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PRICE FIVE CENTS $5.00 PER ANNUM CAPTAI OF N TELLS STORY OF SHIP No Lives Might Have Been Lost Had Storstad9 s Captain Heeded Signals. SHIP SANK IN ?ESS THAN FIVE MINUTES Heroic Efforts Made By Officers And Crew to Save Passengers, But Time Was Too Short Cottier Deserted Sink ing Ship-No Pattie. ooooooooooooooooooo o , , o o Publisher's Krother Killed o Yonkers X .Y., May 30.-Ku lier! B. McClure, u brother of S. N. McClure, the publisher, was killed by the discharge of a shotgun in his house here last night, it became known here to? day. Members of the family assert it was ru accident. The coroner has reserved his au* nounceisent - . the eause and the manner er" ?catii. - McClure was associated with his brother In thc publishing business. < o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ANOTHER VESSEL SANK YESTERDAY Philadelphia Tug, Teaser, Went Down But No Lives Were i Lost (By Associated Press.) Rimouski, Quebec, May 30.-While final tabulation of casual ties in the sinking of the steamer Empress of Ireland were being made today, showing that 403 of her passengers and crew had been res cued and 964 had perished, Captain Henry George Kendall of the liner was telling his story of the disaster at an inquiry conducted by Coroner Pinaud here. Captain Kendall, in substance, declared he bad taken all possible precautions .against a collision. His ship had been stopped and he gave the requisite signal when the Danish collier Storstad, which sank the impress, was two miles away, but the collier had kept on through the fog that } settled down soon after the two vessels sighted each other and had rammed the Empress of Ireland while .the latter vir tually was motionless. Then, despite his plea to the master of the cottier, that he run his engibes full .speed ahead to keep the hole in the Danish vessel backed, away, the water rushed in and the Empress sar?k. ^ Captain 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. Captain Kendall Testifies. "We then proceeded full speed," continued Captain Kendall, after passing Rocky Point gas buoy, I sighted the steamer Storstad it then being clear. \ "The Storstad was about one point twelve degrees on my star board bow. 1 saw a slight fog bank coming gradually from the land and knew it would pass between the Storstad ?nd myself. The Stor stad was ?bout two miles away. Then the fog came and the Stor stad lights disappeared. I stopped my ship." At the same time Captain Kendall said, he blew three si' ort blasts on his whistle, meaning "I am gbing full speed astern." Captain Kendall added that the Storstad's whistle answered with a long blast. Soon after he blew two long blasts on his whistle meaning "my ship is under way but stopped and has no way up on her." Thb whistle signal was also answered by the. Storstad. Two minutes later, the captain said, the Storstad's lights loomed out of the fog. The Storstad was a ship's length -away. Captain Kendall said he shouted through his megaphone at 1he,Storstad to back water and at the same f?r.ie had his vessel go full speed ahead to try to avert a collision. After thc Storstad bow had cut into the Empress of Ireland be tween her funnels, Captairt Kendall asked the Storstad to keep full speed ahead to fill up th?,holes he had made, but the Storstad backed away and the water rushed in. Captain Kendall then tried to beach his vessel. Water, however, put the engines out of commission three minutes after the collision. "I had, in the meantime, given orders to get the life boats launch?^," the captain continued. "I told the chief officer to tell the wireless operator to send out distress signals. He told me that this had been done. I said: "Get the boats out as quick as possible," that was the last ! saw of the chief officer. !n about three to five minutes after that the ship turned over and foundered. I was shot into the sea myself and taken dow r with the suction. The next thing I re membered WA* seizing a piece of grating. Some men pulled me into a .life boat, which had already about thirty people in it. "We pulled around and picked up about twenty or twenty-five more and put about ten around the sWe In the water with ropes un iii Tn ci ? wrists, hanging Oil. Wc ihci? pulled io inc S?OrS??u. I got aH the people on board the Storstad and then left her with six of the crew and went back. When we got Jhere everybody had gone." "What caused the collision?" asked the coroner. "The Storstad running into the Empress, which was stopped" answered Kendall. Captain Kendal! said when he shouted to the Storstad's captain to stand fast he received rio answer. It was impossible for him not to have heard, he added. "I shouted five times; J also shouted 'keep ahead,' " said Cap tain Kendall, "and if he did not hear me he should have done it anyway, as a seaman should have known that." "There was wind? " he was asked. ? <ir tu?? rtmi?? .?tn M -i-. , "How many boats were there on the Empress?" Continued on Page Five.) ,'.