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1 h- 0- ' ^ .. a " . . i ? . ' c. ? v :* < " *' & -Ji?l -'/ / ' " i?.i|t?>H,fc'rtViS? * ,. V v. ,. | -<tl?trfc a?l.te,^>i.^o.. y.ooo. a ^ . r ??^ ' ' pL<fcAfa"i ' m?{J ilil f^?r I'l* '' T'liiflpti) -i j| i i. ' 1 * I ~~ W - V0i7Ilil. NO. 24. " *' - ' DNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12. 1903. #1.00 A YEAR: THE DISASTER AT Described by a Representative c Write up the Disast About 3,300 Hands Thrown out of the Highest Ever Known Sim Mills Nos. x and * Com pit JNo. 3 Badly Damage* it * ? About a Million at PP** List Saturday morning about 5:30 o'clock, the inhabitants of tho mill village at Facolct, who arose as usual to go to their work, were somewhat surprised to find that the river was rising rapidly, caused by the heavy rain that had fallen during the night. Notwithstanding the fact tbat tnc river was rising, the oper ; atives were at the mill at the usual hour; but finding that the water was rising so rapidly they did not enter the mill. In the courso of half an hour, the bridge across Pacolet river, connecting the two villages, was seen to ollapse. The water was rising exceedingly fast and about 1):30 o'clock Mill No. 1 succumbed to the angry flood, shorly afterwards Mill No. 2 went, followed by the smoke staek, the engine and boiler rooms, the big ware house, which contained about 3,500 bales of cotton and 3,000 bales of cloth, and about half of the eloth room, all of which were swallowed up by the angry, turbulent waters. The cloth that remained in the other half of the room was badly damaged. The railroad which ran to the mills was undermined and badly washed; box cars were lifted from their trucks and left lying on lha hjllside. the calaboose was also lifted from its foundation and tumbled on its side into a gully. In the fUt below Mills No. 1 and 2 stood the Presbyterian church, the post office, barber shop, shoe shop, meat market, livery stable, a grist and plane mill, and the dental office of Dr. Gunter, all of which were entirely swept away. Fortunately the stock and vehicles had been removed from the stables. The water was up in the basement of the Company store, which was used for the grocery department, and did considerable damage to the goods. It was fortunate that the feople were warned of tho terrible situation in time to save themselves from being hurled into eternity by the angry waters of the raging flood. An old negro man, Quay Worthy, was drowned while attempting to PATRIOTIC ADDRESS Of Mr. J. L. it rain Before John Hames Chapter U. D. C. Questions of History. The Glorious Manhood of the Southern Soldier. Mr. President and members of the John Ilames Chapter U. D. C., * comrades, ladies and gentlemen:? We meet today to revere and honor our departed heroes who have passed over the river and are resting under the shade of the trees waiting for us. We meet, not only to cherish their memory, but to vindicate their character and the purity of their motives. In 1861 the Southern people wore the best informed, the most energetic, the most religious and tho most democratic people on earth, and I dare say tho people of the Q ati li arava ?rt aha nf ^aaIi a<1 4 a ill a uuuvu nvit uiviu avvuvucu wi tuu Union as it then existed under the Constitution than were tho people of ^ the North. . We were learned in agriculture, law, medicine, the arts and sciences, the literature of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, French and English, and surpassed all others in Statecraft. Our young men would listen for 4> hours to the discussion of the great political quostions of the day?they were seekers after knowledge. Our institution of slavery had partly separated us from the other i PACOLET MILLS. if Tho Times Who Was Sent to er for our Readers. Employment. Pncolct River wan ?e the August Freshet of 185*. stely Swept A way, and Mill f. I*oss Estimated at ud a HnitJDollarm. __ | [save some cotton. Early that morning a small boy about 12 or 15 years of age, was seen coining down the river on some floating timber, and as he passed the people on the bank he threw up his hand and was heard to say: "For God sake save me!" In a moment the timber on which he was floating struck some object in the water and he was swallowed up by the waves. A woman was also aeen coming down the river clinging to the remains ol a house, and was swept on to eternity by the swift current of the raging stream. In the flat below Mills No. 1 and 2, stood a number of large trees, all of which were