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Show VOLUME Vni Is Well Grounded Is that Russian Squadron Left and Engaged Japanese Fleet Port Arthur Harbor Open. One Which Vla-hrost- ok JUNE 15IT IS KNOWN HERE THAT ADMIRAL SKRYDLOFF WITH THE VLADIHAS LEFT VOSTOK SQUADRON AND NEWS OF A VLADIVOSTOK ST. PETERSBURG, DECISIVE BATTLE EVERY HOUR. AWAITED IS BEFORE CRUISER BOGAYTR, WAS ON THE ROCKS LEAVING THE WHICH THERE, WA8 HAULED OFF AND TOWED IN8IDE THE PORT. JUNE NAGA8AKI, FROM PATCH 15-- A DIS- OKI ISLAND SAY8 THAT THE JAPANESE WARSHIPS RUSSIAN HAVE ENGAGED THE City-Catastrop- NEW YORK, June 13. The triple-dec- k steamer General Slocum, on board of which were a party of 1,600 excursionists, half of whom were children, was destroyed by Are at Brothers Island, Long Island sound, this morning. The first news of the disaster was received In a telephone message. When the vessel caught Are the pilot steered for the shore but before the steamer waa beached the flames spread from stem to stem. Many jumped overboard and were drowned while others were burned to death on the boat In a short time the water near the Island waa full of floating bodies. NEAR THERE. O life-savi- ng t X Y X X HUNDREDS OF BODIES RECOVERED NEW YORK. June 15. At 2:40 o'clock 175 bodies, nearly all women and children, have been recovered. Hundreds of policemen in small boats continue to be rewarded in the search for bodies every few minutes. The bodies are being tagged by the coroner, who is at the island. X k water was more shallow, thinking that here they might find a chance for life. Eye witnesses say that as the boat neared the shore she was surrounded on all sides by the floating bodies of passengers who had Jumped Into the X X jured. On one stretcher alone were five Infant bodies. CAPTAINS STORY OF DISASTER. Describing In a vivid manner the terrible catastrophe. Captain Van Schalck said that his boat was off One Hundred and Thirty-fift- h water. street, EFFORTS TOWARD RE8CUE. just at a point known as the Sunken On the north of Brothers Island Is Meadows and two hundred feet from located the hospital for contagious di- shore, when he heard the cry of seases and other city institutions. The Fire. Without' further warning he rang employes and other people at th Island did what they could with smalir the bells for getting out the fire apboats, grappling hooks a. rafts, pul- paratus and leaving the wheel In ling ashore scores of people, many charge of Pilot Van Wart started for blackened and burned by fire. The the cabin to see what was the matter. city was telephoned for aid but It was By the time he reached the stairs the more than an hour before help ar- passage way was Jammed with people, rived. The steamer Massasolt and a mostly women, many of them with bafew tug boats in the vicinity saved a bies in their arms. He tried to calm number of lives of those who Jump- them but the flames by this time were ed overboard.' Later the Massasolt all about them and he was compelled was pressed into service by the police to rush for a water pall as his hat and and took from the Island a number of clothing were afire. When he saw that the dead, Injured and others who had the fire was getting beyond control he been saved and hurried them to the shouted to the pilot to beach the boat, Which waa done. Before the vesXew York side of the river. On her first trip the steamer car- sel reached the shore the panic atrlck-e- n resried thirty dead and seventy-fiv- e people were trampling upon one cued. On shore were squads of po- another and such as could reach the lice, ambulances, and surgeons who side of the boat Jumped overboard. administered to the needs of the in When the bat was fifty feet from the WILLIAMS MAY REPUBLICANS BE THE CHAIRMAN Committee Meets to Select Temporary Officers for Democratic GETTING ARE READY First Meeting of National mittee Is Held in the Convention Com- Coliseum. 