| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD san francisco nov 2 the transport trans rt peru which has arrived from mantle manila brought fifteen soldiers and sal sailors loft including a number of officers the few that were sick on the departure of the vessel are now nearly recovered col john R bratt of the first nebraska regiment is an exception he to is seriously ill with gastritis and was con tined fined to his bed during the voyage the other passengers are as follows capt lee linn commissary on oh special mission to washington with his bis secretary 0 B M L henry citizen arthur L robinson assi assistant stent engineer U S N george tilley signal corps C hooker of the brutus W J of the navy joseph nelson sadler of the concord sick william moore water tender of the olympia color sergeant harry palmer tenth pennsylvania regiment ordered discharged by the secretary of war sergeant harry B carr battery H third artillery time expired private IS TS davis battey G third artillery time expired james walsh sailor of the raleigh anthony thomas cona company pany A battalion of engineers guy adams fourteenth infantry discharged jamies C woodward first nebraska re regiment st sick alck paul sailor of the olympia sick J J mumford Mum tord eighteenth infantry time expired IS 6 R jones first california regiment nearly recovered from dysentery sayer jensen company G first south dakota accidentally wounded while experimenting peri with a shell after the fight the explosion of which injured his mad hand and face henry smith headquarters cook tenth Pennsyl pennsylvania vanla the trip was uneventful the boor sergeant palmer says that many of the volunteer officers say that as ad soon as it becomes evident that this country will hold the philippines they wilT win send in their resignations immediately the peru left mania there weri were sick among the tha men and the physicians were terribly dismayed at the progress that smallpox was making according to palmer in one day there were ten deaths from smallpox C capt linn said that he knew of but W deaths f rom from the disease an a single fifty the filth poured into the canala by the chinese was said to be a source of disease 1 with regard to rumors here by the rio rib janeiro that there tha were fatalities in the pennsylvania ritt ments known to be caused by the directed fire of detach rients ot of the first california palmer said that private baker of company I 1 was behind through the head and abely an officer rush rushed ed back io t tell the e californians in the rear to firing j chicago nov 2 the Si kimn mn w and haske electric company of AtT america Ss in considering a proposition trona jae japanese government to ft foai to in bijj ashl d gag gago o a ayad licate w a of abbout to and aad operate all electric electr tc street car 1111 tidies nes and amid bit ay candescent ll 11 Aing and power po diate which are to be established in the domain of the mikado as another 0 aca W te the modernizing movement in B there the tae franchise to ftp be granted to ex elusive and would be one of then oct valuable if A not the most moat variable permits mits ever granted to one pr corp oraton it is der stood that the inthe widener widen er Sym of kal be interested in the new company lugt it lit is termed middlesboro Middle ky ov 2 there waa today a disastrous fire on shrewsbury avenue thirteen houses were burned and sixteen families are homeless the houses were owned by the town company and the manchester building company of manchester england camp folland tenn nov 2 the sixth virginia a negro regiment camped within a quarter of a mile of the thirty first michigan toay day because white officers superceded superseded super ceded negro ot oth heers ceis v vho aho ho 1 ac resigned arder pressure the thirty first was ordered lort d out to quell the est disturbance the ciment ic started on the doudle quick for the degro camp but was stopped by orders from headquarters I 1 anti and sent back to armp the negroes negra s are parleying parl eying with the white officers new york nov 3 the works of the national starch company at Glen clove L I 1 visited by a disastrous fire today the volunteer fire department from Gl Glen enclave clove and surrounding places were unable to check the flames loss will be about manila sept 24 via san francisco Francia oo nov 4 headboards have chiave been erected over the graves of the astor battery dead who lae be in the native cemetery and their effects have been sold eold ait auction bring bringing irig large sums A coat belonging to private prieva te dunn brought 20 and ia a tobacco pouch 18 12 the money wilt be sent to relatives willam wililiam flick of company M minnesota met with a glad surprise eur prise upon arriving here the gemnas Oe renan cruiser princess wilhelm is now in the harbor and the young soldier learned that his brother was a marine on board they had not seen each other for ten years the following promotions have been made in the first nebraska regiment captain W bouray of company B has been made second lieutenant in the twenty third infantry first lieutenant clande H ough G company to be captain of B company second lieutenant 0 W burr of E company to be first of G company sergeant major sherman A white to b be e second lieutenant of E company ny Re regimental cImental sergeant wadsworth to te 2 sergeant major and sergeant ryan of H company to be quartermaster of the regiment critchlow of battery B utah was presented with a beautiful ivory cane wednesday evening he was the officer who commanded the utah guns in the trenches on the night of august the utah battalion on has been made an independent organization with cap bon young acting major J P F case company F second seco 0 oregon has bias been detached to tn the sanitary sand tary system at cavite and desort re t on its conditt condition lon together with r for repairs or an entire new system edward D De deidrich ldrIch of company F second oregon had a serious fall from his hammock hammi ock last thursday it is feared that he may have sustained vertebral injuries and has been removed to the hospital oil city pa fla nov 4 by the explosion of a new boiler at the oil city boiler works today two men were killed two fatally injured and a dozen more slightly hurt Wilkes barre pa nov 5 6 Sev seven enmen men were killed and three fatally injured at the exeter colliery of the lehigh coal company at west pittston today the accident was due to the alleged carelessness les of engineer david price who acting in disobedience to positive orders caused three cars to run into the top of the shaft these cars loaded and weighing eleven tons fell down the 1280 foot shaft and crashed with frightful force upon the carriage carrying ten men seven were almost instantly killed the accident acel dent occurred at a as the men were going to work and be ing sent down the shaft in parties of ten engineer price in charge of a little donkey engine was shifting loaded cars from the new red ash shaft