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"" 1 JtyTJ " r-' - ' ' ? J? /.* " I v'-; WORST EVER KNOWN 'FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI DELUGE. ' LARGE AREA IS FLOODED ? Two Hundred Thousand People Are Homeless.?Thousands of Animal* Are Drowned.?Hundreds of Ifu\ man Mves Are Lost.?Hundreds of Miles of Lund Flooded by Water. With thousands of its citizens working day and night, Louisiana fs atill battling desperately against the flood tide of the Mississippi river, which has been gradually break'ng through the miles of levees and spreading death, destruction and starvation right and left. Never in the known history of the great rivtr has the water been so high as at the present time; certainly never has the destruction been so great. Thera are a half million people in the state that have not had enough to eat, ^ some of them for a month. Tho United States government, through tho army, is feeding close to 200,000 people daily, whila the state authorities, the Red Ctoss society and private charity *s caring for tens of thousands additional. 4 Many hundreds of square miles of territory is covered with from three ito thirty feet of water. It is all rich farming territory, mostly used for sugar cane growing, and as it cannot be used this year, the monetary 11 S loss from this source will be enormous. Property loss estimated at $50,000,000. The battlo against the raging waters has been an unequal one. Day j and night thousands of men have i fought doggedly to strengthen the levees, taxed to their utmost by tho record volume the Mississippi was Bending down to tho gulf. Put dozens of times they have seen this work **s-i noii orV?f linforn tVin nrnirwltncr I. ifiV/ 1U1 UUll^ll u UCI.UI V tuu )f\/UUUill5 'i tons of water. First a small crack, then a break, and within a few hours i.a huge gap in the embankment through which the river torrents * :pour to inundate the fertile country i , which the men were trying to save. I ( Men, women and children are com1 .pelled to fleo for their lives. Live i stock of all kinds is destroyed, ft Houses, barns and outbuildings are " Immersed deeper and deeper In the i .'yellow flood, many of them Anally being lifted from their foundations iby the increasing depth of the water and carried away to some huge pile f of debris. Usually these danger ! points in the levees are discovered long enough before they give way to f allow the women and children to reach points of safety further inland, In many cases taking their valuables and somo of their live stock with them. Put it is not always the case. At Point Coupes the waters burst through the town without warning, sweeping everything before them. ^ Fully a score of people lost thoir 4 lives at this place. Other places ; along the river report loss of life in emnllor numbers due to the rapidity with which the waters spread over tho low territory, following a break In the levee. The condition of affairs can hotter bo imagined than discribed. The oldest Inhabitant never witnessed any such flood as this one. AH of the able bodied men along the river in Louisiana, save those who are engaged in the work of res cuing the residents of tho flooded districts and distributing relief rations, are at work on tho levees. Citizens and convicts work side by side, the atate authorities having opened tho Jail doors in order that more men would be available at the danger point. Negroes, who refused to work at first were content to live off the Government's rations, made the sitj nation so bad that Gov. Sanders call' ed out tho miltia, and tho blacks are li now being kept at work at the point /; of the bayonet. fa Tho most disastrous levee break i.i? last week was tho one at Torras, at l-'i the junction of the Mississippi and '/ Ber rivers. As a result the combined torrents of these two streams are I* " swoeping southward, fast covering the section known as the "Sugar Bowl of America." There Is nothing to bar the progress of the waters botr*rni>n Tnrrna and the gulf, and It is Ionljva question of days until the entire sugar-producing section of the state will be under from ten to twenty feet of water. Fifteen parishes will be flooded by this one break. The break at Torras was not unlooked for, as the levee had been weakening for several days. Hence , t, preparations for tihe break prevented jl loss of life. A train had been placy, ed at Torras with steam kept up conVyj tinually, as at other threatened /1 points, and when the break came the m Inhabitants rushed for It and were A carried away to safety. In addition f'l \ steamboats picked up many maroon4 ) ed persons and carried them to Baton H I Rouge, where Government rations HI ) are being dealt out. Thousands of / refugees have gathered at Baton H I Rouge, which la now seriously mw^jf threatened Itself. The city la built Am upon a knoll, and the dikes protectlng the lowlands surrounding It have l;M so far kept the waters of the (Missis-1 ? 