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© LOWER SOUTH CAROLINA SWEPT BY A VERY SEVERE HURRICANE GREAT LOSS Of PROPERTY AND LIFE FOLIOW IN WAKE OF SIVtREST ST(RW SINCE 1893 The*«*iishteenth ncnlversary of to ro. but th^y w«*r« determined to the disa.otroiiK AukukI storm of seek safety and set out, ler-vinx Augnat , 27, 1S93, was the date of Mr. Curtis behit.-d. He was there- anotber thouicht to be fully as fore, left albne and says he haa •disastrous in many respects. The area is am oiler, but the severity never put through such a night. He tried to secure the windows to is not much less, fn places. In Char- prevent their being broken, and iestor- the storm reached its worst. There are at least six lives re ported to havw been lost, and prob- s ei:< the remainder of the time walking up a-nd down the hallway. About 2:20 o'clock, a. m. he heard ably $1 .000.000 dr-mage to property, knncks.^aid found some negroes At this place the wind reached a velocity of 04 miles an hour at midnight Sunday. The city water front was lu llj damaged and wa ter reached a depth of several feet in mai*y of the streets. The new union station wr-s reported to be four feet m?der water, and out of commission. Trains left Monday af ternoon and yesterday from the old Southerr* station over the Southern road to Ashley .1 unction. The street railway could not be used and great damc-ge was done to buildings ard property especially along those streets near the wa- •i^ • ter frot.i The Storm in \Valtertw>ro. The storm was pretty severe in AValterboro Sundc-y night at\d all day Monday, the wind blowing at high velocity. Fences were blown down, trees j. «l limbs were scatter- «d over the> streets, but no houses were blown down, and no one in- had codiie hn-k to turn out the mules. He was not so sure as to their Intentions, and succeeded It* finding Mr. Donaldson’s gun, which was not loaded to work a big bluff if anything were attempted. He later found this a trusted employe and laughs heartily over his ex perience. He reports that the handsome new Baptist church at Meggett and the Catholic chapel on Young’s Ishod were blown down and com pletely demolished The Baptist church was only four years old ai*l cost about $3,000. The Catholic church was built bv the l*-te W. C. Oeraty and must have cost a like sum. Islanders Return Safely. There were no fatalities on Sulli-* vans Islat*i from the storm, and Monday five hundred or more of those who had spent the night there aM on Isle of Palms were \YAI,TKKRORO*H SKCOMR NIMH WINS WHOIJC NFItlKS BEAUFORT'S 1ST NINE FLOGGED Crooby and (Hover Throwvd Lnnpu Around Their Op|Mtartata afdch (TuulOi’t be I/nraveiled. ONE Oi THE FAMOI'S (TRTJSS HI I. WES. EVERYBOBYKONING B8ND N0T APPRCEVD WALTEREORO WINS FOR THE AEKOIM.WE I'MOHTS I \ECI TEIB BEFORE AIMNHNT- SMOAKS WAS DEFEATED DEH- MONDAV. <HT. UND. 3IG TO'JRNAM.NT AT CROUN D MKNT BV <i4»VKKNOR. AN INTERESTING SITUATION Noted Horsemen Will Compete For HITE LKAtil E PIT* HER. WINS BY A SCORE OF 3 TO I The ITUo. at Tournament Huling 1»> Assistant AtU»me> (iec»T Tiiut Day. jured. The Colleton county tele- some heroic work done on Isle of pboi.vr company wcv the hardest brought to Charleston. There was hit. 'having its wires broken and Palms and Sullivan's Island by the crossed, the entire system being men p*nd the soldiers statior*?d at parctically out of commission. No' the forts. A number of cottages al With Refeifiwe bn ColU'ton County Supeml.Hor. s-1 mail came to Waiterhpro Monday were blown down, but In each case morning sad passengets desiring to the inmates had been taken to safer 1 go to Charleston or Savannah re- ty. •turned at 12 (fclock, when the pas- Two (Ynshed to Dmth. aenger train returned. It wr.j a E. R. Smith, of Columbia, and E. day of anxlety-ii:* many homes, ther V. Cutter, a motorman of the cor- belng many persons in Charleston solldated Company, were crushed to T! e prospect of seeing an aero plane in the pear future he* bee., Frora Sund *> Stat< *- received over the county and in Assistant Attorney General T5u* Giuut* Was On«* of The Best Played This Season And R*> fleets Credit on U<»th Teams. and on Sullivan's Islai-d from AVrl- death on Mt. Pleasant whr-rf by terboro. No papers, and no news the collapse of the ticket office, he adlining counties with of enthusiasm. Nearly every one who has seen or heard of the avia tion meet to be held here dotober i 2nd. bus expressed a determination td be preset,:. Walterboro is al ready making preparations to