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: '?DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAfcl^HJR LIVES IN 'PHY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .]??_' . ? :'. VOL. XXVII. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FMpAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. NO. 14. A TUNNEL HORROR. ; The Collision and Barning of Two < Underground TrainB. \ PANIC. OF THE PASSENGERS, WIH? Stifled by '-.tho Smoko and ' llowlldorod by tho Darkness * Strive In Vain to Find tho lix lt H. . '-. . i An awful catastrophe occurred in 1 Paris, France, on Monday evening of j last week, on the Metropolitan Klee- ( trie Railway, which runs mostly un- j derground, in which many persons lost their lives. One of thc trains 1 broke at Menllmontant Station, which ' ls in a poor and populous section of the city. This train was promptly emptied and the train which followed was ordered to push to thc repairing sheds. On the way these two trains .caught Ore, but thc employees suc .ceeded in escaping. Meanwhile, a .crowded train reached Les Cur?ennos, the preceding station, and theotllcials, ?seeing smoke pouring out of the tunnel, gave the alarm. A panic en dued, thc passengers struggling to es cape from the. station. Amid Mie in creasing smoke many attempted to return along the line towards Itel le vine, but they were suffocated. The firemen started In to Hood thc ?burning cars, and shortly afterward they were able to enter the tunnel. 'They brought up the corpses of live imen and two women all belonging thc 'working class. BIGH'T Y- KO 0 lt EDDIES 'have been recovered, and the death dist probably will exceed one hundred. The accident, which occurred on ithe. Metr?poli tan Electric Railway as sumed the proportions of an awful ca tastrophe during thc carly hours to <day, when more than four-score bod ies of the bifrncd aud suffocated vic itlms were removed from the subter ranean passage. The work continues, :and indications arc tlint the death Hist will perhaps exceed live score. Long lines of ambulances were 'brought into requisition and the bod lies were carried to thc morgue and the mear by military barracks. After day ilight THE CUOWDS AT THU ENTRANCES 'to the tunnel increased to enormous lproportions, obliging the police to iforoi a solid cordon, through which 'were admitted only those seeking to iidentlfy their relatives among the .victims. The failure of many men, 'Women and children to return home ?during the night gave many the Hist . sand mothers ' came: hurrying to the imouths of the tunnels to try and find - Hie absent ones. The firemen found a great number .of bodies massed near thc ticket of fice of *he station, where many had -evidently been overcome while seek ing tickets. They had beert surprised by the columns of smoke, and had sought to run back up thc stone stair way leading to the street. A strug gle ensued, and some escaped, but the others had been trampled on. One woman had fled within the ticket of fice, where her body was found. The tk?refc ?elier, herself, succeeded iii cs caping. At the station of Les Curonnes, the Hame scenes Of death and despair .had been enacted. The accident oc .curred midway between thc stations tof Menilmontant and Les Couronnes, iso that the work of salvage proceeded jfrom both ends of the tunnel. In :addition to the blinding smoke thc (tunnel belched forth a terrille beat, as (ono of the trains was slowly burning \wltbin. The firemen succeeded in tthrowlng several streams of water in tthe direction of thc wreck, while some (firemen and military engineers, at jpreat hazard, pushed on inside the (tunnel. Further on, the firemen stumbled upon a TBKHIHLE MASS OK IIODIBS. mbese wenc thc passengers of thc bumed train. They had (led from the coaches when the lire broke out, and, groping through thc sulfocation clouds of smoke, sought the exit at Les Couronnes Station, hut thc tunnel makes a sharp turn near the scene of the disaster and at thc angle thc en tire maus of humanity apparently be lcanoe tightJy wedged. The patdc winch took place at this point, wilb an this dark subterranean passage maust have been terrible. M. Lepine, prefect of police, sum moned a large force of doctors and municipal olllcials, who superintended the removal of the bodies. The num ber of corpses brought up from the angle where the mass was wedged was so large that four and eight bodies were placed in each ambulance. Many of the victims had handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths, they having evidently tried to keep out the asphyxiating smoke. The faces of tho dead were red and congested. . Some women held their children tight ly in their arms. Several versions of the disaster are ? given, but THE MAIN KA OTK which have been established, arc 'tho following: Train No -Kl, which caused thc acci dent, trance to the Hois de Houlognc, In thc western part of Paris, and pass ing under thc Place dc L'Etoile* circl ed the northerly quarter of the city, In this northern quorter-a manufact uring Hcctlon-thc train picked up numbers of workmen, who, after their day's work were returning to their homes in the populous eastern arrondissement?! of the ai ty. On reaching tho neighborhood of thc Cemetery of Pore Lo Chaise, the elect rical motor failed to act properly, arid the train waited at thc station or Les couronnes until the arrival of a second train, which pushed thc crippled train forward, making a total of sixteen coaches. After proceeding about two hundred yards towards