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F v TWO WIPED OUT Towns of Whiting and Big Heart Practicallv Lereled by Tornado. i FIFTEEN WERE KILLED Reports From Other Places Tell of Death and Devastation Dealt by the Winds?Probably One Hundred Have Been Killed in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. A heavy wind storm, attaining the velocity of a tornado, in some sections, and accompanied by rain, hail and lightning, swept over western Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Wednesday, killing 15 people, practically destroying two towns, Injuring almost a hundred persons, wrecking scores of buildings and putting al-1 most every telephone and telegraph wire in the territory out of commission. The tornado levied its greatest toll of dead at Big Heart, Oklahoma, where eight persons were Kineu, jui injured and almost every building in the town wrecked. Whiting, Kanfins, was practically wiped off Uie m tj). Sixty buildings were blown down, 30 persons hurt and Mrs. David Stone killed. At Powhatan, Kan., a woman and i child were killed. A high schoo. building was wrecked at Eskridge, ! Kan., a number of houses damaged and from 15 to 20 persons injured. I At Hiawatha, Kansas, a school ! house was blown down, an 8-year-old J boy, named Pelton, was killed, and several buildings were struck by lightning. Several persons are known to have been hurt at Netawaka, Kas. A boy was killed at Manville, Kas. The Kansas end of the tornado started near Whiting and swept in a southeasterly direction for a distance of more than 50 miles. It is thought many more persons < were killed or injured than have been reported at this time. Telegraph and telephone crews are working, now tliat tne storm nas aoatea, to gei the wires in shape. Two more deaths were reported from yiawatha late Wednesday ni>ght. Geraldine Meisenheimer, J 0 years old, and a small child of Otis Mellott are the victims. The Meisenheimer girl sought refuge with three companions in a country school house, and the building was wrecked soon afterward. The dead girls companions were injured. It is not known now the Mellot child met its death. A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says a tornado traveling in a southeasterly direction destroyed the town of Whiting, 2 5 miles north of Topeka, late this afternoon. Sixty houses were blown down and 3 0 persons injured. Eskridge is 25 miles south of Topeka. The storm struck there shortA n'nlrtnV TVio Vilirll Qphnnl ly UCIUIU T \J tlUV>IV. A uv> building was blown down and 20 students were Injured. A woman and a child were killed at Powhatan. Mrs. David Stone, wife of a farmer living near Whiting, was wept from the steps of her home lto a neighbor's yard half a mile way. She was picked up dead. An interrupted telephone message pom Netawka says many persons were injured there. Only one telephone wire is working between here and Kansas City. George A. Scott, an Atchison, Tor, q~nfn Fe engineer, who was the time of the storm ?"* a: least 15 houses were blown <V After he left Eskridge, says Scott, he could see the tornado sweeping across the country for a distance of 10 miles, overturning houses, barns * - ? #1- At. tt _ v ~ a ?? ana sneas in its pain. ne nearu 01 no one bein'g killed in Eskrldge. Benjamin Besch, a fireman on his engine was blown out of the cab window and hurled across the street. The only injury he sustained was a slight cut on his head. While Mrs. Hay Garnum of Pownatan was sitting in her house, the itorm swept the greater part of the >uildin'g from over head. She was )ut slightly hurt. A Big Heart, Okla., dispatch says sight persons were killed and 10 injured in a tornado which struck that place at 4 o'clock Wednesday afteinoon, leaving but few houses standlug. The tornado swept everything In its path. Houses were blown from their foundations and the occupants were whirled through the air. l'nls town' was demoralized and telegraphic com muni cat,i)on cut off. Relief trains were started from Avant and Pawhuska. Rig Heart has a population of 4 00. The St. Joseph & Grand Tsland depot and box cars at Manville, Ran., were blown over by a tornado Wednesday afternoon. A farm house was also wrecked and one child killed, according to information received by the Grand Island officers at that place. Telegraphic and telephone wires are down. . , ? Linen Mill. Application has been made to the secretary of State for a charter for a linen mill to be located at Greenville, the capital stock to be $200,000 It will be only linen mill in the