7 I MUST OBEY THE LAW COLON Eli L. M. GREEN'S VOUOIf- ( Ell HELD UP BY JONES. 'F11 ^1 A 11 /I * T\ M .1. . & lit? M)ni|>iruiuT?uvncrui ifvuinuun j Itemized Account as Required by the Law. Comptroller General A. W. Jones lias held up the voucher for some $400 drawn for Leon M. Green, one of th? Governor's detectives, out of his law enforcement fund, on the ground that the law calls for the accounts to be itemized and dated and this, th? Comptroller-General alleges, was not done by 'Mr. Green. is similar to the warrant drawn in favor of the Rev. C. W. Creighton, also one of the Governor's detectives, on the same fund, and which was held up by the Comptroller-General. The Comptroller-General's office stated that two warrants, aggregating some $412, drawn in favor of Leon M. Green, on the Govern's law enforcement fund, each one of the warrants for some $2 00, were held up because the accounts wero not itemized and because they were not dated properly; that the first was not sent back to the bank and that it was returned by Mr. Green with probable dates of his work for which the account was rendered, but as the law required exact dates and itemized accounts, the warrants wero again turned back to the bank by the Comptroller-General's office. The Comptroller-General stated that during Governor Ansel's administration detectives employed similar to Messrs. Green and Creighton always rendered itemized accounts and proper dates, and ho exhibited one to prove his statement. This is what he is contending for when ho refused payment to the warrants in favor of Messrs. Creighton and Green, drawn on the Governor's law enfocrement fund. One such warrant for the Rev. C. W. Creighton, as a' detective, was paid, but it was through Mr. Holmes' misunderstanding of the orders of Comptroller-General Jones, who has < issued instructions that none bo paid 1 until Itemized accounts and proper dates are on all of them. Leon M. Green and C. W. Croighton were appointed by the Governor as special detectives to assist in the enforcement of laws, and it was in an interview given out in Newberry that this matter was made known by the Governor, although it had been generally understood in some quarters before. The Rev. C. W. Creighton is editor of the Christian Appeal at Greenwood, and was formerly a member of the Methodist Conference. He is known throughout the State. ? ?. FOUGHT TO THE DEATII. ? When Found Their Lifeless Hands Hi ill Grasped Pistols. Propped a/tainst hlie wall of a shack on Kettle Creek, ICy., their lifeless hands still clutching their revolvers and the last looks of defiance fixed on their faces, the bodies of Albert Stephens and William Maybury were found last week by relatives who had missed them. Each body was pierced by four bullets. Stephens had sold the shack and its contents to Maybury, and it is believed they went to have a final settlement, quarreled, and fought to the death without anyone hearing the reports of the shots. men and children, the men being busy fighting the waters along the levees. However, a force of about 2,000 workmen 'have been working all week in an effort to cap the dikes with Hn.ndhn.srR and then make the whole solid enough to rosist the fear- * ful pressure of the waters. The river level at New Orleans remains about the same, duo to the many breaks in the levees above. A constant watch is being kept on the main levees, which are still Jn first class condition, while the emergency levees have been closed at all points to prevent tho Hooding of the city from the north by a break between Now Orleans and Baton Rouge. Thousands of refugees are pouring Into the city, and tho United States government Is making It the center for the distribution of relief rations. It Is freely predletet by state officials of Louisiana that food an 1 shelter for at least 1 To,000 people iw 11 have to be suppllil for auo-her oonth, and the great bulk of thu will have to come through the War department. The cost of this will be about $15,000 a da* for what is known as "plantation rations," and as the Army used up the last of its $300,000 fund early this week, Congress will be asked to appropriate ' II ? ikA 1IA? ~ P ||.A runner huiiim iui ui? icnoi ui mti ? flood sufferers. sippi within Its banks. But the river Is constantly rising, and grave fear Is fealt, especially as the great bulk of the people now In the city are woConvict Was Killed. Jenkins Manning, an escaped convict was shot and killed by C. B. Pate Jr., near Camden Tuesday. About a week ago the negro was seen in the room of Pate's 13-year- ^ old sister In the middle of the night. 