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Atlanta Georgian and News
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VOL. v. NO. 191.
ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1907
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NEARLY 200 PERSONS ARE DROWNED OR FROZEN TO DEATH;
CROWDED STEAMER IS SENT TO BOTTOM BY BIG SCHOONER
OIJSUIO
Vessel Is Run Down
by a Large
Schooner.
PRESIDENT WALTER,Of S.A.L.,
DIES TUESDAY IN NEW YORK
SUR VIVORS OF WRECK
PERISH IN OPEN BOA TS
FROM TERRIBLE COLD
IS CUT-IN TWO
BY SHARP PROW
Siime of Survivors Freeze
to Death in Boats Mak
ing For Land.
NEW YORK, FEB. 12.—NEWS HA8
BEEN RECEIVED HERE OF THE
SINKING OF THE JOY LINER
LARCHMONT IN COLLISION WITH
THE THREE MASTED SCHOONER
HARRY KNOWLETON, OFF BLOCK
ISLAND NEAR THE RHODE ISLAND
COAST.
LATEST REPORT8 STATE THAT
THE DEATH LIST WILL REACH
FOLLY 28ft THERE WERE UP
STATE ROOMS ON THE STEAMER,
MOST OF WHICH HELD TWO PAS
SENGERS. THE LARCHMONT WAS
BOUND FROM PROVIDENCE, R. I.,
TO NEW YORK.
ADVICES RECEIVED FROM PROV
IDENCE 8AY THAT THE LARCH
MONT CARRIED NOT LES8 THAN
200 PASSENGERS. THERE WERE
FORTY MEN IN THE CREW. SO
FAR ONLY EIGHT OF THE WHOLE
NUMBER ARE KNOWN TO HAVE
SURVIVED.
CAPTAIN M’VEY.OF THE LARCH
MONT. WHO CAME ASHORE ON
BLOCK ISLAND IN ONE OF THE
BOATS LAUNCHED FROM THE
DECK OF THE LINER BEFORE IT
SUNK. ESTIMATES THE DEAD AT
87.
H" .ays th« Larchmont waa cut
<1 •"n and sunk by the echooner which
»«» running wild before the Rale luat
main about midnight. The aeaa were
"'■■uni: obtain high and the liner
nuking little progresa agalnat
Roaton, Feb. 12 — Captain J. McVey,
of the Larchinont. waa In the flrat of
the two boats that came aahore on
Block laland. This la'hta own alory
of the accident and the aufterlng of
the aurvlvora:
“We did what we could. Qod knowa
It la no one's fault that so many died."
Such were the first words of Captain
McVey, whan hahad been carried Into
I the life-saving atatlon on Bio, k Island.
“The wreck occurred at 11 o'clock.
There was a northwest gale at the
time. The wind blew SO miles an hour.
1 waa on watch doing all I could. Every
man of the crew waa at hla post
Suddenly a three-masted schooner,
coming like a race horee. bore down
on us. She was driving helplessly
before the wind. We could do nothing.
Before we had a chance, she struck ue
broadside.
“Her sharp how- cut the Larchmont
nlniost In half. T knew Hie vessel waa
■loomed, and ordered the boats lowered.
The passengers were ruahlng on deck
In their night clothes. It was bitterly
cold. Before one-third had gotten on
deck, the boat was settling.
“We had the two boats In the water
and they were full. There was nothing
more that could Ih* done. 1 took com
mand of the boats. We bore awny from
the Larchmont as she sank. The
schooner had gone down, too. The swirl
of the sinking boats almost carried us
down. Then our two little row boats
were left to battle with the storm.
“The wind, fifty miles an hour, swept
us before It. I knew we were thirty
■d wave
Uh-
|.M, nly out of the darkness the
"lu t loomed and struck the Larch-
t broadside.
,!!>l>.itch from Block Island says
fifteen nr twenty bodies have
i "l shore. Several boats, with
"••i- have reached shore,
fi n- at obtaining a list of tho pns-
<’ aboard tho Larchmont were
it. •! today by the fact that the
' In existence was In posses-
ilic pursers of the steamship.
■ tli- steamship and the schocn-
w.'ts about ten miles off Quan-
i«. which Is on the northwest
' onnectlcut. The KnAwIton
Him: deep In the water with
"f coal under her hatches.
