The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 29, 1905, Image 1
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* VOL. 14.
A SAD PICTURE.
Negroes of the West India Islands
Said to be Drifting
^BA.CK TO BARBARISM
Condition in the Islands. Where th<
Blacks Have Control Race Problem
is Being Settled Against the
White Man. Sad Sight at
Ruin* of St. Pierre.
I have recently returned from a trlt
to the West Indies and the Spanish
Main, In the course of which 1 visited
most of the Windward as well as the
Leeward Islands of the group, write*
/Lambert Tree, In the Chicago Trlb
une. We went within 10 minutes ol
the Equator, and I found It hot dowt
there, with 00 to 05 degrees In the
shade.
1 had summer seas and blue skies It;
the tropics all the time, and the trip
was In many respects Interesting. Ol
course I saw our new colonial acquis!
tlon, Porto Rico, and havo no tears tc
shed on account of Its being ours, albeit
I wish the population was of a
higher grade, we cannot have everything
In this world, th ugh, just as we
would like It, and b(sides If there were
not room for Improvement In the poo
pie of the Island, neither would there
be any room for progress.
They are In high feather d iwn there
Just now with the brilliant prospect of
ft Ittriro nrrxn r\t en??n ~
W VI vp \J 1 allien, viii vv111ui1 l/liwy
expect to realize a net prollt of f>0 per
cent. On the whole, Ultras are deold
edly looking up in the affairs of the
island under American auspices
One of the saddest sights 1 have ever
seen in nay. life Is the ruins of the city
of St. Pierre, Martinique, whose population
of 40,000 was wiped out, it In
said, in 20 secot d-i bv poisonous gases,
wbloh suddenly burst from the sides
of Mont Pelee at the time of the eruption
three years ago. ().ily the walls
of the great waro houses along the
quay and of tire cathedral, halls,
theatres, churches, business houses
and homes remain as silent witnesses
to testify that there was once an active,
gay and bustling French city
standing there.
The streets arc heaped 10 feet deep
with ashes, belched forth from the
orater. The trees, which cnce shaded
the streets and adorned Its famous botanical
gardens are le;.il ss and ugly
monuments of its destruction. When 1
lauded from the ship in a small boat
not a soul survived to meet me and
tell the story of that fearful moment
All was the kIIclcc of death, and
there was not even the rustle of the
fer de lance among the pitiful ruins?
that dread snake win.so bite Is certain
and speedy death, and which used to
Infest the sides of 1 'elee and steal down
times, it Is said, Into the gardens of
St. Pierre. It, too, has been elimlnat
ed from the scene by the Impartial
volcano, which spared neither sex, age,
color nor any living thing.
In our cruise we followed in part
the same watery paths pun ujd by Cclumbus
more than four centuries ago,
Land saw personified In some of the Islands,
If not paradises Inhabited by
devils, at least gardens of Eden, controlled
by populations, which were apparently
drifting back Into that bar
barlsm, whence they were taken when
they were brought over by E giish,
Frenoh and Spanish slavers and Distributed
among them.
The racial problem Is being worked
out In the tropical West Indies, and
worked out, If not In favor of the ne
gro, at least against the white man.
No redacting person can visit these Is
lands without feeling, after what he
sees there, that the Almighty has tlx
ed oertaln /.ones for the habitation ol
the white and black races respective
I ' iy.
" / Everywhere iu those Islands the evi
denco exists that the white man hat
lost Ik the struggle which he has beer
maintaining for centuries there t(
preserve his racial superiority even a*
an inhabitant of countries within th(
tropical /.one.
Gradually but surely he hasdeterlo
ated physically, morally and mentally
Of all the emigrants, forced or volun
tary, who have peopled those island:
since the ruthless slaughter of the na
tlve Carl bees by tbe soldiers and gov
ernors from tbe highly civilized na
tlons of enlightened Europe, only th<
negro from the Congo or the gold coas
of Africa, whose forebears wer
brought there as slaves, has nourish
c .ed.
* Instead of deteriorating he has, con
" sldering him as an animal, physicall
improved In stature and muscular pow
er. The climate being equivalent t
his own, all the rest is doubtless th
result of more favoraole physics
surrounding as to nature and lodg
>fl mcnt than he had been accustomed t
r in Africa in spite of his condition c
slavery. He has also multiplied rapid
ly until he has b ecome in all of the it
lands vastly dominant in numbers.
