The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 30, 1911, Image 5
DIED Dt TRAP
Nn; Persons Are Crashed aid Baratd
ia a New Yerk Fsetery
DEATH TOlllS HEAVY
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Tliejr Are Caught Without Means of
Escape, Many Jump from Ninth
y and Tenth Stories? IJves Are
f Crushed Out on Pavement Before
, Horr tiled Spec tutors.
One hundred,and forty-eight persons?nine-tenths
of them girla from
the East Side?were crushed to death
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smoke of shrivelled crisp Saturday
afternoon in the worst fire New York
has known since the steamer General
Slocum was burned off North Brotha
ere Island, in 1904.
' Nearly all, If not all, of the vlc\
time were employed by the Triangle
Waist Company, on the eighth, ninth
and tenth floors of a ten-story loft
building, at No. 23 Washington
Place, on the western fringe of the
down-town wholesale clothing, fur
and millinery district.
The partners of the firm, Isaac
Harris and Mac Blanck, escaped from
the office on the tenth floor, carrying
with them over an adjoining roof
Blanck's two young daughters and a
governess. There was not an outside
fire escape on the building.
How the flre started will perhaps
never bo known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its point of origin
and the three upper floors only were
swept. On the ninth floor, fifty bodies
were found, sixty-three or more
were crushed to death by jumping,
and more than thirty clogged the elevator
shafts. The loss to property
will not exceed $100,000.
Pedestrians going home, through
Washington Place to Washington
Square, at ten mlnues to five, were
scattered by the whiz of something
rushing through the air before them;
th?>re was a terrible thud on the
pavement and a body flattened on the
flags. Wayfarers on the opposite side
of the street shaded their eyes
against the setting sun and saw the
windows of the three upper floors ot
the building black with girls crowd
ing to the sills. There were no Art
escapes.
No Other Alternative.
"Don't jump; don't jump!" yelled
the crowd, but the girls had no alternative.
The pressure of the maddened
hundreds behind them and the
urging of their own fears were too
strong. They began to fall to the
sidewalk, in a terrible rain of flesh
and blood.
Pour alarms were rung within lfi
minutes. Before the engines coulo
fr'ipond, before the nets could be
stretched or the ladders raised, live
girls had fallen from the eighth ana
nirth floors so heavily that they
broke through the glass and iron
roofs of the sub-cellars and crashed
through the very streets into the
vaults below. In an hour the fire
was out; in half an hour it had done
its worst. Probably the death list
wrs full in 20 minutes.
The building stands on a corner,
with exposure on two sides, but the
on'y fire escape was in the rear, opening
into a light and air shaft. In
all. there were seven exits?the single
flre escape, two freight elevators,
at the rear; two passenger elevators
V in front, and two stairways. All of
them proved almost useless and practically
all who escaped either
climbed to the roof and scrambled
thence to the roof of the building occupied
by the American Book Company,
or fled in the first rush for
safety before the crush and the
smoke grew too thick.
VThe buildings stand tonight with
shell intact and barely scarred?rather
only smudged. The tiling between
the floors are sound, and it Is impossible
for one, who did not see it,
to imagine how the flames in so short
a time could have caused such havoc.
Seven hundred persons were employed
by the shirt waist company.
Th<>y sat in rows at their whirring
machines, the tables before thnm
piled with flimsy cloth, the floor lit
torod with lint, the air itself fun ot
flying Inflammable dust.
Died in Their Seats.
The first rush of flame was almost
an explosion. Operators died In their
chairs, their lungs seared by Inhaling
flame. Others were crowded Into the
elevator shafts, after the cars had
s? - made their last trip. Still others were
pushed off the inadequate Interior
fire escape.
Jii such a horrible stream did the
bodies overflow from the windows,
that the fire nets, stretched by the
first company to arrive, were soon
gorged beyond capacity. Twelve
bodies dropped into one net, tearing
it to pieces, then fell to the pavement.
When the first breath of flame
juried over the edge of a pile of
ehirting, on the eighth floor, five
minutes before quitting time, hundreds
were in line before the casnier's
window.
In the office buildings across
Washington Place, scores of men,
detained beyond office hours, worked
at their desks. One of them eaid o
girl rushed to a window and threw up
the sash. Behind her danced a seeth
ing curtain of yellow flame. She
climbed to the sill, stood In black
outline against the light, hesitating;
then with a last touch of futile thriit,
slipped her chatelaine bag over her
wrist and jumped. Her body wont
whirling downward, through the woven
wire" glass of a canopy, to the
flagging below. Her sisters who followed,
flamed through the air like j
rockets. Their path could be fol-1
lowed, but their screams hardly
heard.
