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VOL. LIII. NO. 61,
Leads all North Carolina Dailies in News and Circulation
A FARCE FOLLOWS
THE ROTTEN TIES
Southern Railway Issues a Circular That is
Grotesquely Ridiculous in Its Evi
dent Intentions.
IT INSULTS INTELLIGENCE
l( Claims in its Wording That the Wreck Was
Not by Its Own Criminal Carelessness
but Offers SSOO Reward
for the Party Who
Caused It.
The Southern Railway has issued cir
culars offering a reward of SSOO for
the party or parties who caused the
wreck of the passenger train near Ral
eigh last week. The circular is signed
by C. 9, Ackert, General Manager
Southern Railway, Washington, D. C.
and says that the reward will be paid
for the arrest and conviction of tbe
parties who "by the felonious
placing of spike or other obstruction
on the track" caused the wreck.
Men who know gazed at each other in
incredulity and amusement as they heard
of this Southern Railway notice.
‘‘lt’s an insult to the intelligence of
thousands of people,” one gentleman said,
“and that circular explains why the
Southern has been keeping so quiet and
has made no statement about the wreck.”
And the Southern Railway has had an
opportunity to make a statement.* A re
porter of this paper asked three men con
nected with the railway for this. One
of them is Mr. Henry Miller, assistant to
Vice-president A. B. Andrew's and he said
“There is nothing to give out. There is no
body to give out anything.”
But something has been given out, and
it rings out in clarion notes against the
reward circular of the Southern Rail
way.
It is the voice of Engineer Will Rippey
that speaks. Seen at the wreck imme
diately after the terrible accident by a
News and Observer reporter, who talked
with him in the presence of a number of
other gentlemen, ENGINEER RIPPEY
SAID HE WAS WATCHING THE RAILS
CLOSELY AND TV.2RB WAS NOTH
NG WHATEVER ON THE TRACK.
But the Southern Railway has found
something. The voices of an outraged
travelling public has so thundered crimi
nal carelessness into its ears that it now'
offers >*.oo for the party or parties who
caused the wreck !, by the felonious plac
ing of a spike o;* other obstruction on the
track.”
There was nothing whatever on the
track, says Engineer Rippey, who was
in the cab with his hand on the throt
tle.
Five hundred dollars for the party who
put a spike or other obstruction on the
track, writes Mr. C. H. Ackert in the
Southern Railway office hundreds of miles
away.
Will the Southern Railway admit that,
there were rotten ties at the -wreck?
Never in words, but they are doing it
daily. Oak ties by the hundred are be
ing hauled to the place where the wreck
occurred. In the 250 yards about the
wreck 235 new cross-ties have been put
in. and on this side and beyond the wreck
there had been placed for use as late as
Saturday 146 new cross-ties, both these
numbers being given by actual count.
‘‘The rotten cross-ties did not cause
the wreck, it was a spike or some other
obstruction feloniously placed there by
a party or parties for whose capture we
offer *500” shouts the Southern Railway.
‘‘l counted 169 rotten cross-ties at the
place of the wreck and in a space of some
thirty yards the ties were so rotten that
there must have been over thirty mashed
to powder there,” says a North Carolina
State official. “I could grind some pieces
of the rotten ties to powder in my hands,”
says a prominent citizen of Raleigh. “I
took pieces of the rotten ties as big as
my leg and broke them in my hands,”
s-iys another. “I pulled out numbers of
qiike.- with my hands from ties at a point
below where the v'reck occurred,” says
another. “Criminal carelessness caused
the wreck," say thousands.
THE ABSURDITY OF IT.
The place where the -wreck occurred is
0,1 an embankment twenty-five or more
I( et high. It is in full view for a great
distance. It is in the outskirts of Ral
eigh, but a short distance from the Holle
,!ian road. One train had passed over it
i s t^lan a half hour before- A gen
! einaa °f this city had passed the spot
l * lan fifteen minutes before the wreck.
A, number of little children Were fishing
in the pools of water right at the wreck.
All these things being so who could have
walked out on the track, who would
have dared, in broad daylight, about five
o clock m the afternoon, in an open place
on the railroad. in sight of many peo
ple, to place a spike or other obstruction
on the track.