Naturally, therefore, the whit
man who has grown all the time fe(
bier, mentally and physically, and wh
each year dwindles In numbers, hs
already lost his hold on some of the ii
lauds, and is in a fair way to lo .e I
on the resnlt of them. Cuba exoepte
and perhaps Porto Rico, where cllma'
io conditions are muoh more favorah
for him. As the white man loies h
grip the blaok man tightens his, an
hence is perceived everywhere, sul
stantlally, negro control.
The Eogllsh islands of Rarbado
Trinidad and Jamaica are noexoeptlc
to this rule. For while governors wit
fat salaries are still appointed by tt
Imperial Government, the local ofllc<
are filled by blacks, the islands p )H?
by them, and their general politics
soolal and moral tone given by then
What next? Tuat Is the questlc
which one constantly propounds 1
I
tomed to suppose only prevailed in the
United States.
It is an interesting faot also that as
rapidly as the negro secures absolute
control in the Islands he just as certainly
applies the thumb screw to the
* white, whom he hates In that heartv
spirit which finds it origin only in ra
olal antagonisms that neither constitutions
nor laws can eradioate or sup
press.
Thus In that precious renuhlle
Haiti, the white man is not permitted
to hold real estate, and a number of
other privileges are denied him which
are permitted to the black citizen.
, Judging from the examples of negro
rule in Haiti and Santo Doming >, as
well as from the social and political
conditions In other of the West Indies
where they are in partial control, D
would seem that the negro is seen at
his best where he Is under the intluenoe
and control of a considerable body of
white men.
Hy himself, It Is nearly, or quite,
, sclf-evldtnt that he Is not capable of
( administering Government for the gen1
eral welfare of the people over whom
1 he rules. The negro is an Imitator,
) and with the inlluence and example of
i the white man absent racial instincts
beyond his control seem to draw him
back as by "the oall of the wild." His
idea of government In the republics in
1 the West ludles he rules over is te
1 plunder the weak. "Might makes
right" is the rule of the barbaric, and
1 tills is the rule of those whence lie
| sprang" and toward whom he Is again
drifting.
( If the negro is left to himself much
longer In Haiti and Santo Domingo
all government will ultimately disap
pear except that of tribal relation.
( Nothing Is more clear than that he is
, retrograding In that direction.
All Mils wnillrl ho mora a hutn.nt
.. vw mjviv Munvinuv
ulatl id for Americana If we were not
con fronted-with a racial problem of
the same kind In our own land. An It
i Is, however, we are facing it now. Many
people In the country, and they are
, growing in number every day, think
grave mistakes have been made In the
treatment of the negro question since
the abolition of slavery, and they would
gladly see undone some of the things
which have been done.
Ju*t as many persons, who are Increasing
Just as fast In number; be
ileve that as the Southern peoole are
! face to face with the problem and un
dcrstand It better in all its phases than
the people of any other portion of the
country, they ought to be let alone to
settle it themselves in the way in
which it seems to them wisest under
the circumstances. Upon them, their
children and children's ohildren must
rest the brunt of the c mseQueuces,
whichever way the problem is settled
Mask the problem as we will, the
fact remains that the people cf ti e
South?those people who have as lofty
Ideas in religion, morals and honor as
any in the world?those people who
have produced some of our greatest
statesmen, soldiers and scholars, and
I gmuriir mhAm fhn hh*hAof 41?
?? nwixi Ulic UI^UDOU OJ ytJ UI tilt)
pure American is found, are to day en '
gaged in a struggle for race supremacy
in their States.
Upon the issue of that struggle
many them are, in the South as well
, as in the North, who earnestly and
devotedly believe depends the question
i whether the Southern States shall be
oome a second edition of the West In
dies or remain under the control of
the owners of the soil and the builders
of their universities colleges,
schools, churches and civic institu
lions.
"Thu Little 11 I)"
A dispatch from Greenville says:
Without a relative in the world, alone
and almost forsaken, W. M. Boazman,
better known as the ''Little liab,"
was discovered on his little cot In his
room in the Whltmire building almost
perished and very 111, Thursday morning.
