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SHIP'S DISTRESS SHOWN
' BY WASH ASHORE OF
DECK CARGO OF LUMBER
Hope Still Entertained if hat: VesseJ Is vafe
- andrSjdingESoufhward lighthouse
: KeepersiReport Seeing No' Distress" Sg
, nals During.Storm in Which ! Steamer -Is
. supposed rto Have.
(Meant Kewa br Longest Leased Win.)
'. Waddall Baach. Jan. , 6. The sea
wavea tta grim talea with uncertain and
unfinished hand. It la a -half -told, in-
complata story, ending In uncertainty
and black-foreboding that the wavea
have niahad up on tha beach 10 miles
below tha ltrht at PI aeon point.
When tha receding tide stranded (our
Ufa rafta of the, Paclflo Mail ataame
Citv of Panama It left a. ahuddertng
suggestion of an ocean tragedy, but It
la only a suggestion, wnicn, . tnougn
creating- a fear of wrack and disaster,
till, leaves room for hope .. v ',;
y . - Gum Washed Ashore.
'An unconfirmed report states that tha
vessel was sighted fr at aea off Pigeon
point, about -TO milns - south of Ban
Francisco. , Tha reporV la not verified.
That tha vessel hoa bean In serious
"troubled however, md" way -nowneed
hurried assistance " ta known fry the
washing aahora during the day of thou
aanda of railroad ties and lumber which
made ip the ' decklosd. - It baa been
thought Smong ahlp men'' that when
the dock load ''waa carried 'off by the
storm which prevailed when the steamer
Ban Tranplim. It must also nave
Jf carried away the life rafts. Th la ao-
- counts for tha water erackera and rones
-fan ad en ell. the rafu .baAheydrlf ted
''"aahora.. ' ''
Prom aunrlae to "sunset today the
: watchers' along tha atretch' of white
sand that breaks tha monotony of rock
bound coast at thla place, scanned tha
foaming euraea for something that
would bring finality to and oonjectura.
But If they expected that tha aea would
" give up Its dead or, that a broken apar
or matt would coma to shore to t el Lot
wreck and disaster' they . waited, and
watched in vain. "
. ' Bamalna Beap Xyatery. "
The sun set this evening and no haw
" chapter had been added to. tha tnuta
thought, uncertain tale that drifted
' aahora yeaterday. The fiotaam from tha
. City of Panama now lyjng here on tha
beach Includes four Ufa rafta. two water
WITHOUT A SOU
Impresario Tramp r, for s Days
' Through New York Looking
f for Friends, but Finds Noiie-f-
Penniless' and Without Means
to Buy Even a Spuare Meal.
MANAGER GRAU
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' ' Kaw Tork, Jan. 6. Robert Urau, lm-
' praaarto and theatrical manager, whoaa
mysterious diaappearanoa for two weeks
t gava rise to rumor that ha was either
dead - or mentaJty . unbalanced, today
'' communicated with bis friend Freeman
T naaln. . Ma said ha had been wan-
daring around New , xotk ' curing tne
' i. "V 1 u.
wrote; -. .- . ..
,4I'bi still In aw Tork - and allva.
Tou don't know what I have suffered
during tha last " two , weeks. I have
wandered tha bualneaa section of tha
aity looking for friends, but found none.
- I have tried to And many paopla who
. era under obll gallon to ma, aa I wanted
to gat soma money. The result of It
' all left ma a miserable wrack, pennl-
- leas, without even enough to pay- for
- a meal. I aent all I had M 85 to my
dear Wife for Christmas. I will tale
phone you tomorrow and arrange to
"I immi maim aum wuimi w uviu
port my family ae I hava during tha
Inst years.- I will endeavor to pay
those who have bean kind to my family
during my absence. I hope they hava
- fared batter than I hava. Despite tha
knocks I hava received In this big
- city ft New Tork, I hava one thing
. to ba thankful for -I am in New Tork."
