The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 05, 1902, Image 7
GREAT SOUTHERN STORM.
Alabama and Georgia Flooded
Thursday-Serious Results at
Columbus.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27.- The south?
eastern Gulf States were deluged by
rain last night and today. The pre?
cipitation was very heavy and at Co?
lumbus, Ga., a bridge was swept away
at 5 o'clock this evening. The ranfail
there was almost a cloudburst, the
Chattahoochee rising at the rate of
two feet an hour. Several washouts
were reported on a number of roads
and trains out of Columbus were an?
nulled. There has been-no loss of life.
The Columbus bridge broke in two
about a hundred feet from the Geor?
gia shore and went sweeping down
stream at a frigthful pace, and just
four and a half bloocks below it is
the other bridge which crosses to
Girard, Ala., and it also would have
been carried away had not the fall over
the Eagle and Phenix dam demolished
the floating bridge before it reached
it. The electric lights and telephone
wires running over the Phenix fcijity
and Girard went across on the bn?ge
and they were snapped like threads.
The water pipes which supplied the
city with water were also on this
bridge and they too were broken like
sticks and carried away, leaving the
city without water for a time. The
water company has an old submerged
main across the river and this was
placed into commission tonight, sav?
ing the city from a waterr famine.
The rain had been falling in torrents
all day. No trains except the Central
of Georgia from Macon have reached
Columbus since noon. A washout near
Saale, Ala. holds the Mobile and
Girard passenger train due this morn?
ing and the departing train on that
road was annuled. There are several
washouts on the Seaboard * Air Line
between here and Albany which stops
trafile on that line. Several washouts
are reported on the Southern between
here and Shiloh. There is a large
washout on the Southern in Colum?
bus city limits. All trains since this,
morning have been annulled and there
is little hope of any tomorrow. To?
night The Associ?ted Press wire is the
only one in operation toward the
north.
After an intermittent rain of 20
days Birmingham was deluged early
this morning. The rain flooded the
streets and many awnings and street
signs were torn away. Flooded tracks
are interfering seriously with street
. railway traffic and tonight the rainfall
had not ceased. All streams are swol?
len and rapidly rising.
The total rainfall in Montgomery,
Ala., to 7 p. m., was 4,50 inches and
a heavy downpour is reported in other
part of Alabama. The barometer re
oorded 29.23, the lowest reading on
record in that city.
The excessive rainfall has caused a
rapid rise in the Coosa and Alabama
rivers. The director of the weather
bureau has issaep warnings for points
below Wetumpka and advised that
stock be removed from lands subject
to overflow at a 35 foot stage.
At West Point, Ga., the merchants
are busy tonight removing goods
from stores to places of safety. The
?unprecedented rainfall there has ren?
dered the recent improvements along
the river utterly useless. Fancy
prices are being paid for all kinds of
labor. A patrol for all night duty
along the river was established here
at 9 p. rn.
In Atlanta rain fell in torrents all
-day. The wind damaged ventilators in
the dome of the capitol and blew in
several panes of glass. The water
^amaged many of the offices and the
plastering fell in several of them.
The telegraph companies were seri?
ously handicapped by the rain and
lightning which was at times inces?
sant.
_ The rainfall up to 8 o'clock tonight
was 3.36. The barometer was the
lowest ever recorded. The Atlanta
weather bureau tonight sent out flood
warnings to all points in Alabama and
Georgia reached by'the Chattahoochee
?nd Alabama rivers.
In the southwestern section of this
state rain and wind storm almost at?
tained the proportions of a cyclone and
it is feared considerable damage will
result. In Americus trees and fences
have been blown down by the gale.
THE STORM IN SEVEN STATES.
Enormous Damages - Railroads
Heaviest Sufferers.
Atlanta, February 28.-Not in many
years have the Southwestern Gulf
States experienced damage so wide?
spread by a storm as that "which on
yesterday spread over a section of
country embracing Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Florida. As far
as known seven lives were lost and
several persons injured. The damage
is enormous, the railroasd being
particularly heavy sufferers. Four
lives were lost in a wreck near Griffin,
Ga., which was caused by a washout.
The other dead were negroes, Jwhose
cabins were blown away by the storm.
