The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 10, 1911, Image 6
ASYLUM BURNED
rutin ui Atteidaiti Reveal Bravery
ii Saviif Palieito.
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TEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
Iaarge Structure, Ruined by Devouring
Flames?Eight Hundred
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jraciems in mo .u? m uuuuiu^n
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When t!ie Fire Broke Out?Men
Attack the Hescuers.
A dispatch from Hamilton, Ont.,
Bays at least eigiht and perhaps ten
lives were lost in a fire which partly
destroyed one of the main buildings
of the asylum for the insane on the
side of a mountain southwest of that
city early Tuesday.
There were eight hundred patients
in the building when the fire was discovered
and it was only a well trained
fire fighting corps and coolness
and bravery among the nurses and
attendants under Dr. English that
averted a more frightful loss of life.
There are four buildings In the
group within the asylum grounds.
The main building, which the fire
swept is a four story brick structure
with a basement, 200 feet in length,
and about 7 0 feet wide, with wings
at either end. The women patients,
numbering about three hundred and
fifty, ocupied quarters in the west
wing. The remainder of the building
was taken up with men's wards
and contained some of the most desperate
cases in the asylum.
The women wer rmovd without
serious difficulty to the adjoining
building. The situation among the
men was more serious. The fire
broke out on the fourth floor in what
is known as section D, where the violently
insane were kept. Most of the
men guarded by attendants, moved
down three flights of stairs, out of
the fire zone in orderly procession,
but a score driven into a frenzy by
the stifling smoke and the excitement
of a midniight fire fought off
their rescuers with desperate fury.
Three of them after being carried
down to the second floor broke away
and fled back to the blazing corridor.
The flames in the meantime had
spread down the hallway and were
eating their way through the floor
to the third story. The asylum brigade,
although fighting bravely, was
handicapped by the maniacs and
war lorimci control. The citv brierade
had been summoned was then
toiling up tho almost precipitous
roadway leading to the asylum.
I was nearly two o'clock before first
of their apparatus was brought into
play. The firemen ran scaling ladders
up the third and fourth floor
windows, where it was believed some
of the unfortunates had fled. They
found It difficult work to break down
the Iron gratings on the windows and
the fire in the meantime was growing
fiercer every minute.
'Crawling into the stifling smoke,
the firemen groped their way about
until they found a maniac. He was
still able to offer resistance and it
was necessary to knock him senseless,
when he was dropped into the
lifenets below. Eight of the insane
and one attendant who had lost coneciousnens
in work of rescue were
saved and it was believed at three
o'clock that every patient had been
taken out of tho burning building.
The combined fire forces had the
situation well in hand at three-thirty.
The two upper floors and the
roof of the east wing were burned,
and the lower floors were flooded
with water. As the firemen worked
their way Into the burned section of
tho building the bodies were found.
Three were in the hallway on the top
floor and one helpless paralytic was
burned to death in his cell.
Four more corpses were found
huddled together in a small room.
At dawn a systematic checking up
of the inmates was begun, and it was
found that ten or twelve were miss*
ing. Tt was thought probably that
some of these men escaped and were
still at largo In the surrounding
fields.
The blazing, roof of the asylum
mprrhod nnon the mountain side at
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traded the attentotn of the entire
city. The cry, "The asylum is on
fire," rang through the streets and
hundreds flocked up the hill. It. was
a weird sight that presented itself.
The screams of the 1,300 inmates
of the four buildings drowned every
other sound. The firemen fighting
both flames and insane were in constant
peril and frequently were seen
perched on a window sill through
which the smoke was pouring.
Tom Fitzgerald, of an electric
truck, Is (given credit for the rescue
of five men. His sixth broke from
his grasp at a window and fled back
Into the flames where he perished.
Provincial detective Rogers and a
staff arrived from Toronto, detailed
by the provincial secretary department
to make a searching investigation.
The fire Is believed to have
been caused by a short circuit on an
electric wire In the store room on the
top floor.
Eleven Fined $1,000 Cash.
At New York Monday William P.
Palmer and ten others indicted for
connection with the wire pools, filed
pleas of nole contendre. Palmer
had seven indictmens aglnst him and
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PASSES HIE HOUSE
BILL REDUCING DUTY ON GOODS
MADE OF COTTON. '
Measure Received Every Democratic
Vote and the Votes of Thirty Insurgent
Republican Members.
