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[ AWFUL CRASH Engines and Trains Hurled From Track Into Canyon BY AVALANCHE OF SNOW Fui'tlicr lUMails <?t" 11??* Awful l?is lister That (>v?tw helmed Three l/ocomot i\ev, Two Trains and l our Mleetric Motors on the <?rent Northern I tail way. As further details of the disaster that overwhelmed two Croat Northern passenger trains when an avalanche swept the trains and a portion of the own of Wellington, Wash., at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel, down the niountainslide, are received. the borrow prows. Twenty-three lives are known to have been lost when the mass of enow, loose stones and uprooted trees hurled the cars containing 70 sleeping people over the narrow ledge of the high line down to the bottom of the canyon 200 feet below. When the last reports were rec ived from the scene of the catastrophe, twenty live more persons w re missing. Hesides these a score are seriously injured. Complete lists of tie"1 injured cannot be obtained until rescuers have dug all the bodies out of the wreckage. The lists available tit present contain only t lie names of trainmen killed and injured. The two trains that wore carried away by the great wave of ice and snow were the westbound Spokane Limited and t lie? west bound transContinental Fast Mail. The latter carries no pass* ngers. Most of tlie dead and injured are believed to have been passengers on the Spokane express, forty of whom were on the train at the time of the disaster. Kesides these, thirty workmen. who had been engaged in the battle against the drifts that had been holding the two ill fated trains Imprisoned in the mountains since February 24, were sleeping in the day coaches. The avalanche rolled down the mountain at 4.20 a. m. The two trains, three locomotives, four powerful electric motors, the depot and water tank were swept off the ledge and deposited in a twisted mass of wreckage at the foot of the mountain. The noise from the snow slide, which was a mile long, could he heard throughout the valley, and the superintendent directing the work of the night shift, marshaled his men and hurried to the rescue. Groans and cries for help coming from the jumbled heap of debris at the bottom of the canyon indicated that many persons imprisoned in the wreckage were still alive and the rescuers worked with a feverish haste to release them. As fast as tin* injured people were removed they were taken to the hospital at Scenic, three miles away by mountain trail, but ten when the long winding course of tlln railroad i? fntlowrwl A messenger was despatched at once for help. The first news of tin' disaster was brought by John Wentzell of Wellington. lie staggered into Sky Hoinisb, IS miles front Wellington Tuesday and gasped out his story. "All wiped out," he cried. "Nothing but smooth snow where the tracks stood and the trains were (lumped into the canyon." He was so exhausted from his long fight against the snow that it was several hours before ho could give a coherent story. Hit by hit, Wont/ell's dfejointcd utterances were placed together into a connected narrative. The avalanche came without warning. Wentzell, who was at \V. It. Ballet's hotel, ran out to see the billows of snow settling over the tracks where the train had stood. Later Wont'/.ell saw men carrying women and children from the partly buried coaches which had been carried down the side of the gulch, lie thought that eight women and children were carried out while he looked on. Some of them moaned and he knew, therefore, that they were living. Ballet moved his family back into the tunnel for safety. The hotel, the saloon and the store at Wellington were untouched. rrk.. iiiit - ? ? i in- nine ranroad station was swept away by the edge of the avalanche which had crazed the huddled houses and wrecked the trains standing directly in its path. Messages telling of the disaster were sent to Everett where relief trains hearing physicians, nurses and workers were quickly made up. Owing to previous slides which have blocked the road and swept away portions of the track, the rescue trains can get no farther than Scenic. From there the rescuers have to find a way on foot over the snow. Another train bearing wrecking equipment and carrying undertnkers and more workers left 10v< rett. late Tuesday night. A third train with workmen and provisions enough to last 500 persons { n days, was sent east Wednesday morning. Communication with Scenic is