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Vol. XXVI.
HIGH POINT, GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28, 1904.
No. 34
SKV J JT. Ml A
BIG BLAZE SUNDAY NIGHT
The Warehouse of High Point Furni
ture Company, Dry Kilns Full of
Lumber and Some Lumber on
Yards Burned Other
Damage.
The large warehouse and finish
ing rooms of High Point Furniture
Company was totally destroyed by
fire Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock,
together with its contents, which
included manufactured goods and
supplies. The fire also extended
to the dry kilns connected with the
machinery rooms, entailing con
siderable loss there. If it had not
been for the heroic work of the
firemen, the main building would
have burned. Soon after the fire
was discovered the building was in
a 'light blaze and burned very
rapidly. The firemen soon saw
that saving the building was out
of the question and they centered
their efforts in a direction to keep
the fire from spreading, which
they accomplished admirably.
The origin of the fire is un
known. The loss as best as can
be estimated is about $25,000 with
$6,600 insurance. Mr. Wrenn,
the proprietor, was engaged at the
time of the fire putting up a large
brick warehouse to take the place
of the old one.
Operation Performed.
Drs. Long and Stanton performed
an operation Sunday on Frank
Blair at Progress, for appendicitis.
Walter Blair informs the Enterprise
this morning that the case is a very
serious one.
Death of Mrs. Boling.
A telegramMonday morning from
Cap:. Boling, engineer on the A.
& A. railroad, announced the death
of bis mother at New Hill, Wake
conntv. Mrs. Boline was an aunt
of Messrs J. W., J. L. and John7
Sechrest, of thts place. y
THE FIRE LADDIES.
They Did Good Work at Last Night's
Fire A Thought for a Would
be Censurer.
Not every mas, and especially
the one that censures would risk his
life and limbs for Drotection of an
other's property as does a member
of a fire department. He leaves his
home and loved ones at all times 01
the mVht through all kinds weath
er and hurries off to battle with
devouring flames. The fire laddies
deserve all praise and this' brings
us to the ooint in Question.
At last night's fire the two fire
departments 01 tbe town wonted
heroically and saved untold loss of
property without expecting one
cent remuneration tor tneir laDor
ious work, for the High Point fire
companies, as is the case in
other towns, are not paid organiza
tions Their time, money and all
is riven unstintinelv to the cause.
All praise to tbe fire departments
of the city. May tney never nave
to fight fire in the hereafter !
Sold His House.
J. D. Oldham has sold his resi
dence on Main street to Mr. W. D.
Burgess, proprietor Peerless Ma
chine works. Mr. Oldham moved
here a year or so ago and went into
the trunklbusiness. He will prob
ably return to Whitsett and go in
to business.
Attracting Attention.
Mr. H. W. Fraser recieved a letter
from Mr. Brimley at St. Louis Monday
saying that the furniture there was at
tracting much attention. The desk that
the Myrtle has on exhibition has recieved
compliments from people all over the
country.
Water for Our Country Friends Essen
tial. Editor Enterprise:
Our city is now inviting trade
from the country and our country
friends are seeking oar town, but
many have complained to me, and
justly I think, that we have no ac
comodations for them, as to hitch
ing lots, etc We need and ought
to have pnblic watering places for
horses on each side of rail road,
furnished by the city, free to all.
Tbe stables and other private places
have to pay for their water from
the city and we think it unjust to
force them to water all the stock
that comes to our city, and it is
cruel to keep stock all day without
water. John W. Wilborn.
We have great faith in a passen
ger depot by spring.
TRAGEDY AT KERNERSVILLE.
LukeCarmichel Kills his wife Slashes
his Daughter with Razor and kills
Himself.
Special to Enterprise.
A horrible tragedy occured at
Kernersville this morning. Luke
Carmichael. a citizen of that town,
early this morning cut his wife's
throat from ear to par, slashed his
step daughter across the breast
with a razor and then shot himself
through the throat, causing instant
death.
