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ABILITY WASTED IH CRIME.
Loaiavillo Courier. Journal: That
the ingenuity and energy devoted to
criminal pursuits would insure a
comfortable living and an easy com
petence if applied to honest labor is
a truism. A fresh and effective illus
tration of this was furnished last
week in the killing bj a train of
"Big Jim" Brady, one of the most
-noted burglars of thirty years ago,
who had just left the Westchester.
New York, poorhouse after a stay
of three years. He was seventy
eight years old and had been admit
ted to the institution in a starving
condition, added to which he was
desperately ill. His record was well
known, and when he went into the
poorhouse hia life was thought to be
only, a question of a few weeks.
- Nevertheless he fought his way hack
to health and when ready applied for'
his discharge. When his dead body
was picked np by the side of the rail
road there was tightly clutched in
his hand a bag containing a complete
set of burglars' tools of the most
modern description. 'Jfae of them
was an electric torch, decidedly a
new thing in burglary. It turned
out that the kit of tools was his own
handiwork, constructed with the
rudest sort of instruments, hut of
excellent workmanship. Seventy
eight years-old and feeble as he
must have been, he had struggled
away from his place of refuge ob
viously to return to his old life of
desperation and crime. , ' '
Brady belonged to the higher
claaaea of criminals. He -was an
expert bank burglar, and it is said
no safe lock was invented that could
defeat hia skill. He did Borne very
profitable jobs in his lino, the total
of . his "lootings" amounting, it is
.said, to half a million dollars. His
all he got out of this fortune and for
thu desperate chances he took were
long years in prison, shattered health
and death unwept and alone nnder
the engine wheels of an .express
train. Had he devoted his unques
tioned abilities as amechanlc to le
gitimate pursuits he might have been
a sort of Charles Schwab, who lifted
himself in comparative youth to the
ranks of the millionaires solely by
hia energy and his skill as an artisan.
The difference between the two
men was that Schwab was a normal
and honest man, and "Big Jim"
Brady had no moral' basis for an
' otherwise strong character. He
chose the wrong road of life and was
severely punished even on this earth.
EXTORTION IN A PERIOD 07
DISTRESS.
Baltimore Sun: The flood in Kan
sas City cut off to a great extent
the food supply by rail, and a num
ber of merchants who had large
stocks on hand took advantage of
the situation to advance prices. The
merchandise they sold bad not cost
them one cent more than the usual
market price. And yet numbers of
the grocers and provision dealers'
did not heeitate to take advantage
of the necessities of the people, poor
and ri . .like, to demand famine
price i. ' b f ent up to $1 a pound,
- pote't-ev, ;3 a bushel, and other
thi ,n roportion. A great por
ti'i "f ' i. j population are unahle to
Fv t1 a .ie prices, and there was, of
. ' .se, much deprivation and suffer
ing ir. consequence. Tho City Coun
cil ir k cognizance of the situation
v faoscu nu uruiuauce loruiuuiug
extortionate or unreasonable prices
"for water and other necessaries of
lire. The ordinance fixes a penalty
l up to 500, and persons who were
overcnargeu were advised to appeal
to the police. Whether the City
''Council h AO. f Via onfVinrSfw tn unfAma
i Vuchan ordinance is a question of
aw. But the enactment of the or
dinance is an expression of public
sentiment which may have some ef
fect upon the extortionate dealers.
Last Winter while the supply of
coal wea limited not one ton of that
limited supply cost any more to mine
and haul than the usual sum.
And yet the price in most of
the Eastern cities was doubled and
aometimea almoBt quadrupled by
some of the operators. In conse
quence of this extortion there was
much suffering among the poor and
doubtless much disease and many
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VOL. XXXIV.
deaths. ' Bat just as with the Kan
sas City food sellers, some of these
coal men had no pity. The public
press in Kansas City Is denouncing
the merchants who are advancing
the price of the necessaries of life
nnduly as robbers. It is difficult to
differentiate the morals of such men
from those who robbed and wounded
the man who traveled from Jerusa
lem to Jericho and left him bleed
ing and dying in the highway.
"On the basis of the last elec
tion," says, the Courier-Journal,
"there is no Solid South. When
there was it consisted of Alabama,
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary
land, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Carolina, South- Carolina, Tennes
see, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.
This is the 'Solid South that was.
If to these 167 votes we add 39
from New Yorkj 12 from New
Jersey, 7 from Connecticut and 15
from Indiana, we shall have a total
of 240, which is one more than
enough to elect, as there will be a
total of 476 votes, of which 239 isa
majority."
Congressman Tawney, of Minne
sota, is the son of one blacksmith,
grandson of another and learned the
same trade himself in Mount Pleas
ant township, near Gettysburg,
where he was born in 1855. At the
age of 22 he went by boat to Wino
na, his present home, where he
landed with just 25 cents in his
pocket. Two hours later he was at
work as blacksmith and machinist.
He remained in the same shop four
years, meantime studying law. He
practiced for some time after being
admitted to the bar and was then
elected to Congress, where he has
been for nearly twelve years.
