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VOL XLI NO. 7
WILMINGTON, N. C, JULY 28, 1907
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30 PERSONS KILLED
Excursion Train Crashes Into
Freight
HUE THAN 70 INJURED
Crew of Freight Train Responsible
. for Accident
Excursion Train Running at Rate
of 50 Miles an Hour Freight
Engine Turned Completely
Around by Force ol Collision
Not Enough Left of Baggage Car
to Show Where tt Had Been
Thrown.
Salem. Mich, July 20. Thirty peo
ple are dead and more than seventy
injured, many of them seriously, as a
result of a head on collision today he
tween this village and Plymouth when
a Pere Marquette excursior -.rain hound
from Ionia to Detroit crasacd into a
w ? .bound freight in a u located in
a sharp curve- of the eero .-.larquette
rend about a mile east f S.lem.
The passe '&tr train d ele.ei; ;'aiv,
tcii-ryi rig the Ptre Mar i et; shop ei:.
ployees of Ionia and their families t
the Michigan metropolis for their an
nual excursion was running at Irgb
speed, probably fifty miles an hour
down a grade It struck the lighter
locomotive of the freight train with
such terrific force as to turn the freight
engine completely around
The wrecked locomotives this after
noon both lay side by side, both head
ed eastward.
Only few of the freight train r.ars
were smashed and it was only a few
hours work to remove all traces ol
them from the scene. But behind tha
two wrecked locomotives two wreck
ed locomotives six cars of the Mas&en
ger coaches remained on the trick un
damaged and were used to convey; the
dead and injured to Ionia; one ccach
was entirely undamaged with only its
forward trucks off the rails. These
were the rear five cars. The two
coaches next ahead telescoped Th6
next car forward stood almost on end
after the wreck, its forward end rest
wig on. the road bed and the rear and
high in the air upon the two telescop
ed coaches that had been following it
Two coaches were thrown crcsswiso
the track, and lay suspended from
bank to bank of the cut five or six feet
above the rails.
Of the baggage car not enough re
mained to show where it had been
tossed .
Portions of the baggage car and oi
the locomotive tenders ;j:id freight
oars were piled in an undescribable
mass of debris.
The 28 dead bodies first taken from
the wreck were shipped to Ionia and
the injured were placed on two trains,
one of which headed for Detroit and
the other for Ionia. There were about
35 injured people on each train.
Later in the day the body of Ed
Corman, the head brageman of the
passenger train, was taken out cf the
wreck. A
Fireman Knowles died on the relief
train en route to Detroit, bringing the
list of dead to thirty, with a possibil
ity that more bodies might be fouad
in the wreckage and that several of
the injured may die
Responsibility is placed squarely up
to the crew of the freight tram
by the officials of the mad. Officials
who arrived at he wreck soon after
the accident secured from the freight
orders under which it was running and
which clearly showed the position at
the passenger excursion train, and that
the freight had encroached upon the
other train's running time.
The special was due at Salem at 9:10
a. m. and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m.
It passed Salem on time. The time
card of the special was telegraphed to
the freight crew in form of a train
order and this order with the sig
natures of the freight twjin crew at
tached was recovered by the officials
of the road.
The freight crew left" the scene early
but Che railroad officials said that they
explained simply that they had for
gotten. The collision occurred at 9:13 o'clock
and the freight train should have reach
cd Salem at 9:10 to be within their ;
FIXLEY MAKES STATEMENT
Gives HI Views Upon Cases Now
Before Judge Pritchard.
Asheville, N. C, July 20 President
Finley of the Southern railway today
gave out a formal statement, bearing
upon the railroad cases now before
Judge Pritchard.
Mr. Finley, after explaining the
character of the cases, declared that
such haVe from time to time been filed
in a large number of states and have
heretofore progressed in an orderly
way to a final determination. H re
iterates how the public is protected by
the railroads giving coupons to pur
chasers of tickets covering the differ
ence between the old and new passen
ger rate fixed by the legislature and
Uie siaternent is made that the whole
case can be disposed of in a few
months. He further says:
"It would seem to be perfectly plain
that if an individual or corporation
believed itself to be in danger of de
privation of its property by legislation
it should be .allowed the privilege of
having the validity yf the legislation
determined in an orderly method. If
ours is to be a government of law and
not of man, then, surely no litigant
should be deprived of a fair opportun
ity of going into the courts to protect
its rights.
"The Southern railway company is
bound to protect its property, not only
in the interest of its ownprs and credi
tors but also in the interest of the
whole public.
