The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 14, 1910, Image 7
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WiUian Ftx, a Finer.
NEGROES ARE LEAVING
Charleston. Where the Mob Took
tlie I*ri?oners from the Juil and
Lynched Them in the Presence of
a large Crowd Including Many
"r"?B?'i ciill<1i'pn.
T? itlHTii nuu
An exodus in the negro population
of Charleston, Missouri, is reported
to be in progress, following
the double lynching on Monday
when Robert Coleman and Sain
Fields were hanged by an infuriated
mob for the murder of William Fox,
a Mississippi county farmer.
jNo sho?ts were fired on either side.
In the crowd which packed the court
house yard in front of the jail were
ti&lin-ttgy, W0V..P0 UCHBWOMT
many women and children, and the
officers feared on that account to resort
to shooting. On the outskirts
of the crowd were several automobiles,
their occupants standing on
the seats to better watch the attack
on the Jail.
Seemingly the mob waited only
lor a leader. About 4 o'clock in the
afternon a man seemed to take
charge and the crowd rushed forward.
A concerted rush was made
at the jail and in a moment the
front fence of the yard was trampled
down.
The sheriff and his men were
* U "TVioro d im Tin turn
I>ru?iic-vt Home. 1 nv. V ?
ing back then, even had the leaders
been so inclined, for the hundreds
in the rear were pushing forward
shouting for the lives of the negroes.
A railroad tie was shoved
forward as a battering ram. The
mob shouted with increasing rage
as the door went down and the
crowd pushed into the building.
Another door was in the way. This
was smashed in a second and the
crowd surged upstairs to the second
floor where the two negroes were
confined.
Those in the yard?the women
and children?could hear the sounds
of a sledge hammer as the lock was
knocked off the cell door. In a few
moments a shout announced that
the lock had been broken.
Coleman was dragged forth and
lynched in the jail yard, while the
crowd cheered. A man climbed up
a tree and put one end of the rope
over a limb. The negro was jerked
up and soon swung clear of the
crowd.
While Coleman dangled, another
body of men rushed from the jail,
dragging and pulling, the other ne
gro, Sam Fields. A rope was placed
around his neck and the mob,
shouting, started west along Court
street.
Tho negro said he would show
the men where .he and Coleman had
hidden the revolver they had used in
shooting William Fox, whose death
the crowd avenged. The men in
charge after a short parley decided
to tako the negro to lind the revolver.
The rope still about his neck
and drawn tightly by his captors,
Fields was thrown into a carriage.
Followed by the mob 011 foot, in
carriages and automobiles, the vehicle
containing Fields started to the
scene of the shooting, half a mile
south of town.
After going part of tho way the
negro told the captors lie "guessed*
after all he could not find the pistol.
A stop was then made and Fields
was jerked out of the carriage with
out any preliminaries, the rope was
tossed over the limb of a tree and
Fields was strung up.
Next morning his body was still
swinging. The body of the other negro
was cut down by several persons
who wanted pieces of the rope as
souvenirs.
The crime which a mob avenged
by lynch law was committed aboul
ten o'clock Saturday night. The mo
tive was robbery.
CRACK 10It CAUSES FlltE.
Exploded Among Straw in Barn Will
Serious Results.
A fire which will amount to ap
proximately $300,000 destroyed 0
buildings, made 3 0 families home
less and wiped out the business an
residential section of Benton, Co
urubia county, Pa., occurred Monday
An exploding firecracker thrown i
among the straw in the barn of Ge<
Crossley was the cause of the fin
The fire broke out at about thrc
o'clock in the afternoon and it w?
not until late that night that afu
aid had arrived, that the flames wei
got under control.
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Had Needle in Heart.
At Landgraf, W. Va., Miraiui
Weeks died suddenly and her hu
band was arrested on suspicion (
having caused her death. An ai
topsy revealed a cambric need
piercing the woman's heart. Thei
was no scar on the body to sho
that the needle had punctured tl
skin and the man was released.
KILLED IN WRECK
MNETKEN PERSONS MKT DEATH
ON AN OHIO RAILWAY.
The Twentieth Century Limited
wnger 'While Rounding Curve
Crashes Into Freight.