*;'. ' ? (By. Associated Press) Philadelphia. May 30.-Tho Phila delphia tug Teaser, which waB towing the coal laden barger: Powell to Bos ton and George R. Stetson to Fall River, sank off Atlantic City late yes terday and the crew of fourteen was rescued by the tug Boxer. Tho Teaser lost her tail Ehaft and filled rapidly. Her crew" >vo'.? on board oi.e of bur ges and arrived hore today. STARVATION IS MOST IMMINENT French Consul nt Mazatlan Hus Appealed to Admiral Howard For Assistance Olego Calif., May 30.-Tho French consul at Mazatlan, speaking for the foreign consuls at this port has appeal ed to Admiral Howard, of the Ameri can fleet, for on alleviation of condi tions in the'city. He recommended that steps be taken to relieve the star vation which is menacing the popu lace as a result- of tho long siege and that a stop be put to the killing of Officers of the craiser Albany, who landed at Aristo today to investigate the case of T. .1. Smith, an American ".nd^r arre-? ?t Tonals, found him con- , fined In jail." They reported that he was well treated and that his family (! was kt liberty. Admiral Howard received a telegram i today from the cruiser Chattanooga, '.; saying the federal gunboat Guerrero.) had . sailed from Salina Craze north- ' ward and that tho Chattanooga was accompanying the Huerta warship. KING ALFONSO RECEIVES KERMIT Expressed Wish To Meet Kermit's Father While In Spain at the Wecking (By Associated Press,) Madrid May 30.-King Alfonso re ceived in audience. Kermit roosevelt, together with Joseph E. Willard. American ambassador to Spain Mrs. Willard' PSd Miss Belle Wyatt Wel lard. HI? Mhjesty conversed for some time with Kermit Roosevelt. Question ing him upc o. hi' rec. nt experiun va tu Brazil. The King said he desired to meet Colonel Theodore Roosevelt when be came to Spain to attend the wedding ceremony. Tho church wedding, as well as tho civil wedding, is to take on June 10 instead of June ll, owing to tho latter being Corpus Christi clay. Memorial Services at Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C.. May 30.-State Treas urer B. R. Lacy thia afternoon deliv ered an address on Abraham Lincoln ?ate voicraas in to umun auu * mn?-tn the National Cemetery here. A'picked choir, from the city churches and the confederate drum corps rendered waste noooeeooeoonooooo o IVriegat*- Ci?neel Passes* a Kew York, Mar Sourly o ? ?6? delegates to the International o' a convention nf the Salvation Ar- ? o ray, te whick store than 100 o o et Ukgj^Amrae* nasseagers ? of n o th* Empress of Ireland were o o beuna, muted today for Len- e o don ea the User Olympic o o A seesre er more. It was tears- e ? ed, enaeelted thelr^paasage . at e c ssc issi sstfsirm ?f?rr .. , A et the steamship disaster. . o I O O' ?noonooeoeoeoseooeo AI im tts in rt A TP! ! ?Un?i?UHo I Hi ES OF SURV1V SAW EMPRESS D SINK SALVATtpN ARMY .?j -, Only a Reniflant Saved--More Than One hundred Perish No Time To Save Others (By Associated Press.) Quebec, Mey^?O.-Stories , of thc Emprcns of Ireftud disaster brought to Quebec by th$ survivors gave vivid details of thv most terrible tragedy in thc annale jjt tho St. Lawrence. Some compered^it to thc finking of the TlUnic^.niffi. pointed out that iu the caf e ot the Titanic , there waa time to preparo?tor death, while with those who perilled on the Empress, there was litttftftime for roection or prayer. unta of the saved, after the ship was ned until her deck, s to the water. Sho water and it was h five boats in before she finally From the/ it seems that rammed sh? Hood at rig] slid slowly ' only poss the brief sank. Captain K when thc col the steamer and ;was lat Passenger* declare Jhe " Chief Offie was killed, by while working gera escape. ?.<*?? Launnro Irvjn. author and actor, utKi son ot' t-ir Henry Irving, accord ing, to survivors', ?tied whUo trying to tave btu wat-. afr. and Mrs. Irving u..