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DRIVEN ASHORE Passengers From Wrecked Steamer Leiingtoi Takci lot# Pert: ? SAVED BY LADS DARING After Terrific Fight With Waves, The Steamer (iocs Aground, But the Gallant Wireless Operator's Calls Brings Help and All on Board Are Taken Off. Twelve passengers, a steward and three colored employes of the steamer Lexington of the Miners' and Merchants' line were brought to Charleston Wednesday by the revenue cutter Yamacraw, which left the captain and forty-three men on hoard. Two firemen are reported to have heen burned to death and a third terribly scalded. First Officer Chamberlain sustained a fracture of his right shoulder. The steamship has her nose imbedded in quicksand off Hunting Island, at the mouth of the Kdisto River, and it is said that she will be a total loss. The Lexington was bound from Savannah to Philadelphia, with 12 passengers, all of whom were rescued For twenty-four hours the steamship battled desperately against the hurricane, finally being driven aground, where the tremendous waves smashed violently against her and the powerful wind tossed her about in the mud. Three times was she covered with water, the pumps expelling enough to clear the upper portions and float the stern. Rut for the heroism of Wireless Operator Scheetze there would have been no chance of rescue. The storm wrecked the boat's wireless station, hut Scheetz climbed into the rigging and adjusted his instruments flashed the calls for immediate assistance. The signals were caght by the Yamacraw, which hastened to Hunt-1 ing Island. Scheetz, a 16-year-old boy, was in imminent peril of his life while operating the wireless the wind almost tearing him from his insecure position. The lad was utterly exhausted by his desperate work. Passengers incessantly prayed for abatement of the storm, and when tne government steamer hove into sight a mighty cry of relief went up from the sorely stricken people on the Lexington. When the captain realized I the danger of the liner's breaking up at any minute, he had a life preserver strapped to every passenger. Held for 18 hours in the grip of the huricane of Sunday night and Monday morning with Capt. Connolly almost naked and half frozen standing at the wheel with the pilot house glasses turned in every direction, with the stokers working desperately while standing to their armpits in water trying to increase the small pressure of 25 pounds of steam to a sufficient power to enable the Lexington to steer away from the treacherous shore towards which they finally drifted and grounded, the veteran passenger and freight steamer Lexington, formerly the ocean steamship liner City of Macon, was unequal to the great battle against the odds of wind and water. At about 3:23 o'clock Monday afternoon, after two anchor cables had parted, the Lexington went hard ashore off Hunting Island. She is lying today in about 18 feet of water listed almost 4 0 degrees to port with her bow pointing up the coast. Capt Connolly, a veteran in the ser?-? - ** onto' on/1 Minora* \11Ce UI lilt! .1T1V1 lyiiaiuo auu u declared that the hurricane was the worst of his experience of seagoing. He claims and his statement is attested by the first mate and steward that the wind came in gusts at times making about 130 miles an hour. The roll of the sea was terrific. Three times in one hour the entire hull of the Lexinyton was completely lost to view. With the craft at the mercy of the elements because it was impossible to make the least headway, great seas would sweep down on the boat covering her from stem . to stern. All passengers were huddled in the social hall equipped with life preservers and not a few fervenl prayers were offered that they mighl see the shore again. Wen urged by the officers of the i Yamaoraw that he abandon his boat r Capt. Connolly declared he would re main with tier until only a mast wai left to hang to. When the Yamarraw nearer! withii two or three miles of the Lexingtoi it was found hazardous to come with in closer range. On two occasion bottom was touched by the Yama craw, and it was only the skilfu management of Lieut. J. L. Ahem commanding officer that prevente the government boat from sufferin a like fate as the boat she was seek ing to assist. She finally got th passengers on board and carrie them to Charleston. Mrs. J W. (Mansfield, wife of th clerk to the chief of police of Phlla delphia, who was one of the foui teen passengers taken from the Le> tngton stated Wednesday that she ha lived 10 years in the 24 hours dui ing the gale. "Had it not been for the superio earn an ship of Capt. Connelly/' say Mm. Mansfield, "we would all h dead today. In the hour of tria GREAT LOSS OF CROPS SEVENTEEN LIVES WERE LOST ABOUT CHABLESTON. And About One Million Hollars is the Loss from Houses, Crops and Other Ways. Mayor Rhett is directing the work of rehabilitation in stormstricken Charleston. Thursday morning the death list was 17. The property damage is estimated conservatively at one million dollars Planters declare that long staple cotton and rice has been wiped out m.ot affirm Honsos have been 1 11 tnuu wv^v/v* V ... ? ? ? ^ ? , wrecked and cattle and live stock killed. Roadways are impasable. Bridges have collapsed in different parts of that section. The crops have