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iOi?Y COBDOIEIE. ?EWSY LETTERS 11X031 OUI* SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. ?tems of Interesst From all Parts of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. Jf?TICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mail your letters so that they will jeach this office not later than Tues v aay morning. When the letters are received Wfdriesday it is almost an ;?npossibihty to have them appear in ?se paper issued that day. DARK CORNER. Dark Corner, December 9.-Well, as. it is raining and the winta is blow? ing, I will seat myself by the fireside and write a line or two. There is nothi?g of importance to relate.. 1 think, though that we felt an earth? quake here this morning between 8, and ' 9 o'clock. Something caused my kitchen to shake while we were at ,"breakfast, during a lull in the wind. 6. W. Scott, who lived near Cain's -Savannah this year, has moved here on the. Pink Weeks' old home place. Ashby Kelly, who lived in Northeast Privateer the first of this year, moved here a few weeks ago and will work witb old man J. I*. Ardis next year. Mr. Hamp Scott who lives near Ramsey, hast moved his family for a tew days to Mis mother-in-law's, Mrs. vX. B. McIntosh's home, and he is cut? ting wood for R. D. Kolb. There is a great deal of talk of cut? ting wood hereabout at this time. I want to have a few carloads cut my? self I have no sick to report now. Mr. Ii. N. Barwick, Sr., had some sick children last Sunday, but they -were better at last accounts. I have heard that two negroes on Hon* J. E. Tindall's place, near Cal? eary church, got into a row one night, -?hen one named Singleton killed the other, whose name was Richardson. ' -So much for the hip pocket, which is generally full either with a gun or a ~ga.sk and both will kill their man. y _ ' ? a PRTSTATEER. Privateer, December li.-Mr. Louie TKsdale has accepted a position with the Southern railroad and leaves for Columbia today. . i?r. J. R. Kolb is attending Urited -Sates court in Charleston this week as juryman. Mr. Lawrence Griffin, of Panola, -spent Sunday at Mr. E. W. Rivers'. Mr. LeRoy Wells, of ^Wedgefield, ?spent Sunday at his father's, Mr. W. G. Wells. Miss Laura Whilden, of Sumter, is j spending sometime at Mr. J. R. ; JColb's. Mrs. LeGrand, of Manning, ls I spending ??eme time at Mr. S. A. Har- j ".ins. ' i , Miss Inez Wells is at home again to j "the delight of her friends. It seems that we are surely going to have the tournament, for the young aten have the posts up and are work? ing hard to make a success of it. MAX. Max, December ll.-Mr. Joe Ba? lser an elder of the Beaulah Presbyte? rian church, after a long illness died Saturday and was buried at the Pres? byterian church. Rev. B. K. Truluck -preached the funeral to a large and attentive congregation. " Some of the machinery for a large saw mill and ginnery and other works .?re on the ground near Bethel, which ?will be owned and run by a stock company of the enterprising residents af that section. Tae recent rains have filled up the Wood's mill pond which has been too 3ow for grinding corn for some time. HERIOTS. Heriot, S. C. December ll.-We are having some cold weather now. We are having a good deal of sick asess in our neighborhood at present. Mrs. R. L. Heriot has been very ill, hut we are glad to say she is improv? ing. Mr. Johnnie McCathern is now very rank. Miss Sallie Belvin, of Ionia is spend? ing some time with Mrs. W. H. Mc? Cathern. Mr. Earnest Benson, of Marion and ?ister, Miss Mattie, visited relatives here last week. Miss Madge Weldon is spending the day with Mrs. Willie McCathern. WISACKY. ^isacky, December ll.-We have had a long spell of severe cold weath -er, very high winds and much rain it is calm today, with a bright sun? shine, but still very cold. The farm work is about ended and larmers are planning for another year! laborers are very scarce. Mr. J. S. Williams, of Timmonsville' JRIS bought a tract of land here from Mr. Joseph Scott and is building ten? ant houses on it. Mrs. Dr. Voght and daughter. Miss 2>ora May. of Ocala, Fla., accompa? nied by Miss Bertie Williams, have been visiting therr aunt, Mrs. K. J. Williams, also the family of Mr. Mel? vin Williams. They will leave for their Florida home in a few days. Miss Sallie Ledingham has gone to visit her sister, Mrs. Dr. Shirer, at St. Stephens. She will return to her .home Saturday. Mr. Eugene Hearon, of Bishopville, has been visiting in our midst recent? ly. Mrs. K. J. Williams and family vis? ited relatives in Eishopville the pait week. Mrs*' Mattie Smith, of Wisacky. died, a few days since. Her husband, Mr. Legare Smith, died three weeks previous and five little children are left