*deck embracing one > . : farewell, . They went down with ';M$fc; chip locked in eae.!t Other* uv rn; war on the bridge occurred. When c was washed away up. k in his praise and s full duty. teed, lt was stated, boat falling on him o help' the passen tat migbt't have saved Sly-fTsury Seton-Knrr. My 1 cabin' waa opposite Slr Henry's," said Mr.' Darllhi ened hiy door we bumped Into each other in thc passageway. He had a life, belt (md he offered it to me, but I refuged it, aud he\sald, 'Go on man, take it, and I will get- another." I told him to save himself, but be got angry and uctually forced the belt over me. He then hurried mu along the corridor to the door. Apparently ho want back far another belt, bot a moment or two after he had left the t hip weht down. I -.was picked up." Commissioner. Rees, ot the Salva tion army stood on the. deck ot of the ilOOuied VoaaC-1 iiyiijg to i>*rr?u?do ii?fe people to keep cool and lending help to many. When the ship whs almost under waler one of his men'- shouted lo him to Jump for his lifo. He re plied that he would stand by his wife and children and rank with the words, "O. God, Thy will be dono." on bis lips. Only -two. women and two children of the'many aboard appeared to have been saved. Ono little girl, Helen O'Hara swam until she was picked tip. as also did Mies Thompson from New Zealand. Mrr. Qronaway. a bride of a 'week, was separated from her husband and thought t he had lost hint .but the two aad a happy reunion later at Rimous il. ?? In thc party was a remnant of thc Salvation anny band, more than a hundred of whom perished. "I was looking through the port tole in my cabing amidships," said [land Sergeant Fowler o* the Salve Lion Army, "when I saw a big black mape loom out of tho darkness. It teemed to be only a few feet away. Then came tiic Jolt, lt could not be railed a crash because it was more of i grinding sensation. Before I re Uized what had happened my cabin >egan to fill with w?te>. I rushed up he main companionway. I saw a [tri with a Httlo baby in hor arms and i little child following ber. The girl >egged me to put a life belt on her, ind I stopped long enough to do this." By the time Fowler reachod the deck ie eald the ship was listing badly and he passengers had to cling to the rail o keep from, going over the side, bowler jumped. "I went down, down, until I thought ny lungs would burst," .he raid. .'Ho lies bumped into me. Once a man brew his arms around ma and ? had o fight to break his grip. I swam ;everal hundred feet and was almost exhausted when a boat picked mo ip." Thant aa Smart of Toronto; said he rae the last man to speak to Captain Cendal! before the collision. "I was Ittlng on the ujpor deck he said aa he Captain passed me. about half ??st one o'clock, and said? "lt is a lice nish*, but lt looks to me aa hough a fog ia coming. ' You never mow bow soon a fog will drop on you it this part ?f jthe river." When the erash came, Smart says ie saw Captain Kendall on the bridge Ie was holding lo th? rail and was thoutlng order? to the crew. . He teard bim' es i-- M :Jk. er* ropped sideways in a captain seemed to DR. AND MRS. W. A. WINTERS SAID TO KNOW OF DAUGH- I TER'S DEATH URNISHED BOND Were Released Yesterday From. Jail and W. H. Cooper Taken j Ec Charge (By Associated Press.) New Castle. Ind.. May 30.-after having been held for moro than six boars In Hm police ptatlou here, Mr. W. A. Winters and his who.'Byrd Win ters were releatied late today when bond was furnished la thc sum of $10,000. The arrest of Dr. 'Vinters and hie wife carly today charged with conspiracy to commit felony in con nection with the disappearance of their child, 9 yearn old. Catharine Winters, March 20, 1913, canoed great ex citement berti. W. H; Cooper, who war. arrested late last night on tho sanie charge, is in Jail in default of a $5,000 bond. The principal instigator of tho ar rests is a detective who several weeks ago began working on the disappear ance of the girl- Several, New Castle busbies.*' men,' it is raid, arranged for the employment of the detective. The houso of Dr. Winters was last night i searched by officers, who allege that in a basement wall..wore found a red undershirt, a red sweater and a hair ribbon, which lt was claimed be longed to the girl. . Cooper, who bod been a boarder at the house, denied all knowledge of tho disappearance of the child ot the clothing. He asserted that he would hare no difficulty in clearing, himself. . Dr: and .Mrs. Winters 'returned here today from Terre Haute, ' where they, had boen in connection with the {.bowing of moving pictures portray ing, scenes incidental to the alleged. ^^^Hbplng of their daughter. . Officer* Ute vtoc^y t?<^;J^ . t?rs horno and dug up the basement floor. Wbther further articles were found or any traces of ~iux> !owf w the missing girl were discovered, the officers rciuse to say, but it was re ported that nothing additional was to, be found. On what evidence the detective who swore out the affidavits against Dr. Winters and his wife, is working, no one rcemn prepared to say. Search foi- the Winters girl baa been made tor more than a year. Dr. Winters has made many trips to dis tant cities tracing down reports of th.' discovery of the girl. It IE said that ho has spent a fortune in, the search for the girl. B/v!',"; V'- "V . J New Castle. Ind.. May 30.