swept away as if they were no more than broom straw. Large timbers and bales of cotton and cloth were thrown twelve to fifteen feet in the air by the big waves, which left death and destruction of property in its path. Mill No. 3, which is a handsome five story structure, situated a short distant down the river from Mills No. 1 and 2, was also very badly damaged. The engine and boiler rooms were washed away, leaving the smoke stack, the boilers and the , big fly-wheel, all of which wore on 1 mild tiiwtr fnnnibtiAM TK? nnrtfi. east corner of the big mill, which projected out into the river bed, was j washed away, taking about forty feet ] of the wall, and damaging much of the machinery iA each room on that corner of the mill. The first and second floors were flooded and some machinery washed away. The remaining machinery was very badly damaged by the water. Neither of the dams were broken, all of them stood the heavy pressure of the angry waters, as they were built of heavy masonry. After the water began falling, whieh it did very rapidly, hundreds of bales of cotton and cloth, some of which came from the Clifton Mills, could be seen along the banks of tho river, marking the course of the angry flood. C. B. C. nations. Our people were looked upon as a high-toned, proud, aristocratic race, but we were nothing more or less than true, native born Americans. The southern people were mostly, if not entirely, descended from Revolutionary ancestry, and almost every Confederate soldier could remember that his ancestors foucrht in the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812, the Indian wars, or the war with 1 Mexico. We had devised, framed i and fashioned the Union, and added < to it* greatness grandeur and glory. We had extended its boundaries . from Virginia to California, and I hence were attached to it. The I younger generation of our people ] may ask: Why did those heroes j who sleep in their graves offer up ] their lives for the dissolution of the i Union they loved so much? The 1 question is answered in a few words, i As we understood it in 1861, and as i our departed comrades understood it, 1 with their parting words urged us to i he true and faithful. When by the i Revolutionary war we gained our in- i dependence, we were thirteen separate and distinct colonies. A more < perlect Union was formed. The t constitution was the written contract entered into. The first trouble came during the 1 war of 1813, when the North in convention assembled at Hartford, Conn. asset led that tho Union had only such rights as wero delegated to it by th? respective State, and that the same was depondent upon tho will of the people.. That convention claimed that the right to secede, and threatened to withdraw from the Union and make an ignoble peace with England The next trouble came whon Congress imposed a tariff for the declared purpose of protecting the manufactories of the North. John C. Calhoun requested that the acknowledged purpose bo11 expressed in the act; so that its constitutionality could he tested in tho Supreme Court of tho United States. When this was refuced he assorted that there was a tribunal of last resort? me people 01 trie States. This was called "nullification. ' The. North was the first to assert the right of Beeession, the South first to assert the right of "nullification." Our rights in slaves were declared protected by the Constitution, the acts of Congress, and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The North became "nullifiers," and a majority of the Northern States, through their legislatures, nullified the Constitution, the acts of Congress and the decision ef the Supreme Court and become themselves the advocates of nullification. In the midst of these disagreements, secret societies in the Norih collected, armed and equipped a band of men, who with John Brown as their leader invaded Virginia. These men were captured, convicted and executed. Though they were guilty of treason and murder, the North threatened the South with vengeance for executing the law. The abolition party had been teaching the doctrine of secession and nullification and had been vigorously cnf>rcing the doc trine ot nullification; but when it elected a President the whole tone of the party changed. v The South having been driven in its desperation to resort to seoes^iion, the abolition party of the North, become the great Union party. Their President, Mr. Lincoln, was a arise, shrewd and cunning politician, with some noble virtues. Under his