some distance away this track approached the head of the exter ester shaft and at a dist tance of thirty feet from it curved gently to the right and around the shaft to the breaker at the point where this track commenced to curve was waa a switch and the thirty feet of track leading to ithe head of the shaft was used for storing crippled cars close to the head of the shaft it was closed by a head mock block prices orders were to approach the breaker with the engine at the head of the train A few days ago helas caught pushing the cars and was threatened with discharge for disobeying orders today he add the same thing the train was going at EL a good speed when instead of curving around the shaft the cars dashed into the switch which was open pire pice reversed the engine but it was too tate the cars struck the head blocki block dashed through it and three oars cars toiled down the shaft about twenty feet from the bottom they struck the carriage edth awful force completely wrecking it the mass of wreckage fell to the bottom of the shaft completely and when af after ter hard work the men were extricated seven were dead and three fatally hurt fort font monroe va nov 7 ensign james C summers who was officer of the deck of the vulcan when the maria teresa was abandoned after detailing the signals describes the scene thus from the first the heavy laboring of the teresa gave the impression that she would founder suddenly and that all her people would be overboard at any mome moment either swimming or drowning before our eyes assistant paymaster robert H woods united states navy nava was detailed to note the time that each signal was sent and repeated oil was the first requisite mechanics passed it up in buckets from the hold those on the deck filed small bags with it the effect was immediate in smoothing the heavy seas near the wreck rubber 1 life ife preservers were brought on an deck and filled with air ready to throw to men in the water A bowline was made in every ropes end by which the men could be hauled out of the sea halt half the charges were extricated from some six shells and they were fitted over the ends to which small lines were attached these were to have been fired from the guns across the spot where the men might have been seen in th water after the teresa began to fill it became impossible for the vulcan to keep her head to windward but being practically waterlogged water logged she ahe made an excellent breakwater for the boats even after she fell oft off into the trough of bf the sea directed by gilmer the crew and engineers force equipped two life boats they were launched from the of the deckhouse and by means of long lines were veered astern in the hope they would reach the teresa but ate heavy sea carried them tar far to windward they fouled the hawser hawber and were finally cut adrift at 2 in the afternoon the merriet wore ship just astern of the teresa and came up under her lee just in bitne to take off the first boat load of rescued persons the wreckers and volunteers from the vessels had succeeded in lowering one of the two tivo surf boats hanging from davits on the Te port side pulling palling quickly clear of the ships side the boats crew composed of at the wreckers men went about saving the people in a systematic way there was less leas than four hours of daylight left in which to rescue persons including IS 18 cuban coal passengers and such a sea was running that would hm have daunted any lifeboat life boat crew to have attempted to go near enough to climb down or drop into the boats meant ew tain destruction to the rescuing party so while the boat was towed by bt tta painter from the ships lee quarter and was kept clear by two men at the oars and by the steersman in the stern another line was used to send down the men from the ship each man slung in the center of this thia rope was hauled through the water in most cases to the boat and then cheri in over the bow it was wai a slow but safe process as the result proved for by 5 every man so 80 far as we could see was safe on board the merritt Merrl tt the force of the gale and height of the sea may be bd best understood bythe by the fact that although only fathoms of lof hawser separated the teresa from tha vulcan the waters on the latter vessel owing to the heavy seas driving rain and spray were only able to see the boats of the rescuing party at long in ter vals when they came out of the trough of the sea the merritt herself although a splendid boat was burled buried in the trough of the sea at times so that only the ends of her mast heads were ware visible the first boat boa t lowered made in all four round trips between the teresia teresa and the merritt and the secona mide made three trips so that to rescue all 11 hands hande the boats had to make the passage 3 through those heavy combing seas four teen times and right gallantly those S 4 brave fellows accomplished the work a lucky indeed was it for those rescued 3 that the boats were manned by rese past s J masters at the oar and helm every vulcan man watched the great H ship with an anxious eye as she plunged forecastle head under the head seas clear to the turret coming out again with the water a from her hawser pipes and showing the heel of her ram above the next big sea forty four shipmates of theirs a were on board the doomed vessel and it 1 t was yet a question whether their res ree cue could be effected before dark heavy rain squalls beat the seas down a little at this time but the wind blew harder than ever struggling for 1 l a foothold on the Te rickety bridge her signal man crosett wig 1 I wagged to the vulcan at 4 dont cast off the tow line yet two more boat loads will clear the ship shap 3 we replied all right will hold on 01 until the last Z high up on the bridge silhouetted silhouette a against the leaden sky and bracing hlen self against the fearful rolling of the teresa as she wallowed in the seas stood the man at the wheel he WAS alone and probably the last person to leave his post for it was not until the final boat was receiving its quota of men that he lashed the wheel came down the bridge ladder and went att aft S i to leave the ship H it was not until 11 minutes vast past ay 6 when blow and his officers w were certain that the last boat load had beia be taken off that the order was givens cut away two blows of an axe aey ered the lines and as the links of thet the A chain bridle rattled out through the t stern chocks chock the cans crew led by chief engineer gardiner crims crima U 8 N gave three ringing cheers as A sa lute to the stars and stripes flying as if in defiance of the elements at the v Te jack yard and also to the F bravery of the merritts men who haft had made such a gallant rescue of their shipmates ri twenty minutes later it was so dark that the teresa was only a black speck against the horizon and at 6 nothing but the lights on the merritt and leonidas could be seen while tm gale howled and the sea bea rose hagho hagli than ever |
