The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 07, 1908, Image 5
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MANY LIVES LOST
In a Most Destructive Hotel Fire
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
r
NUMBER OF MISSING.
The Rurning of the Krister Renders
Accurate Estimate of Futilities
1 ni|iossil>l(*?The Fire Was uiscovered
at Half-Fust Three O'clock ,
V
Sunday Morning in the Flevator
Shaft.
At least II! persons lost their lives
ii\ a tire which destroyed the New
Avellne hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
early Sunday morning. The entire |
interior of the building is a smouldering
heap of ruins and how many
dead are concealed by the debris can
only be conjectured. The hotel register
was consumed bv the lire and
there is no accurate means of determining
who is missing.
Charred wood, bricks and twisted
girders are piled up between the walls
to the second story. Piece by piece
this must be removed before the roll
of the dead can be completed. Some
of the bodies taken out are mangled
and charred beyond recognition.
The lire was discovered at 3:30
Sunday morning in the elevator shaft
by Night Clerk Kalph Piplins. lie
rushed to the upper floors, alarming
the guests until the flatties, which had
spread with great rapidity, drove
them back. His efforts, howeve*,
saved many lives.
The hotel was erected half a century
ago and the wood work was dry
as tinder. Within a few minutes front
the tXne the fire was discovered the
whole interior was a mass of (lames
and the only avenue of escape was
by tbo windows.
The fire department resetted many
of the guests by means of ladders,
but some, frenzied by the rush of
names, leaped iroiu wmmnvs m
street.
H. S. Johnson, of Puna, 111., jumped
from the llfth story. Ills body
struck a balcony and bounded far into
the street, lie died a short time
later.
As the Humes increased men and
women were seen in the windows of
V their rooms imploring help. Some
t did not wait for the assistance of the
firemen and leaped to the street.
Those who left their rooms before the
flames cut off their retreat were able
to make their way to the tire escape
and were saved.
That there are several bodies In
the ruins is the belief of PI re Chief
llilbrecht, and Chief of Police Anckenbruck
places his estimate of dead
yet in the ruins as high as 20. The
Now Avolino Hotel was a six story
building of brick. It stood in the
business centre of the city. The hotel
and its furnishings were valued at j
$80,000. . *
TILLMAN TO KEITRN IIOMK.
The Senator Left the Sanitarium on
Last Saturday.
Senator Tillman's condition is so
much improved that ho lias returned
to his home at Trenton, lie will continue
to rest, remaining quietly at
home until about June 1. when he
expects to sail for Europe. This will
be good news to the many friends of
the Senator, who hope that he will
soon be entWely recovered so as he
will be able ?to return to his dutlse
in the Senate, where he is so much
missed. *
Til Lie 10 SATES IlLOWN.
Safe Robbers Made a Good Haul at
llartwell, Gu.
Safe robbers visited Hartwell. (hi.,
about one o'clock Thursday morning
The postoillce was opened and robbed
of $50 in money and about $1,000 in
stamps. None of the mails were were
molested. The safe was blown open
with nitroglycerine. The Southern
express office was also visited and the
safes blown.' fhe express money or
ders were tosstd about the place. It
is believed about $200 was secured
t here. *
SNOW ANI> SfiKRT
Fell in Several of the Northern States
on I*ast Thursday.
V Following snow during the morning
hours, Pittsburg, Pa., and vicinity
was visited by a thunder storm, which
caused much damage. Two North
Side houses were struck by lightning
and set on fire. Much apprehension if
felt as to the effect of the snow or
fruit trees. The snowfall in the su
burhan districts was particularly
heavy, spbw also fell at Erie, Pa.
Jonesville and Cleveland, Ohio. *
SLBSCi
I I
TRAPPED BY FLAMES.
I'llIF. C'At'SKS THK LOSS OK SIX
LIYLS.
Many People Itcsouoil l?y I lie Firemen
and INilleo?Origin of Fire Very
I Veu liar.
An early Sunday morning fire in a
four-story brick tenement at No. 17
Humboldt stret, a thickly populated
section of Brooklyn, caused the death
of six persons and the serious injury
of four others. 10very member of
the family, consisting of a mother
and four children, are among the
dead.
