Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Breaking -U Two huindre'd and1 thirt1y .ships of 1 Maritie :il 1 Salva:' totinphianty, are nov distiat0011Id tit i tle, ('tinlloyting 225 it sanlviged tlie hiulk1 is 1urood. T pin Carried i by Ti American Naval Officer's Experi ence Recalled by Recent Disaster in Chile. DROPPED AT FOOT OF ANDES Receding Sea Leaves Ships Stranded and Exposes Ocean Bottom, Then Returns and Sweeps Every. thing Before It. Washingtorn.--A single grphlic ex ample of vhat a t llal wave in Chile cln do is provided by the experlence of an Ameriean (itlieur, during a simi liar lpienvit , when his vessel was carred three miles up the coast, two miles inland, and dropped at the foot of a range of the Andes iountains. Etirthqualkces and tidal waves tre dilsense'td in it bulletin -om the Na tional tiengraphic soieety which also quotes frontit a comiunitetion by the late lIte:r Adinirail L. u. Billings, whose unpari ! eled adventure oc 'urred sinle hundreds of tiles north of the' recently devnlstated towns. "'There is no natural phenomenon more deely Interesting and yet so lit tie unlerstood as the seabtlc disturb . nletes which have froi earliest his tory derastitel the earth and carrIed terror and dismay into the hearts of all survivors," says the bulletin. "Up to 1f03, It is computed by nn eminent si'lentist, C'oite (1e Ihilore, there had been 1 5t.78~2 recorded enarthi quaikeis. ti: later years, when more n eclrate recoirds have bee l~'n kept, t hey have anyeraged ahout sixy a31 yea r. There Is ('ot11fort to4 the dlweiiers In lunist of thle world t* kniow t hat '.4 per 4'enft of recoirdetd shioeks have oiccuirrectl in) tw'o niarrow.v ~i' wellfine ieit(s-one cnliled tihe Ni (di teirranteatn. with 5i~3 per cent to its ''redit, and1(, thle other, the hvii le thiet rei'tiito lr of thie wor'b i has only3 6 per (('lt. widely (dist ribuiited. U. S. Had One Major Quake. '"The tl 'tl Sttes li:ns bieen sinigu Ilry tre'e rain recoirdltet seisie dis turbnhiiICi, inahas thei tuost d isaistroiuis bielng It) 1811, whe'n . ve'ry severe shio'k occurred', in lie .\ ississipp val1~t - Iey soutth of the Ohio, whleh was felt in N('wi Y'ork ini 'io direc(tionl and( in the West '-edies ini othetlr. Trhis enart hiluunke t'ininigedi thle face of thle 'arthI. A vast ex tent of Ilandu was sunkii, hakeIs werte firtned, an:i ti heOI ii ('oursi' of the .Ilssisslippi river was oh "'tost (it thet 'l ttE larthquk's (oCcurrinig oft late' 3er Ot t nni) t harly~ be~ classed withi the grea t ones oif list ory3, nearlyt aill of the destrt'tion be4ting (: used( lby het weent shioekts. as fi ,. it t( ta~,li IKinlgston, ,111toinien, %'lii-re '15 mmttr '"lTie (nnisO (if ear ttthunkes tindc vol clnnies Is an el tuivepohih-mi. n)(' y'( settled to) thel sotisfnetoin of till be e'nusedi by many tings. The 'x piosiotn of InlInes, I'alling hi (if enves. slI ppitng (if rock'l stra't . tind man oth-ct er tmovemtsit( of thle eath Itaiy enuse51 thiemi; but fot' (lie gret shtocks whieh have~' r(curr'tedi almiost since thle his tory of the world begant we 4. tust look furlther. "Though tittnny titmes there seetms to4 be ain itliate c'onntection bet ween earthqutakes and1( vtianoes, the law' regainig themt hias not been es'tabi lished. Sonie remiarka ble coicidences have been obset'ved in late years. The~ terrible entnelysm of Mountt Pehee, which, on May 8. liO2, almiost instant ly killed 80,000 inhabitaints, wtts pre ceded by the earthquake which in January and April of the same year wrecked a tumber of cities in Mexico and Guatemala. The disinnee' between thepe .spoInts is pt least 2,000 milies, ahgding Thow deep-sented must have tiefn the distgrbance, If, na dbas been auggested, there wds communicatIon' betWeen them. The great Sani Fran eeo earthquake was preceded only the Vessels of the V .b. he' wooden fleet o~f the United States sl being dismantled at the Virginia ship feu. After aill the remtovable fittings, >toralh shows six being broken up. dland dal Wave I wo day1s by one of the most violent eruptions of Vesuvius recorded in manny years. "It 1s also a significant 'finet that the fuiig island oft' the const of Alaska, enlled liogoslof No. 3, tip ('eared at almost the samne tune. A revenue cutter, visiting this island, was astonished to see that the mnoun tain, or hill, some 400 feet high, on the Island, had disappeared, and in Its phaee at hay had been formed. Solindings showed it depth of from t to 25 fathomns of water. Quakes Preceded Katmai Explosion. "The greatest of recent volennie disturnes which blew the top off of Mount Katmald In Alaska and gave birth to the wonderful Valley of Ten 'I'housatnd inuokes was preceded and accompanied by at series of severe