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PRESIDENT PLEASED
WAR DEPT. OFFICIAL! FIRERIEN OF STATE
SAYS VILLA IS DEADf GATHER; AT RALEIGH
ARMY WILL RETURN FOR ANNUAL MEET'G
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Reports of Disaster From Scores-of Places In the State,'
South Carolina and Virginia Dams Give Way and
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Lakes Spread Through Countryside Railroad Service
Practically Suspended and Wire Traffic Paralyzed A
Woman Secretary of North Carolina Chief Executive
Acts as Governor While Craig Is Beyond Communica
tion With Raleigh Charlotte and Winston-Salem Cen
ters of Separate Sections Submerged
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Charlotte, N, C, July 17, Grave fears are felt
for a party that attempted to rescue twenty men
engulfed in Catawba river when a bridge went
down. The boat carrying the rescuers is report
ed to have capsized.
Railroad and Wire Traffic Completely Paralyzed.
Washington, July 17. The Southern Railway today
practically abandoned all traffic South of Washington.
Reports continued to pour in recounting disasters from
the floods in North and South Carolina. A second bridge
on the Charlotte division went down early this morning.
Train service beyond Salisbury is stopped. Telegraph
wires South of Charlotte also are down, Atlanta being
reached via Chicago .and New Orleans. ' ,
Ten million dollars damage, five known killed, hun
dreds Injured and missing railroad, and wire traffic para
lyzed and demoralized, were the results of the floods
sweeninc the Carolinas and Virginia, -Uvr
Ashevillfi and Riltmorc were the hardest hit. The
French Broad river at the former point had broken from
its course, flooding factories and homes. Two are known
to have been drowned attempting to get into the upper
stories of the Glenn Rock, hotel. Many persons are ma
rooned in residences. Rescue parties are being organized.
Asheville is without lights. ! Some streets have been
turned into veritable rivers. Lake Toxaway's big dam and
two others at HendersonviHe are reported to have col
lapsed. The Southern Bridge over Catawba river at Bel
mont, N. c., went down, carrying eighteen men into the
river.
Mrs. Vanderbilt and Daughter Brave Flood to
Supervise Relief. -
Asheville, July 17. The floods have left five hundred
homeless and enrolled Mrs. George W. v anaemic anu
daughter Cornelia among the heroines.- They are per
sonally in charge of the rescue work on their great estate.
Many times , today they waded through water to their
waists to direct relief measures.
Governor's Secretary Acting Governor; Craig Marooned.
Raleigh, July 17. With terrible flood conditions in
Asheville, Charlotte and Salisbury districts, it is impossi
ble to communicate with Governor Craig, who is maroon
ed in Asheville. His nrivate secretary. Miss May r .
Jones, is acting as Governor, disposing of important mi
mediate matters.
Lowland crops are feared, to be destroyed.
(By the United Press)
Washington, July 17. Accom
panying the act with a spmh,
paying hili tribute to the meas
ure, the President today signed
the Kuril Credits BUI, providing
a system to lend on mortgage to
banks and handle long-time mort
gage loans of farmers.
(By the United Press)
. Washington. July 17. Villa ix
dead and the National Guard will
be back home in three months,
according to a high War Depart
ment official.
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(By tike United Press)
' Durango, Colo., July 17. Atop the
great Continental Divide, 10,000 feet
above sea level, the new Colorado
State highway across the backbone
of the American continent, from
South Fork te Favosa Springs, was
formally ddiyated today. Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona will profit
by the new avenue of communication
opened into ihe San Luis valley here,
by. It is also a wonderful scenic
route.
Hundreds of Volunteers
Mocking to Capital City
for Convention and Tour
nament, Kinston Well
Represented
(By the United Press)
MORE RUSSIANS IN WEST.
Brest, France, July 17. An
other convoy of Russian troops
landed today, making six con
voys or about thirty thousand
men altogether.
FRENCH CLAIM THEY
GAIN AT VERDUN.
Paris, July 17. The Russian
troops in action on the French
Champagne front today success
fully counter-attacked, inflicting
heavy losses on the Germans.
The French continue to progress
on the Verdun front.
CHORUS OF A THOUSAND
St. Paul, Minn., July 17. A chor
us of 1,000 voices, not one of which
ever raised its clarion tone to the
strains of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's Alle
Here," will lead the Prohibitionists'
National Convention in song when it
opens here tomorrow.
