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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, ' 1004.
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ATH LIST
T1D
OF STEMERFIRE
mm i ,ooo victims
New York City Is Overwhelmed With
Woe and Crowds to the Piers
Whereon Rescued Bodies Are
Divers Today. Work on ' Sloaim's - Submerged
Hull-rilany Bodies Burned Beyond Recog
- ; v nitibh---5Ien in Boats Rnd Hariy Bodicsr
I V BtrUXTiar. . (wreckage, that the blackened hull la a
' New Tork, June II. I o'clock p. in. veritable charnel-place, and that whan
Five hundred and aeventy-eeven bodlea free way la obtained there will eome to
hare reached the morgue. Fourteen I the surface a little army of dead,
launches, manned by the harbor po I ' Oat on the plera today there are great
lice, and equlped with drage and crowda, aome morbidly curious and cth-
other ' appliances, - are at work look'
lng for mora vlctlma. - Peter GUllgen
and Samuel Cullock. dlvera, made a
careful examination of the hull of the
era waiting for the return ef their own.
There ara pathetlo scenes, there all the
time.
Thle morning a weeping woman, poor
Slooum during the morning and re- fly clad and evidently worn out with grief
ported not leaa than a hundred bodlea
penned under the wreck ef the super
structure. A-
' (Jearul 8 pedal Sarrlce.)
, New Tork, Juna IS. New Tork ia
wounded to the heart The terrible
death Hat from the loea of the ateamer
General Slocura will probably reach 100.
And of theee 100 aead an appalling num
ber ara little children who Went gaily
out for
pitifully bedraggled ... finery, bruised,
blackened or perhapa unscarred, , mute
tributes to death's mockery.' The tool!
' day garb la now a shroud.
From a thousand homes In thla elty
there gleamed throughout the night, and
until the aummer'a dawn returned, the
ahaded lights of sorrow. In perhapa
and a night's search, passed along the
pier, aobblngly looking at the dead laid
out there. A kindly policeman, big.
burly and - grave-faced, halt supported
ner in nee wain.
The ' woman' suddenly' threw herself
upon the body of a little girl whose tan
gled hair but unacarred face told . of
death by drowning. She kissed the dead
ehild'a face,, and before the guardian of
ficer, eould raaJIn hen - lntonttnn aha
holiday, but who now. He lw sprang for the edge of the pier. Quick
as toe .officer was. he seised her only at
the edge of the stringer where she had
poised for her leap to death. The offi
cer showed no hesitation, but picked her
up in ma arms as easily aa ha would
have lifted the body Of. her head child.
and carried her,. a hysterically moaning
burden, to an ambulance standing In the
10.00 other homea sleep came not, as rear of the crowd." where a sympathetic
friends of the bereaved considered the
suffering a of others.
. And In all this great city, ' wherever
'lives a mother or father, little children
Sister of Charity sought to calm her.
. , JMtlful Boeaes Common,
There areother scenes scarcely less
dramatic In pitiful pathos.. Early this
were , clasped . tenderly in heltering Uornlng. aa aged Tnaft with snow-white
. arms and prayers of thankfulness went
' up for the escape from what might have
; oeen, mingiea wiin iiioa ot sympuaj
for other parents bereaved and benedlo-
. tlons for the dead.
t ..t ThAiiak tltek Iahb fkrtii 1 AF f ha M 1 arnr
" 4UIUUU kM tvil Mwweep eaw
- charffd with orrow, thr wandered
j irom morrue to more me a ana woman,
tlredlv weeDlnr or la 3ry-Tl d baffcard
' ':t m..mm waaella wallrf r tr lit nwam ff thsalV
!"dead- Between long rowa i of blackened.
diitorted bodlea. moatir tltoea or cnu-
went steadily oa Aa the work of lden
. iiiicauoa progTBBvu iu, umwtus v wi
- white aheeta, teUlng mutely the story
that the body beneath It was known.
more aiiiiouiiv -wu Mptrnnuw.
