humanity, but to our own nationa >r_ self-respect." :m Male Straphanger?Madam, yo n' are stonding on my foot. ed Female Ditto?Beg pardon, sir. er thought it belonged to the man sit h" ting down.?Boston Transcript. Dn ? ... ? he RUB-MY-TISM in Will core your Rhenmatisn ds Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps 36. Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts ant ic- Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insect: es Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used in ae ternally and externally. Price 25c ill JOHN F. FOLK as REAL ESTATE, STOCK, BONDS is ed Real Estate for Sale. as 160-acre farm, 2 miles from Bam e, berg. rd 94-acre farm near Midway, of 290-acre farm near Hunters Chappel it- 1 house and lot, Bamberg, 4 rooms rd 1 house and lot, Bamberg, 6 rooms 8 vacant lots, different parts o Bamberg. 290-acre farm near Ehrhardt. 2's 2 dwellings and lots in Ehrhardt. 4 vacant lots in Ehrhardt. 2 desirable lots in Denmark. ed 353 acres near Howell's Old Mill, on . Stocks and Bonds for Sale. ~ 10 glares Bamberg Cotton Mil stock. 15 shares Peoples Bank stock. 5 shares Enterprise Bank stock. Bond and Mortgage Real Estat on Value. $400. S per cent, interest, due i ?r. 3 years. 6(1 ( Communications from parties ha^ H0 ^ ing real estate, stocks or bonds fo sale solicited. "I JOHN F. FOLK ho )0 Winthrop College. 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