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CAUCASIAN VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 30. I9O0. No. 16 6 4 I EDITORIAL BRIEFS. Th anti-prohlbltlonlsts have pitch i h-ir tents In Durham, and have promised to make things warm from f,.A until the 26th of May. Tin railroads, tobacco and liquor tiui-t.s should be able to nave some money this year if Craig and Kltchln ;,r- both against them. V new question has bobbed up for Kolution. Is an independent )-iuof-rat a Democrat? Webster's Weekly does not think so. Two years ago Mr. Francis D. W inston was grooming for the guber natorial race, but so far Mr. Win ston has not even reached the first ban The News and Observer says that in North Carolina there are three distinct kinds of Conservative Demo ftats. That makes thirteen kinds. Arc there any more? ".Magazine writer, comparing Mas sachusetts and Kentucky, remarks that Massachusetts makes shoes and boots, while Kentucky makes booze and shoots." Simmons says the talk of his can didacy for chairman of the Demo cratic National Executive Committee is a piece of rank absurdity. That is just the view some others take of it. A dispatch sent out from Wash ington says that "Uncle Joe" Cannon will withdraw from the presidential rate and throw his strength to Sec retary Taft. A 1 i 1 1 has been introduced in Con gress to make October 12th a Na tional holiday. That is the anni versary of the day on which Christo pher Columbus landed near the American soil. The Durham Herald wants to know how did so many men who are not real Democrats get so high up in the party. What the public wants to know is, what is a real Democrat? Don't you reckon some folks are glad that the State Constitution pro hibits a man being Governor of the State for two successive terms? Wilmington Star. It should prohibit some men from being Governor at all. Governor Glenn can't succeed him self as Governor and he has decided he can't beat Overman for the Sen ate, but he has declared in favor of the re-election of all the State offi cers. All right, Governor, maybe there will come a time some day. A small lion escaped from a show in Durham Monday and created con siderable excitement among the na tives until it was re-captured. A small lion should not excite' the Dur hamites when they are accustomed to "tigers" every day in the year. The editor of the News and Ob server doesn't seem to understand how decent men can, vote the Repub lican ticket. If the editor of the Observer will stand at the polls in November he will see how easy it is for so many to vote the ticket, and there will be more this fall than ever. Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, is a delegate to the Democratic Convention at Denver. Wonder if he will carry that gold telegram with him. Glenn, should go from this State and take Cleveland's free sil ver telegram with him to make the thing complete. The Governor of Georgia says that if the Democrats are unsuccessful at the polls in the Presidential election this year it is difficult to see how they will even win. The outlook for Democracy cer tainly looks hopeless. Even many of the Democratic papers have said they have no chance of carrying the country this fall. Mr. Kitchin and his friends have accused Craig of being the candidate of the tobacco trust, railroads and other interests. Mr. Craig says it isn't true, and has attempted to show that Kitchin is the friend of the trusts and railroads. The only way to settle the question is to watch the movements of certain individuals at the State Convention. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Mr. Kcoscvelt Sent a Spcciil Message to Congress Monday. SOME NEEDED LLG1SLATI0N Want the Anti-TruHf Imw Strength cried "t las oiisciouHne" and lMxr Organization Two of Hi Topics Oiild Labor Law for Dis trict of Columbia Favors Postal Savings IlankM. On Monday afternoon President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress in which he outlined many of his views and suggested some needed legislation that should be en acted by this Coneress. We irive - ri - below a portion of the message: Text of the Message. In my message to the Congress of trch 25, 1908, I outlined certain measures which I believe the major- ty of our countrymen desire to have enacted into law at this time. These measures do not represent by any means all that I would like to see done if an earnest effort toward this end is made. Since I wrote this message an em ployers liability law has been enact ed which, it is true, comes short of what ought to have been done, but which does represent a real advance. Apparently there is good ground to hope that there will be further legis lation providing