The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 01, 1910, Image 3

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,/ P 'rT' ' ' LOSS OF LIFE" la ike Parol Fires afidafce aid Maam Uaa b ADpalliag MANY HUNDREDS DEAD f1r?8 Swept Through Forest With I Such Speed That None Could K?c?pe,?Moid Tlian Two Hundred Persona Perish in Idaho Alone.? Property Loss $20,000,000. If the stories of men who returned last Friday from the St. Joe country are to be believed, the loss of life along Big Creek, a tributary of the St. Joe river, was appalling and the dead in' Idaho alone will -number more than 200, even if Ranger Halm and his 84 men turn up, of which the forest officer in Wallace is not hope+S *ul. All estimates of the financial loss' eB place it at over $20,000,000, mostly in timoer. Supervisor Weigle has given hope for the safety of Ranger Halm and 84 on the headwaters of Wnncflr F\ A. tne 01. juc mci. 0?_ _ . Herns, at the head of a still larger party on the St. Joe, is safe. The loss of life occurred mostly last Saturday and Sunday week, when a gale fanned smouldering embers into great fires and drove flames through the mountain with the speed of an express train, giving fire fighters no chance to flee for their lives. None of the town in Idaho and Montana ie now in danger and the critical period is passed. With 8 6 employes of the forest service known dead and grave fears felt for a number of others who are missing, headquarters of the Couor <l'Alene forest service at Wallace, Idaho, is anxiously awaiting news from the relief expedition sent to rescue Ranger Joseph B. Halm and # 84 men who have not eince been heard from when they were on the headwaters of the St. Joe. "With the opening of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Budget Sound into the St. Joe valley, discouraging news *- 1 *?<?? rmt it annears 43 Uf l II11 111 iv/ vumv wv... ? ?, that 600 men were at work on Hi# Creek last Sunday when the wind blow flames through the canon. Apparently truthful accounts of the loss of 4 7 of the men were received Fri- ! day. These deaths should not be ' confused with the losses reported from Avery. Near Avery 47 bodies have been found and 10 Japanese, four negro soldiers and an unknown number of S settlers are missing. Sixty-five men, natives of the Mediterranean country, arrived in Spokane from Hig Creek and said 15 Ausy trians and two American choppers were burned to death last Saturday week. From the story of the survivors it appears that these victims were working at a point farther up the creek than the au Italians already reported dead. The Austrians were undertaking to back fire but their work was so unsuccessful that they were killed by the fire they themselves had just lighted which ran back on them and drove them against a wall of flames advancing from the opposite direction. The towns along the line of the Columbia and Puget Sound, a short coal road, are in greater danger than those along the Milwaukee line. The t Columbia's agent at Tailor reported Friday that the fire was within 7 00 yards of the town. He added: "Two houses 011 the outskirts were burned last night. Wind blowing hard. When fires get into heavy timber above hero nothing can save the town. Worst is yet to come." The Columbia & Puget Sound sent a passenger train to Tailor Friday might and is holding it there ready to bring out the people. Tailor is a town of 600 population. Warden Simons received the following telegram from Ranger Stone at CVioncon, on the line of the Milk waukee: "The fire here is from one to three miles wide. Need all the help I can , get. Can not keep fire back. Loss ( to personal property great and possibly some lives lost." , Warden Simons has telegraphed to Al* - >"/! ? ? ? liana rt man I u n ? L . IUV ?IIU TT 111 U\jpui |.UI\.?t.U Jng that the forts and warships on , Puget sound fire all their big guns j at 8 o'clock Saturday morning in , wie hope clio detonation will start | v a general rainfall over western Washington. * Killed by Lightning. /Standing around a neighborhood . well at Lincolnton, N. C., where his ( mother and five other women had | gathered to draw water, Theodore | Gilbert, five years old, was instantly killed, and all the women more or less seriously hurt by a bolt of lightning from almost a clear sky Sunday afternoon. Many Out of Work. Fifteen thousand employes of the 1 Amoskeag Cotton Manufacturing i Company of Manchester, N. H., was j! thrown out of work when seventeen J mills closed down for fifteen days, owing to curtailment of production, i ' ' ' r , '' ' !