A SEA HORROR Over 500 Lives Lost in a Col- | lision in a Fog. FRENCH STEAMER SUNK. | Women and Childen Beaten | Back from Lifeboats. ONLY 165 WERE RESCUED | - On Morning of July 4, Big French Ocean Liner and British Ship Cromartyshire Came in Collision About Sixty Miles | south of Sable Island and Within a Few Minutes La Bourgogne Was at the Bot. tom of the Sea With Moat of Her Human Freight, Only Two First-class Passen- gers Being Saved. A Halifax, N. special says: —Tho French liner La Bourgogne, which left New York July 2, for Havre, France, with 5038 passengers and a crew of 222 sank alter a collision early Monday moroipg apd 560 persons were drowned. The disaster occurred at 5 A. M. Monday, in a thick fog, sixty miles south of Babi Island, and about two hundred miles south east of Halifax, La Bourgogne, which Is said to Lave been going ata 17-knot speed, was run into by the British iron ship Cromartyshire, and sank half an hour alter. The Cromartyshire, though her bow was torn away, laid by and picked up the 165 persons rescued, Of these 106 were mem. bers of the crew and 59 were second-class and steerage passengers. No one of first-cabin passengers was saved. The ecap- tain and other deck officers went down with the ship, On Monday afternoon the Cromartyshire sighted and signaled the Allen liner Grecian, and the latter took on board all the La Bourgogne survivors and thea towed the Cromartyshire to this port, Three hundred women and children said to have been on the La Bourg: only one woman was saved. She was polly protected and rescued by ber husband, Pr A. D. Lacasse, of Plainfleld, New Jersey. Some of the scenes enacted ard the La Bourgogne, just after the collision were terrible to witness, Men fought for posi- tions in the small boats like raving maniacs Women were forced back and trampied by men who made self-preservation their first object. On board were a large if the lower class of lialians and cther foreigo- ers, who, in their frenzy, stopped at nothing that promised safety for themselves, Instead of often such awful m fought like demons for the and rafts, battering the helpless passenger away from their only means of salvatior In one boat was a party of fort but so great was the panic that was raised to assist in its launchiog. occupants, so near saved, were drowns like rats when the ship, with aco sing sound, went down, So desperate was the Italian passenger drew his kuile a direct at one who, like himseif deavoring to reach the Loats. Im bis action was imitated (ou every direct] Knives were flourished and Women and chlidren were inevitable death atthe poiantol weapons the owners of which were experts in their use, According to stories survivors, women were stabbed ilke sc many sheep, w struggling Me. vyes were Here 8., the are gue, bat on Ix pumber fscipline which » has bee right oments, the crew of the streamer few the Lerole d no the 1 feature B ne life-tonls "wm i } awial situation wed with effect, driven back to of The scene on the water was even rse Many of the unfortunates were in the water, attempting to drag tl into the boats or on rafts. These pushed back into a watery grave, too, knives were used [reely, Not all the dead met death by Christopher Brunun saw a sailor belonging to the Bourgogne strike a [passenger over the head with a bar and kill The body dropped the water. The passenger bad grabbed the boat in which the was and attempted to get on board. One passenger sald the officer and crew of La Bourgogne neglected the passengers »n- tirely. The second officer was the only ma: who did anything to beip the terrified and heipiess passengers, He cat loose the boats he could, aad, jo fact, all boats that were launched were jaunched Ly the rave officer. He last seen standing on the deck, with his band on rigging, going resignediy to certain death Among the are a party of Assyrians and Armeniape, There was enty-five Assyrians in the party when it leit New York. All but eight perished. One of the eight lost his wife and two brothers and ten other relatives, Another [ost two daugh- ters, Only one of thirtren Armenians sur- vived, The Assyrians were be their bowmes near Damascus, and every bad bad from $100 to $200 They lost it ail. On board the steamer Grecian the Assy- rians wept iike children and would not be comforted, The one surviving Armenian tells a sor- rowful tale of the drowning of an Armen- ian priest and his family who got int abost with some thirty