The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 04, 1914, Image 5
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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY .
AMID DENSE FOG
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iSmpress of Ireland Hound for Liver- 1
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pool From Quebec is Cut Wide a
Open by the Collier Storstad and *
Passengers Are Caught Like llats j
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in a Trap?Vessel Carried 1,487 n
Persons and Few Over 400 Have *
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lteen Accounted for?Dead Estimated
Iletween 078 and 1,100? j
Wireless Messages Tell of Disaster. 11
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4 The twin screw Canadian liner Em- i
press of Ireland, carrying 1,437 per- s
sons, passengers ar.d crew, sank in
the darkness before dawn Friday in s
the St. Lawrence river, near Rimou- *
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ski, Quebec, with a loss of perhaps 1
1,000 lives. Estimates of the dead
vary from 678 to more than 1,100. p
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^ The vessel, bound from Quebec for
Liverpool, with 7 7 first, 2 0G second
and 504 third class passengers, was
cut wide open by the collier Storstad
and sank within ?0 minutes in 19
fathoms of water. Of those saved
the majority appeared to bo members
of the crew or from the steerage.
V Many were badly injured and p2 died
after being picked up.
The crash occurred about 2 o'clock
in the morning off Father Point,
Qebec. The collier, bound for Quebec,
struck the Empress of Ireland
on the port side about the middle of
the ship. She literally tore her way
iT iback almost to the liner's screws,
leaving a rent through which the
water poured in in such a deluge that
the sank before many of the passengers
were aware of what had happened.
b Brief wireless calls for help sent
out by the Marconi operator were
heard by the pilot boat Eureka at
Rimouski, 10 miles from the scene,
and the Eureka, followed by the Lady
Evelyn, a mail tender, made all speed
for the spot. It was these two bo&ts
that found afloat the few lifeboats
that were launched from the stricken
tthln nr?rl nlokmt nn tlin nurvivrirQ
they contained. Three hundred and c
7. thirty-nine were saved by the Lady i
Evelyn and 60 .by the Eureka. Among *
those saved was Capt. H. G. Kendall,
of the Empress.
Most of the first class passengers
apparently perished. Among those in *
the first cabin were Sir Henry Seton1
Karr, a noted English lawyer and big
game hunter, and Laurence Irving,
son of the late Sir Henry Irving, and 1
his wife, Mabel Hackney. Of a party i
of 140 Salvation Army members on 1
hoard only 2 0 were rescued. They I
had left for the conference in Lon- t
don. 1
First News of Disaster. c
?* Montreal, May 29.?First official x
word of the Empress of Ireland dis- 1
aster came from Capt. Kendall, who r
sent this wireless message to Capt. a
Walsh, marine superintendent of the
Canadian Pacific at Montreal, Can- c
ada: "Empress of Ireland stopped by 1
dense fog. Struck amidships in vital 1
i spot by collier Storstad." 8
Later Capt. Kendall, in conveying s
the intelligence to Capt. Walsh that
the Empress had gone down, said: G
"Ship gone.". G
A special train was dispatched c
at 8:20 to Father Point to bring back c
tho survivors. Capt. Kendall won '
k renown as the man who first detected ~
Crippen, the murderer, on the steam- *
ship Montford. 8
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Another Wireless Account.
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Tho Marconi Co.'s operator at Rl- v
mouski, Quebec, Friday gave the fol
lowing account of the sinking of%the j
Empress of Ireland: ^
"The Empress of Ireland was ram- g
med this morning at 1:45 by the j
* Storstad, twenty miles out from t
Father Point. The Empress sank ^
within ten minutes. The S. O. S.
signal sent out was received at Father
Point and the government steamers
Eureka and Lady Evelyn were v
dispatched to the distressed vessel's a
assistance. The Empress of Ireland ^
Pt listed and was unable to get many of ^
the boats out.
