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»■, / / » • tr • VOL xxxvi. I v - x WALTERBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. 1914. «ii ■ . . NO. 42 $64 PERISI IK SEA DISASTER Steamer Empress «f Ireland Rammed by Danish ' Collier Storstad in St Lawrence River Last MILUON «E8Uh Friday Mornfaiv; Sank in Few Minutes. FINAL FIGURES SHOW BUT 403 SAVED; VIVID DETAILS OF TRAGEDY TOLD But 22 Women and Chil- \ \ dren Were Rescued From Water*. *6 ; HetartremOIac Scewrw WldMwsetl at iiimo«Mki W'bere the Sail Harvest of the hhipN Was I Jikl on the Pier*; Identification Work is Very Hh»w. '■ > *t|********** * ' * * *. Montral, May 3«.—In tbc In- * * teat figures by the Canadian -if * Pacific Railway the total cum- # * ber who lost their lives in the » * Empress of Ireland disaster is * * reduced to 964. Of this num- * * ber 75S were pacseogers and * * 211 crew. Of the 403 saved * * the passengers numbered 201 »• * and crew 202. • * * * ************ a coll is-., / Store tad. of It to tho sinking of pointed opt that in tl ante there was time Washington. Jane 0 o FnaoM war deportment thdap for tho Gorman ships ■nvarlg had armngsd tho honey fines thorn la order that they cleared from Vera Crns. lag the fines, whien totalled than one million Garrison today issued this state Bavaria 118.68 . - . 't yf- • •■v ment: HUERTA PREPAR ING TO RESIGN HUERTA CANDIDATE FDR GIDIUD I TINE OR TIE E1ECTRIC CHAIR X llTHOMi%EK DELPXiATICH AT PEACE (XDXKERKNO'. TO MAKE KTATEXir.Vi. wiu m mt win ■aioi a PAcm • The cuFtoms and port ollicjal *** announced the wlll- fned the Hamberg-Aiuerlcnn Ihi. ’ ^ of Huerta to Bni 8 t;:a lly.d8r> -wst.v for havln - ; * ,vs '* n on “*' M€, * ,ro ls ‘^'H- * fally pacified" the Constitu- discharged a large portion of h*-r cargo, consigned to Vera Cruz * another port before arriving nt th port and for correcting fire rnantfe- Ver.t Quohee. May 30.—M^>re than one thousand persons^ lost their lltes when the Cmnsdiah Pacific (steamship Empress of Ireland sank In tho 8t,- Lawrence e^rfy Friday after Ion with the Danish collier Store Figure^/'compiled by the Canadian Pacipt- Railway Company and made public today Indicated that 1.032 .persons in all had perished. Their list follows: Saved: : First class passengers, IX second and third class passen- T <»rs 131; crew, 2bB: total. 335. The number of passengers carried by the Empress of Ireland: First rlasx 87^ second class, 153: third class. 715: crew, 432: total. 1387. With the survivors safe in Que bec, where they ere being given every possible care, attention a.rain turned today to Rimouski, where ef f-'rls to recover the bodies of victims are in progress. Early today the number of bodies landed there pass ed the 300 mark. The dead were piled in tiers, mak ing It possible to closely scrutinize the bodies for identification. Few have so far been recognized. There anpear to be many foreigners among the dead, judging rrow passports found o D their bodies. Women and children are plenti fully represented in the grim pile, among them one mother with her child pressed closely to her brea«t. Sight is Heartrending. Those who witnessed the scene at RiJtouski. where the sad harvest of the rescue ships were laid on piers, said the sight was heartrending. Many of them stared ^eavenward with wide open eyes: some with hor ror in them and others with an air of puzzled surprise. There was lit tle, attempt to cower the corpses and for the most part they lay practical ly as they had been taken out of the Vater some half dressed and others nearly naked. The tender Lady Grey hac been designated as a funeral ahlp and is expected to reach Quebec late today with the bodies recovered. An army of carpenters and undertakers work-^ ed all last night snd today converg ing one of the larfre freight sheds on the harbor front into a temporary morgue. The collier Storstad. which ramm ed the ill-fated liner, arrived her** shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, accompanied by thfc wrockiig steam er Strathcona and aticbored in mid stream. A pras^/toat went out. but newspaper men were refused permis sion to board# It was learned, how- ►ver. that she had haved mcoy of the Empress’ passengers. The Storstad is badly damaged. Laving a hole some fifteen oquare In her bow. She is waiting for orders tb say whether she jriU dock here or to go to Montreal. Vis Id Details of Tragedy. Stories of the disaster tronght to Quebec by survivors gave vivid de tails Qf the most terrible tragedy In the annals et