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'RYC?JINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. li)(>:i. vm.VTMw YVYVH. HA ?? ' OU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR Tailor Made Clothes wrmoH? tool HART. SOHtfWW ft SMQMO One that has style and finish ; that Ats and stays ?t all 1er ; a Summer Suit made for wear, not simply to look You won't find such Clothes as these anywhere else in m. They are made hy HART SCHAFFNER & M ARX. [are priced at $9.00; $10.00 and $12.50. The perfect Tailoring of th?se Suits make them equal to ) best custom work, at one-third less than custom tailor ices. ? good assortment of other Summer Clothes at $5.00, [00, $7.00, $7.50 and $8.50. WHAT ABOUT THAT COLORED 50c 8* is the time your Baby needs a^ ir I :B?BY-CARRIAGE jt^t ff ?>?ps for-what you want in that line or the FTXRI?I taly Pin o. [PEOPLES FURNITURE CO. Kw6rftl Birootors and t?z^rtakers. j ion must have them and plenty of thom, for this Sum 9 social calendar says there will W an unusually large of social functions for you io av^end. tow i*)thebest time to make your selections, and of ?o we advise you to make them here, as our stock is vwy tete with new styles and pretty patterns. Then, toof Ice is se r>asonab?| 5qt?;S5oYard! WHITE GOODS >ign supreme. Your every want can ba supplied from ?ck. us your orders, [rite for samples. ?CaU Bazar Patterns and Free Fashion Sheets. (MIT CLOUDB?BST aHD FLOOD 1 Great Cotton Milla are Swept Away,-?Many Persons are Drowned, and the LOBB Will Aggregate at Least $3,000,* OOO. Charleston, June G.-Two of tho three great cotton milla at Paoolet, tiro of the four at Clifton, and the mill at Glendale, known as the D. E. Conversa Co., were totally or partially destroyed at 7 o'clock this morning. Aa a result of a terrifie cloudburst in the early morning hours, the Paoolet, river rose to an unprecedented height and swept the great mill structures from t*-?ic foundation. Tue foll de taila of the disaster are yet nnpbtain> oblo h/.re, owing to the interruption in telegraphic communication, mit there remains no longer a doubt that a tragedy has. taken placo in the Pied mont section of the State, that gar passes in horror and destructiveness anything heretofore dreamed of there. The loee of life must, have been great bat it ie impossible .yet to offer even a suggestion of its extent. A dispatch just received here from A. H. Twich ell, president of the Clifton mills, merely says that there are many deaths. The mills that have been destroyed were situated in Sparenburg county on tbe Pacolet river, * stream not usually more than one hundred yards wide. Tho four great milla at Clifton are ai* miles from Spartanburg. The Converse mill was three miles lower down the river, and Paoolet, at which there were three mills, is four miles further to tho southward. About each mill 'here had sprung up a mill town varying in size from 1,500 in habitants at Glendale or Converse, to 5,000 at Clifton. The best authoritative accounts yet received state that the cloudburst began at au early hour this morning and that in an incredibly short space of time five inches of water fell. The river rose with a rapidity that oarried terror to the hearts of the mill people. It quickly beoame apparent that more than one of the great mill structures were doomed. -Mills No.1 and No. 2 at Paoolet were the first to give way. No. 3 mill, is not completed, but it, too, is thought to be destroyed. Mills No. 3 and 4 at Clifton stood until nearly 9 o'clock when their foundations gave way. A dispatch received to night says that mills No. 1 and 3 at Clifton are still standing, but frat they are damaged and are still ip dan ger of destruction. The mill at Glen dale of the Converse Co. is probably hopelessly wrecked or has been swept away completely. With the mills at Paoolet went 3,600 bales of cotton and 4,000 bolts of manufactured oluth. The loss of' materials raw and manufactured, at Clifton is cati mated to be even greater. What the total loss will bo at all three places can only be estimated now. The total investment at Clifton was $2.000,000; at Pacolot $1.800.000, and at Converse $500,000/ These estimates were made% tonight by F. J. Pelzer, the largest holder of cotton mill securities in the South and one who' has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in these mills. The Paoolet mill is the parent corporation of the New Holland mill recently damaged in the Gainesville cyclone. Tonight's message from Paoolet con firms previous reports. Mill No. 3 will remain intact, but its engine room iff gone, together with two ware houses, one containing 1,500 bales of cotton and the other, 1,760 bales of doth. . Spartanburg, S. C., June 7.