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TOL. XIX. NO. 90. WILMINGTON, N. C.gTTJESDAY, APRIL 16, 1907. FIVE CENTS SHOCKS GOIITliE; I , I Chilpancingo, IVlax., Destroyed By an Earthquake PEOPLE FLELINEIN PANI Communication With- Outside World Gut Off Known Dead Number 11 and Badly Injured 27 Town of Chilapa Also Reported to Have Been Destroyed. Fears Entertained for Another City. Telegraphic Communication. Was Out off at First Shock ondjt Js Im possible to Ascertain" the Extent of Tfao Disaster. Obiiancingo, Mexico, April 15 This? ity has been completely destroyed by He of the most serious earthquakes - that ha ever visited this section. Un to this evening the known dead num ber eleven and the badly injured 27. Among the dead is the wife of Postal Inspector' Leopoldo Lopez Guerra and the child of Jose Aleman, the poot Maator of the city. Jose Lopez Marti mez, aaaager of the Federal telesraph ffice was struck in the head by a block f stone and badly injured. A panic prevails everywhere and people are leeiag to the open country. The earth continues to rock at about an hour's interval's. Many minor shocks are com pleting the work of destruction. AH telegraph communication with tie outside world ceased shortly after 11:50 o'clock last night when the fiist . shock was felt. The telegraph opaia tors have installed temporary quarters in an open square. Word has" reached here that the town of Chilapa. 42 kilometers to the drtheastward has also been destroyed. As yet no details have been received as to the number of dead and wounded, but it is feared that the number will be large. This city is the capital's state of Querrerro, and four years ago was vis ited by an earthquake which wounded many of its inhabitants and destroyed a large part of the town. The popula tion of the town is 7,498- The popula tion of Chilapa is 15,000 and that plac is the home of the bishop of the Ca th olic church who administers the eccle siastical affairs of the entire region. No word has been receeived from the bisbop's palace and it is not known at this time whether or not he was a vic tim of the shock. EOdway between the cities of Chil pancingo and Chilapa is the city of Ti tla. This is a prosperous and progres sive community and as no word has been received from that place it is fear e that it also has been destroyed. All communication with the west east has been cut off since the com mencement of the first big shock, and it is not known to what extent that re -gion suffered. The nearest big town, Aeapuco, which is 131 kilometers to the southwest' of this place has not been heard from. The city is 97 kilometers from the Hearest railroad line and it is impos sible for the people to flee except on f ot or horse back. This fact caused a considerable amount of anxiety because uhe state is inhabited by a great num- gcd I prospecting for mines. The nearest rail road terminal is at Iguala, across the Rio Balsas and 97 kilometers to the morthward of Chilpancingo. The dis tance between Chilpancingo and Mex ico City is 355 kilometers. City of Mexico, April 15. The "Ban eo Nacional (National Bank of Mexico) has received a telegram saying that 500 lives were lost in the destruction of Cbilpancingo and Chilapa, The tele gram adds that both cities were com pletely destroyed. In governmental cir cles the report is not credited. It is admitted that both cities were Severely damaged, nut it is not thought that the death list will even approximate 500 owing to the fact that the houses are massive affairs built of stone in order tar resist .earthquake shocks. The governor of the state of Guerrer - d has dispatched military engineers and troops to the destroyed districts sad th work of rescue and sanitation jut beiini -carried on In a systematic scanner. ' I s. v ALEX GILMORE IX THE OTTY Believed Tliat Xoted Desiierado and Outlaw Was in Wilmington Yester. day. It was reported several times on the streets yesterday that Alex Gilmore, a noted desperado, sent to the peni tentiary from Cumberland county where several black deeds were to his credit, and who escaped from the state prison several weeks ago by shooting a guard, was in Wilmington and that a search was being made for him. Gilmore is regarded as one of the most desperate criminals in the state "and it is dangerous for him to be at large. A reward has been ollered lor his capture. Gilmore, it is under stood, has been outlawed and he can be taken dead or alive. A shooting scrape that occurred In an alley in Brooklyn early "yesterday afternoon is believed to have been participated in by Gilmore. A negro man got into a. dispute with a negro woman and he ended the quarrel by shooting a pistol four or five times at