It was 85 feet from eighth floor
to the ground, about 95 feet from
the ninth floor, 115 feet from the
cornice of the roof. The upward rush
of the draught and the crackle of
the flames drowned their cries.
Six girls fought their way to a
window on the ninth floor, over the
bodies of fallen fellow workers, ana
crawled out in single file on an eightinch
stone ledge running the length
of the building. More than a hundred
feet above the sidewalk they
crawled along their perilous pathway
to an electric-feed wire spanning
Washington place. The leaders
paused for their companions to catch
up and the six grabbed the wire simultaneously.
It snapped and they
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crusnea aown 10 at'mn.
A 17-year-old girl hung for three
minutes by her finger tips to the sill
of a tenth floor window. A tongue
of flame licked at her fingers and she
dropped into a life-net, held by firemen.
Two women fell into the net at
almost the same moment. The strings
parted and the three were added lo
the death list. One girl threw her
pocketbook, then her hat, then her
furs from the tenth story window. A
moment later her body came hurling
after them, to death.
At a ninth floor window a man anf
a woman appeared. The man embraced
the woman and kissed her.
Then he hurled her to the street and
jumped. Hoth were killed. Five girls
smashed a pane of glass, dropped in
a struggling tangle and were crushed
into a shapeless mass. A girl on the
eighth floor leaped for a fireman's
ladder, which reached only to sixth
floor. She missed, struck the edge of
a life-net and was picked up with her
back broken.
From one window a girl of about
13 years, a woman, a man and tfco
women, with their arms about one
another, threw themselves to tne
ground in rapid succession. The
little girl waB whirled to the New
York Hospital. She screamed as the
driver and a policeman lifted hei
into the hallway. A surgeon came
out, gave one look at her face and
touched her wrist.
"She is dead," he said.
One girl jumped into a horse
blanket, held by firemen and policemen.
The blanket ripped like cheesecloth
and her body was mangled almost
beyond recognition. Another
dropped into a tarpaulin, held by
three men. Her weight tore it from
their grasp and she struck the street,
breaking almoHt every bone in her
body. Almost at the same time a
man somersaulted down upon the
shoulder of a policeman holding the
tarpaulin. He glanced off, struck
the sidewalk and was picked up dead.
Effort to Check Stampede.
Within the building a man on the
eighth floor stationed himself at the
door of one of the elevators and with
a club kept back the girls, who had
stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty
were admitted to the car at a time.
They were rushed down as fast as
possible.
The calls for ambulances were followed
by successive appeals for po
lice, until 100 patrolmen arrived to
cope with a crowd numbering tens of
thousands. A hundred mounted policemen
had to charge the crowd repeatedly
to keep it back.
Led by Fire Chief Croker, a squad
of firemen gained access to the building
at 7 o'clock. Two searchlights
from buildings opposite lighted the
way of the firemen. Fifty roasted
bodies were found on the ninth floor.
They lay in every possible position,
some so mangled that recognition
was impossible.
Women with their hair burned
away, with here and there a limb
burned entirely off and the charred
stump visible, were lifted tenderly
from the debris, wrapped in oilcloth
and lowered by pulleys to the street.
Across the street there rested on
the sidewalk a hundred pine coffins,
Into which wore placed the .bodies.
As fast as this was done, the cofhnh
were carried away, In any kind of a
vehicle that could be pressed into
service, to the morgue, at Bollevue
Hospital, and the Charities Morgue,
opened for the first time since the
General Sloeum disaster.
on? n una rod ana six noaies nan
been taken from the building and
twenty injured had been conveyed to
St. Vincent's Hospital, at 10 o'clock.
Of these three died soon after admittance.
Others wore not expected to
live through the night. Three of five
women taken to Hellevu? Hospital
died soon after admitted there.
Many Hescwed by Student*.
On the tenth floor of the building
adjoining the burned structure, is
the law department of the New York
University. Here twenty, odd students
were listening to a lecture by
i Frank H. Sommer, former sheriff of
' Essex County. He saw the smoke
t and saw the girls trapped on the roof.
