The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, May 21, 1902, Image 6
SOME DISASTERS f
KHU,r- rra
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Caused by Earth quakes and Voic-ft*
'noes in the World's Hjstory.
MARTINIQUE ONE OF WORST w?
KuiiUh Willi liiNlion ami Krakaton l><>
ami Far lleyoml Pompeii. j,||(
DcKcript ion of Two of tlie
Worm IliNaatorH.
Some of the greatest disasters caused
in modern and ancient times by vol.
canic erupt ions and earthquakes were
the following, beginning with the latest:
\ Quesaltei any >, and other cities in o|1
Guatemala, April 19, 1902 doo killed jj,,
R* by earthquake. Hi
EM; Chilpaiiciti^u, Mexico. .January 10, ph
1902?.'100 dead: earthquake. da
suumuKu, tcussian Transcaucasia. | 1U
February, 1902 2 JO killed: earth- IT
quake.
Erzcroum, Armenia, November 12. cu
1901?22 killed; cuithquakc. "A
Mt. Koeiet, .lava, May. 1 !?01 About tin
200 killed: volcanic eruption. \va
Mt. Azurna, Japan, July. 1000 200 pa
killed or injured: volcanic eruption. inj.
Island of Oram, East Indies, October
10, 1890 -1,000 killed; earthquake. e.\|
Aidin, Asia Minor, September 20. up
1899?.'100 killed: earthquake. olu
^" Venezuela, April 21. lstM J.ooo di\
killed; earthquake. Sal
Southern (Jrecce, April, 1*91 i.ooo I'd
killed: earthquake.
Island of Hondu. Japan. October, th;
1891?10,000 killed: cartlupiakc.
Charleston, S. C.. August and Sep- evt
tcmber, 188(i lis killed: earthquakes. (>u
Mauua Loa, Hawaii, lsso 79 kill- tin
ed; earthquake. * i tin
Isle of Ischia, 18S.'l- 2,000: killed: am
carth?|iiake.
Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, Ma\ t<> am
August, 188J :tu,:s80 killed: volcanic lyii
eruption. chi
Djokjokarta, Java. 1807 1,000 kill- did
bed; earthquake. | ed
Island of Martinique. 1807 1.000 J tin
dead; earthquake. sw;
Calabria, Italy. 18.77 lo.ooo killed: i-l??;
earthquake. too
Fort 1 loyal. Martinique. is:p.i 700 out
dead; earthquake. not
Mt. Caron, Island of St. Vincent, but
1812?10,000 killed, volcanic eruption, am
Canton, China, May 27. l*:to o.ooo
killed: earthquake. fro
Mt. Taal. Luzon. 1*11 11.000 kill- hie
ed: volcanic eruption. it i
Lisbon, Portugal, i7.*.o oo.ooo kill- \\a
ed: earthquake. Im 1
Kuehan. North Persia. IT"."' to.ooolnco
killed: earthquake.
Canton, China. November 30, lT:u wh
100,000 killed; earthquake. , ear
B Palermo, Sicily. ITHt; (1,000 killed: I tut
^^B earthquakes. ed
^B A Oalloia, Poland, 1208 20,000 killed: wli
BBT earthquake. 1 v
|B Syria. 1168 20,000 tiled: earth- lea
^^B quake.
Cantania, Sicily. 1137 15,000 kill- am
cd: earthquake. on
Constantinople, Thousands
killed; earthquake. t<?
Pompeii arm Ilcrculancum, a. D. cd
^B 70?2,000 to 5,000 killed: volcanic raf
^^ft eruption. Set
. lh'will l>o seen that t he cataclysm in of
Martinique, ?ivports <
dead prove correct, ranks anions the
very worst of recorded disasters.
^ THK L18IM)N K VUTItql'AKi:. '
History exhibits few catastrophics w<
I more terrible than that which was | r
ft caused by the ^reat earthquake which
I on November 1, 1755, leveled the city riv
I of Lisbon to the dust. ?>n other oc- nui
ft casions, such as that of :i siege, a by
I famine or a plague, calamity up- |;<]
B A proaches by degrees, giving its victims sh(
BHT"^ time to measure its growth and pre- se;
paring them as it were, to sustain an ah
^B^H^ increasing weight of misery: but her no
dertruction fell upon the devoted cit y en
with the rapidity of a Hash of lightB^^B
A bright sun shone over Lisbon on set
^^^B that fatal morning. The weather was dc;
^B^B as mild and beautiful as on a line sumB^BB
mcr's day in America, when, about lo
minutes past t> in the morning, ch
BBf^^^P earthquake shock, followed almost im- ha
./ mediately by another and another.
^^^B^B'' brought down convents, churches, palaces
and houses in one common ruin.
B^H| and at a very moderate computation ''
j^HKf occasioned the loss no.0(H) lives.
'"The shocking sight of the dead 1
BflHRj bodies," says an eyewitness of the 1u
BH scene, "together with the shrieks and J*'1
B^B cries of those wlio were half buried in "
the ruins, exceeds all description: for s.1'
Wtk fear and consternation were so great ' 'j
BB that the most resolute person durst
BH not stay a moment to remove a few I
stones olf the friend lie loved most,
though many might have liccn saved
BQ^^^B* by so doing: hut notliing was thought
MHBMB of t>ut self-preservation."
Many of those wlio wen- not crushed 1"
BBB or disabled by the falling buildings
HHB tied to the Tagus, vainly hopithat u,!
they might lind there the sal* ty which
they had lost on land. For. soon after
the shock,
in like a torrent, though against wind
^B and tide, and rising in an enormous
[ wave, overtlowed its hanks, devouriiu
I .hi. ..r. .
I <111 11 hum on ns nisi nirii vc pill).