Carmichael had not been living
.with his wife. He told her that
it she did not consent to live with
him he would kill her Mouday.
He called again this morning and
on being refused again carried out
his threat as related above. His
step daughter who was sick in bed
got up to defend her mother when
her irate father slashed her. It is
thought that she will recover.
The horrible tragedy has caused
great excitement in our neighbor
ing town.
KILLED INSTANTLY.
A Young Man While Assisting His
Sweetheart to Alight From Train
Falls and is Instantly Killed.
Special to Enterprise.
Savannah,Ga.,Sept. 26. While
alighting frjm a car today to as
sist his fiancee to ground, R. M.
Pearson, of Sumter, S. C, fell on
his head and was instantly killed.
The body was shipped to Sumter
for interment accompanied by fian
cee, Miss Lena Westendorff, whose
grief is intense. They were to have
been married tomorrow.
KNITTING MILL
New Industry for High Point.
Mr. J. H. Millis has given the
contract for a large brick building
on the lot adjoining tbe overall fac
tory, which will be for a knitting
mill. The comoanv has been or
ganized with Mr. J. U. Millis as
principKl stockholder.
The buildings will be 60x100 and
30x40, two stories.
Dr. Lash Building
Dr. W. A. Lash of Grensboro is
to erect the factory for Pittsburg
Plate Glass Co The Pittsburg
Company never owns real estate.
Mr. Ecker's Building
The Glass factory for Mr. Ecker,
being erected by Mr. O. N. Rich,
ardson is going up rapidly and will
soon be ready. Mr. Ecker is anx
ious to begin work here as soon as
possible.
Moving Along.
One hundred and thirty houses
have been erected here this year
and there are contracts out for
many more With all of these we
need a dozen eight room houses.
Will Build Two Houses.
Mr. J E. Marsh will soon build
two houses on South Main street.
The Enterprise understands that
both are to be very nice houses in
every way.
Offices to Close.
The post office at Freemans Mills
will be discontinued September 30,
and that at Westminister, Oct. 15.
Arm Broken.
Alston Clark fell while Irvine to
walk a wire Thursday and broke
his arm.
Mrs. H. P. Stamey and daughter
Miss Maud Stamey left Wednesday
for a visit to relatives in the west
ern part of the State.
Miss Edna Mathews, of Kansas
City, is visiting her sister Mrs. V.
V. Homey.
Mr. Holt's Condition.
The Enterprise called to see Mr.
J. R. Holt this morning and found
him resting well. His general con
dition, however, is not very much
improved. Ae is yet helpless, one
side of his body being affected.
CALLED HOME ON SAD MISSION.
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Brother and Sister of Prof. Geo! H.
Crowell Accidentally Poisoned
Prof. George H. Crowell, super
intendent city schools, receive a
telegram this morning from Aljber
marle summoning him to the jjed
side of his brother and sister who
were accidentally poisoned a da or
so ago by eating fish. The telegram
stated that they were growing
worse all the time and were not Ex
pected to live. This is a most de
plorable occurrence and the sympa
thy of our people' will go our to
the family. Prof. Crowell left on
the 2 o'clock train for Albemarle
and it is the sincere hope of all, that
there may be some change for the
better in the condition of his broth
er and sister by the time he arrives.
It is not known whether the pois
oning was from fresh fish or canned
goods.
HORSES AND DRIVERS IMPERATIVE
The Fire Companies Should be Sup
plied with These at Once for
the Protection of Property.
Without any further waiting the
fire departments of the city should
be furnished horses and drivers so
as to enable them to make quick
time to the fires It is to the inter
est of the town and tbe manfactur
ers especially that this necessary
equipment should be furnished at
once. Tbe reason is plain to every
one.
Sunday night the fire could have
been confined to the warehouse if
the boys could have gotten their
apparatus there quickly. In the
language of General Joe Wheeler
at Santiago "my experience is that
all battles are won by tbe army
that gets there first with the most
men." '
Just so with the fire companies
they should bz fixed so they could
get there hrst quicker.
