The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 12, 1905, Image 13
PgOV. LOWNDES DEAD
iFormer Chief Mag'strate of Maryland
^ Passes Suddenly Away
HE SUCCUMBS TO HEART FAILURE
iFormer Maryland Executive, a Factcr
in Many Financial and Industrial
Enterprises, Falls Unconscious
While Dressing For Church and Dies
Before the Arrival of Physicians.
.Cumberland, Md., Special. -Ex-Governor
Lloyd Lowndes, of Maryland,
uiru suuueaiy ai uis aui itr uric
day.
Mr. Lowndes appeared to be in his
- usual good health and spirits when
be arose this morning. He left his offlce
in the Second National Bank late
Saturday afternoon, went to his home,
and after dinner spent several hours
in the preparation of an address to be
delivered here at Bishop Paret's twentieth
anniversary as bishop of the
Maryland dioces of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. He then awaited
the arrival from Clarksburg. W. Va.,
of his son, Richard T. Lowndes, who
did not reach the house until past midnight
The Governor retired at about 1 a.
on. He arose at 8:30, took a bath and
began to dress, preparatory to attending
church services. A sudden fall
attracted the attention of Mrs. LownPe*
who w?!s in the room. She s''m "w
moned assistance, and the unconscious
yuiui was piaceu upon tne bed. Physicians
were hastily summoned and were
1 -a-l? -A iu . W..+ /loatk karl
qUll'KIjr ill I Lie UCUBIUC, UUI UCCM.U uc?u
ensued before their arrival. Death was
due to heart failure. >
Mr. Lowndes was born in Clarksburg,
W. Va.. Feb. 21, 1854. He is survived
by his widow,* hi3 brother, Richard T.
Lowndes, of Clarksburg, W. Va., five
sons, Llyod Lowndes. Jr.. of Cumberland;
Richard T., of Clarksburg, W.
Va.; Charles T., of Colorado Springs,
Col.; Col. W. Bladden, of Mount Savage.
Md., and Tasker G.
Many Animals Burned.
Rockingham. N. C., Special.?A Are
occurred here early Saturday morning
appalling in its nature. The livery
stable of M, L. Hinson, was destroyed
together with over thirty mule3 and
horses. All day the atmosphere of the
town has been laden with the sickening
odor of burning flesh as the charred
and half burned carcasses of the poor
animals lay among the smouldering
ruins. The fire originated about 2
o'clock. When first discovered it had
gained such headway that the stables
in which it started could not De en- j
tered. The building was an immense
wooden structure containing the
stables, wareroom and store of M. L.
Hinson and A. W. Porter & Co., and
situated in that part of town known
as "The Rockets." Mr. Hinson does a j
large live stock business and had on
hand belonging to himself and others j
33 horses and mules, all of which were
burned to death. One lone mule broke
out in some way and escaped from the i
flames, but was burned so badly that
he had to be killed.
Wrecks on British Coast.
London, By Cable.?Stormy weather
Kill continues on the British coasts,
and several shipping casualties are
* .Reported. The Glasgow steamer Stel1?
Maris Maria collided Saturday
night, seven miles off Holy Head,
with the Spanish vessel Oris, and
both sank. The crews were saved in
the boats after drifting ail night. The
balfast schooner Dispatch collided
with the Sunderland steamer Dinnington
off Ramsgate this morning. The
Dispatch was towed in, but the other
vessel is believed to have sunk with
her crew of ten men. Several other
vessels were driven ashore at different
points, their crews being rescued
with great difficulty.
Great Asemblage at Hampton Roads.
Norfolk. Va.. Special.?The United
Slates cruiser Newark, the coast defense
monitor Nevada and the converted
gunboat Scorpion left here Saturday
for Hampton Roads to join the
great fleet assembling there. Secretary
of the Navy Paul Morton. Admiral
Dewey and other distinguished officers
will arrive on Monday morning to
review the fleet. There will be about
thirty warships of all classes in the
review which will be held Monday.
Killed in a Mine.
Concord, N. C., Special.?Fred Leonard,
a young white man, was killed
at the Miami Mine Thursday, shortly
*fter noon. Two passing buckets in
a shaft became entangled at a shift
about 250 feet from the surface and
Leonard went down to see and correct
tbe trouble. The rest of the story is
unknown From this shift he was
mruwil, Cf 1CI1, lO luc uuuuui ui IUC
mine and there picked up dead, his
skull being < rushed. The body 'was
turned over to an undertaker and sent
Ja3t night to Gold Hill, where the
young man had a wife and two children.
