The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, May 21, 1902, Image 1
WORSE AND WORSE.
A Stream of Stone and Mud Half
a Mile Wide.
PARTICULARS FROM ST. FIERRE.
sffiy i ????
Thousands ol" People aw Killed
on the Islands h\ tln-l.ava
Thai linos llown Mountain
Side.
A dispatch from Fort dc France
says tile Fnilcd States government
tuj? Potomac left there for the island
of St. Vincent where conditions are reported
to tie worse. La Koul'riere, on
St. Vincent, was in full eruption May
10. A stream of stone and mud half
a mile wide was then issuing from the
volcano. Stones two inches in diam
eier leu uvcivc nines awu.v. At
Kingston, the capital of the islam!,
the ashes were two inchsdccp. Seven
hundred dead were reported Sunday,
May 11. It is estimated that the total
numltcrof deaths on St. Vincent
reaches two thousand. Most of the
victims are said to he Carib Indians.
Seven estates on the island have been
burned to ashes, and it is authentically
reported that two earthquakes
occurred. It is believed t he submarine
cables at S . Vincent havebeen broken
l>y the disturbances. The present
volcanic eruption on St . Vincent is
? tlie tirst since 1812.
LOOT1NO TIIE DEAD.
The dispatch further says the tug
Potomac cruised ailing the coast of
Martinique. Sin- encountered an inky
black column of smoke which made it
necessary for her to go five miles out
of her course. Words fail to describe
the present situational St. Pierre. A
small detatchment. of French t roups
is making efforts to inter the dead,
although the government seems to be
strikingly unconcerned as to what is
done in this direction. The looting
of the dead has begun already. While
coming to l'rt de France the Potomac
picked up a boat containing live colored
and one white man whose pockets
were tilled with coin and jewelry, the
latter evidently stripped from the lingers
of the dead. Lieutenant It. It.
McCormick, the commander of the
Potomac, arrested these men and
turned them over to the commander
of the French cruiser Suchet for punishment.
The Potomac also brought
a ton of supplies to Martinique. A
famine here is imminent. The nort hcrn
section of the island is depopulated.
BUT FEW IIODIKS KOl'Xl).
Strange to relate, in view of tlie
number of Inhabitants of St. Pierre
who IVCl'n swept t<? death bv the volmm
noic waves from Mont I'elee. on
Thursday last, very few corpses have
- been found by those who are engaged
in the work of cremating the dead
bodies. This is due to t be fact that
- ^the most populous quarters of tictown
are buried under a thick layer of
cindered lava which apparently entirely
consumed tile t todies of t lie victims.
Public interest centres in the
stories of the survivors and in the efforts
being made to succor the refugees.
A woman named Laurent, who was
emnlnverl :i<j :i vi-rv-mt -it -SI
in the household of M. (Librel, and
who was anions lliose taken to the hospital
in this city, in describing her
experiences, said that on the day of
the terrible disaster she heard a loud
report and thereupon fainted. When
she regained Iter senses, a few hours
later, she was horribly burned, and.
glancing around, site saw two members
of the Gabriel family still alive
but they died before assistance could
reach them. Mi 11c. Laurent. although
she lived for sometime after being
taken to the hospital and was conscious
while under the care of physicians,
died without being able to impart
any additional information concerning
t lie catastrophe.
STUANor: SIGHTS.
The path of the volcanic torrent
which swept over.St. Pierre is marked
out in a strange manner. The vicinit y
of the shore fvhere vessels anchored
was swept by a whirlwind of volcanic
gas, which ripped, tore and shattered
everything in its passage, tint left few
traces of cinders behind. < in the other
hand the fort, centre and adjourning
parts of St. Pierre arc hurled under
a thick bed of cinders which consumed
everything beneath it. The scenes
within the dead city are strange and
gruesome, says the dispatch. In the
section of the city known as the Moiilege,
no sign of lire is visible, but
everything seems to have been rent
and scattered as though by a tornado.
The iron bedsteads in I he hospitals untwisted,
but bear no mark of beat.
The bedclothes and all textiles in the
hospital simply vanished. About two
hundred corpses have been found in
the streets of St. Pierre, most of litem
lying face downward. The central
quarter of the town and the fort are
buried several yards under cinders. In
the neighborhood of the creek, several
houses were found intact, but
their inhabitants were all dead and
appeared to have been killed by light
uing. Here the ttodies were lying,
sitt ing and reclining in curiously lite
like attitudes.
TilK ntSASTKU DltscUlUKII.
I luseribing 1 he ilesl rue! i< u of i lie island
city a correspondent i\s licit
last Monday wee k Mount IVlee poured
forth a stream of molten lava 2'i feet
;incl liall' a mile wide. Its progress
was appaling. Pushing down
the (lry lied of 111viere Itlanchc it
reached the sea. The force ol the impact
w;is sueli tliiit I lie sea receded foi
.'too feet for miles along the western
coast. Loud detonal ions followed at
short irregular intervals, nhsohitch
aw-inspiring and so loud that thc.\
were heard :<oo miles away. At night
the volcano crater was a mass of lurid
flames which shot high up overt Id
mountain, while all the time the cannonading
went on. It continued at
Intervals on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Thursday morning it was relat ively
still. St. Pierre was as usual, earl>
astir and business was partly going or
about 7 o'clock, when a sort of whirlwind
of steam, boiling mud and tin
suddenly swept with incredible rapid
once the town was in a blaze. The
lire seemed to run overall. The ships
were instantly canted over and began
simultaneously to burn and sink in the
sea. which was then raging cauldron.