St. Lawrence. Some compared taalc, bvt of the Titaalc pare for death, while with ta perished oa the Empress there was little time for reflection or prayer. From the accounts of the saved it seems that soon after the ship wai .rammed she careened until her deck stood at right anglea to the water. She slid slowly into the water and it was only possible to launch five boats in <fi* brief interval before she flnaL ly sank. Captain Washed Away. Captain Kendall was on ihe^bridge when the collision occurred. * When the steamer sank he was washed away/later to be picked up by one of the boats, apparently to his great after arrival in the port of regret. Thus far he aas vouchsafed , C^uz. no public statement except to say j "The similar fine has been tmpi~ that he would have preferred to go ! ed upon the Ypiranga, amounting’ down with his ship. Passengers speak , to 894,950 pesos for failure I* dl» in his praise and declare he did his charge her cargo where conslfi**) failure to correct Invoices accord ingly and discharging!)- her cargo at a port other than that to which con signed. "General Fnnston states that eh • officials in question had aa opUo i under the Mexican law and had to , assess the fines in the sums named j No rppesl has been taken *a behalf, o^«ne vessels aad the preaampMon is that If any further proceedings are to be had representations l : il be made to our state tie Concerning sanitary londlUoas at Vera Crns Secretary Garrison tedgJL sat* • ' JL ’’The United States nrmy has * * * * • In the * • REBELS OBJECT. June 2.—I’p- * on being informed at, Klaga^ * t ion a lists agency authorized this statetnenf: "Anything coming from Huerta’s side will not be ta ken into consideration." ********** full .duty. Chief Officer Steed, It is stated, was killed by a boat falling on him while working to help the passengers escape. \ Irving Died With Wife. X Laurence Irving, author and act*r and son of Sir Henry Irving, accord ing to survivors, died while trying to save his wife. Mr, and Mrs. Irving ware last seen on deck embracing ope another as if la farewell. They went down with the ehip, locked in each other’s arms. Only m Women Saved. ,'- v the many on board appear to have been saved., > One little girtT* Helen O’Hsra. swam until she was pieced up as al so did Miss Thompson froth New Zea land. Mrs. Greenaway, a bride of Niagara Falls. Ont., June 2.— General Huerta is preparing to re sign. He today authorized hit rep resentatives at the mediation con- i ference to announce to. the world »' ... that "neither mistaken ,pri<t> nor personal interest" would prevent his withdrawal hrhen once Mexico Is "politically pacified" and the gov ernment succeeding his so consti tuted -thnt It can count on the sup port of public opinion lu Mexico Thu Mexican delegates tn their formal statement revealed thnt they had been Instructed from tho first completed one month’s occupancy of} to inform the mediators that Gen Vera Crux. There have been ashore;era 1 Huertas personality would not more than 7,000 soldiers spd ma rines snd not one deai!i from dfs case has .occurred within that pc [be an obstacle toward reaching a peaceful settlement. They also sta- I ted that the internal situation in LEXINGTON MAN SHOT BY A BOY BnM to Be Result of aa Attack Made oa Lad’s Father la L*xlngtoa. Juno 1.—Jesse How ell. a white farmer, was abut aad iMtaatly killed by WHMo Sharpe, a 17-ysaf-old boy. the sou of Noah Sharpe, a well kaowa farmer, about • •’dock Saturday night, the shoot ing having taken place on tho front porch of the home of Tillman Bush, a son-in-law Of Noah Sharpe and a brother-in-law of the boy who did the shooting. A single barrel shot gun was used. The entire load hav* ing taken effect In the neck, charge entering just below the ear on the left side and making its exit almost in the same location on the opposite side, completely shattering the spinal column and causing in- stanj death. The scene of the homicide la about eighteen or twenty miles from the wurt hous«* nn<* about a mile east of the tow,n of Gaston. Noah Sharpe testified .that he had Just finished supper' and had come out on the porch and sat down on a chair,' when he observed Howell cominpr through the yard. Howell, he said, came up to where he was sitting and asked: "Who ia this?" He replied, "this ia Noah." To this he'saith^lowell replied./’I’ll got you now.” /Sharpe said that he pleaded with Howell to wait and "let’a taU It over.” but instead of stopping he attempted to cut fils throat wltn a knife whicA he hr in tr. hi* hand, and was only prevented from doing so by hu efforts to. knock the licks off. A second of two tutor, ho auM. Willie Sharpe appeared in the door with the gun lit his hand, and How ell made on? step toward Willie and started to make another when Envoys Ignore Fact of the Successful Revolt ■ '' •T| CARRANZA CRITI- . CISES COMMISSION Wore it Not fur Lark of ’ Fartutlea, Rebels Cfelm w .