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YOL. 1 NO. 194.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906.
FLAMES TERRORIZE
PEOPLE IN WRECK;
SEVERAL ARE KILLED
Georgia Tech, One of the Mainsprings of Atlanta's Greatness, Is in Need of a Small Amount of Money;
$5,500 Is Needed to Close Option on Lots For Enlarging Campus, and Atlanta Must Subscribe It;
South's Great Institution Must Cease to Grow Unless More Room Is Provided For Its Expansion
TECHCALLS
FOR HELP
IN NED
Would Purchase Two
Lots to Enlarge
Campus.
Southern Fast Train
Crashes Into a
Freight. *
ENGINEER KINNEY
KILLED INSTANTLY
Flagman Dies of Injuries.
Passengers Leap From
Windows in Their
Terror.
SA VED IN ONE WRECK,
BUI KILLED INNEXJ
Engineer George Kinney, who wbh killed In the wreck on the South
ern railwuy at Danville, Va., early on Saturday, was the engineer of the
paaaenger train which on Thanksgiving Duy plowed Ita way. Into a train
at Lawyers, Vo., killing Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern, and
other persons.
In the Lawyers wreck, Klmiey stuck to his post and was only slightly
injured, being able to take up his run again in a few days.
ACCUSED OF CRIME,
TURNAGE MUST FACE
VICTIM AT HOSPITAL
S|hsIu1 lo The Ueorglnu.
Danville, Va., Dec. 8.—Engineer.Geo.
Kinney, who, on last Thursday morn
ing stuck to his post on the engine of
train No. 37 as it plowed Its way Into
llte private-ear of President Samuel
Spencer, was this morning killed out
right, together w ith an unknown man,
while live others were Injured, one of
whom died later In a hospital here, and
another of whom Is uot expected to
live, nil the result of a reur-end col
lision which occurred on the main line
of iho Southern scarcely two hours’
fide from the scene of the other wreck.
v Negro Fireman May Die.
The two trains Involved were So.
>. I.‘ a fast freight train which was
stsndlhr on -tbo-tenek'abour 300 yards
south of the lutssenger station In this
city, and So. 34. a fast passenger train
fi-om Jacksonville lo the North, which
while running at a rale of speed ex
ceeding 25 miles an hour, turned u
sharp curve and crashed’ Into the ca
boose of the front train.
Fireman George Ford, a negro. Jump
ed from his engine as soon as he saw
I lie danger and sustained Injuries
which will probably prove fatal.
Flagman Held Responsible.
i). J. Mull, the ftagmun of the freight
train, and who Is said by the railway
authorities to be responsible for the:
wreck, died at a hospital soon after j
being taken from the scene.
O. O. Haller, a postal clerk, anti H. j
Patterson suffered slight Injuries.
WRECKAGE IS DESTROYED
BY FLAMES THAT START.
Richmond. Va.. Dec. 8.—Passenger
train No. 34 of the Southern railway,
north-bound, run Into the rear of
north-bound freight train No. 84, Just
south of Danville, Va.. at an early hour
this morning.
Engineer George Kinney, of the pas
senger train, was killed anil Ills fire
man badly injured. Two others are re
ported killed, but their Identity Is not
yet known.
The accident was remarkably simi
lar to that on the same road about 50
miles north of Danville, In which Pres
ident Samuel Spencer was killed.
The wreckage Is reported tp have
been destroyed by lire.
8LEEPING PER80NS THOUGHT
TO HAVE BEEN BURNED.
Danville, Va., Dec. 8.—Firemen from
this city went to the scene of the wreck
and engaged In a desperate battle with
the raging flames. At noon the tons
of freight and two score or more pas-
sehgers and freight cars were still
burning. It Is thought that several
persons who were sleeping In the curs
were burned to death.
The derailed engine, which afterward
caught Are, tore down telegraph ami
telephone wire poles and because of
that fact It Is difficult to obtain necu-
, rate reports from the scene of the
wreck. All trains have been delayed
because of the burning debris and de
struction of the tracks by the Humes.
Brakemsn Are Missing.