The condition of the man was
reported to Chief Ilecknell, who sent
1 food and a physician to give him
medical attention. Friday a good sum
was collected for the comfort of
ihe poor man. The 'Little Iteb' stated
! that he became ill a week or two ago,
and that he grew worse day by day
r until he was confined to his bed. He
' was unable to call anyone, and ex
cept for the discovery would have
' starved to death in his feeble oondl
' tlon. A room will be engaged at some
1 boarding house, where he will be sent
' and cared for. The 'Little Reb' is a
' mysterious personage. Little of his
5 career is known and he will not talk
of the past, exoept that he is very
" proud of his war record. He was a
Confederate soldier, and ever since
' the war he has worn the regulation
9 veteran cap and uniform He has
' made a slim livelihood by his me'
chanical turn and nearly every one in
' Greenville has seen some of his little
0 inventions or contrivances,
t _ ?
g v. <ii liKtiy urowned.
i- Mrs. David Latham, aged 75 years,
was drowned Saturday afternoon
i about two o'clock in Ross creek, 3
y miles north of Atworth, and within
three hundred yards of her home on
o Mr John Carole's farm. She was ape
parently well and ate & hearty dinner,
il but soon afterwards strolled off from
[ the house Her shoes were found on
o the creek bank and her bonnet bang
if tng on a limb near the creek. The
I- water was not over two feet deep,
j- where the body was found. No reason
Is known why she committed sule
cide.
For tho IJhuaI Orlmo.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn.,
says Sinom Ford, a negro, who as
saulted a white woman near Rlveslde,
l(j has been taken from Jail at Hohenwald
by a mob of tlfty men and shot and
l0 killed. Ford was arrested after being
lH perhaps fatally wounded. After his
t arrest he admitted his guilt and was
} Identified by his victims. Ford was
hauled *to the scene, about ten miles,
H suffering from his wounds. He asked
I' to be killed the quickest way and did
h not plead for his life.
16 Landed In Jail.
Rey. Monson T. Dye, who heads
the flooks of religious enthusiasts at
a'. Danville, Vs., known as "Holy Jump>n
ers," was committed to jail for dlsre*
to gardlng the mayor's Injunction to rere
fraln from bolsterousness In his open
% Oft]
I WAY, S. C., TIIUli
A STRANGE SECT
\Vlirt Mullnil o Vnn?? Mn- '- ?
rite
cois
! A CALL TO FARMERS.
President Jordan of the Southern Cotton
Association Wants Them
To Celebrate July Fourth l>y Holding
Meeting* and Make It a
l/ay ot Goneral ll< | >lolng.
President Ilarvte Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association has de
elded that the farmers in all of the
cotton mowing counties should meet
in their rejpjctlve communities on
July 4th, have barbecues, speaking and
make tire day one of general rejoicing
this year on account of the splendid
work accomplished by the farmers in
reducing the cotton acreage in ll?05.
President Jordan's call follows:
Oflloe Southern Cotton Association,
Atlanta, Ga., June 9, 1906.
To Southern Cotton Growers:
Every report Issued on the cotton
acreage of 1905, including the United
States government report of June 21,
indicates beyond all question of doubt
that the cotton acreage for this year
has been materially reduced by the
farmers, thereby making another abnormally
large crop with extremely
low prices an impossibility. Southern
cotton growers are to be highly
commended for thus standing so loy
ally by their pledges and promises,
which will save lite south from tiuanclal
ruin and disaster. The farmers
also held their ootton from the mar
kets during a most depressing period
in January and February, thereby em
phaslzlng their ability to protect their
Interests from the devastating inilu
enc< 8 of speculation. The cotton hold
Ing movement has saved the south
$50,000,000 In the value of the cotton
unsold on January 20 and the reduction
in cottou acreage will insure 10
cents p' r pound for the staple next
fall. Wo should therefore have a day
of general rejoicing for the i/mat. w<>rO
accomplished.
The Declaration of American Independence
from the yoke of foreign
domination was signed on July 4,
177ti. 1 think that a tittlng day for
southern cotton growers to assemble
together and declare their freedom
and Independence from foreign combinations
which in the past have dictated
the price of the great money
staple crop of the south. I therefore
issue this call, earnestly asking that
the cotton growers all over the south
meet on Tuesday July 4, 11)06, either
in their local beat-i, townships, militia
districts or at their county seats,
and have barbecues or basket din
ners, speeches and make of the day
one of general r( j >icing. I trust
also that strong resolutions will be
oassed at these meetings emphas'z
lng loyalty and patriotism to each
other and Ri/rpnin., ?
uuau iiu CUIjtUll
shall be hold during the balmce of
the preheat year for less than 10
cents per pound. 1 call upon the
business and profei-si inal men In the
various towns of the^s?iuth to assist
and take active p&i;-os.n these meet
lugB. It Is the dut/|,,. every southerner
to assist the. to"r?r8 ln
patriotic duty and t<>ns -end them
for the great vlctoryvi,s_ .va.ave wwn.
I ask that copies n\s. 3olut ions
passed at these meetcar ?L 'nailed to
the headquarters tin Southern
Cotton Association he ~~opllatlon
and publication. Sing ^vus.3ctlng of
the citton growers iec- determl
nation to demand 'tor 'efttyrlces for
cotton would have i '.ous effect
on the spinners o world who
have sold their goo abbHlfcve yet to
secure the raw Cotton to till their contracts.
