Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EIGHT WERE SAVED TWENTYTWI FIND A WATERY GRATE IN THE SEA j STEAM SHIPS COLLIDE SurvhofH of the Kt earner LuckfHhoch, (tank In (Wllslon Wtfh Itrifish Trump In Chesapeake Bay, 11 ear J* Newport News and IMnlej Harrowing Experiences. Wight survtM^orn of the steamer Julia Luckenbuch, rammod and Hunk in Chcaapeake iPtay early Friday by the nriUah tram-p steamer Indrakuala, arrived at Newport News Hatur<lay and told how twenty-two of thoir number had gone down without a chance for life. The fortunate eight, after a six-hour battle with a terrific pale, were taken from the rigging of their sunken ship by the Danijh si earner Pennsylvania and carried 10 Newport News. The Luckenbach, from Port Tampa to Maltimoro, was about to anchor off the Tangier gas buoy, at the mouth of the Potomac, early Friday when the inrlraguala caught her and cut her practically in two. She went down immediately and only the men on deck had a chanco for life. The lndrakualn, badly damaged and in danger of sinking, drew off ann bejwhed to save herself. Capt. (?ilbert. of the 1/uckenbach. and his vife, were among the lost. The survivors had scarcely reached tlx* topmost part of the rigging of the submerged bulk when the sweeping gale of Friday passed over the buy and for six hours they fought for life, while some of their number, exhausted, dropped off one by one to deal h. With a high wind blowing at cyclonic velocity and waves beating against them, the hardest ones held last until their clothes were torn to shreds and they were on the verge of exhaustion. Chief Knginoer Chris K nutlson was one of those in the rigging. He endured the gale until his hands were ble-eding from gripping the rones. H* became exhausted, ler go .and went down before assistance oa ir>4>. The Danish steamer Pennsylvania, which came to their assistance, couM not roach thorn at first because of 1 bo heavy sou. After many unsuccessful attempts life linos wore run Uo the struggling rnon and in two 'hohth thcv wore taken off ono at a lime. When taken on board the I'ev.nsylvnnia some were unconscious and had to be given first aid treatment. According to the sirrvTrors, ('apt. (iilbert and the first and second officers were standing on the bridge whin the collision occurred. There was no opportunity to give alarm to those below. Capt. Gilbert made a desperate effort to reach his wife and when last seen was swimming after i he sinking ship. "1 don't know how I escaped." said Chief Officer Hunt. "After the fchij) went down I found myself dangling in the rigging, and there I stayed. Not a lifeboat was to he had, so quickly did the Luehenbach go down. I never suffered such tot tare in my life. "My clothes were torn to shreds by the high winds and the seas beat mo almost into insensibility. Too much can oot be said in praise of the daring bravery displayed by the officers ajxd crew of the Pennsylvania, who rescued us." The Luehenbach now lies in about i\'A feet of water. Among the survivors are: F. R. Hunt, Baltimore; Chief Or Ilcer Wh Brunn, Now York: Second Officer George Little, New York; * First Assistant Engineer George Doyle, Philadelphia; third assistant engineer. One seaman hurried up the Luckenbnch's funnel stays as she went down. Finally he reached the rig < . I' < )? /? n # it /iL n n /I tif n ? *1 r\ Cm\. I^\a* a-t ?va *n i lir *.11 imui vr rti> rhi ir i\m el liiument. Then as the big; ship lurched her funnel broke loose and the searnau watt lost. A IIARVK8T OK DKATH. ? Over Five Hundred People Killed tn Nmv York Htrpcts. Street accidents in Now York city during: the year 1912 caused the death of 53 2 persons. Statistics made public Friday by the National Highway Protective society show that 23 0 of these victims were ch?iI dren, of whom 103 were run over by jurtomobilea. Of tne total deaths, 221 were due to automobiles, 134 to trolley cars nnd 177 to dragons. During the same period, 2,303 persons were injured. The deaths from these accidents in 1011 numbered 423. Ninety-one drivers of motor cars ran away after the accidents. * Oldest of Triplets Dead. At Jockuon, Mies., Henry Price, 75 i,?am y\f qo>a A\rwt (hafa H v Mr , T i?I O V 4 M ?\'M V \/t V W \ u?