Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NARROW ESCAPE limlw Tkl Ne Lives Were Lett ia Stent MANY HEROIC DEEDS Men Carried Women and Children to Safety. .Cottages Wrecked by the Fore? of the Wind.. The Entire Island Devastated by the Mad Winds and the Raging Waters. A special to The State says that no lives were lost on Sullivan's island during the hurricane and deluge of Sunday night, appear more and more of a miracle as fuller reports of the *i?norAT<<i on/i ?nffArincs of the Atlan uauC)V* w ~ ticville residents, particularly, are brought to the city. With hundreds of people among them many women and children, obiged to leave their wrecked and falling houses and venture out into the 90-mile an hour .ale, plonging through waist deep water in many places, seeking refuge in the more substantial houses, that none lost their footing and were drowned in the raging flood that covered the island seems miraculous. When day broke over the island, Monday morning, a scene of destruction and ruin was disclosed, such as those who viewed it never wish to see again. Parties of men who had looked after the safety of their own families, were out as soon as there was light enough searching among the ruined houses and debri^ fearing persons might have been caught with their overturned cottages and killed or injured, and when a thorough search showed that everyone had either reached a refuge in safety or weathered the storm in their own homes, great relief was felt. As soon as it was really daylight, families started for the army post where the refugees were made as comfortable as posible under the circumstances by the officers and hospital corps. Scantily clad men carrying children and huge bundles of household belongings, followed by weary and exhausted women, trudged down the roads, through inches of water and struggled with the still ^^syiplent wind. Most of the people who were obliged to leave their houses, either during the night or early 'Monday morning were cottagers at the upper end of Atlanticville, where most of the damage was done. Many houses there were completely turned over, the porches of a great many more were torn off as if by u house, wreck Ing crew, and scarcely a home was not damaged either by wind or water. All the smaller buildings, servants' quarters and fences, were uprooted by the wind, and in some cases carried a couple of stations down the island by the sweeping tide. Roofs of wrecked houses, telegraph poles, fences, detached piazzas, and all manner of wreckage was scattered all over the place, and in the roads. On Monday morning the beach was swept as clean as the floor. The telephone and light poles on the beach were all snapped off even with the sand, and had been carried up to tne nouses. The front row of houses, at station 23, which are built nearer to the water than any on the island had fortunately been abandoned when the water first began to rise on Sunday night, several houses were swept clear of their foundations and bown against the houses behind them. It was in getting the people from . dangerous houses to those stronger and farther removed that the greatest danger was encountered, and many of those engaged in the work proved themselves worthy of the name of hero. .While many deeds of daring and brave endrance were accomplished during the wild night, one case in particular has come to light. At station 25, the water came up with a rush, rising in a few minutes from beach to a depth of from two to four ftet under the houses in the front row It was then that many of the people decided to leave their homes and go to the cottages farther from the beating surf. But to make one's way against a gale, breaking telegraph poles was obviously impossible to say nothing of the knee-deep waer, swirling down the paths like a mountain torrent. For the men of any family to help women to a safe place through the wind and water and drifting wreckage would have been a terrific task, and without the help of two young men of Charleston, A. O. Halsey and M. S. Hertz, the record of Atlanticville might not have been clear, as it so providentially is, and many of the residents of that part of the island would have spent a much more dangerous and trying night. Mr. Halseiy and Mr. Hertz first got their own families safely to the cottage of A. Barton Miller, a sbstantial bungalow, rather higher than the majority, and then started to help other distressed cottagers to this refuge. The wind was blowing harder oach minute, and it was an exhausting and perilous task to venture back Into the storm at all. B<ut these two men, both of them extraordinarily strong made trip after trip to the aeigboring cottages and returned TRAIN IS WRECKED AUTHORITIES DECJLARE .THAT DISASTER WAS PLANNED. Twenty-two People Injured Near Middle ton. Conn.??Unfortunates Are Given Prompt Attention. Railway men were at work all Monday night