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BEEVAED, TRANSYLVANIA COU?®Y, N. C.> FEIDAY, MAY 1.1908-
VOL. XIII—NO. 18
Only
Newspaper
In
TransylvaDia
County
ft 0[ftTH^ OP m
Lalsst Report of the Work of tLe
Recent Tornado.
twelve hundred injured
Georgia Was the Least Sufferer of th:3
Fcur States Visited, the Number of
Killed in that State Being Thirty—
Storm Traveled in Circles.
Atlanta, Ga., April 2iS.—All reports
indicate that the windstorm wliicii
rolled up a death list of nearly four
]-.undred and a list of injured of about
iwcive hundred, during last Friday
and Saturday, has passed north.
That this list of persons killed and
injuieci is about compl'ete is probable
and there is no reason to .suppose that
belated reports from districts remote
from telephone and telegraph will in
crease the figures materially.
A careful canvass seems to make
the death list three hundred and sev
enty-six for the states of Louisiana,
Missi3sip*pi, Ala-bama and Georgia, vatii
Georgia the least sufferer,
Tiie dead in this state will number
cot n:/ore than thirty.
The property damage in all four of
the states is conslderaible, but not as
n uch as one would suppose on read
ing thr- extent of the storm, for the
vdncl did its chicf work of devastation
n viKages w'hcre all buildings .were of
wcoC.
The storm was .peculiar in that it
trc-.voled in circles.
Suridoy it struck Georgia w^itn ter-
rilic force for a second time, but the
hditning, wind and rain di-d no more
laria to life or limb, so far as reports
siicw.
Assistance Being Gent.
Orleans, La., April 2S.'—^Be.
Iztcd repDris from the sections of
Lculsiana. and Mississippi visited by
the tornado Friday continue to come
in from remote points which have been
cut off fi'om communication, adding
materially to the death list.
Rep.orts froin Cathoula Parish, La.,
tell of the death of several people and
of great destruction of property.
A report from Richton, Miss., jusx
received, tells of the death of fifteen
people and the injury of many more.
Dispatches from the territory be
tween Purvis, Miss., and the Gulf and
Ship Island railroad, also •add to the
death list.
Governor Noel, of 'Mississippi, has
acknowledged the receiptr of a tele
gram from President Roosevelt offer
ing aid. In reply he thanked the
president for his offer in the name of
the -people of his state.
Governor 'Xoei has ordered all the
tents available in nearby towns rusli-
ed to Purvis, Miss., where there is
much suffering among tiiose whose
liomes \^ ere wrecked in the tornado.
SO RERSOiNS EINTOMBED.
ALBANY’S CH'AUTAJQl’A.
Opening Sermon Delivered by Dr.
Gross AlexEnder.
Albany, Ga., April 28—'The twentieth
annual assembly of the Georgia Chau-
tauqua began with every promise that
the week will prove one of the great
est in the liisLory of the organization.
The opening sermon was delivered
at the auditorium Sunday morning by
Dr. Gross Alexander, of Nashville,
Ttnn., to a large audience, and inter
esting exercises v/ere held in the even
ing.
There are hundreds of out-of-town
visitors in the city. Tihe Gordon Insci-
cadets, from BarnesvIHe, are en
camped in Arcadia, and will remain
throughout the week.
For the first time in many years mil
itary day will be omitted this week,
tl'.cugh Governor iSmith will be here
■Wednesday
Four Bitten by Mad Dog.
Greensboro, Ga., April 28.—lA. dog,
l^elonging to Rev. E. G. Smith, sud
denly went mad a few days ago, bit-
the young son of Henry S. Tor-
hort, the two daughters of Rev. E.
G. Smith, and a negro girl. The iead
of the dog was sent to Atlanta for
examination, it being found to have
^iyurophcbia. Nearly every dog in
tiie neighborhood was found to have
been bitten and there has been a gen-
shooting of them all O'ver the
town.