for recompensing all employees who suffer injury while engaged in the public service; that there will be a child labor law enact ed for the District of Columbia; that the Waterways Commission will be continued with sufficient financial support to increase the effectiveness of its preparatory work; that steps will be taken to provide for such in vestigation into tariff conditions, by the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives and by government experts in the executive service, as will secure the full in formation necessary for immediate action in revising the tariff at the hands of the Congress elected next fall; and finally, that financial legis- ation will be enacted providing for temporary measures for meeting any trouble that may arise in the next ear or two and for a commission of experts who shall thoroughly investi gate the whole matter, both here and in the great commercial coun tries abroad, so as to be able to recommend legislation which will put our financial system on an efficient and permanent basis. It is much to be wished that one feature of the financial legislation of this session should be the establishment of pos tal savings banks. Ample apppro priation should be made to enable the Inter-State Commerce Commission to carry out the very important feature of the Hepburn law which gives to the commission supervision and con trol over the accounting systems of the railways. Failure to provide means which will enable the commis sion to examine the books of the railways would amount to an attack on the law at its most vital point, and would benefit as nothing else could benefit, those railways which are corruptly and incompetently managed. Forest reserves should be established throughout the Appa- achian Mountain region .wherever it can be shown that they will have a direct and real connection with the conservation and improvement of navigable rivers. There seems, however, much doubt about two of the members I have recommended: the measure to do away with abuse of the power of in junction and the measure or group of measures to strengthen and render both more efficient and more wise the control by the National govern ment over the great corporations doing an inter-State business. First, as to the power of injunc tion and of punishment for contempt. before another judge. As regards In contempt cases, save where imme diate action is imperative, the trial should be before another judge. As regards injunctions, some such legis lation as that I have previously recommended should be enacted. They are blind who fail to realize the extreme bitterness caused among large bodies of worthy citizens by the use that has been repeatedly made of the power of injunction in labor disputes. Those in whose judg ment we have most right to trust are of the opinion that while much oi the complaint against the use of the injunction is unwarranted, yet that it is unquestionably true that in a number of cases this power has been used to the rave injury of the rights of laboring men. - Every far-sighted patriot should protest first of all against the growth in this country of that evil thing which is called "class con sciousness." The Demagogue, the sinister or foolish Socialist visionary who strives to arouse this feeling of class consciousness in our working people, does a foul and evil thing; for he is no true American, he is no self-respecting citizen of this Repub lie, he forfeits his right to stand with manly self-reliance on a foot ing of entire equality with all other citizens, who bows to envy and greed, who erects the doctrine of class hatred Into a shibboleth, who ubti- tutes loyalty to men of a particular mat tin, whether rich or poor, for loy alty to those eternal and immutable principles of righteouenevs which bid us treat each man tn his worth a a man without regard to bis wealth or hi poverty. But evil though the Influence of ihe demagogue and visionaries Is, It Is no worse in Its consequences than the Influence ex erclsed by the man of great wealth or the man of power and position in the Industrial world, who by his lack of sympathy with, and lack of under standing of, still more by an exhibl tion of uncompromising hostility to, the millions of our working people. tend to unite them against their fellow- Americans who are better off In this world's goods. It is a bad thing to teach our working people that men of means, that men who have the largest proportion of the substantial comforts of life, are nec essarily greedy, grasping, and cold- hearted, and that they unjustly de mand and appropriate more than their share of the substance of the many. Stern condemnation should be visited upon demagogue and vis