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UiLliHIt OOVfll THt MORNINQ FIELD ON THi LOW! ft COLUMBIA VOLUME LVIV. NO. 258 ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS SHIPS SI GALE MOST SEVERE IN YEARS Eighteen Lives and Mill ions in Property Lost on Lake Superior. STILL RAGES AFTER 48 HOURS Reports from All Polnti Relate Stories of Shipwreck and Lou of life Sttel Steamers Sink Heroism Shown by Sevonia's Crew, Duluth, Minn., Sept. 4. Eighteen or 20 live have been lout, and prerty valued at a half million dollar hut been sacrificed in the furious storm that wept Lake Superior all day Sunday and continued nearly all Monday night. The itala U the most destructive to Ink shipping that ha been experienced fur many year. Besidee the wreck of the steel stesrner Sevonla, which broke in two on Sand Iland rcsf, seven of the crew listing their live, it U now beljeved that two tore ahins are ot with their entire crew. One of these ia belelved to be the schooner Iretorla of Bay City, Mich., the Urgent sailing ship on fresh water, and carrying a crew of eight men. The other i thought to be the Olive Jeannette, carrying a crew of seven men. The Pretoria broke loose from the "ateamer towing her during the storm and today Captaia Wenig of the steamer Mary Boyle reported that the spar of a unken three-masted schooner waa aeen a ihort dUtanc east of the outer Island of the Apostle group, 100 utile from Duluth. The Olive Jeanette, it ia believed, went to the bottom about ten mile from the portage entry, aa a mess of wreckage waa lighted near that point, and al though the ahip waa not completely identified there aeema to be but little doubt that it waa the Olive Jeannette. The atom at timea reached the pro portion of a hurricane and the staunch rt new ateel Teasels were forced t run for shelter. Steamer Stackhoune arrived at Boo with her hatch-cover sprung, and water pouring continually Into her hold. One of the crew waa washed overboard, The ateamer Samuel Mather also lott one of her crew. . f - - The terrific battering the ateel steam- er received glvea rise to gravt tear for the safety of the many wooder ships which have not yet reported, ai I the record of death and destruction may reach much greater proiortion than the present estimate. - , The monetary loss of the Scronla placed at $170,000, and that of the Pre toria at $190,000. St. Paul," Sept. 4. A Duluth apecial of the Pioneer Pre says: "It wa definitely learned tonight that the aunken achooner reported near the outer Inland waa the Pretoria. Five of her TOWN DESTROYED OWING TO LACK OF WATER Helena, Mont, Sept, 4. A epeclal to the . Independent from Havre, If oat., eayi that a fir started there tonight in a reetaurant and I (till burning. All the houses one one side of Firt street it, detfcy4 Including the St. Paul hotel. No water U available and the crew were drowned by the capsizing of the yawl in which the crew took refuge when the boat began to founder. Fit survivor were reeeued by the effort of John Irvin, the keeper of the outer Uland light and hi assistant Fequamlng, Mich., Kepi. 4. Wreckage ha been found 19 mile oft the portage entry, Indicating that an unknown ahip foundered in the great storm of Sunday morning. , Some wreckage marked "Olive," Indicated that the lot boat to I the Olive Jeannette. Sand Uland, on which the Scvonia wa wrecked, I in the center of a patch of dangerous reef. One mile and a half east of the light on the inland U the Sand Island reef. The storm obscured the Itaxpberry light and the mel struck. A great hole wa torn in the how, and half an hour later the pound ing of the wave bad hammered the oteamohip in two. BASEBALL SCORES. Portland, Sept. 4. Firnt game: land 3, Ouklund O. Second game; land 3, Oakland 0. Port Port Tacoma, Sept. 4. Lo Angele 3, Ta cvma Z. San Francico, Kept. 4.