Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A ; TOWN WRECKED Many Persons Killed and Injured ' In Texas by . A TERRIFIC TORNADO The Village of Zephyr Fulls Victim f to itavaging Wind Storm, Which ^ lieaves l'uth of Deutli and I>ostruc- u t tion in Its Wake?Almost Unpor- t atlelcd in tlie State of Texas. c A tornado of great violence struck t the little village of Zephyr in the 1 eastern portion of Brown county, i V Texas, at 1 o'clock Sunday morniug c a iinth of death and destruc- I ?itu ?v i w tlon seldom paralleled. The death 1 list has reached a total of 3 2, and 1 the number of probably fatally In- I jured and seriously wounded will reach f>0. A score are more or less 1 injured. I The storm formed half a mile < southwest of Zephyr and swept down ! upon the village, cutting a wide < swath directly through the resident i and business district. J Many houses were entirely demol- i ished. Lightning struck a lumber i yard and started a conflagration, ; which destroyed one entire business < block. No effort was made to tight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all at- j tention. i A section hand rode a hand car "'to Hrowuwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Sante Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine sur- l geons and a score of Urownwood I>hy- i sicians. I Hundreds of persons directly in i the storm's path saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were horribly mutilated. County >Clerk Thad Cabler, his < wife and two children, who had gone < to Zephyr to spend the night, were i killed. < The big stone school building and I two churches were swept from the | face of the earth. Hv daylight 1G I surgeons were working on the : wounded J Ilrownwood hurried her second re- i lief train at noon Sunday loaded < with provisions, clothing and necessary articles and 4 0 nurses. < Sunday night three persons were s still unaccounted for. Two children i were dead late Sunday afternoon, two miles out from the town, having been blown that distance. A special train left Zephyr Sun- < day night for Temple, carrying the more seriously injured to the hospital. 1 The storm was 3 00 yards wide and swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is considered the most territic of any tornado ever experienced in that section. J. I. Clingman, C. E. Kirkpatrick and nine surgeons, who formed the first party out of Brownwood, found a desolate scene awaiting them. The hillsides at Zephyr wore covered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burning buildings and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements, which threatened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debrisstrewn street was killed while trying to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. i'oopie waiKea ine SLreeos almost naked, crying for their loved ones. , Residences which escaped the storm were turned into hospitals, where were carried the bodies of the dead and wounded. One stone house collapsed on a family of nine without serious injury to any. CARELESS SHOOT?NO. Yorkville Doctor Came Near Being Shot By It. On the 19th instant, at night, while Dr. Jno. I. Barron was driving to see a patient several miles east of Yorkville, he was shot at twice from the roadside, one ball going between the legs of his horse and the other just back of his buggy top. He is satisfied the shots were not intended for him, as the party, evidently being out of ammunition, B threw rocks at a negro in a buggy 0 ju?t behind him. A negro named 11 Jas. Crawford was arrested, charged v with the shooting, and taken before 0 Magistrate It. B. Delx>ach a.id gave ^ bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance at a preliminary hearing. The negro he was after is named Henry Jones, and there is a woman a in the case. d o Prison Ship Martyrs, P The prison ship, Martyrs, forgotten v victims of the Revolutionary War, are to be commemorated after more than a hundred years of neglect. A monument to the memory of these P 11,500 victims of the Wallabut pris- a on ship is being erected on Fort c x Qreen Hill in Brooklyn. t - LONG AIRSHIP TRIP ? X>l'XT ZEPPELIN BREAKS ALL BALLOON RECORDS. Rinnan Aeronaut Perforins Xtfost Remarkable Peat of Kemurkable Career?Sailed 450 Miles. Count Zeppelin, says a dispatch , rom Berlin, Germany, whose reuarkable performance In his first lirship brought unbounded honors to ho Inventor, Sunday accomplished he most startling feat in his career le guided his Zephellu 11 from Fred rickshafeu to Ditterfeld, a distance >f more than 456 miles, without anding. The journey lasted nearly 53 hours and so far as known Sunlav night Count Zeppelin is still iu 1 he air, on the return journey to Kredericlvshafon. lie has already ueaten all records for dlrigibleaal loons. It was announced that the count would come to Berlin and land at he Hemplehof parade ground. Hundreds of thousands gathered there Sunday afternoon. The emperor and umpress, several of the princes and the leading military officials and ofllcers were present and towards evening searchlights kept an enormous space clear, until it