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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-09-14
TRAIN DASHED THROUGH
BRIDGE.
Terrible Wreck on Seaboard
at CataWba River.
len Minutes Later Another Engine
Plunged Into the Struggling
Mass of Wounded and Dead
-Four Killed and Thirty
Five Injured.

Five Injured.
Shortly after O'Clock FRIDAY
morning Train No. Al on the Sea-
board Air Line Railroad, consist
ing of an express car, a mail car,
two day coaches and a pullman
sleeper, was derailed at trestle
just south of the Catawba river,
followed by the wreck of a light
engine and caboose, resulting
in the death of four persons and
the iniuring of thirty-five Others
The killed are: Engineer 4. Y.
Barksdale, Abbeville, S. c.; Fire
man Ed Roberts, colored, Atlanta,
Ga; Mrs. Black; Mrs. T. S. Nc,
Manus, Wilmington, N. g.
The injured are: Mrs. James
Clay, Oakland, Tenn, fractured
jaw; I. @. Jerome, Atlanta, shoul-
der and head injured; DIR. Edward
Banks, Athens, Ca, back injured;
Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Maitland,
Fla, foot amputated, may die;
Mrs. jerome Siivey, Atlanta,
bruised; 6. w. Hinson, Leacx,
Ga, jaw injured; Tom Mitchell,
colored, brakeman, AbbevilIe, s..
T., head and shoul lers injured;
Pink Carpenter, Monroe, N. c.,
porter, head and body injured.
The following were slightly
hurt: Y. s. EIerby, Atlanta, col
ored, Pullman porter; G. H.
Mears, Monroe, N. c., engineer ;
j. q. Turner, Atlanta, Pullman
conductor; j. Duncan, Abbevil'c.
brakeman; H. II. Chapman, Ah>
beville, conductor; G. H. Davis,
Atlanta, express messenger; w.
Fairman, Atlanta, mail clerk; r.
I West, Monroe, N. c., con-
ductor; B. F. Meader, address un-
known; F. G. Topleman, address
unknown; T. e. Horton, address
unknown; Mr.. Black, address un-
kno Hn; Robert Siegler, unknown,
and MolIie Griffin, address uu-
known.
A number of colored laborers
lso were slightly hurt.
Immediately after the receipt
of the news of the accident q spec-
iai train with wrecking outfit and
doctors started from Monroe to
the scene of the wreck. The
dead and injured were brought
oack to Monroe.
AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Charlotte, N. g., Sept. 9.-The
wrecked t'ain was running about
forty miles an hour when the tres.
tie, which Is about 800 feet long,
spanning a meadow near the Ca
tswba river gaze way. The en-
gine and cars passed over, bu,
we're drawn back into the abys,
and upon the other cars, liah,
engine and caboose, p,ling IN on
top of tbs train of wreckage before
1t could be tagged.
CASTOR Meas, the engineer O,
the passenger train, esca. ed with
some bruises and painful scalu
wound. How he escaped death
is beyond his or any one else's
comprehension. He said he was
driving at the rate of forty miles
an hour rs he crossed. Just be-
fore the engine had swept entirely
clear of the structure he felt il
sinking, but the impetus carried
the engine and all the cars across
except the first-class passenger
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-09-14