%' ' & ' TRAGIC STORIES THOSE WHO ESCAPE TELL OF FLAMES FIERCE BLAST. Some of the Awful Tragedies Enacted in the Fire Zone Recited bv Survivors. Telegraphic communication wita the St. Joe Valley of Idaho hi? been j restored, but it i3 not yet possible to verify the reports of lar^e U us of life among fire flghte s, additional to the reporter by the government officials. The estimate of 200 dead in the three States is adhered | to by those most familiar with the situation. Tragic stories are oeing told by arrivals from the fire zone in Ida? ho. George Ryan of Toronto, Can., one of the 30 men imprisoned in War Eagle mine Saturday night, where six perished, said Friday: "There vere 75 of :?s under Ranfer Pulaski. We first took refuge in the tunnel of the J. I. C., mi.xe. . lit it was not safe and after we had been there a short time, 3 0 ot -is went down the creek a quarter of a mile to the War Eagle. I don't know what became of the iest of the men. We took horses into the unne' Pulaski told up to lie as close *o the floor of the tunnel as we could, ! or close the wall. We tried to block up the entrace of the tunnel with blankets, but the fire burned them off as fast as we put them up. "The flames licked up 15 feet from the mouth like a blast. T.he smoke was suffocating. "About an hour and a half after we had been in the tunnel, Pulaski lost consciousness. "Two men who got scared rolled around in the middle of the tunnel instead of keeping by the edge or on the floor and they died across my knees. "Nearly all of us during the six nours were lying in water that dropped from the roof and walls of the tu nnel. "When the fire finally passed and the tunnel cleared a little nearly half of us were unconscious. The eyes of the others were gummed together from smoke and tears so that we could hardly open them. Five were dead. "We found a sixth man, burned ! to a crisp, but we don't kn >w what became of the others. T.he two hoi- 1 sea were nearly suffocated and their eyes were falling out of their heads. 1 We had to shoot them." ' George BIberon, owner of a mine on Placer creek, southeast of YVal- 1 lace, who reached safety Friday, said 1 the number of dead would never be known. He continued: < "Harvey Bertram, a deputy rang- ( er, had nuch difliculty in holding all I his half crazed men. Believing they ( were being trapped, one or two of his party threatened to commit sul- 1 cide. At times Bartram was able to control them only at the point of 1 a revolver." * ' ? ? t, < FATAL STICK FT Dl'KL. 1 Two Men Shoot Kadi Other and an Innocent Man. ' i At Chattanooga. Tenn., Boyd < Thompson, a prominent young Court reporter, was shot and fatally wound- i ed, and William Snyder, the other < principle In the duel, will die as a re- I suit of his injuries. The shooting occurred on crowded Market street, j the main business thoroughfare. 1 Charles Hensley, a lawyer, of Dayton, ( a pedestrian, received a slight wound ; from a stray bullet. I The trouble is t.he result of an old 1 grudge. Ten days ago Thompson fired three shots at Snyder within a l block of the scene of the tragedy. All the shots went wild. The two i men have been anticipating further j trouble since. In Friday night's affray ten shots : were fired and a panic followed. Af- I ter Snyder had emptied his pistol at . Thompson, the latter staggered to a 1 drug store. Snyder followed, re- i loading his pistol as ho ran. Thompson fell to the sidewalk. Syndor lev- \ Bled his gun at the prostrate form, but by-slanders interfered and wrest- c ?d the pistol from Snyder. 1 All three of the woundeu wore I I I ~ -1 ... ~ k a 1 1. . 4 4 U ../V T. \ nurrieu u? a iiuspiiiti, uin int.fi t? in .1 110 hope for the recovery of either a Snyder or Thompson. T.he former a received three bullets and the lat- " ter four. * I li Six Cltai'itcd With .Murder. t Alonzo Gray. Roy Merrick, l.uther 11 md Bart Creekniur, Vilas Mitchell ' [ind Frank Murphy, all prominent 1 citizens of Lyon county, were brought to Hopkinsville, Ky., Friday night 1 for safe keeping. They are charged with the murder of Axien Cooper, at a Lamasro, and were denied bond !