The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 03, 1905, Image 3
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A DEADLY BOLT.
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Five Persons Killed Outright and
Nine Injured
IN A THUNDER STOtftf
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n Coney Island. Storm Plays Havoc
With Peonies' Nerves. Men, Wo- 1
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men and Children, Terrified, ,
Seek Shelter in Bath House
Which Was Struck. 1
During a thunderstorm of territic
intensity which passed over New York '
Sunday afternoon live persons were ,
struck by lightning and Instantly (
killed and nine were seriously injured (
at the Parkway bath house, Coney Island.
At the same time one man was
killed and three were prostrated at '
Oravesend beach. 1
Those killed: George Dunwoodle;
Buffalo; Jaooy Frank el, Minhattan; 1
'Robert F. \\a ch, Bronx Borough; (
Charles Bemierle, Brooklyn; Henry
Rans weiler, Brooklyn
The Injured: David Willis, James
J. l)unue, Tina Christianseu, Harry '
lvrohn, Clara Thlel, Mary L. Curley, !
Isaac Italic and wtfe, Amelia Schono,
Win. ltanKweller. .Mm Apple, I)aD)el '
McCauley, all of liroklyn.
The Parkway beach was thronged
with bathers and spectators. The
rain descended in torrents and hundreds
of men, women and children
sought shelter under the big giant '
bath h< me, which is elevated above
the sand on plhs. The lightning was
incessant and territic thunder claps
shook the bath house to the terror of
the crowd huddled together beneath it.
A few minutes before 5 o'c'cck a
bolt struck ihe flagstaff and grounded |
in the very thickest of the crowd. 1
Mearly 50 persons were prostrated and
the re.->t, screaming with terror,
rushed out into the storm. Those
who had remained in the water were
also panic stricken and lied in all directions,
not daring to enter the bath
house, which appeared to be on tire
Ambulances were summoned from
all the nearest hospitals and on their
arrival live persons were found dead
and nine unconscious under the bath
house. The b> dies of all were scorched.
The nine injured were removed
to a hospital, where it was said that
some probably would die. Many persons
less seriously hurt were taken
home by friends. A slight tire In the
bath house was quickly extinguished
by the rain.
Henry Ransweiler was struck and
killed while sheltering under a tree at
Gravesend beach and his eon William,
with .John Apple and Daniel McCau
ley were rendered unconscious. Light
ning struck at various points in the
-city. A store in Flushing avenue,
Brooklyn, was burned aud a car in
Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was set on
tire, but the occupants escaped unhurt.
The electric light and the tel
ephone wires in Bellevue hospital
were struck several times, extinguishing
all the lights and causing much
alarm among the patients.
Shot Dead by ltival.
Maurice Francis, a well known
young man of Roanoke, Va., while on
his way to visit his tiancee, Miss
Grace Link, in Floyd county, Thursday,
was shot from ambush and
killed, we was driving in a buggy,
and was within one mile of his destination,
when two loads of shot and
slug hit him. lie lived long enough to
say that his assassin was John Rich^
ards, a young school teacher, who was
a rival suitor for Miss Link's hand.
Richards was seen in the vicinity with
a shotgun just before the murder, and
has not been seen since. A posse is
scouting the county searching for
Richards, and lynching is openlythreatened.
Both men were mem
bers of well known frmilies. Richards
was a medical student at the
University of Virginia during the last
session.
hinr at a Birth.
The Florence Daily Times says that
H. P Brown, manager of a large mercaniile
company at Gourdin, says that
his little town has been brought into
prcrr^nfcnce through the agency of
noneT)ther than a negro woman about
28 years old, who Wednesday startled
that community by giving birth to
four children, all of whom at last accounts
were living. The woman is
the wife of Louis Green, who is today
a much prouder man than a policeman
in a bran new uniform. Mr.
Brown remarked in telling of the var
ious remarkable fact, that is such kept
up the labor question in Gourdin
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WOUIU ue BUifr.u.
IIoIih Were ltotten.