"DIRTY WORK HAD BEEN DONE"
George Fitzwstr, Chief detec>
tive of the Seaboard Air Line ar
rived, on the scene early IN the
morning, aud took charge Of the
situation until organized help ar>
rived. He said this afternoon
that he had found some spikes
and bolte, and two angle bars,
which had been removed from
the track with claw bars, and he
said he was confident that
dirty work had been done. MIR.
Fitzwater sent a telegram to sup
|erintendent E. Berkely, at Atlanta
telling him that he had discov-
cred evidence of malice in this
work and expressed his belief
that someone had disconnected
the joints in the lower half Of
the bridge
The stretch of track in that
vicinity is clear, straight and ap-
parently well built one. The
timbers appear to have been
wrenched from their fastenlngs
and those that are splintered are
of solid wood. There was moth
ing to suggest that the foundations
of tn. structure was undermined
by washout, although the ground
was somewhat lshy yesterday. I.
The dead bodies we're all ia
ken from the wreck about half
past 10 O'Clock. The woman
who was SO badly mutilatsd wore
a simple gold ring, with the in
'"ription, "From Tom to Anna,
October 20, 1885," inside. She
was probably 80 years old, med
ium sized. with dark auburn
hair. She had a purse contain
ing $2.45, a return trip ,pcket
from Wilmington, N. c., I'd AZ
lsnta. and a baggage check, No.
603. .59s.
g. S. Coleman, of Bon Air, Va,
said he was the only man in the
smoking car when the train was
hurled over the embankment and
he heard lots of shouting from the
other coaches. In very few
minutes he said the freight train
crashed into them and then silence
settled over the scene for several
minutes, when the groans of the
wounded as they began to regain
consciousness pierced the night
air.
1T WAS MRS. T. S. McMANUs.
Wilmington, N. g., Sept. o.
Special to News and Courier =
Mrs. T. s. McManus, wife of the
manager of the Wilmington Elk
change of the Bell Telephone
Company, was among those
killed in the Seaboard Air Line
wreck at Catswba River this
morning.
She left here yesterday after
noon and was on her way tc
Atlanta to visit friends. Mrs
McManus was in the sleeper ant
it is believed that she was killec
when the second train plunged
on top of them.
Mr.. McManus left here to
night for Monroe and will brin,
his wife's remains home tomor
row. She was about 35 years o
age, and was an estimable wo
man.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-09-14
Happenings in The State.
AS Chronicled by the Alert Cor
respondents of the Columbia
State.
BOY KILLED BY


ACCIDENT.
Bennettsville, Sept. 9-larry
Wright, the 1O.year-old son of
Simon Z. Wright, was shot and
Instantly killed about ; O'Clock
this afternoon by Edgar Mccoy,
colored. at the residence of Thos
1. Rogers, Esq.
The main facts brought out at
the coroner's inquest tonight arc
the three little boys, Harry
Wright, Dickson Wright and
Henry Rogers had been playing
together most of the afternoon
and were at the Rogers resi-
dence.
Mrs. Rogers went to closet to
get some kerosene for some
workmen and noticed two guns at
closet door. She told Mccoy
boy employed about the house,
to carry the guns to her room.
Henry Rogers was on the front
steps and told Mccoy to bring
him one of the guns. He brought
1T and Henry told him to take
the shell out. He tried but fail
ed. In closing the gun it went
off, the load striking Harry
Wright squarely in the face tear
ing out both eyes, the upper part
of the nose and part of the brains.
sPARTANBURG CITIZEN SHOOTS
HIMSELF nEAD
spartanburg. Sept. 81. Van
Smith, aged about 55 years,
committed suicide Mt his home,
226 College street, this morning
at 11.3O O'Clock by placing the
muzzIe of 80 callbre Remington
rifle to his left braest and pulling
the trigger. The bullet went
through his heart and passing
through the body lodged in the
wall near by. The deceased had
been in wretched health for SIX
months past and in fit of mental
and physical despondency decided
to end his life.
TWO CANDIDATES IN RACE AGAINST
JUDGE TOWNSEND.
Spartanburg, Sept. 9.-The
next legislature will elect asucces-
sor to Judge D. A. Townsend as
presiding Judge of the seventh
Judicial circuit. Judge Town
send will stand for reelection. He
, is now serving his third term.
Spartanburg has two candidates
. for the bench both members OF
, the general assembly Senator
. D. f. Hydrick and Hon. G. p.
! Sanders.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-09-14

