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W VOL XIII i Six Hundre Lr OiV, Fire ; J ^ L On Burning 'Steamer K at New York They Perished. # I MANY CHILDREN VICTIMS Although the Steamer Was Not Far From Shore, Fire and in Few Minutes W Claimed Many. of the most appalling disasters W the history of Now York, tragic Bn its Immensity, dramatic In^ls |B episodes and deeply pathetic In the B tender age of most of the victims, took place Wednesday in the East I river at the entrance to Long Island sound, within a short distance of the A New York shore and within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of B whom were powerless to minimize the B extent of Die catastrophe. B lly the burning to the water's edge Bof the Gen. Slooum, three-decked exB^cursion steamer, the largest in these B waters, more than <>oo persons, the B majority of whom were women and I children, were burned to death or B drowned by jumping overboard or by B boing thrown into the whirlpool by B the lurching of the vessel and the of the panic-stricken mgers. lis the season of Sunday school 'alone in New York bay and Long id Rnmub t.hn imp nf t.hn Kst picturesque bodies of water in the country. Great preparations had Vheen made for the 17th annual excurW Bion of the Sunday school of St. Mark's German Lutheran church the congre V nation of which is drawn from the dense pollution of the lower east and west sides, and the Gen. Slocum had been chartered to carry the excursionH Ists to Locust Grove one of the many ^^^ Mtf^^Kong Island He NUMIIKIt ON HO A HI). ^^^Bpi^variously estimated that there ^^ere between 1,600 and 2,600 persons (n board the Gen. Slocum when she left the pier at Third street, East river, though the Kiuckerbocker Steamship company, which owns the Slocum, otllclally states that the number of persons was HT.'l, that being only one-third of the vessel's capacity. rit is thought however, that there Mp* several hundred children in arms, for whom fares are not usually charged on these trips, on board. Tho scene on the decks of the steamer as she proceeded up the East river was one of merrymaking, customary on such occasions. The mass of flags fluttered in the June breez?, the bands were nlavlni? and the children were singing, dancing and waving handkerchiefs and Mags in answer to the salutations of those on shore or from passing steamers. On the extreme eastern end of Randalls islaqfl, off 135th street, there is a stretch "of water known as the sunken meadowy. At this point, Just as crowds were watching the gaily decorated steamer ^ _ from shore, the Gen. Slocum took lire ; Ad as the age of the vessel she was Bilt In 1891?had resulted In the well HKisonlng of the wood with which she was almost entirely built, she was soon a mass of llame. The llame is said to have broken out in a lunch room on the forward deck by the overturning of a pot of grease. The wind was high and all efforts to ex^ tlngulsli the blaze were futile. FOK NOIITII HUOTIIKK ISLAND. At 134th street there are several lumber yards and oil tanks a^ as Capt'. William Van Schaick, in ^jmmand of the Gen. Slocum, started U turn Ills vessel towards the shore there he was warned that it would set tire to the lumber and oil and so he chang ed his course for North brother island, one of the twin Islands near the en trance to the sound some half a mile kaway, where the boat partially burnec was beached. She sank near that place at 12.15 o'clock Wednesday k afternoon, two hours and 25 minutei | after the tire was disexivered. In the meantime the passenger.* had become panic stricken and those who were not caught up by the llame! rushed to the rear of the vessel anc hundreds Jumped overboard into the swiftly running waters. It isauigee that the life preservers woq^fAse cureiy rastenen 10 uieir noiamgs 10 tj< available and stories are told of fran ; tic efforts made by strong men to cul tbem loose but even if they could hav< f|?been torn down they were too high uj ^pS-l^tbe children to reach. It is als< ^^^Vported that no attempt was made t< jP?Mret out the tire apparatus at the IIrs Ig^Vcry of "tire" though Capt. Vai Schalck says that he immediately rani the bells for getting out the appa W ratus. According to several state f ments no attempt was made to lowc boats or life rafts. Capt. Van Sohaicl and his two pilots, named Kiwart Van Wart and E. M. Weaver, hav been arrested. An Old Hinner. Meyer Guggenheim, 77 year, old, i multi-millionaire and a great grand father, has been made defendant in breach of promise suit, in New Yorll Damages are fixed at $100,000. Th possessor of $50,000,000 Is a very at tractive person. f By the way, what right men wh have been persistent bolters whe things did not go to suit them to d< ^h^mand that there be no bolters whe do go to suit them? r \ td Die and Wreck. THE 8T0RY IN DETAIL. Scenes oft ho FiiHpcakahlo AK^nt on the Doomed Ship. The three-decked excursion steamerGeneral Slocum, of the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, burned to the water's edge Wednesday oil North Hrother island, East river, at the enI trance to Long Island sound, resulting in the death through burning or drowning of at least 0U0 persons, mostly women and children. Four hundred and forty-sevi n bodies had been recovered Wednesday night and divers were at work taking bodies from the hold of the steamer. The remains of many persons who leaped into the river have not yet been found, and. it