The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 31, 1910, Image 3
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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.
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hot breads, s
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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>?
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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'
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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
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$ ,miKi
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it T. McNeill, B. G. C
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/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
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CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITY OF STOCKHO I.DKRS.
SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS
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Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George .1. Holiday,
Wocouliuue to jay 5 per cent intcre
it youraccount
ROHKUT H. BCAHBOHOUC.H, H
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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
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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. %
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IIOIUIY,
y. S, C.
$ 50 00T
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50 Od
110 00}
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W. 11. Lewis,
W. A. Johnson,
W ill A. Freeman,
t-t 011 year)} deposits, aiitiwt holicl.
buck, will a. frfemah
Vice President. Cahhikb
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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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
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CONWAY, 8. C.
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ft. WOPEOHD WAIT.
Attorney at Lar* /,
CONWAY, 8. O.
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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. |
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