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5UMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1911. Vol. XXXIII. No. L
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Newa Fort Heining ? rHuseragers
Tell of storm
Prom The Hatty Item. Aug. 28.
Reports of a big storm along the
sea coast have been received from
Charleston, but further communica?
tions Wire cut off for moat of the
day and it has been Impossible
' learn the extent of the damage which
WM Inflated.
Last night there were many who
feared that there was a big storm
along the seacoaet when the heavy
rata and wind from the northeast
Sat Burater, and thHr worst fears
ere realised this morning when they
found that Charleston and other
cities stoat the sear oast had been
cut off from communication by the
storm end U was tmpoeslble to learn
what damaire had been done.
f The only newa of the storm came
In Indirectly. There were a number
of passengers on the morning trsln
from Columbia who elated that they
had heard other passengers, who had
hist come Into Columbia from Char?
leston, say that there was s big storm
^gotng on down there ar ! that the
W residents and visitors jn ths neigh*
boring islands to Charleston were sll
mm.vtug for tie mainland. They report?
ed that ths cars from ths Isle of
Palms and gulllvana Island were
crowded as long as they ran. but
- that the fen-y boat had been stopped
* at the Charleston wharf ssrly Is the
evening and a large number of peo?
ple were left on Mount Pleasant A
passenger who came In this morning
from Florence on the early morning
train said h? had been told ths same
thing by persona coming In on train
^ No. ft frosi Charleston. Hs said
that train was Isle owing to the
This morr lug all of ths regular ,
saoratag trains, which arrived about ]
t .is. can e La sacspt the trsln from
Charleston end this was marked up
to 11: IB and later changed to 8.86 p. ,
m. The agent at the station said,
that It was impossible to learn when .
the train would arrive aa rommunt- |
cations wrth Charleston had not been I
secured sad at 11: IS aft. Holly, the I
nearest station to Charleston ob tain
k sble over the railroad wire, reported
that the train had not passed there.
It was therefore Impossible to say
when the train would arrive. It was
learned through the agent at aft.
Holly, however. that the train had
left Charleston and was being held
i up somewhere between the two
pr ints by s washout In the track. Re
ceatry a new double track has been
put in by the Coast Line a!ong that
section and It Is thought th.it there
was a washout along this port of the
track.
It was further learned from this
' point and also from Monks Corner
that there hud been a terrific storm
at those places and it was thought
there that the storm lower down to?
ward the coast had been worse. The
last train to psss over the track out
from Charleston wu No. ft2, which
cams Into Florence early this morn
Ing. At the time that this tr>1n
passed the tracks were In Rood con?
dition and the storrn which damaged
them mu?t. therefore. ha\e come
somewhere near midnight or later.
This was the first touch of the au?
tumnal sale and atorma which usu?
ally come about this time r>r a lit?
tle later every year, but it Is the first
time In many yeara that Charleston
haa been completely cut off from In?
land potn'a. It was not until after
10 o'clock this morning that the ' ?
csl telegraph companies secured con?
nections with Charleston and then
the only news obtained *.?s that th< >.
bad been a Idg storm, loa that work
was going on to get everything 'n
working order as rapidly as posai blc.
F.very effort has been made 10 get
s press telegram through to Charles?
ton and OSgntSj a replv giving news of
the storm haa failed up to tb?- ln>ur
The ffcillv Ib'rn went to preaa.
Th*? Col iroida State has the follow?
ing to say of Co- storm w h b Sun?
day snd last night was lolng su< h
damage | , Charleston
Southern passenger tram No. ifi.
Isaving ch.irl'Htton st 6 n'ri .ik, waa
run In two section* ve?t?>rdav on ac?
count of the crowds but th? h i nd
aeetion dill not reach c0 lumbal until
after midnight A pass* nger on the
train aald that Iber?? w s , *?. ,m!v
downpour of rain during the day and
In the afternoon the wind Mew the
Water UP to a few feet of the BSV
Vllloi. on the Isle of ISIma. A con
or en the s'pi ? - .r fold Mr,,
?iU IH MDIITSOMEHY.
