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"^1 WRECK AND FIRE ? t faiag tr friia flaafcs Itraacfc' a Bfaia| Trade Saaday. TIE TRAIN BURNED UP ? Bkglaeer Hank Taylor and Fireman Nimou DuoW, Colored, Go UoWtt Whh Famine.?Mall Clerk Bloom ^k<r*oualy Hurt.?sixteen Paaseugem Hlightly Injured. Fa&eenger Train No. 2. on the Spartanburg division of the Charleston and Western Carolina, due to ar???? a from Slna.rtanbure. "?t lli AUgMPvn, at 6.10 p. m.. Sunday, ran into a burning. trestle about a mile from Woodlawn, resulting in the total destruction of the train, the death of Kagineer Hank Taylor, of Laurens, 8. C., and Fireman Simon Dunbar, cglored, of Augusta, and slight in^Vury to sixteen passengers. When the train was entering onto a reverse curve Baggagemaster Geo. Box directed the gaze of Conductor W. B. Verdery to large volumes of smoke, which he believed to be coming from the trestle, then a mile distant from the train, and which had been burned before. At that time the fire was on the left side or the train and could not have been seen by Knglneer Taylor. Conductor Verdery watched the Brooke until the train had rounded the reverse curve, when he saw that the fire was on the trestle. Immediately he pulled the danger signal. and ran from the baggage ooaen to the first class passenger coach and pulled the emergency brake, but aiready the engine had run onto the treetle and plunged through to the little creek below, pulling with it the tender, baggage car and the front of one of the passenger coachet*. The coach, tilting from the wreckage to the road bed above, formed a flue, through which the flames from the trestle debris were carried to the train, proper, and in less than Ave minutes the entire train was aflame. Engineer Taylor and Fireman Dunbar went down with the engine, and were caught under the tender, which was thrown directly on top of the engine. Both of these were either mashed or burned to death, and the bodies are still in the wreckage. Dagftage master Box also went down with his car, but succeeded iu escaping from the fire with but slight injurries. Mall Clerk Bloom, of Spartanburg?, did not leave hia car and was seriously, though not fatally, Injured. He remained in the wreckage after the concussion, working with his mail, and succeeded In saving the bulk of it from the flames. None of the passengers "were injured beyond minor cuts and bruises and of these the larger number were among those in the negro coach and smoker, the white coach escaping any extensive damage beyond a severe shake up, until the flames reached it. In a statement by Superintendent Anderson, Riven out after mhlnight. it is shown that the road had reason to believe that the bridge was tired and investigation is being made in that connection. The last train to pass over the bridge ahead of the wreck, was six and a half hours enrIfer and the officials contend t.hat ^ this does away with any idea of fallN ing hot coals starting the trestle fire. ItrTTKN ItV A RATTLKlfi. ? While (leaning Out a Spring llig Via (tier Strikes. A special dispatch from Lexington to The State says J. A. Lucas, a prominent farmer of Kdward, that county, is lying in a precarious condition at his home as a result of a rattlesnake bite, received while at tending a singing school at Bethel church at noon Friday. Mr. Lucas was in the act of cleaning out a spring when the snake leaped upon him without warning from the bush nedrby, sinking his teeth deep into the left knee. The snake was killed by J. A. Kyzer, who happened to he near when the snake did it work. It measured five feet in length and carried seven rattles and a button. I>rove Buggy in Wafer. Harry Smith, a prominent business man, Mrs. Bessie Bierd, a widow, and her infant baby were drowned in Randeli reservoir, five miles out from Penison, Texas, Sunday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. No one saw tlie accident and it is thought they drove into the reservoir to water their horse, supposing it to be shallow. They fell into sixteen feet of water. The horse was also drowned. * 1 ? # Hit them again Dr. you have them howling. If you can't specify let us name iristances to back up your assertions. ? From candidate to editor. At home and near to nature's heart. j FIEND'S AWFUL CRIME I AS8AULTKD A. U'HITK JLADY AND HHOT A XKORO