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Show American cruiser wregkedon reef GROUND SWELL HURLS THE MEMPHIS MEM-PHIS ON ROCKS IN OUTE3 SAN DIECO HARBOR. While All on Board Were Saved, Twenty Men Who Were Returning to Ship in Motor Boat Were Drowned. San Domingo. The United States armored cruiser Memphis was driven ashore on the rocks of the outer harbor har-bor on Tuesday by a great and sudden ground swell. All on board the doomed vessel, which is reported a total loss, have been saved, but twenty men who had been on shore leave and were on their way back to the Memphis in a motor boat, were caught in the ground swell, their boat overturned and all perished. The Memphis was lying close to the bluffs, and when she was driven on the rocks, lines 'were thrown from shore and the men rescued. The United States gunboat Castine managed to escape by putting to sea. The United States cruiser Memphis formerly was the armored cruiser Tennessee. Her name was changed May 25 last. Recently she has been doing duty in San Domingo waters in connection with the revolution. The Memphis is of 14,000 tons and has a horsepower of 23,000. Her complement is 990 men. She is the flagship of tne cruiser force of the United States Atlantic fleet. Captain E. L. Beach commands the Memphis. dressed to eleven members of the four brotherhoods, is signed by the various general chairmen, and reads as follows: "Sirs and brothers: This is to advise ad-vise that the vote of the employees in train and engine service on the eight-hour eight-hour day and time and one-half overtime over-time proposition was overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. "Notwithstanding this your representatives repre-sentatives have been unable to effect a satisfactory settlement and a strike under the laws of the respective respect-ive organizations becomes effective on September 4, 1916, at 7 o'clock a .m. "Impart this information so those 'interested will understand that they are to promptly obey." On a separate sheet the duties of members and officers in the conduct of a strike are set forth. Particular emphasis Is placed on conducting the proposed strike as peacefully as possible. pos-sible. Among the duties, of members set forth are these: "No man in road service involved in the strike will perform any service after the hour set to strike, unless he has already begun a trip and has actually left the terminal. If the train has left a terminal he will complete the trip and deliver the engine and train at the end of the run, or tie up point, if tied up under the law, after which he will perform no other service until the close of the strike. Men in other than road service will leave the service at the appointed time. "So far as your legal right to strike is concerned, there is no difference between a mail train and a freight train. You have identically the same right to refuse to perform service on a mail train as you have to refuse service on a freight train. "All men on strike will keep away from the company's property, except such men as are designated certain duties to be performed by the authority author-ity of the organizations. "Every man should understand that the laws of the land must be obeyed. Acts of violence of any nature will not be tolerated by the organizations." |