other people, The crew made po ¢ffort to launch the boat. The priest stood up, and, with uplifted bands, prayed aloud, When the steamor was about to take her finai plunge the captain blew the steam whistle as a farewell to the boats, and he was shortly engulfed, . drownis o Hts air, into LC i Baiior all all the second was the survivors BOY und to one saved, THE TERROR STILL AFLOAT, The St. Louis ips An Engagement With | the Spanish Destroyer. The announcement is made at Cape Hay- | tian that a dispateh from San Juan de Porto | carried to St. Thomas by a esrrier-pigeon, | asserts that the United States suxiliary | cruistr 8t. Louisa had an engagement with | the Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror, | and killed the engioeer and five men, Tue same dispatch says a number of vol- untesrs bave offered themselves for service to the military authorities of San Juan. Newark Responsible Captain Lyons, of the Dolphin, now iying | at Norfolk, has just made his report to the Navy Department upon the coilision which | that vessel suffered, with the Newark a week ago. Thick weather is lelieved to have been the primary cause of the accident, but | for Collision. the Dolphin's commander alec charges the Newark's people with the responsibility for the collision, It will take two weeks (0 ro- pair the Dolpbin's smashed stem, 1 1 1 h | 1 i rm GREAT SEA FIGHT, How Admiral Cervera's Fleet Was Wrecked. RIDDLED WITH SHELLS. Heavy Armor Was Perforated With Projectiles. GLOUCESTER'S WORK. The Little Auxiliary Cruiser Fought All the Enemy's Fleet At One Time The Spanish Admiral Became a Vrisoner of Lieutenant Commander Walnwright, Formerly of the Maine, Who Said Te Him: "1 Congratulate You, Sir, You Have Made As Gallant a Fight As Ever Was Made On the Sea’ 4 Scattered along the shores for miles to the west of Morro Castle, lie the armored cruis- srs and torpedo-boat destroyers that cow- prised Admiral Cervera's In a ras ning fight of two hours these vessels, the cream of the Spanish navy were almost cone pletely aanibiiated Sunday morning by powerful ships of Admiral Sampson's fleet, Admiral Cervera, after making as plucky a fight agalost overwhelming odds as is re- ded in naval history, was compelled to surrender, He was taken as a prisoner of war, together with every man in his not drowned or killed in the action, The Spanish Admiral was wounded in one His splendid ships, the Cristo. bai Colon, flagship: the Vizeaya, Almirante Oquendo and Infauta Maria Teresa, and the torpedo-boat destroyers Furor and Platon, He on the Cabun rocks, shell ridden, smok- ing huiks, Cervera Surrenders His Sword. fleet, “ $ mnees run toward liberty, fo the face of death, and is a prisoner now on the Gloucester, which before the war was J. Vierpont Morgan's yacht Corsair. When his ships, all aflame, was pounding on the shore, ten miles of Bantiago, a boat from the Gloasester put out to bim and he was ia charge of the boat, When It i» esticoated that abont ere taken, Of theses 475 Capt. Bot tn the very first of the { Were Laken US flows wey DD. Evans Fro tie (rid RELDR joester the thickest was in At coe time she was pi Lh iting Ler six; er shells sgnit the eplire Nj i f Morr target. atid while the guns Castle were 0 3 Ler thelr She riddied 4 destroyers and ight the Viz Og shit fler JenGo as Dercely as if ale mere A Bplendid Naval Dash, Maguificient teyond bold dash by whi degeription was the bh Cervera attempted 1 Rantiag harbor vera himself led the way with his flagship the Cristobal Cole It was to be a dash t liberty or to and the Spanish admiral wade the plonge with eyes piet rested « Rantiago N ile about Morro. Beyond and toward the city « all After two € armies both nations their trenches, Of this way. shore get his feet out of Cer o death, per ver the entrance t » signs of life were vis jase of | were restis for half a dozen ut the f Adwiral iv at anchor, 1 ¥ gin lies frou VORae is Sampson s lar Admiral Sampson had set Spanish fron whe he Michig the line fog while ing t iisioge the at Aguac Rere rej uls along Katrurds 4 LUHITGARY HC res FhiswWay wee marche » battery and toroedi tor pedo- fleet, When Ad- mirai Sampson left the Morro the battle and the cruiser Brookiyn were grouped off the harbor mouth, they o seine the Morr The American the LK Wostwar $< for: ot with iow gi the HIOW Gp Lhe oats were ships Colon Darted Out First, It iz pot known whether Admiral Cervera blew up the Merrimac or passed it in