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SECOND EDITION 4:4-0 Ail VOL. XXVI XO 14,olG. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1Q07. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TO BOTTOM OF PACIFIC Steamer Columbia Goes Down With 72 Passengers. AWAKEN ONLY TO DROWN Schooner San Pedro Collides ' Saturday at Midnight at Full Speed. ELDER PICKS UP SURVIVORS Thirty-three Escape in Boats to Shelter Cove. GIRL OF 16 THE HEROINE Holds Vp Woman While Floating in Waves Seattle Man Gives Story of Disaster Captain Boran Dies With His Ship. EUREKA, Cal., July 22. Arrival this morning: of the steamer George W. Elder with the tattered steam schooner San Pedro in tow, brought the first news of a marine 'disaster which will rank among the worst of the Pacific Coast. The San Pedro drove full speed Into the stem of the steamer Columbia, bound from San Francisco to Portland, tearing a' great gash In her side, and causing her to sink within eight minutes near Shelter Cove about 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The first reports Justified the belief that at least half of the 250 persons on board the Columbia had perished, but hourly the total shrinks. The best advices tonight are that 177 escaped death when the vessel went to the bottom. One hundred and seven of the Columbia's passengers and 37 of her crew have been brought to this port by the steamer George W. Elder, which towed the colliding schooner San Pedro from the scene of the disaster to Eureka. A late mes sage from Shelter Cove says that three mors lifeboats have been picked up, one of them containing 18 persons, an other 15, and the third not reported. Eureka's Doors Thrown Open. The survivors who were brought to this port are being cared for at hotels and in private homes. The citizens of Eureka, moved to unan imous action by pity and the distress of the victims, have supplied sufficient quantities of clothing and all neces sary medical attention without stint or price. A committee of citizens under the leadership of Mayor Ricks has charged Itself with the duties of the hour and Is performing them with energy and all possible success. A segregation of the Columbia's pas senger list shows that in her cabins she carried 78 men and 90 women and girls; In her steerage 20 men and one woman, a total of 1S9. Discrepancies, however, between the full list furnished the purser on sailing and some of the names given by survivors who have reached here Indicate that the total number of passengers may have been greater. Sixteen of the names given here are not found on the steamship company's certified list. Adding to the 189 accredited passengers the 59 or 60 members of ' the Columbia's crew gives a total of 249 lives Jeopardized In the midnight collision. Only One of Family Survives. Among the survivors rescued and carried north to this port by the George W. Elder are men and women from a score of states, not a few from the Atlantic seaboard and the Middle West. Among these are a number of school teachers, who were varying with a sea voyage their home trip from the annual convention of the National Educational Association at Los Angeles. Among the lost is Mrs. F. O. Lours, of Pasadena. She died of exposure. Mr. Lours' life was saved. Their boy of 9 and their 12-year-old daughter were drowned. Mr. Lours succeeded in getting his wife and the children onto the upper deck in the brief In terval between the collision and the sinking of the Columbia, but a breaker washed them oft the cabin roof Into the sea. The husband and father Suc 1 ceeded In dragging them up on a life raft and for two hours the forlorn and wretched family tossed about on the frail craft In the blackness of the night. Eventually the children lost their grip and slipped off into the sea. Mrs. Lours succumbed soon afterward from the hock and exposure. - Eight minutes from the time the San Pedro struck the Columbia the latter vessel had filled full of water and sunk. The night saloon watchman notified all the passengers to go to the upper deck. Without clothing they climbed out of their berths and rushed out. It was only two or three minutes before the decks were awash. Six boats and three life rafts were cut loose and as many pas sengers as possible were crowded Into them. There was scarcely any evidence of a panic, the women acting with heroism. The crew of the San Pedro immedi ately lowered a boat and picked up a large number of survivors, while the boats from the Columbia lay to by the San Pedro. When the Columbia sank, she carried down with her about 74 passengers. This estimate is not accurate and the number cannot be definitely determined i , CT- - r ; ? x ' l I I '" t - " -If f swaaf I t ' - ' 7 V'i k - A;-,-.ijw,)iflimmmf8 X Ijs. I Captain