The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, June 12, 1903, Image 1
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VOL. xx^alT
BENNETTS VILLEN S..<3" FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1903.
NO. 31.
A YAWNING ?ttASM.
Into Which an Excursion Train
Loaded With Negro Plunge.1.
OCCURRED NEAR' WEDGEFIELD.
Five People Killed ami Many Oth
er? Wounded. Kfl'oriH to
Wurt? thc Mii?lneer of
Dntiger Failed.
An excursion train from Nichols to
Columbia on the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad was wrecked between Wedge
field and Cane Savannah, about eight
miles from Sumter, Wednesday morn
ing. The train wan taking a large
crowd of colored people to Columbia.
When eight miles from Sumter, going
at full speed, it plunged into a deep
washout. Thc engine, the baggage
car aud three coaches were, thrown in
? heap, and thc crew and passengers
crushed in the wreck.
Thc water which had been lying
placidly beside the embankment had
become a torrent unlashed, and the.
pent up force torc a gaping bolo in
the path or the train, into this Tis
sure tile train plunged-and the At
lantic Coast Line service lias lost one
of its best passenger conductors: four
excursionists are reported dead, and
others are suffering from severe in
juries. There were .Ti of thc pas
senger list of less than a hundred, whit
suffered Injuries of more or less im
portance.
Thc i ll fated train was an excursion
from Nichols, Marion county, and
was running just ahead ol thc regular
morning train from Sumter to Colum
bia. The excursionists were negro
preachers and their friends ?oing to
.the commencement ol'one of the col
ored colleges in Columbia.
DEAD AND WOO NUKI).
.). J. Clements ol' Florence, conduc
tor, killed instant ly by blow on head.
Frank Ross and Minnie I loss, his
wife, colored.
Joe Davis, colored, Marion.
Ned Weston, colored, Marion. Died
on relief train while being taken to
Sumter.
In addition thirty-live passengers
were hurt. Thc engineer, Guorge
Wilson, was also badly hurt. All thc
killed and wounded were colored ex
cept Conductor Clements and Engi
neer Wilson.
Thc worst cloudburst which hus
been known in that section of Sn niter
county in a quarter ol' century swept
over Wedgefield community Tuesday
. night and for hours thc water fell iii
fe?8?ie?ts7 '.The very olouds seemed;*->o.
-#^hAVe>/.b*Een. 't?r?wnTrorh'' itii'der a ." siis^
pended lake. Rut the section fore
men and track inspectors of the Coast
Line went over thc line and could lind
nothing which forebode thc terrible
disaster which blotted a train out of
existence. Tue morning passenger
train had passed over the same stretch
of track on its wav from Columbia to
Sumter, .md a freight train had also
passed along this very place and had
noted no weakening in the embank
ment.
THIEU TO STOP THU THAIN.
The ominous booming ol' the break
ing of thc bank was heard by a negro
farm hand, Alexander Robinson, who
lives near by, and terror stricken ho
rushed from his cabin to warn thc ap
proaching train-for he knew that
the morning passenger to Columbia
was due in less than half an hour.
Desperate with anxiety lo convey tho
startling news, bc ran down thc track
toward Cane Savannah, a station two
miles east of the place where the wa
ters made, thc breach, and six miles
out of Sumter. Had he not readied
the station his signal of Wartung and
of distress might lia ve been heeded,
or had the regular passenger train
been running ahead of thc excursion it
would have stopped. Hut if Engineer
George Wilson saw thc improvised
Hag which Alexander Robinson Haunt
ed in thc face ol' the invisible Ullin
ence which was luring the locomotive
to its doom, no notice was taken, for
excursion trains are not expected to
stop at such stations as Cane Savan
nah unless they have hat) orders, anti
the regular passenger train was run
ning but ten minutes behind. Fran
tically the negro waved in the face of
thc engine a long strip of ted paper
which he had taken from his hat, and
eagerly he pointed down the track to
the hole of horror beyond. Hut Iiis
well meant ell'orts were misunder
stood anti the train dashed hy at Hie
rate of HQ to 40 miles an hour. There
was nothing for this humble messen
ger to do. but to wait for the Inevit
able, and his heart sank with Tear as
he saw the train (lashing on lo ifs (In
struction.
DEATH STA UKI) HIM IN Tl I Ii KAI !K.
Thc train was within fa) feet of the
abyss when thc engineer saw late
beckoning to him out of thc terrible
chasm. With great presence of mind
he applied the emergency brakes and
threw the reverse lever hack to its
furthest notch. Had he not doini so
the weight and impetus of the engine
would have carried it across, thc
coaches would have been piled in even
greater confusion than they were and
the loss of life would have been far
greater. Hut with ils lee! lied by the.
brakes, the locomotive sei fled serene
ly info the chasm, its nos.- buried far
into the sand of Hie side toward wit iel i
it had been approaching. The great
driving wheels sank lo their top ri ins
in Ute Oed of saud the lires were im
mediately extinguished. The escap
ing steam crooned a sad requiem
through the whistle, which had been
thc chronicler of the life and activity
of the eugine now useless hut not a
ruin, tor it can he rehabilitated.
