The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 01, 1914, Image 4
TERRIBLE TRAIiEDY
FALSE FIRE ALAR STARTS A
CHRISTMAS STAMPEDE
SEVENTY-TWO ARE DEAD
While the Children of Calumet, Michigan's
Striking Miners Were
Around Huge Christinas Tree
Some One Maliciously Shouted
44Pire", Starting the Fatal Panic.
On the (lay Christendom has set
aside as one of rejoicing over the
birth of the Savior Calumet, Mich.,
stricken to tho heart by an almost
unbelievable catastrophe, stood
mourning by the side of its dead?
tho seventy-two victims, most of
them children, of tho frightful panic
on Christmas Eve in tho Italian Hall.
This nailic. followed n fnlsn nhirm
cry of lire during tho progress of a
Christmas tree entertainment arranged
for families.of tliec opper strikers.
All bitterness and ill feeling that
lias existed in this strike-ridden community
for months past is wiped
away by tho one great, common affliction.
Christmas day the people
of Calumet only saw their neighbors,
their brothers, their sisters and their
little children staggering under an
almost unbearable burden of distress
and grief.
A mass meeting of Calumet citizens
was held in tho afternoon to express
sympathy and devise ways and
means to ameliorate tho suffering
and sorrow of thoso families on
which tho hand of death had fallen.
A committee of twelve was appointed
to visit each home and ascertain
what financial assistance was needed.
Funds are assured and no outside aid
will be needed.
The accident nrriirrr>(l Wpdnondnv
night wliilo several hundred miners
and tlieir "wives looked on, the children
pressed eagerly to the stage to
receive Christmas presents. At this
point a man put his head in at the
door of the hall and yelled "Fire!"
The cry was taken up by those in
the hall. Every one started for the
doors. The weaker were thrown to
the floor, and those behind tried to
climb over those ahead of them.
The stairway and other avenues of
egress were blocked so effectually
that those inside could not get out,
and those without could not get in to
aid the panic-stricken crowd in the
hall. The principal exit was a narrow
stairway at the back of the hall.
When tliis had been cleared of the
bodies that filled it to tlio top and n
quick recounting had been made, U
was found that seventy-two corpses
had been piled up besido the hall
building. It is thought that a dozen
others were carried away by friends.
The dead were piled up beside tlie
hall included 37 girls, 1 0 boys, nine
women and live men. Excited men
ami women stood about the building,
soino dazed by the sudden change
from holiday festivities to tragedy,
others calling hysterically for a missing
child, and a few even threatened
violence to the rescuers for keeping
them back from the long row of
bodies.
There was not much work for the
many doctors who hurried to the
scene as soon as the alarm was
spread, for those who were not killed
in the first rush were held upright
and safe by the very forco of the onrush
towards the exit. Only three
injured persons were taken to hospitals.
A few went homo, assisted
by friends.
For many days the children of the
copper mine strikers had waited expectantly
for Christmas tree exercises,
arranged by the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Western Federation of
Miners. The entertainment was set
for the early evening, and the hall,
on the second floor, soon was filled to
its limit. Children selected to recite
Christmas selections and sing carols
had finished, and the man selected to
play the part of Santa Clans had
prepared to distribute the presents
that were piled around the tree.
The aisles were filled with the
noys ami pins, wncn tiio man tlirust
his head in at the door of tlio main
hallway and shouted "Fire!" A woman
near the door realizing the import
of the act, seized the man by
the shoulders and tried to counteract
the alarm, hut her efforts were futile.
The man wrested himself from
her grasp and ran away and the cry
of "fire" was repeated throughout
the room.
The word was shouted in several
languages as parents rose and rushed
forward to get their children. The
lives were crushed out in almost a
twinkling. Then the physical impossibility
of further movement brought
panic-stricken persons to their
senses, hut most of those in the hall
could not get out of the jam they had
created.
Policemen and firemen hurried tr
tho building, to find the hall congested.
Several climbed tho fire escapes
and entered by the windows. In a
short time tho uninjured and the
faint had been pulled from the tangle
of human beings and placed in
the front of the hall.
