The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 27, 1901, Image 2
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TOWN SWEPT AWAY
Place of 2,000 Inhabitants Wiped Out
By High Waters.
A RIVAL OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
Keystone, West Virginia Visited By a
Cioud Burst, and 600 Lives Said to
nave oeen losi.
Bluefield. W. Va., This entire section
has just been visited by a flood the extent
of which in all probabilities will
equal or exceed that of Johnstown i:i
1SS9. so far as the loss of property is
concerned. Early Saturday morning
shortly after midnight, a heavy downpour
of rain began, accompanied by a .
severe electric storm, and steadily increased
in violence until 10 o'clock in
the morning, then ceasing for several
hours and beginning again with renewed
violence. This continued throughout
the entire day and night and at
10 o'clock Sunday morning, while the
storm had abated, the lowering clouds
indicated another terrific downpour at
any moment. Many miles of the Ncr
1U1A OC \\ C3U'l 11 naniuau nav n, ui tu^g
an-l telegraph lines are entirely destroyed
and communication is entirely
cut off west of Elkhorn. so that it is
impossible to learn the full extent of
the loss of life and property, but officials
of the coal operations located in
the stricken district have s<nt*out messengers
to Eikhorn, the terminus cf
both tele graphic and railroad communication,
and have received a report that
a conservative est mate as to th,- loss of
life will ^r.-ily rea h 200. Some of the
drcwae.: ace among the most prcmir.er.t
citioc r.s -f the coal fields.
The rccr.hontas coal field is lccat'd
in a basin, with hi&h mountain rang s
on cither side. Elkhorn creek flows
through the centre cf the basin which
ran;, s :. .n one-fourth to cne mi'e in
width. From Ennis ,\V. Va., to Vivian
Yard. \V. a distance cf ten miles,
miners' c.v ins, coal company commissaries
and cake plants line this basin.
Elkhorn r :k. being fed by numerous
small streams coming from the mountain
side.-, rises very rapidly an-l thhs
WatCrSpOUi I'.liUC SJ suuutiil,. i.ia. nc
entire lr.s'n between the ra.unta'n
ranges was flooded and b-fore th^ terror
stricken people realized what was
upon thsm they were carried down by
the flood, which swept everything in its
path.
' The little town of Keystone, with a
population of about 2.0C0 seems the
greatest sufferer. practically the entire
town being washed away. This town is
the principal one in the Pocahontas
coal fields and is located near its
centre. It was to a great extent headquarters
from which the mining population
purchased supplies and was al-o
the only place in the field where whirkey
could be purchased. At this place
there were some 12 or 15 saloons .all of
which were washed away. The : opart
to lies that the mining population arc
Haw ceuupyins the banks of the;
streams below, catching the merchandise
and barrels of whiskey and be r
as they float down. A great number ?r
the coal ar.J coke plants throughout
the Pc.or.ontas field are report u pra- -
ticallv destroyed and in some instance
entirely washed away. Cn account of
the very high water which has fl iod <1
the region and prevented com.munie.ition.
anything like a correct estimate
of to !es of property is impossible l u:
from the best information obtainable
at 2 p. m.. the loss to properrty will
casiiy rea<h into the millions.
Ac Landgraf the beautiful home of
General Manager Crd is reported gone,
but his family is said to be safe. Passenger
train No. 4 of the Norfolk
& Western Railway reached Wvian
Yard, the western terminus of the coal
field, about S:30 a. m., met the flood
and was unable to proceed further. The
waters reached such a dc-pth that toll
coaches had to be abandoned, the passengers
being rescued by means of
ropes strung from the windows of
coaches to the tops of remaining coke
ovens some distance away. Between
Elkhorn and Vivian Yard, a d.stance
of ten miles, 100 cars are said to be
?."-v..,,! tVio = anrt manv of
them carried down the streams. A
rough estimate places the number if
bridges washed away between Bluefield
and Vivian Yard, a distance of IS
miles, at from 13 to 20 and from present
indications it will be impossible to
get trains through to Vivian and
points west of there under a week or
ten days. This will render it impossible
to get relief into the stricken discvet
and with these who escaped with their
lives, homeless and without food, in describable
suffering is inevitable.
