The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 06, 1904, Image 1
r*? SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Alms't at be thy Country's thy God's and Truth's."
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone. 1
Cosolidated A.Rg. 2,1881.
SUMTER. S. G.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 6. 1904
New Series-Vol. XXIII. No. 23
$k Etiii w? Sau??)rra.
Pablififc?d STOTT ^?daesday,
-BY
SUMTER, S. C.
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Contracts for three months, or tosger will
ce made st reiucedrates.
AU comciouications which subserve private
interests win be charged for as advertieinentfl.
Obituaries and tributes of.respects will be
charged for. 9
Oreti Tragedy in ito Depths of j
an Mrioan Forest.
Washington, Bec 29.-Minister Lyons
has reported to the state department
from Monrovia, Liberia, ander date
of November 4 last, the details of the
saassacre in the depths of an African
forest of a white missionary named
John G. Tate, with all of hi s follow?
ers, eighteen in number. If appears
.that the massacre took place as far back
as March 15, 1961, yet this, the first
detailed account, has just come to.
nano in an affidavit by Mrs. Mary L,
Allen, a white missionary, at Nouna
Kroo, Liberia. She had the story
from some of the native Doo tribes
mien. Tate 'baft "a large mis?
sion and farm, and, besides
the maintained a considerable school
in the jungle, and altogether nineteen
?people were in the mission when it
was surrounded in the night by the
Doos. The first man who answered
the knock at the door was . shot. The
interpreter was next shot, and as Tate
appeared and tried to protect the body
of the interpreter, he, too, was shot
and cut to pieces. The Doos then
killed all the reamining inmates of
the house, cut off their hands and,
placing them in a coffin, sent them
back to theia people as trophies. In
explanation of the action the Doos
said: "We have no fight with the
whiteman; but if we do not kill him
now he will bring his country to
make war upon us.5 '
Minister Lyon, on, the\strengtb of
this affidavit, has communicated with
the Liberian secreary of State, with a
view to obtaining fuller infosmation
and perhaps the punishment of the
perpetrators; of the massacre.
i
Russian War Preparations.
Moscow, Dec. 29.-Twelve batteries
of the fourgrenadier brigades \ of field
?artillery, stationed in and around
. Moscow, have been selected for service
in the far East and have received new
guns, which the Russian artillerists
claim are superior to the French field
pieces. The early departure of three
of the battalions is expected, which
will place 108 field guns, with the
latest equipment, at the disposal of
Viceroy A lexieff. No extensive move?
ments of troops eastward have been re?
ported here.
.JAPAN ALSO PREPARES POR
WAR.
Tokio, Dec. 29.-An emeregncy ordi?
nance promulgated last night invests
the Government with practically un?
limited credit for the purpose of mili?
tary defence.
Three other ordinances were issued
relating, first, to the Seori-Fusan
Sailway, which is brought closer
- under official control : second, to the
revision of the organization <?tf the
imperial military headquarters in war
times: Third, to the creation of
a war council, in war time. These
ordinances, it is considered, com?
pletely provide for all emergencies.
Mysterious Disappearance.
"V -
Meridin, Miss., Dee. 29.-It ts ?re?
ported here that Miss Ethel Hovell, of
Birmingham, Ala., who is said to be
an heiress to a large fortune, has dis?
appeared .and her relatives are ?axions
about her. Miss Rovell has been in
Meridian since November, visiting ;
.her aunt, Mrs. J. M. finskey, and
was to remain here until February.1
On Wednesday last she left her aunt's'
residence lo do some shopping and
has not been aeon or beard of since.
The disappearance has been reported
to the pottee. Miss Rovell is said io
have inherited an estate left her by
Mrs. Minerva Seaford, of Denver,
Col.
Letter lo Sunter Cotton Mills.
