The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 23, 1909, Image 3
TALE OFHORROR
Told About Conditions in the Atlanta
Stockade.
TREATED LIKE BEASTS
ItarhaiinuH CondHUins and
RnpvrlnUiidcnt Vliiing la Thor
? -? ? 11 ?..?li.<l.>nu
OtlgfMJ lllt4>lll|M-l<-iii M-Triwt>v?^
<irew Out of tin Indictment of Two
<Mllcorn for floating N'ogro.
"No words cnu express our sur
prise, mortification and disgust at
the unspeakable conditions which exist
at the city stockade."
Such Is the opening sentence, says
the Atlanta Journal of the report
made Friday to Judge Ellis, of the
uperior court by tho November
grand Jury, which sent a committee
out to tho city chain gang 'lhursday
afternoon to Investigate charg
ea which grew out of the alleged unmerciful
beating of negroes by convict
guards.
The committee reports that 100
negro men were found cooped up
in a small poorly ventilated eating
rooir., which had a dirt floor, and
which was absolutely offensive from
filth, expectoration and the odor of
unclean human bodies. The room
where tho white men ate, it Is stated,
wan little better, except that the
floor was of concrete.
The sleeping apartments, it is
charged, are still more horrible,
where masses of human beings were
compelled to lie down on mattresses
which were as ill thy as tilth could
make them. The mattresses were
never cleaned, the blankets were
never washed, and one white convict
declared, it is stated, that he
was compelled to go for 4 4 days
without onco taking off or changing
his clothing. The pants couldn't
have boen taken off, on account of
the shackles. This man stated that
at the end of that time he was full
of vermin.
None of the clothes worn by the [
white or black convicts looked as if
they had ever been washed.
Thero wero no bathing facilities,
no ventilation, no prison discipline,
oo prison rules, declared the grand
I? jury. j
The same conditions existed in
the kitchen where the cooks were
unclean women prisoners. The regular
rations consisted of a piece of
com bread, a piece of fat bacon and
a bucket of molasses in which the
prisoners were free to dip the bread.
The amount was sufficient, but the
food Itself was such that the grand
jury did not see how human beings
could oat it.
There was no adequate hospital
i services. One man was found lying
on a filthy mattress like the rest,
T Buffering from fover, _ presumably
v i J
lypiuiu.
Another who had a gunshot wound
in the breast was wearing such a
vilely dirty shirt over the wound
that infection seemed certain.
The same was true of a man with
ores on his legs.
The modes of punishment, declared
the grand jury, Beenied barbarioni.
The whipping chair was described
at length?a wooden affair
In which the victim la fastened immovable
and then beaten with heavy
straps. One of the strups had met
el rivets near its end, said the report.
Clubs and billies were found
with which it is alleged the prisoners
had been struck.
Two rings were found fastened in
the walls, about six feet high, and
five or six feet apart; to these the
superintendent declared he some
times handcuffed prisoners with their
arms outstretched and their faces
toward the wall. The superintendent
stated to the grand Jury that
h? never continued this punishment
for more than 30 or 40 miuutes, but
the grand jury had reason to believe
that it had been inflicted in certain
eases for the best part of a whole
afternoon.
Bad as these conditions were, the
grand Jury believed some kind of attempt
had been made to Improve
conditions in honor of their vis't
New whitewash had been used, and
they had been informed that the
chains had been taken off certain
women prisoners only the day before.
* The grand Jury declared that the
xtlin>.ltlr,a In nVtararjk nf lh<> ml r\ ci
UVBUI IVIliO IU VMl?? ?V v? v??v w t? xt v
?naming Superintendent I). M. VinIng
specifically?were "entierly inefficient
and thoroughly incompetent,"
and declared that many of th<j
guards were not only incompetent,
but addicted to drink, an in the caac
of Officer Cornett, indicted the daj
before for unmercifully heating n
negro, who had been canned to resign
from the police force way back
f In 1906, because of "drunkennesf
SUBSC
*
WRECKS GALORE
ltAlLKOAI) ACCIDENTS HKDOKTKl>
KHOM AliL ABOUT.
