Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GREAT SHOCK Cargo of Dynaaite Explodes With Awful Results Wednesday. MANY PEOPLE KILLED * Many More Are Injured by the Shook Which is Felt Forty-Five Miles Away?New York Shaken From Street Level to Too of I he t.? Highest Huilding. I A cargo of dynamite in transit! from a freight car to the hold of a i lighter moored at pier No. 7, Com-1 munipaw, N. J., let go shortly after toon Tuesday, 150 yards south of the ersey City terminal of the Central J ailroad of New Jersey and in the i idespread ruin that followed seven .ien are known to have been killed, seven more are missing, hundreds were wounded and varying reports leave from 15 to 2 0 more unaccounted for. Thirty seems to be a conservative estimate of the dead and property i damage will hardly fall below $750,-' 000. The cause of the explosion is variously attributed to the dropping of a ease of dynamite and to a boiler explosion on a boat. The direct cause probably never -"'5 11 1", l.-nnu'ii \> ill ij\ JtllW ?. ... Terminal Wrecked. The Jersey Central terminal was wrecked: three ferry boats in the slip* were torn and splintered: lower Manhattan, across the river, was shaken from the street level to the top of the Singer tower: severe damage was done in Brooklyn and Staten Island, and to the immigrant detention station on Ellis Island; the >hock was fell at Amityville, Long Island, 3 5 miles distant, and in New Jersey at Long Branch, 4 5 miles away. The damage is so widely scattered that k is impossible as yet to estimate more than roughly, but in Manhattan atone it is placed at $100,000, on Ellis Island at from $10,000 to $25,000 and in all threequarters of a million appears to be a fair estimate. Lighter Vanished. The lighter receiving the dvna mite, the Katherine W., owned by James Healing of Jersey City, vanished utterly with her crew of seven men, including the master, Edward Traver. Alongside was the lighter Whistler, which was so badly shattered that she sank with her crew of two, while the Sweedish steel tbarkentine lngrid was stripped of her rigging and the lives of two deck hands aboard were snuffed out. Fragments of one man's head were found Swinging high on a tangled piece of rope. Were t 11 loading Dynamite. The Katherine W. was tied to the outer end of the pier, and a crew of dock hands was unloading a consignment of 50-pound boxes from two fieicrht cars to the lighter when the crash came. One report was to the "^ect that the explosive was con;r.ed to contractors up the river bins'ing along the Palisades, an' *r that it was hound for Habana. v.'ith the explosion the Katherine rimply disappeared; not a splinter of her has been found. Only the Whistler's flagpole has been found. The freight car went up in a puff of dust. On the rear deck of the barkentine Inn-id were found a pair of iron trucks that were also torn to hits. Another Car Shaken. Fift\* vards hack stood another car of dvnamite. The explosion ripped the roof og it and broke in the doors, but the dynamite itself did not explode. On hoard the Tngrid the stool mizzenmast snapped off above the lower yard, and the tangled wreckage camr tumbling about the docks. Fverv thin? abaft the mizzonmast was 1 e\ eled flat but the steel platof tlu hull hold stout'y and showed not even a mark. For ion feet fhe pier-end itsei ias utterly demr'lshed. A11 about were strange freaks o ;ae explosion. Cl.nss ltoof Collapses. In the train shed of the terminal nearly the whole southern exposur of the glass roof collapsed, shower lng the passengers with broke glass. One man was struck by 20-pound fragment and so severel cut that be died. An engineer in slii ft in g locomotive was blown froi his cab and died of a fracture skrll. A tugboat captain was hurle from bis wheolhouse and fished oi of the water 15 minutes later. Inside the passenger station thoi was dam a e visible everywhere. The tloors were littered with bro! en gl ihs. Windows fronting on 11 Inn or court had been sucked fro the frames, sashes and all. Clock Hands Torn Off. Plates were torn from the roof ai the hands of the ferry bouse clo< were torn off. James Mayew, cashier in the st Hon restaurant, was eating lunch '* when the explosion came-' "There was everywhere' the era Of falling glass.' he said, "and t rush of 'rtp.htcned feet. Chlldr >v; ?ered and women nhrlek* 1. T gr-> 'on of terror war. acute. se - 1 a* the oarth wa? bel DISASTERS WERE GREAT SEVEN IIINDUED PEOPLE DIED IN FAAL ERUPTION. Five Thousand Families Were Made Homeless- and Ruined by the Volcano's Activity. The eruption of Taal volcano ami (he accompanying disturbances In ' ill ?1 n i\ c\ .> ,^.