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A DISASTER
OF THE SEA
three hundred im¬
migrants DROWNED.
STEAMSUIPWRECKED
Vessel Ran Upon Rocks
and Soon Went to Bot¬
tom--Awful Scenes
Witnessed.
A special from Cartagena, Spain,
says; A terrible marine disaster oc¬
curred Saturday evening off Cape
Palos. The Italian steamship Sirio,
from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Mon¬
tevideo, and Buenos Ayres, with about
eight hundred persons on board, was
wrecked oh Hormigas Island.
Three hundred immigrants, moat
of them Italian and Spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain of the steamer commit,
ted suicide.
The remainder of the passengers
and the officers and crew got away
in the ship's boats or were rescued
by means of boats sent to them from
the shore.
A number of fishermen, who made
attempts at rescue, were drowned.
Those rescued from the vessel aro
now at Cape Palos in a pitiable con¬
dition, being without food or cloth¬
ing.
The Sirio struck a rocky reef known
as Bajor Hormigas and sank soon af¬
ter, stem first. Hormigas Island lies
about 2 1-2 miles to the eastward of
Cape Palos.
Before he committed suicide, the
captain declared the steamer had 645
passengers on board and that her
crew numbered 327 men. The Sirio
had 57(3 passengers when leaving Ge
' but additional Spanish passen¬
noa,
gers were taken on board at Barce¬
lona. where the vessel touched a few
hours before.
The disaster occurred at 5 o’clock
Saturday afternoon. The steamer was
threading a difficult passage through
the Hormigas group, where the Ba
jos Hormigas reef is a continual men¬
ace to navigation.
The vessel began to settle rapidly
immediately she had struck and a
terrible scene of confusion and panic
ensued on board. The fishermen along
the coast sought to render every a*
sistance in their power and set out in
boats, which brought many survivors
ashore. Most of the officers and crew
of the Sirio are among the saved.
The condition of the survivors is
most deplorable. They have lo3t ev¬
erything and are without money, food
or clothing The maritime authorities
of Cartagena have dispatched a. tug
to the scene carrying relief supplies.
The buildings of a circu3 and the
poorhouse are being used as tempo¬
rary quarters for the survivors.
Prom the broken narratives of the
terror-stricken survivors it would ap¬
pear that it was the intention of the
captain of the Sirio, leaving Barce¬
lona, to call at Cadiz before proceed¬
ing to Brazil. The captain, in order
to shorten the route and gain time,
purposed to pass as close as possible
to the dangerous rocky ledges sur¬
rounding the Hormigas Islands.
Without any warn £g and while ran.
ning at full speed the Sirio crashed
upon the rocks with terrific force.
A few minutes later the stern of
the vessel sank beneath the waves.
The passengers were in a state of
horror and panic. Crowds rushed for¬
ward, pushing each other and fight¬
ing for places in the bow of the boat.
Many fell and were trampled to
death. Dozens of men and women
threw themselves into the sea.
FEVER-LADEN SHIP ISOLATED.
Vessel is Held Indefinitely at Mississippi
Quarantine Station
A New Orleans special says: The
steamer Whitehall, from Colon, has
been declared a menace to the health
of all ports, and orders were given
by the state board of health to hold
her indefinately at Mississippi quar¬
antine station. The Whitehall has
one of the worst fever epidemics on
shipboard in the records of tropical
shiping, having arrived off New Or¬
leans with an outbreak of Chagres
fever.
WUNESSES IMPRISONED.
Court Order Holds Men Wanted to
lesiuy in Lumber Company
Peonage Case
Because of the fact that one of !
the moat important witnesses has su.l- j
Jemy disappeared from Pensacola, and I
that tu others overtures by unknown parties j
to leave for New York and
not apear in the now famous Jackson
Lumber company cases, every witness
wit a is not a resident of Florida and
well known to the United States com¬
missioner has beer, placed in the local
jail in default of bond, where all wilt
be held until the case comes up fo:
triaj at the next term of the United
States court.