alone in this cold heartless world. MANNING NEWS ITEMS. Married by Rev. S. A. Nettles last Thrusday- evening at Foreston, Mr. Will Nettles to Miss Lula Cantey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Can? tey. Married at the Baptist parsonage. Summerton, November 29, by the Rev. ML A. Connors, Mr. Harris C. Chewning and Mrs. Fannie Dingle, both of Clarendon county. Last Monday morning Mrs R. J. Aycpck, of Davis, a widow, approach? ed us on the street and handed us a dollar as her contribution to the Cot? ton Association fund. This lady 'said she was benefited and felt it a duty to subscribe. A letter received from Hon. J. H. Lesesne Monenelier, Oklahoma, says he has been put on a committee to attend to the affairs of the land com? pany, and will probably be out there for ten days longer, possibly two weeks. He says the sale of lots is a grab game and the purchases were made in different locations. Girls, did you notice the number of stags at the minstrels last Saturday night? If it had been a free show, the last one of them would have borrowed a sheet of paper and an envelope to make an engagement to take you but their laundry bills come due on Sat? urday nights. : A fire fiend is about in the land, and every effort should be made to cap? ture him. Last Sunday night the barn and stables of Major A. C. Da v*s, about four miles southwest of Manning, were destroyed by fire, and there is every evidence of its being the work of an incendiary. The night before Major Davis discovered his mill house on fire in time to save it before it had made much headway. An ex amihati?h showed marks of kerosene ? having been used. Sundas' night about 9 o'clock Mrs. Davis hearing a noise, told her husband, and he thinking it was at the mill went there but found j everything all right, and as he was about to go back to the house he ! looked up in time to see the flames i 'bursting through his barn, and it was only after the hardest kind of work that he succeeded in saving his stock. The corn and forage and other things were consumed. We understand that Major Davis is partially insured, and sincerely hope it is true, for to have a total loss would be very severe upon him. We also hope that immediate action will be taken to bring the cul? prit before the law.-Manning Times. Mrs. Flud, who runs a restaurant just beyond the postoffice, was rob? bed of $10 last Sunday afternoon, by two white men. The men on a pretest to get a cup of coffee went to Mrs. Flud's and when she went out into the yard after wood they left with her money which she hid on top of the safe. They were strangers in town and she supposes they were following I the carnival company.-Manning I Farmer. LEE COUNTY NEWS. Bishopville Vindicator. Mr. A. K. Sanders, one of the di? rectors of the penitentiary, brought over three horse and entered them in the races last Friday. Each of lils horses won a first prize. There was not a single accident dur? ing the week of the carnival except little Willie Bradley, the deaf and dumb son of Mr. W. W. Bradley, was run over by a wagon and painfully but not seriously hurt. Cards are out announcing the mar? riage of Miss Mabel Cross well to Rev. George Howerton at the Presbyte? rian church on December 14 at 8 o'clock p. m. Miss Ruth Dixon is atending the Gen. Sumter Memorial Academy at Statesburg. Mrs. Mattie Smith, wife of the late LeGare Smith, died Wednesday morn? ing about 6 a. m. She took a cold dur? ing her husband's illness, but was get? ting on very well until she sdudenly took a relapse. She will be buried at old Bethlehem church today at ll o'clock. The infant died three days after Mr. Smith's death. Truly a sad stricken family and the five orphans have the sympathy of the community. STATEBURG. Stateburg, December ll.-Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lee, of Charleston, came up on Friday to spend a few days. Mrs. R. M. Cantey and Miss A. N. Burgess returned on Wednesday after a very pleasant visit to relatives in the "City by the Sea." Kev. W. H. Barnwell spent today in Clarendon. Mrs. James Pinckney and Miss A. ix. Moore returned ?>n Saturday from Charleston, where they have been vis? iting Mr. and .Mrs. M. DeVeaux Moore. Mr. E. Barnwell, who for the past two years has been staying in Boston, is at home for ,-i month's stay. Mr. Gus Flud and Misses Mattie and Sadie Flud spent Friday in Co? lumbia. They were joined there by Miss Tillie Flud who was en route i from Chester. Mr. C. C. Slaughter spent a few days in Orangeburg last week. Mrs. H. S. Gaillard returned to Sumter en Friday morning after a short visit in our midst. Mr. Frank P. Burgess spent Sunday at home. DUR ANT. Durant, December 12.