The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 13, 1900, Image 7
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Three Thousand Humai
Mad Rush o;
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HITHLLINU dlUKl Ur LUOO
The City Inundated and
The Great West India
Galf Coast Wi
fOIR THOUSAND HOUSES GONE.
Bridges are Gone, the Wires Down
and There Has So Far Been No Communication
With the Flooded City-What
is Know n Though, is Awful
and Worse May Come.
Houston. Tex., Special.?The West
Indian storm which reached the Gulf
coast Saturday morning, wrought awful
havoc in Texas. Reports are conflicting,
but it is known that an appalling
disaster has befallen the city of
Galveston, where i is reported three
thousand or more lives have been
blotted out and a tremendous property
dam-age incurred. Meag:e reports
from Sabine Pass and Port Arthur also
indicate a heavy loss of life, but these
reports cannot be confirmed at. this
hour. The first news- to reach this city
from the stricken city of Galveston was
received Sunday night. James C. Timnions.
who resides in Houston, and
who is the general superintendent of
the National Compress Company, arrived
in the city at S o'clock from Galveston.
He was one of the first to
|each here with tidings of the great
disaster which has befallen that city,
find the magnitude of that disaster remains
to be told, because of his endeavors
to reach home. After remain
In.; through the hurricane on Saturday,
lie departed from Galveston on a
-w ehooner and came across the bay to
? Morgan's Point, where he caught a
train for Houston. The hurricane, Mr.
Timmons said, was the worst ever
known. The estimates made by citizens
of Galveston was that 4.000 houses,
incst of them residences, have been destroyed
and that at l.ast 3.000 people
b:ve been drowned, killed or ruissing.
Some business houses were also destroyed,
but most of them stood,
though badly damaged.
SCENES IN THE TKE.WUN 1.
The scenes during the storm, Mr.
Himmons said, could not be described.
Women and children were crowded into
the Tremont Hotel, where he was
seeking shelter, and all night these unfortunates
were bemoaning tneir losses
of kindred and fortune. They were
the galleries and rooms of the hotel,
grouped about the stairways and in
"Wtyat was oceuring in the other parts
of the city he could only conjecture.
The city, Mr. Tiramons avers, is a
complete wreck, so far as he could see
from the water front-and from the Tremont
hotel. Water was blown over the
island by the hurricane, the wind blowing
at the rate of 80 miles an hour
straight from the Gulf and forcing the
Many mils Close Down.
Manchester. By Cable?Thirty Lancashire
cotton mills have already
closed. Many more mills are expected
io close next week. The opinion of
leading spinners is that the normal
conditions of trade will not return bgefore
Novembger, when the crop comes
in. The idle operatives will have to be
maintained out of the union's funis.
Cleveland Declines.
Washington. D. C.. Special.?ExPresldent
Cleveland has declined the
President's appointment as a member
of the international bsard of a'bit ation
under the Hague treaty. Ex-President
Harrison, has accepted the appointment.
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.No Yellow Fever in This Country.
Wellington. D. C.. Special.?Surgeon
Ccneral Wvman, of the Marine Hospital
Service, is quite gratified over the
absence cf yellow fever reports in this
country, up tc date It is now so late
in the season that the danger cf utbrenlt
for this season is almost cover
rnd it is hoped this record will be
maintained till cold weather.
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i Beings Perish in the
f the Waters
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Communication Cut Off-Hurricane
Strikes the
th Awful Fury.
sea water before it in big waves. The
gale was a steady one. the heart of ot
striking the city about a o'clock Satur
; day evening, and continuing without
: intermission until midnight Sunday
j night, when it abated somewhat, al*
j though it continued to blow a.i night.
New York. Special.?The Worlo
prints the following:
"Austin, Texas, September 9.?Infor.
mation has just reached me that alxnit
1 3,000 lives have been lost at Galveston,
with enormous destruction of property.
"No information from other points.
(Signed) "JOSEPH D. SAYERd.
"Governor."'
j HALF THE TOWN DESTROYED.