Harry Lambert, who testified a lew
days ago that he had twice been
horsewhipped, after being caught with
bloodhounds, and who exhibited welts
and scars, which, he claimed, had
been inflicted by tiie bosses, lias dis¬
apeared. When wanted to again tes¬
tify he could not ee found and 'a
search revealed the fact that he was
not in Pensacola. Other witnesses
stated that, they had seen approached
by unknown parties speaking foreign
tongues with propositions not to stop
at Pensacola and testify, but to go
on to NJew York, and if they would
do so money for their fare would be
given them.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Emil
Lesser, president of the German Im¬
migration Society of Alabama, has re¬
turned from Lockhart, where ho has
been for several days investigating
the charges of peonage in the camp
of the Jackson Lumber company at
that place.
Mr. Lesser has prepared a report,
which will be submitted to Governor
Jelkp, in wtiich he says that there is
no trace of peonage at the camp.
His report says in part: “1 have
interviewed nearly a hundred laborers
and have not found * single person
who could or would make any com¬
plaint about peonage or cruel treat¬
ment. All the men I spoke to stated
they could leave if they wished, ir
peonage has existed at Ixickhart, tnen
all traces of it, had been removed be¬
fore my coming. The German vic>3
cousul at Pensacola authorizes m« to
say officially and positively that the
statements as to complaints being
made to him by Germans escaping
from these camps are absolutely
false.”
NEGROES PROTECTED BY TROOPS.
Two Companies of Kentucky Guards Called
Out by Governor Beckham.
The Frankfort and Barbourville
(Kentucky) companies of the state
guard were ordered by Governor Beck¬
ham to go on duty at Barbourville to
protect during their trial the negro
man and woman charged with the
murder of Mrs. Broughton.
The negroes are now in jail at Stan¬
ford, and troops will proceed to that
place and accompany them to the
scene of the crime and trial. This
is owing to fears that an attempt to
lynch the negroes who committed the
crime to secure $40 will be made.
WRONG MAN WAS ARRESTED.
I Genuine Lord Douglas Demands Apology by
Sherilf and Police.
| Instead of having in custody an
1 American bigamist known as “Lord
Douglass,” wanted by the authorities
of many states, as was at first sup¬
posed, the police at Portland, Maine,
have detained Lord Sholto Douglass,
third, son of the late Marquis of
Queensberry.
Lord Douglass says he wants to
avoid further notoriety and will ho
satisfied with verbal apologies from
the sheriff and police. The consular
authorities await the apologies and
the matter may become a subject of
international inquiry.
BIG COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
Called to Meet in Seventeenth Annual
Session at Kansas City.
The official call for the seventeenth
annual session of the trans-Mississippi
Commercial congress, to meet in Kan¬
sas City, Mo., November 20, 21, 22 and
23 next, has been issued.
CONVERTED 10 VAROAMAN PLAN.
Six M>ANi««ippi Candidates Favor Change in
Educational law.
An appeal by Governor Vardanian
! of Mississipi was made at Brook
' haven to white voters to select state
legislators who will vote to stop
granting aproprlations for the educa
tion of negro children, in an address
j ' at when a farmers’ he advocated meeting. this line He said of action that
three years ago, he stood alone, but
j that now “six candidates for gover¬
nor occupy my old platform and are
pulling for the shore.
MUTINEERS TRIUMPH.
Russian Baltic Fleet Report ;d n Hinds
of Insurgents ana cronstadt is
Menaced.
According to reports received in
St. Petersburg Wednesday morning
the Baltic se^i fleet has mutinied and
four of the batleships, manned by in¬
surgents, are roaming at large in the
Gull of Finland. The c: mmaudatit at
Cronsla.it mis attack. be'on notified to pro- |
pare for aa
The 1,500 sailors composing the I
seventh equipage, quartered at Cron- |
studt., whose loyalty had been dis¬
trusted, have been made prisoners.