^1 in j t ne Philippines Kiueu <vu inline m I the town of Talisay, according to a lieport cabled to the war department (Thursday by Gov. Gen. Forbes of the Philippine islands. The earthquake shocks continue, the governor gen- | ( ral added. Among the estimates of casualties ; ti ansmitted to the war department was a report which placed the total dead at 300. The report added that !>,000 families had been ruined by the disaster. Recent earthquake shocks have been slightly perceptible in Manila, but have caused no damage. Since the first disturbance, the seismof,iaph apparatus of the Manila observatory has recorded the unprecedented number of 7 11 shocks up to 3:45 p. m. Thursday. <?. KOl'M) A1 TFIi MAW WKEKS. l?ody of A. (.T ojiiat rie of Soparton, Gn., Discovered. The body of James A. Cromatrie editor of a paper at Soparton, ua., M i o disappeared from the hotel ai r. Mm lot v f .. November G. last, was ftund Wednesday afternoon in a swamp til 1*0> miles from Ilanilet by hi mors. His personal possessions, including a considerable sum of money, were intact and there was no evidence of foul play, but how he met death and how long ho has been load have not been ascertained Cromatrie was on his way to visit relatives in Blandcn county and stopped over at Hamlet to change cars. He disappeared durinr the night and though his three sons scoured that section for a month ! no trace of nis lnovementts could be j *ound. Identification was fully established by a relative. Searche-s had passed within 10 feet, of his tody. The report several weeks ago t/iat Cromatiie had been found in the woods in a demented condition ( near Ellenboro later developed to have been a case of mistaken identity. torn to bits. * Showered With Glass. Two ferry boats of the Central Railroad of New Jersey lay in the tnrmhml <dtns and a third was just edging into the river. All of them careened violently and all of them were showered with their own glass. Many of the wounded passengers in these boats came to New York for treatment at the hospitals. In New York the terror was Intensified by uncertainty. For half an hour ^obody knew what had happened or where it had happened. Literally acres cf glass were broken In Trinity church a valuable stained 1 glass window was strewed in the aisle. Xo I)i(Terence in Force. Strange to say, office buildings on the water front streets in New York I were no more jarred than those on (he further side of Hroadway, In Wall street, Nassau street, on the Curb market row, or the stock exchange itself. A plate glasr window in the rear of the stock exchange was smashed and in the acquarium at the southernmost tip of the island. 12 windows and 25 skylights were broken. Nearly every structure from Fulton street, south, suffered in some . manner. Saw I(Y of Dust. New York business men who stood , at their office windows looking out over the North river at noon saw a puff of yellow dust shoot into the air just below the Jersey Central terminal and then drift down the wind . until it covered the terminal train shod. The next thing they noticed was that every tug boat in the river (seemed to ho heading to Cummuni paw. Turning, to the street, below i thev saw them black with surging j thousands. There were incipient panics here and there throughout tin ' city in business buildings and fac tories as far north as the Tlronx. n Wires Mixed Up. a Tho jar crossed many telephom y and fire alarm wires down town am a all sorts of complications ensued n I ire engines were dashing hither am d thither in quest of non-existent fire* d Terrified tenants made matters wors it lw tin-nine in alarms that had nt Bounded of their own accord, 'c Uhinelnnder Waldo, lire commis jsioner for Xew York, and Fire Chic k- Croker, accompanied by a picke ie band of police, were among the fin in t< reach Cum muni paw. They rei idered aid to the injured. Ambi lances could not come fast enou id and express wagons were rommam ::k cd for duty in their places. Ho many were injured never will 1 a- known in full, hut the count of thof on treated in the New York hospita way 1 no and In those of Jersey Clt fti lloboken, Union Hill and surroum he iuk towns, more than double tin en number. he The estimated number of dead It ">2. Five bodies have been rcco ng vied. POISON SCORES! I I Sensational Murder Trial Starts Russia Court Circles. HAUNTED BY HORRORS Dr. Pantclu'iiko and Count dc Lucy Charged Willi "Keinoving" the Count's IJrotlior-iii-law?The Dottor Confesses and Declares Mo Was Merely the Counts Toll. /^1 141 1 1> ufni ?i | h it AT isr. rpici'hiHiry, Huasui, inv> Count Patrick O'Brien de Lncy and Dr. Pantchenko were placed on trial