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FULLER DETAILS
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Of the Great Flood that Destroyed
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DESCRIPTION BY EYE WITNESS, w
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Wall of Water Hushed Down .Moun- h
tain Hide. Wa?on ljoa?ls of | a
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Corpses Are Caateil to
tlie Cemetery.
Later news from lleppner, Oregon,
show that the lirst reports of the (lis- rl
aster were not exaggerated. I no |>
casualty list will foot up f>00 aud many i>
of the bodies will never be recovered. ''
The property loss and destruction of
buildings alone will aggregate prob- V\
ably a million dollars. This is re- w
g.irded as a conservative estimate.
One hundred and fifty of the best resi- 11
deuces were swept from the earth. J *
The debris is piled along the railroad
track to the height of freight cars. ''
The relief work is progressing at a ',l'
satisfactory pace. James Kernan, the
Oregon Railway and Navigation company
agent, met his death at the telegraph
key trying to call Portland to
inform the outside world of the im- 1
pending calamity. '
One of the most thrilling adventures
was that of Tom Shuter, who with s"
his family, was carried down stream vv
in his house for a mile and a half. His V'
wife and two children climbed into
the upper rooms. Relow town it .
crossed the creek to the west side,
where it lodged in debris 1.10 yards
rrom the canyon bank. Shuter then
took his two little ones and swam a
hundred yards, lie landed the chil- u
dren and then rescued his wife.
HOKKIBLK CONDITIONS. ()(
The names of ISO persons whose j
ttodieshave been discovered or who arc ti
missing aud believed to be dead as a w
result of tlie llcppner flood, have t!
been obtained. In addition to the tl
bodies of seven Chinese, three Japanese In
aud 21 strangers and babies, names w
unknown, go to swell the list. Klias ai
Connor, a stock raiser of lone, re- 1
turned from Heppner at 2 o'clock M
Wednesday morning, lie left the [ d<
scene of the disaster at (i o'clock that ; tl
night. IV
"It Is known," said Mr. Connor, ; it
"that at least 275 or 1100 people were tl
drowned, 115 corpses Have been hasti- | M
ly ht.ried in vooden boxes and some .1
were merely wrapped in blankets, al
'1 here were still several wagon loads p<
of dead on their way to the cemetery tl
when IJfift. Heppner itself has now jr,
been pretty well searched, except In i)
piles of debris, where it is thought <|;
great numbers of bodies will be found, h
"lletweeu lone and lieppner," said s;
Mr. Conror, "there are great piles of d
debris, but the Hood passed so quickly w
that the roads have not beeu seriously
damaged. it looks strange to see le
tlie heavy steel rails bent and twisted h
like cork screws and heavy timbers I tl
splintered like matchwood. In ilepp- ! d
ner itself the tlood swept a clean pat h 1 o
a mile long and two blocks wide; w
through tiie town, going generally the ; h
course of Willow creek." i ej
A Sl'ItVIVOIt's sixntY. I tl
Three men who survived t lie Hood i
at lieppner?It. 1). lkill, .1. .1. Kclley a
and A. 1'. Hradbury?have arrived at 1
Portland Oregon, after having wit- s
nessed the destruction of the town v
and assisted in the work of rescue.
Mr. Kclley said: "The rain was not
falling in lieppner, hut could he seen :
some distance away. Sharp ilasht s of k
lightning were accompanied by the j n
howling thunder. Then suddenly the b
tliundcr died away, and a low noise J "
was Heard, very faint at lirsl but grow- d
louder. The city is situated on Wil- r<
low creek, which makes a sharp turn <"'
above the city. As tlie noise grew i?
louder and louder, the people became tl
frantic. Then in a moment the van h
of the Hood burst into v'ew around ; o
the curve of the creek, carrying on u
its crest the cabins and houses which tl
stood in its path. The people made
a rush to the hills, but were too late, i
The Hood was upon them. The little
river in five minutes was transformed l>
into a roariuk torrent 100 feet wide I
and 20 feet deep. Houses were lifted a
from their foundations and carried on li
the swirling waters. People were car- h
ried away in their homes and forced (
to crawl out on the roof. Then as o
the houses moved down the stream j I
they caught on to the trees and hung ii
there until morning, when they were v
rescued." j I
UK SAW IT ALL. '
David McAtee, a business man of
Heppncr, was an eye witness of tindisaster.
