The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 25, 1909, Image 3
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THREE KILLED"
And Two Injured by an Automobile Jumping
From a Bridge
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WITH WEDDING PARTY
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The Prospective Groom Was Killed
Outright and the Prospective Bride
Was Badly Hurt?The Young
Oouplo llad Kunuwaj' and Was
Hunting Preacher to Marry Them.
An awful automobile accident happened
near Cuthbort, Ga., late Sunday
night, resulting in the instant
death of three men and the probublo
fatal injury of two young ladles.
Curtis Williams, of Fort Gaines, Ga.;
James Shepard* of Edison, Ga.;
Horace Bhepard. of Edison, Ga.,
were killed, and Miss Helene Mattox,
aged 20. Coleman, Ga.; Miss
Mary Mattox, aged 16, of Colemnu,
Ga., are supposed to be fatally injured.
The accident occurred two
miles west of Cuthbert as the party
was returning from that place to
Qoleman.
With the purpose of being married,
James Shopard and Miss llelene
Mattox, accompanied by Horace Shopard,
a brother of the prospective
groom, and MIbs Mary Mattox, a sister
of the bride-to-be, secured an
automobile from Herat's garage at
Fort Gaines, late Sunday afternoon
and were quickly driven to Cuthbert
by Curtis Williams.
Upon reaching that point, all the
ministers of the place refused to
marry the couple on account of their
' youth, neither of them having yet
passed their ewtntleth birthday. After
being unable to secure the services
of a minister the party hastily
left town.
Speeding along at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, and while attempting
to light a cigarette, Chauffeur
Williams lost control of his machine
crossing a thirty foot bridge
over the Central Railway and the
party was dashed to the railroad
track oeiow, me macnino railing upon
Shepard and Williams.
Williams' neck was broken and
death resulted instantly. The twc
Shepards were frightfully injured,
and death resulted in a few moments.
Miss Helene Mattox was severely
bruised and her faco and
arms were badly lacerated. She also
received internal Injuries. Miss Mary
Mattox was terribly injured.
The ladies were removed to o
neighboring farm house. The bodiee
of the three men were carried to
Cuthbert on a hand car. Williams
was 23 years of age and married.
A negro witnessed the accident, and
rushed away to tell the story.
MURDERED BY NKtiltOKS.
A Man Set Upon and I>ono to Death
by Several Thieves.
At Madeline, a station on tho Bennettsville
and Cheraw Railroad, C.
B. Conner, a lumberman, was murdered
Saturday morning by three
negroes, Tom Harrington, Will Harrington
and Rd Davis, all of North
Carolina. Conner, It seems, suspected
Davis of stealing a pistol. When
he went to investigate ho was set
upon by the negroes, who knocked
him down and then fired two shots
in his head. Conner went to Madeline
some months ago from Wllmot,
N. C. He leaves a wife and three
children.
Cook and Peary will both profit by
the little spat they had, as the tax
office receipts will show.
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PATHETIC MESSAGE
BELIEVE IN HIM, THAT IS ALL,
DEAR, <;OI> BLESS YOU.**
A Touching Letter Written to Ills
Wife by a Young Seotcii Miner
Willie Entombed in Cherry Mine.
A Cherry, 111., dispatch says letters
written in their underground prison
by some of the miners rescued alive
came to light in various quarters.
One of the most touching was written
by John Lorrimer to his wife,
Sadie. Lorrimer is a young Scot
from Aryshire, whence he came to
America 10 years ago.
"He just laughs and says he will
go back to the mine when ho is
well," said his wife. "Although I'd
he willing, after what has happened,
to support him myself if he would
only Ret safer work."
As was the case at the homo of
each of the score of men rescued
! allvo, Lorrlmer received in his bedroom
many callers who wished to
congratulate him 011 his escape.
Lorrimer's letter follows:
"I>enr Wife: I am living, although
it is now five o'clock
o'clock on Sunday morning and all
hope is gone as the black damp is
getting the best of us. There is 21
of us all together. Dear wife, don't
grieve. We will meet you. God bless
you. Believe in Him. He will take
care of you. I guess wo will meet
in a better land. When you get over
this let them know at homo (Scotland).
That is all, dear. God bless
i you.
' "Your loving husband."
