The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 21, 1909, Image 5
TWENTY KILLED
And Thirty Injured Out in Colorado
in Feartul
RAILWAY SMASH-UP
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Wost Hound Fussonncr Train on the
Denver and IUo (irande Collides
J
With an Hast Hound Ftvlght.
Victims Includes Many Women
and Children.
Ulenwood Springs, Colo , Jan. 10.
-?Twenty persons wcrw killed and
thirty injured, many of thorn seriously,
in a head-on collision between
west-bound passenger train
No. ;> nil (1 nil easi-uuuuu in-i^iu
train on the Denver and Rio Grande i
railroad, between Dotsero and {
Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from
Glenwood Springs, at fii.'iii o'clock
last night. Following is a revised
list of the dead and descriptions that
may assist in the identification of
the unknown dead:
The identified dead:
.7. 1). Million, 1'rine'^n, Ind.
A. A. Hamilton, Polo,^11.
\V. C. Kettle, Ashton, Neb.
Mrs. Mattle Kettle, Asheton, Neb.
Mrs. Mat tie Ezell, Willistou, N. D.
G. \S'. Oleson, St. Louis.
Dr. Arvilla Olseon, either from
llildreth, Neb., or Axtell, Neb.
The Rev. R. L. M1ley, either* from
Brooklyn, N. Y., or Mechanicsburg,
Pa.
Clal'cnce A. Gooding, Washington.
John Williams, Chirks, Net).
J. C. Davis, of Davis Brigham
Drug Company, Denver.
Henry Dunn, St. Louis.
Twelve-year-old boy.
Eight-year-old girl, wearing plain
ring on third finger of left hand.
Ten-year-old boy, light hair.
Six-year-old girl, light hair anil
eyes.
Woman, full-faced, brown hair,
about thirty years of age, wore blue
plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch.
Unidentified woman; no inscription;
badly mangled.
Woman, black hair, dark complex
ion, plain gold ring inscribed
"Nancy," shoes stamped Selny Shoe
Company, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Woman, with red sweater, blue
and white striped waist, about fortylive
years of age, weight about 1 1 0
pounds.
* All unidentified are women or
J ^ and the bodies are badly
mangled.
While nothing official has been
given out. at to the cause of the
wreck, it is stated to have been due
to a misunderstanding of orders on
the part of the engineer, Clustaf
Olson, of the passenger train. Olson,
however, claims that he understood
his instructions perfectly, but
that he misread his watch, thus
encroaching on the time of the
freight train, which was being drawn
by two locomotives, the first of
which was in charge of his brother.
Sig Olson.
When news of tin; catastrophe
reached Glenwood Springs every
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service and a
relief train was soon on the scene.
The work of rescue was immediately
begun.
As the bodies were taken from the
ruins they were laid side by side on
a bier of snow amid the agonizing
shrieks of husband, wife and parent
as they searched among the dead for
[their loved ones, many of whom
wore mangled beyond all recognition.
A pathetic feature of pie accident
was the killing of a. father,
leaving two small children, the elder
being four years old, the younger
two. The elder boy told a nurse
at the sanitarium that his father
called him Bonnie, and this is all
he will say. From a fellow passenger
it was learned that the family
was en router to Grand Junction to
visit relatives.
It is supposed that Mr. and Mrs.
Kettle, whose names appear among
the dead, were the parents of these
two little ones, who are badly injured.
Another sad case was tire destruction
of an entire family with the exception
of an infant of three months.
This helpless child was taken care
of by a family at Shoshone, who inx
, )lm en to survivor Of U
UMKi i At au\/|/v tuv ?,v, -
once happy family.
Another heart-breaking scone was
enacted in the wreck zone, when
kind hands gently lifted a four-yearold
gill from the death clasp of her
mother's arms. Nearby lay the body
of# her father, decapitated, and on
every side were lifeless bodies, victims
of the disaster.
A train load of thirty wounded
nnd bleeding men and women arrived
in Glenwood Springs at "
SUB!
