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The Batesburg Advocate. VOL III BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IS), 1S)()S). NO 29 A TUNNEL HORROR. The Collision and Burning of Twc Underground Trains. PANIC OF THE PASSENGERS Who, Stilled by the Smoke mid llewildered by the DurknCHN Strive In Vuin to Find the Kxitw. An awful catastrophe occurred ii l'aris, France, on Monday evening o: last week, on tlie Metropolitan Klec trie Itailway, which runs mostly tin dcrgruund, in which many person! lost their lives. One of the trains broke at Mcnilmontunt Station, whicl is in a poor and populous section o the city. This train was promptly emptied and the train which followcc was ordered to push to the repairing slieds. On tiie way those two train: caught tire, but tlie employees sue cceded In escaping. Meanwhile, i crowded train reached Les Curlemios the preceding station, and Uicotilcials seeing smoke pouring out of tin tunnel, gave the alarm. A panic en , sued, the passengers struggling to es cape from the station. Amid tlie in creasing smoke many attempted ti return along the line towards I telle ville, hut they were suffocated. The Hrcmen started in to llood tli burning cars, and shortly aftorwari they were able to enter t lie tunnel They brought up the corpses of livi men and two women all belonging tli working class. KIUIITY-KOUlt IIOIMKS have been recovered, and the deatl list probably will exceed one hundred The accident, which occurred 01 the Metropolitan Klectrie llailway a.* Kiirruul t lio urniu.ri li.nu ..r .... .... tastrophe during Lite early hours to (lay, w 1 leu more than four-score hod ies of the burned and suffocated vie tlms were removed from the sulitei ranean passage. The work continue* and Indications are that the deal list will perhaps exceed live score. Long lines of ambulances wer brought into requisition and the Ink] ies were carried to the morgue and tli nearby military barracks. After da> j^tuk crowds at tiik entrances to the tunnel increased to enormou proportions, obliging the police I form a solid cordon, through whic were admitted only those seeking t identify their relatives among tli victims. The failure of many met women and children to return horn during the night gave many the tit* news of the catastrophe. Fathei and mothers came hurrying to Lb mouths of the tunnels to try and tin the absent ones. The liremen found a great numht of Indies massed near the ticket o fice of the station, where many ha evidently been overcome while seel ing tickets. They had been surprise by the columns of smoke, and ha sought to run hack up the stone stai way leading to the street. A striq gle ensued, and some escaped, hut tli others had been trampled on. < >r woman had fled within the ticket o flee, where her body was found. Tl: ticket seller, herself, succeeded In c caping. At the station of Lcs Curonne the same scenes of death and despa had l<een enacted. The accident o curred midway lietween the statiot of Menilmontant and Los Couronne so that the work of salvage proceed* from both ends of the tunnel. 1 addition to the blinding smoke tl tunnel belched forth a terrific heat,; one of the trains was slowly hurnin within. The tircracn succeeded throwing several streams of water i the direction of the wreck, while son firemen and military engineers, ; great hazard, pushed on inside tl tunnel. Further on, the firemen stumbh upon a TKKICIItl.K MASS OK ItOOIKS. These were the passengers of tl burned train. They had lied from tl coaches when the lire broke out, am groping through the suffocation clou of smoke, sought the exit at L Couronnes Station, hut the tunn makes a sharp turn near the scene the disaster and at the angle the c tire mass of humanity apparently li came tightly wedged. The pan which Look place at tiiis point, wit in this dark subterranean passui must have been terrible. M. Lepine, prefect of police, sut moned a large force of doctors ai municipal officials, who superintend the removal of the Ixxlies. The nut her of corpses brought up from t angle where the mass was wedged w so large that four and eight bodi were placed in each ambulance. Mai of the victims had huridkcrchk stuffed in their mouths, ttiey havii evidently tried to keep out t asphyxiating smoke. The faces the dead were red and congest* Some women held their children tigl ly in their arms. Several versions of the disaster a given, but TilK MAIN KA< TK which