Dear Si?:: Mr.-, president
a cotton mill at Union, S. C.-he
'don't want to see his name in print
bad two offers of 500 gallons of paint :
?1.30 and 81.25. Took the $1.25; and
get skinned. He'd have got three
^naters skinned if he'd taken the other.
Z The $1,30 was fall-gaiion: the $1.2o
wa? 18 per cent short. The full
?ea*ure paint was adulterated 40 per
cent; the short-measure paint was
adulterated 45 per cent, beisdes ben?
zine in the oil, don"t konw how much.
Devo? lead-and-zinc wasn't sold in
the town then. ^
It don't pay to monkey with paint.
Dsvoe costs less than any of 'em;
?ot by the gallon, of course; by the
house and year. That's how to reckon
st. Go by the name.
Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.,
38 New York.
Mr. Wm. S. Crane, of California, Md.,
suffered for years from rheumatism and
lumbago. He was finally, advised to try
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which h& did
and it effected ? completo cure. Formale
by ^^!)rug Stora.
?Eil S!K HUNDRED DEAD.
Fire and Panic in Chicago Theatre
Cause Horrible Tragedy.
Hundreds Suffocated by Smoke
and Gas and Other Hundreds
Trampled to Death in Aisles
and Doorways.
Chicago, Dec 30.-About five hun?
dred and fifty people were killed in
ten min?tes this afternoon daring a
fire in the Iroquois Theatre, the new?
est, the largest and, as far as human
power could make it, the safest thea?
tre in Chicago. Estimates'of the dead
and injured vary. The police account
of the dead is 535. The estimate of
the newspapers is 562. Besides this
there ate'55 people ? missing at mid?
night, the majority of whom are proa
bly among the dead in the morgue and
various undertaking establishments.
Eighty-si^ o? the dead have been posi?
tively identified, and 92 others are
known to be injured.
? few of these people were burned
to death by fire, many were suffocated
by gas, and ?cores were trampled to
death ia the panic that .followed the
mad plunge of the frightened audience
for the exits. It will be many hours
before the number of dead is ac?
curately known, and many days be?
fore all of them will be identified.
There are bodies lying by the dozens
tonight in the undertaking: rooms, in
the police stations and in the hospi?
tals, item, which nearly everything
that could reveal their identity to
those who 'knew them best is gone.
Their clothing is torn to rags OT burn?
ed to.cinders, and their faces have
been crushed into an unrecognizable
pulp by the heels of the crowd /that
trampled them down as they fled for
.safety.
The fire broke out during the second
act of the play "Mr. Bluebeard,"
which was the first dramatic produc?
tion presented in the theatre since its1
erection. The company, which was
very large, escaped to the streets in
safety, nearly ali of them, however,
being compelled to flee into the snowy
streets with no clothing but their stage
costumes. A few members of the com?
pany ssutained minor injuries,' but
none were seriously hurt.
The accounts of the origin of the
fire are conflicting and none of them
; certain, but the best reason given is
that an electric wire near the lower
part of a piece of drop scenery sudden?
ly broke and was grounded. The fire
spread rapidly toward the front of the
stage, causing the members of the
chorus, who were then engaged in the
performance, to flee to the wings
with screams of terror. The fire in
itself, up to this time, was not serions,
and possibly could have been checked
had not the asbestos curtain failed to
"work. As soon as the fire was dis?
covered Eddie Fey, the chief come?
dian of the company, shouted to lower
the curtain and this was immediately
done. It descended but half way and
then stuck. The fire thus was given
practically a flue, through which a
serong draft was setting, aided by the
. doors, which had been thrown open in
the front of the theatre. With a roar
? and a bound the flames shot through
the opening over the heads of the peo?
ple on the first floor, and reaching
those in the first balcony, caught them
and bumed them to death where they
sat. Immediately following this rush
of flames there came an explosion,
which lifted the entire roof of the
theatre from its walls, shattering the
great skylight into fragments.