1 F ; I ) I * WANTS HIM BEAT ? THE TRUSTS AND BIG BUSINESS FIGiiTING WILSON. THEIR LITTLE SCHEME ~ In Independent Newspaper Tells How the Many Interests Hope to Defeat the Friend of the People by Secretly Supporting Other CandiL L ' .' . 1 .. #' I dates and Hob of Votes. According to a staff correspondent )f Grit, an independent newspaper, >vho spent a week in Washington studying the political situation, the Trusts and Big Business is moving leaven and earth to prevent the nomnation of Woodrow Wilson by the Democrats. The correspondent says le has to the best of his ability tried :o describe the political situation Impartially, fairly and truly as ho found t. Here is what this independent, mpartial observer says about the netliods being used to cheat the people by the money interests: It does not take a very exhaustive nvestigation of the situation here, vhich accurately reflect conditions hroughout the country, to discover hat. the forces of Conservatism are n absolute control of tho regular, or raft machine of the Republican pary, and that they dominate more or ess completely most of the Democratic campaign machines. The Wilton and Roosevelt organizations are he only ones that are not being manpulated directly or indirectly in the nterests of the Conservatives. They ire the two targets against which the mormously powerful reosureea of ho Conservatives are being'directed with a venomous hostility and a savtge craft that has no precedent in Vnierlcan politics. Practically every trust, corporaIon, railroad, and bank, every facor in tho alliance of Big Bus'ness tnd politics down to the sllmest ward leeler and up to the smoothest ar,icle that Wall street can jimmy into he Senate, including the great mass >f the honest and respectable busiless men, who are Conservatives by nstlnct, temperament and interest, ire united in a war to exterminate loosevelt and Wilson as the two jreat leaders of tho Progressive pary Last fall, representatives of the dorgan and other Big Business interjsts, after sizing up the situation, oncluded that a Democratic presilent was a probability this year and hat Taft was doomed to defeat. They ,vere prepared to throw their enorlious and secret influenco to llarlion preferably, or to another "safe" Democrat who could beat Wilson, ^ater, it was thought that Taft could je pulled across after all and they ;ot behind and pushed only to have heir well laid plans shattered by toosevelt's smashing campaign igainst bossism. Now it seems likev that they will turn to some Democrat, in case Roosevelt lands the iomina.tion. But the Roosevelt managers are lot alarmed at this threatened man)uver. They believe, and they have hacks of letters to justify their 'aith, that Roosevelt will command id enormous Democratic vote, more han enough to make up for any Remblican defection. If Wilson is not he Democratic nominee for the presdency and should Roosevelt lead the Ftepublicans a vast number of Denio*rotic Progressives will cast their ^allots for the colonel, at least, that s the tenor of thousands of letters :hat are coming in to Roosovelt lead quarters. Should neither Roosevelt nor Wilson capture a nomination, should the Progressives of both parties be goldjrickod and left high and dry be;ween choifce of two doubtful or Conservative candidates a third ticket is ilmost a certainty and it would iweep the West like a prairie fire, ileforo Roosevelt entered the contest t looked as if the Democrats cxiuld lominate even a yellow dog for presdent and still win. Then the Progressive wing of the party was in the * * ? ? ? A _ 1- t iscenoani ana il w*ib uik?u iui b'omid that some virile Progressive like Wilson would bo the Democratic iholce against the Conservative canlidato Taft. Independent Republicans were locking by the thousand to the Wil;on banner and candid Republicans confessed that his election was very probable. To-day, the Wilson boom s practically side-tracked and his lomination is viewed as an impossl)ility; eight candidates are dividing ho party strength; Progressive inluences in party councils have waned ilmost to the disappearing point, and various plans of committing political micide seem to appeal to the party eaders. What has happened in the past few