Many of those who ara unidentified
hair, ailent. dry-eyed ; and heedless of
those around him. gained admittance to
the pier and walked alowly - along the
little row. He turned to an attendant
and requested that the body of a little
boy which he pointed out be removed td
a given address. -;iY. . . ;
The attendant asked: 'A relative of
yours, alrT"..yv,,r.'..'V1,.:..--.;v:. v--v.;
My last one," he answered, almply:
"y little orphaned grandson. I am
now alone." And then, stm with that
terrible calmness of , bereft old age, ha
retraced his steps and disappeared . In
the rope-restrained crowd.
Excellent order la maintained, even
though the clrcumatancea ara so trying.
The disaster was ao great that even the
burial resources of a city of the else of
New Tork are taxed to. the uttermost
Dead-wagons are In constant use oon
; flame-acorched , .0 .that .Ungui.hin, " UflM dt7th;rario.
features ara gone.
1 . ' ' Zdst Steadily Advanoes.
At 1:19-o'clock thla morning 411 bod
lea of vlctlma had been recovered. Thla
list - will be ; greaUy Increased, it la
undertaking parlora.
. : Wort Zs Bystematlied.
As the morning advanced the eight
from the ahora waa shut out by a white
mist which covered Long Island sound
A ,
New
Tir
!
rk. Jane lt.All ullmtlu nt h, e n i. 41..
i aster which yesterday overtook the excursion ateamer General Blocura e
d were below the actual number, according to today's discoveries, 4
4 . Health Commlailoner Darlington, who passed the entire night at the 4
4 ecene of the wreck, returned to the city at noon on a boat which' waa a
loaded, with bodlea, and declared thai after, conferring with Master 4
e Diver John Klce as to the conditions In the submerged hull he was fully
a aatlafled that the number of dead would reach at least 1,000 and pos- .
a . slbly more. , ' ' '"'-.,''"'; . 1 . ,;V-.. -u V ,. .,: . ,. ;.-.; .'-, 4
a ; Vp to noon but lf t bodlea out of the HI bodlea recovered had been e
Identified, aa hundredil were burned beyond recognition, r. ,
g, On account of the number of children killed, exceeding even the ap- a
palling list of those lost in the Iroquois theatre Are In Chicago, and the
a ' general loss of llfi the dlaaster easily outranks in horror any modern ' s
catastrophe of a similar nature.'' " 4
feared, as the submerged hull has yet to Md Mtted tn, wreck ot tn, Blo.
give up ji owo. . '- v - 1 ,,,, n..vn.in A
horror spot with a huge white mantle.
The divers were' thla, forenoon placed
under the -charge of John Kroe, the vet
eran diver and hero of the Boonton ao
clderit. Wherein Diver Olsen lost his life.
- TTInelffel haws ' haan Wsl t rsA a.An.4 V
, m t,. . w-T ja j vaa ae v vovir yipvou I VU1IU lUV
Sr-L..:T'.r. "4 w discover, a body
r STed; imri tc T d fro In " ' "cn?? ?. "I8: F?1 ?n4
. ".,.., H noisiea io tne sunace, wnere it is laid
the chill night air or sat unheeding and I u mv.V V..i-
Im atm .ntt -.1.,,. - 11. ,1. 1 I vu" v' UVUA. J.119 UUUJH IIUW mn
t -"-fc " - - r- 1 rMATAfM an, a-Anarallv nnnaun nk .
ln. .li.. fh VM a wn nlm. I . . v..,
reeping up, reaumed their work on tb farnid th.reon. Th. oron.r than t.k..
woric ia aim.
'. give un
i Out near the .wreck llghta flashed In
-the darkness last night, ahowlng that
. the waters were being scanned contlnu
I A ally, although the work of searching .the
. hull was of necessity discontinued.
. Th .t hnt iMmI tA tha w&ttlnar
V
san : to Increase. Their
cult because vast quantities of debris
' must be torn away, beneath the water
. and removed before , tha remaining vic-
time can be aeen. . :-'
. So blackened and twisted and ao denae
is thla mass that many bodlea may never
t be found. ' Many too, were probably in
cinerated In the floating furnace before
It sank beneath the waters of the sound.