The wreck Is said to have been
caused In the same manner us the one
on Thanksgiving day, when nn oper
ator let a train Itnve a block which was
occupied. The operator at the first
block south of this city Is ullegcd toi
HUSBAND SA YS BURNING
IS PROPER PUNISHMENT
p. D. Comstock, husband of Mrs. Carrie Comstock, Is highly Incensed
over the brutal attack on his wife Friday afternoon, and declares If he was
permitted to deal Justice to Robert E. Turnuge. who Is accused of being the
•assailant, he would burn him at the stake.
Standing pn the steps at the police station. Me. Comstock said:
“If I had that man out here In the street l would burn him. If I was
allowed to deal with hint, he would not hang and lie would not be shot,
hut he would die In flames. Arid I believe I would have plenty of-help iu
burning him, too. He Is In the Itundaatf the law now, however, and I will
let the law take its course.” .
Mr. Comstock was formerly latter at the Tower, anil he remarked:
"I have locked up hundreds of men on tills same charge, but I never ,
thought this thing would over come boute to me.”
Prisoner Denies Guilt
and Says Has
Alibi.
MRS. COMSTOCK IS
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Ilor Husband Visits Accus
ed Man in Coll at Police
Station.
Uaiil.v le-atetl and bruised and suf
fering from terrible nervous shock, Mrs. J
Carrie Comstock, of 38 South'Hum
phries street, wife of C. D. Comstock,
a meter reader for the waterworks dr • j
pnt tment. Is lying on a cot In the Tab
ernacle Infirmary, the result of a bru
tal attack und attempt at assault Fri
day 'afternoon at the home of J. W.
Turnage, at Jones avenue and Edwards
street.
Robert E. Turnge. 26 years of age.
son of J. W. Turnage, Is held prisoner
In a cell at the police station accused
of being Mrs. Comstock's assailant.
Turnnge protests that he la Innocent
and declares he will be able to prove
an alibi. Detective f’onnally and Plain
Clothes Officers Rosser and Clark ar
rested the young man Friday night In
Bullock’s saloon In Marietta street.
25,000,000
RUSSIANS
STARVING
Women Barter Them
selves to Save
Families.
MURDER IS DONE
BY THE STARVING
Georgia School of Technology is educating 500 men
for our factories and the things that develop the
South.
One of the professors has been down with nervous
prostration for three months as the result of night
and day work in loyalty to the great school, because
there is not money enough even to employ suf
ficient teachers. His salary was one hundred dollars
a month. His brother is employed in one of At
lanta’s banks, and each month has the pleasure of
cashing the salary draft for $150 of one of the profes
sors of a negro institution in Atlanta supported by
Northern kindness.
The Georgian, for one, raises its voice and its gold to
give the great Tech what it absolutely needs..
It needs ground—$7,500 will get it before January 1
—no amount of money could get it after that date.
Of this needed amount, $2,500 is already on hand.
Professor Matheson, we put. our name down for
$250 of the remaining $5,000. God bless you.
F. L. SEELY, Publisher.
Horrible Stories of Existing
Conditions Reach Out
side World From the
Tortured Dis
tricts.
Crowded Buildings Necessi
tate Use of Makeshift
Rooms.
London. Dec. 3.—The ileum News
Service bureau here has received dis
patches from many points In Rusala,
which show that 25,000,000 men, women
and children arc starving to death,
amkl appalling conditions of misery and
suffering. ’ 1\“mine Is sweeping over
the Ret i• • i. empire os a torturing
signing
ThO ulujc to which things have come
ann; iji. t,, tens of thousands of per-
tthrsa tnui'.in lining# Is almost ,lnde-
isiTlbffidc. The bare facts read, Itko a
-J bighinmri "wt il|st,mlddlc ages. Frartr street
Disease Is 8oreading. Edgewood avenue 2
VlxLl there Is little or none. Rob- Grant Park ....; T
b.ry and murder are Wttneased Ip the Formwalt street 1
streets of the villages and town*. The Williams street 2
I rountry Is ravaged.for such foot! as Pair street 1
''there la. I
Disease—scurvy, typhoid anil the I those are not now schools to je
plugin—are spreading In a flame of built on thoso streets. The figures rep-
; contagion; fathers arc selling their resent the number of busement rooms
i daughters Into the slavery of Moham-j—cellar rooms—Into which pupils have
; medans rather than see them die be- K „ „„....- , 1
I fore their eyes; the hitter grip of the to *>e crowded.