The streets of Cronstadt are swarm¬
ing with troops of the loyal guard
regiments and the. newly arrived men
of the twenty-fourth division, who
serve to overawe the disaffected ele¬
ments.
If Cronstadt were attacked before
reinfoicements arrive it could offer
but feeble resistance, as practically
all the men stationed at the fortress
have been disarmed, the carbines be¬
ing hidden away.
Ft. Petersburg is anxiously awaiting
news of the outcome of Tuesday s
battle between the mutineers and the
government, forces at. Sveaborg. No
definite information has been receiv¬
ed, owing to the damage done to the
land telegraph wires. The advices re
ceived by the government by wireless
telegraphy have not been divulged.
It is worthy of note that a dis
patch to an official agency from Hel¬
singfors announcing the arrival of
the fleet off Sveaborg, and the fact
that it opened lire, does not mention
what it opened fire against.
GEORGIA HAS CHILD LABOR IAVV.
Governor Terrell Applies Signature to Bill
Passed by Legislature.
After many years of opposition on
the part of many, striving in its be¬
half on the part of some and wait¬
ing on the part of all, the Bell child
labor bill became a law in Georgia
Wednesday afternoon with the signa¬
ture of Governor Terrell, which was
affixed in the morning.
And this law not only marks a new
epoch m the history of the Empire
State of the South, affecting thou¬
sands as it does, but it also reflects
credit and honor to the father of the
bill, Madison Bel, representing Ful¬
ton count:-; 1r ' legislature.
g
Governor Ten ell signed the meas¬
ure with a new pen, and because
there has been years of waging war
for securing just such a measure, the
signing of the bill was attended with
more than usual Interest. Governor
Terrell used a brand new pen for the
purpose, and while there were many
requests for this historic instrument
it was given to Mrs. J. Lindsay John¬
son of Rome, one of the most untir¬
ing advocates of the measure, who
has worked for years to just such an
end as was accomplished.
ICEMEN MAKE AGKEfMINT.
Promise to Be Good and Prosecution is
Accordingly Dropped.
Prosecution of the alleged ice trust
at Jacksonville, Fla., came to un end
Wednesday by the ice manufacturers
entering into an agreement with the
prosecuting attorney whereby they
promise to at once dissolve the Jack¬
sonville Ice company, the alleged com¬
bination of manufacturei"! in re
straint of trade, and the giving of a
typewritten guarantee that they will
sell ice to consumers at greatly re¬
duced prices, the maximum being 25
cents for 100 pounds; 15 cents for
50 pdunds; 10 cents for 25 pounds or
12 1-2 pounds for 5 cents. The perill¬
ing case is con'inued, with the under¬
standing that it shall be pushed again
if the ice manufacturers break this
agreement
FIRSF BUT Of GEORGIA COTTON
Is Received in Albany Trom the farm of
Ileal Jackson, Colored.
Deal Jackson, colored, marketed
Georgia’s first bale- of new cottcn in
Albany Tuesday. Ja—.soif nas market¬
ed the first bale for several yea>'s
past. The first bale last year came
July 20th.
SAW01 JONS COVING f AST.
Republicans Responding to Call (or Dollar
ContriBulionv to Campaign.
! Congressman Sherman, who is the
chairman < f the republican congres¬
i
sional- committee, reached New York
| ing from their District Conference at
from Utica Wednesday and formal 1 !'
; got, to work on the voluminous mail
which has accumulated since he ap¬
peal .”1 through the newspapers to ev¬
ery republican voter to contribute
to tbe campaign fund. Mr. Sherman
said that the result of the appeal was
extremely gratifying.
HORRIBLE TALE IS TOLD'
By Allege l *• a vz" Emp’oyees of a
Lumber Ccnipany Before a
Cou.ni ssioner.