From an official source, the reliability
of whlcti can not be questioned
because of Its connection with the
court Itself, It has just become known
what In substance will be the report
of the court of Inquiry now Investigating
the Bennington disaster. It
may be stated authoritatively that the
court will find that boiler B of the
Bennington exploded not because of
unusually high pressure, but because
the metal of the orownnsheet In place
** had become dead, had lost all life and
nearly all tensile strength by reason of
constant use and the failure to renew
the weakened place. The courl will
not censure the officers of the Bennington,
but will pass up the matter
;. and the responsibilly to higher authority.
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"awful explosion
Which Carried Instant Death and
Destruction Over Wide Area.
ILgtpiArkable AooldontH Duo to Plying
Iron and Hock. Woman Blown
Into llivor. Man Scalded,
Exploding and tlying high In air, a
:>ig boiler of the New York city subway
tunnel paint near the North river
recently scattered jagged Iron and iujury
for blocks around and left In the
ruins behind it a man scalded almost
lo death. Brave volunteers answered
lis calls for help and foreed their way
Lo him and out again through heavy
iteam and rain of minor missiles from
t-he sky. lie died later in the J. Flood
Wright hospital. CI .her men, too,
were carried out, two of them near
ieath, and there were other rescu s
in stranger places. One of these was
if a woman wnoin the concussion literally
blew into the river, auotaer a
motor boat race to a hospital with
three wounded boys.
Ooc bizarre eifect of the blast was
Lhe toppling into ttie river of forty
baib houses that iloatedaw y, leaving
Lwo .c oe oC bathers in a predicament,
as to clothing and homeward journeys
luat only li ght and a deal of charity
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wiYcu. -nit; puysicai shook oi tlie ex
plosion whs full for a mile aiound. Lt.-i
alter elleots were fell by the whole
oily. It- slopped all work on the west
branch of the subway, the reck tunnel
under Washington heights. The boiler
was one of four in a long sheet iron
power house that furnished light and
compressed air for the deep rock workings
of the uptown subway. The explosion
destroyed the other boilers
and much of the machinery and set
back the completion of that section
indefinitely. A former accident, a
cave in, had already delayed the work
seriously, but it bad beeu planned to
open the subway to Its uttermost limit
in the fall.
The cause of the explosion was not
deliuitely know, but two men were
piaeed uuder am si. Had the accident
occurred on a week day, with
more than 500 men working in the
tunnel, there might have been great
lo^s of life. Air would have been shut
111' from the workers. The explosion
occurred in wnat is known as Mo
Kabe's power house, which lies just
east of the New York Central tracks.
Three years ago McICabe failed and
sold out to a mail named Hunt, and
after that John 11. McDonald, the
subway contrscior, gained control of
the works for the purpose of tinisulng
the long subway tunnel at that point
The power house consisted of a sheet
iron building the length of three city
lots and running back a distant!i of
150 feet. Four tall chimneys rising
tifty feet in the air siand at the corners
of the building, which contained
besides the compressing plant and
dynamos a batteiy of four eightyhorsepower
boilers, and It was one of
these which blew up. It was just at
4:30 o'cl< ck that the quiet of the Sunuay
afternoon was broken by the terrific
roar of the buisting boiler. It
was followed immediately by an up
rising cloud of deuse black smoke,
through which pieces of rock, stone
and steel shot up as much as 300 feet
In the air in all directions.
The shock was felG over a mlie away,
where folk on the oars to and from
Fort George were almost shaken from
their seats by the concussion. Patrolman
George Kethman was on duty
near the sc3ne, and, instantly realizing
that a great accident had happened,
lie telephoned first to police
headquarters and then to the J. Hood
Wrlgut hospital for ambulances and
ran to the water front. Before him
what a second before had been a great,
strong building was nothing but a
broken and twisted mass of smoking
ruins, from which came shouts an i
screams for help. ''Let me out! Let
me out!" shrieked a voice from the
very center of the wreckage. "I'm
boiling to death! Do anything! 1
want to die! I want to die!"
uy this time a large crowd had
gathered near the smoking ruins, and
as the agonizing cries broke out afresh
scores oi faces blanched. Three men
jumped forward and pressed tnelr
way into the building toward the
screaming man. As they disappeared
in the smoke and dust women who
were present called to them to come
back and not to risk their lives in
what seemed to be vain hope. For
awhile nothing was heard of them,
but after several minutes they were
seen to emerge from the steaming
clouds bearing in their arms the body
of a colored man practically stripped
to the skin. He was Joseph Morgan,
a iireman, who had been in the pit
stoking when the boiler exploded.