will be many hours before the list of dead Is anywhere near complete. The Gen. Slocum, one of the largest excursion steamers in these waters, left Third street, East river, at 9.30 o'clock Wednesday morning, having on board the annual Sunday school excursion of St. Maik's German Lutherchurch, located in Sixth street. Her destination was Locust Grove, one of the many resorts on Long Island !sound. The excursion was in charge of Kev. George C. F. Haas, pastor of the church. The vessel was commanded by i (Japt. Wm. Van Sohalk, one of the best known excursion boat captains in New York harl>or. lie has commanded I the t?cn. Sloeum for almost the entire | time since she was built in 1891. The ! number of excursionists on board Wednesday is variously estimated at i from 1,500 to 2,500, but according to i an olllciul statement issued by the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, owners of the Slocum, the number of passengers was 878, that being onethird of the vessel's licensed capacity. (.'HOWI)KI) WITH MKKKYMAKKKS. The steamer, after leaving her dock Wednesday morning proceeded up the i Kast river, all three of her decks being | crowded witli merrymakers. Hands played and the great sidewhecler was decorated with Hags frcm stem to stern. The Slocum had reached a point near the sunken meadows olT 135th street, Manhattan, which is at the extreme eastern end of Lunsdalls island, when tire broke out in a lunch room on the forward deck. The bla/.e was caused by the overturning of a pot of grease. The headway of the vessel and a high wind almost instantly fanned the Insigniticant liame Into jury. Effoits were at once directed to subduing the lire but they were futile. The bla/.e j spread after with almost lightning rapidity. Capt. Van Schaik, in the pilot house, had been informed of tho outbreak of the tire, and realizing the danger to the hundreds of excursionists, decided to send his vessel to shore at 134th street. At this point there arc lumber yards and several huge oil tanks and the captain was warned that to attempt to land at this point would endanger the property and perhaps further Imperil the scores of people who had already l?een frightened into a state of almost uncontrollable excitement. CHANOKI) COUK8K. Changing the big steamer's course slightly he headed for north Brother island, half a mile away. by this time the llames were rushing hy leaps and bounds fiom the forward part of the ship aft. The great open decks, built for the excursionists, with little obstruction from bow to stern, ottered a clear sweep for the tire. As the Sloe urn dashed forward the llames caught , stanchion and cabin woodwork eating and tearing their way across the ves, sel. ( The excurslonits, but a few moi ments before in the full enjoyment of i an Ideal summer's day on Long Island i .sound, were driven to the after part . of the steamer to escape the heat, . llames and smoke that were constantly increasing. Policemen and deckhands aboard the boat struggled hard to quiet the panic, but the efforts were 1 in vain. The wild dis< rder inc reased as 1 frantic mothers sought to tind their children, who had been at play about ' the decks. The steamer's whistle was blowing ! for assistance and tugs and other near' by craft answered the call, before any 1 of the boats could reach the burning ' steamer, however, the frantic women ' anrl nhtldron tuioon j * ??? vtinvti VII UI.^UII UV juiup UTCi ITUAIlli I ' The current was strong and there are ' many whirlpools In the channel. The ' boats that alwajs bound in the viclni* ty picked many persons from the water, but these were only a small | number o'f those that were seen strug5 gllng in the current. J On the Slocum the lust swe?p of ' the ilames cut oil escape from the 3 hurricane deck, where a great many 1 of the women and children were crowded together, and soon burned 3 away the light wood of the uprights which came down with a crash on ^ Chose below. It Is thought that most of those on the hurricane deck were 3 burned'. * CROWDED THE RAIL. t As the tire increased the struggle to i gain a point of vantage at the stern < became frightful. Women and child ren crowded against the after rail * until it gave way and hundreds were r pushed off into the river. After this t there was a steady stream of persons 3 who jumped or were thorwn into the [continued on page 4. J Horso Claim Allowed. a A dispatch from Spartanburg says . Congressman Johnson has received a notice through the war department . that a Confederate horse claim has e been allowed to J. A. Gallamore of r Greenville county under act of congress of Feb. 27, 1902. - After the surrender of Lee, Mr. Gallamore had a o horse stolen from him by the union n soldiers. The money "Will be forwarded 5- by the department in a week or two n Congressman Johnson has many similar claims pending.; * rKf < WORLDS NOTABLE DISASTERS. The Iltiriiiiiicof' the Slocuui Oncol'the Most llfartrcmliiiK. The burning of the steamer General Slocum, on la^>t Wednesday morning, with u l(?