have been established, :i the following: Train No l.'l, which caused the ae dent, trance to the Hois de Itoulogi In the western part of l'aris, and pa: ing under the Place de L'tttoilc, cir ed the northerly quarter of the ci 1 In this northern quorter-a manufai urlng section-the train picked . numbers of workmen, who, after their (Jay's work wore returning to tiieir homes in tiie populous eastern arrondisKcments of the city, (fti ? reaching the neighborhood of the Cemetery of l'erc Lo Chaise, the electrical motor failed to act properly, and the train waited at the station of Les couronncs until the arrival of a second train, which pushed the crippled train forward, making a total of sixteen coaches. I After proceeding alwut two hundred yards towards Menilmontant Station, the damaged dynamo set tire to the engine of the tirst train. The engine burned fiercely, raising quantities of smoke. Simultaneously the electric lights on the trains went out, leaving the passengers in total darkness, ex1 eept for the light of the burning en igne far ahead. This impeded the - progress of the trains toward Meuil. montant. The terror-stricken passengers got out and tried ta grope their s way back to Les Couronnes. The "? nowerful eb-el.rie current,. whieli eon i I tinned in the rails, is believed In have f stunned or killed many. A uumbcr of the passengers tried to reach Les Couroilnes Station, out the niaih Imdy ' of the passeagers who overcome by the I heat and smoke. S A TKKKIIU.K PANIC - occured among those behind, and the \ horror ot the situation was increased by a third train crashing into the fiery mass, and adding another crowd ^ of panid-sticken passengers to those ' seeking an outlet. The cars continued to burn until twenty were consumed. The burning , debris gave forth a tierce heat, which puffed out of the mouths of the stations of Les Couronnes and Menilmontn ant. Most of the trainmen escaped, j tint the conductor of the train cansing the accident was seriously injured, p The escape of the trainmen is at_ trihulcd not to their lack of attention to the passengers, but to their superior knowledge of the subterranean passage, which enabled them to hasten forward in spite of the obscurity A ! number of heroic incidents occurred, i' < >nc of the employees of the road - nearly lost his life in seeking to make his way through the smoke to aid the victims, and is now in the hospital. I- Several soldiers and firemen risked !* their leves in attempting to succor the ' passengers. Perfect Lepine himself >< took his lifein his hands liy entering h the tunnel and proceeding a consederable distance until the smoke drove c him I tack. Ic ACC OUNT OK AS KYK-WITNKSS. The chief station master at Les x t i ifjf? i * ? ?/uuuMinr>, m. uiuirr, ii;in ^iveu ii i ii-i |8 ceding the accident. He says rTo () siiw the Humes running along the gear j, of lite cars when the lirst train passed through the station and called out to e the engineer to stop, saying there was , not time to reach the next station, t". but the engineer declared lie had t ample time and proceeded. A few !s minutes later a long blue llamc Hashed c through the tunnel, followed hy a vio(j lent detonation. Looking into the month of the tunnel M. Hidicr could ,r see Hashed from the burning cars. [ _ (ircat masses of smoke began to pour (j out, preventing tbe oflicials from en-1 tering tlie tunnel. Men struggled (j out through the smoke. S'creams j could lie heard in the distance amid _ the crackling of the tire. r. VieriMS MOSTLY THE I'OOlt. ie The names and occupations of tlie ie victims give pathetic evidence of their f- humble condition. The names are ic eharartcristic of tlie French working s- classes, and their occupations are given jas given as painter, mason, s. plumber, tailor, sc.tmstre.ss, lockir smith, etc. Outside the workmen, c- about every third name is that of a is woman. Pitiful scenes were enacted at s. the morgue throughout the day as :d the relatives gathered seeking to idenn tify the liodies, which were arranged ie in long lines on white marble Slabs. is The clothing of many of the victims is U' Lorn, showing the fierceness of tlie in struggle, in SCENES IN T1IK TUNNEL. it A survivor named Jules liouat, desu: cribes the struggle during tlie panic in the tunnel as terrible. Women were ?d screaming,"Save me!" An old man fell exhausted until they fell asphyxiated. , M. (iauthler, the magistrate for the , district, says