And what (d' the men who rode in
the cab? The bottom ol' the crevasse
was the width ol'thc engine, without
tile tender, and the latter was stand
ing almost perpendicularly, its front,
cntl having entirely demolished Nie
cab and its rear end being held upright
by a tangled confusion of trucks and
running gear, upon which three
coaches had been mounted. Front
this vortex of death-dealing iron if
would seem that thc eugine men would
have been killed Instantly, but the
fate which lured them also su ved, Tor
with thc Impact of the application ol'
the emergency brake, .the tireman was
shot out of thc cabe window ?us nut of
a catapult. Tho engineer jumped to
keep from being caught in his cab,
and ran upon tVie tender. When the
engine settled and the tender careened
upon its .end, Engineer Wilson was
also thrown to the front and to the
side landed in a bed of sand, but so
near to thc engine that he was scald
ed frightfully. Ile received several
facial abrasions and was hurt inter
nally^ The li reman escaped with
slight bruises and ran all thc way
from the sconce of disaster to Wedge
Held lei get help'tor those who/ were
injured.
TUB CONl>UCTOtt*S OK ATI I.
Thc train consisted of a refresh
ment car and live coaches, lt was in*
thc former that Conductor Clements
met death. Ile had been sitting in
thc middle passenger coach talking to
tlie only white passenger aboard, Mr.
F. W. K. Kellain pf North Carolina,
a traveling salesman. While they
were talking two negro preachers,
Denby from Marion and Moseley from
Nichols, cune up and asked thc con
ductor to assist them In Miine matter.
They had just had time to walk
thrungli tlie two coaches in front and
to get to thc refreshment car when
(Minu thc awful crash. As soon as
Mr. Kellain could extricate himself
fruin thc tangle of passengers thrown
upon him, he made his way out of tlie
car, which was (?illy partially derailed,
and went in search of the conductor,
whom lu; found lying at thc bottom
of the ravine of the Hour of what had
been thc rcfrtslimcht car, now roof
less and shapeless and with its run
ning gear 50 feet away. Mr. Kellain,
seeing a terrible gash across thc left
side of thc lace of the insensible con
ductor, felt of Mr. Clements' pulse
and immediately real i'/.cd that the ac
commodating and popular conductor
had taken his last train order.
WO UK OK KICSCUK.
Ki liam, making his way back to
those coaches which bad not been de
molished seen red the axes and saw s
and gut t he uninjured to work remov
ing and caring for bile suffering. Thc
llaginan had gone back to warn thc
regular passenger train which was ap
proaching hard upon thc heels of thc
ill-starred excursion. The porter was
hurt and helpless, his collar hone hav
ing been broken, and there was noone
of the train crew left to look alter
those who were. hurl.
The most miraculous part of such
dreadful tragedies as this is the fact
that when it seems that no one could
escape alive there arc really so few
casual tics. In this particular wreck
there, were many people who received
injuries, serious and slight, but there
were hut live fatalities. The cars in
which the injuredand the dead.had
been riding werpjliternlly torn .into
.kiivcUlrvvwbPd th?'.destj;u/it|?nvh''ing
?o'co'mplete thatev?h upon close ex
amination it would be almost impossi
ble to tell whether two or three
coaches had their parts so mixed in
thc mad confusion. ~
May He Wnriiliij?H.
The Anderson Mail says the most
callous and indifferent of men must be
impressed by thc great destruction of
lib.' and property by wind and light
ning and high waters, anti involun
tarily thc question will come. Why
aro these things permitted';1 We may
rack our brains for an answer, and
there can be but one answer: They
arc sent by thc Almighty for his own
purpose, lt may tic that they are sent
to warn us as individuals and as a
nation that God reigns and his pres
ence and his wrath arc always at hand,
lt may seem to human minds to be a
terrible and cosily method of warning,
but most of us will all too soon forget
it within a short time after it has
passed. We are all hushed and silent
while the warning is upon us. How
few there arc who. in thc time of
storm and disaster, can look up tot hid
and say: "I am not afraid." How
sweet and restful it will he when the
the storms have passed and we can
again see thc sunshine and the bow of
promise.
fiikc u Hird.
A dispatch from Gainesville, Chi.,
says '''orman W. 13. Bannister of the
Gainesville Cotton Mills who was
caught in thc cyclone and was last
seen about three hundred yards in the
air more than a mile from the mill
has been found. Bannister was on thc
tilth Moor of thc Gainesville. Mill when
the cyclone struck thc mill through
the roof. Bc was seen and recognized
hy many as he was carried through
the air at a great height. Ile passed
directly over tin; Southern Ballway
depot and many identified the body.
Mc appeared to he a hundred yards he
hind thc funnel shaped cloud, riding
in the suction of thc wind fiend.
About a mile, from thc mills he was
seen hy many of thc employes ol' thc
Paeolet mill. They all say they In
stantly recognized him. lie was then
in ar attitude nindi as though swim
ming, his arms and legs extended and
his face was downward, lie was
traveling at. a high rate of speed much
ns a bini Hies. Mrs. Bannister is re
ported in an almost insane condition.
.Hay lie Disco,it inned.
A dispatch from Washington says
a determination was reached to in
vestigate ail thc rural free delivery
roules ?ind ascertain whether a mate
rial reduction in thc total number
established cannot be inade. A rough
est imate has been prepared .showing
that in thc South there are one third,
in the north one lift)), and in the
uni t Invest one fourth more routes than
arc rei ?ti ired hy necessity. lt is
claimed that under HU? pressure
brought lo hear by senators ?md rep
resentatives, Machen established ?1
large numbers of routes not justified
by thc population or business. In ac
ceding to thc requests of Congressmen,
Machen sought, to build a great politi
cal machine, that would assist him
when tin- day or adversity came.