Dor an on the Bridge of the Columbia. until full particulars are received from Shelter Cove, where four boats are said to have been landed. Captain Sinks With Ship. Captain Doran and First Officer Whitney were on the deck . when the Columbia sank, the captain's last words being: "God bless you." According to J. E. Byrnes, purser of the Columbia, there were 190 passen gers aboard 168 first-class, 22 steer age and 60 crew. It is known that 107 passengers have been saved and 37 of (Concluded on Page 4.) DROWNED OR UNACCOUNTED FOR Those Who Probably Perished or the Steamer Columbia Off Shelter Cove ' EUREKA, Cal., July 22. Following is the list of passengers and mem bers of the crew of the steamer Columbia drowned or unaccounted for at Eureku. In connection with this list it should be borne In mind that It will be measurably reduced by the names of the 33 survivors spoken of as coming ashore on life rafts at Shelter cove today: FRANKLIN AULFS MRS. R. ANDERSON W. J. BACH MAN MRS. A. HAPP C. H. HARRINGTON MISS K. HAYDEN E. BUTLER AND WIFE MRS. W. H. INOALS MISS ANNA BAHLEEN' E. B. KEEVER MISS GERTRUDE BUT LER MRS. J. BENSON MRS. JANE BEST MISS A. BEERNAL MISS CLARA CARPENTER MISS FLORENCE LEWIS DER MISS RUBY COOPER . RAY LEWIS MRS. E. SILVA (steerage) J. W. CARPENTER . O. S. LEWIS CHEW MOCK (Chinaman) LEWIS MALKUS AND MISS LENA COOPER MRS. A. S. CORNELL MRS. It. B. CANNON MARION CLASBY MISS A. B. CORNELL L. CLASBY AND WIFE STEPHEN CLASBY J. C. DURHAM . L. L. DRAKE. JR. MRS. L. L. DRAKE F. S. DRAKE MRS. K. GAGALD 1 W. GRAHAM MRS. A. GRAY WIFE C. E. MEHIW MISS B. MUSSER L. MERO MISS JULIA MATEK M. MAYO (steerage) JOHN D. M'FAREYHN MISS MARGARET M'KEARNY MISS LOUISE A. NAKE MISS NELLIE MAKE MISS MARY PARSONS MRS. BLANCHE GORDON J. E. PAUL FRANK GIUNE (Steera&e) j. PREMUS The following members of the crew P. A. DORAN, Captain. UNKNOWN SEAMAN W. F. WHITNEY, First M. C. BURPEE and . Officer. MAX CLAUS, D. S. M'ALPIN, watchman. assistant engineers. PAUL RINNER. Quarter- DAVE KASTON, master. JAMES MADISON and CHARLES PETERSON. UNKNOWN, . seaman. firemen. 1 1 1 -V- WpcwreUI ft aA, . V) OOJSZa '. - I -yx 1 V I XAPD 7VOR77 NEWS OF DISASTER T Ocean Tragedy Seems a Local Catastrophe. REPORT IS SPREAD RAPIDLY Frantic Crowds Seek Tidings of Loved Ones on Steamer. ' DETAILS RECEIVED SLOWLY False Rumor That No Women Were Saved Causes Most Anxiety, but Is Finally Denied Port land People in Wreck. To Portland the sinking of the Co lumbia came as a local disaster. Dozens of Portland people were aboard and there were scores having relatives and friends here. The city was astir with the first word of the sea tragedy. The news spread as by magic. An hour after the first meager bulletin was flashed in, groups of anxious horror-stricken relatives and friends of those aboard were at the newspaper offices, the telegraph offices and the As sociated Press rooms. Confirmation of the report came promptly and then the city settled back to an agony of uncertainty in the absence of details. "Not a woman on board saved," ticked the relentless wires and there was a responding moan of despair from those having wives, mothers and sisters aboard. Nearly all day this Impression prevailed. It was the statement of one of the survivors who had reached San Fran cisco with a pessimistic report of the SAKAH A. HUBJlKrS P. ROBERTSON M. J. RATEMAN MRS. WILLIAM SOULES G. A. SMITH SHOCKS 0 Li MISS GRACE F. KEELAR MISS CORA 6HULL MISS EFFIE KEELAR J- B- SPRINGER MISS G. A. KEELAR MISS ELSIE MAT STONE MISS ALMA B. KEELAR GEORGE T. SPARKS E. G. LIGGETT MISS FRANCES SCHROE- AND WIFE A. SPIELER (steerage) E. SILVA (steerage) W. C. TODD MISS A. S. TODD B. -VIANTS H. P. WINTERS G. F. WILSON JOHN MILLER (steerage) MRS. A. WALLER C. W. MERRILL (steerage) MISS H. WRIGHT ROLAND WINTERS C. W. WINSLOW AND WIFE WILLIAM WALLAR MISS EDNA WALLACE MISS B. WALLACE . MISS W. W. WHITE E. A. WALLIN (steerage) J K. YOUNG AND WIFE (steerage) are unaccounted for: ALBERT ANDERSON and GEORGE ALEXANDER. water tenders. UNKNOWN, oiler. UNKNOWN, second cook. RUTHERFORD, mess boy. LOUIS BLOCKER, waiter. UNKNOWN, baker. THE. -7 ONLY ONE BOAT AT SHELTER COVE; 16 ALIVE, TWO DEAD. FXREKA. Cal., July 23. Only one boat landed at Shelter Cove, not three, according to the first reports. , The persons In It were taken tor Bryceuuid and from there to Garber vllle. In the southern . end of this county, where today those who have' no relatives here brought by the George W. Elder will go over land to Han Francisco. In the boat whicb reached the shore at Shelter Cove were: MRS. LEWIS, of Pasadena, Cal., who was drowned, and an unknown dead man, presumed to be a sailor. Their bodies reached thin city to night on a special train. The survivors In the boat were : I B. Kriever, of Prescott, la.; ' Jacob