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BIG LOSS OF LIFE V ______ In Several States Caused by a Destructive Cyclone , <- ?? THREE HUNDRED DEAD H / i _________ Over One Thousand More or Less Injuml, and Muny Thousands Are Homeless.?Storm Covered .Much T?^8tory, Nearly l^lfty Towns liein^ Wrecked, Some of Which Are Almost Wiped Out. Three hundred and fifty killed, a hundred or more persons fatally injured and many times this number painfully hurt, together with a properly loss running up into the millions, is the record so far of a series of tornadoes that originated in the West Thursday kwooiU'v. - ^ ,, , - . - ? v |.inh m i> i i <;Aiin, i ;h lahonui, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tenuessee. Alabama and Georgia Friday and Friday night. It. left a path of death, desolation and want in its wake, seriously interrupted communication between cities in the South and brought about chaotic conditions in many smaller towns. Mississippi bore the brunt of the storm. Reports from that State indicate that the loss of life will be by far the greatest of any section through which the storm passed. Estimates of those who loss their lives as a result of tornadoes in Mis- ' aippi place the deatli list at near three hundred and titty, with a thousand or more injured. In Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia the death lists are also large, with loss of life in Arkansas and i ennesaee. ' Authentic information is in many instances lacking owing to crippled facilities far communication and the lack of time to form anything like an 1 accurate estimate of the damage. The storm, which first appeared in 1 Georgia at Columbus, on the Ala- 1 batnrt line, seems to have moved in a ' uortheasterly direction, striking the towns of Chiple.v, Harris, LaGrange. ' Griffin, McDonald. Locust Grove, Odartown and Cave Springs, while a portion of its fury was felt in the 1 eastern surhurbs of Atlanta shortly 1 after ni id night. * Most of the dead are negroes. Perhaps a dozen white persons were ( caught in falling buildings and either ; fatally injured or so serously disabled as to require medical attention. The loss of life was in the quar- 1 ters of colored persons where the ! wind destroyed their cabins, burying 1 the occupants in the debris, or in the 1 farming section of the country where trees were uprooted, telegraph and telephone polls torn up and general destruction became an encore to a 1 storm which, with almost tornado 1 furv, swept through the country. It is difficult to estimate the loss of life or the extent of the disaster, for there is little or no communication with the points where the wind and rain did its greatest damage. In Louisiana it is estimated that a score of small towns were destroyed or partially wrecked These include Amite City, Arcadia and Independence, Belle Grove, Melton, Gorman, Pine Ridge, Quitman, Landing, h'airchilds Creek, Purvis and Lumberton, Miss, are reported seriously damaged by the storm. in Alabama, Dora was tne cmer sufferer. This town i? also known as Bergen. Four or more persons were killed, among them the wife and daughter of Section Master Moore. Fiity persons at the lowest estimate were injured. Those most seriously hurt were carried to hospitals in Birmingham, Ala. One woman, a M*s. McCully, died on the train. Two other members of this family were seriously injured. At Bergen cars were Mown from the railroad tracks and considerable other property destroyed. Reports also say that the storm struck Abertville, Ala., and destroyed nearly the entire northern portion of the town. A cotton mill was blown down, the storm ranging, northward, doing much destruction to life andf property. An vfnconfirmed report from that section gives the death Ifkt as from 3 0 to 35 with other persons injured. A special train was sent from Birmingham, tarrying physicians and a squad of State militiamen to the district. Aid is also pouring in from all drec? tons. From Meridian, Miss., comes a report that Mrs. John Minniece and her child were killed outright and John Minniece was seriously injured, while a number of other persons were hurt and there was considerable destruction of property. Richland and Lamourte, "La., were struck by the storm and nearly a fifth "< '?i- i.nnnI',i inn iii lured. UI 111C711 j;up uiuvixf.. ..w Winchester, Miss., a small town, is reported wiped out, though only two porspVls are known to have been k'illed.A .Natchez, Miss., reports sixty are Vnown to bo dead in the northern SUBSCR k THE PRESS GANG HOW TIME WILL HE SPENT AT (JAFFNKY. Many Interesting Papers to lit' Heart. People of (ialTiioy Expect to Make Visitors Have a Good Time. President K. II. Aull, of the South Carolina Press Association, attended a meeting at Guffney last week of the subcommittee which was unpointed to arrange the details of the programme for the annual meeting of the Associaton at Caffney, June 