New York. Special.?Reliable news
received here indicates that at least
half of Galveston has been destroyed.
The loss of life will be appalling.
3,000 Lives Lost.
Houston, Texas. Special.?The reliel
train has just returned. The party got
j no closer than six mile? of Virginia
Point, where the place v as covered
1 with lumber, debris, pianos, trunks
onH h<v Two hundred corpses
were counted from the train.
A large steamer is stranded two
miles this side of Virginia Point, as
( though thrown up by a tidal wave.
Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
Two men were picked up who floated
acroes to the mainland. They say they
estimate the loss of life up to the time
they left at 3.000.
$100,000 Damage to Rice Crop.
New Orleans, Special.?A trip over
: +>.o c.??rm.Rtpirken section along the
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| Mississippi river, starting some 30
miles below the city and reaching to
the Gulf, shows a damage of about
$100,000 to the rice crop. Truck
farms, -poultry, cattle, and other damages
will double the amount. The river
.rose six feet during the storm and
flooded the section. The disabled
steamer Oteri was towed into Port
Eads this evening, all well.
4,000 Houses Destroyed.
Houston.?James C. Timmins. superintendent
of the national Compresi
Company, has just arrived from Galveston,
after a perilous trip. He reports
that more than three thousand
persons have been drowned, killed 01
missing and that four thousand houses
have been destroyed. He says the
magnitude of the disaster remains tc
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2,000 Union Carpenters Quit Work.
Chicago, Special.? Open hosrtilit'e*
between the contractors and union labor
were resumed Saturday, when al
noon about 3,000 union carpenters quit
1 work. They demanded the usual Saturday
half holiday. This the contractors
refuted except during the summer.
The carpenters had returned to work
under special permits from fheir unions,
although the big building trades
strike or lockout still continues, affecting
40,000 men.
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Atlanta under 100,000.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The popj
ulation of the city of Atlanta, Ga., as
officially announced to be for 1900, 89,872:
for 1890. 65,533. These figures
show, for the city as a whole, an ini
-crease in population of 24.339, or 37.14
per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The popula!
tion in 1880 as 37.409, showing an in1
crease of 23,124 or 75.18 per cent, front
I 1880 to 1S90.
Notes.
The campaign in Kentucky was opened
by both parties in nearly every
county in the State Monday. The principal
meetings were at Bowling Greer
and Henderson. At the former pl2C<
Hon. John W. Yerkes, the Republicac
candidate for Governor, was the leadthe
later tilare Gover
nor J. W. Berkham, the Democrats
candidate for Governor, and ex-Gov
ernor Jaracs B. McCroady, spoke. A1
Bowling Green, the Democrats also hac
meeting, addressed by R. F. Peake, ol
Shelbyville.
The cruiser Baltimore, with Admiral
Watson on board, left Grcr-nock. Scotland.
Friday, and is due at New York
1 September 10.
1 POPULAR SCIENCE.
Nearly half of the lightning strokes
reported occur out in the open, thirtyfour
per cent, in houses, eleven per
cent, uu'lor trees and nine per cent, in
barns. \
It appears that the lifetime of llio
mosquito is three months. Mosquitoes
have been kept alive in capitivity for
eisrhtv 'lays. It is said that the ordi
nary minnow, which feeds upon the
larvae of mosquitoes, is highly efficient
as a means for keeping down
their numbers. ' '
The blue coral is known as one of
the most isolated of living animals. It
has been described as the only species
of its genus and the only member of
Its family, "with no close living relations
and no known ancestors." Recently.
however. Professor J. W. Gregory
has discovered in the British Museum
what he believes to be an ancestor
of the lonely blue coral in a fossil
coral of the Cretaeeous period, called
Polytremacis.
Captain G. E. Shelley, an English
ornithologist, who has devoted special
attention to African birds, says that
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Ainca may lain.v uaiiu iu uc iuc
metropolis of song birds." It Is the
winter home of a large proportion of
the most attractive small birds of
Northern Europe, including the nightingale,
the swallow and many of the
warblers, and the bush resounds with
their melody. Africa also possesses a
great number of remarkable and beautiful
birds of its own.
