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VIOLENT STORM S OVER 'j Torrential Rains, Lightning and 88. Mile ale 'ake roll of Over 50 Known Dead and 100 Injured. Ies. cuers Searehing Waters of New York for Further Victims. New York, .June 1.-A violent storm accompanied by shifting winds that reached a velocity of 88 miles an hour, took the lives of more than 60 per sons, injured more than 100 and caused lfnormous property darmage ini the metropolit'an section late today. Por-ty persons were reported to have lost tbeir lives while boating in Long Island sound, and many persons were kil)e4 .by falling trees, lightning and accidents caused by the wind. Ten bodies of the drowned have been re covered and the waters about New York.are being searched tonight for 30 missing. The ltori came at the close of one of thenoet torrid days of the season. The ,wind, coming gently from the south 'and southwest, shifted suddenly in the. northwest and -increased in ve locity to eighty-eight miles, and sweep ing through -New Jersey, West Chester county, across the City Island, The Bronx and Manhattan, left death and destruction in its wake. Torrential rains, then :lightning, followed the wind. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were on the beaches and the various outlying resorts seeking relief from the heat, .when the storm broke, and it was from these that the storm took its (eath toll. Six eersons were killed and more than forty hurt when 'the wind caught a huge ferris wheel at the 4lason Point amusement park and it crashed to the ground. A woman and her seven year old daughter were crushed to death and several other persons injured when an oak tree blown 'by the wind crash ed through the roof of the crowded dining room of the Red lAonl Inn, on l<, ston Post road, carrying with it an old-fashioned stone chimney. The bodies of seven canoeists caught in Long Island Sound off City Island at the height of the storm .were washed ashore after nightfall. Miss Edna Smith, 17, walking with a companion along the reservoir road at Ossining was blown into the water and drowned. Charles Emerson, New Rochelle clothing manufacturer, was 'rowing in Echo Bay with -his wife and three children when the storm broke. lie managed to row to shore, then died from a heart attack. A tree fell across a party of motorists seeking sheler on the Brookville road, near 'lIcust Valley,! Long Island, killing Harry Halloran, of Oyster Bay, and .iously injur ing his three male comI. rions. Unable to reach hoi' in the stiff wind, Jack Lownen'bal, 20, was drowned while sw imming in l'ast I ever. C'oncentti Basiam> and huis ten year old son, Anthony, of .\ount Vernon, vere killed wvhen a tree undler which 'cy 1 ad found shel*r in The Ilronx was struck by lightning. jTwo men wvere killed Ic Newark, N. J1., when they camne in contact iwith electric wire torn down b~y tile wvinnd. A massive, decayed tree on the New York.AWest Chester county line at Mount Vernon fell, crushing 'to dleath Mrs, Cassie Cavallo and her infant son. ., 3M. 0, E'rskine of' a party of ca noeists in Rech bay was drowned. tThree others, members of the plarty, Sswam to shore after the canoe cap sized. Ten excursion-ists on the fer'ry boat 'Mlegrad, returning from Interstate 'Park, N. J., to West l5Sth street, were injured when the 'wind tore a life boat from its davies. In- falling the boat 'struck the railing of the lower deck at a spot (where asbout a dozen pas sengers .had gathered for shelter, then it slid into t-he'river'and disappeared. Sidney Jacob, 14,' was badly hurt and was tako'n 'to'a hospital. Others in jured were able to go 'to their homes, I~xtensive 'tvtopcrty damage from wind and lightning was reported from 'all borodlk o't'the cityand outlying Central - &#rk euffored "heavily, doz ens or treelpihavinig heeji uprootedc a-Ia hurled across the deve'ways -hioe::M ILightning struck a Brooklyn trol ley car,,and h-a'!f a dr"e" 'eu" r, were 'kt nnef'idti~ij tJ t:10 flod:. Lightning also struck a barn n ushing and 'ten '1orss W/ere burned o death. . Coney Island, where a throng of 50,000 had gathered including 100, 0 lpr-s, foI'tunstely 'received olify e oe ofI1 Stornth - eete s th gignfit'M teeort Wes en wheitt s ~tartidd crowde foz .zeI r, WEEPS NEW YORK CITY BIGHAM COUNSEL ASKS NEW TRIAL Alleged New Evidence Presented to Court. In Form of Letters. Florence, June 5.-In the court of general sessions here today A. L. King, attorney for dmnund ). Bigham, gave notice of an appeal for a new trial on the ground of alleged after-dis covered evidence. Judige S. W. 0. Shipp set Friday to hear the motion. T'hie after-discovered evidence is in the shaipe of letters alleged to have been written by 1e. S. 