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I . STEAMER RJ THOUSA! ' I BOAT RESTS ON BOTTOMJ OF ST. LAWRENCE v ? TERRIBLE TRAGEDY . AMID DENSE FOG > v iSmpress of Ireland Hound for Liver- 1 s pool From Quebec is Cut Wide a Open by the Collier Storstad and * Passengers Are Caught Like llats j t in a Trap?Vessel Carried 1,487 n Persons and Few Over 400 Have * P lteen Accounted for?Dead Estimated Iletween 078 and 1,100? j Wireless Messages Tell of Disaster. 11 f 4 The twin screw Canadian liner Em- i press of Ireland, carrying 1,437 per- s sons, passengers ar.d crew, sank in the darkness before dawn Friday in s the St. Lawrence river, near Rimou- * j ski, Quebec, with a loss of perhaps 1 1,000 lives. Estimates of the dead vary from 678 to more than 1,100. p /> e ^ The vessel, bound from Quebec for Liverpool, with 7 7 first, 2 0G second and 504 third class passengers, was cut wide open by the collier Storstad and sank within ?0 minutes in 19 fathoms of water. Of those saved the majority appeared to bo members of the crew or from the steerage. V Many were badly injured and p2 died after being picked up. The crash occurred about 2 o'clock in the morning off Father Point, Qebec. The collier, bound for Quebec, struck the Empress of Ireland on the port side about the middle of the ship. She literally tore her way iT iback almost to the liner's screws, leaving a rent through which the water poured in in such a deluge that the sank before many of the passengers were aware of what had happened. b Brief wireless calls for help sent out by the Marconi operator were heard by the pilot boat Eureka at Rimouski, 10 miles from the scene, and the Eureka, followed by the Lady Evelyn, a mail tender, made all speed for the spot. It was these two bo&ts that found afloat the few lifeboats that were launched from the stricken tthln nr?rl nlokmt nn tlin nurvivrirQ they contained. Three hundred and c 7. thirty-nine were saved by the Lady i Evelyn and 60 .by the Eureka. Among * those saved was Capt. H. G. Kendall, of the Empress. Most of the first class passengers apparently perished. Among those in * the first cabin were Sir Henry Seton1 Karr, a noted English lawyer and big game hunter, and Laurence Irving, son of the late Sir Henry Irving, and 1 his wife, Mabel Hackney. Of a party i of 140 Salvation Army members on 1 hoard only 2 0 were rescued. They I had left for the conference in Lon- t don. 1 First News of Disaster. c ?* Montreal, May 29.?First official x word of the Empress of Ireland dis- 1 aster came from Capt. Kendall, who r sent this wireless message to Capt. a Walsh, marine superintendent of the Canadian Pacific at Montreal, Can- c ada: "Empress of Ireland stopped by 1 dense fog. Struck amidships in vital 1 i spot by collier Storstad." 8 Later Capt. Kendall, in conveying s the intelligence to Capt. Walsh that the Empress had gone down, said: G "Ship gone.". G A special train was dispatched c at 8:20 to Father Point to bring back c tho survivors. Capt. Kendall won ' k renown as the man who first detected ~ Crippen, the murderer, on the steam- * ship Montford. 8 L Another Wireless Account. r Tho Marconi Co.'s operator at Rl- v mouski, Quebec, Friday gave the fol lowing account of the sinking of%the j Empress of Ireland: ^ "The Empress of Ireland was ram- g med this morning at 1:45 by the j * Storstad, twenty miles out from t Father Point. The Empress sank ^ within ten minutes. The S. O. S. signal sent out was received at Father Point and the government steamers Eureka and Lady Evelyn were v dispatched to the distressed vessel's a assistance. The Empress of Ireland ^ Pt listed and was unable to get many of ^ the boats out. "Capt. Kendall was saved, being * picked up on some wreckage by a' lifeboat 30 minutes after his ship had foundered. Both wireless operators, ^ assistant pursers, chief engineers and chief steward were saved. Chief officer and purser are among the miss- r ing." p Faint Glimmer of Hope. b( A message received at Montreal by ai the Canadian Pacific offices from Rl- pj ^ mouski said that "all the passengers si ^ have been picked up by tho boats of tl the Lady Evelyn and Eureka." g< A similar message was received by LaPatrie, a French newspaper, from a Rimouski correspondent. He said i\ BfiHI VMMED; ND DROWN EXPLAINS PARTY STAND, ? WILSON TELES BIG BUSINESS OF COUNTRIES ATTITUDE. s Anxious to Servo