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THE RUSSIAN CRUISER VARIAG, SINK HY THE JAPANESE IN THE FIGHT AT CHEMCI.PO. AT THE DEFT IS THE F. S. S. VICKSBI RG, AND NEAR TIIE VICKSBURG IS THE SUNKEN RUSSIAN MERCHANT STEAMER SUNGARI.
SKIRMISHING
ALONG THE YALU
REPORTS REACHING LONDON.
DEFENCES OF PORT ARTHUR SAID
TO RE WEAKENED.
Correspondent Says the Early Cap
ture of the Plaee Is to Be Ex
pected—Only a Narrow Passage to
the Harbor Remains—Japanese
Will Close This at the First Op
portunity-Ships’ (Inns Taken by
llnsslans and Haunted on Forts.
EVENTS IN THE EAST.
Japanese continue landing troops
in Korea. Five more transports
have reached Chemulpo with light
artillary, calvlry and infantry.
Japanese exultant because of the
comparative ease with which they
drove the Russians from the posi
tion the latter occupied at Cheng Ju.
Ice on the Yalu river is reported
as well broken, and that river
must hereafter be crossed in junks
or upon pontoon bridges.
Description of one of the bat
tles at Port Arthur tells of the
valor of the crew of the Bayan,
which suffered severely under the
Japanese fire.
Preparations have been made at
Port Arthur for the Japanese
should they make another attack
upon the place.
London,-April 4.—Reports of further
skirmishing between the Russians and
Japanese in the Yalu river region are
reaching London, but no reliable de
tails are given. v
The Daily Telegraph’s Seoul corre
spondent believes that the defences
of Port Arthur have been so weak
ened that the early capture of the
port is to be expected. There is lit
tle doubt, the correspondent says, that
only a narrow passage is left, and
that at the first favorable opportunity
the Japanese will block the channel.
The Russians have taken many 12-
im h guns out of their ships to arm the
old and new defences of Port Arthur.
A correspondent of the Morning Post
at Yin Kow says that the position
there is daily becoming stronger. A
fortnight ago the Japanese could have
landed with comparative ease, while
now they would experience great dif
flniltv.
The correspondent says he has re
ceived trustworthy information that
the concentration of troops along the
railroad has been so rapid that it is
now impossible for the Japanese to
carry the war into Manchuria with
any hope of success, and that the most
they can do is to isolate Port Arthur
and possibly Vladivostok.
THE RUSSIAN LEADERS
HAVE A DISAGREEMENT.
Paris, April 4.—The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Echo de Paris
telegraphs as follows:
Rumors are current in high circles
ot fresh dissensions between Viceroy
A lex left pnd Gen. Kuropatkin. It is al
feged that the viceroy wants his views
on the subject of the quickest way of
ridding the country of Japanese adopt
ed. whereas Gen. Kuropatkin insists
in retaining sole responsibility for the
conception and execution of the mili
tary operations. There is reason to be
lieve 'hat Gen. Kuropatkin will be left
free. Viceroy Alexieff being too judi
cious to create troubles on account of
11 mere supposed slight.
planning a treaty
WITH THE RUSSIANS.
T
St. Petersburg, April 3.—Ambassador
McCormiCit is negotiating with the
foreign office for a treaty with Russia
"hich will give to United States cor
porations t'tie right to sue ih Russian
courts and to Russian corporations the
right to sue in courts of the United
States. Under the Russian law Unit
ed States corporations can be sued,
out cannot sve, in the courts of the
empire. Thh has caused United
States Arms great annoyances as well
as losses in the past.
RUSSIA ORDERS CANNON
FROM BRITISH MAKERS.
Paris, April 4.--The St. Petersburg
correspondent of he Figaro says that
Russia has orderet 250 cannon in Eng
land for the Mandhurlgn army. He
adds that the Ten h and Seventeenth
army corps will not start for the seat
w war before the of the month.
Jftnfning -Xrois.
