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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 (Continued on page 8-) [I ' vsr / XT' \r Contort of King Constan tine, New Ruler of Greece. litesi . ■ . ' fc.:i .. - ►..* - ' 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. i 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, _________ 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. •jinn ' 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.