The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, June 24, 1903, Image 2
The Bateshm^jl^Advocate. '
VOL III III III Mil I?11 ' ' ' III NO 21 1
FULLER RETAILS
Of the Great Flood that Destroyed
Heppner, Oregon.
DESCRIPTION BY EYE WITNESS.
Wall of Water Ituxhed Down .Mountain
Side. Wagon Ijoads of
Corpses Are fasted t<?
tlie Cemetery.
Later news from Heppner, Oregon,
show that the lirst reports of the disaster
were not exaggerated. The
casualty list will foot up *>oo aud many
of the bodies will never be recovered.
The property loss and destruction of
buildings alone will aggregate probably
a million dollars. This is regarded
as a conservative estimate.
One hundred and tiftyof the best residences
were swept from the earth.
The debris is piled along the railroad
track to the height of freight ears.
The relief work is progressing at a
satisfactory pace. James Kcrnan, the
< >regon Railway and Navigation company
agent, met his death at tlie telegraph
key trying to call Portland to
inform the outside world of the impending
calamity.
Oneof the most thrilling adventures
was that of Tom Shuter, who with
his family, was carried down stream
in his house for a mile and a half. His
wife and two children climbed into
the upper rooms. Relow town it
crossed the creek to the west side,
where it lodged in debris 150 yards
from the canyon bunk. Shuter then
took his two little ones and swam a
hundred yards, lie landed the rhildren
and then rescued his wife.
ltOKKIIll.K ( ((MOTIONS.
The names of 18'J persons whose
bodies have been discovered or who are
missing and believed to he dead as a
result of the lleppner flood, have
been obtained. In addition to Liu*
odiesof seven Chinese, three Japanese
and :!! strangers and babies, names
unknown, go to swell the list. I'llias
Connor, a stock raiser of lone, re- j
turned from lleppner at o'clock
Wednesday morn inc. He left tin.
scene of the disaster .it t'? o'clock that
night.
"It Is known," said Mr. Connor,
"that at least 275 or 200 people were
drowned, 115 corpses Have been hastily
buried in wooden boxes and some
were merely wrapped in blankets.
'J here were still several wagon loads
of dead on their way to the cemetery
when l_ieft. Ileppner itseir has now i
been pretty well searched, except in
piles of debris, where it is thought
great numbers of bodies will be found.
"lletweeu lone and ileppner," said
Mr. Conror, "there are great piles of
debris, but the Hood passed so quickly
that the roads have not been seriously
damaged. It looks strange to sec
tlie heavy steel rails bent and twisted
like cork screws and heavy timbers |
splintered like matchwood. In Ilepp- j
ner itself the tlood swept a clean path J
a mile long and two blocks wide j
through the town, going generally the j
course of Willow creek."
a suhvivoh's stouy.
Three men who survived the flood
at Ileppner?K. I). Ball, .1. .1. Kelley
and A. P. Bradbury?have arrived at
Portland Oregon, after having wit-j
nessed the destruction of the town |
and assisted in the work of rescue. I
Mr. Kelley said: "The rain was not
falling in Ileppner, but could he seen
some distance away. Sharp ilasln s of i
lightning were accompanied by the j
howling thunder. Then suddenly the
thunder died away, and a low noise j
was heard, very faint at lirst but growlouder.
The city is situated on Willow
creek, which makes a sharp turn
above the city. As the noise grew
louder and louder, the people became
frantic. Then in a moment the van
of the flood burst into view around
the curve of the creek, carrying on
its crest the cabins and houses which
stood in its path. The people made
a rush to the liilis, but were tot) late.
The flood was upon them. The little
river in live minutes was transformed
into a roaring torrent 100 feet wide
and 20 feet tleen. Ilnn*i>v wer.. lift. . 1
t roin their foundations and carried on
the swirling waters. People were curried
away in tlioir homes and forced
to crawl out on the roof. Then as
the houses moved down tiie stream i
they caught on to the trees and hung
there until morning, when they wenrescued."
IIK SAW IT AM..
l>aviil McAtce. a business man of
lleppner, was an eye witness of the
disaster. In company with Frank
Spaulding he left I ieppner about 10..'in
o'clock Sundry night on horseback.
