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r -- ... 4- JOURNAL CIRCULATION Tho Sunday Journal Ooraprtes 7 Scdibns 70 Pcrjcs The Weather Cloudy, probably shower; light southwest wind. Lf K I F YESTEKDAY WAS ooo PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21..- 1003. PRICE FIVE CENTS. L-A : . t ' - 7 i f f I I i I IV V tL 1 i I I I I s ' .A. ' w r II : . . . : : VOL. VI. NO. 34. '', G SHAKE IIP pinniro UlllULLU - . . ... FRANTIC SEARCH MADE OF WEST INDIAN SEAS FQMOHNil Passengers and Crew of Steamer St ' Croix Landed in Safety at Point Duma After ' Three Hours of Peril on BIaz- captain Bat.y, iroaa of Petoc- inn .RW-f :''.' .'"f;' 'ii'i.i'-'r'' . tivos Gives Place to Cap- J : San Francisco, Nov. 20.-r-Wlth fire leaping. Into her masts and water pourlng'lnto her hold the steamship St. Croix was beached tonight. be neath the rockj bluff of Point Duma, H milea north of Santa Monteaand her 83 passengers and the, 44 members of her ' crew were landed In safety. -' It waa. only after a three hours' battle against the elements mat Captain Frederick Warner was able to shove the nose of the vessel Into the sand. and convey the passengers to 'the ; shore.'' v'-,;-' ' The fire broke out .shortly after the St. Croix, left here this, after- n. but -It was well toward 4 o'clock In, the. afternoon' before, It was observed. ;' Frantic efforts were.. then made to extinguish It, but It spread with 'such 'rapidity, that It soon' became a race for life to-the beach.-; ' -. ' 1 o. .'? .v''- 1 i Panic on 'Iloard.K r"r::'? ' - - 'j'-'r) :Z Un " 3l6ore"and Captain .Slover Is Given Day Shift BatyonNiffht' Shift. heless . Following clone on the heel of the exposure of an organized canjr of bunko ! men operat ing' In the city, and Indica tions of protection to the crook clement. 1 a hi shake-up nan txen made in the fnr-r uh ka. ha.n t. ..ha... f tha During: tne: uma tne , snip whb cnurnmg' tne water ior ine Mure iun I first nigrht polloe relief, bum been placed " 1 (Reartt News-St-rrlea.) Nr Tork, Nov. 50. With a score or police department which' revolves ardund J more of" vessels flashing wireless! mes sages Into every part- of the West In dies in the nibst thorougrh search, in the sea's history,' and each falling- to find a trace of the Nourmahal, the friends of John Jacob Astor aid his son . are be- the head of the detective bureau Captain Baty: head of the police de tectives," has peeft reduced to captain of the night, police, and Captain John passengers -were. In; a state of the greatest alarm, Suddenly -when the tongue, of flame shot through tne deck, and. nigh into tne masts panic spread among those on, board, Frantic effortsywere ma.de to launch the life boats, but the flames were eating their way so relentlessly tnat one failure followed" a06ther. 'Rafts were- cast Into "the 'sea, but Captain Warner held by his plan to beach the vboat, women and . men " were re 'strained by force from casting themselves Intothe sea. All the extra ' woodwork on -the vessel that offered fresh : fuel for' the blaxe," was chopped away and cast overboard. W vi ' . V ;' ' ; The-.flames ate their way Into the lower compartments,; spread to the decks and. threatened to envelope the entire' steamer Jn, a mass of fire. T. The; crew, assisted by volunteers, among the "passengers, fought with" a desperation that comes1 only when death ' looms large to the fore. ' " .' ;. '.' v - . ": ' '; V-. ' It soon devefcuedT Into, a .face. "The fir Ate deeper and deeper Into the. heart of the -et.' .Croix. ' H llstei and shot high - torch-JIkp . names fronj its tilted side. ,l Water .pourd in. below. The : rockbound coast- lopmed dim,1 very dim, through the thick fog. With aU steam I that the vessel could . command It was ! urged forward .ft' would, require but- ft fewfrijnutes fqrthe,fir to transform the - vessel' Into rim r red rehuiant wlisra" no "soul com i J sin-wive. -J .rutt-er. the -water mlugicU With -the r of the blase. , Then with a pitch the St. fc'roix strurKv dinr and rose.