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A Jijf&'^fM and sa\ A and hca MANY ARE DEAD Death Claims Heavy Toll in a Terrible Railroad Wreck in Iowa. TENDER JUMPED TRACK Scenes of Indescribable Horror Pre son tod by Wreck of llock Island Train.?Without "Warning, Passengers Hurled Into Eternity.? Forty Five Dead, Forty Injured. The wreck at 8:15 a. m. Monday at Green Mountain of Trains lsTos. 19 and 21 of the Rock Island, running over the Great Western from Marshalltown to Waterloo, has proven the most disastrous in the history of the Iowa raildoad catastrophes. Forty-two are known to be dead, twenty-six of whom have been iden/ tided. Forty were injured, some of them fatally. The unidentified dead are in the undertaking shops at Marshalltown, many so horribly mangled that identification may be impossible. Practically all of the dead and injured were from Iowa and South Dakota. A 1 Utile freight wreck on the Rock Island Sunday night, at Shelbury, in which Brakeman Reynolds of Cedar Rapids, was killed and Fireman, also of Cedar Rapids, was possibly fatally \ Boalded, was the indirect cause of the Green Mountain tragedy. ^ The Rock Island track from Cedar Rapids north, the St. Paul line, had not been cleared Monday morning, and it became necessary to detour over the Great Western. Trains Nos. 19 and 21 were sent from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown, while train 419, for Sioux Falls, followed shortly after, escaping the wreck. At Marshalltown Trains 19 and 2 1 were coupled together as they came in By this arrangement both engines WUIU ill iiuih i mining uciiy iv w ci i vio? The ill-fated train consisted of 13 iv ^ cars. "The Pullman Colonial," at the rear of Train No. 31, from St. Louis, was leading the train next to Engine No. 1,008. Then came a smoker, and following that a day coach, in which there were many women and children. The train left Marshalltown shortly after 8 o'clock. It was going at a speed estimated to be between 25 and 30 miles an hour. About four and a half miles beyond Green Mountain, at the top of a hill is a cut about twelve feet deep. It was in that the tender on the leading engine suddenly jumped the track. This threw the head locomotive into the side of the cut. The clay of the. sides was soft and the engine went into it and stopped instantly. The sudden stoppage ditched the second locomotive and the heavy train crushed the day coach and smoker upon the Pullman. The Pullman and day coach were instantly telescoped and hardly an occupant of either car escaped death or injury. W In the twinkling of an eye all was In Indescribable confusion. While th<^ final ten cars of the train remained on the track, the shock was sufficient to send, the passengers sprawling from their seats. Conductor William Worst, on the St. Paul train, was the first to grasp the situation. He dispatched trainmen back to flag train 419, while trainmen were hurried to Gladbrook and Green Mountain. U. The uninjured passengers recovered sufficiently to begin the work of removing the dead ami injured. The dead were taken to an adjoining pasture and laid out on the ground. The relief train from Marshalltown, carrying surgeons and Coroner K. W. Jay, was two hours In arriving and by that time the victims were laid in gruesome rows. The sight that met the eyes of the surgeons was beyond description. The dead were crushed and mutilated in many cases beyond recognition. ii*?i n i *- ? - ?? - hot biscuit, a hot breads, s $sm pastry, are g Iw lessened in cost Kg Iv>' and increased 1 in quality and el / ivholesomeness, 1 f by | W. a a n I Powderj| s food at home .#11 3^S Head8 were severed from bodies, arms and logs were cut off. Here lay a bleeding trunk. There a head with a ghastly agony of death still upon the countenance of tli-ei unfortunate victim. Coroner 10. W. Jay, himself a surgeon, was hastening in a Rod Cross ambulance to the hospital, when he was thrown to the pavement as the ambulance rounded a corner and was rendered unconscious. It is believed that his back is broken, and that he cannot live. C. W. Moier, of Walla Walla, Wash., was in a lower berth in one of the Pullman coaches nearest the rear of the train. "I did not realize it was a wreck," said he. "It sounded as though a mnn lind tirninn a ?1>? ....... ...... ...lunii u ui n.rv VI11 lilt..' floor. The