was learned the airship was returning to Fredchshafen, which caused intense disappointment. The voyage began under rather unfavorable conditions. There was a lowering sky, rain clouds, and a i strong wind when the airship left the floating hall shortly after 9 o'clock | Sunday night. The residents did not pay much attention to this, as they were accustomed to night [lights, and when the great ship took the air at 9:42 thou was not a cheer to speed her on her way. The ship | ascended directly for a lew hundred feet and passing over file town orj i i u;ui itnoiiiucii, piyct.'t'iicu UOl'l 11ward. Early in the morning the people uf Trenehtlingen, a small city in central Bavaria, were awakened by the noise of the propellers of the craft which was passing slowly at a low altitude. The count here dropped out a card, divulging his intention to proceed farther north. His irrival an hour and a half later at Nuremberg caused the greatest surprise to thousands of pleasure-seekers preparing for holiday excursions. The ship manoeuvred over the city, and a card was thrown out, stating that a great amount of water find benzine had been used and that the craft would descend at Lake Dutzenteich to replenish the water supply. This, however, was not done. Count Zeppelin continued towards Berlin, passing over several towns of a low altitude, amid the cheers of the populace, until he reached the frontiers of Saxony, where the airship was headed straight for Leipsic. Indications were that it would make a landing there and the entire populace waited for several hours in the streets and open spaces to greet him. Instead of landing, the count put his craft through a series of manoeuvres, coming at times close to the tops of buildings. He then went on, crossing Halle, to Bitterfield. Then to everybody's surprise the airship turned again and sailed tn th.? south. * WOMAN LEAPS FKOM WINDOW And \'ery Soon After the Fireman Followed Suit. A strange mental suggestion is attributed by the coroners as the cause of two sensational suicides in New York City. Mrs. Ella Friedmann leaped to ; tier death from the front window of i tier fourth story apartment in the ! Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, ires timed to have been mentally unbalanced by recent Illness. Foreman I'homas J. McCue, of lire engine com>any No. 14, was passing through he street at the time and after asiisting the police in removing the ' voman's body to her apartment he 1 vent to his home. A half hour later he climbed to 1 he roof of an apartment building ' even blocks away and jumped pff. ( le also was Instantly killed. Mc- ' lue and Mrs. Friedmann did not 1 now each other. 1 The coroner decided that Mrs. 1 ^riendmann perhaps received her inplration from the suicide of anoth- ( r woman who four years ago killed 1 lerself by jumping from the same | ' .iiiuuw Juki mat McUue's Inspiration I 1 ame from witnessing tho suicide of 1 Irs. Friedmann. * 1 ( Killed by Moro Bandits. Two private soldiers were killed j ,nd a sergeant mortally wounded 1 , luring a fight with Moro bandits n the Rouman river In the Phllipines on May 22, according to adices received hero. < , Buried Under Gravel. 1 As a result of a cave-in of a grave. < it at Olive Branch, Miss., a few days < go, five negroes were killed. Tons >f gravel fell on them, -crushing heir bodies. t BACK TO WORK An Agreement Reached In Fireman's Strike on GEORGIA RAILROAD IVmporury Agreement Hoachcd Following Conference Hetvtreen General .Mammor Scott, Fireman Hall and Hi? Vuitcd States Governliient's Agents?Trains (tunning. The strike of the firemen on the Georgia railroad was officially declared off at 2 p. ni. Saturday. An hour and a half later the first train after the resumption of service was sent out of Augusta with a negro fireman in the cab. The terms of the settlement were not officially given out. but it was learned that they are substantially as follows: The men to return to work under conditions existing at the time the strike began, until final adjustment is made. All negro firemen at the terminal station will be .dispensed with. All discharged brotherhood firemen will be reinstated. Three ether points are yet to be decided, as follows: First, whether negro firemen shall be eliminated from the road. Second, if not eliminated, what percentage of negroes there shall be. Seniority of negro firemen ovei white firemen. These other questions are to be discussed and if they are not adjusted are to be settled by arbitration under the Kardman act. The exact terms of the settlement have not been disclosed, but the statement is made that the conditions are eminently satisfactory to botll ?ir1r?e 'IM.