In company with Frank
Spaulding he left lleppner about 10. do .
o'clock Sunday night on horseback.: j
"On Sunday afternoon," said Mr. Mo
Atee, ' there had been a severe rain- ^
storm, accompanied with much wind ^
and lightning. 1 was standing in front
of the house and noticed that a cloud (
of remarkable density approached the
top of the I)i 11 op the east side of the
canyon. I turned for a moment, when ^
a roar caused me to look again at the
hill. 1 saw a wall of water, the height [
of which 1 woidd be afraid to gauge,
rushing down the mountain, currying
immense trees and timbers on its crest
and tearing away the very rocks from
their foundations. The terrific storm s
struck the upper part of the town tirst. ^
The residence of Thomas Howard was '
tlie tirst to fall and his entire family '<
was drowned. In the Krug home also I
every person was drowned, as was the s
case in the Hale and Saling residences. I1
All of these houses were aliout four or
live blocks above the business centre. ?'
The house of Abram Hamsick was 11
ft ...
itlrcly demolished. The 1'a luce hotel
as the tlrst building to stem the tide
id all the guests were saved, hut the
uuxes below that structure were
lowu out into the street, overturned
ml wrecked. The residence of (1. A.
Ilea was carried away and the entire
imily, consisting of wife and three
iughters, and Miss Adkins, a cousin,
ere lost.
"C. E. lied 11 eld, whose residence was
impletely destroyed, was absent hut
is wife and baby were drowned.
"A. (J. Geiger's house was carried
way and Mr. Geiger was drowned. His
imily is in the east.
"George Conser's house was reached
ext hut t he family succeeded in saving
leir lives by rushing to the upper stoes.
the house heing carried down the
reek three-quarters of mile, l'esners
found that the house had heeu
I.. ? 1 %t- '
ut iii i v?n .inn mi . ijiuiM'i' was siauulg
in water up to his neck, holding
is wife upon the roof and keeping
er from slipping from I.isoutstretch1
arms. I >r. MeSwat and .1. Ayers,
ho were living in the same residence
ore drowned.
"Oscar Miner's house was next deinhshedand
Mrs. Miner drowned. The
st of the family succeeded in saving
leir lives by cingiug to the roof. All
r the Wells family hut two were lost
ud the house, was carried away. With
le Wells residence went the house of
e >rge Swaggort. Mr. Swaggert's
.vo marri *d daughters were drowned
ith their live children. The Mallory
uuse was carried 1T?0 yards and was
>und lodged against a store and Mr.
lalloty, a crippled old man. was found
ife, holding a baby, .lames Matlock's
as next. Mrs. Matlock was drown1
but his family was saved. Dr.
igg's house also went.
"The house of Mr. Itoyd and Mr.
r'alton were also destroyed and loth
unilies lost.
"Mr. Harton succeeded in saving all
arsons in his residence, although they
ere badly bruised. The house itself
as washed away.
"Perhaps the greatest loss of life
curred at the lleppner hotel.
"This house, which was run under
te management of.I ones .v Ashbaugh,
as carried away. It is supposed
uit there were about ">o guests in
lis hotel, all of whom are reported to
lost. The proprietors themselves
ere saved, but their families are
inong the dead.
"The house of benjamin Patterson,
r. Dunn and Mr Noble were entirely
molished and all persons in these
tree families drowned, as were the
unities of .lames Jones and llenry
MK. i in- itarn 01 nr. MWinnuru and
n? big livery stable of White \
[endows were entirely destroyed. 10
Firnswortll and Phillip Colin were
Isu drowned. The entire residence
irtioii of Heppucr was dest royed hut
le business houses, being on higher
round and being generally built of
rick and stone, were not so badly
imaged. The school house and court
ouse, which stand on a sc'eliill. were
ived, but two churches, the .Methoist
and Presbyterian were completely
recked.
"Around the depot the rising water
ift great heaps of driftwood piled
igl.er than the roof of the station and
lie rescuing parties were forced to
emolish these pyramids of timber in
rder to extricate the corpses which
ere tangled in the brush. I 'ndoubtedr
many of th drowned tsulies were
irried by the running waters down
lie valley.
''things <>f men are at work clearing
way the piles of debris, rocks and
imbers which lie piled in heaps in the
tracts and taking out the corpses
idiieh are thus concealed."
No Vulgar Murder.