The whole destruction had taken place
wit bin less than 2d minutes ot the
t eruption.
Ill'UN I NO It'll)] KS.
In the destroyed city of St. 1'ierre,
I the work :.mong the ruins is being
; continued n an unsatisfactory manlier.
says c Fort de France dispatch to
The lift-Id. rrho dead are being
burned, i h ? pyr being fed with petroleum
and tar. eat tires are kept going,
which at night light up the entire
island, and which, being seen at St.
Lucia, led to the belief that Fort de
France had burned."
Although thousands have been
burned, many still remain to lie cremated.
Searchers, while walking
through the aslies, often step upon
what appears to lie a charred 'pillar
of stone, only to learn, as it yields
gruesoniely under foot, that it is the
trunk of another unfortunate.
..r 11... ,.t* 11... i...i.11,..? i
still stand, crumble and fall al touch.
Some idea of the terrible heat that
poured down from Mont Pelee may be
had when it is known that the iron j
rollers of the Prinolle sugar mills were
molted as t hough t hey bad been put
through a furnace.
TI1K ISLAM) TUKMHUiK.
No persons have as yet been able to
approach within eight miles of the
new crater of the Sonfriers volcano.
! I tut judging from what can be seen
from a considerable distance the old
I lake at the summit of the mountain
has disappeared. The numerous lissures
in t he mountain's sides cont itxie
to throw out vapor and the subterranean
murmuringsaud tremblings indicate
continued unrest. During the
afternoon of Monday a dense volume
steam and smoke rose from the volcano
and the w hole island was covered
by a peculiar mist. The inhalation of
noxious vapors here is increasing the
spread of sickness. Starvation threatens
the poorer classes of the atltictcd
(list rict.
Nearly every remaining negro hut in
Carib county contains decayed lmdics,
and the horrible stench isdriving people
away. Mutilated bodies are tied
with ropes and uragge . to the trenches
j where t hey are buried. Somet imes
bodies are cremated. The loeal government
is feeding and sheltering
, about 11.000 refugees.
KKSTUOYK!) IN TKN M1NI TKS.
The eorrespoiulent of The London
| Times at Paris. M. De Ilia wits, suppled
his paper this morning with an
account of the St. Pierre disaster.
J telegraphed to him by a friend from
Port de Prance. Martinique, under
Thursday's date, by way of the island
of Malta. It says: "For three weeks
Mount Pelee had been vomiting clouds
of smoke, but the smoke seemed, so
; normal that it was permissible for
i even those were inclined to look on the
I dark side not to dread a catastrophe.
At fort de France, where the agitation
of Mont Pelee, attracted, as it
j went on much attention and anxiety
j which existed gradually eiod down,
, May ."> a violent eruption of mud, hot
lushes having been mingled with water
in the crater, overwhelmed Duerin's
works, killing twenty-three persons,
and the river in the north of the
j island, now swollen by a muddy torrent.
noisily ovortlowed. On May *,
, while there were still dclihcrat ions going
on at Port de Prance and St.
Pierre, where the night had passed in
CAUGHT IN CANADA.
Green and Gaynor, Fugitives from
Savannah Kidnapped
AND THEN ARRESTED IN 3UEEEC.
The Del'emlmitM Were Snm^lnl
Out of City It) OlliecrH am)
Were Caught Itet'ore
"
They Knew It.
Colonel John F. Gaynor, who forfeited
his hail of $10,000 because of
his disappearance from Savannah, Ga..
where he was indicted on a charge of
conspiracy todefrand the UnitedStates
government and his partner, Captain
W. I>. Greene were smuggled out of
Qii?-l>ec Thursday by an American detective
named Itennettand live assistants.
Itcnnctt hail been in Quebec since
the arrival of (lavtmr and Greene and
has kept a keen watch on their move
I
monts. Thursday morning he was
joined by live others who carried outa
seemly well laid plan to rapture the
accused. About 11 o'clock (Ireene was
coming out ?>t the postoltlee when
three of the men approached him and
one of them producing a document
showed it to (ireene. The lat ter stood
dumbfounded and asked permission to
speak to some one, but was hurried into
a cab and rushed to lower town,
where he was placed on the Montreal
tug Spray.
In the meantime. Mcnnett and the
two other detectives went to the Chat eau
Krontenac, where (iaynor and
(ireene were staying. I Sennet t remained
outside while his comrades
went into the lobby. At t lie t ime ( clone
(iaynor was talking to the clerk, both
men went up immediately and invited
him outside, where Hennett was awaiting
theld in a cab.
The detectives and (iaynor started
for Lower town and in a short time
(iayjior was iti company with (Ireene
on the tug and with the detectvies on
the way to Montreal, or some place
further tip the river, vdicre they can
land.
M HS. OA Y SOU IN IT USUIT.
These proceeding:; occupied about :
20 minutes. The hotel people notified
Colonel (iaynor's counsel of what had
occurred. The attorney general's department
and .nidge Chauveau were
not Hied and they in turn asked the
police to investigate the matter.
Half an hour after the departure of
t he Spray, another t ug was engaged i
by Sirs, (iaynor. She v.ent on hoard ,
with Hetective Walsh. The pursuit
of the Spray was given up at ('ape
Itougc, eight miles from tlie city. The
spray was then almost out of sight
down the river.
