The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 07, 1911, Image 6
DRIVEN ASHORE
Passengers From Wrecked Steamer Leiingtoi
Takci lot# Pert:
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SAVED BY LADS DARING
After Terrific Fight With Waves, The
Steamer (iocs Aground, But the
Gallant Wireless Operator's Calls
Brings Help and All on Board Are
Taken Off.
Twelve passengers, a steward and
three colored employes of the steamer
Lexington of the Miners' and Merchants'
line were brought to Charleston
Wednesday by the revenue
cutter Yamacraw, which left the
captain and forty-three men on
hoard. Two firemen are reported to
have heen burned to death and a
third terribly scalded.
First Officer Chamberlain sustained
a fracture of his right shoulder. The
steamship has her nose imbedded in
quicksand off Hunting Island, at the
mouth of the Kdisto River, and it is
said that she will be a total loss.
The Lexington was bound from Savannah
to Philadelphia, with 12 passengers,
all of whom were rescued
For twenty-four hours the steamship
battled desperately against the hurricane,
finally being driven aground,
where the tremendous waves smashed
violently against her and the
powerful wind tossed her about in
the mud. Three times was she covered
with water, the pumps expelling
enough to clear the upper portions
and float the stern.
Rut for the heroism of Wireless
Operator Scheetze there would have
been no chance of rescue. The storm
wrecked the boat's wireless station,
hut Scheetz climbed into the rigging
and adjusted his instruments flashed
the calls for immediate assistance.
The signals were caght by the
Yamacraw, which hastened to Hunt-1
ing Island. Scheetz, a 16-year-old
boy, was in imminent peril of his life
while operating the wireless the wind
almost tearing him from his insecure
position. The lad was utterly
exhausted by his desperate work.
Passengers incessantly prayed for
abatement of the storm, and when tne
government steamer hove into sight
a mighty cry of relief went up from
the sorely stricken people on the Lexington.
When the captain realized I
the danger of the liner's breaking up
at any minute, he had a life preserver
strapped to every passenger.
Held for 18 hours in the grip of
the huricane of Sunday night and
Monday morning with Capt. Connolly
almost naked and half frozen standing
at the wheel with the pilot house
glasses turned in every direction,
with the stokers working desperately
while standing to their armpits in water
trying to increase the small pressure
of 25 pounds of steam to a sufficient
power to enable the Lexington
to steer away from the treacherous
shore towards which they finally
drifted and grounded, the veteran
passenger and freight steamer Lexington,
formerly the ocean steamship
liner City of Macon, was unequal
to the great battle against the
odds of wind and water.
At about 3:23 o'clock Monday afternoon,
after two anchor cables had
parted, the Lexington went hard
ashore off Hunting Island. She is
lying today in about 18 feet of water
listed almost 4 0 degrees to port with
her bow pointing up the coast.
Capt Connolly, a veteran in the ser?-?
- ** onto' on/1 Minora*
\11Ce UI lilt! .1T1V1 lyiiaiuo auu u
declared that the hurricane was the
worst of his experience of seagoing.
He claims and his statement is attested
by the first mate and steward
that the wind came in gusts at times
making about 130 miles an hour. The
roll of the sea was terrific.
Three times in one hour the entire
hull of the Lexinyton was completely
lost to view. With the craft at the
mercy of the elements because it was
impossible to make the least headway,
great seas would sweep down
on the boat covering her from stem
. to stern. All passengers were huddled
in the social hall equipped with
life preservers and not a few fervenl
prayers were offered that they mighl
see the shore again.
Wen urged by the officers of the
i Yamaoraw that he abandon his boat
r Capt. Connolly declared he would re
main with tier until only a mast wai
left to hang to.