On the Clinch Valley branch of the
tNorfclk & Western Railway, between
this city and Norfolk. Va.. communication
is entirely cut off west of Taz? well..
Va. Reports come from that
point cf great loss of life and property
throughout the entire section. In
Shakeraa. a negro settlement on the
' outs.-.irts of Tazewell, the water star 's
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to a depth of six or eight inches in the
street and houses, all of the occupants J
having been removed to points of safety
by moans of a boat.
New York. Special.?Henry Fink, ;
president of the Norfolk & Western '
Itailroad, was seen at his hotel in r ffnom
General Manager L. E. Johnson,
erence to the West Virginia d:saster.
Mr. Fink was in receipt of a dispatch
of the system. Mr. Johnson's head- (
quarters are in oan .ke. Va.. from which
place he telegraphed. He said that the
joss of life was reported to be ve v i
large ar.d that it was estimated tha;
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flDOUC t;oo persons iiau pcnsuc i. i us
damage to the Norfolk & Weste n
property, he stated, was all to rails ami
bridges on te Dluestone and Nor.h
Fork branches. M. Fink said: "The
amount of money loss cannot at pres
ent be estimated. As to the less cf c
life, the country is not so very thickly
settled around there and 1 cannot but
believe that it has been exaggerated. a
It is al in the coal regions and the poo- r
pie are principally miners. The fleo.l e
must have been due to a cloud burst, as 11
the dispatch from Mr. Johnson states L
that te damage to our property is cn
the Bluestone and North Folk 3
branches, one of which is east and the 1
other weet of the Flat Top Mountains, t
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After riexican flurderers. e
Austin. Tex., Special.?The Mexican i
murderer of Sheriffs Morris and Clover [
4s still at large with the American r
posse in pursuit. Sheriff Davis, of this 2
t'OUTliy, wnu II as iciuiutu. aa?a u: uuca : >
not believe the Mexican is in this part 3
of the country. Captain Joe Shelly, of |.
the State Rangers, took Tomaseo Cortez.
a brother of the fug tive murder. c
to Karnes cotinty on a charge of horse. 3
thieving and of being implicated in the i
murder. He has been in jail here sev. g
eral days, with another man who is bo- f
lieved to be connected with the sans,
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Negro Preacher Lynched.
LaGrnnge, N. C.. Pp-c al.?D. R. I=
n
Jones, the negro preacher, who, it 3 I
allege 1. attempted t> assar. t Mr.!'
Noah Davis, near l.aGr: nge Mordiy ll
was taken from the guard house he:?;"
Wednesday night and lynched. Litilj!'
can be learned here of the aifa'.r s.va ''
that during the night crks of distress 1
and pistol shots were he.rd aid it wa- 1
found the lock-up had been broken inra 1
and the negro had disappeared.
To f i finv.^rr.m
Denver. C; 1., Spec'al.?The Tira s r
says: "A gigantic scheme is under way
to transfer the railrcals of the Unite 1 '
Stales to the government. A Western :
financier declares that w th n a few 3
v. ars the Rockfeller. Harriman, v. n- \
derbilt, Gould and Mo: ran inte esto :
would turn ovtr to the gcvc.nxcu. '
every line of the railroads in the coutt- 1
try. the gove:ntr.ent to pay the to a' J
value of about $10.CGO.CO\OCO, a sirln:; :
of banks to be controlled by the same !
interests to finance the deal."
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Preacher Shoots a Dentist. I
Berkley, Cal.. Special.?Dr. G. J. Jes- i
sup, a dentist, v.as shot and fatally !
wounded by Rev. Chas. Adams, former- J
ly an Episcopal minister. It is stated
that Adams' daughter called Jcs^up by
telephone and asked him to come to !
h*r home and prevent her father from j
whipping her. When Jessup arrived 11
at the Adams house and remonstrated ;
with him, Adams drew a revolver and ,
shot the dentist through the breast. 11
Adams is in jail and Jcssup is dying. I.
