The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 07, 1909, Image 4
FALLING WALLS ,
Awaka the People of Messina
Who Fled to Die
IN FIRE AND FLOOD
Awful St'oiios Witnessed by Few Survivors
of lCurthquako Who Are
ltutionul to Tell of Tlieir Fvptriencos?Thousands
of People laterally
Tumbled Out of Homes.
Catania. Dec. L'O.?The following
graphic story is told by a woman
who arrived here from Messina this
morning, badly injured:
" 'Infernal' is the only word that
will adequately describe the fearful
and terrifying scone," she said.
"When the llrst shock came, in^sl
of the city was fast asleep. I was
awakened by the rocking of the
house. Windows swayed and rattb'd
and crockery and glass crashed to
the floor. The next moment i was
violently thrown out of my bed to
the floor. 1 was half stunned but
knew that the only thing to do was
to make my way out doors. The
streets were tilled. Kverybodv had
rushed out 5n their night clothes,
heedless of the rain falling in torrents.
Terrified shrieks arose from
till sides, and we heard heartrending
appeals for help from the unfoitunate
pinned beneath the ruins.
"Walls were tottering all around
us, and not one of our party e\p? clod
to escape alive. My brothers an 1
sisters were with me, and in a frenzy
of terror we groped our way through
the streets, holding our own against
the panic-stricken people-, clambudng
over piles of ruins, until we finally
reached a place of comparative safety.
Hut this was not done before 1 |
n ii.-t mi ui;n UUWII illl'l Dildl.V I II .1O l'( I
l?y a piece of furniture that fell out
of the upper story of a house.
"All along the road we were jostie<l
by fleeing people half clad litre
ourselves. The houses seem -d 'to
he crashing to the ground in whatever
direction we turned.
"Suddenly the sea began to pour
into t,h'e town. It seemed that this
inus.t mean the end of everything.
1"ife on-coming waters rolled in a
'huge wave, accompanied by a terrifying
roar.
/ "The sky was aglow with the rc#-*"
Hoot ion of burning palaces and other
buildings, and as if this was not
enough, there suddenly shot tip into
the sky a huge hurst of flame, fol
lowed by a crash that seemed to
shake the whole town. This probably
was the gas works blowing up.
"Eventually we reached the principal
square of Messina. Ue??* we
found two or three thousand utterly
terrified people assembled. None of
us knew what to do. We waited in
agony of fear. Men and women
prayed, groan*d and sh'Meked. I saw
one of the big buildings fronting
on Hie square collapse. It seemed
to me that scores of persons were
buried beneath the ruins. Then I
lost consciousness and 1 remember
no more."
A wounded soldier from Messina
said:
"The spectacle was terrifying beyond
words. Dante's 'Inferno' gives
you hut a faint idea as to what happened
yesterday morning at Messina.
The first shock came before tl e sun
had risen. It shook the city to its
very foundations. Immediately the
houses began to crumble. Those of
us who wore not killed at once made
our way over undulating floors to the
streets. Beams were crashing down
through the rooms and the stairs
were equally unsafe.
"I found the streets blockaded by
falbm houses. Balconies, chlmni-ys.
I>el! towers, entire walls had Icon
thrown down. Front every side of
me arose the screamings and moan-:
tugs of the wounded. The p-ople
were half mad with excitement and
fear. Most of them had rn-dted out
in lltirlil nlnl lino In ?i litll/i
while v'? wore all shivering uinl -r a
torrential downpour of rain Kvoryw
lie re there were dead bodies, nude,
disfigured nnl mutilate 1. in the
ruins I could see arms and legs moving
helplessly. From every quarter
came piteous appeals for aid.
"The portion of the town down
near the water was Inundated by rite
tidal wave. The water reached to
the shoulders of the fugitives and
swept them away.
"The city hall, the cathedral anl
the barracks crumbled, and other
public buildings and dwellings without
number were literally razed to
to the ground. There were two
hundred customs agents at the barracks;
only 11 were saved. At the
railroad station only eight out of
200 employes have been accounted
for.