Supported by all the Democrats
and by thirty Republicans, the Democratic
tariff cotton bill, the third of
the big tariff revision measures,
brought forth by the Democratic
house of reprefltontatives, passed
that body early Thursday evening
by 202 to 91. The bill cuts the average
tariff on cotton manufactured
goods from 4 8 to 2 7 per cent, ad valorem,
a .1 per cent reduction in duty
that the Democratic leaders estimate
to reduce revenues by about $3,000,000.
Not an amendment was offered to
the bill, although the Republicans
attacked It vigorously on account of
alleged in/creases 1n certain items
over the rates of the Payne-Aldrlch
fnHff law. (Scarcely had the cheers
that greeted the passage of the cotton
revision bill subsided when Democratic
Leader Underwood calling
up the free list as it passed the senate
a few days ago, accomplished a
stragetic move which greatly surprised
the Republicans.
He asked for a conference on all
the amendments to the free list bill
except that of Senator Gronna of
North Dakota putting cement on the
free list. lie urged that the house
accept the amendment adding to it
lemons. Pacific coast Republicans
made ineffectual efforts to ' stop
this sudden and unexpected putting
of lemons on the free list, but tne
amendment carried. The change
gave the house Democrats what they
claimed to be an added advantage/
in dealing with the senate in the
conference committee.
Thi^rsd^y niglht .the Republfi^an
leaders in both houses of congress
called in absent members from all
parts of' the country in preparation
for a threatened attempt of the
Democrats to pass the wool tariff
bill over the President's veto. The
Democratic leaders In the house have
aserted within the last 24 hours that
they have the necessary two-thirds
majority to pass the wool bill over
the president's veto and have been
doing effective missionary work in
the senate today The Republican
managers in the house insist that
they have enough votes to prevent
a two-thirds majority in support of
the wool bill.
irtr>T\?%r<tV AXTT.T. mV
V iiivi/nLjimi i? i iju w tin
Leads Opponents For Senator From
The State of Mississippi.
Former Governor James K. Vardaman
probably will bo next United
States Senator from Mississippi.
Meager returns from Tuesday's democratic
primary election show that
he is leading Senator Leroy Percy
and C. H. Alexander at a ratio of
about 4 6 per cent. These returns
are from towns and precincts easily
accessible to telegraphic communication.
In the more remote rural districts
it is reasonably predicted that
this ratio will be sufficiently increased
so as to give Major Vardaman a
small majority over both of his opponents.
The long campaign which culminated
in today's election has been
one of the most bitter in the history
of Mississippi politics. The state
I has been'stumped by the candidates
and other speakers, and charges and
countercharges have been freely
made. Several personal clashes
have occurred and because of the intense
partisan feeling, peace ofllcers
of the State made. Rpecial preparations
to promptly put down any disorder.
These precautions proved unnecessary
however as the election
passed of quietly.
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Made Near Boer Bald.
A dispatch from Geffney says on
Saturday Sheriff Thomas seized all
the near beer at the four saloons on
the edge of the city outside of the incorporate
limits. At W. H. Demp
soy & Co.'s 5 2 bottles wore seized
and 44 4 empties; at Ramsey &
Cliildor's store 10 bottles and 75
empties; at Harper & Buice's 63
bottles and two barrels of empties;
at Elmore and Sutton's 100 bottles
and three barrels of empties.
Fired lfer at I*ast.
After a pursuit in which he says he
traveled 4 0,000 miles J. iM.Abercombie,
of Marietta, Ga., found her in
in Stockholm, Cal., with her companion,
Nolan Blalock. He also recognixed
his five-year-old daughter. The
runaway pair will be prosecuted.
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Dangerous Business.
Although the climbing season in
the Alps has only begun 29 tourists
have been killed and an unknown
number injured. If this rate continues
until the close of the season on
September 15 the death record will
be the heaviest on record.
Killed Little Sister.
At Valdosta, Ga., three year old
Eliba Mitchell was killed when a
shotgun, supposed to be unloaded,
was discharged by her brother, Walter
Mitchell, Jr.
FREE LIST BILL
p
Ike, Dements id iasargeats Put
Measure Tkreegk Seaate
THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE
.
Programme Carried Out as PreviousI>efeated
by Tie Vote.?lieconsidly
Announced?Original Measure
ered and Passed, With Kern
Amendment.