>> 9 Judge Hanberry at Fddyville. * Meet After Long Years. William It. James, aged 7 0 and a c former governor of Nebraska, and d his brother, Walter James, aged 7J, 1 a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., met e In Seattle, Wash., last week, but had t to be introduced to each other by the v hotel clerk. They parted 51 yeaisla ago. f wv f- , .V ' yr ' ; r? )-' . -r' ' ' .' * i' *; } y ' 7 - *; ATTACK ON LYON He Meeting at Laurens ea Friday Was . the Scene ei Disorder *. FISTOIS WERE DRAWN i < > \ And Things Looked Squally at One Time, but Matter* Were Quieted Down, and the Meeting Was Itesumed.?Lyon Defended Himself. Did Not liefer to Crews Again. With the end of the campaign in sight the lirst real excitement occurred at Laurens on Friday. While J. Fraser Lyon was addressing the big crowd J. T. Crews, Henry Wright and others mounted or tried to mount the speaker's stand "to get Lyon. Attempts were made to strike the attorney general, none being successful. For about five minutes the excitement was intense. Friends of Lyons and of the Crews brothers crowded toward the stand. Mr. Lyon had been speaking but a few minutes when the trouble occurred. 'Mr. Lyon in opening his speech told that he was "on Laurens soil" to reply to an editorial in the Laurensville Herald accusing him of dishonesty. He went on to say that he was prepared to prove the editorial maliciously false in that part referring to his character. He charged W. T. Crews with being responsible for this editorial. While Mr. Lyon was speaking V. T. Crews, his brother or some one standing with the two men and their friends near the speaker's stand miIIpH * "ItfMifl r?t.h#?r loffprs " Mr. Lyon replied, "1 am going to read all about you." J. T. Crews then leaped on the stand with others, standing near. Crews tried to strike Mr. Lyon, but was caught before he could reach him. Mr. Lyon was awaiting the attack with fists clenched. Henry Wright had not succeeded in mounting the stand but cursed t lie at tor-, ney general, who at once tried to strike hint, but being unable to reach him landed a kick in the neighborborhood of tlie stomach. IJy this time the whole grove was in utter confusion. A few half drawn revolvers were seen and tragedy seemed imminent. People rushed on t.hfl atii llrl Priuiulu nf t tw> f'ruii'j thers tugging to join in the attack, while friends of Mr. Lyon pushed their way through the crowd to reach his side. Citizens and policemen mounted lhe stand for a few moments vainly sought to restore order. John I . Holt, clerk of court and it. A. Cooper, county chairman, implored the urowd to return to their seats. The ideas of these gentlemen finally quelled the riotous attitude. Mr. Bolt conferred with Mr. Lyon ind announced that in order to inuire a peaceful continuation of the neeting Mr. Lyon had consented not. :o make further allusions to YV. 'i. Llrews. As 'Mr. Lyon renewed his ipeech cheers for Lyon and Crews were given. By this time the crowd was seated tnd the critical situation in a great sense relieved, serious trouble having been averted by the quick action >f Messrs. Bolt, Cooper, and others. \ policeman with his hand on his revolver took his seat on the steps )f the stand and there remained unit Mr. Lyon concluded his speech. Mr. Lyon, resuming his speech, jaid he had stood for his personal lonor when it was assailed and would continue to do so. lie said he was speaking to the honest people of I/aureus and expected them to hear iim. He said he had been attorney general for four years and would he or two more. A voice from the crowd cried, "Not f you have anybody running against i'ou." He then told how he had served South Carolina as attorney general. He made no reference to Ovans ;n his speech. Closing, lie .aid he expected the support of the >est people of Laurens. He was heered by many while speaking and vas heartily cheered and applauded vhen .he closed. R. M. Evans opened his speech by ailine Mr. Lvnn 11:1 ?ipm li*? ni'olmhiv uis not used heretofore when Mr. ijon was present. When he said rlr. Lvon was "an infamous liar" the ttorney general came hack to the tand and said to Chairman Cooper: I wont stand for that." saving he ntended to resent it. Mr. Cooper egged Mr. Lyon not to do so an I hen told ESvans he would have to < ise parliamentary language, remind- 1 ng him t.hat Mr. Lyon had not reerred to him. Kvnns was hissed and in the addiional excitement he was unable to ontinue for a short while. Me flnlly finished and was cheered by ome. Itohhed of His .Money. T. B. Higgins. Southern Railway perntor at. lOasley, was