1518. J. 10. Norment, C. .VI. Galloway and \Vilium Banks were also of this subcommittee, but were unavoidably absent. President Aull and Mr. IOdward DeCiunp met and Went over the programme as partially agreed upon at a former meeting of the committee, and President Aull was requested to put the programme in shape and arrange for its publication. As a result of the conference the following programme is announced for the annual meet ing: Tuesday Morning, June 1(1, to < )'c!ock. Association called to order in auditorium of Limestone College by President E. li. Aull. Prayer by the chaplain, the Itev. \V. P. Jacobs 1). I). Address ol welcome on behalf >f the ?ll\ of GalYnoy, by Prof. 11. P. drill-tli. Address of welcome on behalf of Limestone College by I)r. Lee Davis I .odge. Responses to addresses of welcome by President 10. II. Aull and Secretary R. L. Freeman. Cosiness Session: Siinject, "The Rusiness End of a Newspaper Oflico," II. L. Watson, Greenwood Index. "To What Extent Should Newspapers Give the Fioe I'se of Their Colums to Candidates," C. W. Wolfe, Kingstree Record. "My Esteemed Contemporary," T. It. Waring, Charleston Post. Afternoon Session. 1 "The Impress of Environment I'pon he Newspaper and its Formative Influence," J. 10. Norment. i Miscellaneous business. 4:510 o'clock. Drive around l!ie 3ity, including visit to manufactories uHi 'in mines. Evening Session. K:HO O'clock. Address. "The Croat Importance of r ik* ueveiopment ?> 1 our Rural Schools," Miss Mary T. Nance, president of the Itural School Improvement Association of South Carolina. Wednesday Morning, .lime 17, 1) O'clock. Visit to power plant of the electrical Power and Manufacturing Company on Croud River in a special train. A general picnic will lie served at the power plant. Night Session. Address, "The Pustniliee Department and the Legitimate Publisher," Hon. A. L. Lawshe third assistant Postmaster CJenerul, Washington, 1). C. . Address, Hon. It. R. lOdmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, Haiti more, Md. Thursday Morning, Juno IH, l):MO O'clock. "The Technical Construction of a Newspaper Story," .las. A. Hoyt, The News and Courier Bureau, Columbia, S. C. "How to Prepare Copy," C. H. Calloway, the State, Columbia, S. 0. "The Use of the Telephone in (lathering the News," A. if. Carpenter, the Daily Mail, Anderson, S. C. Afternoon Session, O'clock. "Historical Symposium," paper and addresses by Col. T. H. Crews, Herald, Laurens; N. G. Osteen, Watchman and Southron, Sumter; Jno. W. Holmes, People, Barnwell; Hugh Wilson, Press and Banner, Abbeville; Mile* H McSwfionnv Gunrdian. Hampton. Miscel laneous business. Election of oflleers. Night Session, 10 O'Clock. Ilnnquet, tendered by citizens of Gaffney; It is earnestly requested by the citizens of Gaffney that all members, with their families, will reach Gaffney during Monday and Monday evening. The officers of the Association, also, earnestly request that every publisher in South Carolina attend this meeting. The people of Gaffney are very much in earnest in their efforts to make this a most enjoyable meeting, and when they undertake to do a thing they do it. In addition to the program Editor Loyless, of the Augusta Chronicle, and Editor Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer, have accepted invitations Louisiana storm. Hundreds of plantation cabins are reported destroyed in that section. Mobile reported nine dead in Hattiesburg, Miss., but this has not been con finned. , IBE N0\ SHIPS COLLIDE. Twenty-Eight Men Are Dead or Missing as Results. CRUISER AND LINER Come Together Oft the Isle of Wright ami the Cruiser (joes to (tie Hot" torn With I'art of ller Crow.?The Aeeident Was I'navoirlable Is the ( enernl Opinion Among Shipping Men. A dispatch from i r... - .. Bitys I lie total number of dead and missing of the Gladiator's crow as a rosult of the collision between the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser olT the Isle of Wright is 118. Givers ' Sunday searched the sunken cruiser for bodies, but were not successful in finding any. The opinion among shipping men and naval officers and ollicials appears to lie unanimous tliat the accident was unavoidable, being one of the chances of the sea which all seamen must risk. All wltnesss of tin' disaster agree practically that, both crews behaved as well sis possible. Coming so soon after the loss of the torpedo boat destroyer Tiger, which was sunk by the cruiser Berwick off the Isle of Wright on April A, last, men being drowned, the sinking of the Gladiator Is a severe blow to the British navy. The damaged how of the St. Paul indicates that she forced her nose at least 12 0 feet through the cruiser's side, but, fortunately the greatest damage she received was above the water line. The bow post was buckled, while the plates on both the port and starboard bows were crushed in and gaping cracks extended along the