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New York, March —One
hundred and forty-eight souls—
nine-tenths of the girls from the
EastSiae—were crushed to death
on the pavements, smothered in
smoke or shriveled to a crisp in a
factory fire this afternoon in the
worst disaster New York has
known since the steamship Gen
eral Slocum was burned to the
water’s edge off North Brothers
Island in 1904.
One hundred and forty-one bod
ies had been removed fi’om the
ruins at midnight, and s'jven of
the fatally injured have died in
hospitals. This, it is believed
completes the list of dead, most
of whom are unidentified. Grief
crazed relatives besieged the
morgue as the bodies were laid
out.
_ Nearly ail if not all, of the vic
tims were employed by the Tri-
angln Waist Company on the
eighth, ninth and tenth floors of
a ten-story , ioft building at 29
Washington place, on the west
ern fringe * of the downtown
wholesale clothing, fur and niilli-
nary district. The partners of
the firm, Isaac Harris and Max
Blanck, escaped unscathed from
the office on the tenth floor, car
rying with them over an adjoin^
ing roof Blanck's two yonug
daughters and a governe^r s. There
was not an outside fire escape on
the building
How the fire started will per
haps never be known. A corner
on the eighth floor was its point
of origin and the three upper
floors only were swept. On the
ninth floor fifty bodies were
found: sixty-three or more
persons w ere crushed to death by
jumping and more than thirty
clogged the elevator shafts. The
loss to jiToperty v/ill not exceed
$100,000.
Pedestrians going home through
Wushington t o Washington
square at ten minutes to I were
scattered by the whizz of some
thing rushing through the air be-
foi'e them; there was a horrible
plop on the pavement and a body
^flattened on the flags. Wayfar-
,ers on the opposite side of the
'street shaded their eyes against
the setting sun and saw the win
dows of the upper three floors of
the building black v/ith girls
cro^vding to the sills, There were
no fire escapes,
‘‘DonH jump, ' n*fjumpl’^
yelled the the crowd. But the
girls had no alternative. The
pressure of the maddened hun
dreds behind them and the urg
ing of their own fears were too
strong. They began to fall to the
sidev/alks in a terrible rain of
flesh and blood.
f'our alarms were rung within
fifteen minutes. Before the en
gines could respond, before the
nots cOuld be stretched or the
laddei's raised, five girls had fall
en from the eighth and ninth
floors so heavily that they broke
through the glass and iron roofs
of the sub-cellars and crashed
through the very streets into the
vauIts below. In an hour the fire
was out: in half an hour it had
done its worst; probably the death
'ist was full in twenty minutes.
L!fE TESliilR 18
PARDO^IED BY GOVERNOR
Raleigh, March 26.—_Rr S.
Gates,, sentenced in 1901 in Bun
combe county to be hanged for
burglary, and his sentence com
muted to life imprisonment by
Governor Aycock, now receives a
pardon conditioned on good be
havior, at the hands of Governor
Kitchin, The pardon is on rec»
omendation of the solicitor who
prosecuted Gates and the Odd
Fellows lodge that retained coun
sel to assist the solicitor at the
time of the trial, the plea foi the
pardon being complete wreck of
health. He was a stout young
man when sentenced. Now he
has been in the prison hospital
two years, is drawn double with
rheumatism partly paralyzed and
emaciated terribly. The govern
or says the state has had his life
except its shattered end. The
crime was burglarizing a store
with sleeping rooms. The pris
oner stood outside while his ac
complices dent inside.
SEABOARD FREIiiHT TRAIN
RUlDQWyEGriONCREW
Cherry ville, March 23. " While re
turning t-o Cherryville on a hand
car about? o’clock this afternoon,
the Seaboard Air Line section
force which is doing some repair
work on the track and roadbed
several miles west of here, was
run down by an extra eastbound
freight train and John Henry, a
mjmber of the^force, was instant-
killed. The accident happened 2
miles west of Waco.