The divers include .? some or the . oest
; known In America, and are all' of them
experienced In the work they are now
doing; -yet, hardened aa they are to the
' under-water aearch for the dead, there
- la occasionally one who declines to con'
tlnue. . " 1 ' , ,
' ' Will Beach Sight Hundred. '
, When the dlvera return to the surface
, they ay every Indication points to a
C terrible swelling of the list . They eay
the final accounting, considering those
; that have been recovered, those known
' to have been aboard and the appearance
.of the hull, will probably show that 800
died in that horrible race to the beach
of North Brothers Island. They say that
t from within jin ha imn nnrtlnna of Chll-
- dren's bodies entangled In the mass of
FINLAND'S GOVERNOR
: : GENERAL ASSAULTED
the number of the corpse, after which It
(Joqrnal Special Service.) '
... Elslngfore, Finland. June
General Bogrlkoff. the governor
general of Finland, waa fehot and
fatally wounded at the entrance
to the Finnish senate this morn
ing, by a son of Senator Schau-
mamv The latter Immediately
committed ' suicide after 'the
shooting. ' . - .
Schaumann was a member of e
a Finnish patriotic party. v
General BobrlkofC was taken to
St. retersourg in a aymg condi- '
tlon and the announcement of his a
death la -momentarily expected.
1 e ''placed In a plain whit wooden box
When tha tug la thua loaded it steams
to the foot of East Twenty-sixth street
where tha pier has been transformed
Into a temporary morgue.
Out : on tha . sound numerous small
boats are constantly patrolling, and bod
lea are frequently found. - The: boats
take them to North Brothers island,
from wAenca they are transferred to tha
Xdantiflcatlons Are raw.
At noon today the' situation was ap
parently darker than before. ' At that
hour 460 bodies were In the morgue and
70 more were being landed at a pier.
Of the total number of 69, but 185 had
been Identified. up to that hour,
Superintendent Rlckards of Bellevue
hospital said: "It will take days to
Identify all tha bodies, and many may
never, be known. In 18. years' hospital
exoerience this la the most ' anoallina
accident I ever heard or, and' the bodlea
are in the worst condition
"At Bellevue hospital there "are 100
dead. '. The mystery as to the cause of
the fire remains Impenetrable and none
can be: found who saw the actual start
of the flames. Theories are plentiful,
but; there is ao far no known cause
and hone on whom the blame can be di
rectly attached. . It Is not even certain
that the Are originated from ttae lunch'
room in the bow of theboat. All that
la known positively) Is that it was ap
parently first noticed in tha pile or lire
preservers, and that even then it was
under -'some t headway;?,;':; .diJft -
District Attorney Jerome has engaged
Flra Marshal Freel . to assist him in
making an investigation Into the causes
and allegation that the life preservers
were rotten. Several . victims ' . report
that they made ineffectual efforts to se
cure' a serviceable cork support - "
Supervising Inspector Boble said that
within a few days an exhaustive Inquiry
would be held.. He said the-records
showed that the boat - was ,. properly
equipped.
Commissioner Says 1,000.
Health Commissioner Darlington"
passed the entire night at the scentr&f
the disaster, , returned here shortly after
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COLD STRIKE " THAT
RIVALS K
LOME
Southern Oregon , Hunters Uncover
Fabulously Rich Quartz Ledge-Four
..Miners Gather 13,800 In a Day.'
' (Seedal DlaDatek The Journal.)