Menilmontant Station, tho damaged dynamo set tire to thc engine of tlic first train. Thc engine mrn?d fiercely, raising quantities of imoke. Simultaneously the electric Igbts on the trains went out, leaving tibe passengers in total darkness, ex cept for the light of the burning en- I igne far ahead. This impeded the progress of the trains toward Meuil naontant. Thc terror-stricken passen gers got out and tried ta grope their way back to Les Couronnes. The powerful electric current, which con tinued in the rails, is believed to have stunned or killed many. A number af the passengers tried to reach Les Couronnes Station, but the mal h body nf the pa8seagcrs who overcome by the beat and smoke. A TBUIII?LE VANIC occured among those behind, and the liorror of the situation was Increased by a third train crashing Into the liery mass, and adding another crowd j >f panid-sticken passengers to those seeking an outlet. 1 The cars continued to burn until twenty were consumed. Thc burning debris gave forth a fierce heat, which , puffed out of the mouths of the sta tions of Les Couronnes and Menilmont ant. Most of thc trainmen escaped, but thc conductor of thc train caus ing the accident was seriously injured. Thc escape of the trainmen ls at tributed not to their lack of attention to the passengers, but to their supe rior knowledge of the subterranean passage, which enabled them to hasten forward in spite of thc obscurity. A number of heroic incidents occurred. One of thc employees of the road nearly lost his life in seeking to make his way through thc smoke to aid thc victims, and is now in the hospital. Several soldiers and firemen risked their leves In attempting to succor the passengers. Perfect Lepine bimseir took his li fein his hands by entering thc tunnel and proceeding a conseder ahlc distance until the smoke drove him back. ACCOUNT OF AX BYK*WITNESS. The cl?ief station master at Los Couronnes, M. Didier, lias given a graphic description of the events pre ceding the accident. Ile says he saw thc Hames running along the gear of thc cars when tho first train passed through thc station and called out* to thc engineer to stop, saying there was not time to reach the next station, but the engineer declared he had ample time and proceeded. A few minutes later a long blue llame flashed through the tunnel, followed by a vio lent detonation. Looking into thc month of thc tunnel M. LMdler could see Hashed from the burning cars. Great masses of smoke began to pour out, preventing the olllcials from en tering thc tunnel. Men struggled ont through thc smoke. Screams could bc heard in thc distance amid the crackling of the fire. VICTIMS MOSTLY THE POOU. The names and occupations of thc victims give, pathetic evidence of their humble condition. The names are cbarartcrisylc of. the French working classes,. and their occupations are gi von-{;as given, as painter, ;mason, plumber, tailor, ^seamstress, loci^ smith, etc. Outside the workmen, about evecy third name ls that of a woman. Pitiful scenes were enacted at the morgue throughout the day as tue relati ves gathered seeking to iden tify the bodies, which were arranged in long lines on white marble Slabs. The clothing of ninny of the victims ls tom, showing thc licrccncss of thc struggle. SCENICS IN THE TUNNEL. A survivor named Jules Rouat, des cribes the struggle during thc panic in thc tunnel as terrible. Women were screaming,"Save me!" An old man fell exhausted until they fell asphyxi ated. M. Gauthier, the magistrate for the district, says one of thc main causes of the loss of life was that those escap ing took the wrong exit, one passage letting out to the street, while the other was barred, as it was usually for admitting passengers. Many of the victims sought the barred exite, and were found massed against the wall, where they had been slowly suf focoted. M. Bienvenue, thc chief engineer of the Metropolitan Railroad, says from the technical point of view every pre caution to avoid danger had been taken. The chief misfortune was that the employees did not organize assistance with suOlcient rapidity to permit the passengers being quickly drawn out. Ka il ri mi I CllHtlilttiCH. In the Hrst three months of the cur rent year says the Hartford Courant, 827 Amerlcianns were killed and 11, 481 wounded in accidents reported by the interstate railroad companies to tlie interstate commerce commission. In the "train accidents" ?too were killed and 2,8!M were wounded. Of the killed 04, and of thc wounded 1, OUi) were passengers, the rest were railroad servants of one class and another. The number of trainmen killed was 5!|4; the number wounded was (1,030. Collisions killed 10 and wounded 7f>3 of the passengers; they killed 131 and wounded 8(14 of the trainmen. Sixty-four of the train men mot death and 050 Incurred their wounds while coupling or uncoupling cars. "Murder Will Out." .Sol lienje and wife Katherine Haug h u ss of Wilkes county, N. C., have been arrested and committed to jail at Winston-Salcm, N. C., on the charge murdering Renje's daughter Sarah, about Pcb. 28th; 1002. On March 24, 1!)02, thc body o? thc dead girl was found in a mill pond. At thc coroner's inquest it developed that, were many bruises on the girl, indica tive that she had been killed before being thrown into thc pond. Recently evidence bas developed pointing to ward Renjc, his wife and Katherine Baughuss as thc perpetrators of the crime. Found in tho Klver. Thc body of an unidentified man | was found Thursday in North river at - the foot of tine Hundred and Sixty- < Third street, New York City. The I police say thc man was murdered. A i ho rid kerchief was knotted tightly 1 around his neck In such a manner as ( to cause strangulation. There were < deep gashes over both eyes. Ile was < apparently forty years old and was 5 I feet 8 inches in height. < KEMOVE THE CAUSE Bays John Temple Graves and Ton . "Will Stop Lyuohings. HE TALKS OUT VERY PLAINLY. And Saya Boldly That tho Usual Crime WIM be Followed in tho South by n Lynching. Unique among all Bummer gather ings ts thc "Mob Conference" now in progress at Chatauqua, N. Y. The increase of mob spirit shown by feuds, lynchings, riots, assassinations aud other lawless happenings gives great importance to this conference. Among Wednesday's speakers was John Tem ple Graves of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Graves spoke on "Thc mob spirit of thc south." Ile defended lynch law as a remedy for thc crime of rape, holding that though lynching ls a crime it is justified by thc crime which provokes it and will never be discontinued until that crime is eliminated. The remedy for lynch ing must be the elimination of thc crime of rape and thus, he malntaine, could be done only by the separation of tho two races in the United States. "The problem of the hour, is not how to prevent lynching In the south but tile larger question: 'Hov/ shall wc destroy the crime which always has and always will provoke lynch ing." "The answer which thc mob re turns to this vital question is already known. Thc mob answers it with the rope, thc bullet and sometimes. God save us, with thc torch. And thc mob is practical. Its theory is effective to a large degree; thc mob is the sternest, the strongest and most effective restraint that thc age holds Tor the control of rape. "The lyncher does not exterminate the rapist," Mr. Graves contended, "but he holds him mightily in check." As a sheer, cold, patent fact, he said, thc mob stands Wednesday as thc most potential bulwark between thc women of the south and such a carnival of crime as would and precip itate thc annihilation of thc negro race. The masses of thc negro, he held arc not afraid of death coming a regular way. The love display and the spectacular element of a trial and execution appeal to their imagina tions. Expediting thc processes of the law would not be adequate to eliminate lynching. The repeal of the amend ments and the establishment of the negro's.inferiority iq law and society, 'auld Mr. "Graves,, though desirable, are not sutllclent. "For the negro," he added, "ls a thing of the senses and with his race and with all similar races thc desire of the senses must be restrained by the terror of the senses, If possible, under the law. "No iniluencc of. suppression so mighty and effective could be brought to bear is a law making amputation thc penalty for the crime rape, lint this, like curfew edicts, separate laws for white and black, or the treatment of the crime of rape as separate and outside of all other codes but expedi ents, he maintained, "there is no real remedy but one. No statute will per manently solve this problem. Religion does not solve it. Education compli cates it. Politcs complicates it. "Thc truth winch lies beyond and above all those temporizing expedi ents," he concluded, "is that separa tion is the logical, thc inevitable, thc only solution of thc great problem of the races." Discussing the subject of "Mental and moral contagion." Dr. J. M. Buckley of New York, after speaking at some length of the various transient and permanent changes that take place under different physlcial and mental lnilueuces in human personal ity, took up the question of crime and argued that all crime implied the' ex istence of social and its attritions, that sin and vice could be committed by a person alone In the world but not so crime. He showed the operation of this and how iar through their natur al causes epidemics might spread. In conclusion, he declared that as laws bf association bring on such gen eral and feverish criminal tendencies, so the lasw of association must bc cm ployed to antagonize. In thc afternoon mob conference, John Temple Graves answered ques tions. The north and south were equally represented. Mr. Graves' plan for thc solution of thc race troubles is a state set aside for ne groes and disenfranchisement outside of that territory. He said thc south would not object to the loss of thc negro and for lt learning the superi ority of white labor. "Is mob execution/1 lie was asked, "a matter of economy to tho southV" /'No," he replied, "thc south never weighs money in the matter of wo man's honor." Another question was, "Arc not thc southern mobs largely white trash and men of murderous intentions?" ile answered: "By no means. Thc mob have in cluded the highest In thc land, of licials and professional men." Ile declared that a white man would be lynched as quickly as a negro for un offense against a white woman's honor. He instanced in proof the only lynching In New Orleans in re cent years. WlH?ro IN HO? A dispatch from Atlanta to thc Augusta Chronicle says: "With a jood-byc to his wife, and babies anda promise to shortly return with pro visions, Heese Hogan, a mill hand, who lives at 15 Bluff street, left his lome last Saturday night and has lot siuce been seen. Mrs. Hogan and 1er four little children arc now in lestltutccircumstances. Thc police .vas asked to look for Hogan last Mon lay. Hogan could not bc found and t is now believed that he