All of the farewell letters were
I written 011 pages torn from the
timo-book carried by mine boss Walter
Waite. Waito had the only lead
pencil in the group and it was passed
from hand to hand iu order that
all might write.
One instance of the self-sacrifice of
the more sturdy prisoners was related
by Lorrlmer.
"Walczlnski, I think that was his
* name, was sixty years old, and the
L weakest among us," said Lorrlmer.
"Our greatest suffering camo from
thirst, for only thimblefuls could be
1 got from the seepago. Walczlnski
> grew so exhausted that he could" not
' stoop over but had to lie on his face
to drink. wo made lioles In the
ground with our fingers and then
1 . waited for the oozing water to fill
1 them. When water filled a small
holo there was not a man but craved
it madly. Hut the stronger men fre>
quently passed their turns to let tho
old mun drink."
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i bitten by kattleic
Young Girl Htruck by Snake and
Dies in Agony.
Miss Hello Jones, daughter of a
well-to-do farmer living near Amsterdam,
Ga., is dead as tho result of
a rattlesnake bite received in a pasture
near her homo. Tho young
woman stepped upon a log in tho
pasture, when tho snake struck her
between the ankle and the knee.
Tho snake was not killed, as Miss
Jones was alone, and had to pull it
loose from her with her hands, when
she hastened homo for assistance.
The marks of the reptile's fangs
were over three Inches apart, which
shows that It's size must have been
enormous.
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Miss Jones Buffered terrible agony
! for two daya and nights before she
died. Doctors were In attendance
day and night from the time Rhe
was bitten until she died, but without
avail. The tragedy la doeply
, felt by all of her friends and neigh'
bore.
RISE NO
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FORTY SAVED
After Seven Days of Horror Miners Are
Rescued From the Mine
THE MEN COULD NOT SEE
When Brought to Light, After Their
Imprisonment ? (?rvat Rejoicing
Among the Relatives of the Men
When They Are Brought As From
Death to Life.
At two o'clock Saturday afternoon
it was reported that forty men were
alive in tho coal mine at Cherry,
111. Tho men were reached after
a wall of debris had been broken
down. At llrst the men were supposed
to bo dead, but one of them
raised his hand and tho rest were
found to be breathing.
Tho living men wero at once
brought to the hasting shaft and
stimulants wore administered. One
of tho men after being brought to
tho sun light after scve ndays entombment
was only able to mutter
Incoherently. His face was black
from tho amoke and slightly scorched.
It appears that the men after
discovering thoir predicament, walled
themselves iu.
Tho accident In tho St. Faul
mine occurred at 4 p. m. Saturday,
November 13. Tho men taken out
alive at 2 p. m. Saturday were therefore
in the mine 166 hours.
Tho fight against death was led by
Joseph Crescinl. Cresclni was one of
the two men brought up in the cage.
Mo reported between 3 0 and 4 0 other
men alive in the south wing. In
tho darkness where they waited for
seven days in au agony of hunger
and suspense, they lost tract of time,
and thought that today was Sunday.
Hefore reporters could be allowed
personally to interview the men
brought to the surface, doctors ordered
that they tohould bo given
nourishment. This was administered
in tho form of milk diluted with
water and administered in small portions
until their stomaches could retain
it.
The next trip of the cage brought
seven other survivors. They werr
smiling and healthy save for weak
nRriH rill** t n lnrlr r*f fnrvri Vou/u nl
the rescue of these men traveled
with lightuingliko rapidity and tht
change from -despair to hope, whlcl:
swept over the crowd was most dra
matic and impressive.
When Spogatta was led to the din
ing car he fairly ran into the arini
of his wifo and two children. Then
was a? short hysterical torrent o
endearing words poured from her lipt
and then tho mother turned and kiss
ed the feet of tho man who hat
brought him out. Then she pullet
her children down and they perform
ed thov same ceremony of gratitude
The wifo of another man fainted ii
her husband's arms.
At 3:20 o'clock rescuers came t<
the surface and reported that fire hat
temporarily cut off the rescue work
A call for fresh volunteers was is
sued and immediately a scoro of mei
shot downward again. It was be
lloved the ftre would be extinguishet
shortly.
A man Just brought up called on
from the car window that ho believ
ed 150 men wore alive in the oas
shuft.
When tho last man was up, wo
men who had found none they ree
ognlzcd, walked about distractedly
again and again returning to attacl
tho military guard who guarded th<
house.