More tlian twenty thousand -song
books of the convention have been
scattered throughout the country and
Prohibitionists from every State
have learned the list. Hundreds of
auto parties are on their way into
the city today from so far as 3,000
miles distant, holding impromptu
prohibition song services alone the
routV
The chorus will be led by Rollin M.
reasa of St. Paul who, though now a
professional singer, has been law
clerk, rniner tramp, rancher, machin
ist and builder. He wrote many of
the convention songs.
Among the songs are such as these
Our Nation's Going Dry, Ring Out
Wild Bells, Katie Is Cashing My
Check, Down In the Licensed Saloon,
find several dozen more like that.
FIVEM"""shrdIu atatshrdluu ata
ik casement; apeal
(By the United Prow)
London. July 17. Six block rolled
judges ar sitting her today to
hear Sir Roger Casement's anneal
for a new trial. Should the judges
rule that Sir Roger's conviction on
the charge of giving aid and com
fort to England's enemies by stirring
up the Irish rebellion was just, the
Irishman must hang. Sir Roger, one
of tht most brilliant men ever in the
King's service, whose work among
the colonies brought him a title and
the royal favor, recently was found
guilty of high treason. His defense
was that he was working in the in
terest of Ireland's sovereignity, but
not against England. . v
Although a statement has been
communicated from the American
Government, through Ambassador
Page, informing the British Govern
ment that mucS interest is taken in
the disposition of Sir Roger's case,
nothing more nearly approaching , a
forma! appeal for clemency could
with diplomatic propriety bo vouch
safed. Tha judges may not announce
their decision today.
(Special to The Free Press)
Raeigh, July 17. Firemen . are
gathering here from all parts of
North Carolina to attend tho annual
convention and tournament of the
State Volunteer Association. Raleigh
Charlotte, Durham. Winston-Salem
and Wilminsrton are cities with na
uepurimenis represented, iney wi
have no part in the tournament.
Capt. J. IV McNeill of Fayetlcvill
for many years the president, will be
in the chajr at tho convention, the
first business session of which will be
held at 8 o'clock tonight.
The local department, paid, will
give an exhibition run at 7:30 p. m
Several hundred firemen and
friends will be here by tonight. Prae-
tically every city and town in the
State will be represented. Kinston
has two racing teams, two wngms
and two horses here. Among Sun
days arrivals were the following
from Kinston: T. J. Harper, June
Cray, E. A. Faulkner, E. B. Lanier
S. V. Wcstbrook, P. O. Baker
Vance Jackson and others.
Charged With Larceny.
In jail this morning was Jonas
Williams, coolred charged with lar
ceny or unuerwear and a wrencn
from Tobe Williams, another negro
The two are not related. The alleg.
cd theft is said to have occurred at
the Fair Grounds.
ALLIES CAIN ON NEARLY EVERY FRONT IF?
THE GENERAL OFFENSIVE; KAIS'R SAW HIS
TROOPS FALL BACK BEFORE THE BRITISH;
Teutons Fought Like Demons to Hold Ground, But Were,
Unsuccessful Central Powers Using Every Means;
Possible to Check the Russians Rallying Troops to
Defend Kovel Great Slav Machine Can't Be Stalled-
German Press Getting More Friendly to Chancellor-
Russians Have Lost Quarter Million Mert This Month,.
Said More Details of Saturday Night's Fighting In
West Reach British Capital
D'UTSCHLAND PLANS
TO LEAVE TUESDAY,
EPORT
IS KITCHENER
(By the United Preas)
London, July 17 A look at the
late Lord Kitchener's coat-of-arms
today disclosed that it sported a reg
ular menagerie, including; an elo-
pnani, a camci, a gnu, a stag, an
eagle, a lion and three bustards, all
denizens of countries in which K. of
K. had served his King.
TO TRY SLAYER OF
TERRY FOR MURDER
Damage Tea Millions.
Asheville, July 1G. -Five known
dead, with a probability of the nun
bcr being increased to eight, the
whole lower section of the city under
water, Biltmotre flooded to the second
stories of the houses, hundreds of
people homeless, a hundred '-' houses
washed away, property damage now
mounting to $10,000,000 and a city
without light or power, is the net to
tal taken by a great flood which swept
this section at an early hour this
morning. The city ', Is Isolated from
fte outside world, save for wire sor
ice, and the damage in the surround
ing towns must bring the total up to
re than even the huge figures men
tioned above. Railroad service is
wspended and" the tunnel at Ridge.
st it caved in at two places. The
flood was caused by a edoudburst and
. bursting of the dams confining
W three artificial lakes at Hender
onville. ; ..- " .- ' -
five Know Dead. " .