The story of the wreck puts to shame
and derision and contempt and scoffing
the miserab.e subterfuge of the Southern
The News andObserve**.
SD , . (f) / A 'in* .
Railway. It may cry “spike or other ob
struction” but in the minds of the people
the rotten cross-ties will not down.
ROTTEN CROSS TIES NEAR CLAY
TON.
A member of the News and Observer
staff, who was in Clayton on Saturday,
said:
“While walking a distnace of about a
mile on the Southern Railway track near
Clayton last week in company with a
prominent citizen of that place, we count
ed sixty-five rotten ami worthless cross
ties on the roadbed in this short distance.
There were probably many others we did
not see, as we were walking rather hur
riedly.”
Bonnie May Jones Dies of Hydrophobia
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheville, N. C., May 25.—Bonnie May
Jones, a fourteen-year-old girl, died here
this afternoon of hydrophobia from a dog
bite, received last March. She had re
cently attempted suicide on account of
trouble arising from having forged and
cashed checks at the Battery Park Bank
of this place.
KILLED OHSOUTHERN
Charles Webster, Fireman,
Fell Into River Near
Sanford.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Sanford, N. C., May 25.—This morning,
en the freight train going from Sanford
to Greensboro,, Mr. Charles Webster, fire
man on this train, fell out of the cab
and struck the cross ties and fell into the
river, killing him immediately. The en
gineer did not miss him until he had gone
; about two miles. The dead body was
brought to Sanford about ten o’clock this
morning. His skull was fractured and he
was probably killed as He fell from the
train. His father lives in Sanford. He
was about 20 year* old. and was a nice
young man, well thought of, and his death
is deeply deplored by the whole com
munity.
The cause of his falling is unknown.
On the Diamond.
National League Games.
At Brooklyn-
Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 3 2
Brooklyn 0 00001 40 x —s 10 1
Batteries: Leever and Phelps; Carvin
j and Ritter.
At Boston— ’**
Cincinnati 0 1 00 00 0 2 o—3 7 2
Boston 0 0000011 o—20 —2 9 1
Batteries: Hahn and Bergen; Piatt and
! Krittred^e.
At Philadelphia— R H E
J Chicago 0 300201 2 o—B 12 5
Philadelphia 011 200 0 0 o—4 9 1
Batteries: Lungrcn and Kline; Mc-
Fetridge and Zimmer.
American League Gamer.
At Cleveland— R H E
jCleceland 0 2000000 (*—2 5 2
Philadelphia 0 0 000 00 0 I—l 4 0
i Batteries: Moore and Abbott; Plank
and Powers.
At Detroit— R H E
Washington .. ..10200200 o—s 7 2
Detroit 0 0000001 o—l 9 2
Batteries: Pauen and Clarke; Mullin
and McAllister.
Eastern Leagae Games,
Worcester 6; Rochester 9.
Toronto 5; Jersey City 4.
Afternoon Game: Toronto 3; Jersey
City 9.
Buffalo 8; Newark 3.
Baltimore 4; Providence 2.
Supt. of Graded Bchool.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Oxford, N. C-, May 25. —Prof. Hoel, of
Kinston, has been elected superintendent
of the Oxford Graded School, to succeed
Prof. Hodges, who resigned.
At the examination of competitors for
the cadetship at Annapolis, which took
place in Durham on Saturday, Mr. J.
Crawford Cooper, of Oxford, was the suc
cessful competitor. Mr. Cooper is a cadet
in Horner Military School.
Mr. Charles Y- Cheatham, who disap
peared from his home in Portsmouth, has
been found in a sanitarium in New York,
where he went for treatment for nervous
prostration.
KALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 20.1903.
COMMENCEMENT
NT WANE EOREST
Baccalaureate Sermon by Dr.
E. C- Dargan.
MEETING OF TRUSTEES
The Report by President Taylor Show? a Fine
Year’s Work—Address Before Law
Class by Hon. Claude
Kitchin.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wake Forest, N. C., May 25. —The num
ber of visitors on the Hill to hear the op
ening feature of commencement week last
night was much larger than usual. And
the baccalaureate sermon by Dr. E. C.
Dorgan, of the Southern Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary, evidently delighted the fine
congregation which heard it. Very many
were particularly pleased with its distinctly
spiritual quality and the earnestness of
its personal appeal to the graduating class.