south. WIND AND HAIL BAD STORM PLAYS HAVOC IN KASTEKN MISSOURI. Many People Were Killed and Injured by It as It Swept Over State. A St. Louis dispatch says nine I persons are dead and nearly 100 injured as a result of the destructive 'wind and hail storm which passed over Eastern Missouri Friday afternoon. In this city three are dead and property valued at between } i, 500,000 and $2,000,000 was destiuj ed. There was a remarkable participation of hail stones. Some of these are reported as being three inches in diameter. Hail caused the greatest damage. Thousands of windows in west-end residences wore broken. Greenhouses were demolished. Churches in the path of the storm did not escape and .many sisined glass windows were broken. At Valles Mine, Mo., the tornado killed four persons and seriou \y injured a score more. At Cadet, Mo., two women arc known to have been killed and ii# persons are reported injured. At Shelbyville, 111., hail stones eigni liiuiiea in circuiiiiei exiutj reported. At Anna, 111., growing crops were badly damaged by the hail and wind. The tornado which wrought destruction in Cadet and Valles Minesswept over and did considerable damage to several points in Washington, Montgomery, St. Francis and Jefferson ? the lead belt counties ? and among the towns suffering heavily were Flat River, Esther and Elvins. In the three towns named fifty persons were more or less seriously injured. * ? TORE UP THE CROPS. Great Damage is Done in Barnwell County by the Hail. a 4^ nnv* ~ en- ~ 4 ~ ~ n?%t^ /v sptjcmi tu i ne ^Ltiue iium nduiwell says the section in and around Zorn's mill, a few miles from llarm well, was visited by a most disastrous hailstorm Saturday evening, which lasted about 20 minutes and did great damage to tender young crops and gardens. A light shower of hailstones also fell here during the thunderstorm of Saturday. The stories told of the storm and the havoc brought are almost unbelievable. The stones, many of which are said to have been as large as <? good sizen marble, came down in a veritable cloudburst, and the approach of the storm could be neaiu at quite a distance. R. L. Ussery said that in ditches the drifts of stones were from 12 inches to two and three feet deep. Gardens were badly damaged, but luckily no crops were up in his immediate neighborhood. C. B. Swann's garden and a fine patch of rye, waist high, were literaly torn to shreds, as were several acres of beautifully growing cantaloupe and watermelon vines. Mr. Swann stated that he had Just fertilized some 4 0 acres of land, using 1,000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, and that the rain washed practically all of it away. He will have all of his work to do over again, with the great loss of time and money incident hereto. A local physician, returning from a visit to a patient in the country, was forced to get out of his buggy and hold the buggy seat over his horse's head to protect it from the hailstones. fl A. ? 1.1.1. 1, .. .1 I. . ... I I. . OlUIltfB WIIIUU IlttU UtJCll UI1 UIIC ground since Saturday night were from one-half to three-fourths of an Inch in diameter on Monday. 1 hey must have been fully one Inch in diameter when they first fell. It is impossible at this time to estimate the great damage done by the storm, as many farmers living in that section have not been hoard from, but it will likely run into the thousands of dollars. Mar Sewed On. At Chicago Edward W. McCarthy, 51 years old, fell down stairs in an office building Wednesday night, severing his left ear. He was taken to a hospital, the ear soaked in warm water for a while and sewed on again. Ambulance Physician I). M. Wall de dared the car would probably become securely attached to the head and said McCarthy's hearing would not bo Injured. ^ Slaying of Lincoln. At New York on Friday flags were flying from all buildings and from many office buildings and residents in token of the forty-sixth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination which occurred on a Good Friday. The anniversary of the 'shooting has not fallen upon a Good Friday since 1870 and it will not again until 1 922. ? Dead on Lonely Iload. With a bullet hole through his head, Aqulllna Diaz of the firm of Andres Diaz & Co., cigar manufacturers, was found Monday 17 miles ' from Tampa, Fla., on a lonely road. Ills coat had been neatly folded and his head placed on It. A POPULAR SENATE HOUSE VOTES FOR DIRECT ELECTION RY PEOPLE. First Rill on the Democratic Program Rushed to Its Passage Over Protests of Republicans. The house