There were many thrilling escapes
by police and firemen and it was due
to their brave work that the death
list was not larger.
A half dozen or more persons who
were trapped in the upper stories
were saved by jumping into life nets.
The financial list caused by the fire
is estimated at $10,000.
The fire started in th cellar of the
building when t ho* people comprising
(lie eight families living in the house
were asleep. It had gained much
headway before it was discoveued and
three policemen repeatedly risked
their lives in dragging people
from within reach of the flames.
When the tiremen came the lire had
spread through the entire rear of the
house where the lire escapes were,
and the terror-stricken inmates of the
upper floors had? been driven to the
front rooms where they were hanging
from windows shrieking for help.
Ladders and life lines were quickly
brought into use and most of the
imperiled persons were thus rescued.
The Abrams family lived on the
third floor. for some reason, the
flames swept through their apartment
so that the only way of escape was
by jumping from the windows
Charles Abrams and his sister Anna
did (his, but both struck an iron raliing
and were dead when picked up.
Mrs. Abrams and her other children,
Sadie, and Carrie, were burned to
death, clasped in each other's arms. *
H.WGMD AT DARLINGTON.
Cuddy Graham Pays ITiiulty for Kilting
Cm-man .Moody.
(Jaddy Graham, colored, was hanged
at Darlington Friday for the murder
of Furtuau Moody ou the night of
Nov. IS, 1 907. The hanging took
place at. noon and there were few
persons present. Among those who
witnessed the hanging were the father,
brother and uncle of the murdered
man. .lust before the drop fell
Graham made a statement, admitting
that he was guilty of, stealing and tying.
Do said that he hated to bo
hanged fot murder, but that he was
prepared fyr the inevitable.
On the night of Nov. IS, 1907,
Furman Moody, who had been employed
as manager on Mr. Williamson's
plantation, went hunting. While
i... .. II,>in ,.u tin, nl'ifn
I Jcl MSI I 1 H 1<l V.UI II ll\ l\l WII t lit/ Jf.ttt
lie hoard what he thought, was some
one breaking corn. lie hailed and
was answered, "I am Isaiah Hosliov,
don't shoot. I surrender." Immediately
he was fired upon, the wounds
causing his death some days afterwards
in Charleston, whither he had
been carried in order to get medical
attention at the hospital.
Isaiah Unstick was afterwards arrested
and so was daddy Graham
who was put in jail to answer to th
charge of having killed Moody. H
was found tlisit Unstick was not it
any way implicated; his name wai
given Moody by daddy in order t(
deceive him as to who was in tin
field, daddy had tried to cover It it
tracks in every way hut was caught
and tit the trial the testimony of i
woman who had gone with him it
the wagon to steal the corn eorrobo
rated other testimony and (iaddv wai
convicted and sentenced to he hangei
on Friday, May 1, 1908. "
1
HOLD TliIIOVIOS.
hound and (htggcd Messenger am
Looted the Safe.
"After a desperate battle with tw<
robbers, the messenge" iir charge o
the express car of the New York?St
Louis express of the Pennsylvani;
road, was bound and gagged, tosse<
into a corner, and left there, whit
the intruders looted the safe in th
car of four bags of currency and goli
and then signalled the engineer t.
stop. When the train slowed dowi
the men jumped off the car and ei
caped.
; In trying to ascertain the cause o
the signal to stop, the train Orel
i found the car door open and the met
i senger inside. According to the met
; senger's story, he was busily engap
i ed as the train left the union statio
i at Pittsburg, Pa., at 10:15 p. tt
Without warning he was attackc(
r and at Carnegie, eight miles froi
, Pittsburg, the stop signal was give
* and the men got away.
tIBE NO
FAVOR BRYAN.
Congressmen in Doubtful States
Declare That He Would
ENTHUSE THE PEOPLE
.\ml roll More Votes Than Any Othei 1
Candidate the Democrats Could
Nominate.?They Say All States
Should Send Instructed Delegates
for llryan to the Democratic Convention
at Denver.
"We want you to tell the Democrats
of South Carolina that, with
one exception, there is not a Democratic.
congressman, who represents a
doubtful district west of the Alle|
ghany mountains who does not feel
I that the defeat of Hryan at the Denver
convention would imperil Democratic
success in his district. We
want the aid of the South to preserve
our political lives, and we do not
want the Democrats to wait till the
Denver convention but to express
themselves now in no uncertain terms
I>y instructing their delegates t'oi
Bryan.