I'pon the return of Mrs. (Iaynor to
the city the lawyers in the ease had a
short consultation with her, and ini- !
mediately two petitions for habeas
corpus, ordering t he return of (Iaynor
and (ireene to this city, were prepared,
and two orders were signed to that
effect by Judge Andrews in the superior
court. in the meantime four
members of the provincial police left
by the 1 :lf> Canadian Pacific railroad
train for three iti vers with othersdo
secure a tug there and tr> to intersept
the Spray. The latter town is
'.III mill's frnin I liii'lwi' 11111 in^i I,.ilf
way between here and Montreal.
The petitions were sworn toby Mrs.
tf ay nor, who alleges Licit her husband
and (ireene were taken away against
tItoirconsent and without giving them
time to see counsel or t ake legal measures
to prevent their arrest. While
the petitions were being prepared a
special train was over t he Canadian
l'acitic railroad and at :t;."?othe chase j
began. < >n train are Messrs. Cannon
and Chauvcau, attorneys in the case,
who are bearers of tlie petition: high
Constable tiale and eight detectives.
W11KN TIIKY KSCAPKD.
It. I), (ireene and John F. Cay nor
escaped from the Savannah federal
court set era I weeks ago while their
ease was pending before Judge Kmory
Spcer. of the Coiled States court.
Moth defendants had been realised on
i>ond and were guests of the DeSoto
hotel.awaiting, supposedly, the bear
iug of the court.
Saturday preceding Monday, the
day set for their hearing, they left
the city, cither in disguise or by a
circuitous route. Their attorney ex-!
pressed even as great surprise as did
the government when neither one of
the defendants was present in court;
on Monday.
it was declared by counsel repicsenting
(ireene and (Jaynor that they had j
either been in error as to the day set i
for trial or were unavoidably detained
in New York.
The court ordered their arrest at
any cost. hut the ottleers had not the;
slightest clew to work upon unt il 1 he j
court was informed by press reports |
that the two fugitives were in New i
i oik, Almost instantly came tile if-1
port that (ircenc and (laynor had llefl I
to Canada, where 1 hey smilingly admitted
llieir identity, declaring thc.v
would remain across tin* border just as
long as they wished.
10very elTort has been made since,
to accomplish t heir arrest by decoying
them across the Canadian line and]
seizing them when upon American
soil. Thcil every movement has been !
watched by some of the best federal
and rinkerton detectives in the j
count ry.
Since their escape the officers of the
Savannah court have been very active
in the preparation of the case the
government has brought.
Will licllecl it ltuilroiul.
It is reported that the Mexican
Central railway will dcllcct its line under
construction from a point on its
( uadalajara division in order to avoid
proximity to the volcano of Colima,
which has been more or less active
ever since the earthquake at Chilpuneingo.
There is much alarm at present
among residents of Colima owing
to the activity of tlie volcano which
is smoking. Many slight earthquakes
have been experienced, terrifying the
people engaged in farming.
| .ni.i i^iiuiuiiri;, .n I" Wlll'lliri
tin: eruption of mud \v:is the precursor
of the end of the disaster, St. Pierre
was within ten minutes annihilated."'
ONia (INK I.KKT.
Margaret Stokes, the nine-year-old
child, who is one of the survivors of
the Steamship Poraima. which was
destroyed at St. l'ierre, is the only remaining
member of a family ot live
that lived in Itrooklyn up to a few
months aj;o. The child's fat her was
Clement Stokes, at one time a well to
no merchant of Itarhadoes, It. \V. 1..
inn ti r the last few vears bookkeeper
for a department store in Itrooklyn.
Stokes died recently and the widow
decided to return to the home of a
wealthy sister in Marhadoes. Tinwidow
packed her property and with
a faithful colored nurse, Clara Kinj.',
who had heeii with the family in 15a rhadocs.
she st a rt ed on t he journey 1 hat
I was to he t he last undertaken by the
| famih.
Ilia.O IN MoNTKK\C.
When the Spray arrived in Montreal
Friday mornino the party drove the to
I the Windsor. At 7 o'eloek they again
li-l't the lintel, just as the pursuing;
| force in.in 4>iieliee which came up from
| Sore 1 on the lyncher hoat reached the
] hotel. < 'liief < 'arpenter took his prisoners
to Judge Ha font nine's lesidenee
and an improinpt u court was convened
| in the judge's library, hetective Carpentci
handed the judge the warrants
J with the return marked upon the
! hack as is usual. The prisoners were
I asked if they were guilty or not guilty,
and not replying, the judge's clerk accepted
their failure to plead as a plea
of not guilty. Judge Lafontaiue then
said: "Prisoners. I remand you for
trial until Monday, the PMh of this
, month, without hail." The prisoners
howed. and the judge informed < arpenter
that he remanded the prisoners
to his east oily.
In the meantime High Constable
i Hale of 'Quebec with the writ of habeas
corpus was searching diligently
for Mr. Carpenter. At to o'clock he
found him in bisollice and served the
writ. Mr. Carpenter was placed in a
dilemma, lie was in possession o! a
document calling tin him to produce
the bodies ol (>aynoi and tireene lie-|
forejudge Andrews in ijiiehcc l"iida\
and lie no longer had t lie prisoners |
in his possession. ha\ing been relieved j
by Judge l.afontaine. lie consulted
i his Kin use I and was informed I hat if lie
, attempted to ret 111n the prisoners to
(Quebec he would be liable to arrest for ]
contempt of the local court, whose
madute lie had received and executed.
| ' So an answer set ting fort h the facts
. in the matter was prepared and sent!