her. Luckily his aim was poor and the woman was not hit. .The man who did the shooting then left that neighborhood and the last that was seen of him was when he was cross ing the" bridge on 4th street over the S. A. L. tracks. From the description given of this man the belief exists that it was Gilmore. The police station when notified of the shooting sent Officers Hugglns, Jones and Chadwick to investigate, and though they made a search of all the region around Hilton there was no trace of the man. OX THE CALIFORNIA COAST Messrs. Keinbnr aud Ada ins Ordered From the Seminole to the Thetis, Stationed at Sausnlcto . In response to orders of transfer recently received by them. Second Lieutenant LeRoy Reinburg and First Assistant Engineer Robert B. Adams, two of tthe popular young officers of the revenue cutter Seminole, left last night for Sausalito, Cal . , where on May 1st, they will join the cutter Thetis, stationed at that port. The two officers will not go directly to Sausalito, but they will stop in Washington and other points before assuming, their new duties. Great regret will be felt among a large circle of friends at the depar ture of Messrs. ReSnberg and Adams who have made themselves, in com: mon . (with the other cutter officers, very popular" in Wilmington. The regret at Mr. Adams departure is also increased by the fact that it means a loss to Wilmington of his charming wife, who is one of the city's fairest daughters, Mrs. Adams having been before her marriage Miss Mildred Davis of this city. Mrs. Adams will not join her husband at once but she will delay her departure for a f eW weeks. First Assistant Engineer L. E. Farwell.has been ordered to the Semi nole to fill the vacancy, caused by Mr. Adams' transfer. He will arrive Wed nesday. STARTS FOR ELIZABETHPORT Schooner Laura L. Spragtie Continues on Her Voyage, in Tow of the Alex ander Jones. The schooner Laura L. Sprague, which was towed into Southport last Monday ' night', after having been picked up by , revenue cutter Semi inole, while in a dangerous condition and with nine feet of water in her hold, , left yesterday to continue the trip to the port to which she was bound, Elizabethport, New Jersey. The Sprague is in the tow of the Alex ander Jones', a Wilmington tug. She was bound from Jacksonville, Fla., to Elizabethport with a cargo of lum ber. While at Southport her master reported to C. D. Maffit, at this port. DEATH OF G. W. ROOSEVELT Was Cousin of the President and Had Been in Consular Service Since 1878 ZZTTk m,o cffo partment received a dispatch announc ing the death of George W. Roosevelt, a cousin of President Roosevelt, at Brussels, -where he was consul general. Mr. Roosevelt was appointed consul at Aukland in 1S78, at St. Helena in 1879, at Matanzas in 1880, at Bordeaux in 1881, at Brussels in 1889, and promoted to consul general at that port on March 14, 1905. He was born in 1844 and serv ed with distinction in the civil war. . Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Fife Bereaved. (Special to The lessen ger.) Fayetteville, N. C., April 15. The in fant daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Fife died in Thomasville yesterday and the remains were brought " here for I burial today, accompanied by the grief - 1 stricken father and mother and . Ifr. Fife's mother. This is the grand-dau- . ghter of - evangelist W. P. Fife, who ' died suddenly in St. Louis' and? was brought here for Interment eomo few: j months ago. . f i KILLED A Score or lore Injure! Some Seriously r EUGHEMHHE! Evidence That Rails Had Been Tampered With !' Gas Tank Explodes and-Train Takes. Fire Seven Passenger Coaches De stroyed Tra in Running Forty Miles an Hour on Straight Track Many Thrilling Escapes Reported The Uninjured Worked Heroically to Rescue the Imprisoned Ones. St. Paul, Minn., April 15. Running' at .a speod of -to "miles an hour on a straight track the Great Northern westbound Oriental limited which left here for P-acific points Sunday morning was derailed early, at Bartlett, N. r. Five -persons were killed and a score or more injured, some; of them seriously. After the wreck a gas tank exploded land the train took fire, seven passen ger coaches being destroyed, the sleeper and observation cars escaping! the flames. There is said to be some evidence that the rails had been tam pered with. Officials of the road say that the track in this vicinity has been in apparently first class condition and they are unable to account for the wreck on any other theory than that of deliberate ..attempt of mis creants to wreck the train. The dead : W. - B. Jones, mail clerk, Grand Fork. Four unidentified foreigners, believed to be Greeks. The .wreck occurred on the line di viding .Nelson and Ramsey counties; the mail car completely jumping over the engine and landing in Ramsey county, while the remainder of the wrecked train burned in Nelson county. ; Many thrilling escapes were report ed. The unjured worked, heroically to rescue the imprisoned and it is thought all but three were removed. Those killed were in the.smoker which was telescoped by the express car in front. The accident occurred four miles from here near the small village jpf Bartlett, within half a mile of where a similar train was wrecked last fall. THE TILLINGHAST CASE. Agricultural Department Officials to Leave for Jamestown. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, April 15. The agri cultural department exposition experts, secretary Thomas K. Bruner, museum "curator Herbert K. Brimley, and natur alist Henry Addicks, leave Saturday for the Jamestown Exposition, being notified that the installation of the North Carolina section will be complet ed that day. The hearing 15y Governor Glenn and the board of internal improvements, of exceptions to the decision of the board on charges made by ex-Frpfessor Tillinghast, of the state school for deaf mutes at Morganton, against Superin tendent Goodwin, occupied five hours today. It was in evidence that Tilling- i hast s son. who now presses thi mat ter, had applied for his father's posi tion in the school. . The governor said he would not re-opeh the case in a gen eral way unless Tillinghast had new evidence to file, and if so he could file I affidavits and the other side could file counter ones, but the plaintiff must pay 1 tne costs-in the matter so as to protect the state in case charges were found malicious. The board in January fully exonerated Goodwin. Baseball. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. At Birmingham: Birmingham, Atlanta, 5. 3; o; 4; At Montgomery: Nashville, 5. At little Rock: Montgomery, Little Rock, Shreveport, 2. No other games scheduled. OTHER GAMES. At Charlottesville: 'University of Virginia', 5; University of No th Caro lina, 1. : , At New Haven:- New Haven, 6: Wesleyanj, 0. At RateiSfc: 'Davidson College, 9. 8113 M. 6- j At Lexington: George Washington, Universitjv 0; Washington, and Lee, e. FIVE WER 1 PAID THE PEWALTY Tom Valker, Negro Murderer. Hanged Yesterday TRAP SPRUNG AT 12:21 His Life Ended By Slow Process of Strangulation Condemned 'Man . Made Short Talk to Croud Expressed Sorrow for What He Had Done and Advised Hearers to Take Warning From His Example Walked Firmly to the Gallows and Joined in Singing Hymns Ask ed Brother of One of His Victims to Tell Him Good Bye and to For give Him. (Special to The Messenger.? Fayetteville, N. C, April 15. Tom Walker, the negro who murdeTed Chief of Police Chason, Ofiicer Lock amy and wounded Officer Buckingham was hanged in the county, jail here today. For an hour previous to noon, the time set for the execution execu tion and before the official witnesses were admitted' to. the jails, services were held with the condemned man in the hospital Ward where Walker has been, confined since his attempt at self destruction. There were five ministers' with him besides the keepers and newspaper men I The ministers were Rev. I. W. Hughes, of St. John's Episcopal church, his spiritual adviser; Rev. Dr. J. J . Hall, of the First Baptist church r Rev. T . Tr Bunchy of "the Presbyterian church', (colored); Rev. W. B. Southern, of St. Joseph's Epis colpal churteh, (colored); and Rev. W. W. Slade, of the Metropoliton M. E. church, (colored). Thirty min utes .before the fatal hour Walker went to the grated window overlook ing Russell street and addressed the big crowd surrounding the jail. He talked for (twenty minutes and then saying that he was too tired to stand longer, wished the crowd good bye and sank into a chair.. He then turn ed to those present in (the room and said: T hope my talk will do some good." During the talk which was at times rambling he expressed his great sorrow for what he hadi done, and advised his hearers to take warn ing from his example. In conclusion he said: "Do you know what caused me (to stand here? whiskey. Whiskey will cause any man to go to ruin. This is a mighty good piece of advice. You all know that I tried to butt my brains out on the day of the trial. See my head, (here lie bowed his head and pointed to the top of it), it was in an awful bad fix, pounded to pieces and bloody, but it is now nearly healed up. See there is only a small place there now. Now since I have got religion I am aw ful glad that I did not kill myself. I should have burned and burned forev er, on a fire ablaze with kindling wood. I have been treated mighty kind since I have been herei, mighty kind. I