UMWM OlflmBHDNl To ?c
ii ku) >!? it1 .miu :k 12. I
Strong lvh-Kaiioii Will Represent
South Carolin??Mating Will Con?
sider Plans for (Gradual Marketing
of Crop.
Columbia. Aug. 27.?E. J. Watson.
State commissioner of agriculture,
commerce and Industries, has ac?
cepted an invitation to attend a
meeting of cotton growers and others
interested In the cotton crop, to be
held in Montgomery, Alabama, on the
t"2th of September. The invitation
was extended in a telegram received
at Mr. Watson's office Frday after?
noon, from Mr. R. F. Kolb, State
commissioner of agriculture of Ala?
bama,
The object of the gathering, aa
stated in the telegram, is to consider
the gradual marketing of the cotton
crop, and to correct erroneous im?
pressions aa to its volume. Commis?
sioner Watson la not in Columbia to- \
day. but it is stated that he expects
to take with him a strong and rep
t resentatlve delegation from this
Suite. Although no direct r'xtementa
are made aa to who will be Included
in the delegation, it la thought that
probably some of the leading manu?
facturers of ths State, and a number
of the leading members of the State
Farmers' Union, will go to Montgom?
ery, to meet there similar rep.eaenta
tlvea from other States of the South.
1 that many were leaving Sullivan's Is?
land.
I The summer houses on 8ulllvan's
Irland arc in a very exposed position,
none ol them having any protection
I from the sweeping win is. Though
there may be much discomfort and
'a great deal of anxiety it la hardly
probable that the island dwellers will
i he in serious danger, aa the Jet ties
form some protection from the waves.
A cltlsen of Charleston stated that
ths wind blew 60 miles an hour in
th* afternoon. Up the line of the
! Southern until Branchvllle was reach?
ed the wind was very high and tele?
graph poles were down In many
placea.
I Excursionists returning from Char?
leston early today reported one of the
1 moiit severe storms seen in recent
.years. The train, the Isle of Palms
I flyer, left Charleston at 8:25 o'clock
I last nicht, arriving here at 1 o'clock
1 this morning.
' This is the worst storm in ten
years." said an old man standing at
the ferry wharf as passengers hurried
by to catch the train to Columbia. It
is reported that a chimney was blown
down, doing much damage to the
union aatlon in Charleston. It was
also said that the window panes at the
union station were blown out by the
Iforce of the heavy gale.
The passengers reported that the
trip from th?? wharf to the union sta?
tion at 7: SO o'clock waa made with
much danger because of the falling of
sign? and other debris caught by the
heavy winds.
It was said that a warning had been
issued to ull residents and excursion
nils to leave the Isle of Palms and
Sullivan's Island.
There was a general exodus from
the two low-lying islands to the city
but several hundreds were held up a
the Mount Pleasant wharf when the
ferry boat was stopped because of the
lerrtfk wind and high seas In the
harbor.
It 1? estimated that at least 300 cx
curslnnUfis wore left in the town 0
Mount Pleasant. Just across the bay
from Charleston.
I thought that the wind would
Mow the train gfl the track durln
the tirsf miles out of Charleston,
said a passenger who arrived thi
morning. "Telegraph pob-s
Itl ? B along the .|. s - d the |ra<
According to several passengers th
ram began to fall In Charleston early
yesterday und the gab- started a
about ;{ .?',<? yesterday afternoon, in?
creasing In velocity until dark.
The railway othvials did not think
that the storm woui?i interfere with
the regular paswngci ira.t.^ leaving
thirty IhH morning.
Mgguii \ gdjef Water,
Scattering reports pb-kod up from
the wires this afternoon hi the local
Western Cni .n omes ore to th< effect
that th* violent storm whleh I ? pi
the ggggi ,,r the Carolinas and Oeoi
gi.i list muht hit Chnrienton and Its
island suburbs a worse blow even
than *as indicated lv the reports ap
pi ?ring in thJi morning's p p*ra,
The new .? received M Is np.rno h
is to the effect that !?? ,?h Sulli
Island and the isle ,,r Palme are un?
fOf water. \., reports, howevefi
? odd gg ?senrod Si to whether th. re
UFT FINDS FAULT.