but Not to Injure Business?There Must be Reforms o.wi n??i cs i nun iiumu urni r?uuu.j Representatives of big business 'hursday heard from President Wilon the administration's view of and ttitude toward the business of the ountry. Whilo expressing a desire o "serve and not to hinder or inure," the president said the policy he Democratic party is pursuing is iccessary to satisfy the conscience of he country and its perception of the revailing conditions of business. "The president said in reply to t^e llinois delegation," says a White louse statement, "that, in his judguent, nothing was more dangerous or business than uncertainty; that t had become evident through a long eries of years that a p#licy such as he Democratic party was now puruing was absolutely necessary to satsfy the conscience of the country and ts perception of the prevailing coalitions of business, and that it was a ;reat deal better to do the thing modsrately and soberly now than to wait intil more radical forces had accunulated and it was necessary to go nuch further. "The president also said that while le was aware of the present depression of business, there was abundant jvidenco that it was merely psychoogical, that thero is no material conlition or substantial reason why the jusiness of the country should not be s the most prosperous and expanding sondition. He urged upon his visions the necessity of patriotic co-opjration on the part of the business nen of the country in order to support rjltlipr thnn to nnnnao tlia mnrl. irate processes of reform and to help ;uide them by their own intimate knowledge of business conditions and )rocesses. "Ho told his visitors that it was lis earnest desire to serve and not to linder or injure the business of the country in any way and that he beieved that upon reflecting they would $ee that the course he was urging vould in the long run not only, but n the short run also, be the wise and lerviceable course." The manufacturers were in Washngton attending the first National foreign Trade convention. Before the ;onvention held its closing .session, nore than 100 of its delegates were eceived by the president. ? PAKE FUNERAL. * few York Police Officers Work Trick on Slick Gamblers. A hearse, conveying an empty cascet, followed by automobiles decked n mourning, stopper! in front of Wiliam McGun's road lruse near Forest 3ark, New York, Wednesday. A ;risty bunch of mourners entered. Within ten minutes the mourners be amo deputy sheriffs, and the house vas raided. For a year complaints uul come to Sheriff Zimmer of booknaking and other forms of gambling it McC urn's. More than a dozen pickets wero ontinually on duty about the place. They had pushbuttons in fence posts. >y which the house was notified When my person who looked like a deputy heriff appeared. Chief Deputy >Petirs organized the funeral. The picksts were deceived. Once in the place, loors to gambling rooms were brokui down and racing charts, poker hips and dice wero found. Seventyive men were captured. hat 4 00 survivors had been landed nd that the Lady Evelyn and Eure;a were going back to pick up the emainder of the passengers, who vere in boats. From the wording of the Canadian 'acific message it could not be deermined whether "all the passen;ers" meant all those on hoard the Impress of Ireland or simply all hose who were able to make the life oats. 077 Unaccounted For. The collier Storstad has 3GO surivors from the Empress of Ireland board, according to announcement y the government signal service, yith approximately 400 landed at Limouski, this accounts for 760 souls board the Empress, leaving 677 un- , ccounted for at 10 o'clock Friday lorning. ? The text of the messago received y LaPatrie from Rimouski reads: "Lady Evelyn and Eureka docked t Rimouski with 4 00 passengers, aptains both reported that all the assongers were saved *n the lifo oats of the Lady Evelyn, Eureka ad Empress of Ireland. As soon as assengers are disembarked both earners will leavo for the scene of ' io wreck to pick up other passen- < srs." i ? \, In the words of Nimrod: "Where's >at fly?" - ; " IPliff|| COOPER'S PLATFORM LAUREN'S MAN IN GOVERNOR'S RACE TALKS OF THE ISSUES WILL ENFORCE THE LAWS ? Having Pledged the Requirements of the Party in Order to Heroine a Candidate Solicitor Cooper Gives Out a Statement to the People of the State. Solicitor It. A. Cooper