*• h j, v Would Re la the Mesleaa ' Now. ' EJ Paso. Tex., June 1.—A semi official statement from General Car ranza's headquarters at Durango, theferiticistng the actions of the media- ’ tors^at Niagara Falls, and an an nouncement from General Villa re- iterating his allegiance' as a mili tary deader to ('arranza, were tho developments today of the Mexican situation hero. Villa arrived at Chihuahua City from Torreon on hit way from Juarez. Carranza was re ported as having begun preparation to move by way of Torreon to Sal tlllo, where he will perfect his pro- visiongl government. The statement from Durango, where Carranza’s provisional .gov ernment , was established several days ago, was addressed to th') press of the United State* with' a note to the effect that it had ofiL rial sanction, although it was not a formal declaration. The telegram In part follows: CUrrauao’a Critic Uni. "Tho dominant sentiment of the i omuiuiiomims rvgsraMg M# pro- ceedings of the mediation eommla- sion at Niagara Falls is one of n»- a week. was a separated from her bus- , , Mexun was "necessarily bound up band and thought she bad lost him. with the international questions but the two had a happy reunion la- . *•«<> AAA |?TD1? anrt ,hls actuated ter at Rimouski. A JpIZvlIyU F llvl-i them in coming to the mediation Probably the chief cause of con- conference, fusion on the steamer after the im- , SUMTER Reply to Rebel Note pact was the fact ?fiat the wate, ( Coincident with the announce rushing into the engine goom and * *iem by the Mexican delegates of flooding the dynamos, threw the sh |* - * their position the mediators tonight l»to cmplrt, dark»e»s. Tto- «r.«- llt^ante Man*** T «" s „, by mail 10 Rafa.l Z. r alM ,yy jlps i>f lb. tyfrlfi,,! pa**»n,er» «/, Have Namm K«-ap--. . i liaran rajunany. r.prn,,nlali>y >’ ! ) co „dmona are sacl.neil , General Carranza In-Washington. ( Ut “ replying ** * tentshmeot that there should be . au | «uch an apparent lack of under- ^ Wa8 “ h _ 0 ^ ' standing on the part of that bodv. not onD with regard to conditions The witness said that no words passed between Willie Sharpe and M „ xlco< KH lo the att|tude Qf the deceased; that his son fired at once and Howell never spoke after he was shot. The killing of Howell is the fifth or sixth homicide to occur in l.e\- ngion count) within the past two mot\t hs. to escape can’ be - imagined One of the first steps taken at R1- mouski this morning was the estab lishment of a regular »*aoh patrol to prevent looting by beach comb ers. The Ftoratad later left for Mon treal with the wrecking steamer Strathcona. She is making slow progress. :PMI Hi silo Recovered. Quebec. May. 30.—-Of the (.hous- and ot more personr, who went to their death with v the sinking of the liner Empress of treiand, the bodies of more than 300 had be~n recover ed today. The survivors—estlmat cj-fit.355—were enroute to their homes garbed. i u garments supplied by the residents of Rlmo-.ts.'::. Early today the bulk of the dead then recovered was placed on the government vessel Lady Grey at Rimouski to he brought to this port pending identification. Captain Ken dall of the Empress of Ireland, still suffering from his Injuries, remain ed at the little village from the wharves of which at low tide he could see the funnels of his stricken ship anting above the river’s surface. fit ,000,04)0 Went Down. With the Empress. It became known today. «* own IM® 0 00 , 0 ia silver, bars, shipped from Cobalt t 0 England: . It is the opinion In shipping cir cles that the Empress will either havr^to be bodily raised or dynamit ed for fear that her position will cause the formation of a sandbar. ’ -The collier Storstad that ripped open the liner’a side, arrived at Que bec early this morning and proceed ed slow!) to Montreal, to which port her cargq of coal Is consigned. Cap tain Anderson, while refusing to fiiye out' any extended statement, said that the collision had ■ 0 '"* ly to the suddenness with which the fog shut down upon the vessels. He added that after the crash he pick ed up more than 300 persons,,in fact most of those saved, titer they were transferred to the Lady Grey and the Eureka The collier had in her bow, above the water line, a hole large enough to admit three men erect. Her port anchor wis missing, having been dragged away and sunk *lth the Empress. ef ” Ideatlfcation h* slow. The whole of Quebec- mourned to day, awaiting $be arrival of the dead (Continued on page two) Sumter, June 1.