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Organs, Buggies.
Vol. XIX.—I 6 Pages.
; FLOODS REAPING AWFUL
TOLL OF DEATH.
Hardly a Town in Ohio or
Indiana That has Not Suf
‘ fered in Life and
Property.
Chicago, March 25. —Floods al
most unprecedented in area, fol
lowing the tornadoes and rains
of the last three days, today
swept four states of the Mississip
pi valley causing a loss of life
that may reach into the hundreds
damaged property amounting to
many millions of dollars. Ohio
Indiana, and in a lesser degree
lilinois and Missouri, felt the
brunt of the disaster. <
At Dayton scores of persons
jire reported drowned, following
the breaking of the Miaina river
levee and the Larmie rgserypir,
fifty miles above the city.
When the Associated Press cor
respondents wired, on reaching
the city anxiety caused by exag
gerated reports of loss of life
was set at rest, although there
was great difficulty in obtaining
details. /
Marooned in office buildings in
the center of the town, hundreds
of persons were vainly awaiting
• rescue. Streets heretofore eonsid
esred miles from danger line are
running eight feet of water, the
torrential force of which preclud-
es rescue.
Millions of dollars in property
" damage has already been incurrec
and the flood is still on the in
crease.
From Indianapolis came reports
of 100,000 homeless throughout
Indiana and a property loss reach
ing the enormous figure of 20,000
000 in cities, towns and villages
alone. This does not include the
losses to farmers. The loss of
life, while not so great as in Ohio
has not yet been estimated.
The climax of the flood in Ohio
ivas reached at Dayton, where
tonight it was reported that the
water is twenty to forty feet
deep in many streets that bodies
were floating past the windows
of office buildings, and that the
eastastrophe assumed the pro
portions of a tidal wave.
Dayton, Ohio, March 25—Day
ton except for its most remote sul
urbs tonight was covered from?
eight to twenty feet with a -eeth
mg tlood of water.
Any attempt to estimate the,
loss of life is hopeless. It is
sure to run into the thousands.
The property loss will total
millions of dollars. The flooded
\ Mstrict comprises a practical cir
fole with a radius of a mile and a
•rdf and in no place is the wat v
less than six feet deep.
In the main street, in the
down town section the water is
twenty feet deep.
The horror of the flooded dis
trict is heightened by more than
a dozen fires which can be seen
the flooded district, but which
Ware out of reach of the fire fight
** ers. Most of the business houses
and nearly all yf the residences
have occupants. Down town tin
offices are filled with men, fa
k thers unable to get home.
The upper floors and on some
of the roofs of the residences are
women and children. Hundreds
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Hayes Draws Three Months.
Henry Hayes,just about the sor
riest negro in Winder, drew three
months on the streets at the
hands of Mayor Ferguson Tues
day night. Ilenry has had a hab
it of beating his wife once a,
week, it is said, forthe last twelve
or'fourteen months. But Henry
walloped her once too much, and
now it is up to this city’s ‘ ‘ unde
sirables” to put on crepe for the
loss of one of their comrades,for
Ilenry is up against it. When he,
has satisfied the city for this dis
orderly conduct, it is said he will
be handed over to the City Court
of Jefferson to answer to the
charge of wife beating.
A Healthful Sign
Last Sunday was banner Sun
day for the Sunday schools of the
city in point of number in atten
dance. Five hundred and ninety
eight attended the different Sun
day schools Sunday morning. A
cordial invitation is extended
evdry man, woman and child in
the city to attend these Sabbath
schools.
Tiger Goes to Streets.
Monday night at Mayor’s court
Homer Patman, one of Winder’s
undesirable negroes, got part of
what was coming to him for ped
dling blind tiger boose. Mayor
Ferguson sent him to the streets
for four months.
“Masher” Gets Heavy Penalty.
Leo D. Varien, a waiter, must pay a
fine of SSOO or b?g:n to serve 180 days
in tne penitentiary—the heaviest sen
tence ever imposed at Buffalo, N. Y.,
on a “masher.” Varien, was con
victed of pressing unwelcome atten
tions on a 16-year-old girl.
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In Hurry for Another Husband.
Twenty-eight minutes after Judgt
Rooney had entered a decree of di
vorce at Henderson, Ky., separating
Mrs. Effie Allen from her husband of
only'a few months, he performed th
ceremony, wedding her to Ernest
Clark.
Cooked Alive In Vat.
