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The Batesburg Advocate. < VOL 111 BATESBUKG, S. C., W El >NESDAY, J UN E10,1908. NO 19 A YAWNING CHASM. ____ Into Which an Excursion Train Loaded With Negro Plunge I. OCCURRED NEAR WEDGE FIELD. Five lV<t|?lc Killed ami >1 any (Xli- h ers Wonmled. i:nv.i ts to Warn i lie I'lnxinopr ol" Danger Failed. ' An excursion train from Nichols to : Columbia on the Atlantic Coast Line j llailroad was wrecked between Wedge- . tield and Cane Savannah. about eight < miles from Sumter. Wednesday morn- 1 ing. rue train was taking a large trowel of colored people to Columbia. When eight miles from Sumter, going , at full speed, it plunged into a deep J washout. ThcT engine, the baggage 1 car and three coaches were thrown in " a heap, and the crew and passengers 1 crushed in the wreck. The water which had been lying 1 placidly beside the embankment had j become a torrent unlashed, and the j pent up force tore a gaping hole in the path of the train. Into this tissnre the train plunged and the Atlantic Coast Line service has lost one j of its best passenger conductors: four excursionists are reported dead, and j others arc sulTering from severe in juries. There were .'52 of the pas-' senger list of less than a hundred, who sutlered injuries of more or less importance. The illfated train was an excursion from Nichols, Marion county, and was running just ahead of the regular morning train from .Sumter to Columbia. The excursionists were negro preachers and their friends going to the commencement of one of the colored colleges in Columbia. OKA 1) AND WOI NUKI). J. .1. Clements of Florence, conductor, killed instantly by blow on head. Frank Iloss and Minnie Ross. his wife, colored. Joe Davis, colored. M:?i ion i Ned Weston, colored, Marion. Died s on relief train while being taken to s Sumter. (' In addition thirty-five passengers a were iiurt. The engineer, (ieorge c" Wilson, was also badly hurt. All the killed and wounded were colored except Conductor Clements and Kngineer Wilson. t The worst cloudburst which has : n section of Sumter M rti^^*^"""coutvt>M!wrqnar^er^MTcnuIT^P,?\?ept^* over Wedgelield community Tuesday ( night and f<<r hours the water fell in ( sheets. The very clouds seemed to liave been drawn from under a sus- j | pended lake. Hut the section fore-! | men and track inspectors of the (.'oast j Line went over the line and could lind ( nothing which forebode tin; terrible! disaster which blotted a train out of existence. The morning passenger train had passed over the same stretch t of track on its way from Columbia to ! Sumter, and a freight train had also j1 passed along this very place and had ( noted no weakening in the embank mcnt. T1UKD TO STOP TIIE TKA1N. ! v The ominous booming of the break- j1 ing of the bank was heard by a negro ' farm hand, Alexander Itobinson, who s lives near by, and terror stricken he : rushed from his cabin to warn the ap- j1 proachlng train?for lie know that'1 the morning passenger to Columbia 1 was due in less than half an hour. Desperate with anxiety to convey the startling news, lie ran down the t rack toward Cane Savannah, a station two ^ miles east-of the place where t he w a- ( ters made t lie breach, and six iniles 1 out of Sumter. Had he not readied s the station iiis signal of warning and of distress might have been heeded. ' or had the regular passenger train 1 been running ahead of the excursion it 1 would have stopped. Hut if Engineer ' George Wilson saw the improvised 1 Hag which Alexander liobinson Haunt- 1 ed in the face of the invisible inllu- j( ence which was luring the locomotive ' to its doom, no notice was taken, for ' excursion trains are not expected ?o!j stop at such stations sis Cane Savan- ' nah unless they have had orders, and the regular passenger train was run- s ning but ten minutes behind. 