one of the main causes (j of the loss of life was that those escap^ ing took the wrong exit, one passage (>s letting out to the street, while the (>'l other was barred, ;us if was usually ()f for admitting passengers. Many of n the victims sought the barred exite, |C_ and were found massed against tlie j(1 wall, where they had been slowly suffocoted. M. Hienvenue, the chief engineer of K the Metropolitan Kail road, says from the technical point of view every prelfj caution to avoid danger had Ik'cii i>(l taken. Tlie chief misfortune was that the employees did not organize I , assistance with sullicicnt rapidity to permit the passe liters being quickly drawn out. ny ,fs Fouml In tin* ltiver. "g The body of an nnidentitied man lie was found Thursday in North river at of the foot of One Hundred and Sixtyid I Third street , New York City. The it- j police say the man was murdered. A handkerchief was knotted tightly re around liis neck in such a manner as to cause strangulation. There were deep gashes over hotheyes. lie was appart ntly forty years old and was fi in feet M incites in height. ciSt-anii-n Itrowiieil. te, ss- The Herman sailing vessel, Isaltelln cl- and the Norwegian steamship, Theory. (lore, collided off the mouth of the Bt,- Ml he. Ifoth vessels sank. Twentj tip live seamen are reported drowned. REMOVE THE CAUSE Says John Temple Graves and You Will Stop Lynchings. HE TALKS OUT VERY PLAINLY. And SajH Holdly That the I'siml C'rinn* Will be Followed in the Houtli by it lynching. I T .. I.. ,.11 i uii(?iu iiuiwiiK an Duiuiiiri ^at i ; ings Is the "Mob Conference" now ir progress at Clmtauquu, N. Y. The increase of mob spirit shown by feuds lynchlngs, riots, assassinations anc other lawless happenings gives greal importance to this conference. A mom Wednesday's speakers was John Tem pic Graves of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Graves spoke on "The mol spirit of the south." lie defender lynch law as a remedy for the crime of rape, holding that though lynching is a crime it is justified by the erirnt which provokes it and will never is discontinued until that crime i: eliminated. The remedy for lynch ing must l?e the elimination of tin crime of rape and thus, he maintained could be done only by the separatior of the two races in the United States "The problem of the hour is no how to pre "en t lynching in the soutl but the larger question: 'How shal we destroy the crime which alway: lias and always will provoke lynch ing." "The answer which the mob re turns to this vital question is already known. The mob answers it will tlie rope, the bullet and sometimes God save us, with the torch. An< the mob is practical. Its theory i.< effective to a large degree: the mob i the sternest, the strongest and mos effective restraint that the age hold for the control of rape. "The lyncher does not exterminate the rapist," Mr. Graves contended "hut lie holds him mightily ii check." As a sheer, cold, patent fact, It said, the mob stands Wednesday a the most potential bulwark l?etweei the women of the south and such ; carnival of crime as would and precip itate the annihilation of the negr race. The masses of the negro, In held are not afraid of death comiii} a regular way. The love display am the spectacular element of a trial am execution appeal to their imagina tions. Expediting the processes of the lav would not l?e adequate to eliminat lynching. The repeal of the amend meuts and the establishment of th negro's inferiority in law and society said Mr. (1 raves, though desirable, ar not sulllcient. "For the negro," hj added, "is thing of the senses and with his rac and with all similar races tire desir of the senses must be rest rained by th terror of the senses, if possible, unde the law. "No influence of suppression s mighty and effective could lie hrougli to bear is a law making amputalio the penalty for the crime rape. Iiu this, like curfew edicts, separate law for white and black, or the treatmeu of the crime of rape as separate an outside of all other codes but exped ents, he maintained, "there is no re; remedy but one. No statute will pc manently solve this problem. Kcligio docs not solve it. Education com pi cates it. l'olitcs complicates it. "The truth which lies beyond an above all those temporizing exped ents," he concluded, "is that scpar; tion is the logical, the inevitable, tl only solution of the great problem ? the races." Discussing the