Thursday filed his pledge as a candidate for governor in the coming primary, and sent liis assessment to the treasurer of the State Democratic executive committee. Unless he is delayed by reason of attending court, which convenes about Juno 15, Mr. Cooper stated that lie expects to take part in the opening meeting of the campaign. Solicitor Cboper was asked Thursday is he cared to make any pubsic statement at this time with reference to his candidacy. lie said: "The people of the State seem to expect that each candidate shall give out liis platform. I wish to say in the outset that I sincerely trust that the campaign on which we are about to enter may be free from factionalism and partisan strife, and that each candidate mpj* be measured by the standard of his fitness for public service. There are too many questions of vital importance to the people of this State, which should be discussed in the campaign, for us to devote our time to a wrangle over factionalism difference. "I am simply stating a self-evident proposition when 1 say that the most important question before our people to-day is the education of the white children of the State;?providing the opportunity for every white child in the State to secure the rudiments of an education, fitting him or her for the duties of life. We should continue to raise the standard of our common schools until they each provide an education equal to that now afforded by our best graded and high schools. "It is a sad commentary on our State, but it is, nevertheless, true, so I am informed, that we could not accommoate in our schools the white children of the State. I believe the State should at once provide ample facilities for the education of the children, and then wo will be in a position to enact and enforce a compulsory school attendance law. "It would be useless to attempt to compel the attendance of all children of school age when we are without facilities to accommodate them. Compulsory education is well on its way, but first let the State give the people the opportunity, and provide the facilities, and then the compulsion part of it. A majority of the children of this State only receive such education as our common schools afford, and they should be the very best in our power to give them. "Attention should he given to our present system of assessing property for taxation. It is impossible to go fully into the question in a short statement of this kind, but I believe that some plan can and ought to he devised by which we can approximately secure equality in our assessments. "It is conceded on every hand that there is no more important matter than the improvement of our public highways. The farmer's transportation tax is one of his chief difficulties. The building of good roads will not only enhance the value of farm property, and add to the comforts and convenience of farm life, but will increase the prosperity of the nation along all lines. In this connection T think that Clemson college, which is, or ought to be, the source of our agricultural training, should establish and operate demonstration farm schools in every county in the State. "In this way the average farmer could improve his method of farming and also take advantage of the many economies in the preparation of soil, use of fertilizers, etc. Clemson is doing a great work, but Its benefits can be further extended along the lines I have suggested. I hope that the national government will, with as little delay as possible, enact a rural credit law so that our farmers, many of whom do not now own their farms, may become homo owners. These, and many other matters which look to our material prosperity, ought to and will beconsid-1 ered. "Tho chief function of the governor of the State is to look after the enforcement of the law. If elected governor it shall ho my controlling purpose, without fear or favo&> to see that the laws are duly enforced, not in some sections o-f the State, but from the mountain* to tho sea; not in a spirit of harshness and vindictiveness, but in mercy. This being Lbe chief duty of tho governor, it should he the paramount issue in the campaign for tho selection of a governor." ? The managers of some businesses COMBATTING RABIES NO HEAL. DEFINITE INCREASE IN OUR STATE. I Suggestions and Instructions as to What Should be Ih>ue if l>og Rites Persons by State (Bacteriologist. Some