ionary who teach this untruth, and even sterner upon those capitalists who are intruth grasping and greedy and brutally disreeardful nf the rights of others, and who by their actions teach the dreadful lesson far more effectively than any mere preacher of unrest. A "class griev ance" left too long without remedy breeds "class consciousness" and therefore class resentment. The strengthening of the anti trust law is demanded unon both. moral and economic grounds. Our purpose in strengthing it is to se cure more effective control by the national government over the busi ness use of the vast masses of indi vidual, and especially of corporate, wealth, which at the present time monopolize most of the inter-State business of the country; and we be lieve the control can best be exercis ed by preventing the growth of abuses, rather than merely by trying to destroy them when they have al ready grown, In the highest sense of the word this movement for thor ough control of the business use of thi3 great wealth is conservative. We should in a sane man ner try to remedy tnis danger, in spite of the sullen opposition of these few very powerful men, and with the full purpose to protect them in all their rights at the very time that we require them to deal right fully with others. Power should unquestionably be lodged somewhere in the executive branch of the Government to permit combinations which will further the public interest; but it must always be remembered that, as regards the great and wealthy combinations through which most of the inter-State business of to-day is done, the bur den of proof should be on them to show that they have a right to exist. No judicial tribunal has the knowl edge or the experience to determine n the first place whether a given combination is advisable or necessary in the interest of the public. Some body, whether a commission, or a bureau under the Department of commerce and Labor, should be given this power. My personal belief is that ultimately we shall have to adopt a national incorporation law, though I am well aware that this may be impossible at present. Over the actions of the executive body in which the power is placed the courts' should possess merely a power of review analogous to that obtaining in connection with the work of the Inter-State Commerce Commission at present To confer this power would not be a leap in the dark; it would merely be to carry still further the theory of effective governmental con trol of corporations which ,was re sponsible for the creation of the In ter-State Commission and for the en largement of its powers, and for the creation of the Bureau of Corpora tions. The ' inter-State commerce legislation has worked admirably. It has benefited honestly managed and wisely conducted railroads; and in spite of the fact that the business of the country has enormously increas ed, the value of this Federal legisla tion has been shown by the way in which It has enabled the Fedeial Government to correct the most pro nounced of the great and varied abuses which existed in the business world twenty years ago while the many abuses that still remain em phasize the need of further and moie thorough-going legislation. Similar ly, the Bureau of Corporations has amply justified its creation. The decisions of the Supreme Court in the Minnesota and North Carolina cases illustrate how impos sible is a dual control of national commerce. lne states cannot con- rfrol it. All they can do is to control intra-State commerce, and this now forms but -a small fraction of the commerce carried by the railroads through each State. Actual experi ence has shown that the effort at State control is sure to be nullified in one way or another - sooner or later . The nation alone can act with, effectiveness and wisdom; it should have the control both of the business and of the agentby which the. business is done, for any attempt to separate this control must result in grotesque absurdity. This means that we must rely upon national leg islation to prevent the commercial abuses that now exist and the others that are sure to arise unless some efficient governmental body has ade quate power of control over them (Continued on Page 2.) urrrnii nunt ijilxins. C1ep Paper are Wurlhle Paper Fraud mod How Tltey !lerh the I e ifU Frmud u lew . Hur. e AdverticetneBt Ilkrtoe IM. m In New York Xigfa Rklrr in Kentucky lrl HargUr. Correspondence of The Caucasian Enterprise. Bllklnsrille. N C., April 27, 190. I wuz look in" over a Northern pa per terday, an notlctn" the susc rip shun price, hit struck me that even a plain ole sltlxen like me may be able ter give the fellers that publish newspaper sum advice, fer I bear that the