[ Many large vessels sank al oik-.': nt Iters
I torn from their anchors, disappeared M<
in the vortex, or. striking against eaelt I 'i
Other, were shattered to pigges. A line -ei
new stone quay, where about ."burnt soi
persons had assemhlefl for safety, slip cot
ped Into the river, and everyone was hei
lost; nor did so much as a single body frn
appear afterward. m<
llad the misery ended here it might wti
in some degree have admitted of re- Ih*i
dress, for though lives could not be re cm
stored, yet a great part of the immense th
riches that were in the ruins might On
have been recovered: but n new calam is I
ity soon put an end to such hopes: for. cm
in altfuit two hours after the shock, ere
tires broke out in three different ne;
parts of the city, caused by ihe goods wa
and the kitchen lires being all jumbled to
together. About this time, also a bet
fresh gale suddenly springing up made
the Arc rage with such violence thai
at the end of three days the greater
part of tire city was reduced to ashes .
What the earthquake bad spared fell
a pray to fire, and t he tlames consumed l,as
^ thousands of mutilated victims, wlm ,I:|
ft Incapable of (light, lay ha I in '
the ruins. (':iN
Oil
>1 KKAKATOA Kltt'lTION.
The terrible erupt ion of Mount Kia v|,,
K katoa is well rememben i
ands of the present generation. ,?.a
Kiakatoa is a volcano on an
name in tlie Strait of (.X|,
EgnHnNH^PKundu. between Java and Sumatra. ,,|
n Its earliest recorded eruption was
K?Ho. The volcano then became dm
H mant and stood as an irrcgt
2,923 feet high until 18t|3 when there N
occurred one of tlic most stupendous obt
eruptions ever known. wife
W9 The eruption began in May and
ftinued until August 27, large
rt of thf island was blown uway. utid
.tfincnts of pumice and dust were
rown toil heitfht of-twenty miles.
Inlnn the region of the upper air
rrents, the dust was carried around
.* entire earth and produced remarkle
twilight glows for many months.
I'lie sound of t lie explosion was heard
a distance of 2.217 miles. The
ves produced in the air travels four
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i u nan * i iiiv."* ii i' mi i m i i n?- "him.
ves tifty feet liiuli swept the ueiRhriUR
shores and smaller waves were
served on distant coasts over half
i Rlolie. One hundred and slxtyree
villages were detroyed and
) human beings perished.
THE AWFUL EXPERIENCE
'a Survivor of tlir St. IMerre Vol-I i
cituo OitmMcr.
lames T:?"lor, who was one of the i
leers of the Uoraiina, the (.Jucbce
e steamship fiat was destroyed in
e harbor of Si. Pierre, Rives a Riaic
story of t he 1 racedy of last Thurs- 1
y, says a dispatch to The New York .
raid from St. Kitts. Island of St.
iristopher, P. W. 1. (
"We experienced the greatest diiliIt
y in RettiiiR into port." said he.
ippalling sounds were issuing from I
e mountains behind the tow n, which (
s shrouded in darkness. All the ;
sscinfers were up and some were try* (
r to obtain photoRruphs. 1
"Suddenly 1 heard a tlemendous ]
losion. Ashes beRaii to fall thicker i
on the deck and 1 could see a black ;
ud sweeping down upon up. I t
ed below, and. draRRiiiR with me ;
muel Thomas, a RaiiRway man and t
low count ryman, sprniiR intoa room, i
ittinc the door to keep out the heat
it was already unbearable. I
'The ship rocked and 1 expected j
ry moment that it would sink,
tside 1 heard a voice pleading for i
diKir to he opened. It was Seott. (
? tirst oillcer, and I opened the door
1 dniRRed him into the room. :
'It soon hceame unhearatily hot ;
I I went on deck. All about were i
iir the dead and dyiiiR. Little
Idrcn were muaniiiR for water. 1 ;
what I could for them. 1 obtain- >
water, hut when it was held to ]
>ir swollen lips t he> were unable to |
I How. because ot the ashes which <
RRcd their throats. ( hie little chap <
k water in this method and rinsed <
the aslies. lint even then could ;
, swallow, so badly was his throat i
rned. lie sank hack unconscious j
i a few minutes later was dead.
"All aft the ship was aliie. and L
in tlie land came draughts of terri- i
heat. At last, when I could stand (
io loiiRer 1 spranR overlniaril. The L
tei was hot ciioiirIi to parboil me, ;
an. bringing with iteool water. j.
I was caught in t lie receding wave, )
icli was iif tidal velocity. and was i
l ied mil to sea. Then on the re- i
not'the second wave 1 was wash- \
against an overturned sloop, to ;
ieh i clung. A lew minutes later, t
>as joined by another man. whom i i
tned was Captain Muggah. of the
raiina. lie was in a dreadful agony i
I kept hogging piteonsly to lie put ]
hoard his ship. t
Ticking up some wreckage and a i
idlest, 1 and live others who join- \
me. sueeeeded in forming a rude (
t.on which we placed the captain, i
inn an upturned (mat, I asked one i
the live to swim out to it and bring i
tversolliat < aptain Mu^'iili might *
ve an opportunity to live. The ]
II siicecciieil in netting the boat <
hi d, hut instead of returning lie .
ked up two of his count rymen and ]
lit away in the direction of l-'ort de j
anee. \
'Seeing tile Koddam. which had ar
cd in port soon after we anchored. .
iking for the Itoraima. I said goodt
o ( apt ain M uggali and swam to the
iddam. before i could reach her ,
l* hurst into llames and put out to
i. 1 linally reached the Itoraima (
out half past 2 o'clock in the after-'
mi and later was taken otT by the];
liser Suchct."
Samuel Tliomas. the gangway man.
io.se life was saved by Taylor, de- ,
ilies a woman who was burned to'
all) while she held her baby in her
ns. protecting i' with her own body
un t he tire that tilled the air. The ,
ild was alive long after its mother
d ceased tostill'er.
< 'ariiegie's i MI'er.
Mucli discussion has been aroused
Washington 1 ?y a story printed in j
w York Thursday that Andrew)
rnojtle has oll'ered to furnish the I
enty million dollars this eounty I
id In spain for the Philippines, if
that means he eouhl he aide to as-1
re the Filipinos that their indcpetinee
would ultimatelylie acknowlednhy
the I'nited States. The state ni
was made by Ceo. !'. Steward of j
w York, president of the Fidelity
d Casualty Co., who is a warm
end ol Mr. Carnegie, lie says lie is
e original ant i-hnperialist and added
at Mr. ( arni-L'ie went to President
Kinley before t he t reaty wit It Spain
is signed and said he was convinced
at we were forcing war on the l ilip- i
is and wanted to h sent to the
lilippines with full power to promise |
e Filipinos independence and on ;
use conditions would pay himself!