"Many of those who succeeded in
escaping with their lives are incapable
of relating their experiences
coherently. I questioned all who
were in a condition to taiV. Most of
them told the same story. They
said the first thing thoy knew iliey
were thrown out of bed, and amid
crashing ceilings and falling furniture
managed to make their way to
the street. Then In the blackness of
night and amid a pouring rain that
added to their horror and distress,
MANY CAS MS.
riiirtcon People to 1h? Tried for
Their Lives.
Greenville, Dec. 31.?The first
jlrcult court for the year 1909 wl'l
he the court of general session
which convenes on tlx* third Monday
in January. Judge S. \V. (J. Shlpp
will preside and this will be his first
appearance in Greenville. Solicitor
Don ham will also mase his first appenranee
in his official capacity a?
this term and the new sheriff anil
clerk of court will make their debut.
There are on the docket for trial
at this term of court 13 nturdecases.
The murder record of the
county for the past three months
.ias been alarming. Those who will
stand trial for their lives are:
Hud Gambrell, colored, who Is
charged with killing a negro by the?
name of Jackson; Posy Harton,
white, who is charged with the murder
of Abe Dill, white; Jess Harrison,
who is cnarged with the nnir
ler of Fred Ruble, white; Tad Foster,
colored, who is charged with
the murder of Cootie llill; (ins
Drown, colored, who is chaivred with
Die murder of John Swinger: Will
Dritton, while, who is charged with
the murder of Jim ?>urgiss, whit' :
Sam Hurnslde, colored, who is
charged with the murder of Arch
Dock, colored; Will Kvatis and lOarle
Wilson, colored, who are charged
with the murder of Jim Miller, colored!
Vice flniiiiinn > i-" et
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mnn. I,r*e Perkins and Wiss SuPlvan,
colored, who are charged wi'h
the murder of .Jo.11 McfJedana. white;
Policeman Hendriz Hector, charged
. it h killing a negro burglar; . negro
man hv the name or Hoslry,
charged with killing bis wife, and
the ease against Koviey will prohahly
bo railed at this term. *
(iAvrc nim <jooi> dosic.
Drunken Negro Terrorized Occupants
??f Street Car.
Augusta, Oa., Jan. 1.?T,. .T. Murray.
a negro, was arrested Thursday
by Oirieer Hrltt for disorderly
eonduet. A street car conductor
testified that, the negro requested
him to ring the bell for him to get
off. when the ear was at the station.
He rang tlie hell, hut the ear did
not stop until it reached the next
street. The negro started to cursing.
and several ladies, who were on
'lie car, became excited and wanted
to get off. Officer Hritt was near and
seeing the disturbance he arrested
he negro. The recorder fined the
negro $100 or 90 days for being (lis,*...1
^..1 f * - 1
wiwiiiv. in* was aiso do utld over
to the city court Friday fur using
obscene language on a street car.
Pond was flxed at $ t f>0. *
OUKATFST Ql'AKK OX RFCORD.
Displacement of lOarth's Crust Monday
was ltiggost Known.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.?M. Stolling.
an attache of the Russian
Meteorological Observatory, declares
that according to his observations,
lateral displacements of the earth's
crust, attaining on the instruments
one-half of a millimetre, in the greatest
record since the intrduction of
seismography. This was made the
day Calabria and Sicily were devastated.
M. Stelling is secretary of
the international seismic commission.
*
Killed by Fating Class.
Now York, Dee. P,0.?Samuel Van
Dorn, the 18-year-old son of Abra
~ is-.i?
11<i i11 \ ?i f i i /w i ii* ii in*m i/f 11 \ i 11 ^ nil
Hockawnv Road, Jamaica, died Wednesday
of peritonitis. The last thin?'
lie said was:
"Dad, I bet 'Jim* Smith a month
ago that could eat a drinking:
glass. He bet a dollar that I could
not. I won my bet, and my dollar's
spent, so what do I care if 1 do
die?"
Van Horn bought a tins for hD
best girl with the dollar.
Killed by Cave In.
Rirmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.?Two
dead bodies have been recovered and
eight more are known to be buried
in an immense cave-in of a trench at
the blast furnace plant it Hnslvv
early tonight. Several other laborers
were injured as also two foremen,
who were superintending the
job. Most of the dead wer forigners.
Very Foolish Hoy.
Rome, Oa., Dec. 28.?Clifford
Clark, 10 years old, committed suicide
here today.by drinking an ounce
of carbolic acid. He had been paying
attentions to a young woman of
Rome for the past several months,
and because site did not reciprocate
h! Si nffortinn tin lincnmn <loei\r?i dmit
they rushed blindly away amid the
crash of tumbling buildings and the
shrieks and groans of those burnol
In the ruins. Many while trying to
escape were struck down by falling
balconies and masonry, ai d still
many others lost their reason and
are today wandering almlostdv in the
open fields outside the cry or up
and down the ruined streets they
knew so well.
"The looters and the robbers were
shot down by the soldiers."
It has heen proposed here to remove
all the survivors of Messina
to Catania.
SCORES LEADENS I
LACK OF IN'TKKKST IX KDUCATIOXAL
MATTKKS.
Koix>rt? From Seventeen CV>unties
Show That Sn|>criiitemlcntM An'
Not Working for Self-Improvement
The Stato says Prof. W. H. Hand
of the University of South Carolina
at the meeting of the State Teachers'
Association Thursday morning,
scored the county superintendents
for falling to give his committee
sufficient data upon which to hare
a re|>ort upon the County Teachers'
Association and bemoaned lack
of interest in the work. Prof. Hand
said in part:
"The student of educational conditions
in South Carolina can not
hut he impressed with the profound
indifference manifested towards
school matters by men supposed to
rive their tnougiH, trine ana attention
to education. Live men constituted
the committee appointed to
make this report. Nearly two
monts ago the chairman of the committee
asked each of his four associates
to take eight specified counties
and assigned himself to 10 constics,
as the fields for gathering data.
A questicifalro' with specific questions
wa,S sent to each county with
the request that it he filled out and
I r' turned promptly to a certain met :her
of tin* committee. The chairman
received a few prompt repliej:
a second request brought one mor \
while three counties have disregarded
even the third request. The
chairman presumes that the other
members had similar experience,
since one has reported six counties,
another on three counties, another
on one county, while the fourth member
has made no report at all. In
all we can report on 17 counties.
These are: Abbeville, Aiken, Ratubcrg,
Reaufort, Calhoun, Chester.
Colleton, Dorchester, Green wood,
Hampton, L aureus, Dee, Newbeny.
Orangeburg, iiiehland, Saiuda and
Sumter. Of these 17 counties only
in have active associations Abbeville,
Colleton. Dorchester, Greenwood,
Laurens. Lee. Newberry, Orangeburg.
Richland and Saluda.
Only four of those give the actual
membership of their respective essociiit
Ions ? Groenw ood, Iain reus.
Kit bland and Saluda aggregating
74 men and 108 women, or a total
membership of 182.
One county, Newberry, reports a
continuous e>ci>ur.:-oe of its association
of 2D years; Laurens comes next
with eight years; one county foilvears;
the others two years and less
The number of meetings each year
ranges from live to nine. Only one
county has an organized systematic
programme running from month to
>i?ih nerhaps, throughout the year.
The others report a miscellaneous
program me,
"Here are some of the comments
made bv those reporting for the associations,
the county superintendents:
"Not in a very flourishing
condition; little interest taken.' "] he
issociation is doing good work for
hose who attend.' 'Have had a
hard struggle to organize.' 'Ha?
been of great benefit to teachers and
the schools. 'A hard matter to keep
the association alive; those who attend
regularly take a good deal of
interest ' 'Now doing fine work.'
'Attendance the very best.'
ikmv are some of the comments
made t>v those reporting without an
association: 'Am sorry to say we
have i!o association.' 'The country
and city teachers did not mix well.
'We have no teachers* association,
but we have a school improvement
association which is doing tine
work.' This Inst comment was made
hy two counties without a teachers'
issoeintion and one can fail to he
struck with the idea, as is so oft n
! h e case, that the men have left
<ho women to do all the work.
