The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 19, 1909, Image 6
PLANT STRUCK
By Lightning and Manager
Knocked Senseless.
EQUIPMENT RUINED
The Wireless Telegraph Station at
Charleston Torn Vp by a Flash
of .Lightning?Manager .Ferrick
Had Taken Off Head Harness
When Bolt Struck.
The Charleston Post fsays William
J. Ferrlck, manager of the wireless
telegraph plant at Hampton park,
was knocked senseless and his instrument
ruined Wednesday afternoon
by a lightning bolt which
struck his olUce at about 4:30. The
operator barely escaped being killed,
the fact that ho had removed his
ear pieces just a moment before
the bolt hit, saving him from being
electrocuted. It will be necessary
to rush now instruments from
i\ew i oi k 10 pui uio wiroiess t?iatioa
hero into working order again.
Mr. Ferrick was sitting Bit his
key during the storm of Wednesday
afternoon, as usual, roady to receive
or send messages to and from -the
sea, and through some intuitive
feeling, most probably, with the <
lightning flashing in a lively manner
,.<bout him, he took off his head harness
for the time being. Hardly had
he done so, when a blinding flash
accompanied by a terrifle crash of
thunder, swept through his office,
and he knew no more until about
twenty minutes later, when ho found
himself lying on his back half way ;
into his sleeping room, fifteen feet
away. The largo glass of the window
in front of his key was smashed,
and investigation showed that
his ear-pieces, which ho had removed
from his head just before tho <
stroke, were burned and usele&.s,
while his tuner, and his magnets
were burned out and the city telephone
receiver fused. Fortunately
the office did not catch on fire with
the operator senseless on tho floor.
Mr. Ferrick thinks that tho bolt
crashed through the glass In front
of him and struck his instrument,
putting them out of buslnoss. He
xvna snmAwlmt hruiqnri frrim ttiA
shock and the violence with wlicih
he was hurled from his chair upon
the floor, hut beyond a ringing In
one of his earfiatft.day lie is unhurt.
A rush or$ei> has been sent by
the wireless lifcfnager to New York
for new equipment his plant here,
and he thinks that by early next
week ho will be able to receive nnd
sand messages again, with his usual
facility.
Further examination of the plant
failed to show any damage to the
tall mast or to the superstructure
of the wireless equipment. The
whole damage was confined to the
office and instrument. It was a
providential escape from instant
death that the manager had, and if
he had not removed his ear pieces,
he would have been fatally shocked
by the bolt.
The operator at Hampton park
has been on duty hero about two
years, coming to Charleston from
New York, and has been In the wireless
service for a longer time, but
he has never before had such a close
escape from being killed by lightning.
Ho declared that it was not
the custom of lightning to strike
the plants of the company. Because
of the accident to the plant, at about
the time the Arapahoe sustained her
accident off the coast of North Car
olina, no messages wore caught from
he wireless Instrument on the
steamship, and consequently information
of the trouble she was In
came through other stations of the
United Wireless Company.
CRUSADE ON COCAINE SEfiTiERS.
Two White Doctors and Fifteen Negroes
Arrested.
Savannah has begun a crusade
against cocaine sellers and use-s
which ought to bo followed all over
the South. Former Coroner Dr.
H. B. Stanley and I)r. W. W. Lee,
white, and Dr. M. Pickuey, colored,
were arrested a few days ago
as a result of statements made iu
the police court by fourteen men and
women, mostly negroes, who were
rounded up as the beginning of a
crusade on cocaln sellers. Dr Deo
has not yet made bond, but Drs.
Stanley and Plnckney gavo bond of
$ 1 .ItA each. The four toon other
defendants were all bound over to
tho city court. The physicians declare
thoy wrote cocaine prescriptions
only to alleviate Buffering, declaring
the "fiends" had to have
tho drug. A aeore or more of tho
"flenda" were used as wltnossos.
lUind Tiger Fined.
ir. r. unison lias within the past
ten days contributed $140 to the city
treasurer In Columbia for selling
whiskey. He twice received a fine
Of $40 and at another time he for*
felted $40.