With the exception of some shreds
of underwear Morgan was naked. Ills
head and body were sc&lded in a dozen
places where the boiling steam had
caught him, and one arm wasstripped
nf MpuH 91 nr> r?u t. t r> f.hn hnnn t
wa ??VWM w??A?vrau tv U? AV> JUU U11U
man was conscious. His screams only
made the work the harder for his rescuers.
He was laid on the ground and
after a few minutes was whisked off
to the J. Hood Wright hospital,
where he lingered In agony until early
morning, when he died. The men
who braved death to save him were
Edward L. Byrnes, Albert Hildebrand
and Andy Marshall. Tnese men Immediately
after getting Morgan to
safety turned ba^k again to help the
other poor wretches who had been
caught in the building. Meantime
in the vicinity otthe accident other
persons had been hit by the flying
rooks and iron plates and more or less
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injured. One of the worst sufferer*
was JCdward Altensea, a thirteen-yearold
b)y. He was walking along the
New York Central tracks when a
piece of sheet iron swirling through
the air fell on his left foot and severed
three of his toes as If cut by a kuife.
WILD LOVE ROMANCE.
llioti and Hcoontrlc IlusKian Woman
Who Han Ju?t Died.
The Kaluga newspapers report the
death and amazing burial of Mile.
Agafva Slmblrskl, one of the richest
and most eccentric women in Russia.
When only twenty vearH of age Mile.
Simblrski, by the death of her father,
became possessed of a fortune of nearly
three millions rcuples. Suitors
innumerable s >ught her hand, but
ohe enormously wealthy girl set her
affections on an ugly, red haired
gardener, Audrei Yauukhln by name.
Furious at her choice, Mllo. Simbirsk!'s
brother ordered Vanukhin to
leave the neighborhood. The garden
er refused. Within a week he was
found lying dead in a paddock re3erv
ed for the use of a half tame wild
boar.
Although an evident case of murder
the family hushed things up, alleging
that Vanukhin had been killed by the
pig, which ho well kucw no be dangerous.
Contrary to exp ctatl n
MHo. Slmblrskl appeared to accept
this explanation, but the j ?y of her
family was turned to despair when
the young lady proclaimed her belief
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uuau mo U1 lU'T (10'IU lOVlT PaCl
entered into the body of liis slayer.
From that day forth Mile. Slmblrski
consecrated her life to the evil-smelling
hog. To her order a tlrm of St.
Petersburg contractor* built a palatial
sty of granite and snow white marble.
The demented lady retained the
service of an expert cook, who thrice
datlv prepared a sumptuous repast for
the benefit of the grunting porker.
Mile. Slmblrski was accustomed to
feed the hog with her own fair hands,
and only recently ordered a gorgeous
silver trough from a well knowu Moscow
manufacturer. A few we. ks ago
the unfortunate girl became extreme
ly religious, and insisted that Andrei
?for so she called the pig?should
fast when she fasted. One night she
visited the marble sty. From that
visit she never returned.
Early next morning the steward
discovered his mistress's body terrib'y
mutilated in a corner of the pig's
"bedroom". Again there wpre ru
mois of foul play, but again the family
alleged that the pig was the
murderer. Color was addod to this
story by the clrcumstauces that the
"fasting" and half famished boar had
mangled one of the arms of his mistress.
In the presence of a vast concourse,
Mile, Slmbirski's eldest brother
shot Andrei through the heart.
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iimgiinnus uiic uuuy ui oho uoar was
burled In a grave beside that of his
benefactress.
The Innocent 8uir<r?r.
