........ i r i vl I - i I i .V . THE ?AT7XX3 Fair and Warmer . VOL. XVIH.No. 41 FIRST EDITION ! PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS . r ; ,... . KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1916 FOUR PACES TODAY PRESS " ' , 4 ' V , , y , , 1 ' i (i i 4 i i" r. I FT '" j t w r F V f TEN HILtlONS . . . . . . V - ft liOllDE FLOODS: IK mm. -OOVElOtil ID llwA ASHEVILLE STREETS INUNDATED; iGREAT VANDEUB1LT ESTATE AT BILTMORE IS NOW NY PERSONS MISSINGA MOUNTAIN SEA; l!A i'ttEA .V. s mroone THE RURAL CREDITS BILL SIGNED TODAY' PRESIDENT PLEASED WAR DEPT. OFFICIAL! FIRERIEN OF STATE SAYS VILLA IS DEADf GATHER; AT RALEIGH ARMY WILL RETURN FOR ANNUAL MEET'G 7 Reports of Disaster From Scores-of Places In the State,' South Carolina and Virginia Dams Give Way and 1 i 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 -i 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. K,,- 1 18 DEDICATE highway (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 (Continued on Pig Three) ' 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- , -i i , i -r n JI ..LI! J 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. " 1 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. r if 1 1 A j ! . Vi it ' if I J, w , f f 1 tU tr - , . h Ml 4 III! : . . ;l .'I i-iv' . s I? V - I; VJ --av, ; Ut l : V ' Yi S V - ' ' t tl ' ' , J Ii-. ' :: iai'. " PAULINE FRED ERICtC 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

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