-s of probably more than 500 lives, is one of the most heartrending disasters of recent times. Ttie guests of the big steamer were nearly all children and women, going upon tiieir annual Sunday school picnic. Such a catastrophe cannot fail to recall the recent holocaust in Chicago, when at a matinee on the last day of lOO.'t, the Iroquois theatre, just c mpleted, was sei/.ed by the lire tiend and in less than thirty minutes more than 000 people, largely women and clill dren, were burned to death, and mure than 400 others were maimed for life. Such disasters call to mind the theatre tire of Richmond, Va., in 1811; the burning of the Conwaysbrook playhouse in 187(3, and the tlery destruction of the Paris theatre a few years ago, In which the leading actress and many others lost their livis. While such catastrophes are horrible to contemplate they do not approach the horror of other disasters by tire, tlood and volcanic eruptl ?n. All will recall the eruption of Vesuvius in A. I). 70, which buried in sand and lava Pompeii, Ilcrculaneum and Stabiae. The lotsof life was 160,000, and the cities have never been rebuilt. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, suffered an earthquake in 1755, which left the city in ruins, and took (10,000 lives. Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, lost 12,000 lives from an earthquake in 1812. Manila, Philippine Islands, was visited by an earthquake in June, 1803, causing a loss of nearly 10,000 lives. Certainly the mcst distruct! vc tire in the history of this country, if not in tire world, was the Chicago lire of Octi bbr, 1871. Beginning in a barn in DeKoven street, it spread with lightning rapidity, and raged for two days and nights. It swept over 2,100 acres, destroying 17,450 buildings The exact number of the deaths has never been ascertained, but it went Into the hundreds; 70,000 people? one-llfth of the entire population? were left homeless, and property worth $100,000,000?one-third of the value of the entire city was destroyed by tills tire. llostr n had a tire in 1872, which destroyed ;>0 acres v.f the business section at a 1< ss of 875,000 000. Tuc Johnstown, Pa., Mood in May, 1880, was a frightful disaster. The dam across South Pork, a branch of the Coneraaugh river, 12 m'les east of Johnstown, br< ke, releasing Cone maugh Lake, whose waters thundered down the valley, crtgu'fed Johnstown and neighboring villages, causing a loss of 2,235 lives and $10,000,000. On September 8, 1000, Galveston, Tex., was the scene of a great Mo id. a wesi Indian hurricane, with a \elooity if 185 milts an hour, swept over the lity and Hooded the {-treels, and in less tl an live hours destroyed (1,000 lives and property valued at $18,000,000. More recent still was the eruption of Mont Pclee on the Island of M ir Unique, French West Indies. On May the 8th, 1902, the mountains belched forth and overwhelmed the town of St. Pierre at its base w th sand and lava which overran the surrounding country, and destroyed 30,000 people. On August 8th, 1002, Mt. Pelee erupted again and 2,500 lives were lost. Everyone recalls the recent cyclone of Gainesville, Ga., and the burning of the Park Avenue Hotel in New York, each dh aster causing so much suffering and the loss of life, in the latter 157. Well Worth Seeing. One of the most interesting exhibits among the many of all kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis Is that of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn., manufacturers of repeating ritles and shotguns and all kinds of ammunition. The exhibit was in readiness and was opened on the first day of the fair, a fact that clearly illustrates the enterprise and up-to-date methods of the company behind it. It is the aim of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to show at their exhibit the high development which they have reached in Live making of guns and ammunition, and one needs only to see the exhibit to realize how near to perfection that development has come. There can be seen the new automatic repeating rille all kinds of shotguns, the modern smokeless powder shotgun shells and we liaiuuugcaj in iacii everytmng that can interest the devoteesof hunting and trap and tra and target shooting. Don't fail to rco ttie exhibit at the Manufacturers and Fish" and Game Buildings. It's well worth your while. Killed a Tyrant. Gen. BobrikotT, governor general of Finland, was shot and mortally wounded at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the entrance to the Finnish senate at Helsingfors. The assassin, a man named Schaumann, a son ot Senator Schaumann, immediately committed suicide. BobrikotT was shot in the stomach and neck, threeshots being tired, one of which inflicted a serious wound. The attack is ascribed to Finnish patriotism. The last recorded act of Gen. BobrikotT was in March of this year, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the people to darken their windows at "unusual hours." People who chose to go to bed before 10 o'clock at night were subject to heavy tines. This step was due to the ueglect of the Finns to illuminate their houses in honor of the beginning of the war with Japan. Iilfd Crushed Out. At New York one of the big automobiles used to take sight seers about the oity, ran over and killed an elderly unknown man in Broadway Thursday night while members of the merry party were laughing and singing. Before the body of the victim could be taken from under the car several of the women passengers became hysterical and had to be lifted to the ground, while others Jumped djwn and ran way from the scene. j mn JON WAY, S_ C., T1J FATHER KILLS SON. The Youth Plans to Frighten the Ilder Man by Playing Bandit WAYLAID HIM IN LONELY SPOT Ami Ih Killed Before lie Can Cry Out. Father I'luiiKeu a Knife Into the Doy'a Heart. At Itlverslde, N. J., Frank Reineckc, a