Nineteen persons were killed outrLght
probably fatally hur^, and half
I a dozen were seriously injured in
a head on collision between a-frieght
and prassenger train on the Cincinnati-Hamilton
and Dayton railroad
at Middleton, Ohio, Monday..Of the
* 1 nuac^li i/OI'R.
I killed, eignieen wt-ic iju?^v..0
the other victims being a member of
'I the passenger train crew.
I The trains were the Cincinnati
I section of the Twentieth Century
I limited on the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and St. Louis railroad, ( Big
I Four) and the second section of a
I freight train on the Cincinnati, HamI
ilton and Dayton railway.
The latter was attempting to make
fa siding to give the passenger train
ja clear track, when the flyer, travI
eling at a rate of fifty miles an
| hour, flashed around a curve and
I crashed into it.
I \ misunderstanding of orde :
J caused the disaster, which was one
J of the worst that that section of
f the country had ever experienced.
! Pilot engineer George Wald had
| received oredrs to wait at Post Town
three miles north of Middleton, and
J a siding station, according to rail|
road officials. The freight train was
I to have passed him there, but was
| late in pulling out of Middletown.
Instead of the seven minutes margin
which Wald thought he had to reach
Middletown, the time was less than
five minutes. The first section of
the freight had taken the siding at
Middleton and Conductor John Wea1
ver. in charge of the second section,
trie ) to reach the north end of the
same siding.
Before his train had cleared the
switch points the passenger train
I rounded a curve screened by the
thickly wooded lots on each side of
I the track. The engine crews had
time to jump and all escaped serious
injury.
The crash when the trains met
J was terrific, the freight train was
made up of gondola coal cars, flat
cars and box cars loaded with lumI
ber.
I Directly behind the passenger loI
comotive and the tender was a combination
baggage and smoking car
I followed by a day coach and a chair
car. All the dead and injured were
I in t.he first two cars, there being six
passengers in the smoker and twenty-one
in the day coach,
j Every seat in this coach was torn
from its fastenings, the roof was
I thrown to one side and the heavy
weight of massive timbers hurled
with awful force struck among the
I men and women in the coach. Even
before the crasJi came rescuers were
I running to the wreck from the MidI
dleton station, some three hundred
I yards south of the accident. Calls
for assistance were sent to Dayton
land Hamilton. Relief trains were
I made up at each of these places and
I the injured were placed upon them
land sent to hospitals in those cities,
there being no such institution in
Middletown.
.ml. ivn.M) Till,1 nr'lOAX.
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Curtiss Takes Flight of Fight Minutes
Above Atlantic.
Glenn II. Curtiss made an eight
minute fight over the ocean at Atlantic
City, N.J., at 6.3G Tuesday night.
The trip included a flight along the
entire front of the city about a mile
off shore, and 1,500 feet above the
ocean. IT he successful flight was
the second one attempted, the first
resulting in a mishap that nearly
sent Curtiss into the ocean. While
he was attempting to make a turn
from the beach to go to sea an air
current caught the plane and dropped
it within ten feet of breakers
I Curtiss made a quick turn and drove
t his machine on the beach with suet
force that a wood standard along hii
seat was snapped.
INCUMBENT IA)SFS OUT.
i Unison Nominated for Congress ii
Third N. C. District.
i- Dr. John M. Faison, of Warsav
u Dublin county, N. C., was Wednet
day nominated for Congress by th
(1 Democratic Convention of the 3d Is
1- C. district. The Convention, whic
i. was held at Goldsboro, began Tuei
n day, the nomination being made o
). the 4 4 7th ballot, after an all nigl
e. session. There were five candidate
>e in the race, one of them being tf
is present Congressman, Charles 1
;r Thomas, of Newborn. I)r. Falson
c about sixty years old, and is a pra
ticing pysician. While active in po
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IT JOS, IK! Iliin iiCTOi ..
la Detective Fatally Injured.
s- City .Detective W. M. Collins (
Augusta, Ga., was fatally Injured 1
li- a runaway Tuesday afternoon. M
le Collins was in a buggy with Polio
re man A. J. Matthews and anoth<
w man. The horse bolted, the bug*
ie was overturned and Mr. Collins wi
thrown violently against a tree.
DISPATCHER BLAMED
FOR THE WRECK OF THE RIG
?H)UR .PASSENGER.
Revoked Order to Passenger Train,
but Failed to Rceend Same One
i
to Freight, Causing the Accident.