He led his class to the roof of the
University quarters, where they
found two ladders. Two boys bore
i these down two flights of the roof ol
, an intervening building, swarmed
1 out of the windows and raised them
i to the roof of the burning building
> Forty girls were brought down tc
- safety.
> Just how many trips were mad<
KILELD IN WRECK
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4tDIXIE PIiYKItM GOES THROUGH ,
TItKSTLK INTO IlIVKIl.
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More Than a Dozen Also Injured In
One of WorNt Railroad I>iM8terfl
Known In the South.
In one of the worst railroad disasters
known ' in the <South Atlantic
States, eight persons were killed and
more than a dozen injured, when
train No. 97, known as tho "Dixie
Flyer," on the Atlantic Coast Line,
and running between Chicago and
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jncKHunvnie, wbiii uuuugu a ucouo
over the Alapapa river, eighteen
miles east of Tlfton, Ga., early Saturday
morning. Saturday night but
one body, that of John T. Watson,
of Wyoming, remained In the river.
Had It not been for the wreck,
Watson would have been a bridegroom
Sunday. His sweetheart, Miss
Rlise Shippey, of Pasadena, Cal., who
was on the train with him, and to
whom he was to have been married
in Jacksonville Sunday, remained at
the wreck throughout the day and
III ft Li L, naitu iiift tuc uuui to ui tuv
rescuing party to recover Watson's
body.
The revised list of the dead and injured
is given as follows: Dead:
O. F. Ronmwart, Henderson, Ky.;
W. W. Culpepper, Tifton, Ga.; Mrs.
W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111.; John
T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Woodward,
express messenger, Waycross,
Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah;
Lucius Ellis, fireman, and Albert
Simmons, porter, both colored,
of Waycross, Ga.
Injured: J. E. Powell, baggagemaster,
Jacksonville; J. P. Klein,
wife and child, St. Louis; father and
mother bruised and child scalded;
Peter Geriofs, Holland, Mich.,
bruised; Nic Vandermelton. Grand
Rapids, Mich., bruised about the head
and knees; Mrs. O. F. Bonmhart,
Henderson, Ky.; W. T. Perkins, Cattlettsburg,
Ky., bruised; J. E. Greene,
engineer, Waycross, Ga., bruised.
The cars plunged into the river,
without a moment's warning to the
sleeping passeneers, when an axle on
the engine suddenly snapped when
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iiJiuwuy ui tut? ir^aut4. i nt? lutuuiu- '
tive never left the track, but the tender
was derailed and the tank tumbled
to the bed of the stream. The
trestle Is about a half mile long, but
the river was low and at the point of
the accident was not more than 50
yards across. The express and baggage
care, two day coaches and one
Pullman were piled in an indescribable
mass in the centre of the stream,
but few of the passengers were carried
beneath the water.
J. P. Woodward, the express messenger,
was killed and Raggaeemaster
J. E. Powell was probably fatally
hurt, by timbers driven through the
ear.
The first-class coach, a new steel
car, was driven through the sleeper.
In this car Romwart, of Henderson,
Ky., was instantly killed, while his
wife, beside him, escaped with slight
injuries.
It is not expected to have the
tracks cleared and the trestle repaired
for traffic before Sunday
night. *
WATERY GRAVES FOR MANY,
Passengers and Crew Go Down When
Vessel Turns Turtle.
The Rritish Columbia Shipping
Company's little wooden steamer,
'Sochelt, built, for passenger service
on an inland lake, turned turtle in a
furious gale off Reeched Head, Vancouver
Island, late Saturday and went
down with all on board, twenty-two
passengers and the crew of four men.
Thirteen passengers had landed at
w 1111<11ii iieau juai uciuio mc bujhuier
went out to destruction. Most of
the passengers were railroad laborers,
bound for a Canadian northern construction
camp, but a few were residents
of Sooke.
Henry Charles, an Indian, of
Rocky Point, was gathering wood on
Bee-cher Bay at 5:30 p. m. Saturday
and saw the vessel, three miles off
Beecher Head, when the gale struck
her. She leaned over and swung
around as though she intended to run
across the strait to Port Crescent, on
tho American side. The tiny craft
had partly turned broadside to tho
wind when she righted, then went
over and lay on her side.
The Indian watched the steamer
ten minutes and at the end of that
time the vessel was swallowed up by
the sea, leaving not a trace on the
1 surface. Capt. J. B. James com1
manded the vessel. Beecher Head is
west of Beecher Bay, in the Strait of
Fuga, twenty-five miles from Victoria.
i by tho elevator men will perhaps tiev
: er o? ascertained. ine various reports
of heroism at the elevators differ.