When the Yamarraw nearer! withii
two or three miles of the Lexingtoi
it was found hazardous to come with
in closer range. On two occasion
bottom was touched by the Yama
craw, and it was only the skilfu
management of Lieut. J. L. Ahem
commanding officer that prevente
the government boat from sufferin
a like fate as the boat she was seek
ing to assist. She finally got th
passengers on board and carrie
them to Charleston.
Mrs. J W. (Mansfield, wife of th
clerk to the chief of police of Phlla
delphia, who was one of the foui
teen passengers taken from the Le>
tngton stated Wednesday that she ha
lived 10 years in the 24 hours dui
ing the gale.
"Had it not been for the superio
earn an ship of Capt. Connelly/' say
Mm. Mansfield, "we would all h
dead today. In the hour of tria
GREAT LOSS OF CROPS
SEVENTEEN LIVES WERE LOST
ABOUT CHABLESTON.
And About One Million Hollars is
the Loss from Houses, Crops and
Other Ways.
Mayor Rhett is directing the
work of rehabilitation in stormstricken
Charleston. Thursday morning
the death list was 17. The property
damage is estimated conservatively
at one million dollars
Planters declare that long staple
cotton and rice has been wiped out
m.ot affirm Honsos have been
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wrecked and cattle and live stock
killed. Roadways are impasable.
Bridges have collapsed in different
parts of that section.
The crops have suffered heavily.
The rice is seriously damaged and
the planters will lose heavily from
he tidal waters as a result of the
storm on Sunday and Monday. The
oi-s was estimated by Capt. S. G.
Stoney to be about 75 per cent.,
which is all the more severe on the
Banters in the low coast section on
.c.'ount of their loss of 45 per cent
last October.
D. C. Heyward, former governor of
South Caroilna Wednesday wired for
a shipment of 1,000 bage to bo sent
"? A 1
o Him at once, ana me same uiw
has another order for 2,000 hags to
>p used in repairing the embankments
in the endeavor to save what
s possible. Captain Ileyward has
three bad breaks on the Darney Hall
plantation and his other plantations
also suffered. He is reported to have
his entire crop covered by insurance.
He has not cut very much of his crop.
All the Conibahee section has suffered
severely, according to the information
which has come to Captain
Stoney and John T. Leonard,
the planter's broker. A large portion
of the rice that has been cut is
a total loss and much of the smaller
growth of the crop has been damaged
by wind.
Local rice interests are very despondent
over the situation. The
crop prospects were very bright up to
this time, with a fine crop in sight,
and better prospects. The inudstry
has suffered so severely in recent
years that the losses by storms now
are a particular crushing blow.
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RUSSIA AND JAPAN AGREE.
Emperors of Two Nations Exchange
.Telegrams With Each Other
The emDeror of Russia and the
emperor of Japan exchanged telegrams
Tuesday on the occasion of
the settlement of certain questions
which have been under consideration
for years. The telegrams related to
various claims and counterclaims for
indemnity on both sides for losses
incurred during the war.
For the most part the claims were
on the Russian side, the big item of
which was payment for property of
Russian subjects at Port Arthur.
In the settlement just reached Japan
agrees to pay over to Russia
$15 0,000 for apportionment of persons
whose private claims Russia has
supported. Japan will purchase for
$65,000 the property of Russians situated
on concession land and in the
suburban districts of Port Arthur.
Japan agrees to pay rental for use of
Russian property at Kwantung and
abandon claim to the treasury of the
Port Arthur municipality.
Japan also agree? to pay $so,uuu
for a Red Cross ship which its forces
seized and which has now become unfit
for that purpose.
came between 1:30 and 2:30 Monday
afternoon, Capt. Connelly displayed
the greatest heroism. With
death staring us in the face he was
calm and sympathetic, inspiring every
one of us with hope. Chief Steward
Joseph Rerliner deserves a medal,
lie cooked food with splinters from
broken portions of the vessel and
era epiognnficda,cHa$Jboder okFh
creeping on his hands and feet
brought it to us who were unable tc
move through fear of being washed
overboard.
l Lack of power caused the vesse
: to bo beached. With the engirn
l rooms flooded in five feet of water
it was impossible to get up stean
j enough to make headway against tin
, wind, which was blowing at the rah
- of 135 miles and hour, and get ou
3 to sea, far away from the dangerou
beach.