Let every community act and
act with determination.
Yours truly,
IlAiiviB Jordan,
Pres. Southern Cotton Association.
H*y? Slio In PrcHhtent.
Carrying with her a document sign
ed by Alexander M. Templeton, chief
burgess of Washington, I1*., who cer
titles that she is sane, Mrs. Sarah
Comstook, 52 years old, called to the
White House Wednesday to take
charge of President Iioosevelts's office.
She was met it the main corridor by
Secret Service Officer Tyree, who took
her to police headquarters for Investigation
as to her sanity. Later she
was sent to the house of detention.
She says that she was elected pr side
nt of the United States last su rimer
and Mr. Templeton In his document,
which bears what appears to be the
seal of the state of Pennsylvania, also
swears to this statement. "Mr. Roosevelt
knows that I havft hoon
? . W MVUU
and he haH Just b en tilling the olll e
while I settlea up my affairs In Ptnn
Uylvanla," said Mrs Comstock, as she
was placed In a cell at the house of
d tenfcion. She came to Wad-in, t n
Tuesday and stayed at a cheap lodg
ing house with her 14 year old son,
who accompanied her there.
Killed from Ambush.
A dispatch from F.orencc says that
11. D. Granger, a local Baptist preach
er, was shot from ambush and killed,
while working on his farm near that
place Fhursday. He lived in the district
KDOwn as "the dead stretch,"
where it it Is said .that negroes are
not welcome, and the only explana
tlon of his death is in the faot that
he had hired two negroes to work on
the farm and protected them?even
allowing them to sleep on his prem
ises Granger was respected and had
many friends but appears to have angered
a certain element that made it
a risky thing for a negro to enter the
"dead stretch," which is said to lie
between Bayboro and L*orls. Bloodbounds
have been sent for and the
authorities are evidently intending to
track the es*assln, if possible.
icer Physloal Facta.
The two sides of a person's face are
never alike. The eyes are out of line
In two cases out of five and one eye In
stronger than the other in seven persons
out of ten. The right eye is also
as a rule higher than the left. Only
one person In fifteen has perfect eyes,
the largest percentage of defects prevailing
among fair haired people. The
1 smallest vibration of sound can be
distinguished batter with one ear than
with both. The nails of two fingers
never grow with the same rapidity,
that of the middle finger growing the
fastest, while that of the thumti
"i?v muiivu n IUUII); JT1UI1 1U U
Cross Good I:riday.
AS A RELIGIOUS RITE.
J
His Hands and Feet Were Spiked to the
Cross Beams of the Structure |
They Called the Cross, Where
the Victim Remained Until
Taken Down Dead.
O.i "Calvary Hill," near Torres,
Colorado, In Las Animas County, an
accident happened on Good Friday.
A young man named Jesus Gon/,ales
was nailed to a cross during the Easter
religious ceremonials of the Pooltentes,
and expired In view of the
awe-struck spectators. He had vol
unteered to take the part of the Saviour
In the solemn ritual of the sect,
and his wrists and ankles had been
llrmly bound to the cross with ropes.
At his own request nails were theh
driven through his hands and he was
spiked to the cross beam of the cross.
At a signal from the high priest of
the Penitentes the cross was elevated
and the ceremonial continued.
Following literally the New Testament
narrative of the Saviour's crucitlxlon,
every incident and episode was
imitated. Some of the Penitential
Brothers performed the part of It')
man soldiers, and one of them pressed
a sponge of vlmgar to the Hp* of
Gorzales. The pseudo Christ smiled
feebly and whispered the Saviour's
last words, ' Father, forgive them for
they know not what they do." Tne
Penitentes then divided Gonzales's
clothes and cast lots for them, as told
In the Scriptural account. A brother
then seized a spear and plunged It Into
Gonzales's side, and his face lighted
up with the bea.ltie smile of a martyr.
Meanwhile the various episodes of
the crucifixion were executed with
solemn z>al, while the victim hung
weak and bleeding on the cress overhead.
A priest approached and repeated
the words of St. Luke, "He
saved others; let him save himself, If
he be Crist, the chosen of God." Some
of the brothers who took the part of
Roman Idolaters, then crowded up to
the cros?, mocking and scofTing and
shouting, "If thou be the King of
the Jews, save thysell!" Finally the
inscription, written InSpahlsh, "This
Is the King of the Jews," was nalltd
on the cross, and then Marv and Martha
and ttiQ women of Galilee (impersonated
by women of the sect) approached.