SOME FOOLISH TALK
PUTS A MOUTHKY BAMJ1KHG NEOHO
ON Oil A IN GANG.
Said tho No^rocs Ought to Kill the
Police aail Then Burn tho Town
Down.
The Bamberg llorald says last Friday
night Bon Black, a negro who
Uontisi a lltlhi uhnn mi M111 n clrnnt
was arrested by Policeman C. C.
Rowell. Black was standing in a
crowd of negroes behind the depot
at train time when tho eight o'clock
train arrived, and Mr, Rowoll heard
him say that a negro had no rights
in Bamberg, and the only thing to
do was to kill some of these smart
ofllcors or burn out the town, using
oaths.
His talk was occasioned by the
fact that, acting under orders from
the mayor, Policeman Itowell has
boon keeping negroes and others who
had no business there, away from
tho trains, in order that passengers
could get on and off, conditions on
the arrival of trains having become
intolerable, as tho negroes would
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depot and the track.
As ttoon as tho train left Mr. Rowell
wont down to Mack's shop and
arrested him. IIo attempted to resist,
and Mr. Rowell gave him two
taps with his club which quieted
him. Then J. A. Nimmons, tho colored
harbor, went on his bond, but
as soon as ho found out the charge
against Mack, he came oil the bond,
so Mack was rearrested and placed
in the guard house.
Ho was tried Saturday afternoon
before Mayor J. A. Wynian and
found guilty on three counts: Cursing
at the depot Friday night, resisting
an officer and cursing at the
depot one night last fall, this fact
having come out after his arrest.
Last fall ho stated with an oath that
after Taft's election negroes would
get on Juries, and he wanted to get
on and hang some white man, as
white men had been convicting negroes.
This was heard by a white
man and testified to Saturday afternoon.
Tlio maximum line and Imprison- I
ment was put on In each case: I
$100 or thirty days, making a total
of $300 or ninety days. Black took
the days, and was sent to the chain
gang lato Saturday afternoon. This
negro has long been regarded as an
impudent fellow by the white people
of Bamberg, and he boars anything
but a good reputation. He
will no doubt loarn some sense
while serving his sentence.
HAV13 NO FUNDS.
Plan to Send Cotton Export Abroad
Falls Through.
According to a letter received at
Commissioner Watson's office in Columbia
from the chief of the bureau
of manufactures of the department
of commorce and labor, it will be
impossible to send an expert to
foreign countries to gather data and
information for the benefit of the
cotton producers of the South. The
reason given is that there is no appropriation
for the sending of an
agent at this time for the special
service. The request was made on
the National Covernment as a result
of a resolution adopted at a recent
meeting of tho State Farmers' Union
hold in Columbia. A similar resolution
was also passed at a meeting
of the Nfttlnnnl Union hnlH nt Allan.
ta some timo ago.
WOMAN TAKW9 AllSNIO
After a Very Heated Argument With
Her lIuHband.
At Atlanta, angered with her husband
over some trival family disput,
Mrs. A. Gilbert, Friday swallowed
a o nan tit v of ar?nt? tn tho
presence of her husband. Gilbert
at once hurried to a nearby drug
store and secure an emetic, which he
forced his wife to swallow, after
which he summoned an ambulance
and had the woman rushed to the
Orady Hospital. It Is thought she
will recover.
Gilbert declared ho had no doubt
his wife took the poison with suicidal
intent, but declined to discuss
his family troubles. He ?iid his
wife became enraged during an argument
shortly after breakfast, and
announced her intention of ending
It all by taking poison.
! SHOOTS HIMSELF WITH RIFLE.
Sergeant of Coast Artillery Flees
From Financial Troubles.
