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3it§§ uni) Carolinian. IViumc 10. //i .1 ll llltll I IP c ii ii-i c a ii\ s. v. '(ht rlhtnu'iils, ( • :of timk —Highland. '.mi -hokm -Shuford & Sliu foi • m.v-t icons—F. L. Hawks. I t hui"' rain Tuesday night. n *■ o i) ni'W residents in Hickory in 4 | *l\ H. Kovster tV Martin's window t\ of fancy shirts. 1 i!:cv belts in all the new colors ; ~,t( r A .Martin's. i !». Alexander is offering you bargains on the Sth page. I'itiicv shirts with collars detached f, i r.if at the white front. Hickory, N ( . Liinberton voted on tho license ii;(-ti>n on .'ird inst., and went dry, live !i» >ne. Th N. C. Press Association meets in I.t Mir on the 17th of July—so s;ivs the Topic. I »• last arrangement in Royster A M u tin's show windows is very tu-t\ and pretty. The Reformed church was packed Sun lay t> hear a tine sermon by Dr. Clary, of Newton. Try Link McComb iV Co., when von want good goods at low prices. 'l' Lev will buy your produce. Claieniont College commencement was the interesting program of last night we will give full account in our ii'.'Xt issue. S'ifl in your job work. We are i;uw \ rcpared better than ever and you fine work at low ]>ric«- Satisfaction or no pay. The best estimate based on a par tial census at Johnstown is now that tiic ios of life there was between tw vi and tifteen thousand people. In the last "write up Hickory had 1 ■ would have known but that >t reels were all dark at night, electrie lights Bro. Hardy. \N; t!i nn editor puts a column on i t Lacing on two pages of the i-iu •• ]»:»j>t• r lie must be thinking of t r \ii •\ on a> a remedy for short I iv 11 ighland Academy brings o w »• -• the work of another year. • '« i- aUo a receptions to be giv ' i ' aremont. Se our next for ] u tn-u! ir>. •>e wanting lightning rods will .to cor communicate with Hawks before put chasing. N 1 ' >WI ICS I'UCES. iy Inn, Hickory, N C. \ \r\ handsome invitation has i i\t d by us to attend the ■ c«-incut exercises of Gaston • • it Haigler, S. (\ W. !!. H. Cowles is to deliv • :try addresses. vt inpie-ted to say that all - f tlu co Uge are cordially b attend all the exercises at •. .Judge C A. Cilley will :*.n address to-day at 11 > ' the cc.ugL chape j. . Ii nuan brought into our -l week a bug. which had the "negro-head bush :n this bug. and the one V ! '.man had was just sprouting, uite a curiosity collector, nun and boys, each one • to the teeth with guns, pis '• l.nhes succeeded in captur -1 1 ringing before the I . S. -sioner last week two nnfort • rtals from the South Moun- Help The SiifTertiijf. \\ e are glad to see how leadilv and handsomely the ] '-ople of thi gieat nation have re-p nded t>> the i «-*ail for aid by the sufferers from the 4 flood. Especially are we glad that, many citizens of North Carolina have responded nobly to that call. Is Ilickoiy to stand ivll y bv and render no aid to such sufferers 1 Is ■ that the class of people in our city * You say you are sorry, and with ' long faces bemoan the fate of 15.0C0! people. Is the sympathy which a' lot of empty words convey all you | | can do ? Last week we made a call for help for the people of Johns-! town, but as yet we have heard of; none being tendered. Are you do- ! ing as you would wish to be done by ? Are you showing your Sunday Christianity ! We head the list with S) and will send all contributions to the proper authorities. If you have J any Christianity and sympathy for | suffering humanity, show it ! I Wliy So Credulous ? Why do our citizens continue to be taken in by men who want to write up Hickory ? They come here and some are al ways ready to send money away | from home to pay for nothing. You | can have every advantage at home that any other paper can offer you. : Men come here and "write up Hick | ory" in half way style and it does not do us any good. They do not 1 give us credit for what we have , i either in population, industries or the enterprise which holds Hickory to the front as a shining star. No i 1 1 one would every recognize Hickory */ o •/ | from some of these descriptions as a | town of great enterprise, progress j and beauty or as a town doing more business than any town along the W. N. C. R. R. Townsmen why get 1 "taken in' so often. • i 1 It is Your I'ault. ■ After many vain appeals to our ' : delinquents we have sent a large number of accounts out for collec -1 tion. We regret the necessity for this st■ j» but we have bought some new material and mu>t collect what is due us to pay our own debts. We have adopted the cash system > and in future there will be no more • duns to bore those of our readers for whom they are not intended. ' The matter of sending out these accounts is merely a ih*siness tkans ! \ction and all we want is the money i vou owe us and we hope none will ' r et aijjjrv b cause* vour account i> • n r> », » sent you through a collecting agency. I'lease remit us as soon as you iv ceive your account and then pay up > for a year in advance. 