"On Sunday afternoon," said Mr. McAtee,
' there had been a severe rainstorm,
accompanied with much wind
and lightning. 1 wasstanding in front i
of the house and noticed that a cloud
of remarkable density approached the
top of the hill op the east side of the
canyon. I turned for a moment, when
a roar caused me to look again at tinhill.
I saw a wall of water, tlx; height
of which 1 would be afraid to gauge. ]
rushing down the mountain, carrying
immense trees and timbers on its crest
and tearing away the very rocks from
their foundations. The tcrrilicstorm
struck the upper part of the town lirst.
The residence of Thomas Howard was
the first to fall and his entire family
was drowned. In the Krug home also
every person was drowned, as was tincase
In the Hale and Saling residences.
All of these houses were aUiut four or
live blocks above the business centre.
The house of Abram Hamslck was I
n
entirely demolished. The l'alace hotel
was the lirst building to stem the tide
and all the guests were saved, hut the
houses below that structure were
' blown out into the street, overturned
| and wrecked. The residence of OV A. !
llbea was carried away and the entire \
family, consisting of wife and three I
I daughters, and Miss Adkins, a cousin, j
; were lost.
"(J. K. ltedlicld, whose residence was
completely destroyed, was absent but i
his wife and baby were drowned.
"A. C. Geiger's house was carried j
? l?ll ...wl M H I '-1 * * '
..?..ij aim .'ii. ucim-rwasurownea. ins
family is in tlic cast.
"George Conser's house was reached
! next hut t lie family succeeded in saving
j their lives hy rushing to the upper sto,
ries. the house being carried down the
creek three-quarters of mile. Itescuers
found that the house had been
hut in two and Mr. Conser was standinn
in water up to his neck, holding
his wife upon the roof and keeping
tier from slipping from 1.is outstretched
arms. 1 ?r. McSwat and .1. Ayers.
who were living in the same residence,
were drowned.
"Oscar Miner's house was next demolished
and Mrs. Min -rdrowned. The
rest of the family succeeded in saving
their lives hy cinging to the roof. All
of the Wells family but two were lost
and the house was carried away. With
the Wells residence went the. house of
(Je live Swaggert. Mr. Swaggert's
two marri <d daughters were drowned |
with their live children. The Mallory
house was carried l.">o yards and was j
found lodged against a store and Mr. !
Mallory, a crippled old man. was found ;
safe, holding a hahy. James Matlock's
was next. Mrs. Matlock was drownled
but his family was saved. I>r.
i I line's house also went.
"The house of Mr. ttnyd and Mr. j
Walton were also destroyed and both
i families lost.
"Mr. Itarton succeeded in saving all ;
j persons in his residence, although they j
i were badly bruised. The house itself ;
j was washed away.
"Perhaps the greatest loss of life ;
occurred at the lleppner hotel.
"This house, which was run under i
I the management of Jones A Ashbaugh,
was carried away. It is supposed;
that there were about quests in'
' this hotel, all of whom are reported to
i lie lost. The proprietors themselvos
At-ro saved, 1 mt tliolr families are
among the dead.
! "The house ill I'.eujatuin r.ittorson,
Mr. I>unti and Mr. Noble were entirely , I
demolished and all persons in these !
three families drowned, as were the!'
families of .lames Jones and Henry I
Dirk. The barn of Dr. Swinhuru and
the big livery stable of White ;
Meadows were entirely destroyed. K.
.1 Farnsworth and Phillip (John were
also drowned. The entire residence j
portion of Jleppner was destroyed but
the business bouses. being on higher j.
ground and being gi uerully built of I'
brick and stone, were not so badly
damaged. The school house and court
house, which stand on a side hill, wore
saved, but two churches, the .Methodist
and Presbyterian were completely
wrecked.
"Around the depot the rising water 1
left great heaps of driftwood piled |
higher than the roof of the station and
the rescuing parties were forced to
demolish these pyramids of timber in
order to extricate the corpses which
were tangled in the brush. I 'ndoubted- !!
ly many of th drowned bodies were
carried by the running waters down
the valley. 1
"Hangs of men are at work clearing 1
away the piles of debris, rocks and
timbers which lie piled in heaps in the
streets and taking out the corpses
which are thus concealed.M
No Vulgar Murder.