newspaper business U not very profitable az & general thing. The paper I wuz look In' at iz pub lished twice a month at 10 cents a year, three years fer 25 cents, $1.00 fer a life subscription. Hit iz what they call a literary or "story" paier. an hit iz a large paper. Now that iz about the same az if sum ov the farmers would sell cotton at two cents a pound, wheat at 15 cents a bushel an corn at 5 cents a bushel. Most people would buy fmm the farmers that sells at the low prices an the business would be ruined. Same way with the merchants: if they didn't sell at a livln profit they would soon be bankrupt. Ov course them cheap papers can't take the place ov local papers. But they helps to demoralize the business an' dissatisfy the people. A gude many people don't know wheth- P it costs $300 a year or $3,000 fa year ter publish an ordinary week ly newspaper with a small circula shun an' they don't care much whut it may cost. Fer a plain ole sitizen like me hit seems that the newspaper business, will never be on an' equality with other lines ov business lill they iz a change a big change an' sum way fixed ter stop the foolish habit ov publishin' cheap newspapers an' ov publishin' newspapers on a credit, hardly half the papers sent out being paid for, though they compete with other papers that are paid for, or should be. Sumtimes them cheap papers air used ter advertise frauds. That hurts the advertising business. A young boy will read anadvertisement that sez if he will send 10 or 2 5 cents the advertiser will mail a rem edy that will cause a heavy black moustache ter grow on the upper lip ov the boy in 2 or 3 weeks. The boy sends the money an' either gits nothin' or -;rfis a worthless vial ov powder or liquid, an the mous tache does not appear. Another ad vertiser guarantees ter send a sure hair-grower an' promises that hit will grow a heavy growth of brown, curly hair upon any bald head in a month or two. The baldheads read the advertisement a few times an' sum ov them send on a dollar or two, an' instead ov growing a lot ov curly hair the stuff takes out ov root the few scatterin' hairs they had . left upon their shiny scalps. They air out ov sum money, lose confidence in the advertisements found in the cheap papers, an' they then look upon awl advertizers az frauds, which iz not the case. If you will read sum papers you will find purty nigh everything ad vertised, from $20 buggies ter a wife or husband. Awl you hev to do iz ter send ten cents an' git the names ov several hundred rich girls who want to marry an' support a husband. Sum of them air worth az much az a hundred thousand dollars, an' ac cordin' ter matrymonial agency, they air willin ter give every dollar ov hit fer a husband, though he mite be dear at 30 cents. I see that sum ov the sports had a big dinner in New York sumtime ergo that cost $30,00. While they wuz eating a number of canary birds wuz turned loose in the dinin' room an they flew erbout and sung sum sweet songs. Ov course eatin" is a very nice little game. But I never thought that rich extravagance wuz best fer the country. Hit dissatisfys them that would love ter make a display, but can't, an' hit discour ages them that air poor an' hev hard work ter git a meal. Sum people try ter poke fun at fancy farmers an' their work. I can't see hit that way. Farmin' is jist like anything else, hit kin be done nicely or hit kin be done in a way that makes a farm look like a wilderness; no system, no beauty, no success. I don't hear much erbout the "night riders" in Kentucy now. I guess they air still killin people an' burnin tobacker barns. They hev curious idees erbout life in Ken tucky. If a man don't do rite they air ready ter kill him, an' if a man don't do wrong they air ready ter kill him. 1 wouldn't care ter live in a country like that. I guess Ken tucky is sorter like North Carolina viz, afflictedwith two many poli ticians. They keep the peeple stird up awl the time with sum hobby an' they fergit who made them an' let their passhuns and prejudices git the best ov them "a greater part ov the time. Out in Chicago, which iz the wick edest sity in this country, an 18-year- old gurl burglar wuz arrested the other nite. She had been going into houses, breaking in, for sum time, stealing valuable things. WThut wiirthe girls be doing next? They had orter be trying ter steal husbands awl the time. But they hain't - got no rite ter be stealin' other things contrary ter the law t a& made an' pervided by the legis lature. Tb old boy at to kM la the Und when ctrls begin tr ro later the burglar bttslft. Hit Is bad enough fer girl ter ebv gum so dip snuff, but burglary u a few degrees worse, an' kit It UafeW ter git