boy of sixteen, played that he was a highwayman Wednesday night and did it so realistically that his father, whom he held up, plunged a knife into ids heart, killing him. Intercepting his parent in a lonely spot upon the banks of UancocasCreek tie suddenly stepped from behind a bush, telling lielneeke, Sr., to hold up his hands. The next instant he was lifeless. Thursday the father is raving in dellrum, and it is feared that he may never recover from the shock. The mother and sisters are prostrated, and the little community mourns the death of a popular youth. Half a dozen holdups have occurred at Riverside and the adjoining villages within a month or so, and the residents have been generally arming themselves. The place Is on the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania Railr< ad, but twelve miles from Camden, and large numbers of tramps pass along on their way to and from Philadelphia and New York. The recent crimes have been attributed to these wanderers. Frank Keinccke conceived the idea that it would be a tine thing to masquerade as a highwayman and f lighten Ills neighbors. He carried out his Idea and succeeded in making half a dozen staid residents jump fences and scuttle for home within a week. Thursday night he tried the experiment, upon Ills father, Walter lleinecke, a well-to-do insurance agent of that place, whose home is on the outskirts of the village, above the hanks of the creek, in a lonely spot. Father and son started out early in the evening, the older to transact, some business at the village tire company's house, of which oigani/.ation he is a member, and the boy to visit his young friends, Willie and Laura Kcllock, who live near the itcinecke home. On the way the youth regaled his fabber with storiess of recent holdu ps. When 10:30 p. m. came Mr. Reinecke started for home. He was ap prehensive, remembering that he had recently had words with a negro, who had threatened him. He also remembered what his boy had told him about highwaymen. So he drew a large knife from ids pocket, op?ned the blade and walked on with senses on the alert. Young ltelnecke had been watching for his fattier. He was peeping out from behind a bush that stood beside the path in the loneliest part of the roadway. The trees grow thick there, and the black water of the creek is just below, making it as loneley and dangerous a spot as can be imagined. .lust as the elder Ke'necke reached the shadow a dark ligtire stepped into, the half gloom and a hoarse voice cried: "Hold up your hands. Now I've got you." At the same instant the figure laid fast hold upon the frightened man's coal sleeve. With a cry of terror the father lunged forward and buried his knife in the breast of the supposed highwayman, who sank to the ground gasping, ''()!)! Father!" The voicr of tire boy recall d the anguished father to a realization of the awful thing that he had done. With a cry that was heard far olT by neighbors the distracted man fell on his knees beside the body of his boy and besought him to speak. He raised tire head of the boy only to find that he was already dead. Huatain Heavy tots. A dispa'ch fr m St. Petersburg says Emperor Nicholas Ins received thefollowering telegram from Lieu. (Jen. Iiaron Stakelberg. "A battle began at noon an und the Russian position four and a half miles south c f the station of Wafanhoon (Vafangow), the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left Hank. The attak was repelled and we retained cur position. The first regiment occupying tbe left Hank of our position sustained severe losses, its commander, Col. Khavas toun< tT, and Adjut. Sub-Lieu. l'ragoslaff Nadochinsy were killed. Gen. Gerngross was wounded, a sharpnel bu'let shattering the right side of the lower jaw, hut tie temained On the Held." /V Woman Itynohed. At Lebanon Junction, Ky., Maria Thompson, co'ored, who Wednesday night killed John Irwin, a wealthy white farmer, was taken from the jail Thursday and hanged to a tree in the jail yard. She weighed 255 pounds and the rope broke. As she ran away the mob fired a fusilade after her un til she fell and was left for dead. The U? ? > -? * uiuieis, nuwBvqr, iuuiiu signs or ine and removed the women to a phisician'suffice, where it was found that she had heen shot in several places and could not recover, irwln had reproved Maria Thompson's boy whe worked for htm. Afterward Maria came into Irwin's melon patch and clashed Irwin until he was dead. Three Killed in Duel. At hryan'sville, Ind., three men arc dead and two wounded, one fatally, as the result of a pistol light on the streets of that village Tuesday. The dead are James and Charles Itout and Milton Tow. *Jamcs Tow is fatal!) wounded and Krank Two is badl) hurt. The fight was the culmination of a feud between the Kout and Tow families. ' * Deadly Hot Supper. Tuesday night at a hot supper and dance given by the colored people ol Waltcrboro, Ous Green, bcc iming Jealous of William Ilaynes, deliberate^ pulled his pistol and shot him dead, Green was captured and lodged in jai at 2 o'clock next morning and this fact onabled the officials to discover sc early that Adams and Stephens hac escaped. # IU IIS DAY, JUNE 2 i BREAKS JAIL. ] Adams, Murderer, and Another Prisoner, Filed Their Way Out. AN APPEAL HAD BEEN DENIED 1 Ami Adami* Whh A wail lnj< a lie-wen- , tenco. Tin* SlicrifT and a 1 I'ohmc Are l'urMiiltiK . tlie EacaiteH. f A dispatch from Walterboro to , The State