In speaking of the murder of the
king and ?|Ueen of Servia the Chattanooga
Times says at any rate, it is
interesting to note that tin; alTair was
not an ordinary, vulgar murder,
committed by an anarchist, but a
regular gentlemanly assassination,
conducted after the most eminent
precedents and the best, accepted tradij
tlonsof the Kuropcan courts, furnishing
us free American citizens evidence
of the ample justification for the momentous
nnvifiv nf crnwn..a ? ...
their own personal safety.
( ill t1 in I In* Neek.
Krousbevan. tie- notorious .lew
baiter and the editor of the anti-Semitic
or^an in KischinclT. The llessarahet/.
the articles in which are believed
to have been largely responsible
lor th_. massacre of the .lews in
(JischinelT, was attacked by a party
of Jews in the st reet of Petersburg.
Kussia. Wednesday, lie ?was stabbed
in the neck by one of the jews. The
wound is not believed to lie fatal.
His assailant was captured and proved
to he a former student of the polytechnic
school at KielV.
ICcvieweil (lie Cadet*.
A special dispatch to The State
from Lexington, Va., says Coventor
I). C. I ley ward of South Caralina,
upon the special invitation of Hen.
Scott Ship, superintendent of the
Virginia Military institute, reviewed
the battalion of cadets Wednesday afternoon.
A salute of IT glins, the
governor's salute, was tired in honor
of the distinguished Carolinian. Cov.
Ileyward expressed himself as much
pleased with the military bearing of
the young soldiers.
A Steamer Sank
Part of the crew of the Itelgian
steamer Kuhcns, which sailed from
Sunderland on June In for Pillau,
Prussia, were brought here today.
The men reported that their vessel
had capsized and sank. Six of the
sailors the captain and mate wenlost.
Seven of the crew drifted about
for -2 hours, before they were picked
up three of them died from exposure.
COMING TO LIGHT.
Significant Facts About the Mail
Scandals Being Unearthed.
BRISTOW'S REPLY TO CHARGES.
Many Irregularities Are Shown by
I lie Olticiul Papers lleiiif; l )\utniiieil
i?v the Government
Olticials.
Post master General Payne Wednesnesday
made public the reply of
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Pristow to the charges of Seymour
W. Tulloch, former cashier of
the Washington city postolliee, rear.i
wtln.r t I.... ?.. . I i
hi?Miu^ 11 iv, uirn ill me posiaI
administration, and also reports of
of inspection and investigation of the
Washington postollicc hy inspectors
between June .'10, ls??o, and July :tI,
l'JOO, together with the transcript of
the Tulloch charges some years ago
and the conclusion thereon then readied
by Postmaster Cenerul Charles
Kmory 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 of
many irregularit ies during the period
involved. The inspector who investigated
the irregi larities reports that
the tiles of the postofliee cashier show
direct orders from sueprioi authority
for the disbursement of all the questionable
items cited. The inspeetor
urged "that the responsibility for the
many illegal appointments, t lie payment
of two salaries to one and the
same person and the disbursement of
thousands of dollars for which pract ically
no service was performed, should
he placed where it properly belongs
and the many abuses eorreeted "
In a summary of the several reports
the postmaster general says:
"The charge of Mr. Tulloch is in its
essence against President Mckinley
and Postmaster (lencral Smith. President
Mckinley is no longer living:
Postmaster General Smith, who cartied
out President Mckinley's policy,
has answered for himself. With regard
to the present management of
the Washington postolliee and the
conduct of any and all men charged
with wrong doing who have been in
the postal service under the present
administration, a thorough and
searching investig.ilV n is now being
made."
The postmaster general also says:
"it will lie si en that the whole sub
ject was tpken up by Postmaster
i.bieral Smillt and investigated by
him. All expenditures referred In
were allowed by t he auditor and comptroller,
with the exception of $lt>0."
Tlie documents made public Wednesday
show that on May 1 last. Mr.
l'aync wrote a letter to Mr. Itristow
calling attention to the published interview
with Mr. Tulloeh, and asked
Mr. Itristow "what truth if any there
is in the statements.''
Mr. ltri'stow's reply dated three days
later transmits reports of three inspectors
relating to the Washington
pt tstollice.
Mr. Hristow says that after the inspectors
had reported irregularities he
directed that reports he made in the
regular way.