He was about 25 years of age.
White House Conference.
Washington, Special.?An important
conference regarding legislative quesy*"
tions pending before Congress was
held at the White Houwe Saturday afternoon.
In addition to President
Roosevelt, the parties to the conference
were Speaker Cannon; Senators
Allison, of Iowa: Aldrich, of Rhode
Island; Spooner, of Wisconsin, and
Piatt, of Connecticut, and Reupresentatives
Payne, of New York; Dalzell, of
Pennsylvania; Grosvenor, of Ohio, and
Tawney, of Minnesota.
SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON CROP
Two Hundred Thousand Bales Not !
Yet Sold?It Is Being Held For j
Higher Prices, and at Ten Cents a
Pound Would Bring Ten Million :
Dollars.
"A. K." In the Charleston. (S. C.) J
News and Courier, has this to say of j
the cotton crop of Soutn Carolina:
The New Year has dawned wun j
prosperity and good feeling all over
South Carolina. The cotton situation
is a serious one, but fortunately the
terrible slump came after the State
had gotten fully on its feet in a financial
sense, and the bulk of the cotton
now being held is in the hands of those
best able to hold it. A representative
of a large cotton buying firm was
sent here from New York about ten
days ago, and he has persistently tried
to buy cotton, but in the ten days he
has not bought over two hundred bales.
This shows that there is no disposition
to sell and that the holders do not
have to sell.
The next question is: Is the cotton
here?
It certainly is, and it is being held
for better prices, and those who hold
it are not going to sell at present
prices, simply because they do not
have to.
A close observer from Orangeburg
County, the banner cotton county of
this State, and the second largest cotton
producing county in the country,
according to the census, hm about 20,000
bales on hand in the possession of
the original producers. It is estimated
that Orangeburg County raised this
year 88,000 bales of cotton, and of this
amount it is stated that 5,000 bales are
rr <n A molio Tnn'nchin
UUTf UVIUft UV1U ?U ? v > r I
alone, and the remaining fifteen or
twenty townships of Orangeburg Coun
ijr uv.rj enough to a total of 20,00o
bales in the bands of the producers ip
that county.
It ig this way in Anderson, and in
fact all over the State. A gentleman
from Anderson County said the other
day that the cotton mills arc holding
cotton for farmers, and that in addition
the .ware houses over the State
are well filled with cotton.
It is estimated that fully 200,00*
bales of cotton are being held in South
Carolina, which at ten cents a pound,
are worth $10,000,000. It is further
stated that most of the cotton mills
have bought pretty freely and have
their supplies on hand, with allowances
for filling in orders from the
home territory. Many of the cotton
mills of the State bought cotton when
it was very much higher than it is today.
$60,000 Fire at Greenville.
Greenville, Special.?Starting at 3
o'clock Tuesday morning, fire destroyed
two tobacco warehouses, four
nrixp houses and several smaller
buildings, together with a half million
pounds of leaf tobacco. The total
loss is fully 160,000; insurance $40,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The losers were: R. A. Tyson, E. H.
Thomas & Co., Evans, Hooker & Co.,
C. W. Harvey, Greenville Warehouse
Company, R. F. Betts, J. E. Hughe3 &
Company, R. O. Jeffress, S. M. Schultz,
Thomas &. Greene, T. B. Ficklen Bailey
& Andrews, the Euvita Company.
Stossel Cables the Emperor.
Tokio, Special.?By permission of
the Japanese General Stoessel sent
a cable message to the Emperor of
Russia. The mesage recites the fact
that the Port Arthur commander was
forced to surrender, announced the
terms granting the officer's parole and
con/1 Kic onm.
QOAO UiC i^UiyviVI w/ OVU^ uto VWM?
mands.
Col. McColl Dead.
Bennettsville, Special.?Col. C. S.
McColl, Senator and one of the most
prominent citizens of Marlboro county,
died here Saturday after a short illness.
His death was a great shock to
the entire community.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick arrived in
CleveJand, Ohio, and was released on
bail to answer charges of aiding his
wife in passing a forged check.