frequently interrupted by glides and it is difficult to get complete details of the disaster. - A SERIOUS CHARGE ? K\TI: ivxmiAM iir.u < ii \iu.i:i> WITH AIJIH'tTIOX. Says Spartanburg Woman Krciinfiilly Askr<| Her to go Away Willi I lor ami Lcail an Kasy Life. Kate l'arhani, a young grass widow, was hound ovor to the higher court at Spartanburg Monday by Magistrate \. II. Kirb.v on the charge of abducting Miss lOthel Johnson, tho HJ-yt ar-old daughter of .Mr. ami Mrs. .1. \V. Johnson who on February 1mysteriously disappeared from her homo at 430 Magnolia street, and was not heard of till a wee|t later, when she wrote home from St. 1/ouis, Mo. The bond was fixed at $-<?<), which was made good by I/. fl\ Kpton. Albert 10. Mill represented the prosecution and C P. Sims tho defendant. The hearing of the case Motidav in magistrate's court attracted a largo crowd. The small court room of Magistrate Kirby could not acc.oiu modate half th.o peoplo that would have liked to have heard the test itnony. Miss Johnson testified that Kate Parham had approached her on several occassions and talked with her about going from place to place and having lots of friends and lots of money. She said she told her how easy it was to live an easy life, with lawyers and doctors and professional men as good friends who would never see her want for anything. rmo saiu in Par nam woman tried to get Iter to go first to Greenville, but that when she refused to go there, fearing her father would g?t her before she could got off, they agreed to go to Asheville. She said she left for Asheville on the morning of the lath, and the Parham woman was to have joined her the next morning. Hoping to escape the Parham woman, she left Asheville at once for Knoxville. At Knoxville she secured an emigrant's ticket to South Dakota and rode as far as St. l/ouis on this. At St. Louis she got work with a good family, and there remained till her father came for her. In her testimony, Miss Johnson said that Kate Parham often tried to get her to meet some of her men friends and to spent the afternoon at Rock Cliff. She admitted that after many times being persuaded in this way she realy did begin to consider such a life as the Parham woman held out beforo her. SENATOR TILIAI.W IMPROVING. Has lleen Advised to Take Another Trip to Ktirope. An incident of the visit of the Charleston delegation of Mayor Rhett, Collector of Port Durant and It. S. Whaley to Washington recently on matters of the battleship was their calling .at the residential quarters of Senator Tillman. The doiogation left their cards, hut aid not see the senator. Thev were inform vi by Mrs. Tillman that the senator was rapidly recovering the use of his limbs and that as soon as he is able to travel he will be taken to a hospital at Atlanta, where ho wiM spend some time before he takes the trip to lOurope, which has been iccommendod by his physicians. May Have to (?ot Moves. Those of us who have no mail bo\? s in front of our residences a"e liable not to receive any mail ai home after June HO, 1 it 1 l. Certainly thev will not if a provision of the I'ostoHico Appropriation bill becomes a law. The provision prohibits any letter carrier from delivering any mali at any house unless thprc is a suitable mail box on the outside to receive it. It means that Uncle Sam is tired of having his uniformed j carriers wait for people to take their J time in answering their door bells. Here it is Again. It is now said that the innocent little postage stamp can easily be made the breeding place of till kinds of deadly microbes if they are not very carefully handled, so the postofllce department has issued the following instructions "Postmasters are directed to instruct posloffice employes who sell postage stamps to hand them to the purchaser in such a manner that the gummed surface will not come in contact with the base of the stamp window." Fatal Mistake. Relieving that he was drinking pure water in a glass handed to him by a druggist of Wodlcy, Oa., T. A. Hall, a prominent and wealthy planter, drank carbolic acid and died a few moments later on Tuhrsday. The names of the passengers who are caught In the avalanche are not known at this time. Men who tired of the delay in the mountain and walked out to Sky llomish say that :>4 passengers remained at Wellington Monday night. Only forty of these slept, on the train, the others staying at the railroad hotel and nearby cottages. DEFENDS COOK Minister to Denmark Believes