Discovery was made a few (lays
ago that Sergt. Max Block of the
coast artillery, station at Fort Dupont,
had committed suicide a few
nights before by shooting himself
with his rifle. He had propped the
rifle against a wall and tied a string
to the trigger which he pulled after
placing his body against the muzzle.
Money losses are believed to have
caused Block to kill himself. His
home was In Morgan, Ala.
NARROW ESCAPE
YOUTHS LEARN SOMETHING
ABOUT GASOLINE KIKE.
TIi?7 Had a Hot Time for a While
und Will Not Forgot Their Experience
Soon.
A dispatch from Georgetown to
The News and Courier says a pleaa
ure trip that came near ending in
a tragedy occurred on Sunday night
on the Waccamaw rivor, when a party
of young men, returning to
Georgetown from Pawley's Island,
had an experience with tho combustible
qualities of gasoline, which
nouo of them will ever forgot. They
left Hagley wharf and had come
nearly into Wlnyah Bay, when ono
of tho party remembered that he had
left his suit case on tho wharf, and
tho launch was Immediately put
about to get it. /
Tho baggage was recovered and
the boat was headed once more
homewards, but had not proceeded
far when tho gasoline gave out. The
anchor was lowered and the crew
prepared to spend the night, when a
nasKintr rnwlmat wrm ,1 i ur>riv?riwi
manned by negroes. The boat was
hailed, and with two of the young
men in her, proceeded back to Hagley
wharf, where the gasoline tug
Dudley was tied up. A bucket of
gasoline was secured, and the party
started out in fine spirits. In the
meantime some of the gasoline had
spilt in the bottom of the boat,
which was partly covered with water.
A lighted lantern was In the bow,
and the gasoline on the surface was
carried beneath, when an explosion
took place, enveloping the whole row
boat and setting the two young
gentlemen and the negroes into a
panic, causing them to jump overboard.
Fortunately the tug Dudley
was not far off, and all of them
managed to get aboard her. When
the excitement had partially
worn off a froeh supply of gasoline
was gotten, the flames on the boat
I were extinguished and the boat crew
undertook once more to get to the
launch, whore tho re?t of the party
were impatiently waiting, full of
anxiety, as thoy had seen the flames
of the explosion from a distance.
The party succeeded in cettlne to
the city without further mishap at \
o'clock in the morning. The young
men of the party were Messrs. D. K.
Montgomery, P. P. Doyle, M. M.
Thomas and others. Messrs. Montgomery
and M. M. Thomas were tho
heroes of the gasolino experience.
COMPANY TO MAKE PICKERS.
Preparing to Equip Two of Fourcher
Machine*.
The Augusta Chronicle says a
company has been formed to perfect
two of the Fourchor cotton pickers
and put them in tho field for the
final and thorough test. Organization
was had a few days ago.
Tho stock subscriptions foot np
between $6,000 and $7,000, and
were made by a number of gentlemen
of Augusta in stock-takings of
$250 to $500 each. This preliminary
company socures an interest in
the different patents. If the picker
develops into the success that is hop
ed for It and claimed for it, the further
capitilization for manufacture
of the machine will he quickly proceeded
with.
The plan is to have the Inventor
go to one of the big manufacturles
of the east and perfect and turn out
two pickers. The sum named la
fully ample for that purpose. Every
facility will be provided to enable
Mr. Furcher to manufacture the
pickers. He will leave for the east
in a few days.
One of the best known and one
of the best equipped manufactories
in the country has been arranged
with in which to make the pickers
When the machines are completed
they will bo tried out in the cotton
i'eld and on this practical toit of
the perfected picker will depend the
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I>KAGGHI> TO DKATIJ.
Fatal Accident to a Lancaster County
Farmer.
Mr. A. C. Floe, who lived about
throe in 11 os from the town of Lancaster,
met a horrible death on his
farm Monday afternoon.
Mr. Flo? had finished his day's
work and was returning to his home
riding a mcle with the gear on when
the animal become frightened at a
passing negro, riding a bicycle, and
ran, throwing Mr. Floe from the
mule and catching him in the trace
chain.