suffered heavily. The rice is seriously damaged and the planters will lose heavily from he tidal waters as a result of the storm on Sunday and Monday. The oi-s was estimated by Capt. S. G. Stoney to be about 75 per cent., which is all the more severe on the Banters in the low coast section on .c.'ount of their loss of 45 per cent last October. D. C. Heyward, former governor of South Caroilna Wednesday wired for a shipment of 1,000 bage to bo sent "? A 1 o Him at once, ana me same uiw has another order for 2,000 hags to >p used in repairing the embankments in the endeavor to save what s possible. Captain Ileyward has three bad breaks on the Darney Hall plantation and his other plantations also suffered. He is reported to have his entire crop covered by insurance. He has not cut very much of his crop. All the Conibahee section has suffered severely, according to the information which has come to Captain Stoney and John T. Leonard, the planter's broker. A large portion of the rice that has been cut is a total loss and much of the smaller growth of the crop has been damaged by wind. Local rice interests are very despondent over the situation. The crop prospects were very bright up to this time, with a fine crop in sight, and better prospects. The inudstry has suffered so severely in recent years that the losses by storms now are a particular crushing blow. ? RUSSIA AND JAPAN AGREE. Emperors of Two Nations Exchange .Telegrams With Each Other The emDeror of Russia and the emperor of Japan exchanged telegrams Tuesday on the occasion of the settlement of certain questions which have been under consideration for years. The telegrams related to various claims and counterclaims for indemnity on both sides for losses incurred during the war. For the most part the claims were on the Russian side, the big item of which was payment for property of Russian subjects at Port Arthur. In the settlement just reached Japan agrees to pay over to Russia $15 0,000 for apportionment of persons whose private claims Russia has supported. Japan will purchase for $65,000 the property of Russians situated on concession land and in the suburban districts of Port Arthur. Japan agrees to pay rental for use of Russian property at Kwantung and abandon claim to the treasury of the Port Arthur municipality. Japan also agree? to pay $so,uuu for a Red Cross ship which its forces seized and which has now become unfit for that purpose. came between 1:30 and 2:30 Monday afternoon, Capt. Connelly displayed the greatest heroism. With death staring us in the face he was calm and sympathetic, inspiring every one of us with hope. Chief Steward Joseph Rerliner deserves a medal, lie cooked food with splinters from broken portions of the vessel and era epiognnficda,cHa$Jboder okFh creeping on his hands and feet brought it to us who were unable tc move through fear of being washed overboard. l Lack of power caused the vesse : to bo beached. With the engirn l rooms flooded in five feet of water it was impossible to get up stean j enough to make headway against tin , wind, which was blowing at the rah - of 135 miles and hour, and get ou 3 to sea, far away from the dangerou beach. ' ' * " ' ' ' - - M.t i "A noro or ine muo nuoou vuriwi, 1 Is Wireless Operotor Screetz, the ho - of 16, who manned his apparatu s during the storm and rushed ou - calls for help. The Yaiwacraw an 1 swored us at 11:45, and on The mir l, ute she hove in sight. She coul d not come nearer than five miles, bu g her brave sailors put out in two lif - boats and we were soon on our wa e to Charleston." d The party from the Lexington 1 Crarleston in charge of Chief Stev e ard Berliner, who Is awaiting ordei l- from headquarters. Wednesday aftei - noon Mr. Berliner received a teh gram stating that if the passengei d so desired they could go to Savanna > by rail and there take passage fc Philadelphia. With the experienc r of the wreck so fresh in their mind s they promptly refused the offer, an ? stated that they would reutrn hone 1, by rail or foot H. SKIP ALMOST SINKS CLYDE STEAMER "APACHE" ARRIVES SAFE IN PORT. Wind Caine Near Driving Ship on Rocks While Passengers Wearing Life-Preservers Were Waiting. Plunging toward apparent destruction on the beach of Hunting Island in the midst of the hurricane that swept the Carolina coast 011 Sunday night and Monday, the Clyde liner Apache, with 125 passengers aboard was opportunely saved by a sudden change in the wind and came into Charleston harbor Tuesday morning badly wrecked by wind and sea, but D??.iAitoiv /inmntrprt For a tense nut OCi I V/U'OIJ v? ^ v,. five minutes the passengers of the Apache stood on the lower deck with life preservers around their bodies waiting for the vessel to strike and determined to make a grim fight for their lives. Driven along by a wind the speed of which was estimated by Capt. William Staples of the liner at 100 miles an hour, the big steamer found herself helpless about 1:30 o'clock on Monday afternoon. She was bound south from New York and had been blown past the mouth of the harbor to a point off Hunting Island. The gale swept in shore and its force was irresistible. Full speed ahead Into the teeth of the storm could not drive the liner forward and when two anchors were put over board the chains snapped like cords. Helpless in the