ES EA SA MANY PEOPLE-PERSH IN A-HOTEL: FIRE Ten Known to to Have Lost Their, Lives, BODIES BURIED IN THE RUINS. The New Aveline, of Fort Wayne, Is a Mass of Flames Within a Quarter of a Hour After the Fire Was Dis covered—Guests, Caught Unawares, Take Desperate Chances. Fort Wayne, Ind. (Special) .—Ten known dead, several missing and 13 seriously injured are the result of a fire that destroyed the New Ave- line, Fort Waynes's principal hotel, Chief of Police Anckenbruck says he believes that 20 bodies are still in the ruins. The debris cannot be searched carefully. The hotel register was consumed by the fire and there is no means of determining who is missing. The complete destruction of the in- teriorjof the hotel makes the work of recovering bodies a difficult task. A confused heap of charred wood, bricks and twisted girders is piled up between the walls to the second story. Piece by piece this must be removed before the roll of the dead can be completed. Some of the bodies tak- en out are mangled and charred be- yond recognition. Infantry Company D and Battery B, of the National Guard, are on duty and aiding the fire and police forces to clear away the debris. The fire was discovered at 3.30 o'clock A. M., in the elevator shaft by Night Clerk Ralph Hipkins. rushed to the upper floors alarming the guests until the flames, which had spread with great rapidity, drove him back. His efforts, however, sav- ed many lives. The hotel was erect- ed half a century ago and the wood- work was dry as tinder. It burned like matchwood and within a few minutes from the time the fire was Ee a Ie SRA SLRS SHH A RESTAURANT |° Oveichalees in 1 Santa Barbara Anger Them. rn ——— Santa Barbara, Cal. (Special).— After a stay of five days in this port the Atlantic fleet of battleships sail- ed for Monterey, the next scheduled stopping place on the long itinerary. A dance of the flowers in honor of the officers of the fleet, and in which 40 of the young women of Santa Barbara's social circle took part, was the closing feature of the entertain- ment here. The dance was given on the Plaza De! Mar, where a large tent had been erected. The visit to Santa Barbara has been replete with social functions in honor of the officers, and the spec- tacular floral parade on Monday last eclipsed anything seen on the entire cruise from Hampton Roads. But the stay of the enlisted men here has not been an entirely happy one. No special entertainment was ar- ranged for them, and they were al- lowed to go thelr own ways without official attention of any sort. Some of the residents of Santa Barbara, realizing the unintentional slight of the men in uniform, endeav- ored to arrange a barbecue in their honor, but the effort was not suc- cessful, the time intervening being too short. Admiral Thomas and members of his staff are working under high pressure aboard the flagship, formu- lating the plans for the fleet's en- trance into San Francisco. Six Dollars For A Small Meal. An outbreak occurred in the street at night in which several hundred partially: wrecked a small restaurant at 121 State Street, owned by John Senich. It was a culmination of numerous small difficulties whick have occured during the week the fleet has been here and local tradesmen ing has been due principally to a sys- tem of overcharge in payments of meals and other purchases with] discovered the whole interior of the hotel was a mass of flames and the; only means of escape left was by the windows. The fire department rescued many | by means of ladders, but some fren-| zied by the rush of the flames, ed from windows to the street. R. 8. Johnson, of Pana, 1ll., jump-| ed from the fifth story. His body | stryck a balcony and bounded far| into the street. He was badly crush-| ed and died a short time later in St. Joseph's Hospital, As the flames increased men and women were seen in the windows of their rooms imploring for help. Some did not wait for the assistance of the firemen and jumped to the street. | Those who left their rooms before | the flames cut off their retreat were] able to make their way to the fire escapes and were saved with com- parative ease, Saved Wife And Child. There were many thrilling escapes Claude H. Varnell, of the Fort Wayne | baseball team; his sister, Mrs. John | Hendricks, and John Hendricks, of | i leap-! Chicago, manager of the Fort Wayne team, barely escaped with their lives. | Varneil lost all his personal