PRESIDENT CHARGES DEMO.
OCRATS "DID PLAY POLITICS "
Also Arraigns Insurgent Republi?
cans for Lending Aid in Passage of
Tariff Revision DHU?Thinks Con?
gress Should Hove Quit After Pac?
ing Reciprocity?-Speech Before G.
O. P. Club Believed Opening Gun
in Presidential Campaign of 1912.
Hamilton, Maas., Aug. 26.?Presi?
dent Taft began the Presidential cam?
paign of 1912 here today, his friends'
believe. In a speech that breathed |
defiance, he scored the "insurgert"
members of the Republlacn party in
Congress and the Democrats, who
combined to revise several schedules
of the tariff at the special aesalon just
closed.
He singled out Senator LaFollette,
Winconsin; Speaker Clark and Chair?
man Underwood, of the House way*
and means committee, aa leaders of
the attempted revision. He indicated
that he regarded the proposed revis?
ion aa injudicious and dangeroua to
business, but made It plain that if
ihe tariff board in December reports
that downward revision of the cotton
and wool schedules should be made
he will recommend It.
Standing on the board terrace of
Congressman A. P. Gardiner's farm,
with Senator Lodge and other Massa?
chusetts Republican leaders, the Pres?
ident addressed 600 members of the
Essex County Republican Club. Their
cheers were loud and long.
President Taft in part aald:
"The extra session of i . gress was
called for the purpose of passing the
Canadian reciprocity, which it did by
a support made of votes from both
parties. Our Democratic friends
were not content to allow the session
to pass with the accomplishment of
the purpose for which it was called.
They assisted?most of them?In the
passage of the reciprocity bill be?
cause they believed in Its usefulness.
However, having pursued a purely
statesmanlike course with reference
to reciprocity, they did 'play poli?
tics* of the moat irresponsible char?
acter, in reference to three tariff bills,
which by uniting with certain Repub?
lican^ in the Senate, they were ah *
to pass and present to the Executive
for hie signature."
Continuing, President Taft stat'id
that he recognised the general de?
mand for a reduction of duties con?
sistent with maintenance of a meas?
ure of protection that shall enable the
industries of the country to live.
Adding that the time of the Chi?
nese wall and difference in cost of
production here and abroad has
passed, he said the Republican party
was now under an obligation to carry
through a revision of the tariff which
shall meet the popular demand; that
when the tariff board shall make its
report in December, on wool and cot?
ton, he expected to submit to Con?
gress recommendations based on the
report for a revision on both ached
u'es.
'I have already expressed my opln
kn that the wool schedule i3 too
hirh," continued the President; "that
it has prevailed for so many years
I that it ought to bo revised and is the
subject of complaint, not only to con?
sumers, but also by those who are en
[gggsd in the Industries affected. So
'far a I can help it. however, DO such
muds with ji full knowledge of the
facts as found by un Impartial Inves?
tigation.
"Th" puhlio will hove ample time
calmly lo conoldor and de< Ids wheth
? r they sire to put Into power gen
tlometi loading s party, who, while
professing S wish for facts and infor?
mation, so :is to Risks tariff legislation
as just as possible, no sooner have
the opportunity than pass their meas?
ures, with the old Ignorance of the
facts, with th.' same political mo?
tives and with the same difference
us to the exact operations of the du
tlss Impooedi as they themselves
Severely criticised In others rospon
.-H ie for tt iIT b clslatlon.*
Gov, Rlease has appointed D. E,
tfmoak supervisor of Colloton county
to iuc< si d .1 < >. ?IrlfUn. dsceased.
v .i. ir v low ol nr. or not. II Is
thought that ;i great deal of damage
has been done to the numerous cot*
Lagos on the Islands, but tins report
Cannol be Verified.