-Dr. Win ters tonight asserted' that the' red sweater found in his home, together with the undershirt and ribbon bas np significance. He insisted thai the sweater belongs to a nephew. The ribbon, he ta d, was a part of a trim ming on a hat, and the undergarment was cart aside because it had served Ita usefulness. Dr. Winters declared he would have no trouble' proving bis innocence of the charges. He has engaged joycral attorneys. The theory oh which the detective, who instigated the arrest, bas been working is that Catherine Winters was murdered. On what he bases his accusation of Dr. Winters and his wife oas not yet been revealed,. American Fleet id Observed the Day (By Associated Press.) Vora Crux, May 30.-Memorial day was observed by the American fleet with special services on account of the men who lost their lives, when /era Cruz was occupied by the Amer ican marines and bluejackets. A tribute tb the American dead was paid by nit tho foreign warships, which lowered their colors to halt neat. The garrison flags on shore al io floated at half mast and a salute wa* fired at noon. Presbyterian Assembly Closes. Now Castle, Pa., May 30/-Th?. 56th session of the general assembly or the United Presbyterian Church closed to lay With a session taken up with ad ir esses and reports ot committees, Tbe iducationa! committee outlined an edu. sational nolicy for all United Presby terian .ollege and definite provision Tor >*ns(oas for aged professors and ror endowments of colleges also were nade. .eailjcc that .he liner : waa lost, for. Unart says, ho shouted: "Harry hp,' everybody, there ls not i minute to loee. Cet the stewards brough the corridors. If there arc loora locked break them in. Get. the .eople out and don't forget that the vomen and children must come erst." "He spoke through a megaphone." va??l Smart "but thcrs TTS" ss much ?creaming and moaning that bl* rolce was drowned. But he stuck to iii poa' to the very , last." PRESIDENT HAD NOT EX PECTED TO APPEAR AT G. A. R. MEMORIAL MR. CLARK SPOKE Decided To Take Part In Exer . eise? Because of Public's Mis taken Idea (By Associated Press.) Washington. May 30.- President Wildon and Speaker Clark both de livered ?t.-tresses today at the memo rial day services undor thc auspices of the G. A. R., in Arlington nation al cemetery. Thc president liad not expected to participate, but fearing n false con struction had been placed on his de clination, decided today to speak. Those in charge had invited Speaker Clark to make the adaress of the day been communicated. The reason fo> The president's change in plans was explained by Secretary Tumulty au follows: j "When the Invitation was extended thc president informed the committee that he did not think the occasion would be opportune for the delivery of an ai>propriato address, and because ni this he felt that ho mustfdecllne the Invitation, agreeing, however, to at- ? topd a memorial service at a later date. Evidently a false construction bas been placed on bis action and therein lies the reason for the chango of program. The president was not willing that his absence should be mis construed." * In his introducion of Sucker Clark, J. K. Gleeson, commander .of the department of tho Potomac, G. A. R-, spoke of the Missouri leader as "The men who has always been a friend o/ the soldier, who ia always fair and fliehtB in, the. open."' Mr. Chi rh's reception was tumultous. JUe**p*a?d hie oddresU-witts-an ?xtffes stca-of his appr?ciation of-the hearty ?Witing. 'Pr?sident Wilson spoke iii part aa follows: "I have not come here today with n prepared address. The committee in charge of the exercises of the day have graciously excused me, but I will hot deny myself the privilege ot join ing with you -in an expression ot grat itude and admiration for tho men who perished for; the sake of the union. Th*>y An nnt n*?*?d o.'j"* praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. We come not for thoir sakes, but for our own, that we may drink at the same springs of inspira tion from which they themselves drank. "A peculiar privilege came,.to the men who fought for the union. There ia.no other civil war in history,.the stings of which were removed before the men who did the fighting passed from the stage of lifo. We owe those men the splrtusl re-establishment of union; for they not only re united states, but they re-united the spirits of men.' That is their unique achiev ement, unexampled anywhere else In the annals of mankind, that the very men they overcame in battle join in praise and gratitude that the union was saved." Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, also spoke. Hilary A. Herbert, former sec. retary cf the navy, and many prorai tnent confederates were seated on the speakers platform. I On June 4, the United Confederate Veterans will un veil a monument to their dead In Ar lington Cemetery and the Grand Array of thc ??cpi?t-?lc will participate. Pres ident Wilson will speak on that occa sion. At the capitol grand army veterans placed flags and flowers on the stat ues of "CVhflldnfeton, .