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The Tupelo journal., 1903-08-07

were astonshed Attic pfdetcalahd uptodate methods employed. The students
learn BOOK KEEPING and BUSINESS CUSTOMS by keeping a record Of their
daily transactions with each other, the teachers, bank and various Offices Of the
college, instead OF merely copying from textbooks, budgets, or other memoranda.
This institution neither resorts to deceptive schemes nor offers any lake proposL
tons, thereby commanding the respect and patronage Of the thinking classes.
Competent men teachers only are employed. We have n vacation, hence, students
may enter any week day a the year.
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food and watched it. I don't know
how many men, women and children
were washed to their death and we
could not do thing to help. Their
cries to US could be plainly heard and
God knows heard them all last night
and expect to hear them till my dy-
ing day. I dent know how many
people were drowned before my eyes.
I have no way Of recording"
The stories of rescues and deaths
are numerous and few from such
trustworthy sources that they cannot
be questioned.
J. J. Garrison, a reliable mill en-
ployee, saw q man and his wife and
baby, their arms clasped about each
other, disappear beneath the debris
of their own little home near Mill
No. g. 4 man and two boys, whose
names could not be learned, were OBJ
served going down the stream on a
house top. The boys were clingipg
to the nan, and apparently begging
him MOTTO leave them. The man
finally, knowing that the children
could not swim, had deserted them
and they were crowned. He swan
into an eddy and was rescued.
C. S. Johnson, mill employee, his
wife and two children were washed
down the river on their house top un-
til they were within two miles
Of Paeolet. johnson was then wash
ed aehore but his entire family was
lost. Ke returned to Clifton With
his tale of horror, half crazed and
refusing to be comforted.
L. Ssribbling, clerk in the e.
raj store of mill No. 2, had the most
remarkable escape thus far recorded.
When the water began to rise in the
store be saw there was no chance for
escape through the doorway, he made
hole in the roof and climbing there
on was washed down the stream. He
was washed against tree which be
clasped. Another man and woman
were in the same tree. They re-
NAMED in the tree until 4 o'clock in
the afternoon when they were res
cured.
An unidentified baby was washed
ashore and taken to farm two miles
below the town and is now alive and
we'll. On all sides stories of this
kind come up and the tenth part is
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that furnishes the power for the
mills and it is presumed that this
dam broke and added it's waters to
the already swelling food. The mill
operatives were just going to their
early breakfast when the sound of
mighty rushing waters broke on their
ears and then the work of destruc-
tion commenced.
A few minutes after 5 O'Clock on
Saturday morning, June 9Th, it was
noticed that Pacolet river was rising
and rising rapidly. The river sprang
up in bounds.
The yellow waters FROM the clay
hills curled over and through the
giant mills; it dashed against the
homes of the operatives and rushed
through the village streets; rising
higher and higher, it ground houses
from their foundations and it dashed
with inconceivable force against the
massive masonry of the giant mills
the pride of eastern Spartanburg and
they erumbled and fell before it's re-
sistless force.
In the homes that we're carried
away were living huuan beings.
Some clung to their floating homes;
some got on trees; men waded and
swan to the rescue and there were
brave deeds in that hour of terrify-
ing peril.
The Reedy river in Greenville
county was on rampage, doing az
estimated damage of between Sl0,-
900 and $4,000.
The big Pelzer Mills we're not
affected by the food.
The Arlington Mill sustained a
damage to it's machinery OF about
$4,000.
The Newry Cotton Mills sustained
a loss of between $4,000 and $25,-
900.
The magistrate of the town is an
old white headed Confederate soldier,
Judge J. II. Williams. He said that
during his 79 years it had been his
misfortune to witness much carnage
and suffering during the civil war
and several disasters, but nothing like
scenes passed before his eyes Satur-
day had he ever imagined. Il tell
you, sir" said he, lit has nearly killed
me. Hundreds Of US strong men
stood along the banks of that mighty
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demoralized, that 1t ls Impossible to
form any definite calculation of the
loss of life in todsy's cloud burst
and the resultant fl oods. The NOR
tality list may go to 80, but the
more conservative estimate place it
somewhere around 10 or so.
The total property less i'll the en-
tire section laid waste by the storm
is likely to aggregate S2,000,00O
The loss at Pacolet is placed ass
S1,000,000, summarized a. follows:
Mills Nos l and 2 demolished;
$4,000 splndles wreck; $500 bales
of cotton, lS2O0,C0O worth Of cloth
goods in company's store damaged,
grist mill, cotton gin, postoffice, shoe
shop, dental Office, livery stable and
Presbyterian church all washed away.
At Clifton, the Converse Mill, with
$1,000 spindles, has entirely gone
The Clifton Mil, with 27,0O0 spin
dies, is half-washed away. The Dex-
ter Mil, with 10000 spindles, is
probably half-ruined. All these mills
belong to the Clifton Manufacturing
Company.
More than 5000 people are hone
less and 4,000 out of employ mens.
Taere was no wind snd no damage
by lightning; only by water. iuis
fell in veritable torrents, converting
the surface of the esrtn into sheer
lake of raging water. Il 7ers over
Aowed their banks to heights never
before known; creek became rivers,
and small rivulets roaring torrents,
wiping out everything in their course.
Railroad bridges were torn from
stcne and iron piers; cotton mills
we're crushed like straw before the
flood and grist mills and innumera"
bic smaller industries and cottages
were washed away By the angry
waters.
At g late hour tonight, scores OF
people were clinging to the branches
of trees at Clifton and could not be
reached. Unless help comes to them
soon it is feared that many Of them
will fell into the water and drown.
Spartanburg, June 9.-Not until
today has it been possible within any
degree of accuracy to get an idea of
the total losses. A careful and con-
servative estimate after exhaustive
inquiry would not fall far from these
figures:
Clifton mills and warehouse, ST.
100000; Pacolet mills and ware
houses, S925,O00; Glendale mills and
warehouses, S35O,0OO; Whitney mills
and warehouse, 500 0; Arkwright
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not told. No tongue can tell the mis-
cry of it all.
Telegraph and telephone poles and
wires are down and communication
with the stricken section cannot be
had. Railroad bridges have been
swept away as if by magic and all
railroad travel has been suspended.
The Southern's bridge across the
Broad at Alston is unsafe and cannot
be used. Thirteen benches have
been washed out of the Colum bis,
Newberry and Laureus' Railroad
Company's trestle at Coluuoia AID
cannot be crossed.
AS is usual with calsmities of this
kind the farming interests have suf-
fered most severely. The burden of
loss falls most heavily upon the
farmers of the food district. Their
crops have bevn totally destroyed,
their fertilizers have been washed
away and their lands scanned and
scared with bitches and gullies.
The destruction was most com
plete. While it is true that it is not
too late to replant, yet it is equally
true that many of them will have to
do so under great difficulties and
many others will have to 60 into
debt to be able to recommence their
farming operations.
The owners of the ruined mills
have already commenced the work OF
clearing away the debris preparatory
to rebuilding. Order has been
brought out of panic and work is
being laid out in systematic order.
The people are beginning to realize
where they are at and confidence is
being restored. While there still
remains much suffering and great
hardships among the stricken people,
yet the relief committees have gotten
to work iu earnest and the sufferers
will receive that aid which their i'm
mediate necessities demand.
The railroads, too, have gone to
| work in earnest to repair the damage
wrought by the ravages Of the food
Large gangs Of hands have been
organized and where conditions will
peraait it of being done the repairs
to road beds and trestles are being
made. It is given out by those in
authority that railroad travel to the
up country will be resumed by Fri
dsy. The waters in the swollen
rivers are subsiding and if the westh-
| er remains favorable they will be con-
Sned to their natural channel.
Spartanburg, S. c., June $50
| many wires are down and communl-
cation of all sorts is so thoroughly
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CLOUD BURST.
The Piedmont Section Ruined
by Big Floods.