( treaty price.
Volcano in \i*Iiciiska
After a silence of thirty years,
lint lona. tlie only volcano in the
died States, is now reported to he
idinc out smoke and steam, and
nc ot the people in the surrounding
mty sa.v that low rtimhlinns can Intnl.
These reports are brought 1
mi Cedar County. Neb., where the
unit a i n is situated, liy travelers. <
in say that t he s'-t t let s in t he tiei^li- ;1
hood are preparing to leave theM
int v. The mountain is situated on ;:
Missouri l?iver. lad miles almve :
ia!ia, and. while not of nreat height.
liL'h compared to l he surrounding
intry. It has been for years a sa- !
(I place wil h t he 1 ndiaiis. and it was 1
ir there tlint the last bin niin dance
s held in 1X7*. No Indian will n?'
llie iiiounlain itself, as it lias lonn i
n known tot hem as t lie hill of lire. 1
. i
Volcano In Mexico. ,
Die Colima volcano showsstroiin in
II IK/MO > 'I K I < <1 II I'I II "I ill HI I III' I
militants living in the valley at" Its ;
> arc moving to -.ale distances from |
peak, from svliieh smoke and ptitfs 1;
lame liavetieen In Idling for several s.
Mount Cnlimalias threatened i
ewed activity for several weeks, i
is ooridit ion caused t he work of eon- | 1
let iu^' t lie extension ot t In- Mexican i
itral railroad to Manzanillo, passing ' i
r the base of the mountain, to
so temporarily. The route of the :
i nsion will prol>ah]y he changed In !
or to avoid any possible disaster '
t and ercptlon mi^ht tiling.
,\ OlM.ll iillll'. |
Chicago Unman Catholic who y
allied a lejjal divorce tieeause his I
deserted him. now wants to marry j j
in. hut is troubled tieeause hislc,
rch says the divorce is of no effect. | t.
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" mtv. riii"jM _ r i"il. a iv.
NAPTHA EXPLODES.
A Terrible Disaster in the Railroad
Yard at Pittsburg.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE HURT.
t
The Vulutilu Fluid Hum* Over a
Wide Area, CaiiNiiiK Injury
and liuiii, and Killing
Many I'eeple.
The Shcraden yard of the l'anhanJle
railroad at Pittsburg, Pa., was the
one Wednesday afternoon of one of
the most disastrous explosions and
tires known in that section for many
years. At least twent. one lives
were lost and about 2uo persons were
? cliadly burned that.according to the
judgment of physicians in attendance,
<5 percent of them will die from the
jlfects of their injuries.
The cause of the catastrophe was
the explosion of a train of naphtha
ars which was being switched at the
yard, and in the switching the rear
- ar telescoped the car forward. The
leaking naphtha ignited from a switch
light, causing an explosion, which
threw the dames fifty feet high.
Much of the escaping naphtha ran
through Corks Pun to Esplcnborough,
i distance of one and one-half miles,
ausiugan explosion, blowing to atoms
the Slieraden Hotel and the Collins
House, and badly wrecking a frame
itiilding nearby, in which were congregated
200 or more sports from
IMttshurg and vicinity, betting on
the races, base ball, etc. Few of t lie
x'eupantsof this building escaped injury,
many being badly hurt. Mrs.
seytnuur and her daughter, of the
slieraden hotel, were seriously and. it
Is feared, fatally injured.
The lirst car of naphtha exploded
ibout 4. io o'clock and the spectacle
?oon attracted a large crowd on streets
ining the hills on both sides of and
parallel to tlie railroad. The section
ar exploded about "> o'clock, but it
tvns at i>. 15 o'clock, when three more
ars of the deadly stuff went up with
i mar that could he heard for miles,
that the work of destruction really boran.
A torrent of ilamc belched forth on
;ach side of the track, sweeping hack
die terrilied spectators like si charge
)f artillery, smd sent a shower of
lames over their heads, resembling
Mont 1'elee on si small scale.
The scene that followed beggars de- j
script ion. The successive explosions
lad hesited the air to such an extent
that before the third explosion many
.vere rendered unconscious by the ex-1
reuse heat and the gaseous fumes,
sod were being carried away when the j
torrent of tlame swept over the excited
rowd.
There was an awful hush for a monent.
then followed a scene of frenzy.
Men and women, their clothing ablaze,
heir faces scorched and blistered and
their hair burned olT their heads, ran
wildly shrieking hither and thither,
inly intent-oil escape from that awful
furnace of tire. Some gave vent to
frenzied appeals to kill them and put
ihcm out of their misery,"and little
-hildren, with their curly locks and
light summer clothing, small pillars
>f lire, cried pitcously as they were
avept along by the tide of burning
Immunity. The town people did all
In their power for the stricken victims
and all the Pitshurg ambulances
were immediately dispatched to the
scene with a* corps of physicians.
Many of those not seriously burned
were removed to their homes in Sheraden.
while others were sent to the
various Pittsburg hospitals, and the
rlead removed to undertaking establishments
in Shcradcn and vicinity
and to the Pittsburg morgue.
The Panhandle Railroad Company
has thirty-six tracks through Shera
"en and lias succeeded in keeping comuunication
open. The property loss
vili amount to at least $<?00.000. The
list of known dead numbers t wenty,
all residents of Sheraden or vicinity.
Several died last nigh! 01 hospitals.
Anions them is Carl Katings of Tipton,
Teun., who was badly burned
about the head. A complete list of
the wounded could ! ' be secured last
night. A partial list contains twenty
names.
The accident happened in the railroad
yards at Sheraden. where the
Panhandle railroad makes a turn, near
Corks run. Hanked by two high hills
hundreds of people were caught. At
this point, which is about one-fourth
of a mile from tire city line, there are
thirty-three tracks. I poo these
tracks were several hundred ears.