"If the reports from these 17
counties are to lie taken as a fair
index to the self-improvement going
on throughout the State, then it
must he admitted we are in a he 1
way. Our people Itako so little
on ins to get together data about ft "
most imnortniit matters that it is
v! t?i the greatest difficulty that one
can learn anything definite about
the most vital itorosts to ourselves
Next, what information wo have
hero leads us to conclude that our
teachers are not organized to do
service to themselves and to the
children they essay to tench. No
? county can afford td lose the opportunity
of organizing its teachers into
a hand of truth seekers and oo,
workers In a cause worthy of the
.'>? that is in men and women o'
.exalted purpose." *
> T??e Commercial Standing of a Town.
In a great measure the commeteial
standing of a town is reckoned
' according to the number and value
' of its business enterprises; its mora.
1 standing, according to the number
and power of its institutions, er!
erting a good influence as opjjosod
1 to those exerting a had. These
things being true, it should he the
intent of tlie citizens of Orangeburg
1 to encourage such new enterprises
as tend in any way to make th^
place letter; for a town is greatly
what Its citizens make It, nothing
more and nothing leas.
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NKCltOKS WAR OVKll TAFT
In Atlanta, <ia., Where Ho Is t<?
Address Tliein.
Atlanta, Cla., Dec. 31.?The nogroes
In Atlanta are at war over the
entertainment of Judge Taft.
The president-elect has made airangenients
to speak to the negroes
of the city during his visit to Atlanta.
Bishop Oatnes, who is the leader
of tho swell negroes, made ar
rnngements for Mr. Taft to speak at
Big Bethel church, which will nold
nhout 1,000 people, and the r. in- r
became prevalent that he intended
to arrange the attendance so that
only negro professors, lawyers, doctors
and, In fact, the beet of the negro
society, could attend the meeting.
H. L. Johnson, a lawyer, made
arrangements for Mr. Taft to speak
at Turner's Tabernacle, which will
seat about 5,000, thus giving the
poor negroes or Atlanta a chance to
hear the president-elect.
Committees were appointed bv the
two parties and they have been negotiating
for the past 'our or five
days, the feeling growing more and
more Intense with each day. Fl ally
the negroes of both factions decided
to submit, the matter to the
Nti.anta Chamber of ? *
v>/ inuriw U>
setile the question. *
wn.ii raise iii(j sr>t.
Red Cross lias Sent One Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
Washington, Deo. 31.?Active
work on the part of the American
Red Cross characterized the day.
\pproximately $100,000 already lias
been made available by it from previous
funds or has been promised,
much of which already has been
cabled to the American embassy at
Rome to be turned over to the
Italian Red Cross Society. *
Among the contributions to one
of $23,000 from the Anheuser-Busch
Brewing Association. The Governors
of Illinois. Wisconsin, Nu\v
York, Virginia and New Hampshire,
have issued appeals for contributions.
President Roosevelt will subscribe
$300 toward the relief fund. *
held for six years.
At Least That Is the Talc Told b.v
a Roy.
Vol."
. a.uuniil, 11 il., I >00. ?, 1 . T. F.
Ramsey, a well-known farmer of
brooks county, was arrested by Deputy
United States Marshal Sutlou
j and brought to this city under a
charge of holding u negro boy in
a state of peonage. The negro boy's
name is (Jus Scott, and he alleges
that he has been held for six years
as a slave. During that time, ho
says, he has received only nine dollars
for his services. It is alleged
by the prosecution in the case that
two or three times the boy ran away,
but that Ramsey followed him and
brought back to his home and kept
him thero. *
Thought lests.
Poverty is the Devil's best grab- t
book.
Poverty is the devil's best grabbook.
When debts increase the devil
laughs.
The more you renovate a skunk
the "worser" he smells.
There is some good in everybody,
so don't despair of humanity.
The woman who dresses best Is
usually hated most by other women.
Dot you a home. Patriotism
doesn't thrive in boarding houses.
Report says the walking shoe is
having a "good run."