of representatives, by a vote of 296 to 16, early Thursday evening" passed the Rucker resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for the direct election ofj TTnHori States senators. This is the I first of the Democratic program measures passed by the house. Backed by a solid Democratic phalanx, It went through without modification and with a speed that brought protests from the Republicans. The resolution, as the house approved it, is in the form of the Borah resolution reported out of the senate judiciary committee in the closing days of the last congress. Republican opposition to the Rucker resolution in the house was based on the fact that it did not contain the change afterward made in the fight in the senate, which assured to congress continued control over elections in the several states. After six hours of debate, in wnicu many demands were made for this change in the resolution, all but 15 of the Republicans voted for the passage of the resolution. Mr. McDermott (111.) was the only | Democrat voting against trie resolution. * Jos. O. Cannon, former speaker, Jas. R. Mann, Republican leader, and others of th^ Republicans who voteu against the measure declared that its form was such as to threaten federal government with the loss of the control over senatorial elections in the States given to safeguard the integrity of these elections. They insist, ad did other Republicans who ultimately voted for the resolution, that the direct election amendment should be offered without any language attached that might be dangerous to the future congressional supervision of senatorial elections. Democratic leaders declared that the resolution was open to no such construction and that it offered the most nearly perfect constitutional amendment that could be devised. A.n amendment offered by Representative Young (Mich.) adding language that resembled that of the Sutherland amendment adopted in the senate two months ago, was defeated by a part} vote, 121 to 190. The Republican insurgents, led by Representatives Lenroot and Cooper of Wisconsin, forced a record vote on the final p-asoage of the esolution. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the measure when Speaker Clark called for the viva voce vote, but the insurgents demanded a roll call in order to put the house on record on the subject. The Democrats quickly seconded this demand. Tt was a day of lively debate. Practically every man who spoke favored the direct election amendment. The difference arose mainly over the constitutional argument of whether the powers of the federal government were in any way threatened. HE DECLINES TO GO. The Governor Is Invited to Go to the Hot Place. While at Greenville on Wednesday Gov. Please made the following statement: "I will show the people that a county officer like Qoodwin can't tell the Governor of this State to go to Hades. I expect to pursue the regular course in presenting papers for the collection of the salary of Detective Head, and, if the county of Greenville refuses to pay the money, I will secure the services of a lawyer and take the case to the State courts. If that fails, I will take it to the Supremo Court." The statement was made in connection with the Supervisor Goodwin's refusal to pay the salary of Officer Head, dispensary constable appointed by Governor Please, for the * 1 J- it.- l .. .1 -t l ! reason mat tne eounty iiewsiiLion failed to make appropriation for the salary and therefore the county has no funds to apply to this purpose. Thd Greenville view is that the Governor has misunderstood the situation. Supervisor Goodwin, in an interview says he has -always treated the Governor with utmost respect, especially in the matter under discussion. ? Damaged l>y Storms, Considerable damage was dons to crops and property in central Louisiana Wednesday by rain, hail and wind storms. At Covington, on Lake Pontchartrain, several residences were shaken from their foundations. "In New Orleans the streets were flooded. Reports from Raton Rouge say the storm was the worst experienced there in several years. Sisters Are Drowned. While driving from Brookport, III., to Metropolis 111., eight miles away, Mrs. Louis lierter and Mrs. James Wilford, sisters-in-law, were drownea when a bridge aeross Massa creek , gave way, throwing both women into the swollen stream. The two horses | the women were driving, swam to , shore and thus gave the first alarm, of the double drowning. / LEFT THE RAIL - Southern Railway's Fast Trail Wrecked Near BlackviDe. SAVED BY STEEL CARS