subject of "Ment and moral contagion." Dr. J. > Buckley of New York, after spcakin at some length of the various transiei and permanent changes that tal place under different pliysicial ar mental influences in human persona it v tswiL- im t he 11 u>s:t ii it i nf i-riini' :i I 1 vv,v" *" f ' 1 v. ...... ... argued that all crime implied tlie e istence of social and its attrition that sin and vice could Ik; committt by a person alone in the world but n< so crime. He showed the operation i this and bow tar through their natu at causes epidemics mi^ht spread. in conclusion, he declared that ; laws of association bring on such ge cral and feverish criminal tendencie so the lasw of association must be er ployed to antagonize. In the afternoon mob conferenc John Temple (1 raves answered que tions. The north and south we equally represented. Mr. (Jravt plan for the solution of the ra trouljles is a state set aside for n groes and discnfranchisement outsi< of that territory, lie said the soui would not object to the loss of tl negro and for it learning the supei orit.y or wliite labor. "is mob execution," be was aske "a matter of economy to the south "No," he replied, "the south ncv weighs money in the matter of w man's honor." Another question was, "Arc n the southern mobs largely white Lra and men of murderous intentions lie answered: "Isy no means. The mob have i eluded the highest in the land, ( ticials and professional men." lie declared that a white man won i l?e lynched as quickly as a negro t an olTen.se against a white womai ; honor, lie instanced in proof I r only lynching in New < trleans in i cent years. SAD DEATH OF A BRIDE. Murletl Only One Hour When She A 1 llr<-uthe<l Her Cast. Two notices appeared in the News and Courier of Thursday, and all who read them, whether knowing any of the parties concernedtir not,must have SH been touched. The lirst told of the marriage of two young people the scci ond gave notice of the death of the bride. It was a very sad little story, involving life and love and death, all, it seemed, in one chapter, and in the city many spoke of it and breathed a sigh for the husband, bereaved while the minister's words were still ringing in his (ars. It was Wednesday evening that ' , Charles Calhoun Tylee and Annie S. ,,rj Malone, having deceided to wait no ! longer on a convalescence that did not Pr' > hasten, and rising from a bed of illness am i the girl, who had plighted her troth ma ^ to the yountf man of her choice, stood I beside him, supported l>y. Iiis strong r arm, and said in a clear and unhesi- c:l " tatinj; voice the words that made stfl tliem one, "wliile life dotii last." kii > There were but few friends present ma I and the ceremony prescribed by the Episcopal Cliurcli was conducted l?y ro< tiic llev. A. E. Cornish, rector of St. :l^ .John's, Iiampstead. The bride was aw especially bright, considelng iier ill- atll * ness, and the family and friends were CO| s thinking that maybe the new condi- ,ut tions and the strengthened bonds of i1(J love would prove a medicine more Wo powerful than all others and stay the vjc 1 hand of the Iteaper that had already 1 cast his grim shadow in the home. ,|;i ' When the ceremony was over Mr. (ps [ and Mrs. Tylec preparer! to leave their sp house, and in a very short time were an( s at No Nassau street, where every- ,\| tiling had been arranged for the home ;l | coming of his bride. The door was |)r( opened and scarce past the threshold (,jr k the two had passed when, with a u,( 1 sitfh, the wife of but an hour passed away in her husband's arms. kjs Mr. Cornish, who had been called * away soon after the marriage, receiv- p * cd another message a little later and pr, hastened to the iiouse where M r. and s Mrs. Tylec had none, and there stood bedside the bedside of the bride. w| L' Friday afternoon the friends ^ ; who had attended the wedding Wed- wa 1 nesday night saw tlie fair young bride i in her weddine irowii. si ill :ind eold in l> the embrace of death,unci followed her j,r s to her Ixst resting place. pU J1 Miss Malone was a niece of Mr. and ne a Mrs. Vincent It. Salvo and the mar- u, " riage took place at their residence, W;< " No 2S Hanovei street. Mr. Tylcc is m, L! a well-liked young man of this city in and has a good position with the (Jon- j,r | solidatcd Company.- News ami <>?"