Three reputations damned forever,
au innocent woman and several child
ren blighted for life, and no punish
ment meted out, except to G u>rge
Wright, will be the pathetic ending of
the Sand ford trial at Rome, Ga.,
where V. T. Sandford is being tried
for killing George Wright for being
Intimate with Mrs. Sandford, Sandford
tells some very hard things about
his^wlfe. If every thing that Sandford
alleges as the cause of the shoot
ing is true, his life has been as blameful
as those he accuses. It seems that
justice is a mlstit that the guilty parties
should go scott free, as they prob
ably will, and that the sullerings and
burdens of the disgraceful episode
should descend on parties who have
lived Dalmeless lives, Mrs. Wright and
the Sandford children.
MuK^d Her Too Hard.
A too strenuous hug, it is deolared,
was the cause of breaking one of Miss
Bessie Hayes's ribs. The young woman
is at Ojean House at Swamp
scott, Mas. The young man who was
the came of her mishap Is Alfred
Tirrell, the superintendent of the
bathhouses at Swampscott. He ad
mlts that he squeezed the young wo
man, but says he did not mean It.
One evening while strolling on the
heach Tlrrell caught the young woman
about the waist and gave her a
hug that was actually bearish in its
characteristics. Other couples were
near and the action of the young man
caused considerable laughter upon
their part, but much indignation on
the part of MIsh Hayes. Tirrell apologized.
Miss Hayes was troubled by
a pain in her side after the hug and a
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piiyniuiau iuuuu bnaii a no naa oeen
snapped.
Two Deaths at Sea.
Two deaths and one burial at sea
among passengers of the North German
Lloyd steamship Bremen were reported
when the liner arrived at New
York Wednesday. Mrs. Dollie Edmonson
Vedder, aged 61 years, a first
cabin passenger and widow of Captain
O. O. Vedder, United States army,
died July 27. Her body was brought
to port. A child died In the steerage
and was buried at sea.
A Flglit With The Freinan.
Engineer Lucas, of the Southern
Railway, whose headquarters are in
Greenville, had a baud to-hand encounter
with his negro fireman at
Blacksburg, which resulted in the
former's arm being orushed with a
wrench and the latter being captured
by blood hounds and lodged in jail
at Gaffney, where h6 will be tried
for assault and battery with intent to
kill.
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TURNED LOOSE.
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Aaron Willia;' V, Colored,. Who Wa?
Convicte^y i Now Discharged.
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The End ol m Important ami SlgnltloantC
V in Whloh Lynching
WatCnoo Threatened.
A special dispatch from Camden to
The State says last year the county,
especially the portion Kershaw county
bo'dering Sumter county, was
thrown into great excitement on acount
of a reported oaseof rape, which
was said to have been committed upon
a Mrs. Laegley. white, by one Aaron
Williams, a negro, of the pure African
type. Very peculiar circumstances
surrounded the case. The
citizms became indignant and tlireated
lynching, and Aaron Williams under
protection of law was escorted to
the penitentiary for safe keeping.
The hrs'oand of Mrs. Laugley committed
suicide.
Aarou Williams at the February
term of court was brought- hack and
placed on trial for the oiTense. lie
was with >ut counsel, and by appointment
of the court, Hon. W. B ;
Trail thorn, of the Camden bar con |
ouci.en r is rJerensc. The jury oonvic'ed
him upon the testimony of M s.
L nglcy, and ic was sentenced to b
handed. Fro to the testimony do
veloped in the case and the ciroumstanoes
connected wPh the ulTair.
nan> of the very best white people of
tho county believed in the Innocvnoe
of Aaron Williams, and a petition
was go ton up and submitted to G >v.
Hey^ ard asking for a reprieve until
satisfactory proof c luld be procured,
which would establish the fact that
Aaron Williams was not guilty of the
charge.
Aaron Williams was without money,
but lie was not without friends and
their etT >rts in his behalf succeeded in
having the execution of tho death
sentence stayed, and the cvse camo
up before Ju lge Prince at the April
term of court at this point for a new
trial on after discovered evidince.