-The school here will close, for the holidays on the 22d of December with a Christmas tree for the children. Mr. Mac McElveen spent Sunday night with relatives here. Miss Colclough is spending some? time with Miss Low Gilliard. Mr. W. P. and Mr. James Mont? gomery were in Sumter on last Fri aay. Mr. Relier is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Robbie Durant. The oat crop which was put in the ground rather late in this neighbor? hood was not injured by the recent cold. , WEDGEFIELD. Wedgefield, December ly.-Christ? mas is most here and if you don't be? lieve it just look out the car windows these mornings and evenings at the stations where one of the agencies of the "Great Morai Institution" is not located and you will see the ex? press messenger putting off lots of packages, not doll babies, either, but little jugs and big jugs and I'll bet that they are not filled with "sody wa? ter,' nor Coca-Cola, but with some? thing hot, as they say, to go with you around the corners and in cold places. By the way, what has become of the petitions that were circulated to order an election on dispensary or no dis? pensary ? Two of the main holiday necessities -eggs and turkeys-are very scarce and consequently high priced. The few gobblers that escaped Thanksgiving look droopy as if they are expecting something to happen. A part of the chain gang force is doing some needed and very much ap? preciated work on the roads around our town and Judge Rees is on the lookout constantly for a relief force to take the place of any that leave by expiration of -their sentence. Joe Green, colored, was up a few days ago for non-payment of taxes and after being sentenced for this something was said about the proba ability of his being the incendiary that burned William Murray's barn the night before; this was too much for Joe, he forthwith relieved himself of his coat and overcoat, and as the say? ing, goes, "Single-footed" down the railroad track, but he was caught later. Mr. L L. Thomas, of North Carol!, na, arriv?d last week on his annual visit to his son, Mr. Frank E. Thomas. He seems hale and hearty and holds his own remarkably well for a man of his age. Mrs. E. W. Nettles, of Sumter, is spending the week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Meilett. Mr. Thad Troutman is at home for the holidays from the South Carolina Co-educational Institute. Wedgefield had several representa? tives over to attend the funeral ser? vices of the late Hon. Altamont Moses. He was known and held in high es? teem by many in our midst. To ex? press it brcifly he was a' good man, true friend and a wise legislator. Mrs. Carrie Brohun and Mrs. Elise Lathrop are visiting in Camden. Mr. Willie Aycock. of Columbia, spent Sunday at home. . Hot Supper. A hot supper and barbecue for painting the new Bethesda Methodist church will be given on Thursday. 2Sth inst., at Mrs. C. B. Atkinson's, Louellen, S. C. The public is invited. SOUTH CAROLINA NJEWS. Items of Interest Condensed and Par? agraphed for Quick Reading. The man in jail at Swainsboro, Ga., turns out not to be Dan Murphy, the murderer of Treasurer Capes of Orangeburg, who escaped from the penitentiary. Mr. Charles S. Congdjon will run as an independent candidate for mayor of Georgetown in opposition to Mr. Hugh S.. Fraser. "Little Tom" Sudduth and Tom Chastine cf the Dark Corner section of Greenville county have been bound over to the court and placed in jail on the charge of making a murderous assault on James Christine said to be an inoffensive youth, at Lebanan church on Thanksgiving Day. At a meeting of the stockholders of the American Traction Go, it was de? cided to increase the capital stock of the .company from SCO.OOO to $280. 000 to build an electric railway to Belton. A Newberry jury has warded Mrs. Louise A. McCauley $16,000 damages against the Glenn-Lowry Manufactur? ing Company, of Whitmire. Her husband was killed invthe ginnery of that company in 1904. T'ne residence of j. c. Neel.,- one mile from Newberry, was destroyed hy fire Wednesday morning about ! o'clock. The fire originated from a defective flue. Mr. Neel had no in? surance. Loss, about $1,500. w OMAN?S IRRESPONSIBILITY. A Queer Theory Advanced That Few Women Will Accept. Eiil'u- The Daily Item: Mrs. Rogers has beca done to death by the law of Vermont and natural and divine laws have been violated thereby. Woman belongs to man and is not and cannot on account of the law m the case be made equal with man. Only in spiritual matters can wo? man be considered equal with man. Man was created for the glory of God. Woman is entirely dominated by man and man is responsible for wo? man's acts. . If this Mrs: Rogers committed a crime she was influenced to the act by her -.husband, or some man and we are fast learning that the effect