The Democratic tariff programme
was moved up closer to President
Taft Tuesday, when the Senate, by
another remarkable coalition of
Democrats and Republican Insurgents,
passed the "farmers' free
list" bill, after voting down the
original bill.
The "unholy alliance," as the coalition
was called, massed in almost
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liuuroneii uuui, Bwcyi uoiut; a uv/ut ui
amendments, voted down by a tie
original House measure, according
to programme for political purposes,
and then carried by a surprising
concentration of strength a measure
differing from the House only
in comparatively unimportant parts.
iNow the bill goes back to the
House, and Democratic leader Underwood
of that body, confidently asserted
that it would be finally agreed
to in conference between the two
houses and sent to President Tafi.
It is not certain that the House
will insist on a conference, many
prominent Representatives believing
that the bill is not sufficiently changed.
They are anxious to rush the
first of the tariff measures to the
President.
"I am not sure it will be sent to
conference. I can see nothing to
prevent the two houses from reaching
an agreement upon its final
form," said IMr. Underwood.
Had Senator Bailey of Texas, voted
with his Democratic associates,
the original bill would have passed.
One vote was all that stood in the
way of placing <,the. entire, issue of
Democriatie-rnsuirgent tariff reform
Immediately before the President.
Mr. Bailey announced Tuesday
night that he hoped the privilege
of casting the deciding vote would
fall to him.
Had Senator-elect Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, been present to vote, the
bill would have been in the President's
hand.
The House free list bill was beaten
on a tie vote, 3 9 to 3 9, and was
then reconsidered, chanced bv a
compromise amendment offered by
Senator Kern, of Indiana, former
Democratic candidate for Vice President,
and with Democratic-Insurgent
support finally passed as amended,
by a vote of 48 to 30.
The new bill provides that flour,
meat reductions and cereals should
be on the free list.
The Kern amendment provided
that this free admission shall apply
only to meats, flour and cereal products
"coming from any foreign country
with which the United States has
a reciprocity treaty agreement and
which shall admit from the United
States, free of duty, cotton, corn,
wheat, oats, horses, cattle and hogs.
It is admitted that thi3 provision
applies only to Canada, after the
new reciprocity agreement shall
have become effectve. Senator Clapp
and other insurgents, who voted for
the free list bill after the Kern compromise
amendment had been adopted,
said Tuesday night that the
amendment accomplishes what they
tried to effect by amendments to the
reciprocity bill.
Several other amendments were
adopted after they had been first defeated
when offered as amendments
to the orignal bill.
One of these by 'Mr. Gronna, of
North Dakota, insurgent Republican,
extends the free list admission of
shoes to cover all kinds of foot-wear,
wheher leather or not. Another by
the same author admits free Roman,
Portland and other hydraulic cements.
An amendment, by Mr.
Shivelv, of Indiana, Democrat, adds
bagging to the list.
TY President Taft vetoes the bill
and the wool tariff bill, both of
which, it is asserted will be sent to
him, the Democratic managers of the
House will mae no further eeort at
tariff revision this session but will
continue the preparation of tarifl
bills for the regular session next De
cember. If he signs the bills th<
whole Democratic programme wll
open up and Congress will remain lr
session until December.
Seventy lfeld For Trial.
Seventy-eight persons, three o
them women, charged with having
taken part in a riot at the Mansfteh
mine of the Pittsburg Coal Company
at Haidelburg last Monday, wen
igivon hearings at Pittsburg, Pa., lab
Monday. Seventy of the defendant
. are held for Court; five were dis
charged. Three, under bonds of $5,
AAA 1a.
?i/u uauut liiuuu iu upjn'rti.
Kills Four Miners.
Four miners were killed and nln
injured by an explosion in the mln
, of the Standard Pocahontas coal com
pany at Shannon, Pa. Details ar
. lacking. The cause of the explostoi
Is not known.
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SIMON IN EXILE
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PRESIDENT OF HATI SAVES HIS
' NECK BY FLIGHT. |
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His Daughter Shot and Six of his
Party Are Killed as the Deposed
Executive Embarks.
Revolution in Haiti has triumphed
' once more, and a few weeks of peace
, may be enjoyed, while preparations
are being made for the next revolu5
tiori. President Antoine Simon left
the Capital Wednesday and took ref1
uge on board the Haytien oruiser
Seventeenth Decembre, formerly the
yacht American. With him are his
i wife and a number of his followers.
