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s / STORY OF SEA FIRE, +. RESCUERS TEEL TALE OF DARING DEEDS IN MID OCEAN * SHIPS WORK TOGETHER <'urmaniu, L'irsl of Hoscno Ships in rorl, Urines Tidings of Heroism jiixl Seamanship in the Midst of Illuek Disaster.?Vivid Description of Scenes Around llm-ninu llnnt. When the Carinania arrived at the side of the blazing Volturno, in response to its wireless call for help, Oapt. Harr recognized at once that it would be almost a hopeless task to attempt to save the Yolturno's human cargo, but with a daring, amounting seemingly to foolhardiness, ho instructed First Otlicor (Jardner to lower a small boat. The order was received with a ringing cheer, but the attemi t at rescue faih d, and as further efforts to get alongside the Voltaren meant ceitain death to the boat crew First Oilicer Gardiner regretfully gave the order to turn back. After two hours' battling with the sea the boat a;..ain came within hail of the Carmania ami was almost smashed against the side of its own ship, but finally it was lifted aboard amid cheering. Arthur Spurgeon, who first sent Ti inlepohl's graphic story by wireless a lid described tbo rescue work around the burning vessel, thus supplemented bis dispatches with additional details Monday: "Late in the afternoon, after the Moot, of rescuing ships had gathered about the doomed ship, the captain of the Volturno sent a message that the situation was becoming desperate. Attempts were made to send rafts from the Carmania and these almost reached the burning vessel, but just missed it, and thereby was lost tlie chance to get a line aboard. "Shortly afterward Capt. Inch reported that the upper plates soon \vould give way. An explosion, which seemed to seal the doom of the ship, followed. In desperation an attempt was made by the Volturno to send a boat with a line to the C,rossor Kurfeurst, but the boat was hurled against the German liner and wrecked. The men were saved. After the failure of the lifeboats from the Carmania to reach the burning ship and when Capt. Barr manoeuvred his vessel close to tlie Volturno the passengers on board the Cunarder did everything in their power to encourage the terrified crowd huddled together in the after part of the Volturno. They waved handkerchiefs and shouted cheering words through megaphones, to which they received answer fro mthoso on iho Volturno. hate on Thursday afternoon Vapt. Barr made another attempt to reach the Volturno by i-U 1 1 - " ' ' ? " " - in row ins overuoara mo-raits will ell ho hoped might lie secured by those 011 hoard, but this attempt also proved futile. In the meantime the despairing messages from Capt. Inch, of the Volturno, calling for succor grew more insistent as the tlames ate their way through. Groat clouds of smoke enveloped the ship. Later there occurred a terrific explosion, which to the helpless thousands of spectators on hoard the the surrounding vessels seemed to seal the doom of those on the stricken ship. As soon as Capt. Rarr, of the Gurnard steamer, realized the situation, lie told the Marconia operator on hoard the Carmania to get In touch with the oil steamer, as an abundant supply of oil seemed to he the only moans of subduing tho violence of tho seas and of facilitating the rescue 1 operations. The Carmania quickly picked up the oil ship and received a hearty response. True to his word, the skipper of tho Narragansott brought his steamer onto tho scene early 011 Friday T morning and immediately sluiced hundreds of tons of oil on tbe waves. t Humphrey .Tones, a passenger on the Carmania, describing this scene at the wreck, said the international fleet worked splendidly and with the regularity of a naval review. The Grosser Kurfuerst, the Kroonland and the Czard did wonderfully. "The spectacle of the burning ship in the middle of a ring of vessels Impotent to help," he said, "was too terrible to describe. Gut for the subsidence of the storm all on board the Volturno d must assuredly have been lost." Capt. v Inch left his vessel at 3 o'clock Friday morning, carrying with him all a the ship's papers, b ? u Mangled by Gin Saw. Thaylor McGuirt, while ginning cotton Tuesday morning at Waxhaw, ^ near Chester, came in contact with ir the saws, which tore one of his arms * up so that it had to be amputated 11 and also severely cut his face and neck. IIo was brought to a hospital * and is in a critical condition. > 1 ? Strange Cult. Murders Youth. ' The existence of a religious cult Jml