1- ran 1 tically the negro waved in the face ol s the engine a long strip of led paper ' which he had taken from his hat. and 1 eagerly he pointed down I lie track to 1 the hole of horror beyond. Hut his ' well meant oll'orts were misuuder-; stocsl and the train dashed by at the 1 rate of :tf> to -lo miles an hour. There was nothing for this humble messenger to do but to wait for the inevitable, and his heart sank with fear as 1 he saw the train dashing on to its fie- ' struction. I DKATl! STAltKI) 1IIM IN TIIH KA1 IS. , The train was within 50 feet of the l abyss when the engineer saw fate < beckoning to him out of the terrible \ chasm. With great presence of mind he applied the emergency brakes and 1 threw the reverse lever back to its i furthest notch. Had he not done so t the weight and impetus of the engine t would have carried it across, the coaches would have been piled in even greater confusion than t hey were and the loss of life would have been far s greater. Hut with its feet tied by the ?' brakes, the locomotive settled serene- < ly into the chasm, its nose buried far s into the sand of the side toward which a it had been approaching. The great s driving wheels sank to their top rims s in the l?ed of sand the tires were im- 1 mediately extinguished. The escap ing steam crooned a sad requiem s through the whistle, which had been the chronicler of the life and activity of the engine now useless but not a ruin, for it can be rehabilitated. And what of the men who rode in Hie cub? The bottom of the crevasse was the width of the engine, without tl>e tender, and the latter was standing almost perpendicularly, its front end having entirely demolished the cal) and its rear end being held upright by a tangled confusion of trucks and running gear, upon which three coaches had been mounted. From this vortex of death-dealing iron it would seuiu that the engine men would have been killed instantly, but the fate which lured them also saved, for with the impact of the. application of the emergency brake, tiie tire man was diot out of the cabe window as out of i catapult. The engineer iunined to keep from ltcing caught in his cab, iud ran upon the tender. When the 'limine settled and the tender careened ipon its end. Ktigineer Wilson was ilso thrown to the front and to the .ide landed in a bed of sand, but so icar to the engine that tie was scald d frightfully, lie received several . I'd;:! abrasions and was hurt interailly. The lire man escaped with ilight bruises and ran all the way 'ront the sccnee of disaster to Wedge- j ield to yet help for those who were tija red. TilK CON Dl'CTOKS 1H5ATII. The train consisted of a refresh- j nent car and live coaches, it was in i he former t hat Conductor Clements net death. He had been sitting in be middle passenger coach talking to j he only white passenger aboard, Mr. j \V. K. Kellain of North Carolina, ! l traveling salesman. While they! vere talking two negro preachers, ! >enby from Marion and Moseley from ' x'ichols, came up and asked the con- > luctor to assist them in some matter, riiey ha'd just had time to walk hrough the two coaches in front and o get to tlic refreshment car when aine the awful crash. As soon as! ilr. Kcliam could extricate himself rom l he tangle of passengers thrown ipon him, lie made his way out of the ar. which was only partially derailed, j ml went in search of the conductor, j ihoni he found lying at the bottom ; t the ravine of the Hour of what had i eon the refnshment car. now roof- j \ss and shapeless and with its run-1 ling gear .">o feet away. Mr. Kcliam, i ocing a terrible gash across the left | ide of the face of the insensible con- j uruur, IL*H/ 01 air. Clements' pulse; :id immediately reaiized that the aronuuodating and popular conductor! ad taken liis last train order. WOKK OF KKSI LK. (villain. making his way hack to j hose coaches which had not lieen de- j lolished secured the axes and saws I got I lie uninjured to work remov^ ami rrrr^r1',sul;y ^l lagman had gciui^N^^ ,'X warn the egular passenger t ofWJLvji'h was approaching hard upon the heels ol the 11-starred excursion. The porter was nu t and helpless, his collar hone havng heen broken. and there was no one >1 the train crew left to look after hose who were hurl. The most miraculous part of such I road ful t ragedies as this is the fact that when it seems that no one could scape alive there are really so few casualties, in this particular wreck here were many people who received njuries. serious and slight, but there vcre hut live fatalities. The cars in vhieh the injured and the dead had >een riding were literally torn into cindling wood, the destruction being 10 complete that even upon close exinclination it would he almost impussiile to tell whether, two or three roaches had their parts so mixed in he mad confusion. I.ike a Itii-il. A dispatch from ?