Russian winter is closing like cold steel | And It wns one of those rooms tlint
’ on the people—it Is a spectacle of the i was formerly used ns a c6al room. That
depths of human misery- unparalleled {was In Fair street school. But the chll-
I In the history of the modern world. , Iren kcpt lncreMln g In attendance and
Women S.I Themselves. so the coal had to be moved Into a
• , In ,h * " ,tle ' Tetyuschl hou „ „ le ,, ard and , |u|e chtIdren
alone, within the last few days, eight were put In this room to take the plaoo
NINE DARK CELLARS ARE
USED AS SCHOOLROOMS
FOR ATLANTA CHILDREN
BEST THEY CAN DO
WITH PRESENT FUND
Tartar maidens have been sold to deal
ers In white slaves, at prices ranging
; from 134 to 892 each.
Russian peasants near Astrakhan are
j t:iking their wives and daughters to the
city und selling them In order lo buy
i bread. Women are bartering them-
■ selves to provide food for their stnrv-
| Ing husbands und children.
ROBERT E. TURNAGE.
Prisoner at police station, accused
of attack on woman.
near Broad. The officer* • assert they
are satlsjled the young man, is gpllty.
.Mrs. Comstock’s condition Is not con
sidered serious, although st)« Is suf
fering considerably Saturday. She was
terribly beaten hy her- assailant, an
ugly gash being cut on her head, her
nose broken, one of her eyes almost
Continued on Page Three..
OWNER DYING IN ATLANTA
WHILE STORE BURNED IN
HIS SOUTH CAROLINA HOME
Widow of Suicide
Follows Him To
Grave.
John W. Baker, of
Batesviile, Passes
Awav.
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O REAL SUNDAY WEATHER O i death for a week. Mrs. Georgia Coop-
train have not been seen or heard from
and there le a possibility of tlirlr hav
ing been roasted under the burning
cars.
People Leap From Windows.
A wrecking crew left Danville as
soon as news of the collision reached
here, and a large force of men Is at
work clearing the track and linking
for bodies.
Scene, attending the wreck were pa.
thttlc. Men, women and children were j extent Glut the Journey home w
all but parolyxed with fear when they I ennnnenced Saturday
last In Atlanta
flames were
White John W. Baker, of Batesburg.
have allowed No. 34. which was some | H , c„ and a prominent cltlsen of that j jj
minutes behind time. In on the block; of , he stat( , t , vaK breathing hla '
before the freight hail cleared the five
miles of track.
The passenger train was going fust,
and overtook the freight Inside the
block. The brakemtn on the Weight q{ wh|e „ „ e wa , the mana .
gei. an«l by the lime the dying man
lost‘In the battle with death, hi* *tore
WAH A total lo**
About ten day* ago Mr. Huker earn*
to Atlanta for treatment ami It wa*
thought he would *«*>n he able to re
turn to hi* home. III fact, he had writ-
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O Forecaster Marbury ha* opened 0
0 hh bent ran of weather and If the O
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0 enjoy fair and wanner weather.O
0 tonight and Sunday. The attnos- O
0 phere will remain bracing and Ju*t 0
0 cool enough to be c»1»p and lit for O
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d»covered the l«rg e g • £ £; ;; ” ;; ;;«» *££ %
store -of the Batesburg Manufacturing O it a. tn. .. .. .. ..47 degrees O
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he was dying reached Batesburg. Are
of cool.
Of course the room was fixed up after
the coal was removed and was mado to
look like it school room, but before this
was done It wss necessary to dig out a
lot of dirt ami all this con now be seen
piled In the yard.
None of the school officials wanted to
put children Into cellars—basement
rooms. But there were no new schools
to take care of the Increase, so It had to
be done.
In tha Fair 8tr.«t.
In tho Fair street school there are
four of these basement rooms, bu{ only
one of them Is used as a school room. In
the others they store rubbish.
They formerly used all of these rooms
for school purposes, but they had to
stop It. The children became sick-and
the doctors said this sickness was
caused by these rooms; said they were
damp and unhealthy. Ro the children
had to pe turned out. They still keep
one for the children, however. This Is
, the one that was formerly devoted to
I coal. Tho school authorities didn’t
wont to use It this year when school
opened, because they knew what the
doctors said about the others, but the
t tendance Increased so rapidly that Ita
e was necessary.
Two in Frazer street.
