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pglf" ' ' - t iiip "d^v ,^-ra tt v-r\1 aci n-n nti r u vV uci iva^/iuojluu v/aj. Missiouri Wreaks Deadly Carnival. Twenty-nine Marines Hurled Into Eternity While Doing Target Practice Off Pensacola. A Pensacola, -Fla., special says: By the explosion of 2,000 pounds of powder in the after ^.2-inch turret and in the handling room of the battle ship Missouri, Captain William S. Cowles, commanding, twenty-nine men were in-> stantly killed and five injured, uu of whom will die. The: Missouri .was on the target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at practice about nobn when a charge of powder in the 12-inch' lefthand gun exploded, igniting four charges of powder in. the handling room, all exploded and only one man of the entire turret and handling crew survives. But for the prompt and efficient work of Captain William S. Cowles in flooding the handling, room and magazine with water, one of the magazines would have exploded and the ship wpulct coilsequently have been destroyed with every man on board. At' the time of the explosion the fourth shot was being loaded and from indications the first half of the charge had been rammed home and the second section was being rammed home when gases from the shot previously fired or portions of th ecloth cover ignited the powder. The breech was open and a dull thud gave notice of something unus ual. No loud report was maae, dui flames were seen to leap from every portion of the turret. A few seconds afterwards another explosion somewhat more fierce occurred. This was in the handling room below, where 1, ' 600 pounds of powder or four charges ready to be hoisted above and ignited Three minutes after the explosion ali were on deck and the surgeons from.the Missouri, Texas and Brooklyn were attending to those ^ot dead. The twenty-five men of the turret were fcund lying in a heap. They had . started for the exit when the first explosion occurred and had just reached there when the more terrible explosion in the handling room occurred which hurned and strangled them to death. Bodies Terribly Mangled. The bodies were hardly recognizaDle, the terrible and quick fire having burnt clothing from the bodies of the men, and the fiesh hung from them in shreds. The faces were mutilated by the smoke and flames. Only one man was breathing when the turret crew was rescued, and he died a moment after he reached deck. In lets than five second after the first explosion two streams of water were being played in the rooms, and when volunteers were called for every man of the ship responded and" were eager to go into the turrets and rescue the crew. The second explosion occurred near one of the magazines and so hot was the fire that the brass work of the magazines was melted. Siaoke and the fumes of the burned powder made it almost impossible to enter either the turret or the handling room, but officers and men, with handkerchiefs over their faces, made efforts to rescue the men inside. Before the fumes of the burning t powder had left the turret officers and men were in lifting the dying and dead men. PROTEST UNDER CONSIDERATION Uncle Sam Cannot Act on Hypothetical Wireless Telegraphy Case. The state department has taken the nTotocf rpp'3rftin?r TCIVPIPKC tplporanhv in the Russo-Japanese war under consideration, but following the almost unbroken practice, it probably will decline to take any action on a hypothetical case. If an American citizen is arrested by the Russian officials the'state department will lay down a line of policy to meet this novel departure in international law. WILL INSTRUCT FOR PARKER. Brooklyn Democrats Agree to Support Judge for Presidential Nomination. The" Brooklyn. N. Y.. democratic organ'zation. in which a hot fight has been raging far a month over the question cf Instructing the sixty-three delegates to tl:o state convention by a vote of 49 to 10 Thursday night decided to support Judge Parker for presiuem. when the question comes up for settlement at Albany. JAPS DID THE WORK Battleship Petrcpavlovsk Not Destroyed by Accident. j ! MINES SECRETLY PLACED Japanese Assert That Trap Was Laid and Russiyis Practically Admit That Disaster Was No Accident An Associated Press dispatch says: No further details have boen received ir. St. Petersburg of the latest bom, bardn>ent of Port Arthur, except that ?