There arc now- more than 8,000 rural
routes. lt will re?pi!rc r.aicli time
?ind I rouble titi investigate them,
(?real caul ion will he necessary before
abandoning even ?mc of them, as thc
people will complain ?md congressmen
will violently object. We hope that
none ol' thc routes in this county will
bo disturbed.
THE GREAT FLOODS.
The Situation in the Overflowed Sec
tions Improving.
GREAT MENTAL SUFFERING.
Binny Hescurs lOITectcd, but Forty-.'
Fight are Known to Ito Dent!
nt Topeka. Great IJUSS
ol' Property.
A dispatch from Kansas City says
Blue sky was visible above Kansas
City. Tuesday afternoon. The rains
have disappeared and the sun was
visible for thc ilrst time this week.
Thc watcrs'of the Kaw river have
fallen eight inches arc steadily declin
ing lit thc rate nf about one-half an
inch an hour. In the Missouri thc
h ?uh stage of 35 feet ls still main
tained, but this is due to thc rise
which bas been comini; down thc
Missouri proper and has been able tu
oir.set the fail in the Kaw. It is tho
water of the latter stream, however,
that^ias caused all thc damn ge in this
city and in Kansas City, Ivas., and
with it at a normal static, business in
Kansas City soon will resume ustnil
conditions. This city, hy a narrow
margin has escaped a serious short
age in food, has faced the peril of tire,
.utterly helpless to avert its conse
quences, hassuffered inlllionsof dollars
of damage to property arid sustained
a loss in life that in all probability
never will be accurately measured, and
now it is commencing to believe
promises of better things.
Thc situation shows Improvement
on almoit every side; the waters are
falling: the gas has been turned into
tho mains once more and there is no
immediate danger of a serious short
age ol' food. Thc city has cared for
its own and ls abundantly able to do
so still, but there is uolsutlicicnt food
, on hand to permit the relief committee
and the municipal olllcers ht feel easy
i over thc outlook. The transportation
I facilities at the present time arc so
limited that not much freight can be
brought in at a time and there is
danger that the demand may outrun
the supply.
Two men lost their lives Tuesday in
thc attempt to save others, .lust
Keenan was drowned while endeavor
ing to rescue some people from the
Adams house in Uulon avenue and Ed
ward Brooks lost bis Ufe in Liberty
street, -where his skill was overturn
ed hy an eddy while he was endeavor
ing to get another, man out of a build
ing. A'number of bodies were seen
Moating.vdown the stream, but are
believed to be.those, of . people;dro.wn
'ea-*mfiCB?.iil> m$m> .'^r?bdW*?Cr
North Topeka. . .
Eui ly hf ty people were brought to
the Twelfth street viaduct during the
clay by boatmen. None of them had
been In great danger. Many people
are still in Ute warehouses and olllce
buildings and will remain there until
the flood subsides. They are entirely
safe and fairly comfortable. There
is very little probability of much
greater financial damage than has al
ready been done. Tlierc have been
some reports of settling ol' various
large buildings in the wholesale dis
trict but they appear to have settled
In a remarkably even manner and
expert examination will he required
to prove that they are in a dangerous
condition.
MENTAL A NU Ul SI I.
Without water, save for urgent
needs, without beds, the upper part
of thc town being unable to house in |
any comfort the horde of refugees
Tuesday night bids fair tu be a repeti
tion of others since thc coming of the
Hood.
The wretchedness, however, is more
mental than physicial, through the
discomforts due to herding large
bodies of people lu buildings not built
for the purpose and trying to feed au
army without a commissary depart
ment. Leavenworth, to the north,
the only way by which tlie suburb can
be entered with supplies, is the place
to which all turn with hope. Butions
sullicient to last several days if care
fully economized, were brought in
during the day and additional bedding,
clothing, medicine and other supplies
arc expected within Hie next 24 hours.
Much mental discomfort exists be
cause of thc separation of members of
families who had little time to escape
from the Hood. Sine; Sunday fathers,
mothers, wives, husbands, brothers
and sisters have visited every part ol'
town, particularly thc places of re
fuge, looking for missing members of
their families.
Something like order was brought
tint of thc confusion Tuesday in the
thc distribution of such food as was at
hand. With the supply running short
it became apparent that thc distribu
tion must he made systematic and a
central station for that purpose was
opened.
nis'ntiiiuTiNn Koon.
From there the food is sent in pro
per proportions to thc various schools,
churches and other camps of refugees.
A temporary hospital with medical at
tendants has been established. Fann
ers sold garden truck In the streets
during the day and 1)00 sides or "beef
were carried from S wi lt's packing
house. This is thc entire number ol'
beeves saved at thal plant.
Merchants id' Kansas City, lias.,
have brought up large quantities ol'
supplies which will be shipped into
the suburbs as last as possible over
the only line or read open- thc elec
tric road from bea ven worth, Ivas.
Street cars in the suburbs began to
run utter a htsliion Tuesday with
power furnished hy the dynamos at
Leavenworth. The lack ot gas is
severely felt and nil is scarce.
Flags of distress from partly inun
dated buildings in Armourdalc could
be seen from Kansas City, Ivas., dur
ing the day and many rescues were
affected. Possibly fd bodies have
been seen lloatin$ since Sunday, but
estimates made from this arc value
less, as some of the liddies may have
lloated down the Kaw from Topeka,
thc same bodies drifting in the ever
changing eddies of the Hood may have
been counted several times.
