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f > . ?VOL. XIII. A PLEASURE I Over Seven Hundred Li\ Excursion Steamer ? - 9 WOMEN AND CHILDREN FRANTIC Story of a Frightful Disaster That Cost Many Hundred Lives?Fixing the Responsibility?Heartrending^ Scenes. The latest facts obtainable concerning he nwaful disaster that befell the excursion steamer General Sloeuni near New York on Wednesday have been liven out up to Saturday. No gr-ater calamity has been recorded in modern times. The 2,000 pleasure-seekers from 8L Mark's Lutheran Sunday school were exposed to sudden and frightful death, and it seems that not less than 700 nf tllPKP npriahml pltlmi- l>ir J? ?-?v?n . WJ l#U? IllUh cr by drowning. The Btory of the rnlamity is told by the following press dispatches: i A Tragic Tale of Death. <One of the most appalling disasters la the history of New York, tragic in Its immensity, dramatic in its episodes and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of its vlcitms, took place Wednesday in the East river, at the entrance ?o Long Island Sound, within a ahort distance of the New York shore, within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of whom were powerless j tc minimize the extent of the vatastropho. By the burning to the water's edge ' of the General Slocum, a three-decked excursion steamer, the largest in these waters, more than 600 persons, the majority of whom were women and children, were burned to death or drowned J>y jumping overboard or by being thrown into the whirlpool by the lurching of the vessel and the frantic rxjo-h nf the punlc-strlrk.n nasseugers. '! * | Approximately 500 bodies have been recovered and are now being fragged at the morgues of Bellevtte Hospital and Harlem. Divers were atlll bnsy at a late hour taking bodies from tne hold of the vessel, which they say is choked with the remains of human beings, while the bodies of scores who leaped or were thrown into the river have not been recovered. It is the season of Sunday school oxW eursioas in New York and Long Island Sound, the latter one of the most ple^ turcsque bodies of water in the ooiin Great preparations had been made W for the seventeenth annual excursion of : J the Sunday school of St. Mark's tier- I man Lutheran church, the congrcga- j tion oi which Is drawn from the dense !>oprlatnn of tne lower Fast and West ' Side', and the General Slocum liad { ^ei chartered to curry the excursionists to lx>cust Grove, one of the many retorts an Long Island Sound. Tj?r*excursion was In charge of Rev. George C. F. Haas *?- - ' , \mx uir ehtir^h. The vessel was commamj^ uy Capt. William Van Schaik, one of 'the Li >st known excursion boat cap- ! tains in New York harbor. He lias commanded the General Slocum for al- j most the entire time Rlnce she was ' halt l in 1891. The number of excursionists or. board Is variously estimated , at from 1,500 to 2,500. bu* ncrording to . an officlci statement Issued by the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, 1 Talliafer'r? Renominated. Jacksonville, Special.?The State and Congressional committees mot separately here to canvass and report the vote In tne last, jmlmary. The vote j was officially announced as follows: 1 For Senator: J. p. Taliaferro. 24,050; i J. N. C. Stockton, 20.095. For Con- j gress, ascend district: Frank Clark. , 9.800; J. M. narrs, 7,839. For Governor: j ' N. B. Brrward. 22^,7h; R. W. I)avis,| ' 22,265. 1* Killed by Mine. Tokio. By Cable.?While the Taihoku was engaged in laying mines at the entrance to J'ort Arthur last night a initio exploded killing two officers and seven men. The Taihoku. which is a naval transport, was not seriously injured. Chicago. Special?A special! to the Daily News from Toklo says: "The of- ' fleer killed in the accident to the torpedo-laying ship. Taihoku, was T.ieutenant Commander Oda. He was the Inventor of the .!ajm.nese mine and. by his great activity and skill throughout the operation* before Fort Arthur, had ?<dded largely to his reputation. The } Taihoku nt the time of tho accident , was pndcr a heavy fire ftvm the Rus* , plap forts and torpedo boata." ',v 'i&y- ? ORT ] mi BURNED \? 'es Lost By Disaster tli, Near New York ilV? -*1 ' ? * unuris ui me kiiu>Hiiu. inc uuiuucr U1 i passengers was 873, that being onethird of the vessel's lloensel capacity. The Slocum had reached a point uear the Sunken Meadows, off 135th street. Manhattan .which is at the extreme eastern end of Randall's Island, j when fire broke out in a lunch room on the forwnrd deck. The blaze was caused by the overturning of a pot of j grease. The headway of the vessel and a high wind almost instantly fanned the insignificant flame into fury. Kfforts were at onee directed to subduing '.he Are, but they were futile. The bla*;i spread^ aft with almost lightning rapidity. Captain Van Schaik, in the pilot house, had been Informed of the outbreak of the fire, and realizing the danger, decided to send his vessel to shore at I84th street. At this point there are a number of yards and several huge oil tanks, and the captain was wurned that to attempt to land at this point would endanger the property and perhaps further imperil the scores of people, who had