know that my time has come, but I don't dread it. I have got relig ion. Now, good bye, I will never see you all again in this world, I am tir ed and must sit down. At 12 o'clock promptly the march to the scaffold began, the prisoner, who was attended by five ministers, above mentioned), and several deputies, walk ed with a firm step from the hospital ward through the lobby on the sec ond floor up the steps to the third floor and then up a ladder to the top of a big steel cage from vwhich projected directly over the staircase, the iron trap. A chair had been placed within five feet of the trap, in this the con demned man took his seat. He was neatly dressed in a gray suit, stiff white shirt, standing collar and black tie. He was surrounded by the min isters and several official witnesses while the rest of the witnesses stood on the floor just below -the trap. By his special request "Lead Kindly Light," and Nearer My God to Thee were sung, nearly all present joining in th song. Walker himself singing both hymns through in a clear tenor voice. At the close of the singing he said: "My name is Tom . Walker; I am sentenced to be hanged for what they call homicide. I have asked God to forgive me, and to forgive you all for all your sins. God has forgiven me, and you forgive and meet me in heaven. I bid you all affair good bye, meet me in heaven, my resting place. I am happy with my religion, but waited too late to. appreciate it, drinking whiskey and smoking. arettes put me me here on the scaf fold. He their rose up out of the chair and walked with firm step onto the scaffold. He was very cool and deliberate . He shook hands with those around him and then stooped and shook hands with thirty odd people standing on the floor beneath, smil ing as he did so. He then asked Mr.. Rom Lockamy, a brother of one of the policemen he killed, to tell him good bye and forgive him. MrN Lockamy stepped forward 'and shook his hand and said good bye. After Deputy Sheriffs Pate and Mon aghan tied his hands and feet and ad justed the rope around hTs neck he said: "Good bye until we meet on the other shore" The black cap was then placed, on his head ancT Deputy' Mon aghan shouted to Sheriff Watson, who was waiting on the second floor, that all was ready, the sheriff mounted the steps at 12:21 pulled the wire which sprung the trap and the body of Tom Walker shot through the opening, re bounded a little, and the rope was brought taut just short of the bottom steps. There was a '"struggle for sev eral minutes, and then a slow process Of strangulation took place It was 12:51 when Drs. Rose, Dye and Aver itt pronounced life extinct' and at one o'clock the body was cut down and placed in a coffin, which was in readi ness near by. After making the t following prayer, Walker, at 10 o'clock, last nipht turned over in his cot and went sound asleep He repeated the Lord's prayer and then said: "May the Lord bless the guards who haye watched over me each day and night, bless the jail 'erTthe sheriff and all who have sung and prayed for me while her In prison and to' forgive all my sins. Bless all whom it is my duty to pray for, my wife and little children. May the Lord tell me to be, strong and braveA to ascend the scaffold as the Savicur did when he was crucified on the cross to redeem the sins of the world. Oh, Lord!, put a stop to all the sin going on in Fayetteville with me at my ex ecution and when the breath leaves my body receive my soul in thy king dom where it will rest in peace for ever and ever." BAXQUET TOMORROW NIGHT Elegant Affair at the Colonial Inn to be Given by the Merchants Associa tion. The Merchants Association banquet which will be .largest social event that has ever been promoted in the in terest of Wilmington's business circle will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) night', at 9 o'clock at the Colonial Inn. In addition to . an epicurean menu,: music will bQ rendered by an orches tra and elaborate floral decorations will grace the banquet (table. Mr. L. B. Rogers, president of the association, will act as toastmaster and the program will be as follows: "The Merchants Association and Its Work," by 'Norman H. Johnson, Esq,, attorney general of the Merchants Association! of North Carolina. "Industrial Development of the South," by Hon. E. D. Smith, of the Southern Cotton Growers Association. "Business Men to the- Body Politic," by J. Allen Taylor, president of the Chamber of Commerce. "The Credit System, Its Rise, Its Faults, Its Remedies," by Louis Good man, Esq.i, attorney of Merchants As sociation of Wilmington. A JOLLY JUSICAIi OOJIEOY. Lyman Twins Will be at tlie Academy Tomorrow- Xjght No Advance in Pr ees. Oneof the best and most