The New brleans Item (Dem.)
says: "It may be that Senator Han
na sees the dilemma of his party,
and rather than be its nominee, pre
fers to let Mr. Roosevelt claim and
take off the perilous honor. In the
midst of this embroglio, one thing
is certain, and that is that Mr.
Roosevelt will be the easiest man
for the Democrats to beat. The
moneyed interests of the country,
as represented by men like Senator
Hanna and J. P. Morgan, are
afraid of his antics, and the railroad
interests have no confidence in his
discretion."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
say 8: ''Five battleships a year, and
other naval vessels in proportion, is
said to be President Roosevelt's pro
gramme. In a few years, then, the
country would have such a strong
navy that it might be tempted to
pick a quarrel juBt to show what a
fine navy it had. The country
maintained its honor and Its inter
ests for more than a century before
Mr. Roosevelt arrived, and it never
maintained a big navy."
Reading an article in the News,
referring to the high stand taken
by some of the boys and girls in
the Charlotte schools, reminds us
that a young lady of Wilmington
who recently graduated from one
of the leading educational institu
tions of the State received 100, the
highest mark of merit, in five of her
seven studies and 99 in the remain
ing two.
"A scientist estimates that the
world will last at least 20,000,000
years longer." Then, there will be
ample time for building that big
hotel at "The Hammocks," settling
the sewerage question, establishing
a public park and making some pro
vision for the comfort of the thou
sands of people who visit Wilming
ton during the Summer.
We' are told that "a man in Penn
sylvania robbed his mother-in-law of
1982 and was sent to the peniten
tiary." This shows bow desperate a
fellow may become when he wants to
get rid of a mother-in-law.
An esteemed contemporary in
forms us that, "generally speaking,
the longest-lived persons are very
t)oor." Correct, brotner. The norse
editor of the Stab knows how it is
himself. "
Cumberland seems to enjoy a mo-
jiopoly in the culture of dewberries.
Large quantities are shipped irom
Fayetteville, and they xetcn gooa
prices in the Northern markets.
From the evident disfavor with
fiAl. Caldwell, of the Char-
- -
lotte Observer, regards bloodhounds
we are forced to conclude mat tney
are not worth a scent.
The chief of the fire department
of Portsmouth, Va., is named Mur
der. Fire and Murder I Blessed
Tony t What a combination.
A philosopher says: "You should
always do your best." We never do
that except when the "worst cornea
to the, worst."
Judge Clark will neither affirm
nor deny. Mr. Bryan will have to
issue a bench warrant.
CURRENT COMMENT
In line with a recent edito
rial in this paper entitled, "The
Danger to the South," we call at
tention to the fact that the Ohio
Convention, that was dominated by
Roosevelt, made a platform declar
ing that "justice requires any Stato
excluding any of its citizens from
the ballot to be proportionally re
duced in representation in the elec
toral college and in the lower House
of Representatives." The South
has. a good deal at stake in the next
residential campaign and so has
the Northern Democracy, unless
both have a hankering to remain in
a lean and beeearlv minoritv.
Charlotte News, (Dem.)
President Roosevelt seems to
be having things his own way, and
if he lives he will be the Republican
nominee for the Presidency next
year. Mr. Roosevelt is a popular
man, and we are willing to give him
all the credit that is due him, but
he is not a safe man, he has not the
confidence of the business men of
the United States, and it is our de
liberate opinion that if the Demo
crats in 1904 will nominate a safe,
conservative man for the Presi
dency, and put him on a sound
Democratic platform, thev will win.
It is a great opportunity, and it is
to be hoped that the Democrats will
not let it slip. Richmond Times
Democrat, Dem.
"Why shonid Cuba be allow
ed to go to London to borrow the
thirty-five millions she needs ? Do
American financiers fail to recog
nize the importance of maintaining
a preponderant influence in the
island republic naturally bound to
us ? Do we forget tnat the finan
cial tie is in these days far the most
influential of all, and quickly com
bines with itself the commercial and
the political ? With prospects so
happy, after a year of prosperity
under sober and responsible govern
ment, Cuba should have no - diffi
culty in getting any reasonable rum
in the United States at a lower rate
of interest than dhe would have to
pay abroad." Philadelphia Ledger:.
The information is gathered
from a cable dispatch published in
the Washington Post that T.
Thomas Fortnne, President Roose
velt's special labor commissioner to
the Philippine Islands, "who recent
ly had a difficulty with the police"
of Manilla, has been "sent home by
the - government." It appears from
the . information received and pub
lished by a Honolulu paper that
Turbulent Thomas is "returning
home as a rapidly a:sisted immi
grant." Turbolent Thomas For
tnne; as is very well understood,
is a negro lawyer and edi
tor of New York. During the
course of a speech made at Honolulu
while on his way to investigate for
the President the conditions of la
bor in , the Philippines, he. said:
"Booker Washington preaches the
gospel of work; I preach the gospel
of dissension;" and that very well
deecribes him. He prefers kicking
up a row about something to honest
labor, and it was because he was so
noisy and bothersome that be was
shipped across the Jf acme by. the Re
publican bosses. Puffed up with his
own importance, it seems that the
only thing he did worthy of notice
while in Manila Was to get into an
altercation with the police. -Savannah
News, Dem.