"If Bryan is t.ie nominee, then we
will certainly return (o congress and
other doubtful districts in our States
now represented by Republicans will
send Democrats. If Bryan is defeated
for the nomination, many of us
will as certainly be defeated. We
keep in close touch with the sentiment
in our districts, as we have to.
and tits is our deliberate judgment.
Ths is what Judge 1). W. Shackleford.
a congressman from Missouri,
said to Mr. Zack McGhee, the Washington
correspondent of The State
one day last week, to which there was
hearty and unanimous agreement at
an informal conference Mr. MeCJhee
held with Democratic congressmen
from the Middle West tSates at Congress
hall. There were presml. be
sides Judge Shack leford, Messrs.
Hamilton of Iowa. Murphy of Wscon
sin. Russell of Missouri, Adair of Indiana,
Ashbrook of Ohio, and Kimball
of Kentucky.
Mr. McGhee had talked in the afternoon
also with Messrs. Denvr of
Ohio, and Dixon and Ranch of Indiana.
They are all of one. acccrd
and without reserve in declaring that
the defeat of Bryan at Denver, if
anything should bring about such an
unexpected possibilit y, would mean
disaster to Democratic hopes not only
for the presidential and e ngressional
'tickets but for all local tickets. And
they each assure him that this is tin
view entertained by all the Memorialic
congressmen in the States of the
Middle West. Willi t no single exrep
lion of Mr. Hntmnond of Minnesota,
who thinks that Johnson would he
stronger in Minnesota than Bryan.
"If Bryan is nominated," sai l one.
"then 1 export to run and get elected,
hut if any movement host lie to Mr.
Bryan names another man, then I
know that there is not a por-silde
chance for me, because Democrats
will knife the whole ticket. If any
other man should be nominated, even
thongh not hostile to Bryan, the Pern?
crats would not come to the polls
for it is impossible to get up any en1
thusiasin except for Bryan."
I "There are live counties in my die:
triet," said Mr. Ashbbrook of Ohio.
"Two of these are Republican, two
. are doubtful, though now Democratic
> and one is safely Democratic. With
I Bryan heading the ticket, I can easily
> carry the two doubtful districts and
* will got a plurality of 2,00b, 'tut if
> Bryan is not named at Denver 1 fear
1 lite consequences, though even hen f
* think 1 could get a plurality of someL
tiling like 1.000 "
i Mr Denve" of Ohio ts the first
* Democrat who has ever represented
- his district in Congress. He has been
* tin* county chairman'of the Demot
cratic party in his county and h<
' knows the sentiment among the people
throughout Ohio. IBs district i
now normally Republican by nearly
5^000. lie says with Bryan as the
j nominee there is an excellent chance
of carrying Ohio for the Democratic
party..
Mr. Hamilton is the only Democrat
> finm tfiwii "With Brvan as the Deni
* w... ?
ocratic nominee," he said, "and with
Taft the Republican nominee foi
I president, Allison again nominated
' for the senate, I believe there is ni
L' excellent chance of carrying Iowa
e This would not be the case with anj
' other man in place of Bryan. In tin
0 northern part of Iowa, next to Minnc
II sota, there is a Jittle sentiment foi
Johnson, but the overwhelming sent!
nipnt amone Iowa Democrats is be
f ond all possible doubt for Bryan, am
v he is a great favorite with Kepuhli
5" cans."
Only two other men nientlone*
?" Johnson. One of these was Mr. Mm
n phy of Wisconsin. "We know John
son up in Wisconsin," said he, "am
the people do not take to him a
n all. They want Bryan. I hones'l
11 believe that Bryan could carry Wis
* consin aganst Taft. Mr. Murphy'
W TO
LOST WITH SHIP
An Awful Accident Befalls '
Cruiser of Japanese Navy.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION
Dnunvd n the Stock Magazine While ,j
the Veasel l4?y at Anchor at Ma- 1
s
kang. Almost the Kiitiro Crew of l]
t
Young Officers is Relieved to llave r
Cone Down With Their Ship.
s
A dspntch from Tokio, Japan, says I
the training cruiser Matsushima was '
sunk off the Pescadores Islands
Thursday morning by the explosion j
of a projectile.