side. Neither Capt Passow nor any of his otticers would discuss the accident, preferring to wait until they can submit their reports to the proper officials. It was learned, however, i that Capt. Passow is sorely grieved i ut the disaster, this being his lirst serious mishap. , Had the cruiser been painted any other color than slate she might have noon seen earlier and the collision , avoided, but (Jreat Itiitaiu has decided that her warships ait tract less attention when thus painted. * a si:vi<:m; ( vclonk. iloilies of a .Man and Mis \\ il'e tarried a .Mile, A destructive cyclone visited Nebraska last Thursday, swooping through Camming County. Three people are known to have been killed, a number injured and a number of houses destroyed. Telegraph and telephone lines aire down and reports aire slow in arriving. The tornado si ruck the house of John Mangleson, near Mender, Neb., and then swooped up into the air, talking the wreckage and bot.li Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson. Moth were killed, their bodies being carried a mile. George Waoker and family were ait lunch when the twister struck their house. Three of the family were seriously Injured. * to meet, with their South Carolina brethren. "It von are not' ai member of the Association," says President A nil, "send your name and initiation fee to Treasurer August Kohn, Columbia, S. C., and make your arrangements to take a week off, leaving your home on Monday, so as to reach Gaffney in time for the opening session Tuesday morning, and have your business so arranged that you can remain away from your desk until the following Monday, so that yon may take the trip through the beautiful scenery of Western North Carolina, which trip is being arranged and the details of which will be announced in a seperate c ireular. "We will live together as one family dunng the session at Gaffney, in the l imestone College. While theio we will be the guests of the city. Editor DeCamp made that statement at the Isle of Palms last summer and insists on carrying it out. < i r ...... ?ii*, .. II >(MI Ut'MI tr II clIloJJl'l I <11 Kill I I / i yourself or any member of your family write in ample lime to the president at. Newberry, S. C., or to the secretary at. Bennettsvillo, H. C., stating by which route you desire to go, and efforts will be made to secure you necessary transportation. "Let iih repeat our request that ycv< attend this meeting and see something of this wonderful Piedmont section of your state. For two years we have enjoyed the sea breezes an 1 hospitality of the people of tlie City of Charleston, and this year we want you all to go with us to Gaffney." V TO % THE BEST SPEECH Made By Jas. C. Hardin, Representative of Wofford College. GIVEN FIRST HONOR. I. \V. Hick*, of Fnrniau College, Mnks Second Host Speech, mid Is Given Second Honor. Nroe OallegcN Were Hepresented by Nine Talent* ed Young Gentlemen in the Great Oratorical Contest. A dispatch from Greenwood to The News and Courier says promptly at eight o'clock Friday night the d?.ors of the Lander College auditorium were closed and the tenth annual St a to oratorical contest was commenced. After a song of welcome by the Lander College chorus Club and prayer by the Rev. Robert Adams president of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, Mr. Hardin, of Watford Collge, being the first speaker of the eveninir. snoltn tn.? "I'V .?V , vn\ OUW I'M I oi his oration being "The HatCe Against ignorance." Then followed tho other speakers, the following programme being carried out: "Tito Handicaps of the South," it. S. Owens. "The Spirit of the Age," 'I'. C 1 ley wa rd. "The Small College," J. n. Brown. "Christian Citizenship The Hope of nomocracy," it. 10. Petrea.v. "In Defence of the Flag," J. F Xohrden. "The American Shibboleth," J. W. Hicks. "The Menace of Mammotn," (5. N. McCormick. "The South and Her Heroes," it. 10 C< iizales. At intervale music was rendered by I he faculty of Lander College and the r under College Chorus Club. Afte* the speeches a wait of a few minutes was made necessary for the judges, v ho were the Hon. .1. C. Otts, of HafTney; the Itev. J. I?. (Jreen. of Creenwood. and the itev. J. Phillips Vomer, of Columbia, to make their decision. These few moments were moments of suspense, and anxiety was p"airily written in large letters on the contestants' faces. Hut. when the judges announced that Mr. J. C. Hardin, of Wofford had won fnsi place, ihe welkin was made lo ing l:v t ie indent- from Wofford, and their presence was made know by yells and the flaunting and wax in,-, of their college colors. Mr. J. W. Hlc.lcs, of Ptirman, was announced winner r? ' w?