* / ?U Prleo wo? a member of one of the oldoet Bet of triplets in the United Wtates. The others, Franfc Price of that city and Mrs. Nancy Phillips of Pontotoc. Miss., were at his bedside. The brothers were Confederate boh diera. I MANY ARE STILL LEFT # # COV. HLKANK t/YOSK MANY C*>XV'lv ra r And l'flt South Carolina 4'n.sobs mh Far Finn Bciag Kmpty as ii%o Facts Br low Show. Ry reason of Oovornor Blcase'e free uk? of the pardoning and paroling power, many people are under the Impression that the South Carolina State penitentiary Is almost depopulated and yet In the annual report of Superintendent Griffith a: that institution It la shown that on December 31, of the year just closed, TGI convicts were confined In tho prison nod on the State farms. There were in prison during ia?T >ear, 1,001, from which five were pardoned, seventy-seven paroled, wntenee expired 123, died twenty-three, (neaped fifteen. The report shown that the penitentiary closes the year with a rash balance on hand of $1 02,740.70, and In addition there are accounts due ol' $5,70r and ten balos of long staple upland cotton on nane. The State farms produced plenty of corn and wheat for the convicts and hay to sell. The cotton crop was not so good. The sanitary condition ol the prison is reported to be poon, which is interesting in view of the attacks by the governor on the prison hosiery mill as a "tuberculosis incubator". No reference is made to this matter by the report of the superintendent. Of the State reformatory at Lexington for colored hoys the report says: "We have been able to run an eighteen-horse farm with six adult, prisoners, the balance of the work being done by the reformatory boys." The boys are taught cleanliness, and bow to prepare and cultivate land, are required to study the catechism and other Sunday school literature. The prison chaplain is Rev. .1. C. Abney. Services are held in the prison chapel each Sunday morning and also at the Lexington reformatory each Sunday afternoon. The chaplain preaches to the convicts on the State farm one rmnday in each month. . . MKTKOKIC (lAHKKlt KM)KI). ?. Made a Fortune in California and Executed in Mexico. A dispatch from San Francisco says word was received there Friday of the execution in Mexico City on December 2 3, of P. L. E. Del Fun go OJiera, who had a meteoric career in San Francisco financial circles ten years ago. The information, received in a private letter, was to the effect that O'icra, after accepting a colonelcy in cno of Madero's regiments, became friendly with Felix Diaz, and wan captured in the latter'a ranks when the revolution dissolved at Vera Cruz. A court martial convicted (Hera. of high treason, the letter says, and he was shot. Giera went to San Francisco from Germany twelve years ago, bringing his bride, the daughter of a noble German family. He made a fortune in the operation of a tannery, whie* he sold and invested the proceeds in San Francisco real estate after the great Ore. About a year ago his wife returned to Germany and he enlisted under Madero, who twice complimented him for bravery. ' * . HOI KKS ARM IUX>\VX DOWN. ? ?. Heavy Wind I>oes Some Damage it) Lancaster County. One of the worst wind storms that has ever visited In these parts, assuming at times cyclonic proportions, struck Lancaster botvyeen 1 and 2 o'clock Thursday night, and continuing with unabated fury throughout the night, caused considerable damage in many sections of the common uy. iNumorouH outnouses, nma'.i barns and fences wor? blown down, and in some instances carried Bovnr.il hundred yards away. A number of chimneys and stovo flues have boon msed to the ground as if from an earthquake shock. Numbers of oiliboarda, signs and other pieces of lumber wero to bo seen scattered here and there along Main etreet Friday morning. No reports of damages in the rural districts h^o yet reached there, but it is thought that considerable damage, especially in pome sections, was done. The velocity of the wind during the day, tho somewhat abated, is still so great as to cause anxiety. * gets a laugh salary. Vow York County Clerk Made Seventy Thousand Last Year. A sum equal to the salary untff recently paid the president of the united mates, or to that which tho highest Balariod hoods of corporations receive, Is said to have boon won by Martin Magor, as connfy clerk of Queens, N. Y., during tbo past year. It is estimated that 35,189 papers wore filed with tho clerk at an average foe of $3, making a total of about $70,000, of which $50,000 wbs the approximate profit. Under a now law tho salary limit of the county clerk of Qneens will bo $8,000 this year. J I GREAT