. down to (Quebec, and with that it is'
expected the (Quebec people will have j
to remain sat istied. The jurisdiction
. of an extraction commission extends
r j over the entire dominion am' the ar,
rests of (ireene and Haynor was made i
. by an otllcer (pialitied to make arrests '
. in any portion of the province; conse- i
. nucntly there is no doubt that they
I j will hold.
VOLCANOES CAUSED Bi 3TEAM.
; Immense Force Stored Ileneatli
Furlti Hurst* Forth.
Dr. (!. Hartwig, in his book, "Vol
canoes and Earthquakes," gives the
following as his views of tlie origin of
volcanic eruptions:
The phenomena attending an eruption
can leave no doubt that below
j every active vole a no a large subterraj
nean cavity must exist in which meltfed
lava accumulates. The partisans
of the theory which supposes the earth
to consist of a central tin id mass, with
a solid shell resting upon it, attribute
the formation of volcanoes to rents or
I fissures in this crust, through which I
! the lava is cast forth: but the local !
development of heat by chemical ac-:.
I tion or some other unknown cause, is '
quite sufficient to account for the ex- !
istonce of liery lakes imbedded in a i
solid mass, and which, though iusig- ,
nuicum wncu coin pared wnn tiic sur- i
face <?r the glotie, may still be largo I
enough to produce volcanic phenomena f 1
on t he grandest scale. i
The cause of the reaction of such a i |
reservoir against the surface of the \
earth must, in all probability, he j
sought for in the expansive force of |
steam: for when water, penetrating i
through ere vices or porous strata,
cornea in contact witn the heated ?
suht rranean mass it is evident that !i
the steam thus generated must press ; <
upon the lava, and, when formed in :
sufficient quantity, ultimately force it
up the duct of the volcano. Inother
cases we may suppose a continuous i
column of lava mixed with liquid h
water raised to a red-hot or white-hot:?
temperature under the influence of h
pn ssure. A disturbance of equilibrium j 1
may tiist bring mi an eruption near !
the surface by the expansion and conversion
into gas of the entangled 1
water, so as to lessen pressure. j |
More and more steam would then ?
tie liberated, bringing up with it j?-ts ; i
of liquid rock, and ultimately ejecting |
a continuous stream of lava. Its force i
being spent, a period of rest succeeds >
until the conditions for a now outburst
(accumulation of steam and
melted rock) arc obtained, and another i
cycle of similar changes is renewed. I
THE ROUND BALE*TRUST. \
I
< ?iii:i|>ct it ion in the South l.ikety to |
Destroy Cotton (litis.
A four cornered tight between the
round cotton hale, the cotton gin. the i
oil mills and the compresses has broken I
out in Texas which threatens tore- t
volut ioni/.e the cotton ginning tiusi- |
ness for next season and destroy the t
ginneries unless the Texas farmers' t
congress, wcieh meets at College sta- 1
tit in duly, can take some steps or sug- i
gest some legislation to protect the i
owners of gins. 4
The trouble is due to the hound t
Hale trust, which lias made itself felt >
in Texas, particularly during the last |
year. The trust got such a large share \
of the (Mtton t hat the compress com- t
panics and cotton seed oil men began l
to feel it. ! I
formerly, the cotton went to the J1
gin. which sciterated the seed and t
the lint. The seed was sold to the jc
oil mills and tin* lint, which was hal- ;
ed. was subsequently taken to tlu* t
( (impress to have the I tales pressed so i
that they would occupy less room and \
could he carried on vessels or rail- s
roads. s
When the trust took more cotton |
the girts got" less, and so did the com- i
presses and the cottonseed oil mills, j.
They appealed to the owners of gins *
In mnL'o ? ,.itl. il... i.-...i .....I
bid for t lie cot ton, but the gin men t
refused to do this. ^
Finally, seeing thiit they eouid not i
depend upon any assistance, the mill \
men and the compress men dcterinin- 1
ed tn no into the ginning business.
The cotton seed oil mills in Texas are s
now erecting ginneries at which they i
will gin the cotton free, retaining only i
the seed for their mills.
The com presses a re now buying seed s
cotton and doing the ginning as well c
as the haling. In fact, all four inter- ;i
ests, the oil mills, compresses, pinners |
and round hale men are prepared to t
gin and will bid on the seed cotton <
this fall, ii is thought that the local <.
gins will be the worst sufferers from ;i
this too active competition. I
Itiinicd in a Hotel.
Five persons were hurlied to death
in t lie A meriean I Intel at l'oint I'leas- j
ant. \V. \ a. 011 Thursday night and |
three other persons were seriously (
I turned. The dead: John Slack of
Kanawha county. Klias Mamhrick <>t
(ilenwoofl. John Woodall. of Mason
county, two unidentitied men. The :
lire started in the hotel which was a '
frame building and burned rapidly. 1
Slack. Mamhrick and John Woodall ;
were farmers summoned here as grand f
jurors at the criminal court. They I
were sleeping on the second lloor and
means of escape was cut oil by the 1
(lames. It is not known how the lire '
started. 1
1
Col. A. I*. Itirtler Head.
Col. Andrew I'iekens I hitler of A I- '
ken (' mnty died Wednesday at the '
Fuller home. Colonel Fuller was
I rleken wit hparalysis of t lie heart Sat- '
urda.\ night. He never regained consciousness.
lie was TO years old. lie
leaves two daughters, who are married.
a son and several grandchildren.
The funeral was held this morning at
II o'clock from Sweetwater Church,
near Aiken.
