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THE LEDGER.
Th ?rlow S. Carter,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
WEDNESDAY, SF.PTKMUER 12, 1000.
Managers of Hebron precinct
in Spurtanburg county reported
He yt's name erased on all tho
tickets issued by the county secretary.
Spot cotton in Liverpool tiftcon
cents ; That's the news that came
in the early morning hours at the
cotton exchange Monday. One
and a quarter cents advance.?
Greenville News.
Things look very rosy for the
cottontot. Many of the big mills
in this country aud England aro
out of cotton, and they have got
to have it?if not immediately
then later on. Shutting down
only delays the matter; and if the
farmers will hold on for good
prices they will get them.?
Greenville News.
A spocial to The State from
Williumston tells of three shoot
ings: )n Friday night Robert,
the IS year old son of das Chandler,
iu Greenville county, went
out with his gun to route chicken
thieves and accidentally shot himself.
dying almost instantly, .las
1 >\son accidentally shot his nephew
through the arm at I'olzer
Saturday morning. And Satur
(lay afternoon I'at Hindman
seriously wounded J A Boulan by
shooting him in the mouth. This
shooting was without provocation.
All the parties are white.
A Most Harrowing Accident.
Special to The State.
Newberry, Sept 9. ? Quite a
serious accident occurred to Mr
John Davenport of Deadfall section
yesterday evening while put
ting up u round lap press for Mr
Bob Schumpert about four miles
from town. In some way he was
caught in the press and his skull
was fractured. He is not expected
to recorer.
Major Hart Married.
Major James F Hart was married
at Chatham, Va, last Wednesday
afternoon at 1:30 to Mrs
Uel?ecea C Gricr, of that city.
It was the intention of the newly
married couple to go to Washington
and other cities on a abort
bridal trip, returning to Yorkville
today, or perhaps next
week. ? Yorkviile Enquirer.
A case of small pox is reported
in the vicinity of Catawba, in
Chester county.
Dipthcria is epidemic in the
region round about Yorkviile.
The total number of eases reported
during the past few weeks,
says the Enquirer aggregate more
than 100. Only three deaths had
occurred up to last Saturday?one
white, and two negro children.
The dispensary at Kingstree
was robbed Saturday night of
$ 136 worth of stuff. This makes
the fourth or fifth time this dis*
pensary has been robbed.
The State board purchased
nearly 5,000 barrels of whiskey
and about the same amount in
eftso goods last week to be distributed
to the dispensaries for sale
during the coming month.
l^ffHavo you pa;d your subscription
(
WANTED?ACTIVE MAN of good
Character to deliver and collect in
Mouth Carolina for old estaidished
manufacturing wholesale house. $900
a year, sure pay. Honesty more than
experience required. Oui reference,
any hank in any city. Enclose self
addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers,
Third Floor, 334 Dearborn
Ht., Chicago.
WILD WAVES AND THE '
WIND.
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Wreak a Sad Ruin in Poor:
Galveston, Gulf City. j
I
THREE THOUSAND LIVES ?
WERE LOST. <
1
Trains Were Blown About us 1
| Eggshells by the Wind Which 1
Carried the Deep Before
it and Drugged Great
Biddings Down.
I Chicago, Sept 0.?A dispatch
J to 'l'he Chronicle from Sun An!
tonio, Tex, says: The startling
news has just Hashed over the
wires informing .1 D Sayres that
a messenger at great risk of his
life has just reached Virginia
l'oint from Galveston with the
report that 2,500 are probably
dead as a result of the fearful
storm. An urgent appeal to all
, Texas is made for help. The
, messenger said that the grain ele
vators at the water front urn i
; wrecked and hundreds of build j
ings havo collapsed or were curried
out to sea. The greatest dis
tress is said to prevuil.
Houston, Tex, Sept ! , 10 p m.
!?The West Indian storm which
reached the Gulf coast yesterday
morning wrought awful havoc in
Texas. Reports are conflicting,
hut it is known that an appalling
disaster has befallen the city of
Galveston, where, it is reported,
a thousand or more lives have
been blotted out and a tremendous
property damage incurred.
Meagre reports from Sabine Pass
j and Port Arthur also indicate a
I heavy loss of life, hut these reI
ports cannot he confirmed at this
hour.
| The first news to reach this city
from the stricken city of Galves!
ton was received tonight. James
C Titnmono, who resides in Ilous
ton, and who is the generul sup;
erintendent of the National Compress
company, arrived in the
i city at 8 o'clock tonight from
{Galveston. He was one of the
tirst to reach here with tidings of
the great disaster which has hefallen
that city and the magnitude
of that disaster remains to he
told because of his undeaTors to
: reach home After remaining
through the hurricane of Satur
day, he departed from Galveston
on a schooner and caine across the
hay to Morgan's Point, w here he
caught a train for Houston. The
hurricane, Mr Timmunu said, was
the worst ever known.