This was the signal for lowering
the cross?but the smiling lips of
Gonzales were silent forever; the eyes
upturned to the sky were rigid In
death. The Penitentes looked at each
other in startled surprise and said
"God's will be done." The agony of
the cr? ss had been too much; the
half hour they had Intended to keep
him there had stretched to nearly two
hours; In a religious frenzy of lamentations
the Penltentes carried the
swollen, bleeding body of Gonzales to
a tomb In the cemetery over the hill,
l The county authorities have made
I efforts at an Investigation of this
Good Friday tragedy, but with little
success. The Penltentes are Mexicans,
speaking little but Spanish, and
they refuse any Information whatever.
Tne penitential brothers, or
"Los Ilermanos Penltentes," have
been cast out by the It iman.Catholics
and have been oursued by the local
authorities in Colorado and new Mcx
ici until they have been driven to remote
mountain places where the
could conduct their rites without Interference.
The writer witnessed a part of the
ceremonials of Easter time as per
formed by the Penltentes near Clay
ton, New Mexico, last year. Starting
from Clayton, a small town on th<
Gulf road, we rode all day across tin
hot, dry prairies on which the only
signs of life are herdsof cattle, plent\
of antelope and the shrill whistling
curlew. We knew the danger of ex
citing the brotherhood, but we d t3r
mined to see, and photograph all wt
could of the oeretnOnles, and to that
end had literally armed ourselves to
the teeth dressed like Mexicans t<
attract less attention, and hid th<
camera under the writer's coat. Ascending
a hill we ut expectedly camt
upon the sc ne of aztlon. and never
can we forget the sight. It was la't
In the afternoon of a hot, clear day,
not a breath of wind was stirring
belo v us strexbed a small vallc- !
whose side hills were scantily covered
with a growth of scrub oak and pine
The little stone chapel was at the
head of the valley; about five hundred
feet away on a small knoll, represent
Ing the hill of Calvary, was erected e
a huge wooden cross
Grouped about this, kneeling de
voutly, were perhaps fifty people, and
when ihoy began to cbant the "Mi>erere"
in a melancholy wall the r ffect
was wonderfully weird. When this
ceased, the "Procession of Gross
Bearers" left tho chapel. M>n ohlef
ly take part In the actual ocremonl* s
though women are present. Th<
crosses are large wooden affairs, and
weigh over two hundred pounds each.
Those doing penance frequently con
i ceal their faces with black cloth9, and
the officers may be known by the fll
ets on their heads. The procession Is
headed by a piper. Then comes a
1 brother walking backward and wear*
1 ng a crucifix. He Js followed by the
1 comrades, who are naked, except for
short cotton trousers, and these occa1
slonally are lined with cacti, and
bound tight to make the suffering the
1 more Intense, The reader of prayers
is among their number At short In1
tervals they stop to make the "sta*
1 tions of the cross."
1 Arriving at Calvary, the cross bear1
ers He at full length with the heavy
beams on their backs while the piper
\ pipes and the others pray. Then the
| procession returns to the ohapel, the
It 1
LSD AY, JUNE 20,1
day and the climax of the tragedy occurs
in the afternoon, when the chief
enters the chapel and comes with the
victim, who is to impersonate Christ.
In some places he is a volunteer, and
Id others he is chosen by lot. Calvary
has been freshly prepared for
him and he walks to the spot, lies at
full length on the now recumbent
cross, his back to tho standard, and
his arms outstretched.
The atterdmts take stout ropes
and lash the arms and legs of the pen
itente to the cross, binding him so
tightly that the strar ds actually sink
into the flesh, but not a sound Is
heard from the martyr. It is customary
to spike the victim to the cross,
i uui puono opinion nas wrought a comprrmlse
In some localities and tho actual
driving of nails Into the hands Is
omitted. Even In the very remote
old Mexican towns, where a cruoitixion
always takes place, the victim of
the cructtixton usually survives the
ordeal, aid proudly shows the scars
as evidence. Long ropes are fastened
to the head of the cross to steady It,
and other brothers ra'si It to au upright
position. As its base meets the
the excavation the whole mass slips
down with a thud that must cause ex
cruciatlrg pain to the victim, but he
never utters a complaint. The cross
is then maintained in its position by
r ipes and loose stones thrown into the
hole.
