The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 28, 1910, Image 4
DEAD IN MINE '
Kescurers Find Corpses ot the Forty-O.ie
Men ai Bottom of Pit.
NEARLY ALL NEGROES
Another Coal Mine Uisiis^'i* Sliocks
the Country and Makes Many Widows
and Orphans.?Men Were !0titomhed
h.v ail Kxplosion Whieh
Occurred on Last Wednesday.
A dispatch from Birmingham.
Ala., says little hope was expressed
Thursday morning that any of the
35 or 4 0 members entombed in the
Mlilga mine of the Birmingham Coal
and Iron company as the result of
an erplosion about nine o'clock Wednesday
nig.'it will be rescued alive.
When it was learned that it was
impossible to gain entrance to the
mine through the shaft because the
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UilJieS ?cil- D|n mm ... ,
J ho entrance was sealed to prevent.,
if possible, the spread of fire.
Not one of the -11 ni? n imprisoned
in t.he mine is alive. This was
the word brought to the surface on
Thursday morning to the waiting and
weeping families of the victims,
when, unconscious f116111 the deadly
gasses of the shaft, Superintendent
Johns of the mine and a man named
Bonds, an unknown, w.ho risked ills
life for those already perished, were
drawn to fresn ?.,r.
The condition of the rescuers told
the story lone b fore the men had
been revived. The watchers knew
that if the rescuers, helmeted and
protected, had so narrowly escaped
death, there was no hope for the
workers, who withiout a second's
warning had been entombed by an
explosion of gas.
When Johns and Bonds, after heroic
treatment, finally regained consciousness,
they confirmed the gravest
anticipations of the people who
for hours had waited at. the mouth of
the r.haft, to hear a word of their
loved ones.
"Dead?all dead," was the statement.
of the superintendent as his
brain began to clear from the effects
of the poisonous gases.
Before tliey had lost consciousness
the rescuers had reached t.he first
gallery. Even that near the shaft
they saw things that made them
know that only a miracle could save
"the iroen entombed.
The scenes around the entrance
to the mine in Hit early morning
lioii"s beggared description. In addition
to the families of the ontomb-orl
nir.ii hundreds from the sur
V V*
rounding mining districts swelled I
the crowds until it was with great'
difficulty t.hat tlie work of yesuce
could he carried ton.
Under the direction of officials of
the Birmingham coumpany and expert
from other mines, an attempt
* was first mafic to enter shaft No. 1,
but this was soon found impracticable
and it was sought to drive a way
through shaft No. 2, which is about
300 feet from the first opening. After
penetrating a short distance it
was found that this shaft was also
wrecked by the force of the explosion
in No. 1. Nothing could he heard
from the entombed men.
When the first crew of rescuers
reached the bottom of the shaft on
Thursday morning the corpses of
two miners were found. The rescuers
upon returning to the surface
expressed the opinion that all of th4
imprisoned men were dead.
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CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS.
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Over Twenty-Two Thousand Hurt by
Hailroads.
A larga increase in the number of
casualties of American railroads is
shown by the report for the quarter
ending December 31, 1300, as
compared with the corresponding
quarter of the previous y?ar. A bulletin
issued Thursday by the interstate
commerce commission shows
an increase in t.he number of persons
killed of 301 and in the nuniua?
,,f in in rod of 5.645. as compared
with the corresponding quarter of
1908. 'I'he total number of persons
killed was 1,099 and the total number
injured 2 2,491.
Itioting in China.
{Lawlessness of natives, whh.b began
at Chang-Sha. C.lni a, is teporteJ
a,ue.^ling. Adv?ce3 state tint riots'
have occurred at Nirtg-Siatg, tlie site
of a Protestant mission, thirty iniles
west of Cliaiii? Sha. The mission
school at Yi-Yang was burned. The
foreigners escaped
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Cold Wave in West.
Temperature, ranging from 27 to
38 degrees above zero, accompanied
by intermittent flurries of snow were
reporte-d from 'Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska Tuesday. Colder weather
te predicted.
A Fool's Joke.
At Chester, Pa., Atwood Young, a
-Sixth ward youth, was burned about
the face and eyes by powder from
a Joker's "loaded" cigarette, and it
Is feared he will lose the sight of
both eyes.
HINTS AT SCHEME
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TO SAVR IIALLINUHR OX VVICKUltSIIAM'S
PA I IT.
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Charged That llo Had Paled I>ocuDHMit
Much Rarlfor Than It Wah
Written to Deceive.
