The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 20, 1911, Image 6
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TWO WIPED OUT
Towns of Whiting and Big Heart Practicallv
Lereled by Tornado.
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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
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After he left Eskridge, says Scott,
he could see the tornado sweeping
across the country for a distance of
10 miles, overturning houses, barns
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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LEFT THE RAIL
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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.
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CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OP STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT
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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
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CONWAY, 8. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at La/,
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. C.
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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.
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ny bank in Horry county. More
lus of all other banks in the county.
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i .. 12,500
HOLDERS .... 50,000
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none
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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
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in Eastern Carolina. CloseBlopment
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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.