Senator John H. Mitchell and Representative
Binger Hermann, who
have been indicted in connection with
the Oregon land fraud, denounce this
action as a conspiracy.
Rev. Ingram N. W. Irvine, it was
understood, failed in his mission to
Huntingdon, Pa., in that his former
parishioners there whose names appear
on the presentment against Pish- ?
op Talbot, still repudiate their signa- ,
tares.
uripery or omciais is aaiegea iu
have caused the defeat of Governor
Garvin, of Rhode Island.
Lynchings In 1904 were fewer than
in any year since 1885, the number
being 89.
Frank Gardner, aged 17, was rescued
from drowning by the heroism
of a girl rear Delaware, N. J.
An unusual political situation has
developed from the proposition to regulate
railroad rates.
Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
jays the government should own all
buildings used for it for Federal purposes,
both in the United States and
abroad.
The Geological Survey announces
that the new gold fields of Nevada
promise to become among the most
important.
William McKean, of Baltimore, who
i cached Norfolk, declares he was captured
and held prisoner on a Chesapeake
Bay oyster boat.
THE SOUTB'S WEALTH
Notable Increase Shown During The
Past Pear
A STFAnV INFIHY ftF C A PIT AI
? k# liii uva vi vni i i n&?
The Remarkable Gain in Diversified
Agriculture Notable?The Increase
in the Taxable Value of Property
40 Per Cent?As Great as the Increase
in the Preceeding 20 Years.
Baltimore, Md., Special.?The Manufacturers'
Record presents this week
the approximate figures of the assessed
valuation of the property in all the
Southern States at the beginning of
1905, publishing a table showing by
States a total assessed valuation of
$4,510,925,237 in 1890, of $5,266,594,044
in 1900 and of $6,196,697,813 in 1904.
Commenting upon these figures The
Manufacturers' Record says:
' These figures, subject in part to revision?and,
it is believed in the case
of two or three States, several million
dollars below what will be shown by
the final returns on-assessed values?
indicate the remarkable advance in
material wealth in the South between
1900 and 1904. During that period, as
shown by these figures, there was a
gain of more than $930,000,000, or at an
average rate of $230,000,000 a year.
The magnitude of this increase is
strikingly illustrated when compared
witn trie progress in tne decade between
1890 and 1900, when the total
increase in assessed valuation was
$755,000,000, or at the rate of $75,000,000
a year. It was during that decade
that the price of cotton fell to its lowest
point since the war, but during the
last four years there was a steady advance
to the exaggerated speculative
value of the early part of last year.
It may not be possible to connect with
exactness the increase in the price oi
cotton and the enhancement in the assessed
values of property in the South
but that higher prices do have a ma
terial bearing upon the prosperity,
goes without question.
"In studying this question, however,
it should be borne in mind that during
that last few years the increase in
diversified agriculture in the South
has been almost as marked as the increase
in the value of cotton, and added
to this is the really wonderful industrial
development. The remarkable
change from the low price of cotton of
six or seven years ago is hardly more
striking than is the increase in the production
of grain, fruits, vegetabjes
and other farm nroducts. Tho total i
increase in the assessed valoe of property
in the South in the 20-year period
from 18S0 to 1900 was $2,310,000,000;
or, in other words, in the last four
years the gain in the taxable value in
the South has been 40 per cent as
great as the total gain of the proceeding
20 years.
Bearing on the increase in the assessed
value of property, The Manu>
facturers' Record gives in detail statistics
showing the great development of
diversified farming in the South, which
in connection with industrial development
has been a potent factor in the
enrichment of that section, and says: *
"By reason of the short crop and
high prices of cotton in 1903 and-the
large crop and lower prices in 1904,
the world's attention has been so closely
centered upon cotton that the remarkable
development in diversified
agriculture throughout the South, now
one of the most marked features of
Southern farming operations, has been
to a considerable extent overlooked.
In l?u3 the South produced such an
exceptionally large grain crop that it
was hardly to be expected that there
would be a further increase in 1904,
although there is practically no limit
to the South's capabilities in the development
of diversified farming. In
1903 the production of corn showed an
increase of 138,000,000 bushels over
1903. The aggregate production of
corn in the South for tne last two
years was 1,300,000,000 bushels,
against 900,000,000 bushels for the two
preceeding years, an increase in two
years of nearly 400,000,000 bushels.