As soon as the flames first appeared
beyond the curtain a man in the rear
of the hall shouted "Fire! fire!" and
the entire anidence rose as one person
and made for the doors. It is believed
that the explosion was caused by the
flames coming into contact with the
gas reservoirs of the theatre, causing
them to brust. Will J. Davis, man?
ager of the theatre, said after the
catastrophe that if the people had re?
mained in their seats and had not
been excited by the cry of fire not a
single life would have been lost. This
is, however, contradicted by the state?
ment of the firemen, Who found num?
bers of people sitting in their seats,
their faces directed toward, the stage
as if the performance was still going
on. It is the opinion of the firemen
that these people had been suffocated
at once by the flow of gas which came
from behind the asbestos curtain.
As near as can be estimated at the
present time about 1,300 people were
in the theatre. Three hundred of
these were on the first floor, the bal?
ance being in the two upper balconies
and in the hallways back of them.
The theatre is modelled after the
Opera Comique, in Paris, and from
the rear of each balcony there are
three doors leading out to passage ways
toward the front of the theatre. Two
of these doorways are at the end of the
balcony and one in the centre. Thc
I audience in its rush for the outer air
seems to have for the greater part
chosen to flee to the left entrance and
to attempt to make its way down the
eastern stairway leading into the lobby
of the theatre. Outside of the people
burned and suffocated by gas, it was
in these two doorways in the first and
second balconies that the greatest loss
of life occurred.
When the firemen entered the build?
ing the dead wer* found stretched in a
pile reaching from the head of the
stairway at least eight feet from the
door back to a point about five feet in
rear of the door. This mass of dead
bodies in the centre of the doorway
reached to within two feet of the top
of the passageway. All of the Corpses
at this point were women and children.
The fight for life, which must have
taken place at these two points, is
something that is simply beyond
human power to adequately describe.
Only a faint idea of its horror could
be derived from the aspect of the
bodies as they lay. Women on top of
these masses of dead had been over
taken by death as they were crawl
on hands and knees over the bodiei
those who had died before. Others
with arms streched ont in the di:
tion toward which lay life and safe
holding in their hands fragments
garments not their own.
They were evidently torn fi
others, whom tbey had endeavored
pull down and trample nnder foot
they fought for their own lives,
the police and firemen removed la
after layer of dead in these doorw
the sight became too much even
them, hardened as they are to si
scenes, to endure. The bodies were
such an inextricable mass, and
tightly were they jammed between
sides of the door and the walls, tha
vas impossible to lift them one by <
and carry them out The only poi
ble thing to do was to seHe a limb
some other portion of the body i
pull with main strength.
Men worked at the task with te
running down their cheeks, and '
sobs of the rescuers could be he?
even in the hall below where this i
fal scene was being enacted. A nu
ber of the men were compelled
abandon their task and give it'over
others whose nerves had not as ;
been shaken by the awrul experien
As, one by one, the bodies were dr;
ged ont of the water-soaked blacker
mass of corpses, the spectacle beca
more and more heart-rending. Thi
were women whose clothing was tc
completely from their bodies above 1
waist, whose bosoms had been tra
pied into a pulp and whose faces w<
marred beyond all power of identifii
tion.
Bodies lay in the first and seco
balconies in great numbers. In so:
places they were piled up in the ais
three and four deep, where one h
fallen and others tripped over t
prostrate forms, and all had di
where they lay, evidently snffocat
by the gas. Others were bent over t
backs of seats, where they had be
thrown by the rush of people for t
doors and killed, with hardly a chan
to rise from their seats. One man w
found with his back bent nea:
doable, his spinal column having be
fractured as he was thrown back wai
A woman was found. cut nearly
half by the back of the seat she hs
ing been forced over it face downwai
. In the aisles nearest to the doc
the scenes were harrowing in the e
treme. Bodies lay in every concei vat
attitude, half-naked, the look on the
faces revealing some portion of t
agony which must have preceded the
death. There were scores and scoi
of people whose entire faces had be*
trampled completely off by the hee
of those who rushed over them, and
one aisle the body of .a man was foui
with not a vestige of clothing, fie
or bone remaining above his ' wai
line. The entire upper portion of h
body had been cut into mincemeat ai
carried away by the feet of those wi
trampled him. A search was careful
made with a hope of finding his hea
but at a late hour tonight it had n
been discovered, and all that will te
his friends who he was is the color ai
appearance of the clothing on the low
limbs, and this is in such a conditic
as to be hardly recognizable.
