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i Wanted. laT"Advertisements under this he»d will ne Inserted for one cent n word each Inser tion. No ad Inserted for less than ten cents _ hundred sweet at once. Luther Sherrill at P-'W WANTED-5 or ti office- TIT ANTED Scrap yy Wilkins & Co. iron, brass, etc. Potato Ledger 6-0>tf E. T. ti-2-tf W ANTED—To make stralghtloans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. O. Jefferies. LATER DETAILS OF THE FLOOD DISASTER [CONTINUED from page one.] made large holes in the upper part of the buildings and allowed water and drifting wood to run in and ruin the machinenry. In this plant alone $80,000 worth of new machinery was put in last year. As far as one can see down the river scattered crowds 0 p erative9 mftn y years ago protested examine the wreckage and search for >„nt fh*. mill wii. and the same amount to Pacolet. Unfortunately in most instances sub scriptions have been sent to the mill managers. These gentlemen have some 8.000 or 10,000 bales of cotton lying along the banks of the rivers and other troubles of their own, so they could hardly be expected to do for the operatives what a disinterested official might. The proper distribu tion of the $13,000 or more relief fund might do much to relieve the strained condition, but this sort of distribution of it is not in sight. It seems that some of the old mill z Lost. — L OST -Bundle contiiinlntr shirt pattern and s irts. H. M. Rogers. Company Store. For Rent. JjU>U RENT—Nice six room cottage close to business part of town—Well and Artesian water—Possession July 1st. R. S. Lipscomb. (i-it -12-16-19. For Sale. ■HEStRUCTION of The Great Clifton and J-J Pacolet Mills, Beautiful Illustrated Sou venirs, suitable for framing, a group of eight correct views taken before and .after the dis astrous floods of June the 6th. it) cents each or $J.o0 Per Dozen. Only a limited supply will be Issued. Send your orders at once. The Artistic Souvenir Co. Forest City, N. C. 0-12-2t. D. J. Holt will sell Stock rent store in Gaffney. • Merchandise and law-4t. F OR SALE—House and lot near Second Bap tist Church. Butler & Osborne. 5-2l)-tf bodies. It was a strange scene, strange be yond description in some regards. Had the place been a mass of debris and wreckage it would not have been so serious. The water io the river as It is aghinst the building of the mill vil lages along the river bank and often the houses have been flooded on the lower floors at the Clifton mills. This has caused no little dissatisfaction among the workmen and their fami lies for years. Now they hold the mill owners directly responsible for A STRIKING CONTRAST. n striking contrast to the stated is lower than usual. It is en tircly beyond the confines of what was and the (ac( . that thp the mill village of Santuc and in its iDhabitant8 of gantuo were not place is an expanse of sand, proba y W(iroe( j b y tbe m j|| wa tchmen of their covering 20 acres of land lb ® re 19 ^ danger has aggravated the situation tree in the centre, the tree that saved ^ .. . the lives of two men, and the frag- D0 “ a ments of one of the mill village houses. With these exceptions the site of the village is now a hard, al most level plain. “lost everything he had.” A middled-aged man labored to re cover the soaked books and papers from the company’s office and wept nervously. “Doctor,” said he to Dr. Falls, of King’s Mountain, “I have lost everything I had.” His wife and four children were carried away with his house His oldest son, Oliver. caught a log and floated twelve miles htve borne much more. He talked to a man William S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE BLDG. O A KY. s. o. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention given to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON I REAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. down the stream who ran alongside the bank and said he had been injured about the head, but he rode safely in the flood till after he crossed both the Pacolet dams and then exhausted, he sank AN OBJECT LESSON. It is almost certain that it will be at least eight months before any of the Cliftou mills can operate again. President Twitchell says he intends to do everything in his power for his people, and those that know his high standing in the community have abso lute confidence in his ability to con trol the situation. No logic reaches the operatives. They argue pro and con without reasoning. They decline io the opera tives at No. Bare those oo the other side of the river. There are about 50 missing persons in this village alone. The hardships of those that were saved was frightful to cootemplate Monday and Tuesday. Many of the women and children, to say nothing of the men, were forced to sleep on the hillside Monday night and fully half of them were without necessary food next day. Their despair was simply nauseating and they could A ferry of one boat was established Monday and intercourse with the world estab lished for the first time. The country back of Santuc is for the main part made up of farmers io very ordinary circumstances. They did what they could for the horde of operatives, but that was little at best. The single boat made the difficulty of aiding the people doubly hard fo* the reason that there are but two stores within two miles and the stocks of these have been almost entirely depleted. The strain and hardship have created much sickness among the women and children and the need of a quickly improvised hospital isapparant on all sides. There was one thing that every to admit that it was the act of God one with any humanitarian instinct if the houses had been was thoughtful for. The supply of ’Office over NatiouaDBank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. ftf&ce upstairs, oetween R. A. Joues ami DaW^yort. Office and Residence .Pbone. Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 13 E N T I s r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over |The Battery. ’Phone 82. 7 That you are getting pure drugs, fresh drugs and accuracy in com pounding in your prescription work ? When you have them filled here you need never worry—they are always accurate. Accurate pre scription work is our watch-word. S. B, Crawley & Co. 813 Limestone St. Drugs, Perfumery, Stationery. Prescriptions Properly Filled and Promptly Delivered. :: :: and say that on the hill tops instead of along the j water’s edge so many of their num her would not have met a watery grave. A prominent official stated that be thought the disaster should be an object lesson to every mill owner in the State. He pointed j out and applauded the efforts of Smith Whaley in building churches, schools and proper homes about his many mills and saio that in the end it would always pay. The lives of the operatives are hard and toilful at best, and proper homes and environment for them is not only helpful to them, but advancing to the interest which they build up. MUST WORK OR MOVE. President Twitchell is authority for the statement that those who will not work will not be allowed to remain on the mill property. Some of the mill officials do not hesitate to ex press the opinion that there will be trouble unless the operatives be put to work and kept there. Idleness, j they say, will certainly work trouble among them. A drive through the mill villages and statements of the desperate operatives show very con clusively that there is an abiding feeling of unrest among them. Five hundred dollars was sent from Spar tanburg to Clifton Tuesday aPernoon whiskey and other intoxicants seems to have given out absolutely and there was practically^no intoxication among the operatives. FUTURE OF THE OPERATIVES. The future of the operatives is haz ardous io the extreme. It is under stood that the Lancaster mills will provide for 150 families and there was a representative of Che Union mills at Clifton Monday who wanted workmen. The mills in North Caro- Clifton Views WWW > Place your orders here for the best and most comprehensive views of the Clifton disaster. Six Photos in Set, full 8x10, mounted on fine large cards 11x14, suitable for framing; best Aristo finish, 50 cents each. Mail orders sent receipt of price. postpaid upon JUNG H. CARR, 625 Limestone St. Phone 176. Residence 171. OUR HOUSE IS Weekly Adding tbe Latest Things : . . r. ■ = IN -- OXFORDS * AND * SHOES Ir^or IVIen, and Children See Us Before You Buy Tb« R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Next door to Cherokee Drug Co. private advices and plans of action to themselves.” PACOLET DIRECTORS MEET. A meeting of the directors of the Pacolet mills was held in Spartan burg Tuesday afternoon. At this meeting the following out of town directors were present: G. H. Miili- ken, of New York; Frank E. Taylor, of Charleston, and R. K. Waring, of Baltimore. Two resolutions were passed at this meeting, as follows : ‘ First, It was ordered that a meeting of the stock holders of the Pacoles Manufacturing Company be held ou July 14tb, for the purpose of increasing the capital stock of the enterprises and rebuild ing the mills. Second, That President Victor Montgomery, of the mills, be author ized to fix and adjust mill No. 8, the greatest portion of which is standing, for operation, and as soon as possible, begin operations.” This will require about six months time. THE FIRST VISITOR. The first man from Spartanburg who visited Converse Saturday was Isaac Avery Phifer, a young lawyer, a son of Capt. George Phifer, of Mor- ganton, and a kinsman of Mr. George E Wilson, of Charlotte. Spartan burg stood on the banks of tbe Paco let and saw somewhat of the ruin of Pacolet mills, but had' no intimate knowledge of the conditions at Clif ton. Phifer said he was going to Clifton, and he swam Lawson’s Fork, wtich was making the sound of a hurricane and was handling big structures as if they were wooden toys. Some people said Phifer was a fool to risk his life. But he is youog; he was a star guard on the University football team, he is over six feet high and has muscles of iron, and he did what seemed to him a perfectly natural thing to do. After he crossed Lawson’s Fork he got facts and returned. He had the only story from Clifton. Newspaper reporters who hadn’t swum Lawson’s Fork went to Phifer with open note books and asked questions. He de veloped a commercial idea and very properly said: “No pay; no talk.” And there was no pay. The only man who could talk with exact knowlege was permitted to keep silent, and the Spartanburg papers didn’t even make the smallest local publication of Phifer’s feat. He has wide open eyes; he had asked many questions, and ac interview with him would have completed the story that was sent out to the world Saturday afternoon. And he was silent. MONDAY AT