The special music for the occasion con
sisted of an anthem by the choir and a solo
by Mr. Ernest Moore, a member of the
graduating class. Dr. Lynch, of Wake
Forest, and Dr. Bryan, of China, who oc
cupied the morning hour, assisted in the
service.
The text of the sermon was Rom. 12:1:
“I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your reasonable service.” Dr..
Dargan gave a lucid exposition of the text,
which suggested the theme An Appeal for
the Consecrate Life.” He presented first
the grounds of the appeal, the logical
ground in the sovereignty of God, the
hopeful in the mere - *\f God, and the hu
man in* the person, entreaty of ex
perienced Christians; secondly, the sub
stance and meaning of the consecrated
life, the voluntary presentation of oneself
at one’s best to God; and lastly, the jus
tification of the appeal in the fact that
such consecration was not simply the ser
vice proper to a rational being, but the
highest form of spiritual worship.
At the conclusion of this earned gospel
sermon many grasped warmly the preach
er’s hand in congratulation of thanks.
Dr. R. P. Johnson, the orator of tomor
row morning, and Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr.,
are expected on the evening train.
The board of trustees met this afternoon
and organized. Dr. Thomas E. Skinner
was chosen chairman; Prof. F. P. Hob
goodr vice-chairman; Mr. Carey J. Hun
ter, secretary; T. H. Briggs, treasurer.
President Taylor’s report was received.
It showed the number of students enrolled
to be 313, a good year’s work. The suc
cess of Law and Medical Department was
especially gratifying. It was recommended
that the ball team be not allowed to play
outside the State. It was also recommend
ed that the board devise plans for increase
of endowment funds and the addition of
another building. The treasurer’s report
wa salso received. J. M. Parrot was
elected trustee.
Tonight Hon. Claude Kitchin delivered
an address before the members of the Law
Class. It was a strong, practical and
withal polished effort, powerful in its sim
plicity, going straight to the matter in
hand and frequently flashing forth an epi
gram which, saying so much in so few
words without apparent effort, is the acme
o forator’s and writers art.
Wake Forest, N. C., May 25.—The fol
lowing are quotations from his suggestions
to the law class:
“The first requisite of a good lawyer is
to be honest, fair and direct in your deal
ings with yourselves and others. To suc
ceed you must be prudent, sober, industri
ous.”
“The best lawyer is he who studies the
most —the most successful is he who
works his cases the hardest. You need
not be brilliant. Application is an over
match for brilliancy. You need not be
eloquent. Diligent beats oratory.”
“Study the other side as much as yours.”
“No case, no matter, committed to a
lawyer is so trifling or unimportant as not
to require thorough tare and investiga
tion. Cases involving the smallest amounts
most frequently present the most intricate
questions—the nicest points.”
“There is not a lawyer in North Caro
lina who cannot make a comfortable living
if he keeps sober, honest and in his office,
at all times. Stay in your office—be found
there and clients will find you.”
"Acorn the refutation, ‘He is a smart
lawer, but you had better keep your eye
on him.’ Its load is as heavy as the
mountain. You will fall from its weight.”
“The day of the -trickster is passing.
He himself is finding out that it doesn’t
pay. In these times df clash and push
he finds that it is economy of time to be
honest and direct. Tricks require time to
plan, time to execute, time to avoid de
tection. The jury, the judge and oppos
ing counsel mark him as soon as he en
ters the court room. The public is quick
er to find him out than formerly and
quicker to condemn. None find him out
sooner than his client. You will observe
that no lawyer, or firm of which he is a
member. Who lias the refutation of being
a sharp practioner or trickster, ever tries
an important case or settles an import
ant matter alone? His client always em
ploys an associte not to help him, but to
watch him.”
“Conquer your prejudices—they injure
your client’s cause.”
“Show no mercy, rather imitate the
example of him whose success produces
mercy in your breast.”
♦ * *
Conclusion: “The victories that are to
bring peace and happiness to you and to
mankind are not the victories of force
over farce, and notions of notions, but
the triumph of right over wrong, truth
over error. Have faith always in the
final prevailing of the right, the final
triumph of truth. Walk in that faith,
and into your heart, into your life, into
your word will come, sooner or later, tne
shining of the perfect day.”