Isveryttilng IIletter. 1
There is nothing in the way of
household supplies which has not been
made dearer by t he protect ion olTorded
monopolies and legislation in favor of
(classes. The times are supposed tone
I good, but the man who keeps a family
on $1,000 a year finds that it will go
1110 farther than $8oo would a year ago,
and its purchasing capacity is steadily
decreasing. The trusts and the La rII
if are responsible for this.
Pardoned.
(ieorgc Washington an old fashioned
"white folks" negro convicted of
rape in 1S7C> lias been pardoned by the
governor who discovered a case of
blackmail on the part of the negro
woman w ho secured Washington's ar- j
, rest.
t _ :i
A 8A1,UI?A MYSTKHV.
An Illiterate Mulatto Preaches Admirably
While He Is Sleep.
A TEST IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE
lly S?nilinf( ol" tin* County
and flat* Pi-oof In Conclusive
Tliuf It In No
Fake.
A Dispatch from Saluda to The
News and Courier says the "Sleeping
Preaeher" was here Thursday nl^ht, i
i larj.*c crowd went out to hear this!
itruntfe man. '"Major Perry." fortliat ,
is ttie preacher's name, was in the I
liaise Messrs of II. P. liotiknitfht and j
I. I'. Itodie. two of this comity's most
reliable citizens. Perry has been living
with Mr. Poukni^ht. a few miles
m'Imvv this place. for twelve or fourteen
years and, with.the exception of
i few nights, he has never failed to
preach a sermon on going to sleep during
this long period.
Perry is f?l years of aye, of medium
size, copper colored and wears a llowny
heard, lie was raised in Fairlleld
L'ounfcy, hut not h.v a Itaptist p reach er..
is has been said in explanation of this
strange phenomenon.
Mr. Itouknight has been in the community
where Perry was horn and
raised and lived until It; years ago, and
>niphaticaUy states that Perry did not
Mclong to a preacher. The place of
lis birth was near t he present town of
llidgewav.
One of the peculiar things altoiit
Perry's sermonizing lies in the fact
that his preaching dates from the time
>f Ids being paralyzed on the left side
n 1*88. He was never known to
preach before then and he has never
railed to preaeli a sermon every night
>ince then save occasionally on
Friday night.
A test made by your correspondent
revealed that Perry is very illiterate.
Iieing scarcely able to spell out the
simplest words, even with book in
(land. He is ext remely reticent on the
mhject. of his nightly preaching, and
if pressed will resent too close questioning.
Another peculiarity noticeible
is that Perry can go to sloop surrounded
by a curious crowd as quickly
is a babe in its mother's arms.
Thursday evening Perry's wife arranged
a lied in the school building
icrc and at s?.40 the strange man tinIressed
and "turned in" apparently tor
the night. In fifteen minutes, amidst
Jie gaze and hubub of the crowd, lie
iV's sound asleep. Four minutes later
ic commenced Co sing in low and
neasured tones an old hymn, beginling
"Come, ye that love the Lord."
\fter "lining out" and singing two
erses he slowly turned on his right
;ideand reverently repeated the Lord's
(Mayer, making but one change in it,
,dr., inserting the word "all" liefore
he words "our trespasses.'' lie folowed
the Lord's Prayer with an cxcmporaneous
petition, the logic and
anguage of it being as good as that of
lie average white preacher. At the
conclusion Perry turned on his hack
ind. after a moment's pause, stated
hat his tc^t would tic found in the
Jlli chapter of Matthew and 28 th
erse. This he quoted and a com parion
? ' toe .flotation with tlie original
hows that he repeated the words verlatim.
1 lis discourse lasted forty-live
uiuutcs and the reading of a stent
'rapine report made ny .Mr. Padlock
hows a closely reasoned (with some J
xeopt ions) Gospel sermon, instead of I
leinj! a senseless neyro harangue, l ew
rammatical errors were made and 1
nany of his citations lroin the bible
vurc substantially correct. At times ;
ie was really eloquent.
For the most part he spoke in a
moot I), conversational tone, hut occasionally
he became impassioned and
nade the welkin ring.
Twice during the sermon he had I
omethincc like convulsions, and whence
r seized by one df these, he immedi- 1
itely left olT speaking, his heart and ;
uilse ceased to beat and. except for
he strange inoveinent of his muscles,
me would suppose life extinct. These
onviilsions lasted but a minute audi
is si win as over he would commence '
ds sermon Just where he left off audi
n t he same tone.
An examination of the eyes while
reaching showed the pupils motioness
and a brijfht lip'ht placed close to
lis face while the lids were pushed
iack did not cause him to move or
tincli.
During his preaching period it has 1
ilways been found impossible to wake
urn. I'ins have Ih-cii stuck into his
lcsli, burning acids have been put
i In ait bis eyes, but all to no effect.
iave that lie sutTeretl from there experiments
on awaking.
Perry is part icularly severe in his
rlticisms of the present-day preachers.
lie stated that "we are told
there were t welve disciples or teachers,
and one of these was a devil. Hut
today I think about eleven and a
half out of twolve arc devils." In
daboratinn ??f this statement he referred
to t lie "man-sent preacher")
ind "t,lie self-sent preacher" and "the |
money-making preacher."
i'erry mnde no gestures at ill. hut
when under the impression that he:
was reading from some hook in the
bible would run the tinners. .f his right
hand across the bed covering as if folfowing
the lines.
lie closed his sermon with an earn- :
est exhortat ion and when the end was j
reached lay perfectly still and slept ,
quietly unt il awakened hv a physician, i
who closely watched him throughout.