< moe rn"5f>tir>fliiv without results so DEATH LIST THIRTY-TWO i Three More Men Dead as Result of Explosion on Missouri?How Big Warship Was Saved. Three more seamen who were injured in the terrible explosion on board the battle ship Missouri at tarj get practice off Pensacola, Fla., are dead as a result. The total ist 01 aeau now numbers thirty-two, one man having expired Wednesday night and two Thursday. It is hardly probable that other deaths will occur. There is also one man of the turret crew missing from the ship. It is the general opinion that he was either blown overboard or else escaped from th6 turret by jumping overboard, being crazed with pain and with the excitement that then prevailed on the ship he was not missed. The funeral of seventeen of the seamen occurred Thursday afternoon and each ship of the fleet was represented. Fully five thousand men were present, while thousands from the city of Pensacola were in attendance., every place of business being closed for tile afternoon and flags over all buildings placed at half-mast. The bodies of the officers and eigh* of the seamen were shipped to their former homes, and the others are being held to await advices from relatives. . The Missouri will not conclude her target practice, but will go to * Ne^v York to be docked as soon as the court of inquiry makes its findings. The damage to the battle ship is *- 11 ?* - ^ 0 +o + mucn greater iuuu was <ti moi In addition to the large amount of am munition ruined by the magazine be ing flooded, which will amount tc thousands of dollars, the after turrel is also badly injured, the top being burned away, and all br^ss work melt eci inside. The hoist is a charred mass, and the mechanism of the guns completely ruined. The damage real ized from the explosion will -react $50,000. This is the estimate placed uron it by some naval officers. The entire navy department is stunned by the appalling catastrophe. . That the newest battle ship of the navy had a narrow escape from both being blown to pieces by the explosior of a magazine and also be'ng beached came to light Thursday. Captain Cowles prevented the lattei when the vessel was within 250 yards of the beach by giving orders that the ship's course be changed, and Chiel Gunner's Mate Monson saved the shir and the lives of over six hundred mer by closing the open magaz ne. When the first explosion occurred ir the turret the men in the handling room knew in an instant what had oc curred. The big magazine door was open and standing against it were; foui charges of powder. Without u mo ment's hesitation Monson shoved thess aside and jumped into the turret anc pulled the door closed after him. Ths magazine was totally flooded with wa ter and when the men opened the dooi they found Monson barely alive, watei having reached his neck. BOLT IN NEW JERSEY. Hearst Men Withdraw from Conven tion and Act Independently. At Trenton, N. J.,.Thursday a prac tically harmonious democratic state convention of more than 1,200 dele gates to elect delegates to the nation al convention at St. Louis, which se lected an uninstructed delegation, was . foliowed by a bolting convention ol ; ennrinrtpre nf William RandolDl Hearst. The bolt -convention nominated dele gates at large and delegates from five congressional districts. These will gc to St. Louis and contest the seats oi the men selected at the regular con vention. CHINESE GOING WRONG. They are Supplying Russ'ans With Food Stuffs and Japs are Angered. Japanese journals express much discontent, says a dispatch from Tokio at China's failure to enforce or at tempt to enforce neutrality on the Liao river, where the whole district j has been allowed to jecome a source for suppying Russian with food stuffs MINORITY WAS TURNED DOWN More Pension Money Added to De ficiency Appropriation Bill. Wednesday tbe house committee or appropriations completed the general deficiency appropriation bill, carrying a total of $10,388,744. The largest item is $4,000,000 for pensions. Of this sum $1,500,000 is an estimated deflcien cy which will be caused by the execu tion of the recent service pension or der. The minority members of the com mittee made a fight against this iten and the majority ordered it by a par ty vote. " ' HASTY RETREAT BY RUSSIANS. j Japs Enter Town of Wiju and Drive Out Soldiers of the