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Vol. LXXII No. 1404 -JH-?J c., Tuesday AHe^^^Bfeo=T3j==192^ ?^ per ^
ANDERSON MAN
KILLS BROTHER
Anderson, June 12.?Eugene Shav
shot and killed his brother, Petei
Shaw, at the Shaw home near -Beltoi
this morning. Peter Shaw was at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C
C. Shaw, about seven miles from Anderson,
near the Belton-Audersor
' highway. At the inquest it was testified
that he was standing near a
well with a baby in his arms when
he was shot from the doorway by
Eugene Shaw.
According to evidence in the coroner's
inquest the two men had some
difficulty, trouble had been brewing
since Saturday. Mrs. C. C. Shaw,
the mother, said that Peter owed Eugene
for some peas. He was to have
v been paid back Saturday, and they
j* were fussing about this.
Clarke Shaw testified that he was
% not at the place at the time his two
* brothers were fussing, and when Eugene
shot Peter, but he knew tha^
h they were at outs and that Eugene
told him at 1 o'clock this 'morning
that he was going to kill Peter if he
didn't- make a settlement. Clarke
said that Peter owed Eugene for
three sacks of guano and that he
owed Eugene four sacks and he had
made ararngements for Peter to pay
the guano to him, which was not satisfactory
to Eugene, and Eugene is
alleged to have said that if Peter did
not pay him, too, he would kill Peter.
Clarke Shaw also volunteered the
/ information that Peter owed Eugene
for whiskey, but this was not
recorded. He~~also said, "The truth
is Eugene is the father of this liquor
business and he claimed Peter owed
him $660 for liquor."
Mrs. Peter Shaw said that when she
got to her husband, who was about
a hundred yards from her home, that
he was breathing and lived about 20
minutes. She said that she believed
whiskey to be at the bottom of the
trouble. She had warned Eugene, she
said, not to let Peter have any more
whiskey, if he' did she would tell on
him.
Reed Shaw, another brother, was a
witness to the shooting and said that
p" the men were fussing in the housd
and that Peter went out and had yone
about 15 steps in the yard when Eugene
called him back. He said that
he told Eugene not to shoot that hd
might hit the baby, and Eilgene said
with an oath, "Let 'em die together."
Reed testified both men shot, but
Pteer did not shoot at Eugene until
after he had been shot.
The baby that was in the arms of
Peter when he fell is a little girl 21
months old, and had gone to sleep on
her father's shoulder. Her head was
^ bloody from the wounds of her father
and her clothing was also blood stain
ed, but she was not hurt. There are
two other little girls besides this.
Peter Shaw was 36 years of age.
Eugene Shaw was arrested at Belton,
after he had telephoned the sheriff
to come and get him and was
brought to the Anderson jail. He
was slightly wounded by a bullet
which penetrated the skull. This
wound was attended by a physician in
Belton. Shaw expressed gijeat regret,
saying: "Nobody hates it any
wortfe than me. I did it to save my
? life. They were both shooting at me
at the same time."
The funeral of Peter Shaw will be
held Tuesday afternoon at the Second
Baptist church in Belton.
Attention; Company E
This is the last night on this paj
roll and to make it possible to gei
this pay roll off properly and*>n time
it is very Important that every member
be present. There is also some
other details to be taken up and worked
out that are important and musl
be attended to before encampment.
Witt S. Pore,
Capt. Co. E, 118th Inf. S. C. N. G.
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W1IIVU
Martin F. Hullender, Jr., spent las1
week visiting friends in Columbia, Orangeburg
and Batesburg. While ir
Batesburg he attended the commencement
exercises of the Batesburg-Leesville
high school.
Mr. and Mrs. MeFarland Young oi
Spartanburg spent the week-end wit!
their sister, Mrs. J. C. Gregory, oi
Route 8. Martin
F. Hullender, Jr., spent th<
week-end with his parents on Route 3
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Four Lives Lost
^ In Storm Snday
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Bracebridge, Ont., June 1ft.?Foui
lives are believed lost op the Muskoki
Lakes during the storm Sunday
Gharlea Draper and three sons faile<
to return home, and are still amoni
those missing.