Thc Unod situation ls very rauch In -
proved Tuesduy night,. The gas sup
ply ls ample; two electric street car
lines have resumed service and others
will fullow Thursday: the electric
light plant Is ready to begin service
but it does not do so because of the
possibility or lires from crossed wires:
the waterworks will begin to pump
Kansas river In ihe reservoir tomor
row and the next day the wateer will
bc turned Into the pipes; the biod sup
ply is ample on both sides nf the
river, the vast quantities of meat in
?.be packing houses having been
reached by the packers- the predicted
increase or sick nef s has not appeared;
the Kansas river is falling half an
inch an hour .md thc Missouri river ls
expected to begin io fall before day
light.
Eight persons are positively known
to have been d ri wried in thc two
Kansas cities since last Friday. They
ure: Policeman Edward Keenan, -
Kohle, Philip Ware, a negro boy;
Wm. Heister, ti nek driver; Wm.
Herbet, expressman; .lames Decrman;
.lohn Kay, neuro Edward ltrooks.
WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS
Tlie Ulispcitktlllle Turk and HJU>I Cruel
Heeds ?II Kumminin.
Horrible details arc arriving herc
of the slaughter of the inhabitants ol'
thc village ol Sinerdash, south of Lake
Presba on May 21, hy Hashi-lia/.ouks.
lt appears that on the arrival or the
Itashi-P.a/.diiks, ChakalnrolPs hand or
insurgents withdrew lo the mountains
without sustaining any loss. As no
rebels were lett In Ihe village the in
habitants experienced no anxiety,
until sunddenly, at sunset, the Turks,
who had completely surrounded thc
place, commenced a regular bombar j
ment, whereupon all the villagers as
sembled in the streets. Though the
artillery ceased liririg during part or
thc night, thc Turkish hinintry tired
all nightlong. Thc artillery bombard
ment was recommenced at daybreak,
hutas it was ineffective thc Turks set
lire to the village on all sides and
commenced a general massacre,
slaughtering women, children and
the aged. About three hundred houses
were burned and upwards nf two
hundred persons, mostly women and
children, were killed. The women
and girls were murdered while resist
ing outrage. Whole household were
slain. One family 01 seven were slain
and their bodies heaped on the hearth.
Not a living soul was left in the
village. The. survivors, many ol'them
half-burned orotherwi.se injured, lied.
Some ol the lleeing villagers were cap
tured and had their cars and noses cut
olf before they were butchered. Thc
report adds that 1,000 villagers were
in thc mountains without clothing or
food. Une band ufthese, consistlng
of forty'"women and children, were
caught by soldiers in a ravine and ;
were killed after ,horrible treatment..-. '
' ' '". iWiF?t ?nStl^ -
The Columbia correspondent of Thc
News and Courier says the happiest
man in South Carolina today, perhaps,
is Cato Gadsden, formerly a colored
citizen or lleaurort County, but who
since 18S0 bas been a convict in thc
Penitentiary. Ile was sentenced for
lire hir stealing $:if> or $40 worth or
cotton seed. Ile stoic them at a time
when the law was different rrom what
it now is, and as thc crime came un
der thc class ol burglary, and thc
house where the cotton seed was
stored adjoined a dwelling, Cato got
thc extreme penalty. It turns out
that generally he had been a quiet,
law-abiding negro, but somehow yield
ed to temptation. His conduct in the
Penitentiary has been good. Thurs
day a delegation came to sec the
Governor in his behalt. They gave
bim a good character as a rule, and
as he had served four or live times the
terni bc would have served had the
crime been committed later, thc
Governor decided lo pardon him.
Forest Fires.
Thc tn ti rc slate of New Hampshire
is darkened with a pall of smoke from
the forctC tires in the North, so dense
that thc sun is entirely obscured and
lt is with difficulty that one. can work
or read without artificial light. At
G rove ton thc people; packed their be
longings Thursday to move away.
Thc city rd' Merlin is entirely surround
ed hy llames which swept up the Ani
monoo/.ue valley. . In Carroll county
vast quantifies of timber and cut lum
ber are burned. In Oroveton, 80
miles away, ashes arc falling in the
streets.
Killed hy Id^litiling.
Duringa severe rain and thunder
Storni at Anderson George Hammock,
a young white man who lives at the
( ?rr Cotton Mills, was killed hy light
ning. He was employed in building
some ol'thc new operatives' cottages
that the company is erecting. When
thc storm caine up he left Iiis work
and started for his home in company
I with his father. In a few seconds a
bolt of lightning struck thc house and
Ihe was instantly killed. His body
was badly torn by the bolt and the
house was badly demolished.
School Children ltewciied.
The rescuing party sent from St
Joseph, Mo., to Topeka composed of
7f> men with steam launches and row
boats have returned and their places
will bc take by other volunteers. The
St. .joseph men rescued lion school
children from the Grant school, im
prisoned t here since last, Friday. Thc
childred were in a half starved condi
tion. Thc rescuers shot and killed a
negro caught in thc act of looting
deserted houses.
.lucked Him Up.
.lohn Dennis, a negro was lynched
at tireen ville, Miss., Thurday after
noon hy a mob of two hundred men.
Thc negro had attempted a criminal
assault upon a well known young lady
who was returning home from the
telephone exchange, where she work
ed, on Tuesday night week, lie was
immediately arrested and placed in thc
local jail.
A Wiiming.
lt. W. McDaniel, a young white man
of Lexington County, will serve thc
balance of his natural life in the state
prison Tor having taking the Ihe of a
fellow man. The supreme court de
cided that bc should not have a new
trial. The court was divided, two ard
two, and thc motion failed.
