Show GE I 1 NIE rab nei fearful disaster clr sable fis lond I 1 A 4 SHIP GOES I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 moro chaa a H undred find a watery grave STORIES OF A alefi frenzy R R ACCIDENT IN ILLINOIS aai embezzling wine dealer fault prospects Foreign Notes death from burning to tux STANDARD k DISASTER two danish steamers collide and one goes dowa naw boric aug ld jhb steam ill lp wieland capt from hamburg aug ath vin havre the ai with mere bandl so and cabla and steerage passengers reports it ug 1 0 miles south af sable rid aj she AW the steamer Thing valla from 11 for new york with sig Ss tile Thing valla had c alluded on the at 4 a in with the steamer geyser of the same line from now york aug I 1 1 for copenhagen the steamer geyger sank in about five minutes fourteen aera and seventeen of the crow and them captain moller were seven passengers and thirteen of tile crow were lost the steamer wieland brought M passengers from tah and those saved from the steamer boyser to new york the a teamer awill endeavor to r dach halifax the wiel land is at hoboken j A LATER ACCOUNT ithe steamer wieland of the ham burg american steamship line has just brought news of a collision off bable island between the geiser and of the Thing valla line at four on tho jorn I 1 august 14 the geiser airik in five minutes at ter the collision aad persons drowned the was so disabled that she hadbo put into halifax after transferring all her passengers to the wieland the ue I 1 ser had 00 passengers aboard 82 of A horn were drowned or killed in the collia loti and it were taken first on the thing ila and then on the wieland the crew numbered 50 thirty ahr e 0 were saved and seventeen were drowned captain moller of the geiser was among those saved The passengers of the Thin gralla transferred to the wieland numbered the geiser left this port august lith bound for the Thing valla was on her way to this city and dav advertised to leave here on august A very heavy sea and dense fog were ex perlen ced through tile night and ear y on the morning of the 14 th the thing valla struck tile geiser oa the s tar board side amidships the boats then parted and within five minutes the geiser sank the crew of the thin valla did all they could to save E geisert Gei sers c w u d as e n era m tile still in dolbt asat 0 za t 1 er tile in valla was not bange busl led owing to the he se aly 31 were saved no other ve e near at the time ilie wieland CS her way to this port was miles away at 1130 on the morning of the the wieland was sighted signs of distress were made by the Thing valla and the transfer of the r s began 1 the sea was very ruen eavy rut n 0 mishaps occurred STORIES X the officers of e company wert unable tonight to night to give a list of tile lost kaptain A of the ale la nd tells the following story at 10 clock on the morning of august we passed some floating in the sealand suspected in accident haa somewhere near us A tile later we sailed through a sea of oil and a boat of the geiser about 1130 we sighted a steamer 0 the northward about six mile sand seeing she had a flag of distress u P we ran down to fier it proved tile alls and capt lamb of that vessel came to us in a small boat and begged us to take off his S andi hoso he had saved from the MI 8 er disown so badly injured that be expected her to sink aenk moment its forward compartment had been completely carried away from half way down the deck to below the water line we sent out three of our boats and tile thing valla lowered tiers and in five hours we bid transferred the saved asen gers mid crow odthe geiser also passengers of the Thing valla the sea was very rough and the work of transferring the passengers was ve ry difficult the immense hole in th e Thing vallas bow was then patched up is well as possible and she started for I 1 the collision so far as known wag caused by fog and the chief officer of cacti vessel was on deck at the time of the collision ThIrd Officer peters told much tile same story of the oc currency curren cb ile said the fog was v ev dense night rain fallen sit intervals and the first we heard of the vessels approach was aien she appeared appa ared oa the starboard 31 0 right upon us BOW vessels t pt ito steer head on the er i as struck opposite the engine r m amidships and being heavily loaded was very low in the water so that the Thing valla carried away her own compartment and tile upper part of her bow ran over the decks of the gelser tile geisert Gei sers deck houses were carried away and the state rooms were smashed aa and we occupants killed ile heard a bell in the geisert Gei sers engine room bat could not tell what the older was officer peters ran on deck as soon as he beald again this ti me to back and the steamer had jus t corn encee to reverse her engines when the Thing valla struck the geisert Gei sers whistle was blowing at tile ti in e second officer jumped for tho Thing valla when they struck and was h 2 a IW on tile Thing vallas deck by some of the batters lat crew I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 ono of tile Gei passengers was picked up with a broken 1 e g 2 As soon as the Wic in t lie e r bay L aall letter of the 1 r it the te ameron a revenue cutter he went directly office f vi agents ile only left word that tile accident was due to bad weather and left without stating ills