SHORT CUT FOR TOURIST TRAINS.
Coast Use Will Reduce Its Throofh Mile
ie by Next Winter.
Florence Times, 6th.
Tourist trains via the Atlantic Coast
Line will be operated to Jacksonville
next winter over the new short line
from Jesup to Folkston. The line was
oneaed un last year but on account of
the newness of the roadbed the fast
passenger trains were not brought over
it. The management nas now oeciaea
to make extensive improvement! on
the Jeauo .short line by layinsr the
track with 80-pound rail, and using
gravel as a ballast for. the roadway.
The road when finished in seven or
eight months, will be one of the finest
pieces of railway In the country.
By operating the fast tourist trains
over this short cut, Instead of via
Wavcross. the Coast Line will save
considerable time in reaching Jackson
ville and Bt. Augustine. The .exact
amount of time saved will not -be
ascertained until the schedules are
made for the tourist season.
The work on the Jssrap Short Line
which extends 64 mile, is being done
under the direction of O. B. Knieht of
the - roadway department. The 80
oound rail has been laid. for Similes,
and the work will be pushed rapidly
from nowon. In addition; to ballast
lng with gravel, Mr: Knight has de
cided on a novel plan to make the
roadway solid by planting of willow
trees at the foot of all embankments
and Bermuda srrass on the banks.
Bt this means the banks will be -pro
tected from washing and the soil will
be held together with the roots of the
willow and the grass. The engineers
exoect to make this niece of roadway
one of the finest on any railroad in the
country.
Forfeited His Recof afzsace.
Louis Crawford, the young white
man charged with stabbing John Han
na. near Delgado Mills last week and
who gave, himself up to Justice
McGowan, and was recognized to ap
pear for preliminary examination yes
terday afternoon at 5 o'clock, forfeited
his recognisance and has disappeared,
o far as the authorities can learn.
Hanna appeared In court but as the
defendant , failed to show up there
could be no trial.
The Cnarlotte Excursion.
Charlotte Chronicle : "Mr. V. O.
WIIHa )in anunt ThundftW ill Wil-
mington looking after comforts for the
Fritchard memorial excursion on me
21th and 25th insts., has returned to
h oitw nil rnnnrti the most satisfac
tory arrangements both as to boat
trips on Capt. Harper's boat or as
to boarding places for the large
crowd which is preparing to go. A.
iiat nt thaaA hnftrdln? daces Is beine
gotten up by the Wilmington board
ot trade and will be distributed on the
trains."
WILMINGTON, N. G.,
WRI6HTSYILLE BEACQ
June Will Be a Month That Will
Claim Thousands of Visitors
for the Famous Resort.
THE PYTHIAN GRAND LODGE.
Proframme Completed Yesterday for Ea
lerlslnment of the Vhitlnf Kalthls
Jaae If th19th The Teachers'
Assembly This Week.
This week, the next and still the fol-
owing week will find Wrlghtsvllle
Beach thronged with people in attend
ance upon great State meetings and
conventions, which Wilmington has
been especially fortunate in securing
this year. As the Greensboro Tele
gram was kind enough to remark a
while ago,Jf there's any big gather-
ngs in North Carolina this Summer
that Wrighfsville Beach hasn't cap
tured, Wilmington hasn't heard of
them.
The Teachers' Assembly met last
Tuesday evening at the Seashore Hotel
and will remain in session practi
cally the remainder of the week. The
very elaborate programme for the
Assembly has already been published
in these columns. The following
week, beginning Tuesday, 16th, the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of
the State, will have headquarters
there, followed by the Bankers' Asso
ciation, extended reference to which is
made elsewhere In to day's paper.
The programme for the Pythian
Grand Lodge was made public yester
day. The first session will be held at
8 P. M. In the New Castle Hall of
Stonewall, Clarendon and Jefferson
lodges, on the third floor of the Mur
chison National Bank building. The
first session will be preliminary in Its
nature and will consist chiefly of con
ferring the Grand Lodge degree upon
eligible candidates. After the routine
work the Grand Lodge will repair to
the T. M. C. A. auditorium,
Where a publie reception to
which all, especially the ladies, are
Invited. Past Chancellor 8. Behrends,
of Germanla Lodge No. 4, will pre
side. Past Chancellor Wm. F. Ro
bertson, of Stonewall Lodge No. 1,
will deliver the welcome address and
Past Chancellor A. B. Barnard, of
Ashevllle, will respond In behalf of
the Grand Lodge. There will be a
special musical programme under the
capable direction of Mr. EL H. Hun
son. Miss Cole, Mr. R. O. Banks and
others will sing. Following the re
ception the visitors will go to the
beach about 11 P. M.
Wednesday's session will begin at
A. M. and continue until 1 P. M.,
when an adjournment will be taken
for lunch to be served by the ladies
of the city in the old Pythian
Cattle Hall in the MacRae build
ing. Mrs. W. W. Hodges will
have charge of the refreshments, as
sisted by Mrs. J. D. Nutt and others.