It seems from details available
that the hand-car and train were
moving in the same direction and
the men on the hand car, for
some unknown reason, failed to
become aware of the approaching
train from the rear until it was
almost upon them. Other mem-
bei’s of the force escaped,. but
Henry jumped in front of the
hand car and before he could get
off the track the train hit the car.
Henry w'as knocked down and
ground to a pulp under the wheels
of the engine and freight cars.
His. remains were brought to
Cherryville by his more fortunate
fellow workmen.
Henry was 32 years old. He is
survived by a wife and five child
ren. They lived in one of the
section houses at Cherryville.
TWO LAOfE^VICTIMS
OF LAMP EXPLOSION
FiHT DUEL IN ROAD CHEROKEE INDIANIASE
Wadesboro, March 24.—Last
night at the home af Mr. K.
Pritchard, at Olive Branch. Un
ion county, v/here there was a
gathering of young people, Miss
Grace Baucom, aged 17, daughter
of Mr. H. T. Baucom, and Miss
Wilma Davis, aged 21, daughter
of Rev. C. Davis were burned to
death by the explosion of, a lamp.
Miss Cau.com and Miss Davis
had gone into a room with anoth
er young lady and were standing
before the mirror to arrange their
hair. Miss Baucom took up the
lamp to move it and it exploded
in her hand saturating the clothes
of both youn,g ladies with oil
which immediately caught ou
fire. They inhaled the flames
and both of them died this morn
ing about seven o’clock. The in
terment will take place at Olive
Branch church tomorow at two
o’clock.
Roanoke^ Va., March 22.—Luth
er Lowe and Robert Lester are
dead and Henry Lester is mortal
ly wounded as the result of a
fight in the western portion of
Tazewell county last night, and
Ben Lester, a son of Henry Les
ter, is ^id to nave started for
the courthouse to surrender and
plead guilty to the double mur
der. Bad feeling has existed be
tween the Lesters and Lowes
over a land deal consumated sev
eral years ago, and since then a
number of fights have taken
pljace between them,
Ben Lester returned from Bris
tol yesterday afternoon and was
met at the train by his father,
Henry Lester. When on their
way home they met Luther Lowe
and Romert I/ester in the road
and a quarrel followed.
Luther Lowe drew his gun and
fired at Henry Lester and the ball
struck him in the right side. Ben
Lester whipped out his gun and
killed both men before they
could fire again.
MAY Vtm MDS TO
HELP Bm lAILROAD
Winston- Salem, March 24, —
About twenty-five prominent bus
iness men of this city met at the
board of trade rooms yesterday
afternoon, together with Mr. A.
E. Tate, of High Point, for the
pur]Jose of discussing the propos
ed Randolph and Cumberland
railroad from Cameron, N. C.,
via High Point, to Winston-Sa
lem, making a number of splen
did connections in this city and
connecting at Cameron with the
mahi line of the Seabcai-d Air
Line railroad.
Mr. Tate desired to £«'. opin
ions of prominent busir ejs men
here as t-o whether or not this
community will vote $100,000
bonds to aid in financing the pro
position. All present expressed the
opinion that this can be done.
The ultimate terminus of the
road will be Southport, N. C.,
which *is declared to be destined
to heQome the State's leading
seaport town,
Quite B 6± gehtlerhett
preseht spoke, favoring the pro
posed road.
BLOWN TO PIECES
WITH DYNAMITE
Clarksville, Va., March 24.—
As a result of the explosion of
150 pounds of dynan^fte about
three miles south of Clarksville,
Mr. Zebulon Sanford was instant
ly killed today.
The dynamite had been placed
near a fire to thaw and Mr. San
ford started to move it, when the
explosion occurred, blowing him
to pieces. He was engaged in
constructing the sand-clay or
macadam road from Clarksville
via Shiney Rock to the North
Carolina line and was one of the
leading factors in the construc
tion of this road.
Mr. Sanford was thirty-one
years old and is survived by his
father, two brothers and three
sisters, all of whom live at or
near Virgilina, Va., to which
place his remains were sent on
the afternoon train from thib
place. The sad death of Mr. San
ford is gryatly deplored by the
people of this section.