Mombors of the Calumet fire department
relate many instances of
heroic attempts at rescue. Patrick
Ilyan arrived a few minutes after tho
CUT DOWN DELEGATES |
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SOI TH CAHOUNA BOSKS SKVKN
WITH IMSITISIjICAXS. X
National Committee KihIn Its Babul s (
AVitli Compromise Keorgnni/ation j ?
anil Adjourns.
Tho Republican national committoo
has concluded its labor for ic- \
form in party procedure, and launched
its campaign for a reunion of
warring elements, by adopting a res
olutlon providing for a radical
change In the basis of representation
In national conventions which would
reduce the quota of southern states
from thirty-three to sixteen per cent,
of the convention's total. (
Tho action of the committee, crlti- \
clsed in vigorous terms by several of c
its .members, hut made unanimous (
beforo adjournment, must ho indors- f
ed by states entitled to cast a ma- 1
jorily of votes in tho electoral col- i
lege before it becomes party law. I
In order that such action shall be ;
taken as promptly as possible the
committee appointed a subcommittee (
of three, consisting of Charles R. <
Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah, (
of Idaho, and (lovernor Hatfield, of \
West Virginia, to prepare an address <
This address will bo drawn up short- i
ly after the Christmas holidays, and ]
leading members of tho committee ,
expressed the hope that it would be ]
met by early action. 1
Approval by the states will insure (
a call from tho national committee \
for the national convention of 10 10 (
along the lines laid down. The reorganization
plan adopted came as a '
compromise which reflected the views
of many committeemen that southern i
representation should bo reduced.
but not brought to tho vanishing
point. :
According to figures submitted by
tho subcommittee, tho new plan
would reduce tho total number of
delegates from 1,07 8, as in 1812, to
003. Under it theso states would
lose delegates:
Alabama 9, Arkansas 3, Florida 4,
Georgia 10, Illinois 2, Kentucky 1,
Louisiana 7, Mississippi 8, New York
4, North Carolina 3, Pennsylvania 1,
South Carolina 7, Tennesseo 3, Texas
in, Virginia 0, and Hawaii 4. The
southern states would have 1G4 delegates
in all.
crush occurred at tho foot of tho
stairway. Ilo estimated there were
about one hundred piled in a heap
when he reached tho entrance of the
building. A boy of about six caught
hold of Ryan's hand and hogged to
be rescued. The fireman pulled the
hoy partly out, hut was unable to ex
tricate tho little fellow's logs'. The
human mass kept pressing down and
tho hoy's life soon was snuffed out.
A girl of eight or nine grasped the
hands of Angelo Curto, a fireman,
kissed them and implored him to
save her. lie made a heroic effort to
pull her out, but tho crush was so
great he was compelled to givo up
the attempt and sho perished.
Mrs. A. Niemela, one of tho victims,
was suffocated, while standing
up. Leonard Wilman, fireman, took
out a crying hoy of six, uninjured.
Near him his mother and sister lay
dead. Ilis seven-year-old brother
was taken out later. An elevenyear-old
hoy rescued his brother of
nine by carrying him down a ladder.
There were other similar rescues.
A child hurled from tho building
was caught by a spectator. Chief
Trudell, of tho fire department,
caught another child thrown out of a
window by a frantic father. John
Saari killed his boy of five by falling
on him, and he, too, perished.
Other men began to pull the
bodies of tho dead and helpless from
the stairway and place them in a
room beside tho building. This disposition
of the crumpled bodies was
found inadvisable because of tho hysteria
it caused among tho spectators,
and tho dead were carried back into
the hall as soon as it was emptied of
frightened snootntnrs ah tim nv.
fc, v v.. ?. tuu Vviui 11 n
wore lined with bodies and corpses
had to ho placed in the kitchen of the
hall and beneath the stage.
Within an hour almost every person
in Calumet was as neat the scene
as it was possible to get. Police kept
back the crowd. After much effort a
lane was opened and the bodies of
the children were carried through
ranks of mourning and waiting women
to Red Jacket Village Hall,
which was turned into a morgue. It
was many hours before all the bodies
wero identified.
During the confusion several
bodies of children wero wrongly
identified by mothers and taken
, away, only to bo returned later by
I |in ri.ironia wlm lm/i
W..VU ? uu 1IIUI lUIIIIU HUM I DWIl
offspring safe. Other cases saw
parents run about for some time uncertain
whether their children were
dead or alive. Many mothers faintI
ed, while fathers cursed all those
I who interfered with their mad search
for lost hoys and girls.
