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E ROBESONIAI Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XUY NO. 11. L UMBERTO N, m RTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913. WHOLE NO. 2848 1 N 3,000 -;ay have perished. y, Appalling Flood Conditions Through out States of Middle West Prob ably Half Millioneople Rendered Homeless Property Damage will Reach $100,000,000. Chicago Dispatch, 26th. Three thousand -may have perish ed in the deluge which swept the northern half of the 'Ohio river valley yesterday and today. Probably half a million people were made homeless by the flood in Indiana and Ohio and property damage in both States will be at least $100,000,000. These figures .were compiled this afternoon from reports received here f roar the various points in the strick en district. Further reports may in crease the number of dead, but it is unlikely that any decrease in financial loss will be made. An additional horror was reported early this evening from Dayton. Fire there which seemed widespread and probably uncontrollable, in view of the paralyzation of the water plant, probably brought a horrible death to many who sought to escape drowning by climbing to upper floors of build ings. Following are revised figures of the dead: Ohio Dayton, 2,000; Piqua, 540,; Delaware, 100; Middleton, 100 Sid ney, 50; Hamilton, 12; Tippecanoe, 3; Tiffin, 50; Fremont, 11; scattering 200. Jotal 3,066. Indiana Peru, 150; New Castle, 3; LaFayette, 2; Indianapolis, 14; No blesville, 2; scattering 25. Total 196. Reports unconfirmed said that 14 persons lost their lives in Fremont and 50 at Tiffin, Ohio. It was rumor ed in Indianapolis early today that 200 persons were drowned in West In dianapolis, but this number was later reduced to 14, though it was esti mated early this evening that more than that number had died. South of Indianapolis the flood is said to have caused death in a number of small tovgsM and villages. Fire at Dayton added to the finan cial loss caused by the flood. Early estimates placing the damage in Ohio and Indiana at $50,000,000 were revis ed to show tonight double that amount. Railroad officials were authority for the statement that lines converging into Indianapolis would have to stand a loss of 25 million in that city and vicinity alone. Railroads were chief sufferers from property damage. It was said tonight by engineers and construction bosses preparing repair trains for the flood districts that strips of railroad more than a mile each way had been wash ed away in several places through Indiana. Concrete and iron bridges, their support underminded, crumbled before the strength of the torrents hurled against them. The loss through cessation of traf fic cannot be estimated. Only two roads, the Michigan Cen tral and the Lake Shore maintained communication with New York over their lines, those farther south finding mile after mile of their right of way under a fathom of water. The railroads are preparing to re pair the damage done to their proper ty as speedily as possible. Men and material are being rushed to every ac cessible point where damage has been reported and active repair work will be begun as soon as the floods re cede. Telegraph and telephone wires in the stricken district are down. Long distance telephone service in Ohio was cut off with the exception of con nections with Toledo and Cleveland. Wires in Indiana towns were down in many places and some of the devas tated towns were cut off from all communication. The LaFayette Mutual's Move to Lumberton. Fayetteville Observer. The directors of the LaFayette Mu tual Life Insurace Company, with headquarters in this city, held a meet ing Friday night and by unanimous vote decided to move the home office to Lumberton. This step was taken because Lumberton offered the in ducement of a large amount of cash premiums if the company would make headquarters in that town. They have made good their bid, having just turned in $102,000 worth of cash bus iness. In addition the bulk of the com pany's business comes from. Robeson county, and Lumberton seems to be the logical place for the homo office. Mr. W. J. Beatty, Jr., of Hope Mills, who is president of the company will retain that office, and we understand that the Fayette ville directors will remain on the board. They are: W.J. Beatty, Jr., president; E. E. Page, secretary and tieasurcr; Dr. Seavy Highsmith, medical director; Q. K. Nimocks, at torney, and E. A. Poe. It is to be regretted that the people of Fayetteville did- not offer sufficient inducements to keep the LaFayette !Htualhere, theplace of its birth. The company was organized "IT" few years .ago, and haatfjone well, and bids fair to be a valuable asset to any towhin which it is located. TOLL OF GREAT CYCLONE Two Hundred or More People Killed r.r.d Mere Th.