City officials announced tonight
i that the usual rigid regulations
, which follows such disasters will be
s instituted at once.
' "The calamity is just what I have
i 'been predicting," said one. "There
f was no outside fire-escape on the
1 building. This large death toll ib
i due to neglect."
The police say that today's Are is
> the sixth or seventh in the building
within twelve months, all of which,
i they say, occurred in the shirt waist
TIMBER ALL CRABBED
RAILROADS OWN ONK-FOURTI1 ?
THE FORESTS IN THE WKvST.
Such is the Report Made by Herbert '
Knox Smith, Commissioner of Cor
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poratioiu?inioresnnk ngurtx*.
The statement cantained !n the rtport
of Herbert Knox Smith, commis- 1
sioner of corporations, recently made 1
to President Taft on the lumber in- ,
dustry of the country to the effect 1
that a large percentage of the stand- 1
ing timber of the Pacific coast is now
held by three corporations?the
Southern Pacific Railway company,
the Weyerhaeuser Timber company
and the Northern Pacific Railway
company?was not, of course, a surprise
to the people of the Western
states most concerned. But the further
statement contained in Mr.
Smith's report to the effect that If
the holdings of these three companies
were sawed into lumber they
would load a train about 100,000
miles long, or build an ordinary five
or six-room frame house for each of
the 16,000,000 families in the United
States in 1900, will doubtless give
them a better conception of the vastness
of the holdings of these concerns
than they have ever before possessed.
The holdings of the Weyerhaeuser
company is found by the report to be
the second largest in the country.
Its total ownership of timber is
placed at 95.7 billion feet, which is
only 1 0,000,000,000 feet less than
that of the Southern Pacific. Nearly
77,000,000,000 feet of this vast holding
is in Washington, about 18,000,000,000
feet stands in Oregon and
an insignificant fraction in California.
The Northern Pacific holding is described
as follows: "The timber
holding of the Northern Pacific Railway
company, which ranks third in
importance, amounts to 3 6.2 billion
feet. This, it will be seen, is much
less than either the Southern Pacific
or the Weyerhaeuser holding.
Most of it is owned by the Northern
Pacific Railway company directly, but
a small part is owned by a subsidiary
concern, the Northwestern Improvement
company. The bulk of this
timber is In the state of Washington."
In summarizing these three vast
holdings, 'Mr. Smith says that they
constitute 23.5 per cent, or nearly
one-quarter of all the privately
owned timber in the five states of the
Pacific Northwest, the most important
remaining source of timber supply
for the United States. Through
freight rates nearly all the forests of
the West are controlled. It is here,
he says, that the concentration ot
ownership is most marked, and although
he sees a great menace In
the possibilities which this concentration
affords for an absolute control
of nrires in the future bv these
three or four largest holders, he finds
still another menace which he considers
to be even more alarming than
the one just cited, and that is the
future ownership of the lauds after
the timber is cut. *
ATTACKED BY DRUXKEN NEGRO.
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Endeavored to Force Open Door of a
Rudy's Room.
Mrs. Georgia Williams, wife of a
railroad man living near the terminal
station in Atlanta, was kepL. in a
state of seige in her room Tueeoaj
night ,by a drunken young negro, who
was trying to force an entrance to the
room. Mrs. Williams' husband was
out on his run and she was in the
house alone. Early in the evening
the negro gained entrance to the hal!
of the house, but before he could get
to her Mrs. Williams had barricaded
herself in her bedroom.
She begged and pleaded with the
negro to go away, but he remained
in the hall working at the door until
1 o'clock Wednesday morning. Finally,
in desperation, Mrs. Williams
opened a window, jumped out and
ran in a hysterical condition until
she found a policeman. The officer
wont to the house and found the negro
there. Ho said his name was
Dock Badger, and that he was 1S
years of age.
"I used to work for Booker T.
Washington," said the negro. "I oelieve
in Booker Washington and
would follow him anywhere." It is
believed that the negro had read of
Washington's trouble in New York,
had tanked up on mean whiskey and
started out on a career of wickedness,
lie will probably get a stout sentence
for his evening's work.
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Two to llang.
