The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 07, 1909, Image 5
SEVERE SHOCKS
Continue Making Complete the
Ruin of Once Fair Cities.
v .^UP*RI GROUP SUNK
Volcanic <?roup Near Sicily Reported
to Have Hisiipi^urnl Witli the
Entire Population?List of Cm-u:ulties
Now EktininicH) tw ;i<M),00O
?Iluul Murder and Steal.
Ror. e, Dec. 31.?The- Vita states
that a wlreicss message s'rom the
Strait of Messina reports that the
Li pari Islands, a group of volcanic
island", in the Mediterranean, near
the coast of SK.ly, have disappeared.
The total population of the group
numbers 2S.U00, and must i ievi tably
have perished.
Kbtimates o" the death roll of the
earthquake nov. cease to concern the
Italian people. It is enough to
know that the catastrophe is overwhelming?figures
would add nothing
to the grief of tin* stricken nation,
nor move to greater efforts
those upon whom the work of relief
and rescue has fallen.
Every channel open to the government
has been utilized to this
end, and other nations have h?-?*n
iv iu eume 10 us assistance, even
before the cry for aid wen: up.
Shiploads of fugitives have boon c??rliod
out of the stricken zone to
Naples, Palermo, Catania and o'hcr
ports and according to the mi.lister
of marine, rescue vessels to the
nu in her of 3G are now centered in
the Strait of Messina and 5,000 soldiers
are being landed on the coasts.
Most important of all now ia the
question of the living, j housaiids >'f
those who escaped the falling walls
and the sweep of the tide are starving
and without clothes or shelter.
They can scarcely longer survive
their sufferings. The first thought
has been to carry food and enuring
for these helpiess people and it
lias now been decided by the government
to send a fleet of enu < miu
fcteainers to transport them to other
places.
The latest reports received at
l*<ome state there have been immhv
^ i>\ .11 vt out shocks, following the]
tlrst, to which the greater part of
the destruction is attributed. The
British warship Minerva reported t>y
wireless to Malta that two severe
shocks occurred at Messina last
night.
The horror of the situation at
Messina and Reggio grows with
every fresh despatch. One o" the
? uTospondents places the deatn roll
throughout the entire territory as
high as 300,000 but this appears to
he extreme. Others make the estimate
200,000, but the olflcisl estimate
as made by the mini'.tor of
marine still holds to 115,000.
Relief expeditions which ha\e
been making their way to Reggio
have encountered tremendous obstructions
all along the route. Ti? -v
report 1S provincial villages beside
those already mentioned in Clacaria
as having boon completely
ruined. This would indicate that
the earthquake did not confine its
work of liavoc to the coast. What
lias become of the inhabitants of
the villages is noc known. Those
that were left alive after the destruction
of their homos doubtless
joined the great nrmy^of refugees
seeking safety or have fallen by the
wayside.
The Calahrian roast for 20 miles
lias been torn and twisted. From
Bagnara to Rcrrgio, a distance of
25 miles, the country is half demolished.
A si-istance has reache 1
Diir row or (he villages and thoy arc
practically without supplies of any
kind. At Hagnnara surgical oporHons
are being performed with pruning
knives, hut at Heggio even that
is impossible.
Bands of inieves infest the country
and the despai** of the unaided
villages is, completely Hunger slipplies
the motive for scenes of shocking
violence . nd pillagers and rotbers
defy the few surviving police
men and soldiers.
A dispatch received here from the
observatory at Itiposto says the
center of the earthquake was in the
the sea in the southern part of the
Strait of Messina.
Signer Stancel, a distinguished
citizen attached to the Florence observatory,
is of the opinion that the
Y fataclysni wis geologic rather than
volcanic. According to Signor Stancel
the trouble was caused by a subsidence
of the lower strata. As a rca,,U
? r lUI.. -1 ! *
nun in HUM I'ssiuil HUge (THC S
appeared in the form of a semi-clrclo.
the center of which was tho
focal point of the disturbance.