Czar. j According to an Associated Presi ! dispatch from Shanghai, at 11 o'cloc'. ! Monday morning the Japanese ad I vance, consisting of cavalry, infantr: ! and artillery, entered WijU and drovi | out the Russians, who retreated bo J yond the Yalu river. Only a few shot: j were exchanged, the Japanese bein; j in such force that the Russians hastii; ' retreated. / , I far as injury to the ships or fortifications is concerned. The loss of life was insignificant. The mystery of the , sinking o'.' the battle ship Petropavlovsk has not been cleared up. That she touched a mine placed by - Japanese torpedo beats during the . night is not officially admitted, but there is a growing disposition in unoffi; cial quarters to accept this as possi blv being the true explanation. That . the mine was laid by a ruse of the , Japanese is generally believed, although some speculation is indulged in, which may almost be described as - fantastic. . . For example, the possibility of the introduction of an infernal machine ; into the coal bunkers is advanced as an explanation of the explosion which . i undoubted-iy occurred on. board the . I battle ship. m The only thing affirmed "with abso: lute certainty is that it was not a Jap; anese shell, as no fighting v/as in prcg. ress. I ; Decoyed Russian Ships. Advices from- .Tokio state that the i i Japanese are elated over the successes I they have met at Port Arthur. They are also proud of the achievement of . Vice Admiral Togo, particularly of his new strategy in countermining the ene. iny's harbor and decoying them across ! this field of mines to an equally dani gerous flank attack. 1 The success of the system of placing deadly counter mines is due large . ly to a series of careful observations i made by the Japanese during their ; pievious attacks on Port Arthur. The I Japanese saw the Russian fleet leave i the harbor and return to it several i times, and they discovered that the Russian warships followed an identical , course every time they came out or : went in, evidently for the purpose of . avoiding their own mines. The Japr auese took bearings on this course. V.'hen the destroyer divisions of the . Japanese torpedo flotilla laid the coun; ter mines during the night of April I 12-13, they placed them along this > course. The laying of these counter . mines was exceedingly perilous, be- i : cause if any Japanese boat with mines ! on bohrd had been struck by a lucky j Russian shot, she would have been I annihilated. I The weather of the night of April 12-13 favored the work. There was a heavy rain, the night was dark and clcudy - and the Russian searchlights playing over the channel failed to re? yeal the presence of the Japanese de> stroyers. Rear Admiral Dewa was in com mand of* the Japanese squadron which 5 decoyed the Russian ships over the J field of mines. His squadron consisti el of the cruisers Chitosa. Yoshino, tvoeiori Qnfi TnVnfinen all unarmored . vessels, which presented a tempting > bait for the heavier Russian ships. i Expressions of regret at the death ; of Vice Admiral Makaroff are general in Tokio. Speaking for Commander Ogasawara has published a lengthv statement, in which he laments the death of the Russian vice arfmirai, and pronounces it to be a loss, i to the navies of the world. Adm iral Togo's Report, i Admiral Togo reports that during , the attack on Port Arthur Tuesday night the Japanese sunk mines at raidi ' night and at 8 in the morning drew. ; the Russian ships out 1" miles from > the port. The PetroDivlovsk struck a Japanese mine and was sunk. BRYAN OPJECTS TO REMOVAL. Judge Decides, that Nebra6kan Cannol t Act as Executor of Will. [ At New Haven, Conn., Probate Judge ' r Cleveland announced Friday his decisi ion on the application for the removal ; of William J .Bryan as executor of the . I will of Philo S. Bennett. I A demurrer to the amended com. j plaint for Mr. Bryan's removal was at I once filed by counsel for Mr. Bryan. . i In the demurrer it is asserted that i application of the wid.ow, Mrs. Ben. ! nett, does not specify any acts of neg lect and that no reasons are given t'oc i i granting the relief asked for. I BIG BILL SEEKS DAMAGES. i i ! Former Police Chief Devery, cf New j York, Suos for Breacn or uonwatt. ( . .; At New York. Tuesday. Former Y Chief of Police Devery, through county sel, filed formal demand on Police i Commissioner McAdoo for $35,000. s i which he allegc-s is due h'm as damg ' ages for breach of contract on the y ' part of the city. He sues the com ' missioner as trustee of the police fund. ::;KiVrw>?.