Near t lie middle of t hese t racks about
4.4.*?o'eloek a heavy freight train was
being made up for tie- west. In tills
train were ten tank ears, containing
refined petroleum and naphtha. In
the shifting necessary to prepare tlie
train for her journey a switch was
made with too much force. Five tank
cars, t wo of fiicui idled with nilmd
petroleum and two with naphtha,
were switched with too much force
and one of the ears of naphtha was
broken. Instantly the inflammable
by-product poured out in a stream.
The trainmen, seeing that one of toe
cars was damaged, started to pull
them all out of the way.
Already t he men in charge of the
switch light had made his rounds and
Ihe lights were burning. As the tank
car passed over one of the lights the
rlropping naphtha caught on the little
ilainc and almost instantly an explosion
followed.
A Practical Itolorm.
A IVnnsylvaiiian tells of a practical
reform in his State that Is good
enough to be put in operation every
iviiric. ncsam: aii over Pennsylvania
anti-swearing societies arc beinir
formed, and tin- people are Joining
I hem hy the hundreds. The object
if t he societ ies is to t?rin^ a ho ut a
essation of profanity inordinary conversation.
I believe that a vast deal
?f good will come of this movement,
ind hope to see it spread to other
Kirts of the t'nion. The fact is that
i lar^e per cent of men use profane]
speech to an extent that they scarcely i
eali/.e. A gentleman ou^ht not to
nar his talk wit h coarse and meaningess
expletives, and I Iwlieves. the day
s coining when frequent oaths will
int be tolerated in decent societies.
\\ ns Too <^nick.
When jailer Craitf entered the jail
orridors at Koanoke, Va., Thursday
veiling he was murderously assaulted
>y two ne^rro prisoners who had hoped
o make their escape. During a struirle
which followed One of the negroes,
toh Payne, was shot and fatally in- 1
tired hy jailer Craitf. The men csaped
fromjall two weeks aj?o with
en others but were recaptured.
N
A-STORY OF HORROR
Further Particulars ?l* liip (licat T
ItiNiiNipr to Kt. I'lfrrtv
A dispatch from Fort I Franco,
which is an Mail ineque Island. ten ,,
miles from St. Pierre, says vessels st
have been s??i?t l<? the latter place j|
with soldiers, priests and a quantity n]
of. lire wood. petroleum and quick ^
lime, for use in the cremation of the
bodies of the victims of lite terrible ,j,
volcanic outbreak. When ncuriiitf St.
Pierre the vessels met a number of ^
tllCS towillL iiehlers ti11<>< 1 vvll.li
??? ? ??? h
gees. Ileat, truiu the smoking lava,
covered the ruins of St . l'ierre, was p
suffocating and the stench from the <;
corpses strewn along the streets is
awful. Only few walls are standing.
On ail sides were found portions of
corpses, which were gathered up by C>1
flic soldiers and gendarmes and burned Sl
on one of the public squares. Not a
drop ot' water is procurable ashore. ,,j
Darkness was caused by the clouds of (.
volcanic dust, shrouded the town, and
continuous subterranean rumblings
added to the horror of the scene. The t|
fort and central quarter of the town jj
were razed to the ground, and were p,
replaced by beds of hot cinders. Iron j?
grille work gate of the government p
offices alone are standing. Tltere is
no trace of streets. Huge heaps of j,
smoking ashes arc seen on all sides. y
Hundreds of corpses were lying in
all kinds of attitudes, showing the
victims had met death as if by a
lightning stroke. Every vestige of w
clothing was burned away from the p
charred bodies. Curiously enough js
the features of the dead were general- p.
ly calm and reposeful, although in p
some cases terrible fright and agony
is depicted. tirhn piles of bodies are p,
staked everywhere, showing death to m
have stricken t hem while the crowds rt,
were vainly seeking to escape from the pj
fiery deluge. On one spot a groui of a.
nine ciiildren were found locked each
in each others arms. S(
1 trietly put, last Thursday morning u
the city of St. l'ieere disappeared ;u
wi^iin five minutes in a whirlwind,
lire vomiting from Mont Pclec: .'$0.
000 persons were instantly and horrihly
killed and the volcano, whose era- cc
ter for more than "?o years had been w
occupied by a epiict lake in which pie- m
nic parties bathed, suddedly discharged
a torrent of fiery mud, which y
rolled towards the sea, engulfing n.
everything before it. Then the last
of cable communication was bmk- 11. w
and the doomed city was isolated from w
the world. Thirty thousand corpses Sl
arc strewn about, buried in the ruins j,
of St. Pierre, or else floating, gnawed ,,,
by sharks, in the surrounding seas. 0,
The still smoking volcano towered jtl
above the ash-covered bills. The I ui
ruins were burning in many places
and frightful odors of burned tlesh
filled the air. Not one house was left ,.j
intact. Viscid heaps of mud. of I u
brighter ashes or piles of volcano |
stones, were seen on every side. The j
streets could hardly be traced. Iler?':j,
and there amid the ruins were heaps i (j,
of corpses. Almost all the faces were j s,
downward. In one corner \12 bodies iJ;
of men, women and children were j y
mingled in one awful mass, arms and I (j(
legs protruding as the hapless beings ,r,
fell in the last struggles of death's
agony. Huge blocks and still hot
stones were scattered about. Prom
under one large stone the arm of a
white woman protruded. Most re ,a- s
hie was the utter silence and the awful,
overpowering stench froju the
thousands of dead.
Careful inspection showed that the
fiery st ream which so completely do- P
stroyed St. Pierre must have been P
composed of poisonous gases, which M
instantly suffocated every one who in- h
haled them, and of other gases burn- i is
ing furiously, for nearly all the vie-J si
tints had their hands covering their i h
mouths or were in some other atti-jw
tilde, showing that they had sought si
relief from sulTooation. All t he bodies C
are carbonized or roasted.