■ b of the rnnvass on her three
■ *' drawing and forcing her
■ ' >■" water at a" lively rate.
Schooner I* Rammed.
lookout of the Larchmont
v the Block Island light ahead
siarbonrd how, the red light of
■ Hon began to twinkle awny
' in aril. Gradually the schoon-
c-f changed until both • her
■'* irhoitrd lights were visible.
■' aicd that the schooner’s
'iich that If she carried It
'b would Intercept that of
""■•hip. As the Larchmont's
■ ■-I to the westward, the
veered until ahe also was
oil. west. The distance be-
• mo craft waa reduced rap*
'' t"re the man at the Lurch-
1 could maneuver the heavy
" " 'i r the rchooner had tam-
unship squarely umldsltlp
■ side.
f °urteen frozen corpses
, AR E BROUGHT IN BOAT.
. ni l, K. l„ Keb 12.—News of
ont s |,isn was brought by
... 11 "f survivor*. There were
v men and fourteen frosen
t boat. The dead perished
■■ , 1 “ ’lb" collision occurred at
»• * h bight' off gunnoebontuug
, ' Hairy and Ida crew of seven,
b" . .. It,|, bp.
t: . ' ’ 'css than ISO perished.
, ''kiige sre being washed
" ‘ Island. Rcsr'ue parties
"it was a vessel of 1,600
chfcler. The wind n'u
fi"'ii the northwest, and
"bed Into the Uner. The
miles from Block Island and'hoped to
make that point. We could do nothing
but drift and hope. The thermometer
waa at aero and some of those In the
boate had little clothes. I gave my Jack
et to a man and one of the eeamen did
the same. The fighting and baling con
stantly was awfully tlreeome.
"Before we had gone an hour, the
first man had died. They died fatter
and toward daylight ten had gone.
Rome of them were frosen stiff, The
rest of us could only wait and watch
to see what the day would bring. At
last daylight came. In my boat there
were three beside me alive.
“At the light began to come the
etorm. Instead of abating, seemed to
Increase. The wind blew harder, the
cold seemed to get more bitter. I knew
two hours more would flaieh the
strongest of ue. It got lighter. At first
the sea looked all the same. Wa had
lived through the night only to face
the hopelessness of the-day -and dir
One man In the boat paased away just
as the dawn came. And then just when
hope was gone, I caught sight of land
“The storm swept ue on. The wind
and the waves drove ue straight to
ward the ehore. Looking about I saw
that the other boat had kept near us.
The row boats were coming to land
together. 1 wondered about the other
boat. Then a boat put out from the
shore, it was the life savers. The
waves swept ue on. Our boat beach
ed. We were saved. And 1 thought of
the other poor men and woman who
had gone down, and more of those
whose bodies we had brought aahore.”
SWETTENHAM CONDEMNED
FROM THRQNE BY KING
He Is To Be Buried
in Baltimore,
Md.
POLITICAL FATE OF SEN. BAILEY IN THEIR HANDS
THURSDAY IS DAT T
SET FOR FUNERAL
Mr. Walter Member of the
Board of Directors of
Several Big En-
prises.
London. Keb. 12.—Without referring
directly lo the Sweltenham Incident,
King Edward virtually condemned the
Jamaica goveruut’s conduct by ex*
pressing Ills gratitude In lit* speech to
parliament Irotn the thror.e today for
the sympathy shown by the United
•tee In the Island's groat disaster
“I recognise the since re gratitude
and sympathy shown by the people of
the Unit'd States." he concluded, “and
the assistance promptly offered by
their naval authorities."
schooner’s crew knew nothing of the
steamer's fate. The steamer sank
within fifteen minutes after the col-
Melon.
No names or further details are
known as yet. * _
The Knowlton was bound front South
Amboy with coal for Boston. Captain
McVey, of the Larchmont, was saved.
The Larchmont passenger list was 150.
with a crew of JO.
SAY THAT LINER VEERED
ACROSS SCHOONER'S BOW.