MAX. The KM Is Bring Hunted bjr a Lm*k? Crowd and Will Br Lynch* fd Uliea Caught. tMany posses have been scouring the woods around A*i?, Ala., eighteen miles .from Mobile, since shortly after one o'clock Sunday morning for Hill Walker, a negro, who had been loafing around the mill j town, and who criminally assaulted | Mrs. Nettie Gibson, 31 years of age, wife of J. O. Gibson, superileudeut of a truck farm. The negro told Mrs. Gibson a friend was dead and that he had been sent to accompany her to the house, where she was wanted to 4iAl|p prepare the body. Proceeding a few hundred feet from the Gibson home, the uegro began using his knife and later accomplished his purpose. The woman is badly cut up. Her 8-yearold brother, Clarence Howell, hear* ? W - .. .v _ A * I. .? .. .. _ .1 iug uer screams, run iu iu? sueue huh tried to protect his sister. He was also cut by the ne^ro. Walker, after forcing Mrs. Gibson to give bim what money she had, left for the home of Jesse Brown, another negro. He slipped up tj Browp's window and shot him while asleep. Walker then forced Brown's wife to accompany hint. They have not been found. Citizens of the comI munity say that the law will not be needed If Walker is caught. Sheriff I)rago, has his force working on the case. T.he sheriff promised the citizens if Walker is captured he would ask Mobile County Courts to hold a special .session to try him. Walker's crime is a capital offence in Alabama. Mrs. Gibson and her brother are not fatally cut. but Jesse Brown will die. The neighborhood for miles is stirred up over the affair. At midnight Sunday reports reached Mobile that the posse had eaugln and shot Walker, t.he fiend, after he had been strung ud. So the State will be spaced the expense of a trial. XK YV OAK BRING t'SKI). Electric .Motor ("ac Service Inuiigurated oa Southern Itoad. Electric motor car service is now being given on the line of the South era Railway and the Blue Ridge Railway between Greenville and Ar.derson, the intermediate ter: i/itv being perhaps the most thick! v set tied milling taction In the South. n eluding the important points. Pie.i mont, Pelxer, Williamston and Belton. Only one motor car is now opera ed and two round trips a day are made. Though a large number T stops are made the car has no trouble in making schedule time. The car now in use is the property of the 'General Electric Company and wiil be used until two cars being built by that company especially for the Southern Railway are delivered. Tinnew cars will provide seats for 57 passengers The car is run by electricity generated by a gasoline engine. The powerful machinery is compactly placed in the forward end. It is easily manipulated itild the car h handled with perfect ease. The ;rearesi interest is ten inrougnom the section in the motor ear and it is crowded every trip. The first day it was greeted by great crowds at every station. At one place a ciii zon was so anxious to get a view that he left the barber's chair running to tlw? station with his face co ored with lather. The itew service is in addition to the steam trains run between Greenville and Anderson and is expected t?. prove a great convenience. The oporation of these cars, the first df their kind in the South, will be watched with groat interest. ? ? ciiAiTKit of Ti<\<;umi;s. ? Caused by it Negro Ivvcitrsioii 01 I.ilsI Saturday. Two negroes killed, another soiously slashed with a knife, and tar promoter of the excursion robbed waft nnrt of the results of :i iuh'th excursion from Macon to Hawkins ville, (!n., Saturday, when Ave cailoads of blacks were brought v> H.awkinsville, (?a.v At C ichrnn a no*ro fell under tin' caj-s and was cut in tvfrdin. At the baSebdM game in the afternoon Heputy Sheriff Home undertook to arrest .Tim Harris, and when two other negroes attempted to liberate Harris, t.hey tripped up Home who, from the bottom of the heap, shot his way to freedom. A' one time it looked as if a riot would he the result, hut Sheriff Rogers brought order after arresting m0,,e than a dozen negroes. Drown When Itont Overturns. Harry and Alvln Wlnfield, broth-{ era, and well-known young men, were drowned in Erie harbor (Pa.) Sunday when their sail boat capsized. They had just taken a picnic party safely across to the peninsula and were returning for another load of young people, when a gust over^ turned them. WILL HOLD CROP flrSohtat LtMctah* RetsWtiewttli cmmmhiit. STATU TO BE STORED n WarcboaM) to b? t>Ubli?hrd in the Where the Cotton is Giowu.?The Projectors Count on Saving $.'