Kuro, Coldwater, Kan. ; Ar mand Cadorette, New Bedford, Mass.; David Doston, fireman on the Columbia; Charles McCoy, oiler on Columbia; D. S. Alpine, watch man on Columbia; Era 11 Mann, sailor on Columbia; Paul Hlnner, quartermaster on Columbia; Mr. Lewis, of Pasadena; Edwin Wallln, San Francisco; Mrs. WInkleblock Dunn, Poplar Bluff, Mo.; Mrs. W. H. Angels. Oakland, Cal.; Miss Blanche W. Musser, 861 East Ninth South street, gait Lake City; Miss Itnby Cooper. Payette, Mo.; Michael Rod man, San Francisco; B. W. Grahnra, 125 Front street. Portland, Or. An Inquest will be held on the three recovered bodies this evening. mishap that was unwarranted by the facts, as subsequent reports have shown. "A largo percentage of those saved are women," said the wires, as fuller details became accurately known later In the day. Failing Hopes Revived. Lost hopes were revived with this message. The news robbed the tragedy of its grimmest aspect. That no woman of the hundred and more aboard should escape would have bespoken a lack of courage more greatly to be mourned than death Itself. When It became known that the women had been given preference in the boats; that they had not been ruth lessly shoved aside in a cowardly panic, a sigh of relief went up. It meant that the men who survived death likewise survived dishonor. Pictures of pale faced, frightened women being trampled under foot to give place to men clamoring for their own safety vanished. There Is no phrase more grim that can be written of such a tragedy of the sea than: "None of the women passengers was saved." Everywhere In the city there was hope last night. As the long list of the survivors came over the wires, many who had feared ,the worst came to know the Joy of sudden surcease from sorrow for the dead. One young woman called at the Associated Press office on hearing a list -of the saved was coming in. She had been crying, but seemingly was not overwrought. Near the top of the list she found the name she had hardly ex pected to find. Overcome, she sank Into a chair and became hysterical. List of Survivors Yet to Come. And for those who did not find the names in this list there was still hope. This list recorded only .such persons as had reached Eureka and San Fran cisco. There was still a large number of survivors in boats and on life rafts on the coast some 15 miles above Eureka. - It was reported that many of these were women. Through the long hours of the night, the list of survivors on these boats was not forth coming. To those with loved ones aboard, the suspense was telling, yet the uncertainty of the thing kept up the fires of hope. Those concerned gathered in groups and speculated on the chances of es cape, optimistic in the face of reports that kept growing brighter with each fresh dispatch. It was argued that in fair w-eather, most of the passengers in the upper parts of the ship must have had ample time to get into the life boats. But fate plays a strange game and Just who was saved and Just who was not, could not be subjected to legitimate theory. The unsympa thetic, relentless list of dead and sur viving, must tell that part of the story. This complete and correct list should be at hand by today. Flood of Anxious Inquiries! All day long the flood of anxious in quiries came to every quarter where Information might be expected. The telephone bells In the newspaper offices Jingled incessantly. Men and women, confused In conflicting emotions of hope and despair, haunted the news centers all day, seizing every new scrap (Concluded on Page 5.) 1 i COL(jnaA VHCW hfri7 MAKES PLEA FOR S LIFE Richardson Aims At tack at Orchard. KIS STORY NOT CORROBORATED Promises Pettibone Will Testi fy in Own Trial. EXPLANATION OF CRIMES Explosions Either Dtie to Accident or Mineowners' Conspiracy Or chard Dime Novel Hero Pos ing as a Bad Man. BOISE, Idaho, July 22. For four hours and a half today E. F. Richardson pleaded with the Jury for the life of Wil liam D. Haywood. Under order of the court the hours for the day's sessions were changed and in place of sitting In the afternoon court met at 6 o'clock this evening. Judge Wood was informed by 'he jury that the extreme heat of the courtroom was too trying on some of the Jurymen and compiled with the request for a late evening session. The' preliminary hearing of the case of Dr. I. L. McGee, one of the witnesses for the defense, charged with perjury, came up this afternoon and will be continued to morrow. Orchard was on the stand for over an hour and was given a severe grilling in the cross-examination by Mc Gee's counsel. The prisoner-witness, how ever, malntftin'd h! characteristic calm th, onr'iout. He denied that he was in the Coeur d'Alenes at the time McGee swore to a meeting with him at