The investigation of peonage and
slavery conditions at the Jackson
Lumber company camps at Lockhart,
Ala., by the United States court com- j
missiouer was begun at Pensacola, j
Fla., Friday, and concluded Friday
night, auj resulted in the unearthing
of a terrible state of affairs, if the
statements of the witnesses told upon
the stand are true.
Three of the men are held to the
United States court for trial under
heavy bond. They are Robert Galla¬
gher, Superintendent; VV. N. Grace and
Oscar S. Dander, the two latter also
employees of the company. Many wit¬
nesses were examined and all test!
fled directly or indirectly us to how
men had been beaten and ill treated
at the camps.
The climax came when Manuel Jar
demsl, a foreigner, who had been
brought from New York, with others,
was placed on the stand. So weak
and exhausted that he could scarcely
hold himself in a seat., suffering from
bruises over the body and burning
up with fever, he told his story. Ho
had been beaten with whips, struck
in the face with clenched fists and
kicked in the abdomen and lower
portions of the body. We could not
speak English, but pointed out Gal¬
lagher in the court room as the man
who had Inflicted most of the pun¬
ishment. His story was told through
an interpreter and so pitiable wus his
condition that when he concluded and
could hardly leave the court room,
a purse was taken up to place him
in a hospital, and give him proper
treatment. Frequently during the
time lie was on the stand he would
place his hands upon his stomach
and through bis interpreter signify
that he was in pain from the kicks
he had received.
Mrs. Mary Paul Jones and Mrs.
Gibson, ladles living near Laurel Hill,
saw I he men overtake a foreigner
near their houses with hounds and
while one held him under cover with
a revolver, another heat him unmor
eifttly with a whip.
SHAKE UP IN PRINT SHOP
Two Foremen ore Fired From the Govern¬
ment OUice at Washington.
W. A. Miller, assistant foreman of
bindery of the government printing
office at Washington, who was sus¬
pended by thd public printer on July
21 for Insubordination and Insolence,
was dismissed from the government
service Friday. Miller's former sus¬
pension in 1903 was the cause of
President Roosevelt’s order declaring
the government printing office and all
offices where workmen are employed
by the government to be “open shops."
The public printer also dismissed
Milo Shanks, foreman of the second
typesetting division. The case of
Shanks furnished the president an¬
other opportunity to again express
himself regarding the conduct of Die
government printory. Shanks had com¬
plained to the president that tie had
not received fair treatment,. Socreta.>
Loeb wrote Mr. Stillings that. inas.
much as lie is charged with the ad
ministrative details of the office, the
president would not interfere with
him in his efforts to put the govern¬
ment printing office on an economical
and efficient basis, or in securing
proper discipline among the employ¬
ees. “What the president expects,"
says Secretary Loeb, “is results atnl
he will hold you responsible therefor.
In the obtaining of results you will
not. be interfered with.”
AVI RAGE CONDITION OF COTTON.
Fiovernment Reporting Board Issues State¬
ment Placing Figures at H2 9.
The crop reporting board of the
department of agriculture at. Wash¬
ington in a bulletin issued at noon
Friday finds from the reports of the
agents of the bureau, that the aver
age condition of cott.on ori July 25
was 82.9, as compared with 83.3 on
July 25, 1906; 74.9 on July 25, 1905;
91.6 at the corresponding date m
1904, and a ten-year average of 82 1
The following table shows (he condi
tion by states on July 25:
Virginia.....83
North Carolina . .75
South Carolina . .72
•Georgia . . . .74
Florida.....72
Alabama . . . .83
Mississippi . . • -86
Louisiana . . . .83
Texas ...... 86
Arkansas . . . .89
Tennessee.....88
Missouri . . . .95
Oklahoma ... .92
Indian Territory .85
BATTLE RAGED
IN CZAR’S VIEW
For Six Hours Conflict Was Waged
Near Palace at Peterhof.