take care of the Immense crowd expected lu one of the cleverest games of the season, Walterboro defeated De- Smoaks by a score ef 3 to 1, Friday ^ , Rrnhl haa refused to approve the oi* the local diamond. The same a bond of 96,000 for D. E. 8moa*k. Was full of clean plays, pulled off who was appoir 'ed on August 24 by by the home club. The visitors al- the governor as supervisor for Colie so played good, clean ball, ton county, on the grounds that ’ Bing" Farmer, a league pitcher, the bend was executed on August twirled for the Smoaks team while 22. two da>H prior to the date of Gruber did the stunt for Wa-lterboro his ; .;»poii • ment. Gruber had a shade the best of the There is an Interesting situation argument, while Farmer struck out could he obtained, till the after- hind which they had taken shelter | ttl d tor once * n connection with the above irimed , ten men to Gruber eight ^Gruber noon when word came that Char- from the wind. .expected to be f e to over owi u f or reason that the law oul>< > - ielde<i one hit while Farmer The committee of business men wl t have undertaken to brii g »he crowd here, are indeed fortunate in lesion was hard hit r-nd that the .Mr. Smith and his wife were safe urion station was four feet under on Mount PleasaK and had mr-le water, and all communication with preparation to remain at the home . . ^ 4 * 1 ,, , . . aaviag a contract with the ( urtiss the islavfd rut off. This was not ( .f one of the residei <ts who had , very rei isurlng to mothers whose kifidly bffered them shelter. It children* were on the Island. seems that Mrs. Smith had forgot- Monday* night at D o'clock Char- tfn her pocketbook on the ferry- leston mail came in and the first ; boat r ad she sent Mr. Smith news from the outside world was r»f««*k to the wharf to get it. Me brought in.' The i*'ws and Cour- .-rissed the tiridge to the boat and ler wr* eagerly read. securing the purse started hack, but TTie Storm in The County. From all the information oNain- bist th»n the bridge broke at*l * nave way. He stopped for shel- and nation Comp&ny, a company with an international reputation, orga.< /.lil by one of the first bird-men the country knew, and whose avia te;-- are world renowned. • It w; » a Curtiss aviator, Beaehey, that flew aeross the Niagt-ra falls, ihe j ntoat daring feat of all. Driving a Curtiss biplane he flew over the requires the bond to be approved as was touched for four. Anderson rob to surety bv the county commission- bed Smoaks of several hits, Griffin, ers. At the recent session of the P. also took two hits, itogers was «*r T . general j.-sembly an act was passed there with the goods, playing n. providing a highway commissloi* for *>'1 third, lease getfii g a hit that Colleton county, and there seems brought in two runs. Crosby, H. to be all idea prevr.lent that this ran bases like a deer. Padgett, commission ought to assume the H. played a good game in right duties formal 1) imposed upon the field, Crosbv J. also played good county -commissioners, but the act ball, getting a hit, Howell, K.'lleld „creatii*.i hlghwsy commission pro- down firm base In great style; -he tides in section 11 “that the su it's a cinoh. Thla was the yell put up by Beau fort's first nine, when they crowed bats with Walterboro's second nine In a thne* game series at Bec-ufert last Monday. It was a cinch, but h proved to be for the opposite side form the looks of of the score. , With Glover in the box, the home team went after their scalps with no other Intention hut to bring them home, and from the way Glover put them around their necks it could easily lie seen that their opponents were easy marks. This game wr.-s full of interest. Both teams played well, hut the visitors were too much for them. Aa a- result the score was 9 to 1 in favor of Watlerlioro. Batteries first game: Walterboro— Glover r.-nd Griffin. Beaufort—Von Harten and Daniel Second Game. This Is where Crosby, the old reliable put a •'hoodoo“ on th* Beaufort nine. He went after the boys in a way that kept them coa- tnuoJiy guessing, and in the end he,and his hackers had a lead of 13 to 3. Batteries second game: Walterboro—Crosby and Griffin. : Beaufort—Rogers and Daniel. Third puae. Prom thebeginning of the third game H was hard to tell which was the winning team both sides played star ball. ■ Crosby for WaJ- terboro snd Burns for Beanfort both pitch a a good game, pitched a- goo pitcha good game. At last the Walteboro nine suc ceeded in scoring one man. which resulted in u shut out for Beaufort, he score being 1 to 0. ^Batteries Third game: fWalterboro— Crosby and Griffin. Beaufort Burns and Barns. able, the greatest losers from the r> r t»r’ iml the ticket office storm .