with rites too revolting for description has been discovered in Now Orleans, Ha., following the finding ol the body of William Griffey. It If alleged he was murdered. m*. :! m SUIT AGAINST WOODMEN i M sr.xii cask is uiosri/r opj INITIATION A('( IDIONT ('andidate llccamc Alarmed and Mortally Wounded MciiiIkt W Iuikc IOs(41 to Now Sues the Order. Suit has boon brought at Charleston by S. P. Taylor, an administrator of the estate of Samuel M. Taylor, his son, against Sovereign camp, Woodmen of the World. In brief, the plaintiff is suing tin* order for $20,000 damages resulting from the death of his son, who was mortally wounded with a pistol by a candidate who was being initiated into the order near llonea Path, in Anderson county last year. The case will bo tried in the Cnited States district court at Oreenville at the term which convenes next Tuesday. The complaint and the other papers in the case have been filed in the ofllce of the clerk of the district court. The plaintiff alleges that on July 2 0, 1012, Saluda camp, No. 2 0 2, Woodmen of the World, being located near llonea Path, in Anderson county, proceeded with the initiation of one ('. F. Pagwell; that the deceased Samuel M. Taylor, assisted in the ceremonies; that he, with others of the initiating party fired blank cartridges at the candidate, as a part of the ceremony; that Pagwell believing himself to ho in great danger of sustaining bodily injuries or death, procured bis own pistol and fired upon those ?, n<> ?*!?. i ii 11 lit i 11] i; 11 l III . IIIHI IMC deceased was struck by one of the balls from Bagwell's pistol and died three days later. Bagwell was tried for murder in the court of general sessions at Anderson and acquitted. The ground for the suit in the case the plaintiff alleges, are that Sovereign camp, Woodmen of the World, which has its head ofliees in Omaha, Xobr., showed negligence and wilful wantonness and a reckless disregard for human life in permitting Saluda camp, No. (>2G, to engage in such methods of initiating candidates into the order. * IF. If you can keep your head when all about you Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you; if you can trust yourself when all nion doubt you, | But 111 ako allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not he tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream, and not make dreams your master; If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat tlioso two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear tho truth you have spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave you life to, broken, And stoop and build them up with worn out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, And lose and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe one word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing left in you, Except tho will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with the crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings, nor loose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, hut none too much; ip ?n i it a ?, ~~ i -.: ~ ~ ii ?> ?./ u van nit un; iiimn hivm^ iiiiuuiu With sixty seconds worth of distance run, Yours is tlie earth and everything that's in it, And?what is more?you'll he a man, my son! ?Rudyard Kipling. * Hope Cifven I'p. All hopo of rescuing more of the miners entombed in the Universal colliery at Cardiff, Wales, where ar explosion occurred Tuesray, virtuallj has been abandoned. The report thai a party of 20 men had been found alive in one of the galleries has prov ed erroneous, but a largo number 01 dead bodies were found Wednesday.* Horses Are Horned. Thirty-throe horses were burned to death, a tobacco warehouse, sev oral dwellings and a livery stnbh : were destroyed by fire of unknowi origin at Chatham, Va., Thursday ' Several farmers sleeping in tho to ' baeco warehouse narrowly escaped \ being burned to death. Tho loss If estimated at $25,000. HOERIA IS WARNED BfllMlA AMAZil. A! ACflliN Of MtXltAN inti'A: OK Willi ASMMth ALL POWER ??iI?mI Stairs Will Not llecogni/.c < Cons chcdulcd i'or October l!