TIIOKXTOX MAIN'S ACQl'ITTKH. ||
llis Brother, Captain tlains, Willi
Never Bo Tried.
c
Flushing, N. V., Jan. 15. ? After
reviewing the evidence for 22 hours!
and taking 14 ballots before ail were I
agreed, the jury in the trial of I
Thornton Jenkins Mains this after- ?i
noon found the prisoner not guilty |
as a principle with his brother Capt. I
Peter C. Mains, Jr., in the killing I
of William K. Annis. I ,
For the second time in his life I
Thornton Mains has been found not I
guilty of the charge of murder, as I
he was acquitted of murder in shoot-1
ing a companion named Kdwat d A. I
Mannigan in an open boat in llantp-1
ton ltoads 1 7 years ago. * I
Rarely in any court of law has
i such a demonstration been witness-1
ed as that which occurred when the Is
jury made known its verdict. The I f
packed court room of spectators rose ,
as one man and cheered and applaud- I ,
ed with such mighty vigor that the I
gaval falls of Justice Crane on his I 1
desk could not be heard. | '
Otfieials of the district attorney's I
otlice in Queens county are quoted f
as saying that the verdict in this I J
case probably means that Captain 1 (
Mains will never he brought to trial I >
and that he will be surrendered into I '
the care of his family or the federal |?
government. * I '
TIIDDV HAS BF.FX CAI'dHT.
Government Pays for llis Barber and I
Wife's Messages. i
Washington, Jan. 15.?President
Roosevelt's taking Senator Tillman
to task for abuse of the franking
privilege and tne general row between
the president and congress
over secret service investigations of
congressmen has led to the rather
startling revelation that the president's
barber is on the rolls cf the i
government as an "accountant" in
the navy department, and that while i
not accounting anything he is getting
a salary from the government
of $1,G00 a year for shaving the
president and occasionally cutting
the presidential hair. (
It. has also developed that Mrs. (
Roosevelt's messenger is on the pay
rolls of the bureau of printing and
engraving, and that he draws now
$!)20 a year. The only thing he engraves
is an occasional footprint on
the sands of time. Both the accountbarber
and the engraver-messenger
went to Oyster nay last summer with
the Roosevelt family.
The revelations have caused a
considerable stir here today. The
members of the house appropriations
commmee who replied last weeK to
tlie president's charges again.it them
express regret that they did not
know of the president's misuse of
the civil service when they spoke.
Zach MeGee. *
MOST FATAL 1)1 Sis ASF.
Consumption Kills More People in
Augusta Than All Others.
Augusta, Jan. IS.?The most fatal
disease in Augusta in 1008 was consumption,
or "tuberculosis," as the
board of health authorities term it.
Out of every eight and live-tenths
deaths during the year, one resulted
from the dreaded "White Plague."
Records of the department show that
the spread of the disease is not being
restricted, to any material extent.
The ratio of tuberculosis to mortality
has, within the past. 2."> years, been
only a little greater than it was in
1 908.
During the fiscal or board of
health year of 1908, 80 1 people died.
Of these deaths lot were due to tuberculosis.
o'clock this morning. The wounded
were taken to the county hospital
and to the sanitarium, and when the
cots and wards there had been filled,
room was made In hotels for the
maimed.
A woman (Hon irom nor injuries
in the relief train, while on her way
to CJIenwood Springs. It is expected
that at least a dozen others who
were brought here will die.
Train No. 5 was made up of an
engine and tender, a baggage car, a
smoking car and a full complement
of standard sleepers and a dining
car.
The locomotives are up on end
and joined together as one piece of
mechanlcism. Their wheels were
rolled down into the Grand River
and pieces of machinery are scat*
i tered all over the scone of the wreck.
The smoking car was only partly
derailed, while the chair car im
mediately following was comletely
' telescoped by the tourist sleeper.
i None of the standard sleepers left
the track and no one was killed or
injured in these cars, most of the
1 dead and injured being removed
from the ruins of the chair car which
' wsa iplit completely In twain. *
SCRIBE N
BRUTAL MURDER
!hoked His Wife to Death While
She Slept.
rwo MEN ARE IN JAIL
kt A ikon Charged With the Awful
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Clinic?Verdict of Coroner'# Jury y
Itesults in Holding of the Wo- ?