A man never fools right when
llO loft
Lying is an art which the politicians
have almost reduced to a
science.
it' the tax dogors were all in jail
?well, we would soon build the
jails with the taxes they dodge.
'idle one that has the biggest nose
not always knows the most.
The sweetest faces often hides
a bad disposition.
The milk man is quite often found
riding on the water wagon.
Hood looks are Hooting and of hut
few years, but good thoughts live
forever.
Hroken promises are the mile posts
the road that always goes down
hill
. .1
Should Not Change.
Too many men who before their
marriage were always particular to
get out of the buggy and help the
young woman in, may be observed a
ew years after marriage sitting i'.
he wagon while the good wife
clambers in over the wheel as best
she may. There is something wrong
when the man is less thoulghtful of
his wife than ho was of his sweetheart,
and every husband w'y
gumy or it should lot one of hl8
Nov Your resolutions ho a determination
to treat his wife as ho did
his sweothoart.
Consul Iiost.
Washington, Doc. 30.?The State
department received a dispatch from
Consul Gayle, at Malta, saying that
the consulate at Messina has heen totally
destroyed and Colonel Cheney
and his wife and official family all
lost their lives. Their bodies ave
still In tho ruins of tho consulate.
WILL NOT CURF
(d
OH PRKVKNT HOGS FROM HAV- a
ING CHOLERA.
a
The National Agricultural Departh
ment Warns Farmers Against Certaln
Cure Alls. "
8
"IlruHchottiuls Hob Cholera
Vaccine' and "Hog Cholera and h
Swine Plague Serum" have been
tested by the department of agriculture
and found to bo worthless for n
n
the purpose for which they are manufactured.
Both products are dls- v
trlbutod by the Sorby Vaccine Com- c
pany, 163 Randolph street, Chicago,
and are extensively advertised in ag- ?
ricultural paper. t
The act of congress making appropriations
for the agricultural do- v
partinent for last year contained a r
? ?'
provision that the secretary of agriculturo
was authorized to purchase v
in the open market samples of all ^
tuhurculin serums, antitoxins, or
analogous products of foreign or
domestic manufacture, which are
mid in the United States for the detection,
prevention, treatment or '
Mire of diseases of domestic animals,
4o test the samq and to publish the
-esults of the tests in such manner as
they may deem best. Exercising
this authority, samples of the prep- j
nations mentioned above, which are
widely advertised as preventives of
holera and plague In swine, were 1
purchased and tested. The report of
he tests is in part as follows:
"In testing this product the direc- v
'ions for use furnished by the dis ributors
were carefully followed.
The test was made by injecting
healthy pigs with Bruschettini's hog
cholera vaccine, and after the lapse
if ten days, placing those pigs in
nens with hogs affected with the hog '
"holera. All of the treated hogs remained
well until exposed to disease
in this way. After this exposure
they all contracted the disease within
tlie usual time exhibiting typical '
symptoms, and all finally died, ^
showing at autopsy typical lesions
of hog cholera."
The statement of the department
concludes:
"These tests indicate that neither <
Bruscho1 tiui's Hog Cholera Vaccine
nor Bruschettini's Hog Cholera and
Swine Plague Serum are reliable
cents for protecting hogs from hog
cholera."
Which is no doubt useful infor- I
ination for mrtny farmers, even
I though it is bad grammar for a government
executive department to
use. *
The Editor's Prayer. y
I would flee from tin1 city's rule
and law?from its fashions and
forms cut loose?and go whore the
strawberry grows on its straw, and
the gooseberry grows on its goose;
where the catnip tree is climbed by
the cat as she clutches for her prey.
the guileless and unsuspecting rat, >
on the rattan bush at play I will
watch at ease the suffron cow and
the eowlot in their glee, as they
neal in joy from bough to bough 011
top of a cowslip tree; and list wlii'e
the partridge drums his drum, and I
the woodchuck chucks his wood, and
the dog devours the dogwood plum
in the primitive solitude. O, let me
drink from the moss grown pump
that was hewn from a pumpkin tree!