Interest in Monday's disastrous
wreck of the Big Four's New York
Flyer at Middletown, Ohio, in which
more than a score of lives were sac
rificed, was transferred to Cincinnati
Tuesday. A statement from J.
' W. Hall, pilot engineer of the Big
Four passenger train which cra&hed
into a freight train of the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton railway,
i placed blame for the wreck on train
dispatcher Smith, of the latter sysi
tern, at Dayton.
In this he was partly confirmed by
. 15. A. Gould, general superintendent
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.
Mr. Gould was unwilling to go
i further than to say that, "some such
reason was responsible for the accident,"
but railroad men about the
headquarters of the two systems ascepted
the explanation of Wall as
contained the gist of the case.
Wall's statement follows:
The engineer of the freight train
showed me order No. 60 supposed to
have been used after our train (the
Big Four limited) left Dayton, and
to have been handed to us at Carlisle
between Dayton and Middletown.
This order gave the freight
till 1.07 to make the siding at Poasttown,
north of Middletown.
"Smith revoked that order so that
it was not delivered to us at Carlisle,
but failed to revoke the same
order issued to the freight. Our
train made up some time after leaving
Dayton and this brought us to
the Poasttown siding earlier than
1.07.
"We had no warning of anything
in the way and supposed we had a
clear line. '
wtoil oion ovhihitnri fmir train or
ders, not one of which gave any indication
that the flying passenger
train was to meet any other train at
Poasttown or any other siding between
Dayton and Cincinnati. These
orders, he said, were all, he had to
guide him the day of the wreck.
Local officers of the Big Four are
not yet willing to account officially
for the wreck. "A misunderstanding
of orders" was mentioned by
some, but whose misunderstanding
it was, they were not prepared to
state.
With the definite identification of
the four unnamed bodies in Middletown,
all the nineteen unidentified
are acsounted for. Two more died
Tuesday, one at Dayton and one at
Hamilton. These were John Pankin,
Springfield, Ohio., and Evelyn
Lloyd, Round Point, Maine, and their
passing made the death list 21. Four
others are scarcely expected to survive
their hurts.
GOT FOR BOXING.
?
Jim Jeffries Made $117,000, While
Johnson Secured $120,000.
Jack Johnson was $1 20,600 richer
when Jim Jeffries went down for the
last time in Monday's fight. He took
60 per cent of the $101,000 purse
which amounted to $60,000, a nouns
of $10,000 and he sold his picture
interests for $50,000.
Jeffries took a fortune out of the
defeat at Johnson's hands. lie received
40 per cent, of the purse,
amounting to $4 0,000, the bonus of
$10,000 and he sold his picture interests
for $66,666, making a total
of $117,000. The owners of the
picture turns are calculating un <i
million dollar's profit.
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SEVERE STORMS.
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Lives Are Lost and Damage Wrought
in Minnesota.
Western Minnesota and eastern
i South Dakota were visited Tuesday
i evening by severe wind and elect ri3
cal storms, which may have cause1'
loss of life and great damage to oil
ie8 and farming communities. Th<
storm seems to have followed a wel
defined path west of Madison. Wires
are dtwn west of this point. Ro
ports indicate that one or more tor
nadoes have swept through tlx
storm area and a report from Wa
'' tertown says a circus tent was blowi
J~ down and the stage destroyed h
5 fire. One man was killed and sev
eral injured.
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,s Automobile Plunged from Bridge ii
{f to Creek.
a.
1h As a result of an auto plungin
c- from a bridge into San Pedro creel
1- 15 feet below, at San Antonio, Tex
Wednesday, one person is dead an
four injured, two probably fatal 1;
The machine turned turtle as it fe
of into the water. The dead are: Mb
in Dot Miller, buried under the wrecV
r. body had to bo chopped out wit
e- an axe. Probably fatally injurec
er Dorothy Miller and Ettie Leher
ry Fred Burns and Jim Johnson, tl
us latter the chauffeur, were slight
lnJurcd
SWEPT INTO SEWER
A MAX LOSES HIM LIFE BY A
VEBY QUEER ACCIDENT.
