Show I FEARS T AlTRANSPORT 1 I f SE1TORMM BElOST I t Ij Col 1 Charles Deny Tells Startling Story of Wreckage Wreck-age Seen theSwell of the Typhoon d i < i t < The 1 Ship With Its Pt cious Load of Iowa Volunteers Is c Known to Have Been in the Storm Minneapolis Minn Oct 21The transport Senator having on board the i I Fiftyhrst Iowa volunteers and other soldiers to the number of 1700 > should jl reach San Francisco within two or three days unless it suffered serious accident in the typhoon which struck It soon after it left Yokohama on Oct 6 News of a disquieting sort is brought by Colonel Charles Denby and Professor Profes-sor Dean Worcester the remaining members of the Philippine commission who are returning post haste to Washington Wash-ington These men saw wreckage in I I the swell of the typhoon that crossed I the track of the Senator They saw the glowering storm and were caught in the edge of it Their dvn boat the Empress of Japan a ship accounted I far stauncher than the Senator suffered suf-fered damage from the halfspent force of its gale The sailors said they believed be-lieved the Senator was in the midst of I the typhoon The next day a lifeboat and a spar were seen floating on the frothy sea over which the typhoon had swept I should certainly not wjsh to cause needless alarm said Colonel Denby but I am forced to admit there is f cause for some apprehension of the fate of the Senator It would not be well to say at this time that the transport I is lost for that would perhaps cause needless anguish to the friends and relatives Of those aboard it but it is well the meagre truth we know should be made public The date of sailing from Yokohama waS set for Oct 6 but in the meantime word was received from the Manila observatory that a typhoon was moving mov-ing northward and would pass near the Japanese coast Many of the American Amer-ican colony urged the captain not to I sail the Senator out of port that date but b l told them to put away their fears and he slipped his mooring and set out for home The following day the Empress of Japan sailed out of Yokohama for Vancouver Van-couver with Colonel Denby and Professor Pro-fessor Worcester aboard They left the i I Japanese port at sunrise and before sundown they were being tossed by the rim of the typhoon The Empress of Japan shifted its course and ran L from the typhoon |