car I was in was well back. In front of it were the mail and baggage cars. Ahead of these the smoker and a Pullman. I looked out and saw the engine overturn before I realized it. It did not feel like a wreck. I saw some terrible things. One man had his head completely cut off above the eyes. "Another man had been driven, head first, into a window. The glass was broken and was cutting him where his head rested on the sill and under all that awful weight above. Ho screamed and cried for some one to kill him. I found/a stick and broke the glass under his cheek, where it lay on the sill, and the man's lower jaw, with the bone about pleading for us to rescue his son. He was badly hurt himself, but he pleaded and wept for aid to bring his son out of the debris. I saw the son later, when he was brought out. He was cut entirely in two. We had the mangled remains kept away from the father and let and five or six teeth in it fell 011 the ground at my feet. "There was an old man running the old man believe his son was still in the wreck." Miss Mae Hoffman of Waterloo, accounted to be the most beautiful woman in Waterloo, was in the wreck. She was one of a party of three couples who were starting out on a pleasure trip. Sim was horribly crushed and mangled. Several month ago she took third pnze in a national beauty contest, anil recently won a prize as a stenographer in competition. VICKY MYSTUKIOI S AFFAIIt A Youg W hite Hoy ImmiimI Dying Chit Into Shreds. Hying in a pool of his own blood, Clary Brockman, 12 years old, at midnight Saturday was found unconscious in an old school house near Greer in Greenville county. The boy was cut almost into shreds. He hits not regained consciousness and has little chance of suriving his terrible injuries. He was slashed almost into pieces by some unknown fiend and left on the floor of the deserted building, his young life-blood ebbing away through a score of deep gashes. There is no trace of the criminal. Every circumstance of the crime is shrouded ill m VHtnri' ...J ,, . 1 IIVI ly- is IIWI, conjecture as to the cause of the bloody deed. The time ami manner of its happening are known to but two persons, the dying victim and his brutal assailant. Gary Brockman's lips never will reveal the secret, and so far tlie bloodhounds which were taken to the scene have found themselves hopelessly at fault. Gary Brockman is a son of J. H. Hrockman, who lives near Greer in Gneenville county' 1 I After White Slaves. The American consulate in Antwerp is engaged in an attempt to trace two New York white slave importers, who are hoi loved to have shipped 90 women from Paris on outgoing steamers. British and coni tinental ports are helng watch<ed, and the American and Canadian authorities have been notified to scrutinize closely all incoming passengers. * I VERY SMALL CLEW IiEI) TO THE OARTFRE OF TWO TRAIN ROBBERS. They Were Tnu'cil by an Old llat | Which They llad Stolen From a Oar Years Before. The two bandits who recently hold up and robbed a fast mail train on the Missouri Pacific road, near lOureka, Mo., have h< en captured and | are now in jail at St. Ixiuis, each , held in default of $20,000 bail, and ( it is probable that each will get a , prison sentence exten ling over the , rest of his natural life. hill Lowe and (i orgo Kberling are the two ( men who participated in the hold-up, , and it is the story of their carelessness in leaving an old slouch hat laying around that finally led to the capture. The train robbers, under cover of ( revolvers, compelled the engineer and firemen of the train to detach the two mail cars and run them up the track for a mile and then get out of the engine cab and walk back to the rest of the crew. Then the robbers ran the train about five miles further up the track, where they colly looted the two cars. The post oflico authorities detailed Inspector Perkins on the job, and, after looking over the ground and the clews, he decided that an old, gray, felt hat, left near tin* soone of tin? robbery, was the best one to follow. In tracing the hat's owner, he discovered that it had been stolen with a lot of other loot from a freight car robbed in St. Louis some months before. The next move was to got a line on the suspects at the time the hat was stolen, and who might have stolen it from the freight car. In looking up these worthies