has desert ed his family." DISASTROUS HURRICANE Otmars Many Deaths and tho JJOBS of Ten -Million Dollars. Tho West Indian hurricane struck thc island of Kingston, Jamaica with its full force Wednesday, inflicting great damage. Port Antonio, on the north coast, was completely over whelmed. Only six houses were left standing there. The United Fruit company's wharves, ofllces, hotel and plantations were utterly demolished. Five of the company's steamers, in eluding the Simon Dumois, Alfred Dumols and Brighton were driven ashore but are lying in easy positions. Port Maria, another town on thc north coast, also suffered Similarly. The coast ls strewn with wreckage of local sailing boats. The southeastern portion of the is land has been completely denuded of its crops, the rivers are flooded and many men were carried out to see and drowned. Considering the damage to property during thc hurricane, the loss of life is comparatively small al though thc present estimate is that the death Hst will reach f>0. Hun dreds of persons were injured and there were numerous hairbreadth es capes. Thc property loss is estimated at 810,000,000. The entire eastern end of the island has been devastated. Villages have boen wiped out and public buildings and churches demolished. Thousands of the peasantry, rendered homeless aud destitute, are wandering about seeking food and shelter. The destruc tion of the banana plantations has been completo and thc fruit trade is paralyzed for thc next twelve months. Hundreds of prosperous fruit growers have been brought to bankruptcy and ruin. The western cn.I of the island, which lt was at lirst supported bad escaped, also sulTered considerably al though not to thc extent which the eastern end did. The new banana plantations planted there were partly destroyed and thc oraugc and the cotfee crops were also injured. Thc Norwegian steamer Salvatore did Giorgio was driven ashore at Annotta hay and lies in a dangerous position. Ses'eral sailing vessels were wrecked on the north side. Thousands of houses In Kingston were damaged, the wharves were bat tered several coasting vessels were sunk in the harbor. Trade is prac tically at a standstill. ACT OF A MADMAN. Fires a Shotgun Into a Crowd ol'Five Thousand People. Gilbert Trigg, aged 30 years, sup posed to.-be '.Ins?neit ?mfc?T'X?T: <... M> ?rhnil u?l "stTc?t~or\V Irilicldy l?a'fiflas;. Thursday with a double-barreled shot'^ gun and lired both charges deliberate ly into' a crowd of 5,000 people who were listening to a band concert. He killed three persons, fatally injuring three, and shot 20 others, of whom six may die. Trigg was himself killed by a policeman. The dead: Sterling Rice, a carpen ter; Dawson Tillotson, a barber, brains blown out; D. Bowman, a carpenter of Oxford, Kans.; Gilbert Trigg. The injured: Mrs. John Barnard, shot in thc neck; James Clarkson, shot in the back and arm; II. li. Oliver, shot in the shoulder and back; Clyde Reed, shot in the hip; J. R. Storry, shot in the chest and knee; Wilkins, Charles Thomas. Thirteen others were less seriously Injured. Thc band had just finished playing a waltz when Trigg stepped out fTom an ally a half block distant and de liberately taking aim at the band stand, tired two shots. R. E. Oliver, a bandma.j, fell at the lirst shot, but the crowd, not realizing what had happened, rushed toward Trigg, be lieving that there had been an acci dental shooting of some kind. As the crowd closed in the crazed man dis charged two more shots at them caus ing a scattering in every direction. Wit h the crowd fleeing, thc man stood tiring at random In every direction. Policeman George Nichols confronted Trigg and fired a bullet in to Ids head. Before Ufe was extinct the demented man drew a revolver from bis pocket and fired a shot into bis own body. (Ulbert Trigg was a miller by trade. He was commonly referred to as "Crazy Trigg," but no one thought liim dangerous. Suvcd from a Mob. Eight negroes were arrested for an attempted .criminal assn lb on Mts, Hart, a white woman, at Whitestone, Tex., on Wednesday. Seven were re leased and the eighth man was held . ir id en ti li can Lion. A mob appeared at tho jail and took the negro and b;'...ged him to a tree nearby. Reforc lie hearne unconscious ofllccrs appear ed and rescued the negro and are hurrying him toShermon for safekeep ing. Tile mob is gathering to pursue thc prisoner and it is said other com munities will join the mob. After thc negro Drown had been forcibly taken from the mob, its mein hers turned their attention to thc col ored residents of the town. Guns were lired promiscuously in the negro section and thc terror-stricken negroes when they came from their houses were ordered to leave town at once. No violence further than this intimi dation has been ofTcrel so far. As result outgoing trains on all loads are crowded with negroes. A Ht range enuc. A dispatch from Roanoke, Va., to Thc State says Dr. John L. Doggett, HO years old, a prominent dentist of that city, met with a peculiar acci dent Wednesdays hight, While in a flt of nightmare. Dr. Doggett's wife graspedd him by thc bands In an en deavor to quiet him. He gave a lurch ot superhuman strength, th row i tig his hands over his head and ham again, snapping the large bones tn both anns near shoulder. Physiclajs pronounce thc case an cxtraordina hine. i A . PRISON HORROR. m --. &rWhite Woman Tells How She Was fe Brutally Whipp ed. BHE SAYS SHE .WAS PUNISHED I - Bcoauao She Spurned Improper j . Proposals from tho Wurden or tile