Tie- above came by was of Augusta,
?tid i* Is therefore evident that this
city has ? itabllshed communication
ton and it ' oUld n ? be s! ?'eil :it
Mm* '? would arrive here,
iris lean
Ii irn?
I b
COTTON MARKET STRONGER.
BULLISH REPORTS SEND PRICE
OF STAPLE VP.
Unfavorable Weather Conditions,
Complaints of Rust and Shedding
and Damage by Insecte Factors iu
Advance?Better Demand for Dry
Goods and Smaller Estimates of
Crop also Have Effect.
New York, Aug. 25.?Trading in
cotton has been swayed on the one
hand by bull support and short cov?
ering following complaints of extreme
drought and heat in the Southwest,
and on the other by generally favor?
able and recently improving crop ao- j
counts, together with Southern lei
ling. Until recently the weather in
Texas and Oklahoma has been dry,
with extremely high temperatures.
Texas, In some cases, has complain?
ed of labor for picking as being insuf?
ficient. Some of the new Texas cot?
ton is said to be of poor grade. Trade
interests have bought futures to some
extent and the fact that the New
York stocks of cotton are small and
that they are in small hands, has In?
duced short covering of the August
delivery.
During the week prices have ad?
vanced l-4c on the new crop months,
while spot cotton and August here
have advanced about 5-8c. Although
hot and dry weather in the South?
west has been the leading bullish ar?
gument, rust and shedding have also
been complained of in Texas, Alabama
and in some of the Eastern cotton
States, while in Mississippi weedy
ground and excessive damage by in?
sects as a result of heavy rains have
also been used as bullish ammunition.
Moreover, Western dry goods mer?
chants report a steadily improving
demand. Crop estimates have been
running smaller and by many it is
claimed that the world's spinning re?
quirements during the coming sea?
son will he around 14,000,000 bales.
However, as intimated hitherto,
crop accounts have recently become
more gratifying: crop estimates in
many instances have, therefore, been
increased; Liverpool has been in?
fluenced unfavorably by recent la?
bor troubles, as well as by large
Southern offering, and the South has
continued to sell futures on all up?
turns.
New cotton Is dally moving in larg?
er quantities, particularly in the
Southwest, and it is claimed that un?
less adjustment of the English labor
troubles soon occurs and thereby oc?
casions a renewed demand from Man?
chester spinners, accumulation of new
cotton In Texas would follow and that
holders of this cotton will have to sell
futures against it as a hedge.
Many are awaiting the Government
condition report on cotton. It Is due
September 1. Of late prices have ris?
en on expectations of a bullish Gov?
ernment report, short covering and
bull support, as English labor ad?
vices have been more optimistic. Geor?
gia and Alabama have complained of
shedding and there have been some
predictions of renewed heavy rains in
the Mississippi Valley. Manchester,
too, has reported a more active yarn
market and offerings from the South
have* been less evident. Wall street
Interests, moreover, bought on the an?
ticipation of an unfavorable bureau
roport.
AVEROPIiANE lands in dark.
First Night i.amiin- Ever Made by
one of Army's Areoplnnes.
W ishington Aug. ? -f>.?The Aral
night landing ever made in an aero?
plane at the army aviation field hi
c.diege i'ark. Md.. was accompllahed
tonight by Lieut Den Milling and R,
C, Kirtland. Guided by signal fires
tiie aviators brought their machine
down oin of the dark to till cheer.*
<a Mi,' other members of tin- army
aviation school who awaited them.
The) hail flown from the park to
the Ch< iry Chase club four miles dls
' a'hero their reception was so
enthusiastic thai they remained until
darkness before thoy realized thai
they were forced to report at the
aviation held.
Clemency to Dato
-
Columbia, B O., Aug 24,?Stiles
Mooru who was convicted several
years ago In Oconee county on the
? harge ol nn attack on a child-woman
under fourteen years of age anil sen?
tenced to li years in the Btate pen?
itentiary has been paroled by th?
governor during good behavior. Tht
governor has extended executive
clemency in 812 canes as follower
Parolen, im.