After attacking certain statements
iu Attorney General Wickersham's
summary of the Glavis case during
cross-examination of n witness bofore
the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation
Friday, Attorney Brandies
counsel for L. R. Glavis, threw out a
broad suggestion that the document
had been dated two months earlier
than it had been prepared in order
to make it appear that President
Tuft's letter of vindication to Secretary
Ballinger had been based on
the alleged facts indicated.
At the White House and the department
of justice it was stated be. ir
neither the president nor the attorney
'general would comment on Mr.
Brandeis' intimation.
Cor.; pa iativc.v IB !? prcar??s-. w .s
made with fh oin .n y t'nday. t'ospite
the apparently grow. impatience
of the committee and the general
desire of the mombis to brine
the hearing to a close.
E. C. Finny, assistant to the
secretary of the interior, was under
cross-examination during almost the
entire day. lie admitted under questioning
by Mr. Brandies that some of |
Wickersham's statement were inaccurate,
but insisted they were unimportant.
It was near the end of Finney's
examination t.hat Mr. Brandies got
off his surprise. Mr. Wickersham in
his summary, says the suggestion
t.hat it was unlawful for Mr. Ballinger
to have any professional relations
with the Cunningham claimants hecause
of his previous incumbency of
the office of commissioner of the
land office, was based on section 190
of the revised statutes and he cites
laws to show that Mr. Ballinger had
not violated that law.
TWMNTY BLOCKS III ILV.
Large Part of Louisiana City Swept
Away l).r Firo.
Fanned hy a hig.h wind, a fire
which broke out at Lake Charles,
La., shortly after four o'clock Saturday
afternoon, swept twenty or
more blocks of the city, destroying
several hundred buildings and resulting
in a property loss estimated
al)out $3,000,000. Two thousand
persons have been rendered homeless.
It was almost cig.ht o'clock Saturday
night when the fire, which followed
a northeasterly direction from
the business section finally reached
the outskirts of the city, burning itself
out. While it was reported that
several lives had been lost during
the excitement attending upon dynamiting
the buildings, an investigation
Sunday indicated that, there were
no casualities.
Hundreds of frame cottages were
burned to the ground and while several
thousand persons were thus rendered
homeless, there appears to be
no suffering. That portion of the
city which escaped the ravages of the
fire threw open its doors to the needy
and in some instances as many as
flvp mnd six families are being cared
for in one home. *
Forxi) l>K.\1> IN WOODS.
Decomposed Hotly of Inknown Man
Discovered.
The decomposed body of a white
man about 3 5 years old was found in
Piedmont park at Greensboro, X. C.,
by two boys Sunday afternoon. Oilier
than cards bearing the names of
a Richmond cafe and a Richmond
clothing house there is no clue to his
identification.
The body had apparently boon lying
where found for a month or cix
weeks. Coroner Wood held an in
vestlgation, out found nothing inui- i
eating foul play. The body was found
two hundred yards from the car |
lino hidden by undergrowth and
t rees.
He wore good clothes was about
live feet eight inches in .height, and
weighed about 145 pounds. The features
were too distorted to secure a
facial description. The nody was removed
to a local undertaking establishment
and will be held pending
further efforts to identify. *
Circus Idfe Was Short.
The body of Mary Jenkins, a young
girl who joined a circus while it was
en route through Florida recently,
J and who was round aspnyxmteu m
.her room at Washington Sunday, will
be sent back to relatives In Florida,
in accordance with instructions received
by the police. The show with
which the girT was traveling arrived
Saturday night. Next morning
the girl was dead.
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Eleven Killed,
A boiler exploded in a match factory
at Swogoden, near Budapest,
killing ton girls and a man. Eigh
teen girls were dangerously Injured.
A DARING ESCAPE
FIVE CONVICTS SEIZE ENGINE
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AND (JET A WAV.
They Ix?ft the Prteon Yards at a
High iUite of Speed and Wau Soom
lAHtt.
Fire life convicts, heavily armed,
made a daring escape from the Federal
prison, noar Leavenworth, Kan.,
Thursday morning. It is possible
that others escaped and prison ofH
cials are chocking up ine ?uu prisoners
to learn just how many got
k> way.
As soon as the escape of the five
men became known, the signal whist!e
at the prison was sounded as a
w?rni?>i7 to farmers in the surrounding
country to he on the lookout.
T.his whistle can be heard fdr miles
and its use caused consternation. Ai
the same time heavily armed guards
were thrown around the prison 10
prevent any further attempt at escape.
The first report indicated that the
fivo men who got away had forcibly
taken posession of a switch engine
that .had been run into the prison
yards. They had instantly pulled out
at high speed. Once clear of the
prison yards, the convicts deserted
the engine and made a dash for the
woods.