CORN SHOW j ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM NOV BEING PREPARED ? FOB TBE FEATUBE DAYS Outline for the Hint Week of tbe IfftposHton, Whkk WUJ be Owe of tbe Btgfdst ThlBgN Krer hilled Off in This HUle or (be Hot ire ftolitli. The Columbia Estate says embracing six great feature days, each carrying a special program of addresses by distinguished speakers and other highly attractive events, the oivenlng week of the fifth National Corn exposition will afford a splendid variety of topics of especial interest to every visitor. This groat national agricultural event, which stresses every phase of agricultural progress, and which is this year the culmination of two years of careful planning and preparation, opens to the public on the 27th, the last Monday in this month. It will bo open for two weeks, closing on February 8. With only three weeks remaining before the opening day. the hundreds of details are rapidly Hearing final perfection, and it is assured that the entire exposition, to the smallest detail, will be complete and ready for the visitors by the morning of the 27th. The second week of the exposition, beginning Monday, February :>. will also have a number of feature days. It will, however, be characterized, in addition, by conferences on rural life and community work.These will be led bv prominent men and women who have given time and study to the various problems and study to the various problems which surround rural life, and they will prove of great benefit to all visitors who are sincerely interested in the social development of the country comm unity. Mondy, January 27, will be strikingly celebrated in a significant, manner as the opening day of the fifth National Corn ex-position. Tuesday will be South Carolina day, when special events representative of all Heetions of this State will be filtered. Wednesday will be national live stock day. Thursday will be National Farmers' union day, and Friday will be national educational day. V u Vi nnn c\ f* thnun I'on f n rn o vu *? J 1) a J *,\s I A will' W 1 L ?*.-U A II I V vitl,? 0 M . have a quota of prominent speakers, who will discuss topics pertinent to the perioral purpose of the day. Some of these speakers have already been announced, and the list is being completed as rapidly as possible and will be published in full in the near future. Saturday, February 1, will be boys' day, this beinp the last day of the exposition sehool for prize winners, to he conducted durinp the first week. This sehool will be attended by nearly 1.000 prize-winning corn club boys from all parts of tlie South, and on Saturday the "commencement exerciser" will be celebrated with appropriate events. The program for the second week is rapidly being completed. The rural life conference which will he one of its characteristic features will throw a clear light upon many of the perplexing problems of rural comraunitv life. Their presence in the exposition program indicate that this institution rivals not only with the economic sides of farm management and plant and animal breeding, but with the social development .ond welfare of the country community as well. * T1IUKK Al'TOISTS DROWXKD. Goes Through Guard Chains and Plunges into Uiver. At Toledo, O., a big touring car containing at least three unidentified passengers ran through Guard Chains on the dock at the foot o> A'.ldlkOn A VAIlim O v\ r\ nlimrfA/l U. .'A1 ... ? ? f V>?I u" U t|\l |/| U lip?T-\| 1-111 v# tho too into tho Maunoo river oa-ly Saturday. All tho occupants were drowned. It la believod tho au.wr.o111? and ita occupants wo?m Iiotti Michigan. Tho accident v\a.s witnessed by Roy Vodean, a night watchman who was walking up Madison Avenao as tho automobile* passed him, hoadod directly ?sr tho street-end dock. Vodoan doe ores ho saw at least three persons in tho car. Meets an Awful Death. Alighting from a moving train to recover a Christmas gift ho had bought his aged mother, Rudin Knits, a young planter of Heslln, Vft.,, fell beneath tho wheels and woa docapitated. Tho accident occurred In low of a throng of Christmas shoppers who wore awaiting their train and several women fainted ? ? Took Ills Own Life. Ilecauso he wanted to move bacs to town and his wife wouldn't lot him, Is the reason given for the sul-j cide of Edward McLendon, a prom-1 inent nurseryman of Concord, Ga., who shot and killed hlmeelf at his I InAlfttiaJ country home, near Jolly, ^Aturday. Ther? le no other raeoti of hl? ?elf destruction given. SMALL LAD LEFT HOME ' ? KKVKRAL, DAYS AGO AXD HK CAN NOT 1115 KOCND. Left Companion* at ttaall At ream to Go to Grandmother'* Home, Rut Never Reached tt. A dispatch from Walhalla to The State Bays rivalling tne case of Charlie Robs is the disappearance of a ?