-.r !00 Injured, While Hundreds Are Rendered Homeless Property Loss Enormous. Omaha, Neb., Dispatch, 24th. More than 200 persons were killed and 400 were injured in a wind storm that demolished 450 homes, damaged hundreds of other buildings, and caused a monetary loss of $5,000, 000 according to reports available up to a late hour tonight from the main path of the tornado in end near Omaha. Most of the casualties were in Oma ha. Nearby towns in Nebraska and across the Mississippi river in Iowa also suffered severely. Wires were snapped off in all directions and it took many hours to gather and cir culate news of the disaster. Fire broke out in the debris of many wrecked buildings in the Ne braska metropolis and these were a menace for sometime as the fire com panies were hindered by falling walls and blocaded streets. A heavy rain drenched the hundreds of homeless persons but also put out the flames. Of the 2Q2 known dead within the area covered by the storm 152 were residents of' Omaha. The re maining dead are scattered over a considerable range of territory, with Council Bluffs reporting, 12; Yutan, Neb., 16; Berlin, Neb., 7; Glen wood, Iowa, 5; Neola, Iowa, 2; and Bartlett, Iowa, 3. The same cities and -towns report an aggregate of 400 injured and 450 homes demolished. Perhaps 1,500 people are homeless. Aside from this 3,000 buildings were more or less damaged, some of these being churches and school buildings. Eight of Omaha's public schools were wrecked. All forms of communica tion were almost annihilated and only two or three wires were in working condition when daylight relieved a night of high tension, which at times 'almost became a panic,. Soldiers. State and National troops, poured in to the city during the day to aid in bringing order of what for 20 hours had been chaos. IN STORM'S PATH. Many Freaks Played by Wind Sur vivors Tell Stories Stranger Than Fiction. Terre Haute, Ind., was in the path of the fearful tornado that wrought such destruction in portions of the West Sunday night. Many persons were killed, many injured, many ren dered homeless. Harrowing stories of their experiences are told by sur vivors. Many freaks were played by the wind. Dr. Mahlon Moore was asleep in his office when the storm struck. The building was demolished but the doctor lying on the mattress of his bed was carried across the street and dropped safely on the sidewalk. Mr. and Mrs. Harris Everett, whose home was destroyed, were blown two blocks and when they rushed back to the debris of their cottagethey found the bodies of their two babies un injured. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Run yon, who were tossed across several lots returned to their ruined bunga low to find their six-months-old baby sound asleep in its crib. The child did not awaken until after it had been carried across town in an automobile. The storm seemed to be worse at Gardentown, a small colony, 5 miles south of Terre Haute. There it de molished everything in its path half a mile wide through the village. There, as in Terre Haute, the majority of the victims were working people of small means and they have nothing but the lots upon which their homes stood. . Perth a small town in Clay county, with 400 inhabitants, practically was wiped off the map. Every house in the village was destroyed or badly wrecked but only one person was in jured. SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTS. At Clyborn Saturday of This Week J Bloom in ft dale School Thursday and Friday of Next Week. Mr. H. E. Stacy of Lumberton will be the speaker at the commencement at Clyborn school, 3 miles west of town, Saturday of this week. Com mencement exercises will begin at 11 o'clock a. m. and Mr. Stacy will speak at 1 p. m., after which there will be a picnic dinner. Miss Carry Baldwin of Whiteville is teacher of this school and this has been one of the most successful sessions ever taught at Clyborn. Bloomingdale school, near Orrum, will have its closing exercises Thurs day and Friday of next week, April 3 and 4. Thursday evening, April 3, beginning at 8 o'clock, there will be a concert. The literary address will be Friday at 11 a. m. The name of speaker is promised for Monday's Robesonian. Dinner will be served on the grounds. The public is cordial ly invited to attend these exercises. MissMarybwell -4r4eacheri--JEh marshals