leadership u's party was taught that henceforth nothing but the preservation of the Union was to bo taught ind'urged. He at once pacified the lemocratic party of the North by bestowing offices and declaring that to sought nothing but the prescrva tion of the Union. lie raised a great irmy, but this was not to turn its irms against the rullifiers of the North, but the secessionists of the South. The Touth remembered the John Brown raid and his intention is expressed in his code of laws, and it was the universal opinion of the South that the raid of John Brown was bat the advance guard of the Northern army. And thus the great Civil war was begun. No power on earth could prevent it. No individual should be held responsible for what had happened. Grim-visaged war ruled supreme. We would have the young of this ago and all future ages to understand how we felt and wliat we thought> How could we jrust the promises of the North so long as their acts of nullification renamed upon their statute books? How could we trust them when they aised armies to coerce us into obedijnce, and openly refused themselves ;o be bound by the Constitution, the sets of Congress, and the opinion of :he Supreme Court? We did not fully understand what ;he negroes would do, or how they sould act. Wc had little or nothing to expect of them. The North had brought them from Africa in their ships and had sold them in the South, and now proposed to release them and place them in power over the white people of the douth. This must have been prompted by the blindest prejudice and a most maligncnt heart or ignorance of the true philosophy of the situation. The South had done more for the negro than all the North put together. We had christianized and civilized 4,000,000 of that raco. Be it said to the honor of the women of the South they hod looked after the physical and spiritual condition and welfare of the negro, and had so christianized him as t> attach him to his home so that he was true and faithful in the hour bf our greatest need, and many anticipated evils looked for, never came. To fully afajkrstand the Southern soldier we Mutt look at these things as they wi^e and as we understood them in 1861. The.North placed in round numbers, all totyl, 2,600,000 soldiers in field.**. The largest and best 1 equipped and best disciplined army of modern tjmes, perhaps the world hod never ?|en such on army. This army wyajMbmposcd in part of the ? North, and all Europe draw upon for soldiers, I money4t*Mll their sinews of war. | The South nod only 600,000 soldiers, ne ships or ;arms, no money and no friends. Hut wo continued that unequal conteit for four long years under countless disadvantages and deprivations. There were no distinct classes in iL.Cl.-.l in iqc couin, ail wmtc men were free and equal. } In that grand army of the South the farmer, the planter, the mechanic, the merchant, the lawyer, the doctor, the minister, the church member, rich and poor stood side by side upon terms of perfect eouality?one in line, one in friendship and one in a common cause?homo rule and State rights. The boy of 10 stood shoulder to shoulder with tho man of GO, and the boy was required to perform the duties and assume the responsibilities of the man. If those of our com* rades who rest in their graves could rise and come forth as they appeared upon the battlefield you would be amazed at the great number of boys between the ages of 17 and 20 years who made up that grand army. The brave never die in vain. The courage of the South had much to do with the preservation of local self government and the individual rights of man. . Happy must be the souls of our departed comrades who died (or whft his been called the (*Lost Cau.se,1' when they look down upon us and see that, by wisdom, courage, fiatience, enduranoe and devotion to aw and order, we gained the viotory and to know'.hat the whole civiliaed world gfcr; i4?0re honor and praise to the vanquished than to the victors. But we can't take the time here to discuss tho origin of the great Civil War and trace it to its final close. This we leave for the historian to do in his own time and way. The occasion which brings us tOCPthftr tnrlnv unit frv !