The break for liberty was cleverly
planned and its execution most daring.
Two of the convicts we?*e at
work in the carpenter shops, the
others in the tailor shop. A switch
engine, had been hacked into the
prison yard. At the sound of the
whistle the men dashed into the en
closure and made towards t.ne engine.
Levelling dummy guns at the
engineer, they climbed into the cab
and compelled him to reverse his engine.
The engine with the convicts on
board rushed through the west gate
into t.h-e open country and soon was
speeding towards the woods. When
a few minutes later the escape became
known, the signal whistle at
the prison bellowed a warning to
farmers for miles about to be on the
lookout. When the engine had gone
half a mile, the five men jumped
and made for t.he woods. Clark and
Gideon seperated from the others and
were captured.
Every available guard started after
the other three men. A half
mile further on the trio was surrounded
in the woods. No shots had
been fired at 1 1 o'clock, when t.he
guards began to close in. It was believed
the convicts' only weapons
were iguns made of wood and painted
in the carpenter shop.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Grand Lodge Hold Mooting in Columbia
This Week.
A groat deal of interest was manifested
in the election of officers to
serve the order during the next two
years, the election resulting as follows:
J. Alwyn Hall, Charleston, supreme
past grand dictator; Jam s O.
Ladd, Summerville, grand dictator;
!). A. Spivey, Conway, grand vice dictator;
M. \V. Culp, Union, grand assistant
dictator; L. X. Zealv, Coitnn'oia,
grand reporter; X. \V. Trump,
Columbia, grand treasurer; J. J.
Vernon, Wellford; L: I). Iiarrell,
C.hera w; Sol Blank, Charleston,
grand trustees. C. P. Quattlebaum,
of Conway, was elected the representative
to the supreme lodge for a
term of four years and R. A. Oliphant
of Union as alternate.
The following standing committees
were appointed:
Laws and supervision?,T. \\\
Todd, W. L. Glaze, J. W. Moore.
Finance?J. I). Kelly, U. A. 01 pliant,
P. K. McCully.
Credentials?J. J. Vernon, L. I).
Marrell, Sol Blank.
The offices-elected were installed
by Past Supreme Dictator John C.
Sheppard. After the passage of a
resolution extending the thanks of
the grand lodge to Palmetto lodge
No. 5, r. O. O. F., for t.hc use of the
hall, the convention adjourned to
meet in Union on the third Wednesday
in April, 1912.
KILLS AN IXTltl'DKIt.
An Intoxicated Man Tries to Kntct
Another's Home.
L. C. Manning, a well known business
man of Philema, Lee county,
Oa., was shot, and killed, at Walker's
station Wednesday night, by John
Wilkinson. Manning spent t.he day
* - i * * s i - . : i
at A1 Daily aim u is 'Apiauiuu, unu
been drinkiivfl. lie took the wrong
train and went 10 Walker's station,
instead of Philema. He attempted
to get into several houses an finallytried
to force an entrance into Wilkinson's
home, wlven Wilkinson, sliol
him with a rifle.
ICiglit Voters Shot.
At Port Do France, Martinique,
serious disorders have occurred at
several points as the result of the
excitement attending the elections.
During the disturbance on Thursday
night eight, voters wore shot. Husiness
houses in the Interior have
been closed.
SICK HIS^ DOGS "
Ob Attwney Geueral Wickcisham For
Helping the Bears Out.
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HE ENTRAPS AL0RICH
S)uJth Makes Hhn Admit
Thul the Tariff latvr is the Oauw
of the IUkIi Prices and IHscusses
the Action of the G'ovornment in
the Cotton Oases.
Seuator Smith Wednesday turned
loose his dogs of war on the attorner
general for prosecuting the cotion
men, Drown, Hayne, Scales and
others, says Zach McCnhee, in his
Washington letter to the Columbia
State.
The immediate question up was
whether or not the senate should
\ote $65,000 for further investigation
of the high prices of the necessaries
of life. 'Senator Smith said
tnat he had been in favor of this
investigation at first, but that now
the thing had taken such a peculiar
turn that he believer! no good could
bo accomplished. This brought him
into immediate conflict with Senator
Aldrich and there was an interesting
little tilt.
,'Do I understand," ask'd Mr. Aldrich,
"that the senator was in favor
cf this Investigation at first but thai
now tlie attorney general is investigating
the wrong trust?"
That seemed to put Mr. Smith into
a hole, for while I lie contention
has been for lower prices, h re was
a South Carolina senator coining out
in favor of higher prices. Hut Mr.
