Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SHIP DROPS APART ?. TANK STEAIltR BRtAKS IN TWO NEAR SANDY HOOK MANY HEBOIC RESCUES ? Twtnty-flT? Mob Find Watery GravM %hen Oil Ship, One Day Out of New York, Strikes Storm and After All Night Untile With Wind and Sea Breaks Between Bridges. The oil tank steamer Oklahoma broke in two amidships without warning at 7:30 Sunday morning ofT Sandy Hook and a large number of her crew of 3 8 men perished. The stern section, in whic hwas situated all the heavy machinery of the vessel, and on which there wero thiriy-two members of the crew, sank immediately. Eight members of the crew were reacued by the Hamburg-American Bine steamer Itavarla, whoso captain said some of the Oklahoma's men told him they saw an open boat of the Oklahoma put away from the wreck with ten men in it. 1 I X',V_. X' rrI , A iiv utiMui in I IM i\ 1 of Booth liner Gregory, fresh from a 2,000-mile voyage up the Amazon, with five more of the shipwrecked Oklahoma, made a total of fifteen of her crew Raved. The officers of the Gregory dragged the Bailors from the boiling pea at the risk of their own lives. Idttle hope for the rest of tho crew remains, although some is based on the fact that tho men brought into New York by tho Gregory say that another lifeboat besides theirs had been launched from tho sinking steamer. Of the Oklahoma's crew of thirtyeight, eleven manned the boat that reached tho Gregory, nineteen took to the other boat and eight stayed aboard, to be saved by tho Bavaria. Of the larger boat load probably all were lost. Of the eleven in the smaller boat, six were drowned when the boat capsized barely a hundred yards away from the side of the Booth liner. When the Gregory sighted the Oklahoma's lifeboat the benumbed sailors had hoisted a sail which enabled them to keep their craft from being overwhelmed by the gigantic seas. As the Gregory came within hail Ins distance the shipwrecked men dropped their sail and their boat immediately lost its steerageway and turned over. Then, one after another, the three chief officers of the Oregory, without waiting to throw off clothes, plunged over the side. They were First Officer R. H. Ruck, Second Officer J. S. Williams and Third Officer F. D. Roberts, all young Englishmen. Ruck, who has a medal given by the King of Greece for a rescue made nine years ago in the Ray of Riscay, knew what it meant to breast a storm-beaten sea, and ho tied to himself a lino. The others took 110 lines, and all but paid the penalty with their lives. ICach officer seized a struggling sailor and brought him to the ship's side, then went back to where the lifeboat was floating bottom side up. Three more were rescued. The first man hauled aboard died on the deck. The other five were kept alive after hard work by surgeon and crew. One man was seen swimming near the ship. Capt. Aspinwail heaved him a life buoy at the end of a line. The man had it in his grasp when a great wave heeled the ship over and when it swung back the man had disappeared. The life boat righted itaelf and, as it floated past, the Gregory crew saw a man Jammed under the seats. Officer Buck wanted to Jump in after him, but his captain held him back. The first information came in a wireless dispatch received in New York Monday night by the TlamburgAmericnn Lino from Captain Graalfs, of the steamer Bavaria, which is proceeding to Boston with eight survivors of the tanker on board. The message, which cape by way of Siasconset, said: "On January 5, at fi a. m., wre sighted signals of distress. The seas were high. At dawn we saw the forepart of a steamer floating on the water. Tt was the tank steamor Oklahoma from New York. "At 8 a. m. wo wero closo to tho wreck and lowered a boat. Tho men on tho Oklahoma lowered themselves into the boat, exhausted by their experience of the last twenty-four hours. "Captain Gunther stated that laRt Sunday at 7:30 a. m., during heavy weather and without any previous warning, tho ship suddenly broke in two between tho bridges. In about twenty-two minutes tho afterpart of the ship, with a crew of thirty-two men, sank. The forepart was kept afloat by the bulkhead. lifeboats either went down with the ship or wore spashed Immediately after the catastrophe. "On tho evening of January 4th a Spanish steamer, probably tho Manuel Calvo, had appeared in tho vicinity of the Oklahoma, but was unable, owing to bad weather, to accomplish anything. Immediately after the Havaria reached tho scene this morning the United Fruit steamer Tenadores arrived at the scene of the