MEASE IN WAGES
Asheville, March 23.—Lloyd
Owl, a well known Indian bsise-
ball player, was murdered Satur
day night in a drunken brawl
near.Cherokee, Swain county, ac
cording to information here to
day. The body was not found
until late Sunday. When found,
Owl s body lay on the roadside,
his hat being split open and a bot
tle covered with plotted blood and
hair lay close by. Another In
dian; was arrested and held for
the crime. This makes eight In
dians killed since the govern
ment paid the Cherokees a pro
rata part of a fund for timber
lands about a year ago.
Last Friday the Indians partic
ipated in an Indian ball game.
Big Creek and \Volftown playing.
Much hard feeling was engender
ed arid is the probable cause of
the mme. .
VEPENHGHT THEIR
WAV ODT TO LIBERIV
Raleigh, March 23. —In com pli-
^nce with official nbtice from the
Uuited States war department
that this state is expected to send
fourojfRcers to the
Adam Sherzinger, of Evans
ville!!, Ind. , after paying taxes fOT
the post six years on property in
the one time town of Greenup,
Okla., has discovered that the
town site was vacated for delin
quent taxes the year after the lots
were purchased. He says the
county treasurer of Pawnee coun
ty, Okla., has been collccting
tax€!S on town property that does
not exist as such. Several other
citizens of Evansville say they al
so bought lots in Greenup and are
still paying taxes on th^.
Higher wages were paid to
American farm laborers during
1910 than at any time in the last
45 years according to statistics
just made public by the depart
ment of agriculture. The average
wage for the country was $27.50
per month during 1910, while 20
years ago it was $18.33. With
board, the averajye wage was $19.
21.
In some parts of the country
the rate of wages of farm labor
ers was higher than in others.
The highest was in Nevada where
the rate was $59 while in Montana
and Washington it was $50. South
Carolina paid the lowest rate $16.
50 a month.
In the New England and North
Atlantic states the average was
$33.19 with Massachusetts pay
ing the highest $37.50. With
board the average was $21.65.
In the South Atlantic states
th^ average was $19.75 with West
Virgina paying the highest $29.
wjth board the average was $13.
hi the hoi’therh central states
east, oithe Mississippi river the
average was $31. 81, vdth Wis
consin paying the highest $37,25
With board the average was $22.
94.
In the northern central states
west of the Mississippi the aver
age was $35.45, with North Dako
ta paying the highest, $42. With
board the average was $25^0.
In southern central states the
average was $21.90, with Oklaho
ma paying the highest, $28.j.'0.;
w^ith board the average was $15.'
28.
In the far vvestern states the
average was ^^6.48 with Nevada
paying the highest $54. With
the avei-age was $32.69.
Gahanna, Ohio, March 22.—
Carrying two of the wounded
companions with them, five yegg-
men who early today blew the
safe in the postofRce here, escap-
de in a runningbattlefrom a posse
headed by Mayor W. P. Dawson,
and from what had been planned
as a veritable death trap.
The presence of the yeggmen
had been “tipped off” to the vil
lage oflficialsand practically every
man in town armed himself and
joined the mayor in a plan to cap
ture the “yciggs'’ after they were
inside the post office. The three
“ye^^" who stood guard out
side, however, kept the citizens
at bay until the safe was blown
and looted of $200'in stamps. In
the running fight that followed
the stamps were dropped when
two of the y%gmen were wourd-
ed and their companions assisted
them to a barn. There they suc
ceeded in holding off the posse
until they could later escape in
the darkness. Bloodhounds to
day were put upon the trail from
the barn.
Death of Prof Blagg.
Walter Clinton Blagg, son of
Rev. and Mrs. John Blag^> was
born in Braxton eount^^ West
Viiginia Sept. 26th lS7i, and died
in Burlington, N. C., iVlarch 25,
1911, aged 39 years, 5 months
and 29 days.
