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F OSAKA BURNED Thousands Are Homeless In the Japanese City. FAMINE THREATENS The Burned Area Is Four Miles Square, on Which Stood Twenty Thousand Buildings?The Number of Casualties Not Known, But the Hospitals Are Filled. A dispatch from Osoka, Japan, says confusion still prevails there * as a result of Saturday's disastrous lire. Thousands of persons are homeless and hunger is staring many of them in the fact. A system of relief has been organized by the municipal authorities, but it is inadequate to supply all needs. Outside cities and towns are generously sending in contributions to be used in alleviating tne suffering of the homeless and destitute. The number of casualties has not yet been determined, but hundreds of Injured persons are crowding the hospitals. The latest estimate is that 2 0,000 buildings are destroyed, these including banks, the Stock Exchange, the I Museum, Government edilieos and j factories. While at present it is impossible accurately to state the loss,' these are given roughly at several million yen. It is feared that some of the insurance companies will fail as a result of the heavy losses they will have to pay. The conflagration lasted more 1 4 ? v_n hours. Mliil the til (111 in vii vj-ut v * v/ v . - ? ? . burned section presents a deplorable eight. The streets of the city art* very narrow, and the houses were mostly of wood construction. Under a strong breezo therefore the buildings wero easy prey for the flames, which jumped from one to another with great rapidity. Once jhope wa^ almost abandoned thar the conflagration could lie arrested. The firemen fought valently against the odds of lark of water and the high winds, and many or them fell unconscious while working bravely at their posts. Had not the water supply been curtailed by the I existing drought, it is believed the lire would have been quenched without great damage. During the first the greatest confusion prevailed among the spinning girls in the factory quarter, but fortunately no serious loss of life oc curred there. The belongings of the people who wero able to save anything from their burning homos are piled In great heaps along the railroad tracks ^t a Vu/horo t hov 11 viin uoant* vv/ *w wv, i? i?v/? ^ were removed early Saturday morn^ ing when- the Are broko out. In tho gray of the dawn of Saturday thousands of persons heavily laden with household effects were to be eeen fleeing across the numerous canal bridges and away from thtf fire tone. When they had reached places of flafey, tho burdens were laid down and able-bodied members of families returned to tho city to assist in fighting the flames, leaving tho old people to guard their effects from thieves. All day long Saturday and far into ho night tno people assisted r.ne firemen and the trc.op3 in quenching tho confla^ratl >n. An acre of over four miles square, containing some of the city's handsomest structures, including th:> Buddish Temple, the largest in the world, was entirely burned. Tho Stock Exchange, one of the most important in this country, was entirely destroyed. This loss, it is believed, will tend considerably to dislocate the business of Osaka, with its manufacturing concerns, Is one of tho cheif commercial cities or Japan. Many touching sights were to bo eeen during the fire. The women were terror stricken, and fled higher and thither with their children, gome of whom later cried plteously for food that could not be obtained for them. * Shot by Ills l>og. At New York Joseph Talobarian Is believed to be dying in a hospital from a gun shot wound received in p a peculiar manner. Ho laid a fully loaded and cocked shot gun on a chair in his homo and his pet Spanlei, Mercy, sniffed at the weapon and pulled the trigger. Talobarian received the full charge of birdshot In his side. Instructive Floods. News has reached this country of a terrible flood in the province of Chang Chun, Manchuria. In the ^ city of Krin, situated at. the head of steam navigation on the river Sungari, 225 miles from Muken, 1,000 Y people have been drowned and 7,000 houses submerged. The water is still rising. If a woman rides a block in a taxlcab she can talk about it afterward as when she was on an automobile tour. i TRAINS CRASH TEN PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES AND SIXTY ARE HURT. Several of the Heavily-laden Coaches Are Crushed and Occupants Are | Hurled Through the Air. Ten persons were killed and at , least 60 were Injured in a head-on collision of two electric trains at Caldwell, Wash., on the Spokane & Island railway late Saturday afternoon. Both trains were going at the rate of about 15 miles an hour. They crashed together without warning. The heavily laden coaches were crushed and the men and women In them were thrown from thoir seats, some being hurled to the tops of the coaches, while others were sent flying through the windows. Several coaches left the track and passengers were caught under the broken wood and steel. Uninjured passengers at once hurried to