The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-10
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

on their way to Med mill to goin
bathing. When near the East end of the
dam they were met by a colored boy
named Dock Dargan Ia son of the we'll.
known Essex Dargan) armed with 9
double -barreled shotgun. A few hurried
words passed between VIM. E. Coke, Jr.,
and Dargan, when Dargan raised his gun
and fired, the ball entering the left breast
and causing death Immediately. Dargan
then ran of, going in the direction of his
home. He was arrested Sunday morning
and lodged in Jail. Rumors of lynching
are heard, but the Sheriff will protect the
prisoner until court meets in June. The
deceased was in his twentieth year, and
was the son of Mr.. W. =. Coke. Dargan
had previously had difficulty with one
of the Coke boys, and his mother brought
out the same gun to him to shoot young
Coke. On Monday night some parties
went to the house of Essex Dargan, father
of the murderer, and fired into his house,
it is supposed, purposely to kill the
father, but instead killed an innocent
three year-old child.-Bennettsoiale DEM
ocrat.
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. May 6.-Be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock last night q ter.
rible accident occurred on the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad, between this
place and Locust Gap. Freight train
No ST., consisting of seventy>fve cars,
bound for .Williamsport, became discon:
nected by the breaking Of a coupling, and
the engine and three cars ran half mile
before the crew discovered that the train
was divided. The first section awaited
the arrival of the second at the foet of g
heavy grade, and the two brakemen losing
control of the second section, it dashed
into the first section, causing an explo.
sion in the third Car, which was loaded
with Dupont powder. At the scene OF
the accident the railroad runs along
steep hill, at the bottom of which stood
two rows of houses occupied by the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company's employees. On the hillside
stood little cottage occupied by John
Quinn and his family of four children,
two boys and two girls. The force of the
explosion wrecked the buildings, seven
teen in all, and the stoves set fire to the
ruins. Quinn aud his two little girls
we're burned to ashes. The two boys
escaped with burns. Simon Kerwick's
family consisted of Mary and Willie
Cavanagh,: adopted children, aged res
pectively 8 and IA years, David Kerwick
aged s, Alice Kerwick aged 5 and his
wife and new born babe. Mr.. Kerwick
carried his wife from the burning build.
ing, but the children were burned to
death. Thirty persons we're injured. In
alltwelye cars were destroyed and seven.
teen houses, with their furniture. All
the windows In the Locust Gap churches
and schools were broken and the doors
blown off. In Mount Carmel large store
windows were broken. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. Wrecking crews
have the road open again for travel.
LAKE Cry, s. o., May 5.-Mr. J..
Nolen Sauls, who lives about seven miles
west of here, died suddenly, on Tuesday,
l!of heart disease. He was good, quiet,
orderly citizen and a farmer of good
standing. Mrs. @. O. Revel, his sister,
who lives in Darlington, came to see
him few days before his death, and on
Wednesday night sat up with the rest of
the family until about midnight, when
she retired. She did not get up as early
as usual next morning, but no one
thought strange of it until her baby was
heard crying. Some Of the family i'm
mediately went to see Nhat was the
matter, found the little fellow sitting by
This mother weeping, and to their great
surprise found her laying on her face in
the cold and chilly embrace of death.
AS soon as the fact of her death was
known Trial Justice 81. P. Baldwing, of
Scranton, Immediately empanelled jury
of inquest, and found that she came to
her death from heart disease.
CHARLOTTE, May 3.-Lizzie Ingle, a
young white woman, was burning corn
stalks in the field of ]. F. Kerns, in
Long Creek township, yesterday, when
her clothes caught fire, and before assis-
lance could reach her was so badly
burned that she died in few hours. A
colored man arrived first, tore of the
burning clothing, and went. for help.
Mr.. Kerns, arriving twenty minutes later,
found Miss Ingle standing erect, alone,
burned almost to a crisp. The accident
occurred at3 P. NJ, and she died at 10
P. M. The deceased was 81 years old,
and had recently moved to the neighbor.
hood. She bore her suferipgs without
a murmur. The scene and circumstances
are represented as pitiable in the extreme.
The young woman bore splendid char.
acter, and her fate is greatly deplored.
WALHALLA, s. c., May Son yester.
day morning Mrs. Clara Adds, an old
lady about 50 years old, who was spend
ing a few days with her son, near this
place, WAS accidently burned to death.
The family was in the field at work and
no one was about the house to render her
any assistance or to give the alarm. One
of the family returned to the house about
9 o'clock and found her in the yard dead
with all her clothes burned off.
LAuRENs, May 5.-John Hill, farm.
er, sixty.fiye years old, living near Gin.
ton, in this county, committed suicide by
hanging himself this morning. Hill
WAS naturally weak minded and had
lately lost his eyesight.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, Msy 4-Jno,
L. Black and Samuel L. Black, brothers,
Who came here from Alabama, nearly
thirty years ago, and had acquired a large
amount of real estate in this city, had q
quarrel to-day which resulted in the
death of the former. Two shots we're
boord IN bo hn;ld;no which tha hrnthare