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SUBSl
CITY ALL IN RUINS
NOT A llOlBK 1J2FT STANDING
IX MESHLXA.
Impossible to (JItp a Faint Idea
of Uio boHuUtkm o fthe Awful
Bcenon.
Rome, I)ec. 31.?The commandant
of tho Russian cruiser Admiral Makharoff,
which arrived at Nifc>lcB yesterday
with refuges from Messina
today, gave tho following account
of tho disaster:
"Hearing at Goata, Sicily, of the
disaster, 1 hurried to Messina. The
city was literally nothing but a heap
of ruins. Every building there has
collapsed, but in many cases the outward
shells remain standing and as
a result tho general contour of the
city is less changed than might be
vtAI,uuu'u. This is particularly true
of the sua front. In spite of what
has been said, the form of the Strait
of Messina shows little if any
change.
"The harbor is filled with refuse of
every kind, and at one end lies the
wreck of a sunken steamer.
"It is impossible to give even a
fant idea of the desolation of the
scene. Every now and then we
heard the crash of falling floors
and walls. This constitutes tin*
greatest danger pf the rescuers,
it is not safe to approach any standing
masonry. Men from my vessels
had many narrow escapes, and I
saw several terrible accidents to the
brave Italian soldiers who were doing
more than their duty.
"Wo lost no time in setting about
the work of rescue. We established
an open air hospital on the shore,
where we received and treated a
thousand men, women and children.
We also saved the safe of
the Hank of Sicily with its treasure,
weighing two tons.
"I estimate the deaths at Messina,
conservatively, at 80,000. The mind
shrinks from contemplation of the
present, condition of the stricken
city; that there are thousands of
persons still alive in the ruins, nnd
that countless numbers must die.
The tidal wave lasted much longer
than the earthquake. During all the
time we were in the harbor of Messina.
our vessel shivered intermittently,
as though shaken by somo
hinge marine monster.
i rou id relate pathetic stories
without number. Under some wreckage,
inclosed in a kind of little cubl>v
hole and protected by two heavy
beams, I discovered two babies, safe
and uninjured. They wore comfortable
as possible, and laughed and
played with the buttons on their
clothes. We could find no trace of
their parents, who undoubtedly lost
their lives.
"It made a terrible impression to
see the bereaved children. Many of
the little ones live while their parents
are dead, while we saw manv
mothers with dead babies in their
arms. It was als o indescribably
painful to see the many who had
gone crazy from grief. They searched
and searched aimlessly for their
loved ones, keeping up the quest
even after they had been brought on
board our ship."
jrihiti hides in woods.
Won't Come Out Unless lie Is Protected
by Troops.
Jackson, Kv., Jan. 2.-?This town
is the scene of terror between the
two pitched camps of former Sheriff
Ed Callahan and the friends of
James T. Doaton and Rush Sebastian
for shooting whom Callahan is to
be tried. In the woods near Lost
Creek is County Judge S. S. Taulbee,
declaring that he will not return to
town to hold court in the Callahan
hearing unless the governor of
Kentucky sends troops to protect
him from the two bands of armed
men in Jackson. *
Hurled to Death.
Chattanooga, Dec. 20.?Miss Addie
Haggard, a popular young lady
| of Kings Mountain, near Danville,
Kv., was knocked from a high trostel
at that place today and instantly
killed. She was crossing the
bridge when overtaken by a fast
express. *
Republican Prosperity.
New York, Jan. 1.?For twenty
years it has been the custom for the
breweries of New York city to give
each of the bartenders in that city
I went v-fivo dnllnrs in cnbl nn#1 nn
order for a new hat. This year tho
the gift was not made because of the
falling off of trade.
Five of the Pierces Killed.
Milazzo, Sicily, Dec. 31.?The
sister of Joseph H. Pierce, the former
American vice consul at Messina,
stated today that so far as
known only five of her family were
killed. The fate of the others is
uncertain and she entertains hope
that her brother is still alive.
