The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 23, 1922, Image 7
I MURDERSDONE ;
AT HERRIN, ILL.
(Continued Frorti Last Week.)
Jnp he was tiled and was going home
and to bed.' This was nearing 11:00
o'clock. I
During the conference, when the
TJ. M. W. officials were present, en
agreement was reached that all of
those then in the room should go to
the mine in the morning. Colonel
Hunter suggested that the hour cf departure
be at 5 or 6 o'clock. Sheriff
Thaxton, however, set 8 a. m. as the
hour for leaving.
At 6:00 o'clock next morning and
again at o.OO a. m., Colonel Hunter
and Major Davis were at the door of
Sheriff Thaxton's office and found it
locked. It was 8:30 o'clock before
they encountered him leisurely walking
on the public square. Hughes
and Willis, the U. M. W. of A. officials
who lvxd promised to be members
of the Sheriff's party could not be
found. Colonel Hunter, Major Davis,
the Sheriff and one of the deputies,
Sheffer, .started by automobile por the
mine.
They arrived there at about the
hour when the massacre was taking
place in the woods two miles distant.
They found the mine swarming with
men engaged in pillage and arson and
who continued the destruction of property
under the very eyes of the officers
and defied interruption.
The Surrender.
Tt had been Colonel Hunter's original
thought that if a truce could be
effected quickly enough that the men
in the mine should vacate before
night fall, but it was around 0:30
o'clock before the flags were hoisted
and the firing ceased. No arrangement,
however, were made to afford
safe escorte to the men that evening.
Some of the prisoners who survived
the next day's massacre, say that
there was sporadic shooting during
hours of darkness when the attacking
miners swarmed into the big
gluches dug by the steam shovels
and drew a tight circle around the
bunk cars and coal cars where the
strip mine workers spent the night.
At least five charges of dynamite
were exploded against mine machinery
and property. One blast was set
off within thirty feet of the bunk,
cars where the strip miners were!
housed. i
Tracy's description of the surrender
Thursday morning: is one of the
most connected that has been given.
He relates that instructions were piv-J
en to the men in the mine not to fire
any more but that some one should
be sent out from the strip mine party
with a flag of truce. Tracy overheard
McDowell tell his assistant, I
John E. Shoemaker, a civil engineer,
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bounded on the north by North\
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son of the Mayor of Charleston, 111.,
that there should be no shooting and
the truce flag should be carried out.
A big fellow, known as "Mac," had
not stepped over 20 yards from the
cars when he was fired on and he ran
back, says Tracy, who continues::
"Either Mack or Jones then marched
out with a cook's apron tied to a
broom. I heard several of the attackers
then say that if we would march
out and lay down our arms they would
not harm us. They shouted they
would take us on a train and let us
go back home.
Prisoners Throw Up Hands
Tracy says that all rifles were laid
down and shells put between cars
and that all the prisoners put their
hands over their heads and walked
out into the open. This w,as in accordance
with instructions given by
the attacking miners and repeated
by McDowell and Shoemaker, as an
order to the strip miners, Tracy avers.
The attackers came hurrying up from
all directions, some of them firing
their guns. They yelled in exaltation.
"A man who acted likr a leader
shouted at them to quit firing at us,"
Tracv eroes on. "Ho ww i? litflo
heavy set fellow about forty or forty-five
years old, weighed about J 70
pounds, dark complected and dressed
in a dark suit. He waved a bis: automatic
pistol /and yelled 'Now you
ought to use judgment, there is no
use getting excited or starting trouble
whatever. I am a leader of this
bunch. Listen to me and we will
take them down the road.'
"A mob yelled him down ar 1 some
of them told him if he didn't shut r.p
they would shoot him. They said
they were going to kill the whole
bunch."
The march smacked very much of
military discipline, and although there
were at least 3,000 men mostly armed
in the crowd around the prisoners,
those in charge were able to fiecure
obedience to their orders.
Tracy describes how ill treatment
of the prisoners was kept up as they
marched along but the violence was
not desperate except in the case of
McDowell. He was made an immediate
target for blows which were not
long in bringing about his death.
Jones' Story.
Another account of the surrender
and start of the march from the mine
is given under cuath by Bernard Jones,
I lie mine guard who was quoted
I above. Jones says of the Thursday
morning events::
"The white sheet (flag of truce on
the wires) was taken down because
the mob yelled "Take that damned
flag down.' We knew there would
be a battle."