-Firt game Seattle 3, San Francisco 10. Second game: N-attle H, pian rrnci-co 9, Residents of San Lucas Valley Flee in Terror. Mountainside Ia Forced Upward and Are Great Maisea of Hot Stone Buried Into the Valley Deep Sub teranean Noiaea Accompany Upheaval Mexico City, Sept 4. New from the State of Miffigan says' that a great volcanic upheaval threaten the city and valley of San Lucas and the people are fleeing in terror. The entire aide of precipice of a mountain called Cerro Dolore, Including a apace of about 200 square auddenly took an upward move ment and great masses of rock were broken loose by the upheaval and fell into the valley with a thundering noise, For aeveral daya the movement ha been discernible. It la accompanied br rumb ting subterranean noises. , People who have arrived from there declare that the precipice continue to rata and portion of the rock crumble and fall. Of late the atonea have ben hot and a volcano i believed to be in the proce of for mat ion, FIRE CAUSES LOSS QF $5,000,000 Constantinople, Sept, 4. The fire which broke out in Adrian ople Saturday raged until Sun day, owing to the lack of water. The greater part of each of the ix quarter of the city was de stroyed and the damage i estl mated at $3,000,000, one fourth of which ia covered by insurance. Thousand of persona are home less. fire department k handicapped. Every effort I being made to prevent the an tire town from being wiped out and bucket hrigadea are formed In line to every available well and what water i aecured i used to prevent the spread or the flame past First etreet Late report Indicate a lot of $100,000. VOLCANO IN . FORMATION NFECTION SPREADS AUTHORITIES ACTIVE The German Government Erects Hospitals. For Cholera Patients. QUARANTINE IS INFECTIVE Imperial Health Officer Are Beginning to Feel Alarmed aa Caie Appear ia Widely Separated Section, Showing Quarantine to Be Ineffective. Ilcrlin, Sept. 4. The number of ca of cholera which have been rejiorted indicate a total of fully 70, nearly one half being fatal. 4 Berlin, Sept. 4. It wa officially bul letined today ihat 00 cholera casee and 23 death have occurred in Prusida. Of thi number, ten new case and three death were reported up to noon today. While alarm U not yet the word to deteribe the feeling of the v imperial health officer, concern over the cholera Kit u turn doe exit. Mont of the new case do not break out among the quar antine person, but are suddenly heard of in detached farm bouse or villages not contiguous to the VUtula. Hence the inference I that infected dittrict are widening klowly, and the measnrea to hold the dieae strictly within the existing lxmmlaiie hare not been fully successful. These me mi re, however, are being harply increaed. Order were issued today to cloxe all refreshment house along the VUtula, except those located in town. These small restaurant and Iwr are frequented by rivermen, who are the most likely to be infected. Ini anticipation of clfokra reaching Berlin, the government began the erec tion yesterday of two barrack for cholera patient, or suspects, at Koe penick, on the River Spree, near Berlin, nd aUo established an inspection sta tion for river traffic. Hamburg, Sept. 4. The authorities declare that there are no new cases of holera in Hamburg and believe that a further spread of the disease impossible fast Assistant Surgeon McLaughlin has been ordered here from Naples by Sur geon (ieneral Wyman to make a thor ougb investigation of the situation, and has been directed to be prepared to en force the United States treasury regu lations relative to ship leaving for American ports. London, Sept. 4. -A correspondent of the Daily Mail at Vienna says that 200 deatha which have occurred in recent weeka from Asiatic cholera in the pro vince of Calicia and Bukovina have been concealed by the local authorities under the description of European cholera. . APANESE TROOPS DISSATISFIED. Russian Reporta Say They Art Prepar ing for Another Battle. St. Petersburg, Sept. 4. A Lldiia- putdze, Manchuria, dispatch sayst "The Japanese troops at the front are pre paring for battle." This has caused much astonishment, coming as It' does at the moment when the peace treaty is on the eve of being igned at Portsmouth. The Russian ad vance posts report the Japanese troops to be very much dissatisfied with the peace agreement. JEROME IS WRECKED. Strike Sunkea Sock and Coea Down Instantly Crew Escape. Walla Walla, Wash., Srpt. 4.