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TRIBUNE.
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CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE 19. 1902.
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NO. 22.
KWH. DESTROYED
IN CONFLAGRATION
Alexander City, Alabama,
Wiped Off the Earth.
DREARY WASTE OF RUINS LEFT
Dwellings, Also, in Path of Fire
are Reduced to Ashes-Appeal
for Aid Sent Out.
BILL ARPS’ LETTER
William Had Heart Trouble and
Thought His Time Had Come-
TOOK MORPHINE, DREAMED DREAMS
In Hallucination He Quotes Jingling
Poetry—Says H e Will Survive the
Wreck of Matter and the Crash
of Worlds.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory of Alexander City, Alabama, Oc
curred Friday, every house In the town
being totally destroyed. The Are
broke out in the Robinson machine
shop and foundry about 1 o’clock,
caused by a ladle of molten Iron, and
spreading from this to Arthur Moon’s
store, block 8 was soon in a mass of
flames.
The flames shot across Union street
and caught the Citizens’ bank building
in the center of block 7, and from this
point the flames eat their way In both
directions until every business house
on block 7 was totally destroyed, In
cluding the large three-story Alabama
hotel.
From the Alabama hotel the flames
went across the Central railroad
tracks and burned the Central depot,
together with all stores and the large
cotton platform, Including several hun
dred dollars worth of reaping machin
ery just arrived, two loaded cars
standing on the track and all office
furniture and railroad fixtures.
The flftmp* ej>read from thls-to
”3 and caught the law building. At
this moment the Are alfco broke across
from block 8 to the east end of the
same block, making this block burn
with rapidity from both ends. In this
block were the largest merchants
of the town, including the Alexander
City bank bulldtng, M. F. Falker’s liv
ery and S. J. Nolen’s sale stables and
one large cotton warehouse.
The Are district covers three busi
ness blocks totally destroyed, besides
ten residences aud the beautiful First
Methodist church and parsonage.
No exact estimate of the actual loss
can be made just at present or the
amount of insurance carried, but It can
be ctated now that as a rule all the
business men of the town have been
fairly well insured. It Is estimated
that the Are damage Is at least a quar
ter of a million, with Insurance of
1200,000.
An AppeaJ fer Aid.
The following appeal for assistance
has been issued by the city authori
ties:
| Alexander City, Ala., June 13.—The
entire business portion of the town
of Alexander City and many homes
Were consumed by a terrible fire this
evening. Many people are left desti
tute. Not one business house of any
kind 1» left, nor hotel. Among those
\eft destitute and homeless are several
widows Who had established moderate
business bouses. The outside world
will find grateful hearts here for what
ever immediate help Is dispatched.
Make contributions payable to Dr. M.
J. Coley, president of famine relief
^ committee, and address all communi
cations to him. . .
BENJ. RUSSELL, Banker and Pres
ident Industrial. Association.
JOS. C. MANNING, Postmaster.
T. 8. CHRISTIAN, JR., Merchant.
REV. 3. A. WOOD, Pastor Presbyte
rian Church.
DR. M, J. COLEY, Physician and
Chairman Committee.
If anyone else was concerned I
would not write this sick letter, but
it may benefit others who are similar
ly affected. I have been a very sick
man and hardly expected to see my
next birthday, but I have scuffled
through and am now on the upgrade.
•One of my far-away boys wired to
me to work on my stomach and I
would get well. He might'as well
have wired: “Keep on living and you
will keep living on.”
No, it wasn't my stomach. It was
higher up, where the left ventricle of
the heart had got walled In and the
trouble was what the doctor calls the
angina pectoris, and my left arm was
helpless. For two days and nights I
suffered more real agony than I ever
suffered In all my life. Our doctor boy
was here from Florida, and knew ex
actly what waa the matter, and I took
all his medicine, but got little relief,
and I was willing to die to get out-of
pain. Finally he gave me morphine
in both arms and I went off to sleep
and rest. Those morphine dreams
and visions are always a miracle to
me. 1 thought that in his ta.lk about
my -troutjrrTrt) called it Angelina pec
toris, for I don't hear welt now, and
I got the refrain on my mind, that
pretty verse from Goldsmith’s “Her
mit.”
"Turn. Angelina-‘-ever dear—
My charmer turn to see,
Thine own, thine long-lost William
here,
Restored to heaven and thee.”