them later prison fer kwg term. My ad rice ter girl it. don't twom burglars. Better cook, sew, elerfc la a store, ho cotton, or marry a wid ower with six children. The burglar business net never paid, an hit will not begin ter pay at this late day. even though girls take hit ap. This Is the r vault ov "woman's rights" an other false duct rices The more "rights women Insist on the more wrongs they will hev ter contend with. I am In favor of the iemae sex. iae women hev never had half they deserve In the way ov honor an credit. Ilut they wilt not git justice nor credit fer good deeds by going ter the ballot box nor by .. M.1 entering the many professhuns. They kin hev their influence in the home. an' ought to use hit there, but when a woman gets out ov her place she iz enln tiarkvarH an' ihn will anf. , , ., . . in nil hmuuu iu me a nuance snei, w, , , , -.- . . ... . liana. Mississippi, TenneM-e, Ala goes from the beaten path ov duty an' custom. Yours truly, ZKKK n ILK INS. TAFT MAY VISIT CJKKKXSIUmo. The President and the Scrvtary of Was Inviteil to the Centennial Mr. ItooM-velt Can rx t Attend. A delegation from Greensboro. composed of various organizations and the city government went to Washington last Thursday and call ed on President Roosevelt and Sec retary of War W. H. Taft in an ef fort to induce them to visit Greens boro in October on the occasion of the Centennial of that citv. The President expressed his re grets, declaring it would be impossi ble for him to accept the invitation. Secretary of War Taft said he would visit Greensboro during the Centen nial if it was possible for, him to do so. President Roosevelt said he would send the Marine Band to Greensboro during the Centennial, while Secre tary Taft gave assurances that a de tail of cavalary would be sent to the city. Decorative flags will also be furnished the Centennial authorities by the War Department. Insurance Defrautler Arrested In Philadelphia. The following story was sent out from Laurinburg, this State, Mon day night: "W. J. Mills, who was arrested in Philadelphia, worked at this place while he was agent for the New York Life Insurance Company with headquarters at Charlotte. He be came a fast friend of Mrs. Hattie W. Bryant, widow of the late Ben Bry ant, ex-sheriff of Richmond County. Mills wrote insurance for her, pre tending to give her one kind of pol icy and really giving her another. This error was discovered about one year ago, and under the workings of Insurance Commissioner Young was corrected. At the suggestion of Mr. Mills, Mrs. McYauchlin gave him money on two occasions to deposit in the Charlotte banks, they paying a greater interest at that time than the local banks. He was faithful to his trust until the last time, when he skipped with the money, about $1,400. Indictments charging him with fraud and embezzlement have been found by a Scotland County grand jury. For more than a year Mr. T. R. Young has had charged of this case, and after many almost successful attempts, finally succeed ed in capturing his man Saturday evening in Philadelphia. "Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McLauchlin left Sunday afernoon for Philadel phia to identify Mills. It is thought that he will be here by Friday, and if he is, he win probably be tried this week, as criminal court is in session here." Taft. or Roosevelt. Mr. J. A. Smith, who has just re turned from a flying , trip to New York and other Northern cities, says from all the talk he has heard politi cal, that the nominee of the Repub lican party will be either Taft or Roosevelt. Not that the President is seeking or wants the nomination, but that his enemies have done so much lying about him and his administra tion that if it appears at the Nation al Convention that there is a shadow of about as to complete Republican success the convention will take no chances, and put up Roosevelt, who cannot possibly be beat. Bessemer City Messenger. One Good Result From Prohibition. (Hickory Times-Mercury.) Prohibition has done good already Ex-Governor Aycocksays he has not drank a drop in a year, and never expects to take another. Governor -Glenn says he has not tasted a drop in two years, and never expects to take another. Hon. Locke Craig, a few years ago, helped the liquor -men carry Ashe- ville, but he will never do so again. FourSyears ago, when Mr. Glenn was nominated, liquor was used by the barrel and many delegates got drunk, but it won't be so any more One time a drunken red shirt gang terrorized many sections of our State and kept white men from the polls, but it will never occur agsdnu FIVE HUNDRED DEAD Oae llundrtd Fatally Hurt ind Oficlboustnd Injured by Torsxdtts A GREAT LOtS UF P.0P