15 Demo- CHICAGO, June 13. al m, INSTRUCT FOR HEARST June 15. The Democratic state convention completed Its work yesterday afternoon by nominating a complete ticket headed by Lawrence B. Stringer of Lincoln for governor. The convention Instructed the delegates to the national convention to vote for William R. Hearst at St Louis as long aa hla name remains before the SPRINGFIELD, 1904. anyc,irutrfy Men Will Return to Denver. shore the clothing of the captain himself was burning In several places so he Jumped overboard and awam ashore. As to the number of Inst he could not say but there was little question that the number would prove appalling. BOAT OFFICERS ARRESTED. Captain Van Schalck, First Pilot Van Wart and Second Pilot Edwin N. Leader have been arrested. Captain William Churchill, commander of the auxiliary sloop Easy Times, witnessed the disaster practl-cull- y from Its Inception. When he saw the Slocum first she was off the Harlem river bridge and the flames were pouring fro mthe port paddle box. Aa the ship moved along the smoke and flames, under the strength of the west wind, were blown bver the decks. The scene waa terrible. Women and children rushed frantically back and forward screaming and crying and scores Jumped, lie cannot understand or why the Blocuin was not docked beached before she reached the north of Brothers Island. There were no small boats near her aa she steamed along and those who jumped were drowned. We Captain Churchill continued: got alongside as soon aa we could and The biasing stesmer saved many. rounded' the Island nnd turning to port grounded on the northwest point of the Island. By this time the lower decks were crowded with women and children Screaming with terror. Aa the heat became .more Intense those nearest the rail dropped shrieking Into the water. Some were able to keep afloat by grabbing the paddle box supports and the wheel. I took my boat alongside the paddle box and took off aa many as I could. When the heat became too Intense I was forced away." Captain Churchill says thst as the binsing 'steamer neared the Island whistling for help, a ferryboat which was crossing the river paid no attention. The Slocum waa burned practically to the waters edge- - Fire boats this afternoon are flooding her with water so that the hull can be searched for bodies. BETWEEN 400 AND 500 DEAD. Fire Chief Crocker at 1:30 this afternoon said that he believed the dead would number between four and five, hundred and that the Injured Includ. ed about everybody who had The llamea are still raging in the hull and the bodies of three children can be seen hanging over the rail. It Is feared there are many corpses In the hull 111., convention. LUMBER SCHOONER IS TOTAL WRECK EUGENE, Or., June 15 The schooner Del Norte, from San Florence bound for San Francisco, waa wrecked off the mouth of the Linafow river today and It la believed that It will be to save the vessel. A deckof lumber load haa been washed off. ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF PREFERRED S. P. STOCK NEW YORK. June 15. It Is announced that 3100,000,000 of preferred stock has been authorised by the directors of the Southern Pacific company, to carry 7 per cent dividends Forty millions of this stock will be Issued Immediately and will place the Sduthern Pacific out of debt. WANTS TERRITORY A8 WELL AS MONEY June 15. United WASHINGTON, States Consul Gummere, at Tangier, cables that brigand Rslsuli has Increased his demands to four provinces in addition to the money ransom previously demanded, stipulating that three nations guarantee the fulfillment of th econditlons. ANTONITO, Colo., June 15. Prodded by bayonets, nearly a hundred deported union miners and their sympathisers were rushed over the southern boundary of the Colorado line Into New Mexico at daybreak this morning. Little clemency was used by the soldiers and deputies. William Ketcham, oe of the unionists, was extremely ill on the train all night and begged to be a lowed to remain by the roadside, but the soldiers Jabbed him with their bayonets and forced the man to continue on with his companions. Two specials with deported unionists passed here before breakfast, stopped an hour and proceeded half a mil to the state line where they dumped the men. The deported men returned here and later will go to Denver. COLORED MURDERESS KILLED BY A MOB JUNCTION, Ky June A mob of thirty men this morning battered down the Jail doors and took Martha Thompson, the negresa who killed John Irvin yesterday, and started to lead her away with a rope. LEBANON 15. The negresa broke away, throwing her captors aside. While running the mob Irvin opened Are and k'lled her. proved