earthqluakes." Adiral 111111ngs described the great tidal wave whiebi he saw at Arien. then in P~eru, .,ome years ago. Hle was anl oillcer on the U~nitedl States steamuship Wateree, wlieh was an. chored in the harbnr at Arlen at the lttlne of the cattaclysin. "Sometime after the Initial tremor," ~" he wrote, "the sen receded until the shipping wats left stranded, while ats far to seaward as our vision would reach we saw the rfocky bottom of the sen, never before exposed to hiu inan gaze, with struggling fish and mnonsters of the deep left high and dry. The round-hottomned ships keeledi over on their beam ends, while the Wateree rested e ~asiyo er or s~~oel tomO upf anthersIit~( mases of wri feal the Wtre o e eitngsl ovegril thltoisxxing trounharme. " Wer his m~yoent the st sieme toIdefy thei law of natusre.Crentis rn in cotrar ietonadw werei bo har sgianterecwitha the fbn sann for thr livest ot irredulritras the atme.A sOfhk rcuttr, bustinon o thi m islofl vio lnt Orlongoined ta the first. the 5111 ~I deckperel and reotdnnrae p ispracing bayin s end formed, fis, adin e f a dopthecn ofight, which25fi oom hfigher.dhge ni Qutsecdedouchmth Eky;sitscr.t crweT t he e a lgt of h os--ni 'lhtrsce glwtc blwn the toploen 'CMissor i's111 De A akand gae diiirsit It ke was nve lrety Masl Jon arennesnh~tere by anyie of este'r Mrls, Nancyru Coosman yearhn, ie Vooden Fleet ,s. bippiiig board, bought by the Western yards, Alexandria, Va. Six ships are ipipes, engines and cross timbers are masses of water below. Heralded by the thundering roar ,of a thousand breakers combined, the dreaded 'idl wave was upon us at lust. Of all the horrors of this dreadful time, this seemed the worst. Chained to the spot, helpless to esca)pe, with all the preparations made which human skill could suggest, we could but watch the Inonster wave approach without the sustaining help of action. That the ship could ride through the masses of water about to overwhelm u1s seemed impossible. We could only grip the lifeline and wait the coming catas troplhe. "With a crash our gallant ship was overwhelmed and buried deep beneath a semi-solid mass of sand and water. For a breathless eternity we were submerged ; then, groaning in every timber, the stanch old Vateree strug gled again to the surface, with her gasping crew still clinging to the life lines-somec few seriously wounded, bruised, and battered ; none killed; not even one missing. A miracle it seemed to us then, and as I look back through the years it seems doubly miraculous now. "Undioubtedly our safety was due to the design of the ship whieh permit ted the water to run off the deck about ats it would from a raft or float ing plank. Stranded High on Shore. "The ship was swept on rapidly for a time, but after a while the motion ceased, and, lowering a lantern over the side, we found ourselves on shore, but where, we knew not. Smaller waves washed ahout us for u time, but presently they ceased. "The morning sun broke on a scene of desolation seldom witnessed. We found ourselves high and dry in a little cove, or rather indentation in the coastline. We had bean carried some three miles up tie coast and, nearly two miles inland. The wauve hadl carried us over the sand dunes bordering tihe Ocean, across a valley, andi over the railroadi track, leaving us at the foot of tihe seacoast range of the Andes. On the nearly per pendlicular front of tihe muountain our navigator dliscovered the marks of tihe t(1dal ve, and, by measumremnents, found It to have b~een 47 feet high, inot including the combl. Had thme wave caIrrIedi us 200 feet further we would inlevitalyl have beeni dashed to pleces against the mlountainside." Door Key in Stomach 50 Years. (Chicaigo.---A (1oor key that his father "lost" more than fifty years ago was found by surgeons operathlig on t he stomach of P'hilip JT. Keifer, flfty-nine years of age, recoverinlg recently In the Ashland Bolevard hosp1ital. Shiown the key, Kolfer said lhe "probably wvould have got a licking" if his fat her had known who was responsible for losing It. [onored in France meoia n ac ohr alns reonnyitleemnec atCep a heoe felAog hs peen a he m *'man BRIEF NEWS 1OTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK'THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE Gathered . From -A Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign There has been a decrease of 25,000 births in France this year over last year, and Paris newspapers are making very sarcastic comment over the mat ter. Dr. Ialtasar Brum, president of Uru guay, and Dr. Lius Alberto Herrera, former secretary of the legation at Washington, fought a duel with pistols the other afternoon near Montevideo. The cause is not known. Neither