TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OVE3IBER 15,- 1909. RESCUERS.VICTIMS OF GAGE ORDERS NEW PORTRAIT OF PLAYWRIGHT WHO WANTS DIVORCED THERE WIFE BACK, AND ACTRESS WHOM IT IS DENIED HE WILL MARRY. AS SCORES DROWN Steamer Cut in Twain Near St. Paul Mine Engineer Says His Obedience Was Fa tal to Party. Singapore When Ships Collide at Sea. MEN AG E HALF CENTURY NO TIME TO LOWER BOATS Rescuing Parties Impeded by Dark ness .Majority of Tbote Lost Were Carried to Deatli In Their Berths. SEAS CLAIM THOreAXDS. J Live I Tear. Steamship. Lost. I jftOO 5 1 earner Sfcanyhal, burned. .300 lSl-fiteamer T'teria co Hilton. .563 Steamer Nanchow, foun- I dered 509 i 1893 Wrhtp Victoria, collision. .30 1 994 s team er H om H ead. aunk 7 by Iceberg 62 J 1835 Steamer Cblcora, vanlabed A In Lake Michigan 26 t 1695 Wtnhlp Reina Regina. col- f lUion 400 4 1695 Steamer Coiima, wrecked. .171 Steamer Corpolontus, sunk.. 132 1997 Steamer Kapunda, foun- dered 300 I 1S&S Steamer La Boursoyne, col- llslon 540 t ltMX Steamer General Slocum. burned t 95 S 1104 Steamer Xorg. wrecked on reef 750 1905 Steamer Hilda, sunk 123 1906 Steamer Valencia. foun dered 119 19t6 Brazilian cruiser Aquidapan. sunk 213 1!K7 Steamer Larchmont, lost. . .1S3 197 Steamer Hongkong, struck rook 130 lftrtT Steamer Berlin, wrecked. . . 125 1907 Steamship Lakota, struck a reef unknown T 190 Steamer Columbia, collision. 10 I 1900 Steamer Seyne. sunk 96 SINGAPORE. Nov. H.-The mail steamer Laxync of the Messageries Marl time Service, running between Java and Singapore and on her way to this port, collided early tWs morning with the steamer Onda of the British India line and sank two minutes later. Several European passengers, including Baron and Baroness Beniczkl, the cap tain nf ha T .a vv- n A fl.'a Pimiruian ntl.-a and S8 others, comprising native passen gers and members of the crew, were drowned. The rescue of 61 passengers, practically from the Jaws of shoals of sharks, formed a thrilling incident of the wreck. - V esse Is I n der Good Speed . The accident occurred In a thick haxe at 4 o'clock in the morning. The ves sels were steaming at good speed and the Lazyne was cut almost in two. There was no time for panic nor for any at tempt on the part of officers to get out the boats. A majority of those on board were caught in their berths and carried down with the vessel. The force of the coll! son brought the Onda almost to a dead stop. The engines were at once slowed and the boats were lowered. The rescue work proved thrill ing, for not only were the rescuing parties Impeded by the darkness, but shoals of sharks were already attacking those clinging to pieces of wreckage. Victims Bitten by Sharks. Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated ves sel finally were dragged into the boats and brought by the Onda to this port. Many had been bitten by sharks, several being severely injured. . EDWARD MAYSNUB LADY Continue! From First Page. ) she said, "but he's merely a friend: Just a pa?ng friend, that's all. There really mas no reason for bringing me into the case. , "Nothing to It," She Says.( "Of course. I have heard th rumors connecting my name with the divorce. I have even heard that I was to be men tioned by Mrs. Astor. But there's nothing to it. Absolutely nothing.' The smile and tone Irft the impression that there was something she might tell but would not. Mrs. Hill denied that she had ever ac companied Colonel Astor to Havana, the Tie of Pines and Europe. Aside from accepting his bouquets and bowing to him at ;heater parties the multimillionaire was nothing mure to her than a dozen other men in his set. It is only a few years since Mrs. Hill, who has dazzled two continents by her beauty, met Halsey Corwin and tinned from Coney Island with him and they were married. They were soon divorced. Then there's a dashing officer of the Irish Rifles. Captain Hill. The captain married Mrs. Corwin as soon as hr di vorce was granted. He took her to Eu rope. Ties of matrimony again galled and Mrs. Hill returned to New York doubly divorced. Parrot Veils Welcome. She is now residing at the Bernard apartments, near Central Park. A parrot rules over these quarters and greets all callers with "Oh. you Roberta." and Oh. you John James. Mrs. HHI and Colonel Astor have not met publicly sine- hrr return home, and t heir close friends declare the romance, if there was one. is dead. It is understood Mrs. Astor will take her daughter. Alice, abroad again soon, while the son. Vincent, will remain with his father until he reaches his majority. The Colonel has the privilege of visiting his daughter for two weeks each year. wrf:Ie Vincent will be wii his mother for the same length of time out of each 24 months. The Ators