The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 13, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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eJ PUKK PIRACY, SAVS TEDDY.
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Col. Roosevelt Comments on Sinkin
0P of Lusitania.
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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
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ed Female Ditto?Beg pardon, sir.
er thought it belonged to the man sit
h" ting down.?Boston Transcript.
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