1 l-'xliibition ol'Ari. The Art display presented to our citizen* last Tuesday night in the art j studio of Claremont College wa> verv artistic and elicited much I commendation from an appreciative audience. The pictures in crayon were specially line and the young ladies while gaining much worthy r praise 1"r themselves have on ac ] count of the high order of their cultivation rt t'ected much credit a upon their instructors and upon Claremont. To be able to buy your goods . cheap and always get one dollar's worth for a hundred cents you nni>t look over our advertising col . u inns. They always tell. Shu ford . a. Shu ford have an interesting arti j cle this week. Read it. Ibiclierv, IKlortb Carolina, cbursE»nv», 3unc 13, ISSO. THE FLOOD. THE APPALLING KOR ROtfS CROW WITH : EACH REPORT. » 15.030 Persons Perish Ssnsith He Murkj Waters, i" - i After the publication of many eoi ' units of description and details of the terrible flood in Pennsylvania, the reporters say the half has not been told. Those who read the most that is said of such scenes can ■ have only an imperfect idea of the reality as viewed by eye-witnesses. ; i The storm which originated the, disaster raged most fircely about Altoona and high up in the Allegha ny Mountains. Hundreds of rive | lets run from these mountains into ; the Conemaugh river across which a dam has been constructed to make a fish lake many miles long and in ; some places more than 100 feet deep.! The dam gave way and the vast body of water added to that from other swolen streams went rushing 1 i . . ' down upon the unsuspecting city and town in the valley below. Here is an incident taken from the history of this flood, which for dramatic, thrilling and awful interest-can i dly be equalled. It reminds one of I "the voice crying in the wilderness" %/ o . warning the people of their imped- j : ing danger. The horseman did not. I O O | perhaps, stop to consider the cost to himself when he galloped through the streets to announce the coming i n I of that tidal wave of death: he acted on the noblest impulse that ever ! tiansfigured human nature—the im pulse to proclaim salvation to others at the possible expense of his own life. But read it for yourself and think better of mankind in the fu ture : Just before tho disaster of Friday broke upon the town a man riding down the road that passes through ■ Com maugli to Johnstown, like somt • angel of wrath of old, shouting his protentous warning. "Hun for 3 out lives to the hills'. " Run to the • ills! The people crowded out of their bouses along the thickly settb d street, awestruck and wondering. Nobodv knew the man and some l ' tli-'light he was a maniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he rode and shrilly rang out his awfui ■ cry. In a few moments, however. ' tlu re came a wave of ru.ii down the 1 broad streets, down the narrow al lev~>. grinding, twisting, hurling. 1 ovrrt 111 ning. crashing, annihi ating ihe weak uiid the strong. lorty •ieet high, some sav. tlnity accordit g • to other*, was this sea. and it trav el led with incredible swift nes-. >n , and 011 raced the rider, and on and 011 rushed the wave. 1 >ozens 01 people too heed of t..e warning and ra-i up t> the hi: - I*ool*. faithful rider: it was an ut.e r qual conte>t. Just as he tinned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fe.i upon him. au 1 hor-e. rider and a.t went into chao together. On and town and city went • tie merciless wave of devastation and death. Brick walls, railioad c.irs ai..i eiigins and everything that . stood in its way was swept down with the resistless current. Death, ruin and destruction are - but meager words applied to Johns ! town proper. Weeping men. women - and children are at all places looking i. c , for their dead. From Kerw insville b> New- Florence. bodies are being ricked out of thee verv minute. In th* sontiiei>t part of the town is located the Irish Catholic church ( and convent. A remarkable story is told about these sisters. The Moth -1 er of the Convent saw the water com ing. which, sh' l say-, was mountain high. She at once called all the sisters •into the chapel. Here the dozen NUNS BFOAN TO I'KAY as they possibly never prayed before, for protection from the waters. When the water struck the building : it shattered the entire structure and every room in it except that in which the sisters were at prayer. The room is still standing, but it is liable to fall at any moment. HORItC RS EKYONI' DESCRIPTION The horrors of this part of the town are beyond pen-pictures or description. What is just now go ing on can be best felt when it is told that a string of men two miles long are carrying coffins to the school house, where the hundreds of dead are lying. One after anotli er the dead bodies are identified, and moment after moment dead women and children are being taken to the temporary morgue. At ten o'clock a preacher addressed the crowd in front of the school j house. "Gentlemen,'' said he, "how many of you will volunteer to go to Pros pect Cemetery and dig graves? A hundred said "I," and they started to make places in the earth to hold some of the bodies. Where Woodvale once stood there is now a sea of mud, broken but 'rarely by