column. The Cristobal Colon fint glided out of the harbor and shot to the westward, Her two funpels and high black bulwarks showed plain against the green of the bills, her penuant and the Spanish red and yellow ensign waving above, « In a few seconds the American [leet was in motion, the Indiana, which was closest, beading straight in shore to get close range, The Spaniards opened fire with an il-ineh Hontoria gun, and mighty founlaine of water ruse above the battle ship and wet ber decks, The shell fell near her bow, The Iudiaua replird with ber 15-inch singe | | Com, Richard Wainwright, biown up ia the Havana harbor, “1 congratulate you sir,” said the lieuten- “You have made as galinut a fight as ever was made ou the v Wants to Give a Flag to Hevoes. General Miles bas recived the following telegram from Mra Donald McLean, of of the national anthem in the jaws of delth thrilis the very soul.” Three Out of Four Now Lynched. At 1 p'ciock the other morning & mcb took Goode Gray, a colored man, from the eoun- ty jail at Rizon, Ark., and lynched him, He was ous of four colored men charged with the musder of Bert Frederick several months ago. Two of Gray's accomplices bave been Iynebed at different times. : 3 | ! she could bring to bear. Oae of the first sheils fell on t crulser's deck. Cervera was then going past, asd the Indiana rounded to give him a broadside, As the lowa acd the Texas opened fire the Almirante Oguendo waa ¢ Spasish § i 3 8 Atifirst ose could scarcely telieve his wb It was a sublime spectacle of a desperate admiral, who had decided to give battle against over- wheiming odds in the open water rather itn FIELE OF LABOR ———— Chicago bakers have struck, Salen, Ublo, bas a chewing gum makers’ ukion, Waco, Tex, basa't a non-union raliway employe, Muncie, Ind., street car men get §1,05 for eleven hours, » Toledo steam and hot-water fitters de- mand €3 per day. Boston Printers’ Union will celebrate ita fiftieth aupiversary. Springfield unions will estabiish a co-op erative shoe store, Pniladelpbia Water Darean laborers get $1.75 for eight bourse, d ti ug f the beleaguered city - bis own g oft spanish Fired Broadsides, hid dan f a t JR0en I10T at cruiser as she ihe lowa let Cer. the hands of the Oregon sd DBrookiyn, and » Texas, to pound the Oquen- American y in the vieln- in mactios poke ied the coast and Liew away lazily, revealing gey- serg about the Spanish wm the cruisers and the Morro tore the walter, Anciber ship emerged It was the Vizcaya, coming at smoke curling over her bow as » the westward and brought play. then shrou the shije where tb shells Ir from the harbor full speed, be 100k her her course to bow guns int dreaded torpedo-boat destroy- y hundred yards apart, The received with a terrific aud oo fire she Morro. Spain's two ere Maria Teresa was storm of shells, wis beached ole jerbaps Iw Smashed se 10 the American Strategy. The Jowa steamed for a time forward with ¢ Oquendo asd the Indiana did the same with the Vizcaya. As the fight thus moved westward it became ciear that the Americans were wililog that the Spapish ships should run far envugh from the Morro to lose the + th this was dose This was a bit of strategy which was de. veioped under fire aud which was sccepled at once by all the American ships without orders, In Iact, the smoke often made it impossible to see the sigoals which Commo so tremendous was the firing all along the line, Both the Oquendo and the Vazeaya were sometimes within a thousand yards of the Indiana, it was short and extremely deadiy. theless, the high stead as they followed in the path of honor marked out by Admiral Cervera, i Three quarters of an bour alter the action | many guns disabled and would have to sur- render. Theres were territle casualties on | the enemy's shije. As the smoke cleared a | little one could see the Spanish fagebip, ber | port broadside spouting smoke, still bolding on to the westward, The Texas and the Massachusetts joined the Indiana avd the Iowa. Tae Oquendo and the Viseaya bugged the shore and steamed after Cervera on the Colon, to go ships net on Fire. Shells burst on the decks of the Spanish Often the ships Lightning Destroys a Paper Mill. Lightolng struck and destroyed the large paper mill of Shryock Brothers, at Middie Spring, Frankiin county, Pa. Five hooses were aiso burned and the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church partially destroyed, Wheat fields were ablaze in the vielnity