In speaking of the murder of the
ing and queen of Servia the C'hattaooga
Times says at any rate, it is
iteresting to note that the alTair was
ot an ordinary, vulgar murer,
committed by an anarchist, but a
gular gentlemanly assassination,
inducted after the most eminent
iccedents and the best accepted tradi"
1 0-.P I.'..- -
ivfiaa \ji tut' 1'iUIuptMII CUUTLS, IlinilSUus
free American citizens evidence
f the ample justitication fur the motentous
anxiety of crowned heads for
In ir own personal safety.
(>ol 1 ( iii (lie Nee k .
Krousbevan. tie- notorious Jew
aiter and I lie editor of the anti-Seiniic
or^an in KischinelT. The Pcssarbelz,
the articles in which are heeved
to have been largely responsileforthj
massacre of the Jews in
lischiuetT. was at tacked by a party
f Jews in the st reet of Petersburg,
iussia. Wednesday. I le ?was stabbed
a the neck by one of the jews. The
round is not believed to lie fatal,
lis assailant was captured and provd
to be a former student of the polyechnic
school at KielT.
Itoviewed (lie CadctM.
A special dispatch to The State
rom Lexington, Va.. says (iovernor
. ? . in-ywiim in rvjinn < araiina,
ipon the special invitation of <Jen.
colt, Ship, superintendent or the
r'ir^inia Military institute, reviewed
he battalion of cadets Wednesday afernoon.
A salute ol 17 ^uns. the
ovcrnor's salute, was tired in honor
>t the distinguished Carolinian. (lov.
leyward expressed himself as much
leased with the military hearing of
lie yniiii^ soldiers.
A SIchiiici' Sank
1'art of the crew of the liel^ian
teamer Kuhens, which sailed from
lunderland on June to for I'illau,
'russia, were brought here today.
I'he men reported that their vessel
lad c;ipsi/.ed and sank. Six of the
ailors the captain and mate were
o.xt. Seven of the crew drifted about
or 11 hours, before they were pickd
up three of them died from exposire.
COMING TO LIGHT.
Significant Facts About the Mail
Scandals Being Unearthed.
I
1 BRISTOWS REPLY TO CHARGES.
! Many Irrciculiirith** Are Shown by
tin* Olllnfiiil Piiiwrn Itninir l-'v .
n mined l>v ilic Government
Officials.
Postmaster General Payne Wednos|
nosday made public tl>e reply of
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Itrlstow to the charges of Seymour
W. Tulloch, former cashier of
the Washington city poslotliee, regarding
the irregularities in the postal
I administration, and also reports of
of inspection and investigation of the
Washington pi.stotlice by inspectors
between June .'to, lsii'.i, and July .'M,
I'.iOO, together with the transcript of
j the Tulloch charges some years ago
j and the conclusion thereon then readied
by Postmaster General Charles
I Kmorv Smith. These papers constitute
by far the most significant
documents yet made public as a result
of the sweeping postal investigation.
The. reports show the existence ot
many irregularities during the period
involved. Tire inspector who investigated
the irregularities reports that
the tiles of the poslotliee cashier show
direct orders from sueprior authority
for the disbursement of all the quesI
tionable items cited. The inspector
urged "that the responsibility for the
j many illegal appointments, the payment
of tv/o salaries to otic and the
same person and the disbursement <>f
thousands of dollars for which practically
no service was performed, should
be placed where it properly belongs
and the many abuses corrected."
In a summary of the several reports
the post master general says:
" The charge of Mr. Tulloch is in its
! essence against president McKinley
and Postmaster General Smith. President
McKinley is tin longer living:
Postmaster General Smith, who earned
out President McKinley's policy,
lias answered lor himself. Willi regard
to the present management of
! the Washington postolllee and tlie
[conduct of any and all men charged
! with wrung doing who have hern in
I the postal service under t lie present
administration, a thorough and
searching investlg.iiVn is now t> iug
made."
The postmaster general also says:
"It will lies* en that the whole subject
was piken up by Postmaster
Guoral Smith and investigated by
him. All expenditures referred to
were allowed by t he auditor and comptroller.
with the exception of <a?."
I The documents made public Wednesday
show that on May 1 last, Mr.
(Payne wrote a letter to Mr. ltristow
calling attention to the published interview
with Mr. Tulloch, and asked
i Mr. Itristow "what truth if any there
Is in the statements."
; Mr. Pri'stow's reply dated three days
| later transmits reports of throe inspectors
relating to the Washington
I postotlice.
Mr. lhistow says that after the inspectors
had reported irregularities he
directed that reports he made in the
i regular way.
"During the progress of the inspection
I was advised by the chief inspector
that George W. Heavers, chief
i of the salary and allowance division.