>year-old child near Walhalla Christmas Kve. The lost child is the son of John Owens, who lives near Tine JIOUIIIBID, Utt., iuhmji mm? Hint's from the South Carolina line. An extended search wince that time haw failed to ehow a trace of the boy's whereabouts or where he went after leaving hie two brothers at a small st ream. The day before Christmas three children from the Owens family went to drive the cows home. As they n eared home the two larger boys jumped across a small stream which the smaller lad could not cross. Ho told them there that ho would go back to his grandmother's home. She resides about a mile from the si ot. He has not been seen since. When the boy failed to reach homo search was instituted and this has been kept up since. The searching party include !J00 men and boys, but no clue has been found. A scare* has been made around the numerous cliffs in the mountains there. The j Chattanooga river is three miles from the Owens home and it seems improbable that the boy could have wandered so far. Ii is said that the boy frequently went from his home to that of his grandmother, a distance of more than one mile The child's mother is dead and he spent much of his time at the home of his grandparents. The theory is ad.'aneed that the child may have frozen to death and his body may have been devoured by hogs, which are numerous iu that vicinity. Hope of finding the lad alive has been abandoned, but the search for a trace of how he disap peared continues unabated. * KKVOKKI) COMMISSIONS. ? Hlese Ufinovcs 'I'fn (Vilunibia No* Ucicx Public. The commissions of ten notaries, public in Columbia were revoked by the govornor according to letters received by the secretary of State and the clerk of court. The following is a list of the dismissed notaries: Dlbert Jackson, attorney and captain of the Governor's Guards. August Kohn, manager of the Columbia bureau of The News and Courier and broker. Henry J. Hardy, local representative of the American Federation of Labor and pressman at The State. James H. Hammond, attorney. Andrew J. Rethea, code commissioner of South Carolina, attorney and secretary of Gov. Ansel. David Harper 'Means, chief clerk of the sinking fund commission. William T). Love, cashier of .the New York Mutual Life insurance in Colum bia. Walter T. Love, who is connected with the Walker, Raveuel company. George Powoll Miller, teller of the National Loan and Exchange Hank. William Stephen Hough, sec ret ray of the Gregory-Condor Motor conv pnnv. Alva M. Lumpkin, attorney and member of the house from Richland county. ? mh i> if m;.\n m miimjk. ??? Was l>y rnrfics Who Hobbod Him and Draw. A dispatch from Union nays .Tamos Ldgn, a white man, who has for sev* ral years conducted a store at Herbert in the lower part of Union county, was found dead Friday morning with his throat cut and considerably beaten up. Hdga lived alone in his storehouse. He was evidently murdered for the purpose of robbery as bis pocUets were found to have been Ufled, money drawer broken and store generally disturbed. Magistrate VV. K Uatchford of Carlisle went to hold the inquest Thursday and Sheriff J. 0. l/Ong went to the scene of the murder but thus far there is no news of any cine to the perpetrators of the crime. Ninety-Kight Hared at Sea. The Ounard Liner Tyria rescued and brought in to Hone, Algeria, ninety-eight of the passengers and crew of the French mall steamer Saint Augustin, running between Marseilles and Algiers. The Saint Atigustin foundered Just after midnight, while the Tyria had her in tow. * Gale Did Much Dfunaare. At least throe deaths und approximately half million property damages resulted In Now York Friday night from nn eightv-mllo gale. Raturday morning by nine the gale dropped to sixty miles, Pedestrians suffered keenly. < o ?"CV>rn Cure" Kills Hotel ma 11. O. M. Haines, proprietor of a hotel at Clinton, <Mo., died of blood poisoning, the result of oalng a "corn care" a few veoka ago. HUGE SHARK DEAD FOOLISHLY SWALLOWED A STICK OF DYNAMITE , ? .1 BAD ROAMED THE COAST A TwenCy-ftlght Foot . Man. Kator, i XVhleJi Wtw the Terror of the