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LABOR WORLD. I '
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1*110 printers of Bristol, Va have JI
formed a union. I
There are 114.020 British fishermen :
owning 27,1 II boats. !
France lias 2!)8 collerieg, with a joint |
yield of 2."i,000,0d0 tons a year.
The stage hands and scene shifters i'
of ltichmoud, Va., have formed a I'
union.
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The paper mills strike at Iloiyoke,
Mass.. has been declared off, the strik- '
ITS winning. '
Foal miners' wages in Front Britain 1
have advanced lifly to eighty per cent,
in two years. t
President O'Oonncll has l?eon re- '
elected i?y tli International Maciiin- t
isis' Association.
Servant girls are becoming scarce '
in Berlin because of the greater pupu- 1
larity of factory labor. :
It lias been decided by the Woman's '
International Labor League to start '
to organize a servant girls' union in '
Chicago.
Work in tiie Woolwich arsenal. Eng
land, has now somewhat slackened 1
down, nud many hands have been dis- {
charged.
Only about twenty per cent, of the {
waiters in German hotels and restaurants
receive any wages, as they are expected
to live on their fees. I
The lishing industry of France has
remained stationary for seventy years.
There are 12.000 fishermen to-day;
just the same number as in 1830. *
Officials of the Trackmen's Union,
at Montreal. Quebec, announce that
3000 to 3500 of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company's trackmen have
struck for an increase of wages. This
is ninety per cent, of the total. !
Judge Baker, in District Court, at 1
Omaha, Neb., decided that tlie female
labor law of Nebraska, prohibiting em- r
ployers from working female employes 1
for more than sixty hours n week. Is t
constitutional. The court held that
It was necessary in order to protect ;
the D"blie l^aUh, . I
4RP Ofi SUICIDES,;
barlow Philosopher Finds Unhealthy
Condilion of Minds.
POPPING .WOOD IS A SIRE Cl'RF
Relations Between Physical and Mei
tal Labor Are Discussed By the
*? en p.nowii ? riicr.
The increasing prevalence of suii'.des
indicates an unhealthy condition
>f mind and body and I have though:
hat if the man would quit thinking
ibout his troubles and go to chopping
rood or digging in the garden, or even.
10 hunting and get up a good cricu.aion
he would feel better and conclude
o live on a while longer. The body
iffeets the mind and when the blood in
he veins gets thick and sluggish and
he secretions become stagnant, the
aind gets diseased and morbid, the
imotions are out of tune and the man
ctually believes he would find rest and
)eace in death. It is strange that any
nan of education or refinement would
ntertain such an unreasonable hope.
Vhat did the schoolteacher of Dothaa
iccomplish by killing Dr. McNeil and
limself? Where is the schoolteacher
low? When two enemies fight a duel
und both are killed, how do their spirts
meet in the ether world? Do they
hake hands or renew the fight, for. of
ourse, they are not in heaven? What
lets the young man accomplish by
killing his sweetheart and then him;elf?
Are they not then forever separitcd?
What does anybody gain by sni ide?
As Hamlet says: "Is it not better
o bear tho ills we have than fly to
>thers that we know not of?" Why not
un away from yourself? Run to the
'/oods?keep on running?jump the
)ranees, sv.ini the rivers, get wet, get
ired?work in the garden, dig, hoe,
hop wood, mount a horse and ride f t iously?anything
to divert the disrased
mind from its train of thought,
lly good old father was afflirted with
heumatism and when he feit the acute,
igonlzing pains coming on he would
otJse up and limp away and nnke
or the farm, and would walk faster
tnd fas'ter as the pains increased, and
vould actually make them ashamed
.nd ihcy would leave hint for a day or
wo. To keep the mind in a good, noraal
condition the body must be exerised.