of such influence is the expression of a natural law. Woman is what man requires her to be and nothing more. She is as clay in the potter's hand. When we laud our women we are simply flattering ourselves over our production. If man goes down he takes his wo? men with him; if he goes up he re? quires his women to go in advance. Women are not responsible to God, at death they all go to the best place provided for the spirits of mor? tals. j Man alone is responsible to God; -woman has no place in his hands and I if he abdicates in her favor or neg? lects her or misleads her, he and he alone is responsible to God who cre? ated him. Man is prone to evade responsibil? ity and in this woman matter all over our country especially in Yankee land abnormal things are done in the vain effort to have woman share in the responsibilities of life. Nothing but incompetence and fail? ure will attend these efforts for my Bible reads like this: "As for my people children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O? my peo? ple, your paths are destroyed," and again 'woman' was made for the glo? ry of man." The great War Between the States was over the application of the sla? very question, so it is in every suit between men, values are involved, so over woman man will contend to the death. Hence her value is insepara? bly interwoven into our social system, the most cherished feature of our life and we are ever involved over her good name, thence the "hunt for the woman," advice of the Frenchman, not that woman is responsible but that man has made a law and who I ever disputes the law he has made. ? by imputation or any other form of disrespect encounters his righteous wrath. And further, womn's most pleasant work is serving man, and if tastes are congenial the pleasure is increased. So then, whenever you find a woman in the pulpit, court room, office, store or factory it bespeaks the decadance of man. for he is shirking the most self evident responsibility of life and the consequences is that woman is set astray and we find her and her energy beating itself out in some very inappropriate places. In pioneer days of our history, the days of Mollie Stark, the Green Moun? tain boys would raver have thought of taking the life of a woman, but now the degenerates will balk at nothing, and fast and yet faster shall they sin I? until the very air of their native hills, will become poisonous and Vermont will pass into oblivion, for law cannot be broken, but it breaks and grinds exceeding fine and Vermont is in tho mill. W. A. James. Bishopville, S. C. Notes on the Above. My visit to The Item sanctum hai possibly involved me in trouble. The genial editor flaunted the manuscript of the above article in my face, and asked suggestively, "What do you think?" My head machinery got into motion at once, and T proceeded to think. The writer of the above is my friend. I call him "Jcems" familiarly I know him well. I have met him d'il the huskings when sparks were flying, but we always managed to separate and say a smiling good-bye The article "deems" sends is cu? rious. It is peculiar to him. It is. as the Latins would say. sui generis, li "Jeems" had not written it, it would have forever remained among thc lat? ent possibilities of human thought. There is not one man in a thousand who could combine so many truths and untruths in a dozen paragraphs The feat is monumental. The matter which troubles my friend "Jeems" is the hanging of a .vornan by the neck until she wa-., dead. The arrow has pierced Iiis soul and he exclaims' that woman cannot be man's equal before the law. He says nothing of her bein*: his superior while all who have -?et at the table of my friend "Joans" would testify that his wife is the saving clause in his civil and domestic history. Having taken all the dear women in his arms for shelter and. protection, 'he declares that tiny are not amenable to law of any kind--not to human law and not to divine. Iiis idea seems to be that wt- shall tum the women loose to fly as free bullets through the woods, and ?SJ m?M FOB HONEST TM of T:i3 Casses ef Ta? Os?glng 6HABLES70S?8S TH? V.-'OHST Or ALL There Has Been a Gratifying Increase in Tax Values in Twenty Years, But Nothing Like the Actual Growth ni Property. Columbia. Decemoer ll.