Special Excursion Days.
J. J. Farriss spent Saturday in
Washington where he arranged for
a special railroad rate frjm Chica
go and othtr points west to High
Point on certain days in October
and November. He was able to
secure an exceedingly low rate and
hopes to have quite a number of
visitors to High Point from that
section each month. The object
in securing this low rate is simply
to give those people an opportunity
of visiting a model Southern town,
self made, independent, broad and
liberal in its views and rich in its
resources. It is not a money mak
ing scheme, on the other hand there
is some money to be spent in put
ting this opportunity before the
people we desire to reach. We hope
to be able to announce the first
train for October nth.
Lost All.
Mr. Junius Wrenn has our sym
pathy for two reasons and account
of his loss Sunday night. In the
fire he lost all his wife's wedding
presents, furniture and his cloth
ing. He had his effects packed
away in the warehouse preparatory
to moving here in a few days when
the fire occurred. He lost all.
Horrible Accident.
Late Wednesday atternoon a hor
rible accident occurred at High
Point Trunk & Bag Company.
Causey Jarrett, a 14 year old boy,
who works upstairs in the factory,,
was caught in the pulley while un
der the second floor and whirled
several feet. One of his arms was
jerked off at the elbow and other
wise torn which necessitated am
putation at the first shoulder joint.
The operation was performed by
Drs. Burrus and Stanton.
It is not known what the boy was
doing around the pnlly.
He is the youngest son of a wid
ow, two of her sons having worked
here for her support. The condition
of the boy today is satisfactory to
his physicians.
A Card.
W. K. Teague and family return
their sincere thanks to their neigh
bors and friends for their sympathy
and kindness during the sickness
and death of their dear daughter.
DEATH OF MRS. A. M. IDOL.
Occurred at Her Home on North Main
Street Sunday Afternoon.
Mrs Julia Idol, wife of A M
Idol, died at her home on North
Main Street Sunday afternoon at
five o'clock, after a lingering ill
ness. Mrs. Idol was operated on
at the Sanitorium in Salisbury
sometime ago in the hope that an
operation would better her condi
tion but the disease had become too
deeply rooted and she gradually
grew weaker until the end. De
ceased is survived by husband,
three sons, two daughters aud a
number of relatives, who with many
friends mourn their loss. The fun
eral services were held Monday af
ternoon at the MethodistProtestant
of which she was a consistent mem
ber. Rev. J 3 Williams assisted
by Rev. W. M. Bagby conducting
the services.
WHITE MAN ARRESTED.
Bob Phoenix, Wanted in Winston for
Assault, Taken in Custody Here
.Saturday.
Bob Phoenix, white, wanted at
Winston for an assault with deadly
weapon, was arrested by Chief of
Police Gray Saturday at Pick
ett's factory, where said Phoenix
was employed. He was committed
to the tombs awaiting the sheriff of
Forsyth county, who will come af
ter Phoenix this afternoon.
Fever at Thomasville Orphanage.
General manager Boone has giv
en out that there is a scourge of
fever at the orphanage at Thomas
ville. Up to this week thre has
been thirty cases of typhoid fever
among the orphans and there is no
abatement.
Mr. Gattis to Speak.
Hon. S. M. Gattis, of Hillsboro,
ex-Speaker of the Hpuse.will speak
here at night October 4th. Mr.
Gattis is said to be a very enter
taining speaker.
Aycock in New York.
New York. September 23.
Governor Aycock of North Caro-
j lina, called on Judge Parker last
evening.
lie nas Been campaigning in
Maine. He has arranged to give
his time from October 25th to No
vember 5th. to campaign speaking
and he will be assigned to New
York, Indiana, West Virginia and
Connecticut.
Governor Aycock started for
home last evening.
Thanks.
The High Point Daily Enter
prise is beautiful and bright. It
should flourish. Editor Farris has
a habit of succeeding at whatever
he undertakes. Raleigh News &
Observer.