JAPANESE ADVANCE
REACHES SENGE CHENG.
Tokio, April 3, 7 p. m.—The advance
guard of the Japanese army in North
western Korea occupied the town of
Senge Cheng yesterday afternoon with
out opposition. Senge Cheng is on the
Peking road eighteen miles west of
Cheng Ju and about forty miles south
of Wiju.
When the Japanese drove the Rus
sians out of Cheng Ju last Monday
the Russians withdrew in two columns,
one going over the Koak San road,
and the other over the Peking road.
The Japanese advance from Cheng Ju
was made very rapidly. It was an
ticipated that the Russians would re
sist this advance, but they failed to
do so, and it is not probable there
will be any further opposition south
of the Yalu river.
Cheng Ju, because of its superior
natural surroundings, is the strongest
place between Ping Yang and Wiju.
Besides these natural advantages there
is an old Korean fort there, which had
it been defended with spirit, would
have been hard to take. The Jap
anese are gratified at the comparative
ease with which they drove the Rus
sians from this fort.
Russian patrols are reported to be
in the country east of the Peking road,
but it is not probable that there is
any considerable force of Russians in
that section. The patrols are with
drawing gradually to the northward
toward the Yalu.
It is reported that the ice on the
Yalu is well broken up and in the
future the river must be crossed either
in junks or over pontoon bridges.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Tokio, dated April 1, said infor
mation had been received there from
I *k private source that the Japanese,
after dislodging the enemy at Cheng
Ju, had advanced to Yong Chun (about
frty-five miles west of Cheng Ju)
from which place also they drove the
Russians after a brief engagement. It
is possible that the many different
spellings given to Korean names in
gazeteers and on maps has led to con
fusion and that the Senge Cheng men
tioned in the above message and Yong
Chun referred to in the dispatch of
April 1, should be the same place.
The two towns, however, are quite dis
tinct, being about twenty-five miles
apart.
TELLS OF BRAVERY
ABOARD THE BAYAN.
St. Petersburg, April 3.—The Novi
Krai of Port Arthur thus describes the
scene on board the cruiser Bayan dur
ing the recent bombardment, in which
she distinguished herself:
“Bursting shells bowled over man
after man until the decks were slip
pery with blood. Amidst this hell
the captain stood unmoved in the con
ning tower, calmly telephoning his
orders to the gun captains. His won
derful calmness had a marvelous in
fluence upon all the officers.
“The cockpit was soon crowded,
thirty-nine men being there before the
fight ended; but amidst the crash of
the guns, the hiss of flying splinters
and the din of the working engines,
the surgeons labored over the wound
ed as at the hospital operating table.
Although some of the men suffered
frightful agony, there were few groans
in spite of the fact that anaesthetics
were administered in only one case.
“When the battle ended, and the
enemy began to draw off the officers
cn the bridge cheered and the cheer
ing extended down into the hold, the
stokers and even the wounded join
ing in it.
“The captain signalled for full speed
ahead after the retreating Japanese,
but the Bayan had not gone far be
fore the flagship signalled to return.”
WARM RECEPTION IS
AWAITING JAPANESE
Port Arthur. April 3.—Preparations
have been made to give the Japanese a
warm reception in rase they again at
tempt to block the harbor.
Vice Admiral Togo was right in sur
mising that Vice Admiral MakarofC is
responsible for the change in Russian
naval tactics and for the inspiration
of Russian seamen.
A signal man named Andronsenko,
who during the bombardment of Vladi
vostok remained at a small signal sta
tion on Askold island, near the ene
my’s ships, and wired information of
the movements of the enemy to the
fortress, has been decorated with the
cross of St. George.
MORE TRANSPORTS HAVE
ARRIVED AT CHEMULPO.
Seoul, Korea, April 3.—Five Japanese
transports carying light artillery, cav
alry and infantry, have arrived at
Chemulpo. The men are entraining for
Seoul.