"It has a right and a duty to appeal
to the law for its protection. It is
not in the right or interest of the peo
ple of North Carolina that the ability
of the -transportation companies to
perform the public service and to en
large and increase the means of serv
ing passengers and shippers, "shall be
destroyed or diminished.
"It is a contradiction in terms to
say of any person or corporation that
filing a suit in court and asking for
an orderly and judicial determination
of the very right of any m.itter is it- J
self a violation of defiance of the law,
If an appeal to a court is a violation
of law then all our courts should come
to an end."
ZEKE LEWIS OX TRIAL
Another Alleged Anson County
Lyncher Faces Jury.
Charlotte, N. C., July 20. eko
Lewis one of the score of the residents
of Anson, charged with the lynching
of John V. Johnson, May 28, 1906, was
placed or. trial in Union county this
morning.
The jury was secured in an hour
and the same witnesses who testified
for the state in Jones' case went oa
the stand today to give evidence against
Lewis.
Sheriff Bogan swore today that Lew
is was one cf the ring leaders of the
mob and one of those who seized him
and took the keys to the jail.
H. D. Kendall, Sr.,' the lyncher
Who turned state's evidence, gave evi
dence that differed considerably froin
that given in the Jones trial. He wis
not so positive in his identification ot
thofce whom he saw in mob his mind
mind seemed to have weakened under
the strain of the former trial.
The cross examination of Kendtll
was completed and the court took re
cess until Monday
At adjournment Judge Peebles cr
dered that the jury be not allowed to
attend religious services tomorrow tor
fear that they might hear a sermon
on lynching.
The defense claims that it has a
stronger alibi for Lewis than was es
tablished in the Jones cas.
SKELETON" UNEARTHED
Suggested That it Might be That ol
Pocahontas.
Gravesend, July 20. While excavat
ing on the site of the old parish church
where .Pocahontas was buried and
which was destroyed by fire befon?
1727, workmen unearthed a human
skeleton.
Much interest was evoked by the
finding as it was suggested that the
bones might be those of Pocahontas.
The skeleton was submitted to ex
perts who, however, were unabl? to
arrive at any definite conclusion.
The position of the skeleton when
the workmen came upon it, facing
downward within two feet of th-3
surface, suggested a more recent bu
rial than that of Pocahontas.
Pocahontas died at Gravesend in
1617. In 1613 she was married to John
Rolf one of settlers of Jamestown.
In 1616 Rolfe and hip wife, in com
pany with a number of Indians, sail
ed for England.
We believe that lower freight rates
are of more importance thai. lower
passenger rates, but come to thlnx of
it the railroads are as slow giving us
one as the other. Durham HeraW.
lamns miisi warn
Otherwise He Will Continue to
Prosecute Them
L GOV. GLEXX INTERVIEWED
Result of Trial Against Southern
Wliat lie Kxiected Will Stop
Cases if 1 tail mads Will Comply
With Rate Law.
(Special to The Messenger)
Raleigh, N. C, July 20. In an
interview tonight Governor Glenn said
he will continue to prosecute the iail
roads until they obey the law. Com
menting on the verdict of the jury and
sentence of the court in the case
isainst T. E. Green and the Southern
railway, the governor said:
"It is about what I expected. Upon
the testimony there being no evidence
offered by the defendant to show that
the rate was confiscatory and there
fore unconstitutional, the jury was
compelled to convict, and the judge was
right in putting a fine on the real of
fender and not the agent, who simply
sold tickets under orders."
As to what would be his future ac
tion the igovernor said that depends on
the course pursued by the Southern and
Coast Line railroads; if they will ac
quiesce in the law, like other roads
have done, then no further indict
ments will be made, but if they persist
in selling tickets at higher rate than
2 1-4 cents, I will instruct the st ite's
attorney to aid solicitors in finding
new bills, and in prosecuting the same
until the said railroads obey the law,
or the courts of the highest jurisdic
tion declare the rate act unconstitu
tional. As I have stated I regret this
conflict; I want it settled, and if the
railroads will withdraw their attempt
ed injunction until evidence is taken
and the court passes upon the consti
tutionality of the act, in the meantime
selling tickets at rates fixed by the'
statute, I will aid them in ha'steniag
the hearing of the case, stopping all
indictments and asking all citizens to
cease bringing penalty suits. If, how
ever, they refuse to recognize the law
and as a result costs- fines and odium
attaches to them, and their Agents,
who persist in obeying them in de
fiance of the law, and go to jail, they
will have.no one but themselves to
blame, as the state is ready to stop
when the law is obeyed. I am not
guilty of usurpation as some railroad
organs contend in thus trying to en
force a violated law, but simply as an
executive, officer of the state, exec-uT'
ing the law, as under the state contl
tuticn and laws, I am compelled to
do. My duty is to see that all persons
violating the law are proescuted; I
am actually in a great many cases, as
in thea marked the prosecutor. So
whether it be in prosecuting the al
leged lynchers, as I am now doing in
Union county, or trying to stop rail
roads from setting at naught the de
clared will of the people through its
legislature, I intend, without needless
ly harassing individuals or railroads,
to try to enforce the laws now being
persistently and definitely violated by
those railroads
COREY COMES RACK
Will Resume His Work as President
of Steel Corporation.