destination the rest of tile crew of tho geiser were taken to the hotel deemark on the arrival of the twenty four of the passengers and crew of t geier tinder charge of second jorgensen arrived at denmark they were brawny fellows curiously attired and but few had either costs or stockings second jorge son a hie description 0 the agave oll slon 11 wils asleep in my bunk when I 1 felt a shock and I 1 immediately on deck taking in the situation at glac I 1 ordered all fiands on deck then I 1 swung myself off on the bow of the Thing valla and scrambled to her deck the doomed craft sink gracefully stern first with her bow in the air most eve dy was sound asleep us leep and when Z ebe ganto fill I 1 could hear groans and screams coming from below those who reached the deck made frantic efforts to cut down the boats but they were too excited to be successful they finally grabbed up different 1 i cc 8 0 f woal and jumped over the l d e 0 f tho vessel aguas wlllie a civil engineer of minneapolis one of the passengers on the Gois cir said about 4 thursday morning ivvan awakened by a slight shock and thinking we had struck a rock I 1 went on deck JV as some one shouted she king I 1 found we had been struck on the star board side amidships that time four or five imen working at the beats I 1 had a cork jacket and felt ay SO I 1 called to ill 0 I 1 0 lown stairs and then wat agop d the boat sink As she wont down to her and was carried down some distance soon I 1 felt my self shooting gIf the water tin polled by my cork jacket I 1 was on top 0 I 1 the water for perhaps half an hoti r I 1 climbed on the keel of a mall boat floating upside down and was finally picked up dr of copenhagen Copan hagen a young dentist who Is on ills way to philadelphia to complete big s budles was among the Thing vallas gers lie made the following state lent to an associated press reporter the voyage was uneventful until carlt tuesday morning I 1 bad left my all and booking out saw there wao prevailing prey ailing I 1 con ld steam whistle blowing but heard no other signals it was exactly when I 1 was hurled to the floor efem y stateroom state room th re was a terr fl r ash andi kneela that a collision had oe curre d ran to the deck and fouad we bad run into the geiser As I 1 rea clied the d th 0 Thing valla drew out of the rent she had made in tile geisert Gei sers sido captain moller of the ge iser 1 was in ills birth when the acal dent occurred lie was ono of tile first to reach the deck of tile geiser ilia arm was broken two weeks ago and he was in his berth when the Thing valla crashed into tile room managed to climb aboard the thing valia as she drew back ile was not so much as by water the Thing vallas briw did all ahey could to rescue the ant i and obeyed orders promptly the ThIng vAllas upper deck was not I 1 injured but her bows were broken in from ten fat below the deck tile ent was 27 feet in length and ran back above and below the waterline to the collision bulkhead had it not been for that bulkhead the Thing valla would have gone down like a shot captain lahab first officer petersen and third officer jorgensen were on the ThIng vallas bridge at the time I 1 afterward learned that capt moller of the geiser had gone to bed and left first officer brown in commandos com mandof the vessel Theli fi boats tere promptly launched from lie Thing valla and the work of rescue began some of the gethers Get sers passengers and crow had reached their boats but most of them were picked up from improvised crafts chicken coops camp stools and anything else that would gait had to burry as the geiser went down stern first about five minutes after the crash tio most wonderful escape was that of asife engineer berthelsen after the geiser had gone down and it was known that there were no pas in of the steamers boats the captain ath had the bows of ills own vesse protected as far lie possible with straw matt rasse a and other material to prevent the wa ter from entering deatress Dl atress signals were sounded and the ship laid in for the fog lifted about between 10 and 11 ocl cc k the steamship wieland of the H ira burg american line wits sighted she bore down to us and laid to within a short distance of our vessel captain lamb took a boat and went to the wieland the captain of that vessel readily con anted to receive llie rescued slid crew of the geiser the gorg wo k of transferring was accomplished with only a single accident A I d whose name I 1 did n ot ad ack Is legs crushed ile was one ot the passengers A number of her complement were also taken aboard the wieland the sea had become some what rougher by this time and there were many lively scenes as the children and ol 01 der mere red in slings to lite boats the idled passengers and cw used is tip I 1 d ders As we reached the wieland the last of the geisert Gei sers abandoned lifeboats floated out of sight thor e was no fault to be found with th manner in which we were treated good for us even the passengers divided their clothing with on I 1 forta rates from the geiser MONTREAL aug ag the parti cu lars of the murder at coteau landing forty miles from here have come to band some weeks ago a cattle driver from st ayleet named alex 11 caza told elie the son of a hotel ak r at coteau he was going montree ar to and would return shortly for the purpose of getting married last evening