„ In the Fraxer street school they use
two of these rooms In the basement,
but fortunately the congestion In this
school will soon be relieved by the Pry
or street school—that new- structure
which is n model In Its line.
These basement rooms—cellar rooms,
they might Justly be called—have hoard
floors above those of cement. Of course
they are close to the ground, and that
means they are damp. The school au
thorities found out that they rotted out
so quickly that It was necessary to put
In new ones every little while.
They don't want to crowd children In
cellars and basements, but they are
compelled to under the circumstances.
This Full- street school Is one of those
old-fashlimod frame structures which
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THE INVITATION.
O December 6, l»o*. O
O Mr! Luther Rosser, O
O President Board of Education, O
O Atlanta. Ga. O
0 Jty Dear Mr. Rosaer: The (leor- 0
o glan wishes, through the board of O
O education, to give the 10,000 white O
o school children of Atlanta on ob- o
0 Jert lesson In uewspaper-maklng. O
0 IVe believe such nn opportunity 0
O would have splendid educational 0
O effect ulong practical lines and a
0 would Impress upon them much O
O that they do not know about the O
0 production of a great dally news- a
O paper. O
0 To bring title about. The Gear- O
O glan extends nn Invitation through a
0 you to the children of Atlanta lo O
S visit Ite building and see how a 0
newspaper Is made up, published O
S and distributed. 0
Every detail of the publication '0
O of The Georgian will be shown 0
O ttiem with on re and attention, 6
O and In the most effective manner 0
O for their Instruction. O
0 IVe would suggest that. one 0
0 school visit our plant on each O
S Friday afternoon between 2 and 4 D
o’, ‘
MUST HAVE ROOM
OR CEASE TO GROW
Unless Option Is Exercised
Land Will Pass Irrevo
cably from Reach.
er, of 228 Irn street, who wns terribly
cut and beaten with a hatchet hy her
husband. John F. Cooper, who then shot
and killed himself, died at the Grady j
Hospital at noon Saturday.
After being taken to the hospital,
Mrs. Cooper at first showed signs of
Improvement and the physicians bad
holies of her' recovery.' A feu-
ago, however, she took a turn fur the
worse and continued to sink until Sat - |
urdiiy at noon, when she lirenthed her
lust. ,
Before killing himself, Cooper xtiuck!
his wife several terrific blows In the I
head with the sharp edge of u hatchet. 1
Her throat was also cut and siie was
otherwise brulHed. Tile tragedy occur-
real Friday nlgiit. eight days ago. i ,, ,
special to The Georgian.
Mrs. E. J. LsHatts III. New Orleans, Dec. 8.—The defense in
•Mrs. Elizabeth J. LaHatte Is very III the trial of Mrs. Angte Birdsong,
at her home In Garnett street. Hite Is ,.),argoil with murdering Dr. Thomas
82 years of age and has been In de- riutler. today continued its efforts to
Georgia School of Technology’,
the greatest educational institu
tion of Atlanta, the most widely;
known technological school in ihc
South, the school that has.done
more to advertise and develop the
interests and prosperity of Atlan
ta than any other institution with
in its limits, is in need of help.
It is overcrowded on its present
small enmpus, and unless it is pro
vided with more room, its growth’
will he stunted and the great good
which the enlargement of the
school would cause, botli to the
city anil the state, will be lost.
Ur. K. G. Matheson. president of
tho Georgia School of Technology,
has appealed to the residents, espe
cially the business men, of Atlan
ta for aid in expanding the school.
I)r. Matheson only asks for an in
crease of about three acres in the
campus, in order to give him room
in which to Imild several much
needed buildings.
OPTIONS EXPIRE JAN. 1.
Options ore held by Dr. Mnthe-
son on two lots in the % immediate
vicinity of the school. These lots
are valued at the present time at a.
total of $7,500—$4,000 for one ami
$11,500 for the other. The options
will expire January 1, and unless
the lots are bought by.that time, it
is probable that opportunity to se
cure them will he lost forever.
The owner intends building resi
le deuces on them after January 1, if
public achool term In Atlanta, The .. ... . . •
Georgian In to have the honor nn-1 ] the property la not bought by that
pleasure of playing hunt to a delegation time,
of Atlanta school children.
I'clock.
With very best wishes, ■
Ever sincerely yours.
F. L. SEELY,
Publisher.