months to work this great change in party attitude and prospects? The solution is very simple. Gov. Wilson is the only man among these ilght Democratic candidates whom nig Business fears. He and Roosevelt are the two pre-eminent leaders >f the Progressives and against them i hidden and secret light has been waged for their political extermina~ tlon. It has been an utter failure In MEETING OF DEMOCRATS STATE CONVENTION WII1I1 BE HELD IN COLUMBIA. Much Interest Shown in the Election of IXelegates at Large to the National Convention. The State convention ot the Democratic party of South Carolina wi'.l be held in Columbia Wednesday 'n the hall of the house of representatives, when eighteen delegates to the national convention will bo namei. The convention will bo under the control of the supporters of Judge Ira 13. Jones. The 33 6 delegates to the convention were elected at the county conventions on May 6. The supporters of Judge Jones will put up Thos. O. iMcLeod of Bishop ville for president of the convention. Ho is former lieutenant governor and a warm supporter of Judge Jones. The executive committee of the Democratic party has been called by Gen. Wilio Jones, the chairman, to meet in the ofllce of the secretary of state tonight, when a State chairman will be elected. Preparations will bo made by the committeo for the convention on Wednesday. Charleston and Georgetown counties will send contested delegations to tho State convention. The ottlcial iist of delegates to the convention fiom the various counties, as elected cn May Gth, were announced Saturday by Gen. Wilie Jones. There is much interest in tho election of tho four delegates at larg? to the national convention. Several candidates have been announced. The supporters of Judge Jones have announced that two of the four delegates will be Senator D. It. Ti !man and Senator E. D. Smith. Judge Jones will not ask election as a delegate at large. Tho contests from Charles ).) and Georgetown will be decided by t;.e State Convention. The members of the executive conimttee fro n the two counties will oe seated alter tne (ontests have been disposed of by ?he convention. the case of Roosevelt, but it has about sapped the life out of tho Wil son boom. The Trusts are not advertising the fact and Rig Business never brings of its victories, but it is nevertheless true that the Trusts are making the Democratic donkey peiforrn just about as they want it loo. The poor beast is on Its way and it does not appear to care a hoo:. where it is going. The clever "favorite son" stratagem, which by the way Wall street, Is working like a charm. It is robbing the Democratic masses of their right to pick their own candidate, and It means that tho choice of a candidate will, In tho good, old style, be determined at the Convention at a back-stairs caucus by tnose sterling patriots Murphy, Taggert, Stone, Hearst and manipulators of similar political instincts, traditions and Ideals. It will be tho pitiful wreik of a glorious opportunity unless t ie democratic rank and filo wake up in time to a knowledge of what is being done to them by a gang cf the shrewdest manipulators that . evei battened on graft and listened obediently to their master's Wall street voice. The great mass of the Democratic voters are Progressive and just how far it will be safe to go in the manipulation of the convention is delicate problem now puzzling the Consenvatives. One of the surprises of the pro-nomination campaign has hpon tho Rtrpntrfh develone i hv Speaker Champ Clark. Nevertheless, he is one of the weakest candidates the D-jmocrats could nominate. Against Taft he would have a fighting c.iauee: against Roosevelt he wouM not actract a single independent vote not even from the Republican labc-rranks. And the Democratics candidate must be a man who can draw to himself the independent vote of the country. There is a growing impression here that the Under.vooi and much of the Clark strength is being so manipulated that with the other Conservative assets, it can be thrown to Harmon at the right momen:. Seventeen Lives Were Lost. Seventeen lives aro known to ha?c been lost in the Torras crevasse in the Mississippi levee. Three white people were drowned when a raft on which a farmor, 4hls wife and two daughters were endeavoring to reach high ground was broken to pieces by the swift current from the break. The farmer was rescued. Fourteen negroes lost their lives in the Letts worm neignoornooa. Rntire Country Under Water Practically the entlro country between Vlcksburg and IJalrd, Miss., Is under water according to reports brought back to Vicksburg by the army relief steamer Wyanoka, which distributed about 100,000 rations *>long the Sunflower river. Officers in charge of the vessel report there are approximately 70,000 head of cattle to be taken care of along this river. Man's IiCg Cut Off. Perry Jackson, a white farmer, living nearAUendale, nad one leg cut off by an engine of the Southern railway, Saturday afternoon. i LEADS IN THE RACE I ? WILSON IS WELL AHEAD IN NUMBER OF DELEGATES. ? THIS WILL BE BIG WEEK ? 