help up Krilay nig.'it in Cornelius, Ca., and ?eieved of a considerable sum of mousy. Mr. Higgins is an organizer for he O. R. T. It is understood he vas injured about the face by hi3 issailant, who was hunted unsuccessully by a posse. * 77rs*T;i ' ?. W' ' "J- iWI HELPED THE TRUST WHAT A DKMOCItAT SAYS ABOUT DUTY OS LUMBER. Says It Kobs the People of Many Millions of Dollars and Returns Them Very Little. To the Editor of The State: As the Denver platform declared for lumber to go on the free list really should any Democrat back the niirtv nlntfnrm? If fhp I)pnmcr:it? the next house or the next president it will be due largely to the votes cast for protection on different articles by Democratic senators and representatives. A vote for one cent or one dollar duty on lumber is indorsing the Republican policy of protection and the Republicans will use it with deadly effect in close States and districts. How any Democrat who pledges himself to abide by the platform of the party can back w.herever he sees tit is beyond my comprehension. For thirty years the Democracy has contended for free lumber. The Mills bill more than 20 years ago contained a provision for free trade in lumber. The Wilson act contained a free lumber clause in 1 804. The Payne Dill reduced the tariff from $2 to $1 per thousand. senator Aictricn and tits band of robbers restored the duty to $1.50 per thousand. This rate was reduced in conference to $1.25 on rough lumber. In addition to that there will be a maximum duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem added. So instead of the people not feeling this burdensome tax it only puts into the treasury about two million dollars at a cost of $120,000,000 to the American people. More than 7 0 per cent, of the timber in the South is owned by 11011 resident corporations and stockholders. Three-fourths of the timber supply of our country is on the Pacific coast and we must in a few short years go t.here for our supply and only to face the lumber monopolies there. If we forego the $2,000,00 of revenue we relieve the tax burdened people of more than $118,000,000. Lumber, like salt, is a prime necessity of life and should be on the free list. Instead of passing a New England scheme to pay for their old worn out lands known as the Appalachain park bill, let the duty be be taken oil of lumber and then we will be able to obtain this necessity free of duty and muc.li cheaper to the consumer from Canada, British Columbia and Mexico. if the removal of the tax voted on lumber will not reduce the price then i mo *i.zd mx noes not uenenr tne consumer. Then why impose the tax? Why were the lumber lords moving Heaven and earth for this tax? They cared nothing about the little $2,000,000 revenue, but were looking after that $1 20,000,000 for their own pockets, which the Aldrich tariff gives them. Democrat. Newberry, August, 1910. SAYKS CHILD FKO.M DK.VTH. ?. Woman Stands for Might Hours in Cistern I'ntil Help Conies. Standing in five feet of water in a cistern at rer home near Sedan, Ivan., Mrs. ,'ohn Burah, wife of a farmer, for eight hours held aloft her two-year-old child until the arrival of her .husband Friday. The child had fallen into the cistern and the mother immediately sprang after it, seized .he baby in her \rms, raised it above the surface of the water and called for help. No one was within hear in.? 01' toe woman's calls, and she waited for the return of .her husband from his work in the fields. After being taken from the cistern, Mrs. Burch collapsed and is dangerously ill, but the child suffered no illness. * 8?0 MAY HAYK l*KttlSIIRI>. ? Supervisor at Wallace Believes His Men Are I>end. Three hundred firefighters of a total force of GOO which has been battling the flames in the burning white pine forest of Northern Idaho, are unaccounted for. Government Korest Supervisor W. R. Weigel, at Wallace, Wednesday declared his belief that nearly all had perished. "Out of my total force of GOO men I have received word of the safety of only lino," said the supervisor. "The 1 others, when last heard from, were working in the districts where the 1 flames have been fiercest, along the headquarters of the Cour d'Alene and % the St. .loe. 1 am forced to the appalling conclusion that nearly all 1 ^ r i ii *' i i?l I llCf.' Ill'-ll Hit \ f U??l lllt'll IIVCH. Young Man a Suicide. S. Walter Tise, for 22 years manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Winston-Salem, X. (\, committed suicide there Saturday afternoon shooting himself in the brain with a pistol in the rear of the 1 telegraph office. He was 35 years old and unmarried. No cause is assigned for his rash act aside from overwork and ill health. COTTON SOARING Aagast Ceatrads Reached Highest Figare Siace Cifil War* MARKET FLUCTUATION Highest Figure I touched Was Twenty Cent.