Wallace. Will Try Aller for Perjury. C. V. Aller, the other witness for the defense who Is under perjury charges, was today bound over for trial in the District Court. Haywood's mother sat beside the prisoner during Mr. Richardson's, argu ment; the Invalid wife, daughter and sister and stepfather completed the family group, and seven of the battery of Haywood's counsel were In their places. For 15 minutes before Mr. Richardson began to speak the courtroom had to be closed this morning against the throng which sought admission. One woman, who came early and secured an advantageous position in the first row, attracted con siderable attention because of the large black field glass she held almost con stantly to her eyes. Murder Due to Labor War. Mr. Richardson plunged directly Into the death of Governor Steunenberg In his opening sentence. He declared it was Governor Steunenberg's fortune during his administration to stand in the fore front of a labor war In the Ooeur d'Alenes. Perhaps, he said, the situation demanded all that the Governor did. Per haps it did not. "I do not know," declared Mr. Richard son, "and I shall not attempt to say. But at any rate for the' first time in the ad ministration of American Justice, the bull pen was called Into being. Men were put in this bullpen, perhaps as a matter of necessity, but certainly without due pro cess of law. Governor Steunenberg's course was condemned on the one side and praised on the other, as the mem bers 'of two hostile camps vjew the mat ter. "When the death of Governor Steunen berg was flashed to the world, there was the Immediate conclusion In nearly all quarters that there was some connection between the' Coeur d'Alene troubles and the bomb which was placed at his gate. Again hostile camps arose. ' On the one side it was said the act must have been done by some man In whose breast per sonal hatred rankled. The mineowners, however, were strong In their condemna tion of the Western Federation of Min :v -iff 5MVf THE PZZVZO OSf HAYWOOD ers. It has been said here that In soma quarters there was even an attempt to Justify the deed. "I want to say to you gentlemen that we of the defense do not believe there is any Justification for such an act. We shall not attempt to Justify it; we do not believe it can be Justified from any point of view." Quick to Blame Federation. Mr. Richardson then reviewed the event following the death of ex-Governor Steunenberg, saying Harry Orchard was caught almost redhanded In the act. A Pinkerton detective came to Idaho and soon had a confession from a man who, to save his own worthless neck, was ready to place the blame on others.. The matter was taken up by that portion of the press which depends upon the pros perous and capitalistic classes and the leaders of the Western Federation of i f " i E. P. Richardson, Wbo Began Argu ment for the Defense In the Hay wood Trial Yesterday. Miners were adjudged guilty without a hearing. So far-reaching was this Influence, de clared Mr. Richardson, that It extended even to the White House. The attorney begged the jurors to lay aside any Im pression they may have had from reading the newspapers during the past year and to start with him at the beginning of the cause and go through the various events one by one, without feeling or prejudice. He continued: "Do this, so we may Justly determine In the light of our consciences, illuminat ed by high heaven. If the man here at the bar and his co-defendants in the cells below are guilty of the crimes charged It is my intention to carry out my argu ment, if I am not overcome by heat, in the following order: Eleven Points in Argument. "First 1 shall discuss the law as ap plied to this case and to the presecutlng witness. "Second I shall discuss the history of the Western Federation of Miners, as shown here In the evidence. "Third I shall discuss the general con ditions which prevailed in the Coeur d'Alenes at the time of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill explosion and at Cripple Creek prior to and during the strike in that section. "Fourth I shall discuss the series of the events relied on by the state to prove a conspiracy against the defendants, Hay wood. Moyer and Pettibone. "Fifth I shall devote myself to the as certainment of the particular offense the defendants are here on trial for. Re member, gentlemen, that while the range of the evidence has covered many fields and many crimes, there is but one ciiu-ge In the Indictment, but one offense against the State of Idaho. "Sixth I shall consider Mr. Orchard while under arrest. "Seventh I shall consider Mr. Orchard while In the penitentiary. "Eighth I shall devote myself to the Impeachment of Mr. Orchard. "Ninth To the treatment of Mr. Hay wood, the manner and method of It and the reasons therefor. 