>ainos\ille, Ga., ,ays Forman W. K. I lannister of the lainesville Cotton Mills who was aught in the cyclone and was last een about three hundred yards in the lir more than a mile from the mill las heen found, bannister was on the iftli iloor of t he Gainesville Mill when he cyclone struck the mill through he roof, lie was seen and recognized IV mnnv as tie was I'll I-Pin/I t li .n.rl. .lie air at a great height.. lie passed liroetly o~ver the Southern Hallway lepot and many identified the liody. It.- appeared to be a hundred yards helind the funnel shaped cloud, riding n the suction of the wind fiend. \bout a mile from the mills he was ecu hy many of the employes of the 'aeolet mill. They all say they in* tantly rec?ignized him. lie was then n ar attitude much as though swimning. his arms and legs extended and lis face was downward. Mo was raveling at a high rate of speed much is a bird ilies. Mrs. bannister is reported in an almost insane condition. I'ruved 11 Failure. The Ferris wheel, the massive struc- | ore, which was one of the main attractions to visitors on the midway luring the world'f fair at Chicago in Sin, and wiiicli was subsequently renovc.l to Lincoln park has been sold iy public autiou in Judge Cliyatrus' ourt. A junk dealer bid in the big vlieel and the sum paid for the endues. buildings, boilers, ect.. was 'I,*oo. The wheel cost originally j i:i(i2,00(i. (>ut standing against iL are tonrls amounting to $.'100,000 and a loatintf di'ht of $100,000. A Sen IlisiiNtor. A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile, ays the Pacific Steam Navigation ompany's steamer Arcquipa, which! luring a lull in Wednesday's ureat toriu at Valparaiso left the port in ,n endeavor to ride out tin- pale ;it., ea. The apent **altied tliat t he. learner, which had so persons on j card, was lost. Capt Todd, his wife, j ifty of the crew and many of the pa.s- ; enters of tiie Arequipa were drowned. | _ i THE GREAT FLOODS. The Situation in the Overflowed Sections Improving. GREAT MENTAL SUFFERING. Many Kohcuch e'ffecteil, but KortyKllgtit tiro *>' nowii to bo Dciul ut Topoku. (.rout Ijohh of Property. A dispatch from Kansas City says lUue sky was visible above Kansas City Tuesday afternoon. The rains have disappeared and the sun was visible for the lirst time this week. The waters of the Knw river ham fallen eight Inches are steadily dcelin! inn at the rate of about one-half an j inch an hour. In the Missouri the J | high stage of 35 feet is still main- , | tained. hut t his is due to the rise j i which has been com inn down the | Missouri proper and has liecn able to j I offset the fail in the Kaw. It is the , water of the latter stream, however, ] that has caused all the da mane in this city and in Kansas City, Kas.. and ) witli it at a normal stage, business in | j Kansas City soon will resume usual i. conditions. This city, by a narrow j \ margin has escaped a serious short- ! age In food has faced the peril of tire, i | utterly helpless to avert its conse-l quenees, has suffered millions of dollars ' of damage to property and sustained I a loss in life that in all probability ; never will be accurately measured, and ^ now it is commencing to believe' promises of better things. The situation shows improvement on alnio.t every side: the waters are i falling: the gas has been turned into 1' the mains once more and there is no 11 immediate danger of a serious short- I ' age of food. The city has cared for ' its own and is abundantly able to do ' so still, ?mt there is not .sufficient food i on hand to ?>er!r't * lie relief committee v and the municipal officers to feel easy f over the outlook. The transportation ' facilities at the present time are so t limited that not much freight can he v brought in at a time and there is I danger that the demand may outrun the supply. s Two men lost their lives Tuesday in < the attempt to save others. Just t Keenan was drowned while endeavor- a Ing to rescue some people from the r Adams house in Union avenue and Ed- f ward Ilrooks lost his life in Lilicrty street, where his skiff was overturn- c ed t>y an edd> while he was endeavor- s Ing to get another man out of a build- t | floating down the stream, hut are | : believed to l>e those of people drown-11 : ed further up the Ivaw, probably at | : North Topeka. Kullv tifty people were brought to 1 : the Twelfth street viaduct during the ! I day by boatmen. None of them had i been in great danger. Many people | are still in the warehouses and otllce I buildings and will remain there until 1 the Hood subsides. They are entirely safe and fairly comfortable. There ' is very little probability of much greater financial damage