The flood is the worst in tha his
"7 of Asheville or Western North
Carolina, v Rising suddenly at an1
riy hwr this mornin, the waters
pt through EWtmere and th low-
w ectjon of Asheville, I drowning '
Miss Charlotte Walker, two nurses
emDloved at the Biltmore Hospital,
founded by the late George W. Van-
tbe tunnel near Ridgecrest being cav
ad in in two places and other bridges
along the line washed away. The
Southern station is under water up
llmost to the second story,- and pas
5enger coaches in the yards are m
water above the windows. Forty en
gines stored in the roundhouse are
probably ruined.
;, Towns all around here suffered se
verely, Azalea being wiped off the
nap and Swannanoo, just above Bilt-
more, being mostly in the Swannanoa
river. ' . . ' . . . ; "
Twelve Washed Into River. ; ,
.Charlotte, July 16. Of 12 men on
the Southern Ewyy.'s bridge when it
was swept away this afternoon be
tween 4 and 6 o'clock all are consid
ered saved. They clung to trees and
were rescued. Joe Kiiliari, civil en
gineer cf the Southern was 'one of
the men on the bridge, and it was re
ported that he was drowned. At 9
o'clock tonight news came that . he
had been found on a. raft of debris.
The bridge was of steel, 450 feet of
which was. swept away. Thousands
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TROOPS NURSE SORE
(By CARL GROAT)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Baltimore, Md., July 17. The
Deutschland now plans to leave
herf tomorrow, a member of the
crew today told the United Press.
Loading is expected to be finish- '
ed tomorrow. '
Captain Koenig today aaid he
peeled the submarine Bremen
here or at New York in a few
days.
ARMS AT CAMP GLENN BRIEFS IN THE NEWS
OTHER EAST CAROLINA
TOWNS AND COUNTIES
Anti-typhoid vaccination has aaus-
ed many sore arms among the sol
diers at Camp Glenn. Practically
er?ry man of the more than 3,000
there has received the treatment. A
large per cent, of the infantorymen
and troopers was rendered tempor
arily unfit for duty last week.
The recent storm blew up much
sand at the : reservation, and that
made the generally very comfortable
camp less pleasant.
MAN KILLED, GIRL
HURT IN AUTO-TRAIN
SMASHUP AT RALEIGH
Raleigh, July , 17.--Rex E. Sexton
of Cardenas was killed and Miss Her
sie Alston of Raeford was injured
trhon A 55n!lltlAT-T, - naconTftr ' train
u i i -t v- v .v I ""a -rortsmouth more tnan a icore of
struck an automobde m which they I r
were riding. ; at the Fayetteville
Cawley Gregory and Jim Hawk
ins, negro convicts, made their es
cape from a Pitt county stockade
near Farmvflle and went to Green
ville, at which place they were lost
by pursuing officers.- Several hours
later they were recaptured.
Dave Blow, a Washington darky, is
m serious condition as the result of
being scalded by his Wife. - The wo
man found Blow in tha home of an
other negress, persuaded him to re
turn to their dwelling and then, af
ter he had fallen asleep, heated a tub
of water to the boiling stage and
poured it over him. How's wife is in
jail. ,-.
f Old seafarers in East Carolina "re
call a visit to the waters off Hatteras
Greensboro, July Jorry A,
Terry, who last night shot and fatal
ly wounded John R. Stewart, was
I brought to Greensboro at an early
hour this morning and lodged in jail.
Stewart died without having regained
consciousness, having lived about
four hours from the $mo ho was shot.
Terry will be tried for first degree
murder at the September term of
court. After he shot Stewart Terry
went home and fired tww shots at his
own head. One scalp wound was in
flicted which is not serious.
There had been trouble between
the two men for some timo.
(Hy William Phillip Simms)
Petrograd, July 17. Profoundly impressed with the
steady Russian advances, the Germans are massing enor-
moua forces before Kovel, bringing up every available
reserve and hoping to stall the Russian mowing machine.
Kovel's fall would be a staggering blow to the Cen
tral Powers, completing the Allies' disrupting plans. The
Russians are amply supplied with ammunition. Great re-'
inforcements of Cossacks, Urals and Siberians are arriv- j
ing at the front.
Germans Still Believe They'll Win.
(By Carl W. Ackerman) ;
Berlin, July 17. Leading German newspapers are
now rallying to the support of Chancellor, Betkmann-Hol-weig,
who has been under attack by advocates of an un
restricted submarine campaign. They deny that his peace-
discussions have weakened Germany and reassert conhv,
dence that the Allied offensive will be defeated, though it
is realized the fighting is not over by far. The Russian
losses since July 1 have been over 262,000, a semi-official
news agency today, announced.. They include nearly fif
teen thousand officers, of whom seventeen were crenerals.