The theatre had been construct
but a short time and all of its equi
ment was not yet in place. This w
unfortunately the case with a fire e
cape in the rear of the building. Tl
small iron balconies to which the ire
ladder was to be attach?e, were ?j
but the ladder had not yet been coi
structed. When the panic was at i
height a great number of women rs
for these fire escapes, only to find i
they emerged from the doorway upc
the little iron platform that they we:
thirty to fifty feet from the ground,
fire behind and no method of escai
in front. Those who reached the pla
form first endeavored to hold the:
footing and keep back the crowd thi
pressed upon them from the rear. Th
effort was utterly useless and in a fe
moments the iron ledges were jamme
with crowds of women who screamec
fought and tore at each other lik
maniacs. This lasted but a brief ii
terval, and the rush from the interic
of the building became so violent tha
many of them were crowded off an
fell to the granite paved alley belo?
Several leaped from the platform
fracturing legs and arms, and tw
were picked up at this point wit
fractured skulls, having been kille
instantly.
George H. ?lliott, secretary of th
Ogden Gas Company, was in a build
ing directly opposite from the theatr?
across this alley, and, noticing smoke
went down to ascertain its cause
When he reached the street the womei
were already dropping into the alley
and Elliott immediately rushed for t
ladder in the effort to save as many ai
possible. No ladder was available anc
the only method of assistance the}
were able to devise was to hurriedly
lash some planks together and throw
them across, the end lying firmly ot
the iron framework. Before this coule
be done a fearful loss of time had en?
sued, the women were being pushed
over every instant into the alley, and
by the time the bridge was construct?
ed but few remained to take advan?
tage of it. However, about two dozen,
it is believed, made their way across
this narrow causeway.
The members of the theatrical com?
pany, being on the first floor, bad
comparatively little difficulty in reach?
ing the street, although their situa?
tion was for a moment highly critical,
because of the speed with which the
fi?mes swept through the mass of
scenery in the flies and on the stage.
Eddie Foy, principal comedian in
the play, was one of the last to escape,
by getting out through a rear door,
after assisting the women of the com?
pany to safety. He went into the Sher?
man House in his stage costume and
with his face covered with grease
paint in order to secure surgical at?
tendance for some burns he had sus?
tained. In describing the commence?
ment of the fire Foy attributed the ex?
tent of the catasprophe to the failure
of the fire-proof curtain tc work prop?
erly. Because of this, he said, the
flames readily obtained access to they
main part of the theatre and were \m
the draft, carrying with it gas as wem
as fire, swept up to the two balconies
where the loss of life was greatest.
'The fire began in the middle of th
second act," said Mr. Foy. "An elec
trie wire broke, was grounded, am
from this the flames were started i:
the rear of the stage. The stage is un
usually wide, and there was so grea
draft the flames spread rapidly. The,
soon had attacked all the scenery ii
the rear of the house. I never believe*
it possible for fire to spread so quick
ly. When it first started I went to th
footlights and to prevent alarming th
audience said that there was a sligh
blaze, and that it would be better fo
all to leave quietly. Then I steppe?
back and called for the asbestos'feur
tain to be lowered. This, when abou
half way down, refased to go farther
and thus an additional draft was ere
ated This swept the flames out int
the auditorium and I knew that! th
theatre was doomed. I hurried bael
to the stage and aided in getting th
women members of the company int'
the alley. Some of them were in thei
dressing rooms and were almost over
come by smoke before they could ge
down to the stage and to the doors
The simple fact that the curtain dh
not descend entirely was what save?