NICK READY TO FLEE
Rebels Were Finally Subdued, Eut Fight
Caused Wild Panic Among Czar';
Household-Situation Elsewhere.
A St. Petersburg special says: Foi
six hours Wednesday night, withu.
sight of the czar's palace, wherein
the czar was preparing to flee, there
raged the most desperate ba< tie of
the revolution. The sailors of the
twentieth umi other equipages, tc*
gather with the sappers and miners
and other units, managed to escape
the surveillance of the guard and oth¬
er regiments which were stationed
at the barracks and revolted.
The rebels, however, were finally
crushed.
W hen the firing began there ensued
a wild panic in the imperial palace
at Peterhof, as the palace lies under
the guns of the fortress. All prepara¬
tions bad been made in advance lo
flu; to Tsarskoo-Seloe, but the report
afloat during the afternoon that the
emperor anil his family actually had
lied in the middle of the night, was du
ruad later at the chuixe-c-iiory of trio
imperial household.
it was explained, however, that on
account of “dampness” at Peterhof
arrangements had been made for the
return of the imperial family to Tsars
koe-SoJoe.
The cruiser Asia has revolted and
the mutineers are sailing towards
SveUjborg. Ri¬
Mutinies have been planned at
gan and Lilian.
Although mutinies at Sveaborg
have ooen ended and the one at Cron
stadt has been gnactically put down,
the outlook is still black. The revo¬
lutionists, whoso hands wore sudden
ly forced by tho premature rising at.
Sveaborg, aparently ure undaunted at
these initial reverses and intend to
persist In their programme of calling
a general strike. ,„
One of the leaders of the revolu¬
tionists wfi.li whom the Associated
Press correspondent spent some time
boasted that the word had gone forth
and that the tiro of revolt would
spread to tlie corners of the empire.
His closing words to the corespoud.
ent were “Now watch Iteval, Riga
and LlbaU.”
In the Sveaborg mutiny seven corn
pan ios of art.Mery were concerned,
and of the fortress steamers, the Vie
trail. Pusknr, Ilabotsehi, Imgemier and
Mars were In the hands of the muti¬
neers, while the Bomba Oplt and
Sveaborg remained loyal.
The Oplt was furiously bombarded
by the mutineers, and ttiey threatend
to sink tho Bomba at the first, oppor¬
tunity, even if Bho hoisted the reu
j ling. During tho gkutudtlon island mu¬
tiny, only one, the Finn, of six ves¬
sels stationed in the north harbor
| fired on the marine barracks occu¬
pied by the mutineers. The others re¬
J mained passive.
Mar tie I law has been proclaimed
at Crein.sfaii and in the Denote basin,
the center of the mining and smelling
di"tnct.
AGVICF. III N0RIHFHN MGR Of.'*
Given by Southern Delegate to Young Peo¬
ple’* (ongri'vs in Washington
Before tiie Negro Young People’s
Educational Congress at Washington,
Thursday, A. J. Cobb, of Baraesvllle,
(>a., in an address said:
“You negroes in the north let the
southern negro alone. He can take
raie of himself. He is a friend of
the white man and tiie white man a
friend of his. You discuss racial prob¬
lems, never forgetting to bring the
white man in. Let him alone. Stop an¬
tagonizing him and mind my words,
he’ll bo your friend. Why, down south
! have actually forgotten that i was
a black man until I looked into the
looking-glass.”
j FAFAI ROW OCCURS AF FIFCIIUN.
fwo Men Lose life and Another Slightly
Wounded at Hull* in Memphis.
One man was killed, another fatally
wounded and a third injured in a duel
in a polling place at Memphis, Tenn.,
within a few minutes after tiie polls
closed Thursday afternoon.
J. G. Wellington, a saloon keeper,
was riddled with buckshot from a
repeating shotgun and died almost In¬
stantly. W. J. Cooke, acting as judge
of election, was shot in the side and
will die. U. E. Conn, another judge
of election, was slightly wounded.