While yet the hearts of the people
of South Carolina were gushing with
a warm stream of sympathy for the
sufferers of the Gainesville cyclone
and the raising of a relief fund was
in active progress, the news was
flashed far and near that Spartan
burg, Greenville and Oconee counties
were threatened with a dire calamity
by their swollen streams-the effect
of a cloud burst and that property
to the amount of over three million
dollars were being wrecked by the
raging food and many human lives
were lost.
The disaster to the farming inter-
est of the Piedmont section and the
cotton manufacturing interests of the
State is without parallel in the his
tory of the State. The devastation
and destruction to property and life
surpassed those of either JohnstoWn
or Galveston $50 far as to make a
comparison odious)
The food was due to q mighty
cloud burst along the headwaters Of
Pacolet river in Polk county, n. @.
The crest of the food when it reach
ed Pacolet was sixty feet high. The
mills were located along the banks of
this stream in deep valley, high
hills rising on each side and they
caught the full force of the awful
food, as the mad rushing waters
came pouring down the mountain
side with terrific force sweeping
everything before them. The scene
Of complete ruin and destruction Of
valuable property and the pitious
appeals Of men, women and children
as they clung in desperation to trees,
branches and whatever they could
clutch and vainly called for help
until exhausted nature could prolong
the battle forsiife no longer and they
dropped into the water and were
drowned, beggars description. The
picture was too awful in it's reality to
be overdrawn.
Within an hour after the cloud
burst the mills OF Clifton and a score
or more of farm houses along the
river had been carried away and the
debris came with a mighty rush on
Mills Nos l and 2 at Pacolet. Just
above this great structure is the dam
that confines the natural waterway
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DIR. +. C. GILMORE,
DENrrTSE,

