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% .. VOL.2. ABBEVILLE. S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 15, I?S86. NO. 41. 1 Hurried to Eternity[News and Courier.] Many homes in Charleston were wrapped in gloom this morning, and the entire community shares in the sorrows of the alHicted families in this awful hour of ther grief. Six young souls, hurried ?nln ptoriiit.v without a moments warn ing, and thirteen crushed, wounded and bruised people constitute the sum of the fearful tragedy on the Northeastern ltailroad yesterday afternoon. ? The cause of the accident will be subject of future inquiry. At present no one seeuis to know definitely what caused this f arfnl calamity. The train which left Charleston shortly afternoon carried the usual number of passengers bound northward among them some of the brightest and best beloved young people of Charleston. The Santee Swamp was reached on time, and here the down train due in Charleston at 4 o'clock was met. This train had just crossed the long trestle which lies on the south o( the river without trouble. A few minutes later the fated train hearing its doomed freight, entered the trestle and in another instant the work of death had been done. The news of the fearful accident was not received in this city until about 0 o'clock, when a relief train hearing Dr. J. L. Ancrum and Assistant Superintend dent lioyal of the Northeastern Railroad, was dispatched to the scene of the a :cident. Ten minutes after midnight the funeral train rolled into the depot with its burden of dead and wounded, and loving hands tenderly lifted these mangled forms and bore them to their desolated and crief-stricken homes. The following is a list of the casualties : kii.l.km. John L. Cole, of Charleston. J)r. G. ('?. Kinloch, of Charleston. Miss C. K. McWhite of Marion. "William H. Inglesbv, of Charleston. Miss Flora Mclver, of Charleston. Miss Ilannah Wilson, of Cheraw. wolxiu:j>. B. G. Ma/.yck, of Charleston, conductor, seriously. L<\ \V. Uennecker, of Charleston, mail agent, seriously. Henry Husband, of Charleston, baggage master, seriously. Warren Burgess.colored, wood-passer, of Charleston, painfully. James Goldman, news agent, of Charleston, slightly. Win. K. Chandler, passenger, of Sumtor, slightly. Miss Marion McWhit", passenger, of Marion, slightly. \V. B. Barnes, passenger, of Lynchburg, Va.. painfully but not dangerously Henry Henry, colored, passenger, slightly. E. T. West, express messenger, of Charleston, seriously. C. A. Price, express messenger, of Wilmington, mortal 1}'. 1J. Smith, colored, porter of Pullman car, seriously. John Wright, colored, passenger, of Wilmington, seriously. A (JJJAl'HIC ACCOUNT OK Till? ACCIDKBT. It was impossible, owing to the late hour at which the relief train bearing the (lead and wounded arrived in the city, to obtain anything like a detailed statement of the wreck or its cause or causes. Most of those who survived tha disaster wora of roiirsp. nf'or thn fatigue and terrible expriences of the diy. unwilling and unable to relate their experiences and made all possible haste to return to their hotels or homes in the city. Ity far the greater number of those who were seriously injured were absolutely in such condition as to need all their attention and that of ihi.ir immediate friends. One of the unfortunates, however, made a statement last night to a reporter who accompanied him in the carraigc in which he was taken from the station to his boarding house on Society Street. This gentleman is named Mr. \V. E. Chandler, and is a clerk at McGuire's furniture estabI : ?1 A _ ? 17! r? i 1 TT. a 1. a! iiMiim in on rung mrciu. nu io'jk mc train yesterday at 12 on his way to Sumter, whither he had been summoned by telegraph to the bedside of his dying mother. He made his statement with the utmost difficulty, as he was suffering from a contusion on the right side of his head. His right foot had also been badly bruised. His escape was a moat mirAr.ulmiR ' 0 k.4- : >V one. In answer to the queston as to the cause of the disaster and the manner in which it had occurred, lie said : "] don't know how I am alive to tell about my escape, ami even now nearly everybody is disagreed as to WHAT CAlTSKlt T1IK CKASII. The fact is that those who gotoflfwitli their lives were too much concerned in thinking of other things, and those whe were entirely saved found too mucli work in helping the helpless to waste any useless lime in investigating the causes of the wreck. All I know is that I was sitting in the second-class car near the end next to the first-class passenger coach. Ahead of me were the mi.il car and the baggage car. The onlj occupants of (he car in which I was were two p'ersois, a colored man and a colored hoy, whose names I have forgotten. I remember distinctly that we had entered upon the trestle, and were running, 1 should judge, at the rate of between twenty-five and TII1KTV MILES AN HOUR. 1 don't know how