Gen. Haraguchi, the newly appointed
commander of the Japanese forces
here, has arrived.
SHIPS MUST NOT TRY
TO ENTER AT NIGHT.
Vladivostok, April 3.—The command
ant has published an order in the Rus
sian, Chinese and Korean languages
Continued on Fifth Page.
NEW YORK WILL
BE FOR PARKER
WITH POSITIVE INSTRUCTIONS
DELEGATES WILL GO TO THE
DEMOCRATIC CON V ENT IO N.
From n Source Close to Hill This
Information Comes—Three-fonrtls
of tile State Convention Will Be
Controlled liy Hill nnd His
Friends—Almost an Unbroken Cus
tom for file Neiv \ork Delegations
to Go Instructed to Conventions.
Albany, N. Y., April 3.—Prom a
source so close to former Senator Hill
that it may be understood as repre
senting Mr. Hill’s own views it is
learned that it is intended that the
New York state delegation to the
Democratic national convention at St.
Louia shall be positively instructed in
favor of Judge Alton B. Parker, as
New York’s choice for the presidential
nomination.
Mr. Hill and his friends now be
lieves that they will control at least
three-fourths of the state convention,
which will be held here April 18.
It i:is been during recent years an
almost unbroken custom for the New
York state Democratic delegation to
go to the national convention with
positive instructions. Only in 1884 were
there no instructions. In that year
Grover Cleveland and Roswell P.
Flower, both New York men, were
candidates. The New York delegates
voted for Cleveland.
NO SOUTHERNER FOR
VICE PRESIDENT NOW.
Gov. Aycock Think* It Would Be
Well to Wait.
Columbia. S. C., April 3.—ln a let
ter to a Columbia newspaper, whose
editor some months ago nominated him
for the vice presidency on the Demo
cratic ticket, Gov. Charles B. Aycoek
of North Carolina says:
"Please permit me to thank you
for the article' which recently appear
ed in your paper. I appreciate your
kind reference to me more than I
have power to convey to you in a
letter. While appreciating the men
tion of me for the vice presidency, I
deem it proper to say that I not only
do not seek it, but neither wish it
nor think it advisable.
"If we can get the two wings of the
party together and nominate some man
for President who has a chance of
being elected, I do not believe we
ought for the present to lessen that
chance by the nomination of a South
ern man. If, when the convention
meets it becomes apparent that we
cannot elect a Democratic candidate,
then I believe the nomination of a
Southern man for vice president would
be good thing. It would get the
Northern people used to voting for a
Southerner and in defending their
position about it they would necessar
ily defend us. Then when the time
comes when we can elect a Democrat
we could nominate a Southerner for
vice president.”
MILWAUKEE HAS A
BUILDING SCANDAL
Against Ten Imlivtilnnls Indict
ment* Have Been Returned.
Milwaukee. Wis., April 3.—The in
dictments returned by the grand jury
at its Anal session are directed against
ten individuals, the list being as fol
lows :
August # Puls, supervisor, thfee in
dictments'.
Herman Haasch, chairman Board of
Supervisors, one indictment.
William C. Wegner, supervisor, two
indictments.
Jacob Schulz, supervisor, one indict
ment.
Louis R. Stollberg, plumbing con
tractor, one indictment.
J. Doesburg, one indictment.
Adam Kreuter of Chicago, one in
dictment,
Edward Strauss, supervisor, four in
dictments
Joseph A. Schunk, former supervisor,
two indictments.
Adam Moeder, one indictment.
The testimony upon which the in
dictments were brought related to al
leged illegal acts in connection with
work on the county hospital. The orig
inal estimate on the cost of the build
ing was SBO,OOO, while the actual cost
was $175,000. The building is still in
complete and more money will have
to be expended.
Frank Niezorawski, commissioner of
public works, and Ambrose Adlam,
superintendent of bridges, who were
indicted Friday, were still out of the
city to-day, and the sheriff's officers
could not give any report of their
whereabouts.