than has al; ready been done. There have been some reports of settling of various large buildings in the wholesale dis- 1 , trict but they appear to have settled : in a remarkably even manner and expert examination will be required to prove that they are in a dangerous : condition. MKNTAL ANGUISH. Without water, save for urgent;1 needs, without beds, the upper part i ' | of the town being unable to house in j any comfort the horde of refugees j Tuesday night bids fair to l>e a repeti Hon of others since the coming of the flood. The wretchedness, however, is more i < mental than physiclal, through the 11 discomforts due to herding large ! bodies of people in buildings not built ; ' for the purpose and trying to feed an army without a commissary depart- | i inent. Leavenworth, to the north. < the only way by which the suburb can lie entered with supplies, is the place ( m which an uiiii wiin nope. nations < sulllelent to last several days if care- I fully economized, were brought in ; during the day and additional bedding, 1 j clothing, medicine and other supplies < .ire expected within the next 24 hours. ; 1 Much mental discomfort exists be- I : cause of the separation of members of I families who had little time to escape ' from the flood. Since Sunday fathers, j mothers, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters have visited every part of 1 town, particularly the places of re- ] fuge, looking for missing members of ' t heir families. ' Something like order was brought 1 out of the confusion Tuesday in the 1 the distribution of such food as was at ' hand. With the supply running short 1 it became apparent that the distrihu- ;( tion must be made systematic and a central station for that purpose was opened. i>istuiiu:tino food. : j From there the food is sent in pro- J' per proportions to the various schools, ; churches and other camps of refugees. | i A temporary hospital with medical at- i tendants has been established. Farm- '? ers sold garden truck in the streets i during the day and>00 sides of beef I were carried from Swift's packing house. This is the entire numlier of1 beeves saved at that plant. Merchants of Kansas City, Kas., < have brought up large quantities of 1 i supplies which will be shipped into | the suburbs as fast as possible over | the only line of road open the elec- { trie road from Leavenworth, Kas. 11 Street ears in the suburbs began to ] ( ?? run after a fashion Tuesday with power furnished hy the dynamos at Leaven worth. The lack of gas Is severely felt and oil is scarce. Flays of distress from partly Inundated huildinys in Armourdale could l?e seen from Kansas City, Kas., during the day and many rescues were affected. INissihly 10 bodies have been seen Moating since Sunday, hut estimates made from this arc valueless, as some of the bodies may have Moated down the Kaw from Topeka, the same bodies drifting injhe ever changing eddies of the Mood may have been counted several times. The Mood situation is very much improved Tuesday night. The gas supply is ample: two electric street car lines have resumed service and others will follow Thursday: the electric light plant is ready to begin service but it does not do so because of the ' possibility of lircs from crossed wires: t the waterworks will begin to pumpji Kansas river in the reservoir tumor- i ( row and the next day the watcer will ' he turned into the pip?-s: the food sup- ! ply is ample tin lititli sides of the I river, the vast quantities of meat in \ the packing houses having iteen readied by the packers: the predicted Increase of sickness lias not appeared; ' Hie Kansas river is falling half an 1 inch an hour and the Missouri river is s jxpo'-ted to begin to fall before day- , i*ht. ' Fight persons are positively known 0 have been dnwncd in the two s Kansas cities since last Friday. They 1 t ire: Policeman Edward Keenan, j N Kolile, Philip Ware, a negro t?oy: I j Wm. llelster. truck driver; W'm. [ llerbet, expressman: .lames Deerman: \ ( 1 >liii Kay. negro Edward Brooks. WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS ! r M I'hc t'nspeakahle Turk ami Hik Cruel Deeds in ltmimuniu. t Horrible details are arriving here t if the slaughter of ttie inhabitants of f lie village of Smcrdash, south of Lake ?' 