already been fright Plied into a state of almost uncontrolable excitement. Changing the big steamer's course slightly, he headed for North Brother Island, half a mile away. By this time the flames were rushing by leaps and bounds from the forward part of the ship aft. The women and children began to jump from the vessel into the seething water below, and scores were drowned. The upper deck fell in, crushing hundreds in its fall, and hundreds more were suffocated by the heat. The scene was heart-rending in the extreme. The blame has not been fully located. The Number of the Dead. New York. Special.?At midnight the authorities at the morgue made the ofiloinl announcement that 559 bodies had been recovered. Of these .117 had been i identified and 32 of those remaining wnrft phurFOfl /.n.-nn .1 I *: * ? , WJ uuU iCl'UglllllUU. liU!,,r I in the day Friday four ho<ii.o ?iA;re recovered at North Brother Island by rescuers at work In boats and taken ashore. They were removed to the morgue and are inc'uded in the total. The morgue officials only Friday night discovered they had failed to account for the bodies of twenty-six men, women and children that had been j identified at the Alexander avenue staI tion on Wednesday within two or three hours after the accident and turned | over to friends or relatives. These I brought the list up to 559 recovered dbad. Friday evening the body of a girl of oight years which was declared by r.cighbors to be that of the little daughter of Henry Heinz, of Front street, was washed up against the side of a pier at the foot of Clinton street in the j Fast river, hardly a block away from the girl's home. The tide by a strange vagary had carried the little body from the scene of the calamity of North ; Brother Island down through the nar- i j row channels of the river to this point so near her home. The girl's mother. 'Mrs. Annie Heinz, is among the dead. There has oeen grent.diffieulty In the matter of recovering and identifvinsr the dead. There are a number of places where the living may have landed, and it is believed that many now reported missing are safe and eventually will be heard from by the officials who have the rescue work in hand. Indeed, tonight a surprising number of persons reported to those officials that they had Transports Sunk by Russians. Tokio, By Cable.?All doubt as to the sinking of the transport Hitachi and Sudo by the Russians has been removed. Three hundred and ninety-seven survivors of the Hitachi have arrived at Mojl and Hi3 survivors of the Sarin have arrived at Koktrra. Details ot the destruction of the two transports and the full extent of the casualties aro j not obtainable. Railway Bridge Burned, Spartanburg. S. C.. Special.?The Southern Hallway bridge over llroad river, on the Spartanburg & Asbevillo I line, SO utiles north of Columbia, was partially burned at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. Passenger train No. 9, north-bound, was saved from running 1 into the bridge by a negro, who signal- ; led with a red petticoat. Th > con due- 1 tor and crow and volunteer passengers , formed a bucket brigade and succeeded i in subduing the flames, but cot until ! half the bridge bad been consumed, j Trains for Asheville are coming by way ; of Greenville to Spartanburg The I origin of tbo 1? unknown. '' ' " . 4 . 1 >ri V P ? - ? . v * r ? . -4 MI] FORT MILL, S. C? WE been saved, thus cutting the list of missing down considerably, as well as the probable mortality list. Many persons were injured in the panic that followed the breaking out of the flames on the General Slocum, and .at least 200 persons were taken to the iChspitals. Not a death has occurred so far among these, and many of them have already been discharged. Perhaps the most remarkable rase in the many appalling experiences of those who were on the Slocum was that of Miss Clara Hartipan, who was picked up for dead, towed behind a boat for several miles, wrapped in a tarpaulin and tagged as dead, and then recovered consciousness at the Alexander avenue police station. It is now believed sb? ! will rncnvof Although many of the bodies taken to the morgue were very badly uiutila'.ed and the clothing in many eases I almost entirely burned off. valuables have been taken from them and are I in the keeping of the c ity officials to the extent of $200,000 or more. Several or the men and women had the savings of a lifetime on them when they per| islted. Much jewelry, it is reported to [ the police, has been lost, but an expln| nation may be found in the fact that it was desroyed in the llrse rather than stolen by ghouls. Tlio official investigation into the cause of the disaster is being vigorously J pushed, and with a determination to fix i the responsibility and punish the parties charged with the appalling loss of life. Secretary Cortelyou. of the Departi ment of Commerce and Labor, will personally undertake the investigation into the disaster on behalf of the government; District Attorney Jerome and his assistants are working energeti! cally on the case, and officials of the ; coroner's office have made considerable i progress In the way of gathering evij dence. which will be presented on Moni