"Capt. Kendall was saved, being *
picked up on some wreckage by a'
lifeboat 30 minutes after his ship had
foundered. Both wireless operators, ^
assistant pursers, chief engineers and
chief steward were saved. Chief officer
and purser are among the miss- r
ing." p
Faint Glimmer of Hope. b(
A message received at Montreal by ai
the Canadian Pacific offices from Rl- pj
^ mouski said that "all the passengers si
^ have been picked up by tho boats of tl
the Lady Evelyn and Eureka." g<
A similar message was received by
LaPatrie, a French newspaper, from
a Rimouski correspondent. He said i\
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VMMED;
ND DROWN
EXPLAINS PARTY STAND,
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WILSON TELES BIG BUSINESS OF
COUNTRIES ATTITUDE.
s Anxious to Servo but Not to Injure
Business?There Must be Reforms
o.wi n??i cs i
nun iiumu urni r?uuu.j
Representatives of big business
'hursday heard from President Wilon
the administration's view of and
ttitude toward the business of the
ountry. Whilo expressing a desire
o "serve and not to hinder or inure,"
the president said the policy
he Democratic party is pursuing is
iccessary to satisfy the conscience of
he country and its perception of the
revailing conditions of business.
"The president said in reply to t^e
llinois delegation," says a White
louse statement, "that, in his judguent,
nothing was more dangerous
or business than uncertainty; that
t had become evident through a long
eries of years that a p#licy such as
he Democratic party was now puruing
was absolutely necessary to satsfy
the conscience of the country and
ts perception of the prevailing coalitions
of business, and that it was a
;reat deal better to do the thing modsrately
and soberly now than to wait
intil more radical forces had accunulated
and it was necessary to go
nuch further.
"The president also said that while
le was aware of the present depression
of business, there was abundant
jvidenco that it was merely psychoogical,
that thero is no material conlition
or substantial reason why the
jusiness of the country should not be
s the most prosperous and expanding
sondition. He urged upon his visions
the necessity of patriotic co-opjration
on the part of the business
nen of the country in order to support
rjltlipr thnn to nnnnao tlia mnrl.
irate processes of reform and to help
;uide them by their own intimate
knowledge of business conditions and
)rocesses.
"Ho told his visitors that it was
lis earnest desire to serve and not to
linder or injure the business of the
country in any way and that he beieved
that upon reflecting they would
$ee that the course he was urging
vould in the long run not only, but
n the short run also, be the wise and
lerviceable course."
The manufacturers were in Washngton
attending the first National
foreign Trade convention. Before the
;onvention held its closing .session,
nore than 100 of its delegates were
eceived by the president.
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PAKE FUNERAL.
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few York Police Officers Work Trick
on Slick Gamblers.
A hearse, conveying an empty cascet,
followed by automobiles decked
n mourning, stopper! in front of Wiliam
McGun's road lruse near Forest
3ark, New York, Wednesday. A
;risty bunch of mourners entered.
Within ten minutes the mourners be amo
deputy sheriffs, and the house
vas raided. For a year complaints
uul come to Sheriff Zimmer of booknaking
and other forms of gambling
it McC urn's.
More than a dozen pickets wero
ontinually on duty about the place.
They had pushbuttons in fence posts.
>y which the house was notified When
my person who looked like a deputy
heriff appeared. Chief Deputy >Petirs
organized the funeral. The picksts
were deceived. Once in the place,
loors to gambling rooms were brokui
down and racing charts, poker
hips and dice wero found. Seventyive
men were captured.
hat 4 00 survivors had been landed
nd that the Lady Evelyn and Eure;a
were going back to pick up the
emainder of the passengers, who
vere in boats.
From the wording of the Canadian
'acific message it could not be deermined
whether "all the passen;ers"
meant all those on hoard the
Impress of Ireland or simply all
hose who were able to make the life
oats.
077 Unaccounted For.
The collier Storstad has 3GO surivors
from the Empress of Ireland
board, according to announcement
y the government signal service,
yith approximately 400 landed at
Limouski, this accounts for 760 souls
board the Empress, leaving 677 un- ,
ccounted for at 10 o'clock Friday
lorning. ?