'reslia on May 21, by Ikishi-Bazouks. n t appears that on the arrival of the C laslii-Bazouks, ChakalarolT's hand of ^ nsurgents withdrew to tlie mountains ?' vithout sustaining any loss. As no t ebels were left in the village the in- c mbitants experienced no anxiety, P int.il sunddenly, at sunset, the Turks, e vho had completely surrounded the I ilace, commenced a regular bombard- ? nent, whereupon uli the villagers as- 1( cm bled in the streets. Though the ^ irtillery ceased tiring during part of c hn ni..h< tU- rn..-l.l-u tm- ' 1 - iic ihk"i, un' i uthimj iniuntry nrcu ? ill night long. The artillery bombard- a nent was recommenced at daybreak, P tut as it was inetTective the Turks set e ire to the village on all sides and om me need a general . massacre, a laughter! ng women, children and 1 lie aged. Als?ut three hundib-d houses t re re burned and iw^arbol / wn ^ hundred pei. -i ly wo Ttct^tNMP children, were killed. The women ' and girls were murdered while resist- ' ing outrage. Whole household were * slain. (>ne family of seven were slain ' and their bodies heaped on the hearth. Not a living soul was left in the ; village. The survivors, many of them half-burned or otherwise injured, lied. ' Some of the Heeing villagers were cap lured and had their cars and noses cut ' utT before they were butchered. The 1 report adds that l,f?00 villagers were in the mountains without clothing or food. One tiand of these, consisting ' of forty women and children, were ! caught by soldiers in a ravine and ' were killed after horrible treatment. ! ! ; Freed Mt I,ant. j The Columbia correspondent of The I; News and Courier says the happiest h man in South Carolina today, perhaps, ! i is Cato Gadsden, formerly a colored;; citizen of Hcaufort County, but who ? since 1880 has been a convict in the I | Penitentiary, lie was sentenced for | life for stealing $.("> or $40 worth of L cotton seed, lie stole them at a time | when the law wasdilTercnt from what , it now is, and as the crime came un-;' ler the class of burglary, and the | j house where the cotton seed was' stored adjoined a dwelling, Cato got i the extreme penalty. It turns out that generally he 'had been a <piiet, law-abiding negro, but somehow yield- . ed to temptation. Ills conduct in the Penitentiary has been good. Thurs- ( [lay a delegation came to see the ;.. i.id w...o - ' ' wii..vi?ui ... ni.-i utiia'i. i iirv nave liim ;i .''X'd character as a rule, and ( is lie had served four or live times the ( term he would have served hau the | irime Ijeen eoimnitted later, the | riovernur decided to pardon him. School Children ltencued. The rescuinn party sent from St losepli, Mo., to Topcka composed of 7f? men with steam launches and row mats have returned and their places i A ill l?e taken by other volunteers. The > st. Joseph men rescued 200 school 1 hildren from the Grant school, ira- i prisoned there since last Friday. The ! illilrlred were in a half starved condi- ; lion. The rescuers shot and killed a--? icnro caunht in the act of lootinn < Icscrted houses. i lacked liim l'|?." I John I tennis, a nc^ro was lynched t it Greenville, Miss., Thurday after- i loon hy a moh of two hundred men. I 1'he nenro had attempted a. criminal | issault upon a well known younn lady 1 Alio was returninn home from the I telephone exchanne, where she work- J :d, on Tuesday ninht week, lie was i mmediately arrested and placed in the j local jail. * A Warning. , IJ. W. Mcltaniel, a yoiin^ white man if Lexington County, will serve the ? lalanee of his natural life in the state ' prison for having taking the lire of a ' 'ellow man. The supreme court de- ' iided that he should not have a new .rial. The court was divided, two and 1 two, and the motion failed. < k. WAR STATISTICS. Further Statement of Forces anc Loses on Each Side IN THEOREAT CIVIL WAR. The Southern Soldier* llad to Auainst Grrnt Odds and Take >lor<? ICisks Tlian the Nort hern. Some days ago the New Orleans Picayune printed statistics showing that in the Civil war the losses of the Confederates in killed were ii. nmrw.r. * f Lion greater than were those of the federals. This statement was questioned on ihe ground that the federal armies were made up in the aggregate of learly five times the number of men possessed by the Confederates, and that. therefore, the largest army ihould naturally have suffered the rreatest loss in battle. It was conended. on the other hand, that the mailer army, in order to stand against he greater, was compelled to tight vith more desperation and daring, and hat. therefore, its men subject to :reater loss. Moreover, any force ighting at large odds would have to indure the lire