belong-| ings, valued at several thousand dol-| lars. Hendricks, with his wife ahead! of him and his son in his arms, start- | ed down the fire escape from the fifth | floor. At the third floor the fire broke out below them at the turn in the iron stairs. He swung Mrs. Hen-| dricks over the railing of the third-| floor platform and she dropped to the platform of the story below, thus! avoiding the blaze-swept portion of the fire escape. Then he dropped | his son into the arms of his wife,| and he followed them in this way to the ground in safety. Other similar-| Iy narrow escapes were numerous. | When the fire was at jts height | E. M. Matthews, of Columbus, O. was seen wildly waving hig arms at a third-story window. He shrieked | for help in vain, and then leaped] from the window and went swirling | to the pavement below, He was des- | perately hurt. Many Thrilling Escapes. John P. Strohecher, of New York, after a thrilling escape from death in the flames, reached the ground al- most naked. Ile had no time to gather his apparel, the flames having burst into his room before he was awakened. Scores of men and women | reached the ground with nothing on} but night clothes. None of the guests | had time to save their effects. Dry goods and clothing stores were thrown open to all who needed apparel, and they were supplied without question. A. R. Ballot, of New York, had a singular experience. The flames were in his room when he awoke. He groped his way through the smoke to a window and crawled out on the ledge and hung there precautiously, edging away an inch at a time as the flames curled angrily from the window. He was just about to take chances in a leap of four stories to the asphalt pavement beneath when a hand was thrust down to him from the room of an adjoining building and he was pulled to safety A Total Wreck. The New Aveline Hotel was a six- story building of brick. It stood in the business center of the city. Its Srpetion was begun in 18562, but it ad fot completed as a four-story paila ng until several years later. In 1895 the building was extensively remodeled and the two top stories were added. The hotel and ‘its fur- nishings were valued at $80,000. James Huft Killed In Georgia, Atlanta, Ga. (Special). = James Huff, of Porterdale, Ga., was shot and instantly killed by Jack Plerce, a cotton-mill operative, of this dity, near the corner of Decatur and North Boulevard. Pierce made his escape. The cause of the shooting is not known, but persons in the ini ty heard Plerce say to Huff: “Jack don’t come any further or I'll kill on.” A mo t later a shot was eard, and Huff fc! Huff was a painter. £ which the sailors have been con-| Senich attempted to charge two of beeksteak, coffee and five eggs, a deemed exorbitant. demurred to the payment, but Beda a DISASTER To» : THE JME NAVY Hall Explodes and Cruiser is Sunk. OFFICERS AND CADETS ARE LOST, SS VN vp 9 iy or 2 Many of Those Supposed to liave Gone Down With the Ship Bear Names Prominent in Army and Nayy Circles ~— Immediately After the Explosion the Cruiser Sunk. RECENT NAVAL ACCIDENTS. liner St. Paul and British cruiser Gladiator in col- lision, April 25, off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. St. Pail badly | damaged, and Gladiator practl- i cally a wreck. Twenty-g it lives lost, British cruiser Attent destroyer Gala and Ribble in col- lision off Kentish Knock, in North Sea, during night maneuvers, April 28. Gala cut in two, and Ribble badly damaged. One life lost, Boiler tube exploded, same date, abroad British battleship Britannia during speed trials, Five men injured. Two seamen from German bat- tleship Elsass killed and six in- jured by explosion during prac- tice with submarine mines at Kiel, April 29. American and © Japanese Naval Disasters, Japanese cruiser Matsushima blown up by explosion in maga- zine off Pescadores Islands, April 28. Vessel sunk and from 125 | to 183 lives lost. The most recent disaster in the Japanese Navy was the explo- sion of a projectile, Beptember 9, 1907, on the battleship Kashi- ma, in which five men were killed. The most serious catastrophe was the burning of the battle- ship Misaska, September 8,6 1805, in Sasebo harbor. Five hundred and ninsty-nine officers and men were lost, § Tokio (By Cable).