Quonochontaug. H. I.. Feb. 12.—l’ap.
tain F. T. Haley, of the three-masted
schooner Harry Knowlton. of Eastport,
Fort. Maine, which last' night rim down
the steamer Larchmont, of the Joy line,
and six of the crew are at the life
saving station here. The schooner Is
on the beach half a mile below the
station and wreckers have been sent
for front New London to get her off.
If possible fuptaln Haley tells the
following story:
"We were bound east, sailing rrorn
City Island yesterday for Boston, with
a load of coal. The night was dark
and the wind was blowing u gale from
the northwest. We were sailing with a
free wind, when I suddenly saw the
lights of a steamer III shore. The
steamer was on the port lack anil l
sunposrtl she would keep on her way.
Suddenly she steered directly across
i ur hows. It w as too late for us to
avoid u collision, and with a terrible
crash she carried away our headgear
■Itid out u* il«»wn forward.
•*I put all my men t«> the pump*. The
u..iiiatits>r tmokrtl iiwiiV after the col-
,■,?? of 1 a' tnue'we MgM
got Into Sinking distance of the bench,
5.1 .,, ,t, ,„ the boats and rams i»*hore.
We could not tell whether the steamer
was dant.iged nor could «" make out
her Identity In the darkness
Captain llalcy and his men reached
shore uninjured.
account of the continued Illness
or Judge It K- w rainier and 'he alt-
il'frT -he'll, of I. 7. Busier, the
ad, .tinted meeting Of the Fulton enun-
,v .omml-lone.s «hlch was to take
... Wednesday afternoon, has been
ismtiioned Until the regular meeting on
K“irui;ss;
vr'":" . eoa-ld.no.
STATE FAIR
TOR ATLANTA
IS
New York. Feb. 12.—Allred Walter,
president of the Seaboard Air Line
railroad, died here today. He will be
burled In Baltimore or Thursday.
Mr. Walter passed away at hla home
In this city after an Illness of two
weeks.
Mr. Walter waa about *5 yearn of
age. He was for a time general super-
Inlpnrlehl of the Reading Railroad and
practically re-bullt. re-habllltated and
put on an earning basis the entire val
ley system.
He woe also at one time vice presi
dent and general superintendent of the
Queen and Crescent route, and came
from that company to the Seaboard
Air Line. He Is reported to have been
a man of resourceful mind, with great
business sacumen and especially ad
apted for the ttomplexltlea of railway
management.
Besides being president of the Sea
board Air. Line, Air. Walter was chair
man of the board of directors or the
South and Western railroad, being
built from the Ohio river across
throng the cbAl fields to the Carolina
Seaboard, and chairman of the boon*, of
directors of the Cllnchfield cor
owiilng about li«0M eM» w>
iron land* In Virginia. Waat
and eaatem Kentucky.
WAS ELECTED LAST MAY
TO SUCCEED J. M BARR
Washington. Feb. 1*.—Alfred Walter.
S resident of tho Seaboard Air Line,
led suddeuly this morning at 10:86. at
hla home, 144 West 76th street. He
had been III about two week*.
41a wag elected president last May
to succeed J. M. Barr.
COMMITTEE OF TEXAS HOUSE
THAW’S BRAIN AFFECTED,
Dr. Evans Spends
Whole Day on the
Witness Stand.
Aa Atlanta will be the only flty to
offer a bid to the executive committee
of the Georgia Agricultural Society. It
Is certain that the Georgia State Fair
will be held In Atlanta next tall.
The executive committee will hold a
meeting at the Aragon hotel Wednes
day morning at 10 o'clock, for the pur
pose of receiving bids. After that the
committee will go Into executive ses
sion and an announcement of the suc
cessful city will he formally made
later.
The executive committee of the At
lanta Fair Association will hold a
meeting Tuesday afternoon for the pur-
>ae of formulating a proposition to
__ mede to the Agricultural Society.
Just what kind of an offer wilt be made
Is yet unknown.
It Is rumored that Macon will hold
Its own fair next fall and will call It
the "Georgia Slat? Fair," regardless of
the supiKised rights of tha Agricultural
Society. That city paid off 10 per ceht
or the last fair's Indebtedness and pro
poses to give a carnival this spring to
Ihiv oft the remaining 00 per cent.