Svvvntl IVi-mius A iv Killul ami
Mauy Ait* Injured n! Diffcivut
IMttcon by Tlioui.
In a collision between a I*ako
Shore passenger train and a switch
engine at Euat 26th street at Cleveland,
Ohio, early Suturduy morning,
three persona wero killed, two probably
fatally hurt and ten others were
i I .1
(JI U lHe'J.
The wrecked train won No. 7.
westbound from New York and cou
neeted at Cleveland with the Big
Pour for St. Louis. The killed and
those fatally injured were members
of the train crew.
The dead:
11. L. Alums. Collinwood, engineer
of the puBsenger train.
Frank S. Wales, fireman of switch
engine.
John Frank, switchman.
Unknown man.
W. J. Burns, engineer of switch
engine.
Fatally injured:
Jacob Can ier, fireman on the passenger
train; scalded.
Two Fatally Injured.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Orlentlal Limited, from Portland.
Oregon, en route to Chicago,
ran Into a broken rail at Western
springs, 111.. zz nines wohi oi t;nicugo,
early Saturday. All of the train
passed bufelly over except the three
rear Pull man sleepers. They were
overturned and ditched. The sleep
era were filled with passengers. Two
women were perhaps fatally injured
A score or more were hurt by Hying
glass.
The train was live hours late and
was endeavoring to make up time. '
One Dead, Two Dying.
One Is dead and two are believed
to be dying as the result of nu ac
cident at a crossing of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Ilurford street,
Canton, Ohio.
William Haas, H9, drayman, was
killed.
Hoss Hurian, with her sknll fractured,
may die; Laura Mohr, aged
IK, has concusiou of the brain and
may die.
Catherine Vail, aged 21, was bruised
and cut, but will recover.
Haas was driving a moving van
and as ho passed the Canton Stamping
Company's plant, the girls, who
were employed there, climbed into
the wagon to ride to the ear line.
A westbound passenger train crashed
Into tlie van at a crossing.
Several Killed.
Fast bound Santa Fo passenger
train? No. 8, the Overland limited,
was wrecked at Fulton, f>5 miles
e^ist of I>as Vegas, ?^rly Saturday
by a broken rail. Several nna
sengers tiro roported killed and many
injured. The train wont over a
steep embankment.
KlIiliKI) HY KXPIjOHIOX.
S|MU*k In Ponder K<?u Caused Wn<ch
of Mine Tenantenl.
Four persons wore killed, 60
made destitute and one was probably
fatally injured, as the result of
an explosion and lire which destroyed
house No. G at the Frost bur*
mine of the Rochester Pittsburg
Coal and Iron Company near 1'uiikHiitawney,
Pa.
A few seconds after the explosion
of a keg of powder, Into which a
spark had accidentally dropped, a
greater quantity of powder exploded
and the two-story building, 7f> feet
long, was torn to pieces. Six families
lived In the building, each with
several children and four or llv*
boarders. *
while on duty."
It was d?*dured that some of the
guards were possibly honest and Intellgent,
hut that they were powerlees
to do any good because they
lacked proper direction. The grand
Jury was disinclined to adopt tin
Idea that lack of money was really
responsible for the conditions, hecause
it found conditions In the stn
hies Infinitely cleAner and more de
cent than in the places where t.hr
human beings were kept "like
i beasts."
, It was recommended that the of
flcial force be reorganized, that a sel
of m laon rule* Go ?hoi
aaii It at Ion be Improved, that hos
pital facilities bo installed, tha<
facilities bo efltabllshod for bathing
and that compulsory bathing be In
aiiKurat(*d; that the convlcta be pro
vlded with clean clothes, and tha
the clothes be washed at proper In
tervuls, and that they be given bet
j ter food. '
RIBE NO
FOUND DEAD
Hat Pin in One, While Other Hangs From
Clothes Line.
TWO AGED SISTERS
| "Fruncw Hung *t 2.1-2 Nut.