Ravaged by Second Violent Storm.
oMntgomery, Ala., April 28.—<A
second violent storm visited Fore De
posit Sunday afternoon, leaving more
destruction in its path. Several res
idences were blown down, andi a large
^‘Sgro school building completely de-
nplished. Governor Comer was noti
fied, and has declared martial law for
fbe town, and a company of militia
Is now on duty.
Little French Canadian Village Over,
whelmed by Landslide.
Buckingham, Ont., April 28.—^Half
of the little French hamlet of No:re
Dame de Salette, IG miles from here
on the lievre river, was buried Sunday
under a sliding mountain, and at least
thirty of its small population are
known xo have perished. The hamlet
has no telephcne or telegraph, and
neither is it on a railroad. Meager
news of the disaster came in by mes
senger from the physicians and other
rescuers who hurried there when the
first calls for aid came.
The river Lievre winds at the foot
of the hamlet and a mountain is tov/-
ered behind it. 'Spring rains for days
past have been melting the snow and
ice on the mountain side, and streams
.have 'been coursing down to the river.
At 5 a. m. Sunday morning part of the
mountain started to slide toward the
river. It tore a path of death and
destruction for its way, and those who
were not killed when their homes
were engulfed, were left buried under
the m*ass of rock and earth
I>e Salette, like many hamlets of its
kind, ram'bles into gardens and little
fields on the m*ountain side, eg a.bput
half of it was not in the path of the
avalanche. Tlie slidinig mass rushed
with a roar and spread fan.like over
path of tlie place and dumped itself
into the swollen stream at its foot.
The first messengers to Bucking
ham ordered twenty-five coffins to be
sent to Do Salette.
TRt OF DEM
LDT
Alabama, Louisiana, 5iiss=
issippi Tornado=Tcrn.
APPALLING DEATH LIST
Namber of Killed Will Ran Into
the Hondreds.
r.'.OST OF dead are negroes
REQUIEM FOR D'CHAULKE3.
V/cs Attended by French Aristocracy
and Many Americans.
Paris, April 28.—‘A solemn high
mass or requiem was celebrated Mon
day morning at the Church of St.
Philippe du Foule, for the late Duke
de Chaulnes, who died from heart
failure Thursday night.
The canopy over the bier, which
was banked with flowers, bore the
quartered arms of the De Chaulnes
family. The widow of the duke, who
is a daughter of Theodore P. Shonts,
of New York, was accompanied to the
church by the Duke and Duchess De
XJzes, the Duke and Duchess de
'Luynes, the Duke and Duchess Noa-
illes, Marquis Horschel, Mrs. Drake
and other relatives.
The Countess de Chaulnes appeared
to be much broken but she bravely
withstood the trying French ordeal of
receiving condolences after the cere
mony.
^lany prominent mem'bers of the
French aristocracy and the American
colony were present at the mass, in
cluding Baroness and Baron De Graf-
fenried, the Duke and Duchess De La
Rochefoucauld, Count Boni De Cas-
tellane, Am'bassador and Mrs. White,
and Consul General and Mrs. Mason.
The body will be taken down to
Dampierre, w'here it w^ill ’lie interred.
Croker HopfS'S to Capture Stakes.
Dublin, April 28.—Richard Croker
has strong hope>s of adding this year
the “one thousand guineas” at New
market and “The Oaks” at Epsom to
his previous victories on the British
turf. Mr. Crc'ker has authorized a
contradiction of the s'tories circulating
through the Dporting papers that the
mos^: promising of his string had win
tered !badly and that the prospects of
his sta.ble for the coming season were
gloomy.
Convention of Sons of Revolution.
Washingt.m, Aipril 28—Witli tTie con
vention of Daughtters of the American
Revolution just adjourned, the annual
convention of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution hegan here ^vlonday. No
business was transacted,- the delegates
taking a trrp to Annapolis, where ap
propriate exercises V/ere held, includ
ing a speeial drill >by the naval cadets
and an address by Governor Crothers,
of Maryland. The business session
begins Tuesday.
Torpedo Boats Leave Mcbile.