a pile of wreckage. I waded through mud and water up the valley to day over the site of the . former village. As has been often • • stated, nothing is standing but the old woollen mills. The place is swept here of all other buildings but the ruins of the Gautier wire mill. The boilers of this great works , were carried one hundred yards from their foundation. Pieces of engines, rolls and other machinery were swept far away from where they once stood. The wreck of a hose carriage is sticking up out of the mud. It belonged to the crack company of Johnstown. The engine house i- swept away and the cellar is tilled with mud. so that the site is ob iterated. A German watchman was on guai d at the mill w hen the waters came. lie ran for the hillside and succeeded in escaping. He tells a graphi • storv of the appearance of the water as it swept down the val -1 ev. Hf declares that the first wave was a-> high as the third story of a hoii-e. I lie place is deserted No llort U being made to clean off the streets. The mire has formed the grave for many a poor victim. Arm* and leg ale protruding from the mud and it makes tne most sickening of pict ures. Kernville i- in a deplorable condi tion. The living are unable to take care of the dead Ihe majority of the inhabitants of the town were drowned. I l.e sji "J .vforv of Conemaugh i not without its deeds of heroism. The appalling scenes of h' rror developed dariLg courage where least expected. \*hlie ( verv da V heroes in the midst of the terrifying ne* usually degenerated bit» arrant cow aids. Th''>e who viewed the fright fib scenes of tire and r!oo 1 agree that tne (tj tuc Mtua tion was lirst fu.iy realized by the women, and that in tic- tender .s»-\ was exhibite 1 that daiiLt.e-s courage whictijis born of resignation. Moti; eis coolly sacrificed themselves to the fury of tlood c>r fire to save the lives of their children an 1 love 1 one>. Xot infrequently some pile faced woman, clinging with 1 er cl:ilil to the doatmjr debris, realizing that the .support was too frail for the two. would be seen to oft her j re cious burden high uf on the floating 1 / 'on*. « on :Ah 1 u'- j p £ IR s c m a % c. Mr. Hardy, of the Raleigh Chron icle, was? in the city this week. Mrs. Ellen Smilev. of MolYatt's i( rerk. \h . w \ isiting Mi s. J. F. Murrill Mr. Herbc 'it Chase returned last Monday from a trip to Linville City * 4 ana Blowing Hock. Mr. L. (1. Hay a..*l fain 1\ returned to the city last Monday after an ex tended visit to S. C. An invitation from I>. L Fit to ' atte *nd the closing exercises of tl.o Kentucky School of Medicine is at ! hand. Miss Emma Council passed through Hickory last Wednesday on her way lioiue from an extended vis- I. . '.t to Salisbuay, Miss Emma Bonney returned hon.e ' from Anchorage, Ky. last Friday. I She has been teaching there for two years, and is home for the summer. Dr. Beall, of Lenoir, X. C., passed through Hickory last Saturday on j his way home from the Chapel Hill I Commencement, We are sorry to hear of the alllic- I tion of Col. W. W. Lenoir. He re j ceived a stroke of paralysis last | Tuesday in his left side. • Mrs. Vardry Mcßee, formerly Miss Joyce Gwyn, wife of the late Rector of the Episcopal churches here and , in Lenoir, came up from Lincolnton ; last week on a visit to her cousin, : Mrs. J\ G. Hall. » Col. Hilderbrand made a visit i to Washington last wee K and re ' turned with the scalps of three Ca tawba P. M s., dangling at Lis belt. We are much rejoiced that he >! spared the house of Jacob. . I Mr. J. C. Fry, of Hiekorv. has ac t, . . . j cepted the position of superintend > ent of the Patterson Cotton Factory. . Mr. Fry will move Lis family to Pat [ iteison and assume the duties >f his new position about July Ist. , Tlu- C. S. ! Ihe ''C onstant Squatters are working unusually iiard at tii> sc a son of tlie year they are ready to [ tlirow cold water upon any busine.-s : u ndei taking that may present itself they are aUo ready to ad\ise stiling ers visiting our city that times are hard, and they will tind other town much more desirable to locate in. ihe "C. S. has become a dangerous rival to the "K. of K (knight of Rest* which has held full sway in our city, for some time: we would >ULT' r est that the "X W better known as nevw woikers s i>uld loe>lc [ aft«-r their 'aim-Is or these two rival or^-tni, ration - wi.l soon out do thenuJ IIi^!iI;iii(I r.MTiIHt-i t !i;»iik:eel. At Vgram j r**e»-ived fre>iu Mr« Bu>bee rendeis it nece.--ury that ti.o time of ho. ling the closing exercises of Highland A«-a hmy he- change-I . from the night of the I:sth inst., to the afternoon Thursday at - p m. The | üblic will \ lease taiio . notice. We have been trying to improve and will continue to iii»i»rove the I * f . PliL« VNI> C'AUC I.INUN. In a fe^v 1 lavs a lot of lew material will be in ' from the North and s -me few chang ° es will be made for the Letter ap ' pearunce of the paf er. Sen lin your sul-crij tions and »ve will give you I such a { aper as you deserve. We can't do it unle-s you do. IHumKu* 24.
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