clearing up the wreck age of the Valley division express, which was ditched three and a half miles south of Middleton, Conn. Monday night. Twenty-two of the CO injured were brought to Middleton by train and the others by trolley and automobiles. First aid to the injured was rendered at the scene of the wreck by two physioians who were passengers on the train. The scene was one of the greatest confusion. It was pitch dark and misting, and the only light was that given by two trainmen's lanterns, which had survived the shock of tbe wreck. With handkerchiefs and the torn clothing of the passengers the doctors bound up the injured, assisted by Harold King, of Middleton, a med' - * * 1 * .11., leal student, wno nimseu wit? uauij hurt about the head and body. Despite a long scalp wound and two broken ribs, King labored strenuously for several hours among the injured. The nearest station to the wreck is Maromas, a mile and a half south, and it was not until a brakeman could reach that place on foot over the ties that assistance could be summoned. An ambulance with doctors was sent from the Middleton hospital and the entire staff of the state hospital for the insane also left for the scene in auomobiles. The railroad authorities said at first that the wreck was due to spreading rails. Men were working on the track Ml Monday afternoon and the ground was soggy from a three-days' rain. One locomotive and two baggage cars went down a 3E-foot embankment, almost into the Connecticut river. The eight passenger coaches were thrown in all directions. Of the sixty or more passengers who were hurt in the wreck, one is reported as being near death, and he is Abram Brown, of Hartford, who suffered an injury to his spine. The hospitals report that the other patients are doing well. The cause of this wreck is being looked into. Early Monday morning Superintendant Woodward, of the Shore Line division, who went to the scene of the disaster, notified the police that he found upon close inspection that the train had been purposely wrecked. t with drenched and exhausted women and children, in some cases having carried the women for 100 yards against the full force of the hurricane. On one trip they had been blown off the road and into the deep ditch, and it was only with the greatest difficulty they had been able to get back to the house. Yet after a Bhort rest they were out again bringing in more people from threatened hoses and carrying reassurance to neighboring cottages. T11, ""I" Af V? rvi o n \r /"> o a c JL 1110 10 Ull ij vy JL Hi v liii^ii j vumvw in which people were saved by heroic efforts, the soldiers from Fort Moultrie having scoured the island in the vicinity of the post all night, and rescured many residents in wrecked hoses there. That the damage on the upper end of the island was greater than at the lower stations, is due only to the methods of construction, the houses fit the lower end being older and more substantial. The storm was just as violent in one place as the other, btt the more sheltered position and strong buildings kept the houjes below the reservation from suffering as much. The roof of the barrack's piazza was blown off, but beyond this and the overturning of the sentry boxes and outhouses the government property weathered the storm well. In the opinion of many of the Sullivan's Island residents who went through the storm of '93, Sunday's gale was more severe, and did more damage than the one 18 years ago. There is no positive way of telling, but seA'eral permanent residents on the island say that this one was the more severe. At any rate everybody who went through Sunday's storm on the Island is unanimous in declaring that it was an experience which they are willing not to repeat MuIq Team Will Haul Taft. When President Taft, Speaker Clark, of the House of Representatives, and some 20 odd governors, visit Topeka, Kan. to help celebrate the semi-centennial of the admission of the state to the Union they will not ride in motor cars but will be hauled from the station to the speaking platforms by mule teams. The prize team of the state has been reserved by President Taft and Speaker Clark. * Family Row Ends Fatally. Sims Johnson, colored was shot and killed with a shot gun on Saturday by his eon-ln-law, Elliot Powel, at Corn well, Chester county. The trouble arose over Powell's running away with Johnson's daughter. ENGINEER KILLED FLYING PLANK KNOCKS HIM OUT OF WINDOW. For Several Minutes His Comrades Did Not Realize that He Had Been Injured. Among the storm casualties reported to the police at Charleston, the first was that of Mr. Alonza J. Coburn, an engineet of the Southern railway, who was struck by a piece of planking while standing near a window of the yardmaster's oflice on Line Street. Mr. B. S. Flathmann, night yard master of the Southern Railway, gave a very descriptive account of the unfortunate