the lives of the company, although i
caused such a horrible catastrophe ii
the front of the house. After the cur
tain had refused to descend, then
?came the explosion of the gas tanks
''and with the curtain down all the fir
and gas would have been confined be
tween the rear wall of the theatre an<
the fireproof curtain in front. Unde
these circumstances it would not hav
been possible for a single member o
the company to escape alive unless h
or BB had been standing immediate!;
in front of the door leading into th
alley. As it was the draft carried al
the gas and fire out beneath *he cur
tain and the company was saved, al
though their salvation was the deati
of so many poor people in front. ' '
Thrilling Account ot the Disaster by Om
Who Escaped.
Chicago, Dec. 31.-For the first timi
since Chicago has possessed bells ti
peal, whistles to shriek and horns t<
blow, the Old Year was allowed silent
ly to take its place in history and th?
New Year permitted to come with n<
evidence of ioy at its birth.
In an official proclamation issuec
this afternoon by Mayor Carter H
Harrison he made the suggestion tha
the usual New Year's Eve celebratioi
be for this time omitted. The ide.'
found a ready response in the heart
of the people, and the mayor's word
in fact only gave utterance to thi
unexpressed thoughts that had fillet
them all.
Ordinarily, on New Year's Eve th
streets of the city are filled witl
merrymakers, but tonight the onl;
throngs to be found were those arounc
the morgues; ordinarily, numbers o
fashionable restaurants in the hear
of the city are filled with light-heart
ed revelers, who toast the year tha
passes and hail the year that comes
Tonight these places were compara
tively deserted, and some of then
closed entirely, with doors locked an<
curtains drawn. Usually, among thesi
gay people, are found many member
of the theatrical profession. Tonigh
not a single one of them was in evi
dence.
THE NUMBER OF DEAD.
The list of dead continues as it wa
given Out last night, in the neighbor
hood of 560. It is generally accept?e
at this time that the most accurati
estimate i? 564. This number will bi
increased somewhat as there are peo
pie in the hospitals who cannot sur
vive for any length of time. It is be
lieved, however, that the total num
ber of dead will not in any even
exceed 575. Including the missing, i
is estimated that the total number o:
casualties at the present time is ap
proximately 1,000.
There are among the missing th<
names of many who are at their homes
and some of whom were not at th(
theatre at all In the first excitement
following the calamnity these peoph
were reported by their relatives ai
among the missing, and numbers o:
them have since returned to thei]
homes and no report of this fact hai
been made to police headquarters.
Their names, however, still swell th?
list of the missing. When the names
of the dead who are still to be identi?
fied have been subtracted from the
list of missing, it is probable thal
the extent of the catastrophe will be
fully revealed.
' THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
There was animated discussion to?
day among firemen, employees of the
theatre and architects as to the cause
of the fire. Accounts differ today as
widely as they varied last night. The
theatrical people are practically a
unit in declaring that the fire started
with an explosion, and in this they
are flatly contradicted by scores of
people in the audience, who declare
that they saw fire creeping along the
edge of the curtain for several minutes
before the explosion took place. These
statements are substantiated by the
stories of a number of people who left
their seats after seeing the blaze, and
were well on their way to the street
when overtaken by the frightened rush
of those they had left behind them.
The best evidence obtainable is to
the effect that the fire was caused by
the sparks from an arc light striking
the edge of the drop curtain, but the
actual fact, however, will not be
known until after the conclusion of
the coroner's inquest. There are so
many statements at present and they
differ so widely that it is impossible
to ascertain the exact truth of the
j matter.
Although the Iroquois Theatre was
j undoubtedly the safest theatre in Chi
? cago, it became evident today that the
j city building department had not
1 strictly enforced one or two sections
of the building ordinances.