had not lived together for more than two years. Mrs. Astor has oent most of her time iu Ixmdon and Pans, while the Colonel remained in New York. The children were with the mother. Last year, when Mrs. Astor returned from abroad and took up a Summer resi dence at Newport, the Colonel visited his son at that place, but returned almost im mediately to New York. This was the last time the husband and wife met In their own home. J. D. Barton Willing, brother of Mrs. A st or. returned from Barope Just before the divorce proceedings were started. He dn'ed that he was back to testify and declared h knew nothing about the na ture of t h charges against the Colonel. J Kent Willing, a cousin, wnt farther. He said he did not know of the suit until ha read it in the papers. Other members ef the familv professed to be equally as Ignorant. U J i - I "T3M ' Shi ' 1 A; i ' ' t i JAMES M. FRIENDS IKE PLEA Every Effort Put Forth to Get Barrie's Wife Back. NOT TO MARRY HIS WARD Famous Author and Playwright Will N'ot Wed Pauline Chase, With Whose Name His Own Has Been Often Coupled. LONDON". Nov. 14. (Special.) Gossip Is still rife as to whether the friends of James M. Barrie and his divorced wife will be able to bring: about e reconcilia tion between the couple. Mr. Barrie him self has tried and failed. After he was awarded his divorce he made heart broken pleas to her to return to him. holding? out various Inducements and promising her a large sum of money. The ady was adamant, however, and then itr. Barrie s friends took up the plea, working: on her sympathies and praising the lovable qualities of the husband she forsook for the young playwright. So far no pleadings have availed. Mr. Barrio, as is well known, has almost a morbid hatred of publicity. In fact it was a great surprise when he filed suit for divorce. Therefore he is giving out no news of his Intentions, and what Is learned has to come from his friends. Of theee he has a host, however, and some of them will talk to the newspapers. From this source It is learned that while Mr. Barrie's name has been often coupled with that of Pauline Chase, the pretty young American actress who grew famous In a night as the "Pink Pajama Girl." he has no Intention of marrying her. Mr. Barrie. It may be said definitely, will remain single if his divorced wife will not return to him. Both he and Mrs. Barrie thought much of the little actress, and had her often at their home. She Is the daughter of Pr. Bliss, of Washington, D. C. and scored a hit In Barrie's "Peter Pan." Barrie s wife was Mary Ansell, who made her last appearance on the stage as Nancy O'Brien In her husband's suc cessful play. "Walker, London." REPORT OF LEAK DENIED Gage Says He Never Heard of Sugar Trust's Inside Information. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Nov. 14. (Special.) Lyman J. Gage last night dictated the following: "In answer to the statement I am said to have made, namely. "I don't believe my good friend Mr. Havemeyer knows anything about this matter: I want you to give him my compliments and tell him that if anything like this exists It must stop.' it is a lie. No proofs were ever submitted to me. "Had there been any proofs you can rest assured action would have been taken. I would have gone after them with spur, caddie, sabr and bayonet. The fact that it was the sugar trust would have made not the slightest dif ference. I have no recollection of any charges having been made. I do not know Mr. Havemeyer. and never saw him. but once, when he was pointed out to me." SLAYER NOT HIGHWAYMAN Mystfry of Los Angeles Coachman's Death Peeper Than Ever. IOS ANGELES. Cal.. Nov. 14. A deeper mystery than ever surrounds the murder here Friday of August Peter Carlson, who was known for 12 years as Peter Widell, a coachman. Carlson was shot down on a residence street and as an attempt at a hold-up had been made in the" near vi cinity only a few minutes before by three men. it was at first supposed that he fell a victim to the highwaymen. , Tonight, however. A. X. Kupfer. a busi ness man who was parsing the scene in an automobile, telia of having seen the shooting, and states positively that the murderer was alone and was not masked. Ho gives a fair description of the man. 1200 Sacks Onions on Acres. MTLTOX. Or., Nov. 14. i Spec! a I.) J. J. Williams, who resides on the Interurban line three miles north of Milton, this week completed harvesting his large onion crop. The yield this rear was a record breaker, more than 1SH0 sacks, averaging 1 1-4 fcuehels to the sack, being taken from three acres. Two years ago .MT an acre net waa taken from the same field. i BARRIB. Pauline Chase. India's Viceroy Target of At tack at Ahmedabad. MISSILES ARE DEFLECTED Dragoon With Outstretched Saber Intercepts One and Native Lieu tenant Stops Another By stander's Hand Blown Off. AHMBDABAD, British India, Nov. 14. Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, and Lady Minto had a narrow escape yesterday from being killed by bombs. They were driving In a street when two bombs were thrown at their carriage. A dragoon riding alongside spurred for ward, and with outstretched sabre In tercepted the first bomb, hurling It some little distance lntoxa sand heap. The sec ond bomb struck the Viceroy's Jemidar. a native lieutenant, holding an umbrella over Lady Minto. and fell harmlessly to the ground. Neither exploded, as the soft sand acted as a butler. On examina tion they were found to contain am monium picrote. Just prior to this, as the carriage passed through a street, a bomb exploded some distance away. Police and others at tracted by the explosion ran up and found a man on the ground with his hand blown off. He proved to be an In nocent bystander. The bomb-thrower es caped In the excitement. Attempts have been made in India against Lord Minto, Lord Kitchener and Sir Andrew Frazer. Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and many other officials, and for a year or more there has been fear of an uprising against British rule. Bishop Bell Speaks. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 14. Bishop Bell. of the United Breth ren Church, of Los Angeles, Cal.. de livered an eloquent address in the taber nacle this evening at 8:15 o'clock, on "American Perils." The congregations in several of the Protestant churches were dismissed early so that they could have a chance to hear Bishop Beu. r- I- v ,v i :: : -U ' ; ! ) "i ; ... I I : k:wwyiaBia irlttMitintwni BOMB in M IrJTO PLEAS TO RAISE BOX FAIL Coroner's Jury Delves Into Second Fatality, Seemingly Caused by Miner Waiting for Bell Signals Before Operating Elevator. CHERRY. 111., Nov. 14. Implicit obedi ence by Engineer John Cowley to orders of his superior may have caused the death of the rescuing party which went down Into the St. Paul mine yesterday. At the Coroner's inquest which began today, Cowley, who is engineer of the main shaft, testified that he declined to accede to the demand of persons stand ing at the top of his shaft that he at once lift the cage containing me rescuers. The reason he declined, he said, was De cause he had been told by the third-vein boss, Alexander Nosberg. to move the cage only in answer to the regular oeu code. No Heed Paid. When the rescue party had been at the bottom of the shaft some time without getting In communication with the engi neer by the usual means. Martin Powers, Dr. Home and Herbert Lewis. ..ie latter a brother of one of the rescue party, rushed to Cowley, so the engineer testi fied. They demanded that the cage be raised at once. Cowley refused, perhaps for ten minutes. Cowley said he would not listen to their frantic appeals, but finally referred the matter to John Quinnbey. of the top cage. Quinnbey hesitated, and as Machinist John Uhadcs ter entered Cowley asked Chadester what should be done. "Go ahead and raise It," answered Chadester, according to Cowley's testi mony. "Nobody is alive down there." Cage Vp Too Late. Cowley then brought the cage to the top. but every one of the men In the res cue party was either dead or dying when they reached the top. Cowley defended himself on the stand by saying he had received Nosberg's or der to await the bell signal before moving the cage and that the three men who de manded the cage be raised had no au thority to tell him what to do. Accord ing to Cowley, he feared in raising the cage he would risk injuring some of the men below and that he might leave them without means of escape should he lift the cage while they were not In it. Orders, His Excuse. . He declared that after the final cage, with men In it. had been raised, the cage was let down and raised five or six times with the belief that some of the miners might reach the shaft. He testified that he lowered and raised it slowly every time. One of the jurors asked why Cow ley could not have raised the cage slow ly when Powers, Howe and Lewis ap pealed. Nosberg's orders were again given as an excuse. Previous to the final raising of the cage bearing the rescue party, Cowley said, the bell signals had been unusual and disconnecting. He received one sig nal of three bells to "hoist away," fol lowed almost Immediately by a four-bell signal, meaning "hoist slowly." At a height of eight or nine feet the cage was stopped at a one-bell signal and started up at another. Then came a six-bell sig nal, "reverse the fan," and then two bells, "lower. ' Cowley lowered the cage In answer to the signal, the last ever sent from the rescue party. Case