~ ..i jih- js?mi leinont was announced in a statement by Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, and Charles P. Neill, United States labor commissioner. It. said: "An amicable adjustment of the differences between the Georgia railroad and its employes who have been on strike has been reached on a basis eminently satisfactory to both sides. The strike has been called off and complete train service is to be resumed i in mediately." This statement was the result ol a conference between Chairman Knapp, Commissioner Neill, General Manager Scott of the Georgia railroad, Vice President Pall of the firemen's organization. The conference lasted from 1 1 a. in. until 2 p. in. and every point of issue between the railroad and its employe* was carefully discussed. Commissioner Neill said that botl sides made concessions. He added further that ho did not believe s complete statement would be made before next week. It is generall) understood that the railroad agrees to recognize the senitority of white firemen and that the employment ol negro firemen who have been witl the road many years will be contin ued. A ft or t <ii e reurea no othei blacks will bo permitted to lire. Had there not been a settlement of the strike Saturday afternoon it can be stated that federal interference was imminent. It is stated that both sides were notified that some adjustment must be ^reached by 6 o'clock Saturday or the federal courts would take cognizance of the situation. This probably would have meant injunctions, which in the present temper of the residents of the strike district almost certainly meant resistance and possible violations of the injunction and speedily thereafter the arrival of United States troops. The strike commenced May 17 and lasted 13 days. It was caused by the attempt of the company to put negro firemen on the best runs in the place of white firemen, who were given inferior runs or made substitutes. The men presented an agreement to General Manager Scott, demanding that he recognize the seniority of white firemen over Slacks and thus practically do away A*fth the negroes in the cabs. Scott refsued, claiming that he had no UlthoritV to si t?n sutnU or. o~ ? - ? UKVII Ull I t'UlIUJIll, rhe men looked in vain for some iflieial who had authority, and failng to find one, struck. General Manager Scott retaliated by pracically annuling all trains and thus ying up traffic. After a few days he situation became grave in some jommunitles. Food supplies ran low ind no new stocks could be secured. The necessities of life were hauled n wagons and automobiles. No mails .vere sent or received. The strike of the white firemen in the Georgia Railroad shows very [Mainly that the road will either lave to employ all white or all colired firemen. It is simpiy a question if race as the matter now stands. Does the speak-easy go without mying? > THE COCAINE CURSE CONGHKSS UlUiKD TO PROTECT AM.KHICAX HOMKS. High Tariff cm tho I>ondly I>rug Demanded aw the I'nited States Should Control Ita Tariff. Calling upon congress for a form of tariff protection that will guard all American homes from the rava|Tl>? of t lui I. ..1.14 41 ov. v i VIIV/ V/V/V'iU IIU 11 it U H | lilO usunus of medical men, philanthropic workers and the principal drug houses in New York City are supporting the recommendation of the American Health League for federal control of the deadly drug. Only by placing a prohibitory duty upon the foreign cocaine with which tlie illegal distributors are now supplied in defiance of all State laws can the growth of drug dives throughout the country he checked, the leaders of the movement declare. From every section of the land reports have been received showing that the people are ready to diamond of their representatives in Washington this relief from the vice and crime that is spreading unchecked with the free supply of co' eaine from abroad. Only llfty per cent of all the cocaine consumed in the United States last year was devoted to legitimate uses, experts are prepared to show congress, while tlie other half of the total sales of this drug was covertly supplies to the dens of the "dope tif 11 d" which are rapidly increasing. While tiie American manufacturers and wholesalers are refusing to nandor to tin' increasing demands of the illicit cocaine distributors and can he held accountable by state and local nutl^ritics for their sales, absolutely no hold can he taken on the underground supply of the drug from abroad, it is Cocoa leaves from which the drug victims may extract a form of cocaine with which to meet their craving are now free of duty and easily available, it is also pointed out. Hacked by philanthropic organizations and individuals throughout tin4 country, the leaders of this movement have already presented to the ! finance committee of the senate at ' Washington the people's claim for protection against the inroads of t^ie cocaine curse. A prohibitory tariff of $1.50 an ounce 011 the foreign supply of the I drug is being urged as well as a duty of live cents a pounds on the cocoa leaves, which will give Undo Sam a hold upon their distribution. It is also proposed to place an internal revenue tax upon this drug and to require its manufacturers to 1 be bonded and licensed by tbe gov' eminent. The placing of a special revenue stamp on every package of cocaine, with the record required to be kept of its quality and purchaser. ' the authorities declare, wil result in tbe speedy restriction of the illegal 5 tralilce in tbe drug. That the senate leaders have up to 1 this time refused to consider