-The steamer Jerome, aecured by the Open Hiver a"ciatin to transport a cargo of wheat from Kennewk-k to the Celilo Portage railway, wa wrecked Saturday afternoon about 9:30 o'clock at the West rspid, near the mouth of the Snake river. The boat was going down the do lumbia at about ten miles an hour, and when the upcr end of the rapida were approached the boat struck a sunken rock, which tore two large hole ia the starboard bow. The steamer rapidly filled with water and lUted on the right side, going down in about 20 feet of water. The crew attempted to launch the lifeboats, but the stealer went down so quick that they were unsuc cessful. Tiie accident was witnessed by a num ber of government engineers' who. were cngAgcd in making a survey of the river near that point. Two large scows were pushed into the river, and the engineers succeeded in rescuing the officers and crew of the boat. . ' The Jerome was loaded with about 100 tons of wheat, and wa making the in itial trip of the line arranged for by the Opn IUver awnociation in connection with the portage road. The steamer and the wheat will be a total loss. The Jerome was in charge of Captain Dan alier and Chief Engineer Wheeler, with a crew of about ten men. BOYCOTT SUBSIDING. State Department ( Receives Placards. Copies of Wahington, Sept. ,4. Consul General Rodger of Shanghai has cabled the state department as follows: "lli northern trade is opening up and the boycott U apparently subsid big." Through the mails the state depart' ment baa received copies of the boycott placards which are displayed in the prin cipal Chinese ports. They generally re cite the unjust treatment of the Chi nese merchants and students seeking to enter American ports aa a reason why the Chinese at home should refrain from trading with the Americans or buying American products. SENSATIONAL PROCEEDING. Millionaire Farmer Declared to Be Men tally Unable to Handle Estate. Sioux Falls, Sept. 4. A sensation has leen created by the commencement of proceedings to have a guardian appoint ed for Irving D. Smith of Lake county, well known as the millionaire farmer of South Dakota. The proceedings are in st i tu ted in behalf of his wife,' as it is asserted that Smith is mentally unable to handle the business of his estate. His many benefications have attracted a host of besiegers who are insistent upon donations for all sorts of purposes, and up to date Smith has, donated to his wife, tenants, and various relatives an aggregate of 20,720 acrea of land, which is valued at $079,200. FEVER SPREAD STEADILT. Soldiers Art Ordered Away from All Infected Points. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 4. The yellow fever is spreading steadily along the Gulf coast. Five new cases are report ed at Gulfport and two at Mississippi City. The removal of all military guards around the infected points has been ordered owing to the prevalence of the disease among the soldiers. New Orleans, Sept. 4. The official re port up to 6 p. m. is as follows: New case 58, total 2.082; deaths S, total 200; under treatment 321; discharged WILL CHALLENGE WINNER. Lswin, Who Received Decision Over 0'Keefe, Baa Aspirations. Detroit, Sept. 4. After flooring his opponent twice In the first round and tying him for the remainder of the con test, Willie Lewis of Neir York was given a decision over Jack O'Keefe of Chicago in a 15-round battle here to night. Lewis will challenge the winner of the Britt-Xelson fight at San Francisco. ASTARDLY BABY IS IN THE WAY Mother and Her Paramour Horribly Mutilates Its Body. MURDERERS ARE ARRESTED Little Girl Is Caught by Feet and Hurled Against a Post Face Cut to Pieces Both Leg Broke and Body Is Thrown Under Stairway. New York, Sept. 4. A child-murder of unusual cruelty came to light when the body of a 3 year-old girl waa found early today in a dark stairway in a -is. west side . tenement house. - Both legs bad been broken at the knees. There were nine stab wounds in the face, evi dently made by a penknife, and numer ous other bruises Th body was well dressed. Even before the body had been moved to the morgue, more than 1,500 persons residing in the vicinity of the tenement house, where the dead child was found, had viewed the body. None of them ever had aeen her before, and the coroner appeared to be satisfied that she had not lived in the neighborhood. The craft and cunning, even the cruelty, of the person or persona who sent the little one to her death, were