Dr. Merlin Goes to Hospital
a* Dr. D. H. Martin will go to Wallace
Thomson hospital for an operation to
day. He hopes to return to his offtc.
in a week or ten days.
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BIGHAM WILL
I APPEAL AGAIN
T Florence, June 12.?Attorneys for
* E. D. Blgham stated this afternoon
i they would appeal .from the ruling of
> Judge S. W. G. Shipp refusing him
. a new trial on the grounds of after
discovered evidence. Bigham was cari
ried to Columbia today by Sheriff
Burch and Deputy Connor to be placed
i in the penitentiary to await electroi
cution on July 14. The appeal to the
' supreme court, if made, however, will
automatically stay this sentence, in
. the county jail at 10 o'clock lasfnight
i Bigham took affectionate leave of his
; wife. He speaks of her as "the
, widow."
i Edmund D. Bigham, resentenced by
Judge S. W. G. Shipp to die in the
electric chair on July 14, was brought
, back to the penitentiary yesterday
> shortly after the noon hour and again
placed in his cell in the death house.
, Bigham was carried to Florence June
i, 3 and remained there a little over a
week.
At Florence a motion for a new
trial on affer-discovered evidence was
made by A. L. King, chief attorney
for Bigham, but Judge Shipp overruled
the motion and sentenced the
condemned man to pay the supreme
penalty juiy 14.
The motion for the new trial was
made by Mr. King: upon the discovery
of certain letters alleged to have been
written by L. Smiley Bigham and addressed
to Edmund Bigham. These
letters, all typewritten, purported to
show that Smiley Bigham was planning
to kill his family and then end
his own life. Judge Shipp did not take
the letter seriously and intimated that
he thought them to be frauds.
In case the attorneys carry out their
intention to appeal to the supreme
i court from the refusal of Judge Shipp
to grant a new trial, it is possible
that the appeal may be heard early in
, July. The supreme court will return
, to Columbia for consultation about
July 6 and under Rule 30 Solicitor ,
Gasque may move for a dismissal of '
the appeal on the grounds that it lacks
merit. Only four days' notice is nec|
essary for a motion under Rule 30.
I The appeal In the Gappins case was
AWjpr thia t?U. ^ ^ ,
The Bigham case has been before
the supreme court twice already, the
I defendant losing both times.
First Witness Called
In Famous Case
j Charlestown, W. Va., June 13 (By
the Associated Press).?The first witness
was called today by the state in
t on effort to prove that Rev. J. E. Wil.
burn was implicated in the fata!
shooting of John C. Gore, Logan coun
, ty sheriff, who was killed with two
deputies during the disturbances at
Logan, on the Boone county border
last summer.
Lenine Has All His Facilities
Moscow, June 13 (By the Associated
Press).?"Lenine hasn't lost any of
his faculties, his progress is satifactory,"
o Dimitri Oulianoff, the prem,
ier's eldest brother, told the corre,
spondent today. He said the rumors
that Lenine was paralyzed were untrue.
Purchases Business
Ernest A. Kerhulas has bought out
the interest of bis co-partner, Mitchell
Psinos, in the Dixie Cafe. Mr. Kerr
hulas will own the entire business.
. Mr. Psillos will return to Greece, leav|
ing this week.
( Attempt to Hold
Up Train Frustrated
t ??-i
Nagsles, Ariz., June 18.?Five bandits
were killed and three wounded in
an attempt to hold up a train of the
Southern Pacific De Mexico near
Bosares, Mexico, on Saturday, according
to the conductor who arrived tot
day. Five were killed and three
tifAundo/1 hv ( ' un tUo mili.
*TV \*U\A\>\A k// UVUi *WUI MIV lllllli
tary governor at Nyaret, who was a
passenger on the train.