telephones to call aTd. A special train of physicians hurried from Spokane. Others hurried from Coeur d'Alene and other places. The Coeur d'Alene hospital is now tilled with the injured. A partial list of the dead includes: Will Alea, Weulnche, Wash.; Walter Dalquist, Spokane; A. T. Whitney, an attorney of Memphis, Tenn. Unknown woman and son. POLICEMAN SHOOTS DETECTIVE. Mistook Him for a Gambler and Fired oil Ilim. At Birmingham, Ala., W. M. Burgee, a city detective, was shot through the lung and probably fatally injured during a laid on an alleged gambling house Saturday afternoon. Detective D. M. Cornet t, who accompanied him, was fired upon, 1) 111 escaped injury. The shooting was done by W. M. Waggoner, a special police ofllcers had gained entrance to the house and with pistols drawn had about 12 men standing with their hands up. Burgee and Cornett, two plain clothes men, came up the steps on their regular rounds and Waggoner, not knowing I them, oidered their hands up. Burgee and Cornett refused and drew pistols. Waggoner then fired quickly live shots. The special officers were recently secretly employed by the mayor and were not acquainted with members of the regular police force. FARMERS' UNION ADJOURNS. Two Important Committees to bo Appointed. * At the last session of tho State Convention of the Farmers' Union held on Friday two very important resolutions were adopted. Both of the resolutions were introduced by Dr. J. II. Price, of Orangeburg, one being: "That tho executive committee be instructed to appoint a vigilant legislation committee, whose duty it shall be to appear before tho committees of the legislature to advocate any measure which would, in their judgment be to the interest of flirt n crtoill hirnl plaacnu n ?. ,1 ~ ..... v 0 . . ^ V, . w v? . * V/IUOUV'D UUU IU UJJ" pose any measure detrimental to same." The other was: "That a committee of three be appointed to meet and formulate plans for financing the cotton crop," the committee being authorized to confer with any capitalist looking to perfecting these plans. The last met wrtth some opposition, but it was finally carried by a large majority. * Locusts Attac k Hungary. Myriads of locusts have made their appearance in the district of Nagykoro, in Hungary, where they are devastating the crops. One hundred and eight hose and steam rollers have been collected from far and near, and a.re being driven across the open country, crushing crops and insects together, as this has been found to tie the only way to check the plague. Peeped I lis Lust Time. A special from Wellston, a town sixteen miles from Macon, in Houston county, (la., says: Saturday night at 0:30 o'clock Sim Anderson, a negro, was taken from a denu ty just outside that place and shot to death by a posse of citizens. Friday night the negro was caught peeping into the room occuped by daughters of W. P. Bell. * Fell to His Death. At New York the body of a man who pawned the shirt off of his hack to get carfare so as to obtain work awaits Identification in the morgue. With his coat closely buttoned about his shirtless body, he went.to work as a window cleaner and a few minutes later fell from a third story window, which ho was washing, to the yard and was killed. Many a girl who wears a rat keeps as quiet as a mouse about It. k GREAT TRIUMPH Aviator Makes Ten mile Flight Carrying Passenger. ALL RECORDS BROKEN Tho Younger of the Two Famous Brothers Accomplishes the Most Ditllcult Flight Kver Planned for an Aeroplane, and Meets Successfully tho Final Test. A special dispatch from Wastt Ington says lust Friday evening Orvllle Wright, attained the zenith of hard earned success. In a tenmi lo cross-country flight in the famous aeroplane, buiilt by himself and his elder brother, Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut. Benjamin I). Foulois, an intrepid ofllcer of the army signal corps, he not only surpassed the speed requirements of his contract with the United States government, but accomplished the most difficult and daring flight ever planned for a heavier-than-air flying machine. Incidentally he broke all speed records over a measured course. And he established beyond dispute the practicability of an aeroplane in time of peace and in time of war. His speed was over 12 miles an hour; he made the ton-mile llight from Fort Myer and back in 14 minutes and forty-two seconds, including tlie more than twenty seconds required for the turn beyond tlie lino at Shuter Hill, the southern end of the course. He attained a height in crossing the valley of Four Mile Run of nearly 500 feet, and the average altitude of his practically level course was about 200 feet above the ground. President Tuft, who had become an enthusiastic spectator of the aeroplane trials, although two years ago when Secretary of War, he is said to have expressed to ofllccrs profound scepticism as to the accomplishinent of such a feat as that of which he saw the completion, arriving upon the parade grounds at Fort Myer just In time to see the aeroplane land and to participate in the wild