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SNOW COVERS DEAD1 TIE VOIR IF RESCUE IS HAMPER- ' ED BY ITS FALL . 1 MM BODIES IN RUINS ? The Hospitals are Full aiul the t \ Churches and Schools Open Their Doors for the Afflicted?Relatives ^ c Hunting Missing Loved Ones in i s the Morgues of the City. , Shivering from cold but awe-in- * spired by the nature of their work, scores of men, women and children s in Omaha Tuesday morning struggled in the snow to recover the dead or rescue the injured who lay buried [\ beneath the wreckage of homes and buildings crushed by the tornado j: which Sunday swept with death deal- n ing force over Iowa and Nebraska, i killing more than 150 persons in d Omaha alone. li The snow storm which is seriously i hampering rescue work, began short- v ly after midnight and continued with v gathering force. More than three p inches of snow covers the debris in the section of the city which was b struck by the wind. Privations of h the storm sufferers are being increas- t ed by the heavy snow storm follow- L ing so closely in the storm wake. ii Women tugging at heavy beams, p hoping against hope to find the 1; bodies of dear ones near the wreck- li age; men gruffly cheering their sor- a rowful mates and weeping children fi wrapped about with shawls and blankets were drab colors in the scene h which were revealed by dawn to the n federal soldiers patrolling the afflict- 11 ed district. n The snow which according to re- I ports is falling blizzard-like from l rl a + r\ Pnn f ro 1 TawQ li O G COT- 1* v/uiui auu tu uciiii (ii iuhuj uuo uv/i ? l' iously interfered with the slender u thread of telegraphic communication p established from Omaha. Practically v no information has (been obtainable ii from the devastated sections of Ne- t braska and Iowa. s The fact that such intense suffering is being caused there by the snow ^ storm in spite of heroic efforts made r by the city to provide for and protect 8 all who have been made dependent o on it, caused Gov. (Moorehead to fear v that the conditions within the state e are in deplorable shape. He stated t! that, he would hasten action before n the state legislature to secure suffi- r cient funds for the immediate care n of storm victims. e Bodies of dead or injured still lie a in the debris and wreckage and the search by federal soldiers and anxious relatives of possible victims continued through the storm Monday night and Tuesday morning. Some r residents of the district declare it 11 their belief that at least one hun- (1 died bodies are buried in the ruins }l of houses and brick buildings of (1 amusement places, which are known to have been filled with pleasure ? seekers on Easter Sunday. Omaha is rallying to the assistance ^ of the tornado victims. The hospitals of the city are filled; churches, fraternal orders and public institu- . ? * A 1 _ i lions nave opened uieir aoors; me . city officials are busy with relief work and hundreds of officials are offering their homes and money to aid ^ the stricken ones. The city com- ^ missioners passed an ordinance appropriating $75,000 for relief work. ^ Citizens at the meeting subscribed to an equal amount. The injured at , 1 c hospitals are receiving the best possible attention. ei Public subscriptions are being taken by various newspapers and the amounts already pledged for relief NV work run into thousands. Gov. Moorehead, after an inspection of the storm disaster, said. "This is my f, conception of hell. It is horrible j( and it has presented a most complex e situation. The loss of life and dam- w age to property is the greatest con- jj ceivable blow, not only to Omaha, n but to the entire state of Nebraska. a I will call upon Nebraska to render ^ every assistance and I am sure the state will respond." ? h YOUNG MAN DROWNED. n P C Circumstances Indicate He Has Met h ti Tragic Fate. P d A dispatch from Kingstree says c, t much anxiety is felt in that commun- p ity over the apparent fate of Melvin NV Nexen, the son of J no. M. Nexen, a prominent farmer and merchant., ' near that place. Melvin left home Tuesday, as the family thought, to pay a visit to one of his relatives, ai some miles below his father's place, b and upon his failure to return Wednesday his father sent out to see why K his stay was being prolonged, and it ti developed that ho was thought to aJ have returned home. A searching 01 party was then organized, and Wed- hi nesday afternoon his horse was found tl drowned in -Black river, near Stewart's Landing, with the buggy hitched to it, and great fears are entertained > that young Mr. Nexen was also st \ drowned. Young iMr. Nexen was ci about 24 years of age and unmarried. Si He was a most promising young man L And hie untimely death, if such be w the ease, will be greatly deplored. at '% ?