their claims on the ground that tbnv 1 "not concerned -with tlj/e 'nation's J morals" was asserted by leaders of this crusade against the cocaine evil. * ! When the people of every part of the * I country are alive to this chance to ^ check the spreading drug plague, 1 however, every one of their representatives at Washington will he urged to its immediate consideration, it is believed. * t 1 TKRMIXATES IX TRAGEDY. " Two Brothers ohot by Foes in North 1 Carolina. I Arthur and Andy Franklin were , shot to death Monday night In Laurel township, a remote section of Madl, son county, N. C., in a four-cornered duel, in which the Franklins were i arrayed against the Tweed brothers. Robert Tweed and Arthur Franklin met at the store of Arthur Franklin, and resuming tho quarrel several days old, both opened fire. And Franklin endeavored to stop the tight, but Major Tweed interfered, and both drawing pistols the fight became general. And Franklin was instantly killed; Arthur Franklin died later of his wounds and Major Tweed received a serious wound in the thigh. Beverly Stanton, a bystander, was shot in the thigh. No arrests have been made. Tho parties pnn for n o<-l ........ YYT-ru among the best citizens of the county. Dances to Death in Jail. Charles Hill, a negro of Richmond, Va., danced himself to death in the jail at Suffolk, Va., this week. Hill was sentenced for 60 days, but, being a happy-go-lucky fellow, it mattered very little to him, and he gave a performance before the other inmates of the Jail. After a most astounding dance, taking all his energy, Hill paused and fell worward, dead. Mown Two Miles. Miraculous things always attend a cyclone. In the one that recently visited Edgefield, a cage containing a canary bird belonging to Miss Patterson was blown two miles, lodged in the piazza of a friend and was returned the following day, neither bird nor cage receiving Injury. THEY FACE JAIL % For Exposing Inhuman Atrocities in the Congo ACCUSED OF SLANDER lty Klug Ijoopold, of Belgium, Morrison uud Shepjuird Told in I/CCtures ot fho Torture of Natives by ItublHM' Trust uud of CuniiltMils und Their Work. Keen iuterest is felt throughout the South In the fate of lho ltev. Dr. I William Mnrrision nml ??>.. l>"? wii . . v^- - v? t?vt I IIVI IVU?. ^ 41" Ham Shoppard, two American missionaries, now on trial in Leopoldville, Congo Free States, on charge of "calumnious denunciation" of officials of the Belgian government and King Leopold's rubber monopoly. President Taft lias been asked to use his good olticos in having the trial postponed and then to see that the missionaries are properly represented in court. I.ast Sunday was a day of special prayer in many Southern Presbyterian churches on behalf of the missionaries. The trial was scheduled to begin on May US. I>r. Morrison, a white man, comes from Lexington, Va. Shoppard, a negro, conies from Waynesboro, Va. It was about fifteen years ago they went to Africa and had great success, making many converts through object lessons. On his way home from his tlrst visit Shoppard was dined by Queen Victoria at Windsor Caistlo and was made a member of the Royal Geographical society. In\ Morrison was the real offender in the alleged slander of King Leopold. lie told of many men, women and children who had been maimed and showed photographs. However, lie was not aware that I t:i full M ?.l?~ ? -in >\uh one 01 his auditors and the Belgian minister. When Dr. Morrison last visited this country he exposed to the world some of the frightful'atrocities under King Leopold's reign. More than 40,000,000 of subjects in the Congo Free state are said by him to have suffered in the exaction of tribute of rubber. lie said the natives were in terror of the Zappo Zaps, the Hangalas and the Batalelas. The last two named were native troops and cannibals, ollicered by Belgians. They were taken as slaves, but being removed a thousand miles from their own people were employed as slave raiders. I Dr. Morrison told of an encampment of lb,000 of theso cannibals within three days' inarch of where the missionaries were stationed. The natives were invited to visit the encampment, then were shot down without mercy and their bodies eaten he declared. Sheppard, who visited the encampment, counted 81 human hands drying over a fire. The bodies had been eaten. Other bodies were lying outside the stockades and slaves had ! been taken. The perpetrators of tills outrage, the missionaries said, escaped with light punishment. * FIVE PERSONS DEAD And Many Injured as Result of Heavy Rains. Fivo persons are dead, at least 10 i seriously injured, several acres of crops are inundated and every stream in the northern and eastern part of Oklahoma is raging as a result of heavy rains during the last few days. A number of houses were washed away. The dead are: Mrs. W. W. Brown and three children of Foraker, and Mattie Jones, a negress. Mrs. Brown and her children were drowned on Salt Creek while attempting to escape from high waters. The negress dropped dead from fright when the waters of Boggy creek near Enid surrounded her home. A small tornado struck