demonstration which welcomed the triumphant aviators. lie sent an ofllcer to near his congratulations to the victors. A terrilic wind and rain storm early in the afterncon seemed provi(lentally provided ij clear and quiet the atmospheric venditions in preparation for the llight, which was delayed only by the failure of the army field telegraph line from Fort Myer to Shuter Hill. It was still out of commission when Orville Wright, seizing the moment of the best weather conditions he had yet had for the speed test, had the machine placed on the starting rail and gave the motor a final test. The engine worked norfectlv. and the crowd seemed to realize that an epoch-making moment was at hand. They pressed forward against the lines, which held them hack breathless, intense, eagerly watching every movement of the aviator and his machine. The signal corps detail hoisted the great weight in the starting derrick which gives the machine its initial impulse. Lieut. Foulois, lithe, wiry, brown as a berry, in his khaki uniform and leggings, at a sign from Orville, climbed Into tho A uissengrtr's seat beside tho motor. Wilbur ana Charley Taylor, tho Wrights' "mechanician," took their places at the propellers. Orville turned on the sparker of the motor, and they whirled the blades around. The motor picked up the Impetus, Orville turned on the speed, and for the first time the propellers of Che Wright aeroplane were whlirfag at their maximum capacity. The smooth and even song of the engine aroused the crowd to excited cheering. Orville clambered Into his seat and gripped the levers. Wilbur, at a nod from his brother, slipped the cable which released the weight, the aeroplane shot down the track rose before it reached the end, and skimmed over the surface of the ground for a hundred feci or more. As if drawn up by invisible powers, the white-winged man-bird rose higher and higher, reached the end of the field, turned at a slight angle, and faced about. Climbing up as it were on the air, higher and yet higher, Orville brought tho macine at great speed once again fully round the field. Then with a short turn ho swept about and started southward over the center of the drill field. "They're off," a thousand voices shouted as one. I.ice a cinnt hlrrl -1? ? aw - ? - v.iwl.nfi Hie sny until it marks its prey, this manbird then darted off toward Shunter llill, live miles to the south. Unwavering it kept Its straight course, and seemed to bo rising even higher, as it passed over the diverse and heavily wooded country in the distance. Soon it was a more speck against the pearl iky above COST FIVE LIVES CiAHOLINK KXPIiODKS WITH TKRItlllLK I INSULTS. Five Persons Are Dead, Six Are Injured and Four Are Missing us Outcome of Accident. At St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, an explosion of gasoline, followed by a destructive fire in a four-story building is known to have caused the death of five persons and tho injury of six others. The police believe tho bodies of four others are still in the ruiirs. A search for bodies was continued late Saturday night. A large quantity of charred timbers and bricks must be removed before it can be determined whether more of them are in the debris. Tho dead: Wnco lln,?<nl>n O -.1-1 I HMIOll A ?V, ?) I'tll a 1)111. Mrs. Gngon, 50 years old. A child supposed to bo Clifford Gamble, X years old. Two unidentified men. It Is reported that Mrs. Gamble, the mother of Clifford Gamble, a supposed victim, is among those buried beneath 'the timbers. Arnold Kuhla, president of the Kuhlo Manufacturing Company, and a young man named McCauley are also thought to bo among those buried. It was a gasoline machine Invented by Kublo for filling tanks of automobiles that caused the explosion, lie and McCauley woro experimenting with the machine on the second (loor when people in t lie neighborhood were brought to their windows by a deafening roar. The explosion blew the building to fragments in an instant, broke windows across the street and set fire to and badly damaged the central police station and another adjoining building. Passers-by had narrow escapes. On the top floor of the wrecked buildiing lived Mrs. Horan, police matron, hor adult daughter and two children. Mrs. Horan escaped with slight injuries, but the daughter and one child are as yet unaccounted for. The property damage is small, the building destroyed being of little value. c nior 01 ronce oConnor suffered ;m irrepairable loss in the destruction of his private gallery of crooks, a collection of 20,000 pictures which cannot he replaced. * It LI Nl) TKiKK BOOZIC. Crazes a Chester Merchant and lie Tries to Kill. A dispatch from Chester to The News and Courier says J. E. Sanders, a merchant on Gadsden street, who is ordinarily sohor and quiet, while crazed with liquor, tried to shoot the wife of a neighbor, and was on the point of committing other misdemeanors when taken In char#? hy the police. Ho was conveyed to the lock-up, but when he reached there was in such a condition as to make it unsafe for him to ho kept in