The poor penitente must suffer the
most Intense agony?his skin pulfs up
and discolors and his face betrays
great anguish. The silence was impressive?nosouud
of bird or lnseot in
this desert land and all the brotherhood
were in silent prayer. Some
were lying on masses of cacti; all the
olllcers wore crowns of thorns and
sime were boating themselves with
the prickly Spanish bayonet plant.
It scsmed as if wo could not endure
tho .rain. About half an hour after
the cross was raised the chief gave the
order to lower It. The bonds were
loosed and tho blood Lrgan to freely
circulate in the victim's veins, but t he
pseudo Christ was limp and unconscious.
Then following the testamental
story, a few women gather about the
cross, walling dismally and Impersonating
Mary and Martha. The body
Is wrapped in a cloth and borne to a
cave In the foothills. The general
crowd returns to town to a lively tune
from the piper, hut a chosen few remain
to apply restoratives and resurrect
the erstwhile Christ. If no mis
hap has occurred the honored one
quickly recovers and by evening will
strut about the town, the most lmpor
taut one of the inhabitants. Tnen
follows a religious dance and a feast,
and the community settles down to a
?eml-clvlllz?d life once* more. The
procession of flagellants we did pot
witness, havlDg arrived too late, but
they march over cacti and prickly
pear with their bare feet and wear
nothing but short cotton breeches.
men cney lasn their backs will)
thorns aud the blood trickles down In
streams.
NORTH CAROLINA SENSATION.
Two Men OliarKCd With Trying to
Hri 1)9 tho Kilgo Jury.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. 0.,
says the sensation in the State is the
Undlng of two well known white men
of that county guilty of attempting t >
inlluence the jurors for Kilgo in the
well-known case of T. J. Oattis, a
Methodist minister, against President
Kilgo of Trinity college and R. N.
Duke of the American Tobacco com
pany, which was non-suited there
Wednesday, Kilgo and Duke being
charged with malicious libel.
The action was taken by J udge Fred
Moore, presiding in the superioi court,
lie issued bench warrants for J.
Rowan Rogers, former Republican
sheriff, and now court receiver in the
federal court there, and J. P. Sorrell,
\ prominent farmer. The testimony of
two veniremen, one accepted as a
juror, was that Rogers and Sorrel had
been to them and urged them to help
>ut Dr. Kilgo in his suit, and they
would be taken care of if trouble
came.
Kilgo, Duke and their known attor
neys swore that they knew nothing of
the matter. Judge Moore found i>oth
Rogers and Sorrell guilty and sent
them to Jail for JO days with a tine of
150 each. It Is to be hoped that Kilgo,
who is well-known in South Carolina,
oad nothing to do with trying to tix
the Jury, but it looks quite ti-hy, to
say the least of it. The jury that was
tixed exaneratrd Kilko and Duke.
Mliot and Killed.
Robert J. Barnes, a well kuowncoton
man was shot and instantly
killed Wednesday by Byron Trammel!,
mstraaster at Doth&n, Ala. Barnes
toarded at Trammel's home and as he
entered the door. Trammell tired on
him twice without speaking a word.
One ball entered the eye and another
the left arm. Trammell surrendered
nimself, making the statement th.it
Karnes ''had wrecked his home." B >th
men stood well in the community,
Trammell having been appointed post
raster about a year ago, to succeed
W. W. Milllken.
Drowned In Well.
At Madison, Ga., Wednesday night
Oal Fitz, a negro, was drowned In the
large well at the ice factory. lie was
trying to Hx the pump, which wasoul
of order, aud stepped on a rotter
plank and fell through, In falling he
grabbed the pump and carried It dowr
with him. At the same time tin
curbing of the well gave way, whicl
caused the sides to cave, and all of li
fell in on the man.
Tornado In WtaeonHln.
A farmhand was killed on the fame
of Charles Collins, several other per
sons were injured at various points
over 1150,000 damage was done t<
orops and farm buildings, and scorei
of head of stock were destroyed by i
tornado that passed through Dam
and Iowa oountlcs and over the town
ships of Barneveld and Bluemoundi
Monday night.
Krabrzzler Arreated.
W. W.Oarr, disbursing clerk of tin
Smithsonian institute at Washington
was arrested on Wednesday on thi
ifraid
005.
ANOTHER WRECK.
A Past Train Jumps the Track
at Mentor, Ohio.
NINETEEN KILLED
And Over A Score Were Hurt. There Is
Plain Evidence That a Switch Had
hctu Maliciously Tampered
Wilh by Some Person or
Persons.
Running at the rate of 50 or 60
miles an hour, the Twentieth Century
limited on the Lake Shore {atlroad
dashed Into an open switch at the passenger
station at Mentor, Ohio,
shortly before 10 o'clock Wednesday
night. The combination baggage and
smoking buttet car and the coaoh behind
It, caught lire and were destroyed.