"During tlie progress of the inspection
I was advised hy tlie chief inspector
that George W. beavers, cliief
of the salary and allowance division,
had suggested to one of the inspectors
that when lie came to certain appointments
in some of tlie stations
that appeared irregular lie had better
make no reference to them as they
had been ordered personally by the
postmaster general. I told the chief
inspector to instruct tlie inspectors to
report the facts as they would in any
utiier inspection: that I did not believe
the postmaster general had
knowingly authorized any irregularities.
"(Japt. W. lb Smith, inspector in
charge, submitted a special report.
This report disclosed what seemed to
me glaring irregularities, and 1 suitmilted
it personally to the postmaster
general, suggesting to him at the
nun iii.ii ii i.t muii I it'll mailers i<i
wliicli I thought hr wowl<I want to
give his pcsnnal attention.
"Tin1 third report sols forth a number
of irregularities that prevailed at
thai time in the Washington postolliee.
I was informed hv the chief
inspector that complaint was made
to the postmaster general that inspector
Little, who was engaged on the
work, was asking unnecessary questions
and seeking to obtain information
which was not called for on inspection.
I advised him toinstruck inspector
Little to make the same kind of
an investigation of the Washington
postoillce that he would make of any
other olllcc under similar circumstances,
and to submit in a special report
anything which he t hought should be
called to the personal attention of the
postmaster general. This he did."
In the fustof the inspector's reports
submitted l?y Mr. Lristow it appears
that Ihihert. V. Willett, a son of the
then postmaster, drew two salaries
from July I to Dec. 10. 1808,
one as a laborer at the city postoillce
at *i;oo a year, and the other as a
mechanic at $2 per day for each working
day on what appears to have bceu
a special roll of the free delivery service,
and that N. 11. Laker likewise
was designated as a laborer on t he
postotliee roll April 2b, I son, at *700
per annum and on the same date as a
mechanic on the free delivery roll
at *2 a ?lay. The inspectors continuing
say that on June 30, I son, 22 employes
were borne on t he rolls and paid
on what has been known as the "mili
t&ry roll," while the miin.ufl I
shows 34 names as having bee^^^^H
by the cashier of the W i.sifl H
There was also fo und u I
roll of employes, paid for misoena^B
eous allowances, said appointments!
being under the control of the post-1
office department." This roll con-l
sists of nine "cleaners" with salaries!
from $4oo to $<>00 and one "physi-l
clan" at a salary of $1,700. Some oj
these cleaners appear to have perfl
formed very little service and otherB
none at all.
The most important exhibit is the
report of PostoHlee Inspector in charge
Smith of Washington division, made
in .luly, ixoo, setting forth irregularities
which he urged should lie investi-4
gated, lie names four employes on
the military roll who appear not to
have performed any service in connection
with military postal mat tens
and for whose original appoint mens
or continuance on the rolls nogoodl
reason exists. The payment to \vJ
s. Lamer, a military postal clerk, unB
der protest, by the cashier of ll}8.03,l
subsequently disallowed by the aufl
ditor of the treasury on Jan. 4. isuol
is Cone into at leniMli :nifl It iv: vli.iv..*
th;it this mailer was entirely irregular
and t hat pay men Is were dirccte*
without proper vouchers.
Attention is chilled to certain item
of ?xpcndlturcs authorized for the
military postal service of supplies
furniture, traveling expenses, aggrc
! gating 2S,7.">0.70, with the statement
t hat the prices paid for some of tlu
articles enumerated, such as wasl
stands at $10 each opcar to havf
heen highly excessive.
Attention also is called to add!
tional irregularities in connection wit!
| payrolls of clerks and laborers, and t
charging premiums on tlic honds o
j military postal clerks, notwithstand
ing such expenses arc not chargeabk
i to tlie I'nitcd States.
An interesting feature concerns it
regularities in the appointment, eon
pensation and promotion of (iliver II
Smith. < >n Nov. 20. 18'?7. the tinassistant
postmaster general author
ized an allowance of $000 per aunut
for his appointment as laborer, stat
ing that the free delivery division!
would allow $2 per day to cover caff
fare and incidental expenses. SmrJ1
drew pay from Nov. 2d, 1807, to rjt'-'N'
lstis, making his cotnpensaw',"4
t<>r one year approximately $1 ,.'t I8/'"1',
rite, inspector reports "no oneJ^
eertiticd i?i the actual time l,,"!'',
was employed nor lias any statff',1.1'
lieen attached to liis pay v* J.( ''' j
showing what particular I
rendered, lie was continued ' ''
dual capacit y of clerk and muntil
April I, when lie wVj |
moted to he bounce clerk at '
per annum. The inspector |,js 1
knew of no . ithority >>f iaw^^^^^^_ '
i
At.tont.lon Is next called
speetor ti> certain vouc hei^^^Hcnor- '
ized to l?e paid by the tirst ^Mistant
postmaster general, such as expenses ;
of 1'crry S. llcatli and Geori* W.