accident. Mr. Flathmann stated that about 10.40 o'clock Sunday night, he, with several other rail-j road men, were discussing the possibility of getting out a train which Mr. Coburn was to run. The engineer at the time of the accident, was standing with his back near the east window trying to repair a broken chair, when suddenly a loud crash was heard, and the small wooden building was jarred as if struck by lightning. In less ime than it takes to tell, Mr. Flathmann said, it was all over and the only thing unusual noted at the time was that the frames of the east and west windows were blown away. It was fully five minutes before the excited men recovered their senses. No attention was paid to the absence of Mr. Coburn, as it was thought that during the nerve raking period he had left the office and gone to the round-house. But later development showed that he was not at the engine house, and the yard master and his party therefore started out with lanterns in search of their comrade. They had not gone very far when Mr. Flathmann stumbled over the remains of the engineer. The body was taken to the yard office, and the coroner was immediately notified. The coroner did not view the remains until 11 o'clock next morning. The inquest was held afterwards. The board that struck Mr. Coburn was part of a 20-foot piece of roofing torn from a box car, standing on the repair tracks of the car shops. Mr. Flathmann bears several ugly cuts on his right hand, and thinks that either a piece of the win naming or in? snoes or tne cieaa man struck him as he was hurled through the west window, near which Mr. Flathmann was standing. WHY WINDS BLOW. Why There is Such a Thing as Air Currents, or Wind. Astronomers and other scientists have not yet succeeded in ascertaining just how far the atmosphere of our earth extends above the land and the sea on which it rests, but some of them hope to some day soon. Tne Astronomer Royal of England, who has completed his report for the liscal year ending May 10, tell3 some very interesting things about the vaiving densities, altitudes and temperatures of the air cushions, air p' ckets and air currents surrounding the earth. In reference to air currents and the reasons why the wind blows, the nvnlolna i V? n f nil* aiiocIl fn a f I t uajikuiio i 11 ci i an ? v.ir.irio ui gaseous particles, all trying to get away from one another, an 1 tl at, compelled to come closer together by contraction, or forced to f!y further apart by expansion. A quart bottle, for example holds 22 grains of air at the temperature of 70 degrees. If the bottle be cooled by surrounding it with ice, the air inside contracts. When this occurs, more a!.- rushes in through the bottle's neck. The quart of air now weighs tnore than 22 grains. If the bottle be heated, the air expands; its tiny particles fly further asunder, and many of them escape from the bottle altogether. There is still a quart of air, but it weighs much less than the original 22 grains. Now, consider the earth and the sea under the influence of varying degrees of the sun's hea". Where the heat is greatest, the air is made lighter and expands. Where the heat is least, the a'r is uaexoanded and heavy. Poth hot and cold air have weight, hut the col i. being heavier, is drawn more effectively to the ground. In doing so it drives the lighter air up out of its way, just as a lump of lead dropped into a pail of wat6r forces some ol the water upward. If the eartli were onuallv warm at every nart. and con tinned at a constant temneratufe, wind eould not exist. It "blown" because of heat and gravitation. In I other words air moves from the place where its weight or pressura is most toward the place where its pressure or weight is least. Suicided in Patrol Wagon. At Atlanta, Ga., Hunter H. Christian, aged 36, cut his throat with a pocket knife Thursday afternoon while being taken to the police station in a patrol wagon, and died at a hospital in that city. Christian was a railroad switchman and had been arrested on a warrant charging disorderly conduct in saloon on August " - . . l > 1 ANSWERS TAFT Champ Clark Acciscs Proideit Tift ( Mtsstaliag Facia. ONSLAUGHT AN HONOR Speaker Clark l>eclares He Can't See How Executive Has the Nerve to Defend Payne Hill and Tariff Revision Veto?Speaks of the Wool Hill and the Tariff Hoard. Champ Clark speaker of the national house of representativee, before leaving Washington early Tuesday replied emphatically to President Taft's speech, delivered last Saturday at Hamilton, Mass. In a signed interview, the speaker accused the president of not stating the facta. Mr. Clark declared, among other things that if the tariff board is to be I nnnd oo o nroJoYt fr?r Hplavod tariff UOVU UO C* J/I vvvov ? ? - ? revision downward, the Democrats would cut off Its supplies. "The president essayed the rather large stunt of running amuck on both