Morris, demolishing the Methodist church and several residences, including that of Ernest Scott. He and his wife and child were seriosuly injured. Fatal l'rlzo Fight. James Kureazer, otherwise known as "Greek Jimmy Ryan," died at St. Joseph hospital at Sflvnnnnh no, VIC*., early Saturday from concussion of the brain. He was injured Friday night while engaged in prize fight with Young Evans before tho Southern Athletic club, falling and striking his head on the floor. Twenty-Two Killed. Twenty-two persons were killed and probably 40 injured in Oklahoma tornadoes Saturday night, according to messages which had reached Stroud, Okla. Ten aro killed at Key West and 12 at Depow. Both towns were wrecked. * Man Kills Himself. J. B. Nixon, 32 years old. committed suicide a few days ago by drinking carbolio acid at his room at the Hotel Larson, in San Francisco, Cal. STRIKE WORRIES TIIK CABINET AT WASHINGTON, BAYS ZACH McCtKK. It Is Feured Thut It Maj Serfoiulj FiulmrrusM "Solid South basting (Hinpul^n of rrcnideat Tuft. In a lef??r tr. Th, _ ? w IIU oiaiv ?YIC" Gee says the administration 1b grarely concerned over the strike situation in Georgia, where the whito tiremen are trying to displace uegro flreoien. The entire cabinet meeting Friday was given over to consideration of It. Slnco all along the Georgia railroad tho white peoplo sympathize with the strikers, It is momentarily expected here that violence will break out. If it does it is more than likely that attacks will be made np011 trains carrying United States mall, in which case will devolve upon the administration the absolute necessity to send down either marshals or troops, or both. in this contingency the Washington administration will be put la the attitude of taking up for the negro in the South against the white man, a most embarrassing and awkard attitude at tiie beginning of this "eolid Southbustlng" campaign Air. Taft has entered upon with such auspiclousness and harmoniousness. It is also feared that tho strike will spread to other States in the or industries, In which case people, or ndustres, n whch case the people, I throughout the South would he mudo j to feel directly the force of tho administration operating against the white man In favor of the negro. Tho conference was long and earnest, with grave faces, especially on the part of the president and Postmaster General Hitchcock, who is in chargo of tho "solid South-busting" business. No conclusion was reached as to what was to bo done, for no ono could suggest anything practical to end the strike except to pray. And that is what they are doing, awaiting further news from the scene. WIUTKS MADE BLACK And Blacks Arc .Made White in Coscob, Conn. Temperance cranks, worse than the Ku Klux Klan and the Night itiders, are operating in the village of Coscob, Conn. Habitues of the village saloon believe they are trying to discourage drunkenness by white washing negroes when they become intoxicated and by using stove blacking on whites while under the influence of liquor. Others say the coloring is tho work of village wags, hut at the best the inebriates are indignant. A few nights ago the police of Greenwich received a call to arrest ,i uiiinituii negro in Coscob. Policeman Jones took the man to a cell. Next morning the jailor aroused the man when he called "Come out hero you nigger." A torrent of profanity issued from the cell and Charles Carolig, a white man, but black as the ace of spades, came forward. A short time ago Justice Brush tried a "white" man, and he was whiter than snow, on charge of drunkenness. He had been whitewashed while in a stupor. Other similar cases are reported, but the drunks are never able to identify the perpetrators of the "terrible outrages," as they characterize them. MUItDlCKKIl KILLS SKLF. Man Who Siiot Sister's Sweetheart Commits Suicide. Irvln Carter, of Huntsville, Mo., out on bail, who scarcely a year ago shot down Thomas R. Bagby, who was keeping a tryst with Carter's sister, committed suicide this week in the house from which the fatal s>hots were fired into Bagby's head. A few days ago, Carter said that ho was going away and would never bo seen again. It was supposed that ho intended to flee the State and escape trial for the Bagby murder. Later his body was found, with bullet holes through the head. When the coroner viewed the body, a revolver with all the chambers loaded was found in his breast. His n, ? ? U .uuLii??r explained that In her excitement she had removed the revolver and placed the wrong weapon on her son's body. F"( m an adjoining room .ih got another weapon, with one chamber empty. STRUCK BY IJGHTNING. Holt Kills One Man aiul Shocks Tree Others. At Columbia John Williams, shortly after he had taken refuge in a now house when ho was driven from his work in his garden by a thunder storm, was struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. He was unmarried, but leaves three slaters who were dependent upon him for support. At the time he was struck, Mr. Williams was standing In the door with both hands against the facing. Three other mon in the same room were severely shockea.