The visiting ladies will come up from
the Seashore Hotel for the luncheon,
leaving the beach at 11 o'clock.
The afternoon session of the Grand
Lodge will convene at 2 o'clock and
continue until 5 P. M., when the visi
tors will become guests of Capt Jno.
W. Harper, for a delightful ride down
the river on the steamer "Wilming
ton," after which they will return to
the beacb.
The evening will be given over to
Suez Temple, Knights of Khorassen,
who will lead a number of untried
tyros through the burning sands of
the desert. ' ?'
Thursday the usual sessions will be
held and lunch will again be served
by the ladles. At night the close of
the sessions will be celebratedlth fire
works and vaudeville at the beach.
The election of officers will, prob
ably take place Wednesday and It
promises to furnish an Interesting
contest between friends of prominent
Knights for several positions of honor.
The local committee of arrange
ments from Stonewall, Clarendon,
Germanla and f Jefferson lodges is as
follows: Col. Walker Taylor, chair
man; Capt. T. D. Meares, Maj. Wm.
F. Robertson, J. J. Hopkins, J. D.
Nutt, J. F. Littleton, Jno. Haar, C. F.
VonKampen, J. W. Dais, EL K.
Bonitz,;K H Munson and Col. W. J.
Woodward. - .
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Draymao In Trouble.
Abram Watson, a colored drayman,
was lodged in jail by Constable Sav
age yesterday, charged with an as
sault upon a negro named Purcell
McLean, while the latter wan trying
to arrest A. Wilkins, another colored
man who bad stolen by ' trick an
amount of money from him. Wil
kins and McLean work at the gas
house, and Wilkins had sold two days
of bis week's time to McLean, but be
fore the latter could draw it, Wilkins
himself had slipped in and drawn it.
Wilkins attempted to get off on Wat
son's dray, and when McLean went
on the dray after the "foxy." negro,
Watson assaulted him. The affair
occurred at Front and Dock streets.
Uahsppy Womsa's Suicide.
Alma Graham, an unfortunate white
woman, aged about 25 years, who has
resided some time In sections of the
city "bearing an unsavory reputation,
committed suicide by morphine poison
lng at No. 218 MacRae street night
before last The rash act of the un
happy woman was discovered yester
day morning too late for phjslclans to
revive her and the remains were in
terred ' with funeral servicea at the
cemetery yesterday afternoon. The
womad had three or four times before
attempted to end her life and was once
prevented by officers from jumping
overboard at Castle street dock.
FREDAY, JUNE 12, 1903.
REVIEW OP STRAWBERRY SEASON.
Track Drawers' Joarasl Prlats aa later
estlff Review Veretsble Market.
The "Carolina Fruit' and Truck
Growers', Journal," of this city, In Its
Issue of last Monday printed an edi
torial review of the strawberry season
just ended, jln noting the return from
South Rocky Mount of Mr. EL T.
Baaman, . the enterprising business
agent of the Truckers' Association, the
"Journal" says that the season has
required hia servicea at the junction
Office, handling car load shipments,
much longer than ever before. Sched
ules have been more lived np to by
the railroads and deliveries on the
great majority of the leading markets
have been more uniform. - The re
frigerator ear service has been first
class Irom start to finish and the Ex
press service has also been good.
Everybody has made money and now
they want to get to work to equal if not
double tbeamou at -aaxt year. V
Irish, potato and vegetable ship
ments out of this territory have
already reached tremendous propor
tions. . Prices are good thus far, rang
ing from $3 to $3.60, and in some In
stances as high as $1 to $4.50 per bar
rel for the more desirable grades of
Irish potatoes. Beans, cabbage, peas,
beets, onions, asparagus, cucumbers
and other like vegetables are moving
in good shape, yielding on the whole
good returns to the growers. Carload
shipments of potatoes have already be
gun to move from points like Wil
mington,. Newborn, Conetoe, Wash
ington, . Belhaven, Elisabeth City,
Kinston, Oriental, Norfolk, Vs., and
different points In that territory as
well as a number of stations on the
W. &W., W., O. &A. andA.&Y.
divisions of the Atlantic Coast Line.
Prices rule steady and fully up to the
average, wmie tbe markets an appear
to b. eager and willing to absorb
readily all that is offered
A MERRY WEODINQ PARTY.
LaihamNssb Naptlslg at Cllatoi a Brllllsst
Affsir Rstnra of attests.
With the exception of Miss Fannie
Green, wbo remained to visit friends,
all of the party of Wilmington people
wbo went up to Clinton to attend the
marriage of Miss Lucy Hall Latham
and Mr. Robert Norfleet Nash in St.
Paul's Episcopal church, of that town,
Thursday afternoon, returned to the
city Friday morning.
The marriage was one of the prettiest
and most elaborate In tbe history of
Clinton and the guests were many in
number and distinguished. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. F. N.
Skinner and the church was beauti
fully decorated for the occasion.
The bride waa given away by her
cousin, Mr. Eli W. Hall, of Texas.
The maid of honor was Miss Emma
West, and the bridemalds were Misses
Jeanle Peck and Lina Wiggins. The
ribbon girls were little Hisses Eltse
Cronly and Dorothy Nash. The ush
ers were Messrs. J. 0. Angel, J. Daw
son Latham, W. J. Beaman, Geo. P.