are: Nonpareil, Martin Wel ters, Senora Carrol! ; 3tcr!.g. Cj-j gory A. Ifcrden, Cferr Rhodes. PARKTON PARAGRAPHS. The Final Summons Easter Ser: vice Laymen's Day for Parkton Circuit Sunday Entertainments. Correspondence of The Robesonian: Parkton, March 24 On March 12, Mrs. Mary Nunnery, wife of Mr. W. H. Nunnery, was laid to rest in the cemetery, having died suddenly in her daughter's home in Raeford. The funeral was held from the Baptist church by Rev. J. W. Cobb, of Lum ber Bridge, assisted by Rev. E. L. Stack. Mrs. Nunnery joined the Bap tist church at the age of 17 and had lived an exemplary Christian life ever since, and died at the age of 63. She was a loving and devoted wife and mother and will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Just about a week ago tonight the sad news reached the family of the deceased that Mr. Milton Wright was dead. He died in Colorado and the remains reached Maxton today and the interment will be at 10 o'clock tomorrow at the family burrying ground near Floral College. ' Mr. Wright va3 a son of Mr. Miller Wright, Sr., of our town. He was one of the finest young men the writer ever knew. I will always be proud that I knew him personally. To know him was to love him. Young Mr. Wright was in Colorado seeking health, having lung trouble, and was seemingly improving, but was strick en with pneumonia and only lasted about a week. This is one of the" sad dest deaths that has occurred to my mind in a long time, as he was such a promising young man a little while a co. Mr. Miller Wright and his fam ily are in Maxton tonight and will at tond the funeral tomorrow. On last Friday night there was quite a lively time at the old Acad emy. A very large entertainment was given for the benefit of the Baptist church. Space will not permit of the full program but some very good recitations were heard and a male quartette rendered several selections which deserve praise, also several young men blacked to represent the African race performed and sang Su wanee river, which was real laugha ble and received much applause. Something good to eat was in abun dance. Cannot give the figures as a total, but the door receipts were $24. This brings us down to Easter. At the Methodist church at 11 o'clock one of the best and most interesting pro grams was rendered by the Sunday school children ever rendered in our town. Tims, one hour and a half, but the large congregation never tired, as there was something doing all the while. The lecitations were all ren dered without a hitch. Every child knew his or her part perfectly, and the singing by the intermediate class was splendid, also the choir was up to date, every member of the choir being in their place except one, who wp.s sick, Rev. E. L. Stack related an interesting Easter story which was enjoyed by all, and at 8 o'clock p. m. preached a most interesting Easter sermon. On next Sunday, the fifth Sunday, will be Laymen's Day for Parkton circuit of which Rev. E. L. Stack is pastor. Following is the program: Laymen's Day Program. Morning Service. 11 o'clock Song service by the choirs of the Parkton churches. 11:15 o'clock Prayer and an nouncements. 11:30 o'clock Address, Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, N. C. Closing song No. 181, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Intermission. Afternoon Service. 3:15 o'clock Song service, choirs. Prayer. 3:30 o'clock Address Dr. J by H. Judd, of Fayetteville, N. C. Song No. 110, "Throw Out the Life line." Prayer and Benediction. Evening Service. 8:00 o'clock Song service, choirs. Prayer. 8:15 o'clock Address or sermon. Prayer. Closing song No. 184, "Work for the Night is Coming." This program will be at the audi torium of the graded school building, so you need not fear but what you can be accommodated. On Friday night at 8 o'clock there will be a play "Aunt Dinah's Quilt ing Party" at the graded school building given by the talent of the school. A very large house is expect ed. Messrs. D . H . McCormick and Prentess Stanton of the A. & M. College spent Easter at home and will return to Raleigh ' tomorrow. Miss Edith Joice spent Easter with home folks at Maxton. Mrs. A. J. Garris returned home last Friday from the hospital. We are glad to state she is much improved. Also we are glad to state that Mr. Daniel McMillan re turned from the hospital and is doing very well and will soon be well again Mrs. H. C. Jones is at the hospital for special treatment and is doing well. Mjy-F d'tnr, .we extend, a. mosfeeor- dial invitation to you to come up Sunday and hear Gen. Carr's lec