Heavers, traveling on otlicial huSness.
, The inspector states that tlicse much
j ers do not appear t<, have been llemiz|
ed in the proper manner, nor. is the
necessity for the expenditure 'of this |,
! money by the Washington post Oft Ice |
I appearcut. (
Attention is called to seven cleaners ,
i placed on the pay roll of the Wash-!
V?I?I\ \ UIIVIVI UUtllUIll^ Ul LIU" j
tir.si assistant postmaster general, to
be charged to the appropriation for 1
miscellaneous expenses. The names
| of these cleaners all females?are ,
given. (
The inspector states that neither j
the postmaster nor any one connected
I with the Washington oilice was able i
to give any information as to where I
they were employed or the nature of
i their work, and tlie inspector is of
j opinion that practically no service '
whatever has been rendered for the
| money expended. 1;
The inspector says that by the overlapping
of a lease executed in 1807j;
the government lost $<>25, and that i
the building was paid for one month '
beyond its occupancy. ,,
The inspector reports that when
the cashier of the Washington post- ;
oilice on letters from the comptroller
suspended payments to certain perI
sons mentioned he was required to i
continue these payments upon direct!
written order from the postmaster, j
; who states he was verbally instructed
in his action by the lirst assistant 11
| postmaster general.
Tha payments were made under the I,
cashier's protest.
The Inspector cites payments to |'
Catherine Kudsley, Charles A. Mach-'
en. A. It. Hurt. II. L. Lorcn/.. John I
S. Leach and 1 . W. Wait, on the authority
of the lirst assistant post-1
master general of per diem in connection
with claims of letter carriers for
overtime charges, aggregating $t,
I in- inspector says this account, disbursed
from July I, ISO#, wasdisimrsj
ed without authority of law. Machcn,
Lorenz and Hurt it appears were paid
per diem covering tin* same period bv
' the disbursing clerk of tlie department
of justice, from the appropriation for
defending suits in letter carriers'
claims against tlie I idled States hcj
fore the court of claims. These parties
continued to draw pay until tlie
comptroller called for a statement
from them.
The report of Inspector Little on
the Investigation of the Washington
office, dated .Inly :tl, Woo, says that a
number of clerks were added to the
rolls w ithout request of the postmaster
and that the postmaster states
that at times it has been (1 illicit It to
llnd employment for all assigned to
| his rolls. The Inspector says the
i roster appears to be elastic, to be added
to as circumstances arise whether
the postmaster requested it or not.
The aggregate salaries paid to those
not connected with the office amounted
to $1(5,100.
Ij N EARING HIS END
Bolitically is What Senator Tillma
] Says About the Negro.
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCI
HtomWor Tillmaii Says Uooscvoll I
|T
Always on Dross I'araile anil
I Always Will lio Wblle
I He's President.
^1 In conversation with ;i reporter o
Lite Augfista Herald recently Senoto
rilhnaii said:
"I have not Been the intcrvicwi
Hwi i ll < Congressman llurdwick on liis hi I
to n peal tlie fourteenth and iifteent!
amendments and dnnt know jus
wliat it is, luil 1 do know thai just
such a tiling :s inevitable. The noon
is coining down to his proper status."
It was thus that Senator It. It. Till
I man spoke recently while waiting ii
Augusta to take a t rain to Louisiana
where he is going to lecture al a rhatauipia.
The senator says lie will he
away on this trip of lectures for about
ten days, after which iie will return to
his home in South Carolina.
"There is nothing going on in naItional
polities just now except the
usual dress parade of Wnoscvelt," he
said and in reply to the question of
how Ion*; he thought these dress parades
would last:
"()h, t hat's going to keep up just as
long as Koosevelt is President."'