New York, July 20. "I have c:me
back to resume my work as president
of United States Steel Corporation,"
said William Ellis Corey, vgon his ar
rival upon the French liner La
Savoie. "I have no intention of resigning
from that office. . I have heard of no
meeting of the directors to consider
the question of asking for my resigna
tion. I have heard of no plan to get
Mr Alva Dinkey to take my place as
president. I should have heard of it
if there were such a plan on fcot."
Mr. Corey is returning frcm his
honeymoon tour in Europe, and was,
formerly Miss Mabelle Gilman, to
whom he was married in this city last
may.
To the .inquiry as to the truth of
the published reports that his wife
would return to the stage, Mr. Corey
gave a most emphatic negative.
"Mrs. Corey will not go back to the J
stage. She has retired from staje
life forever." And to this Mrs. Corey,
who' stood leaning on his arm nodded
an emphatic approval.
"Yes, I purchased a chateau in
France," continued the head of the
Steel coroor-ition "W exDect to
spend our summers in France. I par-
chafeed the diateau de Villegenis It is a
magnificent place." x
Speaking of their plans Mr Coray
said that he and his wife would soon
take up their residence in their Fifth,
avenue home in this city.
New lot of children's Parasols all
cdfors, 15c, at Rehder'a.
SEEK -RELEASE FflOPil SENTENCE
Ticket Agents Sue Out Writs
j
I Habeas Corpus
CASK HEARD IN V. S. COURT
Entire Day Consumed in Argument.
Judge Pritchard ill Render Ic-
,- ..nti
cisloii on Monday, Accent anletl f
Writon Statement.
Asheville, N. C
July 20. Argu-
ment in habeas corpus proceedings
brought by Messrs. J. II . Wood and
O. C. Wilson, in the United StaUs
circuit court to secure their release
from the sentence imposed cn theni
Thursday by the city police court for
violating, as agents of the Southern,
the state rate law, was closed thi3
afternoon and Judge Pritchard an-
inounced that as he wished to accom-
pany his decision with a written state
ment he would adjourn court until
Monday.
The entire day was taken up wuh
arguments by counsel for the petition
ers and ptate, General Counsel Thom,
of the Southern appearing for tlx for
mer, and Judge J. H. Merrimon, of
this city, for the latter.
Judge Merrimon contended that no
court had ever paralyzed other courts
by preventing them from proceeding
in criminal cases by suspending a stat
ute, and he further contended that the
court could not hold that the, state
legislature could fix rates, but could
not provide punishment for failure to
observe such rates. Mr. Thorn argued
that the penal section of the rate law
was unconstitutional, both on its tace
and was so proven by evidence, be
cause it allowed such extraordinary
fines that through fear of them, the
railroad would be deprived of the ina
lienable right to resist the law in the
courts, and that as the court had tak
en jurisdiction of the rate law in the
case decided here June 29, it was le
gally bound to protect that jurisdiction
sjiice otherwist it would be a nullity.
WORKED IN CHARLOTTE
3Ian Killed in Trolley Accident Fri
day Night.
Norfolk, July 20. George E. Adam
son, aged 41 years, who was killed in
a trolley accident-near Ocean View
last night, had been working as a
machinist in Charlotte, N. C, and
Savannah, Ga,
He was several days ago joined la
Charlotte, by Miss Alda C. Sherrill,
of Cornelius, a small station near Chac
lotte, and the couple were here tak
ing in the exposition before proceed
ing to Adamson's old home in Provi
dence, R. I., where they were to have-,
been married at he residence of his
mother.
They had procured their tickets and
were to have left by steamer for Prov
idence today.
Misls Sherrill is here awaiting word
from relatives in Providence of Ad
amsoa and the disposition of his body
after which she will return to Char
lotte. Rioters Sentenced.