The text of the messago received
y LaPatrie from Rimouski reads:
"Lady Evelyn and Eureka docked
t Rimouski with 4 00 passengers,
aptains both reported that all the
assongers were saved *n the lifo
oats of the Lady Evelyn, Eureka
ad Empress of Ireland. As soon as
assengers are disembarked both
earners will leavo for the scene of '
io wreck to pick up other passen- <
srs." i
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In the words of Nimrod: "Where's
>at fly?" - ;
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COOPER'S PLATFORM
LAUREN'S MAN IN GOVERNOR'S
RACE TALKS OF THE ISSUES
WILL ENFORCE THE LAWS
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Having Pledged the Requirements of
the Party in Order to Heroine a
Candidate Solicitor Cooper Gives
Out a Statement to the People of
the State.
Solicitor It. A. Cooper Thursday
filed his pledge as a candidate for
governor in the coming primary, and
sent liis assessment to the treasurer
of the State Democratic executive
committee. Unless he is delayed by
reason of attending court, which convenes
about Juno 15, Mr. Cooper
stated that lie expects to take part
in the opening meeting of the campaign.
Solicitor Cboper was asked Thursday
is he cared to make any pubsic
statement at this time with reference
to his candidacy. lie said:
"The people of the State seem to
expect that each candidate shall give
out liis platform. I wish to say in
the outset that I sincerely trust that
the campaign on which we are about
to enter may be free from factionalism
and partisan strife, and that
each candidate mpj* be measured by
the standard of his fitness for public
service. There are too many questions
of vital importance to the people
of this State, which should be
discussed in the campaign, for us to
devote our time to a wrangle over
factionalism difference.
"I am simply stating a self-evident
proposition when 1 say that the most
important question before our people
to-day is the education of the white
children of the State;?providing the
opportunity for every white child in
the State to secure the rudiments of
an education, fitting him or her for
the duties of life. We should continue
to raise the standard of our
common schools until they each provide
an education equal to that now
afforded by our best graded and high
schools.
"It is a sad commentary on our
State, but it is, nevertheless, true,
so I am informed, that we could not
accommoate in our schools the white
children of the State. I believe the
State should at once provide ample
facilities for the education of the children,
and then wo will be in a position
to enact and enforce a compulsory
school attendance law.
"It would be useless to attempt to
compel the attendance of all children
of school age when we are without
facilities to accommodate them. Compulsory
education is well on its way,
but first let the State give the people
the opportunity, and provide the facilities,
and then the compulsion part of
it. A majority of the children of this
State only receive such education as
our common schools afford, and they
should be the very best in our power
to give them.
"Attention should he given to our
present system of assessing property
for taxation. It is impossible to go
fully into the question in a short
statement of this kind, but I believe
that some plan can and ought to he
devised by which we can approximately
secure equality in our assessments.
"It is conceded on every hand that
there is no more important matter
than the improvement of our public
highways. The farmer's transportation
tax is one of his chief difficulties.
The building of good roads
will not only enhance the value of
farm property, and add to the comforts
and convenience of farm life,
but will increase the prosperity of
the nation along all lines. In this
connection T think that Clemson college,
which is, or ought to be, the
source of our agricultural training,
should establish and operate demonstration
farm schools in every county
in the State.
"In this way the average farmer
could improve his method of farming
and also take advantage of the
many economies in the preparation
of soil, use of fertilizers, etc. Clemson
is doing a great work, but Its
benefits can be further extended
along the lines I have suggested. I
hope that the national government
will, with as little delay as possible,
enact a rural credit law so that our
farmers, many of whom do not now
own their farms, may become homo
owners. These, and many other matters
which look to our material prosperity,
ought to and will beconsid-1
ered.
"Tho chief function of the governor
of the State is to look after the
enforcement of the law. If elected
governor it shall ho my controlling
purpose, without fear or favo&> to see
that the laws are duly enforced, not
in some sections o-f the State, but
from the mountain* to tho sea; not
in a spirit of harshness and vindictiveness,
but in mercy. This being
Lbe chief duty of tho governor, it
should he the paramount issue in the
campaign for tho selection of a governor."
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The managers of some businesses
COMBATTING RABIES
NO HEAL. DEFINITE INCREASE IN
OUR STATE. I
Suggestions and Instructions as to
What Should be Ih>ue if l>og Rites
Persons by State (Bacteriologist.
Some time ago Dr. A. F. Coward,
State Bacteriologist, made an address <
before some doctores at Florence on
"The Rabies Situation in South Carolina',,
and while it was technical in
part, we are copying below extracted
paragraphs from the talk.