'Tenth I shall devote myself, as I have been Invited to do, to the reasons why certain witnesses did not testify for the prosecution and as to why certain others did not testify for the defense. "Eleventh and finally, I shall discuss this case as It appears before this Jury. "When I have finished these 11 sub divisions, I will have done all that I can do to assist the Jury in arriving at a proper and just verdict in this cause." Discussing the law as applied to Or chard, Mr. Richardson said the corrob- (Concluded on Page 3.) 25a X MZLT.& COVE SHOT DOWN WHILE RESISTING ARREST Peter Olson, a Cook, Is Fatally Wounded. POLICE FIRE THROUGH DOOR Squad of Seven Obey Com mand of Captain Bruin. CONFLICT IN TESTIMONY Officers Say Man Attempted Suicide. Olson Began Trouble by Threat ening to Kill Other. Lodgers in . North End House. STORV OF THE SHOOTING IN BRIEF. Scene Lyon House, Fourth and Flanders streets. Time Ten o'clock last night. Man wounded Pete Olson, a cook, 50 years of age. Commander of police squad Cap tain of Detectives Bruin. Policemen participating- Patrol Sergeant Cole. Acting Detective Price, Probation Officer Hawley. Patrol men Annundson, Thorpe and Wade. Shots fired by Olson Probably three one at Thorpe and Annund son and two when the squad ad vanced on his room. Shots fired by squad Exact num ber unknown probably seven. Cause of trouble Jealousy and an ger over rebuke from fellow lodgers. Nature of wound In head; proba bly fatal; chance for recovery. Acting under orders from Captain of Detectives Bruin, a squad of seven police officers fired upon Peter Olson, a cook 50 years of age, in a room of the Lyon House, Fourth and Flanders streets, at 10 o'clock last night,, and probably fatal-' ly wounded him. The shots were fired at random through the door of the room In which Olson had barricaded himself to resist arrest on a charge of threaten ing to kill other Inmates of the lodging house, and It is not known whose bullet found its billet. After the door had been broken down and the smoke had cleared away, Olson was found stretched out on the floor, shot in the face. Some of the police profess to believe tha he may have shot himself. Ho was armed with a revolver, two chambers of which wera empty. Fired on Patrolmen. Olson had fired one shot through the door at Policemen Thorpe and Annudson prior to the arrival of the squad of re inforcements from police headquarters, and most of the policemen who did the shooting assert that he fired two more when called upon for the last time to surrender. When the polled entered the room Olson was unable to speak Intelligibly, though not entirely unconscious. He continued to mutter meaningless sen tences while being taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital in the patrol wagon, and later began raving violently, leading the house surgeon to believe that he had gone Insane. Policemen Thorpe and Annundson, (Concluded on Page 7 ) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 degrees; minimum temperature. SS de grees. TODAY'S Fair and continued warmer; northwest winds. Disaster of the Columbia. Steamer sunk In collision and T2 lives lost. Page 1. Names of over 30 survivor landed at Shelter Cove unknown. Page I. Girl's heroic rescue of woman. Page 1. Survivors coming to Portland on the Elder. Page 1. Foreign. Karl Hau convicted and sentenced to die; mob howls for acquittal. Page 3. Leaders of CbiVan conspiracy arreated; ex Emperor behind plots. Page 3. Domestic. More evidence against Msglll. Page . Machinist prepare for strike on all railroads. Page 8. - Proof that telegraph companies have formed trust. Page 2. Telegraphers' Union checks supply of new operators for railroads. Page 2. Pacific Coast. Richardson begins argument for Haywood's defense. Pate 1. Great expense of Haywood trial. Page 2. Breen trle In vain to break down Orchard's nerve at McGee's trial. Page 2. Zlmmer again Imprisoned for contempt in Glass trial. Page 2. nee'ed on Southern Pacific to correct sched ule for train No. 12 Page 13. Work on Oregon & W ashington haa not been abandoned. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. News of Columbia wreck received In Portland as a local tregedy Pago 1. Thomas Muirhead. of Portland, watertender on Columbia, quit steamer in San Francisco because of presentiment. Page 7. Seven police shoot and fatally wound cook who resisted arrest. Page 1. , National Irrigation act is constitutionally at tacked. Pago 16. Harrlman'5 lieutenant, Julius Krutschnltt de nies knowledge of magnate's Central Ore gon plane. Page 1". Local option puts 32 saloon out of business. Page IS. Lease for 1)6 years on H. L. Plttock block Is closed. Page 10. Politicians discuss Falrbank's visit to Oregon, Page 11.