The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-02
FALLEN TO THE BULGARS
ADRLaNOPLE SURRENDERED BY
TURKS AT LAST.
With the City in Flames the Com
mander Surenders His Army ond
Commits Suicide.

The fortress of Andrianople was
taken by storm by the Bulgarians
Wednesday morning after fighting of
the most terrible character since
Monday. Flames are devastating the
city. At an early hour Wednesday
morning fires were raging in various
sections of the beleaguered city. The
maddened population whose nerves
had been shattered by the almost in
cessant Commandment for a period Of
over five months as fleeing about the
streets from one point to another, not
knowing where to find shelter.
The great artillery arsenal in the
food swept streets.
The man said that the water was
paoughing through the streets in
mad rush and that he had had moth
ing to eat and very little water to
drink for forty-eight hours. He said
his name was Davis. He asked if
there could not be relief soon and
was glad to learn that the Governor
was moving to their relief by every
possible method of communication.
Davis said that corpses Of human
beings and numerous dead animals
had foated by their building. Among
the debris was an enormous oil tank.
Davis added that the Equert build
ing, in the rear Of the Home Tele-
phone Company's building, had col
lapsed and had caught fire. He said
he and his party might have to take
a chance with the food waters if the
fire got too near them.
The building in which Davis and
his party are imperilled is at the cor
ner Of Jefferson and Fourth streets,
next to the Offices of the Dayton Jour-
nal, which concern as well as the
Dayton News, is half under water.
Big sheds, small houses and other
buildings were drifting past the ref
ugees. The phoneton operator re-
ported that at this stage Of the con-
versatien Davis voice trailed off in
indistinctness. "I could not have lis
tened to any more 1t got my goat"
said the local man.
While the flood steadily receded
Wednesday afternoon the terrific cur
rent retarded rescue work and cold
smarting rain added to discomforts
of the already overburdena'l stcrla
victims. Expert oarsmen, who BRAY
ed the tide of the business section Of
the submerged city Wednesday Aft ,r.
noon, came back nerye-wrecked to
relate narratives Of pitiable appeals
made to them by hundreds maroon
ed in upper floors of tall buildings,
about whose lower stories swirled a
food that threatened the structures
foundations.
The dark colors in the narrative
were lighted here and there by stc-
ries exhibited by many Of the foods
prisoners. a woman with three chill
dren, marooned in the upper floor OF
her home on the edge of the business
district, called to the oarsmen:
"Oh, I know you can't take me
off," she cried, 'but for the love Of
humanity, please take this loaf OF
bread and jug of molasses to Sarah
Pruyn down the street; know she's
starving" Twice the boatsmen at
tempted to take the food, but waves
that eddied about the submerged
house hurled them back.
Further IN in the exclusive resi-
dence district they were offered fabu-
lous SUMS for rescue by many Of the
foods prisoners. Their narrative in
spired an effort late Wednesday af-
ternoon to launch a boat for naviga-
tion on the vast river, but up to
late hour the craft had been unable
to pass beyond areas already reach
ed on the fringe Of the flooded dis
trict.
Missing members of many families
were restored to their loved ones
through human clearing houses es-
tablished at several points on the
fringe of the food district. Great
ledgers filled with names and presid-
ed over by volunteer bank clerks
were at the disposal of persons seek
ing missing kinsmen. If these had
registered in the clearing house their
addresses were quickly given to the
inquirers.
Up to seven o'clock Wednesday,
three thousand Of the homeless were
housed in different places Of refuge,
most of them being cared for at the
plant of the National Cash Register
Company. Scores Of the water VIC
tins were being carried from their
places Of imprisonment late Wednes-
day evening and leaders Of the res
cuing parties were arranging for re-
1oys ~ torch bearerS to light the |