A POLITICAL SENSATION. ]'
tl
g
.lintgc CiarU Says lutlgc Sinioiitoit i ;l
i f<
llixlc <>ii rrci" Passes.
A dispatch from Charlotte says N
Judge Walter Clark gives out for 1
publication the letters he wrote to '
llov. Uussall during the fusion rule In "
connection therewith defends himself
the charge that he instigated suits
against corporations and persons j
knowing that iater the cases would
come liefore hiscourt for adjudication.
lie says all that lie did was honorable "
and tor the best interest of the state. s
and that the tight against him is insti
crated liv I liiir r-iII? ?.............. '
"rJ * n """ 1 * 'J 1,1 I,
tlons. who wish to defeat him because t|
they can't control his decisions.
One of the letters which .liul^c ^
Clark admits writiiur is related to j
alleged free trips to Halciph made by
I nited States Circuit .ludjre Simon- 'J
ton, and is as follows: .
"Permit a surest ion Acts ls'.H. j
chapter :t2o. sec. t clearly and unmistahly
makes any discrimination 'an
olVenee' punishable 'by line not less ,
than $ 1,000 nor more than *.1.noo.' ^
Send \Y. t'. I >ouj;las to<lav to solicitor ;
I'ou, inform him what lie heard of ' '
P.itfe and have I>i 11 v. railroad sent
for hauling for one-half price. Sum- ^
moil lime and freight ayent here i11? ^
his books. and the party whose e>. u|s
were hauled free (or one-half price.)
He cannot refuse to testify, as he is
not indictable, only the common carI
ii
ricr.
' SI
"In this way you can net the evi- j
deuce you want. Aeaiu lasf .lanuarv
II
Simon ton came here to hold court
not only on a free pass, hut in a private
palace car free, lie is not indictable,
but the railroad can he made to swell
our school fund *f..oon tor 'having had
I li.> Iw.iw.r '/>?,. .. t-i?
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free passes, free t<mx 1 etc., uiul lliei
nstional and state publicity given tin- ^
! I ransaetion will open t lie eyes of the j( [
plain, eninmon people.'both in Ni.rtb
, Carolina and t liruuglmiit thelnion. j j'
"A verv little t,rouble will eel bills
w
as to above transactions, and it is
wort bit.
"bestroy this after reading."
More than one of the letters were
marked "Personal." and asked that
t bey 1m-dest roved. This. Judge Clark
says, was in order to keep the rail- (
roads from seizing them and trying to
make capital against Irim.
Nliol mill Killed. t i
Miliary I Inhuman was shot and kill- "
ed on Monday afternoon while on bis
return home from Klngstreet by bis j 'V
brother-in-law II II. brown. They w
bad both been imbibing freely of M
liquor and were riding in a wagon
together when u drunken quarrel j J"
arose. j
Tnu News and Courier says "II Gen. Li.
Wcyler knows an opportunity when he V:
sees one lie w ill not fail to move his j ' 1
Government to make some khid of pro- s'!
lest in t he right quarter regarding tbe ?'
uncivilized character of the war in *e
Sainar." til
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THE WEATHER AND CROPS
lie i'ust \Vcek Huh iicrt. Favorable
in Fvrry ltea|?ect.
The weekly bullet ill of the condition
t tlie weather and the crops was is
led last week by Director Itauer of
ie South Carolina section of the filiate
and crop service of the I'nihd
Uites weather bureau as follows:
The temperature was aeain aliout *>
.'tf rees per day above uorinal, during
ie week ending Monday morning,
[ay 12tli, the average for the week
uving been 70 degrees, with inaxiiiim
of Mil degrees at Bowman on the
hh. and a minimum of 4K decrees at
alFney on the Nth. The sunshine a vruged
alHiut normal, with partly
oudy days and clear nights.
The rainfall for the week was penally
light, except in spots over the
iiitheaslern counties and the Snvandi
valley, where it was copious, and
great benetit to crops, although it
died to thoroughly relieve thedrought
t, any point. There were also numeris
but widely scattered showers on
ic 7-8th over the ?'iitire State, hut
lev were local, partial, generally
glit. and entirely insuMlcicnt. In the
ee I?ee sections the drought is hecomig
s< lions. There were heavy show's
on the early morning of the 12th,
i the central and northeastern comics,
and possibly throughout the
Late, hut 11 icy occurred too late to lie
illy reported in this bulletin.
The week was favorable for farm
ork which made rapid progress,
lanting operations are practically tinhod,
except on bottom lands that
ive been either too wet or too hard
> cultivate.
It is the exception this year to have
>or stands of corn reported, and
ucli less than the usual amount of
plant ing has been necessary owing to
ids and worms. Corn has a healthy
apearanee, and is well cultivated,
o'st of it having received its tirst and
mie its Kccound working. As yet.
ic dry weather has not hurt corn to
i.v appreciable extent.
Cotton is up, or coining up, from
very good" to "fairly good" stands
,cr the whole State, with slight ex ptions
limited to late plantings,
here the ground is too dry for geriination
Much has been chopped to
ands. and considerable has been culvated.
The plants are sturdy and
alrliy in appearance.
Tobacco is not doing so well as last
eek, owing to tin; prevailing dry
eat her that injured stands but where
itlicicnt rain fell the crop continues
i excellent condition. Wheat failed
laterially and will be below the av?
age. It is heading and some is turnig
color. (lata are exceedingly varihle.
but generally stand in need of
tin. Harvest has made slow progress,
ruck and sea island cotton were benit
ted by the rains along the coast,
ice planting Is practically finished:
ands are good. most favorable in the
eorgetown district. There is an
lereased number reports on pearlies
ropping. Sweet potato slips are being
tout. Colorado l>ectles on white poitoes
are more numerous and dest curve
than ever before known. Car ns.
pastures and minor crops need a
neral soaking rain.
COULD HAVE ESCAPED.
reucs In the <"ity ??l" St. IMorre -lust
Before lite Kruptioit.
Relatives and friends of Tliomas T.
rent is. tinted States consul at St.
icrre, whose home is at Melrose,
lass., are in grave fear that he and
is family were among those who periled
in the lake of molten lava that
ivept over the city. With him were
is wife and two daughters and no
old has been received from them
nee the destruction of the island
ity.