far wo had gone on the trestle, possibly a half mile, when the crash came. It is, of course, impossible to describe one's sensation under tho frightful circumstanccs, but I am sure that every one on the car who knows anything about impending danger must have felt a premonition that there was something wrong just an instant or so before we were sent whirling through the air to the ground below. Tho first intimation I received of tho coming disaster was the oinirous sound of the brake* being instantaneously and forcibly put down. At sue!) a place, on such a trestle so elevated above the ground, or rather above the water below, I felt that the danger, if danger it was, would be nothing less than a fatal one. I therefore almost insensibly threw myself forward and clung tightly to tho forward seat, and at the same intant I could hear' above the rush and roar of the train the noise of the cars ahead, which were ri.rKuixo nowx Tim tkesti.e. Just then, glancing through the forward door, 1 saw the next car pitch from ??..? mmo ??#i i i cus. Kino ??( ? Mtanpu uuiii rti^nu 1 uuuw then that our time hail conic. Quicker than thought the front end of our car dipped down and I then thought that all was over, 1 could distinctly hear the crashing of timber under the car us we went down. I only knew this; that the fearful wrenching which the ear experienced as we left the rails lifted me fioin my seat, regardless of all the strength of agony and despair that I was exerting, and shot me forcibly down towards the front end of the car. I remember at one time the car was nearly perpendicular, and having been cut loose from my support I full almost by the force of gravity along the whole line of seats to the bottom. 1 have numberless bruises which I do not feel just now, on account of the greater pain of my principal wounds, and I am confident that I struck every seat on my way uown 10 me iorwaru aoor. In fact my rememberancc is that the wound on my head was caused by striking the sharp edge of one of the seats as I was being hurlct., as I then thought, into eternity. Strange to say, after reaching the bottom of the ear, I experienced but little injury. I reached the last possible place, the end of the car, just as it struck the ground. Through the windows I saw the water, dashed into foam, rise high above the enr, but all of sudden it subsided, and the fear of drowning, which was my first sensation on seeing the water, disappeared. Then for an instant all was still. 1 was dazed and didn't know what to do or to think. Both the colored persona were out of sicrht. nossi O ' I bly under the seats. I thought at lirst that the car was the safest place, but I changed my mind and dragged mysoli through one of the windows. It was only then that 1 found that I was seriously hurt. 'Die wound on iny head had hied profusely and 1 was half blind* j ed by TUB ST It F.AM OK HMMJ) which had flowed all over my face When I reached the outside world again I was absolutely appalled by the cxteni t..~* -i 1 -< - UI nivi uiliuugv. ?? IISL UIHNMl (II in C? W?!r( the mail and baggage trains smashci literally to pieces. Tho first-class passen gercoach, which wns immediately hehin< us, had toppled over with tremendoui force and was lying half on its side jus to tho right. Behind that was the one o the two sleepers which had fallen afte i the passenger coach. On the rails still i was the rear Pullman car just a short [ distance from thy break through which L we had all come in such inextricable confusion. It was just as if I was the survivor of a geneal death and destruction. In a few minutes, however, people recovered from their fright and attention was immediately turned to ( THE REI.IEF OF TIIE KUFKKIUXU. i The officers of the train worked hero. icall}'and in a short time, considering; . the circumstances, an arrangements was! ; made l?y which we wore taken from our j various positions up to the track. The bench of the track which had given way was utilized, and with the help of ropes and the bell lines we were lifted ; out of our uncoinfot&hle places. The reports as to the number of the killed were much exaggerated, the first being that nearly everybody on the train had been killed eithar ou'righi or fatally wounded. We found, however, as you know, that this was not true. When we were made as comfortable as possible, the ladies volunteered iheir services on behalf of the wounded, and they did A NOBI.E DAY'S WORK, a day's work which certainly none of us will ever forgot. 