1 Second Edition 4:00 A. H. VOL. XLVI. NO. 14,336. PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIX SB II COLLISION II! SOUND Steamer Rammed by Steamship Jeanie Near Alki Point. THIRTY-NIKE ARE DROWNED Vessel Goes Down Within Five Minutes After the Accident. TERRIBLE PANIC ON BOARD Life Rafts Are Hastily Shoved in Water. one; girl is rescued Jennie, Cnhurt by Impact, Stands hy and Brings Thirty-eight of the Survivors to Seattle. THE MISSIXG. Albert McDury, lumber rurveyor. Port Rlakelev. Plgntt, filer. Port Blakeley mill. C. Boyler. manager of store, Port Blake ley. tv. Boylr, his brother, employed In store.. I'll Blakeley. Fred Br.ulet. filer. Port Blakeley mill. Peter Buzzattle. barber. Port Blakeley. Ralph Clark, olerk In store. Port Blake-1-y. Mrs. Grander, Port ' Blakeley; from Spo kane. I August Nelson and wife. Port Blakeley. Jame Smith and wife and boy. Port Blakeley. Mrs. T. c. Ford, -wife of superintendent of the Port Blakeley Mill Company. Frank McQuerle, officer of ship anchored at Port Blakeley. C. J. Kenny, hospital steward. Fort Ward, l, 6. A. John Keating, of St. Paul, formerly of Port Blakeley. Parker, engineer steamer Dix. C. rjennlson, mate of steamer Dix, at the wheel when the collision occurred. Bazzlntla Garcia, lately from Manila, a Filipino. A. Webster, lumber surveyor. Port Blake ley mill. Belalr, filer. Port Blakeley Mill Company. Martin Hansen, calker. Port Blakeley Mill Company. William Mayers, calker. Port Blakeley Mill Company. Albert McDonald, lumber surveyor. Port Bakelc?y Mill Company. Swen Swanson, Port Blakeley Mill Com pany. William Bracefleld, longshoreman. Port Blakeley. Peter Larsen. oiler. Port Blakeley. Roland Price, son of the postmaster of Port Blakeley. Roland, from steamer Dlx. One deckhand from Steamer Dix. name un known. Three Chinamen bound for Port Blakeley to get work. Five Japanese on their way to work at Port Blakeley. J.annrd Master's father, mother and brother. SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 18. The steamer Dix, Captain P. Lermon, bound from Seattle to Port Blakeley with parsensers. sank two miles north of Alkl Point soon after 7 o'clock tonight, after a collision with the steamship Jeanie, Captain P. H. Mason, of the Alaska Coast Company. Thirty-nine passengers and members of the crew of the Dix are missing and 3S were saved. The Dlx Is a total wreck. The Jeanie was not Injured In the least and no member of her crew was lost. The master of the Dix was saved. The collision occurred while the Sound was almost as smooth as a mill pond, and after the boats had been steaming within sight of each other for a quarter of an hour. The Jeanie was backing when she collided with the Dix and the impact wa.. very slight. The Dix was struck abaft of amidships on the starboard side. She listed heavily to port for a brief period, righted herself, then sank stern first. There was hardly time to launch life rafts or boats before she was almost entirely submerged. Pas sengers jumped from the decks into the water; women screamed and offi cers and men called orders that could hardly be heard above the din. Jeanie Rescues Survivors. The passengers from the Dix who could swim made their way to the sides of the Jeanie and were dragged aboard. The Jeanie was not moved until after all who had reached her had been hauled aboard. Then she cruised about, picking up sev eral who had managed to stay above water. It was after 10 o'clock before the Jeanie left the scene of the catastrophe and steamed to the Virginia-street dock. Seattle, with her 30 survivors. The Jeanie. of the Alaska Coast Com pany, had finished unloading at the Great Northern docks at Smiths Cove and had started for Tacoma shortly before 7 o'clock, just about the same time the Dix left the Flyer dock for Port Blakely. Signal Given From Jeanie. There were no passengers on the Jeanie. The Dix was making the last trip of the night, and was well filled with passengers. When within about two miles north of Alki Point, the two steamers were within a short dis tance of each other, steaming along converging lines. The captain of the Jeanie says he signalled for the Dix to pass him and his whistle was answered. The Dix was then within speaking distance of the Jeanie, and to port of her. Suddenly Mate Dennlson, who was