Gov. Sanders Wednesday named
Friday, April 21, as the date for the
execution of Euge Besanon and Francois
Rodin, convicted of murdering
Franz Reidi, an aged watchmaker of
no anvnral nirtntha n fr?
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factory. The otherR were trifling.
The factory, incidentally, 1r said to
he the first in which operators struck
during the widespread shirt waist
strike settled several months ago.
Ily today's fire the total shirt waist
operators who have perished in New
i York is nearly 200. Not many weeks
ago 25 girls met death under some,
what similar circumstances in Newark,
N. J.
GOES scon FREE
rOHN BI,ACK CJKTS A FULL. PARDOX
FltOM BLKA8E.
Ilefore His Recent Commutation,
Black's Sentence Was Five Years
in the Penitentiary.
John Black, former chairman of
i
the State dispensary board of directors,
convicted of conspiracy to defraud
the State, sentenced to five
years In the Penitentiary, |his sentence
being later commuted to a fine
of $2,000, or five years, by Governor
Blease, was late Friday unconditionally
pardoned by the Chief Executive.
Black had not yet paid his fine,
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naving Deen given unwi c>t?iJi.eiiiuer 1,
and the proclamation issued by Governor
Blease Friday afternoon not
only relieves Black of the payment of
the fine, but restores the former dispensary
director to citizenship, and
removes the stigma which commutation
could not reach.
Friday night John Black Is in Richmond,
and it is probable that not until
Saturday will he know of his pardon.
His local counsel did not know
where to reach him in Richmond. His
wife is also out of the city, having
gone to Denmark, so that it is also
probable she does not tonight know
that her husband is again free from
the sentence of the Court.
The order giving John Black his
freedom is formal, being such a proclamation
as was issued when John
Black's sentence was commutated.
The pardon is as follows:
"Whereas, at a Court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas, begun
and holden in Chester County, at the
November term of court, 1910, before
Judge (Special) Ernest Moore, one
John Black was convicted of coni
rlnTpoil^ thn Qfntn fl 11 S W.1I2
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sentenced to five years in the State
Penitentiary; now know ye that for
divers good causes and considerations,
me hereunto moving, I have
thought fit to pardon and by these
presents do pardon the said John
11 lack.
"Given under my hand and seal,
etc.
"Cole L. lilease, Governor."
The pardon was signed late Friday
afternoon, shortly before the Governor
left the executive ofllces to go to
the Mansion. No reasons are assigned
in the pardon.
BliKASE CUSSES A LITTLE.
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Says (liief Justice Jones Can I>o
What He Pleases.
"Ira P. Jones can mandamus, or
G d us, or do anything he
pleases. I am not going to appoint
Ernest Moore as special judge for the
Union county court. You can take
back these papers, for I will not read
them."
This is the way Governor Blease
expressed himself Saturday to U. E.
Wylie, of Lancaster, who presented a
request for a commission for Ernest
Moore as special judge. This statement
was made in the presence of
Senator Tillman and several other
visitors in the ofllce.
The statement means that another
special judge controversy has commenced
between the supreme court
and the governor, and that the governor
will disregard the recommendations
of the judicial department of
the government.
The Union County Bar Association
petitioned Chief Justice Jones to appoint
Ernest Moore as special judge
for a special term of the civil court
to commenco in that county next
Monday.
The following letter of recommendation
was addressed to Governor
Ulease by Chief Justice Jones, asking
that Ernest Moore be commissioned
as special judge:
"Pursuant to section 2, 73 4, volume
1, code of laws, I have ordered
a special term of common pleas for
Union county for the trial of civil
cases not requiring a jury, for the
week commencing 'March 27th.
"There being no circuit judge disengaged
so as to hold the court, 1
respectfully recommend that you issue
a commission to Hon. Ernest
Moore of Lancaster, S. C., learned in
the law as special judge to hold the
said court."
Ernest Moore is one of the best
known attorneys in the state and has
served as special judge on several occasions.
Ho heard the John lllaCK
case and sentenced the former dispensary
oflicial to five years in the
penientiary. Mr. Moore was not
named in the list of "eligibles" recently
sent to the supreme court by
the governor.
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Child Dies of Babbies.
At Lancaster the six-year-old son
of Mr. Hutchinson doed Friday night
at the home of his father in the cot
ton mill viliago or wnat pnysicians
believe to have boon an attack of hydrophobia.
The hoy was ill only
three days, during which time ho exhibited
the various symptoms of the
dread disease. Tie was bitten on the
lip by a mad dog in Camden on the
3rd of last month.