**. JRIO.DO a Hale Cain Over Saturday.?Hulls Willing to Sell at that Figure and Market Drops Hack to Kighteen and a Half. Sensational as the fluctuations in the cotton market have been previously during the progress of the bull campaign, which started last winter, they faded into insignificance when compared with the big jump in the price of August contracts Monday morning. Closing Saturday at 16.82, after having sold at 16.07 on Friday morning, the first sale of August that morning was at 16.95 and inside of half an .hour the shorts were trying to buy at 19 cents a pound, or 21 S points $10.90 per bale over Saturday's close and at the highest figure reached since the Civil war. There were frequently 25 and 50 points between sales and only five transactions occured on the advance from 18 to 19 cents, while shortly after that the price was forced up to 20 cents per pound, nearly $16 per bale above the closing figure of Saturday, and 245 points above the highest price reached by any contract during the famous bull season of 1902-04. At this price W, H. Brown, the floor leader of the bull party offered to sell 100,000 bales August. This relieved the strain under which the market had been laboring all tbe morning and at the same time seemed to set a limit to the advance. Several of the big local spot people sold when they found that the bulls were willing to give the shorts at 2 0 cents a pound and the price dropped back to 18.20 almost as rapidly as it had advanced earlier in the day. ATTEMPTED SlIIDE INSTEAD. Asheville .Man on Way to l>e Electrocuted thits Trroat. James R. Allison, under sentence of death for killing Floyd McGee, city patrol driver, of Asheville, on July 5, attempted to commit suicide Friday morning when Sheriff Hunter notified him that he had come to take him to the death chamber at Italeigh to await execution. Deternviiiod not to Iip t ho lliim-nmlui man to die at Raleigh, Allison wrote a note, saying, "1 do not want the state to make a show of me." In the note he confessed to the premeditated murder of McGee. While the sheriff had his back turned, Allison drew a penknife and slashed his own 1 throat about one and a .half inches deep under fhe jaw. He will recover. * ItKKS ATTACK HATH MIS. Mining Man Is Rescued When Others ' Hear Noise of Fray. Removing his bath robe and placing; one foot in the cool water that ( tilled his bathtub Friday, Chapin i Oard, a Denver mining man, was i suddenly electrified by a series of 1 sharp pains in practically every por- 1 tion of his anatomy. At the same i time a loud buzzing filled the room. < Then followed turmoil. Other oc- < cupants of the house, who came to investigate the disturbance, found 1 Oard in the costume of a prehistoric 1 warrior, vainly swinging a wet bath I towel and waging a battle against a ; swarm of bees that had invndeu i! o ; bathroom through a hole in the w'n- * dow screen. * t Killed by Train. c Phonic Bailey, a white woman of 1 about 65 years of age, was struck 1 by a north hound train about a mile * from Mars Blue Sunday morning and ' instantly killed. The woman was H walking up the tract and was wearing a bonnet which prevented her * from hearing the approaching train. v She was thrown about 50 feet up the 11 track and her neck broken, result- s ing in instant death. I] ? ? ? v Killed on Train. On an excursion on the Southern, returning from Savannah to Anderson, Newt. Madison Friday afternoon \ shot and killed Jim Jackson, both colored, in the lower part of Newberry county. Both negroes are from the Anderson section. The body v was put off at Newberry and Madi- j son and several witnesses were turn- j ed over to Chief of Police Bishop. * # ^ Killed by Fanatic. v Claiming umi no is sanctioned and f Incapable of committing a crime, G. li VV. Maynard of Piggot, Ark., holi- 11 ness loader is awaiting hearing here v on a change of murder ?.