James, Dr. T. M. Green and O. McD.
Davis. The best man was Mr. E. 8.
Nash
The bride waa exquisitely attired In
white mull, with lace trimmings, and
carried a bouquet of bride's roses. The
bridesmaids wore white mull and car
ried bouquets of pink carnations. The
presents were numerous and beautiful,
The entire bridal party accompanied
the happy couple on a special train as
far aa Warsaw. Mr. and Mrs. Nash
will spend some time on a bridal tour
North, after which they will return to
Wilmington to reside In the future.
CORONER'S VIEW OF THE WRECK.
Isfoeit Over Bodies of Those Killed la
Excarsloa SmssB'Up Wednesday.
The Sumter correspondent of the
Columbia State sends that paper the
following in regard to the coroner's
Investigation into the deaths of those
killed in the excursion wreck near
Wedgefield, B. 0., Wednesday morn
ing :
The coroner's jury waa organised,
with George W. Reardon as foreman.
and went to the scene of the wreck to
take evidence. Tbe negro who tried to
flag the train was one of the witnesses
and gave a graphic description of his
attempts. The jury returned, to tne
cllv vesterdav afternoon and went to
Dr. Mood's tnnrmary, wnere tne
wounded were Quartered. A number of
them were questioned, but the testi
mony or engineer , wiison was me oniy
one of interest." He stated that he saw
Robertson's signals plainly, but hav
ing orders not to stop at any nag sta
tion, be ran by Cain Savannah siding,
where Robertson was flagging the train.
He saw the washout just before his
engine reached it and applied his emer
gency brakes and then reversed the
engine. When the engine went down
into the washout he jumped back on
the tender and when that fell in and
turned un on the end he was thrown
forward to the bottom of the hole by
the engine. When questioned why
he did not heed tbe signals' -he said
he was simply obeying orders not to
stop forpassengers at any flag stations.
He said he would have stopped in
stantly If the same signals had been
made any where but at anse station.
The jury adjourned to the court
house and after a full consideration a
verdict was reached that the said J.
J. Olemmons. Joe Davis. Frank Ross,
Minnie Roes and Ned Western came
to their death in a railroad aceloent on
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, two
miles east of Wedgefield, the said ac
cident being the result of a wasnout
Mr. DeVaney to Wed.
The following invitations have been
Issued: "Mr. and Mrs. William Al
exander Wlllson invite you to be pres
ent at the marriage ceremony of their
daughter, Hattle Lu, to Mr. Stacy K.
DeVaney, Wednesday afternoon, June
the seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and three, six o'clock, at home, Wil
mington, North Carohns."
FLOOD DESTROYS
TOWNS AND MILLS.
Fearful Sweep of the Waters
at Pacolet and Clifton,
South Carolina.
SEVENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
Property Loss Estimated at Two Million
Dollars Great Dsmsge to Southern
Railway Many Bridies Swept
Away A Terrible Flood.
us Teleaxapn to tne Horning Btar.
Spabtab bubo), 8. C, June 6. Be-
bre the waters of a terrible1 flood, Pa
colet, 8. O., has been swept from the
map and several of the great cotton
mills ot Spartanburg and Clifton have
been wiped out br a storm which
swepf this part of the country late
ast nignt.
Up to the present hour It has been
mposslble to ascertain the loss of life.
Twelve bodies have already been seen
drifting down the stream. Fifty peo
ple are reported drowned at Clifton
and twenty-five at Pacolet.
Pacolet and Clifton are situated in
the defiles or two valleys. Most of
the homes of the workmen were loca
ted in the valley near the mills in
wnicu they are laborers.
The storm settled over Spartanburg
ast night It gathered force until tbe
proportions of a giant cloud-burst were
reached when the downpour from the
clouds swept away the dams, which in
turn settled -Into one vast swirling
stream which rushed through the
alley where the mills were situated.
This afternoon the waters are roaring
above nouses and nomes, where yes
terday thousands of laborers were
busy. Tbe property losr. It Is believ
ed will reach $3,000,000.
Oamaf e at Pacolet.
At Pacolet the following damage
has been reported:
Mill No. 1 has been washed com
pletely away; mill No. 2 Is totally de
stroyed ; the dams nf these mills are
swept away and the waters rush un
checked through tbe wide gap thus
opened.
Tbe warehouse of mill No. 1. with
its total stock of goods and cotton, was
swept away, while the hotel, tbe lead-
ng churches and almost every build
ing In the little city has been partially
or totally destroyed.
Additional Details.
All the bridges ' and trestles on the
main line of the Southern railway
were washed away. The greatest dis
truetlon of life and property occurred
at the Pacolet and. Clifton and Glen
dale cotton mills. Wires are down
and reports -are conflicting, but it
aeems certain that twenty-five or thirty
people were drowned, mostly mill op
eratives. The ill-fated Pacolet - cotton - mills
were the heaviest property losers,
President Victor Montgomery estima
ting the damage to the plant at 1,
250,000. About 1,200 operatives in
these mills are thrown out of work and
within a few days will be in need of
dally bread.