On belli# awakened he appeared i
frightened for 1 lie moment. Although
he had greatly exerted himself several 1
times during his sermon, he stated)
that he did not feel tired or at all ex-!
haustcd; yet his pulse Iteat rapidly and
his breath came quickly.
Whatever else may be said of the,
strange "sleeping precher," the per-1
formance Is no fake. Time after time i
various citizens in this county have
gone to I'erry's home after night and
secreted themselves to detect the fake
as they supposed, but Invariably af- j
tor watching him through the cracks,
in his house go to bed, and giving him i
time to go to sleep, he would sing a |
PETRIFIED SHIPS
Found One Hundred Miles from
llie Pacific Ocean.
On the bleak and barren hillside of
the Arctic coast, near the headwaters
of the Porcupine River more than
4,000 feet above sea leve , and a long
way above timber line, where none
save the Indian hunter ha?. ever placed
foot, there lie complete hulls of two
large ships, petrillcd. This find is so
remarkable that the discoveries of remains
of mastodons, which have been
made from time to time, sink into insignificance
by comparison.
Mr. Liskclie, a printer of Seattle,
Wash., who returned from the Kovukuk
country recently, broinrht, the
hymn, offer a prayer, announce his
text and preach a sermon, lie never
uses the same text and the body of
Ills discourse is always different.
II?? rarely ever fails, however, to
give the preachers "Hail Columbia."
The effect of this strange phenomenon
on a spectator cannot l>e imagined.
Perry's father is said to be a white
man and lie lias Indian blood in hiui
also. This lie shows unmistakably,
as does Ins wife, who of late years always
accompanies him to prevent the
cruel experiments which were at iirst
practiced by some in trying to awaken
her husband while in the midst of a
sermon. Men of a sclent!He turn of
mind have an Interesting subject in
''sleeping preacher,'" and Saluda County
in his person possesses one of the
mysteries of the new century.
FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.
????
An Aeronaut l-Vli Fifteen Feet and
Wan l>iislie<l to Pieces.
As already wired, from Paris, Severn.
the aeronaut, and one of his assistants
were killed by the explosion
of Severn's airship in making a trial
trip Tuesday mourning. Severn had
invited a number of friends to witness
the ascension and his wife and relatives
were following the course of the
balloon in motor cars. Suddenly the
spectators were horrilied by a bright
Hash of light, followed by a loud explosion.
The balloon, which at this
time was t,."?00 feet above the ground,
fell rapidly, landing on the roof of a
house.
The aeronaut fell in the street and
was dashed to pieces. The hones of
his legs were forced through the soles
of Ids I>oots. The engineer who accompanied
him was burned to death.
The accident ir. said to have been
caused by a leakage of gas. Severo
started with the intention of sailing
to the military parade ground at Issy.
With an engineer named Sachet . Severo
sailed out of his balloon house
near t lie Boulevard de Yaugirard, in
excellent spirits, and full of confidence.
The acronut put his airship through
a series of evolutions before starting
in the. direction of Issy. There seemed
to be some hitch with tlie steering
gear and the rear propelling screw
turned with difficulty. Nevertheless,
after several stoppages the airship sailed
off. moving steadily enough through
a light breeze. Suddenly a pulT of wind
caught the ship and whirled it over
tile Avenue Dutnaine. The ship turned
completely around and veered about
in a fashion showing that control of
her had been lost.
Then from the center of the outer
envelope, a tongue of tlame darted out.
This was followed by a loud report re
semnung a cannon snot and the ship
sank like stone, falling on tlie roof of
a house, thence into some trees, ami
filially reaching the Avenue Dumaine,
almost on top of its occupants, who
had previously been precipitated to
the stone pavement. The fearful
mangled corpses of Severn and Sachet
were conveyed to a neighboring police
station. The bodies presented a horrible
spectacle. especially that of Sachet.
The tlame which caused the explosion
burned the engineer in a most
shocking manner. Practically not a
hone of either victim was left unfractured
and ltoth skulls were terribly
crushed.
FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER
A.C. Jnpsou, A Popular Citizen of
Florence. in tlie Itacc.
The Florence Times. May 12, says
A, C. .lepson. one of the best known
veterans of the Atlantic Coast Line,
announces positively that he will Ik*
in the race for railroad commissioner.
Hi' has talked with his friends in Florence
and elsewhere, and has received
the greatest encouragement. Mr. .lepson
lias been fortv years a practical
railroad man, and as years creep up on
him he wants to retire from tlie throttle
and give the younger men a chance
Lo run the trains while he runs the
railroads a little. The life of an engineer
is a hard and exacting one, and
takes him away from home too much
uf t iie time.
Mr. Jcpson came to Florence in 1884
and lias been with the Coast Line continuously
ever since, and is one of the
Itest men on the line, lie lias served
many roads in his time, tlie Louisville
a"d Nashville. Cent ral of Georgia,
and Mobile and (Jirard among
them, lie says that 111 his forty years
of service lie has never been dismissed,
suspended or reprimanded.
in: ncl' II \r III I IIU employ Ol
tlir construct ion department and t he
rest ?if l lie time in the engineering,
lie is a skilled workman, and among
nt her employments in his life he made
percussion caps for the nse of the Confederate
government, lie claims to
have made nearly half of the number
used by the army.
Since Mr. .lepson has been a citizen
of Florence he has made a host of
friends, and stands high with bis fellow
craftsmen and employers. From
his long, practical experience in railroad
work, he is regarded as a man
wiio is particularly well titted for the
position and as one who would bean
ac<|iiisit ion to the board.