TWO FIHI* AT BPEHCER.
Two Baildinga Destroyed, Flames Licking Up
About 82,000 Worth of Property.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Spencer, N. C., May 25. —Fire destroyed
two residences here early this morning,
and it was by heroic efforts that many
others were saved. The fire originated in
the garrett of the house occupied by Mr.
Chas. K. Church and owned by Mayor
B. F. Lively, and it was but a few mo
ments until the building was completely
enveloped in flames. None of the house
hold effects were saved, though the same
were insured. The second building burned
was owned by F. H. Vanderford, of Salis
bury, and occupied by J. H. Van Miller,
who saVed a portion of his household
goods. It is learned that the building was
covered by insurance. Both were frame
structures and the total loss is estimated
at $2,500. The Spencer fire company, of
the Southern Railway shops was on duty
and rendered valuable service in protecting
other property.
Carnival Co Secure* an Attraction.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Salisbury, N- C., May 25—While here
exhibiting during the carnival, which
closed Saturday night, the Hatch-Adams
Co., contracted with Maj. and Mrs. John
Mertz to travel with the show. Major
Mertz is one of the 'smallest men living,
being only forty-one inches high, while
his wife is thirty-eight inches in height.
Miss Bessie Henderson, the accomplished
daughter of Senator John S. Henderson,
was chosen queen of the carnival.
RUINOUS SWEEP OF
A TORNADO,
Fifteen People Known to Have
Been Killed in Ne
braska.
(By the Associated Press.)
Hastings, Neb., May 25. —A series of
heavy storms, two of which developed into
the worst tornadoes that have visited
southern Nebraska in years, passed over
portions of Clay, Franklin and Kearney
counties last evening. Fifteen persons are
known to have lost their lives and over
a score of persons were more or less se
riously injured. The caAialties are as
follows:
Near Norman:
Dead:
DANIEL M’CURDY.
ROBERT M’CURDY.
MRS. JOHN WETHLVER.
MRS. EARL BACON.
MRS. C. A- TIPPLE.
Injured: Mrs. George J. Meer, arm bro
ken; Icey McCurdy, leg broken; George
J. Meer, badly hurt.
ADD FIRED BY PAYNE... .CinPPTwfc,sj
Postmaster General Payne made the
announcement of this latest development
in the investigation this afternoon in
brief statement giving the foregoing facts.
Mr. Payne said that this statement was
all that could be Raid at this time, in
view of the fact that the case is now be
fore the judicial authorities. He said
that the case has been under considera
tion ever since the general investigation
began, and added that there would be an
other arrest immediately. The party he
said, is outside of the department. He
dined to say what explanatory statement
had been made by Miller.
LAST TRIBUTE OF LOVE
Immense Outpouring of People to the Fnaeral
of Mr- Sterling Johnston
(Special to News and Observer.)
Littleton, N. C., May 25.—Two thous
and people from here and neighboring
towns and counties attended, today, the
funeral of Sterling Johnston.
There was never seen such a mani
festation of popular sympathy for a pri
vate citizen in this part ot the State.
Among the pall-bearers was ex-Senator
Ransom. Rev. Mr. Rhodes, assisted by
Rev. Dr. S. Willis and Mr. Humble, con
ducted the services.
The funeral procession was nearly a
mile in length and the floral designs were
very handsome.
Mr. Johnston leaves his large business
interests in the hands of his sons. Notably
there were 500 colored people present.
Rev. C. G. Little Dead
(Special to News and Observer.)
Marion, N. C.. May 25.—Rev. C- G. Lit
tle died here today at 11 o’clock a. m. He
belonged to the Western North Carolina
Conference and was appointed Presiding
Elder for the Morganton district in the
Conference year 1902. In January of the
same year he contracted typhoid pneu
monia, which finally developed into con
sumption. Until recenuy he lived with
his mother-in-law, three miles from this
place, after which be moved here anil se
cured some good l!) d Toft his
family well pro' Hi leaves a
wife and four cl en. i<* two eldest •
daughters gradua I boro a iew i
days ago. He wt *=■’» fitty years old. i
Prosperity is ~c ik* thorns,
nor adversity w ' ' l
FIREO BY PAYNE FOR
ACCEPTING A
BRIBE,
Daniel Miller, an Attorney in
Post-Office Depart
ment.
