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Show IfMEN ALIVE il M 1 Sill it )j R Found in That, Part h of the Warship !l; Above Water F Toulon, SepL 26. An official state-1 state-1 I mont giving the casualties in the loss K? of the Liberto places the dead at 235 C; and tho Injured at 88, with ono man Lr missing. Ill Toulon, France, Sept, 26. A thin 31 ship's company was drawn up on the I i deck of tho battleship Suffren this rf j morning to answor to tho roll call of 5 2 the crew of the ill-fated Liberie, which I ; was do3troyed by an explosion and I .fyfire yesterday. I jf The supervisors of the disaster, f with tho exception of those In tho ? $ hospital, are temporarily quartored on 1 the slater ship. When the name of $ an absent ono was called, some one Kv of his comrades responded "dead," "hospltaled" or "missing." The search of the wreckage of tho battleship continued throughout tho V night with the aid of great torches. Occasionally a launch drew away j . from the Illuminated spot in tho harts har-ts & bor, disappeared In tho darkness, to Jife reappear presently at Uio pier with ji its load of wounded for the hospital jUwL and dead for the mortuary. 3 During the night fifty bodies wero 2k recovered and eight wounded men jl I were resuced from that part of tho m y vessel that remained exposed when fli ' the hull sank. These men had been j pinned In tho ruins from sixteen to '; twenty-six hours. Most of thom wore ': insensible from pain. I'f Lioutenant Aubert, son of Vice Ad-'f Ad-'f rolral Aubert. commander of tho fleet, ( $ described tho admirable discipline on L board tho LIborto. The lieutenant, 2 who la serving on another warship, ig .( Wa3 sent with a party to help oxtln-I oxtln-I ' gulsh tho Are on tho Llberte. Ho u ' found Senior Lioutenant Garnlor In . command of tho imporiled ibattolship ! In the absence of Captain Jaurcs and the second officer in command, both .. London, with Baron Rothschild at the cer in command approached the lleu-rfl lleu-rfl tenant and said' "The fire, sir, Is near the magazine. Jsn't there danger of an explosion?" ' ''Attend to your orders," Lioutenant Garnler replied. It The potty officer saluted and wlth-j wlth-j out further question returned to his j post. y Llerutonant Gamier perlshod in the destruction of his ship. ' Captain Jaures vlBited the wreck j this morning and then spent tho rest of the day at the bedBide of his wounded officers. A number of those ' continue unconscious, due probably i to tho fumes of burning powder they Inhaled. They may never recover tholr senses. I J The immense force of the explosion j . Is shown by tho fact that the turret ; ,' of ono of the twelvo-irtch guns wns j wrenched from Its base and thrown j ' upward. Afterwards it plunged downward like a great propectlle for ' ward of amidships, cleavlns the wai f , ship in two. The steel bridge,- wolgh- ing many tons, was blown from Its ' supports and crashed through onc side of tho warship, cutting the steel i ;i j , (Continued on Pago Seven.) ! ; oo lJM). MEN ALIVE 01T LIBERTE SK a (Continued from Pago One.) iTB-Jg, J. . "fV - frame as if tho frame was made of !H f 'r,'G causes of tlie dlaater emitlnuo K to bo discussed with animation among "S r the officers and men of the floot. i3 Whatever may have started the fire- lwA ft aboard the Liberie, it was pointed JW out, might equally well fire any ship , ) in the French navy. If the initial & cause of the tragedy was the chenii- -aJSil ' cal chango In the powdor, so thai tho r&5 ;? mere lapse of time It began to burn, I" no1 a 1fc al'ard any warship, it waK 5 - argued, would be sucuro The general JlelS 1 discussion of this vital question wlU, PSSi Jt ,s heaved, restilt in an jnvestiga- R ' Hon of most searching and rigid na- 80Jj?2 I turo. ixQZ - Tho opinion of experts is generally $lfA against tho theoo' of spontaneous idltt combustion, yet no other adequate itjitfjl cause is put forward. U?a? Judsment, It la declared, should bo rtgSf sus)endod untij the searching official Inquiry is completed. oo |