The High Point Enterprise is
now a daily, and a very neat and
attractive paper It is, too. Even
ing Chronicle
We note that Mr. Farris of High
Point, is getting out the Enterprise
daily. If J. J. Farris will make
his worx commensurate with his
ability he will make a paper that
will "burn the wind". There is no
sprightly newspaper man in the
State than the editor of the Enter
prise. Raleigh Times
Such as this will cause us to
work the harder, brother. Thanks
The Passenger Depot.
Mr. F. N. Tate, of the Continen
tal Furniture Co., who has taken a
great deal of interest in the new
passenger depot, had a conversation
recently with Mr. Coapman and he
was assured that the matter is now
assuming tangible shape and the
company will soon be in a position
to build the station. It is highly
probably that it will be built by
spring.
Back from Concord.
Chief of Police Gray returned
from Concord Friday on No. 40
where he had been to take Allie
Colberson, colored, who is wanted
at that place for various and sun
dry offenses. The people of Con
cord gave Colberson a bad name.
A RAILROAD DISASTER
Two Hundred Dead and Injured
Near Knoxville
A MOST HORRIBLE WRECK
Five North Carolinians in the List of
Injured Engineer Responsible
for Wreek May Have Died
Suddenly.
Knoxville, Tenn , Sept. 24
Two trains on the Southern Rail
way carrying heavy lists of passen
gers, came together in a frightful
head-end collision near Hodges,
Tenn., today, sending 54 people
to death and injuring 120, several
of whom will probably die. This
appalling loss of life and maiming
of the living resulted, apparently,
from the disregarding of orders
given to the two trains to meet at a
station which has been for a long
their regular meeting point. The
claim of failure to see either the
station or signals cannot be set up
by the engineer of the westbound
train, for according to the best in
formation obtainable, he had the
orders in a little frame in front of
him as his monster of iron and
steel rushed by New Market and
soon after came upon an east-bound
passenger train No. 12, making for
New Market.
CAUSE OF WRECK.
The possibility exists that the
ill-fated engineer may have been
asleep or that death had suddenly
taken the sight from his eyes be
fore New Market was reached. But
nothing is known save that the
orders were not obeyed. The trains
were on time and not making over
35 miles an hour, yet the impact
as they rounded a curve and came
suddenly upon each other was
frightful Both engines and the
major portions of both trains were
demolished, ana why the orders
were disregarded or misinterpreted
probably will never be known, as
the engineers of the two trains were
crushed, their bodies remaining for
hours under the wreckage of the
monster locomotives.
The greatest loss of life occurred
in the east bound train, while in
the westbound only the engine
crew were killed. Relief trains were
dispatched from Knoxville, with n
an hour and all the physicians in
the vicinity of the wreck were do
ing what they could when the lo
cal corps arrived. The first train
arrived here from the scene of the
wreck at 4:20 o'clock, bringing
about 70 ot the injured. Six of the
injured aboard had died while en
route to the city. The next train
from the wreck arrived shortly af
ter eight o'clock. It brought the
bodies of 43 dead.
The six others who died en route
brings the list up to forty-nine,and
there are at least five more at the
scene of the wreck, none of the
bodies of the train men have yet
been recovered.
John W. Brown, of Rogersville,
Tenn., a newsprper editor, was in
the rear coach of the west-bound
train. When the fearful jolt came
he said, all the seats in tbe car were
torn loose and people and seats
were hurled to the front end of the
car. When he recovered from the
shock he heard the screams and
groans of tbe injured and dying in
every direction
A FBARFUI. SIGHT.
"I left the car," said Mr. Brown
''as soon as I could and walked to
the main part of the wreck. It was
the most horrible sight I ever wit
nessed. I saw a woman pinioned
by a piece of split timber which
had gone completely through her
body. A little child quivering in
death's agony, lay beneath the
woman. I saw the child die and
within a few feet of her lay a wom
an's head, while the decapitated
body nas several feet away. An
other little girl, whose body was
fearfully mangled, was calling for
ber mother. I have since learned
that she was Lucile Connor, of
Knoxville, and that both her pa
rents were ulled. I heard one
woman, terribly mangled, praying
earnestly to be spared for her child
ren, but death relieved her suffer
ings in a few minutes.