\v. A DISASTERS GALORE! . j Continue to Follow the Rus- j sian Navy at Port Arthur, j I I MORE WORK OF THE JAPS; i I ! ? I _ n 1-4 j Torpedo Destroyer tsiown op ?.. ? Forty-Five Russians Meet Death. Battleship Pobieda Runs Upon Mine and is Damaged. An Associated Press dispatch says: It was officially announced in St. Pe- j tersburg Thursday that the torpedo j boat destroyer, Beztrashni, was cut off from the rest of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur and sunk by the Japanese; that her crew was lost, and that the battle ship Pobieda accidentally struck a mine while maneuvering, but was able to return to the harbor without loss of life. The Bezstrashni was sent out dur- ! ing the night to reconnoiter. She separated from the rest of the fleet owing to the bad weather prevailing and was surroun.ded by Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and was sunk in the fight. Forty-five officers and men perished, while five were saved. Admiral Ouktomsky transmitted to St. Petersburg the following dispatch: "I have taken command provisionally of the fleet since the disaster to the Petropavlovsk. During the ma' *- - 1? _ oltine r\f th P neuvers 01 me uu.n.it; oui^j c ?.? squadron the Pobieda struck against a mine amidship on the starboard side. She was able to regain port by herself. None on board her were killed or wounded." The Pobieda is a battleship of 12,G74 tons displacement, and of 14,500 hofse power. She is 401 1-4 feet long, has 71 feet beam and draws 26 feet of water, and is heavily armored with steel. She was completed in 1901, has a complement of 732 men. Her estimated speed is 18 knots. The steel armor of the battleship varies In thickness from 4 to 9 1-2 inches along her belt. The armament of the Pobieda consists of four 10-inch guns, eleven tf-inch guns, sixteen 8-inch guns, ten 13-inch guns and seventeen 14-inch guns and six torpedo tubes. The official bulletin Thursday conveying the loss of another torpedo boat and the accidental crippling of another battle ship was almost as severe a blow as the loss of the Petropavovsk Wednesday, and plunged the whole city anew into gr'ef. Did Makaroff Suicide? \ Stories of the loss of the Russian battle ship Petropavlovsk that reached Che Foo are to the effect that the vessel was sunk by the Japanese, and that Admiral Makaroff, realizing that he had been defeated and that his ship was going down, blew out his brains. His action was followed by a number of the officers and many of the crew. As he shot himself, the ill-fated admiral is reported to have said: "Such a disgrace; to be beaten oy oaroanans. Vice Admiral Skrydloff,. commander of the Russian Black sea fleet, will sue ceed the late Admiral Makaroff as 'commander in chief of the Russian navai forces in the Far East. Messages of Condolence. An Associated Press dispatch from Paris says: President Loubet has telegraphed to Emperor Nicholas his profound condolences on the disaster Vd the Petropavlovsk and the death of Admiral Makaroff. This dispatch, together with those n.r Emperor William and the king of Italy, sent previously,-is regarded as significant of the acceptance of the European governments that the sinkj ing of the Petropavlovsk was d-ue to an accident and did not occur during a battle with the Japanese ships. The officials say condolences over the result of a battle might involve questions of neutrality. Panama Matter in the Senate. The senate Thursday began consideration of the bill providing for the I government of the Panama canal zona NO NEGROES ON JURY. j On this Plea Daniels Appeals to United States SupremaCourt. Attorney J. C. L. Harris, of Raleigh, N. C., has gene to Washington to apply to Associate Justice Harlan, of the United States supreme court, for a writ of error, in the case of Alfred Daniels, colored, under death sentence for murdering the father of United States Senator Simmons. Harris bsses his application upon the ground that there was discrimination against Daniels on account of his race, and j that the commissioners of Jones county, where he was tried, had no names i ~? naffwioc in tlio inrv hrT | | UJ. utfcji AM J ^ - ? I I TO RELEGATE TRADING STAMPS.] ! Atlanta Merchants Will Not Pay Heavy J License Tax Imposed. | Leading Atlanta merchants who | have been giving trading stamps, have j j agreed to discont nue that feature o; I ! their business on July 1. and the city j I council will have before it at its next ! | meeting a measure seeking to have the | I recently exacted ordinance placing a'J j $100 license on trading stamps become ! j effective on that date II Jllu filiLLI J Battleship Strikes a >| Mine and Quickly || Goes to Bottom. J| /ice Admiral Makaroff and 3 Nearly His Entire Crew /JB Went Down With Fated Vessel. :M "i"> ?"T". ?