that place of confinement through the night. lie was carried home, where ho soon recovered, and got on his war path again. lie was subdued, however, without further serious results. No doubt Sanders had : tanked up an blind tiger loaded jwith cocaine as no whiskey is sold legally in Chester county. * Falling Gun Kills Child. At Darlington the children of Mr. Watson Daker, while playing with a watermelon, rolling it around the room, rolled it against a gun that was standing in a corner of the room, causing the gun to fall and bo discharged. The load entered the breast of the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. linker, killing her instantly. Turin* Hill Passed. The tariff blfl passed the IIousc Saturday by a vote of 195 to 183 just as it come from the conference committee. Two so-called Democrats voted for it and twenty Hepublicans voted against it. the horizon. The Finish. I a..,1.1.... i -- . t. _ 1 oiMMH'ii i ^ i IK' H|)UCK WRS lOSt tO view and as the seconds passed a silence grew upon the crowd, a silence that spoke of deep concern. Wilbur Wright, standing with love) led glasses beside his sister, stra'ned his gaze in effort to catch sight of the areoplane when it should rise again above the sky-line. Second? seemed minutes, and as the intervale became seemingly alarming, great heads of sweat stood upon his brow, and his agitation was evideat. Suddenly the speck came in sight over the distant hill. A cry swept over the watching crowd. "There it is," everybody said, and , gave a sigh of relief. On it came, growing with the seconds. It grew and grew, unMl at last almost every detail was visTble Before you knew it, they were home again over the drill ground, flying low. At a height of perhaps twenty feet it swung round again to th( southward, and landed easily fai down the field. The task was done and In triumph. * MEXICO SHAKEN Chilpanclngo Is Destroyed, Acapulco Partly Razed. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IjOha of Idfe In not Definitely Known, Hut is not Thought to !>o Very (jrtvit?Mexico City Kavctl by Mndo Cround, on Which it Stands. Shocks Extend Over Iairge Area. A die-patch from Mexico City Bays with Chilpanclngo destroyed and Acaptilco partly razed and the los* of lifo problematical, Central Mexl co from tho Atlantic to the Pacific and from Queranto on tho north to Oaxaca on tho south, an aroa of moro than one thousand square miles, was shaken at an early hour Friday hy a series of tho most ho vero earth shocks felt In the region for tho last quarter of a century. Tho quake was severe in Mexico City, but not prolific in destruction. Reports telling of tho loss of life are meagre, but tho ofilclal figures tlius far given show fourteen killed and more than a score mortally injured. While word comes from O. Poyros, an American commercial traveller at Chilpancingo, Guerrero, that that city was destroyed and the inhabitants are living in tho open, suffering from the elements, tho loss of life is not definitely known. Tho shocks continued at Chilpancingo Friday night, with subterranean rumbling and flashes of lightning, ruin ami nail. Acpuleo Guerrero, was partly razed, but the extent of the damage is not known, as communication wit.li that part of the Republic is not well established. According to observatory records, the first shock was at 4: 1 f? Friday morning, the oscillation being from east to southwest. It was severe, causing the bells of many cathedrals in Mexico City to toll, breaking crockery and in some Instances leveling walls. The inhabitants of the capital had hardly recovered from the fright of the quake when a second and more severe shock caused an outpouring of nearly all the residents to the streets and open piazzas. This movement was of a twisting character, and lasted with severity for ninety seconds. Tall buildings swayed and in somo instances cracked, the pavement opened in places and in the poorer quarters a number of houseR collapsed. So far as can be learned, six lost their lives in Mexico City and environs in this second shock. Two were men of the lower class, the others being threo women and a child. Four now in hospitals cannot recover, it is said. After the second shock no one ven- | tured indoors again until daybreak. ' The large American colony escaped unscathed. They, with the entire native population, remained in tho piazzas or squares ,unUl daylight irave them com-nwn a? w _. _ to uuior ineir dwellings. A WHITE FIEND Assaults a White Cirl in Lancaster County. I It is reported that a young lady 1 living in tho Van Wyck section of Lancaster county was criminally assaulted Friday by a prominent young . man of Waxhaw, N. C., who has since left tho country for parts unknown. It Ls said that the young lady was so overcome with humillat tion that sho attempted to commit suicide by taking carbolic acid, and that it was with great dllliculty that her life was saved by physicians. We hope that prominent young fiend will l>o caught and that his neck bo eraoKetl us soon aa ho could bo tried. County Treasurer Resigns. Treasurer