The prisoners felt they were in a
trap and some of them were panic
stricken. .Tones asserts. MpDnwoll
I said "Somebody ought to pro talk to
the attackers." Jones says that he
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! went out with anap^on^ Cieci to a |
, broom and told tfflTTfCtors that the
strip mine workers were ready to
surrender provided they were given
the assurance of being allowed to
walk out unmolested. Jones says he
called out, "I want to talk to you," |
and that a leader answered. Jones <
describes this leader as being 24 or j
25 years old, weight about 160, light 1
haired, with sharp freckled face and i
toting ,i rifle. This leader, Jones as- ;
sorts, agreed to the proposition of let- i
ting them out unmolested provided ;
"you come out unarmed, with your
hands in the air." 1
McDowell overheard this promise, '
says Jones, with the result that "we 1
all were formed in line, hands up, and , I
walked west on the vai'roni tracks J J
150 yards to where the union men
were congregated. The prisoners t
were covered with rifles and pistols 11
by their captors who rushed up close 1
and searched them for weapons." i
Jones estimated tb.it there were '
3,000 armed men in the crowd to !
which they surrendered. He said the !
victors began slapping the pnsoners
who marched two abreast down the j
railroad tracks. About 200 yards had
been covered when the prisoners were
told to take down their hands and 1
take their hats off. McDowell was .
struck and kicked. When the prison- !
ers were forced to go on a trot, McDowell
was unable to keep up because
of his peg leg and he fell two
or three times. The treatment of(
McDowell soon became so brutal that
lie could go no further.
The Murder of McDowell.
Tracy describes the killing of McDowell
in more detail. The proces-' ,
sion had gotten to a place called
Crenshaw Crossing and the prisoners j
were being beaten pretty generally J i
when a n'jw leader appeared, and was .
hailed as "Tom" or "Bill." Tracy ,
describes him thus: "A big fellow, j
50, stout, weight i90. 5 feet 10, with
a week's growth of beard, rawboned,
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aressed roughly. wearing blue over- ;
alls and felt hat." This leader sing- ,
led out McDowell and said to the latter
that he had put Howat in jail in ;
Kansas hut would never put anybody
else in jail. ,
This leader began beating McDow-^'
ell over the head with a .45 calibre*\
automatic pistol and kept it up for !
about 200 yards when he took Mc- 1
Dowell out of line and knocked him <
down with a hea^y blow on the side '
of the head. Tracy said he saw some '
six or eight women, some of them <
carrying babies in their arms, kick 1
McDowell. Tracy did not see this i
particular leader any more. Tracy ]
said that the procession continued in
an orderly determined way until they ]
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COLUMBIA ART
PHENOMENON
Always when the wonder seems
?one out of life and living has resolved
itself into a matter of eating
*nd sleeping and getting the "where
withal to do so, something new and
altogether bewildering happens ami
ill of the lost shimmer and glow
about being alive is marvelously back
again.
One of these new and bewildering
things has happened right here in
Columbia. It has happened miraculously,
like a scarlet poppy out of
:>lack earth?black earth where no
dim of life before.
The thing that has happened is
that a young Columbia woman, who
nad no knowledge of training in
the art, lias suddenly begun to paint
remarkable pictures. She is Miss
Jollie Hay of 2017 Preston Street,
Shandon, a?id her pictures are draw
nig niiiiiy asiomsneu people to nei
liome every day to see fou themselves
lb is strange thing* lhat has
happened.
One month ago Miss Hay had
never painted a picture in her life,
nor attempted to, nor even had the
least desire to do so. She could not
have told exactly what pastel work
was, nor did she have the slightest
idea how oil paints were purchased,
whether in a bottle or by the quart.
Now an Artist.
Today she is an artist, exquisite
products of her hand all around her.
And this was the way it happened.
About a month ago Miss Hay was
watching a cousin, Mrs. G. D. Ryan,
formerly Miss Anna Keith, painting.
After watching for a time Miss Hay
told Mrs. Ryan that she had the
queerest sort of a feeling about the
painting, a feeling that she could do
it herself. Mrs. Ryan, who has studied
art /or a number of years and issomething
of an artist herself, was
surprised, but gave her some crayons
and told her to try.
M iss Hay took the crayons home
and began to work. Her family
stood around And looked on in
amazement as beneath the young
woman's fingers a lovely picture began
to grow. She worked feverishly
and did not stop until the picture
was finished. Then she began another
and then another. Mrs. Ryan
went to see her and was amazed at
what Miss Hay had done. She
carried her some oil paints and told
tier that she would come back and
jVl ur Unv onwAfUi ?*/> ? A'*
<> nvi ouiiicbiiuig a"uui mixing*' till'
paints.
In a short while Miss Hay telephoned
and asked her 'to come look
at her oil painting and when Mrs.
Ryan reached the Hay home she was
more aghast than ever, for there was
a, remarkable picture done 'in oil, a
noonlight snow scene, which, she
said, might have been don6 by an
artist (who had years and years of
training.