"The rapid increase in rabies in
our State is the subject of frequent
comment; that there is a real definite
increase no one will deny after going
into the facts. Investigation shows,
however, that this is only our share ,
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of a general increase in the disease ^
over the entiro country. The disease (
has now crossed the Rockies and
reached our Pacific coast, where it
was unknown a few years ago.' The ,
human cases, however, are probably
increasing, although the number of
persons bitten is increasing every
year. This is due to the fact that 1
practically all bitten persons now
seek the Pasteur treatment, which,
while not infallible, certainly reduces
the incidence of the disease markedly
?falling only in severe cases, and
only occasionally in those.
"Compared to typhoid fever, measles,
or even small pox, rabies does not
seem important in morbidity or mortality
columns, but the staggering
fact of a 100 per cent, mortality, outweighs
argument, and maintains that
indescribable, near - superstitious
dread of the disease which has accompanied
it down to us through the
centuries since its first recognition.
. . . To summarize, wo must conclude
that our stato is now doing all
that can be reasonably expected towards
the supression of rabies. Sentiment
and ignorance alone obstruct
our progress, and these must be dealt
with by local authorities and by perifocal
authorities andetaoin shrdlu
Local muzzling and quarantine are
ta the disposal of every organized
community?in the rural districts a
better understanding of the disease
in man and animals will lead to a
more intelligent handling of its outbreaks.
"In conclusion, we wish to emphasize
once more the proper procedure
when persons are bitten by animals
suspected of rabies.
"First, don't kill the dog, unless he
can be obtained in no other way.
Confine him, treat him well. If he
remains well for one week thereafter
he did not have rabies when the biting
was done, and there is no danger
to the bitten person. If ho becomes
I sick or dies, send the hojirl tn iho
"Laboratory, State Hoard of Health,
Columbia, S. C.," and prepay express.
At the same time write a letter stating
symptoms number of persons
bitten. Diagnosis will ,be manle and
treatment, with instructions, will be
sent by first mail if possible. An anti-toxin
syringo will be necessary; a
convenient one is that from an out-ofdate
diptheria anti-toxin package,
which must bo emptied, freed from
paraffin, and thoroughly boiled, with
needle attached.
"Second, the patient's wounds
should bo treated with pure nitric
acid or pure formalin if seen within
four hours. Do not use ointment or
silver nitrate.
"The dog's head should be wrapped
in a cloth which has been wrung out
of 1-500 bichloride of mercury solution
and placed in a tightly closed
tin bucket. If ice is used it should bo
placed in an outer bucket into which
the smaller bucket is placed. Don't
put ice in contact with the head."
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MKT DKATII BRAVELY.
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How Author and llis Wife Went
Down on the Empress.
The tragic death of Laurence Irving,
author and actor, on board the
ili-fated Empress of Ireland, was deSpril^Ofl
l?\r T.^ A i ? <" rT^ ? A ?
>uvu tj j m.- . u, . \ .rin ji i U1 i IM'UIIU),
the last man to see him alive. "I
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met him first in the passageway," ho
said, "and ho said calmly: 'Is the ,
hoat going down?' I said it looked
like it. 'Dearie,' Irving then said to
his wife, 'hurry. There is no time
to lose.'
"Mrs. Irving began to cry and as
the actor reached for a life belt the
boat suddenly lurched and he was c
thrown against the door of his cabin.
His face was bloody and Mrs. Irving
was frantic.
" 'Keep cool,' he warned her, but
she persisted in holding her arms j
around him. He forced the lift belt
over her, pushed her out of the door j
ami practically carried her upstairs. ,
I asked if I could help and Irving
said: 'Look after yourself nrat, old (
man, but God bless you all the
same.' "
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Xegro Killed l>y Train. t
Silas Williams, a young negro of
nennettsville, was killed Thursday 1
afternoon by a Bennettsville and f
Cheraw railroad passenger train.