The rains raised the water to flood
height in the Chattahoochee, Ala?
bama, Ocmulgee, Savannah and the
Oconee, but late tonight the stage in
all of them was stationary except at
Columbus, Ga., where the Chatta?
hoochee was rising slowly. Colum?
bus suffered severely. One bridge was
washed away and another is expected
to go at any moment.
The city "of Athens, Ga., is in total
darkness tonight, with two rivers
sending volumes of water through
some parts of the town. The North
and Middle Oconee rivers passed the
high water mark there early this
morning, but tonight were station
ary.
The power plant of the Athens Elec?
tric Street Railway Company was sub?
merged to a depth of six feet. At the !
Princeton factory the river rushed
through the building, doing great
dmaage to the machinery.
Chronic Diarrhoea
Mr. C B Wingfield, of Fair Play, Mo.,
who suffered from chronic - dysentery for
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POSTHIIMO?IS POEM BY
ED8AR ?LLEH POE.
Found in a House Once His Home
in South Carolina.
The New York Sun publishes some
remarkable correspondence from
Greenville, South Carolina, in which
is given what is believed to be a poem
by Edgar Allan Poe, never before
printed.
At present proof of its authenticity
cannot be-given, but the circumsance
surrounding its discovery- indicate
that it is genuine.
Part of Poe's disappointed career
was passed in dismal seclusion in an
old and ramshackle frame hovel at the
extreme end of Sullivan's Island,
one of the gateposts at the entrance
of Charleston harbor, a weird habita?
tion, and it was there that Poe, mor?
bid and alone, is supposed to have
written his famous story of "The Gold
Bug." And, ir. all probability, others
of his blood-curdling, wonderfully exe?
cuted tales were evolved in this spot.
It is highly probable that the poem
given below was wrought out amid
these surroundings.
The history of the poem is this-so
far as is known, or can be discovered,
after careful inquiry: An old "maiden
lady, Miss Mary Wilkes North, a
member of an aristocratic South Car?
olina family, was in the habit of
j spending part of each summer on Suli
van's Island. During one of her so?
journs there she bought from an ig
? norant Covite-a native of the place
an old battered copy of Dante's ' ' In?
ferno," which, the Covite assured
I her, he had found between the weath?
erboarding and the edge of the floor?
ing-the house was unceiled-of the
shack, Poe's quondam residence.
This find, with Poe's name on the
inside of the front cover, would of
itssif have been of considerable senti?
mental value : but in comparison to
what the book was found to contain,
the' mere discovery of a battered old
tome that had belonged to Poe "was as
nothing. Upon the two sides or the
first fly leaf of this volume, in cramp
I ed and erratic handwriting, with sev?
eral erasures and corrections, the ink
all but faded away from the yellow,
I moisture-rotten sheet, were found the
verses composing the poem referred
to, and below them the simple ini?
tials, "E. A. P."
Miss North is not disposed to expose
her treasure to what she considers
vulgar curiosity, but allowed her kins?
man, the Sun's correspondent, to have
it to read.
He made surreptitiously a hasty copy
of the poem, which is printed'as fol?
lows :
KELAH.
In my hermitage I lingered
Lone, and tremulously fingered
Tapping nervously my table to the
dull Neptunian roar
Fingered o'er a leaflet yellow,
Void of sign and void of fellow,
Tossed up by a surf-broke billow,
Flotsam on the foam-flecked shore.
I could hear the breakers lifting,
And the sand dunes-shifting, shifting,
With the night-wind's fiftul moaning
'gainst the walls and at my door ;
Far off, weird, and terrifying,
I could hear a bittern crying,
Storra-battered, perchance, aud dying
Desolate upon the shore.
While the faggots, gleaned from
spindrift,
Tossed by tide and dried by windrift,
Flickering, threw fantastic figures from
the hearth across the floor,
There I sat and loosed my fancies
'Midst the firelit shadow-dances,
Meditating on the chances
That had cast my leaf ashore.
Then I turned and fixd my vision
On the leaf, curled in derision
At my vanity in thinking I could pene?
trate its lore:
And my soul fell sick with fearing,
For, always, and ever nearing,
Loomed my life's lost aims, appearing
Strewn like wreckage on my shore.
Suddenly a voice came wailing:
"See the creases"-screeching, rail?
ing
"See the creases:" strident hisses,
seemed to pierce through the wails
and floor I
"Ah," I mused, some wraith unholy,
Mocking me my melancholy.