Judge Prince from the showing made
very promptly granted Aaron a new
trial, and his case was placed on the
docket for trial last week. When the
case was called for trial the witnesses
for th^ pr ?neoutlon w( re not present,
Mrs. Langley, It is claimed, having
absolutely refused to ppp :ar any more
in court to testify against him. She
now resides outside of the State. It
was impossible to secure a conviction
In the case without the testimony of
Mrs Langley, and as she is now beyond
the Jurisdiction of the court,
and cculd not he brought hero against
her will, and she having sent word
that she would not come, it has resulted
practically in the acquittal of
Aaron Williams, for he has been dis
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uuai^cu nivuuuu uuuu it> m iii? cus
tody of the sheriff. II? is now a free
man to go wheresoever he may desire.
After Aaron's conviction, the white
people In this community who he
lieved id his innocence had the law
tirm of Clark & Vun Tresckow to look
after the accused negro's interests.
When the case was called for trial
I on the session's side of c mrt last week
Messrs. Clark & Von Tresckow demanded
a trial for their client, and
the Slate not being in a position to
try it because of the absence and re
fusal of Mrs. Langley to come here,
the attorneys had spread upon the
mlnut.es of court their demand for lmmt
dl&te trial, and this under the statute
entitled Williams either to a trial
or his discharge, as he has been confined
In jail over three terms of court.
Ju Ige Ernest Gary Thursday afternoon
signed an order which liberates
Aaron Williams from Jail on his own
recognizance under the section of the
statutes above referred to. This ends
the case which created so much dis
ousslon at the time in the newspapers,
and the man who has tnen living in
the shadow of the gallows for nearly
a year is now free. This case is one
of the best exemplitication and justification
of the moral plea of letting
the law take Its course that nas ever
come under the observation, know
ledge or Information of the writer
At the time of the alleged commission
of the assault Aaron Williams
came very near being the victim of a
mob, and a few weeks later he stood
up in court, pleaded for mercy and
heard the death sentence pronou cad
upon him. Today he is breathing the
life of a new man with no restrictions
on his movements, inclinations or
peregrinations.
The Difference.
Apropos of the recent race riots in
New York, The New York Tribune is
frank enough to say: "We are given
to criticising the lawlessness which in
southern communities leads to race
vendettas and wholesale lynch! ngs, but
in the south such outbreaks usually
follow some flagrant crime and aim at
punishing known or suspected orimi
nals. In Friday's dlsturbancs this
excuse as a resort to violence was
wholloy lacking. On trivial grounds,
or without any grounds at all, whiles
attacked blacks and blacks attacked
whites. Both classes seem to havd
acted on the merest impulse of race
prejudice and race rancor."
Called Out the Mtlltla.
At Vlsolla, Cal., it was necessary
to call out the looal military company
Wednesday night in order to protect
private property and restore order.
The trouble started by three fires
1 which were accompanied by pillage
' followed by determined efforts on part
* of citizens to protect their property
by force of arms. While the fire
raged, different parts of the city
were in darkheAS, during which time
thieves got bqsy. The total losses by
fire are about $30,000.
W EAT ELK R AND CROPS.
Favorable) ProKroaa In Farm Work
Knportad Or?r the State.
The following la the weather-crop
report for the past week as compiled
by Section Director Bauer. The mean
temperature for the week ending July
31st, was slightly below normal, although
the departures averaged only
abcu j one decree per day. The extremes
were a maximum of 8b degreos
at Yamassce on the '25th and a minimum
of 61 decrees at Greenville on
the 26 &h. There were several days 1
with high winds in the northwestern
and southcentral counties, which were
damaging to certalu crops, particularly
cotton. Hail fell in a number of
localities, but it did no material damage.
The precipition was excessive locally
in the central and eastern portions,
and was fairly copious over the eastern
half of the state, but with numerous.localities
that had little or no rain;
and in placos the hoII is exceedingly
dry to the injury of all veiretation; as
a rule the moisture conditions wore
generally favorable. Tnere is an unusual
diversity, however in the
amount of prec'p'Nation for different
localities, which In turn has cauged a
corresponding diversity in the cotvli
tlon of all crops, ranging from very
i v \j vu! jr (."'(.u .
Over the creator portion of the
state farm work made favorable pro*
/r *>8 and nearly all crops have been
laid by, although lato com and cotton
continue to receive cultivation. Catterpillars
have appeared insomaof the
boast counties, and a red spider infests
cotton in blaces while lice on
cotton have not entirely disappeared.