-. Ahead were the steeft cliffs of the, shore. . - Passsagexs BaVed. , The- flames sho h,igher, ,' ,The. .vessel crunched and settled, n an instant all i hands were being take rapWW -ashore. There they turned to witness the last of the St. Croix. A muffled vroar : told of an explosion. .''A' burst of fire en veloped its whole frame. the fog with a glare ihat reflected in the mist overhead. Thenthe fjre les-' eened and soon a black and charred mass told where the St. Croix had been. roint -Duma, 'where the i passengers and rcrcw landed,. 1s on the rockbound coast, where, 'the 'steep mountains drop iircipltously.intjo.tlie ocean.' First Of fioer, Wills scaled '-the-cliff, crossed the 'rnouhtsiln , trail, end .from the Mallbu ram Ii house - plephoiuyl ' to , this - city, reporting -hat aU had been saved, .i , Prompt .Aid Sent, i rntll Va& time It had been believed that all' on 'board had been lost. The first news was brought tby the 'City -of j- Topeka, which reported that it had, seen the .St. Croix a; .mass of-flameS from mainmast to stern, ' Itf was described as a fire from . which , there could be at the head of the detectives. captain ueorge uaiiey, who; has Deen day captain of police, , has been placed in charge ' of . the second police relief, and Captain-A." E. Slover, who has had the second night shift,' will be promoted to day captain. ?. - . '. - These changes sre all said by Chief of Police Cox to be for the good of "the) department, and were brought to a cli max by The Journal bringing, to-light the - bunko ' gang,' and . indications . that protection was afforded and .of- some thing being, wrong - with thei detective bureau. . -s ..' - - ' ., Tor Good' of Department. "It is all for the good ' of the de partment,? said Chief Cox.. . "By. tUia.l -change; I believe the department ..! It cut through 1 made stronger,' and especially the' de- r ginning to lose hope,. All tonight lights gleamed In the of fices of the ' Astor estate at 23' West . ,, , , . -; , . i ,-5'",) i . ' ' ";.'i-r.) .,'. Sf4.m ' ''.''' ,'i " I . I ....... I U -r- . ... : llf" lN ' Si (Continued on Paga Six.) (Continued on Page Six.) Ill FIERYTOMB Miraculous Escape of Imprisoned Miners at Cherry, 111., Amounts to Great Grave Delivery Stricken Town Is Delirious With Joy at Men's Rescue. PubIIhem' Press Letseil WIre.J " Cherry. III., Nov. 2. Twenty-one men alive and arisen from their graves.,; Before another 12 hours have elapsed at least-100,- poitsbly, will have fol lowed them in arising from- the fiery sepulchre of the'SU-Paul mir". which they have' been entombed here for six days. - -:i . '.''. " ' - -.- ' : ' .' ' In ; theset six" days the rescued' .men have" pased through a '.horror, - the like of which never has been described, even la fiction.-'. "., - Without food, heat, or eVen air, the tnn gnawed at barks from i the logs tised as supports In the mines, erected an eartn - wail to - protect tuemseives f rora , the' deadly white damp of the mine, successfully fought off the deaths that appeared so imminent.' until' they " were finally rescued shortly after jioon today. : - - ? . v. ' ' . ., - Cbertr Xnsaaely Happy. Cherry tonight presents the most re markable contrast to the stricken vi lage of six days ago that the mind can picture.. . tYom the, very depthsScf de spair, the women and children , of the town untli a few hours ago. si most me entire population of the village have . . I 1 .. . T - n . ueceme iimun innaurij' ni'ij. wmn, who a fsw hours ago were hytVrlcal r dumb with grief, tonight are march llll 1.1. !