?0,000,000 a Year to the Farmer* and Spinners. Having for its purpose revolutionizing the cotton Industry of the United States, a conference was held Kririuv at the home of John Havs Hammond at Gloucester, Mass., at which there were present besides . * ' Mr. Hammond, Daniel J. Sully, the New York operator, and Scot Dei?eish of Cairo, Egypt, the representative of the Hirsch syndicate of London. Briefly, the idea is to establish .varehouses in all parts of the cotton producting district of bhis country as well as iu the manufacturing centres for storing the cotton crop, so (hat inste: d of selling it from hand to mouth, as has ^?en the practice heretofore, it will be marketed through tiie entire year when desirable. it is believed that economies will be ertected In the marketing of cotton, which will result in a saving of not less than $50,000,000 an nually. The General Cotton Security coin>any. of w.hich Mr. Hammond is the president, and Mr. Sully is vice-president and general manager, is to be the organization through which this economy is to be effected. Ttu illrsoh syndicate, it is un jerstooa has already underwritten the project . "Any formal statement of our dans wot, Id be premature, as we have met only lor an informal discussion of the possibilities of the <>lan to establish warehouses," was he answer that Messrs. Hammond, Sully and Del glelsh hade when iiiestioned concerning the results ol their conference Friday. I he conerees wished to make it plain that heir object in considering such a plan was not to corner but to help the cotton raiser. Should their plan be consummated, they said, th??y hoped to bring about the standardization of cotton and to assist the grower in selecting the proper seed. No definite steps were taken today ?nd probably none would be for some time, they said. A dispatch from Atlanta says the project of Daniel .1. Sullv and assn dales to establish bonded cotion warehouses throughout the South uid at various nrinufacturiiig celite res throughout the country, the tentative plans of which already have been laid before bankers and cotton factors of the south by M'. Sully in person, has met with a fa* arable reception throughout the cotton growing states. Following the visit to Atlanta lad week of Messrs. Sully and Del gleleh. the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce idopted a resolution favoring the establishment of a chain of warehouses, such as Mr. Sully proposed. Presiuent Fred J. Paxton of t hi? !'hamher of Commerce, said the suo essful operation of the Sully plar would greatly aid the south in li nn n/Miirr I iio rtnl -1 ' 1 ? * > < in. i.uuun ci i>|) 11-it ueiieven it would result in the savins <>l* Millions o!" dollars yearly to the cottori growers. During the recent visit of Messrs. hilly and Del gleish to Atlanta it was announced that the warehouses, which it was planed to buy or buiM through out tlie south in time fo?* bundling much of the 1 It 10 crop rould be bonded by the llirsoh syn iicate of London. On the cotton ilorod in the warehouses negotiable ertifie.ntes are to be issued, intend.1 to be available as collateral it. ither this country or Kurope. v Meet After >lany Years. Judge A. M. Duflie, of Malvern, \rkansas, arrived recently and will spend sometime with his brother, ilev. It. L. Duffle, at Westminster, le has be??n circuit judge for sixteen ' ears. it has been years situ r ho hr.oa 1 * ??? ~ J - iiu Diuim 10 liini HUM >111(1 you CM 'nit fairly imagine how Rood it ito Ilii*iu to moot again and talk o he day a of yore. k Tired of Idle. Explaining that .he was terribly >ored with life, a man named Joseph Koslowsky, oommitted suicide! it Budapest, Hungary, at the age of 102. He left a letter stating thot ifter waiting patiently for half-a entury he decided to take the mater into his own hands. ? Tliey Die From Heat. Men and animals are succumbing o the intense heat in the vicinity of Calexico, on the intense heat in the Halexieo, on the border of Mexico. Wight men and as many mutes attached to a cane camp are said to have died since Saturday. There been numerous prostrations besides. 