Dr. Isaac Roberts, whose beautiful
photographs of nebulae and star clusters
are well known, gives a somewhat
startling account of the manner in
which the images of faint stars and
nebulae disappear from the photographic
plates. On one of his plates.
In 18S6, he counted 403 stars; the same
plate in 1893 showed only 272 stars, the
images of 131 having entirely disap
poared. This leads to the suggestion
that celestial photographs, in order to
be of permanent value, should be immediately
reproduced by some process
fielding pictures not subject to chauge.
Visitors to museums of Bcience are
Iways interested iu the mounted skelrtons
of gigantic extinct animals, but
they seldom appreciate the amount of
study and skill required to properly
match the fossil bones together. Even
at the best It seems probable that
many mistakes are made, and extinct
monsters may sometimes be caused to
assume forms and attitudes unknown
to them in life. This is Indicated, not
only by the differences between the
restorations made by various naturalists,
but by a recent remark of Professor
H. C. Osborn, an expert in the
liounting of fossil skeletons, that if
we had nothing but the skeleton of the
elephant to work upon, we should
probably have obtained a very faulty
ouception of the animal.
Philosophy of Success.
"Did you ever realize that the success
hat one really enjoys comes only
through hard work?" asked the philosopher.
"I know the average mortal
would prefer to gain his ends without
hard toil. But few do, and I doubt if
those few gain any pleasure from having
the plum drop in their lap without
any effort on their part.
"I had that fact impressed upon me 1
only the other day. I chanced, during
an idle moment, to pick up an empty
Ink bottle, and something started my
thoughts back to my boyhood days
when an empty bottle furnished an
Ideal mark to throw stones at. Smiling
to myself at the childishness of
It, I set the bottle on a hitching post,
and after carefully selecting a number
of stones, I stood off about thirty feet
and prepared to make a test of my
skill. The very first stone that I threw
caught the bottle fairly in the centre
and shattered it into a hundred pieces.
I threw away the stones that I had
so carefully gathered, in disgust. I
had accomplished what I had set out
to do on my first throw, but I fully
realized that it was only a fluke and
hof t mlcht throw fifty more stones
r?nd not come anywhere near the
mark.
"Now, on the contrary, if I had
missed, I would have carefully noted
where the fault lay and tried to have
corrected it on my next throw. The
throws that went too low and too
high, as well as too much to one side,
would have been valuable lessons .o
me, and in the end I would have succeeded
in placing a stone where I
wanted it. That would have been suo
cess gained by working for it. The
very few people who gain success
on their first throw have my sympathy."?Detroit
Free Press.
How Long; Animals Can Fast.
A horse will live twenty-five days j
without solid food, merely drinking
water. A bear win so ior six mumus, |
while a viper can exist for ten months
without food. A serpent in confinement
has been known to refuse food
for twenty-one months.
Silk From Wood.
Artificial silks are made of wood
fibre, dissolved to a glue-like consistency
by acids, forced through holes
in glass and drawn out into threads*
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DALLIES NO LONGER
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Withdrawal Orders Forwarded to Our
Army
FROM CHINA TO THE PHILIPPINES.
Transports Provided to Take the
Troops From Port Direct to the
Philippines.
Washington, D. C., Special.?Orders
have been cabled to General Chaffee
to prepare his forces for withdrawal
from Pekin. Further than that, the
War Department has taken steps to
have at Taku a sufficient number of
United States transports to remote
these troops to the Philippines, as soon
as they reach the port. These orders
! are preparatory, and do not necessari'y
indicate that our government has decided
finally upon an immeliate withdrawal
from China. It is simply
placing itself in a position to carry out
the pledge conveyed in the reply to the .