DENTIST,
U COATED ATNO. 1910 MAIN STREET.
IA over Rpsemann's Gun Store, Colum-
bia, s. c., where he will be glad to sec his
former as well as new patients.
DR.. Gilmore will beat Kaminer Hotel in
Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday.
July Gath and 18th, to accommodate
patients who find it inconvenient to call at
his Columbia Office.
January %, 1901-tf.
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MUSLIN VNDERWEAR.
Our Muslin Underwear Department
is now full Of bargains. Each ard
every garment is made of good mate
rial and well made, at prices that can
not be matched elsewhere.
LADIES' GOWNS.
Full line; low neck and elbow sleeves. lace
end embroidery trimmed; high neck and
long sleeve, trimmed. with tucks, lace and
embroidery, prices, each from
75c. to $500
Ladies' Corset Covers,
trimmed with embroidery and lace, sizes
81 to 40, at, each 25c. to So:
Cambria Unde1skirts,
fancy trimmed with lace and embroidery
edge and insertion, each 5Oc to So:
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The James /, Iapp Co.,
Columbia, S. @.

Ladies' Cambria Drawers,
lawn and cambric, ruffie trimmed, at. each
25c. to ST. per pair.
Cambria chemise,
plain and 'aacy, each, 75c. to Sl.50.
New line Ladies Black Mercerzed Petit
coats, each from Sl.25 TO S., 90.
UNDERWEAR.
Ladies' Knee Length Gauze Pants, loose
and fitted at the knee, 35c. regular price,
each per pair at 25c.
Ladies Long Sleeve Gauze. Ribbed and
Plain Vests, sizes 80 to 40, at, each, 25c.
Full line Ladies and Childrens's low
nerk and sleeveless Gauze Vests.
Boys Balbrigggau Knickerbockers, sizes
"a to "a inches, each, at 25c.
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the minimum height is five feet four
inches, and a man of that height must
weigh 1913 lbs. and measure 80 inches
around the chest. The tallest man
to be enlisted is six feet one inch. He
must weigh 176 lbs. and his chest
must he at least 30 81 inches In cir
conference.
Waist measure is not important. but
one must not be absolutely obese.
Physical ailments Of . chronic nature
keep a man out. His teeth must be
good. or i'm good repair
Eyes. hearing and heart action
must be perfect. No concessions are
made on this score
Upon enlisting. the recruit is sent,
at government expense. to one Of the
Navy Ysrds-st New York. Philadel-
phia. Boston or Norfolk-where he ia
fttsd with uniforms and is instructed
in the rndimcnts OF Naval life: how
TO tie up his hammock, to brush and
fold his clothes. To- carry himself
with military bearing. etc Those
with trades are instructed with ref
erence to their particular duties on
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aud many smaller ones, and her crew
will consist Of about 800 men-tust
20 think that IL takes a whole regi.
ment TO man one OF these magnificent
ships of war.
\ modern man-of-w is a mass OF
machinery. 50 that, besides seamen,
many skilled mechanics are required:
Mschinists. electricians carpenters.
plumbers, boilermakers. coppersmiths,
engineers. in fact NEARLY every kind OF
skilled labor has its representative on
board. Also there are commissary
stewards. musicians stenographers.
bakers. cooks. hospital stewards. and
men Of many other vOcations. In
this respect the Navy differs from the
Army. for all these men have work to
10 in their own particular trade The
Navy offers unusually good Opportuni.
ties for machinlsts az they have work
to do in all branches OF their trade
and thus avoid the piece work grind
Of their brothers % the factory.
Young men witnout a trade can en-
list as lamdsmen and are instructed in
tae trade Of seaman. Many such have
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JAIL BROKEN OPEN.
Negroes Attempted-~to Lynch One Of
Their Color.