Bernstein sail that (irau had met ra
mm. m snw - $mi
foundered :
casks, - three cana filled - with ahlp bls-
oult, portions of broken oars, skids and
a Strip of a .Ufa Doat lettered "Bom
Mo. S." i . i -
Thero la nothing to indlcata whether
thla wreckage was wrenched from its
fastenings In a storm that left tha
steamer otherwise unscathed, or weather
It- denbtea tha) ateamer haa foundered
with all,handa The life rafu were
washed ashore at two different points
en Waddeu beach. They drifted in with
the tlda In pairs. , Tha first two landed
north of tha mouth of Waddell creek
where , they i were recovered by Peter
Clark, an employe of tha Ocean. Shore
railway. . The other two were picked
up at m point three mires further south
by, John M. Swlnford, a farfner of thla
region. All were marked "City of Pair
a ma." and were, mora oxliss .damagedj.
Tbr of tha rafta are metallic Ufa rafta
and one Is made , of tula.- ; - i
i. Three -of the - rafts were equipped
with , ours and boat hooks when .they
came here. . In tha ' tula raft-aha oara
are missing. , None of the davlcea ap
pear to hava been occupied .or, used.
Tha rowlocks were -undisturbed and tha
cana containing the ahlp biacuita were
made faat and are Intact.
Only Jn tha broken oar blades) tha
Ut -of ..a. lif eboafaalda and a.aevarod
hawser Is there anything to Indicate
that an effort waa made to use tha life-
saving apparatus. . y .--.; ---r
Watohars Vatrol tha Beach. :
It Is Peter Clark who first discov
arad tha wreckage bobbing In tha break.
era. Ha waited until tha rafta. floated
near shore and f. hen waded in and
dragged tha gear to tha sand. ; Swln
ford dragged tha remaining two rafta
to land aliortly before sunset laat even
ing, and later ha found the water oaaka.
All tha rafts, including' a skid and
pieces of painted block, hava bean haulei
high and dry. A patrol of tha beach
for several miles north and south of
tha point a at - which, tha rafta - cams
ashore waa established, today, but the
tired watchers . returned ' with ampty
hands when - tha day waa done. Th'a
patrol will be kept up for several days,
and tha big helghta and cover along
thla coast will be explored In tha hope
that some 11s;ht may be thrown on tha
fate of the City of Panama. -
- Unless tha waters s-tve up mora, tha
fata of tha City of Panama may for
ever be a mystery. From now on tha
day will ba anxiously counted In the
hope , that each aucoeedlng one may
bring some word of tha safe arrival of
tha steamer at Maaallan, bar ..port of
call. , i
- Saw Bin Boeksts.'
Tha storm whistled and tha aea lashed
to a fury on tha night of tha departure
of tha City of Panama from San Fran
Cisco, John Lind. keeper of tha light
house at Pigeon Point stood in the high
tower and watched tha elementa aa tbay
fumed and raged. ' The wavea beat In
foaming anger against tha lighthouse,
and breakers thundered along tha coaat
(Continued on Page Bight.)
iPnbllsbers' press Sy i Bpeetsl Leased Wire.)
Philadelphia, Jan. I. Because hla de
mand for 16.000 to ba loaned on the pic
tures of relativaa waa refused, Robert
Steele, formerly a drug salesman of Oar.
ner. Iowa threw a bomb la tha presi
dent's office of the Fourth Street Na
tional bank this morning, blowing Cash,
ler William 7,. McLear and himself to
fragments, killing a negro porter, seri
ously Injuring 10 persona, wrecking the
bank and creating a panlo In tha building
and ill the densely populated neighbor
hood. Immediately after the explosion
there waa a bold attempt of crooks to
enter tha bank and get away with hun
dreds of thoueanda of dollars which lay
scattered about tha floor. Before they
could aucoeed, uninjured amployea and
aquads of police rushed down from the
olty ball and nearby stations, drove the
men out and guarded every window and
entrance. V
Laden with rjtro-glyeertna, tha bomb
exploded with auch terrlfio force that
partltlona were reduced to splinters.