CLIFTON. A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says: ‘‘Monday was a per feet June day and there was an atmospheric cheeriness that wao in strange contrast to the listless mill people who gathered in the company’s lina have also said that they would stores and waited—and waited. They provide work for some of the opera- had no plans. For years they had lives. President Twitchell of the depended upon the officials. They Clifton mills said that be would be depended now. They had no money; glad to have employment provided for some of his operatives. “None of them shall be allowed to starve,” said he, ‘‘and we will issue rations to them.”' As to the future of the mills President Twitchell said no conclusion could be reached until after the meet ing of the Clifton directors on Wednes day. Some of the operatives, a very few, have already been provided with work tearing away the oebris of the mills and transferring cloth and re covering bales of cotton. They are a minimum, though, and there is not half enough to go around for tbe men, let. alone women and children, of course. It is said that some of the directors regard the disaster as of a character that precludes the advisa bility of rebuilding. CHARLESTON STOCKHOLDERS. A dispatch from Charleston says: “Charleston capitalists are affected to the extent of at least $1 250,000 by the destruction of the Pacolet and Clifton mills, and when tbe losses are added at the other mills in upper South Carolina the damages will be close t on to $1,500,000. From one- half to five-eighths of tbe Clifton mill stock is held here, the principal owners being Messrs. F. J. Pelzer, Edwin Frost and Henry Frost. A number of shares of the Clifton stock are also held here by ladies whoso mouey was invested in what was deemed gilt edge securities. Tbe news columns and all private advices are being anxiously read by the hundreds of investors in cotton mill stocks it> Charleston, but the news is □ot sufficient and much uneasiness prevails in many quarters. The in- formajbion is not as assuring as many people would like. Still the hope is held'that the situation is not as serious as the reports seem to show. Ther'e is no question of tbe fact that the cotton mill securit.es have re ceived a hard blow and tbe depression will last for some time. The market cannot be said to be panicky, but thei'e are doubtless many investors who would like to unload, if they could only find purchasers. Bidders are not to be had. Everybody is awaiting more complete and accurate information before deciding what they will do in tbe way of disposing of their stock. The mills have done little or no business with the Charles ton banks, and such notes which are held here are conside.ed safe, on ac count of the fiuaucial standing of tbe people interested. It is not likely that tbe disaster to tbe mills will cause any suspensions or failures, for those who are heavily Interested cao stand their losses. The banks may, however, require additional securities from those who have deposited stook as securities, if the final accounting justifies it. There has as yet been no demand for further securities. Many conferences were held today among the brokers and the heavily Interested stockholders, but they kept their many of them were without food; many of them were io debt; yet they waited hopefully and certainly for the scores to be opened. ‘They are like children,’ said an official, who reiterated the remark that was in cessantly dinned into my ears. ‘Until within the last six or seven years they were unusec to money, and when they began 00 make it they didn’t know what to do with it. For the first Dime they were able to get decent furniture and they revelled in the luxury of good groceries. Do you know, they are more aristocratic io their tastes thao a nabob? They in sist upon having the best of every thing, and if we don’t keep it for them they will go elsewhere and get D. Fifty per cent, have nothing now; 80 per cent, are in need already and 10 per cent, are in debt to us.’ “Men, women and children in hun dreds sat down and watched the com pany’s store. UNACCUSTOMED LABOR. ‘You and you and you come here,’ said Buperiuteudeut Shea, selecting meu and boys. These he directed in the work of lifting debris out of mill No. 1, a task that meant carry ing heavy weights uo the side of the river bank. In ten minutes tbe strongest looking mill meu were out of breath. ‘They can't stand it,’ said one of the officers. ‘They are unused to that sort of manual labor. I can’t see how we are going to keep them employed down here.’ The end of the day found that not more than 1 per cent, of all th > 3,000 or 4,000 operatives had secured labor of any kind. Tbe vast ‘majority went down to the river’s edge and loafed. The 3,000 other people who are direct ly or indirectly dependent upon tbe mills also idled. In fact, one thing that impressed me more than any thing else while 1 was in Spartanburg county, in the vicinity of the Pacolet river, was that everybody seemed to have quit work. Houses on high ground were deserted and the doors were looked. Men, women and chil dren lined the river banks, industrial life was at the lowest ebb, abd in the general stillness there was a sugges tion of demoralization.” SOME INCIDENTS. ‘ ‘ ‘It is hard to keep from writing hysterics,’ said A. B. Williams. It was. Standing by a gate high on a hilljstood a young man, R. A. Findlay. Six