After taking a course in music
in Dayton, Va., and Kee-Mar
College, he located at Whitsett
Institute in Guilford county as
director of the department of
music in that school. In the sum
mer of 1898 he and Miss Alma
Foust, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Z. M. Foust were united in the
bonds of matrimony and to this
union one son and one daughter
were born. For the past several
years Prof. Blagg and family
have lived in the home of Mrs.
Blagg^s parents, in Burlington.
While residing here he conducted
a successful music house, selling
instruments and teachitjg a large
class of young people. This work
he continued untill forced to giye
it up on account of continued ill
health.
Early in the year 1910 he unit
ed with the Burlington Reformed
church, in which church he had
taught a Sunday School class for
several years. He was a very
patient sufferer, being un^bie to
walk for hior^ tha.h a He
expressed a bright hope and a
cheerful stroiig faith from the
very beginning of his sickttess to
the close of his life.
He leaves a two child
ren, an aged father, one whole
brother, and ?Sf^'^6i*al half brothers
and sisters. His funeral was con
ducted in the Reformed chucrh
here by his pastor. Rev. J. D.
Andrew, March 27th, assisted by
Rev. S. L. Morgan of the Baptist
church, and Rev, J. D. Williams
of the M. P. church and his body
was laid to rest in Pine Hill cem
etery.
maneuvers at San Antonio, Tex.,
Adjutant General Leinster, with
the approval of Govempr Kitchin,
has fcKTwarded the following nom
inations: Col. J. T. Gardner,
Shelby, infahtiy field officer; Maj.
E. B. Glenn, Asheville, medical
coips; Capt Ai L. C, Rill, Kins
ton, company B, Second infantry;
Capt. ’^ade H. Phillips, Lexing
ton, coiripahy J,, Thitd infantry.
The war department stipulated
that the nomihatibns must be one
field officer; two: company bflScers
and one medical oMcer. The let-^
ter of instructions to General
Leinster is to the effect that the
officers are to report at San An
tonio April 5. Their names are
to be furnished at once to the de
partment and transportation
will be furnished. They will car
ry field equipment; the two field
officers to carrj;; horse equipment^
and procure mour is in Texas at
the expens^e &f 't,he _ govcrhment.
Fourteen days service will be re
quired
t Tiftonv Ga. , Marcjti 25.—In bne
of the worst r^lrbad disasters
ever known in the Seuih Atlantic
observation i States, eight persons \vere killed
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Raleigh, March 23. —Following
stirring address bv TTnited
States Judge J. Pritchard, of
Asheville, arid Mr. S. A, Ackley,
of Richmond, and R. C. Hood, of
Greensboro, at a conference din
ner tonighty participated in by
nearly two hundred young jnen
the campaign for raisibjg $^5,000
for a y. MC'Oi 'buiraingf Mas
formally launched. Nosubsmp-'
tions were taken, biit announce
ments of a number of large sub
scriptions aggregatiang $5,000.
They were Ashby Baker, $2,000;
W. M, Williamson, $1,000; C. J.
Hunter, $1;000; and John Pullen,
$1,000. The pledges are to be
taken conditioned on $65,000 be
ing raised by April 4, payable in
the next tw6 years. A typical
whirlwind campaign^ is being or
ganized y/ith the intention of
completing the solicitations 'by
Saturday, April 1, making it an
eight day campaign. The work
ers are confident of relieving Ral
eigh of the distinction of being
the only State capital city in the
country having no Y. M v C. A.
and more than a dozen injured
when train No. 95, knb\vn as the
“Dixie Flyer” on the" Atlantic
Coast Line a,nd ninning between
Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla^,
went through a trestle 'over the
Alopaha river eighteen Kiiles east
of here early this morning, ^To
night but one body, that of John
T. Watspn of Lender, Wyo., re-
miained ih^ the cars in the river.
Had it not been for the wreck
Watsbn would have been a bride-
grooin today. His sweetheart,
Miss Elsie S(hippey of Pasadena,
Cal., 'who was pn the train with
him, and to whom he was tol^ve
been married ; in Jackson ville to-
morrow/ remained at the wreck
throughput the day and night
watching the efforts of the res
cuers to recover Watson’s body.