Prison "Where She } "Wns Con tined. ?I ? The whipping of Miss Marie De Crises in one of tho Georgia State posons is creating a great deal of talk arjfMndlgnatlon In that State. Tho matter was recently investigated at MUledgevilleo where the prison ls lo cated. Miss DeCris' statement sub stantially, was that she was treated klftdly at first. "W?irden Alagood | made improper-advances to mc in his robin when I did clerical work. Ile attempted to caress me. I jerked avfay. Ile went in the other room I arid sat on a bcd. Ile told me to | come in there. I refused. Ile told mtv not to tell or he would make lt hoi for rne, and he has surely kept his WP^d. I saw him kiss a white con vict In thc hospital. Vi talked with Mrs. Alagood the day-before the whipping. .1 used no disrespectful language. I did not Ktpp talking when ordered. 1 told another white prisoner about Mr. AWbod's advances. She said if I was a Jcwd woman to submit, if not to protest; that I would have an easy Lime if 1 would submit as that was tb'??pnly way to get along with him." IThc other woman- denies being kissed. She denied thc conversation al , II rsl, but afterward she admitted it/(iisubstance. The evidenco ol'im proper proposals was not held up by tbejother witnesses who say that Ala gbpi? never approached them. At the | Whipping on the bcd, it was ordered to> draw the clothes tight and this was'done. Miss p'eCrla continued: "A physi cljatvwas present. I was severely and brutally beaten and I cried. 1 was put in the Held, under guard, with negro women next day. 1 was kept there off and on for four weeks. I w?s.terribly blistered. They allowed m?'.poTest. 1 nearly fainted and fell in?thc Held once. I never wrote im-1 proper notes to any one. <,*.'! was so terribly bruised by thc I wSVbping tbab I could not sit down. There were welts as big aa ra> finger I and the bruises were dark and blue and [ deupf for two weeks." This waa substantiated by one other witness, but was denied by a woman wfioslept in thc same room, but not Mlae'same bcd. ?$??iie said sho;had. to put a greasy I " v ,r-.>.hcr- wounds. '.; . j " iClTOSSKTTrho- heitriLttu lliMU ] ^fidicries, say thc whipping was severe. They heard lier "hollering." Miss DeCris says she overheard Mrs. Al?good telling the house woman this] morning that the committee was com ing, and ?'you all must stick to me | and the captain." Witness and Mrs. Alagood all deny this. Thc DeCris woman says she was I tantalized by negro women as lazy, no| good, a diamond queen, no better than they, etc. She says that Mr. Foster saw her in I thc field and protested against the same; he had to order Alagood to send I her to thc house two dur?rent times, and at bust be did so, but put her to work in thc potato patch back of the house afterwards. She says ber re fusal to sec a reporter wasdiotated by Alagood and through fear. Alagood1 says abe refused of her own accord to see correspondents. Dr. Adams' evidence was only his olllcial eapaolty as physician. Ile! did not consider thc whipping unusu ally severe. Warden Moore left for | Atlanta tonight. There is a rumor that the legisla tive committee is coining tonight. Mrs. Alagood says she asked hcr| husband to whip Miss DeCris for in subordination and for impudence. The leather strap was exhibited. lt is an awful instrument of punish-1 ment-about <l inches wide, and :io] inches long, weight, say :i pounds, solid leather, no holes. Warden Moore Instructed every wituess to taik freely and without j fear as be would protect tliem. Thc general Impression is that Ala good will be discharged as the im mediate circumstances did not at all justify whipping and thc punishment was entirely too severe in any event; the woman should not have been worked in the Held continuously in thc bot sun. Thc affair is at fever heat and is| tile entire topic of the town. The telegraph olliees is crowded with messages on thc subject from every where. Fattier mid Son Convicted. Jobcl Register and his father, II. B. Register, Wilmington, N. C., were I convicted in Whiteville, Columbus county, Wednesday of thc murder of Jesse Sales and .Hm Stally last March and burning their bouse down upon their bodiesafter robbing thc premises I of something over 81,000. The young-1 er Register was sentenced to be bang ed on October I), and the father was I sentenced to thc penitentiary for life. Gross Edmondson, whose confession implicated the Registers and secured Lhcir conviction, was sentenced to six years. Register's counsel gave notice nf appeal to the supreme court. ?Vi tiru "t? i i i M Clont:. Thc Whaley Mills in Columbia have leclded to run three days of each week until thc nev crop of cotton comes in, which will be the first week in Sep :cmber. Thc mills shut down Th?rs lay night and resumed operation Mon lay, running until Wednesday again 'or about four weeks. Thc statement vas made in a Charlotte paper recent y that thc mills of Columbia would le idle for several months^ but olll :crs of mills state that this ls nothing int a sensation story. The mills have ust about enough cotton on hand to un In this manner and as soon as the mw crop comes In full time will be re it med. - 2 ^ODE ?C? #BATH: TKE\ _ "'' i Another Fatal Railroad Av ?