WAR STATISTICS.
Further Statement of Forces audi
- Loses on Each Side
IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR.
Thc Hmithorn Soldiers Hud to Kljjht
Aguilita Cirent Odd* and Take
Moro KiskH Tliiin thc
Northern.
Some days ago the New Orleans
Picayune printed statistics showing
that In the Civil war the losses of thc
Confederates in killed were io propor
tion greater than were those of thc
federals.
This statement was questioned on
the ground that thc federal armies
were made up in thc aggregate of
nearly, live times tho numher of men
possessed by thc Confed?ralas, and
that, therefore, thc largest anny
should naturally have sulTcred thc
greatest loss in hattie, it was con
Scuded, on the other hand, that the
smaller army, in order to stand against
the greater, was compelled to light
with inore despera tion and daring, and
that, . therefore, its men subject to
greater loss. Moreover, any force
lighting at large odds would have to
endure thc lire of a greater number of
missels, and this wnuld expose it to
g realer loss.
Unfortunately, many of thcConfed
crate Avar records were lost, or de
stroyed in the evacuation of and rc
treat from Richmond, and therefore
the.Confederate returns arc not coin
plete and ho accurate account is avail
able. Thc war department at Wash
ingt?n, which has charge of all the
Confederate war records, has recently
begun thc work of completing, as far
as possible, thc Confederate records as
to numbers and lasses of mon. and
call'has been made which should bc
promptly responded to, asking Confed
erate survivors and State authorities
possessing muster rolls and other data
of the sort, tosend them, cither as a
loan;or gift, to tito war department at
Washington, so that they may he
copied and used to supply the lost
records, So for as thc ligures arc
available today. The Picayune re
pea?s'.wiih additions the Hgures prlnt
ed^hy-jit lasttWednesday.
..The figures in regard to the union
army are taken from the "Statistical
Record" ,by Capt. Frederick Plasterer,
th?tivr?'tj?esarmy, published by Charles
iS??Ctfs.'^pns, New York, 188?, and
dec^?fed^t?-be, compiled from army or
de_'\;rejil8lcrs)of,regular.s .and vp)un:
.;" ''hr ndiiitant-r^eueral
ur. L,vie'aimy, and from those of thc pro
vosll marshal general of the array, thc
"Medical History of thc Rebellion,"
and other sources.
As to the union forces in the Held,
the summary of the men furnished by
and credited to the various States by I
the adjutant generals olllcc ls given
by States, and it shows, including
Indians and negroes, a total of 2,772,-1
.IOS men and money commutation al
lowed by the draft law, to represent!
8(5,728 men, making an aggregate of I
men represented to be 2,859,132.
Of Indian troops there were .'I,5:i0,
and of negroes there were 180,01)7, all
of whom are included In tile figures of
2,722.108. There were 2,047 regi
ments of all arms. After citing in dc-1
tail the figures in the reports of the
adjutant general, of the provost mar
shal general, Capt. Phistercr gives the |
following as the most complete and re
liable statement:
Killed in battle. 44,238 I
Died of wounds. 40,205
Suicide, homicide and execu
tion. 5201
Died of disease.180,21?
Died in southern prisons.2-1,184
Tolal.?04, ?fi? I
Of the negro troops included in the|
above. 1,514 were killed in battle,
1,700 died from wounds, 2(1,212 died
from disease, S:t7 died in prison, and
f>7 from other causes.
The enlistments of foreigners in the
federal army are thus given:
Germans.170,800
Irish.144,200
British Americans. 53,500
English.45,300
All others. 74,000
Aggregate.404,000
The deficiency in the Confed?rate
returns precludes any accuracy of
statement, has been put at (100,001).
It should be remembered that the
northern States had a white popula
tion of 20,000,000, while the south had
a white population of 0,000,000, be
sides 4,000,000 negroes. The south
ern negroes were slaves and were'
recruited for thc northern army from
thc districts in the southern States j
that were overrun by the invaders, to|
thc number o? 180,007. As to foreign
ers, they were kept out of the south
by the blockade of the southern
ports by the federal Meets, but they
were attracted to thu northern army
by Lite huge bounty offered, and they
joined in great numbers. If the six
million of white people in the south!
sent one-tenth of their numher, or
liOO,000, into thc Held, the 20,000,000
nf the northern whites should tit thc
same rate have sent 2,000,000soldiers,
r?tese, with the 405,000 foreigners,
and Ute lSii,0ti7 negroes, would make'
?in aggregate of $2,080,097, or about
thc strength reported above for thc
total federal force.
The Confederate losses, as compiled
from the the muster rolls extant and
un lile in the wai" department in Wash
ington, give the following:
Killed in hattie. 52,954
Died from wounds. 21,570'
Died from disease. 50,207
Total .13:1,821
Died in northern prisons. 20,430
Aggegate.160,5
lt is plain, however, that the mus
ter rolls of the Confederates are ex
tremely Incomplete, because they give!
Nortli Carolina 14,552 killed, while
they give Alabama only a total of 552,
ind Virginia 5,328, and Oeorgla, 5,- i
r?:i8, and Mississippi 5,807, when it isl
well known that any of these States
furnished as many troops as did North
Quoll na, and did as hurd lighting. In
the "Medical History, of the Civil
War," prepared under' the direction
of the then Surgeon General llames,
lt was estimated that one mun out of
every 05 was killed in action, one out
of every 10 was wounded hi action,
and one out of every f>(l died of
wounds. At this rate the losses or the
Confed?rales should have been ll,2:10
Instead of 52,054, and the wounded
should have been GO,OOO, while those
who died of wounds should have been
something over 10,000, but, on the
contrary, they were many times
greater.