>? ? looked forward with much intorcst claims our immediate attention. We are making history. Future generations will point with pride to this day when their fathers and mothers 38 years after the close of one of the bloodiest wars of history, when all passion had subsided, all animosities had been buried and all sections of our common country were at peace with each other as brothers ha?l paid this tribute of affection to the memory of their brave countrymen. A generation has passed and this is tho work of another genera tion?the corner stone of which is love?love for the living and honor for the dead. A few of us are the time worn survivors of that bloody struggle, many, many more arc born of heroes who dared to die for it. We feel ourselves welded heart to heart and by the chain of illustrious deeds and memories that can never fade. Glorious heritage and you are worthy of it. Daughters, you are the living "out-put"?the precious and polished gems from the fiery oruciblc of war and adversity. The ages which roll on in the future will but brighten the pages of history which boars the record of the civil and military leadership of that imperishable conflict. The boasted glory of ancient Home and Greece and th? mom modern times tell of no blood bougkt fields like ours. The heroic valor of Scotland's Robert of Ranuockburn pales before that of our peerless Commander inchief Robert E. Lee. The solid square of the Corsican's "Old Guard" on the fatal field of Waterloo stood not more invincible in the face of death than ever stood our christian hero Stonewall Jachson. The memorablo pass of Thermopylae was not more heroically defended than were the rock girt hills of Cemetery Ridge, Maryes Heights, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain by our own Leonidaa?the Confederate soldier. i | The fabian policy of brate Joseph | t E. Johnson in his tnisterly retreat through Georgia and tlie Carolinas before overwhelming numbers was well worthy the military genius of a Hannibal. Marcellers lived again in the brave and beautiful soldier boy, John I'elham. Tho success of Shiloh's bloody field was ours?the glory was won?victory was perching her glory wings on our standard when the fatal shot that took the life of rluttritlnea A O. J-.? T, 1? v?uuu?ivco iviuci i oiunuy muuiuoii, snatched it from us and gave it to our enemies. (To be contiuued next Issue.) IN THE LAND~"oF FLOWERS. A Former Editor of The Times Writes si Letter Telling of His Tr.ii els in the I.nnd of Flowers. Dear Mr. Editor:?I can hardly realize that three years have elapsed since I laid down the editorial pen and vacated the sanctum sanctoriutn of The Union Times. But a little reflection reminds me that such is the ease. While I was at home I enjoyed the weekly visits of Tmu Times, but I havo not seen a copy since I left there in March, in fact, I hare not seen any South Carolina papers since that time, except two copies of The State I accidentally got hold of at Tallahassee a few days ago. I was shocked when \ rend nf thi* nvrklrx.; . _ ^?r.w.vr.. that occurred in Mr. ^caife'.s store. I was grieved to think that a poor, innocent man, although unknown to tne, was killed without warning. I hope he was a Christian. Florid* is a state of great possibilities. I have traveled all over this State from Jacksonville to Ivev West and thence to this point, which is near the Georgia and Alabama line. Djwn on the East coast is the most enchanting 'part of the State. St Augustine is a lovely city, and it would indeed puxzlc the most gifted writer to describe the maguilicence of some of the East Coast hotels. The Ponce dc Leon, the Poinciuna and others are striking examples of what money and human skill can accomplish. I was told that a certain Congressman went to Miami and stopped at Puiuciana. After being conducted to a suite of rooms he told the porter to bring him a daily paper. The porter soon returned and the Congressman handed him a nicklc. The porter put bis hands behind his back and said, "'Scusc me. boss; nothing less than a quarter goes here." The Congressman gave him the quarter, and took the elevator down to the cigar stand where he bought a cigar, He selotcd a favorite brand and paid the usual price, ten cents. The clerk was not satisfied, however, and said, "fifty." This jarred the aforeRilid f!nnnfroiiQTYi!in on.l ??.? W w..0? vv.uu.uu UIIVI IIU tutlicu IU his suite of rooms to count his money. lie seemed to think he was a little short and began to plan how he could get away immediately without compromising his dignity. In his desperation he secured a telegraph blank and wrote an urgent telegram calling him back to Jacksonville, lie went down to see the clerk and asked what his bill was. The clerk replied, "Nothing, s'<r; you are our guest; we never charge congressmen or senators." Then the aforesaid Congressman