Roanoke, Va, July 20 J. F. Lester
and Robert Bell, indicted on misde
meanor charges by a special grand
jury in connection with the riots ot
last Saturday night, when a mob
smashed all the Greek restaurants and
shoe blacking places in town, were to
day tried in police court.
Lester was fined $50 and given six
months in jail.
Bell was fined $25 and given 30 days
in jail.
Seventeen of the twenty men indict
ed are charged with misdemeanor and
will be tried in police court.
The other three are indicted for fel
ony and will be tried in the higher
court .
Heavy Rainfall in Ohio.
Marietta, Ohio, July 20 Seven inches ; day C.J. Cooper the general manager
of rain in the last three days has put j of the Southern Life Insurance Co.,
railroads out of commission in this bought from M. Mcl. Matthews, man
region. , ager and I W. Thornton, the Hotel
Trains on the- Maskigum river di- LaFayette, one oi the largest nd fin-
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio are ;
all annulled.
A train on the Pennsylvania rail- ;
! road got as far as Caldwell, but was ;
compelled to return to this city, the ;
tracks having been swept away. Farm- j
ing interests have suffered greatly, corn
wheat and hay fields being washed in-
to creeks and rivers.
Country roads are about impassl-
e "riusea mj -u"w uavms uccu
geaerall destroyed.
When Carrie Nation gets through
with the jug agents in Greensboro
and the blind tigers in Durham she
will go up against a different kind of
proposition if she takes it into her wise
head to visit our capital city, which
we suppose she will. News and Ob-
rarer.
COUNTY BONDS SOLD.
(Special to The Messenger.) .
Dunn. X. C. July 17. Harnett coun-
ofty b?nd? wer! 801(1 Ju.ly.sth b tne
uoara oi county commissioners for a
premium of $423.00. The issue Is for
$40,000 and Is for refunding the entire
county debt Messrs. Jno. Newecn &
j Co., of Chicago, were the purchasers.
Rev. A. R. McQueen, of Moore Coun-
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terian churches here and at Godwin
j
i ana win mate mis ms no me.
j The county assessment Increase will
be about 40 per cent, from four years
ago. The board of equalization met
last week and adjusted about all dif
ferences. A good many farmers in this section
are trying the long staple Sea Island
cotton, called Floradora. Last season
this kind of cotton sold for 20 to 21
cents per pound.
ffiPBy the,bz increase cmfwyp vbgkqj
Dunn will have a good public school
beginning about September 1st. Prof.
Jno. A. McLean, principal. Miss Jessie
Smith, of Dunn, is first teacher. Five
other young ladies have been elected
teachers, Miss Gertrude Harper, or
Dunn, among them. The building Is
a nice two story brick structure, just
finished, and ready for the furniture,
costing about $11,000. Order was given
the Columbus Desk Co., of Columbus,
Ga., for up-to-date desks and furniture.
No town In the state has a nicer site
and building.
There is not a vacant store or dwel
ling In town.
Dunn will have a tobacco market
this year. Mr. E. W. Harris will run
the warehouse, and Mr. Geo. II. Real
will represent the American Tobacco
Co.. here. Mr. Real Is a big buyer and
makes this a very strong market.
Raleigh Nissevvmtl.
Raleigb, N. C, July 19. -Governor
Glenn designates Judge C. C. Lyor. to
hold the McDowell count two weeks
beginning Monday, instead of Judg-?
?tbles, who is holding the coi:'. lor
trying the Anson county lynchers.
The corporation commission gives a
hearing -to General Manager L. A.
Boyd and Attorney J. G. McCorniirs:
on the question of tax assessment
against the Raleigh and Charleston
railroad. The assessment was doubled
as compared with the assessment four
years ago, but on the showing made
by Boyd and McCormick the Increase
was cut in half.
Victor S. Clark, Ph. D., of the United
States department of commerce and
labor is in the city gathering statis
tics as to child labor conditions in
this state. He says steady improve
ment is shown in all parts of the state
with evident effort on the part of
manufacturers to maintain proper at
titudes. The statement is made from the
office of Adjutant General Robertson
here that the new supplies are coming
into the quartermaster general's de
partment right along now and the va
rious companies in the state will re
ceive their new equipment just as
rapidly as they can' be made up and
packed. Further, that every company
will receive new supplies in ample
time for the encampment at James
town. The shipments will be in regi
mental order so that Charlotte will be
among the first supplied.
The Wake county school board has
located one of the four high schools
to be established in the county at
Holly Springs.
New Rule Issued.