The lire men were first discover
ed by Superintendent Powell, oi
Hraceville, III. When the men wen
n-uciiru, mune wore mixing ana jok
ing, apparently mentally affected bj
their long Imprisonment.
William Cleland was reacued bj
Robert, his own brother, who car
rtod the man to the surface withoui
recognising who he was. *
Ooold Hot Deliver Cotton.
Shannon & Hope, of Sharon, ir
York county, a large mercantile flrrr
of that place. It is stated that the
firm on the strength of buying con
tracts with neighboring farmers, sold
several hundred bales of cotton foi
fall delivery and that the farmers
with whom the oontracts were mad'
refused to bring In the cotton, henct
the firm's loss and the present ac
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Mricken With Pellagra.
At Baltimore. Md.. Mrs. Williair
II. Reynolds, of Tallahassee, Fla.
principal of tho Florida Woraen'f
college and wife of a former comp
troller of the State of Florida, waf
stricken at St. Agnes hospital ThurH
day, suffering with pellagra, accord
log to the physicians. *
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FINDING THE DEAD
FIRST HOD1KS BROUGHT UI? FBI- ,
DAY OUT OF THK MINKS.
Go# Kxploaioiix Continue, Which
Alarm the Rescuers luid Impede*
Their Work of Ix>ve.
A dispatch from Cherry, 111., says ,
the dark tomb of the Cherry mines
has been conquered. After an allnight
battlo in clearing the shafts
of the burning mine, three bodies,
the llrst recovered through the main
shaft, were brought to the surface at
8 o'clock Saturday morning.
Inspcctators and geological experts,
while penetrating the dismal ]
depths, lighting tho smouldering lire ,
in the coal veins, caught sight of ,
piles of other charred bodies, but
their passago was hampered by lire. 1
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning a
group of miners and railroad men
entered tho mine, working without
oxygen helmets, but thoro was no '
suffering from noxious gas. Strug- 1
gling through tho dark tomb, i
the llremen discovered in the second 1
vein a pile of bodies, from which
threo were recovered. 1
The east portion of tho gallery,
where the liro originated, is badly
caved in. The west portion of the
gallery is still alire, but llremen
with hose got within HO feet of the
vein.
Fireman O'Connor and many other
llremen from Chicago, lighting the
underground flames, emerged from
the main shaft declaring that they
' believed that tho fire would be extinguished
before many hours. They
saw many pilos of human bodies
, buried in the wreckage of the gallery
running from tho main shaft
to tho air vent. They also saw bodies
lying in heaps in tho west vein
; where the lire is still raging.
Mine Inspector Taylor, who Thursday
declared that ho would enter
' tho mine or dio In tho attempt, spent
tho night in tho initio, and gavo a
gruesomo account of tho pilos of human
bodies sighted, hut impossible
1 to reach. Inspector Taylor sent
workmen Into tho mine to repair
1 the east vein, tho approach timbers
having burned.
1 Another body of volunteers was
sent later today Into the miaies. On
the second trip of tho cage, four
other bodies, one thnt of a boy,
were brought to tho surface. An
ambulance, guarded by militiamen,
* was followed by crowds to tho town
hall, a temporary morgue.
Here scores of grief-stricken, sobbing
widows sought to identify the
bodies as their own husbands, but
tho condition of tho bodies rendered
identification difficult.
Crowds of grief-stricken men, women
and children formed a great
' circle about the bodies brought from
the mines. Many turned away, unable
to bear the cries of the bereaved
wives and mothers. Three bodies
were identified: Richard Ruckles, a
stable boy; Louis Gibbs, George MoMullen.
Tho condition of the bodies
recovered indicates that tho men died
from suffocation the first day of ir.v
prisonment. *
BLIND JUSTICE.
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^ White Man Found Guilty for Killj
ing Negro Woman.
At Spartanburg Thomas Badgott,
white, who shot and killed Zerkena
" Suber, colored, two weeks ago, was
found guilty of manslaughter, tho
Jury returning a verdict Thursday
morning, after being out all night.
The defence claimed tho killing was
' accidental. A statement made by tlfe
c woman beforo her death stating that
* the shooting was accidontal was admitted
In evidence. Badgott is well
" known in Spartanburg and Laurens
counties. Ho is an expert bookkeeper
and a fine business man. His
friends rogrot his trouble very much.