The late distinguished Confederate
surgeon general, Joseph Jones, esti
mated thc grand total of deaths lu the
Confederate army from battle, wuunds
and disease, at 200,000.
The federal olllcial reports show
that of prisoners and deaths in prison
the following ligures are the round
numbers:
Federals In southern prisons. .270,000
Confederates in northern pri
sons.220,000
Excess of federals.00,000
Deaths of Confed?rate prison
ers .20,430
Deaths of federal prisoners.. . .22;570
I
Excess bf Con T? derate
deaths.2,801?
Commenting on these ligures, the
present cllicicnt and studious Con fed
crate Surgeon General Tebuult says:
''According to these li gu resthc per
centage of federals deaths in southern (
prisons was under il, while the per- 1
centagc of Confederate deaths in i
northern prisons was over 21. These |
mortuary statistics show how faith- (
fully and devotedly the Confederate
medical corps cared for the prisoners 11
of the Confederacy in spite of the | y
scant supply of medicines and instru
mcnts and works on medicine and
surgery, and thc most absolute essen
tials for satisfactory treatment, these
having been made contraband of
war." i ,
That thc Confederates, by reason | 1
of their smaller numbers were forced
to light with greater energy and to
expose themselves more prodigally tojt
the enemy's lire is shown hythe re-'
turns of losses in killed and wounded
in battles, thus.
Confederate Federal
Matties. loss. loss.
Chickamaugu.15,801 ll; 135
Gettysburg.22,544 17,084
Atlanta. 7,500 2,522
Franklin. 0,250 1,222
Thc above were battles In which
tile Confederates attacked their ad
versaries In strongly intrenched posi
tions, but in every case the losses of
thc southern troops were out or pro
portion to their numbers but they
never received a blow without Inflict
ing tremendous losses in return.
-;-r
One of the'biggest hauls of whiskey
ever made in a single raid was cap
tured by some of the local constables
Wednesday afternoon about two miles j j
from the city. A constable approach
ed a well known gentleman oh tin
street and asked him if he would ob- \
ject to a search of a barn on a farm j
in the county. /
"Why, no," Dr. Heise laughingly j j
replied, "you arc welcome to all the
whiskey you can lind there." | j
Thc constable was insistent and
finally obtained thc permission.
Late in thc afternoon when Dr
Heise was driving along the road to
his farm he met a wagon heavily
laden with kegs. The constable was
driving and Dr. Heise accosted him. 11
"How much whiskey did you gct?
he asked. The answer appalled him
for the man of thc law answered
"Four hundred gallons!"
This whiskey had been kept ror
some time in a barn without any one
ever being aware of it except the em
ployes of the farm. The constable
said it was Intended for a local and
well known blind tiger.
Dr. Heise was for a time greatly dis
turbed |?st lie should bu arrested for
running a tiger himself.-Columbia
.Slate.
Plowers for Camp Chase.
Gen. John IL Gordon, comander-in
chlcf of the United Confederate
Veterans, has issued general orders
calling upon the people to contribute
Howers for the decoration of the
graves of Confederate dead at Colum
bus, Ohio, June ll. Gen. Gordon
says: "The commanding general
feels sure, although thc time is very
short, that there will be no lack ol'
Howers at Columbus to decorate thc
graves or our dead at Camp Chase. To
honor such dead is to honor the
living. In this connection the gener
al commanding Hnds great pleasure in
reminding the Southern people ot thc
hitherto most generous course of Col.
Ka nan ; or the Union army, and of
the broad-minded people of Ohio in
decorating the graves of these Con
federates independently and in erect
ing the monument which adorns their
resting place. Such acts illustrate
thc spirit of fraternity and unity
which is thc ?ll rest guaranty of the
Republic's future progress and per
petuity."
A Kat ni Wreck.
A special from Paola, Kan., says
two Sante Fe trains, a north-bound
and a special south-bound, collided
head on, one milo north of Stillwell,
Kan. NM ne persons are dead and
twenty-eight are said to be injured.
The Wells-Fargo express messenger is
still under thc wreckage. Five
coaches and both engines arc in the
ditch. The dead arc to be taken to
Olathe, Kan., and the injured to
Kansas City. ls ls reported that thc
two trains were to meet at Stillwell,
but one conductor misread his orders.
l?rove<I n I'1/? ll ure.
The Ferris wheel, the massive struc
ture, which was one of thc main at
tractions to visitors on thc midway
during thc world'f fair at Chicago in
180:?, and which was subsequently re
moved to Lincoln park has been sold
by public autlou in Judge Chyatrus'
court. A junk dealer bid in tlic big
wheel and the sum paid for thc en
gines, buildings, boilers, cet., was
$1,800. The wheel cost originally
$302,000. Outstanding against it arc ]
bonds amounting to $?100,000 and
Heating debt of $100,000.
LOSES ALL HI8 MONEY.
Ex-Senator McLaurin Seems to Have
UuuK?it a Gold Itrfck.
A special to Thc State from Now
York says John L. McLaurin, former
Uuited States senator from South (Jar- .
jllna, is iii thia city striving to gather ?