(( Communications Sent l>y Stale : at (incut Miij le Last KfVorts bj ploaiatie Means. The United States government I'uesday informed Provisional Presl ent Hnerta that it looked with ob.orrence and amazement upon his asumption of both executive and legis!alive powers in Mexico, and that in view of 1;is course could not regard as constitution the elections planned for October IMP Two notes were dispatch(I, one strongly phrased and written by Secretary Ilryan, inquiring about 'lie safety of imprisoned members of the Mexican Congress, and the other drawn in forceful languago by President Wilson himself and said to constitute practically the last efforts of the Washington government to deal with the lluerta authorities by diplomatic means, unless there is a decided change of spirit on tho part of the ofllcials in Mexico City. 'rii? ,ww,.i* s.x.w. (i i. -r ii< 11 > f~,\11 i ii i i < 111 i ill oil ^,11 .11)1111 Lind had progressed to the point where the State department accepted the endorsement of Federico ft am boa for the Presidency, as meaning the elimination of Iluorta, and where it was confidently hoped that a fair and free election would he held October 'J(5. Now, however, President Wilson has made it clear that the Washington government had with the events of the last few days?the Imprisonment of the Deputies and the establishment of a dictatorship by Iluorta, lost all hope of seeing a constitutional election held by the 1 Inert a regime. The steps taken by the United States were communicated formally to the foreign governments. No further negotiations were planned thru diplomatic channels, and it would not he surprising if John Lind, who has been waiting at Vera Cruz to observe the manner in which the Iluorta officials carried out their promises, should at onco return to the United States. lluerta's decrees proclaiming himself as in charge of the departments of interior, administration, finance and war were received at Washington Tuesday and the text given out at the State department. The documents were read at Cabinet meeting and members of the Cabinet expressed themselves as astonished at the audacity of Gen. Iluorta. They wore O -1 A. T1TD - u|)|n isvu u; rrunmciii \a lison or LUG naturo of the two communications sent to Con. TTuerta through Charge O'Shaughnessy, and all voiced approval of the vigorous representations. The Cabinet meeting was about to adjourn when press dispatches announced that Senor Querido Moheno, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, had characterized the American communications as "intemperate". Othcial Washington Tuesday night waited the formal reply being drafted by tho lluerta administration. Charge O'Shaughnessy reported that he had conveyed both communications and had been assured, with respect to the imprisoned Deputies, that no violence could be done them, but that they would be tried for sedition. It is the second note of the American government, which is said to be only 1 HO words in length, practically breaking off negotiations with lluerta, which is believed to have prompted Foreign Minister Moheno's description "intemperate". Administration oflicials hold thai with most of the members of the Mexican Congress in jail, a prominent member of Congress, who dared te speak adversely to tho administration, still mysteriously concealed, ane the Congress dissolved, it is impos sihle for thn 01 vi 1 tvml wai-Ii! /-? that tho Iluorta group was capabh of ostahlishing or maintaining const! tutional authority in tho Southern Republic. They also feel that tin Iluorta ofllclals no longer are cleserv ing of such diplomatic relations ai hitherto have existed. As yet thero is no concrete evi deuce that the Washington adminis tration intends to uso drastic meas lireS. ThO White TIoilKP lino iltannnr aged the heads of the army and nav; from taking any stops that wouli give an alarmost Impression. , Man Found Dead. I Thos. 10. T.ewis, of Rrunson, bu , who was working in Columbia, wa , i found dead lying beside the Souther: [ Railway track a bout one-half mil I beyond the plant of tho company i . Lexington county, early Sunda p morning. The top of his head wa crushed and on the right side of hi i neck there was a largo gash, whic | severed the jugular vein. II * Negro Baby Burns. > The home of Adilie Helton, a negr ) woman living near Ridgeway, wa . completely destroyed Tuesday by fir< - and her eight-months-old baby, lei 1 in the house while the mother was i i tho field picking cotton, was burne to death. SLAIN AS SHU TKAYUD. ? Christian Koieuoo Uoctor Killed in ller Oillce. Her eyes closed and head bowed in prayer, a motto card: "The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want," held in her hand, Mrs. Rebecca Gay, fifty-five years old, one of the most noted Christian Science practitioners in the West,,was clubbed to death in her oillce in Los Angeles, supposedly by