Emperor Saw Germans Retreat
(By Edward L. Keen)
London, July 17. -The Kaiser was at the Somme front
when the Germans retreated under the battering British
blows Saturday night. ih '
Dispatches from the front today brought new details
of the successful attack.. The fighting Was most vicious
:n character. In some "instances the Germans ' fought .
with wolf-like f erocitV in deep dugouts, where they stood
seeing only each other's eyes, with knives and bombs and
primitively, with their fists. , ; . v'w
Germany Admits Another Loss. , f
Berlin, July . 17 The British have penetrated (J vil
iers Wood, in a resumption of the great Allied offensive,
the war office today admitted.
inO " R shrdlu ataatshrdlu atats has sas sasahao
Took Many Teutons Prisoners Sunday. .
Petrograd, July 17. About thirteen thousand pnson-
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ers were captured oy tne missians in sunaay s ngnung m
Volhynia, the war office today announced. They included
314 officers and over 12,000 men. The Slavs also took 80
guns, a great number of machine guns and other mater-
als. "
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street crossing here late yesterday.
The girl win recover. The crossing
gates are said not to have been
closed, and the autoists failed to heed
cries of man who saw that a colli
sion was inevitable if - Sexton ; tried
to cross the track.
years ago by large schools of man
eating , sharks, evidently from , the
West Indian seas. The creatures
stayed only a few days or weeks, be
trayed everywhere by ,. the telltale
dorsal fins, and there was ne casual-
i ty, it is believed, ether than the ru
mored loss of a leg by a boy bather.
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Tka Funou PUycrs-Parunount Staa
(Subscribe - to -THE FREE 1. PRESS)
SAYS THE SOUTHERN
NEGRO BEATS BROTH'R
IN NORTH TO FINISH
Dr. Charles II. Bynum, a colored
ihysi(;iati of North street, has made
the interesting discovery that South-
negroes are smarter than their
brethren in the North, lie is rather
oud of the fact. The difference is
about this, he says: In the Norlh,
left upon their own resources, with
something expected of them, they do
not materialize so well. In the
South, with that perfect understand
ing between the races which the
Northern white man cannot under
stand, the colored man is expected to
work and all of the advice that he
gets from the white man is of that
neighborly kind which encourages
and does not condemn if he should
fail.
Dr. Bynum say sthat of his class
mates at Lincoln University, Pa.,
where he was educated, practically
all of the Southern colored men went
to work to make their lives success
ful, while the reverse was the case
with the Northern negroes. "They
looked for summer jobs."
It is a fact, says the physician,
that most of the 80 colored physi
cians in Philadelphia and most of
the other professional men of the race
there and in other cities where he
has been, are from the South.
Calumet, Mich., July 15. The big
geac and richest copper mine in 1 the
world, the Calumet and Hecla, sus
pended business today despite the en
ormous war boom business ; that ii
keeping all mines oa the jump, to f iv
THIS PART OF THE
COUNTRY IS NOT IN 7
PATH SUMMER GALES
"This is thochosen country.' Col.
Henry Sharw this morning told of the
explanation oJ"Ir. Richard Lewis Ot
the lack of destructive, storms in this
part of North CaroMna, eliminating
the equinoctial gales which seem . to
above by no set rules and the winter
time nor'easters and nor'westers
which break their violence on the pro
jecting coast of North Carolina. Col.
Shaw was discussing the West Caro- :
lina floods and the sfbrms which
caused them. ' '
Dr. Lewis said it is the tendency
of hurricanes making up in the warm
seas to seek cool temperatures. Most
Gulf gales head straight north, and!
the same is true of the Caribbean
howlers. East Carolina is out o?
their track. For the storm that hh
Charleston, traveling In a straight
line, 'passes overland maybe a hun
dred miles or more fto the west 'of
this section, which is on a big penin
sula running out into the sea. At- :
lan tic storms affect this section, after'
being broken up pretty well" on the.
coast, but Gulf and Caribbean storms
very seldom reach it
tertain its 20,000 employes and their
families in commemoration of the
semi-centennial of the discovery of
tha rich property. Gold, silver and
'jronze medals were presented to 1,
355 veteran , employes by President
Agassis, l3 of whom have worker!
for the company over 40 year. Tim-
Dthy CShea,; who- worked j tho first" .
pit of the mine 60 years and six
swaths aoj refuses to-retire, oa hi
pension. ., - i