4 Primaries Will II? Held and Conventions Will Meet in No Eess Than Eleven States to Elect Delegates to the National Democratic Conven tioii Which Meets in Baltimore. The Washington correspondent of The State Bays with victories in Texas, South Carolina and Puerto Rico during the past week, Gov. Woodrow Wilson picked up forty-six certain delegates to the Baltimore convention, with a good chance for eighteen others, and he is easily in the lead among the other candidates. The coming week is a most important one in the Democratic contest, conventions and primaries being scheduled in eleven states. With the big lead obtained during the past week the friends of Gov. Wilson are more confident than ever that he will be the party choice at Baltimore. Gov. Wilson's strength to date is a.s follows: Ponnslyvania, 7G; Oregon, 10; Texas, 40; Maine, S; Wisconsin, 24; Oklahoma, 10; Jh linois, 2; Puerto Itico, G; Florida, 2; Delaware, G; Kansas (instructed second choice), 20; North Dakota (second ballot), 10; Total, 214. The campaign managers of Speaker Clark conceded 7 4 delegates to Gov. Wilson. In view of the fact that the Clark people claim 17 delegates from Pennsylvania in the face of the ironbound instructions of the people at the polls and later by the State convention, that sort of statement is In no sense surprising. While denying to Gov. Wilson three-fourths of his actual strength the Clark campaign managers give to the others of the allies every vote that cam possibly bo apportioned to them. t or instanco, gov. narmon is given his entire strength?his two votes from Nebraska?and Mr. Underwood is given 84 votes, which is the total number claimed by him. The allies are playing the game together even to the smallest details. Speaker Clark has 160 delegates. He will probably receive the 2 0 votes of the Kansas delegation on the llrst ballot, but two-thirds of the delegation favor Gov. Wilson and are free to go to him in pursuance of instructions on any ballot. The speaker's campaign managers claim Massachusetts, bnt the delegates wero elected under pledge to vote for Gov. Foss, and do not consider themselves bound by any other instructions. George Fred Williams, who ran in the open as a Clark delegate, with the prestige of being the speaker's campaign manager, was overwhelmingly defeated by the Foss delegate ticket. Gov. Harmon has two delegates, Mr. Underwood 82, Gov. Baldwin 11, Gov. Marshall 3 0, Gov. Bourke 10, and 106 uninstructed. A telegram from A. L. Whiteman of Roswell, N. M., to Wilson headquarters, states that 11 counties in New Merico, have instructed for Gov. Wilson, giving him 143 delegates to the State convention. Speaker Clark carried nine counties, which gave him 120 delegates. Five counties have not acted or instructed. It looks like Wilson will bo the winner. - .? + TIIE JU1K*E WILL NOT <iO. ? Jones Is Not a Candidate for Delegate to Baltimore, The State says there has been considerable interest taken In the election of delegates at large to the national Democratic convention to be held in Baltimore, and a number of names have been suggested. J. William Thurmond of Edgefield, manager of the gubernatorial campaign for Ira 13. Jones, was asked pb to the plans and intentions of the friends of Judge Jones at the State convention. "The friends of Judge Jones will put forward Thos. (J. McLeod, of Bishopville, for president of the convention," said 'Mr. Thurmond. "Mr. McLeod 1b a close friend and supporter of Judge Jones in his race for governor. Of course Mr. Jonos could go to the national convention at Baltimore if he wanted to, but ho will not allow his name to be used as a candidate as delegate at large and his friends will support Senators Tillman and Smith for that place and for the other two places citizens who are known to be friends of Judge Jones." As previously announced there are others who have been mentioned and the selection will bo waited with much interest. v Roy Died from Lock Jaw. The State says Walter R. Rogers, 7 years of age, the son of Mr. anil Mrs. W. B. Rogers, of 914 Second street, Elmwood extension , died 'Monday morning as a result of lockjaw. While playing with a small, rusty saw Saturday he cut himself and tetanus set in. i ' } ? V;>| . 