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house.
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I" Victim of Football.
, A dispatch from Richmond, Va.,
says sympathetic sorrow pervaded
tho city for tho mother and family
of Archer Christian, tho eightoen1
year-old halfback of tho University
i of Virginia football team, who, dur*
ing the gamo at Washington on Sat
urday between tho 'varsity and
1 Georgetown University, was fatally
* Injured in a mass play during tho
? last five minutes of game, and died
j twelve hours lator in a hospital.
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Froze to lteath.
1 Cleveland Andrews, a whlto man,
aged 2 4 voars. was found frozon tn
death in a small skiff on the Ocmuli
gee river near Macon, Ga., Friday
, morning. Thursday he wont down
i the river hunting with a man named
Will Bass a nd whon they returned
* to the c ty he would not leave the
* boat. It was testified at the coro
ner's inquest that he had been drink*
ing heavily.
THE HO
UNCLE SAM MAD
WiD Demand Reparation if Things Are
As Represented
WILL PUNISH DAGOS
The United States Will ?t Once !>< maiid
Iteparntiou From the Viraragutui
Government For the Death
of the Two Americans Shot There
Last Week.
Following a conference with the
president at the Whito House Sun
Jay night on the Nlcaraguan situuation,
Secretary of State Knox authorized
the following statement:
"If certain representations of facts
which have boon made to the State
Department concerning the Groco
and Cannon case are verified by inquiries
that have been made, this
government will at once prepare a
demand on the Nicaraguan government
for reparation for the death
of those two men."
It was announced that neither
the Secretary nor the White Uouho
would discuss in any way the pending
difficulty with Nicaragua, and
both the president and Mr. Knox refused
flatly to make any comment on
their tnlk. The only other event
of Importance that transpired during
the day was the dispatch of orders
to the transport Huffalo, on
duty on the Pacific const, to sail
at once for Panama, from Pinehlinquo
bay, California, after taking on
adequate supplies of coal and provisions.
This ordering of the Huffalo south
on hurry-up schedule is taken to
mean that this government Is making
ready to throw a column of
United States marines into the Nicaraguan
turmoil for the protection
of American lives and property.
While the five hundred marines are
scattered generally over the canal
zone they can be concentrated by
means of the railroad quickly at
Panama, whore there are military
stores and supplies.
Any expedition against Nicaragua
In which the marines figuro would
ho undertaken on the PnelAc aide of
the isthums. Tho Buffalo would
land the men at tho port of Corlnto,
which in a abort forty miles from
Managua. The authorities Insist that
tho dispatch of the Buffalo is not
to be accepted as meaning that an
expedition is to be launched against
the Zelayan government, but that
the vessel is ordered in order to be
in readiness should occasion sud- |
denly arise.
The Buffalo carries six guns, is of
6,8 8 8 tons burden and her engines
develop 3,600 horsepower. Tho vessel
will be driven at top speed to
Panama whero oh hor arrival her
commander has been instructed to
rei>ort immediately to Washington.
POLITE RUBE HAVKS ItUKOLAK.
Hhnkes Hands With Iutciide<J VlctJirf,
Apologi/<? and Escapes.
Allen Douglass, son of E. T. Douglass,
general manager of the Westorn
Transit Company, was so dumbfounded
when a burglar faced him in his
home a few days ago in Buffalo, N.
Y., that ho shook hands with him
and watched him Jump through a
window and escape from the roof of
a voranda, powerless to raise an
alarm.
"i didn't realize that the man waa
a burglar until he waa gono," said
young I)ouglu6a. "I waa intensely Inter
estod in a book when I heard a
noise and, looking up, flaw tho man.
He extended his hand courteously
and I graepod it and ahook it.'
"I'm looking for my sister, old
pal, but I guees she isn't here," ho
said, and apologizing for his intrusion,
Jumped out tho window. Tho
burglar got nothing.
Down on Big Hats.
Calling for co-operation on tho
part of tho woman of other churches,
tho South Carolina Baptist Woman's
Missionary Union at Greenwood
launched a movement designed
tc put a stop to the woaring of big
hats in ehurch. The resolution dononnciug
the peaoh-hasket and merry
widow 8tyle8 of headi??mr tnr
Sunday wear waa passed and amid
great enthusiasm. *
Football Victims.