under date of June 14 says j quite a sensation was caused in Walteib >ro Tuesday morning when it , was known that It. A. Adams had ( eseaj; :1 from Jail. Adams was con- | vlcted for the murder of llenry Jaques > and sentenced last June tube handed, < His sentenced was stayed pending an , appeal to the supreme court, which | appeal was dismissed. Adams was to have been resentenced at the next i term- of court, which meets the tirst \ Monday in August. t At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning when , Gus Green was brought to Jail by \ Policeman Johnson a rope of blankets , was discovered han^in^ from the win- , dow above the Dortlon on t.hn ?tMo of! the jail. Upon investigation it vs;u found that Adams and a negro, .Jasper Stephens, incarcerated for larceny, had tiled through one of the iron bars and escaped. Deputy SherilT Henderson immediately started in pursuit,, but so far no traces of the escaped prisoners has been found. Adams is about f> feet 10 inches high, weighs about 145 pounds, daik skin, dark hair and eyes, with moustache and a long, sharp face with very heavy jaw and large neck; fast talking and winks eyes rapidly whilo talking, nervous and quick movement. * A GHOST STORY. A White Ilobctl Figure Brings Warning of Danger to n Man. A dispatch to The State sayz there is one family in Aiken that is really glad that time does tly and the 15th of June has passed. This excellent family is composed of enlightened people and there is not a particle of ignorant superstition in their make up, but one night last week a "something" occurred that is calculated to make tire most sturdy of us uneasy, just a little bit. On the night (or rather in the wee, small hours of the morning) in question, Mr. II. F. Warneke was awakened by a noise in his back yard. He waited a while and as he again heard something he went In the yard to look around. Not seeing anything he started back to the house. He says that while he was going to the house he felt an almost irresistible force pulling him back. Nothing touched him and he saw nothing. He cute red his back door and closed it. The door Hew open. He slammed it shut and it again Mew open. And then Mr. Warneke went to see what the matter was, and there "it" stood, a tall ligure with a sheet wrapped around It and with a very white face. "What do you want, and who or what are you?" asked *'(r. Warneke. "Come out here at. I il tell you," replied His Chalkiness. "Go away, 1 don't want anything to do with you," said Mr. Warneke, and tried to elose the door, but the ligure pushed its foot between the door and the (oor frame and shoving its white face up to Mr. Warneke's said, "Come out here and I'll show you something that is going to happen to one of vour children on .lime ir.en " Mr. Warnekeasked which child and what was to happen to it. The figure I always replied, "Come out here and I'll show you." ( Finally, the figure finding that Mr. Warneke would notcome outside said, 1 "Remember, 1 tried to warn you," 1 and vanished. Mr. Warneke did not get at all frightened until he got upstairs and got to thinking over the matter, and it seemed so curious and unexplainable that it has worried the whole family a little. Hut the fatal loth has pasted and they are all as healthy as ever. Whether the whole thing was a practlcil joke or not Mr. Warneke cannot of course say. He does not believe in ghosts and is just a little bit mystified at the affair. However, If it was a joke, as it must have been, the joker, If found out, will certainly l>e induced to stop such antics. l>ixic (Quieted Tliem. At Amerlcus, (Ja., a catastrophe that might have been terrible In its results was narrowly averted late Friday night. The Amerlcus theatre was packed beyond its capacity. Twelve hundred people, principally ladies and children, tilled the building when an ii'ar.n of fire was given from without. Hundreds rushed for the single entrance which Is 20 feet above tnc pavement and readied by a single wooden stairway. F.ffnrt.u nf noiino and teachers upon the stage were an, availing until the orchestra, with , wonderful inspiration, struck up "Dixie." This served to restore quiet. , In the stampede cm the outer stalr; way, several women fainted. Jumped from Train. A dispatch to The State from [ Greenville says: Deputy Sheriff Mallenger returned Saturday night from Salisbury, bringing with him Itobt. iiird, wanted at Fountain Inn for the Fowler murder. The trip was with' out incident until after lUackshurg [ was passed, when the negro jumped | from a window while the train was j making .'10 miles an hour. Ilallenger r rushed to the platform and leaped. r The negTo was found on an dmbankment badly crippled. Ilallenger's only f injury was a sprained ankle. The deputy held his priloner until the train backed to the point where the negro jumped and took them on board. | Negro Child Killed. At Simp8onvllle Tuesday afternoon r .Hm Thompson, a 6 year-old negro . boy, while playing with a pistol shot 1 and Instantly killed a 6-months old t, Infant in the arms of his young sis) ter. The ball entered the infant's 1 head and grazed the breast of the young negro holding the child. * % i, 1904. WILL BE A CHANGE. Mr. Frnl Wamiaiiiakor Will Appoint New Civil Service Hoard. The Columbia State says: Upon Lhe retirement of Mr. A. P. Wilson from the postolilce to seek health on [lis farm near the city a negro named Nix was appointed to succeed Mr. Wlllon as