Luckily No One Was Seriously Hurt ??Cause of the Accident Not Determined Yet?The Wreckage Was Soon Cleared and Regular Traffic Resumed. Steel framed cars saved the lives r?f mono than a snore of nasscuxei's Thursday, when train No. 31, the Southern railway's "Southeastern Limited," left the track four miles south of Ilarnwell, says Joe Sparks in the Columbia State. The train was running over 4 5 miles an hour. The officials failed to determine the cause of the accident. There were 43 passengers on the train, but none were seriousiy injured. The passengers were slightly jarred. The train was in charge of Conductor J. W. Blanton of Charlotte. All of the seven cars were thrown from the track except the two Pullmans. Not one of the train crew was injured. The wreck occurred at 10:10 o'clock Thusday morning, and the track was cleared at 8:45 o'clock the same night. The following is a list of those injured as announced by the officials of the road. Mrs. Alice Hard, Allendale, hip sprained. Mrs. Etta G. Hahn, Chattanooga, nervous shock. M. S. Iverman, Cleveland, Ohio, bruised about forehead and leg. C. C. Ferris, Winston-Salem, N. C., knee sprained. Employes injured Include the following: J. E. Buster, express messenger, ankle sprained. N. H. Bullock, special agent, left hip bruised. B. A. Overstreet, mail clerk, right hand cut. J. P. Thompson, mail clerk, right arm sprained. Sam Millen, colored, porter, bruised. "No one can tell what caused the wreck, and it is very probable that the cause will never be known," said Henry Williams, the veteran railroad man and superintendent of the Columbia division of the Southern railway, who personally looked after clearing away tne wrecaage. various theories as to the probable cause of the accident were advanced. John G. Richards, Jr., a member of the railroad commission, inspected the wreck. He failed to find the cause, and said that it was a wonder that all on the train had not been killed. The general conclusion ie that the wreck was caused by a decayed crosstie, a broken flange or a broken rail. There was no testimony to support any of these theories. Train No. 31 is the Southern railway's fast flyer from New York to the Florida winter resorts. The train was composed of two Pullman cars, a dining car, passenger car, combination car and a mail and an express car. The engine was No. 1913. The engineer was D. G. McAllister of Columbia, considered one of the best men in the service of the company. All who witnessed the tumbled heap of wreckage along the track for over 500 feet wondered how it was possible that no one was killed or even seriously injured. Engineer McAllister said that he was running about 45 miles an hour. He heard a grinding noise. Turning in his seat he saw the front wheel of the i tender leave the track. The engine tore itself loose from the train and was brought to a sto> several hundred yards away. Seeing that the tender had jumped the track the engineer applied the emergency brake. This brake is almost instantaneous on the now type of locomotives used between Columbia and points South. The mail car, just behind the lender, gave a sudden lurch forward and landed 75 feet away from tne track in a cotton patch. The coach fell on its side. E. O. Ovcrstreet and J. T. Thompson, the two mail clerks were not injured. It happened wo quick that they did not realize that an accident had occurred until they tumbled from the side of the coach through a door to the soft sand. The express car was thrown across ttank. It roouired some time to remove this car. The combination pa&senger and baggage car, used by negroes, was thrown from the track and one end was buried several feet in the soft sand. There were a number of negroes in the rear car, all of which were very excited. The passenger car, occupied by about 20 passengers was thrown off the track. The dining car left the rails. The two Pullman cars did not leave the track. Although there was a general shaking up, not a windowglass in any of the cars was broken. The trucks of all cars were torn away and massed into a heap. A wrecking train was hurried to the scene as soon as possible. The through trains were delayed for only one hour, having detoured by the way of Fairfax, over the Seaboard Air Line. ? % ' / 9 BANK OB / Conwa < Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i robert b. scarborough, d President. i?r . ? We continue to pay J pei 3*9999999999*9 !" FIRST NATK CONWA CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS t DIRECT J. A. McDermott, John C /ft B. G. Collins, H. L. B af M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua jfjk Successor to the Bank of f Horry County, and a pioneer iy allied with the recent devi Republic. Backed by the C United States Bonds, we are p corners any reciauutujie ttuwuiu A IT. A. 8P1VEY, ? Cashier. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. K. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY, 8. 0. WL B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 8. CAttorney at Law. H. H. BURROUGHS I Physician and Burgeon. CONWAY, 8. C. B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/, Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. C. J ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k fcLIGHT RUNNING i M M KfuiJ want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotatf itottlfl or a Single Thread [Chain (Uiich\ Bowing Machine write to ' m KCW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMPAH Orange* Mass* ||MP*ewfnf machines are made to sell regardtewgl fnliiy, but the New Home U made to veafli Oar guaranty never runt out. (MM Mm authorised dealers foe sals mt BURROUGHS (X1LL1X8 COUonway, 8. O. Cauv;lit Him at Tast. Followed from St. Louis for seven j years by a negro detective, William Flossie Francis, who is charged with murder and rape in that city, was taken from the chaingang at Durham, N. C., "{Tuesday and held for Missouri ofTleers. Francis had served five years for highway robbery and was j serving sentence again for larceny. I Kitten by Dog. Two hoys and one man was bitten by a mad dog at Deaufort on Friday J week ago. The dog was killed and j Its head sent to the Pasteur institute in Columbia for inspection. A tele gram was received promptly, stating that the dog had a bad case of hydrophobia, and that the bitten ones should be treated at once. 0 4 ' HORRY, y- S, c. t ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. .. ... .. .. ..$50,000 i .. 12,500 HOLDERS .... 50,000 0R8 - ..112,600 none j\ u1vo h D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a.' freemab Vice Pbehidknt. Cashieb 4 r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK| y, s. o. X *26,000.00 Z(b uy.uo 125,000.00 /k roiiS: ^ !. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A uck, W. R. Lewis, D. jL ttleba^um, D. A. Spivey. ^ Conway, the oldest Bank In jjk in Eastern Carolina. CloseBlopment of the Independent rovernmeut and secured by Mk repared to extend to our cu*- jj? lodations. ^ B. G. COLLINS, 2 Piu>oM<>nf Jm % PENSION MONEY THE FUNDS SENT OUT TO THB VARIOUS COUNTIES. Decrease for the Total List Shown 101 Dropped From Doll?Spartanburn is Heaviest. The pension fund amount to approximately $250,000. was sent out to the pensioners of the State yester- ** day by the State board of pensions. It was announced that 75 requests for pensions had been refused by the board on account of property owned. There are 9,431 names on the pension rolls of the State for 1911 as against 9,592 for last year. The number of pensioners reported dead ^ during the year was 742. Forty-two were dropped from income. Thero were 623 new names added to the roll for the State. There was a total decrease in names of 161. The following , are the amounts A receives $96; class B $72; class C, number 1, $48; class C, number 2, $20.60; class C, number 3, $48, and class C, number 4, $20.80. ^ The followin are the amounta sent to each county: Abbeville $ 4,350.80 Aiken. 9,845.60 Anderson 14,771.60 Bamberg 2,600.80 Barnwell 4,248.60 Beaufort 962.40 Berkeley 2.807.20 Calhoun 748.40 cnarleston 5,849.00 Cherokee 6,560.00 Chester 4,370.80 Chesterfield 6,495.80 Clarendon 3,702.40 Colleton 9,865.40 Darlington 6,452.80 Dillon 3,174.40 w Dorchester 2,951.80 ? Edgefield 3,6S1.60 Fairfield 3,524.00 Florence 5,035.10 Georgetown.. 1,935.40 Greenville 12,438.80 Greenwood 3,949.2b Hampton 4,908.00 * Horry 6,083.00 Kershaw 4,145.40 Lancaster 6,280.00 Laurens 8,039.40 Dee 2,889.40 Lexington 7,614.20 Marion 3,788.60 > Marlboro 3,579.80 Newberry 4,560.80 Oconee 7,195.60 Orangeburg 5,931.00 Pickens 6.732.60 Richland 10,318.60 Saluda 4,144.60 Spartanburg 19,416.00 Sumter 4,197.00 Union 7,343.40 Williamsburg 5,037.60 ^ York 7,872.00 ? Total $249,3 98.80 Stood on the Hordcr. A dispatch from Douglas, Ariz., where several people were killed by bullets fired by the Mexicans in the battle af Agua Prieta, says that thousands of Americans stood on the Dots der witnessing the light, seemingly careless of danger. Fourteen Americans fought with the lnsurrecto forces artd one of them, J. C. Edwards, a Virginian, was killed.