the man for whom she was interceding. Her slayer is still unknown, but Mrs. Gray is believed to have been the victim of revenge on the part of a gang of "while slave" artists which she was instrumental in breaking up. Several months ago a band of men were busily engaged in the leading cities of California in procuring girls for the "red light" district of San Francisco. The members of the gang were working under the guise of Christian Scientists and were enjoying quite a bit of success until Mrs. Gay got on their trail. She broke up its activities in a short time, but since that time had been the victim of many threats from the baffled procurers. One of this band is now supposed by the police to have carried out these threats. The instrument by which Mrs. Gay was murdered was a short section of a lead pipe, wrapped in brown paper. The police believe that he had entered the woman's office in the guise of a patient and was receiving a treatment. when lie struck (lie first blow as his victim sat in front of him, her head bent in prayer. The first blow probably was enough to kill Mrs. Clay, but the murderer, either out of pure hatred or to make sure of yis deed, beat her head almost to a pulps. After laying the body on the floor of the office, the murdersr covered it with papers, washed the blood stains from his hands at a washstand in the room and then calmly walker from the building, after first placing a card on the door of the office stating that Mrs. (lay would not return for twenty-four hours. The result was the body of the woman was not discovered until over a day after the crime had been committed. The .Most Kquittihlc Tax. That wealth should proportionately hoar the burden of taxation iris long been recognized in popular govern num. in hum, ii is one or me principles that distinguish such government from tlie old feudal system in which the burden fell most heavily upon the poor, lint while the principle lias long been accepted in theory it has not until recent years prevailed in practice. The same rate of taxation on personal property and real estate lias been paid by rich and poor alike, and even with that very many enormously wealthy people have dodged their fair share of taxation, thus putting tho burden 011 the poor who have always paid more cheerfully their share of the taxes. Now there is to be a change in the new income tax law which provides for a tax graded according to income. Up till recently such a law was termed illegal by tho Supreme Court of the United States, but that court, like most courts, sometimes gets new light in response to public demand, and the present income tax law is so framed as to stand the test of unconstitutionality. That is well and now that the bill becomes law the inequality of taxation will be remedied so far as taxes on incomes can do it. Taking tho bill by and largo it is found to be a vast improvement over the bill of 1894 with its flat rate of two per cent. This law will become popular. \ A tax levied on incomes Is one of the most equitable that can be collected, as It is based on the ability of the person taxed to pay it. Doubtless Huiiif very wcaiiny people wno C'Ollld ^ easily pay even a much larger proportion than the bill demands will say that it is unjust and confiscatory ) to compel them to pay so much, but the public, having in mind the j sources *of their wealth, will onl\ smile over it. The truth is the er.or^ mously rich people are let off quite a lightly and they should be thankful for it. The great majority of wage earners will be exempt from the tax and that is but fair for in these days of soaring prices it needs quiti an income to make both ends meel and save a little for the proverbia rainy day. Homicide Near Sumter. A man named Pye, was shot am instantly killed six miles oast of Sum j tor Wednesday afternoon, and tin slayer, whose name is as yet un known, made his escape. The killint is alleged to have been caused by In timato relations between Pye and j woman. The woman was arrestee s and lodged in jail hut claims to knov 11 nothing of the killing. Sheriff Brad (> ford and his deputies have gone t< 11 the scene with tl\e coroner to hob N the inquest and endeavor to arres s the slayer. 