RTY The llitrrtcattc irft otrr r4gtt HowIIm-TO tle -4j.f. IWnre the Itrvat tf the MiiTIii linn, munk-alfem llrtwrr Ottr U rUmly lntemt(pllrtf-rt Ia Hub Juto the Mill Trobably half a thousand Ur lt. j a hundred or imxr jurumi f tt) ! Injured, a&d many time this number i painfully hurt, togeihrr Hh a prop erty loss running up in the miliums. Is the record o far of m i of tornadoes that originated In (he V-s Thursday night, sweeping arr (Texas. Oklahoma. Arkansas, Iui- bama, and Georgia Frlda and Frl day night. It left a palh of dath. desolation and want in Its wake. riously Interrupted communication between cities in the South and brought about chaotic conditions in many smaller towns. Mississippi bore the brunt of the storm. Reports from thai State In dicate that the loss of life will ! by far the greatest of any txMiou through which the storm passed. Estimates of tbos who lost their lives as a result of tornadoes in Mississippi place the death list near 300, with a thousand or more Injured. In Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia death lists ure also large, with loss of life In Arkansas nd Tennessee. A dispatch sent out from Atlanta Saturday night says: As a result of the storm which last night swept into Georgia after " . . - "'...,1.. ,.,..1 .. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. 2. , , ' . . . ' persons trtii iliui1 nnil nt Iiist niie ! hundred were Injured, while many others received bruises and scratches from flying debris in a dozen towns in this State. The storm which first appeared In this State at Columbus, on the Ala bama line, seems to have moved in a northeasterly direction, striking the towns of Chipley, Harris. La Grange. Griffin, McDonough, Locust Grove, Cedartown and Cave Springs, while a portion of its fury was felt in the eastern suburbs of Atlanta shortly after midnight. Homes Swept Away. At Cave Springs, near Home, where the largest loss of life occurred, nine persons were killed and nine Injured, while a score of negroes are reported to have been more or less bruised. In this vicinity the wind swept a path half a mile wide and five miles long from the outskirts of Cave Springs in a southwesterly direction to Hamatie. There is not a house left standing in the storm-swept area. Hearn's Academy, at Cave Springs, was badly damaged. At Cameo two negro section hands were killed, and one white man Is reported dead at Stinson. At Columbus Mrs. Vila Norrls and her daughter were instanly killed by the destruction of a pavilion at North Highlands in which they were staying. The property loss in this section will be heavy. Griffin reports that three white women were killed and eight white persons injured and a property loss of $50,000 sustained. The path of the storm at this point was directly over the cotton mill and cottages of the mill operatives. Twenty-five of these cottages were entirely demol ished and the escape of their occu pants is considered miraculous. Ten Negroes Killed. The boiler and engine room and the roof of the card room of the Rushtown mills were blown away, as was the commissary room. The Oak Hill Baptist Church and Levotie Chapel Hill Baptist Chapel were de stroyed, while a score of other build ings sustained great damage. Physi cians of the city rushed to the scene of disaster and gave prompt relief to the injured, who were removed to the hospitals as quickly as possible. Hundreds were bruised and cut by flying missiles. A public meeting was held late to-day to raise funds for the injured. At Chipley Mrs. Frank Hopkins and Mrs. Forrester and ten neroes were killed, while the husbands of the two women were seriously in jured. Practically every business house in Chipley was more or less damaged the hotel, in which there were eleven guests, was blown down. but none of its occupants were injur ed. All the warehouses were damaged and not a negro house is left stand ing. The residence of H. A. Mid dlebrook was lifted from its founda tions, carried 150 yards and depos ited in Its new position without be ing damaged. The depot and freight cars were blown away at Harris, a small sta tion three miles from Chipley. One report says that six white persons and two negroes were killed at that place. Engineer Samuel Neisler, of Abbe ville, S. C, and a negro brakeman were killed, and Fireman G. G. Brown seriously injured when a freight train on the Seaboard Air Line ran into a washout at Tucker, 16 miles from Atlanta, early to-day. Reports from other points suffer ing from the tornado are coming in '' t4tTS S4 teVffUMM 1rr htlr Sr rr.rt4 jvw4 f?.ul raia 4 t4 1st . it 9 frtf t? ;ut!t&t 4 talf laafcittatt fHesi b4 rfr feat a ok A Uii fcft-a WtiW rr. enaJkief tu Ut Itt i Cilg '. fre tfe r st l-ati P'itt &4 ! )eacf fs teiUrxj o tn tat: ta tfe tH4 :!? a (rvsa New O Wfc Se th tolU.ifeg f 1 1 !lrt carf o e; ft fcu&d itt t I'm r i. 4ia. tt r-aer .t'ir tvpu tfee tact that u! the I.Sv Inhabitants wtkka tals !M1 to Ute4 Ief4at fttf- i i&C thetr rmt&e4 oblr atxtttt al ..! t la . sutt there were feu urT.iu-tu aertKttKdftitofc la the rrked tUUc for riea the otta4 -d t14 &-ro tbatamie 4 tittle i.'