1 rem mber one lady a Miss Campbell, from Summerville, who was every where alleviating the pains of the sufferers. There was also a lady Miss Bailey, 1 think, was her name, who rendered mo and many others timely and much-needed assistance. She said that she was on her way North, with her mother and fonr brothers and sisters, all children. Not one of them was in the slightest degree injured. "The saddest death of all. in my opinion, was that of a Miss White I think was her name, who teok the train at St. Stephen's Depot. As we rolled up to that place she was standing on the platform eagerly expecting the train which was to take her to her homo in the upper part of the State. I helped her on the car with her baggage, little thinking that within loss than five minutes she would be one of the numj her who would never reach their homes j again. Alter she got on tlx-, cor I never j saw her again until I saw her through a window of the passenger coach as it lay enclosing its other victims some fifteen or twenty leet below the track. She was dead: and must have been killed almost instantly." We r?mained in the sleeper until the arrival of the train which was sent up from Charleston to relieve us. The physicians who come with it immediately set to work, and in an exceedingly short time they had done all that human aid could do to help the unfortunate sufferers. I half wished at times that I was not able to look around, as I did on all the s?r off and phy.-i:al anguish that I saw and heard. Many of the wounded were in IN'TKNSK A(JONY, and oven the bravest man alive would not repress a cry or a gronn under such tortures as many of the n.en endured Mangled legs contorted arms and bruised and battered bodies we$e here there and everywhere. It was sickening and from time I had to close ray eyes to relieve my own sufferings, so much intensified wore they by the agonized expression on every face 1 saw. As I loiu you, i snail never lorget the circumatances. We were brought into the city aboot 1 o'clock last night. The rest you know. Prohibition in North Carolina Raleigh.N.C., June 7.?Local probilition elections were help to-day at many points in the State. There was much excitement, but the election passed oif quietly. The prohibitionists carried the day at llaleigh by sixty majority and : also at the following places : Oxford, Kinston, Henderson, Warrenrton I Louisburg. Winston, Salem Apex, Beaufort Township and Seaboard. The anti-prohibitionists carried thn elections at Charlotte Durham Frank* I linloti. Ilcidsville, Holly Springs. More ! i. I i .1. ? .> iii - _ ? J ih'uu un-y, Asneviue, uoiusuoro anu Littleton. Th2 elections wore upon tho question of "license" or "no license" j for the sale of spirituous liquors and goes into effect at once where prohibition was carried. 1 5 Supervision by teachers only. The law should prohibit the office of superintendent being held by any one who f has not regularly entered the teachers' r rank. /' V. . .v y * V. v v ; V The Military Academy. We have to thank Colonel John P. Thomas for a most instructive historical sketch of tlio South Carolina Military Academy. According to the skctch, to Governor John P. Richardson belongs the credit of first suggesting the conversion of the Arsenal at Columbia and the Citadel at Charleston into military schools. It occurred to the Governor that the annual appropriation of for the two companies of enlisted soldiers to whom was entrusted the care of the State's ordnance and orduaroe stores could l?o diverted to two military schools which would perforin the same service as the enlisted companies in taking care of the State's military property, whilst at the ">:une time the students would receive a useful education. At a meeting of the Legislature in 1841, Colonel John Philips of Charleston introduced a bill to elleot the purpose suggested l?y the Governor in his message. The plan seems to have l>oen crude and of meagre scope, and failed to meet the approval of the Legislature. Governor Richardson, however, renewed his suggestions at the* next session, when General Jain' in. Chairman of the Military Committee of the House, i introduced a bill covering a more en- j largcd plan of instruction, and for the j appointment of a Hoard of Visitors, j whose duty it was made to formulate proper regulations and a course of study commensurate with a liberal course of instruction. Governor Uichardson went out of office and Governor Hammond was inaugurated at the session of ,\8"42. He appointed as the board James Jones, D. F. Jamison, W. J. liana, Daniel Wallace and I. H. Means. The board met on the day of their appointment, and from time to time at short intervals thereafter. lJoth schools were put in operation on the 23rd of March, 1844. The course of studies adopted was at once liberal and practical. Besides the usual branches taught in the primary schools of the State, the course included the History of South Carolina, Modern History, the French Language, every denartment of Mathematics, Book-keeping, Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, Architectural and Topographical Drawing, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Ilotan}', Civil and Military Kngineering, the Constitution of the United S'.ates and the Law of Nations. In addition to the above course it was provided that the cadets should be instructed in the duties of the soldier, the School of the Company and of the Battalion, the Science of War, the Evolutions of the Line and the duties of commissioned officers. The highest standard of instruction and discipline was maintained throughout. f.hn tvvoiitv vpnrs r?f th<? inutitniinn'u existence. During this period it educated to a greater or less extent more than eighteen hundred youths of the State, iftore than a third of whom re ceived their education free. Out of this number there were graduated 240. The total expenditure, beginning with #24,000 for the two schools, was Hoon inI creased to .