The estimates made hy citizens
of Galveston was that 4,000
houses, most of them residences,
have heen destroyed and that at
least 1,000 people have heen
drowned, killed or are missing.
Some business houses were also
destroyed, hut most of them
stood, though badly damaged.
The city, Mr Timmons avers, '
is a complete wreck, so far as he
could see from the water front and
from the Tremont hotel. Water
was blown over the island hy the
i : 'i *
iMimcuue, ino winu blowing at the
rate of M) miles an hour, straight
from the (iulf, and forcing the
sea water before it in big wares, j,
The gale was a steady one, the
heart of it striking the city about .
5 o'clock yesterday evening and J
continuing without intermission
until midnight last night, when i* .
abated somewhat, although it con
tinned all night.
Of his knowledge, MrTimmons
knew ot only one houae succumbing
with fatal results, though he ,
heard of many residences being I
carried away with inmates. The '
house that he saw destroyed was '
Hitter's saloon and restaurant, at
2109 Strand street, a principal
business street of the city. This
three story building was blown
down ami nine men, prominent
citizens, were killed.
Secretary Bailey of the Wharf
company and several waiters and
customers saved themselves by
jumping from the upper story
just before the crash came.
It is reported that the orphan
tsylum and both hospitals were
lestroyed, and if this \ roves true
the loss of lite will he great, as
these institutions were generally
crowded and as they were subDtantiul
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that many had taken refuge in
them.
The water extended across the
island. Mr Thinning said it was
three feet deep in the rotunda of
the Treinont hotel and was six
feet deep in Market street.
Along the water front the damage
was very great. The roofs
had hcen blown from all the elovators,
and the sheds along the
wharves were either wrecked or
had lost their sules and were of
no protection to the contents.
Most of the small sailing craft
were wrecked and were either
piled up <>n the wharves or float
in<; side up in the bay. There is
a small steamship ashore three
miles north of l*elican island, but
Mr Timtnins could not distinguish
her name. She was flying a
British tlag. Another big vessel
has been driven ashore at Virginia
Point and still another is
aground at Texas City. At the
south point of Houston island an
unknown ship lias in a helpless
condition.
The lightship that marks Galveston
bar is hard and fast aground
at Bollivar Point.
Mr. Tiiumius and the men with
him on the schooner rescued two
sailors from the middle hay who
had been many hours in the water.
These men were foreigners and
he could gain no information from
them.
A wretfk of a vessel which
looked like a largo steam tug wan
observed just before the party
landed. In the bay the carcasses
of nearly 'J00 horses and mulctwere
seen, but no human body
was visible. The scenes during
the storm, Mr. Timmons said,
ecu Id not be Makcim Ua?I VV'.
V>N/X? ? ? V/U1V1I
and children wore crowded into
the Tremont hotel, where lie wad
seeking shelter, and all night
these unfortunates were bemoauing
their looses of kindred and
fortune. They were grouped
aho it the stairways and the gal leries
and rooms of the hotel.
What was occurring in the other
parts of the city lie could only
conjecture.
The city of Galveston, ho says,
is now entirely submerged and
cut oil from communication. The
boats are gone; the lailroads cannot
be operated and the water is
so high people connot walk out by
way of the bridge across the bay
even should that bridge be stand
ing.
Provisions w ill be badly needed
as a great majority of the people
lost all they had. The waterworks
power house was wrecked
and a water famine is threatened,
as the cisterus were all ruined liy
the overflow of salt water. This,
Mr. Timmons regards as the most
serious problem to be faced now.
The eity is in darkness, the Hec?
trie plant having been ruined.
There is no way of estimating the
property damage at present. So
far as he could see or hear, Mr.
Timmins says the east end portion
r>f the city, which is the resident
listrict, nas been practically wiped
aut of existence. On the west
end, which faces the Gulf on another
portion of the island, much
bavoc was done. The beach has
?een swept clean, bath houses are
leatroyed and many of the restfences
ai e total wrecks.
PABTORIA.
d?*r* tk? /% b* KimI Yn Hi* Ahnjrs fogta
OVER EVERY TOWN
In Texas, the Death Angel Keeps I
His Vigil. !