81. Louis. July Gothic Jail at
Brooklyn. a suburb OF East St Louis.
across the river from here. was bro.
ken open Sunday night by "A mob OF
Negroes, whose desire II vas to lynch
one Of their color for an attempted
assault on a Negro woman. earlier in
the day. William Carter. the Negro
prisoner. was hurried from the village
by the marshal. who took him in a
roundabout way TO East St Louis for
safe keeping after the mob had bro.
ken open the doors with railroad tie
There were no other prisoners IN the
iail at the time
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During the past few years much has
appeared in the public prints about
our Navy; however, but little has been
said about the routine life aboard ship
and the duties of the man behind the
gun and furnace.
The new battleship Ohio will short
~ hoist the Stars and Stripes. and
sail for foreign shores. to watch over
and defend the rights of op- great
country; and there are man. young
men who would delight to serve on
her. If they only knew what they
could do and how to join. The Ohio
Is first-class battleship of enormous
size. weighing 16 900 tons. She will
carry battery of twenty heavy guns
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WHIPPED EIGHT MILITiAMEN.
He Resented Some Remarks Made
About His Sweetheart.

st. Joseph, Mo. July 20.--A squad
OF militiamen at the Lake Contrary
encampment made some remarks
about a girl who had accompanied Mar.
vim Winton to the camp. He resented
IL and whipped eight men in uniform
Their friends rallied and the man was
driven almost into the lake. Winton
drew a knife and cut several soldiers
before the row could be stopped by
cOnstables. The prisoner was again
attacked on a street car while in
charge of the constables and badly
beaten. A large mob gathered and
was dispersed with great difficulty by
the officers
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COAL TRAIN RAN AWAY.
Fireman Sustained Injuries Which
Will Probably Result Fatally.

Scranton. Pa. July "a train of
~ coal cars ran away on the Ontario
Il Western railroad north OF Win.
wood. tearing mp the ties and rails for
many miles. Cars were thrown or the
track and down embankments by sec
lions and the engine was disabled by
the piston ripping through the floor
Engineer Ferry and Fireman Burke
crawled back over the swiftly moving
cars in an attempt TO set the brakes.
Burke was thrown OF and sustained
Injuries which will probably result IA.
tally
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walked ON THE TRACK.
Four Persons Instantly Killed
Near Cincinnati.
Passenger Train sidessIped an Elk.
cursion Train-Two Persons Fa-
tally, Four Seriously and Six
Badly Hurt

Cincinnati. July ,o.-Four persons
were instantly killed Sunday afternoon
near the Avondale suburban station
on the Cincinnati, Lebanon 4 North
ern division Of the Pennsylvania
while walking on the tracks. They
were Louis and William MUIR. messen-
gers. aged Is and IL years. and two
unidentified young men. While walk.
ing through deep cut on a curve
they got out Of the way Of an outgoing
excursion train and were struck on
the other track by An incoming pas
senger train. all being ground to
pieces.
The MUIR boys were the only sup
port of their widowed mother.
The engineer on the incoming train
said he did not see the men and boys
until he was almost onto them on ac-
count of the curve and that they were
so attentively watching the picnic par
~ on the other train that they did
not hear the whistling Albert Rosen-
swipe, who was with the MUIR boys,
was knocked of the track and escaped
injury.
BY the sideswiping of trains two ex.
cursionists were fatally. four serious.
ly and six badly hurt as they were en-
tering the Union station here Sunday
noon. An empty Queen C Crescent
train was backing out OF the depot as
an excursion train on the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern from Vincennes
was pulling out Of the "Y" in the
yards and sideswiped the tenth, elev-
enth and twelfth coaches that were
filled with excursionists. Those in the
tenth coach were not badly hurt and
the trains were stopped before serious
injury to the 18th coach. The 18th
coach was badly damaged and the fol-
lowing were hurt:
Fatally Injured-Mrs. Carrie Craw-
ford. aged 3S. Washington. Ind. left
thigh and leg crushed; internally in
jured. Harry Elswick. aged IL. Wash
ington, Ind, right leg crushed on bad
ly bruised and cut
Seriously Injured-Mrs. j. Elswick.
aged 4S. sister OF Mrs. Crawford.
Washington, Ind. leg broken, contu-
sions of body. James Steens, aged %.
single. Washington, Ind. ankle crush
ed. Joseph George, aged As, married,
I,oOgootee. Ind, ankle broken. Clara
George. aged IA. leg fractured.
Slightly Injured-Carl George. aged
10, confusion OF feet and legs. Sol
Zehnburger. aged 55 married. Shoals.
Ind. lacerated face, bruised body. FL.
kins Zehnburger aged 10, Commissions
Of face. Frank Curry. aged IS. Wash
ington. Ind, Commissions of legs. Gus
George. aged 18, Washington. Ind.
bruised shoulders and face.
Gus and Carl George. the Zehrbur.
burbers, Curry and Kidwell were able
to leave the hospital after their
wounds were dressed. Several whose
names were not learned hal slight in
juries. which were dressed at drug
stores
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risen to the grades of seamen. and
petty officers within a couple of years.
The pay OF landsman is SIC a month
and from that it goes upward The
wages OF mechanics are fixed to meet
those paid on land, and, of course,
board Is furnished in addition. Also,
on first enlisting. complete outfit of
clothes and uniforms are given free.
Electricians get as high as $40 a
month, and other craftsmen in keep
ing.
Upon every re-enlistment men re-
ceive an increase in pay. and. after a
certain length OF service, they are
pensioned for life.
About the physical requirements.
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Death Of w. X. Jackson.