- i-m n. ..,.. ' " - , - quietly holding th hands of the men who have been snatched from the grave. Lined up In the morgus are scores of black coffins thst will be thrown out to be burned. The men who were to hare bes burled lit them tomorrow Or Monday are Seated at their own fire, sidfs with fhelr families: Th miracle ef the returning miners could ot have beea greater, at least to ths minds f Cherry. If they actually had bi placed in cofflna, then bad reluatartly retarned to life, line es rts frera nearly every state In the onion this morning ridiculed the owe WDS wer pm rrniup u lu pymm iiwi life still eilsted In the depth ef ths Mine. Thee einerts are tonight id tsg iXffiiTtoltertng ezpeltlona Into the fsrsway drifts of' the mln,. hre thy are xQTinrd men are stfJI alive,: Sara Oww Mm But te n' s ho bee rturi"t ) f tin t-r,k rr'y hml Bi tfce . i.-M ft r- f c. of K-T t u.T,'r T r t fatt ty t tl r sr It was through thelr-ewn heroic efforts that they were savrd from suffocation In the mine. f o Oraphic .Story.,- . ' Walter Whlfe, one' f - the - rescued miners, said:, ' ' ' ; . . "We never gave -up- 4iope,' but kept hanging on, and now, you Me, we are out. When the fire started we knew nothing of it and it was only when the smoke came rolling along . towards us that ve-knev' there was fire. ' We were on : ou 'Way . out,' to quit work. W started "to go back and .retreated slowly. , We kept going backwards tin til-we csme across a big cross cham ber and there we lay down-and took sleep. The smoke had not come' that far. but anyway .we buljt a wall, , so that the fire and smoke could not get to us, snd also to keep out the black damp. - We did not sleep much. 'This wss Sunday night, you know, and that night one Of the boys died, jits first name waa Paul. . lie was a Frenchman." Asked what they did between Satur day afternooa sod Sunday night, white said: - - - - ' ' -. :l - "We kept going backwards and look Injs for a way to get out. We "did not build the wall until Sunday night. Then ire sat down to wait. " We all knew that the boys would get out -if It was possible and I for one made up my mind that I would hang onto life to the last minute. We bad nothing in tour dinner palls, for we had already eaten our dinner, but ' thank the Lord, every man had his . stomach full of grub. Tuesday our lights went out. We bad all been mighty thirsty ss ' well as hungry and some of us figured, that we Ks4 better live In darkness than die with lights homing, so we drank eur oil. both lard and kerosene, and then we had nothing for our lamp. rNight and day were the same to us am war add tne enir ininr tnat interested oa wai the prospect f get ting out There was lots of spsce be hind ua, you know and when w gi s hungry ft-.at we had to Mt Some thing, we peeled the bark off t he roy hvd Ws pfTplrg the drifts ai4 at that. It wss wet. for there Is alware wster dripping sncre fr l's la a mine rM. fn s-. we are a!le, ard I am f!Tig gd. r ?rr what wstr r.1. tB ' - (Hearst Xows Serylre.) Cherry, 111., . Nov. '20. Mayor , Con noll of Cherry tonight sent the fol lowing telegram to President Taft: "I am glad to Inform you that 21 living men have been rescued from the Cherry mine. . one hundred and fifty more are believed to be alive. At midnight 120 rescuers were at work endeavoring to take these men out and it was expected that they would be. brought to the surface before morning. Other rescuers are digging to reach enother partv of 11.' Mean while, .respirators have been provided and , will be passed to the imprisoned men.'. . . - Later tonight 16 of . - the 21 men brought out were taken in carriages to their homes. A. nurse was sent with each one to tee that ha did not eat any thing -but what the doctors 'prescribed. Inspector Crawford of the state board oi neaiin, wno is in cnarge or tne med ical corps, expressed , the- belief that some of the men might collapse , to morrow when the excitement was worn on. - ; -; ...... ;. ... , Miner's Hair Turns Orar. Despite their affected jauntlness when they were rescued, the faces of most of the survivors plainly tell the story of their' sufferings. A week ago Will iam . teiiana s nair was a dark brown; tonight it is a sliver gray. He almost wss