The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-16
The Greenville correspondent of th

The Greenville correspondent of the
Ne,rS and Courier. writing under date OF
the 10th inst, says: ~. A. Mccullough,
counsel for j. Minis Sullivan, condemned
to be hanged, who now has an appeal be-
fore the Supreme Court, will make, q mo.
ton before the Court to suspend the eappeal
pending a motion on circuit for new
evidence. He will file an affidavit attack
ing the character of McCarter, witness
for the State, and also for two witnesses
who claim to have seen the killing of Gil.
reatb, and will testify that they saw Gill
| reath attempt to draw his pistol. II The
| Supreme Court grants the suspension OF
appeal it will continue the case six months
longer.'
This citizen who is of the most value to
community, town or city, Is not always
| the man who D assesses the most wealth,
| tho hig hest intelligence or the most aris.
tOcr ,Iic iin.are. Of course the two former
| will Increase Il mau's usefulness If he will
but exit them in the proper direction.
But the va U. BILE citizen par excellence is
the man who believes thoroughly In his
town, its people aud its business and pro-
| fessinual mtr. He does not make it his
| business to decry the honesty OF his local
| ban k er or merchant or the ability OF the
| resident lawyer physician. But in;
| stead be is an enthusiastic advocate OF all
things that p,rtain to the welfare of bis
own locality. He has the interest of its
| schools, churches, societies and people at
heart and exploits their excellence abroad:
We need more of this class of citizens ana
have the material in our midst to con.
struct theT.
Messrs. Russell & Fretwell, of this
| city. have taken the contract for filling
all the trestles on the Savannah Valley
Railroad with dirt, large tiling being put
in to carry the water off Last week they
began work near the depot in this city,
getting the dirt from the cut just south
of the depot They are working convict
labor, and now have twenty convicts
employed, but expect to increase the
number to fifty in short time. For
several days they have been blasting the
dirt On each side of the cut, which, with
little undermining, would put it in con-
dillon to cave in. On Monday afternoon,
about $50 o'clock, landslide, about
forty-six feet in length, occurred, and
three of the convicts, VIM. Mack, Tom
Green and Jim Henderson, were caught
and buried beneath it. Mack's head was
LETT ex posed, but he was thrown against
the end of a crosstie, under the flat car,
which was being loaded, and his breast
was crushed, killing him instantly. Mr..
Russell was standing near by and wit
messed the terrible accident. He called
the other hands, and Immediately
Jumped down and went to work
extricating the buried convicts. He
saw at once that Mack was dead. and,
as the other two convicts were completely
covered, it was several minutes before
they could be located and freed from
their prison. OF course this caused con-
siderable excitement, and it was the
general opinion that the buried convicts
were dead. A messenger was at once
sent for physician. In short time the
two convicts were rescued, and strange
to record, both were alive. Henderson
sustained q fracture of the small bone of
the right leg, and the upper rib on the
right side of Green's breast was broken.
Both received prompt attention and are
now getting along very we'll. Coroner
Earle was notified of Mack's death, and
Immediately summoned a Jury ofinquest,
withNJ. G. Cunningham as foreman. The
verdict was in accordance with the above
facts, no blame being attached to the
contractors. The heavy rains ofthe past
few DAYS mad evidently caused the land
slide. All three Of the convicts are
negroes. Green Is from Manning, Hen
dersop from Spartanburg, and Mack
from Greenvillo. The latter had been
serving sentence of ten years, and In
three weeks more would have been dis
charged. Mack's remains were buried
this morning in the colored cemetery.