the inspector was impressed by the rather dubious antecedents of one Jim Lowe, who had been employed by the Missouri. Kansas and Texas road at t'-.e time ot the robbery. The inspector was still further impressed with the fact that Jim had a brother Bill, who some 11 years before had been connected with the younger Jesse James in the ? hold-up of a train. Inquiry respecting Bill Lowe showed him as being for the moment engaged in the sale of mining stock, with an ( ofllce in the Granite building, in St. Louis, and as ostensibly reformed and conducting an honest and legiti- , mate business. , However, the inspector savs, a sort of Peeling crept into his nuind , that as Bill had the nerve to hold ( up a train 1 1 years before, he might , be tempted to try the old trick over again. At any rate, the inspector , found that Bill was in St. Louis and i handy for the job about the time of the robbery. furthermore Bill had been an engine driver and in a pinch could have : done just as one of the robbers did in running five miles up (he track with the mail cars at Eureka. And then if in the latter job might he not have worn the old hat found at the scene of the holdup, and further more might not his brother Jim have given it to him, after all? Then the developments came quick and surprising, indicating the inspectors line of logic to have been well founded. A quiet search of Jim Lowe's home resulted in the finding of the goods stolen at the same time the old gray hat was taken from the freight car. Then Jim was asked to explain and upon being shown th'* hat after awhile hesitatingly admit ted that it was "one that had been given to him by a friend" about a year ago, and which he later gave to bis brother Bill. Then, the inspector says, all was plain sailing in the matter of running down tlo robbers. * QIITS KANSAS CITY. Lillis of Recent Notoriety Exiles Himself. .Tern T.nilo m. . oiiiia, JMUOIUCIll, UI l IIG Western Exchange bank of Kansas City, who was arracked l)y John P. Cudahy three weeks ago in Cudahy's h/ouse, left Wednesday on an indeflnite vacation, but his designation is not known by the public. Ordered by his physician to take a long rest. Li I lis may go abroad before returning to Kansas City. He has not resigned as president of the bank. A friend of Liliis was asked if the banker did not expect to meet Cudahy in the South, but this friend denied this was the purposo of Mr. Liliis' trip. Cudahy recently was in Asheville, N. C. Simmons Guilty Again. At Anderson Webb Simmons, a young mill operative, was found on Wednesday guilty of the murder of United States Deputy McAdams and was recommended to the mercy of the court. Simmons killed McAdams > in February, 1008, and was senteni ced to hang last July. A new trial i was granted on the ground that a i member of tha cmr?a c-> M>AU Jill J II cm UA" pressed his opinion on the killing. I A popular melody for the bogln5 ning of the gardening season, "Lay 1 ; down the shovel and the hoe." AIKEN MAN GONE WITH WITF/S SISTKK TO IWltTS UNKNOWN. Kvidenco Indicates that the Young| I.mly Was Afraid of the Man and Was I'tHTcd to (i?. A dispatch from Aiken to The Augusta Chronicle says CJvoernor Ansel has offered a reward of $100 for the arrest ami conviction of Augustus Weeks, wanted in that county for the desertion of his wife and hilden, and eloping with the sister 3f his wife. On Saturday, March f?th, Weeks disappeared from his home, and on the same day, the young ladv, who started to the home of 'her brother 11 Trenton disappeared, and neither have been heard from since. The family of the young lady have also offered a reward of $200. The relatives of the lady maintain that she was drugged, and forced away with Weeks. On the afternoon mentioned, the lady's brother, Mr. John Wright brought her to the city to go to the home of another brother at Trenton, to visit for a few days. Weeks went to Aiken with them, and was to remain there, while she and her brother went to Graniteville to catch the train, the brother Intending to refill n and carry Weeks back home. When he returned from Graniteville Weeks was no will ere to be found and nresnmtntr llml lm 1?<>/1 .