The cruisers Itsukhhna and Unshi- ,
date rescued 3 0 of the crew.
It is believed that over 300 officers c
and men. includng the captain of the
Matsushima are lost.
The cruiser Matsushima has a (lis- .
placement of l.L'77 tons, being about {
the size and carrying practically the
same arnnment as the United States ,
ciuiser Olympia. it carried one 13- j
inch and 1 1 four-nch guns.
li was one of liie older slips of the .
Japanese navy, liaving been built in j
18110 at a cost of $1,000,000.
The total crew numbered 3o0 olli- ,
tors and men.
Admiral Mnspiamtsu, commander J
Oi the training Htiuadron reports ilwit
the explosion occurred in the stock
magazine of the cruiser at 4: OS o'clerk
Thursday morning while the
vessel was anchored at Makang
'The cruiser immedalely sank until
only the hrdge was visible. Kfforts
at rescue by boats from the cruisers
llashidate and the Itsukhinui continued
until 0 a. ni., and I It men
were saved, and at that time the ad- j
mill's report, the cadets saved numbered
f>S out cf the completemeni of
300.
'The sons of Itnron Chinda, viceminister
of the foreign ollice, and of
I'rince Ogtna, Held marshal, ate
among the cadets who it is feared,
are lost; also Captains Maine, Yosliinoro
and Ysishiro. The cause of the
(explosion is unknown.
| An additional report from Admiral 1
commander of the squadron, gives
t lie list of dead as 1."?!); Ml having
been rescued by the crews of other
cruisers. All others except four went
down* with t lie ship.
Captains Maine, Vpshimora and
Yashiro are among the drowned.
The cruiser was coming to anchor
at 4:lh a. in., when, with out warning
there was a terrillc explosion and
the cruiser foundered almost immediately.
It is supposed the explosion
occurred in magazine No. 2.
Will Not Shut Down.
I he cotton nulls in (ire.enville, An
dcrson nnd I'ickens were not represented
tit the meeting hold in Spartanburg
on Saturday when it was intimated
that most of the mills in
the Piedmont had agreed to suspend
operation on July I. As a matter of
fact the mills in (Jreenville do not
intend to suspend at any time.
district is largely Republican, but
party lines are being broken up. The
people want reform and they will
vote lor the man who they think will
give it to them, the three favorites
being Roosevelt, LaFollette and
Bryan."
All the Indiana Democrats refer to
the three districts in their State now
represented by Republicans who hold
their seats by small majorities. These
are Ullhams, with a majority of a 50
over his Democratic opponent, with
1,4!M) votes for the Prohibition and
Socialist candidates; Chancy, wth 15 10
majority over tin* Democrat, end I,<>20
votes for the Prohibition and Socialist
candidates, and the lat<? air.
Rrick, who had a majority of 207
over the Democrat and 2,100 for
other candidates These districts,
they all declare, will he safely in the
' Democratic column if Rryan is nominated,
and as surely Republican if he
! is not.
Messrs Shackleford and Russel dis!
cussed the situation in Missouri, and
they say that if Rryan is nominated
' Missouri will not only come hack Into
the Democratic column so far as the
1 presidential electors are concerned,
but that 15 of the 16 congressmen
will be Democrats. There are now
1 12 Democrats and four Republicans
' from Missouri. Congressman Ralney
of Illinois says, "I can not speak
from personal knowledge as to any
other State, but I do know Illinois,"
he said. "We have a good chance of
carrying Illinois if Rryan is the nom"
inee. With any one else nominated
there is absolutely no chance. With
Rryan at the head of the ticket, wo
can elect I 0 Democratic congressmen.
1 I think we could elect nine without
him. We now have five." Mr. Itainev
himself carried his dstriet hv
1 about 5,000 plurality, so that Bryan's
1 defeat would not seriously effect him.
y Ho declares that it would have a
" vital effect upon the Democracy of
8 the State, which is all for Bryan.
THE
WEIRD THINGS
JtF TOM) AltOl'T TUH l>OI\(iS OF
SOMK FANATIC'S.