Medford. Or., June H.Newa has Just
been- brought here from Grayback moun
tain, to ' miles east of ; Medford, ' near
Waldo. ; by rWllllam Gllmore, of tha
greatest gold strike aver made la aouth
era Oregon. : Ha brought rock contain
ing 4 per cent of free gold., -
Harry Brlggs, ; IS yeara old, and
Charles Howard, while hunting Monday,
discovered tha ledge. ' They were t rest
ing, and picked up a small rock which
waa literally covered with gold. They
broke off a piece of the ledge capping
which weighed six pounds and mortared
out $700.. ,. - -.,'-
J. C Ho Ward, Frank Thompson, David
Brlggs and Henry Brlggs pounded out
$3,800 worth of gold Tuesday, using an
old-fashioned mortar and pestle. They
have opened up a vein. $0 feet long and
lOv Inches wide, exposing $20,000 worth
of gold at what is claimed to be a con
There Is greater excitement than In
the famous days of Gold H11L Miners
ara leaving for tha camp In parties and
singly,, rivaling the stampedes of. the
Klondike. The location of the strike is
near the California line on a divide be
tween the Iljpols and Klamath rlvera
: This section was the ' scene: of rich
placer digging's In pioneer days, but no
ledges were ever uncovered. ,. , .
C J. Howard was formerly the Wells-
Fargo . express agent' in Medford. and
has many relatives in this locality who
are joining the rush. ,
- lb Morris, secretary of the. Oregon
State Miners' association.' and a consid
erable party left today for tha scene of
the strike.
ZZTUSmOV TBEATT SiaBTXI).
(Jonrnal Special gerrice.l . i.
' Washington, D, C, June 15. The
extradition treaty between Spain and
the United States was signed at Madrid
today. . . ' , :..'.,
5sPwA 1
Japanese Transports Re
ported to Have Been
Sunk by Russians. ;
RUSSIANS LOSE SHIPS
Toklo Hears That vTwa : Transports
Were :Attackcd by rVIadlvostoK ;'
Squadron The latter Is..
' , ' Jhen Pursued. ; ' .:'
GEN. SHERMAN BELL.INCHARG g 0 FTH E ." CO LO R A DO 8TATE
TRO0P8, WHO ARE DRIVING UNION MEN FROM THE MINES.
BELIEVE IT WAS v
AN EARTHQUAKE
-...'...' V r'f ' i ... ... .?'-";v,l.;
Two Shocks, the First at-10:25 A EV Cause
stampede in; Court House Window : on :
Third Street Thrown Out of 'Plumb .
What is believed to have been an
earthquake shook the courthouse so vlo.
lently twice thla morning that a num
ber of attaches prepared 'to leave the
building. ' The first shock came at 10:15
o'clock, and the second at 11:40. So se
vera was tha second shock that Manager
W. H. Beharrell, of the Heywood Bros. &
Wakefield company, who waa occupying
tne witness-stand ID Judge Frasers de
partment, rose from his seat and uttered
an exclamation of alarm.
When the first shock cams a few ef
the officials and deputies Jumped to the
conclusion that ' tha - prisoners ; In the
county Jail underneath the building had
attempted ' to .dismantle a part of the
prison witit dynamite. They were much
relieved ' when euch ar cause - for " their
feara waa found not to exist: Tha the
ory for the shock waa natural," In view of
the publicity given the recent plot of the
prisoners to break jail. J .n1
Weather Observer Beals" Instruments
recorded no selemio disturbances. The
vibrations were from west to east and
were felt more forcefully. In tha upper
story of the structure. ' .
A pen was shaken out of a glass hold
er and Ink spilled out of an inkwell on
the desk of Marlon R. Johnaon. clerk In
department No. 1. H. C Smith, the
chief clerk, and Misa M. . Phillips, - a
deputy, who; were Jn the filing-room,
were Jarred so severely that they has-.
tened to the platform at the top of the
rear steps to be prepared to leave the
aUding in case the Bhocks should ln-J
crease In Intensity. Robert uaeloway
hurried out of tha law library in antic!
patlon of danger. v , i '
Judge George had Juat left tha' bench
In department No. 4, where he had been
hearing motions, when the second shock
came. ' He got out of the room quickly.