too weak to walk until a childish voice cajiea nis name throush the win dow of the sleeping car, when he was strong enough to reach' out 4nd gather his two children Into his arms. His s-year-oid son. Will, and his 8-vear-old daughter, Frances., perched on his knees ana tne nrst Uilng Willie said ,was; rape, aia you gel your dlnnerT' ttescuers were- senfct down Into the mine at once, 'but came up to get oxy gen helmets,, saying they could hear men calling to them, but could not stand me gases or' the stenches of the bod les oi aeaa mules in the second lvl With the rescuers on the return trip nenry, or Mendota, (.ainonc pnest. He had donned the cioines er a miner and went down to give absolution to all of those Catholics woo migr.t oe dying. . - . . riad Burled atea tlving. The work of reach In these men tasen in cnarg by D.'H. Powell, super- mienoenj or ine Hracevtlle' minA. and B. C Maxwell, chief engineer of .the Bt Paui Mine company. For six hours witnout reuer or any sort - Maxwell stood In one spit and directed the ef- rorts or the rescuers, despite the black damp which threatened all of the res cuers. . . , : , , , The rescuers found two partiee of en tombed, men, still, llrtng. All were on the eecond le-el of the west tannei and near the spot where the fl men had beea taken out earlier The John . Jacob Astor" family ' which was disrupted; by the divorce proceedings begun by Mrs.- Astor, whose . picture is, shown at the top, . from her late. Jius band,. .wnose .pnotograpit is given at cue lere, opposite tnac of his son William Vincent, i The picture at the bottom is that of Alice Astor, the greatest sufferer of all, since she is but '.seven. The reported disaster to the .'yacht JXonrmahal brings vividly to public attention this group. s , Twenty-sixth street In a 24 hours' vigil. William A. Dobbyn, Colonel Astor's sec retary, was. there until nearly midnight answering anxious inquiries, , and when he went home. wearied another took his place. Throughout ' the evening quiet circles gathered in the luxurious living rooms - of the union, .Metropolitan, and Knickerbocker- clubs and 'awaited some favorable message from their club fel low. - -.,' Even mote pathetic was a family vigil in the home of Charles Basset, the young electrician, of . the Nourmahal, where,' gathered with; the father, moth er and brother, was the missing boy's sweetheart, Ethel Middlemas., Every hour they telephoned to the Astor of fices, only to meet with more and. more despair. . . ; , ' .. : . . Quest Becomes International. . i Many-of the crew of 46 lived, in South Brooklyn. - and members - of their fami lies formed .sad and silent groups in various homes. Douglas Robinson, , a brother-in-law of ex-President -Roose velt; and a trustee of the, Astor, estate, has persuaded, every steamship company In,, the .'country that: sends , vessels, to the West Indies to Instruct them - to wire with the utmost speed any news, of the missing yacht and to send their mes sages through the air to the. remotest parts of the Caribbean archipelago. There Is barely - a square mile In this vast space of waters snd the myriad of islands thst has not been drawn- into this -wireless net: Through. Mr. Robin son's influence the treasury department at Washington has Sent out the two reve nue cutters - Algonquin. and .Tamacraw to scout along the reefs and shores' in the expectation that-they may find the vessel stranded .by the t terrlfio, hurri cane. .,..-. . ., Even England,-through some myste rious influence, la . also equally , -ener- getle .in the search for; the As tors. The English cruiser' Scyfta' ,haa been - dis patched to c'ovier every port until some clue-to the Nourmahal . is, found. . Th English, speaking vessels and even the YALE TAKES GAfiiE fill i fill Desperately, Fought Contest. ;.yVeII KarnM Jlaryam Does Better Team Work, but Old Stars Are Invinci- blecore 8 f o D.V ; : ; .