.tc fhsidrett Uj tuaimrd and help-!- under the bmi!l& &ttet iJ Sm hd bfosro Ufce. mm er- partly crushed and others !ta4 t-et wuunded by sticks and splinter T hf re nut ebouch shelter lit the town iu protect tbrto froia the uo and in.it- of the walls which re-tnaltx-d nJitc had no ruufs, and. by a jue-r fr-ak of the tor&ado. 1114(1) of the trees which had not bee uj-rooted had been snapped off a few f-l above the tcrou&d A roe of p)tu- was mutilated in this manner txi thai It apeared as if a slant M'lhe had swept through the (rote about twrftty (et shove the ground. Tb greater pstt of Purvis' popu lation today Were refugees la Hat- tlenhiirK and Lumberton. Miss., about 150 of them belt, badly Injured. Of thoe wboremalned In town many sp- pean-d distracted and told remarks hie stories of their towntfeltow who had Im--ti kllU-.I. Some gravely as serted I bat a third oi the population -was dead. Many hurried funerals were held . , , , ,, . . . , . dead revealed 31. about half of tbs-m begroes. reported Many other negroes were Killed iu thf vicinity of Purvis. The mautier In which the tornado actd at thin village was apparently etiotiKh to unbalance the reasoning iow-rs of sottie of the witnesses. lnsUNid of entering the town at one hide and passing out at the ollor. the town whittled and see sawed about once or twice judging from the lay of the debris to-day, the wind veered so much as to nearly double on its trail. The result was terrible for the Inhabitants, many of whom were caught and either In jured or killed after they had ap parently escaped. Score sought safety in running and the story is told of a young woman who ran away from the storm as It struck one street corner, but who was killed as she reached the next corner where some timbers fell on her. The usual freaks were played by the wind, one roof having been trans ferred from a roof to a near-by building. Twenty-seven prisoners were in the little town jail. The roof was llted completely off the Jail, leav ing rain and debris beating: upon the exposed prisoners, but so terror- stricken were they that not one gain ed his freedom. None of the pris oners was seriously Injured. The wreckage which remained on the sight of a lumber mill near town consisted quite largely of splinters from the size of toothpicks up to small sticks. . The State to-night is furnishing tents, neighboring towns supplies. aHd with martial law the town Is practically safe from looting. WOMAN FIGIITB FOH HER LIFE. Mrs. KoU rt Wells Attacked la Her Home by a Negro Here! red Many Ilruiew and Several Cats. The following dispatch was sent out from Wilson Monday night: "This morning about 10 o'clock Mrs. Robert Wells, who reside In Old Fields Township, went Into her kitchen garden to gather vegetable for dinner. After doing so she re turned to the house. Just as she en tered the bouse, she received a blow which knocked her to the door. On looking up she saw a small-sized, neatly-dressed negro standing over her. She then started to make an outcry but her attempt was frus trated by the black scoundrel, who Blapped his hand over her mouth. He then dragged her into a near room and slammed her down on the bed with such force that several of the slats were broken and the mat tress smashed through to the floor. She fought desperately when the wretch grabbed her around the throat, got out his knife and en deavored to put an end to her exist ence. Heroically she fought for her life and in the scuffle had two or three fingers badly cut. Then she let out a scream, when the black de vil ran. "Hearing her screams, her broth er. Mr. Robert Davis, who was in a field nearby, rushed to the; house and caught up bis gun and let drive both loads at the fleeing negro. He says he thinks at least one load took effect, as the scoundrel threw up his arms at the crack of the gun. Mr. Davis came post-haste to Wilson and sent Dr. W. S. Anderson to look af ter the condition of his sister. "After dispatching the doctor. Mr. Davis, In company with Officer Warren, went in one direction,7 while Mr. John Lucas with hit ' hounds from the stockade ' went in another direction in search of the monster." H i ? i ft i I i i 1 tt is U r i "f It ' il : I 1 m m Hi SI I i I I I 1 ? 1 -
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