• “e the rice pi.ufers. Re- •vM«o .’Mpg there the office blew pervisor and county hoard of eom- F. Us, down under the suspension ‘ , ... , missioners shall continue perform bridge, and over the death deal ing mpids. Other noted birdmen nil of the duties required of thorn by law except as herein provided. r with the Curtiss Aviation Company . . v . . 4 . , t , Act No. 172 of the last general as- ports Indicate that the rice crop over. kilMng him and Mr. Cutter. in lower Colleton will be almost a Engineer Cohui'i Killed. ... ... , „ ... ^ 1 1Ini season are Charles K. Hamilton, , ,, _ ^ ,, ,, complete loss, the plantations he- Ei-Tineer Coburn, of the Southern ^ end* FI C C Witmer M V *e..il»|y removed ( . H. P ing under wr 'er from the high . Rnilwau was killed, being struck • f. itmer ^ commissioner for the Robinson, Beckwith Havens, tides ar*l from numerous breaks, by a piece of planking while stand East year the rice planters were ing near the wit*low of the’yard- hard hit and this year the loss is . mr tiers, office on Dine Street. had just been, talking with other James J. Ward. and It will be recalled seaibly removed C. H. Platt aa coun reason that he resided in that port lot* of Col leton county cut off and annexed ! that the latter made flights last _. , , Dp , to < harleston county and provided year r*t Charleston, which w<-re spectacular tftid record breaking. It obliged to be heavy. Cotton is generally damaged. railroad men as to the advisability , 8 ' not Unown ju8t y p t "wbo Vill n.ak” the estimates being variously, glv- cf attempting to get a trrtn out. the on the ^ of ne at from H. Dodd yesterdr-y aged at least 25 per cent in his The names'of the dead reported . , section. Hon J. W. Miley of the so far are: Uttle Bw-amp section, who wr* here Alonzo J. Ooburn, of Chr-leston. that tlie vacancy caused by his unexpired term should be fill**! by. i-op'dntment of Um* governor upon 11 VI V- Via mt? M I Iw I VI s I , . . . on, 20 to 40 per cent. J. Me had been assigned to make the OHobor bul an aviator of luJtloIiaI recommendation of a majority I. of Round, was in town rum | repulsion will be sent and if the Colleton y and reports coltot * dam-| Ti.e Dead Re,H.rt«l. weather is good there will doubtless °r fl ., 0 yesterday is of the o|flnion that the cottoi* crojt is injured 20 per rent around there, N. M. Maxey, of Smoaks. who came down yesterday, reports a 25 per cent damage to the cotton crop in his section*. E. V Cutter, of Charleston. Bobt. K Smith, of Columbia. Rosa Robinson*, of Charleston. Ida Morgan*, of Charleston. Cnknown colored woman . Mon* Apjins iiitioii. broken. There will lie three flights during the day. the first being about noon and the others later in the afternoon. Thl* condition left I). K. Smoak as the sole county commissioner as the records in Ihe office of secre tary of state do not show that a also got a hit. Griffin, G. Waiter- boro’s catcher, rtMight a good game, not a Mian stole a base on him. He also got a hit when it was needed. Smoaks was very mtu;h disappoints They* hired Farmer and Bethea, ex pecting to take the best two out of three games from Walterboro. The home team bus played eigh teen games i and out of eighteen, lost three. .* “ This Iwis been one’ of the most successful base bt:*!l seasons for the home club in years. The line up was as follows: Walterboro- Griffin, G. c; Mow- ell, R. lb; Crosby,'H. cf; Gruber, p; Grtffli •, l».. 2b; Crosby. J., If; Padgett. R„ rf. Rogers, J , 3b; Anderson, ss. Smoak* Bethea, e; Berry, I*. Ih commissioner has beet: r-ppointed t Smoak. ss; Gr-rris, 2b; Farmer, p In addition to these three flights. , ake the p|jM , e of Mr p laM McAlhnny 3b; Padgett, If; Berry, which will include descriptions of u thoUK ^ t thaf „ w|1| b<> nerP8 t .f; Gr.*rrls rf. and exuml^iiopA of the aeroplap*. nty for toun|y coniInl88loner8 fo | other amusemenlk will be provided b<i appolntpd the bond of for thrvse who attArnl. A idg tourna u . Numerous letters complimentary . . * j , . . , •*' p Smoak can be approved r.