Speaking of the coming convention
and the outlook for Presidential timber
in the Democratic party Senator
Tillman said that he had never seen
the country so barren of material to
work upon as it is at this time. He
spoke of Parker and Herman hut said
he could not tell which, if either,
would he the mail for the place. lie
said'they would both he mentioned in
the convention and one of them may he
chosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. lie <1 id not know
enough of the standing of either to
say what their relative strength is.
hut thinks that Parker has the advantage
of having no record behind him
except that of a judge.
Continuing alone the. line of the
llatdwick hill that is to he presented
at the next session of Congress Senator
Tillman said:
"About the only thine that is attracting
much comment In national
political circles now is that < >hio platform,
and it lias not gone far enoueh I
for us to see whether it is to lie a local
IT :L lint innnl ? '
gro to govern where lie is iti the majority
or else to cut clown the representation
of the while man, and is of
the opinion that it it is made a national
atTair it will undoubtedly lie
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
' If this is to be a national rather
than a local issue it will mean tlie reorganization
ot the old ante-bellum
tlays. 1 mean if tiie red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then a question of this is a white
man's country and he must rule the
ijovcrnment. majority or no majority.
1 don't mean that it will he a condition
of a Hairs like those of the days of
the sixties. Then it was a question
>!' slavery hut now it will he a (piesLion
simply of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments is certainly inevitable
md is a question of only a time, ile
thinks that for the Ohio platform Inpushed
upon the people of the country.
asking lor the guarantee of the
provisions of these amendments
would merely bring the matter to a
:risis sooner.
"We are waiting lor them to play
Llu-ir cards or show their hand, so we
will know what move to make,'' he
said.
Speaking of conditions in South
Carolina, the Senator said:
"The thing that is most interesting
ever there now is a few days sunshine.
1 have just come down from Clemson
mil -r 1
?! > unvii^ii i ni- ii | | ~ I <>1 III*'
State to t'ulumhia and 1 11111mt. say
that I never saw the crops in such a
had condition. Tin? grass has taken
everything. Why. the country is
woolly w ith grass. The low land crops
have all hoe., washed away and will
have to he replanted.
"No there is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this is
an oil year. The only thing going on
that 1 know of is with the Uovernor.
Vou know he is shooting a few timers
now. Kvery time he sees one he
shoots him down."
Senator tillinan looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is as much as ever interested
in the ail'aiis of the American
government, he seems more taken
up just at this time wit.li the condition
of farm lauds in his own State.
The fact that lie is not himself a man
ut a gloomy disposition, rather being
inclined to he an optimist than a pessimist.
when he makes the statement
that the crop conditions of the Palmetto
State are worse than he has
ever seen them before, it would indicate
at once that there is time for
some concern.
Ilriilc Killed II, rNclf.
Wit bin hall an hour after her.second
marriage, having been previously
divorced, Miss lla'tie A. Thomas of
New Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a
dose of laudanum that proved fatal,
leaving a note to her parents Ut pray
for her.
AFTER THE FLOOD.
! Ilusy Scene* .Monte Pacolet I'iver.
in |
Wrecking Companiennt Work.
The Spartanburg Journal says a
| busy scene greeted the visitors Tnurs7
j day along the banks of the recent
J- turbulent Pacolet river where the
fury of the waters worked such extensive
destruction. At the Cliftons
lK and at Pacolet scores of laborers arc
busy cleaning away debris and recovering
cotton and the mill products from
the mud and wreckage. The llitt
Salvage Company lias tifty to seventylive
men at work, scouring the river
banks and the recesses of the stream,
1 looking for cotton, many bales nt
r which are being recovered.
The plan of the Clifton Company for
s securing what machinery they can
from the river is todrain the big iiond
extending from the site of the dc1
stroyed Mill No. :t to Mill No. 1. The ,
t work will he in charge of a salvage
company from New York who will put
a force of men to work at an early date
l~ j.
i iu mam tne pond and search in the '
i mud and dehris for any machinery |
- j that can be found. Tin; same comi
pany will also recover as much of the ,
I property of tiic electric railway as!