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i "A noro or ine muo nuoou vuriwi,
1 Is Wireless Operotor Screetz, the ho
- of 16, who manned his apparatu
s during the storm and rushed ou
- calls for help. The Yaiwacraw an
1 swored us at 11:45, and on The mir
l, ute she hove in sight. She coul
d not come nearer than five miles, bu
g her brave sailors put out in two lif
- boats and we were soon on our wa
e to Charleston."
d The party from the Lexington 1
Crarleston in charge of Chief Stev
e ard Berliner, who Is awaiting ordei
l- from headquarters. Wednesday aftei
- noon Mr. Berliner received a teh
gram stating that if the passengei
d so desired they could go to Savanna
> by rail and there take passage fc
Philadelphia. With the experienc
r of the wreck so fresh in their mind
s they promptly refused the offer, an
? stated that they would reutrn hone
1, by rail or foot H.
SKIP ALMOST SINKS
CLYDE STEAMER "APACHE" ARRIVES
SAFE IN PORT.
Wind Caine Near Driving Ship on
Rocks While Passengers Wearing
Life-Preservers Were Waiting.
Plunging toward apparent destruction
on the beach of Hunting Island
in the midst of the hurricane that
swept the Carolina coast 011 Sunday
night and Monday, the Clyde liner
Apache, with 125 passengers aboard
was opportunely saved by a sudden
change in the wind and came into
Charleston harbor Tuesday morning
badly wrecked by wind and sea, but
D??.iAitoiv /inmntrprt For a tense
nut OCi I V/U'OIJ v? ^ v,.
five minutes the passengers of the
Apache stood on the lower deck with
life preservers around their bodies
waiting for the vessel to strike and
determined to make a grim fight for
their lives.
Driven along by a wind the speed
of which was estimated by Capt.
William Staples of the liner at 100
miles an hour, the big steamer found
herself helpless about 1:30 o'clock
on Monday afternoon. She was bound
south from New York and had been
blown past the mouth of the harbor
to a point off Hunting Island. The
gale swept in shore and its force was
irresistible. Full speed ahead Into
the teeth of the storm could not
drive the liner forward and when two
anchors were put over board the
chains snapped like cords.
Helpless in the grasp of the huricane,
the ship was being literally
hurled towards the Hunting Island
breakers, and the passengers, with
life preservers on, had well nigh
given up hope when the wind
ami tiiA vessel was saved.
DII11 LW? Ui?v* vuw
Capt. Staples told a vivid story:
"From a terrible wind which threatened
momentarily our destruction,
we had entered as calm a sea as ever
nature made.
"But the calm lasted only a few
minutes. Twenty minutes later the
wind struck us with greater force
than ever and the barometer began
falling. The wind was from the southeast
and I believe must have been
blowing at the rate of 100 miles an
hour. At Hunting Island we ran a
close race with death. To gQ toward
land meant destruction, but the wind
was too strong and we had no option
but to be blown to the landward.
Sudenly about two p. m. the wind
shifted from the southeast to the
south and give a chance to head
eastward and get off into deep water."
F. J. Doherty, wireless operator of
the Apache, stated that the wind
blew the vessel a distance of about
75 miles. "We came near Hunting
Island, 1 o'clock Monday lfternoon,
where some of the crew sighted what
may have been a ship in distress.
The passengers of the Apache had on
life preservers. They seemed o un-j
derstand that death was staring them
in the face, but they remained calm.
Just at the time when the end seemed
to be at hand, the wind shifted."