-#mi#l ulimn ....i ^ "> *'WHU |'IH\ 11 lll| his suppoiicrs cheered him to tli< echo. The contest, was a battle royal so far as tliougt, oratory and elocution was concerned. Kor gracefully and well did the .voting orators endeavor t> hold up the reputation of the colleges they represented. Indeed as the judges expressed it. it was a hard matter to pick the winner, but all are agree d that the right man. Mi II udIn. won. Mr. Hardin's speech was one of the best ever delivered by a college man in Greenwood, and he deserves great credit for the niasievIv thought and beautiful composition of ideas be injected into his speech. However, all the speeches were good, and Hiking tliein as a whole 'hey have been excelled and many thought, never equalled, at any of the previous contests held here. Mr. J. C. Hardin, the repte.a ntntive of \\ offford College in the St iio orator ? a I contest, is 21 years old i from Co'ver, S C , and is a member et the Junior clasi of Wofford C.j'bgc. Soon after eib^r.rg college M Hardin won a rep .it VI m fcr 1 .'line 11 as a speaker and because of his thoroug literary work. He has served as president of his class during h'-, soph more year. The same year he was elected second censor, corresponding secretary and monthly orator in the Preston Society. Daring the present year Mr. Hard in Is serving as chief marshal, assistant exrhfcnge editor of the Journal staff and vice president of the Y. M. C. A. Ill' was also elected to represent. hp Society on the preliminary Kmory donate and the junior debate. Mr. Hardin is a brother of Hie Rev. K. K. Hardin, who won the State contest. at Greenwood in 1904 for Wofford College. KlfiLKI) IX WRRCK. Over Fifty Are Dead and About Ninety Injured. Forty-two bodies hi'ive been taken out. of the wreckage caused by the collision which happened on April 19 of two trains at Uruybrook Junction, about eight miles from Melbourne, Australia. It is believed that several others are still buried under the debris. The number of injured Is placed at eighty-eight. THE 1 TRIED TO KILL THEM. GHKKNWOOD .?IAN AND WIFKIIAD I CL08K CALL While They Were Asleep in IUhI the Son of the Man Shot at Thorn at Close Kongo. A disputeh from Greenwood to The News and Courier suys Hut lor Pinsou. known as "Hub," is charged with muklng an attempt to kill his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. H. I*. Pinson, as they lay asleep early on Tuesday morning, firing both barrels of a gun at them, and when only about eight feet, away from them. That Mr. and Mrs. Pinson are living to tell how it happened is a miracle, for the load of shot entered the head of the bed, only u few inches above their heads, and some of the shot were found imbedded in the pillows, on which their heads rested. Mr. H. M. Pinson lives about a mile anl a half southeast of Saluca, and within about four hundred yards of Siloam Church. He is a well-to-do ' ' i, .urn is ii11111immmmi among <! imm-ii wood County's most substantial citizens, he being a man of about u yours of ago. "lUilu" however, seems t* bear a pretty bad reputation, having lived a very profligate life, living the greater part of the time away from home. Young Vinson's motive is unknown, but his fatluy, the older Tinson, himself thinks that the boy, knowing that no one knew he was in this part of the country, decided that he would kill both himself and Mrs. Tinson. and that ho would then share the estate with his brother, Richard, being hard pressed for funds. Mr. Tinson had only lately refused to grant his request for money. Young Tinson made his escape, hut Sheriff McMillan is making every effort to catch him, and has sent, out the following description of Tinson all over the country: "Arrest Butler Tinson; charge, attempt to murder; eolor, white, age twenty-six years, height f? feet, 7 inches, weight 160 pounds. Said to have missing tooth, brown eyes and dark hair; fall face and clean shaven. Use caution." ON 10 M AN Kl LI<100. Tour Others Injured in Street Duel at Bern ice, La. At Homince, La., Tuesday, a spectator was killed during a street, duel, and lour others were wounded. Both duelists were wounded, put not seriously. The fight was between C. .1. Morton and VV. K. Durham. The cause of their quarrel is not known. Morton was just stopping off an Arkansas Southern passenger train, accompanied by bis wife and sevenyear-old son, when Bnrham appeared. Iloth men opened fire and Morton's little boy fell, mortally wounded; T. W. Clarke was instantly killed and Thus. Rivers was wounded in the thigh. Conductor AI ford of the train and a mate passenger were injured. Morton was struck by two bullets and llarham hit by one. * lilt VAX WINS ALAIN. Massachusetts Will Send Delegates to Denver Favorable to llim. A dispatch front Boston says the llryan men report the state for Bryan .at the cauousses held to elect delegates to the state convention. No contest worth the name was made for any other candidate, and the delegates chosen, were, generally speaking, favorable to Bryan. In Boston only four per cent, of the party vote came out. and the same thing was the rule throughout the state. In one Boston ward, where efforts were | made to elect delegates, nledged to f Johnson, tho attempt was unsuccessful. , * IIKAVY msriONSAUY SAIilOS. Three Thousand Dollars Worth of Liquor Sold in One Day. The largest sales since the opening of the North Augusta dispensary were made on Saturday, April 18, the sales amounting to over $3000. This amount exceeded the largest amount yet sold in one day previous by about $1,100, the largest sales previously being about $1,000. A Wonderful Cat. The Newberry Observer says: "There Is a pet cat In the family of Thomas Barberry, of Hopkins Corners, Mich., that will never play with the baby without first bittiug off the sharp point on its claws * I> / L.