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Killed Near Former Wife.
; Daniel do Villiers, of San Antonio,
, Tex., was shot and killed early
i Thursday by Hoy D. Glover, a
wealthy land agent, who camo, to
Dos. Angeles, Cab, two months ago
with the mother of Do Villiers' children.
Tho shooting occurred in the
doorway of tho Glover homo, whore
Do VillierB called In an effort to soo
his former wife.
iukns him must
PARTANBUKG MURDtRLR GETS
A PARllfIN IN FULL
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ULLEO MAKHIEU WOMAN
iVn.s Tried for Ills Crime and Although
Represented by learned
Legal Talent He Received Death
Sentence, Which Was loiter Commuted
by Governor Rlease.
Joe Hates, the convicted murderer
>f Docla Hoiter, a white man, who
,vas pardoned Monday by the govjrnor,
arrived in Spartanburg Monlay
night and is at the homo of his
'ather. Ho was met at tho train by
lis father and brother, Jack Hates,
.vho have been untiring in their efforts
to have a pardon granted, and
i number of friends.
Joe Hates was at one time a police
jflicor in Spartanburg. IIo was convicted
in 1909 and sentenced to
leath, but after many delays his sentence
was commuted to life imprlsmment
by tho present governor, who
now grants him a full pardon. Mrs.
Docia Bolter, aged 18 years, wife of
T. It. Hoiter, a farmer living near
Fairmont was shot at and instantly
killed by Joo Bates, a former police
nflicer, but at tho time of the crime a
c;iiard of tho city chaingang, on SunJay
morning, August 29, 1 909, at
11:30 at tho homo of W. B. Cox, 108
Thompson street.
Mamie Cox , tho eight-year-old
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ikiu^ik^i v?i mi o. ? IIU >Vtt? Htiimi-j
i 11 ^ near with hor. little baby sister in
her arms was also shot by Hates and
seriously wounded. Hates was caught
in the hallway of the house by Mr.
Cox before ho could get away and
was held until tho police officers arrived.
Officers bookman, Cudd, Gash
and Crocker arrived and took charge
of Hates, who was carried at once to
(bo county jail and turned over to
Sheriff White.
When tho case against Hates was
called in tho general sessions court
for October, 1909, he was represented
by learned counsel and it was one
of tho hardest fought legal battles
ever waged in tho Spartanburg
county court room. Tho principle
defence for Hates was a plea of insanity.
lie was convicted and sentenced
to hang, an appeal to tho supreme
court was made without success
and after two years confinement
in the county jail the governor commuted
his sentence from death to life
imprisonment. Tho pardon restores
his citizenship.
The Spartanburg Journal tolls tlio
following story of the tragedy for
which Hates was convicted:
Doela Bolter, until a few weeks
previous to tho shooting, was Docia
Moore. She lived with Joe Hates at
his homo at No. 1G0 Thompson street
as his housekeeper and alleged paramour.
She had lived with him for
about two years, when a month previous
she left him and married J. R.
Hoiter. Rinco the marriago it was
thought that Hates was crazed with
jealousy. It is said that just before
she left him, the Moore woman sold
a cow Hates had and a number of
household articles. For this Hates
had a warrant sworn out for her arrest,
but beforo the case had been
taken up the woman was dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoiter were coming
to Mr. Cox's house to spend tho day.
As they neared the house, Hates was
in the road, so was Mr. Cox and his
son William. Hates said to Mrs.
Hoiter that he would put "them to
the bad", and followed them to Cox's
house. When Mrs. Hoiter got out
of the buggy Hates followed her toward
tho house. Suddenly he left
her and passed around to the front
of the building. He entered the front
door as Mrs. Hoiter entered tho back
door.
Mrs. Hoiter took hold of tho hand
of little eight-year-old Mamie Cox
and was in (lio act of placing a ring
on hor finger when Rates fired upon
her from the door of the hack porch.
Threo shots entered Mrs. Bolter's
hody on the left side, ono ball hroke
her arm in threo places, the other
hall entered her right temple. She
died almost instantly and as slio fell
she exclaimed: "Oh! my Ood." The
hall that hroke Mrs. Bolter's arm is
supposed to have entered the body of
little Mamie Cox, dangerously
wounding her.