(Continued' on-. Page Seven.)' MRS. STETSOH IS Sllli il fJEOBER Xew ' York Scientists Will Ketam ller,.55ays friend. No Chargfes to lie iied. 4 m It were attracted by rspplnrs on the walla of tb tunnels, and. following them. run npoa a trrtcade. Their signals were answered Imsned lately and tby started to dig. At a late hour tnslglit they were SM U talk to the rrH-mbra ef ooe psuy i 7 mn. who derlsred tbeT were ail tn good p h t f - I coKitUns. Thm rwvtri I prwl4 raotKrus'y. that ewrtlow ef tne mine revked with Mik diep a se lf an frari tbl If th men were ht-misnt In cwif r wttk it sodden! thr nitxhl H'e. It Is rSfsd that t Uv p wti sre lsrjflt- STrrt up t.jr - , 1 1 r I k4 i rn.fcl.;r are act i ts str'g as thy think tfceT.w'TM. ' (Herst Xw Si iVs.) ,' ; Boston. Nov. t. That Mrs. Augusta E. Btetaon, former leader of tne First Church ef ' Christ.' Scientist, of New Tork, who waa excommunicated by the The rescuers I directors of the mother church In Boa- ton. Is still a member of the New Tork church, and tbat ne charges - are ex pected 't b filed wits the : directors kre against her Strongest adherenta. -ere two of the Important ststsraents seeds by en ef the bt knows Ckri tltt Scientist of Boetoa tAday. Official aotincaUoas of "her wms vnloatloa aa bee seat t Mr, gtet- tn New Tnrk. and she tedsy r- relred tkte ftk frora -the soether horh. Mrs. ttrimnn bss siren tn ac- U-1rT5'"s t Mt ? has rerlred this Hal err. muni a" n. SEAMEN FIGIIT; FOR LIFE WITH - BIG SW0RDFISII (Hearst News Service.). ' San Francisco. Nov. IS. Half the time on the .verge of death, with - barrels v of. water filling - their, boat, but both so oblivious - to their impending fate that they did not feel the'strain on -their nerves until -afterward, - Sidney Perry; steward of the - steamer Tosemite, and ' A. Johnson, ; aa- ' ststant engineer -of . the same vessel, fought and struggled f or . more than two hours , . last Wednesday night 'with a giant sword fish, while trolling wear CataJIna,' finally conquering the monster. It was brought to -the city today In to Tosemite, snd wss sold , to a museum. The greet snarise fighter I It feet long, weighs tie pounds, and I tn perfect condition.. Men wh . saw It. said H was tb flaeat specimen ever brought to San Franclecev It Is rare that such beg sword fish. ' I taken. Tfee flaherateB wee amssed to dlerffrer they bad booked a glstk- sword fish. Th;ftsh rushed tmxm on side the other. wrtBallr thrtenlng to rr ie tH beary Istrrch before , It wa f.naliy saSdoed. PIDlJEtR RAILWAY AGEIIT IS DEAD Chauncey, L. Canfield Veter an in Serrice of Pa . - cific Roads. 'r t meant Kews by loofest Leased Wire.) Ssn Francisco, No., JO. Chauncey'U Csnfleld. for it years the general agent of the, Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railroad in this cltA died early this morning at the St. Franc la hotel, after an illness of but a few days. He suc cumbed to an acute attack of Bright's disease, after lying Is a oemi-conscloos state for a number ef hour. " Mr. Canfield was ST years old. snd bad called California his home since bis ninth year. He waa II when be went iato NeTwda and became the owner and editor ef a little newspaper la Eureka tn the days wbew Bret Hart aad Mark Twain were In Nevada Journalism. Later he beame the railroad editor of tb 'Chicago Time. lYhen tf a Pa- rlfte ra!irnds r In construction he airtme to hs "i rTr.'it) rrrrs C M r m i for the rs!irfsd ron-inr. in the srrl lof btch be died. ' ' ttTnlted Press Isssed Wirs.T '"V Cambridge, -Mass., Nov. '30,-Tsle's husky' gladiators -uphold the tradition of the past and Justified the confidence of theW supporters of the hour, .'when, in the annual game with Harvard here to-, day, they. walked away with the winning end of an" S to 0 score.' . Kew more des perately,; fought or deservedly won con tests have been fought by the. old tlaiu rivals.. '; . '.: ,L . :: ,,- .' "In today's game the Crimson had the team and the team work. .The Blue had the individual stars and the old dogged persistence that has become a tradition! factor of Tale elevens.'