The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 10, 1910, Image 6
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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.
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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.
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A SERIOUS CHARGE
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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."
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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
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"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.