; had suggested lo one of the inspectors
i that when lie came to certain appointments
in some of tiie stations
I that appeared irregular lie had better
make no reference to them as they
: had been ordered personally by the
nostmaster irenor:il. I Inlrl thoohlof
inspector to instruct tlie inspectors to
report the facts as they would in any
(other inspection; that 1 did not be;
lieve the postmaster general had
knowingly authorized any irrej/ulari|
ties.
"Capt. \Y. 1'.. Smith, inspector in
charge, submitted a special report.
! This report disclosed what seemed to
me ^larin^ irregularities, and 1 sub.
mitted it personally to the postmaster
general, sUK'tfesthitf to him at. the
| time that it contained matters to
| which I thought he would want to
jjjive bis pesonal attention.
"The third report sets forth a number
or irregularities that prevailed at
that time in the Washington post|
office. I was informed by the chief
j inspector that complaint was made
! to the postmaster general that inspecI
tor Little, who was engaged on the
! work, was asking unnecessary pies*
j tions and seeking to obtain inforinai
tion which was not called for on inI
spection. I advised him toinstruck inspector
Little to make the same kind o!
an investigation of the Washington
I posioinre inai no would make or any
other otllce under similar circumstanI
fcs. and to suhiuit in a special report
anyt hing which lie I bought should Im
'called to the personal attention of the
' postmaster general. This he did."
In thetirstor the inspector's report;
submitted l?y Mr. I.ristow it appears
j t hat Wohert V. Willett, a son of t la
then postmaster, drew two salaries
l from .lulv I to Dec. lo. IS'.is,
one as a luUirer at the city postofllec
at fnoo a year, and the other as a
mechanic at per day for each work
iiitf day on what appears to have beet
a special roll of the free delivery ser;
vice, and that N. II. I'.aker likewist
was designated as a laborer on tin
! postoiliee roll April 21), I Mm, at *7ot
' , per annum and on the same date as ;i
'.mechanic on the free delivery rol
J at $2 a day. The inspectors continu
! mtf say that on June .'to, I Mini, 2- cm
| ployes were liorneon the rolls and paii
Ion what has been known as the "mill
tary roll," while the "railitar^^^^H
shows 31 names as having bee^^^^H
by the cashier of the Wust^^^^H
otllce.
There was also found a '^B|^B
roll of employes, paid for mis^ena^^
eons allowances, said appointments I
being under the control of the post-1
olhce department." This roll con-1
s ts of nine "cleaners" with salaries!
from $400 to $000 and one "physi-l
cian" at a salary of $1,700. Some of*
these cleaners appear to have per?
formed very little service and othenff
none at all.
The most important exhibit is the
report of Postotllcc Inspector in charge
Smith of Washington division, made
in July. IHlio, setting forth irregularities
which he urged should lie investi-'
gated, lie names four employes on
I the military roll who appear not to
| have performed any service in connection
with military postal matteis
I ami for whose original appointment
or continuance 011 tin? rolls no good
reason exists. The payment to \V
j S. Larner, a military postal clerk, unf
\ iler protest, hy the cashier of $118.08,
subsequently disallowed hy the an
1 ditor of the treasury on .Ian. t. 1800
is gone into at length and it is shown
that this matter was entirely Irrcg
: ular and thai payments were dlrectei
i without proper vouchers.
Attention is called to certain item
of expenditures authorised for tlu
! military postal service of supplies
! furniture, traveling expenses, aggrc
{ gating 28,7."?o.70, with the statement
- that the prices paid for some of th?
articles enumerated, such as wasl
stands at $10 each appear to liavt
been highly excessive.
Attention also is called to add!
tional irregularities in connection wit!
payrolls of clerks and laborers, and t
charging premiums 011 the bonds ot
military postal clerks, notwilhstandl)
ing such expenses are riot chargcablclf
to the 1'nitcd States. ||
An interesting feature concerns iijl
regularities in the appointment, contt
pensation and promotion of Oliver llR,
Smith. On Nov. 20, 1807, the tirsBi
assistant postmaster general author*
ized an allowance of $000 per unmrlj
tor his appointment as laborer, stall'
| ing that iho free delivery division!
would allow $2 per day to cover call
fare and incidental expenses. Smi^Jh
! drew pay from Nov. 28, 1807, to
lsos, making his compensator J
lor one year approximately $l,818*ioi
'1'iie. inspector reports "110 one^Tiin,;
I cortllicd to the actual time Ii;i|
was employed nor has any slatf>mitl
been attached to his nav viJinoin
i showing what particular ser^JClicrj
rendered, lie was continued tee h<
dual capacity of clerk and n:?Ai LI.? '
until April l. lsuti, wiicu he v/Mtmiu'1
motcd to ho ti nance clerk at^ pro- |
per annum.' 'J'hc inspector s*l,70ol
knew of no authority of law^B^ he
Ills
A Mention js_ne\t called
spector to certain voucher^^^Knor^
i/.ed to l?e paid hy the lirsl^^BsLant
postmaster general, such as expenses
of i'erry S. Heath and George \V.