14UJUJWUWJiiy I - - " " ' COHON IN BAD SHAPE DROCQBT IIA;* HCKT BOIH TtjX. AH AND OKLAHOMA. There Has Been Home Improvement in the Other States, But (he Weed Is Small. The Memphis Commercial Appeal published this summary of the colton crop condition on Monday: The cotton crop deterioated during the week in Texas and Oklahoma by reason of drought, but improved elsewhere on an absence of rain. The situation in Texas and Oklahoma is fast becoming serious, seme shedding being reported in the dryest places. Temperatures were very high at most times, which makes the lack of moisture more acute. A good rain immediately would help the crop wonderfully, but Its growth aud fruiting has already been arrested. The fields east of the Mississippi River are now nearly clean and the cotton will be "laid by" in a fairly rnrki\ utiltn a f on It inn Thn nr/\_ n^'Vxi MVI4 W Vl VU>VII Ml iVli. A uu J/l Vcess of cleaning some of them has. however, been severe and the plant has not yet recuperated and drought continued for long will work great injury. During the coming week moderate showers would he helpful. Reports are irregular. There are some that are indifferent and some that are exceedingly poor. The plant is generaly small and is now beginning to bloom freely and make bolls. It will be cultivated much later than usual, and if the frost date is delayed and the August and September moisture supply is sufficient to enable the setting of bolls to continue late, there is yet hope for a fair or good crop. Without a late autumn reports indicate a very moderate out turn in :be valley and Atlantic States. TOOK THE ltOI'K HOI TK. Clack I'iend Eotittd in Young (.ill's Hooni Lynched. . . Screams of the young daughter of John Wa.le, ten miles northeast of Cairo, Ov., Sunday night, resulted in the captuie ana lynching of a negro 1 who hail entered her room ai d was discovered at her bedside. T.he neuro, entering through a window, made a noise in the room and the you re ad id awoke She n once began to scream and the members of t'ue family rushed into the room. The negro had no t'me to escape, but dived under the bed and | lay still in an effrot to save himself. He was dragged out from his hiding place at once. News of the capture was sent from house to house among t.he neighbors, and a body of men quickly gathered. A conference was heid, and it was decide.d to punish the negro immediately. He was placed in ? wagon end ore end of a rope was tied around his neck and the other tied to a limb. The wagon way driven from under him and a volle.v of shots f&ug out. AI TOIST KILLIM) AT ATLANTA. Speedway (laces (?o on. However, "Without Accident." Few in the big crowd which witnessed Saturday's automobile races at t.he Atlanta speedway knew thai two hours before the meet began a life h Jld KJieiMflee.'l l'? Hirrh _ _ . v,,.. v . . . -w > ? vw i? on the tr ick. As the pistol cracked for the first event tb" body of T. 15. *>in 1. cl' Atlanta, was quietly carried from the grounds. Dial was a median k-ian. and his car a Marion, while on a practice spin became unmanageable. ripping up over 100 feet of the inside fence on the first turn of t.'ie track and then tnrnin? 'wo complete somersaults. The mechanics n had one side o! his heau 'rushed \o one was near enough to see exactly how he met death, ile lived twelve minutes after the incident. The races were run without an accident, both amr.leur and professional drivers participating. Mil riics His .Mother-ln-La w. I At Louisville, K.v., Henry Knit/.. | having lived to the ripe old age of 75 years Sunday upset all traditions of the comic papers by wedding his UOf her-hl- 1:1 W Ittt viwre r\lil u'liil" he thermometer stood 100 degrees n the shade. His bride before the wedding was Mrs. lOliznbet.h Kuchs, whos-* daughter divorced Krintz several years ago. Three .Americans killed. Nov ^ was received of the ass.is sination on July 22 in the Yaqiui valley near Coeeorit, Mexico, of Mr.lennie Fbotideler, an American woman, and her two sous. Stain About Whiskey. In a quarrel over a bottle of whiskey William M. f<<?ed was shot te deatih in (-apt. Charles, Ya.. by William Richardson, his brother-in-law Reed was accused of not having paid his share on the bottle. I We may later have occasion to describe him as described to us by his fellow citizen. A RACE RIOT , Scftral Negrtei