At 6 o'clock this morning. It waa no
ticed that the water was rising ranldly
in the Pacolet river but no special im
portance was attached to it by mill op
eratives who began to form in line to
enter the mills. At mills Nos. 1 and 2
the pressure soon became dangerous,
the boiler rooms were submerged and
the workmen were ordered back. A
little later the fury of the raging river
struck mill No. 1, sweeping the plant
entirely away. Tbe strong current
then swept agaicst JNo. 2, demolishing
that mill and leaving only the cloth
room standing. The big bridge over
the Pacolet river, a steel structure, was
then carried away by tha f urioustrater
which had burst through the dams.
The ware room, with nearly 4,000 bales
of cotton and 4,000 bales of domestic
cloth, followed, all the cotton being
carried down stream.
At Pacolet mill No. 3, one-half of the
picker room and five stories on the left
side of a thick brick wall, are still stand
ing but very shaky and may collapse
at any time. Tbe boiler room is gone
but the smokestack is yet standing.
Tbe dam at No. S is intact. All the
machinery in this mill is ruined.
At Glendale, four warehouses filled
with cotton and cotton products were
swept away, along; with the dam across
LiSwson's fork and tbe trestle or tbe
city electric railway. The mill at
Olendaie was not materially damaged.
At Converse the main building of
the Clifton factory collapsed and the
water rose till in the second floor of
the mill It was four feet forty or fifty
feet above the ordinary water mark.
The Converse mill is utterly demol
ished, nothing standing except the
picker-room building, which is badly
wrecked.
The Clifton mill No. S also lost its
boiler room, machine ahop, engine
room and smokestack.
President Twlchell could not esti
mate the loss to-night. He has not
been able yet to visit the ruins of the
plants.
The Whitney mms, on Liawsons
Fork, were damaged by the heavy
rise of the water, and some houses
and a steel bridge at that point were
washed away.
At the Tucapan mills, the water
rose to the second floor of tbe build
ing and considerably damaged the
machinery.
Flood at Greenville.
Greenville, June 6. Flood condi
tions here are assuming serious pro
nortions. Tbe damage to crops in this
section has been very heavy. Two
houses were washed away here on the
banks of the Reedy river. No lives
are reported lost, as yet Reports from
the country are coming In slowly.
Telegraph and telephone wires are
down. There Is a well defined rumor
that Lake Toxaway has broken and
that the water is running down into
Seneca river. The railroad people
expect the full force of the flood to
reach Seneca by midnight It Is feared
that the trestle of the Southern Rail
way will be totally destroyed.
A Startling Report
Charlotte. N. C, June 6. A
special to thevObseroer from Columbia,
B. C. aavs:
"A startling report has just reached
Columbia. Lake Sapphire, in Western
North Carolina, is said to have broken
through Its retaining walls and to
have descended upon tbe plains below
with great fury. This may affect the
cotton mlll Industries on the Seneca
river, in Pickens and Anderson
counties."
Charlotte, N. 0., June 6. The
heavy rains have resulted in an meat
culable loss to property between here
and Spartanburg, 8. C, along the line
of the Southern Railway, it is re
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ported that a number of lives have
been lost Five cotton mills have been
washed away. Three bridges on tbe
Southern Railway are lost and two
others damaged, and telephone mes
sages say that twelve bodies have been
seen floating in the Pacolet river.
ttsriy this morning tidings of dis
tress began to reach this city and each
report indicated great injury to the
Southern and to many industrial in
terests that are located between Char
lotte and Spartanburg. Three bridges
on the main line of the Southern have
been swept away and all buildings in
the vicinity of tbe mills. The bridge
over Lawson's Fork of the Pacolet
river near Spartanburg has gone. It
had one span and was 142 feet long.
The bridge over the middle Tiger river
is destroyed, it bad three spans and
was 142 feet lone. The brldare over
North Tiger river cannot be used. It
s damaged, though the full extent of
the Injury cannot be ascertained.
The big bridge over the Pacolet river,
six or seven miles this side of Spartan-
ourg, is said oy railway officials to be
very unsafe. It is still standing against
the fierce tide but is badly damaged
and is in a very serious condition. The
bridge over the Enoree river, iust
south of Spartanburg, has been car
ried away.
Great Damsre at Pacolet
Pacolet mills Nos. 1 and 2 near Spar
tanburg were washed awav this morn
ing causing a loss which President
Montgomery, of the company, says
will aggregate $1,000,000.
Twelve bodies were seen floating
past the mills on the flood and two
persons,names unknown, were drowned
at Pacolet mills. The hotel and Pres
byterian church at Pacolet were also
washed away.
Tbe river was flooded by the inces
sant rains and first mill No. 1 was car
ried away and a short time afterward
No. 2, while the third plant is in Im
minent danger, the river rising rap
Idly. A big warehouse containing 1.000
bales of cotton and 1.000 bales of varn
also was destroyed, and the goods car
ried down atream. It is estimated that
altogether 3,500 bales of cotton and
4,000 bales of yarn were destroyed.
xnq Jfacoiet mills are among the
largest plants in the South, belonging
to tne same company whose plant was
destroyed at Gainesville, Ga,, last
week. Tbey manufacture brown sheet
ings and drills. They operate 56,330
spindles, z,ieu looms and 400 cards.