Nashville. Tenn. July 2O.-Wr- IT.
Jackson. master OF Belle Meade farm.
died there Sunday OF typhoid fever.
Mr.. Jackson was 20 years old. and I'M
I'll recently. upon the death OF his
father. Gen. w. n. Jackson. had sue
cceded TO the management Of the IA.
nous nursery for thoroughbred
race horses
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Car Famine In Kansas.

Topeka. Kan. July 20.--On the eve
Of marketing the great wheat crop Of
Kansas serious car famine exists
IT would be an impossibility," said
the secretary Of the board Of railway
commissioners, for the railroads to
get enough cars into the state to pre-
vent a car famine"
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New York, July 2O.-After standing
az a hosiery about lao years. the Lodi
hotel at Kearney, ". j., has been de.
stroyed by fire. Gems. Washington
and Lafayette are counted among tse
historical personsses who put up at
the old tavern
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Montreal, July 2O.-Omclsf denial
was made by General Manager Hayes
to the story that the Grand Trunk had
acquired the Clover Lear system. lie
said It was not the intention Of the
road to make any further extension
in the States
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Amendment 70 Canal treaty.

Panama, July 2O.-Reliabie informa-
ton received from Bogota says that it
appears probable that the canal treaty
will be ratified with an amendment,
making the sum to be paid by the
United States S25.O00,O0O instead OF
$40 600 600
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Opposed 70 the opsnIna Of Win.

Yokohama, July 20.--M. PavlofT. the
Russian minister at Seoul. capital OF
Corea. has lad an audience with the
emperor OF Corea, at which he op.
posed the opening OF WIju. the port
on the Yalu river.
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Buzzard's Bay. Mass. July 2O.--A
son was born 90 ex-Presidcut and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland at their sumner res
idence here Saturday. The attendants
say that All conditions affecting both
mother and child are satisfactory.
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DR. Jennie Nicholson Browne ha7.
passed An examination in medicine by
the Maryland state board with an
average Of 923i per cent. She is med
ical examiner for the Baltimore board
Of charities. also for the WOman's
Catholic Benevolent legion OF thu
state and professor OF psychology at
the Woman's Medical college Of Hal
timOrP
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wealthy resident 81 Beverly.
Mass. advertised in a local paper re-.
Gently that he would give n ton OF
hard coal as a reward for the return
Of pet cat that had strayed away
from his home. The whole town i'm
mediately turned out to- hunt for the
cat
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When man Is knocked out and
does not speedily rally. the best treat
ment IL to get him at once away from
his surroundings. wrap him in warm
blankets and administer stimulants-
strychnine hypodermically, n neces.
sary
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Experience having taught the Cor
man Postofice that a great proper.
ton OF the pictorial postcards pogiod
bear neither address nor stamps. TIC
Postmaster General has ordererd a
notice TO be put on the pillar boxer
Don't forget address and stamps. I"