at the wheel of the DixT put her hard over to starboard, as if to cross in front of the other vessel. Captain Mason, of the Jeanie, who was on the bridge, saw that an accident was imminent, and called out a warning to the man at the wheel of the Dix. Captain Mason gave the signal to re verse his engines, and his vessel was t ;Tw X ; & - I ! V f H' 1 X v - ' - I - "i i Pope Pins X, Who Hears News at Outrage in St. Peter's With Calm ness. slowly backing away when the two came together. There was but a slight crash, owing to the force of the collision from the Dix coming against the side of the larger vessel, and not that of the heavier craft against the smaller. Women Go Down With Wreck. For a minute all was still, then a panic followed. , When the Dix started to sink, stern first, passengers- and members of the crew leaped Into the Sound. Some of the passengers huddled together in groups on the deck, while others knelt in prayer. The women had little chance for their lives, stayed with the sinking steamer and were drowned as in a trap. j,, "X got away from Smith's Cove a lit tie before 7 o'clock, and laid a course for Tacoma," said Captain Mason. "I had no passengers aboard. I saw the Dix headed for Port Blakeley and signalled to her. The mate was at the wheel. Sud denly the Dix came up astern of me to port. "As soon ns I saw the Dix was so close I called to the man in her pilot-house to know what he was doing. He put his wheel over to starboard and she started directly across my bows. "I signalled to the engine-room of my vessel to back at full speed, but we could not get out of the way in time. The Jeanie was backing a little when we struck. I guess it was pretty well abaft of amidships, and the shock wasn't enough to have injured an ordi nary launch. The Dix listed heavily to starboard, righted herself, and then sank, stern first." Story of Master of Dix. Captain P. Lormon, master of the steamer Dix, told the story of the col lision after arriving at Seattle. He was shaking with the cold, his eyes still dilated with the horror of his ex perience. "I don't know how it happened." he said. "Charles Dennison, mate of the boat, was at the wheel, we were just about two miles due north of Alkl Point, and running at the usual' speed. There was nothing to hinder us. It was a fine, clear night and the water was like a mill pond. I had seen the lights of a steamer on our starboard quarter some time be fore, but had not paid any attention to them. "I went below to collect the fares. The boat was crowded. "There were "0 passen gers on board, and it was quite a task to get all the fares I have been on the run for the past 13 years, and knew almost everybody aboard. "When I was in the- ladies' cabin, I heard the bell signal to stop. . In a mo ment I thought that something must be (Concluded on Pago 6.) Lenlie M. Shaw. v GREAT STORM IN SOUTHERN SITES Heavy Wind Does Very Much Damage, RAIN FALLS IN TORRENTS Wide Swath Cut Through a Town in Alabama. FIVE LIVES REF0RTED LOST Communication Is Cnt Off From Portions of Arkansas, Missis sippi and Tennessee by Prostration of Wires. STORM IX SOUTH. Central and delta regions of Mis sissippi suffer heaviest losses. Woman killed by falling building at Mattison, Miss. House crushed by falling tree at Tohula. Miss., takes fire and woman and child burn alive. Three churches are demolished and the postoffice. opera-house, cotton compress . and 25 other buildings damaged at Winona, Miss. Railroad trestle falls near Mem phis, Tenn.. and engineer and fire man are drowned. Hot wind blows at New Orleans. Hail falls at Jackson, Miss. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Nov. lg. Eight per sons are known to have lost their lives, scores of others are injured and property and crops suffered great damage, the ex tent of which, because of the meager re ports yet obtainable, cannot be estimated at this time, as a result of a terrific wind and rainstorm today. The storm, which originated on the Gulf last night and early today, swept, northeastward through portions of. Alabama, Central and Northern Mississippi and Western Ten nessee, in its onward course razed scores of substantial bir'Idings. partiall-Avail ished hundreds of others, caused com plete demoralization of railroad trafilo and cut off telegraphic