$30,000 per annum, and owing to the depreciation of the circulating medium during the war rose to $147,200 in 1804-65. In war these cadets bore themselves, both in camp and field, as true soldiers of their Mate. The first shot of the war was fired by these boys, and they were furloughed by order of Governor Magrath May 9th, 1S(>5. On almost every important battlefield of the war was the blood of the South Carolina cadet shed. They fell at the First Manassas and Richmond, at Frederickburg and Shiloh, at Chicamauga and Winchester, at the Second Manassas and Maryland Heights, at Sharpsbnrg and Gettysburg, at the Wilderness, Petersburg and Bentonville ; and on the soil that gave them birth, at James Island, Sullivan's, Pocotaligo and Suiter? wherever brave men fronted the fight or fell true to duty, there were to bo found our "military dudes." These schools too, gave us such Generals as Jenkins and Hagopd, Capers and Law, besides many colonels and minor commissioned officers, as well as the youthful privates who behaved themselves like veterans under every emergency. Ah, it seems as if men would be ashamto close the doors of an institution that has made such a record. We presume . . ,\ ' * , ' , . ;V +- ' i 4 the eager reformers think that as our ' Citadel hoys" fired the first shot of the, war, it is hut poetic justice that the}' should receive the (irstshotof so-called reform and go down with the derisive appellation of "dudes." Shame upon it! Shame upon it ! As we recall the names of the old corps of teachers who once made these schools an honor to the State as a practical institution?of such men as Hubert, and Matthews, and Graham, and Colcock, and Kinley, and Hume, and Leland, ami nnsDiine, ami Uautlirie, and Thomas, Thompson ami Capers, why should any reasonable man suppose that these men and such as these would have failed to make men out of boys committed to their care ? With $175,000 picked up out of her rivers annually, why should South Carolina forego a single duty on the plea of poverty ? Let all fair men answer.?Jleijislcr. 1'eople Who Don't Read The Papers i Special to Augusta Chronicle.] Coi.v si it I a. S. C., June 0.?John l>argan's Brooklyn speech may not have been the sole cause of the small free trade meeting in Columbia last week. It inav be that free trade is not. nonulnr in ! South Carolina any longer. It my be that the season of the year, when fanners are husy with their crops, had something to do with the slim attendance. It in possible that the floods and the change of guage on the railroads kept some away. It is probable that people are too much interested in the farmers' movement and the proprosped Agricultural College to listen to tariff discussions. and it is not altogether unreasonable to suppos* that if all the farmers of the free trade club had exerted themselves as Durgan and Davis did a large meeting might have been the result. We are all more or less influenced by personal considerations. Many of our small politicians do not sec any personal ben At to them in the free trade movement, and they do not "catch on," so to speak. Acitate any question that comes right home to the dear people, and you can get a crowd any time. Tell them that their State and county taxes are too high ami they believe it. and at once leaders come to the front who propose to relieve thern of the burden of taxation. There is an old adage, too, that any man who will abuse the powers that he can always got an audience. This free trade club did not propose to denounce persons, but laws, and consequently nobody cared to hear such denunciations. I am not upholding the principles of free trade, buL the object of this assocation is a good one?the education of the people in industrial questions?and for that reason it deserves to succeed. Our people do not read enough and believe too much that is told them. It would be interesting to know how many citizens of South Carolina read the newspapers. Unless there is a change in this respect we will soon be in the position, if we are not already there, of Honest John Patterson's constituents. When somebody threatened to publish some of his rascality he is said to have replied, "Publish and be damned ; my constituents don't read." Lack of proper information among our people regarding the conduct of public affairs makes them distrustful and suspicious. The annual reports of the State Officers of n n 1? t I ooum Carolina are never