On all sides Port on Prince, the
capital, and at which place President
Simon went on board the steamer is
invested by followers of Gen. Firmin, i
! one of the revolutionary leaders. The
1 city itself is in the hands of a committee
of safety and there is no general
disorder. ,
The departure of the aged President
was not without disorder, how- 1
ever, for as he was embarking at the <
wharf there was a riot demonstra- |
tion, in which the Ex-President's
chamberlain Deputy Prin, of Jeremle,
and five other persons were killed,
and Clementina Simon, his daughter,
and six other persons were slightly
wounded.
President Simon left the palace at
four o'clock that afternoon, after he
bad been informed that one wing of
the revolutionary army, commanded
by Gen. Peralle, had denied his request
for three days in which to seci.re
the safety of the city.
The general informed the French
and British ministers who went out
to parley with him, that owing to
recent summary executions by Sim- i
on's order, the President must leave
the Capital immediately or otherwise
he would attack the city without
delay. 1
The ministers, who went to Croix
Des Bouquets on a similar errand, ,
found the rebel commander there, '
Gen. Ducaste, igirant the truce, provided
a committee of safety was appointed.
In view of the attitude of
, Gen. Paralle, it was deemed best,
by the President, to leave the city at
once.
When the Presidential party had
boarded the schooner, it ran out Into
he harbor alongside the Seventh Decembre,
on which they took refuge.
, Among the party was Gen. Monplasir,
minister of war, and Minister of the
Interior Sylvain.
Antione Simon assumed the Presidency
of Hayti December 17, 1908,
( after Nord Alexis had been deposed.
BLOWS THEM TO ATOMS.
' Novel Way of Geting Rid of the Caterpillar
Pest.
Caterpillars have no terrors for
Elihu Batdorf, a quarryman, living
near Breiningsville, Pa., who discovered
a new way to rid the trees of
his orchard of pests of all kinds. Recently
he happened to spill a small
quantity of nitroglycerin on some
bushes near his quarry.
Shortly afterwards he heard a series
of short explosions coming from
that direction. He investigated and
found that as each caterpillar devoured
a small amount of the explosive
he fell to the ground and
exploded with a loud report.
Hatdorf was not slow to utilize
his discovery and mixing an ounce
of the explosive into four gallons of
water he began to spray his apple
trees with the mixture and in a short
time there was regular fusilade of
explosions in the orchard, sounding
like volleys of miniature musketry.
All his trees were cleared of caterpillars
and every other known tree
pest.
Many Dead Flics.
TTow about the war on the fly?
Read this dispatch from San Antonio,
Texas: "One and a quarter million
dead flies in one heap, being a pile
three feet high and five feet wide,
represents the slaughter wrought bv
the small boys as the result of a fly
killing contest which clpsed here
last night. Robert Bass carried off
the first prize of $10 with an official
? record of 484,320 dead flies."
, Slayer's Mother Faints.
Paul Giedel's mother fainted when (
I she heard from her own boy's lips
F a confession that fie had murdered
- Wiilliam Henry Jackson, the aged
i broker. Mrs. Giedel came here from
I her home in Hartford. The words
1 still on his lips when his mother fell
in a sw9on and it was still half an
hour before she regained consciousness.
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r Made Fatal Mistake.
I The four year old child of Mr.
, and Mrs. F. B. Wright of West Durb
ham, died Saturday morning as a re>e
8UIt of drinking carbolic acid Friday
s night. The child called for Castoria
- and the mother directed her to the
- mantle, where the mistake was made.
Kxtra Pay Stopped.
Upsetting a practice ui mure man
e thirty years, the Senate and House
e conferees Wednesday agreed to elim
inate an appropriation of an extra
e month's salary to the employees of
a the Capital. This saves the Government
$140,000.
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BANK O
Conwa
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Has largest capital and surplus of ai
than the combined capital and surp!
CAPITAL STOCK.. .. ,
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT
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Robert B. Scarborough,
EL L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every acc<
will justify, and we i
BOB BET B. SCARBOROUGH, D
President.
We continue to pay 5 pel
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& oonwa
? CAPITAL STOCK
Eft SURPLUS PROFITS
fk TOTAL ASSESTS
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J. A. McDermott, John C
IB. G. Collins, H. L. B
M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua
Successor to the Bank of
Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev<
Republic. Backed by tbe C
United States Bonds, we are p
tomers any reasonable acoomn
ft h. a. spivey,
f Cashier.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
. H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councilor At Lai.
CONWAY; 8. C.