FI YE DIE FROM HEAT.
Weather
First Fatalities From Hot Wei
Recorded in Sew Tork City.
Five deaths resulting from Intense
In Greater New
thunder storm, accom-
fortunately re-
Friday night.
irs Mirrondered.
•4 London Friday
Eoers surrendered
total of surreu-
es up to about
or It will rebdhft^t Is the engine that
drives the whofe anUomlcal machine.
If overworked, or overfed with Ice or
tobacco or anything else It will work
on faithfully until it can’t work any
longer, and then gets Alscouraged and
dies suddenly at its post. The book
says that but little was known to med
ical science concerning the heart until
the eighteenth century, and that wlth-
ia the last fifty years many books have
been written, and now no part of the
human system is bettor understood
or more satisfactorily treated. The
disease called angina pectoris is de
clared to be the most dangerous to
which It Is subject because of its dis
tressing pain and a sense of Impend
ing death. If I had read that while I
was suffering I should have surren
dered, but the doctor wouldn’t tell me
nor let me read it. He says It is better
to minify rather than tq^magnify the
apprehensions of his patients. But
the young people ought to be told, told
often and earnestly, that they can't
fool with the heart. A boy who smokes
cigarettes on the sly is storing up
trouble that will Burely $ome home
and sap his manhood and shorten his
his life. This Is so well known now
that good men will not employ boys
who smoke. One vice- calls for an
other and a news manager told me
the other day that one of his news
boys skipped some of his patrons
every week so as to have a paper or
two to sell and get money to buy ci
garettes. Of course he' discharged
him.
It Is pleasant entertainment to lis-
-n to a doctor tell of his varied expe
riences and this one uttered a truth
the other day that ought t» provoke
serious thought In every gr rent’s bo
som. He says that hts greatest foe
parents and It Is most generally
Ever and anon I could hear it ruin
ing on the tin roof, but It didn’t rain
a drop. All night long I was mumur-
lng, "Turn, Angelina, dear.” I couldn’t
stop, it, nor think of anything else to
say, but I wasn’t restored—next day
I got some better, and as I hadn't
taken any nourishment for three or
four days I craved something acid, and
like a foolish boy eat a small piece of
huckleberry pie for supper, which they
told me not to do. That set the dogs
to barking about mid night and set
me back just where I had been, aad ,
the doctor’s work all had to be done
over again. Emetics and hot baths
and hot water bags and more mor
phine finally brought relief. That
night after supper the young people
had the dining room table cleared off
and were playing that pretty little
childish game called ping pong or
ding dong or Hong Kong, or some out
landish name with Its tinkling balls,
and so I got another refrain and was
murmuring ping pong, ding doag and
ding, dong bell all night. Onq of my
boys, who is always punning, told his
mother that huckleberry pie business
was simply a case of too much ple-
caty, and they dried to make! me
smile, but they couldn’t. I was past
all wit and humor and puns and jokes.
But I am done with huckleberry pie
and huckleberry cordial and Huckle
berry Finn and any other huckleberry.
Only last Saturday my only brother
died suddenly of heart failure away off
from home. His time was not out,
for he was nearly twenty years young
er than I am, and now, alas! I have
no brother, and he was always a good
brother to me. But almost everybody
is threatened with heart failure now,
and so I am looking out for it, but
don’t want It tq come Along the Ange
lina line. The heart is the most won
derful and mysterious organ of our
anatomy. It Is called the seat of af-
i LImm 4k a «t AfilvAm and 4t% A AmaIIah a
mother’s fault. They will
that are forbidden, but she
their disobedience and so /hen they
do. things
overlooks
the physi-
fectlon. the desires and the emotions
The organ of love and hate and Joy,
but It Is not It is mentioned In the
Bible more than six hundred times,
and always In connection with “our
good or bad traits, but It has nothing
to do with feeling or emotion or
character. It is nothing but a fleshy
pulpy organism, a mechanical contriv
ance,, and has to be carefully nursed
get sick they will net take
clan's medicines without f\)rce or a
struggle, and If the doctor is not there
to force it the mother lets the time
pass rather than hear the s reams or
cries of the child. Not ha C the pa
rents enforce obedience fi:m their
children. Prompt and will: ig obedi
ence should be the first lesspn taught
a child. Their happiness depends un-
on it ana so aoes tne motnqrs peace.
