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* * VOL. XXX. KINGSTREE; SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915. NO. 10 ~ [ su I We Jr I Ice Cream Freezers I Ice Tea Tumblers I Hammocks We have a full and cc tion: You know we always } ' 11 Coffins and Casl ? a aoran TORNADO WORKS FEARFUL HAVOC R i " IN CLARENDON. DARLINGTON i * "*? ** ? r>t nnnn rrkWTIMTlirC.__ AIIU UHKLOunv vw?>iukr LIVES AND PROPERTY LOST. Manning, May 7: ? A tornado struck the centre of the town of Manning shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon and caused fearful destruction of life and property. The * principal force of the storm was limited to a radius of about one ^ hundred <?)d fifty yards of the Conf federate monument, on the court house grounds, and in that area property to the amount of $200,000 was destroyed. Three lives were lost and several persons seriously injured. In the New Idea Store, at the McLeod corner, Miss Clara Baggett, saleslady, was instantly killed by the falling roof and walls, while her sister, Miss Julia Bagget, is thought to be fatally injured. In the same store Miss Annie Thames, milliner, was so injured as to be rendered C unconscious for some hours, while L her brother, John Thames, was painfnllv iniured about one knee. At the otter end of the same block the upper iory of the large Nettles building "collapsed and killed two men, Mr Beasley Davis and a negro porter. This building was only recently occupied by the Manning Dry Goods Company with an extensive stock of entirely new goods. Adjoining the Nettles building is Arant's drug store which was entirely demolished. I The intervening buildings, from the Bank of Clarendon to Katsoff's Bargain Store, were either damaged or totally destroyed. In the McLeod block the walls of the Clarendon Millinery Store collapsed and narrowly missed crushing Mrs J M Bradham, the proprietress. The roof of the Home Bank was blown off, and the walls of the Wilson Insurance Company's office collapsed. Across the street extensive damage was done to the roofs or front walls of nearly every store except Zeigler's Pharmacy. The main building of the T1owden Hardware Company was OQtoofed, while tbe warehouse in the rear was demolished. Cothran's tobacco warehouse and Glenn's tobacco warehouse were completely wrecked. Singular freaks of the storm were impressive,. such as the new brick stables of Coffey & Rigby being unroofed and damaged, while the frame statues of D M Bradham & Sod, across the street, escaped unscathed; A number 0/ small dwellings were demolished, but the full j extent of the damage cannot be ' ascertained. TOWN IN DARKNESS. Telephone and electric light wires are out of commission, and the streets are in darkness tonight. The debris from the demolished buildP ings and a large number of fallen trees render locomotion very difficult. Several trees on the court house grounds were snapped off, some falling in one direction and some in I another. Tha court house building was damaged in the roof and the furnace MMER Vre Well Prepar Screen Wii Screen W Fly Tra >mplete stock of any of the above it i have a most complete stock of Hai srn Kirii E\ chimney above the roof toppled over. LITTLE INSURANCE. Very few of the business men carried tornado insurance and hence the property loss is nearly all loss. ' It is impossible to get a satisfactory account of all the personal injuries received. J E Reardon was painfully hurt in the chest by being caught under a heavy show case in i Nimmer's store, and Morris Ness was hurt on the top of the head by > a falling brick. 1 DAMAGE IN DARLINGTON. 1 Darlington, May 7:?A severe cyclone passed over the upper part of this county and the lower part of Chesterfield county this afternoon, doing considerable damage to property. The only fatality so far learned is the death of one negro on the plantation of Mr Dsvid Mcintosh, where several buildings were destroyed and several negroes received minor injuries, the most serious being a fractured skull of a small girl, ' who was taken to a hospital by automobile tonight. At the plantation of Mr Wilson Malloy, a few miles ] 1 north of Society Hill, a dwelling containing a number of white people was severely damaged, but none of the occupants were fatally injured, : several of whom reached here this ! afternoon by rail. No further de> tails from this territory can be ob1 tained, as the telephone lines were destroyed by the storm. About four miles north of Darling! ton several buildings were destroyed on the plantations of Messrs J N 1 Kirven, S Vaughan and B F Gandy, but so far as can be learned no one was injured. 