- ? Ulinniail * ITIKI. Lieut. Gen. Linevltch, aide do camp to Einperer Nicholas, and the commander of the first Manchurlan army, died at St. Petersburg of pneumonia Thursday night. He had been ill for a little over a week. 10RRY HI WILL NOW QUIT Selling Booze or Go to Jail for Contempt of Court. AFTER BLIND TIGERS (Jnnrt Injunctions Will l>o Pushed and nn Earnest KITorl Mario to Stop tho Illegal .Sale of Liquor?dor. Ansol Will Authorize tho Attorney deneral to Proceed as Supremo Court dives the flight. "What will he (lotto now that the supremo court has sustained the Injunction policy as applied to htind tigers? This question has suggested Itself to a great uiauy people n tho last two doys. (Jov. Ansel himsolf declines to talk, and Attorney (Jenoral Lyon is out of the city," says the Columbia State. "11uL It is reported that Mr. Marshall I1 Deltruhl, assistant attorney general, has been given a batch of of injunction aflldavits and has been ordered by Governor Ansel to proceed against the places regarded as 'blind tigers.' It is said that among these <1 r<i a. ?. ?- --- ...V HIV i I^iu IMM'l* til Columbia and that Capt. T . 10. Dixon has boen given orders to enjoin not only the keepers of the places hut the owners of the property from ever again toleratng the Illicit sale of liquor on the premises, such sale constituting a nuisance under the CareyCot hran act and subjecting the property to be handled in injunction proceedings. It is believed that Gov. Ansel will now push (tie injunctions against bling tigers in Charleston and in other cities where they may exist? and by this drastic measure drive these people out of an unlawful business. "When Gov. Ansel was a candidate for governor he received nearly 75 per cent, of the otos in Charleston county. Some time after lie assumed his olhcial duties there was some talk to the effect that Charleston was getting more and more 'wide open,' depending upon Gov. Ansel's political friendship. When this matter was brought to Gov. Ansel's attention he inquired of the attorney general if there were any wav effect. iialI) to go after the blind tigers. "Mr. Lyon suggested the injunction method. This was approved by the Governor and the State disnensary auditor, Mr. W. It. West, was sent to Charleston to work up evidence against suspects. The dispensary constabulary was used and upon aflldaits thus obtained the attorney general issued injunctions closing a number of liquor shops in Charleston. "An appeal was taken to the supreme court and the court decided in favor of the injunctions. Mr. Lyon had been advised by Gov. Ansel to suspend tho enjoining proceedings until the court should act. Mr. l)eBruhl, it Is stated, has received Instructions that as the court has sustained the Injunctions the work should be pushed. It is said that in Charleston when a law breaker was enjoined from selling liquor he would move his place to the upper story of**the same building and conduct the business in liis cherk's name. Mr. Lyon will now issue Injunctions against property owners also. These injunctions are perpetual, and the punishment Is sure." , MAKTYK TO SERVICE. Attendant in a Contagious Hospital a Victim of Septicemia. A New York dlftnntoh ?nvu una the most popular and efficient nurses of the Itierside Hospital on North Brother Island, Miss Maybelle F. Strawski, has given her life to her calling. Riverside Hospital is a city institution given over to the treatment of contagious diseases exclusively and about three weeks ago Miss Strawski was in charge of several diphtheria patients. She pricked her thumb with a safety pin in the care of one of the patients and at the time thought nothing of It. In a few days, however, it dovel oped that the pin was badly infected and Miss Struwskl was found to bo suffering front a violent attack of septicemia. LOST (X)NTHOL OF TBAIN. Four Italians Wore Killed When the Crash Canto. I Four Italians were killed outright, ono fatally injured, and died on the train while en route to the Williamsport hospital, and four others probably fatally injured in a wreck on a log train on the LaQuinn lumber road at Whttlen, Pa., Wednesday morning. Failure of the reverse lever on tho engine allowed the train to run away. ERALD.