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Fatally Wounded in Explosion.
Mrs. Harriet Adams, temperance
leader and author, is expected to dio
in a hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, of
burns received Saturday afternoon in
a gas explosion at her home. She is
75 years old. The explosion was
caused by Mrs. Adams striking a
match in a room filled with gas from
an open Jet.
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Three Killed at Crossing.
Two men and ono hoy were killed
at a grado crossing at Hammonton,
N. ,T., Wednesday when a Reading
Railway express train struck a wagon
and demolished it.
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Earthquake at Seattle.
A light earthquake shock forty
seconds' duration was felt at Seattle,
Wash., at 6:45 o'clock Thursday
morning. It did no damage.
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FOR AN HONEST PRIMARY
LEGISLATOR CALIjS FOR IIILL TO
PREVENT FRAUD. !
\Y*ul<! Provide Penalties for "Irroj?ularities"?Present
System Leaks'
liiko a Sieve.
It is our purpose to publish
a few articles on primary reform
written by a member of the legislature.
They are strictly non-partisan
and aro designed to point out the
changes necessary to eliminate fraud
without taking the ballot away from
any South Carolina Democrat. The
articles are in no way inspired by
any candidate for oflice, and none
know of their preparation. They are
designed solely to assist tho mass of
Democratic primary votes to clean
house. Hills to this end will bo acted
on in tho next legislature and
South Carolinians aro of course interested
in tho subject at this time.
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Every lover of pure democracy
must rejoice in those features of our
primary system that give every true
Democrat in South Carolina tho right
to voto whether ho be rich or poor,
learned or illiterate. Perhaps nowhere
elso in tho world is there such
universal white manhood suffrage.
The problem is to make tho vote
pure as well as free.
No matter who the voter is he does
iiwt wuiu 111h vote Kiiioa ny tno nailot
of some repeater or outsider.
What use is it for one county to bo
honest when some other practices
wholesale fraud? or for you to vote
once when others are voting twice,
To decide on a remedy wo must
Freedom has to he guarded,
first find exactly whore the trouble
lies. 1 am going to cito some instances.
See if you do not agroo that
the fault is twofold, first with you
and me and the rest of the rank and
tile who have been unwilling to ho
put to the trouble of obeying even the
loose rules wo have, and then with
these rules which are so poorly arranged
that the most conscientious
election' managers aro helpless where
voters set out to cheat.
Tammany Methods.
"There may have been some minor
irregularities in this county, hut we
believe that it was a fair election so
far as county is concerned,"
reported one county chairman to the
investigating committee a year ago.
lie adds, however, "I found that the
club lists had disappeared. Our committee
has been unablo to locate
them."
Over night some ono stole the
record from the ballot boxes. A
familiar device of Tammany thugs in
tlio good old days practiced right here
in a farming county of South Caro
una. 1 no chairman was honest and
sincere, though, when he called this
a "minor irregularity", for every one
of us who has anything to do with
our election management sees rules
so violated on every hand that only
downright bribery is considered serious.
Early or Not at All.
In another important county it is
no uncommon thing for a voter to
find on going to the polls that some
0110 has east a ballot in his name.
Friends who had this experience
laughed to mo about it as a part of
the. regular order of things, remarking,
"Next time wo must be at the
polls when they are opened." The
State executive committee called on
the party authorities from that county
for a report on the election and
the reply was "no irregularities
found". There so mild a term as
"irregularity" is too harsh a name,
for the most flagrant frauds and
everything goes.
Why Kules Among Friends?
In still another big county the
local executive committeo found
among other "irregularities" that:
Men wero alloged to vote whose
names were not enrolled on the club
lists.
At one box 12S names of thoso
who voted were found after a most
searching examination to bo fictitious.
The average of the poll lists of all
the county boxes showed from 10 per
cent, to 15 per cent, that could not
bo identified.
At other boxes 2 10 names of actual
persons were found to have apparently
voted from two to five times, and
after making allowances for a possible
proportion as proper, a large
number were seen to be repeaters.
Tn a very few instances was the
club roll certified to.