Notice
[ The County Democratic executive
f committee is hereby called to meet at
the court house on Friday, the 16th, at
, 8 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
matting assessments or candidates, arranging
for the campaign, and attending
to any other matters concernr
ing the primary election. This will be
the most important meeting of said
committee, and every member is trrgr
ed to be present. J. A. Sawyer,
1 It. Chairman.
9 m i
A. G. Kennedy and B. F. Kennedy
f have gone to Columbia to visit their
mother Mrs. E. F. Kennedy, and \>e
present at her 77th birthday celebration.
Mrs. Kennedy mskes her home
in Columbia with her daughter, Mrs.
9 Scott. .
? Mrs. Walter Jolly is among the
shoppers in Union today.
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PRESENTS PETITION II
FOR JESSE GAPPINS
Eleven of the Lexington jurors who
convicted Jesse Gappins of murder 1
in connection with the killing of Wil- 1
liam Brazell, the young Columbia taxi 1
driver, have signed a petition, asking t
Governor Harvey to commute the sen- *
tence of death against Gappins to life c
imprisonment. The petition for clem- I
ency was presented to Governor Har- *
vey yesterday morning by the Rev. ?
M. O. J. Kreps. c
III addition to the 11 jurors, the ^
petition contains the names of 16 t
other citizens of Lexington and Rich- *
land counties. The petitioners say that t
"extenuating circumstances" have t
arisen since the trial and believe a
Gappins should be given clemency.
They fail to mention the "extenuating s
circumstances" or to present any new t
, >
While Governor Harvey declined to *
make any Announcement as to what 6
he would do with the petition, it is t
almost a certainty that he will not in- c
terfere with the verdict 9t the court, a
It is known that the governor is of ?
the opinion that the jurors should ^
have recommended mercy for Gappins s
when they returned their verdict if *
they thought the condemned man deserved
mercy. h
The jujors signing the petition are d
as follows: C. A. Hallman, foreman; \
W. O. Gannt, Simon Smith, L. H. Wil- f
son, J. D. Sox, C. G. Amick, C. P. Der- e
rick, D. J. Roof, G. E. Smith and J. R. h
Gunter. The petition has evidently r
been in circulation for some time as g
"Governor Cooper" was stricken out c
and "Governor Harvey" inserted. a
Considerable effort is being made t
in behalf of Gappins and some effort r
is being made for S. J. Kirby and C. t
O. Pox co-partners in crime with Gappins.
Governor Harvey has received t
two letters from a woman named f
Adams in DeQuincy, Ala., the woman t
asking clemency for Gappins. She t
claims to be a sweetheart of Gappins t
and urges the chief executive to grant t
clemency, to him. The governor
has jio intention of upsetting the ver- ^
diet bf the lower court, he told her,
unless new facts to warrant such action
Ave presented.
Mrs. S. J. Kirby has been to see j
la hnhati trf her hus- c
band. She claims he is unbalanced ]
and committed the crime in one of his c
deranged mental states of mind. Kir- j
by was examined months ago at the j
request of the authorities. Mrs. Kirby
having made the plea that he was not I
sound mentally. Physicians who made
the examination found Kirby to be
above the average in intelligence and
absolutely sound of mind.
Fox's father has presented a petition
in behalf of his son, but noth- *
ing is likely to be done about it. This *
pennon was presented to Uovernor ""
Cooper.?The State.
Harding Opposes
Muscle Shoals Bill j
t
Washington, June 12 (By the Associated
Press).?President Harding is
understood to have taken a determined 3
stand today against action by con
gress at this time on pending bills
for disposal of the government's ni- 1
trate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala. )
The views of the president as out
lined, it was stated to Representa- 1
tive Mondel] of Wyoming, Republican '
leader, at the White House, were con
veyed to the Republican steering committee,
charged with the task of fram- \
ing the legislative program of the *
house. Members of the committee declined
to indicate whether they would \
recommend action on the bill or let
tVla tuknla nnn.fJam ?a a?a- ?
VMV TTIBVrlV VJWVOV1U1I ((, yj VTCi UI1VU tlic ?