pleasing musical conSjedy attractions will be seen at the Academy tomorrow night when the comedians 'The Lyman lwins appear witn their excellent company in the season's success, "The Rustlers." This wonderful twin star comedy contains an abundance of big features, pleasing novelties, charming specialties, with - a dainty chorus of I pretty girls, funny come dians and a beautiful electrical effects never before seen with this class cf at traction. This new success was writ ten especially for these young stars like all others in which they have appeared with wonderful success, but from the way "The Rustlers" Is meeting with approval from both press and public, they have outdone all previous attempts in this production, carrying a larger company and all necessary j scenic equipment com plete. .-ja v.-;-"' Thos ewitnesslng the performance o these clever "young T comedians and their company will be given a treat." Seats will be , on sale" this moralns. The scale goes to 91 'j THE WORLD'S PEACE : Conference filet In New York Yesterday Mir HBES3ES IDE Letter From President Roosevelt Read to Body . Warned that if Success is to Crown Their Efforts They Must Work Along Practical Lines Must Not by Insist - in Upon the Impossible Put oft the , Day When the Possible Can bo Ac complished. ' New York, April 15 Warned fojr President Roosevelt and Secretary of. State Root that If success Is to crown the efforts of those who are workimg tor peace among the nations of, th world, their endeavor must be along practical lines; that they must not insisting upon tie impossible put off the day when the possible can be accomplished, the national arbitra tion and peace conference which is meeting in this city under the presi dency of Andrew Carnegie, began to day its real activities with two crowd ed sessions in Carnegie hall. . - Secretary Root also took occasion in his speech to point out the propo sition which tho United States gov ernment will have to make at the coca .. ing conference of the Hague. He warned his hearers not to ex pect too much at this second confer ence. The president in a letter to congress, expressed the hope that the coming conference might result In the adoption of an international arbitra- " tion treaty. ' Secretary Root, after seconding this hope declared the Unit ed States thought it proper to urge again the discussion of the subject of the limitation of. armament of the na tions on land and sea), and tho aboli tion! of practice of using force In the collection of debts owed by one nation to the citizens of another. Mr. Carnegie paid a tribute to Pres ident Roosevelt and expressed the. wish that Mr. Roosevelt might be the peacemaker of the future. He de clared, however, that Emperor Wil liam is the man 'among all men who , holds the peace of the nations in his power. In this' connection Mr. Car negie said that It was unjust to speaS of the Emperor as a menace to the peace of Europe, adding that in twen ty years upon the throne the German ruler had spilt no blood nor caused an international war. ; rAt the afternoon session the speak ers were Secretary Root, ; Governor Charles E. Hughes), of New York;i George B. McCtellan of New York city, who made the address of wcl- come and Mr. Carnegie. Tonight the speakers included B&7 ron D'Estourelles de Constant mem ber of the French senate, and head ot the international conciliation commit tee and Secretary Oscar S. Straus, ot the dpeartment of commerce and la bor. Mr. Roosevelt in his letter to the congress, urged that its efforts be de voted to the practical side of the ques tion it had undertaken to discuss "An impassioned oration about peace, "he declared, which includes an impassioned demand for 'something ! which the man who makes the de- mand either knows or ought to know rarnnt n o martw rf fn hA dnntr. done, represents not gain but loss, ' for the cause of peace; for even the I noblest cause is marred by advocacy; , which is either Insincere or foolish." NEGRO WAS IDENTIFIED. Tom Gant Carried to Greensboro to Prevent Lynching. Greensboro, N. C, April 15. Spe cial Of ficer W. F. Thompson of David son ocunty. arrived here at midnight bringing with him Cornelius Gant, a neero of that county, charged with attemnted assault upon assault upon jurs. awice- trnnA wife of a. farmer of that county. it was rumored in Lexington that a posse of 200 men were . on their way irom ine sueiw; ujl ine crime, wr mo purpose of lynchine Gant. Gant was identified by Mrs. Swicegood. JUST, BECAUSE You have always used ordinary ex tracts Is no reason why you should1 not -try 'the perfect Blue Ribbon Lemon and Vanilla. Order from rotrn dealer today. . 1 .
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