Hail- r , oih, Has Keen Killed ut Fast l\v the * IvvpIasioR of I>vnaiiiite lie Swal- t Iti\re(l. f A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., f says San Joes Jo? is dead. The dls- * patch says this announcement may not be of vast. Importance to the poo- c j)le of this action of the country, but P it is the best bit of news sailors on t the west coast of Central America p and California, between Panama and San Francisco, have heard in many v years. For San JoSe .Joe was a shark ,b fully twenty feet in length in death, p although guesses about his size in h life tanged from what he really was o up to forty feet. b .Joes home port was San Jose do t Cuuteinaia. and his cruising ground e fiom Cnamj ? rioo on the north to San o Juan del Stir on the South. Al! tnat came to his maw on that lo.tg Mrotch ;1 of coast was legitimate prey. A<vord- ^ ing to sailors who dreaded him, any y one of their number who nappened 'o ( fall overboard when the shark was ( near had little chance of over again walking a deck. In fact, everything j that fell within reach of San Jose Joe j belonged to him by right of might, I j, and it was this greediness that tin-1 f ally cost hi in his life. j v A I Oit ti T rvftn t L it 1/tn J on <i i. I i ? \ \ Ullll . 9 v/0\ IIH' CMP \ II ITU I 1*11 I per abound**, and every captain that t makes a call at the place ge<s at least f me mess. Fome do it one m n.e another, bat the captain that unwit- \ tingly caused Joe's death and an or- v iginal scheme all his own Dynamite t v. as what he relied on. tie had stubs i of the e<;>'osivo about 'wo 'reins ir I length an.l of the circum.o -toe ofa c had pencil To these it. time I use was nttacned, and when the uiuppiTt?, | hundreds of them, gathered close to ? his vessel after a meal and the leav- j iugs were dumped overboard, he . would throw one into the very center , of the school. t The explosion that speedily follow- : ed caused a cussion that stunned the lish and caused them to float on top > of the* water as though dead. Then 1 it was an easy matter to put off from the vessel in a small boat and with a , net. dip as many as desired. Of , course, this was not sportsmanlike, ] but it was highly satisfactory to a lot , of hungry sailors. I At the time Joe died the snappers | were there?So was the captain, so was the dynamite and so were the sailors. It was soon after breakfas\. The explosive had been thrown overboard and all hands were waiting for < the result. Suddenly there was a great commotion in the water, a scurrying of the* snappers in every direction, and directly off the port ( gangway appeapod Joe, his little eyes . hungrily watching the sailors lining the rail. ' With a swish of his tail he turned < over on his back, shot towards the slowly sinking piece of dynamite, op- t ened his great jaws and swallowed it. | That was his death warrant. He f hardly had gotten down the stick * before it exploded. There wasn't ev- ] on a Btruggle or a gasp. As n sailor ( would nay, "ho was ripped from stom < to stern," and his groat bulk of a body floated on top of the water. t -? 1? ( POtiK inumrRiw DROWN. ( i They Were Skating When the Ice 1 Itroke Writh Them. At Utica, N. Y., New Year's day brought death to four sons of Mr. f and Mrs. Daniel Kahler, of Croghan. Hay, Roy, Francis and Daniel, ranging in ago from 7 to 16 years, were coasting near their home. Thoy went down a hill and on to thin ico along the edge of Heaver river. The ice , broke and all went into the stream. ^ Near Hoardsmanville, Milo Williams, 14 years old; Homer Williams, 12, and Raymond J. Filth, aged 11, were drowned. Young Path broke through the thin ice. While trying to rescue v him the Williams hoys and Charles * Fitch, a companion, also broke through. Fitch was the only one of r the four who waH able to reach shore 0 " Fight People Rescued, i After being Imprisoned behind a fall of coal, rock and other mine refuse. eight of the nine men entombed r I Wednesday in the eolliery of the East p i?ooign i oni company near Tamaqun. * Pa., were roecuod nlivo Thursday v night. The other man, Joseph Wul- 1 tor, ta miseing and ie believed to have c been killed. The men were impnsoned nearly 40 houre. * , ? . h Thee of Itlood Poisoning. 1 After an operation to remove silvern of wood which had entered his chewing toothpicks, blood poisoning ?ot in, cfine4nf7 the d'.