A B. SCARBROUGB
conway, a a
Attorney at Law*
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Surgeon*
CONWAY, S.X).
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at Law.
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. C.
WEWORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE
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Shuttleor a Hlugle Thread [Chain JStitcAl
Sewing Machine write to
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BURROUGHS 4k COLLINS OBn
Conway, 8. C.
Many Lives Were Lost.
Fifteen persona were killed in a
head-on collision late Saturday
niight between a crowded excursion
train on the Bangor & Aroostok
railroad and the night train from
Van Buren to Bangor IMaine. Thirty
or forty persons are known to
have baen injured, and it is thought
that several others are beneath the
wreckage.
Tramps Shy at Atlanta.
The city of Atlanta has rid itself
f tramps. Judge Broyles, of the municipal
court sentencces every tramp
found m me cuy 10 HO many uayn
at hard labor. The result has been
than tramps have given the city a
wide berth.
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ny bank in Horry county. Mora
lus of all other banks in the county,
IBS,SOS it
> . . ? . * 12,501
:holdhrs .... bo,ood
ors ..112,600
;iors
D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnson, )
Will A. Freeman.
Dmmodation which their accounts
solicit your business.
. V. Richardson, will a. fbmmai
Vice President. Gashibb
r cent, on yearly deposits.
)NAL BANK\
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..$26,000.00 ?
2,600.00 n
126,000.00 A
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!. Splvey, D. T. McNeill,
uck, W. R. Lewis, D. A
ttlebaum, D. A. Splvey. y
Conway, the oldest Bank In a
In Eastern Carolina. Closealopment
of the Independent Jj
Government and secured by Jlk g
repared to extend to our cus- 3K
lodatlons.
B. G. COLLINS, jfe
President. g j
FERRY CAPSIZED
SEVENTY-FIVE PEOPLE FALL IN
THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. j
Although Every Possible Effort Wag^
Made to Rescue Them Seven Are )f
Drowned.
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A dispatch from Massana, N. Y.
says seven persons were drowned
late Tuesday afternoon In the St.
Lawrence river when the ferry
steamer Slrus struck a shoal eight
miles below that place, capsized and .
hurled Its seventy-five passengers
into the river. Four bodies have
been recovered.
Scores of motor boats and skiffs
are endeavoring to recover the bodies.
The steamer Slrus left Tuesday
morning for Cornwell on the Canadian
side with 75 persons bound for a
day's outing: there.
iMost of those aboard were -resit
dents of Ogdensburg and Massena.
The vessel started on the reutrn
about four o'clock and her passengers
were seated on deck when the
crash came. Women who could not
swim clutched at deck stools.
Picnickers nearby, in motors and
skulls rushed to the rescue and saved
scores. Others, 'benumbed anA
exhausted, were swept down strean^
to the International park and later
to death. Those rescued were taken
earricd to 'Massena.
WOMAN AVIATOR.
Receives License as a Qualified Air I
Pilot.
At Hemstead, L. I., Miss Harriet I
Quimby received an air pilot's II- 9
cense Tuesday from the Aero Club of I
America. This is the first license ?
that has been awrded a woman in
America. I
Miss Quimby, the aero officials and
a large number of aviation enthusi- I
asts arrived at Hempstead Plains We- 9
fore 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, but fl
fog made flying impossible until a
few minutes before 7 o'clock.
Thoroughly composed, Miss Qulm
by rose (gracefully in the air complet- I
ing five number eights about 130\ I
feet in the air, and then landed not t|
only within the 164-foot mark deslg
nated by the conditions, but also
made a world's record for landing. I
Her mark was seven feet nine Inches. I
vSays Dorothy Arnold Dives. I
Dorothy Arnold is not dead; she is I
abroad and her parents have gone
there to Ipok for her. That is all I
can be said definitely now." Mrs.
Griffith, companion to (Mrs. Rufus W.
Peckham, Dorothy's aunt, is quoted
to this effect in a dispatch to the I
New York World from Blddeford
Pool, Me. I
Drunks Come High. .4 ^
Hereafter it will cost $25 afl^^
costs or sixty days on the streets or '
Cedartown, Oa., for a plain drunk.
The mayor and city council believe
It is their duty to stop drinking
and the sale of blind tiger whiskey.
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"Don't talk t>o me about advertising"?Just
like the man that Is dead
and doesn't know that the tombstone
Is ever (his grave.