_ rier. wi Saved from it Molt. v Might mvriH'.s were arrested for an Jj'J e attempted 'tcriminal assult on Mrs ' ' I- Hart, a white woman, at Whitestone, c Tex., on Wednesday. Seven were re- | ', leased and the eighth man was held ^ e . jr identilieantion. A mob appeared j " at the jail and took the negro and . a h?..ged him to a tree nearby, before 1 ' e he beanie unconscious ollicers appcare ed and rescued the negro and are ;1' e hurrying him to Shermon for safekeepr ing. The moh is gathering to pursue . the prisoner and it is said other corn- * o munities will join the mob. it After the negro brown had Ijecn 111 n forcibly taken froin the mob, its mem- ,l1 it hers turned their attention to the col- * s ored residents of the town. buns it. were tired promiscuously in the negro ra d section and the terror-stricken negroes i- when they came from their houses il were ordered to leave town at once. . r- No violence further than this intimin dation has been offered so far. As a ^ i- result outgoing trains on all roads are u crowded with negroes. d w A Murderer Caught. In j_ A special dispatch from Aiken to h lc The State says "T. W. McMillan, A ,r chief of Dolice of Greenwood, arrested sa a negro named Jim Lowin. in a negro se :il gambling den in baptist bottom, in I. Aiken, who was wanted by the au- h: ^ thorities of Shelby, N. C., for the di murder of their chief of police, Jones, al te in 11KJ1. Lowin was in Greenwood A 1(j about three months ago and was sustl pected by Chief McMillan, who liad a ti id description of the murderer, as being x- the man wanted. Mrs. McCall of h s, Laurinburg, N. C., who Is a third si .(1 cousin of Chief Jones, also recognized m, Lowin. The negro came to Aiken, to h [,I which jHiint Mr. McMillan followed n r. him and put him in jail there to await h instructions from the authorities of si as Shelby. "" itailroatl CitMualtirH. ,. ,s f( ' ' In the iirst three months of the current year says the Hartford Courant, 827 A inericianns were killed and 11,' isl wounded in accidents reported by j, the interstate railroad companies to t , tlie interstate commerce commission. t,l In the "train accidents" 200 were ? killed and 2,s;tl were wounded. < >f |, I the killed ill, and of tlie wounded 1,| nun were passengers, the rest were ( I railroad servants of one class and I another. The number of trainmen ? killed was f?:M; the number wounded w I was ii,r?JO. Collisions killed hi and . wounded 7.">:t of tlie passengers; they ) r killed 131 and wounded 8i>! of the ' trainmen. Sixty-four of the train- ( men met death and (550 incurred their ( wounds while coupling or uncoupling sh cars Tlie Indiana Way. ( At Andianapolis, Ind., Kay Wood, n- colored, shot James Sanders, white, in d- .in argument over how much education a negro should have Thursday morn- I lid ! ing. A score ol white men attacked 1 or the negro, who lied. A mob pursued i's { and Wood was finally shot down by lie his pursuers. Kxcitement is great as e- the atTair happened on down town streets, both will recover. A PRISON HORROR. White Woman Tells How She Was Brutally Whipped. E SAYS SHE WAS PUNISHED ciiuhc Klin Spurned Improper Proposals from (lie XVnrdru of I lie Prison Wliere She Was ConIIne?l. The whipping of Miss Marie I>eises in one of the Georgia State sons is creatine a irreat <ieal of talk 1 indignation in that State. Tlie itter was recently investigated at Ucdgcvillee where the prison is loxrd. Miss DeCris' statement subintially, was that slic was treated idly at tirst. "Warden Alagood ide Improper advances to me in Ills im wiien I did clerical work. He erupted to caress me. 1 jerked ay. lie wont in the other room rl sat on a bed. lie told me to no in there. I refused. He told : not to tell or lie would make it t for me, and lie lias surelv kept bis rd. 1 saw him kiss a white cont in the hospital. "1 talked with Mrs. Alagood the y lieforo the whipping. I used no ;respectful language. I did not ip talking when ordered. I told other white prisoner about Mr. agnod's advances. She said if I was ewd woniati to submit, if not to jtost: that 1 would have an easy ne il 1 would submit as that was e only way to get along with him." The other woman denies lieing weil. She denied the conversation lirst, but afterward she admitted in substance. 'Flic evidence of ini>per proposals was not held up by e other witnesses who say that Alaod never approached them. At the iippum i?ii cue oeu. ib was orucreu draw the clothes tight and this us done. Miss DeCris continued: "A physiin was present. 