Wo Followcis of "Fnkiiowti Tongue"
Will ll(< Arraigned on ('liiH'gfl of
Miliary in Pike County, (in.
There liavo boon sonic sensational
evelopnients in Pike County, On., reently
with reference to a religious
ect which has been operating for the
>ast several years through that seeion,
Vega, In Plko county being the
entral points of operations. A lot of
heso people have been acting so
trangely that they have been soverey
criticised, and in fact, in a untitle
r of instances their conduct has
icon such, it is claimed that it has
lecoine objectionable to the coininuut.v.
Last summer they ran a camp
neeting at Vega, wliich t?ee?nie so noorius
that people from the entire
unrounding country flocked there to
vitness the performances. The leaders
claimed to have received miracuous
power, and to have a special !
.a ??w. ? i
iiiwi i limn iu?- ii 11 iv i u > v\ 11 lungiie,
which consisted of such an alleged
jabbering as was probably never beore
witnessed, unitelliglldo to ordllary
begins Init clearly understood as
hoy claimed by all the followers of
he new religion.
Some times various individuals
would go off into a tranes like state,
n which condition they would remain
for hours and days, and at. times
weeks. Some times some of them
would tramp the fields and woods,
diouting and moaning, until the
neighborhood would become alarmed
iiicl the women and children much
frightened, in the meantime representatives
of the new sect were travding
the country, begging funds with
which to establish an orphans' homo
it. Vega and a large framed building
had been erected, where several chil
Iron had been collected.
This condition continued until the
I'ike County grand jury met two
weeks ago. when certain citizens of
llie county went before the body and
nsked relief at its hands. It seems
I hat the grand jury, in its efforts to
aid the people of that section, returned
two hills against two victims
if tlte new religious order and the
investigations of I lie alleged home
resulted in two children from the
home appearing before the b?dv in
/mixtion and from there sent ??> their
former home in Columbus, tin.
Tin* citizens of Vega then took a
hand and after public meetings no>itied
Manager Stafford that he was nut
a proper person to he in charge of the
place and that a proper man would
have to he put in charge or the place
closed. All children there were immediately
sent, to their former homes
and it is probable that the orphanage
is out 01 business. interesting developnitnls
have been going 011, howovo/,
in iho ranks of the holiness
followers. When the sheriff of (lie
county went to arrest the young man
and young woman, charged with vagrancy,
a wonderful state of affairs
was discussed.
from the information obtained
these two people went into a trance
at the camp meeting last summer, in
which they lingered many days. They
then went to the home of the young
man's father where they have since
been, actually refusing to do a single
thing, not even bathing or changing
wearing apparel. The food on which
they have subsisted hud to be carried
to their rooms and fed to them. The>
are sights to look upon.
Strange as it may seem, the fat hot
of this young man is a resneetubit
citizen and the faiinly esteemed it
the community and they stoutly main
tain that there is nothing the mattei
with the young man and the youuj
woman except that they "had the
power of the lloly Ghost." In tin
discharge cf his duty the sheriff car
tied the two to Zebulon and placet
them in jail. The friends of the fam
tly tit once made bond for their re
lease, but when the sheriff opened tin
doors and told them to walk out the*
declined, saying that the "Lord hat
put them in jail and when lie order
od thorn out they would ouey."
. FAMOUS OUTLAW CAUGHT.
.John Harper Surrounded by a Larg<
Posho and Captured.
A special from Copper Hill, Tenu
states that a posse of Tennessee ant
Georgia citizens and United States of
fleers have captured in the moun
tsiin? of Fannin fiountv. Tennosser
the notorious outlaw. John Harpei
Harper murdered Allison Englari
near Blue Ridge over a year ag?
He was arrested and incarceratd i
jail In Atlanta February I, 190?
pending his appeal to the suprem
court for the murder of Sheriff Kelt
of Murray county, Georgia in Jul:
11)07. Howards amounting to neai
ly $900 dollars were out for his ai
rest which was accomplished by mai
ing him believe that the house 1
' which he was concealed was bein
burned down.
HORRY II
$
THEY WERE HUNG
Toland Brothers Pay Death Penalty
for Awful Crime.