Smith in turn put Mr. Aldrich into
a hole. Mr. Aldrich said that he
wanted an investigation to see whether
the tariff was the cause of the
high cost of living.
"Docs not the senator believe that
the tariff is the cause of the high,
prices?" asked Mr. Smith.
"I believe that the tariff causes
prosperity," replied Mr. Aldrich.
"Hut you also have said that prosperity
causes high prices, have you
not?" said Mr. Smith.
i.Mr. Aldrich admitted that.
"Prosperity causes hig.h prices, and
the tariff causes prosperity," said
Mr. Smith.
Unfortunately the gravel fol 1 just
here, the time being up. Hut Mr.
Aldrich was made to admit as no
Republican had before ad mitt d that
the tariff is the cause of high prices.
Senator Smith in his speech declared
that the department of justice
had allowed the beef trust, th? steel
trust, the ones who had cornered
the wheat of the country putting up
the price of bread to go on without
prosecution, hut that now when the
farmers of the South by a natural
monopoly and by a shortage of the
crop were getting a high price for
their cotton, the department of jus
lice was singling out this staple ar
a subject for prosecution.
"I venture the assertion," he declared,
"that brown, Hayne, Scales.
Patten, and th?e others do not hold
.">,0 00 bales of cotton. Hut cotton
speculators in New York have sold
hundreds of thousands of bales
which they have never had, and now
when they try to buy them at a lower
price than the figure at which
l h'?y sold, the farmers of tlie South,
either have not the cotton or will
not sell at. Ihe figures offered. Those
men supposed that the South would
do as she lias always done, put their
cotton on the market at whatever
price they could get for it."
iSevoral times in his speech, IMr
Smith referred to the elections in
New York and Massachusetts and
reminded the Republicans that the
verdict was going against them. He
said it was on account of just such
behavior as that of which the attorney
general was now /nilty, in
singling out the South for attack instead
of enforcing the law against
ho other combines. Ho admitted,
with considerable emphasis, that he
had tried to organize the Southern
farmers into a combination. "Perhaps
you .had letter investigate he,"
ne aeciareu. ,
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POISONKI) HKU Hl'SMAM).
Willi Four Different Kinds of Deadly
Poisons.
The trial of Mrs Pearl Armstrong,
indicted in Floyd county, Ind., on
the charge of killing her husband,
George Armstrong, at their home in
Now Albany, in December last year,
began Tuesday morning. Nearly
150 witnesses have been summoned,
a (.bird of thorn for the defense. The
State will attempt to prove that Mrs.
Armstrong poisoned her husband
by administering calomel, carbolic
acid, rough-on-rats and strychnine
In broken doses, with the collection
of his life insurance of $1,000 as
one of the motives.
Kills Man Over Wife.
At Lancaster, Pa., following a
quarrel Edward J. Dolan shot and
probably fatally wounded Harry F.
Hinden, a furniture dealer, and then
Dolan committed sulcli?. Doland
accused Iiindon of having been too
friendly with Mrs. Dolan, who died
last December.
Charlotte, N. C., i
mous May
by declaring herself free und 1
tlius arousing the other twelve
udclphiu Declaration followed ?
u whole of the depressing eiTi
is liecoming more and more 1
Lee's Headach
gia Re
enabling every American by its
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II will (.lit? "I till u ?n\an U1 II'
also giving to the
Berduco Lr
Tlit? use of which so arouses a
once throw off the yoke of hi I
soar stomach, dyspepsia, loss
troubles and thus enabling one
the depressing and dangerous
Price ?.">< each. Mfg. by Iturw
Will Dye
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FAMILY OF Sl'ICIDKS.
Like His Father an<l !li'othcr-iii-I?aw
Muds His Life.
The second sulci 'e within a month i
and the third in the family, withiu
eight months at the home of Mrs.
Charles Wells, his sister, at Petersburg.
Va., was that of Nat. P. Inge,
aged 2 1 years, who died early Friday
morning. Young Inge swallowed
carbolic acid late Thursday night
and died after t.hree hours of agony.
On (March 22, Charles Wells, a brother-in-law
of Friday's victim, drank ,
with fatal effect carbolic acid, while |
despondent over unemployment. On
October 21st last Albert I). Inge, the
father of Nat Inge, suicided by
drowning at Danville, Va. No reason
is known for his self-destruc
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India Runner Duck Eggs for sale.
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For Sale.?500 bushels line cotton
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Twentieth Century Putter Co.,
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Teachers wanted for excellent positions
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White Wyandotte Kggs, 1 Oc each.
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