The total value of the corn crop of
the last two years was $720,000,000
against $566,000,000 for the two preceeding
years, or a difference in favor
of the last two years of $154,000,000,
n?Ki/?K vt ma 4 a a ?ia<tUk a# a
?iv-?t ??ao quucu iu uic ncauu ui iuc
South by the increase in corn alone.
There was no material difference in
the wheat production bpt the higher
prices of wheat in 1904 made a difference
of nearly $15,000,000 to the South
as compared with the wheat crop of
1903 and a difference of $31,000,000 as
compared with the wbeat crop of 1902.
W^^jtal value of corn, wheat, oates.
Irisl^^^|f?s rye and hay produced
in the Souti^l^^,^- was $542,000,000
a gain of $3G,00u,v. - ^nared with
1903 and of $140,000,000 cu._. J ~Ith
1902. Outside of these crops
cotton, the value of other farm pi.
ducts, including rice, sugar, tobacco,
sweet potatoes, vegetables, fruits and
live stock products, was about $550,000,000,
or a total value of Southern
agriculture outside of cotton in 1904
of about $1,092,000,000. The aggregate
grain production in the South last
year was 790,000,000 bushels, against
607,000,000 bushels in 1902.
Rehearing in Rebate Case.
"Washington, Special?The inter-State
commerce commission telegraphed
President Ripley, of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad, that it
would give a re-hearing in Chicago of
the Colorado F'uel & Iron case, probably
on Friday or Saturday of next
week, though possibly not until later.
This is the case in which charges were
made of granting rebates by the railroad
to the Colorado company.
> V
I S.C. COLLEGE CENTENNIAL
! Prominent Men of Several Statee to
Make Addresses?Many Distinguish*
ed Men to Take Part in the Celebration.
Columbia. Special.?The South Caro!
lina College centenial was inaugurated
| Sunday under a perfect sky, in ideal
I temperature and with a large crowd
j 3f visitors present among them a num
bcr of noted educators from other
States. The exercises were of & re1
ligious nature, centering about two exI
cellent sermons, the one in the mornI
ing by the Rev."Dr. J. William Flynn,
| of the college faculty, and the one in
the evening by the Rev. Dr. John A.
Rice, an alumnus of the college now
living in Alabama. Both sermons
were delivered in the theatre, which
was crowded to the limit of its capacity
from dome to pit. The noted
First Regiment artillery band is up
from Charleston to furnish the music
for the exercises, which will continue
through Monday and Tuesday.
Among the alumni and other visitors
who had been assigned to homes
by the bureau of information up to
noon, were the following: David Cutting,
Sumter; David and Edward Coker,
Darlington; Chancellor Kirkl nd,
Vanderbilt University; F. M. Rob- rts,
McBee; William Cooper, Dr. Ham 'ton
Cooper, and A. T. Cooper, J. "W.,
E. A., R. C., A. O. and Dr. Frank F.
Simpson and Dr. M. M. Kinard, Newberry;
President Parker, Charleston
Medical College; Prof. Henry Lewis
Smith, Davidson College; Mr. Henderson,
Waterboro; J. B. Cleveland, Spartanburg;
Chancellor Wiggins, University
of the South; Miss Fannie Evans,
Spartanburg; Judge W. H. Brawley,
Charleston; Chief Justice Y. J. Pope,
Theo. Q. Barker, Charleston; Chancellor
Fulton, University of Mississippi;
President Walter B. Hill, University of
Georgia; President Brown Ayers, University
of Tennessee; Pnaaident Andrew
Raymond, Union College, New
York; Maj. Marlon Moise and L. C.
Moise, Sumter; J. D. McCants, Sumter;
Vice Presiident Kirpatrlck, University
of Georgia; Prof. John W.
Abercrombie, University of Alabama;
Dr. J. B. Henneman, University of the
South; John H. Corrlgan, Atlanta;
Prof. Frank Carter, (Williams College,
Mass.; Julian Mitchell, Charleston;
James Simons, Charleston; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Augustine Smythe,
Charleston; Prof. Frances P. Venable,
University of North Carolina; President
E. B. Craighead, Tulane University;
Dr. E. L. Patton, J. W. H. Hardin.