—The residence of Mrs. F. H. Dunn was destroyed list I night by fire, causing a loss of more 1 than 813.000, about one-third of which is covered by Insurance The fire started shortly after 1«» o'clock, while the occupanta were on the fron* communication t.y .ruan F. Ur- to the brought here Frlday qatdi. The mediators in effect asked General Carranza if the 4’onstitu- tionalist* were willing to d scuss in ternal as well as* ftttamational Qua* tions. and if the) were ready to de named n< the Conslitutionaiists regarding the mediators. This lack of understand ing is not confined io the comm^s- -'ic.netu ’hemselvcs. bur s ms to i>c shared- by a large portion of the American press, as well as by the government. Judging from wltat has been pub lished the mediators appear to con sider General Carranza and his fol lowers as ' a neglible quantity, scarcely wprthy of attention, an 1. who. perforce, 'must agree to what- porch, and had spread over most of ‘l“ r ! *" iopted the mediation of the South American powers in a frank and’ open spirit and the Mexican dele- J ever conclusion the commission may reach. They do not seem to be aware of the fact that the Cohstttu Honalists are conquerers, that th*y have inaugurated auu carried alipo t the rear of the building, the flames forces so that the "political pacifi Srourtii>';7rn 77™ <• > r > ’r , » r y t l ». j gates referred in their statement . it was dlacovered. Mr. and Mrs W. Bradford, who occupied two of the second-Jlory rooms 10 the front of'the residence, barely managed to escape and all of their household ef fects were lost. Mrs. 8 A. Gill lost all of her personal belongings, val ia ight be speedily brought about These act#—the Issuance of the statement by the Mexicans and the mailing of a reply to Zeubaran-- broke the deadlock in the negotia tions. the existence of which the me- , formally denied. gaion has been guided and will be guided i,n all its acts by perfect good faith. \ "lt : hould be unnecessary to say at President Huerta gave the Mex ican delegation speclaL instruction.* not to consent to anything which could hurt the sovereignty of the ; Mexican nation and to refuse a hearing, in the deliberations of the j conference to anything which might , be conatrueif as an Imposition from I .be outside. { No Occasion Before For their own part, the delo- ued at 83.000, 81,00ft insurance.. dt * ,orB toda £ formally denied ! gates would not have accepted in- trs. Dunn lost most heavily .as she I , stru ‘ ,,ions of a na,u4 ‘ , ‘ on owned the building and most of The lively established ,ha * u “‘' * these points; but they beg to state furniture. I mediators withdrew the.r^original that hJ)herfo |hey had nir o,.. The hre burned quickly and liad it * nt ontlo n of ignoring t e J 1 1 caslon to refer to them, thanks to not been for the prompt arrival ind j note did the ^merlcaii .drtegates , th# ex14UjBit< , 1jlrt of tIl<> mediation good work of the fire department the i tonoea to go ahead a discussion > p^gipotentiaries and to the clrcum- ... “ “ “ on which sp p { . t , on of th,. American delegates. ! -To treat- of the interior paclfi- today’s conferences. | ( . at j 0 n if Mexico lb the course of The statement by The Mexicans. de , iberat f on8 on diffioulties of an in- prepared two days ago, but not is- tt , rnal character cannot be consld- sued until Gen Huerta had tela er#d as 8l ,binittlng the sovereignty graphed his complete approval to- of nat i 00 to an external Influ- day of the tentative plan for a new sa|d pat . lfl ,. atlon i s inecessa Provisional .Government, also, car- KOfju worik oi in<? iirt? i / - _ ^ two adjacent residences would hive!of the general peace ptan. burned. As it was, the wails of bol K substantial i«rogre*.>. a> !.*< ♦ were badly scorched. '■1 STILL NO SIGN , OF STEAMER The "F. J. I.nckenhach" and C rew Vet Missing at Baltimore. Norfolk, Va., May 31.