time ago Dr. A. F. Coward, State Bacteriologist, made an address < before some doctores at Florence on "The Rabies Situation in South Carolina',, and while it was technical in part, we are copying below extracted paragraphs from the talk. "The rapid increase in rabies in our State is the subject of frequent comment; that there is a real definite increase no one will deny after going into the facts. Investigation shows, however, that this is only our share , i of a general increase in the disease ^ over the entiro country. The disease ( has now crossed the Rockies and reached our Pacific coast, where it was unknown a few years ago.' The , human cases, however, are probably increasing, although the number of persons bitten is increasing every year. This is due to the fact that 1 practically all bitten persons now seek the Pasteur treatment, which, while not infallible, certainly reduces the incidence of the disease markedly ?falling only in severe cases, and only occasionally in those. "Compared to typhoid fever, measles, or even small pox, rabies does not seem important in morbidity or mortality columns, but the staggering fact of a 100 per cent, mortality, outweighs argument, and maintains that indescribable, near - superstitious dread of the disease which has accompanied it down to us through the centuries since its first recognition. . . . To summarize, wo must conclude that our stato is now doing all that can be reasonably expected towards the supression of rabies. Sentiment and ignorance alone obstruct our progress, and these must be dealt with by local authorities and by perifocal authorities andetaoin shrdlu Local muzzling and quarantine are ta the disposal of every organized community?in the rural districts a better understanding of the disease in man and animals will lead to a more intelligent handling of its outbreaks. "In conclusion, we wish to emphasize once more the proper procedure when persons are bitten by animals suspected of rabies. "First, don't kill the dog, unless he can be obtained in no other way. Confine him, treat him well. If he remains well for one week thereafter he did not have rabies when the biting was done, and there is no danger to the bitten person. If ho becomes I sick or dies, send the hojirl tn iho "Laboratory, State Hoard of Health, Columbia, S. C.," and prepay express. At the same time write a letter stating symptoms number of persons bitten. Diagnosis will ,be manle and treatment, with instructions, will be sent by first mail if possible. An anti-toxin syringo will be necessary; a convenient one is that from an out-ofdate diptheria anti-toxin package, which must bo emptied, freed from paraffin, and thoroughly boiled, with needle attached. "Second, the patient's wounds should bo treated with pure nitric acid or pure formalin if seen within four hours. Do not use ointment or silver nitrate. "The dog's head should be wrapped in a cloth which has been wrung out of 1-500 bichloride of mercury solution and placed in a tightly closed tin bucket. If ice is used it should bo placed in an outer bucket into which the smaller bucket is placed. Don't put ice in contact with the head." ? ? MKT DKATII BRAVELY. ? How Author and llis Wife Went Down on the Empress. The tragic death of Laurence Irving, author and actor, on board the ili-fated Empress of Ireland, was deSpril^Ofl l?\r T.^ A i ? <" rT^ ? A ? >uvu tj j m.- . u, . \ .rin ji i U1 i IM'UIIU), the last man to see him alive. "I < met him first in the passageway," ho said, "and ho said calmly: 'Is the , hoat going down?' I said it looked like it. 'Dearie,' Irving then said to his wife, 'hurry. There is no time to lose.' "Mrs. Irving began to cry and as the actor reached for a life belt the boat suddenly lurched and he was c thrown against the door of his cabin. His face was bloody and Mrs. Irving was frantic. " 'Keep cool,' he warned her, but she persisted in holding her arms j around him. He forced the lift belt over her, pushed her out of the door j ami practically carried her upstairs. , I asked if I could help and Irving said: 'Look after yourself nrat, old ( man, but God bless you all the same.' " ? Xegro Killed l>y Train. t Silas Williams, a young negro of nennettsville, was killed Thursday 1 afternoon by a Bennettsville and f Cheraw railroad passenger train. - WolVord Gets $3tt,000. x The general education hoard of t