The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 03, 1913, Image 6
SNOW COVERS DEAD1
TIE VOIR IF RESCUE IS HAMPER- '
ED BY ITS FALL
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MM BODIES IN RUINS
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The Hospitals are Full aiul the t
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Churches and Schools Open Their
Doors for the Afflicted?Relatives ^
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Hunting Missing Loved Ones in i
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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- .
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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 ,
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hospitals are receiving the best possible
attention.
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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."
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YOUNG MAN DROWNED. n
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Tragic Fate. P
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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
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ALLEN TO THE BULGARS
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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
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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.
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\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
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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
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(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
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PASSENGERS ON TRAIN TELL OF
THE TORNADO.
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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It used to be United States Marshal
kdams or Postmaster Harris, of Charleston.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THURSDAY, APRIL JJ, 3J18.
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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.
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Boy Killed by Auto.
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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.
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