Up Again. The jury adjourned after Cowley, John Raisbeck. engineer in the air shaft, and several relatives of the dead in the res cue party had testified. The jury will meet again Monday. More testimony concerning Cowley's refusal to lift the cage will be heard. The Inquest is being conducted by Dr. A. H. Malm, of Prince ton, the Coroner and I M.. Eckert, of Princeton, Bureau County State's Attor ney. The jurors are: Peter Dolphin, marshal: Timothy McDonald, J. C. Thompson, lumbermen: John Stenstrom. barber: Joseph Neidelcher. stockbuyer, and W. I. Kendall. Deputy Coroner. ENTOMBED MINERS SIGNAL CContinued From First Page.) open the mine and at times, though he struggled to control his emotions, tears dimmed his eyes and his voice choked with sobs. "I wish," he said, "that the men of the press would interview these mining inspectors after they are relieved from their duties about this mine. I do not want to go on record alone, but I believe thev will tell you that this was the safest coal mine In this country. Carelessness Costs Life. "A catastrophe could have happened here In no other way than just as it did. The fire need not have been disastrous. The men at work in the. stables were ex cited. "This is an awful thing. Some of the best men who ever lived lost their lives, all through carelessness. Bandy and Xorberg died 1'ke heroes. They were on the surface. They went down to save tneir fellows." Superintendent Taylor has not slept since he reached here Saturday evening. President Barling and his eon are con stantly on the ground. Arrangements are being contemplated to bring relief to families of the vic tims. It is probable that suplies for their needs will be arranged by the St. Paul company. Men Give Up Fight. William Vlckers was one -of the few who came out alive. For more than 300 yards he crawled in the dark on his hands and knees, using the rail as a guide to the bottom of the shaft. At one point he says he met 65 miners sitting in a row along the road. They had given up the struggle and were waiting resignedly for death. A tobacco pouch was the means of saving the lives of John Phillips and Edward Surrock, miners in the second vein. Phillips, on his way to the shaft, found Surrock lying in the track In the main, entry way. . He dragged his com rade until he himself was almost over come by the smoke. With a miner's in tuition, he searched for something to cover his nose and mouth. The only thing available was the small sack In which lie carried tobacco. Placing one end in his moutb he pulled the rest over his nose and fastened it about his head with the string. By crawling with his head cloM to the rail, he struggled toward the shaft, dragging his almost lifeless comrade with him. Father Rescues Son. . One of the heroic Incidents of the rescue work was the saving of John McGill and his young son. They left the place where j You want an Overcoat. We sell Overcoats. Let's get together. Our Overcoats are warm, comfort-giving, sightly garments, made up of materials that have been put to a thor- ough test so much so that we give you our un qualified, guarantee as to satisfactory service. For a right good Coat try our Lion Spe- tOC cial Overcoat at. . LION CLOTHIERS 166-170 THIRD ST. they were working when the alarm was given. Before half of the journey was completed, the boy began to grow diazy. Clasping his father's hand, he sank to his knees exclaiming: "Pa. I am dying. Leave me and save yourself if you can. Although greatly weakened himself, the father raised the now unconscious son. and, taking off his belt, strapped the boy on his back and struggled on. Within sight of the shaft he staggered and fell. Before losing consciousness he called for help, and his cries were heard. Rescuers bore tnem to the cage. Standing out above all others is tha stbry of Dr. L. B. Howe. Seven times before the other rescuers began to go down in the burning shaft he went alone in a lift. Each time he brought to the surface his quota of saved. Twenty-five miners owe their lives, to him. The disaster brought to light many un named heroes. Among these was a miner who, when fighting his way through the blinding smoke, stumbled across the body of a little "trapper" boy. who had been overcome at his post at one of the trap doors that control the air supply. Find ing that life still existed, he picked' up the boy and, placing him upon his shoul ders, staggered on until he reached sur face. , State Mine Inspector Thomas Hudson said : "From what I have learned, I can only say that carelessness criminal careless ness on the part of some men working In the second vein level Is responsible." THIEVES HIT P0ST0FF1CE CRACKSMEN BLOW OPEX SAFE AT MEDICAL LAKE. Stamps and Valuable War Records Taken Escape Made In Car riage Stolen in Town. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 14. (Special.) For the fourth time in four years the safe at the Medical Lake postoffice was blown open by cracksmen about 2 o'clock Sunday morning, the robbers escaping with a horse and carriage stolen from H. L. White. Stamps were the only marketable articles stolen. Profiting by past experiences. Miss Theodora Hall, postmistress, cached val uable papers and money in her bedroom, but the robbers took envelopes containing private papers, among them being the war records of Dr, John C. Hall, her father, chief surgeon of the Iron Brigade. Seamed with laundry soap from outer to Inner door, the postoffice was this morning littered with broken furniture, letter racks, unopened mail and furnish ings, the safe door being blown 20 feet. A clock, jarred from the wall by the ex plosion, was running when found this morning.' Three doors were pried open with a sledge and chisel stolen from Thorpe's blacksmith shop. Laden with loot packed into the mall- bag of the Eastern Washington Hospital for the Insane, the robbers hitched up White's horse, started east and left only few marks in the snow, one of them being made with a heavy boot with two nails in the toe. A new automatic pun. small enough to be carried in the pocket, will fire its pro jectiles through half an Inch of steel at Kmll yarns, its inventor cibiiiib, THE SLEEPING SICKNESS WHICH MEANS DEATH How many readers have heard of this terrible disease? It prevails in that far-away country Africa especially the Congo district. It is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly. When it bites a person, the sleeping symptoms begin and finally the sufferer sleeps until death occurs. Contrast this with the peaceful. balmy sleep of health. Is there any thing more wearing than to lie awake at night, tossing" about, nervous, with cold feet, hot head and mercy knows what else? Short of letting the tsetse fly bite us we would do almost any thing for relief. How can we pre vent it? Mr. George Hayes, of Union City, Pa,, writes: "I had lost my appetite, was all run-down, could not sleep nights. I had tried every thing without relief. Vinol was rec ommended, and to ' my eurprise, it helped me at once: gave me a splendid appetite, and now I sleep soundly." What Vinol did for Mr. Hayes, It will do for every run-down, nervous and overworked person who cannot sleep. WOODARD- CLARKE & CO.. DRUGGISTS, PORTIAND. 1859 1909 The history of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, since its organization in 1859 to the present time, is in many respects the histor3r of the life insurance business for the past . fifty years. It is largely due to the progressive administration of the Equitable that the skepti cism of the public toward life insurance was years lago dispelled and that the business has become the great force it now is in the financial and economic Life of the Nation. By popularizing life insurance itself, by liberal izing the policy contract, by making Equitable policies attractive for the policy-holder to buy and easy for the agent to sell, the Society has from time to time during its history set the standard for all companies. ' THE EQUITABLE was the first company to make its policies incon testable after the first year. THE EQUITABLE was the first company to simplify the policy con tract, and to remove unnecessary, bur densome restrictions. THE . EQUITABLE was the first ' company to pay its death claims imme diately on presentation of proofs of death. ' THE EQUITABLE was the first leading company to issue a policy pro viding for a surrender value in cash of the full reserve during the life time of the policy-holder. After paying to policy-holders since organization, to De cember 31, "1908, the tremendous total of $656,772,603, the Equitable has in addition accumulated assets amounting on December 31, 1908, to $472,339,509, making a total fund of $1,129,112,112, or $39,322,697 MORE than policy-holders have paid the Society in premiums. The surplus over and above all liabilities ($391,072,042) amounted on December 31, 1908, to $81,267,467, insuring beyond all question the fulfillment of every policy obliga tion. Because of its progressive economic administration, its fair dealing toward policy-holders, its impregnable finan cial strength, the Equitable at the close of an eminently suc cessful 'first half-century offers to the insuring public life insurance of the very highest grade, and agency positions of exceptional value to high-class producers. EQUITABLE STRONGER AND BETTER THAN EVER 306-7-8 Oregonian Bldg. Portland, Oregon. COTTAGE GROVE tArimr, MAY PROVE BAD MAX. 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