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j?Liuiuer? wero caiiea in oy managers
to assist in counting tho ballots,
ono of whom did destroy or attei.
to destroy tickets.
Managers of election wero not
sworn and other voters took no oaths.
Yet this committee in summing up
spoke of these things as "numerous
irregularities", hut found no evidence
of fraud.
Summarized in Another Way.
Managers omit to take tho honesty
obligation oath the party rules
require.
Regarding tho rules, they allow
men to vote whoso names are not on
tho poll lists.
These voters and others cast their
ballots without swearing as to their
qualification, though the party rules
demand tho oath.
Uncertified poll lists with dead
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HAS BIG MAJORITY
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REVISED CURRENCY BILL PASSES
HOUSE, 298 TO 60
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
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Prolonged and Uproarious Applause
Greets Vote?Many Republicans
and Progressives Join With Majority
in Pushing Measure Along Its
Congressional Career.
The House passed the conference
report on the administration currency
bill at 1 0: 4 G o'clock Monday
night by a vote of 398 to CO, and
sent the report to the Senate, which
had waited in session to receive it before
adjournment for the night.
Prolonged and uproarious cheers
from the Democrats greeted the announcement
of the vote by Speaker
Clark, and many members of the
House hastened over to the Senate
to see the report received there.
On tlio final vote thirty-four Republicans,
eleven Progressives and
one Independent, Kent, of California,
voted with the majority for the
report, and two Democrats, Calloway,
of Texas, and Witherspoon, of Mississippi,
joined the opposition.
The vote followed a debate of
nearly three hours, during which the
galleries remained crowded with
spectators, including many prominent
figures in oillcial life. The
House adjourned until 2:30 p. in.
Tuesday, when the leaders hope to
put through a joint resolution for a
recess until January 12.
The decision to take a final vote on
the conference report in tlie Senate
not later than 2:30 Tuesday afternoon
was reached by unanimous consent
heforo 1 0 o'clock Monday night.
At the suggestion of Senator flallinger,
the Republican leader, Senator
Owen agreed not to press the report
for consideration in return for an
agreement to vote Tuesday. I3y unanimous
consent it was agreed that
the Senate should meet at 10 o'clock
take up a vote not later than 2:30
o'clock. With this arrangement made
the Senate just heforo 10 o'clock took
a recess until 11:15 to await the arrival
of the report from the House.
Representative Glass appeared in
the House with the conference report
lust, hofnrn P, r?'plr>Mr nml nlnrl?
began reading there was a rush for
the lunch rooms. An hour was required
for the formal reading, and it
was understood that there would he
about two hours of debato before the
final vote.
In the meantime Senator Owen had
presented the agreement of tho conferees
to tho Senate and that body,
after ordering the report printed, recessed
until 9 o'clock to await action
by tho House. Tho Senate leaders
hoped to hear from the House soon
after convening and were prepared to
hurry action on their side so as to
send tho completed hill to the president
before midnight.
After the announcement of the
vote a joint resolution proposed by
Majority Leader Underwood that tho
House recess upon adjournment
Tuesday until January 12 was adopted.
Senator Owen announced that
separate bill to provide for guaranty
of hank deposits would ho considered
in tho near future. This had been
intimated in debate by Chairman
Olass, of the House hanking committee.
Old Man Cremated.
Robert E. Lee, 70 years old, caretaker
for Joseph 13. Sellars, of White
Plains, N. Y., was burned to death
Saturday night when tho Sellars'
place, near Greensborofl N. C., was
destroyed by fire. Neighbors attemnt
od in vain to rescuo Leo, but the
heat drove them back. *
men's names by the score and scores
of other men who bad moved away
written on loose sheets of paper and
in old books years ago were used.
Hut mind you, the party rules require
that each list be certified to by the
officers of the clubs.
"Where We Are at."
These instances might bo multiplied,
but sufficiently illustrate the
free and easy condition wo have
reached, when tho most glaring infractions
of party rules are held in
the highest quarters to be merely irregularities
that do not impair tho
integrity of an election.
Don't blame tho managers. All of
us arc to blame. For years wo havo
shouted from the housetops, "It is
.better that ten dishonest men should
|vot.o than that one honest man be deprived."
Wo have tolerated and insisted
fin t }llnv nilno i?? ?