December session. J
There was no intimation as to how *
the president regarded the proposal !
of Henry Ford for lease of the prop- \
ertv beyond the statement that he felt
the matter was too big to be consid- !
ered hurriedly and in what members ]
regarded as the closing period of the *
present congress.
Today's Cotton Market
Open Close \
July 21.60 21.88 October
21.40 21.83 1
December 21.10 21.65 \
January 20.83 21.40 ?
March 20.80 21.80 !
N Y. Knntm " ooin '
Local market 21.50
*
?
Mrs. Jane Meador Fant and Mrs. '
Johns, of Meadors, were visiting in ?
Union today. \
Miss Geraldine Smith, of Spartan- \
burg, is the guest of friends in Union '
this week.
M. A. Moore, of Nicholson Bank ft <
Trust Co., is attending the Bankers' I
Convention in Asheville this week, \
Miss Marjorie Putnam, of Sumter,
will arrive this afternoon to spend ?
several days with friends. \
Mrs. Jacob Cohen has many friends ?
in Union who will be grieved to hear
that she has been summoned to Balti- ;
more on account of the critical illness
of her mother.
Mrs. L. B. Jeter, Jr., and children '
of dentuc are the guests of Mrs. R. W. ?
McDow.
BODY OF dB
FOUND ?peK
Greenville June 12,^^^^E|>posedly
eaving her home at ^^Hood some
ime during the earbf^^Bt of last
light for the purposej^^BBfting the
jrave of her little sisUl^Bto was initantly
killed laat- Moa^Bwhen her ,
Nothing was caught on ^^Bmergency
>rake of an automobil^^H^ she was
iurled to death in the; rq^HEllen Livngston
was found dead^Bthe tracks ,
tf the Southern railway Hveen Donvood
and Graceland (i^^Bery early
his morning. The boq^Bas badly
nutilated and gave evidt^Bfcf having
>een dragged for some 4|Bpace under
he wheels of a locoli^^Hl, it was
it&ted.
The father was unawajW^f the abence
of his daughter uit^^he failed
o appear at breakfast, sf a search
vas instituted. Being nOJfflgd that aa
inidentified body had bS^Hfound, the
mxious parent rushed tiHbe underaking
establishment amBfound his
hild. The right arm iBfe severed
it the shoulder, the left M, the wrist
tnd her right foot atHKhe ankle
vhile the skull was fMwred and
ievere wounds were intf|2fed in the
ight side.
According to the pareM, the girl
tad been deeply depresem by the
leath of her little sister, tM whom she
vas devoted, and, althougw)>revented
rom attending the funerwhad visit"
d the grave many times. <tecause she
tad gone to the cemetery'i yesterday
norning to place a few flowers on the
:rave and had expressed task intention
if returning in the aftefnoon, it is
upposed that she crept fiut of the
louse some time after 9 O'clock last
light and met with the atqident beween
that time and morning.
Although Coroner Vaughan said tolight
he had gathered no evidence of
oul play, an inquest will fab held over
he body at 3:80 o'clock totfaOrrow afernoon.
Railway inspectors have
hus far been unable to discover what
rain ran over the child. ' ,
Voman Held For 1 .
_ Murder of Husband
Mount Holly,
darch is under arrest here today
harged with murder, on information
urnished already under arrest accordng
to authorities.
Exports Decrease
While Imports Increase
Washington, June 13.?American
fxport trades offered another decline
luring May, dropping from a total of
5318,000,000 reported for April to
5308,000,000. Imports, however, inireased
in May to $254,000,000 com
)ared to $217,000,000 for April.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sanders and
diss Sara Tracy are in Asheville for
he Bankers' Convention this week.
OUR OPENING D;
On Wednesday, June 1
ing day. We will serve a b;
; an account of our stewards
; held at noon, in the building
; Pinckney street.
We invite and urge e\
; the canning factory to be i
\ men.
We invite every farmer
I for the cannery to be prest
I We invite every correp
I present, man, woman and c
The subcribers .to stocl
and the correspondents of
[ We urge every one of the a
invitation will be sent them.