The attitude of the Macon cltlaena
—ward the Agricultural Baclety Is per.
haps set forth In an editorial which
apiieared In a Macon paper some time
ego and which follows:
“The people here have been and are
stilt unwilling to pay a lot of salaries
for the officials of tha Agricultural So.
cltey and other fancy expenses not In
cluded actually In presenting a splen
did exhibit."
The Agricultural Society will proba
bly adopt resolutions Indorsing a stats
appropriation of 110.000 to pay pre
miums. us its members are awaks to
the fart that many elites can not af
ford to hold a large fair, which would
creditably Illustrate the agricultural
resources of the state without substan
tial aid. The financial strain la said
to he entirely too-real on Individual*.
“The Atlanta association Is In fairly
good shape for giving another fair this
fall,* said Secretary Frank Weldon,
"and we shall maka preparations tor a
big one next fall.
“We shall extend Invitations to Pres
ident Roosevelt, Mr. end Mrs. Long-
worth. Vice President Fairbanks. Seo-
retarv Taft, William Jennings Bryan
ami Emperor William, who will be at
the Jamestown Exposition about that
linn' I at at year wee an off year for
fairs in the Mouth, but the coming, sea-
n holds promises that look good."
Ill WRECKAGE
New York. Feb 12;—Dr. Evans re
sumed the stand when the afternoon
eoealon woe begun. He was questioned
by Delmas.
Q. As a result of your visits to Mr.
Thnw and what you obaervad. did you
form an opinion aa to hla mantat con'
dltlon? A. Yea.
Q. What was your opinions based
upon, on the first three visits? A. 1
wgf then, and am now of the opion
that,Harry K. Thaw wag of unsound
t was that condition? A. Hla
mtntaT-condltlons was still bad.
Q. On the next five visits, was that
condition Improved? A. Yea, In my
mind It waa of gradual Improvement.
Q. What were the condlllora on tho
flrat third and the last Are visits ? A
He was suffering from a purely emo
tional delusion as a result of heredi
tary insanity, end ha wa, suffering
from n bruin storm, the effects of an
expluslvc delusion, the exciting eondt
tlons of which—.
Objection made by Jerome.
Jury Sent From Room.
The question waa then re-framed.
Q. Have you described the condition
ns a sequel of an explosion which had
preceded this condition? Am I cor
rect? A, You are.
Mr. Delmas substituted the original,
of the letters for the photographs and
Dr. Evans road them When he had
been reading the letters for an hour
Mr. Delmas suggested recess for ha.f
nn hour. Tha court accordingly de
clared a recess for that time. The Jury
retired.
At J p. m. court took a recess of half
an hour on account of the bad air In
the court room.
Thew Confuses Expert.
The witness then told of visits he
mode to Thaw In the Tombs nn Sep
tember 27 and September 29. On the
fln.t visit he made a searching pity-
steal examination of the young man.
on September 29 he said Tha*' tried
to explain certain positions he had
lieon In with the aid of matches.
"He ptacod tho matches In differ
ent direction*.” said Dr. Evans. “They
wet* very confusing to me. and In
volved an analysis ard process of reas
oning that ware not at all normal. He
apiieared calmer. Ha was more confid
ing and lass suspecting, but he show
ed nervous agitation. H* showed no
apprehension of any danger."
He told of several other visits and
then adjournment was taken till 2 p. m.
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta, Oa., Feb. 12.—In a rear-end
collision between two extra freight
trains at Johnston. S. C., this morning
at 2 o'clock, two men were instantly
killed and two seriously Injured. The
engine. No. 144, was thrown across the
railroad track opposite the depot In «
pile of wreckage, all of which was
burned by the lire, which caught up
Immediately after the aceldent. The
wreckage crew of the Southern rail
road Is at work, but It will probably bo
night before the track Is cleared.
The accident occurred Immediately In
front of the depot and both trains were
hound for Augusta No. 2*2 had
slopped to take the elding, but It seem
ed that the flagman did not obey orders
to flag No. 344. which crashed Inin ,t
without warning.
The'dead are:
W. R. NORTON, engineer.
VARY DEAN, negro fireman.
Injured: m
John Stewart, engineer, foot mashed.
West Goodman. brakeman, lei:
broken.