ONE OF THE MARVELLOUS
ESCAPES
was that made by the members of a
.theatre party given by Miss Charlotte
??lamondon, of Chicago. The party
u,yas made up of a number of prominent
society people of this city: Miss Elsie
Elmore, of Astoria, Oregon ; Miss May
Peters, of Columbas, Ohio, and Miss
Josephine Eddy, of Evanston^, Ills.
Miss Plamondon was the first bf her
party to notice the fire, which crept
along the top of the drop curtain. She
called the attention of the other mem?
bers of the party to the blaze and they
all watched it. Miss Plamondon said :
"I could see little girls and boys in
the orchestra chairs pointing upward to
the slowly moving line of Same. One
of the stage hands wearing overalls
appeared before the footlights and re?
quested the audience to keep their
seats, as there was no danger. Eddie
"Foy hurried to the front of the stage
and commanded the people to remain
calm, saying that if they would keep
their seats the danger would be avert?
ed. The curtain, however, still burn?
ed, pieces of the smouldering cloth
falling into the orchestra pit. An
effort was made by the stage hands to
arrange the curtain so that the blazing
fragments would not drop into the pit.
I looked over the faces of the audience
and remarked how many chidren were
present. I could see their faces filled
with interest and their eyes wide open
as they watched the burning curtain.
Just then the people in the balcony
rose to their feet and crowded forward
to obtain a better view of the fire.
'Eddie Foy rushed to the centr? of the
stage again and waved his arms in a
gesture meaning for the people to be
seated. At that instant a woman in
the rear of the place screamed 'Fire !'
and the entire audience of women and
children rose to their feet filled with
uncontrollable terror. In another in?
stant there was a confused roar - mads
by a thousand people as they rushed
madly from the impending danger.
"On the stage fcbe chorus girls, who
had aroused my admiration because of
their presence of mind, turned to flee,
but many of them were overcome be?
fore they could take a step. Several
of them fell to the floor and I saw men
in the cast and the stage hands carry
them off the stage. Miss Elsie
Elmore was the first to leave our box.
The upholstering on the railing was
then on fire and we were compelled to
brush fragments of the burning curtain
from our clothes in order to prevent
them catching fire. Then there came
a great roar and a great draft of air
and the flames shot out over the
parquette of the theatre until it seem?
ed to me as though they must reach
the very front walls of the building.
There were but few men in the audi?
ence, but I saw several of them pull?
ing and pushing women and children
aside as they fought like maniacs to
reach the exits. I saw a number of
little children trampled under foot
and none of them arose again. In the
balcony the scene was beyond my
power to describe. There was a big
black crush of human beings, each
one apparently fighting everybody else.
The balcony was so steep that many
fell before they had left the first four
rows of seats. The exits to the fire
escapes were choked and those in the
rear rushed with all the strength they
possessed upon those who were nearer
the doorway.
"It was almost incredible, the speed
with which the flames ran thronh the
scenery, and although I was bus a
second Liter Miss Elmore in jumping
over the railing of our box to the aisle
in front the stage was a mass of
flames. As I started up the aisle a
man rushed into me and knocked me
down. I was so terror stricken that 1
grew weak and sank into one of the
orchestra chairs, and after that I
hardly remember anything. In some
way I reached the main entrance,
where men were kicking against the
doors and shattering the glass and
panels in their attempt to afford a
larger space for the exit of the people.
Many fell as they reached the doors,
where a few steps more would have
carried them to fresh air and safety.
As I look at it now I must have been
walking on prostrate bodies as I
struggled through the opening. All
of our party escaped in about the same
manner as I did, but all of them
suffered so terribly in the matter of
clothing that the first thing they did
was to rush to the stores to buy wraps
to cover them."
WHAT THE HOUSE FIREMAN DID.