Me Two,*' In MeHuugo Written on
Ilox Cover?Hut l*in Wounds
| Found on l?otli Iloillett?Women
MikI Livwl Aloni' Fifteen Yours.
Two ugod spinster stater, Frances
and Isabel Ritchie, were found dead
Sunday In their home In Newark,
N. J.
The sisters had lived quietly and
alone for the puat twenty years in
the same house. Their source of
Income was as mysterious as their
secluded life, but they kept their
house in order and paid their bills
regularly. The older woman, Frances,
was f?C? years old; the stater, a
few years her junior.
Frances was found dead lying on
the floor, while the body of the other
sister dangled from a piece ol
clothes line made fast abo\e the door
leading from the dining room to
the kitchen. The lirst indications
were that Francos had died from
natural causes and that Isable had
hanged herself in a paroxism of
grief. This theory was dispel!)! d
when a small liox was found in the
dining room, on tho cover of which
hud been written these words: Fran
cos hung herself at 2.1-1! Bat. Me,
too."
This load to the belief that the
two old women had curried out a
suicide puet. Frances hanging herself
first, and the body being cut
down by the sister. Hut further investigation
brought, to light more
gruesome details. Underneath her
clothing and sticking in the breast
of Fiances was a hut pin, buried in
the flesh up to its black head. The
pin hud been driven close to the
heart to a depth of about four Inches.
Similar wounds, but not of such
a serious nature were found on the
other body, which leads to the belief
that the sisters may have quarreled
and fought.
Whether Frances deliberately
hanged her sister, then killed herself
with tho hat pin, or whether
the sister found hanging stabled
the other und then ended her life,
will perhaps never be known.
The hands of the body on the floor
were carefully crossed and the head
rested on a sofa cushion.
There Is a possibility that both
were murdered, but the house shows
no trace of huvlnc " ** ' 1 --
...0 ii nin'l l"U It)
Htru ngers.
The woniftn had lived alone since
the death of their mother more than
fifteen years aso, with a large dog
as their sole companion. Recently
the dog died, and since thut time the
women hud been despondent.
The owner of the house which
they occupied, having been unable
to gain admittance since Tuesday
last, notified policemen who forced
entrance. The women wero last
seen alive on Saturday. *
CKNKFS TKSTS TOO HAItl).
Only Fifty-four From South Carolina
Fussed.
Director Durand, of the census
bureau, Friday Informed Representative
Patterson that only F>4 of th 2
applicants in South Carolina who
recently stood examination for
clerkship In the census bureau had
been successful. This covers the
entire State. Mr. Durdan seemed
to think that this Inability to pass
the examination successfully was no
1 reflection on those who attempted
' them, but was more to be accounted
for by mason of the fact that the
questions asked were largely those
dealing with manufacturing and
' kindred matters, about which mau>
persons have little knowledge. It
Is not yet shown whether another*
' opportunity will be given South Cn *
' oIIiiIhuh to try for these places.
1
CONVKHTB FNDKHbO ORDKAL.
Shiver for Thirty Minute* on Wharf
After llapilsm in Frigid Wntm.
A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N.
V., says Charles Walker, of King-i
t ton, Jamaica, has established a new
? religion sect among the colored peo
pie there and Sunday afternoon he
t baptized two converts In the Icy wai
tore of the Hudson. Two converts
- were attired In loose robes and stood
- on the wharf ahlverlng fo" h.'.lf an
t hour after the baptism. A ??nort
- time ago "Klder" Walker baptized
In the Hudson Mis. Pleasant Greene,
* who became violently Insane.
W TO
THE CENSUS REPORT
APPL1CANT8 FOR TUKSK PLACKS
MC8T RK KNIH>KSKL
What Im to 1W> Required of the
Kntiinerntont for ttu) Work That
Will Itogla In the Hpiiug.