Were Killed aid Sereral Wkile lei WtuM. j ? OCCURRED AT SLOCUM Some Reports Go So Far mm to PUko Death Roll of Negroes at For jr. Disturbance Quieted by the Arn* lal of f? Trouble Bf 'wlutf for Several Days. At least IS negroes were killed ia a racial clash in the extreme e*< em section of Anderson county, Tex., Friday night and Saturday, the culmination of an enmity betweeu the races brewing . for several weeks. Kighteen is the number of the dead, according to more conservative estimates which have reached Palestine from the Isolated section where the disorder occurred. Other reports place the total fatalities at betweeu 30 and 40. It was reported that several white men were either kined or wounded, but each rumor as to casualties among the whites has met an unauthoritative denial. Saturday night troops reached Palestine and immediately began an overland march of about 2 5 miles to the scene of the rioting. The arrival of the soldiers had a wholesome effect, and the beligerents are reported to be dispersing:. Further bloodshed will in all probability be averted. The ft r-?l advices of the disturbance reached Palestine Saturday morning. Officers were sent to the scene, local ammunition stores ordered to suspend sales and the saloons closed. It was quickly apparent, however, that the situation was beyond the control of the local officers, and troops were asked for. A company of militia under command of Captaiij Godfrey Fowler, former United States army officer and more recently engaged in Nicaragua in the cause of the insurgents t\ ixnatrhert from YlarsJiul l"exP8, arrived Saturday night. The rioting began near the village of Slocum. Several reasons are assigned as the cause for the racial feeling. First, the refusal of a negro to pay an obligation on which a white farmer stood sponsor. This was some days ago. Later a white man received notice that he should perform road work under the supervision of a negro. The white man refused. Later came reports of secret meetings among the negroes and an alleged confession of a negro that the murderer of the man in question, lames Spurger, and his family, was planned. The situation reached a climax, however,' when a negro was discovered advancing on Spurger from the rear, armed with a shot gun. He was trailed for some distance and shot by a posse when he refused to surrender. With the shooting of the negro those of both races armed themselves >nd the rioting began late Friday night. Throughout the night the meeting of parties of the two races was the signal for a resort to arms, fatalities attending many of the encounters. Finally the negroes were 'riven to the cover of a heavily timbered section and the crowd of v.hites, about 200 in number formed I it t v ?\ n it /I ** 1 1 ?? 14 ? miu itiiu ivmuntru Hi'iiiU'ruip over a wide area. As the small hands met they clashed and, according to those returning to Palestine in each instance the negroes were forced to give groud and finally disappearing * ? ? KAIL KOAI) SHOPS BURX. Cai-oliiiM and Northwestern* Suffer Fioiii Blaze. The shops of the Carolina and Northwestern Hallway located at Chester were burned Friday morning. The flames spread rapidly and in a short time the whole building, including the engine room, machine shop, car shop, storehouse and sttulion room were enveloped. The re- ' suit was total destruction of these departments, wit.h all their contents. One first class passenger coach was likewise destroyed. Of two passenger locomotives in the shop, the wood work of one was burned olY, the other is badly damaged, the axles and wheels being all that is left. The loss is estimated to reach more than $100,000 and the insurance will hut partially cover the loss. * ? ? ? Cigarette Smokers Itnrrod. By an order issued by Chief K. O. Besnar, of the Fire Department, of Canton, ()., no cigarette smokers need apply for jobs under him. He admits they may have brains, but claims they lack nerve and physical stamina. * loving banner Killed. Near Waco, Texas as the result of an impromptu sparring match Robt. A. Oilber, a farmer, is dead and his opponent has been arrested. Gilbert was knocked down during the ' 1k>ut and his neck was broken by tho fall. I ' ' " THE MIUTAL MURDER OF. A UTTUi GIRL LH QUCKLf '? AVKtY<JKI> BY CIT1ZKX8. The Ftettde Ley h Welt toe Their Little Vkttm.