Murdered liy u Itui'Kliii-.
I'. It. Davis, a wealthy wholesale
merchant of Fort Smith. Ark., was
stabbed live times Wednesday in an
encounter in his bedroom with a negro
burglar. Davis shot the burglar in
I III' H'K <111(1 I KM I 111111 OI( I in- III HM Willi
his revolver, hut t!io man escaped. A
started itnnicrliately in search of
him. The nego, whose name was
learned to tie John Williams, was run
down, with two negro companions,
about four miles from town on the
border of Indian Territory. < >ne of
the negroes, Frank Carter, opened tire
on the posse. His aim was poor, hut
a return shot struck him ami he died
an hour later. Williams and his other
companion escaped. The posse continued
the pursuit. Mr. Davis"
wounds are serious.
I'oor I'ellow.
A western New York man committed
suicide on the day he was to have
been married because he was impress
ed with t lie solemnity of the marriage
service, lie should have spent a
few months In Chicago and had that
sort of feeling taken out of hi in
Spartanburg Journal.
news of the find to Dawson, lie says
that Dr. Cleveland, who is known
from one end of the Territory to the
other, has gone to investigate the
matter. The manner of the discovery
was this:
A party of Chandelar Indians was
hunting near the headwaters of the
Porcupine lliver, which they had
reached by following the Chandelar
Creek. One day while on the side of
a mountain one of the party, looking
aliout for game, chanced to spy high
on the mountain side al>ove him a
rocky formation of a shape lie had
never seen before. 11e was alxnit to
continue search for game, but changed
his mind, and toiled up the side < f the
mountain toward the strange object.
It was not till he got it that he
discovered that there were two objects
very much alike, and then it suddenly
dawned upon him that there, more
than one hundred miles from the sea.
and high above it, weietwo ships, the
larger probably too feet long, turned
to stone.
That night when the party was in
camp the hunter told his story. It
was not believed, but lie was so persistent
that it was true that next day
several hunters went w ith him to see
the wonderful ships, and their surprise
and partial fear was as great as
his own. They examined the hulls
more closely than lie had done and
the result of this examination was
such that the story cannot lie doubted.
They went to the inferior of the I
vessel and brought hack with them
some cups and plates made for table
purposes, and of an ancient and tmn
derous description. Only a few of
them could be brought out by the Indians.
It was only the recollection of
the manner in which they had been
disposed to treat their comrade that
induced them to bring anything away
with them. They knew they would
not be believed if they had no evidence
other than their words?hence the
tableware.
The Indians also found a petritied
forest of tropcial growth even higher
on the mountain, though in the immediate
vicin ty of the ships. They
describe these trees of stone as having
leaves as long as a man's body and
very broad.
IS BARTOW WARREN ALIVE?
A better Which It in Claimed tie
Wrote to a Relative.
I From The Times and Democrat.]
A few days ago we received a letter
from a prominent citizen of Colleton
County enclosing a letter which be
says was written by liartow Warren.
In his letter the gentleman says under
date of May 13:
"Editor Timks and Democrat:
"I enclose copy of a letter which 1
would be glad if you would publish. 1
have always maintained Ilartow Warren's
innocence, and now that lie hits
left the United States 1 give you bis
letter to publish. I ?iw a near kinsman
of Ids who asked me to have his
letter published. 1 send it to you. He
lias left for parts unknown I know
not where. He will never return I
copied lhis letter from the original,
leaving out certain tilings not necessary
or right to lie published."
At the request of the gentleman
who wrote the above letter we withhold
his name, hut as we said alxive,
he isa prominent citizen and is known
to many of our people. Here is the
copy of the letter which is signed by
I tar tow Warren. It is dated March,
11)02, and reads as follows:
"As 1 am alxiut to leave my native
country forever, 1 write you for the
last time to tell you good-bye. 1 have
been hunted and hounded down for a
good while. Now that it is reported
1 am drowned 1 have an opportunity to
escape. The prowling detectives have
constantly been trying to capture me.
hut could not. 1 am not guilty of the
rohliery at Fifty-eight, when 1 wastirst
arrested, and would have been acquitted,
if it had not been for one st ublxirn
juror. The bribed testimony of
Watson and Connor was against me
and the I0\press Company used all
their power to convict me, hut thanks
to the efforts of Judge l/.lar and Mr.
Itrunson 1 was not convicted. 1 had
to lie in jail for awhile t ill 1 could give
hail. Well, I was a ooorlmy, and driven
to desperation. 1 determined to kill
Tom Watson and Connor. 1 shot Watson
ti> death liccuu.se he had lied
against me, and I vowed to kill Connor,
hut did not have the opportunity.
After this, every crime committed,
was laid to my charge. I was accused
of robbing the jiostollice at Walterlwro
and of at tempt ing to hold up t he t rain
at Fifty-eight. and finally 1 was accused
of stopping the train near t lie same
| pla *e, and taking the express safe and
carrying it to the Fdisto. and finally
liny body was found drowned. Whileall
| these things wa re going on 1 was alxnit
my old home near lluckhcud, and had
I nothing to do with these things. My
| oiils crime was shooting Tom Watson,
i For this I would have lieen hung, so I
kept out of the way. This (lodging life
dot's not suit me, so I have concluded
' to leave my country and State forever.