APPOINTED BY GEN. TYNER
The Charge Against Miller Has Been Under
Investigation for Three Months —He Was
Bribed by a Cincinnati Turf Com
, Pany
- (By the Associated Press.)
Washington, May 25.—Postmaster Gen
eral Payne today summarily dismissed
, Daniel V. Miller, assistant attorney in the
office of the Assistant Attorney General
for the Postoffice Department for accept
ing a bribe in connection with the case
of John J. Ryan & Company, charged with
fraudulent use of the mails. A warrant
has been issued for Miller's arrest.
Another warrant has been issued for
the arrest of a man who is charged with
being the partner or go-between in the
transaction. A postoffice inspector has
gone west from Cincinnati to effect the
arrest, which is expected to occur tonight
or tomorrow*. The bribe is alleged to
have been accepted at Cinciunti last De
cember.
Miller came here from Terre Haute,
Ind., about two years ago. He was ap
pointed by former Assistant Attorney Gen
eral James N. Tyner. The charge against
Miller has been under investigation for
three months. The Ryan Company was a
turf investment concern who operated at
St. Louis and Covington, Ky. Its methods
and working operations are said to be
similar to those of the Arnold Company,
which has figured conspicuously in the
postoffice investigation. The inspectors
have been quietly at work on the case
and action was delayed so they might get
together all the papers and evidence,
which, in their opinion, was necessary
Postoffice Inspector W. J. Vickery, at
Cincinnati, nd Postoffice Inspector R. M.
F ulton, at St. Louis, recently were given
full charge of the case. Complaint was
made by Inspector Fulton before a United
States Commission in Cincinnati Saturday,
and a warrant was then issued for Miller
and for the other parties.
Inspector Fulton immediately came to
Washington, while another inspector went
West from Cincinnati, to make the other
arrest. Inspector Fulton today exhibited
the papers in the case to United States
District Attorney Beach. Tonight Millei
is in the custody of a postoffice inspector,
and his formal arrest will follow* tomor
row morning. Miller was at his desk all
day today. He was 'called to the office of
Assistant Attorney General Robb shartly
after 3 o’clock this afternoon and noti
fied of his immediate dismissal and’ of the
steps that had been taken. He was al
lowed to draw his salary and then return
to the private office of the Assistant At
torney General, where inspectors were in
waiting.
The Ryan Company was the beneficiary
under a decision of the Assistant Attorney
General of the Postoffice Department,
made several months ago, subsequent to
the decision in l the Arnold case and
couched in practically the same terms as
that decision.
Those decisions declared the concerns
named to be free to use the mails. The
Arnold decision, it is stated, was signed
by Assistant Attorney General Tyner, and
the Ryan decision by George A. C.
Christiancy, the law clerk of the depart
ment, who was then acting as Assistant
Attorney General on account of Mr.
Tyner’s protracted illness. Mr. Christiancy
was at the Postoffice Department today on
a summons from the department ,and was
closely examined regarding t ae case.
It is that the amount paid Miller
as a bribe aggregated several thousand
dollars, and was in the form of a cash
payment, follow*ed by a check. This pay
ment is alleged to have taken place in
Cincinnati, so the case will be tried there,
probably in the October term of the comt.
Mr. Miller probably will give bail for his
appearance at that time. The penally
for the offence is a fine not more than
three times the amount asked or accepted
and by imprisonment not more than three
years.
DAMAGE BY THE 81 OHM.
A Bowling Alley Demoluhed—The Southern
Depot Blown Down.
(Special to New*s and Observer.) |
Durham, N. C., May 25.—-This vicinity
was visited by a terrific wind storm late 1
yesterday afternoon and much damage i
was done in and near the city limits. Fol
lowing the storm was a small rain, the ,
first for four or five weeks.