^Icbile, Ala., April 28.—The torpe
do tor.ts'i Thornton, Porter,. (Def.ong
and Blakely, of the third United States
flotilla that has been here since Sat
urday, sailed Monday morning at 8:30
o’clock. They will begin maneuvering
at night in ijVTobile 'bay.. It .is to be a
series of practicing sailing after dark
to get the men in go<od' practice hand
ling the boats w’hen no lights are
visible.
Severe Storm ,at Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 25.—‘At
6:30 o’clock Friday evening a severe
storm broke over this city, resulting
in damage that will reach into thou
sands of dollars.. Rain fell in tor
rents, and vivid lightning flashed con
stantly. (Nearly two inches of rain
fell within an hour and a half. Street
car traffic was practcally suspended
by reason of many washouts. So far
no casualtes have been rex)orted.
Friday Alabama, Mississippi and Loui
siana Wer« Swept by Tornadoes
Which Left a Trail of Death in Their
Wake—Property Less Will Reach
Into the Thousands—Storm Is Said
To Have Had Its Origin West of
the Mississippi River and Traveled
Through Three States.
Atlanta, A.pril 25.—^A wind of cy
clonic proportions swept over portions
of Louisiana, Mississippi and Aiaibania
Friday, leaving a trail of dead and in
jured.
The numiber of killed is estimated
at over 200, and the number of in
jured at over four hundred, wiLh many
portions of the afflicted districts to
hear from.
Most of the dead are negroes. Per
haps a dozen white persons were
caucht in falling buildings, and eith
er fatally injured or so seriously dis
abled as to require medical attention.
The loss of life was chiefly in the
quarters of negroes, where the wind
destroyed cabins, burying the occt^'^:
pants in the debris, or in the farming
sections of the country, where trees
were uprooted, telegraph and tele
phones torn up, and general destruc
tion became an . encore to a storm
which swept with almost tornado
fury through the country.
Score of Small Towns Destroyed.
It is ’diificult to estimate the loss of
life or tho extent of the destruction
of property, for there is little or no
coramunication with the points where
the wind and rain did its greatest dam
age.
In Louisiana It is estimated that a
score of smaU towns were destroyed
or partially wrecked. These include
Amite City, Independence, Bolle
Grove, Melt/on, Lorman, Pino Ridge.
Quitman Landing, Fairchild’s Creek
and Purvise, being reported as seri
ously damaged by the storm.
In Alabama, Dora w'as the chief suf
ferer. This town is also known, as
Bergen. Four or more persons wern
killed, among them the wife and
daughter of Section Master Moore.
Fifty persons, at the lowest esti
mate. were injured. Those most se
riously injured were carried to hospit
als in Birmin.gliam, Ala. One wo
man, a Mrs. McCuIly, died on thp
train enroute to the hospital. Two
other members of this family were se
riously injured.
nad mowed down nearly everything in
its path. Large num'bers of farm
animals were killed.'
The greater loss of life among the
negroes ccc'jrred in f;e vicinity ol
Natchez, Miss. In Concordia Parish.
I>a., across the Mississippi river from
^satchez, thirteen lives were lost, all
except two of the dead bciiLg ne
groes .
Twenty-five persons v>^ere killed in
Adams county, iMlssissippi, near th€
city of Natchez, .and thirty-five were j
killed in the neighborhood of Churcl]
H|ll, in Jefferson county, Mississippi.
Tile tornadoes in this section wer€
y
about one hundred miles uufth of the
A»ite tornado, and struck about the
time for .breakfast. It was in this
section that a negro baby was caught
in the wind and carried three hundred
yards and deposited in a can^p unin
jured.
Head Severed by Flying Timber.
An aged nogress was whirled into
the air and • her head almost severed
hy flying timbers 'before she fell in
a cotton field a hundred yards from
where her cabin had stood.
The body of a little negro boy was
f<i>und in a field with a piece of tim
ber driven through the heart.
All day physicians from Vidalia,
I/i., and Natchez, Miss., went from
plantation to (plantation cending the
worst wounded of the negroes back
to the cities to be treated. Part of
the humane work of these physicians
consisted in having numibers of injur
ed) animals put out of tlieir suHaring
by killing them.