feet away was a coffin that rested on a porch. Five feet from tbe coffin and inside the house was the body of Findlay’s wife. The water had played an'unfair game with Findlay. When he and his Wife went out Into tbe yellow current they kept together and braved the current successfully, gained some sort of composure, talked together hopefully, and just as they had gotten close inshore and thought tbomselvss oat of danger a mass of I driftwood fell upon them and Find lay’s protecting hands were broken from his wife. He righted himsc’lf in a second, but the wife stayed under the tide until she was dead. The story that was told by those woo had been rescued from the floods was invariably tbe same, They had been awakened by the water rushing into their rooms aud before they could gather their scattered wits they were being hurled along with the fierce tide. One man was aroused from slumber by spray that flecked bis face. He felt the foundations of his house crumble. Obeying instinct, he took off all his clothing and plugged into the stream. He swam to the top of a tree right in the mid dle of the Dexter valley. A minute later two women drifted to this same tree, held on to the branches and ware finally carried away safely. The tree was one of tbe few in the low ground that was not broken to the earth.” Mr. and Mrs. Coleman were caught in the second story. The roof fell in and they managed to climb out on it. Mrs. Coleman had a baby under each arm. The raft floated down stream and then came back near enough for the people to climb into the second story window of Mr. Pettit’s house. Here they awaited the rescuers who were devising means for relief. Tbe water meanwhile was rising rapidly and was half way up the window io the second story. The bouse was tottering and it was evident that if anything was to be done it must be done quickly. T. 8. Upton and others found a well rope and Upton and Coleman climbed out of the window, the mother still clinging to her two babies. Scout bands and brave hearts pulled at the rope and the raft moved shoreward. An angry wave dashed it to one side almost upsetting it. There was an opening in the housetop and through this one of the little infants fell as thejraft was about to capsize and just as it was going out of sight to certain death, ooe of tbe rescuers grabbed its clothes and the family were all finally saved. The thrilling experience of Mr Stribbling, one of the clerks at No. 2, and the five others who occupied a tree with him for eight hours, have already been recorded. They drifted until hope was almost gone and final ly lodged in the branches of a tree and were rescued. There were others in the trees at No. 8. Mr. Wilson hung on to the branches of a tree for 11 hours. Mr. Grier, an aged man, lodged iu a pine tree from 5 o’clock in the morning until 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Whenjhe was rescued he was completely exhausted and is now in a critical condition. James Elders, Bud Emory, Oliver Johnson and Lige Hall were caught on the roof of the cotton warehouse. They went down the river and a great concourse of people watched anxious ly but could not aid. They finally went down with the exception of Jas. Elders, who grabbed the limb of a tree and Lige Hall, who was found nextday near Pacolet. Bruce McLure was aroused as the water entered his room. He rushed out aud suddenly remembered $350 of his savings be had left behind. He turned and with great difficulty re entered his home just as it was tot tering. He drifted for some time and finally caught a rope handed by res cuers. OPERATIVES WERE AT WORK. When the final crash came at No. 2 Clifton, the mill was in full opera tion. The water rose higher aod higher, but the operatives were dis posed to laugh at the situatiou. They did not dream of its seriousness. They stood by their looms aud spin dles and the little children floated their boxes iu the water aud paddled around as though It were a holiday. When tbe seriousness dawned and the order came to leave the mill, many had to be driven out by force ANOTHER BODY FOUND. The body of an unidentified white woman was found in Union county Tuesday, along the bank of the Paco let river. The remains were sent to Spartanburg iu an Improvised coffin This body was carried on to Clifton Tuesday afternoon for identification; but no one who observed tbe corpse recognized it. Tbe body was buried at Clifton. EXISTING CONDITIONS. Id tbe presence of tbe fearful havoc wrought tbe meu are dazed. They can not realize tbe force of tbe blow. They sit around and talk, inquire anxiously about relatives, talk over the scenes and incidents, but are not disposed to work Tbe demoralization extends to the women and children and the ne groes. At Pacolet Tuesday there was au effort on the part of the company to begin clearing tbe wreckage. A few men were put to werk at No. 3 Pacolet, some white aud some color ed, but not half as many as. needed. The men seem too dazed to think about work. They have not recovered from tbe shock sufficiently and tbe negroes do not seem to care for work. While the demand at Pacolet for la borers to clear the wreckage was ur gent, on tha bill just beyond tbe mills negro baseball game wasti in progress. Agents from cotton mills in other sections are hiring operatives in large numbets from Pacolet and Clifton. The Clifton company ordered all operatives employed