Sedentary or upaUons are not
calthy for men. and even women
;hould fly around the house with a
>room or wash the windows occasion!lv.
or din among the flowers. It \*dl
lot do for them to sit and sew all the
ime. I am sorry for these unmarried
tirls who have to run the machine all
he day long and got no healthy exercise
except for the ankle bones. When
hey get married and the babies come
.long they are pretty safe, for little
.hildren give a mother diversion
?nough. A mother with a babe in her
irms never thinks of suicide. Even if
aer husband is cruel to her cr is a
irunkard, she will live on and cn for
he sake or tiie cuv.u. ?e n.-ie i-;-i
Tiost of the suicide's occur among the
>*ot'.ng men and are caused from intemeiance
or disappointed love or failure
o make money fast, or being caught .'n
mbezzlement (alias stealing). Othello
iilled himself because he found out
hat he had wrongfully killed his wife,
nd Shakespeare says "he was great of
lenrt." I reckon he was. considering
hat he was a Mcor and did not believe
n a heareaftcr. It was the best thing
ind the most heroic thing that he
'ould do. It was the very intensity of
:rief and repentance and has no paralel
in modern suicides, for most all of
hem are selfish cr revengeful. It was
ike the Harikiri of Saul, or of the anient
generals when defeated in b.ttle.
The most alarming feature about
h'se suicides'of our young men is the
ndication that they are not believers
:i the Christian religion. No sine mm
will take his own life if he believes in
tieaven and hell and a future state of
rewards and punishments. He will be
ifraid to. The iniluenee of modem fic:ion
on the youthful mind has much to
lo with it. for a great deal of it is
aintpd with atheism and infidelity.
Even some of the standard writers,
inch as Hume and Disraeli had left
heir bad impression. The latter threw
i dark shadow over life and says that
'youth is a blunder, manhood a strug;le
and old age a regret.
Is it not far better to take a more
lopeful view of Iffe and say like the
'cet, Horace Smith:
The world is very lovely! Oh, my God.
I thank thee that I live."
> to say like Longfellow?
"Life Is real?life Is earnest.
And the grave is not its goal."
It is easy to diagnose a poet's temjerament
of a philosopher's by his
Writings?some are gloomy and some
ire bright and cheerfful. I was rumimting
about these young men who
*"ve just graduated at my alma mater
uid the other home colleges, and wonicring
how many of them would prove
i success in life and twenty years
icnce exclaim with the poet, "Oh, my"
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roi. I thank The* that I live." Fi'.yfanr
years ago I was at Athens, in the
.lass of '47 and of the forty-two timn
living there ai ^ now font half a (1 zc i
left. Many of then live I and died rn:l
' made r.o signs. Sonm of t :om raw
{rouble and some made good oii.z ns.
rood husbands and fathers; and just
; history repeats ir-c ail along the
generations. It grieved ino that I end!
not attent the contpnnial and commune
with the al.tmni an l rejoh? with t ie
young and feel lonely with the old.
Then there is old college and new college,
and the chapel and the campus
and the two halls that are still i n
'hanged. I wonder how many hoy
have occupied the old rocm that Id s
cose and I lived in for two long ye.r3I
saw it in the picture and fe!t iik> it
was still my room. The ailanthus
trees (by a misnomer called the tree
of heaven) grew close to our window?