secretary of the local board of jlvil service examiners. The appointment has been the subject of complaint, and Congressman Lover has uicceded in having him removed. The objection to this colored man may be be^t stated by an example, liecently a young lady Informed l)r. Lnscr that she wished to stand the ixamlnation for stenographer in the government service. She was referred t-o the secretary and with indignation die refused to stand the examination vhen she found that the person to ivhom she applied and to whom her papers should lie. submitted is a negro. This incident, among others, was irought to t he attention of Mr. Lever. It was also brought to his attention hat white men as well as women rvere refusing to go before an examlnng board the secretary of which is a legro, and as a result the postotllce vas being tilled up with negro clerks md carriers. When Mr. Lever took the matter jp with civil service commission, he vas told that the commission had deeded to create a southern department vith headquarters in Atlanta and vilhMr. Fred Wannamaker in charge. Friday Mr. Wannamaker was in the >lty for a short while and promised VIr. Lever to give the relief asked for. It is not knovyn who will be members >t the new board, but they will be mployes of the federal government, >f course. The appointment of the local 'xaminiliis board has Upon mnrln In/ /tic commission in Washington upon ce mimendatlons from Columbia, and t is understoul tliat I)r. Ensor did lot recommend the negro's appointnent, but in a way approved tlie proposed appointment wlicn Ids opinion nas asked. Mr. Lever says tliat tlie ihauge will not cause l)r. K isor any vorry as tlie itlloiency of tlie postal lervice in tlie city may be promoted /hereby. The postmaster employs lis clerks and cairlers from a list of digibles and this list is made up with he exact standing of every applicant itandlng examination. If nom but legroes apply, none but negroes will ie appointed. Mr. Fred Wannamakcr, who is to a) be secretary in charge of the tifth >r southern dlvison of the civil servic :ommission, is a native of Orangeburg, ind conducted a newspaper before gong to Wasliington wiiere lie wasglven m appintment in the otllce of the ilvil service commission. His promo/ion lias been rapid, and this last ecognltion from tlie department is a natter of gratitication to his friends n South Carolina. Udeer the new plan, the local boards if examiners will be abolished In every /own in the State in the district. The mayager of the division, in this ;ase the tiftli division, will have under dm a force of examiners. These examiners will lie sent to every town )r city wiiere examinations are to be leld, and at tlie conclusion of the ex-, iminatiotis, the papers will be sent to \tlanta, instead of Washington as ias heretofore been the rule. Under die new rule, the work of holding tlie ixamina.lon will be greatly simplitied. Instead of each place having its local joard of xaminers. an examiner will je sent from the division headquarters and the examination papers from til the S ates in the division will be sent to Atlanta instead of Washington, thus doing away with the contusion. peri men ted with it in the water. Upon ceasing all motion he would at once sink. The worth leanness of the preservers is further proved by the discovery at the bottom of the river of a number of bodies with preservers fastened to them." TIIK RUSSIAN KKl'OKT. Emprr r Nicholas has received the following dispatches dated dune 19, from Vice Admial SkrydloiT: "On June 15th our cruiser division encountered In the strait of Corea a Japanese transport steaming from the south in the direction of the Japanese coast which was visible on the horizon. The vessel proved to bo the I/.umi with troops on board. On the expiration of the time given those on board to lower boats and leave the ship, permission to do which was taken advantage of by part of the crew, the transport was sunk by our guns. Shortly afterwards two more transports were sighted to the southeast. The ships proved to be the Hitachi and the Sado, the former with troops and the latter carrying coolies, horses and a railway plant. The transports refused to surrender and at the end of the period granted those on board to take to the boats the two ve.'sels were sunk by torpcdocw and shells. The losses of the three transports, the tonnage of which aggregated 1?,000 tons, consisted of a portion of the troops and crews, a large quantity of war material and the railway plant. On June 10th our squadron met the British steamer Allenton, which was proceeding south with a cargo of coal from the port of Mourorun, Island of Hokkaido (the admiirstratlve name of the Japanes island of Yezzo). The lack of clearances in her papers and the irregularity of her Ion# excited suspicion concerning the neutrality of her cargo. The steamer therefore was sent to Vladivostok in charge of a detachment of soldiers command by Lieut. Pitrolf. She has arrived at Vladivostok where a prize court will consider her ca.ke." Criminal.CarelCHnettH. Rev. Decatur Edwards, pastor of the Falmouth Baptist church, while shooting at cats in his backyard at Fredericksburg, Va., Saturday, accidentally shot and mortally wounded Mrs. Lucy Mann, who was standing on her back porch In an adjoining premises. Little by Little. Over a billion tive-cent fares were paid last year to the transit companies of New York city. Fifty million dollars! Paid