Passengers of the Apache drew up
resolutions expressing their thanks
to Capt. Staples and his officers and
crew and appointed a committee to
present to the Captain/officers and
crew a loving cup. A number of passengers
on the vessel sustained severe
bruises during the storm. The
damage to the Apache consists of the
loss of her anchors and soaking of
every parto f the ship, including all
her apartments, in sea water.
SCHOONER WAS ABANDONED.
The Crew Taken Off by the Steamer
City of Everettcu
The hurricane that severed Charleston
from communication with the
outside world early last week caught
the three masted schooner Sarah D.
Fell squarely and left her and her
crew of eight at the mercy of wind
and wave, according to United States
I Wireless dispatches received at New
York Wednesday. The crew was
picked up by the Standard Oil Steam(
er City of Everette, bound from SaI
bine to New York, and the schoonei
was abandoned, a total loss. Th<
1 Sarah D. Fell sailed from Belfast
s Ga., for Boston with a cargo of luin
her on August 2 4. She was abo'r
j 100 miles east of Savannah wliei
3 the squall struck her.
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t Rig Picking for Thieves.
s The past summer has been th<
most profitable for burglars an<
y sneak thieves in the history of th<
y New Work police department, and i
s is estimated that the total of plun
oj.w.rk Tunn itwlmlintr hurirlarle
11 uui a 111 w i? ut>v|
i- in surburban towns, is more thai
t- $500,000. The police list of stole:
(1 property for the past two month
it show more than 4,200 items, o
e which recoveries have been made i
y only twenty instances. The list ir
eludes 780 watches and $200,00
n worth of diamonds and jewelry.
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-8 Two Killed in Auto.
r- Leslie Gavin of Maitlamd, Mo., so
of D. A. Galvin, a banker, was ir
rs stantly killed and Harry J. Cride
h former postmaster at Maitland, wc
>r probably fatally injured when an ai
je tomobile turned turtle near, Mar:
Is ville, (Mo., Thursday. 11 on J. E<
id wards and Charles B. Callison, alt
is of Maitland, were less seriously Si
Juied.
CUSSlFlfcP COLUMM
You omi start a mall order or light
manufacturing business at home
during spare time with small capital.
Valuable circular free. U.
S. Specialty Co., Greenock. Pa.
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IMno Farm Lands for sale?Write C.
M. Simmons. Biakeley, Ga., for
best locations and prices on ideal
farms; laige and small in Early
and joining counties; soutuwest
| Georgia.
For sale?Southwest Georgia farms.
No finer lands; no better prices.
We speaK irom personal Knowledge.
Write today for new list. Epton
& Switzer, Spartanburg, S. C.
Wanted?iMen to take thirty day's
practical course in our machine
shops and learn automobile business.
Positions secured graduates.
$25 per week and up. Charlotte
Auto School, Charlotte, N. C.
Farm Lands for Sale.?In southwest
Georgia, the country that is coming
to the front In great shape, not
only the land of promise, but the
land of fulfillment, write ue for
land list. M. T. Lerie & Son, P.
O. Drawer 57, Montezuma, Ga.
Country board near Hendersonville,
shadv vard. fine water. View
unsurpassed, good table. Plenty
milk. No consumptives taken.
Special rates September. Write to
(send stamps) Mrs. Josephine Miller
Pender, Hendersonvllle, N. C.
Route 5.
South Georgia Farm Lands?Large
or small places in Brooks, Thomas
or Mitchell counties, the heart of
the best section of south Georgia? ,
opportunities never before heard
of are offered in South Georgia?:
write us for a description of what
you want at once. We own farm
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deal with our customers?the MerI
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Ga. Write us at once. Balkcom
& Ricketson, Boston, Ga.
I SUMMER RESORTS '
We want you to be one of 2,000 vi#?
. .itors to The Land of Waterfalls;
write for booklet. Board of Trad#
Brevard, N. C.
At Glenn Spring*, S. C.t The Game?
House offers good serivce. Splen
did fare and the beet location
Write for rates.