Football has claimed a toll of
thirty lives and 218 injuries during
the pceaent season, according to figurea
compiled by the Chicago RecordHerald.
This is the largest number
of deaths recorded in nino years,
according to tho Record-IIerald
figures, which have been kept since
1901.
RSY HEI
FIRE ON POSSE
UNRULY BLACKS WOUND NINE
MKMHKHH OF POS8K.
Shooting Stirs People of Town But
Anger Dies Down?One Man Was
Arrested.
Following two days of tense excitoment.
with a race riot of serious
proportions threatened, as a result of
the wholesales wounding of a deputy
sheriff's posse by drunken negroes
in the eastern section of tho city
of Union, S. C.. Saturday night, quiet
again prevails, and tho officials
of that town bolievo they have tho
situation in hand.
The negroes who did the shooting
mane ineir escape and this probably
acrountfl for the fact that further disorders
woro not rocordod later.
Late Monday afternoon ono of the
negroes charged with the shooting
was arrested and lodged In Jail.
Three others for whom warrants
wore issued have not been apprehended.
Following repeated efforts on the
part of Deputy Sheriff A. S. McCool
to put a stop to the noisy revelry at
a negro "frolic" Saturday, ho, with a
party of citizens, started for the
house occupied by the negroes. The
latter opened lire with shotguns,
wounding nine members of the officers'
force, including the deputy
sheriff, who received wouuds in each
leg.
The others wounded were W. A.
Dye, two loads of shot in chest and
face; Boyd Harris, shot in legs; Herbert
Brandon, shot in faco and body;
II. L. Timmons, shot in legs; Rudolph
Lowe, both legs peppered with
shot; Earl Boiling, shot in l>ody;
Albert Wright, body peppered with
shot; Grady Reynolds, shot in head
and body.
One negro was found near the
house seriously wounded. It is said
that he got within range of his companion's
shots when the attack was
made upon the ofllcers.
Hherlff G. G. Long was summoned
and immediately went to tho scene
with II nON?44* nrmoH riinuotln?
rifles. The negroes had fled, however,
and the sheriff and hla men
directed their attention to a systematic
search of the negro section for
the guilty ones, but without result.
A large quantity of whiskey was
found in the house occupiod by the
negroes. Later the wounded negro
was found by the officers near the
house, where he had crawled after his
companions fled.
Dye is the most seriously wounded
of the posse, but it is ot thought
his wounds will provu fatal. Eightythree
shot were removed from his
body.
HWINDLKK IN KAMTOVK1L
Hevoral Persons There Were ('aught
by Ills Game.
A dispatch from Eastover to The
State says for the past fow days
there has been a swindler in the
community. A white man has been.
cunv??Pln# tlftO Gauntry under the
name of agent for a certain sick
benefit society. Ho would approach
a porson, generally a negro, and Interest
him in the subject. Then he
would win his point by saying, "You
know Mr. T. H. Auld of Eastover,
don't you? Well, he Is gonoral agent
for the company In all this lower
Richland county. Now you give mo
$1 and I'll glvo you my receipt and
you take it to Mr. Auld and he'll
issue you the policy."
Severul persons fell for this game
and now are bemoaning tho loss of
their dollars.
Dying Man Left Note.
" Apflfloiltlll atlnnAil n r\ A "
..WV?V?4> kMIKF,,'u UMU 1 was
the contents of a note found
Sunday In the dense thicket beside
the body of I. B. Borland, aged GO
years, former county treasurer and
a prominent politician of Krankltn,
Pa., who has boon missing from
i home since Friday. A wound in the
left leg caused Borland to bloed to
death, according to the coronor. The
accident was the result of a hunting
trip.
Naval Cadet Fired.
The Secretary of the Navy has
approved the recommendation of the
superintendent of the Naval Academy
for the dismissal of Cadet John P.
Ilyraan, of South Carolina. General
inaptitude, which has caused seven
other cadets to leave the Academy
this year. Is the cause of the dismissal
of Ilyman.
Killed About Lynching.
At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry
Small, a aegro shot and killed William
Pope, one of the negro soldiers
discharged from the United 8tate<!
itrmy nrtor the ^'shooting up* oC
nrownsvillo, Toxaa. The shooting
followed argument over the lynching
there last week of Will James,
the negro accused of the murder ofl
Miss Annie Pelley.
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