Thursday for the murder of Raron J \"assllli Ruturlin by poison. An al- j logod confession by Dr. Pantcbenkoi which was rend In court created aj 11 emendous sensntion. In it he declared that lie had been' "njpnotized by Count de La<\v and | had inurd -red Baron Ruturlin by inoculating him wifh the germs of diptherla. At first he had intended, he said, to use cholera germs, but, tearing detection, substituted diphtheria germs. Refors the trial is finished, it is I asserted, names of persons in high circles will he dragged in. A worn-in i high in Russian society, who is said j to be an In'nnatn frineds of the doctor, and a mule cousin of the count, v ho would lie benefited finnncia'ly by the death of the Raron, have already been mentioned. The murdered man was the second sen of frfip. Ruterlin, and the Countess de Lac.v was his sister. The ekl 1 son of (ho General inennod pa :c,ntal displeasure by marrying a music hall dancer, and it was known that Baron ButiirlPi would inherit 111e bulk of bis lather's fortune, estimated af $4,000,000. In the event of the Baron's death it would go lo Countess de Lacy. When Baron Buturlin was taken ill Count de Lacy called in Dr. Panichenko. A few days later tho Baron died, and Dr. Pantchenko filed a certificate that death was due to heart failure. The widow was suspicious, however, and persuaded Gen. Buturlin to have an autopsy. This repealed that the Baron had met his death through some subtle poison. Chief of Secret Police Lilipoff was notified and after investigation aricsted Dr. Fantchenko and Count de Lacy. The doctor, under rigid examination oroke down and confessed that he had "removed" Baron Buturlin at the instigation of Count do l acy, who promised him $1100,000, md also agreed to furnish money so !hat the doctor's woman friend could marry another cousin of the murdered man. Fie also confessed that he had killed scores of persons by means of poison. "Baron Buturlin's murder was cnly a drop in the bucket," he told Chief Filipofi. "Horrors have haunted me from early morning until late at night. I have killed scores, men oi high standing as well as others. have been the blind instrument, o( a demon. Why? I don't know. 1 am not a very rich man. I live a? every professional of my class lives I have not squandered great sums ?0 you see there was no reason for me to poison the people. Yet I hav poisoned them as a butcher's wife ooisons flies. I will tell you the rame of my master who made nu take the lives." "Who is your master?" he was ssked. "Count Patrick O'Brien de Lacy,' was the reply. According to Chief Filipoff, the confession of Dr. Pantchenko wil lead to the unveiling of many mvs lerious murders which have puzzler the St. Petersburg police. Conn at Lacv maintains that ho is inno cent; that the confession is a tissur I cf lies. The Count Ins held a high pi ic< [ .1; court circles and has been the per 1 bonal frienl of the Cabinet Ministers [ .1 diplomatic agent of the CJovorn n.cnt and a man of good reputation . He eomes of a good Irish family r which settled in Russia at the be r ginning of the last century. Th I Countess Tarnowski is a cousin o ? Count de Lacy. Fight Was Fatal. At Calilee, Mich., Hueh McNair R 1 S years olo, who was stabbed sev , eral days ago by Cleve Fdwards principal of (ho public scnooi, cue I Wednesday. l'he trouble prow on . of an alleged attack by McNair An ' two companions on Edwards upo . his return from a visit to a youn woman, for whose affections all pai ticipants were rivals. if # (j T>oatli Tiist, CJreat. U A wireless message from Fo i- Mor an, Ala., states that the oflicei 5. of the steamer Herald, which a p rived there Wednesday mornin j_ fiom Oeiba, Honduras, report 1" w ocrsons killed in the recent fight i )e Oeiba. Former reports gave thir >3 the death list. Is * vt Sure lie's Dead. 1- The will of Henry Abbott, Sr., it. Media, Pa., requires that his bo< he kept in an open coffin for *10 da is her his death and that it bo view* w i daily. If ho ia si 111 dead after th period his teniains may be buried. JLAII) IT TO REST. Election Order for Hey ward County is Revoked. Gov. Rleaue on Wednesday killed the Heyward County proposition when he Issued an order revoking the election order of Governor Ansel. The election was to have been held on February 7. "I am satisfied that the territory dees not contain 400 square miles, the constitutional requirement, from testimony 'hat has been presented to me, and that the limits of the town of Ellenton are one mile, which j would cause a county line to pass 'through the limits of an incorporated town," said Governor Blease foliow1 iiift arguments by attorneys for tne