went out looking for the fool-killer. I spent several days ;in Tampa as the guest of Carl W. IIill, who formerly worked with Allan Nicholson. Mr. Hill has been in Tampa a little over two years and has succeeded in building up a good business. lie runs several job presses and employs four or five printers At Evinston I met a young man named Foster. He was from Spartanburg and has been in Florida only a few months. At Ocala I met an old man who was born near Glenn Springs and who knew the older people living in Union. I don't recall his name at present. I had the pleasure of meeting Thomas A. Edison and his daughters at Punta Gorda, Mr- Edison is a handsome old gentleman, and his daughters arc very beautiful and attractive. Their amiability is perhaps their most attractive quality. Mr. Edison has a winter home at Ft. Myers and when I met hiai he was going North. I rpent a few days in Tallahasse where the legislature is in session. 1 visited the capital daily anil watched the proceedings. I was struck with the absence of the dignity which chactcrizcs the legislature of South Carolina. Neither of the presiding officers wore robes, nor do the clerks. A meseuge from the governor is read on the floor bv his private secretary. The members pull off their coats at pleasure and when a speaker says something they like, they applaud, something I have never heard during my six years connection with that body. I would like to mention the natural phenomina I have seen in this State, but it would take up too inuch snace. K * I received a letter a fow days ago from Mr. W. J. Coldwell, of Coldwell, Ark , asking me if there has ever been any "farm records, portable pantries, kitchen cabinets, patent churns or any other patent rights or territory sold in Union County." If anyone can give Mr. Coldwcll the information desired, they will confer a favor on both of us. I leave Florida next week and go through Georgia bhek to Carolina, I hope to be at the State Press Association at Whire Stone Lithia Springs when it meets. W. Ekoenr Cookk. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Joncsvillc Township Interdenominational Sunday School Convention Will Meet at New Hope Methodist Church First Sunday in July. The following is the program: Convention called to order by Township Supciintendent, J. (1. Pickens, at 10 o'clock a. m. prompt1st. Religious service? conducted by Rev. David Rucks. 2nd. Welcome address by J. W. Scott, and response by M. C. Gault. Rr.t n-?-i - * * - u^aui&auuu, flection 01 oinccrs to fill vacancies, etc.. 4th. Report from Sunday Schools in the townships, and discussion on same as each is lead. 5:h. 1st <J'ierv?Duty of Town- 4 * * ahip Superintendents and the Executive Couimitte* Discussion opened by II. \V. Gossett; subject open for further discussion. AFTERNOON' SESSION. Religious exercises conducted by J. W. Scottt. 8th. 2nd D'icry?The many conditions which conduce to the succoss of the Sunday School, both in numerical strength and in saving souls. ?. Discussion opened by W. II. S. Ilrrria and J. W. Scott. 7th. IIow to keep up a lively and steady interest in the Sunday School. Discussed by J. F. Alman and M. C. Gault. What incentives should be used to secure the preparation of the lesson by the pupils? Discussed by G. B. Fowler and J. W. Cunningham. 8th. Can any Chriptian wilfully refuse to work in the Sunday School? Discussed by Ncalon Ilodge and J, M. Fowler. 9fh. What arc church members doing to help the Sunday School*? And what should they do? Discussed by Thomas Ilyatt and J. II. Pickens. Lockhart Junction News. Lockhnrt Junction, June 6, 1903. Mr TMWa* i ? ..... uunvi.? ii c Mint- now rain, rain, rain, and all the talk is about / happenings that we hear of such cyclones and high water. Wo have read of many places that have been flooded and washed away, but it seems it has come close to our home this time and wc can see and know the facts. This writer today saw the highest water on Pacolet River near Grindlc Shoals that has ever been seen by the oldest inhabitants. This is iny short story. As wc gazed upon the roaring waters we saw many evidences of destruction. Rales of cotton, arti* cles of houses, roofing, plank, lumber, and other things passed by. At this writing we are not able to tell the particulars, only we hear on our way that Pacolet mills and others have washed away and the thought came into our minds that men, women and children may be buried in this mighty deep. We hope some writer will be able to give full particulars. Moxt. I