United States CenwuH Director Durand
u few days ugo Issued a stauvinont
from WaaliiuKton defining the
qualifications, duties and compensation
of census enumorutora. lie
t H (i nn? of ?>? ? .1
? ? ? ?? v vy 1H7 V* a I 1117 \l U I I*TJJ I LU
ed upon tho supervisors by the census
net Is the designation of suitable
persons to be employed, with the
consent of the director of the census,
uu enumerators within their rt?spectlve
districts. It is further provided
that such persons shall be selected
solely with a view to fitness
and without reference to their political
party atllliatlons.
"Tho census act provides that the
enumeration of population and agriculture
shall begin on April 15, 19 10.
and that each enumerator shall complete
the work required in his dls
trlct within thirty days in the case
of rural districts and small towns,
and within two weeks in the case of
any incorporated city, town, village
or borough which had 8,000 inhabitants
or more under the census of
1 000.
"It is desirable where possible
that the enumerator ahull ltv?? t?? t h??
district he Is to canvass. He should
he familiar with its territory and
lite general character of its people.
"The census requires as enumerators
active, energetic persons of
good address. Yhey must he tlior
oughly trustworthy, honest and of
good habits. They must have at
least ordinary education and bo able
to write plainly and with reasonable
rapidity, in general, preference will
be given to former enumerators if
they ure at present physically able
to peform the duties of the position.
"Each person socking appointment
as census enumerator must make a
written application to the supervisor
for the district of which a resident,
and said application must ho
made throughout in tho handwriting
of the applicant, and must he endorsed
by tv>o representative business
men of the community in which the
applicant resides.
"All applicants for appointment as
enumerators will bo requlroil to take I
an examination, to bo proscribed by
i ho Director of the Census, to doterrnlne
th<>ir tltness for the work. This
examination will be of a practical
character, consisting chiefly or wholly
of the filling out of a sample
schedule of population from data
furnished, and, In the case of enumerators
whoso work will be In rural
districts, the tilling out of a
sample schedule of agriculture.
"Bach applicant Is furnished with
an Illustrative example of the manner
of tilling the imputation schedule
and, In country districts, with a
copy of the agricultural schedule to
which, In the main, the work of the
census enumerators Is confined.
These forms of schedules are (urn
lsned Tor tho Information of th*'
applicant and should be studied and
preserved for use In connection with
the examination referred to lu the
preceding paragraph.
"It will he necessary for each enumerator,
beforo entering upon, his
duties, to receive a commission under
the hand of the supervisor of the
district to which he belongs, and to
make and subscribe an oath or affirmation
that he will faithfully discharge
all the duties required of him
under the law.
"The census act also provides that
an enumerator, after accepting an
appointment and qualifying for the
work, CAn not, 'without Justifiable
cause,' refuse or neglect to perform
the duties of the position; und ho
will further he required to devote
his entire working tlrne to the census
work during the period of the
enumeration.
"The compensation to he paid to j
enumerators Is fixed by the census [
act, and an allowance of not less
than two nor more than four cents
for each inhabitant; not less than
twenty nor more than thirty cents
for each farm reported, and ten
cents for each barn and Inclosure
containing live stock not on farms,
lb provided for all subdivisions
where the Director of the Census
j shall deem such remuneration sufI
flclont. In other sub-dlvislon the
j director may fix a mixed rate of
I not less than one nor more than
J t vo dollars per day, and In addlJ
tlon, an allowance of not less than
j oi.e nor more than three cents for
i each Inhabitant enumerated, and not
( le^s than tlftoen nor more than twcnj
ty rent a for each farm reported,
while ,ln vu^-divisions where per
diem rates are necessary, because of
' the difficulty of the enumeration, the
j enumerators may be allowed, in the
discretion of the director, a comJ
pensatlon of not less than three nor
THE HOI
WHO IS SHE?
.
Norfolk Authorities Unable to Discover
the Identity of
STRANGE YOUNG LADY
Who Attempt**! to < oniinlt Nuleldo
ut h Hotel ut Vtixinla lleaeh on
ljist WtHluofttUy, anil Who Kefuit*
on to lli'venl ller Xumo or l'luee
of ltesiileuee.