Pardons, 102.
THE BEATTIE TRIAL.
COURT OVERRULES1 DEFENSE
OX TWO POINTS.
Prosecution Regards Testimony of
Sydnor, Tally a^id Briggs as
Highly Important.
Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug.
25.?The defense in the trial of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., charged with the
murder of his wife on the Midloth?
ian turnpike met with two set backs
at the opening of court here today.
Judge Walter A. Watson quickly over?
ruled a motion to exclude the "Dear
Kid" letter, writen by Beattie to
Beulah Binford and introduced yes?
terday, and followed this by denying
a motion which questioned the word?
ing of the indictment as to the wound
being in the "face" Instead of the
skull.or brain of th* victim, as shown
by the autopsy.
In addition to the^e rulings, the
most important developments of the
day were brought out in the testi
i mony of several material witnesses.
R. L. Sydnor, a dairy man, Sam
Tally, a day laborer, and A. K. Briggs,
tho 15-year-old son of a Richmond
contractor, took the wintness stand
and gave what the prosecution re?
gards as the most important and
most dramatic testimony so far Intro
duood
In <U1 an even dozen were heard,
but Paul Peal Beattie, the star wit?
ness for the commonwealth, was not
called.
The dairyman swore that between
sunset and dark on the night of the
murder he saw an automobile similar
to Beattie's halt at the roadside in
the nelghobrhood of the scene of the
crime. A lone man stepped out. and
this man, the prosecution will attempt
to show, was Beattie, concealing the
gun with which it is alleged he shot
his wife.
Tally swore that about 11 o'clock
that night, sitting on the back porch
of his home, not far from the road?
side, he haard the scream of a
woman, then a shot, and finally, the
noise of an automobile starting.
The Briggs boy testified that some
time between 10:30 and 11 o'clock on
the same right he and a companion
in an automobile passed a car at the
road side, a stone's throw from where
the murder was committed. The
man, he said, apparently was fixing
a tire, and was standing on the run?
ning board. The boy was not asked
If the man he saw was the prisoner
but under cross-examination by the
defense he maintained that they
passed no other car. His companion
will be called to testify.
A JOKE, SAYS MR. AIKEN.
Congressman's Explanation of Quiz?
zing of Palmetto Senators.
Washington, Aug. 25.?Publication
of the correspondence between Rep
n tentative Wyatt Aiken, of the 3d
South Carolina district, with the two
South Carolina Senators, In his ef?
fort to ascertain which, if either, had
made to Governor Blease a statement
about the comparative intelligence of
of members of the South Carolina
delegation in the House of Represen?
tatives, was the news incident of
greatest interest to the delegation
during the ( losing weeks of the ex?
tra session. There was a good deal of
discussion of the matter among the
Representatives, but none except Mr.
Aiken would say anything for pub?
lication.
It is fair to say that the 3d district
I Congressman did not "give out" the
correspondence in the sense of ask?
ing that it be printed. The News and
Courier's correspondent heard from
another source that the correspond?
ence existed .and when In- want to
Mr. Aiken and asked If the corres?
pondence might be seen and copied,
Mr. Aiken said he hud no objection.
I Except with regard to what he held
to be the unsatisfactory nature of
Senator smith's reply, Representative
; Aiken exhibited In his manner no
signs of ill humor al ans time whon
the correspondent approached l\im on
i in? subject of his quest.
.iu.-t before Congress adjourned,
Mr. Alken said thai he was surprised
to sec how much importance had nein
attached to the Incident In some of the
South Carolina papers. He declared
thai he bad written his letters of In?
quiry largely in a spirit of mischief,
and th:it he regarded tin winde mat?
ter a joke.
\\ ial ion for i 'olleton
a contract has been entorod into
between a committoe of the citizens
anl the Curtis Ivlatloh company to
have pne of their most experienced
and renowned aviators give ihres
night?] hero salesday in October*
WaJforbore Press and Standard.