So the work has gone on. Miss
Hay's mother, Mrs. J. T. Hay, who
iAeared the power house when a man
'who all the strip miners said was an
officer of the Miners' Local appeared
in an automobile, drew the mob leader
aside and after talking to him
pointed to the woods."
(Continued Next Week.)
SWEEPS ?ONWARD
Columbia.?The continued onward
?\veep of co-operative marketing in
he state is indicated, officials of the
^outh Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative
Association said yesterday,
>v the large number of new contracts
oming in daily. Over one hundred
\ew contracts have been received in
he jxist week, and the number of new
nembers is being swelled every day.
There is no mpmlioivin'n ?
Miiify vtl I I I })<l 1 I I
>n at present, and practically all of
he contracts that are coming in are
voluntary and officials say are the re-1
iult of the satisfaction felt by the
nemhers with the nvmner in which
he Association is functioning*. Credit
s being given the Association genertlly
for the strength of the cotton
narket and the present prices of coton.
One of the large contracts to come
n during the past week was from J.
\ Williams, of McConnellsville, York
bounty. Mr. Williams signed the
ontract this week and has turned
>ver several hundred bales of cotton,
festerday a letter was received from
iim stating that a number of other
armers in his section were ready to
ign. Letters from Marion brought
he news that iv.ite a number of growl's
in that county were ready to afx
their signatures to the contract.
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| ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
More than 6 per cent of the medical
students in the United Sates are
women.
Nearly 100 women lawyers are
now practicing their profession in
Washington, 1). C.
In ancient Rome no woman more
than fifty years of age was permitted
to marry.
M iss Marian Whidden directs the
operation of one of New York\s
largest hospitals.
Miss Dorothv Gray, not<~d hoa"tv
sculptor, recently insured her hands
for $100,000.
Mexican women have smaller anc
more regularly shaped feet than
American or European women.
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.w Japanese court recent'v issued
a decree which releases Geisha- gins
from involuntary slavery.
Women employed as rea<lers ir
1 press clipping bureaus oft*m have t<
memorize 5,000 names and subjects.
The United States Department ot
Agriculture has trained women
chemists who seek to learn food
values for public information.
Mrs. Charlotte Despard, sister ol
Lord French, t lie famous Uritisl
soldier, is a candidate for a seat it
the llritish Parliament.
I
! The British authorities in Hon$
j Kong have taken steps to abolisl
j the system by which some 50.00C
Chinese girls have been held it
slavery.
Miss Elsie K. Griesser, of White
stone, N. Y., who recently paddlee
a canoe through the Panama Canal
becomes the first woman to ever perform
the feat. She completed tlv
entire distance of forty-two miles ir
fifteen hours.
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is very proud and astonished at hei
daughter's sudden genius, says thai
when her daughter begins a picture
she never stops until it is finished. 11
she begins one in the afternoon she
works until it is complete, ever
though it be in the early morning
hours.
Miss Hav has worked incessantly,
since this latent genius awoke in her
For the first two weeks she worker
so steadilv and with such eomnlete
absorption that she became ill ami
has. just recovered. During the ill
ness, which her mother believes wai
brought on by the intense work, she
lost 15 pounds.
Since she began painting Miss Hay
has done 15 pictures. Several ol
these are in oil and the others ar<
pastel. All of them except two arc
copies of other pictures, most 01
them enlarged copies. They includc
nature scenes, faces and reproductions
from memory. Miss Hay for|
merly lived in Camden and two of the
I pictures are scenes that stood out
; vividly in her memory of that pretty
cit>\ One of these is that of a pond
at Camden, and the other of an old
house.
Webb to Exhibit.
B. Lucas Webb says he considers
Miss Hay's work nothing short of
narvelous. He will exhibit some of
he >vork in his store in the near full
re. Neighbors and numbers of
others, some of them students of art
themselves, have seen these pictures
.ini1 credit them to nothing short cf
genius.
Miss Hay is a slim young woman
with large, unusually bright brown
eyes and dark hair. She says she has
never before had any desire to paint
and never took a lesson in art even
while . ? child in school. She, however,
had an aunt, Mrs. Del Kemper,
of Virginia, who, it is said, had
considerable talent in art. She never
sold any of her work but donated a
number of paintings to public institutions.
There are also several cousins
who show talent along this line.
Miss Hay is the daughter of ihe
late Senator J. T. Hay, of Camden,
and has lived in Columbia for about
nine years.
Mrs. Hay, the mother, said that
probably as lots of other mothers
would have done, she followed a habit
that she had followed all her life
when she needed guidance and help
and sought the Bible for a solution
doing it in that old familiar way of
opening the book and moving her
finger blindly along a page. When
she opened her eyes and looked at the
place where her finger had stopped,
Mrs. Hay read: "For T neither received
it of man, neither was I
taught it, hut by the r evelation of
taught it. but by the revelation of
Jesus Christ."