1
mail's Husband as l'riticipal ami
S3
Another Man as Accessory. t
Aiken, Jan. 17.?Coroner John- 1
>011 returned to Aiken last night i
Tom Sleepy Hollow, bringing Sov- '
?reign Lowe and Loo lloyd, both '
white, who were placed in jail, 1
barged with the murder of itainey *
Lowe, wife of Sovereign Lowe, at *
Lowe's home in the Sleepy Hollow
tection. The arrests were made as ,
1 result of an inquest held yesterlay
afternoon by Coroner Johnson
md a post mortem examination eonincted
1 >y a physician. Mrs. Lowe 1
lied last Sunday night, and was in- 1
lerred on Monday; but at the request
Of MrS. Coil!lt? of Ailirnuln
mother of Mrs. Lowe, the authorities
had the hodv disinterred yesterday
and an inquest hold.
The evidence at. the inquest showed
that on Sunday night Lowe came
to his home accompanied by Boyd,
both being in a drunken condition.
During the night Alfred Glover, a
negro residing nearby, heard a woman
in Lowe's house and begging
for her life. The screams were also
heard by other parties. Next morning
the woman was found dead.
Mrs. Counts came over from Augusta
and said that she found bruises
on the throat and body of her daughter,
and was not satisfied as to her
death. After the burial she became
so convinced that something was
wrong that she came to Aiken and
asked for an investigation.
Boyd and Lowe both testified to
coming to Lowe's house in a drunken
condition, and said that they re- 1
tired soon after arriving. During
the night, Boyd said, he went to
Lowe's bed, called him and! told
him to get up, that he had si long
way to go to his home and that he
must have sin early stsirt. Lowe
got up, and when he looked sit the
clock he saw that it was II o'clock
iiml they went back to bed early
Monday morning.
Lowe sail! that tin nnllf.a l>l"
- . .... v iix x it i iv \i i u iiin
wife, who was Bleeping with him,
and that she did not answer. He
shook iter and found that she was
cold. Ho then called Boyd and they
found her dead. When testifying,
Lowe is said to have almost broken
down. The examining physician
found bruises on Mrs. Lowe's throat
and body, and that there had been
suHiclent external violence to have
produced death. The verdict of the
jury was that the deceased came to
her death from choking at the hands
of Lowe as principal and Boyd as
accessory.
The two men staunchly maintained
their innocence. Lowe is about 2"?
years of age and Boyd some years
younger. Boyd is unmarried. The
deceased was the mother of four
children, the youngest of whom is
oniy seven months old. and was herself
about 22 years old. The case
has created a good deal of interest
here, and any further developments
will lie closely watched. ? News and
Courier. *
i*ski> .n <; fok bank.
Fanner llad One Thousand Dollars
Stored in One.
Anderson, Jan. 18.?A rather
unique deposit was made at one of
the local banks here yesterday just
before the clock struck the closing
hour. A well-to-do farmer of Broadawav
township, who is considered
a good business man and a prosper
ous one, walked into the bank, and
in liis hand hold a little brown jug,
stopped up with an ordinary corn
cob.
The cashier pulled out the corn
cob, and protruding out of the neck
of the Jug was .a crisp ten dollar
bill. The cashier then got busy and
with the assistance of all the clerks
in the office managed to draw out
$1,000 in new bills, resorting to
a hat pin to extricate the money.
The farmer had decided on this
unique way of keeping his money for
deposit. *
Minister Convicted.
Norfolk, Vn., Jan. 10.?Concluding
a trial which extended into three
days, a Jury in Nansemond circuit
court, brought a verdict giving Itev.