Car and the Pullman, clear of the
yawning gulf which was left when
half the bridge collapsed. but the
engine and oars were swerved
from their course to the right,
tearing the rail loose from its
fastenings and hsrling the entiro
train upside down over an mbank-
ment to the meadow, about thirty
feet below.
THE FIRST TRAIN GOES DOWN.
A scene horrible beyond de-
scription ensusd. The accounts
of the survivors are terrible.
When the train went crashing over
the embankmeut every light went
out, passengers were thrown head
over heels against the coaches,
bruised and bleeding. A natural
panic took them; some were rerd-
cred unconscious for a moment.
Mrs. Black, sitting with her hus-
band, gave a short cry and when
he managed to strike a match and
find her body, he discovered that
she was dead, her neck having
been broken. She was the only
passenger killed, or even hurt
seriously.
As the scrambling and shouting
went on in the darkness, above
the noises a brakeman, with his
head half way out a window, was
heard to shout:
"My God, the freight train is
coming upon u.s."
In less than minute the
freight, which had left Monroe
fifteen minutes behind tha pas.
senger came whizzing along the
tracks, struck the open space
where the bridge had fallen aud
plunged it's way through the
/ passenger cars. The woman
whose identity could not be
discovered then met her death.
the freight engine having crush
ed through the side of that pas
senG cal in which she was,
an | crushing her body into a
shapeless mass. The engineer
Of the freight train must have
met death Instantly. He was
found in the cab Of the over.
turned engine with his head
crushed, but few bruises upon
his body. When his body was
dug out Of the debris this morn.
ing his watch was still running
on time His fireman escaped
with few minor injuries.
. PLUCKY TELEGRAPHER BLACK.
The wreck developed at least
one hero. Mr.. Black, whose
wife was killed beside him, was
the last man to leave the coach.
es, and what he did the very first
thing was to walk, in his bruis-
ed condition, to Cstawba Juno.
ton. two miles away, get into
the telegraph Office and send to
Monroe for help. He is a tele.
graph operator in the service oil
the Norfolk and Western Rail.
road, and was going to Atlanta
with his wife to testify there in
in a railroad suit.
He hardly realizes the blow be
has sustained and sat all day or
the bank nearby, With mournfuI
eyes and muttering to h,mseli
"Mv God, what an ordeal for 6
man to bear"
HEAPED AND CRUSHED TOGETHER,
The mass of wreckage of thu
two trains ia like a huge heap O.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
FRAUD IN CITIZENSHIP.
Italian Arrested in New York lncrim-
mates Chicago Officials.

New York, April enlarged with
having in his possession fraudulent
naturalization papers, Arnoldo Wac
Der, young Italian. gave inforlna-
ton to the immigration authorities
which suggests the officials in Chicago
have been making citizens out of for
eigners who have not been in this
country the required time.
Waebsr Says that while living in
San Francisco he married and started
for Italy He reached Chicago about
a year ago on his way to New York.
On the night of April g 1908, he
went to an italian political club in
Clark street with about one hundred
of his countrymen.
Each man. the Italian swears, was
given certificate of naturalization,
and in return promised to vote at the
municipal election against Mayor Car
ter Harrison.
The Italian says that he left the
following day with his wife and a
fellow countryman for New York,
where all three took a steamer for
Italy. After remaining in Italy nearly
ly a year. Waeber and his wife
decided to return to the United Stat
es.
On being asked when he came to
the country, Waeber gave the correct
information, which disclosed the fact
that legally he was entitled to the Cit
izenship papers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
One-Way Rates.

Every day from March l to April 80,
1904, the Union Pacific will sell one
way colonist tickets at the following
rates from the Missouri river:
Twenty dollars to Ogden and Salt
Lake City.
Twenty dollars to Butte, Anaconda
and Helena.
Twenty two dollars and fifty cents to
Spokane and Wenatchee, Wash.
Twenty five dollars to Everett. Fair
haven. Whatcoms Vancouver and As
.oria. via Huntington and Spokane.
Twenty-Five dollars to Portland and
Astoria; or to Tacoma and Seattle. via
Huntington and Portland or via Hunt
ington and Spokane.
Twenty five dollars to Ashland.
Roseburg Eugene, Albany and Salem,
via Portland
Twenty-Five to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego and many other
California points.
From Chicago and st. Louis proper
tionately low rates are in effect by
lines connecting with the Union Pacific
to all the above points.
For full information call on or adj
dress j. w. Turtle, T. P. A, 220 West
Fourth street. Des Moines, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Democrat Wins in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, April 6.--Mayor David
S. Rose. democrat, carried the city in
the municipal election. having plur-
atty of 5.a12 over Guy d. Golf, repub-
lican. Victor l.. Berger, social demo-
crat ran over 1000 votes behind Golf.
The vote for mayor was:
Rose, 2a,515; Golf, 1868; Berger,
1898.
The democrats also elected their
candidates for treasurer and comptrol-
Ter They @likewisac control the COM
mercial business. having elected twen-
ty flour members. 1'lic republicans
thirteen and thu social democrats
nine.
Louis X. Luse of Superior. (non-par-
tisan), for justice OF the supreme
court. carried the city over James G..
Kirwin. OF Neenah, (non partisanl, by
1,042 majority.
Questions relating to bond issues for
various city improvements requiring
the expenditure of about s2.000000,
carried. Among the largest sums is
100000 for a municipal lighting plant.
Nearly a million dollars for viaducts
and S1T0.G00 for additional fire appar-
atus.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Maryland Senator Renounces
Presidential Aspirations and
Releases Friends
FAvoRs PARKER EXCLUSIVELY
German Advises His Friends in the
Senate to Work for Him to the Ex-
clusion of Any Other Candidate -
Believe Postal Case Will Be Live
Issue in Campaign.