communication with many points in the affected terri tory. Cotton jn the fields blown down by the wind was beaten into the ground and badly damaged. Besides the loss of life and property damage which is known to have occurred, a number of points direct, ly In the pathway of the storm cannot be communicated with, and when com plete reports have been received it is feared that the loss of both life and prop erty will be greatly lncreasd. Wolf River Out of Banks. Wolf River, a small stream running eastward of this city, is out of its banks in many places and in the vicinity of Rossville, Tenn., is several miles wide, the town being completely Inundated and the populace in a state bordering on panic. Throughout almost the entire dis trict precipitation continues tonight, but in decreased volume. The storm approached Athens. Ala., from the west and cut a path 300 yards wide through the southern portion of that city. A score of buildings were wrecked, but no one was killed or seriously in jured. At Mathison, Miss., nearly every build ing iif the southern portion of the town was destroyed. These include the Baptist Church, public school builJdngs, several brick buildings and a nu.iber of resi dences. At this place negro woman was killed and several others were in jured. Killed in the Storm. Near Okolona, Miss., three lives were lost. The property loss at this place cannot be ascertained tonight. At Maben. Miss., Ben Woodford, a tele graph operator, and his wife sustained injuries which may cause their death. At this place the . Maben Bank and several brick buildings were demolished, a At Bolivar, Tenn., nine inches of rain fell in 24 hours, and thousands of head of cattle were caught in the lowlands. PROMINENT FIGURES IN , v Ellbu Root. EVENTS OF COMING WEEK President on the Way Home. President Roosevelt is now on his way back to the United States from Panama. He Is due to arrive at Ponce.. Porto Rico. Wednesday. From there he will cross the island to San Juan by automobile for a one day's visit to the capital. He will embark at San Juan for Hamp ton Koads Thursday, and expects to reach Washington Tuesday. Novem ber 27. in time to spend Thanksgiv ing day at the White House. Horse Show at Madison Square. The 22d annual exhibition of the National Horse-Show Association will be held at Madison-Square Gar den, New Tork, this week. Premi ums aggregating $22,000 are offered, this being the largest sum ever up for competition hy the association. The entries will be divided into 133 ctasse.s, and, as in past years, the carriage and harness horses .will head the list with 29 classes. There are also a number of special classea. Trans-Mississippi Congress. The Trans-Mississippi Congress will meet in Kansas City Tuesday. Among those to attend and to make addresses are Secretary of State Root, who will speak on the opening day of the congress; Secretary Shaw and William J. Bryan. The subject of Secretary Root's remarks will be "American Commercial Opportunities in South America." In Honor of Schorl' Memory. A meeting in honor of the mem ory of Carl Schurz will be held in Carnegie Hall, New Tork. Wednes day evening. Joseph H. Choate, ex Ambassador to Great Britain, will preside. Among the speakers will be: Ex-President Grover Cleveland. Charles J. Bonaparte. Secretary of the Navy; Charles W. Eliot, presi dent of Harvard University; Dr. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee; Professor Eugene Kunemann. of Breslay, Germany, now lecturing at Harvard, who will speak In German, and Professor Hermann Schumacher, of Bonn, now lecturing at Columbia University. R. W. Gilder will read an original poem on Mr. Schurz. Educational Conference. A very important educational con ference has been called by President Alderman to meet at the University of Virginia Thursday. The confer ence will btlng together the presi dents of seven state universities, the presidents of ell Virginia colleges, the state Superintendents of Education in the States of North Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia, and the professors of secondary education in the same states and certain experts in agri cultural education. The conference Is notable because It is probably the first thoroughgoing attempt on the part of those en gaged in higher education to reach down to the secondary schools and aid In relating them properly to the schools belor.