Frank A. Reynolds Disappears in a
Cave-in of the Earth and is Swept
IP lloh
IlltV
While talking to William Okaes,
a fellow employe, Frank A. Reynolds,
an oiler in the Big Four
yards, suddenly disappeared in a1
cave-in of earth and despite efforts
of railroad employes, two companies
of the fire department and the life
saving crew, was carried into the
Ohio and drowned. j
Reynolds and Oakes, the former
with his oil can in hand, were standing
in the yards at Preston and Main
when the cave-in occured. Reynolds
was precipitated into one of the
large sewers that empties in the
Ohio, scarcely two blocks away.
Oakes, who narrowly escaped, ran
quickly and gave the alarm, returning
in a short time with a long
piece of hose.
This he threw into the sewer, and
although he could not see Reynolds,
a vigorous tugging on the hose not- |
itied the rescurers that the man was
still alive. The men above the
ground were preparing for a hearty
pull, when there was a further cavein
followed by muflled cry from Reynolds.
A detachment of the lire department
arrived on the scene, but
fall t n or nf fhp BTOUIld
i:wii umitu iitin?n v,. d
made any attempt to rescue hazardous.
The life saving crew made a rush
trip up stream from Fourth street,
and after watching the sewer pour
its muddy volume for a few minutes,
detected a stream of oil, showing
that the man's oil can was emptying.
Despite the crumbling of the
earth, which increased the opening
to 20 feet in width, the fire department
and a large party continued
their efforts and were rewarded
about noon by finding the dead bodv
of the other. It was taken out at
the cave-in. Many trains of the Dig
Four and Chesapeake and Ohio pass
over the sewer daily and a freight
had just passed, when Reynolds sank
to death.
RURAL CARRIERS MEET.
They Had a Big Time at the State
Convention.
With the election of officers, an
address by Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General DeGraw, an address
by Congressman Finley, a good roads
discussion, under the auspices of
the Columbia Record's good roads
tourists, nad tho transaction of routine
business, the State Rural Letter
Carriers' Association of South Carolina
held a busy session Tuesday
morning, reaching final ajournment
shortly after one o'clock that afternoon,
with the singing of "God De
With You Till We Meet Again." The
session has been one of pleasure and
profit, and has been by far the best
in the history of the Association,
from the point of atteiu.ence, and
from point of interest and enthusiasm
shown in the organization. The
visitors were made to feel at home
in Newberry, and they have gone to
their homes ethusiastic in praise of
Now berry's nospnauiy.
Florence was selected a* the next
meeting place. President Thos. E.
Wicker, Secretary Paul K. Crosby
and Treasury \rthur W. Mill were
unanimously reelected. Mr. E. W.
Cromer was unanimously elected vice
president.
As delegates to the next annual
convention of tne national association.
which meets at Little Rock in
September, the convention elected
Miss Florence 10. Livings! )ii, Messrs.
Paul K. Crosby, Stanley A. Lurch
and F. C. DeVoe, Miss Livingston
"headed the ticket."
TO KIOSOHT TO CO I UTS.
.
Picture Syndicate Says They Will
i Protect Their Interests.
That t.he moving picture syndicate.
owning the Jeftrics-Johnson
ilght films, will resort to the Cour s
* of the several States to determine
their right to produce the pictures,
was indicated at Philadelphia Thursday,
when one of the best known
moving picture moo in the country,
ii
who has a big interest in che s\ 11
dieate, said that the agitation agaiur
the displaying of the pictures woi.hj
he fought. Ho said that too much
money had -been invested by the
syndicate, which represents -v. civ
.1 J .V tnlnnnotc! f r> utuiul llV Hill
(1 111 t?l till L I 11 I VT I CDlO| IU Ukui.u ..J
? see the flg.ht pictures prohibited with
out making a contest to determun
the right of city authorities to stoj
g the display. The pictures, it wfv
further announced would be placet
: on public view in New York, Boston
(i Philadelphia, Chicago and sev.era
v other cities on July 18.
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5g llalty Found Uninjured.
A seven-months-old child, wa
h found in a corn field adjoining tin
I: scene of the Big Four wreck a
t. Middletown, Ohio, Thursday morn
le ing. The child had been t.here sine
ly it is believed, it was hurled then
J* by the collision.
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| FIRST NATK
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? CAPITAL STOCK
8UKPLUS PROFITS
TOTAL ASSBST3
& IHREC
0S J. A. McDermott, John
jfc B. G. Collins, H. L.