Englnaer Norton was a new man on
the road and had left the engine and
gone back to the caboose to go to sleep
when the crash eatne, and was terribly
mangled and afterwards burned to a
crisp.
Flagman Arretted.
News has Just been received stating
that Magistrate Mobley has acted .!■>
coroner and held an Inquest over Ill-
dead bodies with the result that Flog-.
man Moarnlng has been arrested
charged with negligence. |
Auoihcr accident occurred today also for his life or hla pretty young wifi
connection with the wreck. F**vrwtvd certainly Thaw did hot Indjintl-
man WInter. ''['** "™***'J** ^paper was drawn op hy
hi* *kull fra* tuiwl \vhlle clearing nn .j j Hummel wa* a well-known fact before
New York, Feb. 13.—'The famou* af
fidavit In which Evelyn Neablt charged
that *he had suffered the gro*aest cru-
elttc* at the hand* of Harry K. Thnw,
la In the hand* of the district attorney.
Contrary to- the belief of the young
wltnean that It had been deatroyed In
her presence. It had been Jemloualv
guarded by A. H. Hummel, who. aftef
a secret conference with the prosecu
tor. turned It over to him.
Till* I* regarded aa the greatest pie e
of evidence In the fxwsesslon of the
•tato. Evelyn Nenbit Thaw tentltt‘>d
that accusation* were conjured In
Hummer* brain and that ahe wa*
forced to sign the pa.|>era at the dicta
tion of Ktunford White.
Declares Har Story Falsa.
The lawyer declare* her *wom *tute-
tnent wa* false In every particular and
volunteered to turn over to' Mr.
Jerome wttneaae* who will swear that
after Evelyn Neablt left Thaw In Pari*
and returned to New York she volun
tarily item to Mr. Hummel’* office and
had him draw the damaging puper
against the mun who later liecnme her
husband.
The paper also contain* name* und
date* which Hummel told the dUtrlct
attorney could be furnished by either
one of two persons—the man on trial
E VEL YN THA W’S COUSIN
IS ATLANTA POLICEMAN
r
Believes Harry Thaw
Should be Set
Free.
DIE LIKE II
Washington, Feb. 12.—First Sergeant
Mingo Sanders, of B Company, of tho
Twenty-fifth regiment, which waa sta
tioned at Brownsville, resumed hi* tea.
tlmony before the senate military af-
fair, committee today and was vigor
ously cross-examined by Senator War.
ner.
Once more Sanders declared the bul
lets that whlsxed over his head as he
ran tuward B barrack* entm- from tlu>
town. He said he distinguished revolv
ers. 46-callbcr, and Winchester*.
"Borne of the gun* sounded almnel .
aa large aa cannon." declared the wit- I freedom
Atlanta has devalopad a real live end
to the celebrated murder trial of Har
ry Kendall Thaw.
located a second
4
rua girl and declare* she was .
lad Into the pathway of evil through
I he Influence of fcn older mind, assert
ing that If her mother baa exercised
the porper Influence there neve* would
have been a "Thaw case."
This Atlanta relative of young
Thaw Is a member of the Atlanta an- J
lice department. Officer John M. Nea
blt. of 105 Glenn street, who became
a member of the force ‘only a short 1 M
lime ago. Policeman “Neablt. whu H a j|
liandaomo voting fallow and a native 3
or North Carolina, ta a second con-—-4
sin of Thaw's wire. Mrs. Nesblt, tb*.
mother. Is a first cousin of Mrs. Ncs-
bit. mother of Evelyn.
Policeman Neablt, by reason of thla
lelatlonshlp. It. greatly Interested In
the proceedings of the New.Xprk trial
and closely watches every move made
hy both the state and I the defense.
While lig has van' little to say of Har
ry Thaw, he expresses much sympathy
for Mrs. 2 haw, believing that ahe ha*
been imtosed on by .relatives who -
should have Influenced her to lead a fl
different life.
"Thaw Should bo Free."
Policeman Nesblt was seen Tuesday
morning by a Georgian * reporter, to I
whom he talked Interestingly of tho ^
Thaw case and of his feelings In regard
to his cousin, one of the two principal*
foremost In thV limelight.