The train wa* east bound, having
left Cleveland about 0 o'clock and as
it. rttxi. of AM Lrtt-r? I*- ? 1 A
. v v* /vu uuv aw \j noio i u wcva running
great speed. The < ngineer did not notice
the open switch until the train
struck it. The engine left the rails
and plowed Into the ground, tearing
up the track for yards. The two ooaches
following it Jammed Into it with
great force and were crushed, the tire
from the engine setting them ablaze.
F irtunately fldost of the occupants of
these two coaol.es were rescued before
the tire reached them.
Nineteen dead and a dozen slightly
injured comprised the casualty list
made by the wrecking of the train. It
it maintained by railway cftlelals that
the switch on which the limited was
wrecked was thrown open and locked
and the switch light extinguised by
some person, either a maniac or some
one seeking revenge It is still unknown
who tills person Is, although dcteotivi
s are working on the case. A careful
examination of the switch showed
that it was in perfect condition.
Trainsmen are of the opinion that the
engineer of the Twentieth Century
was deceived by the light of a switch
just beyond the open switch, the light
of which is said to have been out.
W. H. Marshall, general m&naurer of
the Lake Shore, says the speed of the
tra n was not a contributory cause to
the wreck. He said that other Lake
Shore trains travel through Meato at
a speed equal to that attained by the
limited last night, which was not,
Mr. Marshall said, above GO miles an
hour. The schedule for the train calls
for a speed of 57 miles an hour. Coroner
Couik of Lake county announced
Thursday evening that an inquest
would begin next Monday in Palnesville.
LIST OK THE DEAD.
A revised list of the dead follows:
John It. Bennett, attorney, 31 Nassau
street, New York.
John A. Bradley, of the law firm of
Itjwley, Itodgers, Bradley & Rockwell.
Akron, Ohio.
T. It. Morgan, second vice president
of the Wellman-Sea vers- Morgan
company, Cleveland.
U. II. Wellman of the WellmanSeavcrs
Morgan company, Cleveland,
died in hospital.
A. L. Rogers, New York, representative
of the Piatt City Iron Works
of Dayton, Ohio, died in hospital.
S. C. Beckwlth, 115 One Hundred
and Seventy-fourth street, New York.
a. ii iieari, London, representative
of the Otis Steel company, of
Cleveland, died In hostlbal.
II II. Wright, traveling man, Chicago,
died In ho.sp.stal.
1). E. Arthur, traveling man, Milwaukee,
died in hospital.
J. II. Gib3on, Chicago, traveling
man, died In hospital.
H. C. Mcohllng, New York city,
with the Wheeling Corrugated Iron
company.
L. M. Eirick, manager Keith's theatre,
Cleveland.
E. E. Naugle, Chicago, proprietor
of a railway supply house.
Two unidentified bodies, supposed to
be those of L. A. Johnson, of the mil
linery tlrm of Comey & Johnson,
Cleveland, and Henry Trinse, barber
on the train.
Allen Tyler, engineer, Colllnwood,
0 lo, died In hospital. *
F. J. lirant, head brakeraan, 2012
Ash street, Erie, Pa., died In hospital.
N. II. Walters, baggage man, Hamburg,
N. Y., died In hospital.
W. I). Mickey, porter, Chicago.
appalling scknk8.
The scenes following the wreck
were appalling. The night was dark,
save for the light from the blazing
wreck of the coach that was orushed
p and splintered on top of the engine.
Men swarmed about itoombattlng the
dames with the means at hand, groping
their way through the blinding,
i scalding steam that rose in clouds,
hunting for the injured whose piteous
cries were such as chilled the hearts of
those who heard them. The water
' supply was small and the means at
hand for lighting the flames were
1 ,> i r. .1 1.. 1 j - *- -
i/i'<nuuy mtiuuquave, outline zeal or |
' the reseurera wrought great things for
1 the first few minutes.
Pullman Conductor J. J. O'Neill, j
1 with his force of porters, did valiant
' work In helping care for the iDjured
1 as they were taken from the wreck.
L Bedding, blankets and sheets were
stripped from the bunks of the four
Pullman coaches and used for the re,
lief of the sufferers. Conductor Alex.
ander riammond, who escaped, started
the work of rescue and led his fel^
low trainmen and the less seriously
# hurt of the passengers in deeds that
i were truly heroio. The wrecked train
^ was making nearly 76 miles an hour!