?ome fragments of his forture, -which
lie declares has been shattered bv thc
indorsement of notes. If he cannot
realize on the collateral given to him
is security, former Senator McLauriu,
who was worth something like 3100,
J00, says lie will scarcely have money
iuough to get back home. In his light
Lo savesome of his money, Mr. Mc
Laurin lias obtained an attachment
from Judge Clark, in thc supreme 1
iou rt, for $20,000 against property
?aid to be owned by Frank A U rusted i
ar Worcester, Mass., in lavor of Wil- ;
liam Howard,.lr., who held, thc pro
tested note. i
A certificate for 17,80!) shares of
stock of the Brunswick aiid firming- ;
ham railway has been attached. The ,
note in question was made by Mr. Mc- ;
Laurin on April 21 and was payable at
the Mercantile Rational bank or New
York in or.c mouth. The note was not
paid at maturity. Mr. McLauriu had
presented the note to thu Guardian
Trust company, which paid him the <
money. In an allldavit Mr.-McLuu- i
rin says he paid the money to Mr. 1
U msted. I
Though thc note in question was ?
Tor $20,U00 it ts said that Mr. M e. Lau- '
rill is threatened with the loss of $100- |
)0U and that several prominent poll- '
viciaos of South Carolina are heavily t
n vol ved in it. James W. Osborne, a 1
'ormer assistant district attorney, and 1
Jtto Heise, who have been employed 1
is counsel by Mr. McLaurin, are now 1
irving to learn whether there arc any
irior claims upon the property given as .
security by the men who obtained the j.
indorsement of thc former United ;
States senator to their paper. \
Mr. McLaurin, who is staying at the ::
imperial hotel, declares he was hot in l
position to say the security obtained 1
jy him was worthless, lie feared he, i
is well as other involved, would bc i
ible to rcaiize only a very small, por- I
lion of their investment. Continuing ii
jhe former senator said: "I will say: ii
lowe vcr, that the property given us I
is security was represented as being t
jilt edged and it is yet tu bc proven t
mat thc representation is as stated, i
)ur security consisted of live notes of.
.bc promoters of the Brunswick and (
[tirmingham railroad, given on April i
il and payable one month after date, i
"They were endorsed by Mr. Um- I
?ted. When they fell due, however, .
payment was not forthcoming, and l
?ince then myself and associates in thc 1
transaction have been using every i
Means in Our power to arrive at the ?
ixact-.value of thc property. I
"What we have learned is nut reas- <
airing." , ? i
.Mr-JJmsted, against whose property '.
She" Stt?ctfm?nfr-was'."Issued,.-occupies -i
ipartments in the Wellington. Ac- i
lording to a representative of Mr. 1
Umsted, the deal in which Mr. Mc
Laurin ls involved was a friendly one, ?
md Mr. Umsted was making every I
?llort Ut guarantee the amount due to ?
ilie former senator from South Caro- I
ina. I
Former Senator McLaurin said that <
ie was unable to say just how long lie 1
>vould remain in New York, but that I
ic had been advised by counsel to stay <
intil something delinite was done. 1
Legal steps will bc taken in a few days. <
That the situation is critical was evi- \
lenccd by the fact that both Senator j
McLaurin and Col. Brown were in j
dose consultation with Attorneys Os
borne and Heise at thc bar associa- 1
tion rooms until nearly midnight '
Tuesday. Col. Brown came to New |
York with Mr. McLaurin several days 1
_ <
THE DEADLY LIGHTNING. \
Several Persona Are Killed i?i Diner- !
ent Purls ol* the State.
A severe storm passed over South
Carolina Tuesday week resulting in
tile loss of several lives and doing
considerable damage to crops.
At Anderson Geoige Ham mack, a
young whiteman, was killed by ligth
ning. Ile was at work on one of the '
cottages being built at the Orr mills.
At Congaree the. storm was partial- ]
larly severe. A negro house on Hagar '
.Jones' place was blown half an acre
and ahoy killed by splintering tim- '
hers.
The large barn and stables of Raw- ,
linson and Weston were completely
demolished, killing one horse, and in
juring several others.
The Atlantic Coast Line depot was !
unroofed and a great many barns and
stables were destroyed.
In the Limestone and Jamison sec
tions of Orangcburg county thc wind
was accompanied by hail which killed
sheep, hogs, dog;; and other small an
imals anti completely destroyed thc ;
crops. The farmers will probably re
plant cotton and corn, lint the other
crops arc ah entire loss.
While returning from Spartanbitrg
to his home near Golightly, .lohn C.
Lee, a well known farmer, was struck
by lightning. The bolt struck one of
his le^s, felling him instantly. The
lightning torc oft" his pants from one
knee down, tearing oil* one of the
shoes and sock. In falling Mr. Lee's
face was badly bruised. Ho was ren
dered unconscious by the shock and
remained in tills condition for several
hours. This is not the first disaster
Mr. Lee has experienced from storms.
In 1874 a cyclone struck his house. A
neighbor's son who was sheltering
in it from the fury of the storm, was
killed outright by the falling timbers
and Mr. Lee was considerably bruised.
At Laurens, Andy Garrett, a negro,
was plowing a mule when a bolt of
lightning struck thc animal, killing it
instantly, but the negro escaped un
hurt.
A Sc? Disaster.
A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile,
says the Pact tic Steam Navigation
company's steamer Arequipa, which
during a lull in Wednesday's great
storm at Valparaiso left thc port in
an endeavor to ride out the gale at
sea. The agent cabled that the
steamer, which had 80 persons on
board, was lost. Capt. Todd, his wife,
Hf ty of the crew and many of thc pas
sengers of the Arequipa were drowned.