-? > 1.,,..... r ? V n\ HUM v/ll JlUIlir, Mr. Wrieht returned without him, only to Unci that he had not gone home. Mr. Wright became uneasy, and remembered that his sister had all most insisted on his accompanying her to Trenton, the reason for which request he did not know, but now believes that she feared that Weeks would intercept her. He communicated with his brother at Trenton and found that she had not reached there, though he had put her on the train. Later he ascertain that Weeks had secured a horse and gone to Vaueluse. where he boarded the same train his sister was on. This was the last to be heard from him. Mr. Wright and his brothers have hunted the country for a trace of their sister, but knothing has been hoard from them. All nearby cities have been notified to arrest Weeks if found. It is stated that Weeks attempted to get a certain prescription tilled recently at I)r. Burnett's at Graniteville. Dr. Burnett refused to till the prescription. Weeks it believed to have desired this prescription for the purpose of "doping" the young Indv Tho pUrl io ?"! ' * ? . ..v< {-) to \J IJ I Jf (V IJU lie 1 O /ears of age, and is a charming young lady. Weeks was marrikd to her slder sister and has two children. Weeks is a member of a very prominent family?one of (he best In the county, as is also Weeks' wife and (lie girl he is believed to have run away with. Her brothers are all prominent farmers, and are numbered among the best people of the county. Weeks' wife is quoted as saying that she believes that he once attempted to poison her. It appears that Weeks had prepared to leave the section. Some weeks ago be sold his plantation and mortgaged practically all of his property. Some days ago he drew all the money he had in the k ink. SLAIN IN ISOLATED IIOl'SH. The llody of a Kanclicr bound Horribly Mutilated. The finding of the body of David WII mot Dwyer, son of a wealthy family, in an isolated ranch house in the mountains, gave the sheriff of Los Angeles, Cal., a mystery to solve. The body was terribly mutilated and though relatives of Dwyer say they were convinced it was a case of suicide, detectives are seeking fe. murder clues. A charge of shot had taken out a portion of the man's left side. The throat was slashed three times and huge gashes were found all over the body. On the arms and legs great crosses were carved and some sharp instrument had left fantastic designs in the flesh above the breast. Dwyer, who was 117 years old and married, owned the ranch and i.vel there. The room in which the body lay showed no evidence of a struggle. Dwyer had been dead ab?. ut 21 hours. Relatives of the dead man said that he and his father in>d cecome estranged sometime ago. Dies from Drug. At Pellam, Ga., the wife of R. W. .Tones died from tho effects of carbolic acid, taken with suicidal intent. The cause attributed is ill health. Mr. Jones is a large and wealthy planter of Grady county, and is tho 'lrnttnip A T T -- - ? ^ wi f\, 1. .IDIICK, it IIIOIIlber of the Legislature. Mrs. Jones leaves n husband and three children. Made Sick Hull Drunk. Wishing to cure his prize bull of pneumonia, Philip Jones, of Green Castle, Ind., gave half a pint of whiskey. The stuff must have been of the fighting kind for taurns went on a rampage and came near killing his owner and hutting his own brains out before he got off his "spree." t* Bank of CXKNWA ^ Capital Stock ? I)r|M>sit*i m|| Total Assoc* fIS $ ,miKi m J. A. McDormott, .1 it T. McNeill, B. G. C tlebaum, Hal. L. I <e fjiy The oldest Hank in Hon / > olina. AHsociali'd with, the ru /IV |>a?t (Iccadc. Our. policy the "Independent ltepuhlie." 'My to our customers every . reas? (hS tent willi sound hanking. We /IV *ls, firms and corporations. MS I). A. HI'I V10 Y, $ Vice-1'resident. BANK OF Conwa ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHO I.DKRS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS 1)1 KMC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George .1. Holiday, Wocouliuue to jay 5 per cent intcre it youraccount ROHKUT H. BCAHBOHOUC.H, H Pit KB I DENT. GETS OFF EASY ! MAX WHO KIM.IOH HTIUOT IM50PL10 SOON TO IUO IIUOIO. On the Slightest Provocation He Killed IIis Wife's Grandfather and I His Two Sons. The doors of the state penitentiary at Columbia, S. C., will soon open and free "Hob" Jones, whose criiw, trial, and conviction 25 years ago created such a furore. Following a trival dispute, Jones killed his wife's aged grandfather, A. Pressley, and two other near relatives. It was one of the most brutal crimes