of a greater numlier of nissels, and this would expose it to greater loss. Cnfortunately, many of theConfedrate war records were lost or detroyed In the evacuation of and rereat from llichmond, and therefore he ('onfederate returns are not compete and no accurate account is avail,ble. Tho war department at Washngton, which has charge of all the Ion federate war records, has recently egun the work of completing, as far s possible, the Confederate records as o numbers and losses of raeu, and a an .las neon made which should be iromptly responded to, asking Coufedratc survivors and State authorities tosscssing muster rolls and other data f the sort, to send them, either as a itan or Kilt, to the war department at Vashington, so that they may be upied and used to supply the lost eeords. So for as the figures are vailable today. The Picayune reeats with additions the figures printd by it last Wednesday. The figures in regard to the union rmy are taken from the ''Statistical tecord" by Capt. Frederick Phisterer, hen of the army, published by Charles Icribner's Sons, New York, 1882, and iers, registers of regulars and Leers, reports of the adjutant general if the army, and from those of the provost marshal general of the army, the 'Medical History of the Rebellion," md ot her sources. As to the union forces iu the field, lie summary of the men furnished by md credited to the various States by Lbe adjutant general's office is given oy States, and it shows, including Indians and negroes, a total of 2,772,108 men and money commutation allowed by the draft law, to represent to,728 men, making an aggregate of men represented to be 2,8.1b,i:t2. < if Indian troops there were 2,5110, ind of negroes there were 180,097, all >f whom are included in the figures of 2,722.408. There were 2,047 regiments of all arms. After citing in detail the figures in the reports of the idjutnnt general, or the provost mar;ha' general, Capt. l'hlstercr gives the following as the most complete and reiable statement: Killed in battle 44,228 Died of wounds 49,205 -filicide. homicide and execution 520 Died of disease .... isc>.2lti Died in southern prisons 24,184 Tolal 304.369 Of the negro troops included in the ibove. l,f?14 were killed in trattle, 1,760 died from wounds, 29,212 died 'rom disease, 837 died in prison, and 77 from other causes. The enlistments of foreigners in the 'cderal army are thus given: Jermans 176,800 Irish 111,200 Ltritish Americans 53,5oo English . , 45,.100 \ 11 others 74.900 Aggregate 494,900 The deticiency in the Confederate returns precludes any accuracy of itatement, has been put at 600.000. It should he remembered that the lorthern States had a white population of 20,000,000, while the south had i white population of 6,000,000, besides 4,000,000 negroes. The southern negroes were slaves and were recruited for the northern army from the districts in the southern States that were overrun by the invaders, to the number of 186,097. As to foreigners, they were kept out of the south >V the blockade of the southern ports by the federal Meets, but they were attracted to the northern army >y the large bounty offered, and they joined in great numbers, if the six million of white people in the south ?ent one-tenth of their number, or >00,000, into the Held, the 20,000,000 >f the northern whites should at the >amc rate have sent 2,000,000 soldiers. These, with the 495,900 foreigners, ind the 186,097 negroes, would make hi aggregate of $2,680,997, or about the strength reported above for the total federal force. The Confederate losses, as compiled from the the muster rolls extant and jn tile in the war department in Wash .'ngton, give the following: Killed in buttle 52,954 Died from wounds 21,570 Died from disease 69,29? Total 133,821 Died in northern prisons 20,430 Aggegatc 100,257 It is plain, however, that the muster rolls of the Confederates are extremely incomplete, because they give t North Carolina 14,552 killed, while they give Alabama only a total of 552, and Virginia 5,328, and Georgia, 5,538, ami Mississippi 5,807, when it is well known that any of Uiese States furnished as many troops as did North Carolina, and did as hard lighting. In . the "Medical History of the Civil War," prepared under the direction , of the then Surgeon General Haines, it was estimated that one man out of every 05 was killed in action, one out I of every 10 was wounded in action, i I and one out of every f><? died of | ! wounds. At this