That the Explorer Was HONEST IN ISIS BELIEF "I Shall llclieve Thai l>r. Cook, the lOvplcror, is an Honest .Man 1" 11til There is Definite I'root' to the J Contrary," Declares Dr. .Maurice r. l^an. "I shall hellevo that Dr. Cook, the explorer, is an honest man until there is definite proof" to the contrary," Dr. .Maurice K. Egan, minister to Denmark, declared to the members of the 1'nlversity club at Washington. I>r. Egan was the first American citi/a n to greet Dr. Cook upon Ills arrival at Copenhagen from his trip in the artlc. The statement followed the explanation by Minister IOgan that the Danish board which passed on Dr. Cook's record's has simply declared that the records furnished them by Dr. Cook were not suflicient to en able them to say be had been to the north pole. lie also explained that letters to hint recently indicate that fully half of the people of Denmark still beli vo that Dr. Cook will prove himself honest. Minister IOgan gave many interesting sidelights on Dr. Cook in the course of his address at the university club, based upon the incidents of the explorer's reception in the Danish capital. The opinion of Longsdale, who acted as Dr. Cook's secretary until the explorer disappeared, was one of the interesting features of the led are. Minister Egan said lie asked Eons- i dale what Dr. Cook's mental condition was when Lonsdale left liiin to < take the records from New York to 1 OoponhagVn. 1 "lie's half mad," Lonsdale said, according to Minister Egan. "lie is possssed with the idea that he is going to be assassinated." Dr. Cook's disappearance followed ' shortly after Lonsdale said he was in tiiis condition. Dr. Egan's talk 011 Dr. Cook was spontaneous. In intrndiirinir Mm speaks, Claude N. llennett, chair- j man of the entertainment committee, referred to the many honors which have come to Dr. Egan as a teacher, a writer, a poet, a Christian layman and a diplomat. 1 "lie forgot one of the attributes, which I tliink I ought to mention," ' remarked Dr. Egan, with a twinkle ' in his eye. "lie ought to have said ' I was the man who discovered Dr. ! Cook." ' Minister Hnan began by announc- 1 ing that lie had no outlined remarks, ' and asked what the members wished * to hear about. "Dr. Cook," came from tbo back 1 of the room. And Dr. Cook became s the subject of the discourse. p Dr. Egan prefaced his account of 1 the reception of Dr. Cook in Copen- ( hagen by an explanation of his own r duties in the premises. As the Anier- s lean minister, he said, he was oblig- c ed to be hospitable to any American f citizen, who came to the Danish cap- (1 itol. To cast doubt on the word of $ any American citizen would have un- >' Amercian, in Dr. Egan's opinion. Af- ? tor news had been received, he said, c ho looked up Dr. Cook's record, fi found that there was nothing against c. i>, m;u no neionged to t sovoral clubs of good standing nncl <> seemed to stand well as an explorer, b And no intimation came to him at 1' the time from any American seient- u ist that Dr. Cook's integrity should ho questioned. li "Not that is would have made any 1; I difference in my course, unless the 1 charge was one that carried proof f with it," he commented. V Upon hearing that the Crown i Prince of Denmark, as president of < the Koyal Geographical Soci? ty, was i to meet the explorer, Minister Kg an i decided to go with the party of rep- f resentatives from the society. i "lie had an honest face, if it i were not clover," commented Dr. Egan, describing his first impression of the explorer. "And he was always very modest." The popular reception given Dr. Cook on the dock was described as a great ovation. Children of Derimark, Dr. lOgan explained, art told stories of north pole expeditions .vast J the same as American children are uiugm tne story of (Jeorge Washing- , ton and the cherry tree. oo the < Danes turned out in hordes to greet i the explorer returning from the north. , "Some one in tho crowd got one of his cuffs," remarked tlie miniiter. . "Then pieces of his clot lies were t >i n off. He was disintegrated by relic hunters, so that his personal appearance became almost improper." r ? + ! Suicide's Queer Request. t That he he burled with his head s six inches lower than his foot was f the single request left in a note by t Richard Howard, prominent among a farmers living near Owensboro,. Ky., t when he ended his life with str.v- a clinino Friday. 11c said he was tired f< of living. it SCENE IN A CHURCH A MAN < lli:\Ti:s KXCITIvM 10NT AN1> IS ICUMOYKI) 11?