the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans in Congress, singling out Charman Underwood and myself particularly as Democratic targets," said Mr. Clark. "I accept his onslaught as a badge of honor. "The president and I are personal friends. He is an amiable gentleman, but at the same time he seems to have been in a bad temper, because he sees defeat staring him in the face. I would say nothing unkind about him, but I cannot and will not permit his personal strictures and bald misstatement of historical facts to go unchallenged. "The president's criticism of Mr. Underwood and myself, which is essentially a criticism of all Democrats in the house and senate, because all Democrats stood together, is absolutely uncalled for and is as ungrateful a performance as I can remember, for if it had not been for the action of the Democrats in the house in both the Sixty-first and Sixty-second congresses in lining up almost unanimously in favor of reciprocity with Canada, he would have been the most thoroughly discredited and humiliated president since the days of Andrew Johnson. With all the influence and patronage of his great office he could not muster a majority of house republicans for reciprocity in either the Sixty-first or Sixty-second congress. Tho nrpsident savs that he did not play politics about reciprocity, but that we did play politics about the tariff. The only politics we played was to keep faith with the people. If any politics was played on reciprocity the president himself played it? personal at that. "He seems to think that we ought to have adjourned as soon as reciprocity was disposed of?that Is, he seems to think that congress is composed of a lot of school boys to be ordered about by him as head teacher, but he was forewarned by both Mr. Underwood and myself that if he called the extraordinary session we would pass tariff bills and such other bills as the democrats seemed advisable. He will not deny that statement. "If we had done less than we did we would not have been worthy of so great a portion of public confidence as we now enjoy. We made the best record of constructive statesmanship made by any congress in the same length of time in a genration and that fact is precisely what caused the president to assault the Democrats in congress. "He had said the rates of the wool nntin/liilo in t )i a PflvnA Aldrich bill OV/ilwi u IV a it v??v/ v*,, ..w ? were too high and ought to be reduced. We reduced them. In the teeth of his other declarations that said rates wore too high, he vetoed our wool bill, thereby going over boots and breeches to the stand-patters. "The president endeavors to convey the impression that Mr. Underwood and I advocated his tariff commission. We did no such thing. "We were never in favor of a tariff board or commisson under the control of the president alone, responsive to him only. The Congressional Record will fully and clearly prove my contentions herein stated. "Several members of the house, both Republicans and Democrats, inincluding Mr Underwood and myself, have spent half a lifetime studying and debating the tariff. "The service of some house and senate members even goes back to the McKinley bill, the Springer bills, the Mills bill, and the Morrison bills, Then why shoud we wait for the ver diet of the president's board or tarirr non-experts? "It will be noted that while the president's conscience would not permit him to sign a bill revising even one schedule he promptly signed the outrageous Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff bill without counsel, advice or tuition of any tariff board whatsoever. "It might as well be understood now as later that If the tariff board is to be used as a pretext for delaying tariff revision downward, its days will be few, for we will cut off its supplies. The board has already cost $300,000 or $400,000 and has BANK Of Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of i than the combined capital and suip CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCI SECURITY OF DEPOSI1 DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, 0. L. Buck, (Iflorffe J. Holidav. W O' ~ * 9 We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we itobket b. scarborough, E President. We continue to pay 5 pe | FIRST NATO Jjk oonwA tt CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSBST8 DIRECT J. A. McDermott, John C !B. G. Collins, H. L. E M. Burroughs, C. P. Qut Successor to the Bank of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev Republic. Backed by the ( United States Bonds, we are p tomers any reasonable acconn A H. A. SPIYEY, y Cashier. not given to Congress any information to aid in revising the tariff. "The president himself is a man of large general information as well as a man of great ability, but certainly he is not enough of a tariff , expert to justify him in vetoing tariff bills which passed the house by