and for a time it looked as though the town wou ld be wiped out by the fire. The Mid- die Spring Church is one of the cidest in this section of the State, BR Capt. Karl Brandes Dead. Karl Braudes, a heroic soldier of the Civil War, and formerly captain of the Bixty-sighth New York Volunteers, is dead. Drasdes was well known In New upon her. Splintered and torn, but sti with their steering gear and machinery in tact, both destroyers turned back to rus fo the harbor and seek safety inside, but it wa too late. The fight bad been carried nearly four miles west of the Morro, and the New York was sirendy past the harbor mouth, The Gloucester was ready for the destroy ers close at hand. Bhe and the destroyers and the Indiana formed a triangle of whict the destroyers were the apex, and the Amer ican fire, converging, was two fierce fo buman belongs to withstand, A Carnival of Destroction. One destroyer drifted futo the sar! of fre A battered wreck, and then crept on LOWare i the Gloucester and the Now York, with hes | guns slient and showing a flag of truce Bhe was on fi and ber crow ran her ashore save the lives of those who hud escaped the aban re, shells, Bhé blew up soon alter they doned her, The Spanish the admiral was lost in smoke t« the Oqrend from 3% and M went hey ar westward, when ashore, with flames bursting The lows, Indians sachusetts ceased firing, the Rolng to join the Oregon and the in Bunting up and Ones headed off decks. Texas Masso’ usetts Bre Cervera's yn sin 1 smashing { the Oquendo turns 4 int Kantl With ays ’ break 8 and rade ives west of land the 3% to nding LAGIan | 8a small bay four or fiv ago, . GUL ever-wenkening oilowed, first beading out as the lope of battle, The 1 d their formation | her escape in that direction Impossible, Captain Eu { the east side of the | ut in | xeeption of those { ion, Hers Low guns were still tervais, Those who were not | bow guns crowded forward to emi where she lay closes to the broadside ir if hrough owa ciosed in, and reach by ihe with the of ae st In- the the inte then attempted to bay, occupied vain. Her guns forward, | Oquendo, t were out fired working GEOR De { smnoke and fire aft : Funes JACK The Oquend« sshore, her thick i WRE pron | slier ang = x rislug in 6 12 fram her g of pans tc id that Cervere of There was un thunderis the westward n still fought ny the burn ers, w ad Lashes Lo but 14 the sastward his hip ing wrecks of his two destroy. The torped st Erioreon wae seen com. New York, Toe Indians af. Viz his bis { ing along with the and the lows were « ter shell shell the and ard ANG Alv ie iret above cava L.uiate hol ad sted a wh flag as ip went ashore to save the remnant of men flag came Rimuitane went JEL A € white on the Oquendo, snd the own But One Ship Left, ir and a bal apsed sipnre Cer. the Vesa sip was sill ip orged in Amerienn t Cervera = fle Lory a berguse he extinguished snd again 1h ACXRE, I which Iie i1X~ inde i ni him. LErTera s { ia the har fell hor 1 bi # n struck again snd { again, 3¥ this tin he Vizray 4 the | Oquend« f twelve and thirteen-| upon bin { for such guns, in glides of Their wa thickly Kinee« shots Great Work of ihe Gloucester. Lieutenant Wainwrl the Gilogeoester Je It at ignalied to pull out he remained, ix-pounders to di work which was both herole and astonish- ing. At ope time the Gloucester was being | ¢ fired at by the Vizcaya, both torpedo bout | destroyers and the Morro battery. That | she was ot sunk and that she had enough { men jell 160 work ber guns was marvelous. She lay ciose in 10 where the Vizenr= came out, and ran along parallel, firicg at the { eruiser as fiercely in proportion to her size { as did the Indiana and Jowa Captain Eu- iste probably feared a torpedo from the Giouoester, for Le turned loose his seo - | wall served ary battery at her as ho passed ) i ’ . wba storm the battleships, a af She en Yo “ Then the destroyers came on, and the | a thx c : = Sa Gloucester accepted them ol oboe as & part ! coast. as if 1c aie of ber contract. These destroyers were : rit. i strong io machine guns and guns of the 1 | three and six-poander clase. It ssemmad that smoke jets burst from them in twenty places as they slipped aiong after the Vizez;a, The water All about the Gloucester was kept splashing by shells and by bullets from ms- chine guns jut the yacht steamed abead destroyers directly between her | ype gue! was breaking. and the shore and bammering them. The | i nally. Morro was