* to ment will be glvdn in which some will ride. Capt. C. C. Anderson, an a well known committee of rid-r* Near Walterboro. the injury* is estimated at from 25 to 4ft per to the recer-t trade and Jnd«.stri^ of the b^t'ho^en in the county ^ent, open cotton being almost u-n edition are bein? rereived, Among entire loss. * o them Is the following: | Corn, ear*? and peas ace blown Baltimore, Md., August 7, 1911. down and more or less injured. Mr. G. N. Taylor, If Hear wemtlurt' obtains from Walterboro S. C. now on the loss to eottor* may be Dear Sir; — reduced", and other crops in proper- " acknowledge your paper surety. Mhs. (\ I,. Kangdale Dead. Weeks. Aug. 2ft. Special: Mrs. are at work row o» this feature of Mary |>anKdil|p d|ed at her home the day's entertainment, and a num h „ re FridflJ . r4terl<ton afteP an ber of entries have already been ness of six weeks, of malarial fever secured. The prizes to be competed _ _, . . , Ml hep 38 year, and is surviived . for are valuable acid well worth the i. .. Uon. But there is little chance for giving account of your town and troub|p aB , de (fw> r< . a , plpaHer and I^ngdale w.a ure to be derived from taking p.irt. Nothing will bo loft undono to give the visitors a goo<l time. WiUtcrlsuxi’s First Rule. the rice crop, for if overflowed with congratulate you very much upon salt water it will be ruined. lf s development and wish botk Churches Blown Down, you apd it the large suPees's you Rev. F. O. 8. Curtis, wa* filling; deserve, bis regular appointment at Meg-; ^ours very truly gett Sunday, and had a thrilling Florence W. MacCarthy. Co experience Sunday night. He was — • ' a. «««.. of Mr. mt Mr.. Dorold-! Mia Mil. Boroh Ml. Or- <orboro .Innod ,« .ho Molu-r- eon who Ure a bill mile or so be- mel section wsa in town Tuesday*. horo ro,,u »n Oil Co., lost Thurnday, . _ .. , .. . • • • for W. F. Robert son of the Thbor low Meggett, in rather an exposed , ^ ^ 4 Ftta ««rtioo. About midnight the fam-1 Monday, September 4, beiB*. naifhWboood. It weighed 598 My decided to go to Meggett. Mr. » holiday, the hanks in town. was purchased by A. Curtis tried to persuade them not win he closed. iWichman ft Son for 11 cents. Dots From Hiottsville. Round, August 21.—Special: Mr. and Mrs. J. Tuten and children of Charleston, were the. guests of his Ulster, Mrs. Ollle Mill last Tues- ; day. Mrs. Carrlbelle I’ope and daughte Mlfts I.illie.M ay, left for her home :fct Ciearwr-ter, last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. l.^Seigler of Wal trcrboro, wePe tlie guest^ of Mr by her husbarid and several rhil- and Mrs. George Register, Sunday). dren. Mrs. I.angilcle was a mem ber of the Blcusant Grove Baptist chprch, at which cemetery she was interred ga’.urday afternoon at **»v 4 o’clock. Rev. J. M. Craven con- The first bale of tvew eoRtor* for ducting the funeral services . Mr. George Garris, of Round, had business in Walterhorq Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Baadi spent last Bundof with his sister, Mrs Mabel Register of Hiptiville. Tillman Utwey and Miss Lee Nix of Augusta,, Aril Bridge and Miss Carey Utsey attended preaching at Pleasant Grove Sunday. Lee Hlott r*nd sister, Miss Rva, at tended the pindor boiling given at Miss Pearl Beech, apent from Bat- the home of W. L. Utaey, Friday urday till Tuesday with her far-(Bight, euts Boar lit. Carmel. Blue Eyes. TEACHERS ASSIGNED GR.ADES Prof. SlMHlcy Designate* TearlierN Will Hold. It will |»e of interest to the pa trol m of the Walterboro High school to know that Prof. Shealey has made his aasignmenta of tea-ch- to the different grades 'or the en suing term. Prof Shealey Is very? anxious that the patrons have the pupils exchange their old text books for new ores accordingT* to |i resent adoption by the 8ta4e Board of education. The date .of the school opening has been fixed for Bept, 18. 1 he following assignment for the session 1911-1912 Ims beer* made: First and Advanced First Grades, Miss Essie Hyrne. Second and Third Grades, Miss 3 Agnes Beyle. . Fourth and Fifth Grades, Miss Jesttio Fraser, Sixth ard Seventh Grades, Miss Lillian Farmer. High School. C I. Hhenley, Miss Annie Galloway*. First As sistant. Miss la-onie Padgett Second As sistant, with aid work in grade seven. The work in the High School will be done, largely® in accordR>i*r*e with the departmental system. M. H. Hiott, of Roui:*l, was in town Tuesday. • • • Mrs E. M. Jones, who has hen in Baltimore and New York pur chasing frJI millinery, has returned. • • • Mrs Sus;*n Murray and daughter. Miss Gussle, of Charleston*, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of j” M. Cwter. R. Wichman ard family, who have been away for the aumBiar. are expected to return today. Ther were ob Sullivan’s Ulaad Sunday night.