CRIBE N(
THE WORST YET
Late Earthquake Destroyed More
Lives and Property
THAN ANY OTHER ONE
It In Now KNtiiuated That at I/ea^t ,
Three Hundred Thousand I'wrple 1
i
Were Killed und .Millions of lk>l- (
lurs Worth of Property Was Ih1- i
Htroyed l>y the Kurthquukc.
A fearful convulsion of the earth, (
which devastated Southern Italy and
Sicily on Monday of last week, wip- ,
lag out the lives of 3 00,000 people,
and overwhelming two large cities
as well as a score of smaller towns,
will go down In history as one of
the most terrific disasters that have
ever visited this planet.
There is no record of any earth- ;
(Itiake that wrought as much frightful
damage and caused greater loss
of life than the earthquake that visited
the lower part of the Italian
peninsular and its nelghl>oring islands,
last week. Few regions of
the world have suffered more heavily
in the past than the province of
Southern Italy and the beautiful
island of Sicily, which are now staggering
beneath the weight of another
blow even more terrible than any
which preceded it.
Of all known earthquakes of ancient
and modern history the most
destructive up to last week was that
which visited Antloeh, the capital of
Syria, in the year 526 A. 1). It is
said that the streets of the ancient
city literally opened and that not
fewer than 250,000 human beings,
as well as innumerable temples
and houses were engulfed in
the yawning chasms. In 115 It. C.,
while the city was thronged with
visitors, who had come to attend a
celebration in honor of the Kinporor
Trajan, another earthquake occurred,
less destructive than the one i
which was to come some six hundred
years later, yet violent enough
to* cause the death of thousands,
among them being many Romans of i
distinction, the Kmperor himself
barely escaping from the ruins of
his castle.
In Yeddo, Japan, in the year 1 70:>.,
an earthquake occured, in which
200,000 people are said to have
lost, their lives; and just twentyeight
years afterwards tlije city of
Pekin was practically overwhelmed
by a similar disaster, in which it
is believed that nearly 200,000 of the
i r? U r. 1. I i i- *
in nit imam s pensneu. or other |
earthquakes In which the lost of life
was so great as to render them memorable
for all time, there are so
many as to forbid enumeration. Several
of these, as remarked above, 1
took place in the same region which
was affected by Monday's appalling
disaster, and in the other countries
of Southern Europe.
In 11117 seismic disturbances caused
the death of 15,000 people in
Sicily. In Lisbon, in 1531, 1,500
houses were wrecked and 3 0,000
Mves were lost, and again, in 1 755. '
in the same city, 00,00 0 people perished
as the result of earthquake, and
a large portion of the town sunk 1
beneath the waves. In 1783 Messina,
which has been practically obliterated
by this most recent disaster,
was almost entirely destroyed
by a mighty shake, which, at the
same time, caused the death of many
thousands. The same ill-fated city
suffered heavily from seismic disturbances
in 180 1 and 1 800.
I it 1851 the South of Italy, the
same region devastated by the earthquake
of last week, was visited by
an earthquake which blotted out 10,000
souls, and again, in 1857, there
were other convulsions, the deathtoll
of which amounted to about 10,*00.
The most famous of all seismic
disaster which have visited Italy
?that in which the twin cities of
1 lorculnneum and Pompeii wen; destroyed?
was not an earthquake, but
an eruption of the volcano Vesuvius.
Some of the <?rcnt Disasters.
Number
Year, Place. Killed.
r,20?Antioch 250,000
1137?Sicily 15,000
? ? - e\ _ ?
ii.?h?rsyria 2O,O0n
1268?Cilica no,ooo
1436?Naples 40.000
1531?Lisbon 30,000
1626?Naples 70,000
1 667?Sehamaki 4 80,000
1 603?Sicily 1 00,000
1703? Jeddo 200,000
171 6?Algiers 20,000
1781?Pekin 1 00,000
1764?Grand Caire 40,000
1755?Lisbon 50,000
1755?<Kasohan, Persia .. . 40,000
1797?Central America .. . 40,000
1812?Venezuela 9a nan
1822?Aleppo 20,000
1 867?Peru and Ecuador .. 25,000
1 888?Island of Krakatoa . 50,000
1803?Persia 12,000
1 896?Japan 35,000
1902?St. Pierre, Martinique 25,000
IW TO
WILL REDUCE TAXES 1
AIKKX WILL NOT NKKI) A HIGH
LKVY.