throwing shells from behind, and | . cecasionaliy the Vizoaya turned gu or | two to aid ber Tollowers, The yacht was oft=u by smoke, It ten minutes the fire of the were the oh ¢ A, i tO have mmander 0 3 1 Hie Nelson, Le nge which was short 2» of the fact that his 4d d, he d bie course, From a point a mile west be Morr invie. ible frequently in low-banging smoke from ber own guns and a'so that whieh drifted in shore [rom the buttie ships, Cervera Headed ON clock Cervera saw head of Lim to thick. rained at a Te e if he was s with Hd oy HaG e3 ari » wl Lis +» 1 » boilers av he 1 sion was the Cristobal « ’ at ball-past eleven « i the Oregon coming in { round him to, | The firing was incessant Cervera s avaliable guns were no shore a The en ke was very onger ship rontrolle Spanish A iral 1 off the headed off tc bet the a Shells bad set fire to his : and the flames were of shells from 3 i the a altered his cc from i Jars ween { ships and run { | It was impossible, The Inwa and the | Texas were already moving down to rlose | the gap, and Lhe Spanish © «gahip, rak-d by a == the Oregon and the Breokiyva at from thousand to three thousand yards, snd by Iowa and the Texas at longer range, t iroed in shore again and ran for the rocks, shere Cervera still replied at I Fiagship in a Biaze But his ship moved slowiy now, as if dis- i abled, and in a few miputes more his guns were silent. Bilark smoke replaced the destrovers | swirling white The fagebhip was aflame, . | Her men had Leen unable either 10 work the guns or smother the James caused by burst ing shells, and she was beaded for the | rocks. {| She struck bow on and rested there, Hed flames burst through the black smoke and ‘soon & piliar of cloud rose straight up a { thousand feet and then bent against the green mountain, Cervera’'s ship was hopelessly lost. The Whe Ad- {| American battieships ceasvd firing befors | she struck, and ran in, apparently with the | intention of saving the survivors ss prison fers, This was evidently expected by the! | Spaniards, bundreds of whow thronged the | forward deck, watching the flames enti When the destroyers saw the flagship they | d . - ¥ | their way toward them. These were tak sped away from the Gloucester and tried to | Io overtake the Vizeays and get into shelter on her starboard side. If that could sot be | done there cought to be a chance to torpedo : $ the Indiana and break through our line to | At Fort Macon. X. C., in ring the annusi the open ses, where speed would save them, | national Fourth of July salute of six guns, a but the Indiana steamed In shore and the | shot exploded prematurely and seriously, if lowa went further away. pot fatally wounded Artilleryman Charles The Indiana's secondary battery had the | Rosler. His eyesight is destroyed and face, first destroyers range, and ralped ahells | arms and chest badly burned. NO FORMAL ALLIANCE, Rosebery's Words on the Anglo-American) Understanding. The Earl of Rosebery, presiding at a Jeet ture given at the Colonial Institute, Lon. don, on “The Eaglish Speaking Brother hood,” warmiy advocated an Angilo-Amweris can understanding, which would be fraught, he anid, with the best destinies for man kind, y “We must be prepared,” said Lord Rose. Miss Matilda Middleton, well known in , “to bold our ows, though not * Paris through her exquisite miniature, bas iy by war, in the great struggle for the returned to her home in Chicago, snd har the world which seems opened a studio there, One of the best of : ber recent miniatures is that of Uulted oa “ hidden compictely and they moved on until Morro could no longer take part io the battle, The New York Takes Part, Then the New York appeared, baving been summoned to return from Agundores. She thundered at but miral never heeded, seeing only in the dis The Morro Sampson | Oquendo, hopelessly hemmed in by a circle of fire, and in the foreground the Gloucester fighting two destroyers st short range. An Accident and a Drowsing. ABOUY NOTED PEOPLE, ————. It is said that Patil has a phonograph in ! her castle into which she frequently sings, | peeasionaliy lending the resulting cylinders 10 friends si a distance, Two magnificent candelabra from the Royal Porcelain manufactory at Berlin have been sent to Queen Victoria by the German Emperor and Empress as birthday pres- ents, Captain York city, where be lived & gugber of years, States Marshall J. C. Ames. -
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