>~>x>-.7-^ RUSSIA'S ILL LUCKT [ Losses Sustained by Czar's Navy j Through Work of Japs and Many \ j Disastrous Blunders. | . Mine in Port Arthur harbor, planted by the Russians, blows up Russian cruiser Yensei, killing 95 men. Mine in Port Arthur destroys the Russian cruiser Boyarin, killing 197 men. i Russian forts fire on three torpedo i I boats, believing them to be Japanese, j and sink them, killing 150 men. j Russia pushes her troops across the J Siberian frontier in spite of the terrific cold prevailing there. The men are overcome on Lake Baikal and COO perish. Battleship Petropavolovsk blown up by mine and 800 perish. Battleship Pobieda strikes mine and is badly damaged. ^ Warships Crippled by Japs. Battleship Retzivan torpedoed and beached at Port Arthur. Battleship Cesarevitch torpedoed and beached at Port Arthur. Battleship Poltava, hole below water line. Armored cruiser Boyarin disabled by Japanese fire at Port Arthur. ? Cruiser Pollada torpedoed at Pori j Arthur and beached. Cruiser Novik, hole below water * line at Port Arthur. 1 First-class armored cruiser Variag j t destroyed at Chemulpo. Russian torpedo boat destroyer Bezstrashni sunk off Port Arthur. Forty-five men and officers lost. PANiC IN BURNING HOSPITAL. i l Patients Rushed from Sick Beds and ^ Narrowly Escaped Holocaust. While the Indianapolis city fire de partment, reinforced by companies ^ fiom the suburbs, was being taxed 1 to its utmost fighting the Occidental hotel fire Sunday morning, an alarm . was turned in from St. Vincent hos- , pital. , When the first fire company arrived cne life had been lost and several were j seriously injured in the panic that followed. At every window on the third and fourth floors were crowded the panicof ribbon men nrirt wnmpn screaming for help, to those on the street below, who were for more than twenty minutes prevented from entering the building because of the dense smoke. The panic that raged on the third and fourth floors continued until long after the fire had been que/ched. Patients who had just undergone surgical operations rushed from their beds to the windows and attempted to throw tLemselves on the ground. Harriet Leahy, an old employee of the hospital, leaped from a window on the fourth floor, and when .picked up was dead. In the rear men and women were ' making ropes of bed clothes by which they escaped to the ground below. Katherine Beach, less fortunate than the rest, lost her hold and fell from the third floor, and i? now in a critical condition from internal injuries. \ As an unusual number of surgical operations were performed in the hospital on Saturday, many of the patients carried from their beds by the rescuers, were in a critical condi t/n, ana the physicians in charge fear that i many fatalities may ensue. James Dawson, an emaciated patient, worked heroically among the panic stricken men and women on the third floor. One after another he pulled away (from the windows those who were preparing to jump to the street below, and piloted them through the smoke to places of safety on the first * floor. Afer saving twenty-seven nurses and patients from possible injury in this manner he lost consciousness, and was carried into the male ward, where medical attention was given him. For a time it was Thought that he could not undergo tne ternoie strain to which he had been subjected. Owing to the fire proof construction ' the actual loss to the building will not exceed 11,000. , POPULISTS INDORSE HEARST. Party in Kansas Holds State Conven j , tion, But Fail to Name a Ticket. j The Kansas populist state conven- j tion met in Topeka and adjourned j without making any nominations. The j j delegates will meet in Topeka on Au- j j