was lilt. Ambassador Child held a long con ference with Imet Pasha at Lau sanne, Switzerland, the other after noon anent fair treatment for the ml 1 ority races in Turkish territories. The ambassador emphasized the good feel ing Turkey would inspire in the out side world by making ample provisions for the protection of foreigners living in Turkey. Former Promiar Lloyd George's auto mnob~e was in a collision the other day at the entrance to the house of com me.ns in London. Lloyd George e:,.ap ed ithout injury, his car being dam aged An Exchange Telegram dispath from Dublin say., that delegations of the Sirn Fein bt anches in Dublin city and coun ty will confer in London with the ob ject of establishing peace. The continued rise of sterling ex change in London is displayed promi nently by the newspapers, some of which enthusiastically anticipate a re duction of prices of food and cotton importation from America, The Orient Express, due in Athens, Greece, December 11, was snowed in by a blizzard In the Macedonian moun tains. Three feet of snow fell in the mountain districts. Count von Bernstorff, former Ger man ambassador at Washington, gave Maximilian Harden's writing's credit for being chiefly responsible for his re maining as long as he did in that post, according to Herr Harden, who testi fied at the trial of Herbert Weichardt and Albert Grentz, charged with at tacking and seriously wounding-Harden last July. The Duke of Abercorn, appointed governor of Northern Ireland by King George, was sworn in recently. The ceremony took plhee in the courthouse at Belfast in the presence of Premier Craig and the other members of the Ulster cabinet. The government of the Netherlands plans to float soon a loan which will be placed largely in the United States for the purpose, with other credits, of consolidating the nation's floating (debt of about 4,000,000,000 fiorins. One hundred workmen were killed or injuredl recently In a boiler explo sion, which wrecked the Estrella sugar mill, near Camagucy, according to a dispatch fronm H-avana, Cuba. Thirteen bodies have been recovered. About forty injured persons were being cared for in Camaguey. Most of the victims are Spaniards. Washington The United States employce's comn pensation commission disbursed $2, 627,170 from its comnpensation fund and $156,990 in salaries and expenses i the fiscal year ending last June 30, aceprd(inlg to its sixth annual report recently madec public. A broader view of the plroblems of the Mississippi river and its tributaries was urged on the house flood control committee the other dlay b~y citizens of thle lower Mississippi valley, who dle clared that they wvere constantly be ing subjected to the hazards of flood waters, notwithstanding their dli'trlcts bad not contributed one dIrol) of watter to the swollen streams. Necessity for expeditin'g the govern ment's newv hospital program was em lphasiz/ed recently by Direc or' C. R. Forbes of the veterans' bureau, in his annual report to congress covering the activities of the bureau for the~ year ending June 30, 1922. NIne of the hospitals have arr'ivedl at tihe point where (deter-ioration will he so complet' that rep)air' will be implhossible and they must be abandoned. Blunt notices that the United States cannot avoid a new naval program in swift cruisers and fleet submarines tin. less treaty limitations are extended to stuch ('raft have been served by the hloure appropriations committee In re porting the $293,806,538 nlaval appro priation bill. A six 111n0 provision plac ed In the bill1 by the committee re qluestedl the president to negotiate with Great BritaIn, France, Japan and~ It aly for such an extension of tihe treaty, limitation of air craft to be included. The charge that war fraud recordls in the department of justice had been stoles before the present administra tion took control was made on tihe floor of the house by Representative KCnutson, Minnesota. Representations have beedn mlade to the 'Chinl~sa government by Minister Schurmnan at Pekin, in connection with the serious shooting and wounding by Chinese soldiers of Charles Coitman, an American merchant, at Kalgan; a town northwest of Pekin, just beyond the great wall, while in an automobile with Samuel Sokobin, the American cons~ul a~t Kahrgan. The United Mine .Woi xrse of Amer. lea have Petitioned the* United tates Coal commission to make an investiga. tion into the condition of the non-union coal mines of West Virgigia. Information reaching the. American government through trade channels, it is said, tends to bear outs the state. mont of Premier Bonar Law that an economic collape is threatening Germa ny. In fact, it is declared Germany ap pears to be approaching