Chiding me for some past folly,
Wings the night-wind from:; the
shore."
"Soul decayed," I fiercely muttered,
With thy grewscme wheezing uttered,
Wouldst thou haunt and taunt me as
o'er this mysterious leaf I pore?"
But a deep, sepulchral moaning,
And a grim and ghastly groaning,
: With the shrill-pitched winds
intoning.
Came my answer from the shore.
While that spirit voice I pondered
" See the creases"-racked, and won?
dered.
Flashed a corybantic fancy like a
gleam my eyes before :
For once more my leaflet scanning,
I could see, the whole sheet spanning,
"Kelah,"* creased by careful plan?
ning
Creased, and tossed upon the shore I
Kelah : 'Twas the incantation
I For a tottering soul's translation,
Shibboleth for spirit's entry into
words but dreamed before.
"Speak," the shrieking winds were
urging :
"Speak," ? the wild seas' echoes
surfring :
"Speak"-one word a world's woes
purging
Thus my message from the shore.
"Kelah I Kelah !" cries my spirit:
"Kelah : to Nirvana bear it:
Bear my cry, oh, sea-winds sweeping!
Echo it forevermore!
Mark my soul and body severed
Where the quicksands heaved and
quivered,
Where the breakers curled and shiv?
ered
On the shelved and sloping shore!"
Instantly my soul leaped, winging,
Winging on the free winds, singing,
Singing1 with a ringing laughter, lost
to life lived long before:
Lost to Earth's uneasing sorrow
Fools, would ye escape the morrow?
Would ye flee Life's fallow furrow?
Seek vour message on the shore !
E. A. P.
*Note that the letters composing this '
word are all formed with straight j
lines. Which could be readily creased
into a piece of paper or pamhrcent.
A VICTORY FOR KITCHENER.
I Alleged Disastrous Defeat of the
Heroic Boers.
i London, February 28.-Following
j the precedent of Lord Roberts, who
: announced Gen. Cronje's surrender
1 at Paardeberg on the anniversary of
the battle of Majuba Hill, February
: 27, 1881, Lord Kitchener apparently
; selected the same anniversary to
! achieve a big success by a combined
' movement, lasting two days, against
the Boer forces within the Harrismith
and Van Reenen line of block houses.
The Boer losses aggregate six hundred
killed or captured, and 2,000 horses
an? 28,000 head of cattle fell into the
hands of the British troops. This
news was so welcome to the British
that it was read out in the House of
Commons today by the war secretary,
Mr. Brodrick, from a dispatch of Lord
Kitchener as follows:
''Harrismith, February 28.-Yester?
day the combined operations of the
columns terminated in driving the
Boers against the Harrismith and
Van Reenen block house line. The
river Wilge was held by the Leinster
regiment and Elliott's mounted infan?
try from Harrismith, while the col?
umns formed' on the Frankfort and
Botha's Pass block house line and ad?
vanced south, holding the entire coun?
try between the "Wilge and the Natal
frontier. On the first night a very
severe' attempt to break through -gas
made at a point beween Rimington's
and Byng's colunms and the New Zeal?
anders behaved with great gallantry.
The fighting was at close quarters and
the Boers, as usual, drove a large herd
of cattle in front of them. Manic
Botha, the boy leader, was killed and
thirty-five dead Boers were found on
the ground. Over 100 horses were
killed and 6,000 head of cattle were'
left in our hands. Other small at?
tempts to break out were made and in
two cases succeeded. On the last day
450 Boers with rifles and horses were
captured. All the columns have not
yet reported and the operations have
been very wide, but over 600 Boers
have been either killed orare prisoners
in our hands: also 2,000 horses, 28,000
head of cattle, 200 wagons, 60,000
sheep, 600 rifles and 50,000 rounds of
ammunition. The prisoners include
Gen. De Wet's son and his secretary.
Commandants Meyer and Truther, and
several field cornets. These satisfac?
tory results are very appropriate on
the anniversary of Majuba."
DE WET AND STEYN ESCAPED.
London, February 28.-A dispatch
received tonight from Harrismith
shows that Gen De Wet and Mr. Steyn
were within the net described by Lord
Kitchener in his dispatch from Harri?
smith, but escaped before the line was
completed.