dls LACK OF FEDERAL JOBS SOME STATES HAVE BEEN LEFT OFT IN THE COLD. Discontent is Ooppinjf Out IWaHW Prwidfst Wilson Has Not (JiTfB More r?troiwf? to local loaders. Washington dispatch says the Democratic leaders of some of the states are beginning to express dlsi content with the distribution of patronage by President Wilson. With the tariff and currency out of the way, some leaders who have not fared particularly well aro preparing for a raid on the president when he returns from his holiday. Six states have not as yet been recognized by Mr. Wilson in giving out the spoils of victory. Others that 1 threw their votes to him in tho DomJocratic national convention have not been accorded what tho local party bosses regard as fair treatment, while states which persistently opposed tho nomination of Mr. Wilson until the final ballot which accomplished his choico have received exceedingly generous treatment. New York, for instance, whose ninety delegates stubbornly voted against Mr. Wilson in the Baltimore convention, has secured more places with a larger annual salary list than nnr lirco ot 1 * : * viii vu dvaicn tumui ll^U. flfllBHOlin is next, while New Jersey, the president's own state, Pennsylvania and California have received more than the average. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Maine have not been given anything like what tho party leaders regard as a commensurate percentage of the ; places. The states which have not | received a single political plnco are Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, South Dakota, Vermont and Utah. The total number of places personally awarded by tho president which are viewed as the requisites of political leaders is 155, the aggregate annual salaries of which total $1,033,755. The disgruntled leaders are centering the fire of criticism on New I York, which secured twenty of the finest places in the gift of the president, with an annual salary list of $178,600 and an averago salary of more than 8,200. Missouri comes next with eleven places, with an aggregate of $66,825, and an averago of $6,000. Pennsylvania Is third, with seven places, an aggregate of $61,000, and an average, of $8,500. New Jersey has seven places, carrying $57,500, or an average of more than $8,000. Outside of postmasters, rural carriers, internal revenuo collectors and other routine offices of that character, South Carolina has received the following appointments: Charles A. Wood, Circuit Judge, Fourth Circuit, $7,000; Charles M. Calloway, Civil Service Commissioner, $4,500; William F. Gonzales, Minister to Cuba, $12,000; D. C. Roper, First Asslsttal?Four oflices, $28,000. CONVICTS PA YOKED. ? Governor Rleaso Commutes Sentences of Eight Prisoners. Governor Bleaso Tuesday afternoon commuted the sentence of eight negro convicts from the penitentiary to the Cherokee county chaingang. Six were serving life terms for murder, one serving a term for assault and one for manslaughter. James Jeter, Luther Corry, Arthur Corry, Walter Ilames, Randolph Savage, serving life terms, were commuted to twenty years. Will Jones, another life-termer, was commuted to thirty years. Ed Rainey, serving fourteen years for assault on a negro girl, was commuted to ten years. William Rlueshirt, serving twenty yenrs for manslaughter, was commuted to twelve years. Going to Caribbean. Tho battleships Wyoming, Florida. XTtah, Delaware and South Carolina, commanded by Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, will sail out of Hampton Roads Sunday afternoon for tho ann 11 O 1 t* ?-? ? r. J" * ,,uui miugi liiauuuuviea in ino west Indies. i aster, but there was nothing loft to be done." Another message from Captain Graalfs Raid: "Aeeordlng to statements made by Rome of the men Raved, a boat from the atern part of the Oklahoma, with from eight to ten men in it, was seen. Its whereabouts is not known." Although several vessels were standing by the distressed tank liner, the Hamburg-American Line freighter Bavaria, bound from Philadelphia to Boston, was the only one able to render assistance. The Oklahoma was owned by the J. M. Guffey Petroleum coppany; was 2,795 tons net and 419 feet long. She left New York Saturday for Port Arthur, Tex. The Oklahoma was valued at $700,000. John Kennedy, superintendent of the marine department of the Gulf Refining company, owners of the vessel, said ho could not conceive how tho ship could have gone down even in bad weather. Tho ship was perfectly equipped and In good condition, ho said, when she loft for Port Arthur, Tex., In ballast. MAY FORCE PEACE