TROOPS LEAVE TEXAS.
No Troops Are Quartered Near Mexican
Line.
A criterion of the American officials
take in regard to improved conditions
across the Mexican border is
found in the fact that practically all
of the United States soldiers parollIng
that quarter have been withdrawn
from the immediate vicinity of
the frontier. A few cavalrymen remain
along the western Rio Grande
border.
ThA nnlv natrol maintained at
this time is alon.gr the California frontier
because of the disturbed conditions
in Lower California.
The recommendation of Gen. Joseph
W. Duncan, commanding the department
of Texas that restrictions ?
surrounding the soldiers in his territory
in regard to short excursions into
Mexico be removed has been referred
to the State department with
the probability that it will be approved.
Two Million Deposited.
With the designation of 23 posfofflces
to begin business as postal
savings bank on September 23, in
the states of Florida, Georgia, New
York and North Carolina, Postmaster
General Hitchcock named the last of
the second class oiTices. The total
1 of offices of this class is 1,773 and all
have been designated as postal banks.
* By September 1 it is expected that the
aggregate amount of dei>oits in sec[
ond class offices will reach $2;000,000.
Banks in dies of the second
* class have deposited with the United
' States approved bonds in the sum of
$10,000,000 to secure postal savings
uepumis.
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First News of Storm.
The first news of the Charleston
disaster was given to the world Tues0
day by I. A. Davis, Associated Press
* operator, who has been working in
0 Charleston. He left Charleston late
* Tuesday afternoon, going to Sumer"
vllie, 25 miles away. He carried
8 along a copy of The bvening Post.
II Coming to Summerville he found only
n two wires open. This being the near8
est point to Charleston, he climbed a
f telegrnph pole and cut into the regn
ular Southern circuit and soon had a
i- conneotion.
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Would Not L?eave Schooner.
Five of the crew of the schooner
Bessie Whiting, which was caught In
n the gale Sunday night off the coast
i- of Georgia, dismasted and waterlogr,
ged, arrived at Jacksonville Thurslb
day. They were picked up at sea
i- bfy the steamer Ligonler. Capt.
f" Lowry of the Whiting, his wife and
1- the steward refused to 'be taken off
?o and revenue cutters are on the looki
out for the ship along the South Atlantic
coaat.
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This school, with a great ta<
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September 20th. Expenses hav
of everybody. Board, the best i
Fine healthful location. Elect!
Broad open fireplaces. Thorouj
Bookkeeping. Fine Conservato
number of new students. We a
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HARD BATTLE WITH LIONESS.
Wrist llroken and Arm insiocateu,
Man Hard Pressed.
Rattling with a mountain lioness
and her two cubs, after one wrist
had been broken and his arm dislocated,
C. C. Garnett, a timber contractor,
of Cheyenne, Wyo., fought
with the beaRts until Charles R.
Smith, his assistant, came up with a
rifle and killed the mother lion, the
two young ones escaping into the ,
mountains.
The fight took place in the mountains
near Estabrook Unexpectedly
Garnett came upon the lioness, playing
with her cubs. Refore he had
time to prepare himself for the attack,
the animal sprang at him. Her
first blow broke the wrist of Garnctt's
right hand, and the second
tore his shoulder, as well as dislocated
his arm.
Rut with his left hand he managed
to draw his revolver and Are several
shots at the angry beast. Garnett's
assistant, Smith, was close by,
and hearing the sound of the struggle,
ran to the rescue and killed the
lioness.
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Shooting At a Church.
At a negro Baptist church in Lexington
ora Sunday n|ght Gregg
Jones was shot and fatally wounded
by Joe Summers.
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culty of Sixteen College and
begin its Eighteenth session
e been placed within reach
n the State, at actual cost,
ic lights. Artesian water.
;h courses in Shorthand and
ry of Music. Rooms for a
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ir the fall and new year yefltUHh
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