-Deso lation, death and ruin are holding foll sway along the banks cf the Paoolet river from Clifton to Paoolet, a. dis tance of 10 miles, as the result of tho awful flood of Saturday morning. It was 2 o'clock in the morning when the rain began io fall. So rapid ly did the river rise that houses con taining sleeping inmates were oarried from their foundations without the least warning and tho firat information of the occupants was learned by find ing themselves afloat. While many of these were rescued, they suffered terribly from expiare in their terrible .trip. Alm'??t all were clad only in their night clothes. Many of these have, contracted colds and other complications that may prove fatal in some cases and serious in all. Physicians from the surround ing country hurried to the relief of tho suffering and all are being oared for as well as the limited facilities will parrall. Some of the actual scenes along tho banks of the river were ead beyond iortrayal. While tho flood was at its eight, scores of persons floated down tho channel of "the stream. Many of these were picked up by rescuers, who did their utmost to save those who clung to the roofs of houses and floating timbers. From the scene of the destruction of the big 50,000-spindle mill known as Clifton No. 3, down the river a quarter of a mile where Clifton No. 1 is wreaked and on around the bend another ? quarter of a mile to Clifton mill No. 2, whioh is also half gone, nothing but debris and wreckage caa bo seen today when only a few hourS ago the hum of over 100,000- candles i as? the musical ripple of the river was heard.? f The transformation is one that smites the spectator dumb, and words ^?^^-*^B1BB lbj i B i are altogether inad?quate to deeoribe the soenes of ruin whioh line the batiks o* the river for miles down. In Borne places where a mill village stood with its dozens of houses today is seen only a long Hat sand bank, the river having changed completely the aspect of tho eountry. Al) day hundreds of pcopio have hovered about tho soene of destruc tion. Walking down the river gorge lavery difficult, and it is only by tho greatest effort:that the trip from mill No. 2 to Nos. 1 and 3 is made. Th? survivor* ali day today stood upon the spots occupied Saturday by the homes of their dead friends. Not a trace of half a hundred hoaies is today visible. lu some places the site occupied by the houses are buried beneath great sand banks and only an occasional pieoe of plank projecting through the sand would indioate that a house stood in that placo. The destruction is aw ful and-complete. The foroe of the flood has so completely changed the banka of the river and flat borders on whioh numerous houses stood that it will not be possible to rebuild ou the former ailsa. Spartanburg, S. G., June 8.-The latest reports place the estimated loss of life from ?the. recent flood at 57. Damage to property will run into the millions of dollars. Over 3,000 em ploy?es in the mills of the Clifton Manufacturing Company are ont of work and in destitute circumstances. At Pacolet 2,000 people are. practically destitute. In the smaller mills of the county the number thrown out of em' ployment will exceed 5,000. Th* latest reporte of damages sus tained are given by those in authority as follows: President Montgomery, of the Paco let mills, pitees their loss at $1,000, 000. ' President A. H. Twitchell, of thc Clifton Manufacturing Company mills, placer r ue loss' at $1,800,000. Fo i .o D. E. Converse Company, at Glendale^ 8. C., the estimate is $60,000. 1 . Tuoapau. mills' loss placed at .$35, ooo. Lockhart mills' loss is $25,000. Fairmont sustains loss of $5,000. Whitney loss placed at $8,000. 1. Lolo lons is about $5,000. TOTAL MILL LOSS, $3,280,000. The damage to the Southern Bail way cannot be accurately estimated -mi this. time. Bridges are down in everj direction and tracks have been inun dated in many localities. The reporte of the condition of fshe road are heine, constantly receivod and add to ttu loss sustained. The same conditions prevail on th? Charleston and Western Carolina rail road ina lesser degree. Wreokinj and material trains are hard at wort day and night endeavoring to complet? temporary repairs. Owing to the absolute isolation o Spartanburg terrible suffering oanno puuoiuly be prevented from the man: thousands afflicted by the catastro ! phe. Appeals are being sent out io aid: In these appeals money is parti oularly requested as provisions can hot reaofc any of the points, awing ti tho f aot that railroad bridges are dowi in every.direction. In response to the appoals for ah for the suffering people at the mills Gov, Heyward has issued the follow ing address: To thc People of South Carolina : "An awful calamity has befallen th Ecopie of Clifton and Pacolet, where y not.only has a fearful. .loss of Hf occurred, fifty people having beoi drowned, but five hundred men, wo men and ohildren have been renderei homeless and four thousand are throwi out of employment at Clifton. Wb.il no loss of life occurred at Paoolet nearly as many will be out of