We old-fashioned people have but
little patience with a generation that
is trying to reform the world 1 with new
methods—abolishing the ways of their
forefathers—raising children on love
Instead of discipline and filling a., the
schools in the land with athl< tic sports
and Intercollegiate contest.. What
honor, what manliness is there In
kicking a ball or batting one. or wrest
ling or rowing a boat? These sports
have gotten to be the most mportant
part of the curriculum am fill the
dally papers with pictures aba thrill
ing reports of the games. It Is all
an "Ignis fatuus” that tools ;the boys
and make them think they :have ac
quired an education. When they went
to college their parents had fond hopes
of them—when thley came out that
hope is gone, for
business or the du
they are unlit for
les of life. '
While I was baif recovering from
the morphine state
about the value of
pared good health
piness and the lcr
er and wealth- and
very thought of tb m sickened me.
I wouldn’t give
I got to ruminating
things and I com-
and domestic hap-
e and devotion of
wife and children ' -1th fame and pow-
ambttlon and the
a good shower of
rain just now for F oosevelt and all he
has got or ever lects.to be. But I
love Roosevelt beef use he hates Miles
and I love Mlle.s because he hates
Roosevelt, and I A splse them boto—
"Turn Angelina”— lug pong. And
last of all came S« an. They are for
war. They kill a t ousand negroes to
our one. They mi :e a land desolate
and call It peace. I hey have trampled
the love ’ of, Ub.ery In the dust and
all for lust of p<v er and place. A
woman from Rare s City sends me
a paper with a sp?< :h of a Grand Ar
my of the Repuhi orator on Deco
ration Day, In whirl he states that he
wishes every Coifi re rate monument
was burled- in tin lottom’.ess ocean,
and other vlndlctv things, and she
wants me {o’ ansae it. No. It Is no
use. That Grand Vi my at the Repub
lic is lull of just Rich contemptible
creatures, and I eqji’t answer them nil.
I-t Is a standing curse to the peace
of the land. Let the ball roll on. Turn
Angeling—ping pong, ding dong, ding
dong bell. We will survive the wreck
of matter and the crush of worlds.
And so I went off to sleep murmur
ing, there Is no Grand Army. It Is a
two for a nickel or four to one con
cern. If I couldn’t fight better than
that. I’d apologize and hide out. Some
of them down here in Atlanta would
like to make friends, but they have
never apologized and the way they do
reminds me of the old couplet:
“I know that you say that you love me,
But why did you kick me down stairs.”
Ping—pong—ding—dong—Turn, An
gelina—Wish I was well enough to
work in my garden.—Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
HANNA WINS ONCE MORE.
President Will Not Investigate Wran
gle at Cleveland, Ohio.
A Washington dispatch says: The
president and Senator Hanna have
patched up their quarrel.
The president gave way to Hanna’6
.wishes in the Cleveland factional fight
and there will be no Investigation of
the charges filed against Hanna’s men
by Representative Burton.
The president and Hanna had a
long conference Tuesday, and then It
was their differences were adjusted.
Collector Leach, one of the accused of
ficials, reached Washington. Wednes
day and denied the charges to James
R. Garfield, civil service commissioner.
It was after this denial that Hanna
went to the white house.
He said the civil service commis
sion had examined Into Burton’s
chargee that federal office holders had
taken an active part-In politics and
uau *8ni5 to lin'd any - violation of the
law. As a result, the president con
cluded not to send letters to the Cleve
land officials censuring them.
Hanna added that the whole thing
was too trivial to occupy the attention
of the president. Senator Hanna said
also that It would be difficult to draw
the line as to where a federal officer
should refrain from taking an Interest
in public affairs, and remarked with
some warmth:
"The mere fact that a man holds
public office does not necessarily mean
that he should resign bis rights of
citizenship."
Hanna’s enemies In Ohio have been
sending messages to Burton, urging
him to press for an Investigation, but
their activity bids fair to defeat their
ends, because if the president sees
that politicians are using the incident
to further their own ends he Is likely
to drop the whole thing.
DEATH IN UHIItLING WIND.
Ternsdo Sweeps Illinois, Carrying
Destruction in its Path.