-nth of J. W. Motr, a leading merchant of Kin- C tfen. "N. C., according to a eneeial die- t pitch from that place Wed need a v ) Mght. Motr was a native of Vlr- t > ir^nia and leaves a widow and one t child. t "Jm - * . A EXCEED CONGO CRIMES WVFTI, ATROCITIKH OF TIIK PKHN ICOHIIKH BANDS Heu M'omtH and Children Are Punished in the Mwt Horrible Manner by Cruel AsentA. Greater barbarism than that Qraciced in the Congo baa bean revteald in the treatment of Indiana in Peu in the report of Stuart Fuller, eonul for the United States at Quito*, lis findings are now In the hands of he State department. On account of be anti-slavery treaties of the Unit-a a# ? * O 4 l k- 1 ~ At.- " u nuuea, it. in piwuauid lue .Y?omue x>ctri.ne will be Invoked to stop the iihuman practices disclosed. The report charges the gross atroilies to the Peruvian-Amazon eom>any operating in the Putumayo dtsrict in the upper Jungles of the upier amazon. Mr. Fuller saw and Interrogated ictims and eye witnesses of the bai arities practiced by the rubber comlany's agents. He found that men iad been been burned alive for petty iffonces, in some cases kerosene oil >eing i>oured on them. Spanish anr? Vest Indian agents of the company xercised the power ot' life and death ver the Indians. In one case as many as ten men nd women were decapitated because hey were to weak to march and keep ip with an expedition. Every kind >t ingenuity in torture was ascrlb d to the rubber agents. In some cases men and boys were ield under water to make them agree c work. In others men were hung ip with chains until they were unconscious. In many oases white men vho protested against the cruelties of he superintendents had been put in docks and kept there for days in earful heat. Men were flogged and left lied 1111i 1 their wounds were tilled with ermin. Babies of women working in he rubber forest were thrown into he jungle and abandoned or their jrains were dashed out against rocks md trees. Cannibalism and the feeding or in man remains to dogs were reportnn/1 i cn\?orn 1 no one uf K/\ . u t it ii vi iii * v; i iv i n iiiiui w i?v * v 'used to work wero tied up and shot it by the superintendents or by menunder their orders. The inarkHmaa ook care not to kill, but would inflict is much pain and fright as possible. Men and women wero whipped regularly for not getting as much rubier as they were expected to get. The accounts are in mauy places unprintable. Stories are given of :nen and women and young girls b* ng locked in stocks for weeks an<r nonths, starved and often abused is the vilest manner by the rubbber josses. BRICKS PAltCEli POSTED. >ne Thousand Mailed Cndcr the New Postal iiaws. Every employee of the Gary po.?t J thee has sore arms as the first taste uf the parcel post, and Postmaster lohn W. Ca'l and Chiof Clerk Josepli rracey are carrying their arms iround in bandages. Two big dray wagons backed up to he post office and unloaded 1,000 leavy paving bricks, each one a sei> irate stamped parcel. The bricks are lamp lea being mailed by W. ,P. F. Parrv. a local brick dealer, and he 'ound that he could send the bricks cheaper by parcel post. The Postmaster and his assistants ipent most of the day carrying the >,000 pounds of bricks into the post )ffleo to be ready for the tlrst outgone postal parcel mall on Wednesday norning. MKXIOAX AFFAIR8 HAD. Situation is Too Mnclt for the Present. Federal Forces. Disorder and turmoil in Durango, ilexico, continue without abatement, nd a statement issued by tho stale lepartmont- Tuesday said the Ritualon "is beyond tho control of the edernl authorities with the troops iow at their disposal." The rebels are Raid to become bolor as they approach Durango City. tefugeoR from outlying districts reE?te pitiful stories of suffering. Ration d communication with Durango lit. Telegraph communication Is tm arrect. ? Lights Reveal a Hulokie, After conversing in a dark work com for a quarter of an hour, croloyeea of a St. Paul Lumber Oomany of St. Paul, 'Minn., wn? startled ,hen the lights wore turned on early ^uesday to boo the lifeless body of a o-worker dangling from a ceiling team pipe, almost la the ventre of he group. The man had hanged Imeelf while his companion* talked, iis name and address were not :newn. Prefer Turkey to Pardon. Ktftocn nog roc* refnood to accepr -hriotmafl commutations of U*Mr booenoee which moan release from the tBOOO OitT OtOoVft^A TS?v 0 # 0 rematn In prison and partake of ht elegant turkey din nor prepared 1 ftapartatendeat Uoselay.