at Clifton No. 8, which was totally destroyed, to be paid off Tuesday in full. Similar action will be observed at Nos. 1 and 2 and at Pacolet as soon as possible. RESERVOIR AT PACOLET BURST. At 4 o’clock Monday afternoon the stone and cement walls of tbe reser voir supplying the boilers of PacoLt mills burst, two great seotions rolling to a roadway 80 feet below and blcoic- log it. From tbe river and higher than the reservoir on the mill is a residence in tbe veranda of which two ladies were sitting when the break occurred. They observed a leak In tbe reservoir wall and while speaking of it suddenly a 12 foot segment towards tbe river leaned forward as though of its own volition, paused an Instant and with a mighty crack and crash plunged downward, crushing small trees and bushes and cutting a clean, smooth path, lauding in tbe road with a tremendous thud and blocking it. The waters followed in a roaring cata ract. The fallen wall divided as it fell and one great mass baited less than a foot from tbe warehouse. A little more force and the house would have been rolled into tbe river. Another segment of tbe wall of 10 feet is broken and leans menacingly as though it might follow at any mo ment. It is stated that a party of five ladies had just passed aloog the road where tbe boulders struck. A second later they would have been ground to pulp. The damage can probably be repaired for a few hundred dollars. The supposition is that the great rainfall had loosened the ground be neath the reservoir’s foundations, causing a minature landslide. TO REBUILD THE MILLS. An engineer who went over the ground Tuesday stated to the representative of The News and Cou rier that Mills Nos. 1 and 2 could likely be easily repaired, though their sites place .them in a precarious condition. It is thought that both at Cliftou and at Paoolet the destroyed mills will be rebuilt ou tbe hills and electric plants put on tbe present foundations, which are intact. ( CLEANING THE FLOOD GOODS. Arrangements have been made by both the Pacolet and tbe Clifton com panies with the Clear Water Bleach ing and Manufacturing Company to clean and bleach the recovered goods. The Pacolet Company has already recovered over 1,000 bales; the Glen dale Mills’ people have recovered about 150 bales. The Clifton Mills lost no manufactured goods. Efforts were being made by the Clear Water Company’s agent, Mr. L. P. De- vaughn, at Pacolet, to get a special train to take these goods to Clear Water via. Charlotte and Columbia. NO STOCK FOR SALE. Despite the destruction of the Paco- olet and Clifton properties, the state ment that they will rebuild has caused many to attempt to buy their stock at a bargain. An offer was made in Charlotte to buy $50,000 worth of Pacolet and Clifton stocks, half and half, at fifty cents on the dollar, or $25,000 for the whole. Similar offers were made by Co lumbia spectators, but so far none of the stockholders have disposed of their holdings. The Charlotte Chronicle says: “Mr. H. D. Whea:, of Gaffney, 8. C., is quoted in Charlotte to day as having said no stock of the Clifton could be bought now at 85,and that the Paco let stock had not yet fallen below par. Mr. Wheat, in coonmon with other representative mill men. is cer tain that the Pacolet and Clifton mills will be rebuilt.” NO MORE FUNDS NEEDED. Mayor A. B. Calvert, of Spartan burg, has issued the following state ment : The people of Spartanburg and the sufferers from the recent floods in this county have been profoundly touched by the generous contribu tions that have come so promptly from all parts of tbe country to re lieve distress among the sufferers from the flood at the mills iu the county. These contributions have been so large that it is now thought by tbe relief committee here that further funds will not be needed. Arch B. Calvert, Mayor. % RECEIPT FOR MONEY. Following is a copy of receipt given Mr. Wood for subscriptions ssnt to Pacolet by Gaffney people: $125.00. Received of Gaffney, S. O., contributors for Pacolet flood suffer- through Mr. A N. Wood, tbe ere sum of Qua Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars. W.JA. Poole, Committee, By C. M. Graham. June 9tb, 1908. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thou sands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 ceuts, money back if not cured. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. If You are tbe Housekeeper You will appreciate our suggestion that you use Bransford’s “Cliftou” flour. It makes tbe best bread, cake aud pastry for home people as well as visitors. Don’t let your prejudice iu favor of another brand prevent your trying it. W, J. Wilkins & Co. Letter to J. H. Carry. Dear Sir: Let’s have a little private talk by ourselves on business; nobody else, please, read. Yon want to know bow to do a cheap job of painting, and have it look good. Here it is: The cheapest thing there is in tbe way of a good- looking job—say nothing about its being good—is Devoe: tbe regnlar thing in Devoe. Tbe reason is: Devoe goes further than anything else. Lead-and-oil is good-looking; don’t go so far and costs more. The other paints are more or leas short in one way or an other; don’t go so far and costs more than Devoe. Deroe coats least of all; you don’t mind Ita lasting long r, do you? We can’t help it; a paint that goes far ther lasts longer; we can’t help it. Yonrs truly. F W Dovoe A ('o 10