?. .?? i uiv/o uiiu laser uil~
forcoment until any man can vote, bo
ho resident or non-resident, over ago
or under age, whether he lias voted
before ten times or not at all.
A Remedy.
Ooes it not seem to you that the
time has come to replace this looso
system that leaks liko a sievo at
every Joint by a law that will be
short, simple, definite and carry penalties?
I have no bill of my own to present
but later will further describe
the way frauds are carried out so you
can see how to stop the leaks.
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THE HORRY HERALD
CONWAY. S. C
Published Every Thursday.
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THI KSDAY, JAXl'ARY 1, 11>I4.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
II. II. WOODWARD,
Attorn*/ and Counsellor at law,
CONWAY, b. C.
B. B. SCAIUIOUOLOU.
AOornvy at law.
OONWAY, ft. .
M. M. BLJUtOCGLiB,
aad SwMiwu.
OONWAY, . O.
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W. M. McCORD,
Dental Surraos
CONWAY, S. C.
ILBNE RAVKNIBI,
laid Swrvayiag
and
DrAlaage
Rpivey Building C??wwy, 8. O.
FREES AMERICANS.
11 uci-t h Orders Release of Trio Held
in Mexican Jails.
By appealing directly to Gen. Iluer
ta Friday Nelson O'Shaughnessy,
American charge d'affaires, obtained
from him almost immediately unequivocal
consent to the releaso of
three Americans now in jail, whoso
liberation long has been delayed by
legal manoeuvring. The men ordered
set free by Gen. Iluerta are II. J
Kidder, William Krauso and John
John Parker.
It apparently developed that Gen.
Iluerta had known nothing of the
incarceration of the men or of efforts
that had been made by Mr. O'Shaughnessy
to procure their release. Mado
impatient by the long series of evasions
and excuses given him from
other quarters, Mr. O'Shaughnessy
risked incurring the displeasure of
minor otllcials and apparently found
Iluerta willing and anxious to demonstrate
by the order for his releaso
his intention to maintain fair play,
lie declared that as long as he is
president ho woul^l not countenance
any discrimination against Americans
or any persecution of them because
of nationality.
Parker is in jail at San Luis
Potosi. Ho is charged with being implicated
in a murder. Krauso and
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rviuuur art) ill jail at 1MGX1C0 Ulty.
The eases against the men are not to
ho dismissed, but the men will not he
forced to remain in jail. The conditions
of release oblige the men to
present themselves at the American
embassy. *
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KILLED IN CAR.
Dillon Merchant Ijoses His Life in
Auto Accident.
W. Aaron Pass was instantly killed
and Miss Mary Moore was soriously
injured Sunday afternoon at six
o'clock when an automobile in which
they were riding ran into a deep
ditcli one-half mllo from Dillon. Miss
Moore, daughter of John B. Moore,
of T.atta, was rushed to Dillon in an
automobile, where she was given
medical attention. Mr. Pass is a
well known merchant of Dillon and is
a native of New York. A spoke on
tho steering wliell severed the jugular
vein of Mr. Pass.
Mr. Pass and Miss Moore had heen
for a rido through tho county and
were returning to Dillon late Sunday
afternoon. Just after passing tho
Maple dairy tho machine swerved
sharply to the right and plunged into
a ditch. The car was badly damaged.
Soveral persons in an automobile
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wrecked car. Mr. Fass was dead and
Mias Moore was unconscious. Those
who viewed the wreck were unable to
account for the accident. It is supposed
that the steering gear broke,
sending the machine into tho ditch,
which is about six feet deep. Tho
car was overturned.
Sent to Prison.
Raymond Shuhert, 2 8 years old.
-
and wealthy, of Milwaukee, Wis., was
found guilty Friday of murder In the
fourth degree and sentenced to one
year in prison for running down and
killing Mabel Lohman, four years old,
with an automobile.
Saved by Safety Device.
A serious wreck was prevented at
.Toilet, 111., Thursday by an automatit
derailment switch, which sent a
runaway freight train into the ditch
barely in tlmo to allow a passenger
flyer to shoot by.
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"Santa" Cots Burned.
Sophia Preston, 15, of Knoxvllle,
Tenn., died Thursday of burns while
playing Santa Clans.