Practically Starving.
"After using a few bottles of Kodol Dys?
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Macomb, 111. "Before using Kodol Dys?
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COMPOSITORS WANTED.
Civil Service Board Will Hold
Examinations For Govern?
ment Jobs.
The Civil Service examining board
announces that examinations will
shortly be held of compositors in the
government printing office at Washing?
ton. This examination is to be held
to establish eligible registers for the
States and territories which are
entitled to a number of appointments
under the apportionment and which
have not ample registers of eligibles.
Legal residents of the following-named
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Mississippi, New Mexico, North
Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina,
Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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Crook, pressman of the Asheville, (N C)
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my feet wet. I tried several things for it
without benefit. One day while looking
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using two thirds of it my rheumatism had
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TI SUMTER SAVINGS BANK,
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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 26,1901.
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Does a Savings Bank business. De?
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Interest computed quarterly on the
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I. C. STRAUSS, Vice President,
G. L. RICKER, Casnier.
DIRECTORS:
Horace Harby, I. C. Strauss,
Marion Moise, J. M. Knight, D. J.
Chandler, G. A. Lemon, B. G.
Pierson. fyl2o
AFTER THE TAX DODGERS.
Comptroller Gen. Derham Pushes
the Tax Returns, Especially in
the Matter of Income Tax.
Columbia, Feb. . 27.-Comptroller
General Durham is anxious to have
a very complete tax return this year,
and is supplying all tax officers "with
the requisite data and thunder. He
has had printed in neat pamphlet
form all of the tax laws of the State,
so that the authorities will know
exactly what to do. The following
circular letter has also been sent to all
of the township boards of assessors:
To the Township Board of Assessors:
I enclose you extracts from the tax
laws for your guidance in the assess?
ment of real and personal property.
If any person in your township or tax
district has neglected to make return
of property, or, having made ? iurn,
has omitted any property liable for
taxation, it is your duty to list and
assess the same and give written no?
tice to the taxpayer of your action.
In the assessment of real estate the
law requires each piece, parcel or lot
of land to be assessed separately.
Give time and attention to this work
and submit a bill to the county for
the same, including postage.
J. P. Derham,
Comptroller General.
Gen. Derham is making another
effort to get after those who dodge
the income tax law, which is now
worse than a farce. In his circular
letter he has this paragraph concern?
ing the income tax statute :
The county auditor is hereby in?
structed to place in the hands of each
resident of the county whom he
deems liable for the income tax a
proper blank for such returns. At
the same time of placing other tax
returns before the assessors he shall;
submit a list of those who in his
opinion are liable for the income
tax, and a statement that such re?
turn has or has not been made. The
board shall proceed to assess them
in such sum as they may deem proper
and to notify them of such action,
and the party so charged shall
have the right of appeal to the county
board of equalization.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS FROM SUMTER.
The following is the scheduled leav?
ing time of all trains carrying passen?
gers from this city, including local
freights :
A. C. L.
No. 35-Orangeburg, Augusta and
Atlanta, 4.33 a. m.
' No. 32-Florence and Northern
points, 6.19 p. m.
No. 9-Local freight, Sumter to
Robbins, 6.30 a. m.
No. 12-Local freight, Sumter to
Florence, 3.10 p. m.
No. 54-Sumter to Florence, 8.20
a. m.
No. 55-Sumter to Colnmbia, 9.15
p. m.
No. 56-Darlington, Bennettsville,
Gibson and Bishopville, 6.50 p. m.
No. 24-Local freight, Bishopville,
Darlington and Hartsville, 10 a. m.
No. 59-Sumter to Charleston,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
8.25 a. m.
? No. 52-Sumter to Columbia 9.25 a.
m.
No. 53-Sumter to Charleston, 6.13
p. m.
No. 35 makes connection at Creston
for Eutawville and other points on
Pregnai Branch.
NORTHWESTERN R. R,
No 73-Mixed train-Sumter to Wil?
son's Mill, 3 p. m.
No. 71-Sumter to Camden 9.45 a.
m.
No 69-Mixed-Sumter to Camden,
6.25 p. m.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
No. 80-Sumter to Charleston, and
Columbia, 6.40 a. m.
No. 82-Sumter to Camden, 10.20
a. m.
No. 84-Sumter to Camden, 3.30
p. m.
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