t I WILSON ALTIRS POLICY AFTtR TALI WILU LINO WILL NOT DELAY LONGER Report Rays IVwIdfnt Will Give 1 inert a Until March First to Clous llonso, After Which Tiino lie in Preparing to Take Active Steps to Restore Peace. A dispatch to the New York World from Mexico City says that private advices received there Sunday from Washington say that as a result of the conference between President Wilson and John Find at Pass Chris* tion, tho president has decided to alter his policy toward Mexico to the extent of fixing a dato after which the United States shall begin active measures toward restoring order In he republic. The president Is said to hnvo made up his mind that if tho Mexicans will not set their houses In order, the United States must do it for thorn ? peaceably, If possible, but by force if they refuse to compromise among themselves. The understanding Is that March 1 Is the timo limit set by the president. By then Iluerta will have been in office a year, which, in the opinion of President Wilson, is ample space of time for him to redeem his promise to pacify the country. Mr. Lind's return to Mexico argues that tho president lias determined 011 bis future policy. It is well known there that Mr. I,ind Is firmly of tho opinion that, whilo Mr. Wilson's policy of watchful waiting: is sound and justified up to a certain point, it is only a question of time when tho United States will be obliged to exert a more positive influence on Mexican affairs. This opinion Mr. Bind has expressed repeatedly in his dispatches to Washington. It is known that when he left Vera Cruz for Pass Christian he was resolved either to bring Mr Wilson to his way of thinking or resign his mission. It is evident, from the fact of his returning, that the president has given him assurances that impel him to continue his duties in Mexico. Mr. Llnd'a observations of the Mexican situation have Imbued him firmly with tho conviction that neither Huerta nor Carranza is sufficiently atrong to dominate, and that the present war may continue indefinite ly without any result other than exhausting the country completely, paralyzing commerce and Industry, and that in the end It will bo necessary for the United States to set Itself to the task of putting things to rights Mr. Llnd does not believe that the military problems involved in pacification of Mexico by American arms will be formidable. Scores of prominent Mexicans have gone to Mr. Llnd secretly and expressed to him their belief that the salvation of the country depends on American intervention. They have begged him to use his influence with Washington to put a stop to the intolerable conditions which prevail. Keen anxiety exists In governmental circles at Mexico City, continues tho dispatch, as to the reason for Mr. Wilson summoning Mr. Idnd to a conference, and what result their talk will have. The Mexican charge in Washington has informed the foreign ofllco that ho is completely in the dark as to the president's purposes. His dispatches states that he made a personal appeal to Secretary Bryan for information, but that while the secretary received him courteously, ho "merely smiled". Persons closo to tho government speak with pressimsm of tho pros pectfl of tho Iluerta administration. It Beoms plain, even to Ilucrta, that ho Is not to rocelvo any money from foreign hankers. Great pains are being taken to prevent a financial and business crash throughout Mexico Tho keynoto of this situation rests with tho fate of tho Bank of London and Mexico. If tills hank can ho prevented from closing Its doors or liquidating, the chances aro that tho financial situation will become no more critical. The hank may he saved by merging it with another Mexico City hank. A plan to this end is being worked out. Thus far 110 other bank in the republic has taken advantage of tho extraordinary holidays decreed by Huerta. Tho other banks, including the State institutions, aro In good shape. ? Accident Kills Union Man. Henry Rector accidentally shot and 111 moHi instantly killed Spurgeon Kelly of Union on Sunday evening. Tho killing occurred while tho men were toying with a revolver. Catch Army Deserter. Of four men arrested aa vagrants near Spartanburg Junction recently, one, Frank Rogers, has been found, It Is alleged, to be a deserter from the army and has been sent to Atlanta for courtmartlal. Fertilizer Sales Increasing. Farmers of South Carolina purchased last year over 960,000 tons of fertlllbers. This Is about 80,000 tons more than In any previous year. FEUDISTS DEFY TROOPS MOVXTA IN KICKS WANTED