I)etyens, of Georgetown county, has resigned, and the resignation was accepted by Gov. Ansel to take effect on August 1. The treasurer was short $(>,800 in his accounts. Tie has a bond of $20,000, and may bo prosecuted. The resignation takes the matter out of the hands of tho governor. Japanese City I turned. At 6 o'clock Sunday morning the terrible conflagration which has reduced to ashes a largo part of Osaka, Japan, was under control. Up to that hour 13,000 buildings had boon destroyed. An area four miles square was swept by tho flames. * , Moving pictures do not always . rnovo to either laughter or tears. , Sometimes It's well to understand ) when told to stand from under. . The sailor may bo able to live on water, but he wants some bread > with it. CAUGHT BY TRAIN AND CRUSHED TO DKATH Olf TRACK NEAR NKWHKHRY. Charlie Williams and Km est Iloukniglit, Two Young Wlilte Men Killed Instantly by Train. Charlie Williams and Ernoat Ilouknight, two young whlto men. wore 8truck and killed by tho Columbia, Newberry and Laurens passenger train, No. 63, bound from Laurens to Columbia, about three hundred yards abovo tho passenger depot In Newberry, shortly after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, both being horribly mangled. Tho former was killed instantly and tho latter lived but a short whllo. Tho tragedy occur rod Just a few yards below the crossing at Cllne's shop, Immediately In front of tho rnnldr?nro of Mr Vf Vf Qattoi>niKI?a The Southern and Columbia, Newberry and Laurens roads are parallel and very closo together at this point. The young men were walking down the Southern track from Helena to Newberry, whon they saw Southern Passenger No. 11, from Columbia to Greenvllle, which had just passed Newberry, approaching. They stepped off the Southern tracir on to tho Columbia, Newberry and Laurens track, with the Intention of continuing their walk to Newberry, which placed their backs towards the approaching Columbia, Newberry and Laurens passenger. They had taken but a few stops when they were struck. Tho dead body of Williams and Young Bouknlght, with barely the breath of life tn him, were brought to Newberry and placed In Undertaker Baxter's parlors. Bouknight died shortly af.er. The two young men wero employees of tho Nowlerry C r.'.on Mills, and bore very excellent reputations in tho coin ni nn11 v Tho former homos of both wore at Chapin, whoro their bodies woro taken for Interment on tho train. Mr. Williams was a son of Mr. O. I*. Williams, lie was about twentyone years old, and was a member of tho Red Men and of the Pocahontas. An escort of Red Men accompanied his remains to Chapin. Young Bouknlght was a son of Mr. TO. n. Itouknight, and was about seventeen years of age. Roth young men had Just begun their summer vacation of two weeks. When tho tragedy occurred, tho Southern train, out of tho way of which the young men had stepped across to the other track, had Just passed the crossing. At about this point a negro who had not purchased a ticket jumped off tho train. After reaching Helena, the Southern passenger, the conductor having learned Of the tragedy from passengers on tho rear of tho train, and thinking possibly tho passenger who had jumped off tho Southern trajn had been injured, hacked in to Newberry. Some months ago a negro was klllod In almost exactly tho same spot, and in the same manner, having stepped off the Southern track to avoid an approaching train and stepped on to tho other track to be struck and killed. FATALLY BITTEN BY RATTLER. Young Ln<l Lived Only Ten Hour* After Being Bit. Tho Hendersonvllle Hustler says Plnckney, the fourteen-year-old son of John Stepp, who lives beyond tho power house plant on tho Polk county lino, was bitten by a rattlesnake Thursday about noon, and died from the poison at 10 o'clock tho same night. Plnckney, with his brother, was getting tan bark near tho edge of their field. Their dog barked and the hoys went to find him, and found him barking around a log in which they expected to find a rabbit. Plnckney was barefootod and went to tho end of the log to peep In. Just at that instant tho snake struck him on the outer side of the ankle. Tho other boy killed tho snake and hurried homo with tho unfortunate - .mwiiiui, wnu meantime became very sick. Neighbors wore called, and all remedies known to them wero thoughtfully used, but the deadly poison was too much. They sent across the mountain, to Dana and called for a physician from Honderf-onvllle, but It was late before he arrived and the poor boy died three hours later. Hanged for Murder. March Washington, colored, was hanged at Green wtood Friday for murdering his paramour. He was about thirty years of age. Everything tin aarwl ? ? v?ii ijmeuy, there being no hitch in tho proceedings. Killed by Train. A shocking accident occurred at Union Saturday afternoon when the train from Lockhart ran into ana instantly killed and decapitated William T.awson, familiarly known everywhere as "Sugar Bill," a substantial farmer of the West Springs section in Bogansville township.