> Vehemently Objected t?? a Marria?e llccuiisc I??* (ironin Was a divorced Mail. Ilurliek, in Dorchester county, M < 1., has the past wook boon tho scene of much excitement. First it was the arrest of a school teacher and on Friday it was threatened by and on Friday it was threatened by it the marriage of Miss Mag: ie Ford, a young lady of liurlock and Tony Sanders, a divorced man. which look nlaco in the Unity Methodist Protestant church of that town last Tuesday. 'I he church was crowded to its capacity when the lnidal party entered and took their stand before the altar rail to he united in marriage by Rev. (leorgo It. Hooker, pastor of the church. The pastor commenced the ceremony, and had gotten so far as "If any one can show just and lawful cause why these two people should not he joined together, let him now speak or forever hereafter hold his peace," when a man of the Holiness profession, named John Harper, who had come in just behind the; bridal party, rushed up the aisle4 with Bible in hand, reading it and at the same time4 crying out: "Stop it! stop it! lie* is a divorced man! It's against t lie; laws of Hod! You have m> right le> marry him! You arc; violating Hod's law! You will all go to hoM." This he kept up all during tin4 time the4 minister was praying. lie was told to stop. Mr. (leorgo Triee went to him and tried to keep him still, hut could not. # Then tlie preacher ordered him put out. Several went to Trice's assistance, and the man was taken down the aisle, shouting, kicking atjd catching hold of the4 columns to keep from being ruirrieul nut Ptnniiu l>?> ....... I . v ? . . i 11? i j 11 * n (in ^ I ' l It'll out and the marriage ceremony proceeded. He took the same train as Mr. and Mrs. Sanders and went with them as far as Preston, preaching to them all the way, telling them that they would surely go to hell and so forth, as they had violated Clods law. * THICKS OF l AKE OPTICIANS. Press and Legitimate Practitioners Warn Against Them. This State as well as other States that have not passed the Optometry Law, to protect the public are now Infested with scores of traveling opticians, who offer to sell live dollar ?old eye glasses for one dollar. These fakirs either peddle from house to louse or open up in stores in one itv or town after another, generaly remaining in a place from one day .0 four weeks. Big signs and hand hills announcng the Bargains in eye glasses and ipoctacles draw crowds. The trick is described is to tell each customer hat his case is a little peculiar or Liferent from the ordinary so as to equire 'specially ground' lense, intend of the five dollar glasses for me dollar. By this deception, the ake optician succeeds in getting ex rbitant prices often from $10 to 125, and you get no satisfaction for I our cash. When he finite >i innm ;etting too unfriendly to him bo ause of the complaints of dissatis- -1 icd customers, the traveling opti- 1 inn closes his store over night, alios away every thing of value and ' ften leaves a lot of unpaid local ; ' ills and goes to the next stopping ( lace, where he begins all over again ( nder a new name. Twenty-six States of the Union ' lave already passed the Optometry aw, including Xort^h Carolin t and 1 Florida on each side of us, thor-j- ' ore the people of this State is an nsy mark for a traveling fakl-\ it * s to he hoped that the next mediae, ?f our law makers that th?y will ' jrotect the innocent purlic from &u 2h mposition. If such a law is goo 1 1 or so many other Stat?s why would ( t not be good for the grand oM State of South Carolina j Might llavo Boon Serious. Miss Willie TClzy, daughter of Mr. C. lOl/.y, of Denmark, suffered a >ainful .accident late Wednesday af.crnoon while out driving with two ITiends. Th'ough severely bruised tbout the face and side, and having Due finger broken, the young lady's jondition is not serious. The horse which sho was driving became Tightened and ran, but could easily , tiave been controlled lind not one >f the shafts come loose. The buggy vvas turned over and all three of the iccupants thrown out. However, ony Miss 101/.y was hurt. Look Out for the Comet. The comet may be visible to ?be i laked eye in this month at the speed t Is traveling. To locate it, take i be line formed by the two lower i tars of the constellation Arlon an ! ollow it north to a point just above i lie planet Saturn. On that, lino 1 hove and slightly west of Saturn 1 he comet should be