-On the principie that society everywhere has the criminals that it deserves and de? serves the criminals it has. it is likely that the conditions of public morals in the matter of making returns for taxations is more largely responsible than all other cause combined for the ridiculous inequality and rank injus? tice of tax values throughout this State, and it is this factor which has to be reckoned with in the campaign which the comptroller general has started to get property on the books throughout the State at its true mar? ket value. Not only do individuals dodge local taxes by false returns, but there is a struggle between the differ? ent sections of a county to get the re? turns low in order to throw the bur? den of the county taxes on their neighbors, and this struggle is en? couraged by the prospect of a furth? er avoidance of State taxes. A brave fight was made a few years ago in Rock Hill to get the values up to such a point as would allow the issue of a certain amount of bonds which had been voted for by a big majority, but the board of special expert assessors felled to get the necesary amount be? cause of the cry that was raised about State and county taxes. Of course this condition can no more be suddenly cured than it can be instantly forgot? ten, but if the idea can get a good, firm general hold on the minds of the taxpayers of the State that all classes of property is to be put on the books at the real market valuation a few determined men in each community who see the sense and the justice as well as the honesty of ,the campaign, can carry the fight to a successful is-, sue, and give the outside world a splendid advertisement and encour? agement to invest in this State. In this connection and in view of the importance of the work before the .coming convention of county auditors to be held here this week, it might bt of interest to note that the tax values have steadily increased as a whole. Since 1SS2 they have climbed nearly 50 per cent.-from $143,000,000 in 1882 to over $210,000,000 for the pre? sent-although railroad values have nearly doubled in that time. Several hundred thousand acres of land have been added since then: the State has grown in area, but some marsh lands have been recovered and some land has gone on the books that had been escaping taxation altogether. The most striking cases of county increases since 1SS2 are those of Rich? land and Spartanburg, each having added over six million dollars' worth. Anderson has climbed up four mil? lions and Orangebur-: has added three millions. The county which shows a decrease is Charleston, which has fallen off two millions. Xow while Charleston is not the only tax dodging community in the State it has the reputation of be? ing about the worst. The Charleston county auditor's report, which is a study in comedy as is the case with many other such reports, demon? strates this. Charleston's tax situa? tion is holding the town down. The total local levy is something like 4 per cent. The natural presumption is that the valuations are kept nown in order to escape the State tax to such an extent that it is necessary to make the levy for local expenses about twice what it ought to be. if they chance to kill any one. so much the worse for the poor fool that I is killed. This is a lofty conception of female prerogatives commingled with a wild spirit of anarchism. He say?, all women go to heaven when they j die-that is, "to the best place pro- j vided for the spirits of mortals." We ' infer from this that Lady Jane Grey : and Madam de Maintenon-the one a saint and the other a harlot-are sit? ting si'If by sido in the mansions of glory, and the social order in tbe king- j dom to come is very much mixed. "Jeems" is surely crippled in the ' place of his thought, or he is trying ? to curry favor with some woman j whose wrath he has provoked. If tl".ls ' is not true, then "Jeems*' is just our in the woods squawling for the fun he gets out of tl? squaw!. There are people of this kind. Rather than have "Jeems" perpetrate further in? ? iquities along the line of correspond ence, I want to bog all the women to think well of him. He is worthy <^ all possible admiration and affection. The only trouble now is chat he has : plunged bis plow t-?.? deeply into the : furrow td' thought, and is turning up all manner of reptiles and creeping , things horrible to !<">k upon. But it geos without saying, chat one who has his conception of woman must have an ideal home; presided over by a veritable queen, to whom it is her daily ielight to yield un- " questioning obedience. C. C. B. 0 ji;!C LYNCHBURG PRESENT AND PAST Hag-cod Writes oi" His Visit to a Flour isliing Community. It v::is with pleasure I turned, my face toward Lynchburg the other day, * 'round which clustered by-gone mern- fm eries. Magnolia, the town at the rail- . road, and Lynchburg have eonsoli dated or done something: anyway. - Magnolia is a thing of the past, and all is Lynchburg now, which in length, makes a pretentious town, being over a mile long. This is a fine community,, whence have gone men South Caro- V lina may well be proud of. Here once .j( lived such men as W. J. McLeod, i'm her of Hon. T. G. and