; In addition to the aboi
without any further notice,
to 260 additional men and \
; have prepared for that ma
; the building and serve them
5 no long-winded speeches.
\ The dinner will be a
t o'clock.
i We have ordered two
I beef. There will be plenty
' > Rain or shine, we wi
will be served inside the bi
will not interfere.
M. S. Gallman, fainoi
barbecue. He knows how,
*r how.
^ This is our one bit of e
; It is the only money we he
of the enterprise. We fe<
should kill the fatted calf,
! feast.
i THE UNION CANNIN
LEWIS M. HI
for every one of the 500
U have the barbecue. It
iiilding, hence the weather
is cook, will prepare the
, and you know he knows
xtravagance in organizing,
ive spent in the promotion
?1 that it is right that we
and celebrate in a merry
G & PRODUCTS CO.
ICE, President
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INFANT S BODY
FOUND IN R1VEI
Chester, June 12.?A tiny infai
girl, probably only a few days ol(
with skull badly crushed, was foun
in Sandy river, about two miles froi
Chester late this afternoon. The bod
was wrapped in a cement sack, tli
neck of the sack being tied securel
with a rope, which was fastened to
large rock and anchored in the bottoi
of the river.
The discovery was made this aftei
noon by two boys while seining in th
stream. Coroner J. Henry Gladde
was quickly summoned and he brough
Dr. Henry B. Malone, who made a
autopsy. Dr. Malone made a very cart
ful and thorough examination of th
infant which, he thought, had prol
ably been in the river for fully tw
Weeks. The skull w.\s so crushed tha
Dr. Malone thinks that it unquestior
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auiy was uune uy a neavy, Diunt lr
strument.
Sheriff Anderson has given muc
study to the situation, which is th
most rrfystcrious his office has encour
tered in some time, but at a late hou
tonight he has been unable to get
single clue upon which to work.
Group of Experts
To Represent Franc
Paris, June 13 (By the Associate
Press.?France will be represented i
the conference at the Hague on Ru<
sian affairs by a group of expert
so the cabinet decided today. The id
of having Charles Beenoist, the mil
ister at Hague, to take part in th
preliminary conference, has bee
abandoned.
Sunday Selling Case
George Avgerinos was brought b<
fore the mayor yesterday afternooi
tried by jury and sentenced to a fin
of $100 or 30 days, upon the chare
of Sunday selling, the articles sol
being ice cream, cake and milk shake
served with a lunch. He has appeale
the case to the higher court.
George is the proprietor of "George
Sanitary Place." He thought he ha
the right under his license to sell ic
cream and milk shakes, and still t
.within the law. He. says while th
case is pending in the higher couri
he will make no further attempt t
sell on Sunday, but will close his plat
up on Saturday night at 12 o'cloc
and remain closed until Monday morr
ing at 8 o'clock.
Miss Effie Mae Vogel, of Spartar
burg, is the guest of Miss Louis
Crawford.
R. P. Morgan, president of the Cil
izens National Bank, will attend th
Bankers' Convention in Asheville thi
week.
Mrs. \lTilliam Hagood (Bernice G<
ing) and children of Easley are tl
guests of her father, George W. G(
ing, o nEast Main street.
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Vi, A BARBECUE
L4, we will have our openarbecue
dinner, and render
hip. The meeting will be
I we have erected on North
rery subscriber to stock in
>resent, both men and woI
?
who has planted tomatoes
snt, both men and women,
ondent of The Times to be
hild.
c, the planters of tomatoes
The Times aggregate 250.
bove to attend; no further
/e, who are asked to come
we are sending invitations
vomen. We want 500. We
ny. We will seat them in
at tables. There are to be
erved promptly at 12:30
fine porkers and one fat
"inquiry begins
i at prison farm
it Milledgeville, Ga., June 12.?An in1,
Vestigation commission of Georgia
d superior court judges, named by
11 Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick, to invesy
tigaxe conditions at the state prison
ie farm, heard evidence today at the
y first session of the commission that
a there had been numerous specific inii
stances of inhuman treatment ami
brutality.
r- A state prison welfare worker, the
io Rev. Bert Donaldson, told the contn
mission late today that there had
it been a great change to come over the
n insitution during the last two weeks,
since charges began to come out. He
e said that the prisoners were being
>- treated as human beings now, were
0 receiving clean food and that the init
stitution had been cleaned up.