Receivers of spirits turpentine find
it impossible to sell the spirits in oil
barrels at the present difference be
tween machine barrels and oil barrels.
At present the difference is 25c, but
buyers are demanding 75c. On ac
count of this fact, the chamber of
commerce has adopted the following
rule effective August 1st, 1307:
"Rule 6. Refined petroleum barrels
which have been properly steamed
and glued shall be a good delivery on
contracts for shipping and merchant
able order, provided, 'such barrels are
in shipping and merchantable order,
and they are subject to deduction of
seventy-five cents each, such barrels
with spile holes except in the bung
stave are unmerchantable.
Fayetteville Hotel Sold
Fayetteville, N. C July 10. To-
est in the state, just refitted and re-
furnished. The management contin
ues with Chief Clerk Cagle.
KOREAN CABINET RESIGNS
Seoul, July 18. The cabinet minis-
ters, Including the newly appointed
household minister, have resigned. It
is reported that the emperor was very
angry at his ministers on account of
auvisea mm cu auairaic.
He said to them that he occupied the
inrone oy right inherited from nis
ancestors and that his subjects had
no authority to advise his dethrone-
ment, much less to do so with the
suport of foreigners,
Marquis I to, in compliance with
the emperor's urgent desire to see
. kim. even for a short time, proceeded
to the palace this afteraooa.
IIU SEOUL
Residence of Korean Premier
Destroyed by Mob
EXCITEMENT INCREASING
Korean Army Unable to Cope With
Situation
Hostilities Directed Against the
Japanese 'Machine Guns En
trenched In Streets ol City
People Warned to stay In Their
HousesShops Still Remain
Closed Military Patrol the
Streets.
Tokio, July 20. A dispatch from
Seoul says that an enraged mob of 1,
000 persons has attached ard bum?d
the residence of the Korean premier
Yi Wang Yang. The premier w.is
absent at the time of the visit to the
palace.
A proclamation was published at
five o'clock this evening, warning th
people to remain in their houses. At
dusk , machine guns were entrenched
behind breast works built in the streets
approaching the palace in anticipatiom
of a night attack. Millltary aro patrol
ling the suburbs.
Japanese troops are arriving here,
but they are too few in numb- r to
make any attenpt to disarm Korcin
soldiers feasible and they are now con
fined to their barracks.
Marquis lt was tlrst to be receiv
ed. He had a conversation with tho
former emperor lasting ten minutes.
The new emperor is performing his
duty in a purely perfunctory manner.
He is said to show little strength of
character and the outlook for his ad
ministration of public affairs Is no'
promising. v
Ping Yang, July 20. All the shops
here are closed. There is great ex
citement among the natives who are
unaware that abdication has been ac
complished. The safely of the Japanese residents
is problematical, as the departure ot
a regiment for Seoul leaves only 3(J
Japanese in the province.
The shops of Seoul have been cloeoa
now for thirty-six hours. Today the
crowds are greater and tho native spir
it Is higher, necessitating a greater
show of military force, and tho people
are encouraged and inflamed by tko
several killings of yesterday
General Hasegawa has two machine
gune placed in th palace square.
Not only is the Korean army regard
ed ai impotent to copo with the situa
tion, but tho members of the Japanese
coops are wholly inadequate.
Arrangements have been made for
reinforcing them from Shlrnonostfkl.
Hostilities are directed wholly against
the Japanese. Other foreigners aro
safe. Much apprehension is felt for
tho safety of Japanese at the inter
ior plac when the Korean mase3
learn, as they will In a few days, of
the momentous events that have oc
curred. Tokio, Judy 21. Late advices from
Seoul say that the rioting is growing
in magnitude.
Attempts to burn the railway sta
tion and the police building were frus
trated by prompt action by the Japa
nese police and gendarmes.
The powder magazine of the Korean
government i3 strongly guarded by
Japanese troops at the request of the
minister of war.
Rioters are shooting wildly out of
windows and two Japanese are report
ed to have been killed. Murderous
assaults are frequent and the city Is
verging almost on a reign of terror.
Business is completely suspended.
Riot Reported In Progre.
San Francisco July 20. A riot Is
reported to be In progress at the Unit
ed Railroad's car barns at 20th and
Mad Icon streets.
Four men are reported to have been
shot. The barn is said to be one
fire department has gone to the scene.
All the police reserves have been call
ed out
A. Pittsburg woman is suing for di
vorce because her husband required her
to eat beans. In Boston It would bar
been, considered that the man had!
shown the most distinguished con3ider
fix; bis epoaae. Savannah News,
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