Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Southern Pacific Railway Company has issued an order that after July 1 no more liquor is to be sold at any railroad hotel over its entire system. Three negroes are dead and one is fatally injured as a result of a riot between the white and negro miners nt the ore mines near Cardiff, Ala. While alone at the home of H. M. Beckett at Ridley, Tenn., the house caught fire and Edith Beckett, aged 5, and the 3-year-old son of J. P. Cawthorn were burned to death. The steam tug Bernice, belonging to Patteraou, Downing & Co. of Mobile, was burned at Round Island, Miss. William Foore, a passenger, was lost. The remnant of the tug was towed into Pascagoula. A Norfolk and Southern passenger train, when within a mile of Elizabeth City, N. C., dashed into a buggy, killing Henry aud William Mann, aged respectively 14 and 10 years, and Charles Baker, aged 14. The elder House at Indian Springs, a watering place alwut seventy miles from Mn«on, Ga., was destroyed by fire. About 100 guests were in the building. All escaped but two, who were slightly injured. All the baggage was lost. By the sinking of the steamer Apalaqhe, plying between Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla., in the Chipola river, near Wewahitchka, Fla., four persons, one of them a Chicago woman, were drowned. The steamer’s boilers exploded as she sank and several persons were injured. Mrs. T. J. Lloyd, living seven milei northwest of Lampasas, Texas, with her five daughters and a visitor, Miss Childera, went in bathing in a creek. The three w.s 1 . - ■ v ' i s

youngest girls went beyond their deptib, when their'eldest sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all five were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic efforts.