Houston, Tex., Sept9 ? A truin
came in on the Columbia Tap railroad
this alternoon and its crew
tell a story of death and desolation
in the country through which they
passed. Conductor Ferguson
states that houses, barnes, crops
and orchards have been destroyed 1
and great damage has been done. !(
A I ? * '
I /\ ij roroes, postal cietK, reported '
that at Gyster creek the train i'
crew and passengers heard cries 1
coming out of a pile of debris. .
Severul persons answered the cries ,1
and found a negro woman fastened
under a roof. Thev pulled J
her out and she informed her 1
rescuers that there were others '
under the roof. A further search 1
|
I resulted iti the finding of nine 1
(lead bodies, all colored persons. 1
When the train arrived at
: Angleton, all the churches, the j
jail and a number of of houses
hud been blown down. Three
fatalities are known to have oc
! cur red at Angleton, but the train
stopped there only a few minutes :
and the number killed or their
names could not be learned. i
At Angleton the conductor ;le i
cidcd to return to Houston, so ;
that the extent of damage beyond 1
Angleton is not known. On the <
return trip the crew saw the debris i
of dozens of demolished houses.
At Sunday Point several persons
were badly injured, but no fatali
Iic? 11 ci C I It'U.
At Areola a family named
WotTord hiul gathered in the
second story of thoir house. The
upper portion of the house was
11 blown away and Mr WolTord's
mother was instantly killed,
i The hurricane was particularly
severe at Hrookshire, '27 miles
west of Houst >n on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad. Four
1 dead bodies have been taken from
1 the debris of wrecked houses and
it is believed that' others have
1 been killed. It is reported that
1 only four houses are left standing
in Hrookshire, which had a popu
lation of COO persons. The names
i of the dead at Hrookshire cannot
J
i be learned tonight.
I
' Later reports received from
1' Alvin state that many persons
j were killed there. Eleven bodies
have been recovered.
A * I 1- AM ? f * '
| m LnmuiodK BITS. .Jane WOO(lstock
wuh killed hy a falling house;
Mrs. Nicholson and Louis Broquet )
were drowned. S K Mclnhenny,
wife and daughter, and Mrs. Lelioy
and two children are missing.
They are known to have l?een in
their cottages, which were destroyed.
The dead body of a sailor was
found under a cottage.
At Brazoria six people were ,
killed by falling houses or were
drowned last night, including
George Duff, son of Hon .1 F i
Duff. Judge Duff was himself
seveiely injured. Reports state
that only the court house and two
other buildings are standing there.
A report from Chenango says
that eight people wore killed.
KKL.1KF TRAIN BLOCK KI).
Found Prairie Covers! With
Debris and Dead Bodies.
Dallas, Texas, Sept 9.?The
following telegram waa received
from Houston hy The News:
Itelief train just returned. It
could get no closer than six miles
of Virginia Point, where the
prairie waa covered with lumber,
debris, pianos, trunks ami dead
bodies. Two hundred corpses
were counted from the train. A
large steamer is stranded two
miles this side of Virginia Point,
as though thrown up by a tidal
ware.
Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
Two men were picked up
who floated across to the mainland.
They sny they estimate the loss of
life up to the time the; left at
2,000.
THE DAMAGE IN HOUSTON
Will l>e More Than a Quarter of
a Million.
Houston, Texas, Sept 9.?The
storm that raged along the coast
of Texas last uight was the most
[lisastrous that has ever visited
this section. The wires are down
find mere is no way of finding out
just what has happened, but
enough is known to make it certain
that there has been great loss of
life and destruction of property
all along the coast and for a hundred
wilea inland. Every town
that is reached reports one or
more dead and the property damage
is so great that there is no
way of computing it accurately.
ALV1N WIPED OUT.
Not a House Left Standing in
Altalotna.
Houston, Tex., Sept 0 ? Meagre
reports are arriving here from the
country between Houston and
(ialvoston. Along the line of the
Sante Fo road the tornado was
the most destructive in the history
of the State. Hitchcock has
sutforcd severy from the storm,
while the town of Altaloma is voported
without u house standing.
I / t u ?
ij v?aruon, president of the
Business League of Avin, and a
prominent merchant there, reports
that not a building is lett standing
in the town, either residence
or business. Stocks of goods and
household furniture are ruined
and the crops are a total loss.
Alvin is a town of about 1,200
inhabitants. Seven person were
killed in and near the town.
The storm centre is rapidly
moving toward northern Texas,
and its fury wrecks all telegraph
lines in its path, doing vast dam
ago and killing people in scatter
ed localities.