1 Only five men were examined by
i- the commission at today's session.
Judge T. E. Patterson, chairman of
h the prison committee, was permitted
to ask a limited number of questions
of the witnesses.
v The most sensational testimony of
a the day was furnished by llenry
Bohn, a released convict from Atlanta,
and W. B. Norton of Macon, who
has been pardoned. The former
e swore to instances of brutality, som<of
which he said he witnessed, and
the latter exhibited his helpless right
lt arm as evidence of the alleged iniproper
use of a drug by the phys,isician
of the institution.
J. Christie, whose newspaper communication
brought about the invese
tigation, was restricted to facts ren
garding inhuman treatment, improper
attention, laxity on the part of officials
and sanitary conditions.
e,nristie loiu in detail ol the hogging
of R. Lee Denson, ex-service
man of Atlanta, "because of some'
thing that happened on the field."
Christie charged that Denson, whom
j he said was subject to fits, was refused
treatment by Dr. Compton, the
^ physician of the farm. The direct
charge was made by Christie that
, Chairman Davison of the prison comj
mission* had direct knowledge of the
"facts in this case."
'6
Christie told of W. R. Lipscomb being
sent to _ the farm from Atlanta
ts Wan aolomoM^ "because he was too
^ sick to go by train," said the witness.
"And they allowed him to die wuh
^ practically no attention," he added.
} Christie said he had charge of the
infirmary, and he swore "that men
who were sick were neglected to a
degree that was horrible."
ie The witness declared that "high
life," as he said bisulphide of carbon
was known, was applied to a negro,
t- A If Law, "and the negro dropped
ie dead in the 'bull pen.'"
is W. R. Tompkins, white man, died
about April 27, Christie swore, from
lack of attention.
5* Judge W. E. H. Searcy, chairman
ie of t! e investigating commission, doclared
that the commission would
find out the ti*uth before ti finished
He said the inquiry probably will
a continue through Thursday. Nume:* J*
ous inmates will be secretly que:;
II tioned by the commission, he said,
i ^ ,
j; DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS!
T Friday, June 23rd, will posi'j
tively be the last day for pay
ing City Taxes and Licenses,
I) without penalty. In order to
II save extra expense and trouble
II it will be best to pay now.
W. D. ARTHUR,
II City Clerk and Treas.
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;; Effort to Rob
; County Treasury
9 ..
Barnwell, June 12.?An unsuccess)*
ful attempt was made one nigh; last
week to rob the county treasurer's
office at Barnwell, a crow-bar or *ome
II like instrument being used .n an effort
;; to pry open the doors. Although one
$ lock was partly broken and screws
V holding the other were torn loose from
f the would-be thief effected an en.
.....
? trance, as nothing whatever was disI!
turbed inside of the office. The sup*;
position is that he was frightened
. away before completing the job.
II In the absence of Capt. J. B. Arm*;
strong, the treasurer, the office was
* in charge of Mrs. T. J. Langley and
11 Mrs. Bunyan Black, his capable as*
| sistants, who M ere unable to unlock
? tho doors when they reported for
11 duty the morning following the at*
| tempted robbery, it being necessary
* > to break one open. They stated that
11 even had the thief effected an en*
I trance he would have gotten nothing
*? for his pains, as everything of value
.. had been deposited in the safe before
11 clcring the office the day before. So
;; far as is known there is no clue to the
. robber or robbers.
? ?
*' Mrs. George C. Atkinson (Alice
? Austell) and little son, of Charlotte,
11 N. C., spent the week-end with their
*; mother, Mrs. Ida Austell, on S. Moun??
tain street.