In this condition Mr. Floo was
dragged a considerable distance to
his home. The mule continued to
drag the unconscious man through
his yard, relatives being unable to
stop the frightened animal.
Mr. Floo was dead when the mule
was stopped, his head being crushed
and his body badly bruised. He
leaves a wife and nine children, and
was a good citizen.
A BRUTAL CRIME
| A Young Gill Choked to Dsatli
at Rochester by
UNKNOWN PERSONS
The Ilodj of Young Woman Found
Crudely Uunied in Cemetery
Point* to Frightful Murder Which
I lattice I'olico ? Broken Spade
Found Near the Scene CJivee Clue.
There soems to be no doubt but
that Miss Anna Schumaker, the seventeen
year old girl whose body
was found Tuesday morning crudely
burned In Holy Sepulchre cemetery
at Rochester, N. Y., was shocked
and beaten to death, but many of
tho crcum8tances of the crime, even
to the exact place where It was
committed can still be only guessed
at. Although tho authorities be|
lievo they have a clue to tho murder,
namely, broken spade found near the
scene of the deed, who Is gulty of
the crime is a matter of speculation.
For a time suspicion was directed
towards an employee of St. Bernard's
Seminary, which is near the
cemetery, but the seminary authorities
disposed of this In a statemnt.
Some of the people assert that they
have clues that indicate that the
guilty person is not a tramn: that
he is probably now in that city and
that an arrest is probable in a day
or two.
The broken spade was taken from
a pig pen at St. Bernard's, and Its
use lends plusibility to the fact that
the murderer was not unfamiliar
with the locality. It is thought that
probably at twilight or after dark,
he went after the spade, having
dragged the body into the shrubbery,
and with such care as was possible
in the darkness he buried the body
in a shallow trench, covering it with
| earth and leaves.
The autopsy emphaslzs the brutality
of the crime. The body was in
a pitiable condition?the head, face,
chest and arms and hands were covered
with bruises and scratches; the
bone that supports the tongue, the
hyoid was fractured, when the assailant
choked his victim; the body
was covered with blood, and the hair
was full of dirt and leaves, indicating
that the body was dragged
some distance, probably by the feet.
Part of the clothing had been removed.
It would seem that the girl,
who was of vigorous phyisque, made
a desperate struggle to save her
life. The condition of the body
makes it necessary that burial shall
bo at once.
Thn vn 11 r* cr torv\r* ? ^ ^ ~
. uu nuuinu icn uui uume
Saturday morning to place flowers
in the family cemetery and when she
did not return at night her family
became greatly alarmed. A search
was instuted, which was kept up until
the finding of her body Wednesday
by two officers, about a hundred
feet outside of the cemetery limits.
TIIK DRINKING CUP.
They Are the Ready IMspensers of
Disease Germs.
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania's
State commissioner of health,
has issuod a warning against the
public drinking cup. His observation
and investigation have led him
to the conclusion that there are few
agencies more capable of deRsemlnating
disease. He would thereforo
have the people exercise greater care
as regards drinking in public places.
Dr. Dixon says that drinking cups
found in the school, especially in the
country schoolhouso, are ready dispensers
of multitudlous disease
germs. Ho says that no one can estimate
the fatal possibilities of the
drinking glass in tho railroad car,
out of which all sorts and kinds of
people quench their thirst.
Ho believes that still greater danger
attaches to the use of the glass
at tho publio fountain in tho park
and in tho street, which is patronized
by even a greater variety of people
than the glass in a railroad car.
I ur. uixon would Have tho pupils,
the passonger, and tho citizens gon!
erally carry his own drinking cup,
or have cheap paper cups asseslblo
to travelers and townspeople, the
same to be destroyed after being
used.