oung illon want to the 10 tra a from montreal there he met cazz who being considerably under the influent of liquor wanted to be driven wit h anicot boat they started for tile landing but when they came near tile hotel alion refused to go an further as it was too dark T I 1 angered and ba words passed during which caza pushed pilon off the wagon and kicked him the noise brought down pilon 8 on bior who tried to interfere C without the least warning bill ing illon in the heart after which caza walked quietly back to station stud of taj hands asked them to have a drink I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 R ag tr 1 tile assented and after drinking be daser a xa revolver at them twice after tha t he rentA ined lounkin the station till about 22 0 clock he was lost of ilia trunk and valise were ill gedvi ith fine wearing ap of pape 1 V had at 1 butte C montana andorn m y 44 idaho T rn u aderer was seen rt st poly ca this morning C re turn d I 1 winter from the gold fields of lie had amassed a fortune of 1 I 1 to parried one of his a few years ago A life of inactivity was more than he could and lie engaged inthe cattle trade years old ON THIC cic CHICAGO A serious ace dant is reported as having occurred at tile illinois central railroad at south lawn 50 miles south of this city at this morning for slid and have been sent to this city and a relief train has start ed for the scene of the accident it in that a p a csenger and a freight train oil the 1 lanois central came in collision at named many killed and wounded are reported at the office of the trainmaster of the illinois Illin bis central the statement Is fiade that the accident at southlawn South lawn Is not as serious as at first re rael it appears that about 5 th passenger train due here at amo ran into a grand trunk freight at a crossing wrecking tile foremost cars of the p c ng C r train and several freight ca A f r as advised no loss of life occurred but two postal clerks and three passengers wore badly IR jared A brocking ing train and the com banys physicians were at once dispatched to the scene prospects I 1 springfield stasa aug 10 ro ports to the bew england Irom estead the fruit growing regions of new england new york and s an show an enormous yield of grapes in sections A short crop of pears of all varieties a curtailed yield of plums and a full crop of peaches in delaware michigan and other sections where commercially grown with a very limited production in the peach orchards of southern new england high prices are con addred positively certain for pears and plums with for 1 ape and pe itches but held 0 r the crapes winter market will comparatively bilney prices the apple crop on tile whole Is consid drably less than even the production of two years agog owing to drouth in some sections c old weather at the time of bl coming and premature dropping of the fruit AN WINE MERCHANT CHICAGO aug 16 bertholdt greenebaum courin of I 1 lenry greenebaum the well known private banker was arrested tills evening charged ditl I 1 embezzlement greenebaum hns leen representing the fagle winery of Sacrament oCal wine was shipped to him by the car load and disposed of by him L p to about two weeks ago lie had receive ed worth of wine and the eagle winery had received but 75 this morning lincoln white arrived from coll fornis representing the wine merchants and as to get a satisfactory settlement from greenebaum be cassail big arrest BOULANGER ranis aug 16 gen boulanger arrived at abbeville Ab beville today to day ile went to the cembler for the purpose of putting A n the tomb of admiral Cour bett ino i e was accod panted by a large party but the police at the entrance of the cemetery would not allow them to go in with the gen oral and he was compelled to enter alone upon leaving the cemetery gen boulanger addressed the crowd which had gathered A row followed and the gendarmes gen darmes dispersed the rioters A large number of arrests were made aug lo 10 two thousand leading imperialists met in this city yesterday gegoux presided and made a patt lotic address devoted to brince victor at a banquet which followed the ganest enthusiasm was manifested baron klaussman Il aussman who delivered an oration received a touch particularly on account innovation Injo of is many years and ill health and the fact becoming known ills friends for these reasons li id tried to dissuade him from attending similar demonstrations st were held throughout the country WILLIAMS TOAST BERLIN aug m emperor I 1 is attending at we unveiling of the bonnine n t to the memo of the princes fred e rick and cal rles it frankfort today to day the emperor was present at the b breakfast reak fast in his honor after the on vi ailing and g ave to the ger man unity ile said the forty six millions of Gern ians would die rather than deliver it single stone 0 I 1 alsace lorraine to france p CANA 1 k H vail FIRES ont aug 16 bush fires lave been ragi fig in thi neighborhood they bave already done damage to the extent of nearly halt a million in the whole section is ctr through the burning of corduroy roads and bridges tile ontario government will be api pealed to washington aug 16 the state department received a cablegram from consul reimer announcing the arrival at santiago de cuba of prest dent Af lomon of on board 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