> /?A ^ ? ALLEN TO THE BULGARS ? LDHIANOPLE SURRENDERED BY TURKS AT LAST. Vith the City in Flames the Commander Surrenders Ills Army oml Commits Suicide. The fortress of Andrianople was aken by storm ,by the Bulgarians Vednesday morning after fighting of he most terrible character since donday. Flames are devastating the ity. At an early hour Wednesday norning fires were raging in various ections of the beleaguered city. The naddened population whose nerves lad been shattered by the almost inessant bombardment for a period of iver five months as fleeing about the treets from one point to another, not mowing where to find shelter. The great artillery arsenal in the lood swept streets. The man said that the water was doughing through the streets in a nad rush and that he had had 110thng to eat and very little water to rink for forty-eight hours. He said n....!" TI/. ^ r, 1, ?,1 5f us name was ju/avio, 11*3 aoi\cu 11 liere could not be relief soon and /as glad to learn that the Governor /as moving to their relief by every ossible method of communication. Davis said that corpses of human eings and numerous dead animals ad floated by their building. Among lie debris was an enormous oil tank. )avis added that the Equert buildng, in the rear of the Home Telehone Company's building, had colapsed and had caught fire. He said e and his party might have to take chance with the flood Waters if the ire got too near them. The building in which Davis and is party are imperilled is at the corer of Jefferson and Fourth streets, ext to the ollices of the Dayton Jour1 a 1, which concern as well as the )ayton News, is half under water, tig sheds, small houses and other uildings were drifting past the refigees. The phoneton operator reiorted that at this stage of the conersation Davis' voice trailed off in adistinctness. "I could not have lisened to any more. It got my goat," aid the local man. While the flood steadily receded V'ednesday afternoon the terrific curent retarded rescue work and a cold marting rain added to discomforts f the already overburdened storiu ictims. Expert oarsmen, who bravd the tide of the business section of he submerged city Wednesday aft^r0011, came back nerve-wrecked to elate narratives of pitiable appeals lade to them by hundreds maroond in upper floors of tall buildings, bout whose lower stories sw'rled a ood that threatened the structure's oun dations. The dark colors in the narrative 'ere lighted here and there by stoics exhibited by rhany of the flood's risoners. A woman with three chilren, marooned in the upper floor of er home on the edge of the business istrict, called to the oarsmen: "Oh, I know you can't take me (T," she cried, "but for the love of umanity, nlease take this loaf of read and jug of molasses to Sarah ruyn down the street; I know she's .arving." Twice the -boatsmen atmipted to take the food, but waves lat eddied about the submerged ouse hurled them back. Further on in the exclusive resience district they were offered fabu>U8 sums for rescue by many of the ( ood's prisoners. Their narrative inpired an effort late Wednesday af- , 31*110011 to launch a boat for naviga011 011 the vast river, but up to a ite hour the craft had been unable 3 pass beyond areas already reach- ' rl 011 the fringe of the flooded dis*ict. Missing members of many families ere restored to their loved ones iirough human clearing houses esvhlishori nt soveral noints 011 the ringo of the flood district. Great sdgers filled with names and presidd over by volunteer bank clerks ere at the disposal of persons seek- 1 lg missing kinsmen. If these had sgistered in the clearing house their ddresses were quickly given to the lquirers. Up to seven o'clock Wednesday, iree thousand of the homeless were oused in different places of refuge, lost of them being cared for at the lant of the National Cash Register ompany. Scores of the water vicms were being carried from their laces of imprisonment late Wednesay evening and leaders of the resiling parties were arranging for relys of torch bearers to light the ork during the night. ? \or<iici ;%gmnst me niaiv. The jury in the case of E. O. Black gainst The State company for libel rought in a verdict for 20,000 at olumbia Wednesday. Lyles & Lyles ave notice of a motion for a new ial. The suit was for $50,000 dam?08. There are two other cases, that f Fingal C. Black and John Black, ased on the same publications and lose may be called next week . Deadlock in Illinois Broken. A dispatch from Springfield, 111., I iys James Hamilton Lewis, Demo- < at, was Wednesday elected United ' tates Senator for the long term, i awrence Y. Sherman, Republican, as elected to the United Statee Sene for the short term. 1 y TROUBLE BREWING UNION COUNTY SHE1RIFF GUSH WITH BLEASE ABOUT SELLING BOOZE Tense Situation Apparently Brought About by the Kecent Activities of "Detective" Fortner, Which People of Union Itescnt?Statements of Mayor Duncan unci Gov. Hlcase. rier from Union says a sharp clash A dispatch to The News and Coubetween the city and county oflicials of Union on one side, and Governor Blease <fn the other appear imminent. As a result, the people of Union city and county are very much wrought up, momentarily expecting the smouldering llames to break out in some new quarter in the triangular tight now being staged. Following the appearance of Representative Fortner, of Spartanburg, a BJease member of the Legislature, in Union with a commission from Governor Blease as a State detective in his pocket and the big row, it is said, he kicked up by attempting to raid an alleged blind tiger, the mayor of Union and several of the prominent people caustically condemned the Governor for giving a representative a commission as a detective, and the people of Union, at least many of them, resented the incident bitterly and charged a political plot. Tuesday Sheriff Fant, of Union, received a letter from the Governor charging the sheriff with being derelict in his duty in enforcing the laws, and strongly intimating that unless he performed his duty he may he removed from office. In his letter to Sheriff Fant the Governor said: "It has been reliably reported to me that one \\ 3.. Estes is running an open 'blind ..gel*' in the town of Union, whirl, is a nuisance to the community: i .id that J .W. Wolling, a negro, J. 1'. Fant, Miller Fant and Dick English are engaged in violations of the dispensary law. "It is further reported that the mayor and the police force in the city of Union are not making any effort to enforce the dispensary law in the town of Union?in fact, it is reported to me that members of the police force kept special vigilance over one of my detectives sent there, in order to keep him from accomplishing anything. "Many complaints are coming to this oflice about the open and flagrant violation of the dispensary law in the town of Union, as well as in the county of Union. I again write and beg of you to get busy and endeavor to stop these violations of the law. "I am writing to other sheriffs along the same line begging them to get busy, and I sincerely hope that all of the officers of the State will remember the oath that they have taken and do something to help me in the enforcement of the law. I can not do it by myself; I can only urge upon you whose duty it is." Concerning a rumor that the Governor had threatened to remove Sheriff Fant from oflice and appoint former Sheriff Long the sheriff is quoted as having nothing to say, while Mr. Long is quoted as saying that if the place is offered to him he would accept. Mr. Fant defeated Mr Long for sheriff of Union county last sum UlCi (Mayor Duncan is quoted as follows: "Mayor Duncan, when seen and asked if he had anything to say regarding Governor Blease's severe criticism of the police force, said: "I never give any attention to communications of an anonymous character. Let Governor Blease give name of his informant, giving him information, so-called, regarding action of mayor and police force, and it will be shown that his informant is nothing more than a common everyday liar.' " Union is a thriving little city of some .r>,000 inhabitants in the Piedmont section of South Carolina, and the people are mightily stirred over the threatened clash between the local officials. It is said that Will Kstes is the owner of the place which Fortner, while in Union with a detective's commission, said he would raid or he would have the Governor to place Union under martial law. When asked about the matter Governor Mease said he had not threatened to remove Sheriff Fant; that all said that complaints had come to him from as good citizens as were In Union County, compaining of the "wide open" way in which tlie "blind tigers" were running, and the Governor said it was reported to him that tne mayor was encouraging them, as he was opposed to the dispensary. He said that it was also reported that Sheriff Fant had done nothing towards enforcing the law and he was simply calling his attention to these matters, he being a new ofllcial. He said that he had sent three detectives into Union and each of them had reported that a condition of lawlessness prevailed in respect to the blind tiger situation. "I have simply [lone my duty," said the Governor, 'in trying to get the officials of Unon to enforce the laws." j Old newspapers for sale at this of- j See. . I f t . L yrk HELP PICK UP THE DEAD . PASSENGERS ON TRAIN TELL OF THE TORNADO. ? Graphic Descriptions of Some of the Awful Scenes of the Death-Dealing Storm. Stories replete with thrills aid pathos were related in Chicago Monday by eye-witnesses of the tornado which swept over parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois Sunday night. Terror-stricken, the narrators of these stories sat fascinated in the coaches of a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad train watching a great dark cloud skipping wierdly on its work of destruction. In several villages they helped pick up the dead and dying. The wounded and the dead were placed on seats and in the aisles of lwi noro until tho train whip.h hnd I 11 V/ V-Cl 1 U UliVlt V> va II passed through the beginning of the track of the whirlwind that struck Oraahaf reached the latter city. On the way in, the injured told tales of suffering and gave vivid descriptions of escapes which seemed to them miraculous. William Coon, of Lincoln, Neb., gave a graphic description as he viewed it from the platform of the observation car. "For miles," he said, "it seemed as if the train were being pursued by the storm. We were approaching Ralston, Neb., when I first noticed a copper-colored cloud mounting toward the sky. The cloud grew rapidly and was travelling at tremendous speed. It assumed the form of a funnel and the air was filled with a curious noise, very piercing. The funnel seemed to grow black and the smaller end?that near the ground?was about a half-mile in diameter. It swished across tlie railroad track, then struck the town. Houses collapsed as though made of paper. The roofs sailed away and the sides fell in. As the passengers comprehended the decolation wrought, a cry of horror wept up. It was a terrible night. "Then the train stopped and the passengers ran over to the wreckage of the houses. We could hear the groans of dying men, injured women and children were moaning. We got all of the injured out of the ruins and brought them to the train. We were about to leave when our attention was called to a little house some distance from the others. It had been wrecked and moved from its foundation, but we found a mother and her baby lying upon a bed uninjured. "Another man was in a basement of the house. His house was carried away and he was left standing with a very surprised look on his face, uninjured. Houses were rolled and tumbled along the ground by the wind. I saw a box car carried along by the terrific air current for a quarter of a mile. When it split open six or seven men, who turned out to be part of a repair gang, dropped out. "The next town we passed through was Benson, where the scenes were still more appalling. Several large factories there were strewn ill heaps. We picked up a lot of injured and I don't, know how many dead we left behind. Then the cloud wheeled and made toward South Omaha. We were not far behind ,but our way was blocked by derbis the tornado had thrown on the tracks." Another passenger was Mrs. Geo. J. H. Aidervent, of Syracuse, N. Y. "When the houses began to fall," she said, "I saw a little girl dressed in white start from one of them and run down the street with her hands above her head. Just then the side of a house came soaring through the air It struck the child and buried her beneath it." Another eye-witness was a Chicagoan, who told of the scenes at Omaha when the train stopped there. He said: "I was just recovering from what I had seen on the train when we pulled into Omaha with the injured. It was night then?but such a night? the sky was lighted with a great red glare and the streets were filled with frightened people. It was raining a deluge. Frequently the cries of the wounded unloaded at the station were drowned by terrific peals of thunder. 'The town is burning; we'll all be killed,' some kept crying, and | this added to the others' fears. There was no sleep that night for many of the passengers. As our train left Omaha we could see a big hotel burning." j The Mexican Way. Mexicans arriving at Jaurez from the south declared they were a part of a firing squad which executed Abram Gonzales, governor of Chihuahua, under the Madero government a fortnight ago. Gonzales was law" theso Mexicans declared, law'" theso Mexicans declared. ? Tragedy at Chester. Richard Reigliley, a carpenter, shot and instantly killed P. A. Wright, boss of the cloth room of the Republic Mills at Great Falls, Chester County, Monday morning, the tragedy, it is said, having grown out of domestic troubles. Reigliley surrendered to the authorities and was taken to jail. I ? ? It used to be United States Marshal kdams or Postmaster Harris, of Charleston. ( \ * I : ... VERY QUEER CASE YOUNG HAN WALKS A HILE IN HIS SLEEP AND IS MISTAKEN FOR ROBBER Hubert Smith Jr., While Walking in His Sleep Went to His Uncle's House, Nearly a Mile Away, Was Mistaken for a Midnight Marauder and Shot in the Face. IMio A i 1/ on Tmirnnl ntwl Povlnw A 11V/ i 1 1 IKV U VU1 IlUt (All li says Hubert Smith Jr., a youth about sixteen years of age, will lose the sight of both eyes, as the result of a shot fired by his