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WolVord Gets $3tt,000. x
The general education hoard of t
New York Friday announced among ]
other gifts, a benefaction of $33,000 t
DEATH STORY TOLD
COLLIER STORSTADS BLAMED BY
CAPTAIN OF SUNKEN SHIP
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ANSWERED KIS SIGNALS
Captain Kendall Vividly Describes
Incidents leading Up to Stupendous
Tragedy in St. Lawrence River.
Latest Count Places List of
IV .1 ? a rv/? s
IH'ilU HI mil.
While financial tabulations of casualties
in the sinking of the steamer
Empress of Ireland were being made
Saturday showing that 4 011 of her
passengers and crew had been rescued
and 964 had perished, Capt.
Henry George Kendall of the liner
was telling his story of the disaster
at an inquiry conducted by Coroner
Pihault at ltimouski, Quebec.
Capt. Kendall in substance declared
ho had taken all possible precautions
against a collision. llis ship
had been stopped and he gave the
requisite signal when the Danish collier
Storstad, which sank the Empress,
was two miles away, but the
rollier had kept on through the fog
that settled down soon after the two
vessels sighted each other and had
rammed the Empress while the latter
vessel was motionless.
Capt. Kendall took up his story of
the disaster from the point at which
the Empress of Ireland, bound from
Quebec for Liverpool, had dropped
her pilot Thursday night at Father
Point. "We then proceeded full
speed," continued Capt. Kendall.
After passing Rock Point gas buoy 1
sighter the steamer Storstad, it then
being clear.
"The Storstad was about one
point, 12 degrees, on my starboard
bow. I saw a slight for bank coining
gradually from the land and
knew it would pass between the Storstad
and myself. The Storstad was
about t wo miloa hwow e?
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camo and the Storstad's lights disappeared.
I stopped my ship. At
the same time I .blew three short
blasts on the steamer's whistle,
meaning 'I am going full speed astern.'
The Storstad answered.
"I then blew two long blasts,
meaning 'My ship was under way but
stopped and has no way upon her.'
Me answered me again. Tt was still
foggy. About two minutes afterward
I saw red and green lights.
He would then he about one ship's
length away from me. I shouted to
him through the megaphone to full
full speed astern. At the same time
I had my engine full speed ahead
with my helm hard aport with the
object of avoiding, if possible, the
shock. Almost at the same time she
came right in and cut me down in a
lino between the funnels.
"I slioute dto the Storstad to keep
full speed ahead to fill the hole ho
had made. Ho hacked away. The
ship began to fill and listed over
rapidly. When ho struck me I had
stopped my engines. T then rang full
speed ahead again, with the object
of running her on shore. Almost
immediately the engines stopped, the
ship filling and going over all the
time.
"I had, in the meantime, given orders
to get the lifeboats launched. T
?..c liinci uumur to leu me wireless
operator to send out distress signals.
TIo told mo this had been
done. T said: 'Get the boats out as
quick as possible.' That was the last
I saw of the' otlicer. In about three
to five minutes after that the ship
turned over and foundered. T was
shot into the sea myself and taken
down with the suction The next
tiling I remember was seizing a piece
of grating. Some men pulled me
into a lifeboat, which already had
about 30 people in it.
"Wo pulled around and picked tip
20 or 23 more and put about 10
around the side in the water with
ropes around their wrists, hanging
on. We then pulled to the Storstad.
$ got all the people on board the
Storstad and then left her with six
of the crew and went back. When
we got there everybody had gone."
"What caused the collision?" ask?d
the coroner.
"The Storstad running into the
Empress, which was stopped," anuvered
Kendall.
Capt. Kendall, when bo shouted to
he Storstad's captain to stand fast,
lie received no answer. It was impossible
for him not to have heard,
te added. "T shouted fivo times; I
ilso shouted: 'Keep ahead,'" said
3apt. Kendall, "and if he did not
loar nio ho should have done it anyvay,
as a seaman should have known
hat."
"There was wind?" ho was asked.
"It was quito still."
"How many boats were there 011
ho Empress?"
"notween 30 and 40. There wore
loats for everybody. She had boats
or 2,000 people."
"There was no panic among the
passengers or crew. About four boats
vero launched. As the ship sank
hose boats floated away. The peodo
w ho were saved wore saved by
he Empress' boats and the wreck- 1
LOSE LIVES FOR GIRLS
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TO SAVE COMPANIONS MEN LEAP
FROM SINKING BOAT. \
Boat Filled With Party Enable to
Swim Begins to Leak ancl Heroes
Lighten Ix>ad by Accepting Death.