the point at which she will be unable to Import food in sufficient quantities to feed her people. No estimate has been made, however, as to when her food supply will be exhausted. Representative Keller of Minnesota refused to participate further in the hearings before the house judiciary committee on the impeachment charges brought by him against Attorney Gen. oral Daugherty. Characterizing the hearing as a "comic opera perform ance," he declared he would be untrue to his responsibility as a member of the house if lie assisted further in "a barefaced attempt to whitewash Har ry M. Daugherty." Domestic Fourteen trays of unset diamonds and gold and platinum mountings val. tied at $100,000 were stolen by two bandits who held up J. E. Harrison. a Chicago merchant, with offices in a downtown office building. Determined to check the mounting wave of automobile deaths, following recent publicity given to the big death list in California, as well as in many other states, the California state mo tor vehicle department has drawn uip a drastic set of automobile regulations which will be presented to the legis lature for oractmnent into !aw. The strict code also seeks to govern the actions of pedestrians, holding that the automobilist is not1 always to blame for highway accidents, and provides stiff penalties for violations. William Sheffer, 35 years old, a -farmer, and his wife, were found mnur. dered at Middletown, Indiana, recently, Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state in President Wilson's cabinet, an, nounced that his law partnership with the former president would terminare December 31, at the expiration of their co-partnership agreement. Funeral services for John Wana maker, internationally famous mer chant and former postmaster general who passed away at Philadelphia, were held in Bethany Presbyterian church Four bandits held up a nessengel for the Logan Square Trust and Say ings bank, Chicago, and took $19,000 Captured after a desperate battle it which pitchforks, clubs, revolvers ant broken glass figured as weapons, anc during whic ha fire was started whici caused $25,000 damage on the Stanch field farm neat' Fond Du Lac, Wis., man believed 4to have escaped fron an asylum was lying at the pomat o death in a hospital. John I. Hays, a rancher near Havre Mont., killed his wife and himself re cently, according to a story told offis ers by his fifteen-year-old son. Th deaths left six children orphans. Forty-four persons were Injured five seriously, when two troley cari operating between Atlantic City an< Abescon, crashed in a heavy fog a Pleasantville, N, J. The mystery surrounding the killinj of William S. Hart, Fifteenth Tani battailiont, Fort Denning, Ga., whosi body wit'h a hole in the head wvai found in underbrush recently is stil as far from being solved as wvhen thi sp~ecial army board began the invesbi gation immediately' after the findini of the body of the sergeant. flod S. Dal, editor of the Durango Colo., Democrat, bhas been found no guilty of the mutrdler 9f William F Wo'od, city editor of the Duranno Her mld, last April.. Four Unitedl States airplanes, umnde1 command of Capt. Rt. G. Ervin, p)eerat edl Mexico to a dlepth of eighty miles it an extenision of the search for Col Francis C. Marshall and Lieutb. C, L Webber. They were utnsuccessful it their flight, and returned to Nogales Ariz. Federal officers and posses of citi zens were, at last accounts, scouiritng the lills of Menifee county, Kentucky for the slayer of Dave Treadway, 28 p~rothbition agent, recently shot frotn ambh.h Prmoh ibit ion Agent Riober Duff was shot from abush the day be fore Treadway wassshot. John Roach, eleven years old, saw temporarily deserted autotmobile ott the streets of Maria.nna, Fia., recentlg, and~ decided it was a goodl time to leatrn to dIrive. lie got the catr started, bit lost control andi dashed into a trtcek onl whicht two men were wvorkin.g. Blothi the tmen wete killed, and Johnnie is in jail charged with mnurdler. Two buoys and two girls were sky. laring it (Gary, Ind., bte other (lay, kodaking thtemselves on top of a trol. ley car, One of the boys stood1 up and hisa head came in cotact with a heavily chtarged wire, killintg hitm instantly, The ,other boy tried to r'es. cite his companion and was preclpitat edl headliong to the pavement, fractutr lng his skull, from which injury he will probably die, Twenty persons were killed and fif ty injured in a H-ouiston, East and West. Texas traitn wreck at Humble, Teoxas. 