Iron bars were broken and twjsted and
tha bodlesof Jhose. wuiila , raJius et
CRANK
HURLS
ANSWERS MAGAZINE ARTICLE
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Mri. Mary Baker G Eddy at tha
Founder'of Christian
7t6 AttacsMade - by
Story of
a
' (Special Dispateh te The JsaraaL)
Concord, N. II. Jan. ( Mrs. Mary
Baker O. Eddy, head of tha Christian
Sclenee church, has given out a signed
statement revealing for tha 'Brat time
many Incidents In bar Ufa. ' She goes
into many detalla concerning tha death
of her first husband, and for- tha flrat
time reveals tha secret of her divorce
from her second husband.
Her motive In making this statement
at tha present time la to prove to her
followers and to tha world that aha has
nothing in har Ufa aha wiahee to con
ceal. . Incidentally aha takee pains to
point out Inaccuracies la tha article
concerning her now - being ' printed In
McClura'a Magaslne,' -
After drawing a pen picture of her
father, Mrs. Eddy takee up the etate
men t' that tha first It yeare of her Ufa
ware passed 1r a lonely home and that
her education ended! when she waa IS
years of age. Sba says:
.," All Wara Sdaoaaad. '.' -L
"I.at na aea what) were tha frulta of
thla lonely and unatlmulating axlat
ence.' All my father's daughters were
given ' an academto education, auf'
flclently advanced .. so - that - they all
taught school acceptably. :
My brother Albert waa a distin
guished lawyer. In addition to mr
academic training I was privately tu
tored by him., . , , , : : ,i ,,' , r-
Reraniln tha alteration that all the
family, 'excepting Albert, died of can
cer,' I will aay that there waa never a
f,lRS. EDDY R
BOMB
Robert Steele of Garner; Iowa; Wrecks Fourth Street National Bank
: of Philadelphia Blowing -Cashjer and Himself to Pieces, Killing -
Negro Porter, Injuring Sixteen Others and Creates Panic'
18 feet were torn 'terribly. Tha 'dead
ara: '- y
. Kia of Caanaltlas. . :
' W. Z. McLear, cashier of the Fourth
Street National bank, home tn St, Da
vids, blown to plecea. . ;
" Robert 8teele, the bomb thrower,
blown to plecea. . , . , 1 ,''
'William S. Crumpp, IT years old, of
SIT South Hutchinson street, negro mes
senger for President Rushton. horribly
manglAd; eyes-blown out, scalp nearly
torn off and hla chest and arma cut
Into ribbons. , k . ' ;
Tha stoat serlpusH Jnjura4 Wa;.w,
Tim) Sh4 Wrote "Science and Health
EUEALS SECRETS
Science Church Replies
- Magazine.
Her (Divorce r -
death In my father's tamily caused by
cancer. ' ;-- : "i'-' '- T" .'
"McClura'a Magaslne ' aay a that the
quarrels between Mary, a child of 10
years of age and her father, a gray
haired man -of - sA-frecjuently-aet-tha
house ' In an uproar,', and adda that
these fits' were diagnosed by Dr. Ladd
aa "hysteria mingled with bad temper.'
"My mother often presented my dis
position - aa ' exemplary for -her - other
children to- Imitate, saying: - 'When do
you aver set Mary, angryr
Oltea aa Xxampla. ' :."' "'- ' :'
1 wJU relate tha following Incident,
which occurred later, In life, aa illustra
tive of my disposition: When I waa liv
ing with Dr. Patterson at his country
home In Rumny, New Hampshire, a
girl, totally blind, knocked at the door
and waa admitted. .. She begged to be
allowed io remain wlth me, - and my
tenderness and sympathy were such that
I could not refuae her.'. Shortly after,
however, my housekeeper said to me: -
" If this girl stays with you I shall
hava to leave; she troublea ao much.'
"Notwithstanding that McClura'a Mag
aslne aays: , 'Mary Baker completed her
education when she , finished Smith's
grammar and reached - long divialon In
arithmetic,' I- was called by Rev. R. 8.