AN ORDERLY CROWD
Of About Four Hundred Witnessed
the Execution in tlie Lexington .lull
Yurd?I loth Were Hanged l>'rout
the Same Scaffold.?They llekt
Firmly to Their Former Story of
the Murder.
At Lexington on Friday Ned and
(track Toland paid the penalty of
death for the murder of Mrs. Paul
Klllsor on February 2G. They died
at a few luinuieH past twelve o'clock,
both being hanged front the same
gallows. "I am ready to die and tell
everybody to moot mo in hoaven,"
wore tho parting words of each. To
t ho last thoy hold to tholr fornior
story of tho crltno as thoy told it on
tho witness stand at Lexington on
March I'J.
Tho nog rocs mot death with scarcely
a tremor. Tho eyes of (track, tho
younger of tho boys, displayed a
slight moistnoss. The cunning, Instinctively
criminal Nod shod not a
tear and ho mot death with apparently
as little concern as if it wore tho
most commonplace thing. The boys
stood erect while tho black caps were
being adjusted and very calmly hold
their heads in position for the sheriff
to arrange the ropes about their
necks.
Ignorant, depraved, they died without
possibly a true realization of tho
horrible and atrocious crime which
they had commtted. The hundreds
who witnessed the execution from
housetops, trees, fences, etc., firmly
believed that justice was being meted
out to them, hut not one would have
deigned deny them Hie privilege of
feeling that "all Is right with God
The trap was sprung tit. 'i.Fiu a.
in., and in 1 1 minutes Nod was pronounced
dead and in two militates
more the last lilt of life left the body
of Itraek. They died from strangulation.
As the bodies dropped they
swung around for a fe wseconds and
then all was still.
It was thought that Brack was killed
Instantly, his body hanging perfectly
motionless, with not ;i twicti
of tho liands or foot. Nod's foot and
hands drew up and ruluxod ropoatediy
and ito diod with ti struggle. Cu?l
six minutos had elapsed wJion Brack
sliowed signs of life and then his lingers
began to twitch and once or
twico itls foot drew up before his
body again became motionless.
Dr. 10. I*. Derrick, country physician,
Dr. .f. 1'. Drafts of lbirre, Dr.
L. It. 101 her id ge of Leesvillo a n <! Dr.
It. 10. Mothias of Irmo, constantly examined
the bodies at at 12.o?; Ned
was pronounced dead. At 12.08
Brack was pronounced dead. They
were allowed to remain suspended in
tin; air until 12.20, when both bodies
were cut down and placed in cheap
pine collins furnished by the county.
No one claimed the bodies and at t
' o'clock Sheriff Corley turned them
1 over to Mr. It. D. Clark, coroner, and
> Mr. Gee II. Koon, county supervisor,
1 and they were taken to the poiters*
' held and hurled without ceremony. *
dbowncd nr,Bsi;br
Because She Thought She Had Killed
i
ller Child.
Crazed by the thought that alio
I might have accidentally killed her
^ son by a mistaken dose of medicine
ten mouths ago, Mrs. It. L. Poole
. jumped in tho lOtowah river and
drowned herself Thursday. Site lived
in Rome, Ca. On Wednesday she was
tried for lunacy and found guilty.
, Sim resisted going to jail and was
\ committed to the care of her busKott/i
/I it t*i o <r t /I o 1/ \A7 It i I o hoc h no.
MIIIM U U I 1 II h HIV VUIJ . U IIIIV IIVJI II UO"
? band was not looking she slipped
away, went to the river and jumped
in. It was found that she had tied
her own arms before jumping into
the river to prevent any efforts being
'* made unconsciously.
AS IF BY MAGIC.
[1 Biiiul and Deaf Man Has Ills Hearing
and Sight Hestored.
b At. Chicago a supposed deaf and
* blind mandicant, who had heen ard
rested was fined $3 0 and costs by
> Judge Wells. As if by magic tho
t"? man's hearing and eyesight were restored
and ho took $80 from one of
o his pockets and counted out the ah
mount of the fine. He was then
ib searched by the police and a bank
r- book showing a deposit of $t,4f>2 was
f- found. "You won't need these cards
v i wnicn ten 01 your iosi nearing ana
n I poor eyslght slnoo both have been
>S I restored," the court remarked, and
"ItUo pasteboard was destroyed.
IERALD.