"I can understand that first shakeup,"
he remarked. "I was delivering a de
cision about that time. But the second
one I cannot explain." t?;'a:
-'Xt Wthe.:?;Whlte Corner tetore,5aiS.the
corner of Third and Tamhlll streets,
slight damage was ' done to- the build
Ings. ' An inside Window ; was Jarred
loose from the brick wall to a distance
of - nearly : two Inches. ' Plaster was
cracked in several parts of the build
ing. At the west, end of 'the Morrison
street . bridge workmen - on the top ; ef
the structure distinctly felt a swing
aa If the bridge had been - Jarred" by
a movement of the earth,' v
The shock apparently .traveled from
southwest to northeast -At the weather
bureau it was stated that jio report of
an earthquake had been, made from; any
quarter1 today. - . ' :
. x.oa. matt xa beackxo. ;.'
. (Special Dispatch teTbe Jonrnal.) 1 ?
Tillamook." Or., June.lt. A raft "of
100 logs that was being towed from the
Nehalem to Hobsonvllle. by the Wheeler
company's tow Vosburg, . was beached
near here today. Considerable dif
ficulty is anticipated in again . moving
the Immense body of timber - v r- I
RAISE $10,000 TO
l . ... I.'''-
CATCH MISCREANTS
Teller : Connty Commissioners Take
Steps to Probe the Independence
Outrage- Moyer Released.' y
(Jonrnal Special Service.) '
, Cripple t Creek, - Colo., ' June II. The
Teller county commissioners, nndlng
that offers of rewards for the capture,
dead or alive, of the perpetrator of the
Independence,! dynamiting outrage, ' are
not likely to bring results-have voted
an appropriation of $10,000 which will
be used for tha purpose of ferreting out
the criminals. 'lj-'-rW
It is believed that by employing com
potent detectives to assist the county of
ficers tha identity of . the men will In
time be disclosed. It Is not 'believed,
however, that anything r which may be
taken as a good clew has, thus far been
unearthed. . The action of the commis
sioners In - making tha ; appropriation
would . Indicate that , they, too, believe
nothing has been accomplished. - -
Un to date 145 men have been deported
from the district and 7? others are still
confined Jn the - bullpen;l::.;ft:t.:ii..:.-..i!
A writ of habeas corpus for tne pro
duction of Charles Moyer. 'president of
the Western Federation , of Miners, was
issued yesterday by Federal Court-Judge
Thayer.. The writ commanded Governor
Peabody. General Bell and others to pro
duce Moyer at St. Louis on July 8. .
Application for the writ was based on
the ground that the constitution of the
United States was being violated in this
state by the acts of the militia. The
writs were to have been served on Pea-
body and the others today, .
XOTEB ZS . BtrUtXjrBXntEX.
(Jonrnal Special Service.) -
Tellunlde, Colo., i Jun l.--Presldent
Moyer has been surrendered to the sher
iff and an effort Is being made to se
cure bonds on the charge of desecrating
the flag. The federation attorneys claim
that they have evidence that Peabody
did not Issue ' proclamation-;-declaring
martial law In San Miguel county and
of 'releasing Moyer until after he had
learned that Judge. Thayer of St Louis
had issued; a writ of habeaa .corpus.
An effort will be made to have Pea
body charged with i contempt of court
for technical, evasion of Thayer's order.
WXJUS9J TO KOXO fttOYZS.
-, .( (Jonrnal Special Bervlce.J. -.:: : ;.''
Cripple Creek, Col., June IS. Assist
ant District Attorney Crump has wired
the sheriff 'at Tellurite to hold Moyer
ntll a secret service agent can bring
him to Cripple Creek, ' He will be brought
here on a warrant charging him with
Iding In the murder of Charles McCor-
mick and Melvln Beck, who were blown
up In the Vindicator mine by an Infernal
machine November Jl. -; It Is. rumored
that W. D, -Haywood, secretary of the
federation, is also accused. . .. .