promoters of Heyward County and Aiken County. j The decision follows a hearing which lasted several days, and at J which expert testimony was presented as to the area of the new county territory. ? ? IjOYIjKSS TIKIOS CONTROL. liuys Controlling Interest in the Old Augusta Chronicle. A dispatch from Augusta to The State says Thomas \Y. Loyless Tuesday paid over to T. K. Scott and 1). I'. Dyer $85,000 and exercised the rpfion secured by him .January 10 [on the majority stock in the Augusta I Chronicle. In the interim Mr. LoyI less h:\s sold all of the stock held Messrs. Scott and Dyer, except so n eoh as with his former holdings will give him control of the propmen of the city in small lots in this iy gaining an enormous ousinesr rennection and influence for his pa I per. The company lias a unid-in canlit al now of $150,0 0 0. Di-hl years j i ?\j r. i<oyi ss imiu'iT 1 " i nron I Pde Kir irmsell rind certain associaies. PASSES THE SENATE. The Mileage Hill Gets u Very Large Majority Vote. The mileage bill passes the State senate on Wednesday night after a herd fight by the decisive vote of 2 6 to 12. The direct vote on the passage of the bill was as follows: Yeas?Ackerman, Rates, Black, Carlisle, Dennis, Earle, Epps, Ginn, Green, Hough, Johnson, Johnstone, Raney, Lawson, Ride, Mars, W. L. Mauldin, T. J. Mauldin, Muckenfoss, Itainsford, Sinkler. Strait, Stucky, Sullivan, Summers, Wharton?26. Nays?Appelt, Crosson, Forrest, Rail, Hardin, Montgomery, Spivey, Stewart, Walker, Waller, Weston Young?1 2. The bill is as follower "That any railroad company selling mileage books for transportation is hereby required to receive coupons from mileage books sold by said rail road company on its trains for trans ( port.ation within the State, and tc ( iieCK naggd^O 1UI Jliianciificio u^/ui . presentation of sairl mileage. SENDS HOY TO DEATH. scared l>y Rubber Snake He Dashes ; in Front of Train. Frightened by a rubber snake ii | the hands of a companion, J. F Holder, Jr., a young boy at Burn > ide, Miss., Wednesday dashed ii i fiont of a swiftly moving passenge] train and was instantly killed. Jef 'Jomlinson, 18 years old, and younj Holder were standing near the rail road tracks when suddenly Tomlin , son drew 'he imitation snake fron his pocket and shoved it toward Holder, who dashed in front of tin j train and was ground to pieces. Tom Mnson was arrested, but 110 criini j r.nlity can attach to his act. lie i t very sorry of the death of his younj friend. ?. +* ? a Storm and Wreck. Thirty people wore killed when _ passenger train was derailed at Val encia, Spain, as a result of a wash . rut of the roadbed. A wild st.orr swept the Spanish coast last nighl A s< ore of fishing crafts were dashe _ i pon the rocks. Many crews wer n lost. This morn in ? twenty-fire sal f orr' bodies were picked up along th coast. ? + Leaps to Her Death. At New York Miss Nellie Rill r. kny, aged twenty-six, went to a roa ?i window of her home and leaped t ,] the eround, six stories below. He it lifeless body was found on the stor (1 flagging two hours later. Relative n hoi laved that she may have bee ^ walking in her sleep when she plunj r- ed. . i? ? o Marrying Woman. Mrs. Lizzie Miller has plead* rt guilty to a charge of bigamy in con rs in Quincy, 111., and immediate i?. drew an indeterminate sentence ig'tho state penitentiary- Sha w 10 charged with having married foi ?tj I ^ i-* c- %ir/\ t\? f hri fit, | men wmmi iuui ho^ad, , .?w ... ... ty inmates of an old soldiers' home. *.ice for a Life* Key West, Fla., In a flight Thursd. of Lctwcon John Sawyer, agor 7, ai ly loi Is Lowe, a *od II, the form y? threw a pair of scissors at. his pin ed mate, killing him almost instant I at 1 '1 he scissors struck Just below t shoulder hi uClC| piercing the lung. hank of Con wa 4485 largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT 1)1 KM Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, <}eorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we ROBERT B. 80ARBOHOITOH, b ! RKHIOKNT. We conlirue to pay 5 pe !| FIRST JNA'l'U /ft CONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSISTS ? 1)1 RFC J. A. Mr.Dermott, Jolin ( /AW B. G. Collins. M. L. 1 ! M. Uuri'oiiRlis, C' P. Qui m S ireassnr i<? tbo Rank ol /AW Horry Couir.y, and a oionaor ly a Iliad with the recent ?lc\ /l\ R'"i?u idle. Packed l).v the /AW United Stales Ponds, we a fa | homers any reasonabh acconii |y II. A. SPI\ Fv. j Cashier. PKOFF1NSIGN \1. CAKDlS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Couucelor it La* CONWAY, 8. G. K. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 6. Cv Attorney at Daw. H H. RIIKKOlXjHH Physician and Surgeoi , CONWAY. 