The capital is $700,000: J.H. Montgom
ery, of Spartanburg, 8. C, being the
president.
A special to the Observer this after
noon giving later details of the losses,
says:
"Pacolet mills No. 1 and No. 2. and
part of No. 3 are gone. The loss is
$350,000. Twenty-five lives are lost"
The big Clifton mills at Converse
were completely obliterated.
Converse Mills Destroyed.
Chablottk, N. C, June 6. A
special from Clifton, 8. C, says:
Tbe converse cotton mill, with 51.-
000 spindles, has been destroyed by
the flood. The Clifton mill, with 27,-
600 spindles, is half washed away. The
Dexter mill.' with 80.000. is half gone.
These mills belong to the Clifton Man
ufacturing' Company. Five hundred
people are homeless. It Is estimated
that fifty persons are drowned. Four
thousand people are out of employ
ment. There were many thrilling
rescues from trees and houses. B. K..
Johnson lost his wife and all their
children. So did R. A. Finley and J.
u. u wens. The following were
drowned: Fleeta Gosla and child;
Maggie Kir by : Mr. Long and his wife:
Novia Bimms. Other names are not
obtainable. The river has fallen to'
eight feet above the normal. Imme
diate help is needed. A relief commit
tee is to be organized Immediately.
Kev. w. j. Bnyder will receive and
turn over to the committee any moneys
forwarded.
The Latest Summary
Spartanburg. S. C, June 6. So
many wires are down and communi
cation of aU sorts is so thoroughly de
moralized, that it is impossible to form
any definite calculation of tbe loss of
life in today's cloud burst and tbe
resultant floods. The mortality list
may go to 150, but the more conserva
tive estimates place it somewhere
around forty or fifty.
The total property loss is likely to
aggregate $2,000,000, The loss at Pa
colet Is placed at one million dollars,
summarized as follows: Mills No. 1
and No. 2 demolished; 28,000 spindles
a wreck; 3,500 bales of cotton, two
hundred thousand dollars worth of
cloth goods in company's store dam
aged : grist mill, cotton gin. postoffiee.
shoe shop, blacksmith shop, dental
office, livery stable and Presbyterian
church all washed away.
At Clifton, the Converse mill, with
51.000 spindles, is entirely gone. The
Clifton mill, with 27.000 spindles, is
half washed, away. The Dexter mill.
with 30.000 spindles, is probably half
ruined. All these mills belong to the
Clifton Manufacturing company.
More than 500 people are homeless
and 4.000 are out of employment
There was no wind and no damage
by' lightning; only by water. This
fell in veritable torrents, converting
the surface of the earth into a aheer
lake of raging; water. Rivers over
flowed their banks to heights never
before known; creeks became rivers
and small rivulets roaring torrents,
wiping out -everything in tbeir course.
Railroad bridges were torn from
stone piers, cotton mills were crushed
like straw before the flood, and grist
mills and innumerable smaller indus
tries and cottages were washed away
by the angry waters.
At a late hour to-nlgbt scores of
people were clinging to the branches
of trees at Clifton and could not be
reached. Unless help comes to them
soon it is feared that many will fall
into the water and drown.
At Calhoun Falls.
Augusta. Ga.. June 7. A special
to the ueraia from camoun vans, a.
C. says:
Conditions in upper caroina are be
coming distressing. The Seneca river
is now higher than ever knpwn be
fore. At Calhoun u alls the nood con
dition is very alarming. Tbe water is
now in the second story of the Newry
cotton mills, its warehouses have
been washed away with all their stock
of cotton and products. Telegrams
received say the big dams on the Kee
wee river at Toxaway, N. O., have
broken.
An Aufosta Estimate,
Augusta, Ga., June 6. The Her
ald's staff correspondent at Spartan
burg glvos the losses in the flood dis
trict as follows:
Arkwrlght 3,256 spindles, slightly
damaged, not over $3,000.
Beaumont 8.888 anindles slight
Cllfton.Noa. 1. 2 and 3. 101.232 spin
dles, most serious damage of all,
amounting to $700,000.
Pacolet Nos. 1. 2 and 3. 89,352 spin
dles, capitalized at $1,000,000, damage
$756,000. Whitney, lu.ixw spinaies,
$100,000. "
Thirty-five lives are reported lost to
night The Wies of these, with two
exoepUonsrare caugkt floating in the
river aOiifton',1en iatles from Spar
tanburg. Only SmlUsI Nos. lgand 2 are com
pletely destroyed at Pacolet but No. 8
was seriously damaged. All that now
remans on the scene 'of the former
numbers Is a mass of broken and twist
ed iron and stone in dishevelled heaps.
most oi tbe drowned people were ope-
ratiVM Of Pftflnlfit vlmwmilla - Ha iml.
denly d,d to water rise that they were
uubuio hi oacapa lrum weir nomes ana
went down In the torrent with their
houses.