New York; E. H. Anderson, New
York; Dr. W. C. Coker, University
if North Carolina; Prof. Jesse, UniverJ
ity of Missouri; Prof. D. F. Houston,
i. and M. College. Texas; Col. T. J.
and P. V. Moore; President Andrew
Sledd, University bf Florida; C. E.
'Smith, William F. Smith, A. R. Craig;
'James A. McCullougb, Greenville; Dr.
J. H. Mcintosh, Newberry; Col. Asbury
Coward, the Citadel; Dr. Harrison
Randolph, Virginia; Profs. Shivar
and Beaty, Clemson College; Judge J.
H. Hudson, Bennettsville; W. F. B., E.
C., J. R. and G. E. Haynsworth, Sumter;
W. M. Hamer, Dillon; Dr. W. E.
Pelham. Newberry; Dr. Henry Snyder,
Wofford College; J. A. Rice, Greenwood;
Samuel McGowan, Spartanburg;
Maj. J. L. Coker, Hartsville; President
Mell, Clemson College; Prof. McLucas,
Clemson College; W. A. Bhrber, New
York; W. W. Ball, Charleston; Dr. B,
A. Elzes; Solomon Kohn, Orangeburg;
C. G, Sayre, President D. B. Johnson,
Winthrop College; Prof Murray,
Mercer University; Prof. Cyrus Northrop.
University of Minnesota; Capt.
Iredell Jones, Rock Hill; Dr. i>. Ferguson,,
Laurens; Capt J H. Brooks,
Ninety-Six; Mr. and Mrs. Bufort
4*1-1- ? TIT a rp ZTlws
ALKiUtiUU. JUUU W. ctUU JKIUCH X. ftiU*
ard and E. Marion Rucker, Anderson;
Prof. W. J. Neville, Presbyterian College
at Clinton; Prof. John L. Douglas.
Dr. J. A. B. Scberer, Newberry
College; Miss Mary Leonard, Wintbrop
College; Dr. J. H. Thorn well, E. Preston
Earle, Fort Mills; R. B. Patterson,
Prof. Charles J. Colcock, Porter Military
Academy, Charleston.
The programme includes addresses
by the Governor of South Carolina and
other prominent men.
Secretary Morton Sails.
Washington. Special.?The Dispatch
-cat Dolphin sailed from the navy yard
. ith a distinguished party bound for
iaraptcu P.oads for the purpose of re.dewing
.>.2 vessels of the North Atlan;e
fleet tomorrow, preparatory to their
.aiticipation in the naval manoeuvres
n the Carribean soa later in the winter.
The party includes Secretary Morton.
Admiral Devey and Captain Swift,
of the general board, and Lieutenant
Commanders F. L. Chapin and Spencer
a. Wood.
V. E. McBee Made Co-Receiver.
Charleston, S. C., Special?Ir th?
United States Court Judge Brawley
appointed V. E. McBeev co-receiver
with W. 1. Edwards, of the praerty
' fhe Carolina Northern Raili of
fe of South Carolina. . revitte"-..^
in the Eastern dist. of
North Car?l> named the sair, 'receivers.
but the JHer today gives'them
control in this state.
Dwyer Wins Wrestling Match.
Atlanta, Special.?M. J. Dwyer won
two out of three falls from Charles
Loenhardt, of Newark, N. J., in a
wrestling match at the Atlantic Athletic
Club. The first and third falls
won by Dwyer were catch-as-catch-can
the second fall, won by Leonhardt,
was Grecto-Roman.
Flagship Not Lost.
St. Petersburg, By Cable?Reports
hat Vice Admiral Rotjestvensky's flaghip,
the battleship Kniaz Souvaroff,
.'.as struck a rock and sunk, are unfunded.
Many Newsy Items Gathered From
all Sections.
General Cotton Market.
Middling
Galveston, steady 7
New Orleans, firm 7 1-8
Mobile, quiet 0 5-8
Savannah, easy 6 3-4
Charleston, quiet 6 3-4
New York quiet 7 10
Houston, steady 6 7-8
Memphis, steady 6 3-4
Louisville, firm 7 1-3
Charlotte Cotton Market.
These figures represent prices paid
to wagons:
Middling 6 5-8
Tinges 6 to 6 1-8
Stains 5 to 5 3-4
Charter Fees For 1904.