Eat mush and milk from
a rural stump, from form and fashion
free?new-garnered mush from
the mushroom vine and milk from |
the milkweed sweet?with luscious
pineapples from the wine! Such
food as the gods might eat! And f
then to the whitewashed #1
... XI Ullll.v I II (
turn, whore the dairy maid hastening
liios her ruddy and goldrod but- v
tor to churn from tho milk of her ?:
butterflies; and I'll rise at morn
with tho earliest bird, to the fra- I
grant ferns-yard pass, and watch t
while fhe farmer turns his herd of
grasshoppers out to grass.
Southern States
pl-cv iyieich\nery
Plumbing
riiOM
OOLUMB
if its GIBBE
Watch this spa
k?t; capacity
weight 660 lb
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COLUMBIA 8
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Points rur?Kru|)lis.
As a rule thieves display more
iscretion than honest men do.
The good form displayed by many .
woman is due to her dres3mahor a
Most of the average mail's laughs m
re inspired by his own alleged wit.
The reason the average man can
e so satisfied with his brains is h$
asn't any.
Even a man who profv'rs a prize
ght will lie a'*out how he enjoys
raad ojiera.
A woman can always convince
erself you are in love with her lines*
you are.
It sometimes happen that a girl
lay get rid of a persistent suitor by
larrylng him.
More people have been civilized
flth the bathtub than with the Ten
Commandments.
A mean itrlek for a man to play
11 a girl who rejects his proposal is
o take her at her word.
Not until the undertaker gets busy
kith a man does he cease to be untopular
with his relations.
Everv man likes to imnr ?
WW 4?V/I?I 1* VT IOU
/oman talk?because she always
alks to him about himself.
When you hear a man boasting
f what he is going to do it won't
ake you long to enumerate the
hings ho lias done.
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Rugs from your old, wornout
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>et us send you a price list; Just
/rite for one
Yanted?Laundry, agents; liberal
terms, best work, new management.
Sumter Steam Laundry,
Sumter, S. C.
want a hustler in every city and
town in South Carolina. 1 have a
proposition that will interest you.
John A. Young, Mgr., Columbia,
S. C.
>hop l>y Mail?Send for our Catalog
of bargains, it's free. 10. Dowda &
Co., Mail-order Merchants. Box
02. Atlanta, (la.,
Cabbage Plants, .garden plants,
grown in the open air, will stand
the coldest weather. Prions, one
to four thousand, $1 f,0; four to
nine thousand, $1.2.1; nine thousand,
$1 per thousand. We have
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ts ft C lorornct t riinl.- f.,,.???
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in tho world.
bVanted to Buy?Five hundred to
one thousand bushels mixed clav
peas; must be free from Whlppoorwills
and speckled peas; will
give highest market price. I. M.
Pearlstine & Sons, 20 1-2 03 East
Hay street, Charleston, S. C.
Vegetable Plants?Cabbage, Lettucn,
Bermuda Onion, Tomato, PeppeEgg
Plant and Sweet Potato; the
finest in the South. Catalogue
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Sarins For Sale?Large list of farms
for sale in different sections of
the country; also owner's name.
Free for .the asking. T. M. Boa??
Lock Box S2, Calhoun, (la.
WHAT IS HOME
WITH OFT MF SIC?
>on't say, "can't afford an Organ or
Piano.
We will make you able, granting
'rom one to three years to pay for
>ne.
We supply the Sweet Toned, wurd>le
Organs and Pianos, at tho tow>st
prices consistlont with quality.
Write at once for Catalogue,
Vires and Terms, to the Old Esaid
ished
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In. 4-plv belt, all ready to run. Capacity of mill ft to
tabic meal or f> to VW bu. Feed per hour Terms $50.00
r bal caslinvrntnst II U CIBBES MACHINERY CO.
>ii'ir?nt'-i"t Machinery." Dot ilil. Columbia. S.
,ce next week. ?
a Shingle Mill.
rloed power feed shingle mill on the mar8,000
to 16,000 shingles per day, 4 to 10 H. P.{
s. Carriage has automatic return motion.
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