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Shot on Crowded Street.
Andrew C. Puro, said to be an Italian
journalist, was shot and killed on
a crowded street In the downtown
district of Denver, Colo., Tuesday
night. Phlllipe Dropolia is under arrest
charged with the murder.
HOLD UP MAIL
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Bandits Ltd Passenger Trail ta Ike Si.
Lens Mtaataii Read
EXPRESS CAR LOOTED
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The Official* of the Railway Say They
Have No Report of the Hold Up
and Robbery?Twenty Thousand
Dollars Said to Have Reen Carried
Away by the Robbers.
Five men held ud St. Louis. Iron
Mountain and Southern railway train
No. 104 between Coffeyville and Lenapah,
Okla., shortly after midnight
Friday, and after looting the mai*
and express car escaped. The amount
of the robbery is said to be $20.00#.
For two hours the masked men
held the paseenger at a standstill on
the prairie about six miles south {
Coffeyville, while they blew open a
safe in the express car. They escape#
In two automobiles, carrying with
them money and valuables which, It
Is 'believed, will amount to $20,000.
The train left Little Rock at 8; 3#
a. m. Friday, bound for Kansas City.
It reached Lenapah, Okla., south of
Coffeyville at 10:30 Friday night,
half an hour late.
Just after the train left Lenapah
Engineer Lynch heard a sharp cry:
"Hands un!" Turning he saw *
masked man sitting on the tender,
pointing a revolver at him. "I'm
going to ride a little way with you, '
said the man. "Drive on."
The engineer obeyed. About font
miles out of Lenapah the robber compelled
the engineer to stop the traia
near a dumb of trees. Five more
masked men came out of the wood,
and, taking positions on either side of
the train,began shooting in the air
and along the sides of the train.
Then while two of the bandit*
stood guard to prevent any passengers
from leaving, the four marched
the engineer and fireman to the day
coach and locked them in.
One man then took a position t#
guard the rear of the train and three
went into the express car, forced th*
two express messengers to jump out
and stand where one of the side
guards could keep them covered.
After nearly an hour's work the
men had succeeded in inserting a
charge of nitroglycerine into the
"tnrotign sare in tne express cur.
They blew the safe to pieces and scattered
its contents over the floor of
the car. They made no haste. They
had chosen a strategic position in
which to stop the train. They were
at least three miles from any human
habitation.
After the three men had spent
nearly an hour over the packages
taken from the safe, the lights of
two automobiles were seen drawing
near from the direction of the Oklahoma
line. As they came within
about two hundred yards of the train
on the country road the automobiles
were stopped. Then lights were extinguished
and the bandits and automobiles
disappeared.
Passengers who had remained huddled
in the coaches afraid to look
out of the windows relaxed and the
disorganized train crew got to their
places. When the train reached this
city the sheriff was notified and with
two deputies started on horseback
southward in pursuit of the six bandits.
Train No. 104 on the St. Louie,
Iron Mountain and Southern railroad,
said to have been held up near Coffeyville,
Kan., Friday night, reached
Kansas City two hours and forty-five
minutes late. Iron Mountain officials
here denied any knowledge of a holdup.
The train left Little Hock at
8:30 a. m. Friday and was due in
Kansas City at 7:15 Saturday morning.
Superintendent George F. Tohnson,
of the Pacific Express Company states
that the men who held up and robbed
Iron Mountain train No. 104 in Oklahoma
got no money from the express
oar and that all the booty secured
consisted of a few "sealed packages, *
the value of which is not great. "We
no longer use this route for Ihrougu.
money shipments, and there was not
anything like $20,000 In the car as is
reported."
11 LOW PROVES FATAL.
llit by Stone Several Months Ago,
Dies of Effects.
From the effects of being struck in
the head with a rock several months
ago, while gathering hickory nuts,
Samuel Benson, Jr., 14 years of age,
and son of Mr. and Mrs. S. II. Benson.
died Thursday at his home on
Bleckley street, Anderson, S. C. Several
young boys were around the tree
gathering the nuts which they would
knock down with rocks and stocks.
One of the rocks hit young Benson,
lie was given treatment and seemed
to respond to it. A relapse came
a week or so ago, and his death followed.
Young Benson was a bright
lad, and very popular among his playmates.
Of course, no blame Is at*
tached to any one, as the blow waa
purely accidental.
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