Samuel Treadaway, aged 25, slipped
into a vat of the Swift packing plant
at New Orleans, containing 10,OOC
gallons of boiling beef fat, and wa?
cooked alive. The heat was 200 de
grees Fahrenheit. He was rescued in
a minute, but died immediately.
WK ARE BUILDING A CITY HERE.
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, March 27th, 1913.
QUEEN SOPHIA.
FATAL AUTO CRASH
AT ROME, GA,
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Prominent People Victims 01
Accident
TOURING CAR~TURNS TURTLE
As Car Was Being Driven Rapidly
Down Grade a Sharp Curve Was En
countered and the Machine Was
Hurled Over Embankment.
Mrs. Carlton Wright was killed;
Mrs. Sam Powers seriously injured,
and Mrs. Julian Cummings, Miss Lucy
Goetchius and Miss Gussie Ross pain
fully bruised and cut when their tour
ing car turned turtle on the Spring
Creek road, about a mile from Rome,
Ga.
The car was being driven rapidly
down grade and, at the base of a long
hill at a sharp curve, the chauffeur, E.
Rogers, a negro, tried to pass
wagons loaded with fertilizer. The au
tomobile plunged over a 20-foot fill,
turning turtle twice and righted itself
facing the opposite direction.
TAKES HER OWN LIFE.
Weight Around Neck Wife of Farmer
Dies In Tank.
Mrs. C. L. Whitney, wife of a well
known citizen of Thomas county, com
mitted suicide by drowning in a water
tank at her home near Thomasville,
Ga.
Her husband found Mrs. Whitney
dead in the tank, with a rope tied
around her neck and a smoothing iron
attached to the other end. She had
been feeling unwell, and Mr. Whitney
had come from the fields twice to see
how she was. The last time, after
reaching the house, she was found in
the tank over the kitchen. She had
placed a chair at the side by which to
climb in.
It is thought that Mrs. Whitney’s
mind was affected, as about ten years
ago her husband states, she tried to
shoot herself in a fit of aberration. She
was about sixty years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney moved here
about five years ago from Ohio. Their
home was about 2 miles from town.
DEATH LIST FIFTEEN.
Two More Injured in Cyclone Die—
Children’s Bodies Found.
Two more deaths have been added
to the victims of the recent cyclone in
the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga. These are
Jasper Walraven, of Curryville, whose
wife was one of the first killed, and
Mrs. J. W. Hendricks, of Itosedale.
Both had received terrible injuries and
little hope had been held out for their
recovery.
The three bodies of the missing Bolt
children were found after a week of
fruitless search. The bodies were
found when the backwater from the
river receded. These victims were
mere children, aged 8, 10 and 12. Two
were so frightfully mangled that rec
ognition was difficult. All the missing
are now accounted for and the total
death list has now reached fifteen.
COTTON MAN INDICTED.
F. D. Tinsley, of Failed Firm, Accused
of Not Making Hood $22,000.
Fleming D. Tinsley, senior membei
of the firm of Tinsley & Hull cotton
exporters, was indicted at Savannah
by the Chatham county grand jury. He
is charged with larceny after trust of
more than $22,000 from Savannah
banks. This indictment follows the
failure earlier this month of Tinsley
& Hull.
The specific offense alleged is that
Tinsley negotiated warehouse receipts
held in trust. Tinsley has been prom
inent in business and socially. He
came to Savannah from Macon a few
years ago.
Killed.By Soothing Syrup.
Wrecked with insomnia John Bab
bitt of Wheeling, W. Va., prominent in
business and political circles, resorted
to a soothing syrup as an opiate and
went to sleep from which he nevei
awakened. He died of an overdose,
according to the coroner.
Mrs. A. L. Smith is somewhat
improved after being quite sick
for several weeks.
MARSHALL AT DESK.
Latest Pictur* of Visa Presi
dent Snapped at Washington.
0 by American Prs Association.
DYING WORDS AS WILL.
“See That My Wife Gets Insurance’
Held Binding.
The dying words of Adam Feussmer
who was mangled by a fall of rock in
the mines at Hazleton, were probated
at Wilkesbarre, Pa., as his last wil !
and testament. Feusssmer was heavilj
insured, but his policies wer made pay
able to his estate.
When he was being carried from the
mines after being caught in his cham
ber by a fall, he exclamed to the mer
who were carrying him out: “I arr
awfully hurt. I am going to die. Set
that my wife gets all my insurance.’
KILLED IN BOXING BOUT.
Tommy Lavelle Dies in Hospital Aftei
Knockout.