employ ment, as at least there will be grea suffering there also. Such a cat aa t rc phe ooming with suoh suddenness au without warning places the?e peopl totally without means and withbu shelter. Local aid is not sufficient t overo "raie the great devastation an suffering and greater hardships, au even death may result unless promp aid is extended. Representative citizens being s theso places and who are familiar wit! the circumstances, have informed m that assistance is urgent and requosl ed me to call upon the people of th State to come to the rescue in, ordo that further and more sorious suffer ing may be prevented. I feel that it' only ueoescary to. let tho true con di tion be known in order that the genei ons hearts of the people of the Stat may be touched to a quick response The people have never failed in ac oordance with our ability, howeve small fo may be, but above all let it b prompt. D. C. Heyward, Governor. Spartanburg, S. C., June 8.--Spai tanburg and her surrounding mi! towns have just begun to recoverfroi the torrential shook that swept awe one-fourth of the taxable property c Spartanburg County and tr.e work c relief to the distressed mill operative which has preceded only by a bric space that of removing tho debris c the shattered mills, is progrossin most favorably. The people of Spai tanburg have taken hold ot the eitui lion with a determined hand befoi asking for outside assistance, an right hore-will be raised at least ha the amount needed to relieve the prei ent distress. Already the people < the plucky.little city have snbsoribc nearly $5,000 to the relief fund and ( this at least $1,000 more will be ad< cd tomorrow. Outside snhseriptioi are now more than $3,000. 'Jotumittees have been at work a day and Spartanburg has been we canvassed; relief committees, to< havo been busy in the factory- Betti recurs, and .-tho wants .of thc need have promptly boen ministered to. Some of the operatives have already , fone to work dearing away the debris I rom Clifton Mills Nos. 1 and 2 and Paoolet mill No. 3, whioh were only partially destroyed, and whioh, it is I said, oan be rcpaired?and put in run ning order within three to five months. This will como as a later sourou of re lief, bat of courso it is thc present distress that must be given prompt attention. Altogether, however, the situation from a standpoint of physi os! distress is not SO bad un was first supposed, and with a comparatively small amount of outside relief, say ? $6,000 to $3,000, whoo the number of people involved, is taken into consid eration, thero is little doubt that every necessary want oan bo promptly satis fied. The mill owners eannot afford not to rebuild these mills, say the people of Spartanburg, and they feel assured, even in the face of tho awful desola tion the flood waters have left, '.hat new mills will oooupy, if not the sites of the old, positions of security in the same localities. At the same time there is an undercurrent of fear in some quarters that should these mills again go up it will be only after long delay. Seth Milliken, of New York, and his son are here. They are large stockholders in the mill and will at tend the meeting of directors sched uled for tomorrow. They are reported as favorably inolined toward rebuilding , the mills. A remarkable find was made this ? afternoon. The warehouse of Clifton ' mill No. 2, whioh has been reported ] as missing, was found nearly a half mile below the site on whioh it former- j ly stood near the mill and practically intact, the flood removed the building, floor and all, and with it 400 balea of cotton and a number of bales of cotton goods. This is the best news the mill people have yet had. AU sorts of ruuiors are in the air tonight about fresh disasters of one kind and another but one by one they < haye proven unfounded. Report of the Storm at Gainesville. Gainesville, Ga., June 5.-The re lief committees met tonight and issued a statement as to lives lost, houses destroyed and injured, those needing hospital treatment, eto. This is the first authentio report of the committee. It is as follows: At New Holland: Number killed, 33; sure to die, 4; wounded, ,75; in hospital, 22. Houses totally demolished, 40; total number of families, 60, representing 300 people, all of whose effects were destroyed; houses damnfc, 42; total number of families, 60, representing 300 people, one-third of whose effects were destroyed. , In the Gainesville Mill district: Number killed. 