"1 have watched the progress of tha
case closely." aa'ld the officer, “and
from tvhst I know myself and from' .'
what I have read, I believe Harry Thaw 1
ought to be acquitted. Some features
of the cash have raised doubts In my 2
mind aa to whether bo should bo free4,—3J
but taking all of the tacts Into could- 1
eration. I think Thaw should bo given
ness. "Something sounded almost t*s
Mg u a (0-callber. Home sounded Ilka
a gun In (he Philippines they call the
Remington. There might have been
something os small aa a Mauser. 1
heard no ahntguna."
The witness thought he heard 160 or
120 shots, but said this waa a rough
guess. It waa brought out again to
day In the cross-examination that
when some of the ntrn of R Company
kneeled down behind the wall. Instead
of standing up, Sanders urged them to
aland up and. If they had to die. "die
like auldlera."
Percy C. Dorsey.
The funeral servlc*, of Percy C.
Dorsey, who wa* shot and killed at
Shady I>ale, On.. Saturday nit,hi were
nductrd Monday night In tile chapel
of llarry tl. Poole St Comtnny. at 8
’clock. The body waa sent to Lovejoy,
Cut., for Interment.
( ARK BREAK AWAY
FROM PAST TRAIN
Eaxton, Pa.. Feb. J2.—The Blurk
Diamond Express, from New York to
Buffalo, while running at high speed
r the bridge across the Ilelaware
river near Mere today, broke tin tear
truck under one of Its conches, allow
ing It to fall on the rails. The two
rear ears brake away from the for,
ard section nf the train and slid for
loo fe«t along the bridge.
The passengers received a sevre
shaking up. hut beyond a few cuts and
bruises no one was Injured.
Ihe ilebtlx. A big chain on the derrick
which was being used In clear tha
wrrrkage broke and the laver an ung
around and struck hint on Ihe aide •(
the head an<| doctors declare he < an
nul live.
Mrx. Thnw testified In behalf of her
lutaband. hut It was supposed the d'>c-
univnl had been destroyed. When the
young woman told on the stand nf Us
Continued en Pane FIVF,
MAN AND SISTER-IN-LAW
DIE WITHIN SHORT WHILE
Special to The Georgian
Klbeiton. (la, Feb. 12.—D. 8. Kerlln
and his sister-in-law. Mlsa Kenna-
brew, were ubrlcd here this afternoon,
both having died In the same house
within a few hours of each other.
Sirs. Kerlln. the wife of Ihe de.
erased. Is critically III with pneu
monia and not expected tu live.
'.While I have no particular sympa
thy for.Harry Thaw, of course I natu
rally sympathise with Iff*. Thaw and
went to see her come out of the ordeal
all right. She has been a badly abused
woman and I feel convinced' Is not di
rectly responsible for her conduct. If
her mother had exartad-ths proper in-
IIuence over her during her girlhood
and at the time when her Ufa should
hava bepn properly shaped. I .believe
there would have been a different story
to, tell today. Stanford.White would
never have been killed by Harry Thaw,
Evelyn's name would -never have been
besmirched, and there would, have been
no Thew cose. An older .and more ex
perienced mind directed'lhe Inexpe
rienced Inotitepe of Evelyn Into the
pathway of evil. She was always a
good girl and It waa not her nature to
voluntarily lead the life of which she
Is now charged."
Continuing, he said:
"Evelyn Loved Harry,"
“1 ant satisfied Evelyn really loved
Harry Thu.w and now love* him with a
commendable love, and that ahe never
married him almply for name and (or
money. She was a beautiful girl and
had won a name on the (tags and I
don't believe ahe would have married
Thaw If the had not loved him with all
her heart.”
Policeman Nesblt cam* „to Atlanta
October 4. 1(02, from Aihevttl*. where
he had enlisted In the Sixteenth Untied
States Infantry. He nerved hla entire
enlistment In Atlanta, being detailed
' sen months at b*
department of the gulf headquarters.
When the Sixteenth left Atlanta for
the Philipp toes, young Neebtt waa '
transferred to the Seventeenth Infan
try. which succeeded the former reeu-
menl at Port McPherson. He married
In Atlanta and hm "oa little
to the jmllce force a few months *4n
Neablt passed the civil set-rice Ohaiie
nvllon and was given a Job.