1 S Kstablishcs Himself Dictator. Tluorta, who murdered Presiden Madero and usurped his place, ha gono the limit and has fetched u o logically in the role of dictator o s Mexico, llo has assumed all th functions of the government, bavin ft turned out the Congress and jaile n many of Its members and suspende d the constitutional provisions for it independence. AIRSHIP EXPLODES I ZEPPELINS, LATEST DIRIGIBLE MEETS DISASTER 1 TWENTY EIGHT KILLED ? Ship Was on Final Trial Pending Acceptance by German Government. ?explosion Caused by Ignition of i (las, Causing Airship to Drop POO Feet. Twenty-eight persons woro killed Friday pear Johanisthal, Germany, in the explosion and fall of Count Zeppelin's latest dirigible balloon, the L-IL The twenty-eight men represented the entire personnel of the admiralty board, which was to conduct the final trial of the dirigible looking to its acceptance by the government as a new unit of the (!erman aerial navy, the pilot and crew and invited guests. Kvory person that went aloft in the big airship is dead. Twenty-seven of them were killed ^ almost instantly by the explosion of gas in the balloon, or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 00 feet and enveloped them. One man, Lieut. Baron von Bloul, of tho Queen Augusta Grenadier Guards, a guest of tho admiralty board, was extricated alive from the mass of twisted wreckage. His eyes were burned out and he suffered other terrible hurts. Begging his rescuers to kill him and ' Jill IllfS SUIIUI 111" WUS lei IVI' 11 IW <1 hospital, whore ho died Friday night. The L-TI, had ii proved successful, would have heon attached to the aerial corps of the navy, which, after Friday's fatalities, now has only two men trained to command airships. The oflicial report of the accident says the explosion was due to the ignition of gas in or above the forward gondola, but not within the body of the airship. The navy was not the only sufferer through aviation accidents, for three army officers were killed in aeroplane (lights, ('apt. Haeseler, Lieut. Koch and Sergt Man to. Hundreds of people, who had been watching the (light from parks and housetops, rushed to the scene. There was nothing to be done, except to take out the dead bodies of the victims of the disaster from the mass of twisted wreckage. Spectators who had been watching the impressive manoeuvres of the L-TT from below suddently saw the great gas hag burst into a glaring flame and then fall. A second or two later t ho reverberating sound of the terrific explosion reached them. It was impossible for some time to approach the flaming dirigible, beneath which the members of the crew had been crushed and burned. A director of one of the aviation companies at the Johnnisthal Aerodrome wag an eye-witness of tho disaster. I In described it as follows: "I was working in my ofllce, about r>00 yards from the scone of the accident, when I was startled by an explosion of extraordinary violence. My first thought was that an aeroplane had landed on tho roof of my building and that the gasoline tank had exploded. "I rushed to a window and saw tho new dirigible in flames and plunging toward the earth. The out, er covering of the aircraft had been already burned off and the inner bal> loonets containing the gas had disappeared. The naked aluminum frame> work, with its long centerpieces, its , interlaced ribs and its tapering ends, and tho gondolas containing tho mo. tors beneath fell rapidly bow foroI most. "When the skeleton of tho im; mouse craft struck the earth the j heavy gondolas buried themselves in - the ground. T rushed immediately to the sceno after ordering out the i fire department from the aerodrome." 1 Coming shortly after tho destruc? tion of the "L-II" in a hurricane in ( the North Sea on September 9, when > fifteen men were killed, this disaster * gave rise to a feeling of consternat tion in Berlin, whose public had 1 within a week been saddened by the loss of many German passengers on board the burned Volturno and by accounts of the terrible mining catasj trophe in Wales. Other possible causes of the fire 3 and explosion wero that old gasoline - was carried on board or that a snark ; of atmospheric electricity was devel oped by tho friction of the balloonets i rubbing together inside tho outer 1 frame work, as occurred in the case v of the predecessors of the 1,-11. These - theories are regarded as improbablo ) owing to the improvements made in 1 tho design of the airship to meet t. such contingencies. ? ? Three Found Dead. Searchers found the bodies of Mrs. t Walter Nichols, aged 2 0, and Irving s Wrisley, aged 2 0, in the woods on the p Nichols farm in West Guilford, near f Brattleboro, Gonn. Both had been e shot to death, apparently byi g1 Wrisley. The body of the woman's d j husband, Walter Nichols, 27, soxton d | of a church, was discovered near his g { homo Friday. A blow on tho head I had killed him. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE GASOLINE CAKHLKSSNKSS HAS FATAL KlvSri/r. ? Las-Vapor Ignited in Anderson (Jarago When Driver Lights Cigarette and Hiiilding is Demolished. Three men aro dead, nine in the hospital, a concrete and stone building entirely demolished and thero may be other victims in the wreckage, as the result of a gasoline explosion at Anderson about 1 o'clock Thursday morning, caused by an automobile driver lighting a cigarette while the tank of his car was being filled with gasoline. The dead and injured men, so far identified, were victims of a falling wall of the garage building, when the large supply tank exploded. The dead are: William 10. Campbell, llreman, crushed to death. Robert Dodd, fireman, crushed to death. An unidentified man whose remains are still under the wreckage, believed to he a citizen who was trying to aid the firemen. Members of the department and citizens are still trying to remove the wreckage to recover the body. The injured, all of whom are in the hospital, are: II. O. Tow 11 send, who owned tlio building; left log practically crushed off helow the knee and badly burned. Tom Davis, a fireman, who was pinned under the debris more than thirty minutes before being rescued; seriously burned and mashed. Reed Fowler, fireman, crushed and burned. Marshall Smith, fireman, mashed and burned. Isaac Sein, fireman, mashed and burned. Andrew Jones, citizen, who was aiding the firemen, mashed and burned. 11. L. Todd, owner of tho garage, bruised about the body, face and hands badly burned. Edward Layton, an automobile man from Columbia, who wont to Anderson to run an automobile for the circus people Thursday, drove into the garage of II. L. Todd after midnight to have his car supplied with gasoline. While the helpers in the garage wore filling the tank of his car, Layton, who was standing leaning against tho car, struck a match to light a cigarette. The gasvapor from the pouring fluid was ignited and the car was a sheet of flame in a second. Quickly the fire alarm was rung in and the department responded. Those insido the garage ran to the street when the fire started. Just as the firemen were about to enter the front of tho building to fight tho flames thoro was a deafening crash, caused by the explosion of the big supply tank of gasoline. The walls of tho building, which was made of concrete and rock, crumbled and caught a dozen or more of the firemen and citizens. At least that many have been accounted for at 2 o'clock, and it is feared there may be others in the wreckage, since a number of people were seen to rush into tho building just before the explosion. Mr. IT. C. Townseiul, who owned the building, had an office and builders' supply store in one end, tho garage being in the other, lie was in his office at work at the time of the explosion, and was caught by tho wreckage, his left leg being so badly crushed that immediately onon his arrival at the hospital preparations were made to amputate it. Tho building was entirely destroyed, but the fire, did not spread to any other property. Merely an Amateur. A Man who lives much at hotels had some odd experiences during the strikes of tho waiters in New York and Bostn. On the morning after the strike was called in New York he ordered boiled eggs in a New York hotel The managers had hired all applicants for jobs at waiting, and the one who took this boiled-egg order was n i r?n orl> 1 ? ' ' ? (ioinL'H, I1U urougnt tllO eggs, came over and loaned on the back of the patron's chair ond said: "Say, cul, kin I shuck them eggs fer yez?" In lloston the waiter at breakseemed unfamiliar with the work. The man ot breakfast ventured a mild protest. "Aw, fergit it!"said the waiter. "I ain't no waiter. I came up hero to he a strikebreaker in the truckmen's strike." ?- ? Admits Several Robberies. A man who gives his name as George Clark, who was arrested Wednesday hy tho Savannah police and who is held as a suspicions character, admits that ho has committed 1 robberies in several small post oihces recently. The Government authorities are to tako him in charge and try to get a more extended confession. Drops Dead While Singing. While singing a Welsh hymn, the translation of which is, "I'll Obey Thy Will This Moment," Mrs. Henry B. Evans, 3 6 years old of Scranton Pa., dropped dead during church servico