Friends of the family have not enrely
abandoned hope that they may
ave escaped with their lives, arguing
liat the severing of the cables and
eneral demoralization in Martinique
nd St. Vincent could easily account
>r the absence of news from Consul
'rentis. Miss Alice Fry, a sister of
lis. i'rentis, who lives in Melrose, reived
a letter from her on Friday,
earing the date of April Hfi. Tl'hc
Iter was in part as follows:
"lids morning the whole populaion
of the city is on the alert and
very eye is directed toward Mont
'dec. an extinct volcano. Kvcrytiudy
i afraid that the volcano has taken
1I0 its heart to hurst forth and deIroy
the whole island.
"All the inhabitants arc going up
isec it. There is not a horse to he
ad on the island, those belonging to
lie natives lieing kept in readiness to
ave at a moment's notice. Fast
Wednesday, which was April 211, i
as in my room with little Christine,
in' we heard three distinct shocks,
hi y were so great that we suppose al
ist that there was someone al the
our. and Christine went and found
o one there. The lirst report was
cry loud, hut the second and third
ere so great that dishes were thrown
omtlie shelves iinrl the house was
mi plot oly rocked.
"We can see Mont I'elee from the
mi' windows of our house, and alliounh
it is fully four miles away,
e can hear the roar and seethe tire
nd lava i>suiu^r from :L with terrilic
tree. The city Is cover, <1 with ashes,
nd clouds of smoke have been over
nr lu ads for the past live days. The
nell of sulphur is so strong that
orses on the street stop and snort,
nd some of them are obliged to jfive
y. drop in their harness and die
'inn the sulTocation.
"Many of the people are obliged to
car wet handkerchiefs over their
ices tc protect tlicm from the strong
lines of sulphur. My liusbaiid asires
me that there is no iunnedatc
ui^er. and when there is 1 lit* least
article of danger we will leave the
lace. There is an American schooner.
ie It. .1. Morse, in the harbor, and
ill remain here for at least two
ceks. "If the volcano becomes very
id we shall embark at once and ^o
It to sea."
hate reports leave no doubt of the
id fate of Mr. Prentls and his family,
hey were all burned to death in the
ted city.
"irtho state lias the ri^ht to tax
io people to educate tlio children of
ko state," says President O. B. Vaw r
of the Miller school, "then It surcshould
use the money in that way
liich will cive the state the best redts.
It should educate our children
ward what they have to do in life.
>t away from It. There Is no denyK
the fact that our present scholase
education tends to draw our chllon
away from industrial pursuits,
irely the object of public education
muld be to enable our children to hemic
*;uod, useful, honest, loyal ci?ins,
and equip them for life-work
iat lies lieforc them."
j. XtfH MOST &BAjJ*lfrJJi CITY.
Mul-loa, la., Given Tbl? ItiatlKrlioa
. , - # ?
" lloa|?ltiil Krrvlcc,
The most hfalthful place in th-t
I I'nitrd States to live is Marion, la.,
j according to report* received by the
> marine hospital service from 1.It Deities
and t,owns Inning a population of
1,000 or over. 'I'h -re may have been
| a more healthful place than Marion,
I but if so no otlicial returns were re|
ceived from it. Mur'.ou has a populaI
lion of 4.102, and there wi re only .six
deaths in I'.lOO, making a death rate of
the phe nominally low figure of 1.40 per
1.000.
The average of the death rate in all
i the cities and towns was 17.47.
It appears from the compilation of
i the marine hospital service that the
! state having t he I ?st rt cord for health
; last year was North Ihikota. with a
j death rate of only 0.05 per I .non o'population.
ily fur the most healthful of
' tlie populous srates, however, was
j Iowa, the death rate being 11.17.
Ohio, which made reports from
........ KK,rKnu|>K n jxif'll la 11C?I1 HI
more than 1.500,000 shows a death rate
of only 14.S4.
The notable reports of henlthfulness
come from the northwe.st and central
western Mates, Minnesota, the Dakolas.
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Idaho
ntuf Montana all have exceedingly low
death rates. On the other hand, the
states which are widely known as
health resorts, siteh as Arizona, Colorado
and California, have a comparatively
high mortality,probably because
many persons suffering from incurable
pulmonary troubles go there and
die.
California la*t year had a*n average
death rate of 17.03; Colorado, 25.20, and
\rizona, 33.2s The last named state
had the highest rnt? of mortality of
any state or territory in the union.
New York state's mortality was 19.35
The town in the I'nited Statca having
the highest rate of mortality last
year was Carlyle. 111. The population
was 1.S74, and the ntimber of deaths,
100, making a death rate of 53.31. The
most utihea 1thful of the large citiev
was Washington? with a death rate of
21 71 Halt imore's death rate was 21.02;
Philadelphia, 19.3S; lloston, 20.*2, and
Chicago, 14.69.
WILD MAN IN THE WOODS.
A Mint Startllnix niarotirj la HaI*
I > y Two llnnlrra In tkt Wlldi
of Mlclilicum.
Adolph Meiser and John Slattery,
two young men from Crystal Falls.
Mich., who were hunting partridges
on the headwaters of the Deer river,
about 14 miles from that city, met
what they rt was a wild man. lli?hair
was long and shaggy and long
whiskers nearly covered his fare, showing
that they had been growing for
some time. The hunters got within 30
feet of the man before they saw him
or he them, and all were surprised
when the stranger snarled at them.
Meiser at'i mpted to talk to him, but
nil iii" ri->jimisc ne coum jffl wbs:
"Public. public, public." When Slattery
and Meiser moved farwnri! the .stranger
Have :i tr rriblc \ el! ami <lart ed into the
hushes. He ran lik- a deer, hounding
over the windfalls and stumps.
The strange man was large, hut had
become emaciated from exposure and
hunger. The clothes he hud on were
in shreds exposing his body to view, He
carried part of a pun barn 1 anil a tent
pole in his hands and when found was
eatinp the carcass of -. dead skunk.