Having thaw far Hucconsfully reHisted
every effort to nHcertaln her
ideutly the st lunge young woman
who at Virginia Beach laat week
signed herself " It nth Morton. Chicago,"
prior to attempting suicide,
both by laudanum and shooting, still
lies conscious at St. Vincent's hospital
at Norfolk, Va., with the mystery
surrounding her case as deep
as ever.
Though with three 22-callbre pistol
wounds in her head the girl begun
to improve and Sunday night
it was said that her attending physicians
now believe her recovery to
be quite likely. For the first time
since she was secretly brought to the
hospital Inst Thursday the girl Sun
day agreed to take food. For the
tlrsf time she manifested interest in
her probublo recovery. She had repeatedly
declared she wanted to die
and have buried with her a ninn'.i
handkerchief and a hunch of withered
violets, which she brought with
her to Virginia Beach.
One of the strangest features of
the case is that the police department.
after all the publicity given,
litis not received a single inquiry
from the outside world concerning
the girl. In tin effort to obtain some
clue to her identity a woman wtuSunday
sent to her bedside to ques
lion her. The girl was firm and the
women left without the desired Informal
ion.
Apparently the only possible clue
to her identity is the lau l.iuwm
phial found with the girl marked
"Willow Drug Company, Somervllle,
Mass."
She had destroyed everything by
which she might be identified, even
having cut from her hat the name
of the place where it was bought.
"1 came to Virginia Beach to u'o
because of the remoteness 01 the
place," wrote the girl in the note
she had le.rt, which also told of $25
she had with her to be used 'n h'jr
burial.
FORT LAWN FIRM FA1L8.
IHmj* ill ( Vlit/m I W Ia*
- ? ... BFIIV^ V? I'MHTI
Al Co. to the Wnll.
Papers have been sent to tha
United States Court at Charleston
asking that Mr, J. H. Daniel, of
Fort Dawn, trailing as J. B. Daniel
& Co., be adjudged a banrupt. The
hearing haa been fixed for next Monday,
and the big atore ut Kort Lawn
will l>e cloned at that time. The
proceedings are not in voluntary
form, but will not be contested by
Mr. Daniel.
Mr. Daniel's failure la due to his
selling 1,000 bales of cotton at 10
eents, or figures about like that,
thinking when the staple rose to
be able to get enough off his owu
farm and buy the remainder to complete
his contract, but the continued
rlt-e in the price and the utmost entire
failure of his own crop put him
something like $17,000 to $20,000
to the bad, and he was unable to
meet his obligations.
cigar Ignites Hath llolav
Thomas Valentine Cooper, formerly
collector of the port of Philadelphia,
was burned to death at his
home in Media, Pa., Sunday. While
smoking a cigar in the sitting room
of his home, he either fell aaleop
or suffered a paralytic stroke. Mis
hath robe became ignited and be
was dead Is-fore the flames were discovered
by members of his family. *
more than pix dollars per day of
eight hours actual field work each.
Except In extreme cases, no claim
for mileage or traveling expenses
will he allowed to any enumerator,
arid then only when authority has
been previously granted by the Director
of the Census."
Attention Is also called to the letter
of the President, add i eased to
?,? ~? / ' - -
I me >jvvivi?i; wi *^uiuui?rr,e and i.a'
bor, a ropy of which 1h appended to
the siateinent, <*uieernlng the matter
of political activity on the part
of census supervisors and enumerators.
In accordance with this letter
any enumerator must sever his connection
with any political committee
of which ho may he a member, before
entering on his duties, and
must refrain from political activity
' during his term of employment.
RRY HEI
PRIZE WINNERS
SCHOOLS THAT HAVE MADK
<?KKATH8T IMI'ltOVKMKNTS.
The of the Thirty-I)T? Lucky
School* That Itorctved llit
Award*.
