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Show SIBERIA'S VOYAGE ji WAS UNEVENTFUL MANILA. May 2. The Paclnc Mali i!l steamer Siberia arrived here at 11 o'clock j jfl today. The captain reports that the ves- fl 5el had an uneventful voyage from Naga- fl sakl to Manila. , B Captain Zeeder of the Siberia expressed 9 the belief that the reports In circulation Ej yesterday and last night that his vessel IN was In distress off tho coast of Formosa H and had sent out calls for assistance, H arose over confusion In the call letters i B of the steamer, "JI, B. S.," being- mis- taken for "S. O. S.," the marino wireless request for aid. Conditions Bad. The wireless operator on board the S!- f bcrla said tho atmospheric conditions yj- ' i tcnlay bad been bad, making the sending :j of wireless messages difficult. , 1 Tho first report that thu 8Iberla -was In 1 j distress wns a wireless message received t at the Ogcrakal station ln Japan. It was ' paid to come direct from the Siberia early i Friday morning and said that tho steam- or had met with an accident and was in distress. The messago was mutilated and j no further Information could bo gleaned j I from It. i 4 The message was communicated to the ' r Great Northern steamer Minnesota and ' t the British cruiser Minotaur, and the 1 Japanese government ordered tha steam- . J er Kanto Mara from a Formosan port and ; J several warships to the scene of the re- ported wreck. 1 Much Excitement. 1 Tho Siberia left Yokohama. April 37 and Nagasaki April 29 for Manila. She had ! a passenger list of seventy-one persons T In the ilrat cabin, about rtfty In the sec- ' j, ond cabin and about 100 In the steerage. The .report of the accident caused much J excitement here, as on board the vessel u were Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, xvif K of the governor general of the Philippine- islands; Mrs. John B. Rentiers, wife of Hj the newly appointed BrltlBh consul to Ma- Si nlla, and a largo number of other well- II known persons. m |