— Admiral Yos- himatsu, commander of the training were compelled to make a settlement of the bill because they had not in- quired the price before ordering. | Later they reported the incident to} shore liberty parties, and finally | large crowds congregated in front of the place and commenced to throw | stones and other missles. Windows | and glass fixtures were smashed, while the proprietor and employes | fled. The shore patrol rushed to the | scene and soon dispersed the crowd The sailors have been dissatisfied with the lack of entertainment here. More than 3,000 of them have come | ashore each day, but many. after spending a few hours in the town, have either taken the train to Los Augeles or returned to their ships. | Overcharging of various kinds has been general and considerable {ll feeling has resulted The local police said that the sail- ors did the right thing. and they wouldn't make any arrests NO SNAKE VE NOM FOR THAW. Dr. Baker, At Yarn About Matieavan, Denies Lance<head Treat. ment, Matteawan, (Special).—It having been reported that Harry K. Thaw was to be treated with venom from the lance-head snake, in the hope of improving his mental condition, Dr. A. T. Baker, who has charge of the | young millionaire at the State Hos- pital for the Insane, was asked if was any truth in the report. He laughed heartily at what he evi- dently regarded as a good joke; then he replied: “There is absolutely for the story.” He added that there had been no pronounced change in the young condition recently, despite no foundation KILLED IN AUTO CRASH, A Manufacturer, Of Dead. James Bailey, Camden, N. J., Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). One person was killed and two in- jured in a collision between an elec- tric train on the Pennsylvania Rail- road and an automobile at May's! Landing, near here. The dead man | is Joseph Bailey, a well-known man- | ufacturer, of Camden, N. J. His wife was slightly hurt and the driver of the automobile received serious but not fatal injuries. The driver of the automobile was making good time when he came (0 | the railroad crossing at the same in- stant that the electric express came along. It is believed the occupants of the machine did not hear the electric train approaching until too late, FINANCIAL " There was a smart “rise ir both wheat and cotton. President Thomas is making an inspection trip over the Lehigh Val- ley. American Snuff common jumped $50 to $200 a share, while the pre- ferred rose $7 to $06. One of the largest Philadelphia subscribers for Pennsylvania bonds says that 31,200,000,000 was bid for the $40,000,000, which means the issue was thirty tUmes oversub- scribed. Union Pacific's gross earnings in March fell off $864,786, and the net decreased $205,107. This company's average has exceeded $30,000 for each of the nine months. Steel millg are not expecting large orders at this time from the Penn sylvania notwithstanding its $40, | 000,000 bond sale. squadron, reports an explosion in the magazine of the cruiser Mat- sushima at 4.08 o'clock A, M., while ing at Makang, a harbor on the Pescadores Islands. The Mat- the bridge was visible. Efforts at by boats from the craisers { Hashodate and the Itsukusihma con- tinued until 8 A. M., resulting in the saving of the lives of 141 men, ity of the officers were not saved and iat the time of the Admiral’'s report the cadets on board numbered 58 out of a total complement of The sons of Baron Chinday vice min- ister of the Foreign Office, and of Prince Oyama, field” marshal, are cadets who it is feared are lost, also Captains Name, Yosh- mori and Yashiro The cause of the explosic known. THE MATSUSHIMA'S o 300, mn is une RECORD. Yalu River. Washington, D. C. (8 the naval Embassy pecial } ee | attache of | from Tokio! to the Japanese says that those saved include 3 of- ficers, 24 cadets, 7 noncommissioned officers and 141 of the crew. Commander Taniguchi, the naval attache of the Japanese Embassy, sald that the regular complement of the lost vessel was 3565 men and that on her cruise she had about 50 ca- dets aboard, making a total of 415. His cablegram he says indicates that about 175 were saved, which would | nmiake the joss of officers and men about 240, Naval officers, who at once lookad up the record of the cruiser, drew the conclusion that her loss was not a heavy one to the Japanese Navy, She was of less than 5.000 tons dis- placement, and of a type which has not been followed since her construc- tion The peculiarity of the Mat- gushima was her armament, which congisied of one 1Z4%-inch gun mounted on her poop deck. In