Rust, D. D.,, principal of tha Methodist
Conference . seminary , at Sanbornton
bridge to aupply tha place. of his leading
teacher 'during her temporary absence.".
Regarding her, flrat marriage and tha
(Continued on Paga Eight)
Richard It Rushton, president of the
bank, shocked and cut. ,
William Wright. II yeare old. ' J4
North Forty-third street, messenger at
tha bank, fractured skull; will probab
ly, die. . .,
Eugene Mcllener, aaalatant of Mr. Mo
Lea r, standing beside McLear whan the
bomb waa thrown. Mcllener - waa
thrown backwards and hla handa driven
throus-h a sheet of plate glass.
J. P. A. pfbach, an assistant to Sec
one Vice-President Ferris,- badly cut
about tha face and head by flying glass.
. Harry. Brock, watchman, face aut and
suffering lion gboeaW.
HILL VANQUISHES HMRIMM
Defeated in the courts by the Hill forces, the Harriman interests have conclud
ed to withdraw from the field of battle on the north bank of the Columbia river.
The work now under way will be abandoned and the forces of laborers and con
tractors will be called in immediately. ' Approximately $350,000 expended on
t grades and tunnels will
river, ana ine jroruana cc ocaiuc jxaiiroaa company wui now nave smootn sail-
Jnjnto Portland along the easy grade of the waterway of the Pacific coast. This
sensational step is taken as the result of the supreme court of Washington ruTT'J
ing against the Harriman interests in the Biddle condemnation suit, which orlg-
;inated4n-Klickitat county. ': t
FIGHT OH
IIORIH BAI1K
Harriman Forces; Are
Withdrawinrand Are
Abandoning Expen
sive Grades for Road
Tha railroad battle ' waged for . the
laat year : for poasesslon of tha north
bank of tha Columbia river the great-
eat warfare of ita kind aver known In
the Paclflo northwest and one of tha
moat memorable In history Is ended.
Tha Harriman company, known as the
Columbia Valley Railroad company,, la
pulling off Ha construction forces, and
within another week the laat camp will
have been- dismantled. ".Tha victory Is
HHl'a. j ",..- .. - x... ..
Tha stake was tha only, water grade
through tha Coast and Cascade rangsa
from the aea to Jdano, excepting tea
present Una of the O. R. V N. Co. oc
cupying tha aouth bank of tha same
river. For yeare . railroad managers
with' transcontinental plana for tha fu
ture looked with acquisitive gasa at tha
north bank of tha Columbia. It waa tha
dream of. President A. J. Earllng of the
St. Paul, to poaseaa thla route for nIS
Paclflo coast extension. . . .
For years Hill and Harriman, joined
together in a fight against tha Northern
Paclflo, held the route, under an agree
ment that provided for Joint construc
tion of the llnew- - Then Hill broke away
quietly, when be scented defeat for his
Northern Securities merger., and before
Harriman could divine hla secret pur
pose crewa of englneera were driving
final location atakes from Wallula gap
to Caps Horn, and right-of-way aganta
wara following cloaely upon thalr heals.
From tha day Harriman discovered tha
tntentlona of tha IIIU companlee tha
fight haa raged, on tha grades. In tun
nels and tn tha courts. The tatter hava
proved' to ba Harrlman'a Waterloo. , .
Xarrtman Xiosaaj la OowV -
The moat powerful- agenoy In tha
forefront of tha. struggle haa bean tha
superior court at Vancouver, . with
jurisdiction over tha larger part of tha
contested ground. Thla court haa uni
formly handed down decisions that were
favorable to the contentions of the Hill
companies. - Later tha supreme court of
Washington confirmed these decisions to
an extant to place . tha ' Portland
Seattle, tha holding company of tha Hill
north bank road. In " command of tha
Situation.''"' - -
The crucial teat came yeaterday tn a
decision by tha supreme court of Wash
Inton In a request for rehearing In 'thai
Biddle condemnation -suit - in - Klickitat
county. Biddle waa a land owaer
against whom tha Portland 4V Seattle
company brought, condemnation suits
for rlaht of way. Tha lower court de
cided against him and tha supreme court
waa appealed to. . . -. ,
(Continued on Page Tan.)