day, when the coroner's inquiry will | begin. There is in the coroner's possession a standpipe taken at his direction by a diver from the submerged wreck. The valve of the pipe is closed tight, showing that no use was made j of this pipe in fighting the flames on the Sloctim. Statements were made to the coroner todav bv several of the ! steamboat employes who will appear as i witnesses at the inquest that the captain of the Sloeum sailed his boat a distance of between three and four miles after the fire broke out before beaching her. Several watches showed that more than half an hour had elapsed from the breaking out of the fire unti lthe boat was run ashore, all the watches which were taken from bodies of the drowned stopping between 10:10 and 10:20 in the morning. Estimates as to the number of dead still vary greatly, and this may be accounted for by reason of the failure to report, to the p?oper authorities on the n? i of many who. though officially registered as missing, were in reality saved. Already. 539 bodies have lionn ? * ? ' ' ' * muicmi, oi wnicn about ><> remain unidentified. These include 272 children. 243 women and 23 men. Thirteen officers of St. Mark's church are among the dead, one of them being ja woman. The first funeral from among the victims was held today, it being that of a young girl who is believed to have died of heart disease from fright. No signs of death from burning or drowning were found. Her funeral was followed by a score of I others, which were attended by thousands of persons from the East Side community, where most of the dead bad lived. Tomorrow there will be three hundred or more funerals and thirty-two unrecognizable bodies now lying at the morgue will be placed, each in a separate coffin and in a separate hearse, and laid away in the Lutheran Cemetery, at Middle Village. L. I. The city has arranged for their burial, a plot large enough for the interment of 250 bodies having been set aside in this cemetery. All the unknown dead will be placed here side by side. Many thousands of dollars have been subscribed to the relief fund General Uhler, o? Washington, supervising inspector general of steamboats, Collector Stranahan, General Clarkson. the surveyor of tne port, and j Local Supervising Inspector Rodle and Dumont had a conference this after! noon and arranged for the inquiry into the Slocum disaster ordered by Secretary Cortelyou. The session was secret, but it was learned thm ?v.^ m - -- me niniaacr or tne life preservers and fire equipment of the General "Sloctini received lengthy consideration. Richmond, Va.. Special.?Dr. Richard Mcllwdino has tendered his resignation as president of Hampden-Sidney College. He also resigned as professor of moral philosophy and Bible study. The t>oard of trustees accepted his resignation and then elected him to the professorship above named. He reserves his decision for a month. $150,000 Fire in Virginia. Richmond, Special.?F're at Norton, Wise county. Va.. Wednesday night destroyed the whole business section of the town, causing a loss of about $1.'j0.000, partly insured. One man was severely Injured by jumping from a window. Omtion to Cortelyou. Westfleld, Mass.. Special.?Secretary of the Department of Commerce and I>al>or George B. Cortelyou, received an ovation bore when he re-visited the town where he formerly attended school. That night Secretary Cortelyou delivered the jnincipal address at a banquet given by the board of trade. LL I)NKS1>AY. JUNK 22. A GLORIOUS MARCH.j Veterans of Southern Confederacy Cheered at Every Turn. WAS A LONG LINE OF HEROES. The Old Men Marched Unflinchingly, Though the Step Faltered at Times ? rue Marchers Representative of the Whole South. Nashville, TVnn., Special.?As a lit tins climax to tho reunion of the Cnited Confederate Veterans, Nash ville and her thousands of guests Rave the veterans as they marched proudly through densely crowded streets, an ovation which will live long in the memory of its recipients, as well as those who paid the honor. The day was warm, but the old men marched unflinchingly, although the step at times faltered. There was much confusion, caused by poor polic ing along the route, but the start was made at the hour set. and the last veteran passed the reviewing stand two hours later. The Seventh Cavalry Uand, United States army, led the parade, and this organization, as well as the mnnv other hnnils iii the 11 in it ling, played only four pieces, but gave them over and over again, as follows: "Maryland, My Maryland," " My Old Kentucky Home," "The Girl 1 left behind Me," and "Dixie." United States mail carriers, at several places along the line, supplied ice water to the thirsty veterans. The parade was representative, not only of every Southern State, but many camps located in the far West; one in Montana and another in Ohio had delegations in line. The Fourth division, composed principally of ! cainps from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, carried away tbe honors for the greatest number of men in line. The Virginians were an j Imposing body of men and were given 1 many a elieor. The Fourth Brigade, i North Carolina, headed by a camp ! from Anii< Vllle bearing