V , , . _
iM'DCSi i^yons, colored, IS years for
the murder of Rev. James L. Smith,
also colored. *
I
OW TO
COUNTY SYSTEM
HSPKXSAKY PKOYKS A GOOD
MOXKY MAKKU.
Nio Old State l>ls|H*nsary I laid M??ir
Dis|K'ilsnrics but Loss l'rotlts. J
Sales by Counties.
The following tabulated statement
if gross sales and net profits for the
'ears 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 ts
;iven by Dispensary Auditor West in
lis report, together with a similar
itatement of the business done under
lie county dispensary system for
he years 1907 and 1908 for the pur>ose
of comparison. It will be noted,
lowevor, that the year 1907 einiraees
only about nine months, since
he law did not go Into effect until
March 1, and many of the dispensaries
were not open for business for
wo or three months following. The
rear 1908 is complete from January
1 to December 31, inclusive.
November, 1903?Number of dispensaries,
1 3S ; sales, $2,489,894.79;
total net profit, $638,482.35.
November, 1904 ? Number of dispensaries,
146; sales, $3,012,402.
59; total not profit, $775,375.95.
Novorubor, 1905?Number of disponsaries,
145; sales, $3,132,790.09;
total net profit, $870,318.07.
November, 1900?Number of dispensaries,
122; sales, $2,585,1 37.10;
total not profits, $575,975.9 1.
March to December 30, 1907?
Number of dispensaries, 100; sales,
$2,091,063.43; total net profits,
$095,056.0 1.
January 1 to December 3 1, 190S
?Number of dispensaries, 92; sales,
$3,644,2 1 4.81; total net profits,
$ 9 3 4,600.9 0.
From this it will be seen that
the profits of 92 dispensaries wore
much lagrer than the profits of 145
disponaries under the old Slate dispensary
system. A large part of this
total net profit under the old system
really never materialized on account
of the method of crediting the school
fund as an asset.
Sales ami Profits.
Auditor West also gives a table
showing the sales and profits for
the past year by counties. They are
as follows:
County Sales. Net Profits.
Abbeville .$1 53,377.07 $ 58,375.20
Aiken . .. 315,623.31 72.167.46
Bamberg . S2.3S8.26 22.733.7S
llarnwell . 175,4 86.58 39,833.17
Beaufort . 1 28,535.31 31,4 63.57
Berkeley . 07,a;>6.79 J 0,654.35
Calhoun .. 1 9,563.06 4,627.37
Charleston 606,1 46.5)5 1 1 8,061.49
Chester ... 83,74 1.06 18,827.71
Chester f'Ul 22,223.85 922.13
Clarendon . 41,698.36 7,467.36
Colleton .. 78,024.53 1 0,146.00
Dorchester 67,884.84 1 4.952 t '
Fairfield .. 70,229.8.") 11,935.05
Florence .. 118.192.20 52,012.07
(Jeorget 'ii . 1 1 0,1 r> 1 .85 3 5,105.82
11 u ill | do ij . 00.1 2 1.0 2 12,501.8 1
Kershaw .. 114.001.22 40,110.2 1
Laurens .. IMS,093.90 29,793.03
Leo 82,011.99 22,2 19.1 4
Lexington . 71.092.u0 1 5,700.2 1 |
Orangeb'g . 220,218.05 78,530.22 ]
Kiehland .. 5o0.u70.5S 1 31,749.00 I
Sumter ... 1 85,505.34 50,929.20
Williamsh'g 87,437.29 22,724.34
Total .$1,044,21 4.2 1 $93 1,000.90
The counties of Chester, Clarendon
and Laurens would have shown
a greater profit if the gain made
from October 1 to the timet they were
voted out had been reported. Chesterfield
county showed the usual
profit iit the time it was closed, hut
the stock had to he sold at a considerable
discount, which accounts
for the very small profit shown
above.
The largest percentage of profit
was 00 per cent in Abbeville county.
The percentage in Kiehland was 3 8
per cent. *
(adicrul Kutler III.