majorities of more than two to one. The president implies that he refused to sign the wool bill because it was introduced and pushed through without consideration. Let's see. The caucus of Democratic members elected to the Sixty-second congress met January 19 and selected the Democratic members on ways and means committee making Mr. Underwood chairman. They personally and with their helpers, at once began to assemble information on the wool schedule. The bill was reported to the house about the middle of April, period of three months, on the prop| osition of one schedule out of fourteen, whereas the hearing on the Payne bill with 14 schedules began .November 11 and the bill was reported to the house March 18, a period of p. little over four months. "Nevertheless, and notwithstanding the president signed the Pavne-Aldrich-Smoot bill and vetoed ours. "Instead of being slapped together hastily without due consideration, the Democratic wool bill was one of * h ? * V* l o V? 1 if r\ rt /l nn w/xf n 1 It; I lit; II1UM lliui uu|K it i,v ttiiu tai CI nn V considered tariff bills ever presented to any president for his signature. In view of the foregoing facts, it surely must be that the president, in his zeal to reform the broken lines of the stand-patters, forgot that all men were entitled to a square deal and when he uttered this monstrous and preposterous sentence: " 'The bills bear internal evidence of the fact that they rested on a basis of not tariff for revenue only, but tariff for politics only.' "Really I do not see how he could ind it In his heart to utter the foregoing words, for which there is no basis of fact in the universe. "Never in the history of government, I venture to say, have important nl>1lp Intor^sts hf>r? nrlonlt with In such a light-hearted way with such absolute ignorance of the effect of legislation and with such willingness to sacrifice business interests to political exigencies. "That is as reckless and as unfair a statement as has been put into print since Gutenburg invented movable type, and is a personal reflection on the sense, honesty, integrity, bona fdes and patriotism of every man, Democrat or Republican, who voted :hem, not for myself alone, but for all who voted as I did. "The president rushed in to create an issue. We pick up the glove flung into our faces and the faces of the consumers of the land. We gladly accept his gauge of battle We confidently believe that the people will endorse our cause and give to us the victory for which we have right and truth and justice on our side." V V ? ? Shoots Herself. , At her home in Pelzer Thursday morning Mrs. W. W. Adams committed suicide by firing a pistol ball in to her head through her temple. She had been ill for some time. Mrs. Adams was a daughter of the latej John Charles of Greenville and was prominently connected in that city and county. The farmers are receiving the long wished for rsln. ' HORRY, y. S, 0. iny bank in Horry county. More <% >lus of all other banks in the county. $60,000 12,600 (HOLDERS .. . . 60,000 X)RS 112,600 :iors D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. fbekmab Vice President. Oashibb r cent, on yearly deposits. )NALBANK I y, 8. o. m $26,000.00 / 2,600.00 125,000.00 ^ TORS: T 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A tuck, W. R. Lewie, D. 4k ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. Jr ' Conway, the oldest Bank In 4j^ In Eastern Carolina. Clote- VL. elopment of the Independent Government and secured by repared to extend to our cunnodatlons. w B. G. COLLINS, President. f ? PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD attorney and Councilor At Law. CONWAY, a a \ WL B. SCARBROUGR . k CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at law* 1 4 H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFORD WAIT. * Attorney at La/, Bank of Horry Building. } CONWAY, 8. a ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWINBMACHiNfj * M a l % Iffoa want ?i ther a Vibrating Shuttle. ItotflA' buttle or a Hlusrle Thread [CAato &UcAJ / Bowing Machine write to ' MSEW HOME SEWINI MACHINE COMPASt Orange* Man* Nfcaraewfng machine* are made totell regard! eag|^ Saillty* but the New Home Is made loweea Oar guaranty never run* out. Irti If aathorlaed dealers eaffb? \ muuM v J BURROUGHS ? OOIJLUfS Oft, Conway, 0. O. ^ ??a? Arrested After Nine Years. After evading arrest since October 22, 1902, on which date he Is alleged to have killed Charles Ellen, in Harnett County, North Carolina, Zach Marks was arrested Thursday in 3ar.ta Rosa oounty, Florida, who; e he served ut one time as deputy sVeriff, later as postmaster at Gattls, a village named from T. Z. Gattls, his alias. and where also he became a successful naval stores operator. We agree with the Newberry Observer "that if the farmers ever expect to stand together in their demand for a fair price for cotton, now is the time." i