ad-| dition she carried 12 four-inch guns | and a battery of smaller caliber and four ahove-water torpedo tubes, She was designed and constructed at La Seyne, France. Her principal his- toric record consists of her part in the war between Japan and China, when she was the flagship of Ad- ito in the battle of the Yalu She also participated in the! of the Bea of Japan. Two! the Itsukus- hima, in 1880, and the Hashimate, | in 1891. The crulser had no armor, She is classed as a protected cruiser, having a protected deck one and a half inches thick. Her speed was 16.7 knots. It is understood here that the cruiser was In use as a school ship. 873, 000 Package Gone. City of Mexico (Special). Advices from Terreon say that when the northbound passenger train on the Mexican Raliroad reached that place it was found that a Wells-Fargo ex- press package containing $73,000 was missing from the express car. There is no cléw to.the robbery, and so far as known no arrest has been made. Bomb Thrower a Dead, New York (8pecial).—Belig Silver- stein, the anarchist who attempted to throw a bomb into a group oi policemen in Union Square seve weeks ago, and was Injured in the premature explosion of the bomb, is dead. Silverstein’s companion was killed by the bomb. Bilverstein, ac- cording to the police, confessed ‘that he manufactured the bomb, and in- tended to throw it among the police Decausy a policeman had beaten him 1 dave before . MORE MSS 10. EAGLANDS sis i Ee Two Aecidants to Vessels of British Navy. Harwich, Eng. (By Cable) .—The British torpedo-boat destroyer Qala was cut in two and sunk off Kentish Knock, in the North Sea, by the scout Attentive, The torpedo-boat destroyer Ribble also was involved in the collision, and returned to Sheerness with two compartments full of water. The flotilla was en- gaged In night maneuvers when the accident occurred. Engineer Lieu- tenant Frank A. Fletcher, of the Gala, who was in his bunk at the point where the destroyer was struck, went down with the vessel was no other loss of life. The accident resembles, respects, that which was me torpedo-boat destroyer Tiger, which collided with and was sunk by the British cruiser Berwick whiio gaged in night maneuvers off of Wight on April 2. The n of lives lost on that occasion, ever, was 36. Portsmouth.—According to u wire- less telegraph report receiv. d here, there has been a boller ex the British battleship Bi which four men had been and one slightly injured, annia is expected to come mouth this evening. in many annia, in severely The Brit- into Ports- AN UNAVOIDABLE COLLLSION. And Gladiator, (By over the 28 Yarmouth, Cable). bodies of men who were the collision Eng four of the between the liner St. British cruiser Gladiator was held and a verdict was given saying the and that nobody is criminally blam- able for the collision. Captain Lumsden, tor, was the first important witness, He sald he was on the bridge of the Gladiator when he saw the St. Paul approaching about half a mile away. The 8t, Paul swung to port and Cap- tain Lumsden starboarded the helm of the Gladiator to pass the liner. The captain sald he did not hear any blast from the siren of the St, Paul, but he observed that she was swing- ing to port. It was reported to him, he said, that the liner had given two blasts, indicating that she was put- ting her helm to starboard. He or- dered that the Gladiator's starboard helm be eased, intending to pass the liner on the starboard side Continuing, the captian liner struck the Gladiator just abaft of the forward end of the after stoke. hold. At the time of the impact he ordered his engines to stop and then go astern. This order was carried out. When across the St. Paul's bows, Captain Lumsden halled some- one on board, saying: “If you will go astern and clear me [ will go ahead.” This the 8t. Paul did, and the Gladiator was swefit rapidly by the wind and tide to Sconce Point, where she eventually ground- ed, of the Gladia- sald the the WASHINGTON introduced a resolu- Senator Gore tion providing an by the Senate Commitiee ieges and Elections of contri of corporations to elections, President Roosevelt addressed a club of working women from New England and commended their or- ganization for butions in advance to head off any to stampede the Convention. The House has surrendered to the President and will enact desired leg- islation. Secretary ington panied by attempt of War Taft left Wash- on