rate tfie losses of the j Confederates should have been S),2.'10 ' instead of 52,5154, and the wounded 1 i should have been 00,000, while, those ; I who died of wounds should have been j something over 10,000, but. on the ' ] contrary, they were many times 1 ' greater. < The late distinguished Confederate N | surgeon general, Joseph Jones, esti- i mated the grand total "f deaths in the t Confederate army from battle, wounds ! and disease at 2(>u,000. t The federal official reports show i that of prisoners and deaths in prison 1 1 the following figures arc the round j numbers. , Federals in southern prisons. .270,000 1 j Confederates in northern pri- t sons 220,000 'J s 10xcess of-federals 50,000 A ; Deaths of Confederate prisoners 2f>,4:t?> * Deaths of federal prisoners.. . .22,570 f Excess of Confederate ' deaths 2,8?5<i W Commenting on these figures, the present efficient and studious Confed- . jerate Surgeon General Tebault says: "J '* According to these figures the per- ^ ccntage of federals deaths in southern prisons was under while the per- r centage of Confederate deaths in ? northern prisons was over 21. These mortuary statistics show how faith- ) fully and devotedly the Confederate medical corps cared for the prisoners of the Confederacy in spite of the scant supply of medicines and instru- . merits and works on medicine and ' surgery, and the most absolute essentials for satisfactory treatment, these V having been made contraband of ' war." . That the Confederates, by reason j of their smaller numbers were forced ' to tight with greater energy and to y iii baUtes^ thus. ' Confederate Federal ' I tat ties. loss. loss. | Chickamauga 15,801 11,135 Gettvsburg 22,544 17,084 \tlanla 7,500 2,522 j Franklin 0,250 1,222 The above were battles In which the Confederates attacked their ad- * versaries in strongly intrenched positions, but in every case the losses of : the southern troops were out of proportion to their numbers but they never received a blow without inllict- ! ing tremendous losses in return. J ? Flowers for Camp Chase. j Gen. John R. Gordon, comander-inchief of the United Confederate Veterans, has issued general orders calling; upon the people to contribute I | llowers for the decoration of the ' graves of Confederate dead at Co'.utn- ; bus, Ohio, June 11. Gen. Gordon : says: "The commanding general 1 j feels sure, although the time is very 1 ! short, that there will be no lack of ' j Mowers at Columbus to decorate the < graves of our dead at Camp Chase. To 1 : honor such dead is to honor the ' living. In this connection the gener- ' al commanding tinds great pleasure in : reminding the Southern people of the 1 hitherto most generous course of Col. ; Kanan, of the Union at my, and of j the broad-minded people of Ohio in 1 decorating the graves of these Confederates independently and in erect- ' I ing the monument which adorns their 1 resting place. Such acts illustrate i( , tho miirit i*t f ml omit v 'in/1 nnittr.1 which is the surest guaranty of the Republic's future progress and perpetuity." A l-'aial Wreck. A special from l'aola, Kan., says two Sante Fe trains, a north-bound and a special south-bound, collided head on, one mile north of Stillwell, | Kan. Nine persons are dead and twenty-eight are said to be Injured. I The Wells-Fargo express messenger is ! still under the wreckage. Five | coaches and both engines are in the | ditch. The dead arc to be taken to joiathe, Kan., and the Injured to Kansas City. Is is reported that the I two trains were to meet at Stillwell, I but one conductor misread his orders. ;' A had White Hoy. (Jeo. < Jverstrect, a 17-year old white |, U>y tif Columhus, Ga., was killed Wed-j nesday at Salem, Ala., near Colum- ; ! bus, by a baililT. Overstreet and a companion named Reeves of Atlanta, j burglarized a store at Salem and a residence at Opelika, Ala., and while resisting arrest Ovcrstreet was killed, , by the officer. Reeves escaped. A Sa?l Cane. The infant child of Col. W. G. Stephenson of the King's Mountian ! | academy, Yorkvillc, died on Monday I from swallowing broken glass. A HOT TIME. - I A Co'ored Picnic from Charleston Broken Up by BAD TEN MILE HILL NIGGERS Who Attacked the City Folks Willi (iiiiiN ami Clubs. Six Carried liuck to the City Wounded The Charleston I'ost says a fierce battle with Kuns, pistol and knives was fought at Ladson, a station on the Southern railway, seventeen miles from Charleston, on Monday, June 1, between Charleston