"JONAH" FOR COAST LINE.
Estelle McDsslel, Colored, Has Another
Cfcstce at Compaay's Treainry.
Sumter Item, th. .
Estelle McDanlel. the Florence
widow of McDanlel, the railroad hand
who was killed In the Bumteryard a
year or more ago, was one of the vic
tims of the wreck Wednesday. She
was among the number sustaining se
rious injuries ana is one or uose sun
under treatment at Dr. Mood's Infirm
ary, when McDanlel was killed Es
telle put In a claim for damages
against the railroad and a, settlement ''
was effected with her without the ease
getting Into the courts, the railroad
paying her $250. In the meanwhile a
woman living In this city also set up
a claim to the wldowahlp of Mc
Danlel and demanded damages of the
railroad.
The road claimed that a settlement
had been made with the legal widow
and refused to consider the
claim of the Sumter widow. She
was represented by Lee & Molse,
while the railroad attorneys de
fended the claims of Estelle. The
case was heard in the probate court
and then in the court of common pleas,
the trial lasting nearly three days at
the recent term. Tbe verdict was in
favor of the Sumter widow and Estelle
was declared to be no widow at all.
But as she had already received tbe
$250 in full settlement of all claims
agaloat the railroad, the A. 0. L. was
the mourner and not Eitelle. After
this sad and expensive experience
with Estelle It is rather tough for the
railroad to be confronted with more
trouble on Estelle's account But
Estelle being injured, and having once
had the privilege of spending railroad
money, will not let slip so good an
opportunity to put a claim for a good
Dig chunk of damage monev to ease
her pains. .
NOVEL SUPREME COURT CASES. -
Important Opialons Handed Down Yester
dsy As to Street Railways.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. 0., June 6. The Su
preme Court handed down an opinion
to-day in the case of Henderson vs.
Traction Co., from Durham, ordering
a new trial, and holding that In cases
of street car accident, car companies
are guilty of negligence per se, if they
have no fenders on cars, In cases
where parties are Injured and sue for
damages.
in another case, State vs. Boon,
from Gates, the court holds that a
mail carrier or clerk is not exempt
from the law against carrying con
cealed weapons. In the case In ques
tion, Boon, a postoffiee clerk, was ar
rested for having a revolver in his
pocket while performing his official
duties. The lower court exonerated
him, but the Supreme Court reversed
the judgment.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Mount Airy News: The farmers
Over in the Brim section and in a
portion of Patrick are calculating
on a short crop of tobacco this year,
while a representative farmer Irom
the Ash Hill section of the county
said to us Saturday that he believed
nearly an average crop would be
cured this fall.
Monroe Journal: Mr. T. H.
Simpson, who runs a distillery two
miles Bouth of town, had a herd of
about sixty-five hogs. The other
day a negro who works abont the
place concluded' that the hogs need
ed some salt, and proceeded to give
it to them in considerable quantity,
after which fifteen of them lay down
and died.
Wadeaboro Messenger-InteUi-
gencer: The small grain crop of
this section, which is now being
harvested, is turning out much bet
ter than was expected at one time.
Cats will be more than an average
crop and wheat will probably aver
age about half a crop. The recent
showers have brought cotton to a
stand In most sections. The crop
is about two weeks late and the
weed is small.
Newton Gazette: The excite
ment over the sinking of Sugar Loaf
Mountain has about quieted down.
There is no doubt but what cracks
have appeared on the side of the
mountain and in some places the
ground has settled or sunk to the
depth of three to five feet. There
has been no noise or rumbling in
the earth and no smoke or fire has
been seen, except in the imagina
tion of some sensational newspaper
Correspondent.
- Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: Mr.
A. C. Covington tells of a curiosity
he saw in Montgomery county re
cently. Mr. John B. Usher, of that
county, has an apple tree which
bears alternately on one side one year
and on the. other side the next year,
the one side being loaded with fruit
and the other entirely bare. This has
been its habit for a number of years.
Mr. Covington says he visited
the Iola gold mine while over there,
which is one of the richest mines in
the country. They are getting from
it an average of four pounds of gold
ore per day, of the value of $166. It
is said that a mine has recently been
discovered on Mr. Frank Baldwin s
place, in this county, which promises,
to be a very rich one. Interest in
searching for gold in the territory
Just north of us has been very much
ntensified recently.
GEORGIA HOMICIDE.
Afed Farmer Killed sod His Soa Fatally
Shot by a I2Year0ld Bey.
bi Telegraph to the Horning star.
Columbus, Ga., June 6. John Ed
wards, aged fifty-four years, a promi
nent farmer of Muscogee county, was
.kit awit Vllla1 l..l.a anil hia lAII.
uu auu akAtAVU HI U.J , mum u. ,
Jeff Edwards, aged 22, lies at the point
or death by the hands or tsariowuix,
a 12-year old boy, who is a neighbor of
Kdwards. The killing grew out oi
dispute over some property. Nix was
caught in rhoenix uiiy, AiaoaoH,
this afternoon and is now in jail.
Bullem Well, old man, what
did you realize from your last in
vestment? Lambly That I was a
chump aa usual. Puck,
t