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% ' LAN H' = VOL. IX. = * D0Wi\ TO DEATH JNII DESTRUCTION Train Plunges Through Trestle of Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Bridge. FOUR KILLED INSTANTLY Derailment or Collapse ot Rock Laden Car the Appearant Causi ?Fall ol Over Forty Feet. With a tremendous crash am without a moment's warning, i portion of a rock train and a lo comotive plunged through the 4: feet high trestle leading up t< the steel work of the Columbia ' Newberry and Laurens railroac bridge acrosB the Broad rive yesterday afternoon at 1:3< o'clock and found a resting plac< on the island in the river. Sev eral lives were crushed out an< the scene was one of horror. Thi fearful accident was due to m weakness of the trestle work, bu to the derailment or collapse o one of the heavily laden rocl cars, this simply tearing dowi the trestle for a distance of poss ibly 200 feet. The engine wen * with the falling trestle and land ed folly 200 feet from the poio where it left the trestle work evidently being hurled througl the air as if from a catapult. Onl; two days ago the trestle torce which is kept at. work on the tres ' tie and bridge on an overage o nine months out of the yeai turned the tre?tle over to th< road with the report that it wa in perfect condition. It had beei thoroughly overhauled, new hear timber being put in place of ev ery piece that showed the slight est signs of weakness. Enginee Oharles Ellis, after a thoroug] examination, gave it as his opin ion that the accident was due t< no fault in the trestle, but wa caused by the collapse or derail ment of one of the cars, some thing calculated to tear down an: trestle ever built. Four lives were lost so far a known. The dead are : r Engineer W. L. "Weathersbee 28 years of age, of this city ; fire man Silas Bennick, colored, o Newberry; Stewart Martin, col ored, 16 years old, of Alston ; J S. Martin, about 15 years old, o Alston. All the victims must have beei instantly killed. Two of th bodies were badly mutilated. k The crash was heard up in th< city. This was due to the fact tha the two flat cars that wen through the bridge were heavib loaded with granite, which, whei once the trestle began to giv< way made its destruction a men matter of seconds. Hundreds of people went ove . -.'i- - - iruiu me cny ai once, ana amonj them were the officiala of th road, but it was well nigh impoaa lble to reach the acene.?Sunday1 State. A Frightful Blunder Will often cauae a horribli Burn, Scald, Out or Bruiae. Buck len'a Arnica Salve, the beat in th< world, will kill the pain an< promptly heal it. Cures Old Soret Fever Soraa, Ulcere, Boila, Feloni Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Bes Pile cure on earth. Only 25 cte. i box. Cure guaranteed. Sold bj Crawford Bros., Druggists. I ' * > ' * * 4 * ' .v ' ' * ^ASTE ^^ANCASTK FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKEI AT TIMM0N8VILLE. Was Work of Miscreant, Whi ^ Locked Switch When Train Was Backing Ont?No Lives were Lost. Special to The State. Timmon8ville, Sept. 9.?Engini 513 is in the ditch on her sid< . her smoke stack buried in th a ground, and wheels in the ail The tender and one box car ar derailed. Engineer Keys escapei 1 unhurt. Fireman George Narle; 1 has his right arm broken and i badly bruised on the head. Di * Cole administered morphine am ? will move him up town. I The accident is due to th r work of some fiend. Enginee 0 Keys had backed into the sid 3 track and found everything al - right. When he started out th 1 engine left the track and turne< b over into the ditch. The jac. 5 switch was found thrown ope; and locked, and the wreck coul f not have been the result of acci ? dent. Another freight train i tied up here, j. A wrecking train was wired foi . The accident occurred at 1 I o'clock. Passenger train No. 5? , with the official car of the Ses 1 board Air Line, with Superinten 7 dent McBee aboard, had been i >? and out on the side track at TL. 1' J yj v.lucn. iud uiuiu nue is oper f J. W. R. B That Throbbing Headache a Would quickly leave you, if yo t used Dr. King's New Life Pilli Thousands of sufferers have pro\ * ed their matchless merit for Sic! * and Nervous Headaches. The, r make pure blood and stron a nerves and build up your healtl . Easy to take. Try them. Only 2 cents. Money back if not cured Sold by Crawford Bros., Drug b STEPHENSON ACQUITTED. 