-—No signs of the missing steamer f\ J. LucKen- bach and its efew of 29 men were seen by the torpedo boat destroyers Beale and Fanning, which arrived here today from Tampico, Mex. The destroyers steamed over practically the same course that the missing ship is -supposed to-have followed wheu it left Tampa, Fla., on May 15 for Baltimore. Wireless orders were received by the cruisers Dixie and Birmingham./ frUhdrmwal ,halt be politi- 1 f | ucrtai t wo by the Constitutional- while they were conveying eight tor pedo boat destroyers northward from Tampico to Hampton Roads, to search for the Luckenbacb. The two cruisers and the remainder of the de stroyers are expected to arrive here tomorrow or Tuesday. No informa tion has been received from thetp regarding the missing vessel. The LuckenbachiT* now nine days overdue at Baltimore. tied the negotiations a long step forward. The text of the state ment follows: 4 \. "In accordance with the instruc tions which the Mexican delegation tins had since the beginning of the peace negotiations, its members de clared at the fin! full conference; that Is to say. in the presence of the -mediating plenipotentiaries and of the deiegntes of the United States of America, that President Huerta * personality Is not an obstacle to the reaching of n satisracory conrius- ion. v '~"r • j/ Prepared lo Withdraw. "General Hnerta to prepared to rily bpiind up with the international quest ions. "This has been appropriate by the Mexican delegation and in set ting forth the intentions of its gov ernment In the matter and In Its en deavors to bring about the pacifica tion it has been Inspired by tho knowledge that without It no sat- isfactoi’y conclusion can be arrived at i n the Internhtional questions." Just before the statement, was Is sued the Mexicafi delegates had a long conference with the mediators. Afterwards they telegraphed to*| General Huerta to send them the names of the men who will be sat isfactory to him for places In the withdraw from the government on i new provisional government, wfcich condition that. aMhe Ume of hto | ia lo consist of*4wo men rhpsen by pacified and the government I la , a and » neutral ’ Provtvslonal ing his shall be such a* to prudent, selected, by the common, on the acquleecence of the agreement of all parties. The first snd the support of public opinion, which constitute the real bases for pence snd stability if any country. • . "It has been and as President ^my 0 f a fair administration which Huerta’s wish to place on record m |u be expected not <mty o conduct thnt neither mistaken pride nor 1 „ general election, but to make a 4a “ four are to compose the cabinet, but are to be morally obligated by the terms of any agreemnet reached there to share equally the responsl- aeit personal interest will prevent his beginning on internal reforms. to succtui.sful (Ompletton a revolu tion, and that this means the estab lishment qf a government entlt!«<1 to recognition by the rest of the world. Recent successes of the Constltu- Honalisf army, and others that ar • imminent, arg conclusive proof that the power of Huerta is practically ended. His troops will not fight They either run away or Join their opponents with every sight of will ingness. Need Only Kail rand* Now. "All that. prevents the Constitu tionalist* from entering the City of Mexico today Is' the physical obsta cle of the destruction of the rail roads. With communication restor ed. which is being accomplished with rapidity, the army would be in the City of Mexico i n less than a week. Yet the (’omflitutionalis? leaders point l-o the deliberations of the commission and th* state ments of the press as absolutely Ig noring this situation. The peace commission goea even so far as Hr propose that the Con- stitutiohalists must recognize what ever provisional government they decide to set up and to declare that they must be forced to recwgulxe that government or be cruahed. ••The C’onstitutionaltot leaders are wondering how they are to be forc ed to do this in view of their pres ent accomplishments.' and by whom they are to be crushed if they de cline to obey the commission. Calm ly, too. the commission propose* that Huerta ahall be permitted to be'a candidate for the presidency in order merely to save his face. Do they think the Constitutionalists will consent to that any more than they wilf consent to recognlxe^h pro- visionnl government ns the comnlis- sion propones,-of one person select ed by Huerta, one by themselves, and fine, perhaps, but not at nil likely, by the Constitutiotialtota? Proposition Beyond Acceptance. ' "Not one . the ConatltuftonnliHt leaders point out. who has hid any acquaintance with the objects and. purposes of their movements would „('Continued*on page five) /