Heavers, traveling on ottlcial business,
j i'lte inspector states that these vouch
ers do not appear to have been itemiz
ed in the proper manner, nor. is the
necessity for the expenditure 'of this
I money hy the Washington postotlice
appearent.
Attention is called to seven cleaners i
placed on the pay roll of the Wash-!
ington otllce under authority of the ;
tirst assistant postmaster general, to 1
be charged to the appropriation for
miscellaneous expenses. The names j
of these cleaners all females are;
given.
The inspector states that neither;
the postmaster nor any one connected '
i with the Washington otllce was able |
: to give any information as to where I
they were employed or the nature 01 j
I their work, and the inspector is of
opinion that practically no service j
whatever lias been rendered for the I
l money expended.
The inspector says that hy the overlunninir
of ;l lease eveeiited In 1SUT
the government lost $(>2f>, and that
the building was paid fur one month
beyond its occupancy.
The inspector reports that when
the cashier of the Washington postOllice
on letters from the comptroller
suspended payments to certain pcrj
sons mentioned he was required to
continue these payments upon direct!
written order from the postmaster. !
who states lie was verbally instructed
in his action by the tirst assistant,
, post master general.
Tlia payments were made under the
I cashier's protest.
The Inspector cites payments to
Catherine Kiidslcy. Charles A. Maclien,
A. It Hurt, II. b. boron/.. John '
S. beach and I . W. Wait, on the authority
of the tirst assistant postmaster
general of per diem in connection
with elaiins of letter carriers for
overtime charges, aggregating $t,
i The inspector says this account, disbursed
from July I, lstts, was disbursed
without authority of law. Maehen,
ivien/, .inn nun it appears were paid
per diem covering the same period by
j the disbursing clerk of the department
. of justice, I'mm the appropriation for
, defending suits in letter carriers'
claims against the I'nited States be;
\ fore the court of claims. These parties
continued to draw pay until the
. comptroller called for a statement
; from them.
The report of Inspector Little on
the invcsti#ation of the Washington
i oilier, dated .Inly :tl, luoo, says that a
number of clerks were added to the
i rolls without request of the postmasi
ter and that t lie postmaster states
t hat at times It has been ditllcult to
ilnd employment for all assigned to
i his rolls. The Inspector says the
i I roster appears to he elastic, to he ad1
ded to as circumstances arise whether
. the postmaster requested it or not.
- i The aggregate salaries paid to those
I, not connected with the ollice amount-!
ed to 3Hi. loo.
| HEARING HIS END
t Politically is What Senator Tillman
Says About the Negro.
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE.
Hicnator Tillman Says ltoosevelt Is
Always on l>ress Parade and
i Always Will l?e While
| He's President.
ft
ill In conversation with a reporter of
Ibhe Augfista Herald recently Senator I
I Tillman said:
"1 have not seen the interviews
with Congressman llardwick on his hill
to r< peal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments aud dont know just
what it is, hut 1 do know that just
sue.h a tiling is incvitahl". The ncjtro
is coming down to his proper status."
It was thus that Senator It. 11. Tillman
spoke recently while waiting in
Augusta to take a train to Louisiana,
where he is to lect ure at a ehataiKpia.
The senator says he w ill he 1
away on this trip of lectures tor about,
ten days, after which he will leiurn to |
his home in South Carolina.
"There is nothing k'oinjr on in na- j
Itional politics just now except the
usual dress parade of Itooscvelt," lie;
said and in reply to the question of ;
how lout; he thought these dress pa-1
rades *ould last:
"()h, t hat's poine to keep up just as I
loinr as Itooscvelt is President."