and extended their nauseating odors to
dormitory where we slept, and the b )vs
all along the line complained, but the
"oia !? orrmlH corn nis? AWAV
laruuj oaiti n .. , ?,
and the trees were imported from
China, the Celestial Empire, and .hey
were called the trees of heaven. So one
dark night the boys (not I) got axes
and girdled them and they died ml
went to heaven in China, where ther
:ame from. For some months l roomea
I in new college, and so did'our tutor,
! who was cross and never smiled, for
I tie was an old bachelor?peace to his
' ishes. He wouldent let me net Chess
i Howard play on the flute after study
| bours at night, nor let Ben Moseley nor
i Dick Fafmer play on the fiddle. Said it
. annoyed him, and so some of the boys
(not I) got some old cannon balls from
the armory and away in the dead hour
of night, when deep sleep falleth upon
a man or a tutor, they rolled a s xpounder
along the long hall 200 feet
j *ight by his door, which was about
] midwayi When it got to the other end
another boy slipped out and rolled it
back again, and the rolling and rumbling
was kept up for a time until there
happened just what they thought
would hanpen. The tutor had opcnnl
, i track in nis aoor. ana waen ne n a n
the ball coming lor the ftftth time he
slipped out suddenly and stopped it
1 with his foot and picked it up and took
I t in his room. That was just what the
| boys (net 1) wanted, for they had
another one in the fire getting hot. In
J due time they took it in the shovel an 1
sent it slowly down the hally, and it
stopped not far from his door. Quickly
j ho stepped out and the light from his
'room showed hiin the ball. He seized
t with his right hand and straightway
dropped at and use l some language
that was unbecoming, and retreated to
his room. The next day his hand was
tied up in a white* handkerchief, which
was a kind of flag of truce, for he was
much more considerate to us and seemed
to like music. I never perpetrated
much mischief while in college, but I
was an apt scholar to look on and enJoy
all the fun. Chess Howard was an
expert, and could play ball belter than
inybody. especially a hot cannon ball.
Chess came to see us some time ago
and after while asked me and my wire
to give them some music. And so she
seated herself at the piano and I took
my flute and asked what he would I ke.
And he said play that good old piece
that we used to call "Sallie Baxter"'
when we went serenading in Athens.
So we played it, and before we were
aware of it Chess had slipped his own
flute out of his pocket and was tooting
along behind me. Sallie was our college
sweetheart, but we dident get her,
for a Bird flew there and she followed
I him off to Baltimore and is living there
ret. But we never thought of suicide.
I But I forbear. It is sweet and it's sad
I to recali the memories of '45, '46 and
47, tand I would have felt lest and
!_ I niao o nrvllecp thpn
loneiy 111 Auinis. n. ?uo ?
It is a great university now, and many
" hanees have como over it, and we old
veterans have to keep up wifi the profession
whether we like the modern
methods or not. They have got intercollegiate
baseball in the curriculum
now and I reckon it is to keep the boys
from committing suicide. It diverts
:heir minds from the strain of trigonometry
and calculus and conic seclions.
Progress is the order of the day
in colleges as in everything else. Ona
hundred and fifty years ago old Dr.
Johnson said to Boswell, "In our great
?i?1? .ioco than for
SI'IlUUia 111 civ: io iVdtf 'CD--0
meriy. Consequently, less is learned
there. So whr.t the hoys get at one end
and they lose at the o ner." Now there
is no flogging anywhere, and the te tellers
and professors are thankful if they
escape it from the boys.?Bill Arp in
Atlanta Constitution.
Lord Kitchener's Laconic Way.
Lord Kitchener has a laconic way with
/ in]. Sot many weeks ago a company
I-! newly arrived Yoemanry with a company
of Colonials were detailed to capture
a Boer laager. A friendly Boer
volunteered to show the way and left
them, when within sight of the fires of
the Boer laager, to make the assault as
soon as dawn appeared, uawn came
only to find the Britishers themselves
unounded by Boers. There was one
gap in the coruon. ana n.r uus gap me
Yoemanry made, their officer at their
head, leaving their Colonial comrades
with the guns to tackle the Boers a#
best thdy could. In due course the Yoemanry
came to General Clements' camp,
and lie wired to Lord Kitchener: '"Company
your Yoemanry turned up; what
shall I do with them?" The reply was
almost immediate: "I#?cp them as far
from me as they kept from the Boers."
Last year the Pacific Coast salmon
pack reached 3.215.SG9 cases, the largest
pack on record. i
Tree niood Cure.