-, BTIXXTZsT. '
Toklo. June II. Tha capture of Te-
ltssa, between Kiss Cbou and Seoulan
tlen. by tha Japanese was confirmed lata
thla afternoon. Tha Russians lost six
guns and many regimental colors. -
The sinking of the transports Hiiacni
Maru and Sado Mara by the Russians is
also confirmed, and ItT Survivors of the
Sado have reached Kukura. Further de
tails of tha sinking of the vessels ara
not obtainable. ' - '- '
London, Juna II. Rauter'a Toklo cor
respondent aenda a report via Cologne
that the three Russian warships which
engaged the Japanese vessels off the
island of Tsushima - Wednesday wera
captured by Admiral Kajnlmura today.
Should tha telegrams prove authentic, , it
means that the Vladivostok squadron
must no, longer bo considered In the war.
Toklo. Juna II. Tha transport Hino
Maru, which today returned from Mall,
reporta that at 11:20 o'clock Wednesday
morning ' aha encountered a Russian -squadron
20 miles west ot Shlmaehlma.
The Hino Maru fled, signaling to the ;
other transports the newa of their dan-
Three of tha-transporta eeenpea, Dut
the Hino Maru saw the Hllactit Maru
and Sado Maru surrounded by the Rus
sian ships and evidently at their mercy.
Their fate Is not known, but It is feared
that the loss of life waa heavy. v
Added to the report brought In by tha
transport Hino Maru la another indicat
ing that the reverses may have been on
the other side, or possibly that the Rus
sians failed to make their escape after
attacking the transport fleet-
It Is to tJie effect that a Japanese
acoutshlo followed the Russian ships,
merely to keep In touch with their loca
tion until nightfall, when word was con
veyed to the Japanese squadron, which -Is
believed to be in pursuit -
Should this latter report' prove au
thentic. It la almost certain that the
Vladivostok squadron could not escape
and that Its capture or destruction la
Imminent Further and official newa of
the transports Is now awaited with In
tense anxiety, as It is believed they ,
would endeavor to fight and escape rath
er than surrender.
SX202cTS TAVASraSHXXf BATTXA
rcoropatkia Reports loss of Hearly 400
-s Ken, Znclnding Staff Offleers. ,5"' :
(Journal Special Service.) -
j St '"'Petersburg, June ,11. JeneraI ,
Kuropatkln reporta that In tha engage
ment of the fourteenth at Tafangshen,
north of Port Arthur, with the Japa
nese forces two divisions of the Rus-.
sians" austatned severe losses.- ---
t The killed' Include Coloned Khoaa-
lannow, of tha First Slberlsn regiment:
Second - Lieutenant Nadochinsky, and
the adjutant of the -regiment. The -c
wounded Include General Oern gross
and Captain ; Krlntsky, t of , the general ,
Stall... A, it -y-"" ::;. .- . -i .
Twenty offlcera whose namea are
unknown were also killed or wounded ,
beside S II soldiers, of which the First
Siberian regiment lost 11 offlcera and
200 men, and the first brigade of artil
lery lost six offleers and 60 men.
, The outcome or the ngnt ia not given -
out hence it is believed; possible that
the fight was a draw or possibly Is still
being continued. " As the troopr are now
scattered from Fuchau over a consider--'
able stretch of country both to the
north and east It Is believed that fight
ing may be going on over nearly that
entire section. ,
battu irow oar, ' : ;(
Busslaa Official BUrpatches Bhowleavy
CasualUes'ln Xngaramant.
- " : (Jooroal Special Service.)
St Petersburg. June II. An official
dispatch .today states that fighting be- ,
tween the Russian and Japanese at Va
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WOOD FAILS TO GET
PHILIPPINE COMMAND
(Jonrnal Special Service.) 11
Washington, June 16. Major- 4
4 General Corbln was today as- a
signed to command in the Philip- a
a pines, vice General Wade. The
' assignment came as a aurprise,
as it was cenevea-tnai iienerai w
- Wood -would ' succeed . General 4
Wade.
It is also hinted that It Is the
desire of Oeneral Chaffee to be
-succeeded se chief of staff .by ;
General Corbln and that the e- 4
slgnment of the latter to th
Philippines is for the purpose of
putting him in line for that po-
sitlon. ,- -'- " ' . - . -