William C. Sellers, the house fire?
man, who was severely burned in
trying to lower the asbestos curtain,
describes the scene on the stage and
the cause of the fire as follows :
"I was standing in the wings when
I heard the explosion and then im?
mediately afterward a cry of fire from
the stage and all over the theatre.
Looking up, I saw that the curtain
was abhze and at once I ran for the
fire curtain. We got it half way down
when the wind, rushing in from the
broken skylights, bellied it out so that
it caught and we could not budge it.
With the stage hands I climbed to
where it was suspended and together
we tried to push it down. Our efforts
were futile and, seeing that no human
power could move that fire curtain
and that the stage was a mass of
flames, I turned my attention to warn?
ing the actors and trying to save those
who were in trouble."
BRAVE WAITERS AND COORS.
Waiters and cooks from Thompson's
restaurant, which adjoins the theatre
in the east, rescued fifteen people by
raising a ladder from the roof of a
shed to a window in the rear of the
building, around which a mass of
screaming women and children were
congregated. C. Little, the head
cook, mounted to the top of the ladder
and told them to jump into his arms.
Fifteen women and children did this
and were passed by Little down to
other men on the ladder below them.
One woman attempted to jump into
his arms before he was ready to take
her and she fell to the alley, fractur?
ing her skull, dying instantly.
Wonderful Nerve
Is displayed by many a man enduring
paint} of accidental Cuts, Wounds, Bruises,
Burns, Scalds, Sore feet or stiff joints. But
there's no need for it. Bucklen'e Arnica
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AN UGLY WOUNO.
A Robert Rifle Sends a Wire
Ramrod Through a Boy's Arm.
James Norman Branson, the son of
J. C. Branson, was badly hnrt this
morning by a flobert rifle from which
he was trying to extract a stack bail
He had a long wire down the barrel
and the gnn in his hand. The cart?
ridge exploded and the force drove the
wire through the boy's hand and
through the muscles of the arm up to
the elbow. Dr. Evans was immediate?
ly summoned and neighbors assisted ic
getting the wire out.
It required all the strength ?of a
strong man to pull the wire out.
Norman is about fourteen years of
age, a strong manly fellow and he is
bearing the wound with equainimity
and doing as well as could be expected.
-Florence Times, Dec. 31.
ANOTHER PARLOR RIFLE ACGiDEHT.
Young Son of Capt. W. E. Burnett
of Spartanburg Shot.
Spartanburg, Jan. L-Jack, the 13
year-old son of Capt. "W. E. Burnett,
was accidentally shot and seriously
wounded this afternoon at 1-30
o'clock. He was in the gun repair
shop of J. M. P. Young, where he had
carried a parlor rifle for repairs and
improvements. Several slugs had
lodged in the barrel of the gun, and
when the lad called for his hunting
piece the owner of the repair shop,
Mr. J. M. P. Young, was away,: and &
negro boy named Willie right, handed
him the gun. The negro to ascertain
if the gun was- in good condition,
thoroughly examined it, and at the re?
quest of the boy, loaded it and dis?
charged the weapon. The bullet and
two slugs entered the throat of young
Burnett, inflicting very grave wounds..
It is thought that the windpipe was
not perforated, nor the jugular vein,
and while seriously wounded, the
chances are that the young fellow- will
recover. The discharge of the firearm,
was purely accidental.
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Premature Ag?,
Sometime a Young Man Feels
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LISTEN !
To what we have to say about Shrink?
ing Tires.
We have the latest and best tire
setter made, and with it do the best
work or money refunded. Four tires
set in half hour ; fellows not burned
or injured. No wheels spoiled by
welding tires too short ; work done
neater than by taking tire off ; no
boring felloe for new bolt holes ; no
flaws left in tires.
Also repair and paint buggies rn
first-class style. We are still doing
the best horse shoeing.
VON OHSEN * SHIRAB,
Beck of Booth Live Stock Co.'s Stable.
Dec 24-2w