- and schools above. .,.-?. Constitution or fle.' t Monday a meeting of the corpora tion of Tale University will discuss the revision of the corporation rules. It Is expected that the proposed re vision will he adopted. It Involves practically a new constitution for the university. Relief parties were out today, but because of the high stage of the water little could be accomplished in rescuing the drowning cattle. Grenada. Miss., where serious damage was reported to have occurred, escaped almost unscathed. TELEGRAPH WIRES ARE DOWN Full Details of Disaster Are Not Ob tainable. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. IS. Telegraphic and telephonic communication from points In Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee for a distance of several hundred miles report that territory to have suffered last night and early today from one of the most destructive rain and wind storms in years. Only meager details are as yet obtain able, but five lives are known to have been lost and great damage done to prop erty and crops. Railroad traffic from this point Is demoralized on account of the numerous washouts, and many trains have been annulled. From the reports so far received the greatest damage occurred in the central and delta regions of Mississippi.. At Wi nona. Miss., the Catholic, Christian and the Methodist churches and the Hesty brickyard were demolished and numerous buildings unroofed and otherwise badly damaged. Among the largest buildings damaged at this place are the Postoffice, Opera-House, the cotton compress, ware house of the Jackson Mercantile Com pany and the residence of E. J. Dunkston. Besides these about 25 smaller buildings were alrr.ost completely destroyed. At Mathison. Miss., serious damage is (Concluded on Page 3.) TRANS - MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS John Barrett. A RICH FRANCHISES TO END AT SALEM Portland Street Grants in Legislators' Hands. NOW PERPETUAL PRIVILEGES Their Repeal Considered by Multnomah Lawmakers. NEW RIGHTS MAY BE GIVEN This Would Enable Public to Control Price and Quality of Service and Compel Compensation 1 for Use of Streets. WORK FOR LAWMAKERS. Numerous street franchises of un limited duration are in force in Port land. The power of the Legislature to, terminate or limit them will be considered by the lawmakers at their session this Winter. These franchises yield nothing to the city for the use of the streets, nor give the city power to regulate price or quality of service. They are as fol lows: Electric Portland General Elec tric Company. Gas Portland Gas Company. Western Union Telegraph. American District Telegraph. Postal Telegraph. Fourth street Southern Pacific. East First street Southern Pa cific East Second street O. R. & N. , Other streets held by O. R. 4; N. and Southern Pacific. Railroad terminals North Front street and others. Hydraulic elevator. Other franchises of limited dura tion are the following; Tears. Expire. Street-car (blanket fran chises) SO 1933 Pacific States Telephone. 25 1028 Home. Telephone 25 1030 Wi'll-on str't vr. P.) SO 1923 E.?5t Water su tO. W. r .) 25 1923 Hawthorne av. (Q. W. P ) 50 1938 Madison bridge (O. W. P.) 30 1921 East 11th (O. W. P.) 1923 Other O. W. P. lines 25 1927 Stark st. (United Rys.K. .. 1930 Front rt. (United Rys.).. 25 1931 City Messenger & Deliv ery 25 1A21 Market block 25 1928 Morrison bridge 1933 How to terminate unlimited franchises whica public utility corporations possess to streets of Portland is a problem for members of the Legislature from Mult nomah. All the fifteen lawmakers elected in this county last June pleued them selves, before the nominating primaries, to secure passage of an act putting a limit on the indefinite grants. That they are still true to their pledge was evident last week from interviews wiia each of them. Though they are not decided as to the best method of proceed ure, they expect to reach an understand ing, wnereby the matter can be brought to issue. The opinion of City Attorney McNary, holding that the City Council cannot le gally revoke the Fourth street franchise of the Southern Pacific, because that grant is perpetual, does not dissuade the Multnomah lawmakers. The idea that