The ("r\ tal Falls men hurried to
town and reporti d the discovery, and a
passe tvas organized to htmt for the
man. It is thotipht that the man is
some utifort una thunter who hns been
lie t in the woods and become insane
from frlplit. The territory whore tin
mar. wn* seen is a largo stretch of
woods, and a person mipht ream there
for months without meeting anyone.
I The posse will stay out until they find
j the man.
Minister Referees lloilng; Match
Members of the congregation of
St. John's Episcopal church in IIuboken,
N. J., arc in a state of turmoil
over the fact that their rector,
Urv. T>ayid II. Matthews, acted as a
referee at a boxing match the other
night. Under the auspices of the St.
John's cadets, an organization connected
with the church, a minstrel
i show was given that evening, and
: the last number on the programme
was a boxing bout between Charles
lingers anil August Tierney, two
members of the cadets. The rector
! was referee, ami the was uti
exceedingly warm one. it was of
three rounds' duration, and both
youngsters were pretty well punished.
The minister showed a familinrit
v w?tl? ? :
f ? v** HIV ? 4?* I ?* -? ? I I lie 1111^
that amazed sonu* of the staid members
of the congregat ion.
Ctuailn'a Fornfi.
The Ottawa (Ont.t correspondent of
the New York Tribune says: Canada's
\ forests are found to he equal to supplying
the world with pulp wood alone
i for MO years, on the hasis of 1,500,000
tons of manufactured pulp a year.
! I'liis is t he est inrnte of .1. C". T.f ngeller,
j superintendent of the forest rangers
! of Ijtiebee. It is given in a paper to the
| Canadian Forestry association, reproduced
in the second aiuttinl report
of the association just issued. Mr.
T.nngelicr takes 1,500,000 tons of pulp
yearly as his liusis, that being about
the total production of the United
States.
rinlo Mnrdrr Klllier Way.
If a crowd is justified in lynching
a man one man is justified in putting
another man to death, says the Indianapolis
News. In the latter instance
it i-i perfectly plain that the
act is murder, hut it is just as plainly
an net of murder when the victim
suffers death .it the hands of a ruob.
The Berlin correspondent of the
I New York Times says that, according
j to the Berliner Tagehlatt, the minis,
ter of education has issiiutl new regui
lations in regard to the admission of
{ foreign r,tintents at the Berlin teohi
nieal college. The (lerninns c.omplaiu
| that the foreigners crowd them out
of the laboratories and lecture rooms,
and that the foreigners are admitted
without any documentary evidence of
previous education. The chief offenders
are Russians.
it is n vv reported that the minister
direct* that Russians art- only to
he admitted if tlicy can [ ruw previous
Attendance or matriculation at a Uusj
sinn technical college. Cither foreign!
crs must produce a certificate of general
education as well as proof that
i they have attended a technical colI
lege.
It has also been decided, nccording
! to the Iterline.r Tageblntt. that a small
i class of students called "hospltante,"
1 now admitted to the lectures tit German
universities as guests, without
the right of obtaining certificates or
degrees, sliall he abolished in thi^niachine
engineering department of the
college, and only allowed in other departments
under exWptional circunistances.
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MASURY'S FAI1T
Is the Leading
l?aint on the
Market.
Dealers in HuildiiiK
(The World's Greate
For nil form* of fover take JOHNSON'
times better tbnn quinine aud does In i
do In 10 days. It's splendid cares are In
made by quinine.
COSTS 50 CENT!
WANT'S A HATCHERY.
I
<>ruiij;<'hili'K Claims The Very IMiice
('.if I'ihh Culture Station.
A dispatch from Washington to
The Slate says Orangeburg is already 1
muitailling In r hirccs to land the new !
tisii cultural station provided tor in
Senator Tillman's lull which lias passed
the senate and will very probably
pass the house this session. The hill
carries an appropriation of $2.">.OO0
for this purpose, hut leaves the selection
of a site to the lish commission.
Representative Lever has placed 01
tile with the eoinmissoners a petition
signed by the mayor and 'ending citizens
of Orangeburg setting forth the
claims of that town for the new station
and asking that aspeeial agent ??
sent there to go over the erouud and
r? port to the commission before a siti
is dctermind upon incase Senator Tillman's
hill becomes a law. Represent 1
five Lever saw Commissoner Rower
Friday and was assured that Orangeburg's
claims would have careful consideration
and t hat the suggest ion of
an agent to in vesicate the topography
of that section would probably Ik*
adopted. It seems that in Inking
around for a suitable site for sucli a
station special inquiry is made as to
t be abundance of the water, supply.
Wherever it is possible, a site is selected
iinon a hill from wliieli ilnwc
number of Hear water streams. It is
necessary that the streams be free
from refuse and so located as to peinit
the establishing upon them t lie numerous
ponds connected with the station.
Representative Lever is of the opinion
that a location admirably tilling these
requirements is to he found just outside
the town of Orangeburg on what
is known as "Duke's fishery." In
talking Friday with Commissoner
Mowers he outlined the advantage of
locating a tisti station here and tiled
with him numerous papers and maps
showing the topography of the
country. Representative Lever said
that he considers < >rangehurg'schanccs
admirable for securing the tisli stat ion
and if an agent is sent down by the
commission to look t he ground over ho
hopes to accompany him and assist in
showing him around. The establishment.
of :t $2o.OOO fish station io the
Slate means much for South Carolina
and while Orangeburg would benefit
especially by having it placed there
the entire State will enjoy it advantages.
Not an Innovator.
The Hartford Fourant explains, in
defence of (Jen Smith, or "Hell-Roaring
".lake" as lie is known to his
t loops. I hat lie lias only lieen follow ing
the example hi our own countly of
"the greatest "American generals."
under whom lie was trained. He is
first quoted as saying for himself in a
published interview:
"Of course I understand why the
insurgents hate me. it is because 1
have knocked them out. If that order
(general order loo) had been uniformh
enforced throughout Luzon, there
would not even he the ghost of a rebellion
to-day. Inhuman? I think
not. If it was not too severe for on i
own people at home during the civil
nai. 11 i> iiui 11 hi severe 1UI lliese
Malays."