FOK Mlltl)i:il IUDK IN MINK. Kentucky Militia In Depending oa Famine and Cold to Overpower the Hidden Bmulitn. Twenty raembem of the Hendricknon clan, of the Kentucky mountaineer?, harrlcuded In a main shaft between Pinevllle and Ely's Hollow, Ky., have defied ntnto troops for several days and have announced they will not surrender unless the officers give them liberal terms. Every entrance to (he mine is being guarded and watch fires are kept burning at night. The troopers are depending on cold and lack of food to drive the hold mountaineers from their hiding place, but it is probable an effort will bo made to smoke them out with sulphur fumes if other means fail. The Dondrickson clan is wanted for the murder of a man named Miller and the shooting of several officers when an attempt was made to arrest Happy Jack Hondrickson, lead of the gang, gang. The trouble started over a week ago when "Happy Jack" Hondrickson was arrested at Four Mile and taken to Pinevllle for trial on a misdemeanor trial. He was given bail thnt he might spend the holiday season at home. When he returned to Four Mile he opened fire on a deputy, and several men were sent out to ar rem 111m. upon tnoir nrrlvnl they found that Hendrickson and his associates had boa ton a man namod .liin Mlllor to death and that they had barricaded themselves in tho Hendrickson home. Hendrickson and his clansmen were called upon to surrender. They resisted. In tho fight that followed George Horn, an uncle of Hendrickson, was killed. It is reported that Press Hendrickson was fatally wounded in the fight. Tho clansmen managed to escape and took refuge in tho cave. The wife of "Happy .Tack" Hendrickson appeared at the cave in Ely's Hollow a few days ago and volunteered to enter and persuade the men to surrender. She had learned of the proposal to use sulphur fumes to smoke tho men out and she feared this course might result in the death of her husband and some of her relatives. Members of the Hendrickson clan are being arrested wherever they are found to avoid trouble and tho danger of an attack upon the troops from the rear in an effort, to obtain the release of the trapped outlawR. . ? KILLED IN POST OFFICE. Georgia Postmaster Dies in Hand to Hand Struggle. J. M. Williams, postmaster at Rock Edge, C.a., was found doad in Ills office at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night. It is believed that ho was assassinated. It is reported that a person was seen to enter the post office and storo operated by Williams Just before tho shooting occurred and that the samo person ran from the building after several shots were fired. A nephew of the dead man rushing into the, storo found Williams* dead body stretched upon tho floor. A dispatch from Dublin, Oa., Runday says tho story of a hand-to-hand battle with a madman, each gripping the pistol of tho other as they stood with drawn guns levelled at each other, has been told by S. D. Butler in his explanation of how Postmaster J. M. Williams, of Rock Ledge, was shot and killed Saturday night. "I shot Williams," said Butler, as he rushed up to Marshal Devereaux a short time after tho shooting. "Hero's my gun, and here's his," ho added. "lie was mad. Ho tried to shoot me, and I got him. I disarmed him, but I am afraid that ho is dead. Wo stood there?it seemed like an hour?he holding my gun barrel and I had hold of his?and both of us shooting. I finally wrenched tho gun from his hand and ho foil backward to tho floor." According to Butler, ho and Williams "made up" Saturday night over previous trouble and sat down to drink together. Then an argument arose. Butler states that then Wil Hams acted like a madman, the final tragedy resulting. Steamer Uses Canal. The first steam vessel passed through the Panama canal Wednesday. It was tho Alexander Lavalley, a crane boat, and carried no passengers. It had been operating on the Atlantic side and gradually made Its way through during the course of dredging operations. Bequests Magazine. A. S. Cunningham, late editor of Tho Confederate Veteran, published at Nashville, has left tho publication to a board of trust, composed of his personal friends and officers of various Confederate associations. > House Falls, Killing Three. Three men and one woman avo believed to have been killed when a recently remodelled building, the lowor floor of which was vacant, collapsed at. South Bond, Ind., Saturday afternoon. SINDS HIM AWAY BRITAIN CHANtilS GARDEN FROM MtXiCO 1U BRAZIL CALLS IT PROMOTION MlniRtor Who Opmljr IHxpUjH His I*m'k of Sympathy With WUrob'r