At the park of the Durham Traction i
Company a bowling alley, costing SBOO, and ,
owned by T. J. W. Brown, was entirely de
molished- In the southern part of the #
city a two-story house belonging to Geo-
Riggsbee and about completed, was blown
down, loss S3OO or S4OO. The beautiful
heme of W. T. Carrington, on McMannen
street, had the slate roof damaged by 1
the falling of a large chimney. A porch
"as blown off a house belonging to Mr. 1
W. L. Wall, on Chapel Hill street. A num- 1
bei of shade trees were blown down on the *
streets. In East Durham the Southern a
depot was blown down. t
The mayor sent two rases to the Su- i
perior court today: Willie Morse, a col- 0
RACE TO MADRID
A RUSH TO DEATH
h *
The Latest Report Shows Six Corpses Scat
tered Along the First Stage of the
Route From Paris.
if ored boy about tea years of age, who
entered the bar of Peter Summers, colored,
and stole a pint and a half of whiskey;
and Ivey Cole, a white man from West
Durham, who went to Sluter’s store and
stole a coat and hat.
The remains of little Robert Douglas
Womble, nine-months.-old son of Mr. F, 0.
l- Womble, weie interred in the city cenie
,l tery yesterday afternoon. The child died
Saturday.
Three Mules Killed.
e (Special to News and Observer.)
Ii Fayetteville, N. C., May 25. —This part
t of the world was greatly blessed with
much needed rains yesterday afternoon and
night, accompanied by heavy thunder and
vivid lightning. During the storm yes
e terday evening lightning struck the barn
and stables of Mr. W. M. Morgan, about
p four miles west of Fayetteville, killing
t three fine mules. The barn caught on
0 fire but was extinguished before much
damage was done.
: ringedTyltoneis
t
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‘ The Grand Jury Begins Invjs-
L ; tigating the Marcum As
' sassination.
® v --< (By the Associated Press.)
Jackson, Ky., .Mqy 25.—With the State
Y militia standing guard, the grand jury of
1 Breathitt county today began an investi
• gation of Lawyer James H. Marcum. The
1 commanding officer of the militia has or
dered that no letters be written home dur
ing the stay of the troops, and another
’ order instructing the men to refrain from
conversation among themselves as to the
> case.
t When Judge Redwine convened court
. Sheriff Callahan notified the court that lie
I desired to be excused from duty and that
< he wished a substitute appointed to serve
in his place. The court thereupon named
, Charles Little as temporary sheriff. The
- gradn jury was shown in and Judge Red
-1 wine called attention to the lamentable
f conditions in Breatnat county and urged
’ that not only the actual murderers of
- James B. Murcum be convicted, but that
all who were in any way connected with
the murder be treated likewise.
1 While trops were picketed around the
court house every one who entered the
buildin gwas searched and none were ad
mitted who carried concealed weapons.
The most important witnesses wer not to
be found. Tom Cockrill sent word from
Winchester that he did not propose to
' answer a summons that would cost his
‘ iife and charged that his fear came from
those in county offices.
Another witness wanted is Captain John
Patrick, who had said he recognized the
assassins of Town Marshal James Cockrill
when they fired from court house win
dows, and that one was a deputy sheriff.
Patrick w*as reported to be at Cattlesbury
but nothing could be -learned of his
whereabouts today.
Colonel Williams, in command of the
four companies of militia, summoned the
visiting pressmen about him today and
asked that no sensational stories which
might bring the soldiers into disrepute ;
be sent out. The correspondents were j
given a tent to themselves, but owing to
it being -within easy reach of the moun
tain across the river in the Panhandle
Bend, from which an one might be singled
out and shot, there is soane misgivings
and the colonel was asked to change the
location. Some of the correspondents are
wearing soldiers uniforms in the hope that
this will protect them.
Colored A. & M. Closii g.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., May 25.—The seventh
annual closing of the A. and M. College
for the colored race, in Greensboro, be
gan yesterday afternoon at three o’clock.
President Dudley gave a short sketch of
the progress of the school work during
the past year, which he pronounced as
being very gratifying and then intro
duced Rev. A. J. McKelway, of Charlotte,
who preached one of the best sermons
that has ever been delivered to the grad
uates of that institution.
Ten Thousand Dollar Fire at Ply month
(Special to News and Observer.)
Washington, N. C., May 25.—A special
from Plymouth says;
“A fire began here about 11 o’clock Sat
urday night and soon destroyed a large
lumber shed of the Roanoke Railway and
Lumber Company, containing a large
amount of dressed lumber, two barges tied
to the wharf were damaged before they
could be castoff. Estimated damage $lO,-
000.”