7 Alter Three Mistrials on Charg 8 oi uapo lie uoes Free. Special to The State. ' Camden, September 9.?Th j. case against J. Ilaile Stephensor charged with committing rap upon Miss .Jessie Arrants, resul f ted today in a verdict of not guil ty. This was the fourth tria i there being three mistrials here e tofore in the case. 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A ketron, Bloomingdalp, Tenn., says i f cured him of indigestion of ten year 1 standing. Crawford Bros. d-w :r EN SEMI-WEEKLY. R, S. C., WEDNESDAY ) ROMANCE IN YORK. How Mr. W. P. Draft! n Entered o The Blissiul Estate. Special to The State. liock Hill, Sept. 10.?A tale of remantic, or rather unusual, courte ship and marriage comes to us 0 from the Harmony section, near e here. Mr. W. P. Draflin is a wellto-do farmer, about 50 years old, 0 and lives in that neighborhood, d He is a widower and has grand y children. For sometime recently s he has been telling his neighbors r> and friends that he was going to d be married, but it was thought by some that he was joking. Last e Wednesday, however, he took the r G. C. and N. train and went to e Monroe, N. C., and there was met II by the lady in question, a Mies e Graham, of Deay's Valley, with d whom he has been corresponding k for sometime. Boarding the next n train coming south the couple d arrived at Harmony and were . taken to Mr. Draflin's home, s There they found in waiting the Rev. Oliver Johnson of the A. R. p. Presbyterian church, who soon 0 tied the matrimonial knot. There are conflicting stories as to how i. the match was brought about, but i. perhaps Mr. Draffin's own exn planation is best. He stated, I 9 understand, that happening to be i. at the Southern depot in Rock Hill one day when the train came in and seeing a forlorn lady with a valise to carry he gallantly came to the rescue and carried her bagi. gage and escorted the lady across '* to the O. R. and C. station. Love ^ at first sight caused the corresg pondence which ended in the safe i. arrival of these twn at. th? mot ? rimony. May they continue to dwell in Harmony and may their 1 lives be long. There's always hope while there's One Minute Cough Cure. "An attack of pneumonia left my Inngs in bad 6 shape and I was near the first stages of consumption. One Minute Cough Cure completely cured me," writes Ilenen Mellenry, Rismark,N. D. Gives instant relief. Crawford Bros, d-w-s e ...... h Osceola Items. e i- The farmers are busy picking I- cotton, pulling fodder and mak 1, ing molasses. Our colton crop is >* cut oil' at least one-half, and the late corn seriously damaged. Early corn on bottom lands will be good if the freshets will stay oil' a while longer. The health of the community ?- is fairly good. The school trustees and patrons a. of School District No. 4 will meet at Morrow's academy on Saturday, the lGth instant, for the purpose of electing a teacher for the session which will commence about December 1. ie Messrs. James and Daniel Wilson have just had their houses v painted. ly There has been several persons from other sections looking around in this neighborhood with the view of buying farms. Pei>ru. c Chester II. Brown, Kalamazoo, f Mich., says: ?'Kodol Dyspepsia Cure >1 cured me of a severe case of indigesil tion; can strongly recommend it to all .. dyspeptics. "Digests what you eat t without aid from the stomach, and s cures dyspepsia. Crawford Bros, s d-w-s TERP rrsepfemberl3,t89 Absolutely \ Makes the food more de KILLED BY THE 1RAIX. The Manqled Body of Frank Ring staff Found on Bear Creek Trestle Sunday Morning, on the L. (? C. Railroad. The in-coming train on the L. <fe C. road Saturday night ran over Mr. II. Frank KingstafT on Bear Creek trestle near town and Killed mm, mangling his body into an almost unrecognizable mass of flesh and bones, a sight ] from which the most stout heart- < ed would turn and walk away * upon the first glance. The top of 1 his head was cut off, his brains scattered upon the cross ties of < the trestle for 15 or 20 feet, his i trunk disemboweled, his legs i mashed aud bruised into a jelly, e his teeth knocked out and hang- { ing loose, his eye balls knocked , out of their sockets and hanging ^ out several inches,?a ghastly and i revolting sight to behold. ( Although the man was killed 4 Saturday night about 9 o'clock, j it was not known till Sunday i morning when a negro who was 1 crossing the trestle discovered the ( body and at once reported the j matter. Three people are known , to have crossed the trestle Satur- | day night after the accident oc- ( curred. One of them says he saw something