in tive cents at a time! A veritable confirmation of the "little drops of water, little grains of sand" teaching. \ Japs Claim Sweepii JAP8 LOSE THESE SHIPS. Tlio IjOnh In IjIvom In limited at | One ThouMand. A dispatch from Toklo, Japan, Rays all doubt as to the sinking of the transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russians has been removed. Three hundred and ninety-seven survivors of the Hitachi have arrived at Nloji and 153 survivorsof the Sado have arrived at Kokura. Details of the destruc tlon of the two transports and the full extent of the casualties are not obtainable. , A later dispatch says details obtain- ' able from the survivors of the ill-fated Japanese transports show that the Hitachi and the Sado met three Russian warship uear lkl island at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Russians tired on the Japanese ships and stopped them, and soon afterward they torpedoed and sank the helpless transports. The captain of the Sado ' and several other men were captured. ! More than 100 men escaped in the t boats and landed at Kikura. A message < has been received here from Iiagi saying that the survivors of the Hitachi had drifted north to Sbimonosekl and i been saved. The transport I/.um is ! still missing. It is reported that the transports j Hitachi atul Sado carried only 1,100 i men. If this Is true, the loss in lives i is probably less than 1,000. The < transports, however, had many horses and large quantities of supplies on i board. The steamer lvatsuno was sunk oil : Mojl Friday night as a result of collld- i Ing with the steamer Yamatokan. I Both vessels were on their way to 1 Tlescu to rescue the survivors of the I transports Hatachl and Sado. IN V KSTIG ATI NO Til K DISA8TKH. Investigation into the cause of the disaster on the (Jen. Slocum seems to have evolved unmistakable evidence of a total lack of preparedness and eiliclency in the fated steamer's crew. The public is aroused and the invest.!- ( gabion promises to lie thorough and searching. The facts already revealed are enough bo show that the loss of life was unnecessarily large, the ordinary and simplest methods of life-saving being ineffectual because or an unt rained crew and antiquated apparai us , for tire fighting. Mast of these facts have been educed at the coroner's inquest., which has been of a most un- , compromising nature. Coroner Berry , had before him six members of the , crew and exam nation seems to have ! established four main facts. These are ei u me rated by the coroner as follows: 1. The fire started in the forward hold of the steamer, in a compartment known as the lamproom in which were stored at the time one barrel of kerosene oil, a vessel or vessels containing heavy machinery oil, a barrel of ben /.ine, some inflammable rubbish and two barrels of glassware, packed in 1 hay. 2. The fire was discovered when the ( steamer was oil' Black well's Island light, which is opposite Bttt Slghtjr- | sixth street.. Therefore the Slocum ran nearly three miles before she was . beached. The water was never turned into the fire hose after the lire was discovered, because the valve In the stand ^ pipe to which the hose was attached f could not he thrown open. 4. The possible cause of the lire was , the explosion of a kerosene lamp which was used to light the oil room. The ' lamp, one witness said, was lighted j just before the fire was discovered. The State savs "these four counts evince the existence of an inelllcicncy , and carelessness wh'ch may indeed he characterized as criminal. As the evidence shows, the lire started in the forward hold, a compartment in which were stored various materials of a i highly inflammable nature. At the explosion of the kerosene lamp these caug it fire and burned liercely; and at this juncture it is alleged Capt. Van Schalck was responsible for the continued ringing of the alarm bell which precipitated the panic and contributed to the immense less of life. As indicative of the confusion and loss of presence of mind by the crew, it has i teen shown further that in the beginning of the tire an attempt was made to smother the flames with? of all tilings on the ship sacks of charcoal! Here was a literal adding of fuel to the flames. The testimony In the coroner's court as to the attempts to extinguish the fire are conflicting. Chief Engineer Conklin, who is 111 at his home in Catsklll, gave a statement to the press saying that, <n less than a 1 minute water was being poured on the 1 flames." Concerning the charge that the fire hose was rotten and burst 1 under the pressure of the water, tie merely replied that he "knew nothing | of It, for the pumps worked regularly." On the other hand a member of the crew testified before the coroner that 1 when the hose was unrolled It was found impossible to turn the valve of the stand pipe which furnished water for the streams. His evidence was corroborated In so far as one of the two stand pi pes is concerned, it having been recovered by the divers at work on the wreckage of the steamer and < the valve beinK found closed fast. The recovery of the other standpipe will at least settle the question as to whether any streams were turned on the tire, though it will not tend to clear the charge of rotten hose. "One of the most serious accusations against the owners of theSlocum is that the life-preservers supplied on the ship were so old as to be worthless The preservers were of