'ina THOU LIBERTY GREAT. IN?B?ltE QTJB, 8QULfi? A*?D M AHE OUR ???fW IN THY POSSESSION PAPPY-' OR Q?? DKAT^OLOm?PS"?5 TflY S^J^^^ 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?rovevould 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