1 was severely and utally beaten and I cried. 1 was t in tiie Held, under guard, with gro women next day. 1 was kept ere olT and on for four weeks. I is terribly blistered. They allowed e no rest. 1 nearly fainted and fell the Held once. 1 never wrote imoper notes to arty one. "1 was so terribly bruised by the tipping that 1 could not sit down, tere were welts as big as my tinger id the bruises were dark and blueand ep for two weeks." This was substantiated by one other tness, but was denied by a woman lio slept in the same room, but not the same I ted. She said site had to put a greasy it It in Iter wounds. < Hher witnesses who heard the licks id cries, say the whipping was severe, iioy heard iter "hollering." Miss DeCris says site overheard Mrs. lagood telling the house woman this ornittg that the committee was contg. and "you all must stick to me id the captain." Witness and Mrs. lagood all deny this. The DeCris woman says she was vitalized by negro women as lazy, no tod, a diamond queen, no better inn they, etc. She says that Mr. Foster saw her in ie tield arid protested against the ,ine: fie had to order A lagood to send jr to the house two different times, id at last he did so, hut put her to ork in the potato patch hack of Lite nise afterwards. She says her reisal to see a reporter was dictated by lagood and through fear. Alagood tys she refused of Iter own accord to ie correspondents. Dr. Adams' evidence was only in is official capacity as physician, lie id not consider the whipping unusully severe. Warden Moore left for tlanta tonight. There is a rumor that the legislave committee is coming tonight. Mrs. Alagood says site asked iter ushaud to whip Miss DeCris for in ihordination and for impudence. The leather strap was exhibited, t is an awful instrument of punishlent alxuit incites wide, and :t(] tchcs long, weight, say :i pounds, lid leatiier, no holes. Warden Moore instructed every dtness to taik freely and without ar as he would protect them. The general impression is that Alaood will he discharged as the iintediate circumstances did not at all istify w.lipping and the punishment 'as entirely too severe in any event: he woman should not have been rorked in the Held continuously In the ot sun. The alTair is at fever heat and is he entire topic of the town. The elegraph offices is crowded witl tessages on the subject front every 'here. More MIIIh I 'low. The Whaley Mills in Columbia hav< ecided to run three days of each wcel in til the new crop of cotton comes in diieli will be the tirst week in Sep ember. The mills shut, down Thurs ay night and resumed operation Mon ay, running until Wednesday agaii or alMiut four weeks. The statemen fas made in a Charlotte paper recent y that the mills of Columbia woul< ie idle for several months, but oiti ers of mills state that this is nothiui ?ut a sensation story. The mills hav list a)H>ut enough eotton on hand t< un in this manner and as soon as tli lew crop comes in l ull time will lie re umed. THEY RODE TO DEATH. A11<1<I1<T Fatal Kullrotul Acclilcnt Iiiwii the Hulu<la Mountain. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The Slate says a disastrous freight wrecked occurred on the Melrose grade of the Soutliern railway Thursday afternoon at 2.15 o'clock by which Kuglneer J. II. Averill.Jr.. <nd Fireman Hair were killed outri ;ht, II cars loaded with coal smash* -1 into smithereens, the locomotive laine'* nd \V. Ib Shcrrill, brakernan, <vhos? ome Is at Baltimore, lost his'.cgs, the ,?c memhers liein^ severed by the car wheels. The tragic happening occurred a short distance lielow Melrose station, almost midway between Saluda and Tryon. The distance that the roadbed of the Southern rises 011 this heavy, treacherous grade of live miles, from a little above Saluda to Tiyon, will open the eyes of the average traveler, provided he has had the time to inspect casually, even, the route. Tills afternoon freight No. (?2, headed for Spartanburg, with Conductor Howie in charge, was running from Asheville. This train was composed of one of the Southern's brand new mammoth locomotives and l.'l cars laden with coal. Kngineer Averill was in charge of the locomotive, and the trip was uneventful until his train was passing along a short distance above Saluda. As he had to check up for that station, he applied the brakes: the train was running at a brisk rate of speed, which momentarily increased. The brakes would not work and in a minute