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TERRIBLE FATE OF EXCURSION PARTY
Bodies found. ....
Unidentified dead
List of Missing
New York, (Special)
aver
Flames that
excursion
the East
river, near its junction with Long Is-
A. M
the pa
suddenly swept the
steamer General Slocum in
land Sound, at 10
drove hundreds of sSengers
leap overboard, while hundreds more
who remained aboard were
to
It that at
persons, mostly women and children,
met death. The of
likely to reach many
Four hundred and 1
had
and divers were at
the 1 of
death.
seems certain least
number
Boo
is as as
at a late
work
been recovered
1
taking more
hold of the steamer
from
officers and mer
remained at ther
less to avert
ing them, the
doomed boat
but they were
catastrophe,
Shere Reached At Last.
£0
Pe IWCT
Slocum got within feet
there
It
stopped mn the
wus just before
point of North Bre
the hurricane de
which had burne.l
load of
ihe
the
parts
northwest
that
supports of
fell witl
dren, adding to
of
beached
its women «
panic
those on
afterward
third |
decks also cs
before this happened the t
1 '
ug va
into the river have not vet been found
alf-mile
Van
which Ca
k, of the boat
beach her on Ni
He
the fire
rapidly that
had coll
flames had des
them tc th
Boat’'s Officers
tain
ain
1
succeeded
3
meanwn
i
asped,
vater
Arrested.
been
death in the
The
criticised
Caf
for
ore when
With five
asl
covered
arrested
Sor
the hf
proved
sCngers I
About
an excursion
Evangel
Sixth
hattan,
street
were
The
sel
grease
it What
lowed
A cl
into the air
Death In Frightful Panic.
Inctantlv the women became t
strc
pow erless
ker
rushed t
the fla
raile wae
way. F
most
3:
the
ies
blazing hold
Few Could Be Saved.
The steamer’s whistle was
for i
nearby craf
fore any
burning ste
women and
jump overb
strong and th
in the channel
abo }
pereon
were
struggling 1
As the fire
gain poi
became frightf
dren crowded
unt! it
pushed
there
who
water
By
the Slocum
of ris
fig
ists
assisia
3 # & §
agamst
gave w i
ff
of
tention
siderable
and other small
the assistance of the burning steamer
Rows Of Heads In Water.
These small boats rescued all
in the water whom
but n any is
sank before anv |
them In the wake
she hurried
little black
and bodies
to escape
ship by
board.
they ¢
pers
upstream w
Spots mark
of those
the roaring furn:
throwing themselves
boats had on life-preservers, At ne
time during the progress of the fire
was there any good opportunity either
to lower the lifeboats or get the life.
preservers out from underneath the
seats. This gives an ides of the
rapidity with which the flames swept
the decks,
It was an experience harrowing and
terrible, and that any escaped alive
seems wonderful,
Through all the panic during that
FINANCIAL,
In New York this week $1,1338000
of dry goods was marketed and in the
same week last year $1,777,000,
For five months of 1904 bank elear-
ings in Pitisburg have decreased $259,
000,000 compared with the same time
mn 1003.
J. 8. McCord & Co. had a private
despatch saying; "W. K. Vanderbilt
yt expected home on July 10. The
Fennsylvania Railroad will then offer
0 buy half the Ontario & Western
Railroad Company's stock if the New
York Central wiil take the other half”
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steamer and been lashed to ber
1
Many of the passengers were taken off
3 ho
maimed alongside the steamer until
the tu
The
took hre
the
K's pilot house
place whe re
was just off the =
ward on North Brother 1s]
ad
porches and lawns
ach f burning
i 1 8)
ardered indoor Phiveic
who | been
watct
pre
161;
3
:.
Arrieta away HN
after she was beached
1
wed
Pastor's Tale Of Horror.
One of y § ‘
dro
the b
Quickest Fire He Ever Saw.
van > »
NOt her
1
i
started frech
blowing.
back and
of the Whe
the
the
as all ablaze
It was quickest fire | ever saw
The fire mn the woodwork under
the forward boilers on the port side,
as 1 made it ont in the excitement
“Wind Was Too Strong.” :
“I held for North Brothers’ Island.
expecting to beach the Slocum side
ways. | had sent zome of the crew
below to fight the fire, and thought
they could hold it, but the wind Was |
too strong. Then they began to jump |
overboard The rail of one of the |
decks gave way and a lot of people |
fell into the water,
ot
iooked saw that
port side at Ww
was
To Avenge Finland.