"That last sentence," says the
i 'onrant. "should set people t hinking
and remembering. h does not refer
to the doings of "the bushwhackers
and jayliaw kers, the "(juant n-lls and
Sherman's hummers." What it dors
refer to is very carefully specified.
What follows is the substance of t lie I
t'ourant *s ow n statement and for tinmost
in its own words.
In 1'eceinbei , 1-Md, Gen lialieck. in
command in Missouri, ordered that all
pretended I'nion nu n caught giving
information to the enemy, burning
bridges, destroying railroad or telegraphs,
etc, "or "tacitly conniving at
such tilings wit it a "guilty know ledge
of them," should he shot, and hereminded
the .Missourians that the laws
of war "make no distinction *of sex."
In 1st;:! CJen Granger wrote from
llien/i." There must lie some definite
and fixed policy on our part to combat
and break up this most infernal guerrilla
system of thieves. It is hound
soon to waste an entire army away
and for no equivalent. We must push
every man, woman and child In-fore us.
or put every man *.o death found in
our lines."
In the same year Gen (1. M. iHxlge
wrote with reference to three counties
in Tennessee "not in Sainar," as
I he t'ourant observes; "1 lielieve our
policy is to burn up these counties.
They pay no attention to the oath,
and feed and and guide the reliefs."
In the same year Gen Sherman, then
at Memphis, ordered an Illinois regiment
to go on lioard a steamer, cross
the river, disembark In-fore daylight
on the Arkansas side, near Kimgrove
postotllce, and t hen "proceed todest roy
all the houses, farms and cornfields
f rom i-ukiiit ?*?? in I lntudh.hl
...... ..f ... ..wiiCTcm,
The distance between the two
places is not mentioned. The provocation
for the order was that guerrillas
had tired on a gunlnvat. In l*?;i tin*
sjime olllcer wrote from Home, Ga., to
one of his sul)ordinatcs, Gen. Wat kins:
"('an you not send over about Kairmount
and Adairsville, hurn ten or
twelve houses of known secessionists
kill a few at random and let them
know that it will l?e repeated every
time a train is tired on from Resaca to
Kingston." before starting to the sea
he wrote to Grant that he was going
to "make desolation everywhere," to
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k slnglo (lay what alow quinine cannot
I striking contrast to the feobio euros
^5 IF IT CURES.
fL.
Col. lieckwith that he was^olng "ruin
G?Hiruia," to Gen. .lames H. Wilson
that he was uoiiitf 1 o leave a trail that
will lie ie? ojpiized lifiy jears hence." * Ji
| "Every! ody knows," the Courant
remarks, "now lie kept his word."
"KveiyUdv kiuws." it adds, "what
Sheri l..n did t:> t :ie Shenandoah
Vallev." A oplj m.r t he less ui of these
interest inr, reminiscences in defence
o'Smith. the p iper tfoes on to sa v:
"He has (ione no more * * * than the
creates A ..1erkv.11 general; have done
in ourotVii ci. int ry. To those preat
generals war was war. It was in the
army wiiieli idolized them than .laeoh
II. Smith toted a musket and won his
irst shoulder strap;. No wonder lie
doesn't s why war should be wa^ed
so in 11?*i 1 more gently, tenderly and
politely on treacherous Malays
t han it was. in hi. youth, 0.1 white
Americans."
T.v NriVtaiul Courier, from which
paper w clip 1 he almve. says "we liav?
11 1! dins' to ad 1 to t lie l/.i iratTt's state:i
-nt and 11. ? I :n ike no comment, on .
its line of ar^tim >at,. perlup;, except i
t hat it app tars to have fully made out
its case.
Island of St. Xiiicenl.
St. Vincent is a Ilritlsh possession. ^
island is ahout 17 miles long and
10 miles hroad. "s j
I'opul U ion. approximately, 47,000, Jh
which there are .'to,000 negroes, 0,000
whites and 12,000, of mixed races. 1
Whole northern part ol the island 1
swept by lake of lava from the crater
of Soutlierc and Morne < laron, tlie latter
lining tlie peak of the volcanic '
ridge that divides the island east and
west.
Lava-tlooded district lies between
ilelairand Georgetown.
Capital of the island is Kingston,
with a population of about 8,000,
ehictiy negroes. This town is 12 miles
distant from the volcanoes now in
eruption.
St. Vincent was once prosperous by
reason of sugar cultivation, hut this
industry lias fallen into decay. - The
chief product now is arrowroot.
i ii<- ?111 m.: iniiiuu is in voicanic creation.
This is the second devastating flood
lava that has swept the island, the
other occurring in 1812.
A Narrow Ksia|?e From Doatli.
Kd Burnett. a young man of Macoii,"^^^^^ ~ ^
Ga.. had a narrow escape from serious
iriju v-and perhaps death Wednesday.
He was leaning out of the second story
window of a store when lie lost his ^
balance and fell" out headforemost.
His body made a half turn in the
descent and lie struck upon his right
shoulder on t lie awning over the doorway
and bounded olT. lie made a
complete sumcrsault and landed on his
feet on the stone sidewalk and did not
sustain the slightest injury. Spectators
who saw Burnett fall thought
he would strike upon his head and
break his neck.
Kii.i.kii j;\ the Tu.yin A white
man by tlie name of Clyde Douglass
\as killed at St. Matthews on last
Thursday night at S o'clock by the
train. Toe correspondent of The
S;:o > > 1; -v the unfortunate man was
in St. Matthews Thursday drinking
pretty heavily and had declared to the
porter at tlie depot his intention to
ride the blind baggage to Columbia.
.\o one saw the incident, but it is
I supposed ho was eudavuring to carry
out L A expressed purpose while drunk
and was killed. Nothing delinite of
the man is known and lie is set down
as a tramp mechanic. The train crew
ignorant of the tact that a man had
lieon killed until wired to up the road. .
No blame attaches to the railroad of
; its olllcials. ,
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