ture. ' ADRIANOPLE FALLS. Bulgarians Capture Fortress After One of Most Stubborn Defenses in History of Warfare. Mustapha Pasha Dispatch, 26th. The Fortress of Adrianople was taken by storm by the Bulgarians this morning after fighting of the most tferXible character since Monday. Flames were devasting the city. After the outlying fortifications had been captured the Turkish troops set fire to all their depots and stores as well as the arsenal and the artillery park. They blew up the barracks and anumber of powder magazines. Most of the population fled. London Dispatch, 26th. Adrianople has fallen after one of the most stubborn defenses in the history of warfare, and Tchatalja, ac cording to a telegram received at London tonight, has suffered a like fate. The information regarding Tchat alja may refer to the town of that name and not the fortifications, al though it is possible the Bulgarians carried all before them. Shukri Pasha, the commander of Adrianople, handed his sword this af ternoon to General Savoff, the Bulga rian generalissimo, not, however, be fore carrying out his threat to de stroy the town rather than let it fall into the hands of the Bulgarians. From all accounts the arsenals, stores and much of the town are in flames. It was also reported that Shukri Pasha hiw taken his own life, but this proved untrue, as after decid ing resistance was no longer possible, he sent word to Gen. Savoff that he was burning the city. Gen. Savoff has appointed a com mandant of the city to maintain or der. The Bulgarian and Servian cavalry will be utilized for this purpose. Gen. Ivanoff, who commanded the forts around Adrianople, will enter tomor row while King Ferdinand will fol low shortly. OFFICE CHANGES. LaFayette Mutual in Caldwell Build ing Drs. Allen and King Dissolve Partnership Mr. Wetmore moves to Weinstein Building. The LaFayette Mutual Life Insur ance Co., which has just moved its home office from Fayetteville to Lumberton, has temporary offices in the R. D. Caldwell building, over the store occupied by Mr. Geo. M. Whit field. It is understood that the com pany will have permanent offices in the new Farmers & Merchants Bank building to be erected on the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets. Mr. F. F. Wetmore, who for a year or more has had an office in the McLeod building, will move to the A. Wein stein building, Fourth and Elm streets, and will occupy an office recently va cated 'by Mr. Archie Collins, who moved to Charlotte. The office ad joins Mr. R. A. McLean's law office. The office given up will be occupied by the law firm of Messrs. Lennon & Stacy, and it was for their benefit that Mr. Wetmore agreed to move. The office from which Mr. Wetmore moves adjoins the one now occupied by Messrs. Lennon & Stacy. Mr. Wet more will move to his new place with in a day or so. Drs. R. T. Allen and D. D. King have dissolved the partnership which they formed about a year ago for the prac tice of dentistry, Dr. King coming to Lumberton to associate himself with Dr. Allen, and Dr. Allen will continue to occupy the offices on the second floor of the Bank of Lumber ton building formerly occupied by them jointly. Dr. King is out of town at present, but it is understood that he will occupy two rooms in the Wein stein building, second floor, the cor ner front giving on Elm and Fourth and adjoining room, facing Fourth, now occupied by Mr. R. A. McLean as a law office. Mr. McLean will move across the hall into a room formerly occupied by Dr. A. C. Tebeau. Work Begins on New Store Building. Work was started yesterday on Mr. N. P. Andrews' two-story brick store building to be erected on the lot betweeri the Wavery hotel and Mr. John P. McNeill's store, this being the lot which Mr. Andrews purchased recently from Mr. Q. T. Williams, as has been mentioned in The Robeson ian. Mr. Sam Branch has the con tract for the erection of the building. The front of this building will be finished in red pressed brick. Mr. H. G. Meares, who has been conducting a fruit stand on the lot, has moved his stand to the vacant lot between Mr. John P. McNeill's store and the Lum berton cotton mill office building. Near Spartanburg, South Carolina, the other day, Mrs. Stansel Petty, nursing a baby was overcome with vertigo and fell into a fire place. Her 3-year-old daughter with great pres ence of mind caught up the baby and saved it from being burned. When Mrs. Petty regained consciousness' both - eyes were turned out and the mall daughter carried the baBjTand led her to the home of the nearest neighbor a quarter of a mile away. HEARD ON THE