seen except uy members of the Legislature, and rarely ever read by these honorable gentlemen. Such documents should be published in large numbors and distributed among the people. They would then know whether or not their government was economically and wisely administered. The people trust too much to their Representatives instead of examining for themselves. "When the rubbish and trash and dirt were removed from the halls of the Senate arid House of Representatives, after the last session of the Legislature, a largo number of the reports of the various State officers were found on the desks of members, where (hoy had lain throughout the entire session doubtless unopened. And vet those members who naid so little attention to these reports voted on the appropriation bills and other important matters affecting the interests of the State. Some of the reports thus picked up after the adjournment were afterWards used to supply the demand for them from parties in oth<>r States. At least one department of the govern* '>:y . . ^vt\ A ' ' T v viLv* : 1 .V'j? TUJFSLS-.:sr*#iv. ment has long ago distributed everjr copy of its reports, and is unable to supply many copies asked for by our own people. Let the Legislature publish and have distributed the official reports of State officers, so that all the people can have access to them, and we I will always have a good and progressive government. Richland. I ? I Ninety-Six News. - # I Junf. 8th, 1886. Flics, flies, flics, where do you cnine from ? Cool mornings after a pleasant sleep. The fifteen year old son, Mike, of our townsman M. A. DeLoach died after only a few days illness on Thursday last, and was interred the same day at Elmwood j cemetery. A modest promising lad, the hope of aged parents. All the pupils of our Academy, under Prof. Lovejoy paid hiin their last respects by turning out in a body and following the deceased to his grave. The Narrow Guage Telegraph Company of Ninety-Six have strengthened their lino with new regular galvanized telegraph wire and erected two new offices at residences of \V. L. Anderson Jr., and Dr. G. l'\ IS. Wcnck. The bed of our railroad through Ninety-Six is progressing in duo rate to the force and all expect an early complej tion. So it must be, as the linesttown with out a railroad nowaday will be. in not a great while either?a piece of desert where not even an Indian or Sea Islander would have courage enough to trade. Mr. J oft* D. Moore has been is Cokesbury. or neighborhood, to look after his farming interests or something else. Cows on the public square may look from a distance very romantic, even if tliey lie down in the paths of pedestrians. Hut it takes but one horn of the average docil brute to knock out of the most enthusiastic admirer, all the romance he might have stored in years past or will have in years to come. Prevention is far better than cure. All the damages done by the last flood to our streets and sidewalks have been promptly obliterated. Thomas Hrooks Anderson, sono f Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Anderson, died Saturday last after a weeks illness. Thj Ninety Six Democratic Club met Saturday June 5th. Capt. J. N. King in the chair; L. M. Fouche, scretary pro tern. The following gentlemen were elected as delegates to the meeting of the County Club : L. M. Moore. \Vm. Johnson, A. McN. Turner, M. Richardson, P. L. Phillips, W. L. Anderson* Jr. Rev, J. Lowry Wilson, of Abbeville* C. H., delivered Maj' 30th, the 5th Sunday, a Sabbath school address in the Presbyterian church. Our local Sunday schools celebrate every 5th Sunday together. After preaching for one week Mr. Wilson left on Saturday last for # Seneca City to assist in the installation of a pastor. Returning yesterday he ' , will continue for one more week to preach the gospel. Two services daily. llev. Wilson has made many friends in r our community and preached with gioat success. Eight persons joined the Presbyterian church during the first week, while four more embraced the church and will join dift'eron demoninations ol the Church of Christ. jffl Mr. J. W. Jackson left home last week to (ill the operators place in one of the telegraph olliees on the C. C. & A.-ft. It. . . according to a telegram from Supt. J.M. . Talcott. ''Bub." a sntart I103' and one of lhe best operators we have. Vegetables, grain, cotton and grass are nourishing and are highly pleased with soft warm shawers we had for th* glum wvcn. . , , If an honest man believes all his bail y, neighbor says about him, he would think himself very t>oon such a consummate rascal that not even a dog would take a piece of bread from him. v.' Vasmeb. >.v Summer at the Palmetto Saloon. Thomas McGettigan, Proprietor cannot enumerate his stock, but can say that ho has got everything kept in a * first class Saloon. Pure Malt Whiskey, Beer at 5 cents a glass. Milk Punch a speciality, and everything Ice cold. 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