Late tonight it was said that
the wreck had been thoiroughly
examined and that the death to
tal will not be increased all pas
sengers had been ajjcounted for.
All the wbunded have been re
moved to the Atlantic Coast Line
hospital at Way crbss. Thfe bod-.
ies of the dead were removed to?
Tifton from which point they will
be shipped to their former hPnies.
The cars plunged into the river
without a moments w^aming to
the sleeping passengers when an
axle on the engine suddenly snap
ped when midway of the trestle.
The iocpmotive left the trapk but
the tender was derailed aiid tum
bled to the bank of the stream.
The trestle is abput a Mi niile
long b^it^eiiverwaSt low ^d at.
the point of the accident was not
more than than fifty yards across.
Thei express ^ah^ baggage ears
tw'o day. coaches and one pullman
>^ere:pile^; in an indescribable
mass in the center of the stream
but fortunately few of the - pas
sengers were carried beneath the
water.' :•■■■■
According to an official state
ment the wreck was causee by
the breaking of an axle on the
engine When iiiM way of the tres
tle, the weight of the train caus
ing the trestierv^ork to collapse.
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FAVEnEVlllE Bimi
SOLD EOlt BIG SUM
Fayetteville, March 23.—The
Hotel LaFayette has j ust been
sold by M. McL. Mathews and
Dr. J. V. McGoughan, of this
city, for $100,000 to J. H. Mc-
Aden, proprietor of the Stone
wall Hotel of Charlotte, J. P.
Sanders, manager of the Stone
wall, and Robert Erwin, owner of
the Huffines Hotel, of Greengboro.
The purchasers assume an ob
ligation recently contracted by
Messrs. Mathews and McGoughan
to put $20,000 in improvements
of the LaFayette, which will be
operated under its present name
with Mr. Irwin in charge.
STRIKE IN CRADDOCK SHOE
Reciprocity as demonstrat^hsg
that the standpatters is not so
firm on hi§ l^s as formerly.
Lynchburg'j Va.> Miaa^6h
Two hundred shoe wwkfers in the
Jefferson street aftd Southland
factories of the Craddock-Terry
Shoe Company Struck today. This
number is less than one-third of
the total vTOi’kers employed there.
The company announces that it
will be able to keep both factories
going full time. No statement
has yet been made as to the
cause of the strike other than a
Import that iis^purposes are to en^
force recognition of the union and
higher wages.
Having been driven to the ne
cessity of ealling art extra session
Mr. Taft is entitled to the sym
pathy of the nations.,
Tatnpav^lavv March Ten
thousand dollars in currency waa
stolen from a mail pouch in tran
sit betweeii Tan^a and Clearwa
ter last night. The theft was dis
covered when the mail pouch
reached St. Petersburg this
morning at 10 o’clock,
been carried by its destination,
Clearwater. There was an eight
inch slit in the pouch. A reg
istered package had been tom
open, the money extracted, and
the casing pushed back in the
mail bag.
The money was sent from
Tampa at 4:40 o’clock yesterday
afternoon by the Exchange Na»
tional Bank and was consigned to
the Bank of Clearwater. Posfcatl
officials decline to give any infor
mation until postoffice detectives
arrive to make an investigation.
The robbery is supposed to have
been committed while 14 bags for
Clearwater and ^points south of
that city were lying on the plat
form at Tarpon Springs for over
eight hours waiting for the At
lantic Coast Line railroad train,
which tvfts eight hours late.
MISTAKMR THIEF
Atlanta, Ga., March 24.—Wil
liam B. Horn, an employe of the
Southern Express company,' wa»
fatally shot by Special Policeman -
Reaves , under the Magnolia street
bridge tonight while the officer
and his; partner, R. W. Miller,
were searching for thieves who
have been operating in that neigh
borhood liateiy. The man died
before he reached the hospltat
Aecording: to the policemen, Bom
refused to halt ^hen called ob
and was shot:.