^te*i* j Down tho Saluda Mountain. A dispatch from Spartanburg to Tho State says a disastrous freight wrcoked occurred on the Melrose grade of the Southern railway Thursday afternoon at 2.15 o'clock by which Eu ginecr J. II. Averill, Jr., and Fireman Hair were killed outright, ll cars loaded with coal smashed into smith ereens, the locomotive ruined and W. D. Sherrin, brakemau, whose home is at Baltimore, lost his legs, these mern bers being severed by the car wheclB. .Tho tragic happening occurred a short distance below Melrose station, almost midway between Saluda and Tryon. Thc distance that the road bed of the Southern rises on this heavy, treacherous grade of Uve miles, from a little above Saluda to Tryon, will open tho eyes of thc average traveler, provided bc has had the time to inspect casually, even, thc route. This afternoon freight No. 02, headed for Spartanburg, with Con ductor Howie lu charge, was running from Asheville. This train was com posed of one of the Southern's brand new mammoth, locomotives and Ul cars laden with coal. Engineer Averill was in charge of the locomo tive, and tile trip was uneventful un til his train was. passing along a short distance above Saluda, ' As he had to check up for that station, ho applied the brakes; thc train was running at a brisk rate of speed, willoh momen tarily Increased, Tho -brakes would not work and In a minute the train was beyond human control. As the freight passed Melrose sta tion at a fearful rato of speed Agont. netherly say, Fireman Hair, seated in his cab throw up his hands, indicating a perfect comprehension of the danger and peril awaiting the Ill-starred crew. Faster and faster grew the speed of tho uncontrollable train and finally thc locomotive diverged from the iron rails and plunged down Into a cub. The result of this abrupt check was fatal in consequence. The faithful engineer and his iireman, true to their posts until tho end, were crushed to death. Their bodies are under thc debris and ruins. Conduc tor Howie and thc liagmau escaped without harm. Eleven of the cars wero demolished and tlie engine is a complete wreck. Tlic coal is heaped about the spot In huge, ill proportioned mounds. About the scene there are signs of sorrow and uriel', as the friends and relatives of the dead weep and wring their hands for those who will never como back to their homes. Engineer Averill was a bright young man 23 years of age, a son of Col. J.H. Averill, of Charleston. His father,, mother, wife. and';tWQ .little children, .brother and s Ls le ft ' ar';': sp ending "tho. .'summer ajt ^1'hdn^ferce-miles'*It?ui^ herc h?it?eb" his untimely death. He stayed on his engine with thc faithful fireman, doing all he could to check tho speed of thc train until the engine buried him. As the runaway train passed Melrose, the operator, J. W.Hetherly, ran out and Fireman Hair threw up his hands and smiled. The operator fainted. Conductor Howie and his llagnien, Bishop and Ward, were un hurt. H?K Railroad Deal. The Atlanta Journal says the purchase in tho open market of a con-1 trolling interest in thc Seaboard Air Linc by parties representing the Rock Island and 'Frisco systems of railroad, is perhaps thc most Important finan cial development of the year. Thc Seaboard Air Linc owns out-1 right or controls by lease 2,(504 miles | of road. It has outstanding common stock to thc amount of $211,000,000 par value, and preferred stock to the amount of 819,000,000 par value; also $55,057,000 In bonds. Its net earn ings are something over $1,100 per mile per annum. Tlie Rock Island system operates | 8,057 miles of track. Tills system ls controlled by the newly organized "Rock Island company," which was formed a few months ago with an authorized capital of $150,000,000 to absorb thc Chicago, Rock island and Pacilic and other companies. The combined balance sheet issued last year showed thc cost of the various roads and equipment to be $190,000, 000, and the book assets, including $21,130,173 in cash and current ac counts, tobe approximately $207,189, 000. The outstanding bonds or thc | system aggregate $127,559,500. The St. Louis and San Francisco Raliway company, operating what is known as the 'Frisco system, controls about 3,310 miles of track. Its out standing capital stock amounts to| about $49,000,000, exclusive of nearly $40,000,000 In stock of leased lines and over $110,000.000 of bonds. The combined length pf all the tracks In the three systems is nearly 14,000 milos. Thc combined capital, including bonds, foots up to nearly $580,000,000. In other words, the I merger of these roads will form the ' most colossal railway system in thc world. $i,r.oo in Howards. A special from thc State Wednes day says thc governor offered a reward of $200 for tlic arrest and conviction of James Evans, the mulatto who i.i alleged to have killed thc aged farmer, Mr. Phillips, as lie sat at lils supper table in Iiis home in Norway. If one man could collect all of thc rewards outstanding for recent acts of lowless ness In that section of thc State he would receive over $1,500. In addi tion to the $200 for the conviction of I James Evans, there is a reward of 81o0 offered for thc conviction of thc| man Green, who in such a dastardly manner killed a Jew peddler, Zurasky, while thc latter was begging for life. There ls also a reward of $500 for the ] conviction of tlie parties who lynched Charlie Evansand $500 for thc convic tion of tlic parties who lynched the | negro at Chinquapin, In Aiken coun ty-the negro who was indirectly implicated in thc killing of young Willie Hall. For tho arrest of the murderer of Willie Hall there is a re ward of $150. ROM AN CE END S IN TRAGEDY. ii It Un nu-ay. Weddin?, a How and A Chase that Proved Pata!. The Fort Mill correspondent ot-The State says on Sunday evening," 9tli