the train was beyond human control. As the freight passed Melrose station at a fearful rate of speed Agent I letherly say, Fireman llair, seated in his calt threw up his hands, indicating a perfect comprehension of the danger and peril awaiting the ill-starred crew. Faster and faster grew the speed of the uncontrollable train and finally the locomotive diverged from the iron rails and plunged down into a cut. The result of this abrupt check was fatal in consequence. The faithful engineer and his fireman, true to their posts until the end, were crushed to death. Their bodies are under the debris and ruins. Conductor Howie and the tlagman escaped without harm. F.levcn of the cars were demolished and the engine is a complete wreck. The coal Is heaped about the spot in uugc, in proportioned mounus. About Lin* scene there are signs of sorrow and rrief. as the friends and relatives of the dead weep and wring their hands for those who will never come back to their homes. Engineer Averlll was a bright young man 2ii Mata of age, a son of Col. J. II. Averill of Charleston. His father, mother, wife and two little children, brother and sisters are spending the summer at Saluda, three miles from where lie met Ids untimely death, lie stayed on his engine with the faithful fireman, I doing all he could to check the speed | of the train until the engine buried him. As t lie runaway train passed I Melrose, the operator, J. W. Hetherly, 1 ran out and Fireman llair threw up i Ins hands and smiled. The operatoi ; fainted. Conductor Howie and his I llagmen, bishop and Ward, were unhurt. ItiK Kailrnutl Ileal. The Atlanta Journal says the purchase in the open market of a controlling interest in the Seaboard Ail Line hy parties representing the Hock ! Island and 'Frisco systems of railroad is perhaps the most important financial development of the year. The Seaboard Air Line owns out right or controls by lease 2,1304 mile.' of road. It has outstanding common stock to the amount of (29,000,001 I par value, and preferred stock to the amount of (19,000,000 par value; alst (55,057,000 in bonds. Its net earnings are something over (1,100 pei mile per annum. The Hock Island system operate! 8,057 miles of track. This system ii controlled by the newly organize! "Hock Island company," which wa formed a few months ago with ai authorized capital of (150,000,000 ti absorb the Chicago, Hock Island an< I'aeitic and other companies. Tin combined balance slieet issued las year showed the cost of the varlou roads and equipment to be (100,000, II ooo, and the l>ook assets, includini I (21, l.iO, 17:i in casti and current ac I counts, to be approximately (207,189, : WUO. lilt" UU UNUIIIUIII^ DOIlllS U1 til 'system aggregate #127,5,59,500 The St. Louis and San Francisc Railway company, operating what i known as the 'Frisco system, control I about 3,310 miles of track. Its out . standing capital stock amounts t ; about $40,000,000, exclusive of near 1 i $10,000,000 in stock of leased line and over $110,000.000 of bonds. The combined length of all til ? tracks in the three systems is nearl 1 1,000 miles. The combined capital i including bonds, foots up to nearl - $580,000,000. In other words, til merger of these roads will form th most colossal railway system in tli world. ( Itode l<> Mis Death. Henry F. Spalding, aged aliout -I - years, an expert automohilist froi - West Orange, N. .1., rode to hisdeat - four miles east of Whites Plains N. Y i Wednesday afternoon, lie was on tl t tow path of the Krie canal. Owin - to the muddy condition of the pall 1 and while turning out for a liniman - rig, Ills automobile swerved more tha he intended, and man and machii e plunged into the water. Two lincmc n rushed to aid Spalding hut in the e excitement let go entirely of the rope - the end of which they had thrown 1 the drawing man. GIVES HIS REASON For Pardoning Fletcher Lott but Governor Heyward Declines TO ANSWER ANY CRITICI8*. Ho Wih Movo<l to Act an He Did on Account of the Advice of Prominent People. In The State Wednesday Mr. L. T. Hoatw right of Itidge Spring criticised the governor for his action in pardoning Fletcher Lott who was convicted of murder In Saluda county in 1902. Mr. Itoatwright charges that "Gov. I ley ward's action in this case is roundly condemned by the best citizens of our town and county." Mr. Iloatwright goes on to say that Lott walked a mile after having had a difficulty with the man he