Washington. April Ct cannot Sc
cure the nomination. Go to work for
Parker. l would prefer that my friends
favor him TO the exclusion of any other
candidate. Let no other man step In
and beat him. If the convention should
decide that / should be nominated,
then we'll and good. but otherwise |
woulr prefer 10 see Parker our next
president
This statement was made by Senator
German yesterday TO three of his demo-
cratic associates in the senate who had
called upon him for an exact presen
tation of his position Thus Mr. Cor
man has finally and formally released
his friends in the senate, and advised
them to get into line for Parker.
Every democrat IN the senate with
the exception of Senator Stone of Mis-
souri,, who has gone west TO promote
the Cockrell boom. favors Parker.
Bailey of Texas For German.
Senator Bailey of Texas was probably
the last man in this senate to switch
from German to Parker. Great regret
is expressed by many of Senator Cor
mans colleagues in the senate that he
should have allowed himself to be. eli
minated by circumstances rather than
to be withdrawn himself.
Already the democrats of the senate
are organizing compactly on issues with
which to fight President Roosevelt with
Parker.
Mr.. German promises that he will
deliver q speech in the senate within
the next week upon the subject of the
postal frauds. and Senator Simmons
and others will follow. Mr. German
and his colleagues believe that the.
postal cases will be live issue in the
campaign and they purpose presenting
the whole facts to the country and lay
ing stress upon the unwillingness of the
republicans to permit congressional
investigation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06

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Mr.. Jno. o. Atkinson, Independence,
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Republican Majority on the
Council-Municipal Owner
ship of Street Railway
SUBMIT THE MULLER LAW"
Authorizes Cities In Illinois to Con-
struct, Own, and Lease Street Rail-
ways, and to Provide the Means
Therefor-vote For The Proposition
carries--other Elections.

Chicago, April Elm the municipal
elected eighteen aldermen, the demo-
Gratis sixteen and one independent re
publican, who repudiatesl the machine
in the Sixth ward, who was chosen
member OF the council. The last coun-
Gil was composed of thirty six repub-
1icans, thirty-tWo democrats, one indie
pendent democrat and one socialist
The next council will be formed OF
thirty six republicans. thirty-one dem
ocrats, two independents. one of whom
Is democrat. and the other repub-
liean and one socialist.
The chief interest iii the election
however, ,eentered in the vote on pro-
posed municipal ownership of the
street railways. In this connection
what Is known as Thu. Muller law
passed by the last state legislature
was submitted to the people.
The law authorizes oities in Illinois
to construct, own and lease street rail-
ways, and to provide tie means there
for. On this proposition the vote stood
152,434 for the proposition and 30.1o4
against: on the proposition that the
city should at once take over the street
railways into it's control the vote stood
120,744 for and 50,s93 against. For the
temporary licensing of street railways
until such time as the city is PREPARED
to take them over, the vote was 12o,1S1
for and 4S,056 against. On the ques-
ton of whether or not the members of
the board OF education should be elect
ed ny direct vote of the, people instead
of by executive appointment, and con-
firInation by the city council, as is the
present usage. the vote was 1853 for
and 5S,432 against.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Good for Children.

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date relief In all cases of cough. Group
and la grippe because 1t does not pass
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Republicans Carry Kansas City.