The Profits From |)fs|KiiM?ry Halos
Hasmii to Warrant h Hcdurtlon of
Uip Tavtw.
Aiken, Dec. SI.?The newly
ilected delegation to the general assembly
from Aiken county held u
meeting at the court house to hoar
suggestions from the citizens as to I
needed legislation hero. After hearug
from those present the members
if the delegation were of the opinion
that the entire county tax can
he taken off in this county. The
ordinary county tax is at present
two and one-half mills. This end
was brought about because of till
business of the county dispensary
system.
The dispensary board submitted a
report to the delegation, stating that
a little more than $f>5,000 has u'-J
ready been made in profits by the
dispensary, and that by January 1,
when the report for the last quarter
will bo made, approximately $23.000
more will be added to the profits.
Out of this sum the county
will receive, for tDo ordinary fund,
about $23,000, and the town and
eountv schools will receive a like
amount. In addition to this $5.one
has been spent by the dispensary in
equipments, whieh will be added to
the profits next year.
The treasurer of the county Rave
a statement showing the financial
condition of the county. This statement
was to the effect that the present
income of the county is greater
than the expenditure.
Superintendent of Education Sanders
stated to the meeting that in
his office the schools can he operated
with a good margin for a surplus on
$r?0.000 a year, and now with the
dispensary money about $72,000 is
received annually.
It is probable that the delegation
will endeavor to have tlie taxes reduced
at the coming session of the
legislature. They state that the two
and one-half mills ordinary county
tax can easily be eliminated. In
addition to this, a number of timely
suggestions as to needed legislation
were received.
WHY NOT SWINt; I1IM?
A Seventy-Year-Old Negro lleld for
Second Killing.
Anderson, S. C.. Dec. 31.?Sam
Beat\ t negro aged twenty-five,
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
by Houston Tribblc, colored,
aged seventy, six miles south of
Anderson early today. The shooting
followed a dance held by the negroes
of that section and it is stated
'hat. Tribble was drinking. Beaty
IV' !1 t! Kl'/Vll.rb' 1
.MwuKin iicre a low hours aftor
tho shooMng and is now in a dying
condition at the hospital, tho hall
having penetrated tho livor. Trlhhle
is in Jail. It is said that Tleaty
it temptod to persuade a woman who
was with Trihhle to go with him
when Trihhle cursed him and flrol
tho shot. In October of last year
fribble killed Will Fuller, colored,
and was cleared.
woi:i{ii:i> to dk.vrir.
W. I,. .Mutinies, Former Treasurer of
Pennsylvania, Succumbs.
Media, Pa.. Doc. St.?William T.,
Mutinies, a former treasurer of Pennsylvania,
died suddenly late today
at his home here, aged forty-six,
cause pneumonia. It is generally believed
that the illness was superin'neod
by the tribulations brought on
him by tho Harrisburg capitol graft,
cases and his recent sentence to two
years in the penitentiary for his part
in the alleged conspiracy against the
State. *
1905?Northern India .. .. 10,000
Messina City of Disasters.
Many times has Messina been
overwhelmed with disaster. Some
of tho most Important are:
Fifth Century, P. C.?Seized by
fugitives front Santos and Miletus.
306 11. C.?Destroyed by the Carthaginians
and rebuilt by Dlonysius
of Syracuse.
260 H. C.?Once more fell into the
hands of the Carthaginians, under
Hannibal.
831 A. D.?Taken by tho Saracens.
10 61 A. D.?Recaptured by the
Normans.
1740 A. I).?Forty thousand persons
died of the plague.