the. Southern Pacific holds an eternal francntrc to the street, and that other companies possessing similar grants hold perpetual franchises to other streets, does not set well with the lawmakers. Some of them believe that courts would not decide against the ; ubllc interest if the question were brought before them. Others say that even if adverse decisions should be rendered, the public would be no worse off than now and that as for the bother of litigation, the city of Port land and the State of Oregon have attor neys whose duty is just such work, in behalf of the public interest. The city of Portland has nothing to lose from a legal fight, they say, while the corpora tions have nothing to gain, and probably a great deal to lose. Not to drive the corporations from the streets Is the plan: none of the lawmakers AT KANSAS CITY TUESDAY i -J W. J. Bryan. r A " - -! - ; 5 " - ' ' t t ' - c-s' - 'A I , l .Vj ! " ; ! ";..,' lw,lirTT;-l"v1f' efail-lrg ni'ij -J even thinks of such an outcome. But to compel the corporations to give up the old franchises and accept, in lieu thereof, new grants, of 25 years' or less duration, giving the city authority to regulate the prices and quality of service as of elec tricity and gas and also the operation of the service; and further, to dispossess the corporations of the franchises after the end of specified periods, on payment to them of reasonable compensation, should municipal ownership of any utili ties be desired by the city such in brief are the objects aimed at. Would tower the Rates. These changes would doubtless bring about lower rates for electricity and gas and effect better service. They would enable the city to squeeze out water from capital stock of corporations, thus elimi nating fictitious interest and dividend charges exacted of the public, and. min imizing the capitalization of franchises, which is a copious source of stock-watering. The varlouB corporations undoubtedly will make common cause against the re- ....... T 1 . t rr" i 1 f. : ; - J Cardinal Rampolla. Who Took Part In Services When Bomb tvas Ex ploded. form. Their hold to the streets now costs them little or nothing for the use of the public avenues, save for a small tax as sessment placed upon their franchises by the County Assessor. It is expected thaf they will unite to protect their interests against the public, just as they rallied in lesser degree to the support of the South ern Pacific when that railroad's unlimited franchise on Fourth street was threat ened in the Council recently. Repeal of the existing endless fran chises by the Legislature would comped the corporations to secure new franchises from a subsequent City Council on terms more advantageous to the public. While there are doubts as to the suc- (Concluded on Page 12.) CONTENTS TODAY'S "PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 49 degrees; minimum, 39. TODAY'S Fair and colder; northeast winds. Foreign. Bomb in exploded in St. Peter's cathedral at Rome; no damage or loss of life. Page 1. Police of Rome scent plot to kill Klnjr of Greece on coming visit. Page 3. Beerbohm Tree replies to Henry Arthur Jones' attack on British drama. Page 3. 8 1 orrn in the Southeast. Destructive wind and rain storm sweeps over Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennes see. Page 1. Blizzard is raging in Colorado and extends down Into the Texas Panhandle. Page 1. Canadian steamer wrecked and two other vessels blown ashore In gale on Lake Superior. Page 1. ' Political. TV. R. Hearst has entered the list of per petual candidates. Page 2 Defeat of "stand-pat" members of the Na tional House of Representatives. Page 3. National. President Roosevelt and partv are on thft way to Porto Rico. Page 12. Senator Beverldge will Introduce child la bor and meat Inspection bill In Congress Page 2. Secretary of State Root will defend the Mon roe doctrine at the Trans-Mississippi Con gress at Kansas City. Page 3. Opening of lands in Oklahoma will make & grea.t state. Page 4. Pacific Coast. Thirty-five people drowned In collision be tween steamship Jeanie and steamer Dlx off Alki Point, near Seattle. Page 1. Highland Valley. Idaho, farmer kills one neighbor and wounds another In fight over wood road. Page 5. D. F. Watts, discharged drug clerk, shoots Billings, Mont., proprietor and fellow employe in revenge. Page 5. Liquor interests say they have local option beaten in the Washington Legislature. Page 4. Floods are subsiding In the Puget Bound country. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Physicians form new medical society. Page t. Government expert says Seattle assay office " thief was mere coward. Page 8. Portland franchise problems will puzzle next Legislature. Page 1. Dr. Clarence True Wilson preaches on great ness of love. Page 8. Northern Pacific resumes train service through flooded districts to Puget Sound Page 9. Rev. T. R. Ford blames District Attorney for Whitney-Murray tragedy. Page 8. Sell wood church serves music from phono graph. Page 12. 1 Ail i 1 I E. H. Haxriman. HUGE BOMB EXPLODED l ST. PETER'S Crowd in Cathedral at Rome Rush in Panic For the Outlets. POPE WAS NOT PRESENT Rumor That He Was to Pray at Tomb Had Brought Great Audience. VERY LITTLE DAMAGE DONE Wire-Bound Tin Box Contained Powder and Nails. CITY GREATLY EXCITED Pontiff Hears the News With Calm " ness and After Prayer Gives Pri vate Audience to Americana and Delivers Short Address. 8T. PETER'S. AT BOMB. St. Pater's Cathedral Is the moet noted of the famous churches of Rome. It in the largest and most sumptuous architectural edifice in the world. Bgiin In its present form In J."SOfl by Pope Julius II, its construction occupied 126 years. It was planned and commenced by Bra mante and carried on by Raphael. Sangallo, Michael Angelo and oth ers, the Kreat dome rising with 1U) summit cross to a height of 435 feet above the pavement, or SOS feet above the roof, being the master piece of Michael Angelo. The cathedral covers an area of 3S.0OO square yards and measures, exclusive of the portico, 636 feet In length. The height of the nave la 151 feet. The approach to tie cathedral from the east la through the Imposing Plazzl dl Ean Pletro, which is flanked by the great curving colonnades erected in 1667 by Ber nini. In the center of the square Is the obelisk brought from Hellopolla by the Emperor Caligula. ROME. Nov. IS. A bomb was exploded in St. Peter's today. Th edifice was crowded, and an indescribable scene of confusion followed. There were no fatali tlea As soon as the echoes of the tremendous roar had ceased a canon sought by re assuring words to quiet the people but in vain. " They fled In all directions. "Women and children screamed and tried to protect their families in the crush. The church is so large, however, that there was ample room for the crowd to scatter, and no one was injured. No trace of the perpetrator of the deed has been found. Since Saint Anacleutus. who was or dained by Peter himself, erected an oratory in 90 A. D. on the site of the present basilica to mark the spot where the remains of St. Peter are buried, no such dastardly occurrence is noted in the annals of the church. Today was the anniversary of the dedi cation of the basilica to St. Peter, and it was beautifully decorated for the occa sion. Holy relics were exposed and a large number of the faithful attended the services. Cardinal Rampolla, formerly papal secretary of state, was among those present. He took part in the serv ice in the choir chapel. Roar Drowns the Blessing. The last mass had Just been concluded when the explosion occurred, and only one canon, who had not quite finished, remained at the altar of St. Peter. This altar is at the end of the right aisle, and it was near here the bomb had been placed. As the canon turned to bless the communicants there was a tremendous roar which echoed through the lofty arches of the immense dome like a thun der clap. At the same time a dense smoke spread throughout this portion of the basilica, and a strong odor of gunpowder filled the air. Confusion and panic at once seized the people. The canon at the altar tried to stem the tide of fear. He shout ed out: "Do not be afraid; it Is nothing, merely the noon day gun!" His words had little effect. They were refuted by the smoke and the pungent smell of powder, and the people con tinued their headlong flight. Chairs were overturned, making the confusion more serious. Men and women fled, stumbling in all directions; the screams of children and cries of anguish were heard on all sides, and for a few minutes it seemed as (Concluded on Pag 2. SI