Halburt Smith, 14 years old. 131 Pow.
ell street, Olouchester. N. X. employed
at tha bank, eata and brulsee. -,
Vwanty Bepealtors Injured.
Thomaa Rutter, East Lanadala, Fa
fractured skull and, cuta on body ) con
dition aerloua,
Joseph Barnholta, dark la foreign ex
change department.
. William MoCanney, 14 years old, Ger
man town, fractured skull, broken arm
and hand.-
Frank Lebold, 11 yeare old. bank clerk.
H. Mercer, 2 yeara old. bank clerk.
Howaxd Brack, oaeaaengar. T .
DENIED
be a total loss, as had the money been dumped, into the
issoono
BE SEITLED
Five Hundred Families
-Are to Be Located-on
Tract Recently Pur
chased irf Oregon
A great .colonisation undertaking Is
being organised by tha new ownera of
tha Oregon military , road land grant,
who hava just paid tha Booth-Kelley
company 1750,600 for lJ-mlle atrip
extending from- tha summit of tha Cas
cade range to the eastern boundary of
the state. They expect to begin thla
year by locating &00 families on tha
atrip, and Increase tha number annually
as the country' Is opened up and trans
portation facilities secured.' .--.---.-"W
hat Is the use of Mississippi valley
farmers going to Canada to aettle. when
agricultural landa fully aa good, and
better climatlo conditions are to ba
found hero In OregonT" la the leading
question aaked In thalr- campaign for
aettlers. -,
Tha purchasers are tha Oregon Mili
tary Land Orant company, of which tha
following ara officers: rreaiaent, 11. A
Hunter, Minneapolis; vice-presidents, A.
CVMeQllvray; Dlckaison."North"Dakota.
and C R. McHugh. Chicago; treasurer.
Andrew E. Johnson, Minneapolis; secre
tary, J. A, Hunter, Minneapolis. H. A.
Toung and John A.. Young are In active
charge qf tha organisation of the colo
nisation plana, and tha Beaver Realty
company, of thla city, will ba tha Port
land headquartera of tha concern.
, Capitalised s XUlloa,
Tha company la capitalised at $1,89.
000, divided tnto 10,000 aharea or ijoo
each. Tha plan of oolonlsatlon oontem
platea the aelUng of etock that wlU ba
taken In exchange for landa that are
to ba eeleoted at tha convenience of tha
purchasers. '
rtwinr te tha vaatness of the tract
and tha time that would ba necessary for
a purchaaer of any conalderable amount
to make nia Miminnii,
la regarded aa tha moat practical. It
also glvea tha purchaser opportunity ta
m.ir Ma Investment In advance of tha
actual settlement of -a lands and aa
cure whatever advantage may accrue
rnm the increase or values aa colo
nisation proceeds," said A. H. Toung.
explaining the eompanjra purposes.
"About 100.000 acrea of land are lrri-
nki and 100.000 acres can ba rarmea
successfully without Irrigation. Tha re
mainder, about IOO.ooo acrea, is grastng
land. There la no consiaeraDie quanuty
of merchantable umber in tne tract.
large part-of tha traot la level country.
Tha aurvayora or tne military wagon
road In making their way through tha
state naturally selected tha route of
easiest grades, consequently the coun
try Is today accessible to transportation
llnea and there ara preparatlona being
made by tha Western Paolfle to build
(Continued on Paga Eight.)
,:x: ,
T.-A. 8. Dominica, bank clerk. .
Besides these there wara 10 mora de
positors and employes who were cut and
Injured by tha falling in, of tha big glaaa
dome of tha bank building after the ex
plosion.
Nearly 100 police ara on guard to
night around tha building while there
ta another large force within., The vaults
remain Intact.
Most Baring Attempt.