great uncle, Mr. D. 13. Hammond, about 11:30 o'clock Saturday night, in North Augusta, while young Smith, walking in his sleep, was mistaken for a midnight marauder. It is said there is not the slightest hope that his eyesight can be saved. After being shot, he was immediately rushed to the Augusta city hospital, where he was operated upon. The great uncle, Mr. Hammond, was prostrated to find that he had wounded his kinsman. He says that he had retired and was just about to fall off to sleep when he heard a nuiso upon uis piax/iU, ui wuii;ii nts naturally became somewhat alarmed, and secured his shotgun. A^ter hearing the noise several tiin^s as if some one was trying to force an entrance into his house, Mr. Hammond fired a shoe through his window without letting up the sash. The load went through the glass and took effect in the face and forehead of the young nephew. When tiiG lad was picked up after being shot, he was clad in the thinnest raiment, and the only conclusion that could be arrived at was that the boy had walked to the house in his sleep. This theory seems plausible, as it is known that his ancestors were subject to somnambulism. The great uncle's home is about three-quarters of a mile from the boy's home, and he had evidently walked all that way while in his sleep. No one at the home of the boy heard him when he got up and left the house. Another evinence that he was in a somnambulistic walk was that when the operation was performed on his eyes it was found the shot had gone through the lids while they were closed. it was announced mat nis me was in no clanger. The hoy's life had been an industrious one, and he was considered unusually bright in his studies at school, the North Augusta Academy. He had only recently returned from a trip to Washington, where he witnessed the inauguration of President Wilson. CLINKSCALES POSTERS. Wofford Boys Will Paste Them on Their Suit Cases. A Spartanburg dispatch says Wofford College students have hit upon what promises to be an effective plan to advertise the candidacy of Dr. John G. Clinkscales, for governor. Dr. Clinkscales is professor of math ematics at Wofford and will run on a compulsory education platform. The students are having posters made, containing a portrait of Dr. Clinkscales and a few words in regard to his candidacy and platform. They will paste the posters on their suit cases. As there are more than 5 00 students in the college and Fitting school and they come from every county of the State, except Beaufort, they will call State-wide attention to Dr. Clinkscales when they return home this summer. The young women of Converse College, who also have a Clinkscales club mill probably decorate their suit cases with the posters also. j Died From a Blow. Tommy Levalle, a local lightweight boxer, died at Mercer hospital at Pittsburg, Pa., Monday morning as the result of a blow received in a boxing bout Saturday night. His skull was fractured. BANK Of Conwa I Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK.. .. 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Mnrsewfor machines are made to sell rerardlw^ SakhrtbuttheKew House is made to ?M Oar ruaranty never runs out V > Mstd If Mthorliel dealers SSfpWT SOS SALS as * \ SAVED HER RAHY SISTIOK. O Then Le<l Horribly Jturned Mother to Neighbor's for Aid. A dispatch from Spartanburg mrpf from near Campbello there came Monday night a story of the rare presence of mind shown by a threeyear-old girl, the daughter of Mrs. Samuel Petty, when her mother, holding a nine-months-old baby in her arms, feel into an open fireplace. As Mrs. Petty was nursing the baby she was overcome with vertigo and pitched forward. The little girl, the only other occupant of the house at the time, hurriedly caught the bdby> who was not severely burned. Mrs. Petty's head struck on an iron. When she recovered consciousness both her eyes were burned out and one side of her face fairly cooked. Carrying tho baby in one arm, the little girl with her other hand led her blind and staggering mother to the home of the nearest neighbor, who lived about a quarter of % mile distant. Little hope is entertained for iMrs. Petty's recovery. ? ? 1 Boy Killed by Auto. " Frederick Collins, aged nine, was , run down and instantly killed Thurs- \ day by an automobile owned by. 'Mills B. Lane of Savannah, Ga. The ne gro chauffeur, Troy Newkirk, was alone in the car. He was arrested and later released on $2,000 bond. ' HORRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. Mtro. lus of all other banks in th^counye .-. ... ..$60,000 12,600 HOLDERS .. .. 60,000 5RS ..) . .i . 11X600 ;tors ARD90N, W. A. Johnson, WillA. Freeman. ommodation which their accountt solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a/fiismar Viob Pbwidiitt. iOaou? r cent on jrcirf depoitti. i . i, a/-,