granulated cork composition and it Is charged that an examination of those taken from the sunken vessel showed that the cork had in the course of time been reduced to a sort of dust, which rapidly became saturated with water and incapable of supporltng a person in the water. Tests of oue of these preservers taken from the steamer were made in New York harbor on Friday and it was conclusively shown that It would not support the man who ex NO. 11 a ng Victory. Left Five Hundred Russians Dead on the Battlefield. LOST FOURTEEN GUNS. Russians Wanted to Attack Jap ancsc Left, But Was Porestalled, Forced Into a Defile and Routed. A db patch from Tokio, Japan, says the Russian hope of relieving the pressure on Fort Artlnir by threatening the rear of Gen. Oku, the commander jf the Japanese forces Investing tl o Russian stronghold, came to an ei d Wednesday at Teilssu, a point on the railroad f?0 miles north of Kinchou and 25 miles north of Vafangow, when the Russians were out-manoeuvred, enveloped and sweeplngly defeated. They left more than 500 dead on the Held and the Japanese oaptured .100 pr(sonars and 14 quick firing Held guns. rnie Russians retreated hastily to the northward. The Japanese charge that the Rus-' v Hans violated the Japanese Hag. Certain otliecrs aver that during the lighting a body of Russian soldiers appeared carrying a Japanese Hag and that the Japanese artillery, decived Hy this Hag, ceased tiring on that particular body of Russians. Otllcial dispatches from the Japanese commanders made specific charges of this Hag violation. Marly estimates of the Japanese losses at Teilssu say that 1,000 men were killed or wounded. The Japanese attacking force was divided into right, and left columsand began the advance on Tuesday along i>oth sides of the railroad. They encountered the Russians cast of Vafandicn and drove them back. At a late hour In the afternoon the Russians held a line between Lung Wang Tiao ' Mid Ta Fang Shen. The Japanese artillery opened on this line and the Russians responded. The shelling continued 12 hours and it was followed by the advance of the Japanese lino to a position extending from Lung Cilia Tung to Yu llotun. Darkness put an end to the lighting. The Japanese dispatched a column to the westward toward Fu Chau for the purpose of covering the Russian right wing and to protect their left and rear. During the night It became appearent that the Russians were being re-en forced and so decided to make a ^ general attack in the morning and force the Russians into a delile back of Teilssu. When morning came it was discovered that that the Russians held i line extending from Ta Fang Shen j6 Cheng 'i?u Shan, with a force estimated at more than two divisions. The Japanese planned to envelop tlio Russians near Tallssu and they succeeded admirably. While the main Japanese force was moving north along the railroad colims were swung to the left and to the right and linally converged at noon on the main Russian position. The Russians in this position were at a disadvantage, but they held it with determination until J o'clock In the afternoon. At this hour they were rouieu. i ue .Japanese cavairy continued to pursue the enemy and probably Indicted severe punishment. J KUSSIANS ADMIT DKKKAT. A dispatch from St. Petersburg nays Kmperor Nicholas has received the following telegram, dated June 10, from Gen. Kuropatkin: ? "I bave received the following dls- ; . ,:S patch from Lieut. Qen. Baron Stakel- J?i||jjl| berg, dated June 10, 12.20 a. m.: ?|||||$ " 'Yesterday I had Intended to attack the enemy's right llank but just as our troops had been assigned for the purpose and were beginning to successfully envelop the enemy's right jP||||?| dank, the Japanese in their turn attacked my right llank with superior ?Mp|| forces and 1 was compelled to retreat by three roads to the north. " 'Our losses are heavy, but they are not yet completely known. 9 " 'During the engagement the third J| and fourth batteries of the tlrst artlllery brigade were literally cut to pieces by the Japanese shells. " 'Of 1(1 guns, 13 were rendered completely unseless and were aban- Jflp doned. ..'s^ "'The conduct of the troops was S||| excellent, a large proportion of them refusing to retire until after they had ^B||| been repeatedly ordered to do so.'" The Russians deny that there was w anyimng in uic nature or a rout. tub enemy had over four divisions In Jffl action. 4? ^' > l.ynohcd l>y Negroni*. "" 'News has reached La Grange, Ga., that an old nergro by the name of ^B|||||? Jonah Woods, who lived in the try near Texas court grounds In Hear^^^^^^^ county about 25 miles from Grange,' was lynched by other netrrocs.^MBpBHBl Wood was a deacon in his church and^^Brajig a pious old negro. It is said he disi^^^^m^ covered a number of negroes pin y liiaBTr^MM "craps" and threatened that he ^uI'i^HShS report them to the grand jury. After- wmSH wards the church was burned down and two days later, while plowing In the fields, he was seized and strung up to a tree nearby. In A Cow'a Mew. flHHH At Aiken while slaughtering a bee^HSjuB on Saturday, Messrs. Lamer Thorpe's butcher found a lady's gwHBB clasp bracelet In the animal's mafBSBuluH The bracelet is of 18 karat gold an^^HH^Hj is a handsome piece of jewelry. tiMH R cow was purchased with a bunch /ft cattle from a Tennessee market. ^k)w ^H|H the animal happened to absorb iiich ^HEflR valuable food is of course hatd to jHbhm guess. fii'