DEKV[R GETTIIIG BOS!
Preparing for Democratic Natioa>
al Convention.
THE SEATING ARRANGEMEMTS
REPORTS FROM A LA CAM A.
Amite Under Martial Law.
New Orleans, La., April 25.—
Amite, La., was so badly damaged
that it v.*as put under martial law ac
once by order of its mayor. The
storm struck there just about noon,
killing two white p^ersons and thir
teen negroes outrig>ht and injuring
m*any others, mostly negroes, so bad.
iy that physicians who were rushed
into the to-wTi on relief trains from
several points, said that the total
death list of Amite v>rould reach at
least tv/enty-five.
Rev. Father Felix Rumpf was pos
sibly the first person killed at Amite.
Priest Crushed to Death.
Ke was in the lower part of his
church, having just finished ringing
the noonday bell. He was crushed
to death by the tower.
Mrs. A. N. Oigden, of Amite, was
caucjht by the tornado as she was
driving to her home. A tree fell
across her horse, killing the animal,
but she was uninjured.
Forty persons were at dinner in
the Commercial hotel when the storm
struck and the roof was carried aw^ay,
'but not one of the diners w^as hurt.
Freaks of the Wind,
The wind played interesting freaks
©round Amite, tearing up bushes by
the roots and in > one case wraipping
some sheet iron about the trunk of
a tree. Tbe path of the tornado was
about 2% miles wide, and when it had
passed, Amite stood a wreck in the
midst of a vast field in wl|icb the wind
Property Loss From Storm is Many
Thousands.
Birmingham, Ala., April 25.—Re
ports, though still Eomevv^hat meag-er
as to results of ths tornado that went
through parts of Alabama, indicate
that fifteen pecple lost their lives, and
betw'een sevemty and one hundred
were injured, six or eight of whom are
fatally hurt. At Bergen, in Walk
er county, four are dead and fifteen
hurt.
Reports from Albertville place the
4->iath list at nine, and thirty-five are
reported injured.
Near Reids, the death list is ,placcd
at two, with three hurt.
At Cedar Creek, Walker county,
eight are hurt, two fatally.
At Democrat, Walker county, half
a dozen were severely injured. Sev
eral country districts have been de
vastated and people hurt, but poor
telegraphic and telephcne facilities
preve-3- accurato reports :bcin.g se
cured .
The property damage will amount to
many hundred thousand dollars. As
many of the sufferers of the tornado
were poor people, ther-e is considera
ble distress.
STATE JEWELS SOLD.
Young Manuel, It Is Said, Will Re'pay
Portugal.
Lisbon, April 25.—^^Vhen King Mu-
■guel was deposed as ruler of Portugal
in 1834, the crown jewels, valued at
$2,000,000, w'ere cionfiscated and de-
iposited in the -bank of Portugal as the
property of the state.
Recently, the republican press
charged that absolute proof existed
that a large portion of these jow’els
had been sold without the consent of
parliament to meet the expenses of the
royal house.
King Manuel thereupon ordered that
an inv-ontory be taken, and this prov
ed that jewels to the value of $750,-
000 were missing. The governor of
the bank of Portugal was questioned,
and ad.-.nitted the removal of the pre
cious stones, but he declared tbat
the sale had been made upon the ur
gent demand of King Oarlos, who de
sired to meet certain pressing debts
of the royal household in order to
avoid a scandal.
After these facts had come to light
King Manuel announced his intention
of personally refunding the value of
the missing jewels. The attitude of
tbe young king in this matter has
evoked universal admiration.
Pennsylvania 4 Per Cent Bonds.
London, April 28.—;The Pennsylva
nia 4 per cent bonds, half of which
have been allotted to London, were
placed on the market Monday morn
ing. They were oversubscribed many
times, and the su'bscriptions were
closed one hour after -the opening.
Wiffe of Col. Huger Dead.
Mobile, Ala., April 28.—Mrs. Dan
iel Elliott Huger, wife of tbe late Col
onel D. E. Hoiger, died' here Sunday
night after a lingering illness. She
was well known in INew York city so
ciety, where she lived a ^eat part of
her time.