gust 3, at which time an effort will be j; made to fuse with the democrats. A ( state convention of democrat:, will be \ held the same date. ' j The resolution reaffirms allegiance ; I to the last national platform,condemns . I the republican record in state and na tional affairs, and indorse William It. j ! Hearst for president. . I i CRUM CASE CALLED UP. | Nomination cf Charleston Coloreo L Collector Again Postponed. I The nomination of W. D. Crum to I I be collector of customs at Charleston, : { S. C., was called up in executive ses- ( : sion of the senate Thursday by Sena- | | tor Gallinger. j. Senator Tillman, who opposed the j i confirmation, explained that, he was j, | not weil enough to make a speech and !? | the nomination went over out cf cour-1 ' tesj to him. !' / An Associated Press dispatch from'.|H 5L Petersburg says: Official telegram3jl? rom Port Arthur state that the Rus* : <|9 lian battle ship Petropavlovsk has J jeen sunk off the entrance to the harv^B It is estimated that eight hundred zien lost their lives by the destructioaJH ).? the ship. Among those who were drowned vere vice Admiral Makaroff, the mander of the Russian naval forces ia-iS; :he Far East. So far as known only four of thejg[ Dfficers were saved, among them beinnH the Grand Duke Cyril, first officer .alS the vessel, who was wounded. . | As the Japanese fleet approachedaM Vice Admiral MakarofE ordered hl8 whole squadron out of the harbor tor|B meet the attack. | According to the Associated Pre$ra| informant, while preparing to draw up'aB his line of battle in the outer rou|H stead, the Petropavlovks struck i^B mine on her starboard side, amidshipU and immediately began to heel- BtSj| fore the crew could flood the compart-' Jj ments of the vessel in order to keefe|i| her on an even keel, she turned lwt|S|jj torn up and sank in a few minatso^p carrying down almost the entire crewJ|gj Captain N. Jakovloff, the Grand Duke|S Cyril and two other officers were ed because they were standing on upper bridge. The frightful life among the officers and men due to the fact that they were at theifSa stations ready for action. % The Petropavlovsk turned turtlev!a|jS| a manner similar to the British battfijEjP ship Victoria, which was rammed:^^H the Camperdown in 1893, and to thal|J incident in the Chino-Japanese waring when a Chinese warship turned tie, many of the crew remaining alinM for several days, hammering despen^H ately on the upturned hull. : j? The correspondent of the Associate^H ] Press was informed Wednesday afterv^ noon that Grand Duke Boris was golnjffli to accompa*^y his brother to MukderoB'! According io the advices received^? Grand DuT:e Cyril's injuries wec|3| report Received by Czar. ;J| J The following dispatch was receiTOtjH in St. Petersburg from Bear Adnrinjgflh: Grigovitch, the commandant at Porral^ Arthur, addressed to the emperor: 31 J "Port Arthur, April 13.?The Petrrijjj^S pavlovsk struck a mine, which her up, and she turned turtle. squadron was under Golden Hill. The Ji Japanese squadron was approachlnjg^|\ Vice Admiral Makaroff evidently wae:;^ lost Grand Duke Cyril was savedJfi He is slightly injured. Captain Jakov- ^ ' 1r>f? TL-or QQvprf thnnp-h spvprelv IkH Jured, as were five officers and thirtiBj two men, all more or less Injured. . | "Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsl^S^ has assumed command of the fleet" MAKAROFF BRAVE OFFICER, i M Sad Fate of Russian Admiral Createt Profound Sensation. The news of the death of Admfrad^s| Makaroff caused a profound sensatjo^lH in naval and military circles at WasjaH iugton, for he was probably betters.,' iinown than any other Russian navat^fft Dfficer. This was because of the fact Jr that he had visited the United State?J|i in 1896-97 and also commanded dHfSj Russian north Atlantic squadron. Thekfgeneral opin'cn is that Makaroff- was^;au officer of singular ability. In matter of personal bravery he had np;|| ' NEGROES PROSECUTE CHINAMEJB Almond-Eyed Restaurant KeepertJ^ Charged With Violation of Law. - J The curious spectacle of two color #Js| men asking for punishment of touty* Chinamen for a denial of civil right^S n refusing to serve them has been ' furnished by a case in a Chicago jusjppl lice court. A white jury decided thatA the colored men had not suffered suf^gaa Rcient impairment of their rights Justify a fine.