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THE GEORGIAN IS TO
BE HOST OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN
Only $2,000 is at present avail
able toward the purchase of the
lots. Of this amount $1,500 wns
contributed by the state. The re
maining $500 of the amount at
hand was recently given in pri
vate subscriptions by four men.
Ur. Matheson only asks that the
public of Atlanta contribute $5.-
•unAn N*nnn mam i 300 toward the enlargement of an
AT HOME SHE LIVED.! institution from which they have
Special to The Georgian. ! received hundreds of thousands of
An Invitation from The Georgian ex
tended to the *chool children, through
the board of education, fer one *chool
at a time to vl*lt The Georgian build
ing, Innpect Ita plant and see how n big
dally newspaper la made, ha* been ac
cepted.
The Georgian believe* It will be abta
to make Uie*e weekly vl*lt* pleaaant
and Inatructlve for the children, and
every effort will be put forward to thin
end.
. s —•loe.'Vahiter { dollars worth of benefit.
CAMPUS VERY SMALL.
was killed last night by Lynda Estes,!
both colored. It la aaiil they lived In i
the aamo house and trouble between !
the E*te« woman and webtter’a wife! The campus of Georgia School
waa the cauae of the deed. This wan
the farm of Captain 8. 8. Rose, near
this city.
was built In 1873, and all the room, arc
heated by stoves—rather primitive,
school architects say in tlila day.
All told, there are nine of these cellar
rooms where the little children are
crowded to lie taught, but perhaps
thing* will be better when Atlanta peo
ple realize the necessity for digging
deep in municipal pockets and building
more schools.
■ EMOTIONAL INSANITY
THE LINE OF DEFENSE
IN BIRDSONG CASE
whs discovered In his store anil when dining health for the imat two years. th( . o H emotional loianltv
,'»• —•» - b.M.viss
,,, that he had Improved to such an *°*“ Baker wa* dead, the think there L, little hope for her re-
u>n mai u* u* 1 " » ;*to»e wa$t (le*troye«|. 1 vr.very.
I Before coming to Atlantu All. Baker!.. 8 ' 10 *? the moih*r .ilDil’. B. La-
VAN MiiffPt-inir from r.*M«»*. in iioman.L.. Hate, M. T. IeU>lait*», Ml** I unnlo La-
!.!!„! ! * Indigestion. | BIlfI Mrv p i^ntmtckl. of At
Mr*. Hfrdnong <lf«l not appear dis
turbed over the evidence of Dr. Alford j be had an
given yesterday, when the phy*lclan! •°****
declared the woman wa* not insane.
with tho defense'* attorney*.
A. Heilman wa* called to the *tand
and for half an hour a tilt between
attorney* occurred, during which the
defence demanded "a fair play at jus
tice and common honesty” from the
bench. Heilman wa* called to prove
l>r. Butler bad, while Intoxicated, stat
ed In the presence of the wltne** that
ngagcinimt with Mm. Blrd-
Continued on Page Three.
The court ruled out nil evidence
•'H* hsd a reh:p,c Saturday and wen, «., Graenvl,,,.. S.C. tor 15SE ami "jSsLaT’ lfTSSSr^ rfi "or. o7 «7 ^ I {hSl"*U^ hSSS
an i who; u telegram to the effect that treatment, and then he came hero. X'hlindrlf Mu. #.*-•« Iloepltnl staff, occupied a eeai' were communicated to Mr*. Birdsong,
of Technology at the present tim
is only sixteen acres in extent.
The campus of Vanderbilt Univer
sity is 75 acres in extent und other
institutions in the .South have
large campuses. Vanderbilt uni
versity has only about 250 more
students than Georgia Tech,
though the former institution lias
59 acres more on which to pliu-e
its educational buildings. It is
readily seen by examination of
other institutions of learning iu
tho South, that Georgia Tech has
an extremely small campus iu
comparison. The wonder is that it
has been able to do the magnifi
cent work it has achieved in such
small space as a working basis.
The institution has 545 students,
who arc crowded into the build
ings which Dr. Matheson has
found room for on the small cam
pus. The school has had a tre
mendous expansion in thi- post
few years, und is still growinc
rapidly. The enrollment this year
is larger than ever before. Geor
gia Tech is at the height of its
prosperity. The demand for ernd-
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