i possible. The electric company will ,
. i lose at least one mile of t rack at Clif- j
ton. The trolley wire and rails are, ' (
, however. being recovered as rapidly as (
possible. j ,
The machinery on the immediate I j
; sites of the Clifton Mills will lie re- (
covered bv.l. It. tlarfunkel ofColum- j'
lua who will begin work on next Mon- s
day morning. Mr. (iarfunkel has pur- a
I chased all the scrap iron that may be ^
| found among tiie wreckage while tiic 1 ^
mill company will retain such maehin- ^
| ery as can bo used. The big lly wheel j r
j at Mill No. :t wliich weighs about! a
100,000 pounds has also been purclias-1 ^
1 ed bv Mr. (Iarfunkel. The wheel was j v
broken to pieces by the force of the ,
lluod and is absolutely useless to the o
: company. j ^
Ity next Monday the banks of the j
river will he crowded with busy work- t.
men who will repair as far as possible j,
the storm's work of destruction. Later w
on work will be started by the mill j,
company repairing Mills Nos. 1 and j,
2. The Southern llailway was one of ti
the heaviest losers in the county by | u
the Hood of .lime lb A prominent' p
I railroad man says that the Southern al
I alone will lose half a million dollars, j ,,
The roads will lose more t han their p,
i el earnings from the entire state j
fur the current year on account of [ V(
tiie llood damage, trestles washed I ra
away, etc. j sj
It is now estimated that -5 per ( f,
cent ol tiie mill opeialivc.s liave left ]e
the Clifton Mills and Pacolel having p(
secured other jobs. At one time last
week there were no less tbau seven- ,,j
niiTnano^rori^nii^uTKWW!WfW!!^^5
1 lives. It is said that some of the!..
LI
operatives have evinced a marked degrce
of unwillingness to leave their I jy
j homes for other mills, tliitikinvr that Sj
if they remained they would he the n
recipients of aid from the relief com- 1 'p
mittee. I ^
The time of the year at which the s(
tlood occurred lias proven a very for- al
tuuatc circumstance for had it oc-1 n,
curred in winter or early spring much |lt
additional suffering would have been
i entailed. The cars of the electric a(
coinany continue to carry many visi- j n
tors to Clifton, but it will probably be w
only a few weeks before the signs i>f. p]
wreckage are completely obliterated j p
and the big storm will have been a ;l(
thing of the past. w
\V?- Are Not Carpers. p
A negro lynching in the city of Indianapolis
has nuickly followed the *
atlair at I telle v i 1 lo. 111. .lust what '?
deg.ee of guilt attaches to a negro's n
act in apparently forcing his remarks ?11
upon a white girl in the street is not j
asy to decide perhaps. At any rate.
reasonable people would say that the 'c
girl's testimony as to the character of s'
the olTense should first he taken he- vv
fore resorting to summary measures a
against the negro. The Indianapolis K
1 moh, however, on the mere fact that
! the negro was seep to address the girl
in public somewhat persistently, although
he soon passed on. pursued n
him at once to his death. One fel- ?
low in the moh curried a pistol and lie ^
Completed the job. No arrests, ae- jS(
cording to the reports. The middle ''
West is now a fair mark for Southern ^
criticism. Springfield Itepuhliean. '
Seetl I'ariiiM.
The seed plantations around San
.lose. t'al., are said to receive $:t,000,uoo
a year from the sale of seed. The c
tirst experiments ol the planters in \(
this line were made less than half a 1'
(lo/.ell vears a>'0. ( )n?? nliinn nnteli !
now rovers .'1,000 acres, with furrows li
almost two miles long. A single plot a
of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, a bed b
of yellow asters '210 acres, a lettuce v
bed-J. loo acres. These are within a
radius of eighty miles around San
.lose, 1 I,.">00 acres devoted to raising
plants and Mowers for their seed alone, e
A Itail lleeord. 8
< >ne hundred rulers of countries have !('
1 been assassinated since the year1.*to. L'
when Kdward I. of Kngland, was 11
stabbed with a dagger. < >f the Hum- je
her seventy-three were. assassinated :
during the century Justclosed: which i '
marked it as a singularly unfortunate
hundred years for royalty. Already,
in this new century, there have
been four heads of governments as- 1 v
snssinatcd. and the century is not four
years old. ^
A Moving Matter.
Down in Texas the other day a man
named Whole married a Miss Harrow, I
and the editor of the local paper had . c
no more sense of the fitness of things s
than to print his account of the wed- g
ding under the head of "NVhele-Har- <
row." !c
| SCENES OF CRIMES
In Belgrade Palace is Red With
Blood of Royal Victims.
??THERE
WAS NO WAY OF ESCAPE.