Columbia, Jan. 17.?News was re
reived here today of the serious illness
of former Senator M. C. Butler
at his home in Kdgefleld. The report
is that he is suffering with
pneumonia. He lias a remarkable
constitution, and this, his friends
hope, will pull him through this
attack. *
Kills His I'uele.
Vienna, Ga., Jan. 1 7.?P. 0. McDonald,
farmer, merchant and general
trader, and one of the most
widely known men in Dooly county,
was shot and instantly killed this
evening by \V. Theodore McDonald,
his n onflow wtm wnrbr?a
f .. ..Vf < VTI I^UVI Itll <11111
lived with him. The shooting occurred
in a room in the McDonald
home. Mrs. P. G. McDonald, two
daughters, and a young son were in
the house when the tragedy was
enacted. *
I
THE Hi
TAFT'S TAFFY
In big Atlanta Banquet He Declares
That The
SOUTH HAD WON HIM
Makes Fair Promises in Itegard to
the Character of the Ollicials lie
May Appoint in tlie South, ami lie
Will Itear Them in .Miml After
March.
Atlanta, Jan. 1 f?.- President-elect
Taft attended a 1 i^ Itaniiu >t in Atlanta
Friday night, given in his honc?r.
Judge Taft had given care to
the preparation of his banquet
speech, regarding il as his important
utterance of the day, and in its delivery
he followed his manuscript
ciosety.
Mr. Taft said with feeling that
ho was proud to havo boon t he first
revolution candidate for the Presidency
who had carried his canvas
south of Mason's and Dixon's line.
"In the presence of Democrats ami
Republicans here at a non-partisan
banquet expressing the welcome m
the whole community, it would neither
be courteous nor appropriate for
me to go into a partisan discussion,"
Mr. Taft continued. "1 can on'v
refer to the fact with gratification
and congratulation that today the
expression of any political views in
the South is possible without, involving
social ostricisin or any of the
penalties with which it might have
been visited in earlier times. Ten
years have made a great, difference
In the situation which the controlling
people of the South occupy towards
the North and the government."
The President-elect then summarized
the causes which had worked
and were affecting the change?tl.e
Spanish war; the attitude of MeKinley,
his lovable character and the
principles he stood for in his campaign;
the succession of Roosevelt
with his Georgia mother; and dually
the wonderful business developments
of the South.
"I am a Republican but. I concede
fully the great advantage to the
country of having a Democratic pa*ty
suflleiently powerful at times to
win the Presidential elections and
always to put tin1 Republican party,
when in control, in fear of a possible
or probable defeat. And so r.
the South no one can deny the advantage
that will arise in local and
State governments when there is a
substantial and intelligent minority,
which mav heroine : Kiweeuai'ni i>? i
jority in punishment of the abuser,
that are likely to grow out of the
long continued and undisputed control
of one party. Added to that, the
uncertainty which may attend tho
result of national elections in a State
is certain to- give it additional importance
to the councils of the nat
ion.
"I observe that among some prominent
members of congress there is
a disposition to charge me with an
attempt to win tin* South over te
Republicanism and a somewhat eon
tempt nous expression of opinion that
this is utterly impossible. To tbe.ri
1 would say that I am not hopeful
of winning the South over as the/
say, but that the South has s '.c
ceeded in winning me.
"If my coining lias been partisan
no such meeting as this tonight
would have been possible, and so I
may say of all the receptions am!
expressions of good will and welcome
that I have received from point to
point throughout the Southern country.
The verv success of i?>v t.i i
the very reason why it gives mo so
much satisfaction, is the pronoun-? <!
non-partisan character of the we come
which litis been so kindly extended
to nie.
"Now if this indirectly makes, riot
for a partisan advantage, but for a
continuance of the movement in favor
of independence of spcm or.d
action and political tolerance its
result is one that .all citizens of whatever
political party must rejoice to
have brought about.