Tommy Lavelle, lightweight boxer
died in the Mercy hospital at Pitts
burg, Pa., from a fracture at the bast
of his skull received while boxing with
“Swats” Adamson of Brownsville be
fore the Young Men’s Republicar
Tariff club.
I nthe fourth round, after Lavellt
had rushed the fighting for t.hret
rounds, Adamson landed a terrific blow
to the face, felling Lavelle. Adamsor
will be arrested pending an investiga
tion.
LANDS $4,000 JOB.
Ralph Smith Will Superintend Index
ing Congress Records.
Ralph Smith, of Atlanta, a Wash
ington correspondent, has landed the
second good place that comes to Geor
gia under the new dispensation oJ
federal patronage.
Mr. Smith has secured the position
of directing the indexing of the con
gressional records. The position pays
$4,000 a year and is usually given tc
some newspaper men, as it permit.*
him to carry on his regular work. Tht
place is at the disposal of the printing
committee of the senate, of which Sen
ator Fletcher, of Florida, is chairman
INDIANS FEAST ON FOES.
Warlike Yaqui in the Interior of So
nora Kept Under Watch.
A tale of cannibalism came out oi
Mexico which struck terror into the
hearts of peace-loving Mexicans and
Americans living on the border. Aftei
the fighting north of Del Rio, accord
ing to this message, a band of fierce
and war-like Yacqui Indians, from the
deepest interior of Sonora, who are
fighting as allies of General Obregon’s
insurgent troops, held a feast and war
dance, eating the bodies of a number
of soldiers who were picked up on the
battlefield.
General Obregon, learning of the
barbarous practices of his Indian war
riors, forbade their eating human flesh
and a strict watch is now being kept
upon the Indians to prevent a recur
rence of the terrible orgies.
Mrs. Georgia Phipps,of Adairs
viile, who lias been visiting rela
tives in this city for the past ten
(1 vs. will return home the latter
part of this week.
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16 Pages.—No. 51
GOV. NORTHEN CLAIMED
BY DEATH.
Ncted Georgian Breathed His
Last at His Home in Atlan
ta Tuesday Morning.
Ex Governor William J. North
en , educator, churchman and
statesman, died at his home in At
lenta last, Tuesday morning at
31:15 o’clock, after a long lin
gering illness.
The funeral occurred Wednes
day morning at 11 o’clock.
Governor Brown ordered the
flags on the eapitol and other gov
eminent buildings lowered and
flown at half mast for ten days.
Ex-Governor Northen was
scarcely less prominent in the
educational life of the state than
lie was in the purely political and
known throughout the country
in religious circles.
Governor Brown says of him:
‘ Governor Northen spent much
of his life in the service of his
state and people. He gave the
best energies of a long and splen
did career to the public. As the
moulder of youthful minds, as leg
islator. ns chief executive, is
publicist as preserver of the rec
ords of our fathers and ns an ad
vocate of civic ideals and racial
developement, his figure stood
out ns one of the noblest and
purest with which Georgia has
been blessed.
“His sympathies were with the
weak and lowly. Ilis trust was hi
God, to whose voice he was e”er
attentive and to whose divine wi!
he. gave the best of his mind and
heart. His hope was in that re
ward which is gained by unself
ish devotion to eternal truths,
a reward earned and surely on
joyed by him. We find recom
pense for our sorrow in the last
ing friuts of his work, not ihe
least of Which is the enduring ax
ample of a spotless life left to
crown his memory.”
EALKIN ARMIES
Take Last of Turkish Strong
holds—Andiincple Hai
Fallen.
L nd< n. March 2d.—After two
days desperate fighting Tehatalja
has fallen into the hands (," the
Bulgarians, according to a tele
gram received tonight by the
Bulgar an legation at London.
Mustaph Pasha, March 2d.
The fortress of Andrianople was
taken by storm by the Bulgarians
this morning after fighting of the
most terrible character since Mon
day. Flames are devasting the
city.
Shukri Pasha, the Turkish com
mander-in-chief of Andrianople
committed suicide after the cap
ture of the city, according to a
news agency dispatch from Sofia.
Sofia, March 26. —It was an
nounced this morning that the
Bulgarian cavajry had rucceeded
in entering the besieged Turkish
fortress of Andrianople.
At an early hour this morning
fires were raging in vaious sec
tions of the besieged eity. The
maddened population, whose
n -rves had been shattered by al
m )St incessant, bombardment for
a period of over seven months,
was fleeing about the streets
ficm on* point to another, not
knowing here to find shelter.