Dr. Dixon cites Illustrations of tho
dissemination of disease, awful In
their consequence. For instance, at
father contraced tuberculosis from
a glass In a railroad car and communicated
it to the members of his
family all of whom died *>f It. It
were well that such a warning, with
tuich examples slynild bo heeded,
especially as the cost of protection
is so small.
Had to Kill Him.
At Newark, N. J., after a murderous
attack on two keopers in tho
county jail, Angello Caprio, awaiting
trial on the charge of murder, was
shot and instantly killed by a third
keeper, who had come to the rescue
of his comrades. +
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DEADLY POISOnS
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in OUH schools which may j
cause much sickness.
Some Suggestions Invoking to (he
Ilemedying of Thww Conditions bjr
the School Boards.
There appeared in a late number
of Good Housekeeping an arUclo
under the caption, "Deadly Poisons
in our Schools," that contains suggestions
worthy of consideration.
The author portrays an appalling
situation. He reckons the flro peril
as trifling beside the constant cpread
of disease through common drinking
cups and other mediums of infection
found in our schools. Spaoo
will allow only one or two quotations.
He says:
"A cup which had been used in
a high school for several months
without being washed was lined
inside with a thin brownish deposit.
Under the microscope this proved
to be bits of skin and millions of
bacteria. Some of this sediment
was injected under the skin of a
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guinea ^15 tin ix in i u r i y nours mo
pig died. A post mortem examination
revealed that death was due to
the presence of a sufficient number
of pneumonia germs to cause blood
poisoning. A second guinea pig inoculated
with the cup sediment developed
tuberculosis."
Such a condition may be seldom
found, but most likely this is the
rule rather than the exception. Almost.
every school boy and girl is
familiar with the drinking cup with
its "thin brownish lining." Possibly
not more than a dozen schools
in the State have given this matter
a thought and have gone to the
expense of banishing the drinking
cup. I have visited a great many
schools and in nearly all tho water
is poured in open buckets, all tho
children drinking from tho same
nasty tin dipper and often tho bucket
sitting in tho school room by the
hour a recipient of the germ laden
dust.
Such conditions ought not to be.
If we value the lives of our children
we must see to tho sanitary condition
of our schools. Probaly twothirds
of our dangerous epidemics
may be traced to this one infective
medium. Scientists have shown that
the dullness of most children is due
to the presence of some slow wasting
disease brought us by the dreaded
microbe or by lack of proper
nourishment.
How may the condition be remedied?
First, see the Imperative need
of a remedy and awake all the people
to a realization of this need.
Health Hoards, Teachers' Associations,
Women's Clubs and the press
should take up the propaganda. If
at first funds are not sufficient to
put in modern drinking fountains, at
least, throw away the old cup and
require Individual drinking cups.
However, our efforts should not
stop until tho very best fountains
have been installed. There are only
a few of these to bo found in tho
State, at the Julian Mitchell School,
Charleston; the Taylor School, Columbia;
tho Graded School, Hartsville,
and possibly one or two others.
I would suggest that those
interested in their schools vis?it ono
of the theso schools to see how perfectly
sanitary and hygenlc are theso
drinking fountains. There is no
such thing as the drinking water
becoming Infected from tho lips of
the pupils. Thus, the child is less
exposed to pneumonia, dlpthoria,
colds, consumption and other contagious
diseases.
Space will not allow me to discuss
other poisons and how they are
conveyed into tho system of the
children. I will mention only a few
mediums of infection against which
a war should bo waged with unabated
energey: "Second hands books,
chewing gum, dusty rooms, poor
ventilation and loosely fitting
floors." I trust these few words will
servo to remind our school officials
to attend to thse matters before tho
scnools open for another season.
S. W. GARRETT.
Two CJuls Drown.
Misses Rebecca Womack and Ella
Freeman, both between fifteen
and sixteen years of age, and daughters
of prominent men of Havana, I
1 Fla., were drown there Tuesday afternoon
while in swimming in a mill
pond, near their homes. The bodies
were recovered several hours later.
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