Sacrificing their lives that the lives
of four companions, two of them
girls, might bo saved, three young
men, none of whom could swim,
leaped into the Delaware river near
Philadelphia, from a sinking rowboat
late Sunday and were drowned. The
story of their heroism was told today
by the survivors. The dead are:
John Moucheh, Raymond Tizey aud
John Murphy. The saved are: Georgo
German, Sarah German, Mary
Mary German and John Xevlle.
Tlnzey and Sarah German were engaged
to be married. Accompanied
by the other members of the party,
thev visited the V?w T oraov et/1r? nf
the river in a large roboat. They
were more than 100 yards from shore
when it was noticed that the craft
was filling. Despite efforts of the
seven occupants to bail the .boat with
their caps, it soon became evident
that unless the load was lightened,
the boat would sink before the shore
could bo reached.
None of the party could swim, but
all of the men volunteered to jump
out. Sarah German begged the Tinzey
boy not to risk it, but he was the
first to spring over the boat's side,
followed by Mouclieh and Murphy.
In spite of the sacrifice the boat
capsized shortly after the three men
had disappeared in the water and the
four other occupants were thrown
into the river. Neville and German
clung to the overturned craft and
grasping the girls held them until
the party was rescued by a motorboat.
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RIVERS STAY PUT.
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Roosevelt Declares River Re Discovered
Was Unknown.
Col. "Roosevelt appeared before a
Washington geographical society
Tuesday night and declared that ho
had discovered a river in South
America, among the wilds of Rrazil.
Scientists, the colonel declared, had
attempted to dispute his discovery.
Tracing on a blackboard with a piece
of chalk the river of his finding, ho
declared emphatically:
"I say, we put it on the map, and
I mean what I say. No map has
ever yet shown this river. Scientists
have said wo might have traversed
tho river Ta Pajoso or the river
Madeira, but the fact is that some of
our party went down one river and
some went down the other, while we
went down a river between theni
which no map maker ever saw. I
can direct any man where to find
this river and rivers stay put, so that
the discovery we have made may be
veriflod."
The colonel described in detail the
hardships of his trip into the Brazilian
wilds and particularly tho hardships
endured in navigating the rapdis
of the "River of Doubt". In the
upper part of the river, ho said, the
rapids were so severe that it required
<12 days for the party to traverse one
degreo from 11:45 south to 10:45
south. During the hazardous trip
they lost nearly all their food and
belongings.
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MOD MKM1JKHS ARRESTED. ?
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Siv Men of Xiken County Will Face
Trial for Alleged OlVenses.
Weells Heath, Monroe Weathersbee,
Hud Redd, .loo Craig, L. Redd
and Lonnie Craig, all white, of Aiken,
wore Dound over Saturday morning
after a preliminary hearing to the
court of general sessions 011 a chargo
of assault with intent to kill and
shooting into a dwelling house. The
preliminary was the afthermath of
tho recent disorder on the Hitchcock
plantation in Aiken county, baout
eight miles from Aiken, when the
farm hands went 011 strike. Bond
was given in the sum of $2 00 each.
When the farm hands struck, one
old negro man, Calvin Williams, who
lived on tho place, refused to quit
work. His home was visited one
night by a mob and it was testitled
at tho hearing that more than 1,000
shots were fired into the house. The
place was completely wrecked, but no
one was injured by tho bullets as tho
negroes lied. The mob then visited
the home of Manager Williams of the
Hitchcock plantation, pinned crepe
on his door and tagged the fence
with papers hearing threatening inscriptions.
The six white men are
charged with being members of the
mob.
I'M mis Wife Dead.
When A. J. Chapman, a grocer of
llacon, Ola., discovered the dead body
of his wife in his home Wednesday
he was so grieved that he fired a
bullet into his brain with fatal resuits.
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Small Hoy is Drowned.
While a group of his playmates
watched on the bank of tho Chattahooclieo
river at Columbus, 05a., John
Corbott, eight years old, was drow ned
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