he was the mother's son and the mother In revenge nearly severed the man's head from his body with a resor. . COLLEGE PRESIDENT FATALLY WOUNDED SAN FRANCISCO, June 15. President Durham of the California Business college was shot and probably fatally wounded at noon today by B. C. F. Costeel, solicitor of the Western School of Correspondence, during a The quarrel over money matters. shooting occurred In Durham's office. He Cnateel Immediately surrendered. claims that he shot Durham In aelf de, fense. FOREST FIRE LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS FOREST GROVE, Or., June 15 Fire continues to ravage the timber In west central Oregon. Settlers In the vicinity of Glenwood are fleeing for their The Nehalen forests seem lives. doomed and the loss will, probably reach Into the millions. Virgin forest of the finest yellow fir, cedar and 1,400 TO 1,700 ON BOARD. spruce on the coast Is being conIt Is learned that 900 tickets for the sumed. excursion were sold to adults and It O. R. C. MEMORIAL SERVICES. is estimated that mothers took from five to eight children along for whom The local Order of Railway Conduct-or- e there was no charge. There were very Of will hold thely annual memorial few men aboard with the party. bodies taken to the Alex- service! at the Congregational church thirty-si- x ander Avenue station house up to S In thla city on Sunday morning beginthis afternoon thirty were women and ning at 11 oclock. Rev. Ridings, the six children. The police say that ful- pastor, will address the conductors on All members are rely 125 bodies have been landed on the the occasion. New York aide piers, among them quested to meet at the Rallwaymen's hall on Twenty-fourt- h street and Join twenty babies. As near as can be learned the Are In. the line of march to the church. broke out at 9:45 a. m. The first rfo-tl- After the services the march will be the police had came an hour later. continued to the City cemetery. Comment is heard on all sides adverse ESCAPED FROM ROCK PILE. to the officers of the boat because they did not land further down the stream. The excursion was In charge of Rev. Ralph Westbrook who was serving George Hass, who was accompanied by sixty days on the rock pile at the city his family. Assistant Superintendent Jail made his escape by leaping over Carl Anger nnd W. B. Ttatmore. The the stocakde this morning. Patsy Hopastor lost his wife and daughter. He gan, the prise fighter, who waa arrested last Sunday and serving time by says that the lire started In the kitchen from the fat boiling over. working on the new lawn In front of The Slocum was Inspected on May the library, also made his escape. NeiIn thorough ther one has been seen or heard of 5 and reported since. been-saved- The Today marks met this the real beginning of the Republican cratic national morning to select a temporary chair- national convention. The first meeting waa of the national committeemen man for the convention. The Indications are that Congress- held this afternoon In the Coliseum man John Sharp Williams of Missis- but It was short, consisting of passing sippi will receive the honor, though resolutions on the death of Senior Mayor Rose of Milwaukee Is decided- Hanna and Quay and adjournment until tomorrow morning. ly In the race. Postmaster-GenerPayne,' who la Arrangements for the convention committee to attend the here are well advanced. meeting, collapsed this morning at the Auditor-loudue to epilepsy. ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS ST. LOUIS, June 1ft, Driven Across the Colorado Line he ft I JUNE AST Vessel Was Burned to the Waters Edge in Long Island Sound off New York Attended by Indescribable Scenes of Horror. SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION. The Slocum left the foot of East Third street for Locust Grove at 9 CHEE FOO, JUNE 15A REPORT oclock this morning, having been enFROM RUSSIAN SOURCES 8TATE8 gaged by the Sunday school classes of THAT THE JAPANESE HAVE SUF- St. Mark's Lutheran church on Sixth REVERSE street, between Second' and the BowA SEVERE FERED THERE 18 ery. NORTH OF KINCHOU. The Knickerbocker Steamboat comNO CONFIRMATION OF THE REpany, the owners of the Slocum, have PORT. received a message stating that the THE JAPANESE HAVE PLACED boag burned to the water's edge and FIFTY-TWSIEGE GUN8 ON THE the hulk Is still burning. Their mesa number of persons HEIGHTS NORTH OF PORT AR- sage says that overboard and that some were Jumped THUR. picked up by small boats. 