instant, ??avlng just, performed. the ceremony making a couple' from the. Fort Mill Manufacturing company man and wife, 'Squire McElhaney was called upou to marry Miss Ella Ram sey and Mr. J. R. Norman, both of tte t ame village. There was serious parental objection to this marriage, and thereby hangs thc tragic tale. After Um marrlago Norman and his bride returned to the" home of her parents, who had bitterly opposed thc marriage. Immediately there was a H rat-class row, in thc progress ot which Norman severely abused and cursed the girl's parents, his manner being extremely violent and threaten ing. The girl's father reported tho matter to the town authorities and on Monday morning Ofllcer R. G. Johnson went in search of thc young husband. Ile loamed that Norman had Just left, going In tho dirootlon of Rock Hill, eight milos distant, with the Catawba river between them. Then it was that Qtllccr Johnson brought out his blood hound and gave chase. Striking the trail of thc fleeing man, there was an exciting chase between man and brute. As hoon as the Catawba river was reached thc animal went straight to the shore and, hesitating not a mo ment, plunged in and swam to tho westbank. There ho again endeavored 1 to strike thc trail but failed. Johnson 1 had reached thc river by this time, and failing to (ind the young man along thc banks, ho was convinced . that he was hiding behind a rock cliff midway of the utreara. After e?am ining this cliff and falling to find his man, Johnson abandoned the search, taking his dog and returned home. 1 On Tuesday parties along the river 1 discovered the body of a man floating 1 down stream. They examined lt and found that it was the body of the bridegroom of less than a day. It was pulled ashore and taken to a point near thc-home ot Mr. Hanks Jones, . who is reputed to bc a relative of Abraham Lincoln, where at last ac- 1 counts it was resting awaiting the ar- J rival of the coroner of York county. Mr. Norman was about 30 years of ! age. He had been in the mill vilagc ; at Fort Mill only a few weeks, having 1 come from Belmont, N. C., for the purpose of taking a position in the mill. Ile has a brother living in the village. Mr. Norman had scarcr.ly ar rived at Fort Mill before he became enamored of the girl, who, forsaking her objeoting parents, was willing to go with him, without their knowledge, to the magistrate, who was formerly the intendant of tbe town, and plight her troth. The dramatlo and' tragic sequel leav.?s her a widow and simply brings to/the attention .of "tho world the sad. ending of a beauti f uVromaii ce, tho r?3?lt--of aicaie of v'l?fc at /v.rst . Sight" " ^,rr-~r?^,y BOMB GOOD ADVICE. " From the New York Tribune to the Colored Man. A negro preacher of Chicago at tempts to explain the attack on Booker Washington in Boston saying that the president of Tuskegee institute goes counter to lils race when he advocates industrial education, labor and aban- 1 donment of politics. These theories, thc Chicago negro says, would if car ried out lead to the Jail of the race to a condition little better than serfdom. In advocating a "surrender of rights" Booker Washington does not represent his people, says the western critic. Thc Btaunch newspaper, the New York Tribune, gives the negroes ad vice and displays a very clear concep tion of the situation, north and south. Only through Booker Washington's policy, lt says, can the negro "hope to rise from a condition of serfdom to full political and clval recognition." Thc claims he is charged with neglecting, says j The Tribune, have alrerdy been surrendered. "If thc political and civil rights thrust upon the negro in the process of Federal Reconstruction have not been rescinded, they are in a great measure, at least already in abcyence. Negro leaders now face the problem not of surrendering those rights hut of regaining them. Never perhaps since congress gave him his new status has the negro's capacity to live up to the status been so fiercely disputed; and lt seems tho part of wis dom for negro leaders not so much to pin their faith blindly to enactments which have lost their virtue as to turn their energies to lifttug their race to new levels of character and eligibil ity." It doesn't require very keen preccption to see the trend of The Tribune's reasonings. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments have lost their sacredness in Its sight.-The State. A had Adrirt. Thc Morgan linc steamer Elrado which arri vod at New York Thusrday from Galveston had on board a 12 ycar-old boy who was found adrift in au open boat about 100 miles oil thc coast of Georgia on Aug. 10. Ho was naked and almost dead from exposure After the lad had been revived some' what he told Capt. Prescott that with two other boys bc was fishing outside thc harbor of Habana when the boat broke adrift and they were unable to row ashore. Two of thc lads, seeing tim land rapidly receding, plunged into thc water and swam for shore. The other boy was unable to swim so far and reniai ned in thc boat without food or water until picked up by thc Eldorado. He says bc was adrift for live days. A dispatch from Havana says thc mother of Joseph Vega, the Cuban lad picked up off the const of Georgia by thc Morgan line steamer El Dorado, was overjoyed when in formed by thc Associated Press repre sentative of the boy's rescue. . He had been given up for dead. The mother has been confined to thc hospital most of the time since Aug. I, the day tho boys started out llshing In disobedience to thc warnings of their relatives. Joseph ls l l years old. . GIVES; HIS BEASON Foi''^it^i^B]'^0M Lott but GovernorHoy ward Deol?nea I TO ANSWER ANY CRITICISM. Ho Was SIovo<l to Act QH Ho ?