in the criminal historp of the South, and it was only after six years' legal battle that he was sentenced to the penitentiary to H' rve a term of 20 years for his deed. That oJnes did not hang was duo to the fact that ins resources at the time of the triple murder were ample for him to im tain a corps of the ablest lawyers in the state, who saved his neck and got him off with a 20 years' sentence. One frosty morning in November, 1885, the Pressleys, the old man and liis three sons went out to plant some oats, Charley and Fd the elder sons, plowed the furrows and the old man dropped the seed. Then Jones cames on the so lie. it is said he thought they were using more of the land than they were entitled to. When Jones say the Pressbys ho did not indicate his murderous intent ions. Without warning ho walked to within a few feet of Charles Pressley, called him by name and when Pressley turned around to meet him. fired a load of shot into his stomach, killing him instantly. Then Jones ran and ICd Pressley ran after him. ICd was unarmed There was method in Joiifs' fight. As soon as he saw that they were alone and far away from possible aid Jones stopped and, turning back, ran into Pressley, driving a long-bladed knife into his vitals, Pressley dropped dead in his tracts. Jones then reloaded his gun and j went back to the place where old man Pressley was grieving over the body of his son Charles. The old man was 7 6 years of ago and was suffering from palsy. Jones walked up to him a ad touched him on tlx? shoulder, and when the old fellow, tears running down his cheeks, turned and faced him, he calmly said: "Well, grandpa, I believe that I will kill you too," and then he fired the load of shot into the old man's j stomach. The old man lived long enough to tell what Jones had said ! just before shooting him. For six years the trial dragged on. | and again and again Jones escaped with a mistrial. For sonv mysterious reason the prosecution was unable to get together 12 men who thought the man should suffer the penalty of his crimes. Finally the prosecution got a change of venue to li xington county, and there, after a hard tight, he got a conviction carryin it a sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary. Jones has been a wellbehaved convict, and the usual commutation due to the fact accounts for his release in the next few weeks. , * The country will not go to war over Manchurian trade. A single warship scuttled would take the profits out of the business for years. Conway | *50.000.00 W 150,000.00 2450,000.00 /jK rrous JP no. C. Splvey, I). ilk Collins, C. P. Quat- juL iuck, I). A. Spivey. y mill a pioneer in Ma.Mtern ('nr. A ipi< 1 progress of din' County for 11 n.s been for the iiptmihlinu of ju. With tliis in view wo extend inniilo hcconiiiioil.'it ion coiihIm- fW .solicit the uccouiiLs of iu<livl<lu> AS HAL. Ij. HI'*'K, Ciwliier. % * IIOIUIY, y. S, C. $ 50 00T lOOCj 50 Od 110 00} :iors J W. 11. Lewis, W. A. Johnson, W ill A. Freeman, t-t 011 year)} deposits, aiitiwt holicl. buck, will a. frfemah Vice President. Cahhikb j PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. II. WOODWARD A 1 ^ * * * uoj auu uouncHior At Law* CONWAY, H. O. C. E. ST. AMAM), Attorney at Law Conway, B. C. R. II. HCAHHHOUUH CONWAY, 8. CAttorney at Law. W. B. McCOItD, SU1UJKON DENTIST. CONWAY, 8. O. Over Bank of Horry H. U. BUKKOIXJH8 ?hjfilcian and Surgeos. CONWAY, 8. C. TI " ~~A ft. WOPEOHD WAIT. Attorney at Lar* /, CONWAY, 8. O. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE k JJGHT RUNNING ^ If? 'on want cithern Vlhrntlnu: Shuttle. Rotary Shuttle or u Single Thread [Chain StUchl Ml>win(/ Munhinn mrltA TT w iv THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. any sewing machines are made to sell regardless of Quality, out the Xew Home is made to wca% Our guaranty never runs out. old by authorise?! denlcrs only*' rOR SALB BV V _ BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., Conway, ft. O. Unusual Aoclilont. Nonr Limn, Ohio, on Sunday, two men were Instantly killed, one fatally injured and a house burned to the ground as the result of a collision between two int* rurban electric trains. The collision occurred at a place where the tracks curve around an untenanted house. Both cars were going at full speed. A.n exploded fuse set the wreckage into a blaze. | ;lS; ^