Russian note in this language: "The
result of these considerations is that
unless there is such a general expression
by the powers in favor of continued
occupation as to modify the
views expressed by the government of
Russia and lead to a general agree- ;
metn. for continued occupation, we
shall give instructions to the American '
forces in China to withdraw our troops
from Pekin after due conference with
the ofher commanders as to the time
and manner of ithdrawwal." Up to
the present our government has not
changed its policy in this matter of
withdrawing our troops from China
as soon as this could be done consi-tently.
It is intimated that the pros- <
poet for securing these objects through
completely harmonious action by the '
powers, is brightening every day. It is
felt that this is a time for compromise
propositions as between the Russian
and German designs in China, and such
preparations now form the substance
of nearly all the diplomatic exchanges
which are in dailv nroeress. The con
tinuanre of quiet in Pekin, tending tc
reassure the Chinese officials, Is believed
to be rapidly hastening negotiations
for a final settlement. There is
the best of reason to believe that ,
were the Chinese government once asj
sured of the personal safety of its mem?
bers, were it relieved of a fear of di?- \
memberment of China, and the menace ,
of a large forign force in the capital, ,
the imperial court, including the Dm- (
peror and Empress Dowager, would
lose no time in returning to Pekin and ,
opening negotiations for a settlement.
Hence the suggestion has been thrown ,
out that the allied forces in Pekin be
reduced to a number sufficient to ensure
the immediate safety of the legations,
while the remaining forc-s retire
beyond the walled city, pershapa
to Tien-Tsin, and if the progress of the
negotiations seem to warrant u, per- (
haps be withdrawn altogether from
Chinese soil.
There are only two obstacles to
the execution of this plan. One is the
difficulty of framing suitagle guarantees
for the continuance to a satisfactory
conclusion of the negotiations for
the final settlement The other is the ?
uncompromising attitude of the pow- '
ers.
It is now believed that the difficulty J
as to guarantees can be satisfactorily
adjusted. The other obstacle may ba
overcome by a threatened isolation of
the refractory power: for it is believed
that no one pgwer would care to pursue
a ar upon China wthen the other
powers had deliberately express their
Judgment that further hostilities were
unwarranted. Beside, hostilities under
such conditions, tending to injure the
Interests of ibe other poers inw China,
might be regarded by thtm as authorizing
a joint demand upon the single
powers for guarantee, hick"*,vouId ba
very difficult to mee.
For this reason it is hoped that the
powers can be brought to a~t in harmony
in the matter of the evacuation
of Pekln and it is entirely possible, H
this plan is expected, that all of thf
American troops, save a small numbet
left to guard the legation at Pfkin
nan ho withdrawn frnm China b?fr>ri
the winter sets in. It ill not be neces
sary to delay the negotiations until thi
vacation is completed.
Wants Missionaries to Stay in Japan
Jackson, Mass., Special.?Bishop
Chas. B. Galloway, of the Southern
Methodist Church, and formerly in
charge of the Chinese missions, has addressed
a strong letter to the foreign
mission board, urging that all mis-,
sionaries stationed in China and now
at home on leave, be returned immediately
and rendezvoused in Japan,
until such time until they can be sent
to their charges.
?a M1?U
many mnu iu viv?<
Manchester, England, Special.?At a
meeting of the cotton spinners here it
was decided, practically unanimously,
not to purchase American spot cotton
during the month of September. Fourfifths
of the employers in the trade
were represented. It Js anticipated
that the decision will lead to the closing
of scores of milU for several
weeks. Only three manufacturers odposed
the resolution and their objec.
tion was that it was not strong
enough, and it should bind the trade
to stop the consumption of cotton and
not merely stop purchasing it,
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PRIZES FOR WHEAT GROWERS. '
Some Timely Suggestions on Wheat
Culture.
Greenville, -Special.?The presentation
of the prizes, awarded in the
wheat contest in our county during th?
past season was made according to announcement
in the court house. Although
there was a large number of
farmers in town the attendance on
this meeting was very slim, politics
appearing to predominate ewery other
interest. The meeting, of which Col.