. The stars snd fighting spirit - won... - That the score was not larger was ."due - solely to the fact. that Coy. Tale's .mainstay, was not up .to hie . best : form. ; Time and again Tale worked the oval into striking dis tance, only to have Coy's kicks go wld of the, mark.. v ' V .: '-. -'-'. Mlnot. - the- Crimson fullback snd the . hope of Harvard in the scoring line, did . his punting ' Job well, but all of .his good work was offset , by the ' ragged work of the Harvard 'backs, notably that of "Flaherty and Wigglesworth, who,-when they did not fumble the ball ' or misjudge . the punt, were generally nailed almost ' before they could move from their tracks by the EH flying ends, ' Kilpatrick, Savage and Logan. Coy's Puntlnr a Teatur. To "Coy's punting together . with tb splendid work of the Tale ends and the work of the CrJmson backs under kicks. waa due .entirely the fact that Tale's goal was never once threatened.. . 1 Tale s. defense was at all-times enual to the situation and'1 though, at various stages of the ' contest , the Blue tackles were'' hammered .hard-bv -LesliP; ' Mlnot , and -Frothlngham, the oval was ne'er once' within the danger- gone of the TaJe goal and Harvard never succeeded In getting close enough to the Blue .goal to enable Mlnot to even attempt a Koal from the field. . 'v f 1 ' Throughout the contest Tale suffered llttle from penalties. The Crimson, on the' other hand, fared badly and time and again" Harvard was" penalized. ' ive of. Tale's points were scored In the first half, the first two being ths result of a safety;-;1Andrus blocked -one of Mlnot's kicks on Harvard's . 30 yard line- and the 'ball bounded back, behind the Harvard goal where-4t was recov ered by Captain Fish, ' who- was downed before . he could ' get the ball back on the gridiron. ; "To the two points netted Tble by the ' safety. Coy added s three more-before' the iend of the half, when, on his fourth attempt, the most diffi cult of the lot, he dropped a kick across the bar. The -other three points scored by the Blue were also added by Coy, who placed another kick across the bar ia the second half.: w-? , -Few more stirring scenes have result ed from college athletics than were pre- (Continued on . Page Five.) flLEM! " ' ft , ' ' I ' I ARMOURS (SpecUl Dispatch to Tb loenaL) -' San Francisco,: Nov. 10. After more than a year of .peculation, relative to the sal of the famous" 8. Miller Lux properties, it was stated today that Henry Miller 'had given the Armour packing interest an option en the Ore gon and California holdings of the com pany, which include hundreds of thou sands of acre of valuable lands., water and power , rights and livestock. Ac cording' to -. unquestioned 'Information, Miller 4b Lux 1 have been negotiating with the'Armoura 'for some time. A representative of the big -packing In terests," O, IL Hutchinson of C'hu asi, has-been in frequent conference wiih Miller aad J.. Leroy. Nickel In the com pany s offices -in the Merchants Ex change building"- - The report- of tb gigantic dfl w the subject of much gossip In bsnktrig and financial circles today. It !. e freely stated that Miller had t.-n---- t 9 the Armours an option on ths Xtinr at "Lux proper tie tn Oregon and California, 00 Xad ta the Seal. 'inquiry elicited the InformatiAti tst Miller. Louis F. Monteagle and (lai-f Qutsch. the latter two t-lng 1!re tr of Miller Luw. were all In the Joaquin valley, together with H it on, wh is makli.a- a erltn al e tlo ef tha eitnstr prtpriia ci t west stda f tha rivr. i It the Is evnsi'mrrl.l (' N.-fvolTa th triniVr Of ir-Snf r' af dollar. The ' f- tr-m r m ! Miller L'.x ri! n a -, dre3" Cf t!. uH'," r f s r . . the Kan Jt'iu' 1 - - tit tha state, t- m 'f i' rth In ! Wra ta f "- s ; - beS'dr firnml if ' and tsl'isNie i' t- -'! ,11 ss "-. 1 i - " I'aiitS, V