1 The wind was accompanied in this 1 district by a severe hail storm, and at this time there is falling the first heavy rain since last March. | FOUR KILLED IN MARLBORO. DeilUCklBVlilC, luojr l. i'UUi Jrtiu, pl i were killed and hundreds made t homeless by a tornado which swept _ Marlboro county this afternoon, just escaping the town of Bennettsville. The dead are Miss Inez Tart and . Carl Tart. The County Home was . destroyed and one inmate killed. A negro infant was killed. Commencement Programme. Following is the programme of commencement exercises of Kingsi tree High school for the session of 1914-15: Thursday, May 27, 8:00 p. m,? Address by Congressman A F Lever. Friday, May 28,8:00 p.m.?Public i meeting of the Wee Nee Literary . society. Sunday, May30,11:00 a.m.?Baccalaureate sermon by Rev W M McPheeters, D D. Monday,May 31,10:00 a. m.?Mui sical recital. Monday, May 31,8:00 p.m.?Class exercises. The baccalaureate sermon will be i preached in the school auditorium Sunday, May 30, instead of May 23, as was stated in The Record last week. ^ ^ Card o! Thanks. Editor County Record:? We take this method of extending , profound thanks to our friends and neighbors for their sympathy and many acts of kindness shown us during the illness and death of our 1 little daughter. It Mr and Mrs M F Haselden. / WILL i ed to Supply \ e Doors rire Windows ips Rubber Garden Hose * i 3 ?1,: I including rounr; celebrated line o WILLIAM He GERMANS SINK BRITISH VESSEl Luslfanla Destroyed by Submarine?Many Americans Perlsb. London,May 8:?The Cunard Liner Lusitania, which sailed out of New York last Saturday with more than 2,000 souls aboard, lies at the bottom of the ocean off the Irish coast. She was sunk by a German submarine, which sent two torpedoes crashing into her side while the passengers were having luncheon, How many of the Lusitania's passengers and crew were rescued cannot be told, but the official statements from the British admiralty ud to mid-night accounted for not more than five hundred or six hundred. The Lusitania was steaming along about ten miles off Old Head Kinsale, on the last leg of her voyage to Liverpool, when about 2 o'clock in the afternoon a submarine suddenly appeared, and so far as all reports go, fired two torpedoes without warning at the steamer. One struck her near the bows and the other in the engine room. The powerful agents of destruction tore through the vessel's side, causing terrific explosions. Almost immediately great volumes of water poured through the openings and the Lusitania listed. Boats, which were already swung out on the davits, were dropped overboard and speedily filled with passengers. A wireless call for help was sent out and immediately rescue boats of all kinds were sent out, both from the neighboring points along the coast and Queenstown. But within fifteen minutes, as one survivor estimated, and certainly within half an hour, the Lusitania had disappeared. Old Head Kinsale, where Great Britain's fastest merchant vessel went down, is a landmark that has brought joy to many travelers, as it always has stood as the sign from shore that the perils of the voyage across the Atlantic were at an end. A Dublin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that the latest reports indicate a loss of life on the Lusitania at about one thousand. Lame Back. Lame back is usually due to rheumatism of the muscles of the back. Hard working people are most likely to suffer from it. Relief may be had by massaging the back with Chamberlain's Liniment two or three times a day. Try it. Obtainable everywhere. :ems? Also any arm every tinn* y dware and Chinaware. 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The negro's throat was cut and two shots fired into his , body. He claimed that two white i men committed the crime. An exchange says "a corkscrew is sometimes used in opening an argument." Funny how names change. ager and producer. Justus Forman, playwright arid author. Charles Klein, one of the best known American playwrights. Commander J Foster Stackhouse, the British explQrer qjid head of the proposed British Antarctic oceanographical expedition, which contemplated a seven-year trip to chart the Southern seas. He came to America last summer to seek assistance in the enterprise. A L Hopkins, president of the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company, who was said to have gone abroad on a business trip in connection with ship building. C C Heever Hardwick, of East Orange, N J, of the firm of Burr and Hardwick, importers. Gerald A Letts, an importer and dealer in antiques. Herman A Myers, head of the feather importing house of H and E and S Myers. 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