-^-Her Body Foaad la a Pool of Water. Two negroea, pleading vainly lor their lives, were strung up by an infuriated mob between Bonifuy and Dady, Fla.. Saturday afternoon, a ad while they were dangling from the ropes were perforated by the bullets of from ftfty to seventy-five white men of the surrounding country. The crime which caused the lynching is one of the most brutal ever known In that county. The two negroes confessed to murdering little Kessle Morrison, the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. .Mary' Morrison, who lives near Dady, in the extreme western end of Holmes county, whose body was found Saturday morning; in a pool of water between the Morrison homestead and the little school at Dady. The little girl started fov school Friday morning alone, the first Intimation of a tragedy being when she failed to come home In the afternoon. After a reasonable time had elapsed a searching pavty was formed and, after a quest lasting through Friday night, found the mangled remains of the little girl in a pool of water in a swamp near the girl's home. Her body was badly mangled and the shrubbery In the vicinity (old of the one-sided fight of the girl against the two negro fiends. After committing the murder the negroes dragged the body into a nearby swamp and threw her remains there, where thev were found by the searching party. As soon as the significance of the find dawned en the residents, the searching party was transformed into a mob searching for the ctilprite The sheriff of Honifay was notified and he. together with two assistants, went to Dady where the twe negroes were already arrested. A confession, giving some of the grewsomo details of the criminal assault and subsequent murder were made by the two men and feeling was running high but cool heads prevented a lynching on the sspot. The sheriff saw that the enly thing to be done was to rush the two men to the county jail, and at onco started out from Dady, but tie residents, who at this time were augmented by the arrivals ? ethers, got wind of the sheriff's plan and started in pursuit and overtook tbo sheriff on a lonely road, overpower ing him and taking the two legroei to the nearest tree, ropes were already provided for and it was only a short time before the negroes were swung up. The two negroes were employed oa a turpentine camp and were know to be of a bad character. They, according to their confession, laid along the road in wait fo?* the little girl, who would be going to school in the morning. This was after they had looked around and found that there was no white men in the vicinity. The details of the tragedy are ertremely gruesome. The sheriff of Holmes county arrived in Bonlfay Saturday night and told t.he full details of the crime, as far as he knew it and of the lynching. According to the sheriff the mob was in such a mood that it could not be controlled, and he readily saw that white blood would be spilled if he did not turn the negroes over to them. No further trouble is apprehended by the sheriff. WANT THFlflt SI IA It 10. The Xegroe.s Are Holding a Political War Dance. At Washington the negro Republicans are war dancing because no patronage plums have come their way. Various organs of the negroes are teeming with unpleasant things about the administration. Complaint is made that the President has failed to give a single original appointment to the colored wing of the party. Also, that he has actually deposed a large number of colored office-holders and given their jobs to whites. The number of places so lost is placed at 7f? to inn ? - " ~ * ?' J are talking of reprisals. In Indiana they are threatening to vote the socialist ticket and also for Reveridge, because he has fallen out with Prvaident Taft. >lade Fast Tine. With contract requirements calling for a speed of only 28 knots an hour, the torpedo boat destroyer, Roe made 3l| knots in standardization [tests off the Delaware breakwater course according to a report received at the navy department from the board of inspection. She burns oil as fuel. .Meets Death I'ncler Tin in. Sacrificing his life by gallantry In picking up a handkerchief dropped on the tracks by a child unidentified, a suhwav emplo'**?#? was mangled to death under a train at One hundred thirty-fourth street station in New York Wednesday. " % 5$ . - ^ ^|PW