A special from Bloomington, I1U
says: Stretching across a pathway
100 miles In width and devastating
territory fully 200 miles long, extend
ing from Livingston county on the
north and Macoupin county on the
south and leaving Its mark across the
face of central Illinois, a tornado Tues
day night inflicted property loss which
will aggregate a million dollars and
cost a dozen lives. The wind reached
a velocity of 100 miles an hour and left
a trail of destruction* and death. Not
a village or city in McLean county es
caped and from every district comes
the same report of destroyed buildings,
injury to growing crops and razed fruit
and shade trees. The aggregate prop
erty loss in McLean county will he
between $200,0^0 and $400,000.
The saddest feature was the killing
of three young women who were at
tending a dance at the town hall of
Merna, a small village ten. miles east
of Bloomington. There was a party of
250 young men and women at the
danco in the hall when the tornado
struck the building gt 11 o'clock Tues
day night. Everybody rushed for tho
doors. A number of young nien held-
the doors to prevent the people escap
ing foaring that they might be Injured
or killed If they got outside. About
half ol them, however, escaped before
the building collapsed. The others
were burled In the wreck. Three were
killed and forty or fifty others more
or less injured, some of them seriously.
The Christmas tree was first heard
of in England about 1444. —.
IN TRAIN SMASH
FOUR LOSE LIFE
Bad Accident on the N.,
C. and St. L. Railway.
MAIL AND ACCOMMODATION MIX
All the Dead Were of Train Crews,
as Well as the Seriously Hurt.
Passengers Escaped Injury.
A fatal collision occurred on the
Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis
railroad Thursday afternoon between
Hooker and Summit, two small sta
tions about 12 miles from Chattanooga,
Tenn. Four men were killed and about
fifteen others more or less seriously In
jured. Possibly two or three of tho
wounded will die from the effects of
their Injuries.
The dead are: George Rollln, en
gineer of the accommodation train,
died after being removed to hospital:
L. A. Rakin, fireman of the accommo-
aatlon train; James Bernard, fireman
of the fast mall train; Express Messen
ger Webb, of the fast mall train.
All of the seriously Injured were of
the train crew.
Train No. 98, known as the Jasper
accommodation, left Chattanooga
about 2:40 o’clock p. m. It was due at
Summit at 3:08. The other train, fast
mall No. 1, from Nashville, was be
hind (into ana the meeting point of
these trains had been changed from
the regular station to Summit.
One of the engineers, It Is said, over
looked his orders and ran. past the de
signated meeting place.
Engineer George Rollins, of Pike-
ville; Fireman L. A, Rankin, of Chat
tanooga, and Conductor R. A. Doss, of
Jasper, composed the crew of the ac
commodation train.
The fireman was horribly mangled
and died almost instantly. Engineer
Rollins was badly Injured, as his legs
were terribly crushed and large holes
made in kls head and left side. He
died while being taken to the hospital.
Engineer George J. Ray, of the fast
mall train. Is seriously Injured and it
is thought fatally. His left side and
head were crushed and other parts of
his body bruised. His fireman, James
Bernard, was caught under the smaller
engine and literally burned to death.
A handful of cinders and charred flesh
was all that could be found of him.
Express Messenger Webb, of
fast mall train, was caught under
debris and died' shortly after having
been removed to a place of safety.
The story of the wreck as told by
passengers on the mall train Is a thrill
ing one, as they were able to see the
approaching disaster. On account of
the position of the track, there being a
double reverse curve at the place of
the wreck, the passengers were able
to see from the side of the cars the ap
proaching accommodation train. They
thought it merely a passing of regular
trains and did not heed the warning
until the crash came, and It was too
late to help themselves.
The accommodation train, being the
lighter one, was entirely telescoped,
the ponderous machinery of the fast
train plowing Its way through the cars
and splintering them into kindlings.
Both engines had their position re
versed and were thrown forty yards
frora^the tracks.
None of the passengers were serious
ly Injured,
YOUNUbTEKS BEST FIGHTERS.
Over Ten Thousand Boers Hate Sur
rendered Up to bate.
According to a Pretoria dispatch, 10,-
2(5 Boers have surrendered up to date.
Many are youngsters of 11 years old
and upward. The majority of them are
under SO.'
Reports say that the burghers are
Increasingly friendly. The only bitter-
netss observable among the leading
Boers Is against France and Germany;
They assert the war was protracted
hopes held out
— press.