grasp of the huricane, the ship was being literally hurled towards the Hunting Island breakers, and the passengers, with life preservers on, had well nigh given up hope when the wind ami tiiA vessel was saved. DII11 LW? Ui?v* vuw Capt. Staples told a vivid story: "From a terrible wind which threatened momentarily our destruction, we had entered as calm a sea as ever nature made. "But the calm lasted only a few minutes. Twenty minutes later the wind struck us with greater force than ever and the barometer began falling. The wind was from the southeast and I believe must have been blowing at the rate of 100 miles an hour. At Hunting Island we ran a close race with death. To gQ toward land meant destruction, but the wind was too strong and we had no option but to be blown to the landward. Sudenly about two p. m. the wind shifted from the southeast to the south and give a chance to head eastward and get off into deep water." F. J. Doherty, wireless operator of the Apache, stated that the wind blew the vessel a distance of about 75 miles. "We came near Hunting Island, 1 o'clock Monday lfternoon, where some of the crew sighted what may have been a ship in distress. The passengers of the Apache had on life preservers. They seemed o un-j derstand that death was staring them in the face, but they remained calm. Just at the time when the end seemed to be at hand, the wind shifted." Passengers of the Apache drew up resolutions expressing their thanks to Capt. Staples and his officers and crew and appointed a committee to present to the Captain/officers and crew a loving cup. A number of passengers on the vessel sustained severe bruises during the storm. The damage to the Apache consists of the loss of her anchors and soaking of every parto f the ship, including all her apartments, in sea water. SCHOONER WAS ABANDONED. The Crew Taken Off by the Steamer City of Everettcu The hurricane that severed Charleston from communication with the outside world early last week caught the three masted schooner Sarah D. Fell squarely and left her and her crew of eight at the mercy of wind and wave, according to United States I Wireless dispatches received at New York Wednesday. The crew was picked up by the Standard Oil Steam( er City of Everette, bound from SaI bine to New York, and the schoonei was abandoned, a total loss. Th< 1 Sarah D. Fell sailed from Belfast s Ga., for Boston with a cargo of luin her on August 2 4. She was abo'r j 100 miles east of Savannah wliei 3 the squall struck her. e t Rig Picking for Thieves. s The past summer has been th< most profitable for burglars an< y sneak thieves in the history of th< y New Work police department, and i s is estimated that the total of plun oj.w.rk Tunn itwlmlintr hurirlarle 11 uui a 111 w i? ut>v| i- in surburban towns, is more thai t- $500,000. The police list of stole: (1 property for the past two month it show more than 4,200 items, o e which recoveries have been made i y only twenty instances. The list ir eludes 780 watches and $200,00 n worth of diamonds and jewelry. r- ? + -8 Two Killed in Auto. r- Leslie Gavin of Maitlamd, Mo., so of D. A. Galvin, a banker, was ir rs stantly killed and Harry J. Cride h former postmaster at Maitland, wc >r probably fatally injured when an ai je tomobile turned turtle near, Mar: Is ville, (Mo., Thursday. 11 on J. E< id wards and Charles B. Callison, alt is of Maitland, were less seriously Si Juied. 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TROOPS LEAVE TEXAS. No Troops Are Quartered Near Mexican Line. A criterion of the American officials take in regard to improved conditions across the Mexican border is found in the fact that practically all of the United States soldiers parollIng that quarter have been withdrawn from the immediate vicinity of the frontier. A few cavalrymen remain along the western Rio Grande border. ThA nnlv natrol maintained at this time is alon.gr the California frontier because of the disturbed conditions in Lower California. The recommendation of Gen. Joseph W. Duncan, commanding the department of Texas that restrictions ? surrounding the soldiers in his territory in regard to short excursions into Mexico be removed has been referred to the State department with the probability that it will be approved. Two Million Deposited. With the designation of 23 posfofflces to begin business as postal savings bank on September 23, in the states of Florida, Georgia, New York and North Carolina, Postmaster General Hitchcock named the last of the second class oiTices. The total 1 of offices of this class is 1,773 and all have been designated as postal banks. * By September 1 it is expected that the aggregate amount of dei>oits in sec[ ond class offices will reach $2;000,000. Banks in dies of the second * class have deposited with the United ' States approved bonds in the sum of $10,000,000 to secure postal savings uepumis. I ? ? First News of Storm. The first news of the Charleston disaster was given to the world Tues0 day by I. A. Davis, Associated Press * operator, who has been working in 0 Charleston. He left Charleston late * Tuesday afternoon, going to Sumer" vllie, 25 miles away. He carried 8 along a copy of The bvening Post. II Coming to Summerville he found only n two wires open. 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