*' ,\ little t concern. Maynard, it is claimed, 1: clubbed his neghbor, Sol Townsendt s with whom he disagreed, to death li several days ago. He does not deny > the killing. c GUNS TURNED ON TAFT L\ FOIilJSTTE DIKKCT8 FIRE AT THE PRESIDENT. Iliff Bill's Attempts at Keeoncilijitioa With the Insurgents Seem 10 Be of No Avail. President Taft cuddling up to the insurgent Republicans has met with a rather cold reception at the hauds of the LaKollette hosts, who are readers of LaFollefte's weekly. Sal uraay s issue or tnat magazine contains a scathing attack on the president in its editorial column" After referring 10 the fact that the president is reported to be working on a letter to be published in the Republican campaign textbook, to counteract the influence of the VYinono speech, which riled the insurgents. the article continues: "It is stated that 'there is ao desire on his part to read any person out of tjie party.' What has happened since the president left Washington for Beverly? At that time Republican senators and representatives were denounced as 'pirates' at the White House because they had voted against the tariff revision upward, and refused to swallow a bad railway bill on the recommendation of the president that it was good. "It is scarcely four months sinie Mr. Taft dispatched Wickersham to Chicago to deliver a speech reading the progressives out of t.he party. That speech was approved by Mr. Taft. "Not later than June, James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice president by grace of Cannon, journeyed to Milwaukee to address a Tory assemblage convened for the sole purpose of perfecting an organization to defeat the progressive Wisconsin senator and representatives. Vice President Sherman stated that he was there at President Taft's request.' Mr. Taft's interest was still further shown by his sending a telegram of congratulation which was read at the meeting. "We have not complained that the president and the vice president are taking part in the campaign against progressive Republicans. We have made no protest against the hothouse politics played by the administration with federal patronage since the vote on the tariff bill. "LaFollette does protest against the dishonesty and cowardice back of such dispatches as the one above quoted from Beverly. Lei the truth be plainly stated. Let the president stand out in the open. The administration has presumed to read Republicans out of the party for voting their honest convictions on legislation. The president is directly taking part in State tights involving t.he election of Republican senators and representatives. "These are facts." There doesn't seem to be much chance for harmony between factions that get as wide apart as the LaKollette followers and the Taft followers seem to be. AKUOriiAXH DISASTKR KKCOBD. Saturday Was an Unlucky Day for Flying Machines. At Hanover, Prussia, aviator Sclileuter had a narrow escape from death Saturday, while making a flight it Cello. The wires of the steering t?oar became entangled, and seeing that he was In imminent danger. Schleuter jumped to the eearth, about 150 Feet below. He escaped with a broken leg. The machine was demolishad. At Hamburg aviator Reesemann was making trial flights Saturday with a machine of his own construction, w.hen the motor exploded. The leroplano fell to the ground from t height of 65 feet, and was smashed. Reesemann escaped uninjured. At Harve M. Legagneaux, French iviator, was seriously injured Saturlay while competing for the total disance prize. His aeroplane struck a >ost and the machine fell to the ground, burying the aviator beneath t. His skull was fractured and he luffered Internal injuries. At Arnhelm, Netherlands, while he Dutch aviator, Van Mansdyke, vas attempting a cross-country flight tear there the motor of his machine uddenly stopped and the machine dunged to the ground. The aviator vas instantly killed. DKATH PKKDICTIOX TIU'R V iktimn ?- * ? 1 ' '* - . x'.ikoi iiuuim ri.\|>irr.t on I'.iy ^ne h'OpllCsiCKl. Sarah L. Chira, a palmist, who vas said to have predicted accuratey many important things of the ast few years fell the A la ha m a da rice hall at Rer;en Reach, X. Y. She stated two ears ago that she would die away rom home on August 24, 1910. She lad just been leading the grand uurdi with Harry Dives and was talking to a chair, when she fell to he floor unconscious. When an amuilanco surgeon arrived she had uccunibed. Mrs. Chira was said to lave predicted Harriman's death, the rtessina disaster and the exact date if King Edward's death. f iVjr