It waa at half past 11 o'clock that
Steele entered the bank building. There
was the usual Saturday rush of deposi
tors and -all. about In that center ef
banking and stock exchange activity,
was tha hustle of the closing hour ef
the half holiday. President Rushton
was In hla office with John Bean, of
Bean .Brothers, bankers. , Steele broke
In on them and aald:
1 want 15,000. ltere'e my eecur
lty." v-
He pushed tn front of the astonished
Rushton a smalt photograph album. He
.... .(Continued, on Paga Ten.
HUE DIG,,
Laftin - Rand IPowder
-Mill-FYnlnW With
TemficJlorce-Near
s a a asaai mj aa uu ' r
Kenosha, Wisconsin
(Publishers' Press by Special Leased Wtre-I
Kenosha, Wis., Jan. .' 6. ilve men
dead, five dying and ona missing la be
lieved tonight to make up the list of
vietima a? th. av,ta.ihm . .
- m. atiernoon
Of a. mlll at the Laflrn-Rand Powder
works at Pleasant Prairie, thla county.
Superintendent Ralph Anderson -la one
of tha missing. Little doubt axlst
ha and tha other missing- man wara Ut-
rauy lorn io pieces. -r --- ---- ,
. The dead ara aa frirhtrurtv
J u.ua.v4
aa to make Mnntiri.i i
and the Injured, among whom deaths are
expected . momentarily, are burned be
yond tha-point of recognition.
- The Instant closing of h gate of
the plant and tha denial of admission ta
tha Publlo haa mut. .nvthi.. w-
ture of u Inmt Min im...n.i.
deraon la. tha only- ona of tha vlctlma
whose .name. .vn ia ...r.i.i. ,
It la possible that a complete search maw
reveal atill other bodlea In tha debris
and wrecked mill. , , "
Juat how the explosion occurred la no
known, a recent Injunction againat tha
maintenance of tha plant In tha vicinity
haa forced tha company to arrange for
removal outside tha state, and men wara
loading powder Into wagons today ton
ahlpment to a new location. .
The bust came without warning. Tha
explosion waa not a loud one. but tha
mill, a targe frame structure, rocked for
an lnatant, went Into tha air and came
down In thousands of pieces. Houses
were shaken aa if by an earthquake and
windows broken at Plaaaant Prairie. a
half mile dlatant from tha plant.
WHY WRECKS Oil
B. &0 . 11IIE fiW
Engineer Forced to Work Fifty
Eight Hours ; In . Continuous
ServlceC-UxIty of Manage
ment Reported All Along the
Ltne--Signa)s Disregarded.
(PnMlshers Pens by gpeelal tB Wire.
Washington, Jan. a. The formal
Investigation by tha government and
local authorities into tha causae of
tha wreck on the Baltimore . Ohio
near here last Sunday, haa already de
veloped the following conditional
- A laxity ef administration; an ap
parent desire by superiors to avoid
trouble with tha men; that aerloua
breaches of the rules governing the
block signal system are punWhed by
ahort auspensions; that train dlsnntrh
ers lose trains for five to ten mlnutmf
that operators at the block town
sometimes, neglect to report trait,-;
that-the engineer of the train whi. u
rushed past a dancer slcnal In I at
the time of the accident been l hoi r ,
In continuous service, except two 1 -tervala
of four houra each for el.
that official clocks keep Irr--.
time; that they are not uli.' l n, k, ...
erally by englneera ami run l i . , , i
that they sometimes run ' t- r.
the signets in the blnhs t i .
times dlaresarted by t
ilini he haa reason t( l,;i,v ( ,
they era In error; lh.it it s t i
mime ti nt slatntils can be i ,
the frt; that truln r ,. -.
fallibility of opr,ao( -i, : ,j ,,
up0 lhirn tt bring t ;i o f r
that eni!ners rerive t,,. ,,fi!. ,--,t
flratl-m f whet 1i I ( , . i
men ren-.in In t' . - i i o -i
Uoa of the rule.
OIIEISIHG