Ten Thousand Lives.
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I'AKll SAY LOSSES
MAY REACH THIS
ALARMING NUMBER
IN TEXAS.
Forty Millions in Property Gone.
Six Thousand Houses in Galveston
Gone and Three
Thousand Lives.
Dallas, Sept 10.?The relief
forces sent to Galveston by the
railroad have wired that the loss
of life in that city and along the
coast will exceed live thousand and
may reach ten thousand.
The reports of the railroad officials
state that the number of
lives lost at Galveston alone will
exceed three thousand.
Now the awful prospect of
famine confronts the survivors on
almost all sides at Houston and
M-l -
vjrm vcsion.
Including the cotton crop, from
fifteen to twenty millions were
lost, and with Galveston and
Houston it will l>e as much more.
From Virginia points north and
south along the hay front, and
audi places as Texas City, Dick*
mson, Hitchcock, Seahrook, Al
in and intermediate points.
The number of dead bodies
that were gathered up by the rescue
trains and sailing crafts,
reached, at noon, more than seven
hundred.
Hundreds were swept out to
sea.
Six thousand houses were destroyed
at Galveston.
Provisions are scarce and hundreds
of corpses are floating in
the streets.
The situation is appailing.
The big British steamship
vi ?w r m\ a r* r* u ^
foundered in the hay at thebeighlt
of the storm.
About a hundred and fifty Rallying
vessel# of every description
were wrecked. Six steamersashore
in the hay.
The wh' le city was in darkaess>
last night, and water is selling at.
one dollar a p;nt.
New Orleans, Sept 10.?The
following was received from Mr
Hayes, a well-known nowspnj>or
correspondent throughout the
uouth:
Houston, Tex. ? 1 have just arrived
froui Ga'veston by boat.
Storm destroyed $16,000,000
property and 1,500 lives lost.
National aid asked for.
Reports from Sherman, Texas.,
say that the cotton crop in the
(Antral and Southern part of thestate
are terribly damaged by the
storm. It is impossible at thi^
time to tell the full extent of the
damage, but it is feared that more
than half is lost.
Galveston, Sept 10.?Stalling
as soon as the water began to recede
a relief party began thtwork
of rescuing the wounded
and dving from the ruins of their
I
hames.
The scenes that were presented
cannot be told of in a prosaic
manner. It is not possible to do
it Screaming women bruised
and bleeding, some of them bear
iog the lifeless forms of children
in their arms, men broken and
sobbing, bewailing the loss of
their wives and children; streetstilled
with lloating rubbish, among
which there were many bodies of
the vi time of the storm, constituted
nart of th?
In every direction, as far :u* theeye
could reach, the scene of doacIntion
and destruction continued.
The report from St Mark's infirmary
shows that only eight
persons escaped from that ho*
pital. Tho numbef of patient*and
nurses could not he ascertained,
but ordinarily tho number of
inmates was seldom under 100.
EVERY HOME A TOMB.
There is scarcely one of the*
houses left standing which do not
contain one or more of the dcml
as well as many of tho injuretL
100 SOLDIKKS PKRI8II.
The loss of life among the sol
dicrs in the barracks, which wort-*
destroyed, must have teen fulb
100, and perhaps later reports ill
swell the list.
Washington, Sept 10.?llie
following dispatch was received
here this afternoon from Galveston,
under today's date.
"Fifteen hundred to twenty-six.
hundrecl persons killed, a city almost
in ruins, a property loee
of 150,000,000, the wharf front
entirely gone, every ocean steamer
in the harlmr apnn.i?.i -:'1
. .?v? UIMICM, ? il2? S
money loss that cannot l>o estimated
no v, is, so far as con beleal
ned ot this hour, is a resume
of the appalling calamity that has
befallen Galveston.
The loss of life is placed by tx/me
at 10,000. The streets art
strewn with the remains of drowa
od,sixty bodies being found in or*block."
GOV. SAYKi;rS K ACQUISITION
He Wants 10,000 tents and 50,?
000 Kations?The Keenest
Granted.
Washington, Sept 10.?Go*
Sayres, of Texas, has applied to
the War Department for 10,000
tents und 50.000 rations
4ui am
1 mediate uso for the sutTorera
| from Saturday's atorm. AvJiap
Secretary Meiklejohn issued an
order granting the requttitTheae
tents will he sent from San
Antonio and JefTorson Barrack*,.
Mo. It is exacted that a Ur^e
portion of the rations can he procured
at San Antonio. If ?otr
they will he sent from Kaasa*
Citv.
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