COACHB8 LEAVE TRACK AND
FALL IX RIVER.
Two Cars Plunging From Trestle
Crash Against Masonry Abutments,
Shattering Into Fragrant*?Many
Veterans Victims. r,S
Manchester, N. Y., Aug. <Tith
a list of killed and Injure from
complete at midnight, ? sons are
known to have lost lives and
between 50 and 60 ? iave been in
jured, many of t seriously, in the
j wreck of Leh' ? alley train No. 4,
on a trestle ? here today.
Two car the train plunged oft
the stru were hurled against
the stortv .nbankment and dropped
to the bed of Canandiagua outlet, 45
feet below, vfhen the fast-running
castbound train was derailed and
broken in twain on the viaduct. An?
other car rolled down the embank?
ment beyond the river. The re?
maining 11 cars of the train kept the
roadbed.
The first car which went over, a
day coach, plunged to the creek bed
and was crushed upon the rocks. It
landed upon its side and few of its
occupants escaped death or serious
injury. The following car plunged
head first into the chasm and with
the forward end resting in the creek,
stood balanced almost perpendicu?
larly.
The wreck, aside f:om its fright?
fully calamitous chr-aoter is remark?
able In thrt two cai*i from practically
the centre of the traaln were singled
out of the disastrous plunge into ths
river bed.
The train carried many veterans re?
turning from the Grand Army
campment at Rochester, and at 1
two of the old soldiers are known to
have gone to their death in the wreck,
A large proportion of those killed and
injured were women.
It is feared that other bodies may
f?t be found Jn the w.ecka*? -'s?tA
that several of the more seriously In?
jured will did.
The wreck was one of the most
disastrous ever recorded on the sys?
tem. Crowded with passengers, many
of whom were war veterans and ex?
cursionists from the G. A. R. encamp?
ment at Rochester, the train mads
up of 14 coaches, drawn by two big
mogul engines, was 40 minutes late
when it reached Rochester Junction,
and from there sped eastward to
make up time before reaching Ge?
neva.
The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the centre of a 400
foot trestle over Canadiagua outlet,
150 yards east of the staton at Man?
chester, at 12:33 o'clock when the
Pullman car Austin, the third of 'a
:ong train, left the rails. It dragged
the dining car with it and two day
coaches and two Pullmans. In this
order followed. All bumped over the
ties a short distance before the coup
pling between day coach No. 237 and
the rear end of the diner broke. The
forward end of the train dragged the
derailed Pullman Austin and the diner
over safely, after which both plunged
down the south embankment and
rolled over.
The free end of an ill-fat??d I^ehigh
Valley day coach, in which most of
the victims were riding, with a Grand
Trunk day coach, stripped the rear
guard of the south side of the trestle
and plunged to the shallow river bed
more than 40 feet below.
The end of the first day roach that
w?mt over struck the east embank?
ment of solid masonry, and with the
other ?'.0-foot car behind it, both shot
against the wall with terrific force.
Both cars were filled with passen?
gers. In g few moments the cars lay
a mass of battered wood, metal and
glass, under which a hundred men,
women and children, many of whom
'were killed instantly, were buried.
jThe greatest destruction occurred in
the day coach. No. 2:?7. A dozen per?
ls-ens later were taken dead from the
second day coach, which, after fol?
lowing the first over the trestle, snap?
ped it^> rear coupling and thus saved
i
! the rest of the train from being
dragged along.
Th! second day conch struck on
tb< bottom and stood end up. the
rear end projecting a few feet above
the top of the trestle All of the
passi risers In this car were plied In
a tangled mass Of broken seats ut
the bottom of the car.
According to the appraiser's re?
port whi< h was tiled in the. surro
R ?tr's office, in New York, by Deputy
Sti te Comptroller Julius Harburger.
the estate of V. Marlon Crawford, the
novelist, who died at Sorrento, Italy,
on April :?, ',r>a<?. ia valued at only