Policy is Officially Transferred? United SlntcR, However, Had Not Hequestcd Any Action in Matter.! A cablegram from London received In America Monday announced that Sir Lionel Garden. British minister to Mexico, is shortly to be transferred to ltio do Janeiro as minister to Brazil. He was appointed to Mexico July 10, 10 13, to succeed Francis William Stronge. The successor to Sir Lionel Garden at Mexico City will probably bo Charles Murray Marling, senior counsellor In the British diplomatic service, now accredited to Turkey. Sir Lionel Garden's transfer, which Is a promotion as far as salary Is concerned, although the two legations possess the same standing In the service, would have been made some time ago except for the fact that the British foreign office would not make tho change whllo tho minister was under flro for tho ullegod interviews in which he was made to reflect on tho policy of tho United States toward Mexico. Tho diplomatic change in Mexico, says tho London dispatch, will ho received with surprise when it becomes known on that sido of tho Atlantic, for whilo Sir Lionel's actions and general demeanor sinco tho outbreak of tho Mexican troubles hnvo been considered somewhat indiscreet by tho English public, nobody there believed that ho had done anything to justify tho attacks on him which appeared in some of tho American papers. In fact, it is expected that tho ofllcial statement, which will doubtless bo issued when the changes are made, will explain that Sir Lionel's transfer to Kio do Janeiro in no way casts discredit on tho minister. Unfortunately, Sir Lionel wont to Mexico with a reputation of being anti-American, at a time when a good understanding between the United States and fireat Britain was vital. Naturally the Uritish government defended Sir Lionel against the attacks made on him, but tho belief prevailed at the same time that It would bo better to find anothor post for him. I Announcement in Washington that r.reat Britain is about to transfer Sir Lionel Garden, its minister at tho city of Mexico, was regarded by officials as a substantial manifestation of tho purpose of tho British govern ineni to remove every onstruction to tho execution of President Wilson's plans for dealing with the Mexican situation. At the State department it was denied that the United States had made any protest to the British foreign offico against any acts or utterances ascribed to Minister Garden. From other sources, though, it was learned that Ambassador Pago did seek information at the British foreign office some time ago regarding the attitude of its representative in Mexico. About the time this occurred a semiofficial statement was issued in London repudiating a statement attributed to Sir Lionel that President Wilson's policy towards Mexico would not hnvo been adopted had he not been in ignorance of the facts. Officials believe tho transfer of the British minister will impress tho ITuerta government that tho fact that thoro is to bo no division among tho powers from which it might expect to profit. There wore, of course, no official expressions from administration sources. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan, the only officials wso would speak on the subject, were away. Sir Lionel, however, first became a figure in the relations between the United States and Mexico, when, upon his arrival in Mexico City, just after Provisional President Iluerta had imprisoned many deputies and proclaimed a practical dictatorship, be presented bis credentials. His action was construed in some quarters as a virtual recognition of Huerta and his action. Sir Lionel contended, however, that Huerta had been recognized provisionally previous to that by his homo foreign office. His action, none the less, was not regard on ns ravorablo to tho attitude of the United States. Publication of a report said to have been sent by Rear Admiral Cradock, commanding the British ships In Mexican waters, to Sir Lionel In Mexico City, saying Roar Odmlral Fletcher, the American commander, had ordered tho firing to cease at a critical moment at tho battle of Tamplco, also served to further spread tho Impression that tho British minister was not In sympathy with, if not even Inimical to, tho policy of thn Fritted States toward the Huerta government. Five Killed in Wreck. Five peraons were killed and several injured, when a freight train struck a street car at a grade crossing at Memphis, Tenn., Sunday. 1 TO EDUCATE JACK TARS DANIELS KINGS THE SCHOOL HELL FOR KNTIKE NAVY. j I S^-wtAry Ordmi TTmt ATI IbIM?4 Men Who LmcJc Kn [l^htmnMmt Mnut Attend Secretary of the Navy I>anl?)