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) cures blood
And skin humors like ulcere, eating sores,
eczema, itching skin. aching bones and joints,
boils, scrofula, blood poison, cancer, etc. B.
B. B. cures all im.ligna.nt blood troubles, old
deep-seated cases, li-als ' very sore, makes
the blood pure and rich. Druggists. 31.
Treatment free r.nd prepaid by describing
your trouble and writing Dr. Giilam, 12 Mitchell
St. .Atlanta, Ga.
Some people are so clumsy they can't
drop a remark without breaking their
worn.
In spite of ScO,000,0i)0 expenditures on
Canadian canals the railroads are boatinj
them in traffic.
Coventor nincUburn
Always said that Crab Orchard Water wonM
eu?e more diseases than any one remedy lis
had ever used. ?
The lazy man firmly believes that half ft w
loaf is better than none.
New LTp-To\vn Ofttcc, New York City.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway has opened
an up-town office at 1183 Broadway, New
York City, c rner Twenty-Eighth street. I?
down-town passenger office, at 387 Brocdway,
is still maintained. Any information
as to tickets, rates, sleeping car reservations,
building and manufacturing sites in the
South, etc.,cheerfully furnished at this office.
It is better to break good resolutions
than never to have had any.
FITS permanently cured. N'o fits or nervont
new after first day's uso or Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. 92 trial bottle and treatise frea
Dr. K. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 ArcnSt., Phila., Pa.
Kven the meanest o? men are liberal
with advice.
E. B.HTalthall <t Co., Druggists, Hone Cave,
Ky.. say: "Hall's Cavarrh Cure cures every
one that takes it." Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Missouri's convicts cost -$80,000 last year
and earned for the State 983,991.
Mrs. TYinalow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
The lumberman has to work for his
board.
Plso's Care is the best medicine we e>er nsed
for all affections of throat and lun,,a.?We. t
0. Endslet, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10,1900.
London's Stock Exchange recently celebrated
its hundredth anniversary.
TVe refund 10<\ for every package of Prrnam
Fadeless Dvf. that fails to give satisfaction,
Monroe Drug Co.. Unionrille, Mo,
Of nil thp newsmDers nublished in the
"rvorltl sixty-eight per cent, are in the English
language.
It doesn't take a hoarse voice to say
"nay."
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It is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting,
Tired, Aching, Hot. Sweating Feet, Corns
and Bunions. A'k for Allen's Foot-Ea e. a
powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures
while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FiiEE. Address,
Alien S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Pe j!s who wear squeaky shoes> sometime
delude themselves with the thought
that they have music in their soles.
Even the bee in a bonnet may have a sting
in Its tail. So. 26.
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DAVIDSON, N. C.
For two-third< of a century Davidson
has been noted among r-ourhern < olleges
lor ttie thoroughness of its training, the anility
o' its r a ulty, and the atmosphere of
morality and honor on Its c ampus. It invites
the attention of every parent who wi?hes o
give his son a thorou h class c il or so.ent 3a
education under influences conducive to tu?
hivhest type of character.
Foe Catalogues, etc., address
henry louis smith, \
PRESID1NT.
Medical college of Virginia,
IC>tM hi tolled 1838.
The "-ixty-fourth session will commene#
October 1st. ltol. Department of Medicine, fotw
Tears course, fee* 5V>.tW per session. Department of
. eiitl?try, three year? course, fees d'J.i/J per see?l>ia.
Department of Pharmacy. t*o years course, fee#
ft .00 per session. For further particulars ana Cat*
Iogue address.
CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS, M D., to,
HM'H.TIO.N D, VA.
1838. 1901.
Greensboro female college,
GKKKN8BOKO, N. V.
Literary and Business Courses. Schools of
Muslu, Art and Elocution. Literary Course
and all liviug expenses ?200 per year. Fall
> session beglus Sept. lito. l'.Ol. Catalogue
on application. Dbed Feacock, Pres't.
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