1783 A. D.?Town almost entirely
overthrown by great earthquake.
1 848 A. D.?Greatly damaged by
bombard ment.
18T?4 A. D.?Cholera carried off
1 6.000 victims.
1 894 and 1896 A. D.?Suffered
great loss of life and property by
earthquakes.
THE HO
TILLMAN SPEAKS
The Senator Makes a Notable
Speech te Teachers.
BREAK SOLID SOUTH.
By lTse of Patronage is What Pretd(IvnUKIect
Tuft Alms to l>o, Hays
the Senator, Who Warn* Month
ern Democrats to Bo 011 Their
<iuurd.
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 1.?Senator
B. R. Tillman, in delivoring an address
before the State Teachers' Association
here tonight took occasion
to warn the people against the
agitation for compulsory education,
asserting that should such a law he
passed it would mean the education
f the negro, which would in the
and mean a blow to white supremacy.
Senator Tillman urged the Democrats
of the South against the
scheme which he said President-elect
Taft and his associates were hatching
up to break the solid South, llo
said it was the purpose of the president-elect
to hand out feleral offices
to the Democrats of the South
in order to build up a white Republican
party in this section.
Tho Senator took Issue squar ?Iy
with two of tho speakers ho had
beard in tho morning, Prof. Clax'
n, of Tennessee, and tho Hov. C.
10. Welt nor, of Columbia, and devoted
his speech largely to arguments
against compulsory education,
basing his object ions to the proposition
on the presence of tin* negro,
lie began by assorting in effect that
education is not an essential of good
citizenship, and cited the example of
the Revolutionary soldiers, who
fought at the battle of King's Mountain,
yet many of whom could not
read and write.
lie rather resented the stricture
on this State's illiteracy in the address
of l'rof. Claxton, and in discussing
the negro question, referred
at length to the purpose of Presidentelect
Taft, of whom he spoke in
friendly terms as a gentleman, to
break up the solid South by the use
of patronage. He said that if this
intention was successful, instead of
negroes and scalawags in the Legislature,
wo would have negroes an 1
some of our bank presidents and
cotton mill presidents representing
the Republican party.
He declared that the Republican
party was the black man's party In
the South and the Democratic party
the white man's party. He did not
believe that any great number of
Democrats would ho boquiled by
oflices. Some times servers would
sell out, hut he did not think there
were many of such men in the
Democratic parey in the South. In
speaking of the efforts of the Re
publicans to break the solid South,
he asked why thoy did not advocate
the breaking of the solid North
as well as the solid South.
Taking up the question of compulsory
education he urged that to
compel under the law. the negro
must be given equal rights with the
white man, and that this would mean
the education of the negro to vote.
In concluding the Senator praised
the efforts to cultivate the love of
the beautiful in the school room.
The speech of Senator Tillman
was plain and_ to the point, as all
of Ids speeches are. The hall of
the House of Representatives, where
the Senator spoke, was crowded with
a large audieiy>> of cultured and intelligent
people to hear him. His
audience seemed to be in sympathy
with what he said, and it frequently
applauded him enthusiastically.
While the Senator did not
say so, his speech indicated that ne
would rather have the offices in this
State filled by true blue Republicans
than bv Democrats who had sold out
for efT b'o
Shoot s 11 is l-'m ..
O.reonvllle, S. Doc. 3 1.?Tho:n?
n? Springfield, a merchant near the
Monaghan mill village In the suburbs
of tho city, was shot, this afternoon
by his son and his condition
is considered critical. Springfield
was shot in the stomach. It
is reported that Springfield was
drunk and that he had some words
with his son, which led up to the
shooting.
Anarchy Reigns in Hoggin.
Reggio, via. Catania, Doe. 31.?A
state of moat frightful anarchy prevails.
Mobs of ruflians roam among
the ruins giving full sway to their
vilest instincts. They are pillaging
the wrecked jewelry stores and
banks, and do not hesitate to shel
the blood of those opposing them.
RRY HE
. >
MINERS ENTOMBED.