'Bigham to his brother, F-dmund, while the latter was in Georgia, and it is contended by the dofense they iwill tend to show that Smiley Bigham killed his mother and sister and the latter's two children and then himself, the killing of Smiley Bigham being the crime for which Idmund has 'been convicted and sen tenced to death. Formal notice was given by the de fense this morning to 'L. M. Gasque, solicitor of the court of the approach ing contest. At the same time, the de fense diles with him a copy of the let ters, affidavits and other data, which will 'be offered to the court as after discovered evidence. Mendel 'L. Smith of Camden is expected to assist the defense in arguing the motion for a new trial. Chief among the letters, all of which are contended 'by the defense to have been written by Smiley at Pamplico to -10dmund in -South Georgia, is the following: "Mother and Maggie had the two signed deeds that had disappeared in their possession. Causing trouble seems to be their pleasure. They took the money that the post oflice de partmilent has me charged With and were the caiise of Cleveland running off, and I had to pay the bond. For years I have had to leave home and pay board to be in .peace to make my calculations and plans. "They poisoned father and tried to poison Leatha's child after 'her death when I found theim with the deeds. I decided to kill the last one of them and leave no one to tell the tale. "I am writing this to explain why I did this act. You will never see me again alive." Signed "L. S. 'Bigham." This letter Is one of a series which it is alleged iwere written during the summer and the early fall of 1920 lead ing up to the return of dmiund to Pamnplico in the fall of that year. This particular letter does not bear any date though all the others bear dates through June, .July and August, pos ibly some of them being in September. Also, all of them are typewritten and signedl in Ink. At the same time, the defense is of fering a number of aflidavits, which would tend to substantiate the letters and the statements contained in them. Somie of these affidavits relate to tile genluineness of thle signiature. IPOIlt KILLI)D AT 'Ewe "ounlg Women amnd Trwo Young MUen ille Whmen Carolina Special Crashes Into Auto at Union. Union, June 4t.-Four pleIl were killed and two others~ possibly fatnlly injured Satuirdlay afternloon when sou thbound Carolina Special struck an automobile half a mile a-beve the city limits. Two others are possibly ratally injured. Of tile dead two are younlg mlen and two young wvomen, the ages ranging from 19 to 25 years. The deadi are: Jamles Vaughn, 13. . Vaughn, Miss IAura Austin and Miss Minnie Austin. .John 'McKeown and Bien Alto-Whit lock arc in thle Ui~aon hlospital and are thought to be -fatally injured. James Vaughn wvas killed outright, Laura Austin (lied on thle way to the homoital. .B.. J. Vaughn died Im mediately after being .taken into the hlosiltal and 'Minnie Austin lived four hours after being taken to the h1os pital. Thle tragedly was whlere a communi ty road crossed thle railroad. At this point the track extends from 200 to 300 yards in a straight line. /JPhe -engIne struck the automobile IQuarely and piled It in a tangled mass~byethe side of the road. Two of thil 0ecxuldanta were pinned to the lo comotlive by parts of the automobile and were .fastened to the .pilot when he train was brought to a stop. One of th... patients at the hospital has a fracture of the skull, and the >ther Is. .,suffering from, internal in'. iuries'. Physicians entertain little iope for the recovery of either one. .Surgeons nrore rushed to the scene f the AtragedyA and rendered'- all pos. ulie -afil to Athe,.injured. -A great lrowd of pepple--visited the scene itn nediately after 'the wreck. HoeIum Atonms From m. A gram. of raIm ~ Wtougl qnd off heliumw 0.bijton.a se 1. 4 WILLINGHAM TO SERVE ONE YEAR Draws This Sentence for the Larceny After Trust of $168,475. Macon, Ga., !June 9.-,After beiig out three hours and a half, a jury In ' Bibb county suiperior court late this afternoon returned a verdict of guilty I of larceny after trust against Richard ' F. Willingham, former Macon capi- I talist and cotton factor. The jury recommended punishment of from one to two yasrst Judge H.- A. Mat-hews, I -before wNlv9jn the case was tried, im- I mediatelf sentenced Willingham to a serve twelve months at the state farm. The court room was filled with 1 people -when the jury reported, but there was no ,scene. The jury was polled, each juror announcing the. verdict as read by the clerk, correct. Motion for a new trial was filed immediately, -hearing being set for < July 29. Willinghaim was released I under bond of $2,000. He also is un der $130,000 bond covering thirteen oth'er indictments in connectlo' with C his gigantic failure in August, 1920. The indictment under which- -Wil lingham was convicted accused him I of diverting to his own use money col- 4 lected .by the Willinghan warehouse, of which- he was president, for the i organization of tahe Shippers Con- 1 press Company,the amount named be ing $163,475. AD1MIRAL McG(-WAN ATTENDS MEETING IN COLUMBIA McGowanl Family Publication Commit tee Meets to Consider Reised Edi tion of "History of McGowan's lrl gade". Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, U7. S. N., retired, came down to Columbia last Wednesday from Washington to attend an executive session of the Mc Gowan faminly publication committee, in regard to the issuance of a revised edition of the "hIstory of McGowan's Brigade," of which Maj. J. F. J. Cald well, of Newberry, Is the author. Other members of the committee present were Prof. Yates Snowden, of the University of South Carolina, and James 0. 1Holmes, of Columbia. The new edition of the history of this fa mous old brigade Is completed and will -be out in the near future, accord ing to an announcement recently made Beyond the Pale. It is plain that there are books which are not fit subjects for criti eism, which do not rise into the field of artistic being, quite irrespective of the number of editions through which they have passed.-Jules Lemaitre. SWEEPI THURSDAY, Minter Co.'s Barg of this week. All me Look over this list a not advertised. Come Ginghams 10c Value; 5c Yd. A fewv hundred yards of Oi strPipes amnd solid color's, .suitab)le Special 5c 40 Inch Voile m il~l *Fnds-ext ra quallit y, y 2ie value 15eYd Nainsook 18Se value, pink and white, ,1 Special 10c Yd Fancy Voiles -One lot fancy Voiles, former to 50e, solid colors, stripes ani signs. Special 19e Suitings One .lot. solid colored Liner Suitings. A very .desiralble Jumper .Dresses. 35c value. Special 19e ,otton.Skirt Fabri Pormniy sold for 50e, 75c Plaids, stripes and solid grey. Extra Special 19~ LAURENS DE EATS FT. INN. In an eleven inning game, featured y as many tight places, star playE nd excellent pitching as could ,b mtt Into one -game, Laurens defeated Nountain Inn by a score of 4 to ast Wednesday afternoon on the lo 'al diamond. The esore was tied to three runs Ir he third inning, after which eaci eam held the other down,' both re naining scoreless until the eleventi vhen (11111, star leftfielder and bats nan for Laurens, batted out for i rexas tLeaguer with two men on bases "le real feature of the game was i he 'first half of the eleventh whei he hurling of Bobo prevented th risitors from scoring with men on sec ond and third with none out. Bobo >itching for Laurens, fanned 9 mei vhilc Ezell struck out two. X 1-f :lE "ountain Inn ..........3 6 Jaurens ............ ..4 11; Batteries: Ezell and Kellett, -fo i'ountain 'Inn; (Bobo and Culbertosr 'or Laurens. Both teams expect to meet agail oday at Fountain fin and anothe ,ood -game is ex-pected. - '/ You thought t while it is only puzzle on anc "stung"' even if worth your tin the fun and ple But someone is NG REE FRIDAY AND SA ain Department special rchandise grouped and nd if what you want is Thursday, Friday and Curta 15e to 20c values nghams in and white witli fant for aprons Special 12 Pe 36 inches wide. Iij terns -and ,. irt Sti Special 8 Chi 32inch White iPii 2-inch colors, blue, tan 'fit * - Krnad~ lsd 72490 Becdt$i ysl p. Just a e~ .nf Ifloral de- feastfA~ ~F~1nm~h - $1.0 Drds S~hri abric for c~c Men 's Balbriggi and $1.00. Drawers, sizes 30 t $1,09 to $1650. .SpE 3 p r e.Cs Pension Checks The folIwing named- are reminded that they have checks uncalled for: clem 'Clapton. 'Mary L. Lawson. Mollie .Woods. Il3elotta Woodruff. Aaron Sherbert. ILevinia Weathers. 'Mary A. Jones. J. .P. OAJLDWILL, Chairman. STARTLING I In 10,000 Examne Imperfe From the M( The Eyesight Conservation Cotj made public the results of a ca trial and commercial' workers a, ly in glood condition,, of whom sion uncorrected. It was found of inefficiency and.-cat-elessnesE wimperfect vision. The report urg school children to be examined ages of 21 and 39 years should as was done in the case of the "See Hough ..W. H. HOUG "Stunigi A kis was the advertisement to call your attention to ther page of this issue. you don't win a prize in ie from an educational sta asure you get out of it. going to win it. Why car IUCTIONA TURDAY, JUlNE 15 ly arranged for Thursday specially priced to make not advertised call for i Saturday. 2 n Scrim La .'Eer'u, cream, w'~hite, One lot y 'borders. ISpecial and militam Eds. for $1.00 142.00 vanoI reale ghtt ground D)ress Pat ipes. 20e value. Mill Sizes 3:1 Yds. for 99c terial--kha sviots , Mill Ends, solid . Sgray\ sbeelib fMWe of 'for 89c '()erttchel -regular 02O vahle n -hAd?@ 1Wh 1 -. derwear ~and Elastle Seapn Boys' lig 34, formerly sold for of good qi elal sold up to for 99c Final Choice. Wifey (showing new bonnet to hub. b-)-The milliner thought that flow. ers were the most becoming to me and I have always adored feathers, so we' finally compromised by lauttinr on some fruit. A Calico War. One of the first Indian wars in. the history, of early Kaosas is said teo have originated because wn agent sold some Indians a piece ot calico with the stripes running the 9vrong way. .YE DEFECTS d 53 Per Cent Had :t Vision -dical Itecord nell of Americ:: !ri recently reful ezaminatle to, 0 Indus eilve in their % - ! i.i upposed 53 per cent. r' A d1rstive vi-. that many or ,: a accused when It Is enti y a natter of es that just as It 'i'c -seary for , so every individi -c:weea the have the ocular sa. ascertained, army draftees. to See Well" El, Optometrist L0 11 Lgain of some apiary, the "Bee Hive" You won't get this game. It's ndpoint and for 't it be you? 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