R. E. Bowen was elected chairman
was interesting as an interchange of
experiences among some of the farmers
present, and in its course some ral-?
uable practical hints were thrown out.
The preparation for and cultivation o(
the wheat crop was the topic of die*
CUS810U.
The value of sowing thet land, in*
tended for wheat, in peas as a fertilize!
was strongly emphasized. It was
brought out that fine wheat crops arej
made on the same land, year after,
year, where peas are made to follow;
the wheat and turned under. In en-{
riching land for truck-farming several
crops of peas are sown in a single season,
each crop being turned under
when about 8 or 10 inches high. Pees,
it was pointed out, do not need cotton
seed meal as a fertilizer, but some
phosphate is necessary.
The method of preserving the grain
when cut, were next touched upon, and
the concensus of opinion was, do not
thrash your wheat while it is damp. Ik
is far better, even in such exceptionally
wet weather as we had during the
past season, to leave it capped in the
field and let it iry perfectly when
clear weather does come ttian to thresh
it when at all wet D. W. Ebaugh, of
the Mountain City roller mills, said
that it was impossible to get prettyflour
from grain threshed when damp,
no matter how carefully it may be afterwards
dried.
Stacking in small shocks hi the iield
was also suggested. Mr.. B. M. Moore
puts five bundles to the shortc, four'
forming the shock and the fifth used as
a cap, and is very much pleased with
the results; much less likelihood of
the grain sprouting when put in small'
shocks.
The successful contestants, J. F. MeKenzie
and J. D. Sullivan, explained
their methods of cultivation. No^
enough plowing in the preparation ofj
the land was emphasized as the greatest
defect in raising this valuable crop.
In their cases the ground had been v
plowed and cross-plowed three or four
times before the grain was sown, and
so the manure was thoroughly incorporated.
TV* a vewAna nrnro than oirAn
i uc raiivuo |/i iaw vrct v ?uv?>
out, and a resolution adopted, urging
the farmers in view of the success attending
this contest, to pay yet more
attention to wheat raising aa a cash
crop.
Approaching State Fair.
It is now not quite two mouths until
the State Fair of 1900 will have come.
Every effort possible is being exerted"
to m&K6 in? <3ZU cLUUUiU icur VI J7T7VUliar
interest and a succeee in every way.
The society will pay the freight on all
exhibits inside the State when chipped
"released." Only two counties so far
have given notice that they will bavo
county displays. The premiums foe
the displays axe worth contesting for.
On page 23 of the premium list full in-t
formation Is given. The premiums for
stock have been greatly increased over
previous fairs and it would be well for
all who are In a position to become
exhibitions to send for a copy of the
premium list. The various railroads
have been asked for the same rates of
passage as were in force for the last
fair. The proposed improvements on
the grounds of the society will add
grettly to the comfort and convenience
of exhibitors and of visitors. The race
miroo* at the coming meet amounts to
$2,500?$1,000 more than heretofore.
This will be an Inducement for firstclass
horses to contend for the purses
offered. The Columbia, fair committee
has organized and is at work in
the furtherance of a successful fair.
New York Race Riots.
New York, Special.?Former PoITca
Commissioner Frank Moss, on behalf
of the recently-organized Citizens' Prot
tective League, preferred charges
against Chief of Police Devery, Ins pec*
tor Thompson and Acting Captain
Cooney, of the West Thlrty-seventhl
street station. He accuses them of bru
tanty, nGgiect 01 uuiy ^uu luwiupr'
tency In iheir method treating the recent
race riots in the west side.
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Tickets Sent Out.
The State Democratic executive ecanmittee
has had a full supply of tickets
printed for use In the second primary
election to be held next Tuesday and
packages of them are being expressed
-v - 1 ofttroral
to tD county cnairurcu ui
counties of the Slate. The boxes will
doubtless be ready in each county by
the end of the -week and the managers
of election will find them ready for
them when they call to get them ca
Monday next Secretary Gunter has
been sending out instructions to all
county chairmen in regard to promptly
reporting the result cf tiro second pr.'-?
mary electior
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