hornet nest.s in the branches of trees, and headed by a drum corps of veterans, which now musters but four members, was one of the features of the parade. Alabama's "yellow hammers" were heartily applauded. Many of the < amp representations were noticeably ! small, but the pride with which they j held aolft their tattered battle Hags made up for the deficiency in numbers. One Louisiana camp carried a Hag so frayed by bullets and time that I it was held together by a net. In the reviewing stand 011 Spruce ! street was a distinguished company, j including Mrs. John 11. Gordon, the widow of the former commander-inchief, and her daughters; Col Phillip Fall, of Houston. Texas, a member of General Lee's staff; Mrs. John C. Hi-own and Bishop and Mrs Fitzgerald, of Tennessee. Mrs. Go r A on stood at the front of the reviewing stand, and drawn up across the street were General Leo and his staff. The veterans cheered their leader to the echo as they passed, and many rushed out of line to grasp his hand. Then they turned and saluted the widow of General Gordon. Mrs. Gordon was deeply moved at tho manifestations of affection. Her emotion was quite perc< ptlblo as the Georgia division bore past tlu? reviewing stand tho tlag of the Confederacy that, had been made from the ribbons that bedecked the grave of her beloved husband. Another affecting incident was tho welcome and salute of the old Stonewall Jackson Brigade as it passed. The grizzled warriors, bearing the tattered and battle-scarred fine- tunv carried through victory and defeat alike, stepped out of line and with one accord saluted Mrs. Gordon and (?enj cral Lee. | Eloped from Bedford City. Hoanoke. Special.?Miss Clara Trent, a well-known young lady of Bedford county, eloped to Bristol with Mr. Jack Hatcher, of Vinton, the couple bent on matrimony. There was no particular objection to the marriage, but the elopement was prompted by a spirit of romance. Telegraphic Brief6. Robert S. Freeman died from the effects of chloroform in a Norfolk hospital. In a battle near Vanfangow, 50 miles north of Port Arthur the Russians claim to have repulsed the Japanese. Another hitch occurred in the negotiations with Ralsull, the Morocco ban dit, with regard to the release of Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley. Empress Augusta Victoria received a delegation of the International Council of Women in Berlin. Mgr. l'alconio. Apostolic Delegate in the United SUitea. arrivod lo Rome 0:1 a yJwt. riME 1904. NtVS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Paragraph* of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. John McMillan, an old scldlcr, was drugged and robbed at Norfolk.. Judge 11. G. Turner, for many years a Congressman from Georgia, died in Raleigh, N. C. The tattooed body of a drowned man was washed ashore at False Cape, Va. James Agner, of Roanoke, had his ?ye out out by someone unknown, who attneked him In the dark. The Marylanders who attended the dedication of the Stat" building at the St. Louis Exposition have returned home. At West Virginia University a service was ueld in memory of three members of the faculty who recently died. Wshington Happenings. The Honorary Hoard of Filipino Commissioners. numbering about .">0. arrived In Washington. Speaker Cannon. Representative ilitt and Senator Dryden discussed polities with the President at. luncheon at the wmto House. Records compiled by Gen. Marcus J. Wright gave 4 lieutenant-generals, 11 major-generals and 51 brigadieras still surviving. An Agricultural Department report on "Plant Diseases in 150.1" shows the nature and extent of damage done growing crops. The honorary board of the Filipino commissioners spent the day on the dispatch boat Dolphin and visited Washington's Tomb. The attorneys for Paymaster Biscoe In their appeal to Secretary Moody against the action of Admiral Evans In court-martial proceedings against the former severely criticise the Ad' aiiral. i In the North. The cost of the various strikes in : Colorado during the last 10 months is I estimated at $83,036,000. ' Capt. F. S. Wild was found dying from a bullet wound at Fort McDowell, I near San Francisco. The Western Federation of Miners decided to appeal to President Roosevelt to Investigate the Colorado troubles. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl! vania, appointed Attorney-General Philander C. Knox to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Quay. Hannah Ellas was discharged from custody in the criminal case of Extortion brought against her in New York, and was released on $20,000 bond in the civil case. George J. Gould and ex-Mayor Thomas O. Hayes testified In Brooklyn, N. Y., in the suit of Morris C. Menges for $1,000,000 for services In connection with the Western Maryland railroad deal. Foreign Affairs. The British force at Gyantzi. Tibet, repulsed an attack of 1,100 Tibetans. The Reichstag voted for woman suffrage in the selection of courts of arbitration. Great Britain, France and Russia decided to urge the Porte to stop the Armenian atrocities. The Japanese b?gan the attack on Port Arthur, according to a dispatch from Chorn, and Chinese refugees at Chefu reported four days fighting