STREETS. Relatives of Lumberton People in Flooded District Traveling Man in Awful Suspense Street Etiquette Where Will Government Get Building Site? Tlephone Etiquette. Rev. Wm. Pope, a brother of Dr. H. T. Pope, of Lumberton, lives with in 25 miles of Indianapolis, Indiana, which State is experiencing the worst flood in its history. Tens of thous ands of people have been rendered homeless, some have lost their lives perhaps it will not be known with any degree of accuracy for sev eral days ju.st how many and the property loss will reach way up in the millions of dollars. Mr. Henry Pope remarked on the street yesterday that he had been trying to get a wire through to find out if his uncle had escaped, but that it had been impos sible to get a message through. It is a small world, after all. Dis aster in one part of the country comes home to people hundreds of miles away. A traveling man was in awful sus pense here yesterday. He was half crazed as he told Dr.- McPhaul, pro prietor of the Pope drug store, about it. His home is in Dayton, Ohio, where press dispatches in yesterday's paper stated prevailed probably the worst condition in the State, which has just been devastated by a terri fic storm, leaving death and destruc tion in its wake. This traveling man read in papers yesterday morning of conditions in his home town, of a terrific storm which swept away le vees of the city, of many people being drowned, many injured, many render ed homeless the first intimation he had had of the disaster and he could not get any word from his wife and baby whom he left in Dayton. Press dispatches told him that water was 13 feet in the unvon station at Day ton, and he knows that his home, where he left his wife and baby, is in a part of the city which is, four feet lower than the union station. The condition of this knight of the grip was pitiful. Think of resting the night through in safety and com fort and waking to learn the house where you left your loved ones, hun dreds of miles away, is 17 feet under water, and you not able to find out all day long, and maybe not for sev eral days, whether your wife and baby escaped or were buried beneath the awful flocd! Mr. D. D. French wants something said about people passing each other on the streets where the sidewalk is narrow. On some of the streets in the residence portion of the town the paved sidewalks are only three feet wide, and three people cannot; well pass without somebody having to get off the pavement if two insist on walking abreast. That necessity can be easily avoided without inconven ience to anybody, as Mr. French sug gests. When two or more people are walking abreast, when they pass any body if one will simply drop behind the other the matter of passing will be accomplished without inconven ience to anybody. It is the con siderate thing to do and most peo ple only need to have a little thing like this called to -heir attention. Of course there are a very few people who will insist upon taking up all the sidewalk and making whomsoever they can get off; but of course there are not any such ill-mannered hogs in Lumberton; they livj in other towns. . Where is Uncle Sam going to get such a site as he wants for a Federal building for Lumberton ? The sum of $10,000 is available now for the pur chase of this site and Lumberton cer tainly needs such a building. It is tb be hoped that somebody will be found who will be willing to sell to Uncle Sam a lot to put a building on for about the same price he would sell to a private individual.. But usual ly when Uncle Sam wants to buy real estate takes a decided boost. Speaking about etiquette, Isn't it passing strange that so few people have any 'phone manners at all? It is postively shocking to answer the 'phone by giving your name or office and to hear the person at the other end of the 'phone bawl out in a peeved sort of way, "Who's that?" And, mirabile dictu, you learn that the person who is holding you up so unceremoniously for your name be fore telling you who she is and whom she wants to speak to is a well-bred and cultured lady who would die of shame to think of being rude to any one! And you turn away from the 'phone and wonder sadly how that convenient and indjispensable thing has blunted in so many people the keen sense of the eternal fitness of things which they have in other things. The second annual debate between Trinity College and the University of South Carolina was held in Columbia, S. C, Tuesday night and won by Trin TfyTwhiclTWs' represented-by-HM4.A.ni w-JI.Xhambers. lost to David Ratcliffe, J R. Davis and Quinton