New York Friday announced among ] other gifts, a benefaction of $33,000 t DEATH STORY TOLD COLLIER STORSTADS BLAMED BY CAPTAIN OF SUNKEN SHIP ?. ANSWERED KIS SIGNALS Captain Kendall Vividly Describes Incidents leading Up to Stupendous Tragedy in St. Lawrence River. Latest Count Places List of IV .1 ? a rv/? s IH'ilU HI mil. While financial tabulations of casualties in the sinking of the steamer Empress of Ireland were being made Saturday showing that 4 011 of her passengers and crew had been rescued and 964 had perished, Capt. Henry George Kendall of the liner was telling his story of the disaster at an inquiry conducted by Coroner Pihault at ltimouski, Quebec. Capt. Kendall in substance declared ho had taken all possible precautions against a collision. llis ship had been stopped and he gave the requisite signal when the Danish collier Storstad, which sank the Empress, was two miles away, but the rollier had kept on through the fog that settled down soon after the two vessels sighted each other and had rammed the Empress while the latter vessel was motionless. Capt. Kendall took up his story of the disaster from the point at which the Empress of Ireland, bound from Quebec for Liverpool, had dropped her pilot Thursday night at Father Point. "We then proceeded full speed," continued Capt. Kendall. After passing Rock Point gas buoy 1 sighter the steamer Storstad, it then being clear. "The Storstad was about one point, 12 degrees, on my starboard bow. I saw a slight for bank coining gradually from the land and knew it would pass between the Storstad and myself. The Storstad was about t wo miloa hwow e? _ .. t 1IC11 IIIC I V) camo and the Storstad's lights disappeared. I stopped my ship. At the same time I .blew three short blasts on the steamer's whistle, meaning 'I am going full speed astern.' The Storstad answered. "I then blew two long blasts, meaning 'My ship was under way but stopped and has no way upon her.' Me answered me again. Tt was still foggy. About two minutes afterward I saw red and green lights. He would then he about one ship's length away from me. I shouted to him through the megaphone to full full speed astern. At the same time I had my engine full speed ahead with my helm hard aport with the object of avoiding, if possible, the shock. Almost at the same time she came right in and cut me down in a lino between the funnels. "I slioute dto the Storstad to keep full speed ahead to fill the hole ho had made. Ho hacked away. The ship began to fill and listed over rapidly. When ho struck me I had stopped my engines. T then rang full speed ahead again, with the object of running her on shore. Almost immediately the engines stopped, the ship filling and going over all the time. "I had, in the meantime, given orders to get the lifeboats launched. T ?..c liinci uumur to leu me wireless operator to send out distress signals. TIo told mo this had been done. T said: 'Get the boats out as quick as possible.' That was the last I saw of the' otlicer. In about three to five minutes after that the ship turned over and foundered. T was shot into the sea myself and taken down with the suction The next tiling I remember was seizing a piece of grating. Some men pulled me into a lifeboat, which already had about 30 people in it. "Wo pulled around and picked tip 20 or 23 more and put about 10 around the side in the water with ropes around their wrists, hanging on. We then pulled to the Storstad. $ got all the people on board the Storstad and then left her with six of the crew and went back. When we got there everybody had gone." "What caused the collision?" ask?d the coroner. "The Storstad running into the Empress, which was stopped," anuvered Kendall. Capt. Kendall, when bo shouted to he Storstad's captain to stand fast, lie received no answer. It was impossible for him not to have heard, te added. "T shouted fivo times; I ilso shouted: 'Keep ahead,'" said 3apt. Kendall, "and if he did not loar nio ho should have done it anyvay, as a seaman should have known hat." "There was wind?" ho was asked. "It was quito still." "How many boats were there 011 ho Empress?" "notween 30 and 40. There wore loats for everybody. She had boats or 2,000 people." "There was no panic among the passengers or crew. About four boats vero launched. As the ship sank hose boats floated away. The peodo w ho were saved wore saved by he