his Papama trip, accom- Richard Reed Rodgers, Commission. and Assistant Pri- Michler Whitney, the Lake Torpedo Boat confessed that he had written the anonymous letters which nal Fred B. torney for boat investigation. General Agnus testified before the House committee investigating the Paper Trust, showing how the price was arbitrarily raised on him, and allowed to buy where Frederick Brown Whitney, an at- admitted being the author of $0 prominently in the submarine in- vestigation. The House committee decided to report favorably a bill providing for purchase abroad of American | embassy legation and consular build- ings. President Roogevelt reappointed Secretary Straus one of the Ameri can members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The majority of the House Com- mittee on Banking and Currency showed no disposition to take up the new Vreeland currency bill. Governor Allen Gard was shot by an unfriendly Dato in the Philip- pines, QCard is a native of Maryland. John Norris, representing the American Newspaper Publishers’ As- sociation, continued his testimony against the Paper Trust before the House committee, Bicycle Policeman Morris claimes Mrs. Nicholas Longworth drove her automobile at a rate beyond the speed limit In the Capitol grounds. William R. Wheeler, of California, taryshiip of the Department of Com- merce and Labor. President Roosevelt is urging = larger appropriation to enforce the publicity clause in the rate law. The House ordered a favorable re- port on the bill to reimburse deposi- tors of the late Freedman’ 8 Savings | men and Trust Company. IN COLLISION The Koln, Baltimore: Bound is Struck Amidships. CHILD DROWNED DURING TRANSFER. During a Fog the Tank Stesmer Nicho. las IL Ran Into the Koln, Which Carried 800 Second.class and Steer- age Passengers— Men Fought With Women to Be First. Bremen (By Cable).—The German Lloyd steamer Koln, left here for Baltimore ton, was in collision with the Hamburg tank 11. nine off The Emperor Nicholas struck the Koln amidships The steamer Feldmarschall a East African liner, respond- gignals and took off 802 sengers from the Kolin One was drowned during the transf There was a terrible panic the Koln when the crash Women sghrieked in terror men forgot the weaker sex in desperately striving gave their lives, In this ion m persons were seriously hurt The officers of the Koln, headed by Captain Jacobs, stopped the panic by repressive measures 3 ana the transfer the Feld- and Galves- in a thick fog miles I1. child er on to confu any directed marschall The Feldmarschall took Koln in tow and brought her into Bremer- arriving this morn The Koln carried 1y class and steerage passengers The Emperor Nicholas 1] bows stove in and was others seriously damaged partly filled with wate Baltimore, Md A Co., agents for Lloyd Steamship vised by cable the tween the Koln and Nicholas II The message to A made no mention of passengers, and officials ofthe compar sengers would be tra Frankfurt, which w= gall in a few days. The Koln is one steamers plying to this port She is & 7.500 ton to the r I Schumacher North pany, the Com of collision the Schum & imber Co of pod 3 Was i that the pas- erred 1a th ated nsf as if expected the finest vessel an passengers long and 54 feet of 42 Her 3,200 horsepower speed is 13% knots CRITIOS is 447 feet with a depth vated raieq about venm engines are d her foot TUBERCULOSIS OONGRESS. German Investigators Will Send Dele. gates To Berlin (By Cable) Charge faires Garrett has office the Washington. tranemitte foreign American government 1 gates the International logis Conference, held in ington, September 21 i« of this year. This invit in accordance with a Congress of March 6. Anticipating this iz German igators formed a committee congress, of which levden is chairman government and of Germany will representation Accompanying State Department sends out information regarding the in Spanish, Ger and English. invitation oO fo Wag to be Wash- October 16 ation is sent resolution of avitation, ihe invest alreads have the medical the invitati ceriain CONRTess, French rman, Bucket Shops, D cs After The Washington Representative (Special) (sil introduced a bill seeking to the operations of "bucket throughout the United States prohibiting the sending tele ett. of Massa shops’ of The offense is made a mis. , punishable by fine and im- imposed both upon the shop and on telephone compas Messages concerns to be of and thelr i the operators jes carrying Burglars Carry Off Safe. Newark, N. JL. lars entered the Union Avenue in Irving! on, carried off a safe weigh- ing 700 pounds and said to contain $3.000 worth of jewelry and rar coins. dragged it across lots a dis blew it open wit nitroglycerin and escaped with th contents The burglars entered the hotel through a rear door and go! { Special) B urg- Hotel one in the hotel Chimney Crushes Children. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special) .—While a party of school children were playing in the yard of a public school, near Spring Street, a tall chimney on an adjoining building, was blown over. William Pingel, aged fourteen. was caught under the debris and érushed to death. Hugh Doherty, aged six- teen, received a fractured skull, and Leroy Hodges, aged fourteen, is in- jured internally. Several other chil- dren received minor bruise and cuts $10 Token Brings 82,175. London (By Cable). —A $10 token issued by the Cincinnati Mining Com- pany in 1849 was sold at auction at Sotheby's and purchased for Ameri ca for $2,196. There is only one other similar token extant, Mayor Killed In A Row, Fort de France (By Cable). «A serious and fatal confilet broke out in this city between hostile groups of politicians in connection with the resent campaign for municipal elec fone. A band of men led by M. Labat, the vice mayor of Fort de France, engaged in an armed con- flict at the city hall with another pando uhdet the leadership of the Severe. The Mayor was killed 0 in Me he Sghting Several other ives and a hum- ber on ine persons were ‘wounded. SEE DANGER IN VISIT: OF AMERICAN FIGHTERS But Half of Battleship fleet To Go To China. Peking (By Cable) nese officials that the American ghips will not been expected battleships, for 24 will be the way This hi information Certain ( received fleet of battie- had the call visit on visit here ag of will This vessels are to Manila regarded as American govern- reconsidered its accept of the invitation for the fleet in other been ate hours at ARDY, made as the from Japan ws is the ne here hat has ment ance extended hina to vigit a Chinese port: words, that the vigil ually abandoned is unde rstood in a result of representations made bj; American officials in China fee) that the fleet should not to a Chinese port. Th base thei; viction on the belief that suck would give China a false | sion as to the attitude and int the United State nas This Peking to be 1 virt course who Come © China rogram and was unprecedent gion on government American the ar- ger coincigent rival at ¥ 2 Ne “ t TiVal 8 Taku of a J anes crusl squadron and t! in Peking of a number of officers {rom these vessels, empha the exist dangers ing reasons of eight vess at Amoy, es! 4 six days government nort of that suggested the KILLS HIS SWEETHEART Polander Maddened Hy ction O His Proposal Re jo together with been assassinated a local who self prophet at 150 miles from Meryl of the sheik. proce Mesalameih, abou! ‘hartoum A smal ive : crno urderous £ the wounded killed ir T. Caldwell. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special) \ Senator Charles T. C Senator Charles aldwell romi politician and one of the most Vir Tepu olitical He serv. Senate ago in Meigs TT ho iminal rs of died here He had tl« of being the best in the state in the State 60 vears lawye st tation two terms He was born County, O Scared To Death By Fire. Great Barringion, Mas: (Special) One person died, houses and two barnes were destroyed, doing $25,000 damage, in a fire here. The fire started in a large barn and houses nearby soon caught Mrs Thomas Hennebhan, living nearby, died from the shock. three Philippine Town Burned, Manila (By Cable).—Antipolo, in the Province of Moreng, was de stroyed by fire. Four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people sare homeless. The famous ghrine was saved. The fire was caus- ed by lightning. Antipolo bas 3,500 inhabitants, a Last Real Daughter Dead. Woodbury, Conn. (Special). Miss Rhoda Augusta Thompson, the last real Daughter of the American Revo. lution, died at her home here fol Jjowing a paralytic shock. Her father was a drummer boy in the Revblu- tionary Army. Miss Thompson was porn at Woodstock, N. Y., June 1, 1821, and was the youngest of 17 children. She was a member of Mil. licent Porter Chapter, D. A. R. of Waterbury. a A
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