Holton BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Middling cotton today, 11.81'ic. Mr. C. H. Hatr'hel. of Timmons ville, S. C, is a new barber in the City barber shop. Fourth street. Superior court begins Monday of next week, civil term, two weeks. Judge G. S. Ferguson of Waynesville will preside. There will be an ice-cream supper and debate at Saddle Tree school house tomorrow evening, beginning at 8 o'clock. Receipts for benefit of the school. The public is cordially in vited. Mr. Joe Mercer, of route 5 from Lumberton, is in town today. His daughter. Miss Irene, is here in the Thompson hospital undergoing treat ment for one of her eyes, which has been troubling her for some time. Dr. M. R. Gibson, eye specialist, of Max ton, is here today and will probably operate on Miss Mercer's eye. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McNeill left Monday night for Richmond and Bal timore. Mr. McNeill returned home this morning. Mrs. McNeill came back by way of Raleigh, where she will attend the annual session of the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union of North Carolina being held there this week. She is expected to return home tomorrow night. Mesdames P.. D. Caldwell, Lizzie G. Proctor,, I. P. Hedgpeth, John P. McNeill, R- T. Allen and' M. W. Floyd and Misses Margaret Pitman, Lillian Mclntyre and Emma Higley are among the Lumberton ladies who are attending this week in Raleigh the North Carolina Baptist Woman's Missionary convention. The con vention began at Raleigh Tuesday evening and will close Friday. Rev. C. H. Durham and family finished moving yesterday from the old First Baptist church personage on East Fifth street to the new par sonage, Walnut and Sixth streets-the old McDiarmid residence, recently purchased by the First Baptist con gregation and remodelled and made almost new. Mr. L. R. Varser, who some time ago purchased the old par sonage, will have it remodeled before moving into it. Work was to have be gun today. AMONG TRANSGRESSORS. White Man Wanted in Georgia on Charge of Murderous Assault Ar rested in East Lumberton Wrong Negro Arrested Charges of Store Breaking and False Pretense. I Sheriff R. E. Lewis went Tuesday to Whiteville for John Page and Wil lis Caesar, both colored, wanted on charges of false pretense. The ne groes are in jail. Sheri fF Lewis and Deputy Sheriff Willis Britt went yes terday to Red Springs and brought to jail Jesse McNeill, colored. Mc Neill was arrested in Red Springs some days ago on a charge of store breaking. Deputy Britt went Tues day to Florence, S. C, after Sam Coleman, colored, who was arrested there some days ago by local au thorities on a charge of attempt at rape, the alleged crime being com mitted some months ago near Red Banks, this county. The negro was jailed, but proved to be the wrong man and was turned loose this morn ing. He has the same name and re sembles the man wanted. Deputies Joe Britt and Neill Ratley, of Fairmont, arrested yesterday at the Lumberton cotton mill Isham Nichols, a white man about 60 years old, on a charge of assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill. The warrant was sent here to Sheriff Lewis some days ago from the sher iff of Tatnall county, Ga. Nichols was jailed and the Georgia sheriff noti fied and Sheriff Lewis received no tice this morning that the man will be sent for. Nichols is charged with shooting an officer in Georgia about a year ago, and says that he is the man wanted and he expressed a willing ness to go back to Georgia without extra papers. He says that he has been tried for the shooting once and that he thought it was all over. Nich ols has a wife and two children, all working at the Lumberton mill. Rev. J. Frank Gorrell Accepts Call to Presbyterian Church. Rev. J. Frank Gorrell of Greens boro will come to Lumberton. At a congregational meeting of the Lum berton Presbyterian church last Sun day, as mentioned in Monday's Robe sonian, Mr. Gorrell was extended a unanimous call on stated supply of one year. Mr. J. A. McAllister, clerk of the session, received yesterday a letter from Mr. Gorrell to the effect that he will come and will be here to preach the first Sunday in April. It is expected that he, with his fam ily, will arrive next week. Wake Forest College debaters won a debate at Raleigh Monday night from Baylor Baptist University of Texas. The Wake Forest debaters were Junius C. Brown and Rowland S. Pruette. On the same night in a debate at Winston-Salem Wake For-, est College, represented by S. Long son College reprt-'ente TRy TV."";'"" Golden and J. M. Williams.