There are more numerous reports,
than heretofore, of serious shedding
of cotton squares, young bolls, and
leaves, caused by both excessive rains
and drought, and In places by Ilea.
Host seems to be spreading and In the
north central counties atT >cts whole
fields. Cotton Is deteriorating most on
sandy lauds, and Is doing well on clay
lards,where It has a large weed, but
In places is not well fruited. A few
locilities report a marked Improve
ment in cotton.
Early corn is nearly ripe, and Is not
affected by the prevailing weather,
while young corn made a marked Inprovement
In all sections and has become
promising. Tobacco curing is
well under way, with the early crop
poor, while late tobacco is much better.
Itice Is doing well. Sugar cane,
s^veet potatoes and gardens are doing
well generally. Weather unfavorable
for haying and fodder pulling In tne
coast counties, and considerable hay
was damaged after cutting, by the
heavy rains. Peas for forage are doing
well. Some turnips have been
sown.
1*0111(0(1 ParagraptiH.
Advice should be well shaken before
ocing taken.
Beware of the red Hag. It's anarchy
or an auction.
If a man runs into debt he must
either crawl out or stay in.
A man's ideal woman Is always
married to some other fellow.
When a iish takes in the early worm
it is apt to get in a mess.
Tills would be a dry old world if
there were nothing but wisdom on tap.
After all there is a lot of satisfac
tlon in not monkeying with a buzzsaw.
Time may be money, but doing
time in jail isn't a remunerative
occupation.
Some men drink too muob because
they are afraid they may too little.
When it com?s to having good
opinions of themselves most people
overdo the thing.
Rather than wear one or both of
his eyes in raouring the wise man proceeds
to forgive an enemy.
It is said that a few gallons of oil
will calm a storm at sea?and a small
drop will start one In Wall street.
I'aporM Hack.
Lieut. Lally of the Detroit detective
department has received a mysterious
package which contained
checks, notes and other important papers
aggregating in value about $25000,
belonging to the Crystal Salt
C )mpany of St. Clair, Mich. The
( dices of the company were robbed
several vserks ago arid the papers stolen,
t< gether with what money could
be located. It is mpposed that the
burglars found themselves unable to
dispose of the valuable papers, and,
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utjcjuiiilu return onem, snipped tnem
to Lally. They have been sent to the
firm in St. Clair.
Chandelier fell.
At Charleston one of the four large
heavy chandeliers, containing about
50 gas jets with glass shades, fell
Thursday afternoon from the dome of
the custom house to the marble tile
ft >or beneath with a mighty crash
causing great consternation among the
officials and clerks In the building,
The fixtures were broken and some of
f.ho t.tlwu Ho nrQirnfl V/i*! nnatAlu ""
VUW V >w ?*W?UM^VU| * v/l i UIIHIA'I/ UV Uliv
waH pasHing Id the lobby at the time.
Tne chandelier was probably held in
place for these many years by the gas
pipe which bad corroded and refused
to bear the weight, anv longer.
Killed the MarHhal,
Mike Asplnwall, clby marshal, was
assassinated Thursday by A. J. Chestnut.
Chestnut was pursued by 25
armed citizens who left their places ol
business to prevent his excape. lie
tired twice on his pursuers and wa*
shot through the left side with a rifle
ball. He was brought baok and lodg
ed in jail. lie said: "IUind tigei
liquor has brought me to this." Chest
- out had a street tight Thusday after
i noon with Luke White, who had best
ed hlno. City Marshall Asplnwall la
terfered and the shooting followed.
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' YELLOW F|VER
Has Made Its Appearance in the
City of New Orleans
AND OTHER PLACES,
Three Hundred and Four People Have
Had II VJp To Tuesday in New Orleans
Alone, of Which Number
SIxtvTwo Persons Have
Died of the Disease.
Yellow fever marie Its appearance
In the city of New Orleans last Thursday,
and stnoe that time up to Tuesday
there has been three hundred and
four oases. Of this number sixty-two
AO QAO Ho tTA V\Anr* f ~ 1 fT,U^ * * *
uw?a nait' kquu mini. x nt; tiu&noritles
are doing all they can to slop
the disease, but up to Tuesday the/
had not been very successful. There
were twenty one new cases on that
dav and live deaths.