Kansas CITY, Mo. April 6.-Unonicial
returns from one third of the city. in
Guiding decisive precincts, assure the
election or the whole republican city
ticket hestded by Jay II. Neff for may
or, by pluralinies ranging from 1000 to
1000, except that Police Judge Brady
democratic and labor candidatel, is
probably reelected by q small plural
ity. The new council will have n re-
publican majority The city govern
ment has been DIN the hands of the DEM
ocrats for four years and two years
ago no republicans, even on the ward
tickets, We're successful.
There were two full democratic tick
cts in the field yesterday headed by
w. T. Keinper and George M. Shelley.
respectively. The former ticket had the
support OF the democratic state organ
liza ton OF Mayor James A. Reed, who
Is a candidate for governor, and the
result OF the election Is looked upon
as advantageous to the gubernatorial
candidacy OF Joseph w. Folk OF st.
Louis
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Kansas, Votes for Hiah License.

Omaha, Neb., April 6.-Municipal
elections were held in Nebraska yester-
day. except in Omaha. The issue gen
orally was on the question of license
or no license. Altho party lines We're
drawn in some places and the result Is
expected to forecast III some degree
what may be expected at the fall cleo
tons. The campaign il South Omaha
has been holly contested on party lines.
Returns received at 10 p. m. indicate
that the democrats have elected Thon-
as Hector mayor, with the remainder
of the ticket republicans.
Eighty per cent of the towns heard
from last night report the election Of
high license tickets. David City was
an exception. Fremont elected the
entire republican ticket, Grand island
voted in favor of high license, and Nor
folk, Ashland, West Point, Holdredge,
and ali the towns in Clay county elect
ed wet" tickets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
(To be Continued.)
STICKING to tho vernacular.

Joel Chandler Harris tells of letter
he has seen, addressed TO an Atlanta
firm by an export house at Naples.
which proved that their English writer
had made "a close study of the south
ern negro dialect" and arrived at the
conclusion that 1t is the regular lam
guage of our part of the country. and
the only one we understand" The let
ter is thus sampled by Mr.. Harris:
Dear Sahs: Hit gif us 'streme sat-
faction ter call yo' tension ter Duh
fines grade of macaroni de bestes'
made in desc yer paints. Waitin' yo'
,steemed favahs. sahs. we main, Yo's
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
Chronic Bronchitis Cured.

For ten years had chronic bron-
chitis so badly that at times ! could
rot speak above a whisper" writes Mr..
Joseph Coffnan, of Montmorenci. Ind.
II tried all remedies available, but with
no success Fortunately my employer
suggested that l try Foley's Honey and
Tar. Its effect was almost miraculous.
and Lam now cured Of the disease. On
my recommendation many people have
used Foley's Honey and Tar, and al
ways with satisfaction" B. A. Nor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
a ThouuhtfuI Man.

M. NJ. Austin. of Winchester. Ind.
knew what to do in the hour of need.
His wife had such an unusual case of
stomach and liver trouble that physi-
clans could not help her. He thought
of and tried DR. Kings New Life Pills
and she got relief at once and was
finally cured. only 25 cents at the
Mcdonald & Manhood Company drug
store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
snecia, Reduced Excursion Rates.

viii be in effect from all points on
the Chicago g. Northwestern Railway
for the occasions named below:
Los Angeles. beginning May Sd, gen.
eral conference Methodist Episcopal
church
San Francisco, May Sd to sth. Re-.
tail Grocers' National Association.
Atlantic City, N. j., July 1915. Mo-
bles of the Mystic Shrine.
San Francisco, Sept. 9Th to 9th, Tri-
ennial Conclave Knights Templar.
San Francisco, Sept. 10th to 25th,
Sovereign Grand Lodge. l. o. o. F.
For information as to rates. dates Of
sale, ETC., of these or other occasions,
call upon the ticket agent Of the
Northwestern line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-06
The Best Family SaIve.

DeWitt's Witch Hazel gives instant
relief from burns. cures cuts, bruises,
sores, eczema, letter and all abrasions
of the skin. In buying Witch Hazel
Salve it is only necessary to see that
you get the genuine eDWitt's and a
cure is certain. There are many cheap
counterbeits on the market, all of
which are worthless, and quite a few
are dangerous, while DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is perfectly harmless and
cures. Sold by all druggists.