near Port Arthur before they left. Oeneral KuropatkJn reported an engagement on June 7 at Salmatze, in which his loss was over 100. There is an unconfirmed rumor in St. Petersburg that a great naval battle has taken place off Port Arthur, In which the Russians lost two and the Japanese four battleships. Manuel Quintana was elected President of Argentina and Jose Pardo of Peru. Five persons were drowned by the sinking of the steamer Canada in collision with the collier Cape Proton near Sorel, in the St. I^awrence river. J. W. S I^aiigerman, Moroccan commissioner for the St. l?uis Exposition, returned from the camp of Raisuli, the bandit chief, where he found Ion Perdicaris hopeful of release. Carsten Porehgrevink, the Antarctic explorer, declares it likely th/jt a peopled continent is at the South Pole. A letter from Ion Perdlcans, written from the camp of Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, was teeeived by a | friend In London. NO. 14. ILLINOIS FOR HEARST * New York Editor Gets a Solid Delegation From That State DELEGATES TO VOTE AS A UNIT Lawrence B. Stringer, of Lincoln, Was Named for Governor:?Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, Was Unseated as a Delegate. Springfield, 111., Special.?The Demcv cratic State convention nominated Lawrence B. Stringer, of Lincoln, for Governor and instructed the dclegat? to the St. Louis convention to vohe as a tir.it for William If. Hearst for the presidential nomination. The eonvea tion was controlled by John P. Hopkins. former mayor of Chicago, and now chairman of the State central committee. Mr. Hearst's campaign managers who attempted to ride into power by the aid of his name, received ne consideration whatever from the convention. The Harrison party, which enme solely from Chicago, and was pledged to the support of Congressman James R. Williams. was routed completely. Mayor Carter H. Harrison whs unseated as a delegate and took a train for home without going near tie convention. Beth his faction and the Hearst party were as nothing compared to the strength and skilful management of the convention exhibited by Hopkins. Clayton E. Crafts, of Chicago read the report of the committee on r*,. olutions. Ho was frequently iterrupted.? bv hoots and jeers and insinuating questions were hurled at him in precision. The resolution proTb'fng for ilie endorsement of Mr. Hearst was not mr.de a part of the report of the committee on resolutions, hut was submitI led to the convention as a separate ? natter. The original resolution provided, practically that the lltlnoir delegation should vote for Hearst unless It was convenient to vote for somebody rise. A substitute, ofTered by Clarenr? H. Darrow, pledging the delegates to litarst as long as his name is before the convention was then adopted by a vote of 9.1 G to 395. Following are the pronouncements of the platform upon national questions: "We demand that all departments of government recognize and act upon the doctrine that the constitution follows the tlag in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, or elese that they are free and independent, so that the true glory of our country shall not he tarnished by the exercise of the despotic power, of denying to a helpless people a ropubliean form of government. We favor tho election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. We point to the growth of trusts and monopolies as one of the evil results of the ascendency of the Republican party r.t Washington. By the present tariff law and in numerous ways special privileges and undue favors have been extended by a Republican Congress and n Republican President ,to favored classes and huge corporations. Tho older trusts have all been strengthened and new trusts, too numerous to mention, have been erected since the government passed into the hands of tin? Republican party in 1806. "We submit that the Republican party, itself, controlled by trusts, cannot safely be relied on the curb the trusts, and we demand that the government be taken out of the hands of the friends of monopoly am.' restored to the untrammeled representatives of the people." Russian Offices Killed. St. Petersburg, Special.?Emperor V 11 r?1 o o line ml ?? *? ?' R * ? ' ? ?- : ..w,..r> i.i?o mancll IlfltUWf T!^ telegram from General Baron Stakelberg, bearing Wednesday's late "A battle began at noon around the. ltuasian position four and one-half mlle? south of the station of Wafanhoon (V'afangow), the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left flank. The attack was repelled and we retained our position. The first regiment, occupying the left flang of our position sustained severe Iobsps. Its commander, Colonel Khavastouoff Nadochinsky were killed. General Oerngros* was wounded, a shrapnel bullet shattering the right side of his lower jaw, but he remained on the field." Three Killed. Bryantsville, Ind.. Special.?Throe men are dead and two woundodg one fatally, as the result, of a pistol fight, on the streets of this village. The dead are James and Charles Rout and Milton Tow. James Tow Is fatally wountled and Frank Tow is badly hurt- The fight was the culmination of a filed betwen the; Rout and Tow fatnllisK