lying on the trestle, ' bat did not know what it was. Coroner Young empaneled a ( jury of inquest and investigated < the matter, and the verdict was that the man came to his death 1 by being run over by the train. Drs. G. W. Poovey and VV. M. j Crawford examined the body and gave it as their opinion that death was caused by being run over by the train. Engineer Wall, who* was in charge of the engine, testified that as his engine came upon the ^ trestle, he discovered some object on the trestle, lie thought it was a dog. It appeared to be 10 or 12 j inces high. He went on without any further notice, and remarked to his lireman, "poor little dog." The fireman, John Stewman, says ( he looked down the trestle as . they came upon it, but saw noth- ] 'ing. t Mr. RingstafT lived near the 1 . overhead bridge on the L. it C. I road, the other side of Rear Creek, ' ! and was doubtless on his way ( 1 home when he was killed. One theory is that he had tried to climb or swing down between the timbers of the bridge so as to , ! be out of the way of the train, but j that ho was not low enough to i escape the lire box and break 1 irous, although ho did escape the I pilot of the engine, and that he was caught by the break irons 1 and pulled up through th6 timbers. Another theory, formulated by ' Supt. Skipper of the Cotton Mill, | is that the unfortunate man in walking the bridge had missed his step and gone down between two ties which he says were fur- ; ther apart than the others. That 1 although he caught by his arms, < RISE. 97 nsfttf Baking Powder UKE Hcious and wholesome ie was so stunned by the fall hat he was unable to extricate limself, and that when the train same along it struck his head and ;aught hold of him and'pulled lim up. Mr. Kingstaff is a native of Unon county, N. C., and lived .for teveral years in Monroe before ;oming to Lancaster. He leaves a wife, who was a daughter of Mr. Wm. Steele of the Camp Creek lection, and four children, all imall. He was abou?27 years old. tie had cultivated a crop on some >f the factory lands, but had for tome time been working in the nill at night. It was his time to )e at work Saturday night when ie was killed, but he had employed a man f.r> t.nlrA hio nlipo iftemoon and night while he vent up into town to attend to tome business and do some shopping. About 8 o'clock as he went lome from up town, he stopped it the mill and went in and was issiating his substitute in his work. Mr. H. II. Hayes, the boss )f that department, told him he would have to go out?that itwae igainst Mr. Skippers rules for aim to be there. He said "all right." that he "did not know that," and left, taking with him tome small bundles that he had gotten up town. Mr. Hayes says ;hat he "appeared to be somewhat under the influence of whisley," but he thought he was able to take care of himself. After the coroner's jury was through, the body was taken up, piece at a time, and placed in a ;offin and taken to Hopewell thurch and buried, that being the :hoice of Mrs. Ringstaff. Our sympathies go out to this poor woman and 4 helpless chilIren who are left to battle with ? callous world for their existence. "Tbey are simply perfect," writes Robert Moore, of^ Lafayette, Ind., of oewitcs little Karly Kisers, the "fanous little pills" for constipation and all liver ailments. Never gripe. Crawford Ilros. d-w-a DEATH OF COLONEL F. W. MeM ASTER. Died Near Asheville, N. C., Last Sunday Al'ternooii. A telegram was received in the ;ity this morning from Asheville innouncing the death of Colonel l?\ W. McMaster at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. lie died at Marshall, some distance from Asheville, and this explains the lelav in the receipt of the unwel;omed, but expected, news. ( Ininnnl Mi'Mnalur Iioj v.v..w? AI4UUAUUIVI 11UO UWIi 111 failing health for sometime, sufiering from an incurable malady, liright's disease, lie went to the mountains in the hope of obtaining at least temporary relief. The news of his death will be received with general regret throughout the city. Although born in Winnsboro, most of Col. McMaster's long life was spent in Columbia, with which city and its progress and development he has always been prominently identified.?Columbia Record. E. E. Turner, Compton, Mo., was Hired of piles by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve after suffering seventeen p-ears and trying over twenty remeiies. Physician* and surgeons endorse It. Beware of dangerous counterfeits Urawford Bros. d-w-a