Empress' boats and the wreck- 1 LOSE LIVES FOR GIRLS ? TO SAVE COMPANIONS MEN LEAP FROM SINKING BOAT. \ Boat Filled With Party Enable to Swim Begins to Leak ancl Heroes Lighten Ix>ad by Accepting Death. Sacrificing their lives that the lives of four companions, two of them girls, might bo saved, three young men, none of whom could swim, leaped into the Delaware river near Philadelphia, from a sinking rowboat late Sunday and were drowned. The story of their heroism was told today by the survivors. The dead are: John Moucheh, Raymond Tizey aud John Murphy. The saved are: Georgo German, Sarah German, Mary Mary German and John Xevlle. Tlnzey and Sarah German were engaged to be married. Accompanied by the other members of the party, thev visited the V?w T oraov et/1r? nf the river in a large roboat. They were more than 100 yards from shore when it was noticed that the craft was filling. Despite efforts of the seven occupants to bail the .boat with their caps, it soon became evident that unless the load was lightened, the boat would sink before the shore could bo reached. None of the party could swim, but all of the men volunteered to jump out. Sarah German begged the Tinzey boy not to risk it, but he was the first to spring over the boat's side, followed by Mouclieh and Murphy. In spite of the sacrifice the boat capsized shortly after the three men had disappeared in the water and the four other occupants were thrown into the river. Neville and German clung to the overturned craft and grasping the girls held them until the party was rescued by a motorboat. I RIVERS STAY PUT. ? Roosevelt Declares River Re Discovered Was Unknown. Col. "Roosevelt appeared before a Washington geographical society Tuesday night and declared that ho had discovered a river in South America, among the wilds of Rrazil. Scientists, the colonel declared, had attempted to dispute his discovery. Tracing on a blackboard with a piece of chalk the river of his finding, ho declared emphatically: "I say, we put it on the map, and I mean what I say. No map has ever yet shown this river. Scientists have said wo might have traversed tho river Ta Pajoso or the river Madeira, but the fact is that some of our party went down one river and some went down the other, while we went down a river between theni which no map maker ever saw. I can direct any man where to find this river and rivers stay put, so that the discovery we have made may be veriflod." The colonel described in detail the hardships of his trip into the Brazilian wilds and particularly tho hardships endured in navigating the rapdis of the "River of Doubt". In the upper part of the river, ho said, the rapids were so severe that it required <12 days for the party to traverse one degreo from 11:45 south to 10:45 south. During the hazardous trip they lost nearly all their food and belongings. ? ? MOD MKM1JKHS ARRESTED. ? + Siv Men of Xiken County Will Face Trial for Alleged OlVenses. Weells Heath, Monroe Weathersbee, Hud Redd, .loo Craig, L. Redd and Lonnie Craig, all white, of Aiken, wore Dound over Saturday morning after a preliminary hearing to the court of general sessions 011 a chargo of assault with intent to kill and shooting into a dwelling house. The preliminary was the afthermath of tho recent disorder on the Hitchcock plantation in Aiken county, baout eight miles from Aiken, when the farm hands went 011 strike. Bond was given in the sum of $2 00 each. When the farm hands struck, one old negro man, Calvin Williams, who lived on tho place, refused to quit work. His home was visited one night by a mob and it was testitled at tho hearing that more than 1,000 shots were fired into the house. The place was completely wrecked, but no one was injured by tho bullets as tho negroes lied. The mob then visited the home of Manager Williams of the Hitchcock plantation, pinned crepe on his door and tagged the fence with papers hearing threatening inscriptions. The six white men are charged with being members of the mob. I'M mis Wife Dead. When A. J. Chapman, a grocer of llacon, Ola., discovered the dead body of his wife in his home Wednesday he was so grieved that he fired a bullet into his brain with fatal resuits. ? ? ? Small Hoy is Drowned. While a group of his playmates watched on the bank of tho Chattahooclieo river at Columbus, 05a., John Corbott, eight years old, was drow ned -MwriTrfi'ii