"Both engines and all of the
coacheB of No. 15 were literally
demolished, the smoker and bag
gage car completely so. The sleep
ers stayed on the track undamaged.
Both engines lay to the north of
the track, jammed together in one
mass of indescribable ruins. The
cars which were demolished were
piled on the wreck. d engines,"
Mr. E B. Craven, of Greensboro,
N C, was one among tbe killed.
NORTH CAROLINA NS INJURED.
G. H. Graves, Asneville, J. O.
Welch, Swannanoa, Paul Henry,
Ashevillc, Miss 'Mary Bryan, Hen
dersonuille, Rev. J. Knox Mont
gomery, Charlotte.
Later Reports From Wreck.
Knoxville. Tenn., Sept. 25.
The death list as a result of the
fearful wreck on the Southern Rail
way near New Market Saturday
has grown to-night to 63, and it
will probably exceed 70 before
Tuesday, as many of the injured
are in serious condition and more
deaths will occur at the hospital.
To-day there were six deaths at
that institution, the last one oc
curring at 8 o'clock tonight, when
M. P Gantt, a prominent North
Carolinian residing at Shelby,
passed away. Others who died to
day at the hospital were the two
colored firemen, two little girls and
Nep Miller, colored, of Johnson
City, Tenn. To the appended cor
rected list of dead there must be
added an unknown infant found to
day at the scene of the wreck and
two other unidentified bodies.
Among the dead are four North
Carolinians: W. T. Ellis, Greens
boro, J. R. Pluinmer, Chapel Hill,
Mrs. Green, Clyva, Melvue P.
Gantt, Shelby.
Mr. Ralph Montcastle, who was
killed in the wreck, was a brother
to Mr. G. W. Montcastle, of Lex
ington, N. C.
FOUR MEN KILLED
Boiler Explodes at Erwin Mill
Scat-
tering Death Broadcast.
Durham, Sept. 23. By the ex
plosion of a boiler in Erwin Cotton
Mills No. 2, at Duke this morning,
at 6:55'o'clock four men were kill
ed and one fatally scalded.
The explosion is a mystery. The
boiler was the one used in furnish
ing steam for the cotton gin and
the plant was getting ready to start
to work for the day. Braswell
McLean and Wall were in the
room and Superintendent Fowler
and Hurst were standing near the
door talking. Without warning
the terrific explosion occured, com
pletely demolishing the boiler room
and killing the four men instantly.
Their bodies were horribly man
gled. Sale Confirmed.
Commissioner in Bankruptcy, J.E.
Alexander held court here Tues
day, in the matter of High Point
Upholstering Company and after
hearing argument, confirmed the
sale of the plant recently made to
W. S. Thompson and E. M. Arm
field creditors.
Mr. Wm. Rartridge has sold his
residence on English street to Mr.
A. Sherrod and will give posses
sion in ten days. Mr. Partridge
left 21st on No. 36 for Baltimore
to purchase a house, as he intends
to make that city his home in the
future.
Mr. Partridge is one of the old
est citizens of , High Point, in one
sense of that term. He came here
when a young man from New York
for his health about 30 years ago
and went into business. He had
one of the most up to-date shoe
stores here ever kept in the State
and has always been a valuable
citizen.
Personally we regret to lese Mr.
Partridge and his family, and will
wish them well in their new home,.
During an acquaintance and friend
ship of sixteen years he has always
impressed us as a high toned gentle
man and a true, sincere friend.
All of us will regret to lose "Pat"
Partridge.
The old house on tbe Mose Nay
lor lot has been moved to make
room for two houses to be erected
by J. E. Marsh.