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W. K. SUGGS
OUT FOR MAYOR
This issue carries the announcement
of W. K. Suggs for the office of
Mayor of the Town of Conway. Mr.
Suggs is well known in Conway, being
a native of Horry County. He
also attended the Burroughs High
School here. He was graduated frorr.
Wofford College in 1917. He then
entered the Service during the late ?
World War and was later promoted
ti the office of second lieutenant, infantry,
U. S. A. After the war he
pursued the course of law at Uni'?vertity
of South Carolina, gra^luat'
ing in 1921. He also specialized in
Columbia University, New York.
Mr. Suggs is now a member of the
local lyir and is also second lieuten1
ant in the Infantry Reserve, U. S. A. ,
ASSOCIATION MEETING ,
A meeting1 of all officers of School
Improvement Associations in Horry
County is being called by the State
' organizer, for Saturday, November
; 25th, in the Town Hall in Conway,.
;it 2 o'clock
! Many interesting plans are being
1 made and discussions of the work for
' i the year will be taken up. Miss
. Thomas urges that all officers l>e
. present and be prepared to give a
r brief account of what has been act!
complished through their associai
tions.
| After the business is finished, there
j will be a short social program, d urging
which those present will have the
i j opportunity of meeting each other.
) Plans are being made for refresh!
ments to be served.
A cordial invitation is extended to
,nll teachers and trustees, whether
they have associations or not in their
i schools, to come and be present at
this meeting.
' Yours truly,
a Mrs. W. A. Freeman.
By E. C. Allen, County
Superintendent of Education
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COURT HOUSE REVIVAL
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> The evangelistic services which ar?
[ being conducted at the County Court
x HoUSP. hv t Bnv -T II ~**
, ? ^ ...v ..x... u. am., vjauncy, ul
, Gurley, S. C., are still going on with
, great success. Several are being converted
in the old time way. This
, meeting has been going on for eleven.
days and will continued as long as
I the Divine Spirit directs. It is being
, conducted in the old time way, and
I many are being saved from their sins,
. and are made happy in the Savior's
love. There has been as many as five
, converted in one night.
The people in town and county are
r all invited to come and take part in
? these services. Several homos have
; completely turned to the Lord. Sev\1
eral have already joined the church
pi for baptism. May the Great Giver
J of all good crown our meeting with
' abundant success.
abundant succes.
S o
oe*are or eye Strain.
[ Irritability of the stomach, loss of
[ Appetite, dyspeptic symptoms after
partaking of food, dizziness, nausea
ond vomiting are often caused by eye
> strain. After the eyes are examined
and glasses are worn the symptoms
{iisappo/wr. Children during the period1
if school life who frequently suffer
from heartache, loss of appetite and
dizziness and are behind in their work
dn'uld have their eyes examined and
h?? eye strain relieved by prescribed
glasses.
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1 TEACHERS MEETING
There will be a meeting- of the
County Teachers Association of Horry
County at the Court House Saturday
morning, November 25th, at 11
' o'clock. All teachers ,are urged to be
present.
Miss Mattie Thomas, fro:J the
State Department of Education and
Colonel D. A. Spivey, of this County,
will address the meeting along
' general lines of education. It w
very important that teachers, tru*vtees
and patrons attend this meetingRespectfully,
E. C. ALLEN, SitpW
of Education.
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Analysis of the Kiss.
In annlyz'ng the psychophyslolog?
of lhe kiss. Professor M lesplne says:
"The kiss Is the first ai.imal manifestation
of love. The passionate look
Is nothing hut desire. The handshake
.? full of reserve, of constraint, or ftiH
of hope. The kiss Is simply another
und more exquisite manifestation
tlu* sense of touch than the handshake.
And it Is from the sense of touch tbM
all other senses are (Wived."
ONE MUST FAIL
"Co-operative marketing and
auction plan of marketing tobacee
??.ttIWv uvm caibi. mr. on mis shnu
One of them must go under. If you
want co-operative marketing' you
have it. If you prefer the old meth*4
of dumping you can have that. Jl
depends entirely upon you. We mwis*
have more members, and you muM
get them if we are to have the biggest
success. There have been numerous
systems for selling1 direst
from the grower, but all have faiM
with the exception of the eo-operattv#
plan."?Oliver Sands.
Htt. Fannie Hazlett, of Nevl^t
aire S5 years, enjoyed he* first
plan* trip s6 much that pdto
P!bm to take fih air trifr
U> dan Trkxxlae*.
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