17 miles north of Houston, Two am-t builances and a score of physicians were sent from Houston to the scenie of the wreck. Georges Clemenceaut, his misionary' speaking tour to the United States ended, has sailed for France, much pleased. Prohibition enforcement and the Ku Klux Klan are the important subjects before the fourteenth annulhal (contfer. encis of governors wnich is In session at''White.,Sulphur Sprins, '. a, 27 ARE MISINS AFTER SHIP SIN ALL BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEFt, DROWNED OR TO HAVE DIED FROM. EXPOSURE. HITS ROCKS DURING STORM Last Seen of Missing Persons Was. Just After the Reliance Went to the Bottom. Saulte Ste. Maris, Mich.-Twenty seven persons are missing and are be lieved to have drowned or died from exposure following the disaster which overtook the tug Reliance when it hit the rocks off Lizard island a few days ago. This was the fear expressed by officials of the Superior Paper com pany, owner of the tug, who, for the first time, admitted that in addition to the crew of 14, the Reliance carried 22 passengers. Seven survivors of the wreck he reached here. Two others, Mr. and Mrs. John Harten, cooks, were suffer ing so from cold and exposure that they were left at a station of the Algo ma Central railroad for medical atten tion by other survivors. The last seen of the missing 27 persons was when the Reliance. bat tling through a blinding snowstorm, went on the rocks off Lizard island, stripped her kheel and sank almost immediately. Captain D. A. Williams, of the city, and six others who were forward, took one lifeboat which the nine others, including Mr. and Mrs. Harten, tools the other. The second boat drifted several hours in the storm and was blown ashore on the Canadian main. land 35 miles north of here. Mrs. Harten was so exhausted that the party was held up 36 hours in an In dian shack before it was abolt to start inland toward the railroad. The survivors expressed little hope that the others survived the storm. The announcement by the company stated that, in addition to the crew of 14, the Reliance carried AO lumber Jacks, an official of the company's for estry department, and a fisheries com pany agent, who had been picked up by the Reliance on the last trip to the lumber camps. The missing men, it is stated b the survivors, left the wrecked tug in a launch which was carried by the Reliance- in addition to its two life. boats. It is pointed out that if the missing men reached Lizard island in the storm they were without food. If they reached an island where there were huts, the problem would not be so great. Being without weapons their chances of obtaining food were de clared slender. Tugs are making a Ssearch for them. Harding to Support Bonus. Cincinnati, Ohio. - Assurance that President H~ardling would support a bonus for ex-service men, providling Sa feasible means of financing the bo nuis can be found, was given ex-ser Ivice men lby Col. C. R. Forbes, director of the veterans bureau at Washington before a joint conference of national and state executives of the veterans of foreign wars. In the conference were the mlemb~ers tof the national council of administra tion andl the department commanders Immediately following Forb~es' ad dross and a dliscussion which resulted in strong fapproval of a sales tax, the. executives unanimously adopted a res olution, endorsing a sales tax with foodstuffs exemptedl, as a means of raising the necessary revenue to fl. nance the bonus. C. Hamilton Cook, Buffalo, N. Y., national commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the Worldl W~ar, who was attending the conference b~y invitation, anid his organization~ would take immedliate steps5 to supp~lort the resolution. The Amreican Legion, which is the largest of the veterans' organizations, was not reCpresentedl at the meeting, This means that the bonus hill is liable to be passed at the co:ninug ses -sion of Congress, Col. Tillinghas I& Hluston, New York natlionail comimanci. er of the Voteraw-' of Foreign Wars, said after the meeting,.' Structural Steel Sales Fall Off, Wash igton. -- The usual seasonal decline in sales of fabrented struc tural steel was reported for November in statistics is'u'd by the department of commer'e. showing the total saler for the month 1o have been about 1(i.L per cent of~ the shop capacity of t. e firms malnufactutring that. cOIlomm ity. Octob~er orders weore about 5i7 per cent of the shop1 ('apacity. Htot Springs Entertains Governors. Hot Springs.--Ninie governors who attendedl the conference of state exe cutives at White Sulphur SprIngs, W. Va., were entertained here at lunch. eon and litter were taken by automo. ,4 bile through WVarm Springs valley. They were brought here in the pri vate ear of Garrett Iluckner Wall, and wvero accomnpanied by Mrs. Wall and Miss Martha WVall, of Richmond, Va. The party also includled the wives and. daughters of several of te ..oror