Petersburg, (By Cable) --Gen-
Jobrikoff, Governor-General of
Finland, shot and mortally
wounded at 11 o'clock A. M., at the
entrance to the Finnish Senate at
Helsingfors. The assassin, a lawyer
named Schaumann, a con of Senator
Schaumann, immediately committed
suicide. Bobrikoff was shot in the
stomach and neck. The attack is ase
eribed to Finnish patriotism
St
eral
was
Reading,
Domestic,
Two robbers entered
Barba }
demned to
from
(sovernor
before the tn
Mise Mary
At ¢
the Wor
Bryn
Te
defended
that
ai sMrengin
2 ¥ the Tam
en irom 3 won
taxes ther
y
ders them unfit for
natrimo
off, governor general
was shot by a Finn
General Bobrik
of Finland, whe
at Helsingfors, of
and the Governor General of
saw was stricken with paralysis when
informed of Bobrikoff's death
Philip James Stanhope (liberal),
the youngest son of Earl Stanhope,
was elected to the House of
mons from the Harborough
of Leicestershire, defeating C
on, the Conservative candidate
died his
of 12,500,000 to Morocco, secured by
Moroceo's customs receipts,
The Sultan of Morocco has sent
word to Raisuli, the bandit chief,
that all the latter's demands for the
release of the captives have been come
plied with.
Four hundred Moorish troops of
the worst type were landed at Tan-
gier, sent by the Sultan for the pro-
tection of Europeans, These troops
will endanger the chances for the re.
lease of Perdicaris and Varley, wha
are held by the bandit Rajsuli,
Seid, who murdered Rev. Ben
jamin Labaree, of the American mis.
sion, in North Persia, was brought
to Tabriz for trial,
out Ballets,
Never Before in the Pesce History of the
Held as Those Now Being Planed
fare Fightin Perfect Harmony,
¢ art § . ry
Grant To Be There
1
A
A Lee And
Pw at
} f Cnt as « £3
Work At Manassas.
{% 4 eet
re rey
; .
STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING.
Boys Stood Under 8 Tree to Avoid Shower
and Were Killed.
15 years, colored, of
Chester
About a dozen bove went from Fel
About a dozen boy it from Fe
ton to pick cherriex on the Smith
who was about to go to
school, to order away the boys that
he might sce at the cherry trees
Sunday
Davis and Clark. As they approached
Felton ran away
A storm was coming up, and the
four other boys went under one of the
trees. They had heen there only a
Smith, Fullerton and Davis were
killed instantly. The colored boy was
s0 badly injured that he died on the
way to a hospital
Pacific Liner Wrecked,
Melbourne, (Special). <The Penin-
sila and Orienta liner Austrailia, in-
ward bound, struck on the rocks at
Point Nepean, at the eastern entrance
to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, at 2
o'clock A. M. The bottom of the ves-
sel wae stove in and it is feared that
she will be a total loss, The passen-
gers and crew were safely landed, The
Australia wae bound from London to
Sydney, N. 8. W. She was of steel
and of L902 tong net,
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Congressional and Departments.
Admiral ( i
3 - al
Gri, ago
He had been
retired
sTCCr is
on the
BOL
vessels report stations will
ye equipped with wireless telegraphic
nsiraments
Members of the Ked Cross accepted
the resignations of all officers and
clected new ones, including WW. K
K
reports that the extradition
was signed Wednesday.
Dominic 1. Murphy, recently ap-
pointed secretary of the Panama Ca-
nal Commission, assumed the duties
of his office.
from the Cabinet in a few days and
will be succeeded by Mr. Moody, the
present secretary of the navy.
Ambassador Powell Clayton says
the relations of the United States with
Mexico were never more friendly than
now,
Secretary Taft decided that army
officers serving on the Isthmus of
Panama in construction work of the
canal shall receive 50 per cent. ad
ditional poy.
The comptroller of the Treasury
has issued a call for the condition
of banks at the close of business sn
June 0.
A boy riding a bicycle ran into
Senator Cockrell, inflicting injuries
that may result seriously.
Russians Out-Mancuvered, Enveloped
and Sweepingly Defeated.
The Japanese Charge That the Russians
Violated the Japopese Flag Cerigin Of
ficers Aver That During the Fighting a Body
of Russisn Soldiers Appeared Carrying »
Japanese Flag 1000 Men Kitled.
1000
anese Lost
y £4
J a 3
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BULLET-TORN HEART SEWED.
Fifteen Year-0Od Boy's Attempt
May Be Defeated
al Swicide
that
ed the
heart
cavity and
which had eri
The
Yas vy av es ad ye § thviaspd *
ungs and passed 1 ongh the
was found mm the thoracic
removed
Innocent Man in Pricon.
Kansas City, Mo, wil
liam Merrill, aged 60 years, surrender
saying
he had killed John Edwards, a railway
brakeman, at Drer Lodge, Mont, 19
years ago. A man named Murphy
{Special)
ment for the crime, and i= now sery.
ing fime in the Montana Penitentiary,
Merrill savs he killed Edwards in a
quarrel over money.
The Iroqueis Disaster.
Chicago, (Special) According toa
decision given here by Judge Brown in
the State Circnit Court, Marie Kiaw
and Abraham Erlanger, owners of the
“Mr. Blusbeard” Company, will es-
cape penalties which might have fol
lowed their connection with the Irn.
wois Theatre fire, last December.
os Brown quashed service of a
ummons served upon their agents:
in a suit brought for damages by
Jelatives of one of the victims of they
re. "