negroes, who had jone to Ladson to take part in a pioaic given hy the Jenkins Orphanage, md several hundred country negroes, shooting irons were used freely and ibout twenty-five negroes were woundid. though not serloujly. A man, voman and child, whose identity are inknown, are said to have l>een killed. .hough the report is discredited. The excursionists returned to the ifty with the wounded Charleston I eg rues. Six were sent to the city H laipital. and others went to their orr-.a. The country negroes who .ere shf?t did not come into lite city. I'll'' negroes sent to the hospital were licked up on the streets by the police. H They were: William Grant, shot in H ide and leg, found on Ameriea street: rVilllam Pryor, George Kenzie, Ilenry Kingston. James Allen and William 'errfn. found on Line street, suffering rom gun shot wounds. flH Monday the annual picnic of the \? enkius Orpanage was given at the grounds of the Jenkins Reformatory ,t Ladson. The Rev. IX J "enkiris, rho is at tiie head of both tin. orphange .and the reformatory carried about ,700 negroes on a special train. - >? Vhen the reformatory grounds were cached, the Charleston negroes were ael by a large number of negroes rom Ten Mile and the country djacent to Ladson. The latter were rmed with guns, rifles, pistols and nives. They told the city negroes hat they had come to have a good ime and that they must not inter ere. The morning hour passed off wlthut trouble, but along about 2 o'clock r? the afternoon the Ten Mile II111 legroes wanted to dance In the reoruiatory building, and the Rev. enkins put a stop to it, declaring bat he would not allow his picnic to e turned into a dance. His action ncensed the country negroes, and the Ten Mile Hill crowd drew a pistol jn the Rev. Jenkins, and the city 4 negroes rushed up to taken his part. There was much w ranging, blows were passed and tire arms were displayed. The trouble was settled for a Lime. The country negroes organied themielves into a regiment, and sent word Lo the town negroes that they wanted satisfaction, and Invited them down Lo the road near a creek. The invitation was accepted. The ring leader i 3f the conntry forces, armed with a long rille, led his command against Lhc picnic crowd. He was overpowcrjd, his gun was taken from him, and he was shot with his own ritle. He was also badly cut, but none of his wounds are thought to be serious. After l?elng shot he retired from the jame. The battle was kept up for several hours, and shot after shot was tired. The Rev. Jenkins gathered his or- . phans together and the female meml>ers of his crowd and remained under :ovcr until about 7 o'clock In the afternoon the hour for the excursion train to pull out of Ladson. Hundreds ;jf negroes made for the station as ?oon as the shooting commenced, where they remained, all the after noon, fearing to venture forth. Some were so badly frightened that 4 they walked live miles to Summervllle, returning to the city this morning. When the excursion train, consisting >f seventeen coaches, was made up to bring tlie picnickers back to the sity, everybody thought that the trouble was over, but, just as the train pulled out from the station, a 1 country negro tired into it, which was the signal for other shots and a . x>nstant tiring was kept up until the train was out of range. When tire was opened on the train uy the angry mob of country negroes, the wildest excitement prevailed in the coaches. Men, women and chllIren crouched under the seats. Some locked themselves up in the toilet rooms, and small negro boys climbed up into the bundle racks lb the top of the cars. Kvery pane was powdered md it is said that the train eamc in Charleston Monday night with not a single head out of a ear window. The shots tired into the coaches broke win- . [low panes and several passengers were *> nniinnrnil * ...... : pj/v I V/M. \'IH nuuitvi I ? ?W? itUUb III the arm, and a small colored boy ' * wounded in the back. None was killed. The Southern railway authorities have taken the matter up, and will make every effort to apprehend the negroes who tired into the train. A reward ol $50 will be paid for the arrest of the parties that did the shooting. The Itev. Jenkins says tnat the wildest kind of excitement prevailed. and the country negroes thirsted for blood. They swarmed about the train like Indians, all the time keeping up loud shouts. As tiic train passed Ten Mile Hill, some one tired a shot into.a passenger coach.