?-HOT TIME.
A Colored Picnic from Char?eaton
Broken Up by
BAD TEN MILE HILL NIGGERS
Who Attacked thc City Folks With
Guns mid CI n bu. Six Cnr
rlcil Back to tho Cf?y
Wounded
Thc Charleston Post says a fierce
battle with guns, pistol and knives
was fought ut Ladson, a station on
Lhe Southern railway, seventeen miles
from Charleston, on Monday, June 1,
between Charleston negroes, who had
goue to Ladson to tn kc part in a pic
nic given by thc .Jenkins Orphanage,
?ind several hundred country negroes.
Shooting irons were used freely and
about twenty-five negroes were wound
ed, though not scriou.ily. A man,
woman and child, whose identity are
unknovyn, are said to have been killed,
though the report is discredited.
The excursionists returned to thc
uity with I lie wounded Charleston
negroes. Six were sent to the city
hospital, and others went to their
lonies. Tiie country negroes who
wenfshot did not come-into the city.
The negroes sent to the hospital were
picked up on the streets by the police.
They were: William Grant, shot in
tide and leg, found on America street;
William Pryor, George Ken/Je, Henry
Liangston, James Allen and William
berrin, found on Line street, Butlering
rom gun shot wounds.
Monday the annual picnic of the
lenklns Orpanage was given at the
rrounds of thc Jenkins Reformatory
it Ladson. The Rev. D. J Jenkins,
yho is at the head of both the orphun
ige and thc reformatory carried about
i,700 negroes ou a special train.
iVhcn the reformatory grounds were
cached, thc Charleston negroes were
net by a large number of negroes
rora Ten Mile and the country
idjaccnt to Ladson. Thc latter were
inned with guns, rillcs, pistols and
chives; Tlicy told thc city negroes
hat they hud come to have a good
J mc and that they must not intcr
crc.
The morning hour passed ott witb
nit trouble, but along about 2 o'clock
n tlie afternoon thc Ten Mile Hill
?egroes wanted to dance In the re
formatory building, and the Rev.
Jenkins put a stop to it. declaring
that he would nofe allow his picnic to
lie turned into a dance. His action
incensed thc country negroes, and
serious trouble commenced. Ono of
bbc Ten Mile Hill crowd drew a pistol
m the Rev. Jenkins, and the city,
negroes rushed up to taken his part.
There was much wronging, blows ,
were;passed-and Urbanus were dis
played. The trouble was settled forV' '
time.
The., country negroes organied them
??lves into a regiment, and sent word '
bo the town negroes that they wanted
?atisfaction, aud invited them down
to the road near a creek. The invita
tion was accepted. Thc riug leader
if thc country forces, armed with a
ong rifle, led his command against
She picnic crowd. He was ovcrpower
id, his gun was taken from him, and
ie was shot with his own rille. Ile
.vas also badly cut, but none of his
wounds are thought to be serious.
After being shot he retired from the
jame. _>
Thc battle was kept up for several
lours, and shot after shot was fired.
Vlie Rev. Jenkins gathered his or
phans together and the female mem
jers of his crowd and remained under
lover until about 7 o'clock in tlie
ifternoon thc hour for the .excursion
train to pull out of Ladson. Hundreds
jf negroes made for thc station as
soon as the shooting commenced,
where thej remained, all thc after
noon, fearing to venture forth. Some
were, so badly frightened that
they walked five miles to Summerville,
returning to the city this morning.
When the excursion train, consisting
of seventeen coaches, was made up
to bring the picnickers back to the
city, everybody thought that thc
trouble was over, but, just as.the
train pulled out from the station, a
i country negro (ired into it, which .
was thc signal for other shots and a
constant tiring was kept up until thc
brain was out of range.
When fire was opened on thc train
by thc angry mob of country negroes,
Lhe wildest excitement prevailed In
tlie coaches. Men, women and chil
dren crouched under the r.eats. Some
locked themselves up in the toilet
rooms, and small negro boys climbed
up into the bundle racks in the top of
the cars. Every pane was powdered
ind it is said that the train came in
Charleston Monday night with not a
?ingle head out of a car window. The
shots fired into the coaches broke win
low panes and several passengers were
peppered. One woman was shot in
ilie arm, and a small colored boy
wounded in the back. None was kill
?d.
Thc Southern railway authorities
lave taken the matter up, and will
mike every effort to apprehend thc
negroes who tired into the. train. A
reward of $.*>o will be paid for thc
irrest of thc parties that did the
?hooting. The Rev. Jenkins says that
bbc wildest kind of excitement prevail
ed, and tho country negroes thirsted
for blood. They swarmed about the
brain like Indians, all tlie time keep
ing up loud sholl I.s. As the train
passed Ten Mile Hill, some one fired a
shot into a passenger coach.
Chopped <i(T Muir? Head.
A special from Tazewell, Tenn.,
says Sam Davis was killed near that
place late Tuesday afternoon, Ealo
Min ton chopping his head off and
burying an ax several times in his
body. The men engaged ina difficulty
In Minion's house. Minfon was put
in thc Tazewell jail Tuesday night
and the sheriff made preparations for
protection against mob violence, fears
of which were expressed Tuesday
night. _
A Mad Cuso.
The Infant child of Col. W. G.
Stephenson of the King's Mountinn
academy. Yorkvllle, died on Monday
from swallowing broken glass.