TWKIJK I)BAD AND MANY IMPRISONED.
Exact Number of < 'u.vualtle?i Not Yet
Known?Work, of IIohcuo Begun
at Once.
Hluofleld. W. Va., Doc. 29?Twelve
men ere known to be dead and probably
25 more w??re entombed uh the
Insult of an explosion which oerurrI
ed in the Lick Branch colliery, ownled
by the Pocahontas Consolidate^
I Coal company, the largest coal ml*. I
lug concern In southern West VirJginia,
this afternoon at three o'clock,
lit is not known exactly how many
I men were in the mine at the time.
The men leave the mine after what
lis known at the "run" and as many
las 52 who were at work today were
I not in the pit when the explosion
I occurred.
I State Mine Inspectors Phil Ips,
I Henry, Werner and Oradv, who were
tin the Tug River field, came to ths
I scene of the explosion and took
I charge of t he work of exploring the
I mine.
The management of this property.
It is claimed, had provided every
I device known to mining experience
land science to insure safety and it is
I thought that the troutdn originated
I in an abandoned connected working
I in the western dl\islon of the mine.
J The little town of Switchback, in
I which all of the miners who work
Jin t he colliery live, was wild with
| excitement when the news spread
I that an >- - *
, A1?uniuii Mini illKnil plane,
and from all of the neighboring collieries
men hurried to the scene to
aid in the work of rescue.
A special train hearing the otliclals
of tho company was sent from
Pocahontas to the scene of the accident.
TWO (OMMi ri KI) Sl'ICIDH.
Death of Daughter of a Professor
Caused 1>c?m1.
New York, Dec. 111.- Prof. J. P.
fiordv, of New York University, and
his wife today committed suicide
t, few hours after the death of their
daughter, oigntefn years old, who
died this morning of pneumonia.
The parents retired to their apartments
and, getting Into lied, swallowed
the contents of three bottle.;
of Chloroform. Two hours lat -r
Prof. James 10. Lough, of New York
University, who occupies apart men's
adjoining those of Professor Cord*
detected a strong odor of chloroform
and traced it to the apartments
of his friend.
After vainly waiting for sonic answer
to his persistent ringing, Professor
Lough summoned Dr. Van
Santvoord, the fiord y family physician,
and the two broke in the
door. They found the couple iu each
others arms and both dead.
Professor fiordy filled the Chair cf
American History and Pedagogies. *
TOOK TO Tin.'
... . ... . nuui )>.
I .A Judge Defuses to Try ('uses InIess
Protected.
1 Jackson, Kv., Doc. ?, 1.?This town
tonight is a scene of terror between
I the two pitched camps of former
I Sheriff I'M Callahan ?and the friends
of James T. Deaton and Hash SehasItian,
for shoot hug whom Callahan Ja
[to be tried. In the woods near Lost
1 Creek is county Judge S S. Taulbeo
I declaring that he will not return to
I town to hold court in the Callahan
I hearing unless the Governor of Kentucky
sends troops to protect him
I from the two bands of armed men
I in Jackson. Governor Willson Is
I absent from the State and LieiitenInnt
Governor Cox up to this time
I has refused to send troops. *
I.arge Meteor.
Marion, Ala., Jan. 1.?A largo
meteor fell in the western part of
Perry county at 10 o'clock last
night, ft came from the southwest
and could he seen throughout the
county. A short time after it fell
a distinct shock was felt over a largo
part of the county that caused windows
and doors to rattle. #
Iloth Large Cities.
Washington, Jail. I.?The latest
census of Italy gives Messina some
150,000 and to Catania almost exactly
the same, only a few hundred
difference. Poth of these cities were
non rl v rloot cavo/I ?
.J i/jr lilSt WWK S
earthquake.
French Consul's Wife Kscape<l.
Mllazzo, Rlcll, Doc. 31.?The
wife of the French consul at Messina,
the sole survivor of her family,
reached here this morning. She
is badly injured. Her husband, son
and daughter, were killed.
RALD