afterwards killed, got his shot gun, walked hack to the house aud deliberately lired upon the murdered man. "The people of this community," he writes, "cannot sec how the governor could pardon this negro without making inquiry of the community where the murder took place. Your correspondent cannot tind a man who knew anything al>out a petition being circulated in Lott's behalf." TIIK GOV K UNO It's KRASON. The State says Gov. Ilcyward declined to talk of the matter Wednesday, but at the suggestion of his friends tiie following reasons were made pubic?the reasons which, according to the constitution, must be inscribed on the records to be submitted to the general assembly next year: Fletcher Lott?Murder, with recommendation to mercy; Saluda county. May term of court of general sessions, 1000, liefore Judge W. C. Itcnct. The petition for the pardon was signed by C. li. Latlitte, former inteudent.; A. It. Williams, W. T. Durham, former wardens; F. Nicholson, former clerk of town council of Ridge Spring, where the crime was committed. The petition sets forth that Fletcher Lott was charged at the May term, Saluda county, 1900, for killing Till Artimus. The petition sets forth further that at the time of said killing they were officials in the town of Ridge Spring, and were familiar with the facts and circumstances of said killing; that the defendant, Fletcher Lott, was horribly cut across tiie face and neck before the fatal shot was tired, and under all the clrcumsUincps lu>llf>vp t.hat. hp hnn Wn num. \ ciently punished and earnestly recommend the exercise of the pardoning power, and recommend that the pardon be granted at once. In addition to the petition of these . town otlicials, Hon. B. L. Caughman, railroad commissioner, in endorsing the petition says: "1 have known the petition, Fletcher Lott, for a long time and known htm to be peaceable, quiet and hard working; am familiar with tlie above case and join in the ? above petition.'' h. W. Crouch; Esq., makes the fol? lowing statement: "I was clerk of court for Saluda county when Fletcher Lott was tried at the May term of court, I'.KJU, for the killing of Till Artimus and made the testimony in that : case. Fletcher Lott was convicted of murder with a recommendation to mercy and sentenced to life imprison' menl in the State penitentiary. In my ' opionion he has been puuished suttlciently and 1 earnestly recommend that your excellency exercise your pardoning power In ids behalf. He was ' dangerously cut in the face and neck 1 before, according to the testimony of 1 some of the witnesses, the fatal shot was tired, and more cases have gone ( free." Hon. J. W. Thurmond, circuit r solicitor, made two recommendations as follows: "I recommend the pardon s in this case, the only homicide case in * which I have ever favored a pardon. See reasons on petition signed by the s intendant and wardens of Ridge 1 Spring." He further recommends: "lam satisfied that tlie law lias been vindicated in this case. Have considered the petiL ; tion and the facts of the case very s carefully, and feel that it is my duty that the prayer of the petitioners be * granted. Fletcher Lutt was badly cut iu tiie comliat that resulted in the death of Till Artiraus, and had a good e reputation for peaee and order." Hon. W. C. Betiet, presiding judge, ? makes the following endorsement: "I s concur witli the solicitor." s l'ardon granted Auk. 'O, 1903. r ______??_ b Wholettale PoiHoniug. -v A remarkable case of ptomaine s poisoning is reported from Ashburn, Va., some 2l> miles outside of Washc ington last Wednesday. A large numi>er c?f persons had gathered to attend ' tlie sale of the dairy farm owned by \ Senator Stewart of Nevada. The sena^ tor served the prospective buyers a ^ light luncheon consisting of coiTee, "" ham and beef sandwiches. Shortly afterward at least 50 persons were taken violently ill, suffering, from 15 ptomaine poisoning. One after anothm cr they tell to the ground, writhing In ,h agony. Horsemen were dispatched in all directions for doctors, and a numip l>er responded and took prompt measufes to relieve the sufferers, In a I, statement issued at 11 o'clock Wed s nesday night, the doctors report their in patients out of danger, altliough many ,c are quite ill. An investigation developed the fact that the beef, which had tr been purchased in Washington and s kept in cold storage on the farm for iV, several days was the cause of the trouble.