Speaking of the coining convention
and the outlook for Presidential tim-i
her in the Democratic party Senator
Tillman said that he had never se? n i
the country so barren of material to
work upon as it is at this time. He]
spoke of Parker and Herman hut said 1
he could not tell which, if either,]
would he the man h r the place. lie 1
said'thev would hoth he mentioned in ! 1
the convention and one of t hem may he 1
chosen, hut lie could not say which it '
would likely he. lie did not know (
enough of the standing of either to :
say what their relative strength is.
hut thinks that Parker has i tu> iuiv:n?- i
lane of having no roei.nl behind him 1
except t hat i?f a judge. !:
Continuing along the line of the''
Hardwick hill that is t<> lie presented 1
at the next sslnu of Congress Sena- '
tor Tillman said: " t
"About the only thine that is at- *
traction inuen co.ii.uuiiC m ii.ttion.il,
political circles now is that ??hio plat
form, and it. has not gone far enough
tor us to see whether it is to he a local
or a national measure."
.1 U'lu.illWMHMMM
gro to govern where he is in the ma-1
jority or else to eut down the repre
sentation of the white man, and is of
tlte opinion that it it is made a national
atfair it will undoubtedly lie i
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
"If this is to he a national rather
than a local issue it will mean the riorgani/.ation
of the old ante-bellum
days. 1 mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then a question of this is a white
man's country and lie must rule the J
government, majority or no majority.
1 don't mean that it will he a condiLion
of affairs like those of the days of j
the sixties. Then it was a question ;
of slavery but now it will be a ques- i
tlon simply of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of I
repealing the fourteenth and tiltcenth
amendments is certainly inevitable
and is a question of only a time, lie
thinks that for Hie Ohio platform be
pushed upon the people of the country,
asking lor the guarantee of the
provisions of these amendments
would merely bring the matter to a
crisis sooner.
"We are waiting for them to play
their cards or show their hand, so we
will know what move to make,'* he
said.
Speakiog of conditions in South'
Carolina, the Senator said:
"The thing that is most interesting
over there now is a few days sunshine.
I have nisi comedown from Clemson
and through l lie upper part of (Instate
to Columbia and 1 must say
that I never saw the crops in such a
had condition. The grass has taken
everything. Why. the country is
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all l>ce.. washed away and will
have to he replanted.
"No there is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this is
an olT year. The only thing going on
I that 1 know of is with the Coventor.
You know he is shooting a few tigers
now. Kvery time he sees one lie
, shoots him down."
Senator tillman looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation j
I shows that lie is as much as ever in-:
, wrested in ilie itii<iiis ot tin- Amerl|
can government, In* seems more taken
up just at tliis time witli tlie condition
of farm lands in iiis o wn State,
i fact that, lit' is not himself a man
of a gloomy disposition, rather beintf
inclined to tic an optimist than a pessimist,
when lie makes the statement
; that the crop conditions of the Palmetto
State are worse than lie lias
| ever seen t nem before, it would indi
| cate at once that there is time for
some concern.
Itride Killed
Within half an hour after her second
marriage, having been previously
I divorced, Miss llattie A. Thomas of
New Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a
I dose of laudanum that proved fatal,
! leaving a note to her parents to pray
I for her.
AFTER THE FLOOD.
Ilusy Scene* Alonic l'acoli<|. Itiver.
Il
Wreckin/j CompanieH at Work.
The Spartanburg .lourual says a
busy scone Krcted the visitors Toursday
al(?n?r the banks of the recent T]
turbulent l'ucolet rlvor where the
fury of the waters worked such extensive
destruction. At the Cliftons ti
and al Pacolet scores of lalxjrers are
busy cleaning away debris and recovering
cotton and the mill products from
the mud and wreckage. The liitt
Salvage Company has lift}' to seventylive
men at work, scouring I he river
j banks and the recesses of the stream,
: looking for cotton, many bales nt pf
which are l>eing recovered. <y
The plan of the Clifton Company for
securing what machinery they can ^
from the river is to drain the big i>oiid Qi
extending from the site of the de- ro<
stroyed Mill No. :t to Mill No. 1. The
work will l?e in charge of a salvage
company from New York who will put ",s
a force of men to work at an early date
to drain the pond and search in the Tl:
mud and debris for any machinery ^;i|
that can be found. The same com- pC
pany will also recover as much of the fjr,
property of the electric railway as j
possible. The electric company will | ,,f
lose at least one mile of t rack at Clif- j(ll
ton. The trolley wire and rail - arc, t i i
however, being recovered as rapidly as impossible.