emphasized by "the coroner's investiga tion. It has been found that the stab wounds on the face are entirely super ficial. Death was caused by an ugly bruise on the side of the head, which the physicians who have examined the body think- may have been caused by the child being swung heavily against a post, presumably by someone who held her by the feet It is the opinion of the coroner that the body was carefully washed and fully redressed after the crime. The police immediately set to work to discover the perpetrators of the hor rible deed and tonight a woman by the name of Agnes Hyland. aged 23. and Gustave Denser, a plumber, with whom she was living as a housekeeper, were arrested. The woman confessed to being the mother of the child and said Denser had killed her baby because it was "in the way," and 'she had hejpcd him dispose of the body. TARTARS ATTACK TROOPS. Prince Nisheradiee Wounded - in Last Encounter. St. Petersburg, Sept. 4. Advice from Baku says that firing again commenced on Sunday, the Tartars attacking the troops with still greater desperation. Thus far the killed and wounded number only 100. In the last encounter Prince Aisheradsee was wounded. MEDDLING CROWD CAUSES DEATH New York, Sept. 4. In attempting to Inflict punishment cm a motofmati to ight an angry crowd caused the death of a little girl. The victim of the ac cident, Anna Schrinsherck, X years old, was with ber father, and waa being led serosa the street when the car atruck RUSSIAN TROOPS FIRE ' ON FUNERAL PB0C1SS10X Jewr'ak Workmen, Whil Following Body; of Woman to Grave Are Shot Kiteineff, Sept 4. During the prof res of a funeral procession composed of Jewish workingroen, who were forfcrw ing the body of a woman who bad bees killed by roughs, shots were suddenly; heard. and the procenskm waa charged bff a body of tr.mps and police. Maay of the workmen were wounded and 59 wrern arretted. Set era I are missing and am supposed to have been killed. The 2W cers have declined to give any exptaaax tion as to the eaose of the occurrence) GREAT LOSS BY TYPHOON. Many Crews of Sampans and Junks Am Drowned. Saigon, France, InJo-China, Sept. 4. The damage' caused by the typhoon which occurred here yesterday is esti mated at $300,000. All communication with Hanoi, the capital of Tonqoia, la interrupted. The crews of many junks and sampans were drowned. '' " TAME AFFAIR No Spectacular Features at Sign ing of Treaty. Beside the Plenipotentiaries Only As sistant Secretary Pierce and a Few Other Will Be Present M. Wttta Win Sail Immediately for New York,. Portsmouth, Sept 4. The closing act of the peace conference will be a taeaa affair. There will be no spectacular fea tures. Final arrangements hare been made for the signing of the "Treaty of Portsmouth" at 3 o'clock tomorrow in the conference room at the naval store building. Besides the plenipotentiaries only Assistant Secretary Pierce, repre senting the president ; Governor McLane, mayor of Portsmouth, Admiral Wade, and Commander Winslew will be pres ent After the signing of the treaty thai members of the Russian mission wilt g to the Christ Episcopal church, when the Te Deum services will be heLL Tha Russian orthodox bishop of New York, accompanied by 20 priests, and 70 choir sters, arrived here this afternoon. M. Witte and the members of his suite will leare for New York on Wednes day morning. Baron Komura, before go in? to Oyster Bay, will vWt Harvard university, lib alauutter. JAPANESE ENVOYS HOLD A RXCXPTI0X. Proves to Be a Very Pleasant Affair , Many People Present Portsmouth, Sept. 4. Baron Komura., Mr. Takhira, an dthe members of tha Japanese mission, held a reception ia the ballroom of the hotel this evening. It was an exceedingly pleasant affak, marked by the most friendly exchange between the Russians and the Japanese. - Governor McLane and his staff. Rear Ad miral Meade and the naval officer iat the harbor, the newspaper correspond ent and all hotel guest Were present. OF LITTLE GIRL them and rolled the little girl under the fender, where he lay wniajured. Be fore the motorman could lift the fender the crowd made a ruth for him, and at tba scramble he was forced against the controller. The car shot forward aa4 toe child waa ground to pieces. CLOSING ACT