(.^ larantines everywhere are bolng
drawn tighter. A nunab3r of towns
in Mississippi and Louisiana are cutting
themselvesc (T from the world and
the shotgun quarantines arc bjing
rapidly extended. Guards and in*
Hp&ctqrssro being multiplied and travel
Is being nude increasingly difficult.
Kven gasoline Is apparently barred
from Vlcksburg. Many people have
left New Orleans for the iuterlo.*.
While the feeling is constantly
growing more hopeful, there is apparently
no abatement of the excitement
and there Is a panicky feeling In the
-country distrlctsof Louisiana and Mississippi.
Local business houses are
beginning to feel the telTects of the
scare. Tnoy are receiving letters from
traveling men tolling of the cancellation
of orders In Misslsslpbi and elsewhere
because of the reluctance of the
country people to patroni/. j stons
which receive goods from Infected
dist* ids.
Much distress is beginning to appear
among the Italian population growing
cut of the practical expulsion of the
fruit business from Louisiana on account
of the quarantines, aud relief
work Is one of the tasks which the
Italian societies and citizens committees
will now have to address themselves
to. A meeting of representative
Italians has been held aud permanent
organization formed.
A special to the Age-Herald from
Meridian, Miss., says: Five Italians
were shot down by the guards of the
de'ention station near Lu i barton
Monday mornlnir. two heim/ killed and
three seriously wounded. Dr. Donald,
state health ollloer at Ilattiesburg,
gave out the lirst lutlm itlon of the occurence
over the long distance telephone
shortly before noon and later
the details were obtained from other
sources.
A case of yellow fever was developed
a few days ago among Italian refugees
from New Orleans in the sdburbs
of the town and the house in which
the patient lay ill was isolated. The
state health authorities took care of
the case while those who came in contact
with the sick man were detained
under guard a camp provided for
the purpose. Five of these, early
Monday morning, made an attempt to
escape. The guards repeatedly called
upon them to halt, but no attention
was paid to the order.
The pursuing guards tired a volley
at the fugitives, all of them falling
in their tracks. From the test obtainable
information two of tho Italians
were Instantly killed by the volley
and the other three more or less
seriously wounded. Lumberton is a
town on the New Orleans and Eastern
railroad, about 80 miles northeast of
New Orleans and ontalns the only
case of yellow fever thus far developed
lu Mississippi.
Hatched Out a Rattler..
The Charleston Post says a tiny
rattlesnake, hatched from an egg in a
glass Jar in the window of F. Von
Oven, on King street, is attracting
notice from the pedestrians of the
street. The rattler's eggs were received
by Mr. Von Oven from a friend
at Hell Hole Swamp, which is llUed
wito rattlers, and for the sake of seeing
what would happen, Mr. Von
Oven put the eggs, which are small
and solf shelled like the turtle egg and
oi moci?iea wmte color, la a big white
jir and exposed them to the bua
Wednesday. At noon the young rat1
tier now in the jar broke shell and
came forth. He Is about twelve inches
long, and the size of a slender pen
holder, with the diamond marks on
his back, and a slender squirming tongue.
Ills head is dlsproDortlonatelv
arge, and the rattler already shows his
vicious nature by striking at a finger
1 twiddled at him.
Dcoperado Caught.
i Chas. Long, the'Trenton negro murI
derer and outlaw, who for the past
couple of weeks has been hunted
through the swamps and woods near
( Plalnfield, N. J., was captured about ?
10 o'clock Wednesday morning by the
, police. He was captured while plow*
. trig on the Van lhze farm, which
[ skirts the dismal swamp.
1 Charged With Murder.
j Will Cabe, charged vtlth the mur
der of a man named Plumley In up*
r per Qreenvllle County in 1806, has
surrendered to the sheriff. The grand
Jury at one time found "n0 bill"
against Cabe, but subsequently return
ed a true bill. Cabe will have to
stand trial. y,
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