3K M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu
k , Successor to the Bank c
, Horry County, and a pioneei
ly allied with the recent de
3^ KCpil UIJU. iintncii 11J V..V
L United States Bonds, we are
* turners any reasonable acconi
?H. A. SPIVKY,
Cashier.
BANK OI
Conwa
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS
SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS
DIRE'
Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
We continue to pay 5 per cent inter
it youraccount
robert b. scarborough, 1
President.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
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Attorney ana uounceivr ai lm*
COMWAY, 8. O.
JR. B. 8CAKBHOUGH
w&.
CONWAY, 8. G.
Attorney at Law.
H. BUKKOIXJHS
Physician and Surgeoa,
CONWAY, 8. O.
B. WOFFOBD WAIT.
Attorney at I>a>
Hunk of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. O.
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. twenty-seven dollars. Contrast tht
, with what it r< rt Sibley and aoin
, others to get back to the Mouse frei
b some of the Pennsylvania district
I and you will understand the diffe
'w.tu <>,.n hnnnsl AlActions an
[ dishonest elections.
LUCK.
The luck that I believe in
8 Is that that come with work
B And no one ever finds it
t Who's content to shirk.
The men the world calls lucky
Will tell you, every one,
L, That success comes not by wishir
13at by work, bravely done.
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r in Eastern Carolina. Cloae- Tjf
velopment of the Independent
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prepared to extend to our cusmodations.
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D V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman. ,
est on yearly deposits, and we solic3.
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SWEPT HY A STOKM.
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A .Man and a Mule Killed by a Holt
of Lightning.
The most terrific and destructive
storm experienced there in many a.
year struck Rock Hill Saturday evening,
lasting about an hour. The
electrical display was fearful, carrying
with it death and destruction to
property.
The only fatality so far reported
occurred on the plantation of A. h?.
Willis, a short distance from the
city. A negro, John Seagle, was
struck by a bolt and instantly killed.
A barn on the plantation of John
A. Black was struck and went up
in flames, killing a mule at the same
time. Loss $S00 with little insurance.
The residence of LeRoy Wilherao:*
011 Saluda street was struck, but no
serious damage done. The residence
of Clark Starnes on east Moore
street was struck five times, tearing
holes in the structure and knocking
down the plaster in several rooms.
That 110 one was killed seemed miraculous.
WOMAN KILLKI> I5Y TRAIN.
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Run Over and Badly Mangled ill
Front of Her House.
.Mrs. Sallie B. Kelley, wife of T.
IClize Kelley, was killed at 2. J 5 Saturday
morning by the northbound
passenger train Xo. 4 1 in front of
her residence 011 east Main street..
Union.
Mrs. Kelley had been in ill health
for the past five years and .her condition
has been most critical for the
past several days. It is thought that^l
she was temporarily mentally un.baltnced
at the time of her death and
rhat she wandered 011 the track as
the train came.
Mr. Kelley missed his wife about
two 60-foot girders were wrench her
through the house. She could
not be found, and he continued his
search in the yard, but still could
not find his wife, and shortly afterward
Mr. Smith, a nearby neighbor,
discovered her body, which was badly
mangb>I, lying partly on the railroad
track. v
CHAKUEI) TO MOVINO PICTURES..
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After Seeing them Two Youths Held
l'|) n Street ("nr.
1 Two men arrested at a cheap hotel
in Pittsburg are held in connection
with the attempt to hold up a
Mount Washington street car early
Sunday morning, when Police Lieut.
Shriver Stewart, who was on the car
in citizen's clothes, was probdbly fatally
shot, while trying to stop the
r men in their robbery.
The prisoners give their names as
William Herman, alias William NaB
per, aged J 8, and his cousin, Frank
Chudseaka, alias Edward Miller,
10 aged 16. Michael McDonough, aged
ITl 15, who was on the car, positively
Kieiif i,nc%i mem as tne Danaus.
r- Three men were arrested as suspects
d and released after investigation.
After being locked up a few hours
Herman is alleged to have confessed.
He said he and his companion Saturday,
after seeing a moving picture
show of a Western train robbery,
went to a pawn shop and got
a revolver, lie then told of a third
man, who has not been apprehended,
who suggested the car robbery,
ig I dent Stewart is in a precarious
I condition.
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