>i?: oii Account u?tho Advice pf Prominent People. In Tbc State Wednesday Mr. L. T.' j Boatwright of Ridge Spring criticised the governor for bis action In pardon ing Fletcher Lott who was> convicted . of murder In Saluda, county in 1002.." Mr. Boatwright charges that "Gov. Hey ward's action in this cas? IB round ly condemned by the best citizens ot our .town and county." Mr. Bpat wright goos on to say that. Lott walk ed a milo after having had a difficulty with tho roan be afterwards killed,' got his shot gun, walked back to tho house and deliberately fired upon the murdored man. "The people of this coramunitj ho writes, 1 cannot sec how the governor could pardon this negro without mak ing inquiry of the community where the murder took place. Your corres pondent cannot lind a man who knew anything about a petition being cir culated in Lott's behalf." TIIE GOVKBNOIt'S REASON. The State says Gov. Hey ward de olined to talk of the matter Wednes: day, bufe at the", suggestion of his friends the following reasons->wero made pubic-the reasons which, ac cording to the constitution, must bc inscribed on the records to be submit ted to the general assembly next year: Fletcher Lott-Murder, with '..''re commendation " to mercy; Saluda county, May term or court of general sessions, 1000, before Jud?e W. O. Benet. The petition for the pardtn was signed by O. B. Laffitte, former intendent; A. R. Williams, W. T.'.j .. Durham, former wardens; F. .NicbcT-" son, former clerk of town council of Ridge Spring, where tho. cr?mo ?ai 3ommltted. The petition sets forth that Fletcher Lott waa charged at the". May term, Saluda county, 1900, for killing Till Arfeimus. The petition sets forth further that at the time of said killing they were officials in tho town of Ridge Spring, and were famil iar with tho facts und circumstances of said killing; that thc defendant, Fletcher Lott, was horribly cut across the face and neck before the fatal shot was fired, and under all the circum stances believe that ho has been suffi ciently punished and earnestly reccm-. mend the exercise of the pardoning power, and recommend that thc par don be granted at once. In addition'-to thejjcttbiou of these town-ojffi?^aJs, Hon. P., L., Caughraan railroad . ??mmissio.ii?r, ?iri -endorsing- ? thc pet ifcioiV say s : "lb aye k noyy ri'Vh petition, Fletcher X.otXt ror i lun time anddenowtt bim to be p?acenbJc, quiet and hard working; am familiar 1 with the above case and ' join in the ' above petition." B. 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, 1900, for thc killing of Till Afti mus and made the testimony in that case. Fletcher Lott was convicted of murder with a' recommendation to mercy and sentenced to lifo imprison ment in the State penitentiary. In my opionlon he has been punished suffi ciently and I earnestly recommend Lhat your excellency exercise your par doning power in his behalf. Ile was dangerously cut in the face and neck before, according to thc testimony of some of the witnesses, thc fatal shot was fired, and more cases have gone free." non. J. W. Thurmond, circalt solicitor, made two recommendations as follows: "I recommend the pardon In this case, thc only homicide case in which I have ever favored a pardon. See reasons on petition signed by the Intendant and wardens of Ridge Spring." He further recommends: "I am sat isfied that the law has been vindicated in this case. Have considered the peti tion and the facts or the case very carefully, and feel that lt is my duty that the prayer of the petitioners be granted. Fletcher Lott was badly cut in thc combat that resulted in the death of Till Artlmus, and bad a good reputation for peace and order." Hon. W. C. Benet, presiding judge, makes the following endorsement: "I concur with the solicitor." Pardon granted Aug. 10, 1903. Wholesale Poisoning. A remarkable case of ptomaine poisoning is reported from Ashburn, Va., some 20 miles outside of Wash ington last Wednesday. A large num ber of persons had gathered to attend the sale of the dairy farm owned by Senator Stewart of Nevada. The sena tor served thc prospective buyers a light luncheon consisting of coffee, ham and beef sandwiches. Shortly afterward at least 50 persons were taken violently ill, suffering, from ptomaine poisoning. One after anoth er they fell to the ground, writhing In agony. Horsemen were dispatched In all directions for doctors, and a num ber responded and took prompt meas ures to relieve the sufferers, In a statement issued at ll o'clock Wed nesday night, the doctors report their patients out of danger, although many are quito ill. An investigation devel oped tho fact that the beef, which had been purchased In Washlhgton and, kept In cold storage on thc farm for several days was thc cause of thc trouble. _ Itodo to His Death. Henry F. Spalding, aged about 4? years, an expert automobilist from West Orange, N. J., rode to his death four miles cast of Whites Plains N. Y., Wednesday afternoon. He was on tho tow patli of thc Eric canal. Owing to tho muddy condition of the path and while turning out for a Uni man's rig, his automobile swerved more than ho intended, and man and machine plunged into thc water. Two linemen rushed to aid Spalding but In their excitement let go entirely of thc ropes, Mic end of which they had thrown to the drawing man.