Light Snowfall in Mtssoarl.
Sedalia, Mo., April 28.-—There was
a light fall O'f snow in the central «part
of Missouri Monday.
Auditorium Is Near Completion and is
Expected to Seat 14,000 pcOple—The
Sub-Committee Meets May 6th.
Denver, Colo., April 25.—Plans for
the scats in the new city auditorium^
which is- now nearing completion, have
been sent by Secretary Mills, of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce and
Convention League to Secretary Urey
Woodson, of the Democratic national
committee, for his guidance in making
the seating arrangements for the dom-
ocratic convention, which meets in
Denver .July 7.
There ,ai'e 11,521 chairs show^n in
the plans and by placing chairs in
aisles or in the space left for stand
ing room, it will ibe possible to seat
14,000 people. This is a greater seat
ing capacity than that of the Chica
go Coliseum, Madison Square Garden,
New York, or the Mormon tabernacle
in Salt Lake City. Mr. Wcodson
will be assisted in the work of arrang
ing places for the various delegations
by Colonel J. I. 'Martin, sergeant-at-
arms of the democratic national com
mittee .
Delegates’ and Alternates’ Seats.
On the first floor eight sections of
seats. 2,010 in number, all within easy
hearing distance of the speaker’s plat
form. have been set aside for delegates
and alternates, the number of which
is estimated at two thousand. Odd
num/bered sections cf this space will
be occupied by the delegates and
even-numbered sections by the alter
nates.
On the platform, within plain sight
and hearing of all parts of the im
mense structure, are reserved 515 seats
for dignitaries. Immediately adja
cent to the platform s'pace is that re
served for the press, where 30'S seats
have been provided, four desks
for noiseless telegraph equipment.
In all 3,143 seats have been provid
ed for tbe general public divided as
follows:
Seven hundred on the first floor,
1,899 in the balcony and 544 in the
gallery. 'Space has been provided
for all telegraph companies and for
private w’ires, which is easily reached
from all parts cf the press reserva
tion.
Sub-Committee to Meet.
The sub-committee of the democrat
ic national commitLee in charge of the
national cvonvention will meet in Den
ver May 6. The members are Thos.
Taggart, of Indiana, chairman; Urey
Wcodson, of Kentucky, secretary; J.
B. Osborne, of Wyoming; J. C. Dabl-
man, of Nebraska; Norman E. Mack,
of Nev/ York; Roger C. Sullivan, of
Chicago; Clark Howell, of Georgia,
and R. M. Johnston, of Texas. This
committee will make the final arrange,
ments for the gathering in July.
It is believed that matters oonccm-
ing the choosing of the temporary
chairman who will make the “keynote”
speech at the convention and appoint
the vatious committees will be taken
up at this meeting. The contract will
also be let for taldng the official pro
ceedings of the convention in short
hand .
Tbe prop#.rations by Denver citizens
for the coming democratic national
committee will be largely in the nature
of a cele'bration of the abundant pros-
periy of the city and state. Exten
sive de-corations have been planned
and large sums of money will be ex
pended in entertainment.
TAFT TO GO TO PANA^.A.
Secretary to Settle Questions Pending
Between U. S. and Panama.
Washington, April 25.—'As the re
sult of deliberations • at the cabinet
session Friday it was determined that
secretary Taft should go to Panama.
He v/ill sail April 30 on the cruiser
Prairie. A detachment of marines
also will be sent on the Prairie.
A number of questions between the
United States and Panama and be
tween Panama and Colombia will be
negotiated during the secretary’s stay.
It is said to be necessary that the con
cessions the United States obtained
from Panama provided for in a pro
tocol should be emibodied in a perma
nent treaty.
The secretary w'ill be gone three
weeks, expecting to return to the Unt_
ed States May 20. The Prairie will
sail from Charleston, S. C.
St. Paul, Tvlinn., April 28.—'A north
west gale which blew from 32 to 45
miles an bour all night, brought wuth
it a snowstorm. Sitreet car service
was delayed.
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