The annual report of the Secretary
I nf Qtnto has nhnnt hf*?n rnmnleted and
the figures regarding the fees received
have been made available. The totals
show that the amount of fees received
for 1904 was slightly under that of
1903, when the total was $18,000, but
this is explained by the fact that the
majority of the companies organized
this year were small ones with capital
averaging $10,000, while the year
previous there were many new cotton
mills and other large corporation?
formed.
The figures as prepared by Chle'
Clerk McCown are as follows:
385 declarations $ 962 bO
318 charters 795 00 '
401 eleemonsynary charters 303 00
313 notaries public 1,017 25
3 commissi oners of deeds .. 9 75 i
Certificates 53 50 i
Charter fees 7,368 20
Foreign corporations 400 00
Railroad charters and records 276 *0
Amendments 66 50
Increase of capital 2,976 90
Decrease and dissolutions . 20 00
Renewals 384 00
Miscellaneous 5 00
$4,577 70
These figures Indicate that there
was a marked advance in the incorporation
of smaller indu stries of diversified
interests, for the amount projected
in cotton mills was the smallest in a
decade.
Electric Railway For union.
Union, Special.?Union is to have
a street electric railway system in
the near futur the city council having
grjnted & ver liberal franchise to L.
G. Young ant bis associates at a
meeting Monday night. The franchise
f provides that the work shall begin
in good faith upon the construction of
the track within the town limits on
or before the first of July, 1906, and
that the railway shall be completed
and in operation within six months
thereafter, unless restrained by insuperable
obstacles and that, the franchise
ia granted exclusively to L. G.
Young and his associates for the period
of fifty years. This electric railway
will have the right to go through
all the streets and avenues that are
now or may hereafter be opened up
and will run its lines to take in the
Excelsior Knitting Mills on the soutnern
suburbs and Monarch Cotton Mills
on the eastern.
Sudden Death in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, Special.?George W.
Campbell, aged about 43 years, a white
plumber, died suddenly Wednesday
night about midnight From what
could be gathered of the matter it
seems that Campbell had been drinking
heavily of late, but he did not appear
to be drunk. He attended a
meeting of the Plumbers Union at
which he was elected president. Later
on in the night he took a walk. The
body was carried to the undertakers'
establishment of Floyd & Co., where
the inquest was held. The verdict
was that the deceased, George Campbell's
death, was due to natural
causes.
At a negro festival at Monticello, in
Pairfield county, Sam Bell killed Ben
Peay ar.d broke Dave Peay's jawbone.
Wylie Suba was shot in the back by
i party unknown. Dr. Scott does not
:hink he will die. Another negro whose
lame is unknown had his skull
:racked.
The Columbia Trust company Thurs- i
Jay declared a semi-annual dividend 1
if 5 per cent, on ^the capitalization of
>100,000. This company is the treasjrer
of the street railway company,
rod is closely allied with the National
Loan and Exchange bank, which has ]
just declared a semi-annual dividend i
)[ 3 per cent. 1
Mr. Boyd Taylor, a young white mam J
who lived near Mars Bluff in Florence .
:ounty, was found dead in the woods ]
near his home. From what can be (
learned, he went out in the woods to
haul a load of wood, and not coming
borne, search was made for him. and
his ox and cart were found and not
far from the place his body was found. .
It is supposed he died from natural
:auses. Coroner Cooper, accompanied
by Dr. N. W. Hicks, went out to hoid
an inquest, but the result of the coroner's
jury has not been learned yet.
South Carolina Items.
It is stated on good authority that '
the city of Union will some time dur- J
ing this year have another national i
bank with a capital stock of $100,000.
The promoters doN no^jKant their
names mentioned unyfl|^P>lans for
the organization hav^KeiyfuIly perfected.
This will be Ve fourth bank
at Union, which shorn that the city
lr still rapidly increling in population
and business. %
River Boat
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VESSEL WAS A COMPLETE WIECE
An Entire Side of the Towboat Defend
er Was Blown Out While Nearly Alt
the Crew Were Asleep and the
vivors Were Compelled to Ptung*
Into the Icy Waters.
Huntington, W. Va., Special.?Hgkft
nen are known to be dead and threa
seriously injured, the result of a boiler
explosion and fire which destroyed the
tow boat Defender here early Wednesday.