8. C. $ ) B. WOFFORD WAIT. i Attorney at Hax. Bank of Horry Building. * CONWAY, 8. O. ' (HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHIN! ; h JLIGHT RUNNING^ ' tfyoa want cither a Vibrating Shuttle, Kotaif Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain iniicii[ Sewing Machine write to m SEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE C0MPA9I Orange* Mass. ' " MWsewtns machines arc made to sell regardless f| ir anality, but the New Homo is made to weos. 0 Our guaranty never runs out. iMi bf authorised dealers >slf? 'r toa sals nv [?E RCRKOITGHS CX>?iIiIN8 CO., ,n t?nw?y, K. O. ? Have Yellow Fever. With nine men aboard ill, possihl ... ii ? (tw. A | W 1LII yeilUW It' V UI , uiu ;\ uivi n ,i ?d 1 punboat. M u'iHh is now 011 her \v;i rt from Puerto Cortes, Honduras, t ly I Key West, Fla. she hailed from Cei in'tial American waters under or.'e as ! from the navy d< purtmcmt, whir ur i were Issued as soon as the ofheia n Ihore worrt adviaed tint the s,trick* men were suspected of hiving yello fever. + ? [)V IV Found Out. id Herman He n?el, a farmer livh er near Mon'roirerv. Ala., killed hli y- self with a 22-cnllber rlfF list wee |v. He was looking int o ' e barrel to s he If It. was loaded w' } was di charged. Death was instantaneous ' HORRY, y. S, C. j ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,000 12,500 :holders .. .. 50,000 ors 112,500 31 ORS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, '"'Si nmmnflation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richakdson, will a. furrmah V H K I'HKblDKNT (3AHHIKB r cent, on yearly deposits. 3MAL BANK 1 V .v, s. c. fa $25,000.00 2,500.00 iflft 126,000.00 A\ TOILS: jP >. Spivey, I). T. McNeill, luck, \\\ It. Lewis, I). Jjk uttlebaum, J). A. Spivey. f Conway, t.ho oldest Hank In in I3ast<Tii Carolina. Closeelopinent of the Independent CTJ Government and secured by irepared to extend to our cmmodations. It. CI. COM.INS, /k President. ? $ i <>111111 a Hermit. Moses Waters, of Kalispell, Mont., a ft.er 15 years' absence from his .home at Lethbridge, Canada, has 'men located, surrounded by an orchard of peaches, plums, apples and pears. Nesting beside the bank of tiie Kootenai river in the dense forests of Lincoln county, Mont., Waters, now 05 years of age, has been found in a hermit's haunt. * Tried to Burn Victim. Two white men and a negro broho into the bedroom of John Baton, at Orange, N. J., one night and ;eiled Baton with a blackjack after lie had put up a fight. Then they ransacked his Dockets and escaned after binding and gauging their victim and soiling a pile of papers alongside him o.i fire. , A policeman rescued Baton. * Lets Him Off Light. President Taft has commuted the sentence of Fred It. Warren, the Socialist editor, who was recently sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment and $1,500 fine by striking out the imprisonment and4 reducing the fine to $100, to be collected by civil process. Village Clocks Stopped. All of the clocks in the village of Oregonia, O., stopped at two min utes before twelve one night last week. The residents of the commun, ity are wondering what caused the strange occurence and blame it on an earthquake. * ? * Peculiar Accident. f While indicating a high tension ^ ;\vire to an assistant the current leapted across a gap of three feet .and caused the death of William J. Garvin, of East Hampton, Mass. The accident is one of the most peculiar recorded. * Mas Nothing to Say. Senator Tillman has refrained fiom discussing any phase of the situation concerning the denial by James IT. Tillman, his nephew, of 1 certain statements, as to the latters physical condition, attributed to ^ tie senator by northern newspapers Human Brute. Charged with having his sweet1 heart, Miss Lillie Liford, 17 years j of age, Louis Skelton, 20, is in jail at. Bloom ington, Ind. Skelton poured kerosene oil over the girl and then set her afire because she l^roko their engagement. * ? ^ J Steamer Lost. ^ The steamer Inaba 'Mauru, arriving from the orient, brought news of less at sea of the Japanese steam trawler Bnndo Maru with a crew of lv seventy-five men. The steamer n founded in a storm off Tnbaraki lV T'refecture. o ? I?V11 in Hot Yjnrd. r;> The two-year-old son of Charles n | u retgtiauser, living noar rnomas, Is Okla., <1 iotl 24 hours after having mi ral!en into a kottle of boiling lard, v 'Pile child was playing in the yard while the parents were busy butchering. * ijv Idle for u l ife, n Robert Hove and son were killed in n pitched battle with county ofr>e fleers near Sierra Rlanoa, Texas, ben an attempt was inado to arrest . i To wo for alleged murder.