"The direct local effect of a n?'ional
administration upon the South
is chiefly through their functions
through the section, and therefore
the exnression nf the ,1(1 ruiniu-f
Hon toward tho Southern people
takes its color in tho character of
those officials, and there the administration
may he properly lu Id accountable
and its poliei *s d dermmed
by the qualifications fitness and
standing of the men appointed to
represent it in the districts and
States of the section. I realize,
therefore, that expressions oi sympathy
with the South and an earnest
desire to bring it closer to th 1 central
governmout in thought and action
and feeling will have comparatively
little weight unless this expression
is accomplished by such appoint[)RRY
HE
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DEAD IN BATH ROOM
A Gltl.M Tlt.\(iKI)V KXACTKI) AT
SKATTLK.
A .Man, llis Wife and Their TwentyTwo
Years Old Daughter Are
Found Dcud.
Seattle, Wash., Jan.. 17.?W. L.
Seeley, an attorney and former national
bank examiner for Illinois, his
wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and her daughter, Miss
Irene Seeley, a student at tho University
of Washington, were found
dead in a hath room of tholr homo in
the fashionable Capital llill quarter
today.
The victims had been dead slnco
last Thursday. The women, clad
In night robes, had apaprontly been
murdered with a hammer. There
was no mark of violence on Seeley.
lit? is believed to have been partly
chloroformed and then drowned in
the bath tub.
That Seeley killed his wife and
daughter while insane over worries
and then committed suicide is the
theory of the police. His night
gown, blood stained from tho bodies
of the two women, was found beneath
a clean pillow in the room occupied
by him and his wife. The
pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been
sleeping was saturated with blood.
Seeley came here less than two
years ago from St. Joseph, Mo. He
moved there from Ottawa, 1)1. Ho
was r?fi years old, his wife about
three years his junior, and his
daughter 22.
The bodies were found i>v nnv vt
Smelzer, affianced husband of Miss
Seeley, and 10. It. Seibbel, a friend
of the family. The family could not
be communicated with after 1? o'clock
Thursday night, when Smelzer talked
over the telephone with Miss
Seeley.
Although keeping tip the appearance!
of prosperity, Seeley had been
forced to borrow money for his last
month's house rent from \V. W.
Wilshire, an attorney, from whom
he rented desk room in the New
York building.
Detectives were unable to find any
blood-stained implements in the
house, although a hammer was
found. No article of jewelry or anything
or value was taken. livery
window and door was securolv lock
0(1.
Itobbed l>y Masked .Men.
Kalarnath Kails, Ore., Jan. 10.?The
Kalarnath Falls County hank at
this place was robbed of $3,000 by
two masked men who entered the
bank this afternoon with drawn revolvers
and compelled the cashier
to pay over the counter all money in
sight. Several citizens who were inside
the bank were held at bay while
the robbers escaped.
incuts in the South as shall prove
this sympathy to he real and ruhstantial.
"All I can say with reference to
the future policy of the administration
in the South on this subject
is that I expect to spare no effort
to find out the facts in respect
to the character of tin? proposed appointees,
and so far as in me iies
to select men whose character and
reputation and standing in the community
commend them to their fellow
citizens as persons qualified and
able to discharge their duties well,
and whose presence in important
positions will remove, if any such
thing exists, the sense of alienism In
the government which they represent.
"Of course, the immediate great
work of the administration must bo
tin? revision of the tariff," he said.
"In til at work the South is qui to
as much interested as the North, and
would havo*an honest and genuine
revision such as has been promised
by the party in power."
He gave assurance to the Southern
people that "no Interest of the
South, whether it share that interest
with the North, or whether it lias
a peculiar interest of its own, will
be neglected in the conduct, of the
government in so far as that conduct
shall be under the control of its
Chief Executive." In concluding,
Mr. Taft said:
"I beg of those of my hearers who
differ with me politically not to suppose
that their cordiality and courteous
reception are misunderstood by
mo. I know that they spring from
an earnest and patriotic desire to
pay proper respect to the g^eut office
to which I have boon elected,
and that they grow out of a sincere
wish and proper assumption, that
having been elected to the Chief
Magistracy, I shall become the President,
not of a party, but of a whole
| united people.''
RALD