found, but not 1 s yet without the aid of at least t our inch glasses. In a few weeks i t wi'.l bo visiblo to the naked eyo. I FIEND LYNCHED Texas Mob Hurled Rapist From Court House Window to Death CHARGES COURT HCl'SE l?'ivo Thousand Citi/.ons of Dallas, l.e<| by Ajied \curt?. Wreak Veil gonncr I'pon Man Accused of Assaulting W hite Child ami Stormed fail Hunting lor Miti'dort'i's, From the very grasp of the law, Allen Brooks, ail aged negro, charged with criminally assaulting a twoyear-old white child, was torn by fifteen determined members of an angry mob of five thousand men at Dallas, Texas, Thursday and hanged for his crime. Brooks was seized in the Court room, where he was to receive the law's justice, tossed through a win| dow to the main body of tho mob, which waited like a pack of ravenous wolves for their prey, in the street below. 11 is broken body was dragged through the streets and he was hanged to tho 1*1 Iks' arch high above the heads of the avenging citizens. The mob was lead by an old negro. With it all hardly a loud word was spoken, not a shot was fired, and above the dull murmurings of the mob could be heard tii? aged negro's trembling shrieks for mercy. After I'.rooks was hanged, for nearly three hours Dallas was in the hands of the mob. The jail was stormed and death thr atoned to three other negroes held on murder charges. "Th *y had been spirited away, however, and after searching for them in vain the mob dispersed. The crime for which Brooks paid the penalty was one of the most brutal in the history of Dallas County. Immediately after his arrest last work the n<yiro was taken out of the city for safekeeping, lie was returned early Thursday morning and taken to tile Court House at daylight to await the calling of his case in the Civil Court. A great crowd had gathered early, and when attorneys for the defendant, who had been appointed by the Court, began arguments in behalf of a postponment of the trial 1 until the next day, rumors started through the crowd that a change of 1 venue had been granted. ' This statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations ,over seen in Dallas County, and the Court f House was charged by the mob. ' Scores of olllcers, hastily summoned, 4 were overpowered, the locked doors of the Court room were wrecked and ( the negro, crouching in a corner praying, was seized by the leaders of the mob. This was in the second-story of the building. Outside the body of the angry crowd was waiting. A rope * was ready with a hangman's knot tied in it and when it was announced from the window that the negro had l)een taken, the rope was thrown s into the room. The noose was placed t about tlio prisoner's neck and he | was pulled and thrown to the ground, t lighting like a tiger for his life. a He struck on the pavement on his t forehead and, it is believed, frac- p kit rod his skull in the fall of about v hirty feet. Instantlv dozens of nwn jumped on him with their feet, and a lis face was kicked into a pulp and fi no was bruised all over, probably b lying within a few minutes. A score t; if men seized the rope, and at the p lead of the mob, dragged the negro's ii jody tw lve blocks up mai l street tn .) lie Mile's arch where it was sus-' f icndod to a supporting telephone N iole. '1 lie police cut the body do \ 11 in ibout fiv minutes. It was taken to lie City Hall and lntl* iui ? 1 ovo; |, o an undertaker. ( After the lynching there * ' tc cri s o the effect that other negro pris- >\ iners in the county jail, esimciailv j two who liavo murder change? pond- j lug against tlieni, Ilurrel Odes and n 'Blubber" Robinson, should bo bang- s ">(1 by the mob ?.lso. s A march was made to the com iy Jail. The sheriff announce i Oct the men wanted we-'> n >t tlmro a: d allowed committees St'orim^ :>y ine . mob to search the prison. Tac negroes could not be found, hut siiil they could not bJ saddled. They battered at the jail door with " a steel rail until an oliicer lire 1 a s blank shot into the ground in front ! of them. A rommtitnu ? vvv <CllllVF?iri? l tho negroes were not in the ja* 1 and ' finally tho mob moved away. It developed that deputy sheriffs had taken tho negroes out of the pity in automobiles and a repor*: i>v 1 wire says they passed through Kort P Worth en route to Weathorford, Tex- '' ns. K The mob announced plans to board 0 i train and pursue the automobiles, R nnd while they were at tho ata- 11 tion making such arrangements a report was started that