-Jeff-?.?onj and others In the Hall of Fame. Represen tative Beall. of Texas, put large bou quets on tho statutes of General Rob ert E. Lee and U.* S. Grant. A large floral wreath decorated the Lincoln statute. MILITARY CAMP i|| AT ASHEVILLE Pott Myers Troop? and Band From Charleston For Training School Work (By Associated Press.! Washington, May 20- With the/ap proach of the day set for tho opening if the students' military camp, July I, war department officials wer? mak ng preparations to assure the success it the project. Orders were issued iodey for troop K of the fifth eva valry, ?OW at Fort Myer, to proceed to the ?mp at Asheville,-N. C., as part of ho plan to bring regular troops and he .coll?ge students in close relations. The coast artillery baud at Char CHtou, 8. C.. bas also been ordered to he Asheville camp. SORROW FELT IN ENGLAND RELATIVES OF DEAD IRE? LAND'S VICTIMS ARE PROSTRATED SYMPATHY IS FELT President Poincare, cf Frssc?, Tel graphs Sympathy of French People -Other Resolutions - . (Hy Associated PresB) landon, May 30.-The British public, which went home last night believing tho grouter purl of the passengers on board the Empres3 of Ireland had been saved, were Hhocked this morn ing to learn that the lona cf lifo was nearly one thousand and that many of the victims weer from the United Kingdom. Oreat crowds beseigod the London and Liverpool office of the company and anxiously scanned the llBtu of the rescued. There were many pitiful scenes when women and men who had waited many hours In tho hope of learning thut friends and relatives were safe, finally turned away In despair. King Qeorge, early in the morning, sont a mersenger. to the European manager of the Canadian Pacific, ex pressing Borrow and regret at the dis aster. Later, he cabled to the Duke or Connaught, governor general of Can ada: "1 am deeply grieved over the aw ful disaster to the' Empress ot Ire land, in which so many Canadians lost their lives. Queen .'Mary and I both assure you of our henri felt sympathy With those who mourn for the loss of ' relatives und friends'/' . .Ths king this morning received, the following telegram from Raymond ^ Poincare, president bf Franco: "It ls with profound emotion that I terrible catastrophe' In ! us .Empress, of Ire plu-nge so many famt jrnlng. Fret? my heart I ? sssjiiH'y tbs' sincere regrets and keen sympathy of the French people/' The Irish nationalists convention convention at a meeting today In Lon don parsed a resolution of sympathy with Ute relatives and friends of those who died on the Empress. John Bruns, president of the local government board was one of tho first callers at the London offices of tba company to ask for the latest-news. The Lord Mayor of London, u?nm learning of the extent of the disaster, decided to open a fund toward the re? tief of the widows and children made homeless hy the disaster. overnor Haye? Issues Requisition Raleigh, N. C., May SO:-Governor Craig today Issued, a requisition on the governor of Illinois for J. A. Hayes, alias A. P. Hamilton, who is wanted In Forsyth county on the c l arge ot embezsling several thousand dollars from a Methodist orphanage. Hayes admitted his guilt, wa? seat to an asylum after he had feigned Insanity, and later fled from this see on. He is under .-arrest in Chicago. Mine implosion Kills Bieres, Leeds England, May 30.-Eleven coat iners were killed and a number of others injured today by an explosion of gas in the Silkstone ColJery at "'nam Cliff?. Thc accident happened between the shifts. EX-PRES ROOSEVELT SAILS FOR SPAIN Accompanier! By Members of His Family, He Goes to AU end Wedding of Hi? Son ^ New York May 30.-Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied' by Phllpp Roosevelt, a cousin,, and bia eldest daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth? Balled for Spain today or? tho steam ship Olympic, to attend the wedding of his son Kermit In Madrid on June 10 to Miss Belle Willard, daughter of tho American ambassador lo Spain. x The colonel said he had issued a? Important political statement for pub lication i'- tomorrows papers. On the steamer Colonel Roosevelt met a number of progressive party leaders^ ?ob 6 o ooo oo o o o o o o o o o >y ??ay^-.v o ? 12,000 To Strike. u j Charleston, W. Va. May 30.- - o i An'omclal celt for a strike or o > ooal tumers along the Kaaawha o ? river, Paint and Cabin Creeks, a > and coal river, was si gund today o, tfC-tik Strike to be effective Mon- o ? Abeu* 13 000 S!en are in- o > volved. ? o )OOOOOOOp'oO.OOOOO. OO.Sj