? has issued an order making ft compulsory for all enlisted men of the nary who are not well grounded in tha common school branches and have not ret completed two yearn service in the navy to attend the service schools which will ho hold aboard ship and at training stations and yards. Junior officers only recently out of the Naval Academy will act as instructors. Instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, geography and history will be continued until each man has attained a satisfactory standard. Academic instruction will he limited to three-fourths of an hour each day and the remainder of the study period will ho devoted to technical and naval subjects. Men who do "ot need the academic course will devot# tho whole period to other branches. The routine aboard ship will b? arranged so that the following general principle, as regards the employment of the men, may be followed an far as possible: all hands to, 9:18, cleaning and shlpwork; 9:15 to 11:45, drills and routine dutioe; 11:45 to 1 :1 5, dinner and recreation; 1:15 to 2, instruction and school daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: 2:20 to 4:20, drill, work and recreation. Tho instruction will bo under th? general direction of tho commanding oflleor. The executive officer will have immediate chargo, assisted by all commissioned officers and by such warrant and petty officers as may be necessary in the different apartments aboard ship. Division officers are directed to examine all men under their supervision, noting tho deficiencies of each man, the amount of instruction ha may have received at the training station, the branches in which further instruction is most needed, tha fitness of each man for promotion, tho branch for which he is best suited, and the personal preferences and ambitions of each in order that classes may bo formed to aecnr# progress and improvement in tha ami in iininu iriiuiinR or men In every branch of tho navy service. Whenever tho weather or the elrcunistanceB of service of any particular ship or ships are Buch that additional timoa during the day ma be given to instruction, commanding officers are urged to increase the periods of instruction, and to encourage night classes when practicable. Secretary Daniels points out that tho idea which prevails in some quarters that this instruction will interfere with strictly man-of-war work appears to bo groundless, inasmuch as more than throo-fourths of ths order is devoted to tho consideration of Btrictly technical and naval instruction along lines that will tend directly to tho increased efficiency of a man-of-war. Secretary Daniels, by instituting this educational systorn, makes it possiblo for every young man In the navy?and of the whole enlisted personnel more than 3 0 per cent, are young?to obtain commissions In the service, or to bet practical training which will onablo him to enter on even terms with civllions in professional life outside tho navy. The whole scheme follows the idea of Secretary Daniels that tho navy should ho a groat school as well as & working Institution. STRANGE CASE OP IlARIKSlMan Dies of Hydrophobia by Auto Suggestion, James E. Hubbel, former county clerk and a prominent resident of Syracuse, N. J., died at a hospital Saturday, following symptoms of hydrophobia, which physicians assert woro developed by auto-suggestion. Mr. Hubbel was bitten on the lip by I n rvnt vT * " * i? |/OI, i-n/H on .NoveiiiDPr zu. At a hospital nnti-toxin was injected la his lip. Hubbel's friends joked him about rabies and ho read everything he could find concerning tho diseaso. Last Tuesday he returned to his doctor and told him he was extremely nervous. Ho again was taken to the hospital and was attended by four of the city's leading physicians. He complained of throat trouble, and for some time before his death the sight of Wfltor omiaojl oir\nn.?? ?' 41 " 4 I M.vi vuuovu n^iinuia Ul me i nront. Following an autopsy on the body Saturday night It was announced that hydrophobia, Induced by auto-sugge?tlon, undoubtedly caused his death. Hives With Hole in Heart. When an X-ray revealed a hole la tho heart of Nettie Sehatz, of Baltimore, her case was given up at hopeless. However she has begun to lmprovo under treatment and now assists her mother in house work. Florence Train Kills Man. B. A. Robertson, a whlto man about 32 years old, respectablo looking and neatly dressed, was killed on tho railroad between Florence and Pco Deo. His head was crushed and his log broken.