Rev. D. M.. McLeod, W. H. and Jesse Smith, the former father of Bishop A. Coke. " Chas. 3.. D. D. and E. D. Smith, Esq., the father of the Cotton Growers' as? sociation; J. A. Budden and others. "| Mr. Frank McLeod, a brother of W. J. and father of Frank McLeod, Jr." still lives in the community with his son, "Bill Tom," a fat, jolly fellow. Much of the property of this com? munity has passed into the hands of strangers, as the old Dr. Miller place,, -y now owned and occupied by mine host, M. McClam. All this country has improved agriculturally, the peo? ple laboring under difficulties many of us are strangers to, the land being fiat and difficult to drain. But "Om nia vincit perseverentia." . If I don't^^ get my Latin right, fix it. You see ^ these scholarly (?) articles I send to The Item must have a little Latin oc? casionally to make the people* think I know a thing or two, you see the point, don't you? Lynchburg is growing though not A so fast as many other places, but hjWk lacks a lot of being a dead, or a fin-\!T ished town. Labor is scarce and, as everywhere else, quite inferior. Wfc need competent and reliable service and until then the farmer will pro? duce eleven cent cotton under diffi? culties. J| Cuffie is not to be depended on; v' good wages but serve to make him arrogant, if I may use so big a word on so trifling a' subject. Said one: "He can be happy on the smallest capital of anyone. A full stomach and .Jj a big fire will satisfy him." Yes, an in cubus that has added more hates than a few. A subject that will not down, against which many a shaft of wit and ridicule has been hurled to no effect. It is an old saying that the man who works mules and "free niggers" can't keep his religion. I affirm that if he ^ does it will be amid difficulties. It has been a fine fall for gather? ing crops and planting small grain* yet some have not. Let's have done with the carnival; the show people and the rascals that go with them take a lot of money -\ with them, leaving nothing behind to ^ show for it unless it bc some people's ^ experience. While the manufacturer of cotton is made to pay for it the oil mills are having a picnic. Can't we make them '> line up? J Sumter county, first in the associa- A, tion movement, got along fine as long ? as the gas lasted, but when the shekles were called for to defray its expenses she was left in the lurch. "Hagood." Hagood, S. C., Dec. 12, 1905. COTTON MUST RISE. New Orleans, December 8.-Frank B. Hayue, leader of the New Orleans bulls, in an interview in the Times Democrat is caustic in bis comments on Secretary Wilson of the United J States Department of Agriculture \ flue to tbe fact that tbe department's estimate of 10,167,816 bales was based on 500 pound per bale gross, whereas 22 pounds have been deducted fof bag? ging and ties, rnakinfg the bale 478 pounds net Said Mr. Elayne: "If tbis year's ectimare bad buen made on the same basis as last year's estimate, J tbe figures that would have been read 1 out on the Cotton Exchange 'today ' would have been 9.720.4*34 bales, in? stead of 10,IGT,SiS bal^s. and it seems most extraordinary that the Depart? ment of Agriculture iu spite of the protest of the New Orleans Cotton Ex? change should have thus willfully created a wrong impression in the I public mind by making tbe estimate I on an entirely different basis to what they had hitherto done. The snin jners' taking last yean was 12,450,0CO bales, ?"o far this year they are 18,000 b? les more than to the same dat? last ye/ir, which shows that if the supply were there the spinners* takings for two years would certainly be 25,000, 0?<) bales. As tee supply, however, rf is less than '24,000,COO bales, it is sim? ply an impossible proposition for the supply to meet the demand. /lhere is but one answer and that is, cotton must ac?vane- to a price that will check consumption. The mills have already bought fully CO per cent, of this eron ar an aveage price probably icwerftban their purchssps to this date last year, tberei? re wirb far better trade and meteriallv higher prices for jrGods th' y can . tr rd to ray very much mere than today's prices before consumption* will be checked. I feel confident, therefore, thst every fainer who will sign tbe pledge of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association to hold for fifteen cents will undoubt? edly have au opportunity of lealiziug that price." ? Walter Smith, a colored youth, about 15 years of age, was killed Wednesday <>n the tram road-of tho Tilghman Lumber Company, near Sellers. He uncoupled the rear cars while the train was in motion, and when the engine shot forward he lost' Iris balance and fell on the track, and twelve loaded cars ran over his body, killing him instantly.