The dead are:
Perry Spender, mate, Point Pleasant*
Horace Wetzel, watchman, Pittsburg.
James Seese, lamp trimmer, Wellarrille.
Albert Hamilton, fireman, Pittsburg*
Mike Stafford, fireman, Plttanrg.
Thomas Duffy, fireman, Pittsburg.
Will Wetzel, deck hand.
George Kldd, deck hand.
I'.jured: Ira Ellis, second engineer;
R oert Holland, fireman; Robert Mann,
fuird cook.
The defender was owned by tha
Monongahela River Consolidated Cbal
and Coke Company, of Pittsburg. Capt.
James Woodward was in the pilot
house at the time of the accident. an?
with the exception of firemen, engineer
and the watchman, the remainder at
the crew were asleep.
Blizzard In New York.
New York, Special.?New York City*
and all the surrounding country Wednesday
was in the grasp of the moat
severe storm of the winter. Trafie
of all kinds was hampered, trolley
lines were tide up and the street^,
swept by a gale driving before it im
snow that cut like sand and piled fan
great drifts, were practically imputable.
Railroad trains from all point*
were delayed from a few minutes to
three hours, and the elevated lineo
were operated with the greatest difllculty
without regard to schedule. AC
sea the conditions must have been beyond
description, but no disaster baa
been reported. In the harbor, the ooly
point where observation could bo
had, an immense sea was running uuk
several great liners and smaller vessels
tugged all night at their chain*
in the semi-sheltered spots where they
had sought refuge from the storm.
What may have happened off shore to
any luckless craft which had to hie
the fury of the gale, only time can teU.
All over the city, morning fotmtft
trolley - cars blocked in the streets;
great drifts piled against them an*
preventing them from moving an inch.
In many of the cars were snow-bonnd
passengers, who had remained in tho
cars all night rather than face tho
blizzard in an attempt to walk to their
homes.
Four serious flres during the night;
two of them calling for, two alarms
each, gave the firemen and tbeic
horses their most bitter experience
of the winter, in one case, just Derora
dawn, and when the storm was at its
height, the occupants of steveral tenement
houses in the upper East Sidif
were routed from their beds asA
forced to flee half-clothed to the ston*
swept streets. In this case 64 horsey,
which were quartered near the tenement
house, were burned to death.
Pedestrians were compelled to forsm
tbelr way through the unbroken drift*
to the transit lines, only to find that
because of the complete surface car
tie-up, they had another trudge to th?
sub-way stations. Every station alon*
the sub-way was packed, and ttatrains
were jammed.
Although thousands of homeless unfortunates
were given shelter by thn
various charitable organizations Tuesday
night, more than a score of men,
overcome by cold, were found lyin&
about the streets -early WednesdayAll
of these probably will recover under
treatment.
$5,000 Worth of Whiskey Lost.
Columbufa, S. C., Special.?A hoop on
the Richland Distilling Company's 5,
auu-gaiion capacity tana Drone weunesday
afternon and all of the content*,
worth over $3,000, were lost, save the little
the employes scooped up with buckets
from the floor, which was covered
a foot deep. One man narrowly escaped
being drowned in the deluge oC
whhfkey.
Telegraphic Briefs. *
Tokio, By Cable?Noon.?General
Nogi reports to the Army Department
:hat on Janifary 3 the commissioner* of
both the Japanese and Russian armies
roncludcd their conference, and that
from the morning of January 4 the
actual transfer of war material* at
Port Arthur as property of the Japanese
government commenced.
Near Martinsburg 50 sticks of dynamite
placed in a bonfire exploded,
shaking the country for a mile around.
Roanoke*, after years of contest, has
jusc oanisnea me cows uuui no simw
Two Lake submarine torpedo boats
were put on the German ship Adria at
Newport News.
Will Not be Courtmartialed.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The scene*
at the admiralty and War Office were
a repetition of those of yesterday,
:rowds of weeping women and chll- tlren
vainly asking for lists of the survivors
of the Tort Arthur garrison,
which could not be furnished. While
the Russian military law is imperative
in the requirement that the commander
of a fortress who surrenders shall be>
tried by court-martial, the Emperor
undoubtedly will order that this formality
be dispensed with in the case o?_
General Stoesscl.
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