8AY THAT ONLY REFUGEE8 Xo estimate of the loss of life is COMBATANTS REMAIN IN PORT given by the company. The police ARTHUR, WITH PROVISIONS FOR have recovered eleven bodies thus, far, being those of adults and mostly woONLY SIX WEEK8. men. Ambulances and surgeons have sent to the scene. TOKIO, June 15. Various reports been FRIGHTFUL L088 OF LIFE. are current today concerning the sea At noon the best estimate placed engagement near Port Arthur. One of the number of lives lost Is between has It that the Russian fleet escaped two and three hundred. About fifty from Vladivostok and gave battle to bodies had been recovered up to that the Japanese off the Island of Tsustime and police tugboats, steamers small boats were out in the Sound and hima. for others., A dosen ambulooking The captain of a Japanese steamer lances, a score of physicians and which arrived this morning says that nurses and all the police reserves In he was fired on by the Russian sqaud-ro- n. the city were on the scene tor rescue the bodies of the dead and succor Heavy cannonading was heard this the living and Injured. morning in the neighborhood of Ikls-hl- VICTIMS WOMEN AND CHILDREN. As usual with Sunday school exIsland, not far from Tsushima. cursions. the party was made up largeA dispatch received today states women and children who comof that the entrance to Port Arthur har- ly menced the steamer at the boarding bor Is again open. The Russian cruiser Xovlk sailed out and engaged foot of East Third street at 7 o'clock this morning. With the triple decks the Japanese fleet. Admiral Togo reports' .that the tor-Id- o well filled. Captain Vanschalck. a vetboat flotilla proceeded to Port eran navigator, gave the signal and Arthur on the night of the 13th and the boat pulled from the pier for Losucceeded In laying mines at certain cust Grove, Long Island sound. PANIC AMONG PASSENGERS. points In safety and returned. Headed up East river all went well At noon on the 14th when the second destroyer flotilla and three torpedo until the boat passed through Hell flotillas were bombarding the enemy 'Gate and was nearing Brothers Island. ashore near Shampingtao to facilitate Then joy and merriment were quicka reconnoisance by the army, the en- ly turned to panic b7 the cry of Flames had been discovered emy's cruiser Xovlk and ten destroy- "Fire. ers came out of Port Arthur and sharp among the life preservers but how firing was exchanged. The Japanese and when they started none has yet flotilla tried to entice the enemy by re- been found who can say. The burning preservers were torn tiring but at 3 p. m. the enemy withdrew. Xo damage was done to the from their resting places and thrown overboard in an endeavor to smother Japanese ships. the flames. This added greatly to the JAPS WILL PROTECT loss of life as It was noticed afterCATHOLIC MISSIONARIES ward that bodies recovered from the water had no apparatus ROUE, June 15. The pope has re- on. ceived an autograph letter from the STEAMER HEADED FOR SHORE. mikado In which the Japanese ruler Captain Van Schalck, when the states that he has given Instructions dreadful cry arose, called for full for the protection of Catholic mis- speed and headed the steamer for the sions wherever the Japanese Influence rockbound shores of Brothers Island. In the meantime scenes aboard were utenda frightful. The flames spread with terEPIDEMIC BREAK8 OUT rible rapidity and men, women and AMONG THE RUSSIANS children were running about wild with fear, shrieking and In tears, seeking ROME, June 15. The Agensla Llb-r- a a hhven of safety. Mothers gathered correspondent at Mukden states their children In their arms and leapthat the extreme heat haa resulted In ed into the water. Others seemed too a serious epidemic of dysentery among dased to move and the flames licked the Russian troops. up about them and burned them to The Cossacks har. dispersed 3,000 death . The great bulk of the P Chunchuses eighty versts from pie stood by the boat until she neared the shores of the Island, where the SQUADRON WEDNESDAY, APPALLI AN NAVAL OGDEN, UTAI--I NUMBER ,189. ce |