| vie
The machinery on the immediate i
sites of the Clifton Mills will 1m- re- (|H
covered liyJ. II. Carfunkcl of Colutn-I'pp
bia who will begin work on next Mon- S,.N
day morning. Mr. Garfuukcl iias pur- : an,
chased all the scrap iron that may lie wa
found among the wreckage while the
mill company will retain such tnaehin- piu
ery as can be used. The big tly wheel 1 ro
at Mill No. .'I which weighs about j an(
loo,nun pounds has also been purcbas-! y,,
ud by Mr. Carlunkel. The wheel was I we
broken to pieces by the force of the | i
i!o(kI and is absolutely useless to the |p,(
company. j tlu
lly next Monday the hanks of the j _.s.
river will be crowded with busy work- es,.
men who will repair as tar as possible pec
Lhe storm's work of destruction. Later wa,
>n work will in- started by the mill jn ;
ompany repairing Mills Nos. I and
Tile Southern Railway was one of t'|10
the heaviest losers in the county by ! yie
Lhe Hood of June tt. A prominent J .,ia,
railroad mart says that the Southern ; an(]
ilone will lose hall a million dollars, m r
l'lie roads will lose more Mian their j ,)re
et earnings from the entire state ; j.
a?r lhe current year on account or 1 ves
lie Hood damage, trestles washed ma
iway, etc. ?u*.
rent of the mill opeiativcs liave left iet,
Lhe Clifton Mills and Racolet having por
secured other jobs. At one time last ,.Vt.
week there were no less than ^seventives.
It is said that some of the jju
operatives have evinced a marked de- (},M
ttree of unwillingness to leave tlieir j t3],,
homes for other mills, thinking that Spj
if they remained they would he the ro,
recipients of aid from the relief com- I'jj
mittee. tat
The time of the year at which the sly
Hood occurred has proven a very for- ai)(
tunate circumstance for had it oc- ,nj
curred in winter or early spring much )10
additional su tiering would have been
entailed. The cars of the electric afj
comany continue to carry many visi- j tRj
tors to Clifton, hut it will probably be wr
only a few weeks before the sijjns of jj1(
wreckage arc completely obliterated pjf
and the big storm will have been a afj
thin^ of the past. wa
We Are Not Carpers. pa
A neuro lvnchinir in the ciLv of In
dianapolis has quickly followed the W1
allair at. Mcllevillc. 111. .lust what ba
decree of guilt attaches to a negro's na:
act in apparently forcing liis remarks it""1
upon a white girl in thcstrect is not w?'
<-asy to decide perhaps. At any rate. cl1
reasonable people would say that the let
girl's testimony as to the character of sl'
the offense should tirst he taken be- W1
fore resorting to summary measures un
against the negro. The Indianapolis gr;
mob, however, on the mere fact that |
the negro was seiyi to address the girl
in public somewhat persistently, al- '
though he soon passed on, pursued rt'"
him at once to his death. One fid- ' ot
low in the mob carried a pistol and he |
Completed the job. No arrests, ae- so'
cording to the reports. The middle ',l
West is now a fair mark for Southern k'1
criticism. Springtield Kepuhlican. ,t'i
? t ri
s?ecil I arms.
The seed plantations around San ;
.lose, (.'al., are said to receive $.'1,000,- j
OOP a year from the sale of seed. The cu
lir.st experiments of the planters in | wi
this Hue were made less than half a I'i
dozen years ago. < hie onion patch ed
now covers .'t.ooo acres, with furrows hi
almost two miles long. A single plot an
of sweet pea occupies sou acres, a bed bl
of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce w<
lied 2,100 acres. These are within a
radius of eighty miles around San
.lose, 11,.">oo acres devoted to raising
plants anil llowcrs for their seed alone, eci
A itail Itecord. | Si
< Mir huiidrrd rulers of countries have ('1,
been assassinated since the year 040, ! Cf'
when Kdward I, of Falkland, was il'
stabbed with a darker Of the num- i
her seventy-three were assassinated ,
during tlie century Just closed: which ( ''
marked it as a singularly unfortun- j
ate hundred years for royalty. Already,
in this new century, there have
been four heads of governments assassinated,
and the century is not four
years old. j c'(
A Moving Matlrr.
Down in Texas the other day a man
named Whele married a Miss harrow, I
and the editor of the local paper had ci
no more sense of the fitness of things si
than u> print his account of the weddin^
under the head of " Whole-Har-1 ol
j row." I ci
-A-1 V? ^ X
SCENES OF CRIMES
1 Belgrade Palace is Red With
Blood of Royal Victims.