Tlie Itoval Chamber Where the
Soldiers Slew the King and
t^ueen Described in
Detail.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at Belgrade, Servla, was on
Wednesday allowed to inspect the 1
place in which King Alexander and
Queen Draga were murdered. The
room, which was rurnished in empire
style, remains in the same concMtion ^^B
as when the king and queen lied from B
it on the approach of the assa-ssins. B
The French novels lie on the queen's B
table and the queen's toilet articles, B
perfumes and cosmetics covered her ) B
dressing table. ?
Tiie costly silk l?ed coverings are full
if bullet holes, the conspirators having
shot wildly In all directions,
i r nigh and under the h ;d, chairs and
a'ties in their efforts to find their
victims. \ simple wardrobe room leadrig
directly from the lied room was
.he scene of the tinal act in the drama.
Flic apartment is lofty but scarcely
;eveii feet wide and lifteen feet long
iiid is furnished only with three great
vardrolies. The olllcere who attended
,'ie corn spondent showed the latter
.lie blood-stained floor atoneend of the
o mi where the king and queen fell
aid the liroken Venetian shutter at
he window through which their bodies
re re thrown to the ground below.
A secret stairway loads through the
dor to rooms in the southern end of
he palace. Ity this stairway the hap.ss
couple might have attempted to
scape, but they were unable to do so
ecause the opening of this stairway
as covered by a heavy chest. Kscape
i any event would have been lmpossi!e,
as the soldiers who had surrounded
lie palace were so determined to kill
io king and queen that they had even
laced camion in front of the palace %
iid were prepared to destroy the buildig
in thee vent of falling to lind their
rey.
Each of the three roomr between the
stihulc and the bed cbamtier showi d
arks of the tragedy. Mirrors were
lattcred, pictured were shot through,
iruiture was brokou, there was bult
holes in the doors and in the oil
>rt raits of the king which were in
cry room and most of the latter were
,lierwise mutilated.
xirs to reolace those which hnA Wn
lown to pieces at the time the conlirators
forced their way into the
xims occupied by the king and queen,
he royal apartments were simply and
itet'ully furnished chiefly in Oriental
,ylc and presented a homelike appearnce.
Tlie interior of the palace
light have been that of a country
ouse belonging to a prosperous
inerican. The house of the king's
ijutant, Lazar l'erovics, which was
ic first attacked, is even a greater
'reck than the royal apartments in
ne palace. The entrance was comletely
destroyed by dynamite. The
[ijutant then escaped unhurt, but he
as killed later in the vestibule of the
alnce.
A large blood stain marks the spot
here the otlicer died. It was in a
arc, white washed room of the comland
ant's quarters, adjoining the palre,
that Queen I >ruga's two brothers
ere shot while sitting on wooden
luiirs, w hich bear marks of the| bulsts.
The proceedings In the palace
lowed the same absolute callousness
rhicli has characterized the actious
nd demeanor of everybody In Belrade
since the tragedy.
VillngcH Destroyed.
The British consular reports of the
cent earthquakes in the vilayet of
t Van confirm previous advices that
wenty-three villages were affected and
)me completely destroyed. Seven
utulred and eighty-live lives are
nown to have been lost and it is
ared all were killed in outlying disricts
not yet enumerated.
Fourteen Killed.
A territice and fatal explosion ocurred
in the lyddite factory at Woolrich.
Kngland, Thursday morning,
'ive buildings were completey wreckil
llcportsof casualties are conflicting
ut t li?' latest places the dead at 14
nd injured at 13. The killed were
town to atoms and their remains
fere gathered up in buckets.
W ill Now Man*;.
John llrowntield, colored, who kill<1
I?eputy Tax Collector Jas. C.
curry while in the discharge of his
uty three years ago, and whoappeald
to the Supreme courts of the state
nd the I'nited States, was resenteiud
on Tuesday by Judge tiary, tie
ate of his execution being set f?.r
'Tiday.
A Sail llrnlli.
JohnC. llarveley of Creenwood,who
nas actinc as telegraph operator ut
1.unlet, N. C., was run over and kilift
there hy a train on Tuesday. He
wis only nineteen years old.
(lave up tlie StriiKKle.
J. II. Williams, a farmer of Lanaster
county, aged 35, committed
uicide on Tuesday nigiit witii a shotion.
lie was despondent on account
>f ill health and inability to work iiis
rops.