36; cumber missing, 1; fatally injured 3; total injured, 115; number needing hospital treat ment, 8; number now in hospital, 7; number to be moved to hospital, 1. Between Athens and Main streets: Number dead, 20; number injured, 25; number needing hospital treatment, 12; number in hospital, 5; number to move to hospital, 7; number houses destroyed, 60; number people home less, 300. From Athens street to Paoolet mill: Number dead, 5; number fatally in jured, 5: total injured, 46; number needing hospital treatment, 10-9 col ored, one white. Houses destroyed, 60; number poo s'* homeless, 300. Total killed, 95; total will die, 12; total wounded, 261; total number need ing hospital treatment, 60; total num ber now in hospital, 31. Number houses totally destroyed, 100; total number houses partially de stroyed, 40: total number persons homeless, 900.' The above list of houses destroyed only inoludes residences and cottages, and does rot include s toreo, factories and offices demolished. The work of relief is prooeeding with expedition, although it was some what retarded by the cold, drizzling rain whioh poured down today from dawn until midnight. The relief com mittees are much encouraged by the generous contributions from1 outside sources and the number of physicians and trained nurses who have volun teered their eervioes. The Paoolet mill, at New Holland, started running aguin at noon today. Assistant Superintendent Young stated that a large number reported for work. Free Scholarships. The following scholarships are now open and will be awarded by the South Carolina Federation of Women's C'U'.JB. Converse College- -Three scholar ships, each valued ^tSlOOa year, for fen? jcaiD academic work in College. Methodist College for Women-Co lumbia, 8. C.--^One scholarship for f "mr years academic work in College Greenville College for W omen-One scholarship of free tuition. The Southern Kindergarten Train ing and Normal Institute-Charleston, 8. C.-One scholarship of free tuition. The South Carolina Kindergarten Association Training School-Charles ton, S. C.-One scholarship of frve tui tion. Mrs. I. A. Smith's School for \oung Ladies-Charleston, S. C.-Ono schol ship of free tuition. Alumnae Club Sohool of Domestic Science-Louisville, Ky.-Ono scholar shin of free tuition. Clifford Seminary*-Union, S. C. One scholarship of free tuition. The examinations for these Scholar ships will bo held in each County July 10th. All applicants must file, their names before July lBt with Mies Louisa B. PoppOnheim, Ch'm Ed. Dept. 8. C. Ped. of W. C. 81 J/eeting St., Charleston, S. C. The Biggest Spring Trade of our Lives. Satisfied customers is the secret of it. More than the worth of your dollar or your dollar back. We are making a specialty of- Z Ladies' Black Dress Goods This Spring, and my ! the quantities we are selling. WHY ? . Because we ??re fixed on them. Selling price given at the Store and not in the papers, as it would take too muoh time ind space to list them all. COME ONE, COME ALL, And see how much CHEAPER we are than others. To look at our BLACK GOODS means you will buy. Watch this space. Good things to tell you from time to time. {. Yours to please, 1 We seek the trade of all people who believe in buying sphere their dollar goes farthest. Investigate ! Compare ! Are you willing to spend time enough to compare our values ? If not, you are not willing to save money. SIZZLING HOT BARGAINS. ?9 pairs Women's Oxfords, Imitation Dongola, sizes 5 to 8.38o pair 6 pairs Strap Sandals, bow and buokle. sizes 5 to 7, former price 75c 48o pair ll pairs Women's Oxford Tips, value $1.25.95o pair Hen's Genuine Vioi Shoos, value $2.50.$1.95 pair badiep'White Undervests, taped neok. 5o each Loo quality, elegantly trimmed Undervest. 10o each ibo quality, elegantly trimmed Undervest. 15o each >0 dozen Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, value 10c, for. 5a each vv into Drop Stitoh Hose, all the rage.15o pair Black Drop Stitoh HOBO, 15o kind. .10c pair Summer Corsets, 50o value. . 25c eaoh 48 LADIES' HATS. M\ 85c and $1.00 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. . 69o \11 $1.25 and $1.35 Ladies* Trimmed Hats. 79o IUI $1.50 and $1.65 Ladies' Trimmed Hats. 89b ?Ul $1.75 and $1.85 Ladies* Trimruod Hats.,.... 98o Ml $2.00 and $2.25 Ladies' Trimmed Hats.$1.19 Ml $2.50 and $2.75 Ladies' Trimmed Hats.$1.49 LOT OF EMBROIDERY. i and 3 inch wide, worth from 5c to 8o yard, Saturday and Monday you buy it for.... 3Jo yard 200 yards Spool Cotton, Saturday and Monday. lo spool 'net Gentlemen's Handkerchiefs, Saturday and Monday. lo each \ fe v Suspenders. Saturday nnd Monday. 5o pair MEN'S SHIRTS. iOo Shirts, now.25c '5o Shirts, now.48c 11.25 Shirts, now.98o Glen's Hose, blue, blaok and tan, value 10c.>,. 5o pair Joys' Duck Caps, white, red and blue. 5o eaoh GENTLEMEN'S UNDERWEAR-A special lot at a speoial price. STRAW HATS-Specially priced. CREPE PAPER-For c'scoration, 10 feet in a roll, ?old everywhere for Oe a roll, our -vice 10c a roll. Don't forget us when in need of a good COOK STOVE. These prices aro not baits-take as many or as few as you like. Buy these and nothing else if you prefer. Come, you will be weloome. Yours always truly; JOHN A. AUSTIN ANO THE MAGNET. Lud the 5c and 10c Store-The Man dowa next to the Post Office that Sella . .<> . the Best