: A |HK?r orphan ln>y now goes to livV in
j foreign lands, so good-bye. Tell all
i my kindred and friends good-bye for
revet. Yours,
J. Baktow Wakukn."
The Times and Democrat publishes
| this letter as requested, but as to
whether it was written by Bartow
Warren our readers must decide for
themselves on the testimony given
above. The gentleman who sent it to
us is i man who is prominent in
church and State and he seems t < havi
110 doubt but that the letter was written
by Warren.
"Our'holy war'in the Philippines,'1
says the Norfolk Landmark, "has
collided with a counter one engine red
hv the Sultans and Datos of Minj
danao."
A GREAT SYSTEM
11 Of Railroads Formed by the Merging
| _____
PLANT SYSTEM AND THE A. C. L.
I'limt Sywtem Will Probably He
Operated I iiilcpciiiloiitly of'the
Coast I I tie and With ItM
Otliccrfi.
The agreement lor Ltic merger of
the Plant system of railways with the
Atla'itie Coast Line railway company
j was rat'dcd Friday by meetings
I of the .stockholders of t he Savannah
Florida & Western railway in Savannah
and of the Atlantic Coast Line In
Richmond. The merger will actually
take place on .1 uly 1.
The articles of agreement, consolidation
and merger of tlie Atlantic
Coast Line railroad company and the
Savannah. Florida & Western Railway
company bears the date of April
10, 1902. After setting forth the
various line, aggregating 1,755 miles,
owned by the Atlantic Coast Line,
and the various lines, aggregating
l,7.'Ct miles owned by the Savannah,
Florida & Western, to be included in
the merger, the agreement leads up to
the mode of carrying into elTect the
consolidation.
The union will be into the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad company, the
agreement shows, which will continue
as the name of the consolidated company.
There will be twelve directors
of the consolidated company, and the
oilicers will he a president, three or
more vice presidents, secretary, one or
secretaries, a treasurer
one more assistant treasurers,
treasurer
or ditTerent
persons, tlx- II
The directors and officers of
the Coast Line company will be, the
first directors and officers of the consolidated
company. The consolidated
company will take the property of ' B|
each company and ljecome responsible 1
for all debts and liabilities. Thecapi- 9
tal 8took < >t consolidated company will
Ixj 420,000 shares of par value of $100. ^
of which 188,000 will be preferred, *
the dividends not to exceed 5 percent,
non cumulative, and 231,O(J0 common
stock. 4
The consolidated company may in- I
crease the stock to n</t exceeding
$100,000,000. Present holders of the J
A. C. L.. will retain shares of pre- J
ferred and common stock as they m
outstand as preferredand commog^. _
stock of the consul bSSWF"company.
Holders of the preferred stock of the
Savannah, Florida and Western will .
receive .">*? pei cent, of the par value i
of their respective holdings in the ^
common stock of the consolidated >
company at par. The holders of the
common stock of the Savannah. Fl< ida
and Western will receive 25 per
cent, of the par value of their respective
hfilHimn: ill t tin I'Am rr?/? 11 c?,u.L- , .f
the consolidated company at par.
Any holders of the preferred or ~ _
common stock of the Savannah, Florida
and Western who may refuse to
convert it on these terms will be paid
for it at an agreed valuation in 4 per
cent, mortgage bonds of the consolidated
company or in cash, or if no
agreement can be reached, at such
price as tl j law may determine. The
Flori la southern, the Sanford and St.
Petersburg and St. John's and Lake
Gustis are the three lines of the Plant
System that are not included in the
merger, not l>cing incorporated with
the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway. They will, however, pass
under the control of the Coast Line.
The Plant System will probably be
operated independently of the Coast
Line and with its present officers. \
St. IMerre, Martinique.
Island has an area of .'ISI square
miles.
Fort de France is the capital.
Population is, approximately, 102,- a
500. There are 12,000 whites. Othexs 1
are negroes or of inlxec racial types. 1
St. Pierre was t lit* largest and most
important city commercially, having
a population of aliout 2*5,000.
Principal products of the islands are Jfl H
sugar, cotTec. cocoa, tobacco, cotton
Imports for 1 Stiff aggregated aliout
95,721,000, and exports were $5,358,III
Ilk
In the same year the I'nited States
sent to the island goods worth 11,">02,. {.'12.
This country takes almost nothing
frm Martinique, hut our products,
chlelly food stuffs, are neccessary to it.
Annual revenues of the island a^tfrebate
$1,.'142.000. < >f this sum onefourth
is spent for educational purposes.
Martinique is a favored colony of
France, having heen settled by colonists
from that country in l(>t>.*?.
Island was taken by England in 1704
and held till 1810, when France attain
| secured possession of it.
St. Pierre was built on high cliffs
overlooking the harbor.
Mont 1'elee, the volcanic eruption of
which destroyed St. Pierre, is 4,4."?0
feet high. It is often in obscurity because
of t he dense clouds of smoke that
have enveloped its summit.
Sucble of Subtler.
Cliffords. Huberts of Co. 1), Tnlrd
infantry, committed suicide Friday at
Fort /Thomas, Kv., by taking morphine.
Mis officers and comrades say
the deed was due to affections that
followed privations of hard campaigning
in the Philippines. Mis mother
and brother at Savannah, (la., have
, been notified. Roberts was formerly
a printer and stood high in his rogij
mcnt.
Monument to Sumter.
1 Itepresentat ive Lever received assurances
from the house committee on
library that bis bill appropriating
2.">,ooo for the ercetlon of a monument
to the memory of Gen. Thomas
Sumter, the Revolutionary hero,
; would be favorably* reported this sesI
slon. The bill provides that the
monument shall he erected In the town
of Sumter, upon a suitable location.