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DEATH LIST OF
STORM GROWS
New York, June 12 (By the Associated
Press).?Morgues and undertaking
shops of the metropolitan area
tonight held the bodies of more than
three score men, women and children
?victims of yesterday's brief cyclonic
thunderstorm.
Marine police, who continued
throughout the day their work of
grappling in Pelham bay and Long
Island sound off City island, where
the greatest toll was tuken among
Sunday canoeists and fishermen, predicted
they would find at least a score
more victims?enough to push the
death toll past 80. Eye witnesses of
the swift tragedy placed the number
.even higher.
At least 250 canoes, row boats and
small motor boats were bobbing
about off the island, witnesses said,
when the storm came screaming down
on the resort, at a velocity of 80 miles
an hour, or more. Occupants of the
little craft, sensing their danger,
made a run for shelter, but scarcely
had they got under way when they
were engulfed in a blinding storm of
rain and hail.
As quickly as it had come, the
storm vanished. It had lasted less
than five minutes. But scarcely a
dozen of the 250 small craft had survived.
Horror stricken, but helpless
to aid- the crowds on the beach and
about the casino pier saw scores of
men and women clinging to wrecked
and overturned craft in the choppysound
and bay. One by one, they
gave up the struggle and dropped
quietly off to be carried out toward
the open by the tide.
Some of the bodies, the police say,
probably never will be recovered. The
tide, turning, brought more than a
score of them back today. Eye witnesses
estimated there were between
500 and 750 persons in the wrecked
crafts. Heroic work by the United
States life guard members of nearby
yacht clubs and volunteers from the
shore crowd saved hundreds.
Among the first to put out were
Jack Murray, J. C. Rower, Jack Malloy
and Frank Warttinger. Manning
two small boats, they saved more
.than a dozen men and women whom
| they fbund clinging . to- overturned ? ?
canoes and row boats. They were
followed by others, and soon more
than 50 craft of all sorts were out.
dragging to safety the survivors of
the disaster. A score or more saved
themselves by clinging to the sides
of Cornelius Vanderbilt's schooner
yacht. The waters had been cleared
by nightfall of the living but the
search for the dead continued through
the night. Guided by the searchlight
of the police boat John F. Hylan, a
score of boats cruised about, grapling
for, and occasionally finding bodies.
Meantime chaos reigned on shore,
where darkness descended unbroken
by the usual glare of electric lights.
The island power plant had been put
out of commission by the storm as
ha?l telephone and telegraph lines.
Mothers, fathers and wives of the
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where a temporary morgue had been
set up?gazing fearfully at the face
of the dead by the flickering light of
candle and lanterns. Others crowded
the wreck-strewn beach waiting
for the rescue boats to come in with
more bodies.
Fresh crowds hurried to the island
today when they had the n**ws of the
tragedy through the morning mws
papers. Police directed them t > the
Bronx morgue where the bl bode
so far recovered had been removed.
The City island calamity, while tie
greatest was not the only havoc
wrought hy the storm.
Pending investigation, a charge of
homicide was lodged against Paul Simon.
owner of the 7.r> foot ferris
wheel at Clanson Point park, in the
Bronx, which was blown from its
base and hurled its 60 occupants on
the beach of l*ong Island sound in a
tangle of steel wreckage. Seven were
killed anil 27 injured.
Terrporary Injunction
Against Mine Workers
Columbus, Ohio, June 12.? A temporary
injunction restraining the
United Mine Workers of Harrison and
Jefferson counties from interfering
with coal stripping operations in the
counties has been granted by federal
Judge Sater, it became known today.
Urges Passage of
Subsidy Ship Bill
Washington, June 13 (Ry the Associated
Press).?The President has notified
Chairman Campbell of the house
and rules committee that unless the
ship subsidy bill is passed prior to adjournment
he will feel obligated to
call a special session solely for its
consideration.
, from Richmond, Va., to spend th^
summer holidays with her mother,
Mrs. M. J. Mabry, on East Main
street.
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