HERE WAS NO WAY OF ESCAPE.
}
ie lloval Hod Chamber Where the
Soldiers Slew the KIiik and
Ouecn Described in
Detull.
The corresDondent of the a ?c/-a
, ?- v.. <a>KywiaWU
ess at Belgrade, Servia, was on
ednesduy allowed to inspect the
ice in whieh King Alexander and
icon Iiraga were murdered. The
mi, whieh was furnished in empire
do, remains in the same condition
when the king and queen tied from
on the approach of the assassins.
ie French novels lie on the queen's
?le and the queen's toilet articles, I
rfutnes and cosmetics covered her )
ssing table. "
i'iie costly silk lied coverings are full ^
bullet holes, the conspirators havr
shot wildly in all directions,
r nigh and under the lied, chairs and
iles in their elnirts to find their
:tims. A simple wardrobe room leadr
directly from the tied room was
? scene of the linal act in the drama,
ie apartment is lofty hut scarcely
en feet wide and fifteen feet long
;1 is furnished only with three great
rdroties. 'J'hc olliecrs wlio attended
; corn spondent showed tlie latter
blood-stained Moor at oneend of the
mi wiiere the king and queen fell
1 the broken Venetian shutter at
j window through which their bodies
re thrown to the ground below.
\ secret stairway leads through the
>r to rooms in the southern end of
: palace. My this stairway the haps
couple might have attempted to
ape, but they were unable to do so
:ause the opening of this stairway
s covered by a heavy chest. Kscape
my event would have been imposxi,
as tlie soldiers who had surrounded
palace were so determined to kill
Willi' and ?!? ? 1 1?J
t^v.. uuau iiiicjr uau CVCU
cod cannon in front of the palace v *
I wore prepared to destroy the buildin
thee vent of fairing to tind their
y.
lach of the three roomr between the
tibule and the bed chatnlier showi d
rksofthc tragedy. Mirrors were
holes in the doors and in the oil
traits of tl)e king which were in
ry room and most of the latter were
lerwise mutilated.
'jini r:?rv in t.lu*. kfoneral understund>rs
to replace those which had been
iwn to pieces at the time the conrators
forced their way Into the
ims occupied by the king and queen,
e royal apartments were simply and
chilly furnished chiefly in Oriental
le and presented a liomelike appearce.
The interior of the palace
ghl have been that of a country
use belonging to a prosperous
ncrican. The house of the kind's
jut ant. La/.ar l'erovics, which was
5 tirst attacked, is even a greater
eck than the royal apartments in
e palace. The entrance was com!tely
destroyed l?y dynamite. The
jutant then escaped unhurt, but lie
s killed later in the vestibule of the
lace.
A large blood stain marks the spot
icre the ollleer died. It was in a
re, white washed room of the commdant's
quarters, adjoining the pal?,
that Queen 1 >raga's two brothers
re shot while sitting on wooden
airs, which bear marks of the| buls.
The proceedings in the palace
owed the same absolute callousness
lieli has characterized the actlous
d demeanor of everybody in Belade
since the tragedy.
V illaK^i* Destroyed.
The British consular reports of the
;enl earthquakes in the vilayet of
Van contirm previous advices that
enty-tliree villages were affected and
me completely destroyed. Seven
uulred and eighty-five lives are
iowii to have been lost and it is
ired all were killed in outlying disicts
not yet enumerated.
Fourteen hilled.
A terrilice and fatal explosion ocrred
in the )>ddite factory at W??oleh,
Kngland, Thursday morning,
ve buildings were completey wreck
m pinus m casualties are conmctinK
it tin* latest places the dead at 14
id injured at 13. The killed were
own to atoms and their remains
re gathered up in buckets.
Will Now llaiiKJohn
Itrowntield, colon (1, who killI
deputy Tax Collector .las. C.
urry while in the discharge of his
ity three years ago, and whoappealI
to the Supreme courts of the state
ul the I'nited States, was reseiiteniI
on Tuesday by Judge Cary, tie
ite of his execution being set f^r
riday.
A Sad lleatli.
JohnC. llarveley of (Jreenwood,who
as actio* as telegraph operator at
ainlet, N. C., was run over aud kllli
there by a train on Tuesday. He
as only nineteen years old.
( ave up the StriiKt{le.
J. II. Williams, a farmer of Lanister
county, aged 35, committed
licide on Tuesday night with a shotun.
He was despondent on account
T ill health and inability to work his
rops.