1 1 SAYS BRYAN LIED* j ? IJL'T BRYAV PROVES TIIAT HIS ACCUSER HAH LIED, | Bryan I^roduces Letter Wlilch Shows That the Charges lie Made A boot Hevanney Are True. Iu answer to charges made by Mr. Bryan at Findlay, Ohio, that friends < of Governor Harmon had sought to J } nnnOman Rrv'in nlnHn'oH rlnlop'ntAn fn ? | the 1 008 convention, stirred the Ohio executive to a telegraphic denial in which he said: "I repeat that no one authorized by me or with my knowledge or consent ever tried to purchase delegate. I never heard of such a thing except from your statement. At the date you mention I had accepted the nomination for governor and was making no effort for the presidential nomination. If you have a letter showing what you say, why don't you publish it? The peo- ! pie are entitled to the facts and I wish them to be known." Mr. Bryan then gave to the pub- ^ lie the following letter, on which he based his charges, and which proves them to bo true. The letter was made public by Ilarvey Garber, who said it was addressed to State Senator Frank T. I)oro, of Tiffin. It was signed Michael Devanney, of Cincinnati, and was, In part, as follows: Cincinnati, June 29, 1908. "Dear sir: In a conference with our mutual 'friend Mr. Blank, of Blank, he advised me you were in touch with the two delegates from tho Blank district. He advised me that you see Mr. Blank of Blank and have him see the delegate of that place, whose name he did not remember, and have him, together with Mr. Blank of Blank meet Mr. Blank at Columbus on the evening of July 2, so that arrangements may be made for the trip to Denver. "Mr. Blank of Cincinnati will meet them and take care of their transportation to Denver. By this letter, my dear Mr. Blank, you will see there is something doing , and whilst endorsements have been given In your district, I hope that your two delegates can see their way clear to vote for Judge Harmon on the first ballot at Denver." Mr. Garber is a member of the Democratic National Committee. He declined to make known the names of tvose involved in the letter. Devanney, campaign manager for Governor Ilarmon, made an emphatic denial of the charges brought against him by William J. Bryan. Devanney, however, did not deny writing the letter, but said that he would have nothing to say until he saw it. "When Mr. Bryan says, that I attempted to purc'haso delegates in Ohio for Governor Ilarmon," said Devanney, "he is tellnig a plain, unvarnished lie; for never, either directly or indirectly, was there any attempt made by me to purchase any delegates for anybody." But from the letter it seems that Devanhey is the fellow that is doing the lying and not Bryan. MEETS 1IOKHIBLE DEATH. ? A Mother Sots Herself on Fire at Her Baby's Grave. After kneeling in prayer at the grave of her baby eon, recently buried, Mrs. Maria Morterello, wife of a prominent manufacturer of Tampa, Fla., poured wood alcohol over her upper body and set herself on fire Friday afternoon in a local cemetery, dying while being carried to a local hospital. Two negro women passing the cemetery at the time were attracted by the dying shriek of the woman as she stood a pillar of flames for a few seconds before falling in the sand near the grave. The negresses rushed to the scene and recognized Mrs. Morterello. Hurrying to her home they summoned the husband. A call | was also sent to police headquarters for an ambulance and when this arrived the distracted husband was pouring water in the dying woman's mouth with a spoon. She died bef VO a i VI <v f h A u 1 IV1U | VUV UVPJ'IKM, Mrs. Morterello is the mother of Beven children, all girls. The eighth was a boy, and died recently. This seemed to pray on her mind, and her trips to tho cemetery became so frequent. that no one payed any attention to her. It is believed that she was mentally deranged. ? ? Killed in Runaway. At Greenville Young Jones, a driver for the Hunter-Wilson Lumber; Co., was thrown from a wagon heavily loaded with lumber Friday afternoon and injured td such au extent that he died an hour later. One of the horses bocamo frightened, causing tho team to run away. The accident happened near Main street. The dead man was married and is the father of sovon children. Will Rum Him Anyway. In spite of the fact that the friends of Judge Jones will be in absolute control of the Convention Governor Blease said, according to the dispatch, that ^ls name would be presented for one of lbs delegates .. at-larr* o? H