one of tho negroes wanted was in tho City Hall lock-up. Then the thousands of men n vent to that place, but did not find o lie negro. Hy that time it was laic a n the afternoon and tho mob dis- tt jcrsed. . e V "SHE RUINED MY HOME" a vorxd woman m i iri;i;i:i:i> by a m \kioi:i> man. Tragedy Was Landed t'ndcr Bright Are Light in the Besidential l)is- ' trlet of Louisville, Ivy. At Louisville, K\\, Arthur Miles, a married man, Wednesday night, shot and Instantly killed Bessie Stiif, aged 2 1. under a bright arc light in iho residence district of that city and * t - urn eugageu mi a duel with two policemen, who had boon attracted by the shots, making his escape only to be arrested tit the depot as he was about to board a train. Miles' personal appearance at tho^ depot excited tile suspicion of policemen. He was intoxicated and bis clothing was covered with mad. llo had a number of cartridges in bis hand and a revolver in bis pocket when examined, which gave the odor of having been recently discharged. He was taken to the station and held for drunkenm ss and carrying concealed weapons. It was not until the brother of the dead woman told of an affair between his sister and the prisoner that Miles was connected with tho shooting. Then, though the fact that the woman had died was withheld from him, he made a confession, saying tbey had met on the street and quarreled. "She ruined my home," he said, "and when she wanted my wife to leave town and made ugly remarks about her, I shot her. I don't know what happened after that." Miles' wife, it is said, has been living at Erin, Tenn. He came to Louisville Tuesday. lie had been employed as a shipping cleik in a factory there. Tho dead girl stayed at her sister's home, where she told them she was married. Miles, it is said, has been posing as her husband. Ml'It I >101! El I EOl Nl>. Man Who Slayed Wife in New York liOcated in Mobile. Julius Venner, alias Aloxauder Klein, alias Johnson, was positively identified in Mobile, Ala., as August Peterson, who is alleged to have murdered his wife, Sophie Peterson, in a tenement house in New York on February 7 last, and concealed the body umQer the ?,floor of the place. The identification was made by Johnson, a brother of the woman, who arrived at Mobile Thursday morning, accompanied by Police Serjeant John Wagner, of the New York police department. Johnson or Peterson, as he says is his right name, ifter identification broke down and onfessed to the crime and expressed i i willingness to return to New York M vithout requiring requisition papers. TO GilV10 AWAY MILLIONS. ^ it a ndn I'd Oil King is Seeking Methods of Disposing of His Wealth. A dispatch from Washington says tops were take Friday to incorporate he Rockefelb r Foundation in tlio )istriet of Columbia. The bill for his purpose was introduced by Senior Gallinger and was re for rod to ho eommitteo on judiciary- Tho urposo of tho foundation is to profile for a general organization to conduct philanthropise work along 11 lines. It is understood that tho oundation will bo endowed largely y John 1). Rockefeller and that ho tikes this means to dispose of a lar.o art of his enormous wealth. Tho ncorporators named in the bill are ohn I). Rockefeller, John 1). Rockefeller, Jr., Fred T. dates, Starr J. lurphy and Charles O. lleydt. I- lee From Their Homes. A big lee gorge above Tillln, Ohio, iroke and Mechaniesbur?, tjie facory district is inundated and tho eople are fleeing from their homes, 'he fire department was called out o assist in tfie rescue, using boats o get out many families in tho looded district. For miles to tho outh. farmers are rescuing their tock willi boats. Flood in Ohio \ alleys. At least two dead, many hundreds lomeless, scores of factories preparng to close down and property losses eaching into huniiwi- ' v,na m i nousands ' f dollars?these are the main reults of the Hood which has devasated the State of Ohio during the ast two (lays and which has not et reached its full volume. Seven Miners Killed. Twenty-three miners were killed Mmrsday night by an explosion of a iowdor magazine in the 1.100-foot evol of the Mexican mine, one of the ^ roup of Tread well gold properitles n Douglas Island. Height men were ^yS~ eriously Injured and four of these lay die. Dentil of nil Old Minister. A. J. Stafford, one of the oldest ilnlsters in the South Carolina Methdlst conference, died nt hjs home t Spartanburg Thursday night at pn o'clock, after an illness of sovral weeks.