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X THI WEATHER TO-DAY.t
Per Raleighs
| fair. $
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rJCK FIVE CENTS.
'AND TWO PEOPLE MAY DIE
Ten Others Seriously If jured—Series of Terri
ble Accidents Due to the Headlong Speed
of Over Seventy Miles an Hour—
To Finish With a Cosed
Course.
(By the Associated Press.)
Paris, May 25. —It is now possible to
assemble from the many reports along
the route of the first stage of the Paris-
Madrid; automobile race a complete list
of the casualties. This shows six per
sons killed, two so dangerously injured
that they may die and ten seriously in
jured. A carefully revised list of the
casualties follows:
Dead:
PIERRE RODERIZ, in collision with a
tree near Libourne,
NIXON, Mr. Porter’s machinist, burned
under automobile.
NORMAND, M. Tourand’s machinist, at
Angouleme.
DUPUY, soldier, at Angouleme.
CAILLON, cyclist, at Angouleme.
UNKNOWN PEASANT WOMAN, at
Ablas.
Injured: Mr. Barrow, pelvis and thigh
broken, amputation cf leg expected; M.
Marcel Renault, injured about body and
htad; Mr. L. Porter, cut and bruised; Mr.
Stead* overturned, badly injured; Mr.
Stead’s machinist, head cut open * Lesua,
champion cyclist, broken knee cap;
Georges Ricard, chest crushed, ribs bro
ken; Henry Jeannot, Ricard’s machinist,
shoulder fractured; E. Chard, head cut
open; Tourand, severely bruised; Gaston,
Raffet, boy, fractured skull, leg and arm
broken; Marcel Renault's machinist se
verely bruised.
Some miraculous escapes have been re
ported.
Mr. Terry’s machine was burned at
Coigneres, but he and his machinist were
uninjured.
Mr. Rodolphe Darzens and his machinist
were thrown out near Burdeaux and were
practically unhurt, though the car was
destroyed.
The manufacturers have agreed that
as a road race is impossible the meeting
will be resumed within a closed course.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press interviewed a number of the lead
ing American and French autoinobilists
and they all expressed horror at the series
of accidents and added that in their opin
ion it would end speed races in France
and at other points on the continent.
Foxhall Keene said:
“The killing or maiming of so many
persons is a terrible blow both to in
dividuals and to automobilings. I had
hoped to drive my sixty horse power car.
It was a wonderful machine, showing 112
kilometers without effort.”
There is not the sligmest ground that
Henri Fourniere. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
and Baron De Forest withdrew from the
race on account of the dangers. Each
had a damaged cylinder and could not
proceed. J. B. Worden, who arrived fifth
at Bordeaux, is the only American re
maining in the contest. has only a
touring car, but nevertheless made a
fine race. The speed limitations which
have no wbcen fixed by the French and
Spanish governments will put an end to
any chance of fast time being made be
tween Bordeaux and Madrid, and, the bal
ance of the race will be run under tourist
conditions.
Qlarence Moore, of Washington, has
returned from an inspection of the track
for which unusual facilities were granted
him by the judges of yesterday's race.
He gives a graphic description of the ter
rific speed of the racers. He timed Louis
Renault’s car as it passed him and he
found it was making 74% miles an hour.
The automobile of Mr. Gabriel, yester
day’s winner, gave forth a bound as it
leaped the steep incline near Ohatres lik«
a huge rabbit bounding ud a hill. He saw
Jarrott approaching at lightning speed.
A huge black mastiff got right in the
path. Jarrott realized that to try to
avoid the dog would throw his car against
tree and he steered directly ahead. He
struck the dog squarely and it was pinned
in front of the automobile for a moment
and then dropped to the ground between
the wheels. Everv bone in its body was
broken, some of them ip a dozen places.
Death of Mr. Joab Kinsey.
(Special to News and Observer.)
LaGrange. N. C., May 25.—Mr. Joab
Kinsey died Saturday afternoon at the
residence of his brotherlin-law, Mr. Jos
eph Kinsey, aged about forty-eight. He
was a native of Jones county, mut lived
many years in Florida. He was helpless
during the last three years of his life from
paralysis. The remains were interred
Sunday afternoon in Fairview cemetery.
The more a man knows the easier it is
for him to keep his mouth shut.