. when the accident occurred, acoords
lng to Fireman Aaron Gorham Norwalk,
who, badly bruised, but other
wise uninjured, miraculously escaped
death.
5 "We were speeding like the wind,"
* said Gorham, "when the engine left
g the track. It occurred so qulokly
e that 1 little knew what happened untll
we oraahed Into the Mentor freight
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engineer after that. The engine overturned
and somehow the tank managed
to fall upon me, not heavily and
1 was sheltered by It. 1 lost consciousness
from the terrible blow
whioh 1 had received upon the head
and 1 knew nothing until 1 was drat;
ged from underneath the wrecked
enKlne." (J nriuctor Alexander Hammond
of the limited said:
"I rushed back to the switch Immediately
after the wreck. It was
open and looked open. I tried It and
found that It worked all right. The
switch light was out. Not a wheel
rolled over the switch since No. 10,
the eastbound Chicago and Boston
train, went through 45 minutes be
fore."
HELD UP BY FOOT PAD.
And Relieved l?y AJ1 the Money -They
Had About them.
The Atlanta Journal says John L.
Tippin, 18 years old, and Joseph K
Brown, 18 years old, of 500 S. Boulevard
and 48 Cherokee avenue, respectively,
were held up and robbed at the
points of two revolvers thrust In their
faces by a white man on South Boulevard
at the edge of Grant park Monday
night. The robber got 15 cents,
and then stating that he himself was
going In the dlreotion of the Federal
prison, ordered his victims to turn
back in an opposite direction. The
footpad then disappeared in the dark
nesa.
Brown had been with T.ppin to a
party at Howell's station, and on their
return Tippin invited his friond to
spend the night with him at his house
near Orant park. When they got off
the car at the park they went to a
bench and sat down. A man wiio had
followed them from the car, acccstcd
them, and asked them If they could
change a flve'dollar bill.
Tippin remarked that the le; ve
bad was $5. Then when the two ) <
men started to Tlppin's house,
man followed them. Suddenly he st
ped to Tlppin's side with a revolver lb
each hand. He said:
"Halt, and hold up your hands."
Tippin and Brown obeyed without
any hesitation. Then the footpad put
one revolver in his pocket, and keep
ing the other thrust upon his victims,
went through their olothes. He fisher
out 15 cents, and grunted with dis
gust.
"Where is that $5 you were talking
about?" he asked.
"We were only J jking," said Brown.
The robber put the money in his
pocket contemptuously, and then asked
his victims which way they were
going.
"Out South Boulevard," was the
response.
"No you ain't" replied the footpad
"for I am going that way myself?Jy
the direction of the federal prisu^
Now you boys go back the wa^l .
came and don't follow me."
The boys obeyed, and tlMA^fijjs
disappeared. The progranfflpiQIK
reversed, and Tippin spent The hlgW
with Brown on Cherokee avenue. The
footpad's hat was pulled down over
his eyes and neither Brown nor Tippin
saw his features distinctly."
An Kleven-Yoar?01?l Wife.
New York's sensational martial case
was brought into the courts again
Tuesday when the trial of Jacob Fine*
lire was continued before Magistral
Finn. Flnellte is being prosecuted
by Lena Flnellte, a child of eleven
years, who olaims that she was married
to the man in January and that
he has abandoned her, refusing longer
to contribute to her support. Flnellte
Is about thirty five and wealthy.
He has denied that he married the
ohlld, but a certificate and witnesses
have been produced which seem to
bear out the truth of the child's
claims.
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William B. Boston, of Bound Hill,
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at the Southern railway station in
that town last night by being ran
over by a passenger train of the
Southern railway company while
asleep on the tracks. Tho coroner's
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A dispatch from Atlata, Ga., days
Solicitor General Render Terrell of fl|
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Chemist McCandless the stomach of
Mrs. Minnie Noland, which will be ^9
examined by the latter offlolal to see m
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nounced through the State press that BU
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lieiti Up cite ^9
Kranctsou fl
maniac, barricaded MmagB&M BHn
in the United States IrHh' y$ 9HB
day, and after holdinaBi flaBS
people at bay for two hfflmjf ffiWI
and more or less seriomB W jgMM
nine people and defvlff^tv ???BB
killed himself. LobQ^Kjfl
tel Tuesday night.
ing he began throwirigT?U^|^^g^Bffll
the windows to the strttj^HffimB^BBffl
began firing with a Bhca^HBHraSHHH
a fifty hundred dollar h|WB|fflMBgMHBj
zte of the weapon.
paper money were sca||^EBB^?&BftfaB|H
street. Street oar
ly suspended after one
fired upland the