Tbo executive committee of the
School Improvement Association of 0
South Carolina met a few day* ayo
>n.l ....... -.O.-l - -I ?- " '
...... i.nuiuvii |u i6im u) ,\o Hcnooin or
the State allowing lho greatest lmprovomont
during the pa?t yoar. The
prizea given amounted to $2,000.
being ftvo of $100 and ?>0 of $50
The meeting wan hold in the office
of State Superintendent of hldura
tion Swearlngen.
The llr.st prizea of $100 each went
to the following hcIiJooIh: Little
Mountain. Newberry county; Kaatover,
Richland county; Willlngton.
Alibevllle county; Lamar, Darlington
county, and Went Union In Oconee
county.
The second prizea of $.r?0 each
were awarded to the following
count lea: Clyde, Darlington county;
hiehopH Hranch, Anderaon county;
Oreeleyvllle, WilliatuHburg county;
Johnaon, (ieorgetown county: Don
bio Springs, dreenvlllo county; Hickory
drove, Aiken county; lleed*.
dreenvtllo county; Fairview, l>exlnKton
county; Hilda, Rarnwell oounty.
Rough Ilranch, Williamsburg county;
Horry Lot School. FdgeHeld.
Hickory Hill, Orangeburg; Lanes
(Iradcd School, Williamsburg; Ridge
Springs, Newberry; Cameron, Calhoun;
Locuat High School, dreen
vlllo; Karle, Williamsburg; Quarry,
dreenwood ; Friendship, Laurune;
Cedar Swamp. WilliatuHhurg; Poplar.
Orangeburg; Shady drove, Falrlleld;
Union, Laneaatcr; Temperance
Oak drove, Harnwell; dolden Spring,
Cherokee, and Hetheden, Newberry
Ill ltlKI) A L1VK.
Authorities I/ooking Into Mauser nf
Muii'n l>eath.
A special from Antley, Mexico,
saya: In the l>elief that the mas
wan buried alive, and that hlH death
wa? due partly to rough treatment
and asphyxiation, authorities are Investigating
the burial of Salvador
TIJorina. The man wont to a hotel
at a late hour ut night, become violently
ill and whh believed to have
died. His burial followed, It la said,
at the dirtction of the hotel proprietor,
hIx Mexicans who had been
drinking. Interring tin* body. That
| ho waa not dead when removed from
the hotel Ih the belief of the authorities
*
"OORPHK" HAT UP.
lint I>ater KrUpwil and the
i Proceeded.
At Terre Haute, In<l., as ai qb
I dertaker started to prepare the body
I of Edward Murphy for burial, the
supiHwed dead man arose la bed
I and yawned.
"1 feel letter after that loaf
sleep," he said.
Murphy hud been in a state of
oomu for ten hours. He had been
an inval)<Hl for a long time. Hut
I the undertaker soon was recalled.
1 for Murphy really died later, after
joking about his "first death" to the
frightened embalmer.
Zeluya ('able* Taft.
President Zelaya Friday night cabled
a conciliatory messuge to President
Taft, saying that he had shown
his good faith by resigning in order
that Nicaragua might resume friendly
relations with the I'nlted States,
He added that he proposed to leave
tue country hut stood ready to aeI
count for his acts as president. *
Itock Island Train Wrxkrd.
Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman
P. W. Bauer, both of Tucaon,
Ariz., were killed ten persons, mostly
trainmen, seriously Injured, and
thirteen others were cut and bruised
Sunday when an Fast bound
j Itock Island train, operated over the
Southern Pacific tracks, wus wrecked
west of Benson, Aria.
Froze Steamer's Whistle.
News comes from New York that
the weather is so cold up there
that It froze up the whistle of the
| Italian liner Cltta del Messina, ae
cording to the report of her cap
tain. Mem born of the crew, he said,
spent several hours thawing out the
: whittle hy burning oil soaked waste
i under it, before the skip could make
its way up the harl>or at New York.
Postoflire Kobbed.
\ The postofflc? at Short Creek, Ala .
was entered by dynamiters early
one niorniug recently, the safe bloww
open and several hundred dollars tw
money taken. llloodhounds were
scut to the Hoene
IfiLD