SAVANNAH. GA.. MONDAY. APRIL 4. 1004
RUSSIAN PRESS ON •
THE BRITISH IN INDIA.
St. Petersburg, April 3. —The news
papers continue to discuss the British
expedition to Tibet and the , speech
of the viceroy of India Lord Curzon, of
Kedleston, March 30, at Calcutta (when
he reviewed the last five years of In
dian administration and referred to
the government’s watchful policy), but
most of them in a singularly dispas
sionate tone.
The Bourse Gazette openly suggests
that King Edward is planning an en
tente between Great Britain and Rus
sia and then says:
“There is no need for alarm. We
have been accustomed since the days
of Disraeli and Salisbury to such veil
ed threats (referring to Lord Curzon’s
speech.) Indian Secretary Brodrick’s
announcement of big guns for India
has broken no bonefe, nor is any one
frightened by the forthcoming British
naval demonstration In the Mediterran
ean. The fact is thi.t the British for
eign policy is now in higher hands than
Lord Curzon’s, and we all know that
a sincere, peaceful and loyal influence
is ibeing exerted tty King Edward.
“There is no longer)doubt of British
neutrality, and there is no reason for
apprehension regardihg the promise of
a friendly agreement with Russia con
cerning Tibet. We are only curious to
see how Great Britain will explain
armed aggression in, a Chinese pro
vince.”
The Russ says that Great Britain
took a leaf out of Japan’s book on the
way to open hostilities by attacking
the Tibetans withqut .a .declaration of
war.
The Novoe Vremya says:
“Two American millionaires have
changed the destinies of India. Since
Lord Curzon. became Lord Kitchener’s
brother-in-law (sic) their personalities
seem to have been merged. Curzon
spoke with the words of Kitchener on
the glacis theory and Kitchener adopt
ed the policy of Curzon in sending an
alleged diplomatic mission into Tibet.
The glacis theory is all right so long
as it has to do with unarmed foes.”
The mistake of the Novoe Vremya,
in speaking of Lord Curzon and Lord
Kitchener as brothers-in-law, proba
bly emanated from a rumor in circu
lation some time-ago that Lord Kitch
ener was to marry Miss Daisy Leiter,
a sister of Lady Curson.
The glacis theory, to which the No
voe Vremya refers, was contained in
Lord Curzon’s Calcutta speech, in
which he said that India resembled a
fortress beyond whose walls there ex
isted on one side a glacis of varying
breadth and dimensions which they
did not desire to occupy, but which
they could not afford to see occupied
by a foe.
RUSSIANS ARE WARNED
AGAINST TROUBLING JEWS.
Antlinritie* Seeking to Prevent Any
Duster I'prialng*.
St. Petersburg, April 3.—Reports re--
eeived by the ministry of the interior
indicate that the precautionary meas
ures taken to prevent anti-Jewish dis
turbances during Easter week, when
the ignorant are aroused easily to a
sort of religious frenzy against the
Jews by the dissemination of false
stories regarding "blood atonement”
will result In the avoidance of serious
trouble. In spite of the precautions,
however, it is considered possible there
may be attempts at rioting, but the
authorities -ill suppress these with a
strong hand.
The following private telegram was
received to-day from Odessa:
“Reports of anti-Jewish disturbances,
which always are common at Easter
time, cause more alarm than usual this
year because of the occurrences last
year. The Jews here are nervous,
but the authorities have confidence in
Gov. Eidhardt, who is in charge of
the city, and who is an energetic and
humane man, as well as in Baron
Kaulbars, commander-ln-chief of the
troops in Souther a Russia. Under the
circumstances, therefore, anything like
a serious disturbance is regarded as
impossible.
"The official newspapers have publish
ed strongly worded warnings and the
city is placarded with notices that all
who disturb the peace will be severely
punished.”
Ktshineff. Bessarabia, April 3.—lt is
explained that Gov. Ouroussoff's warn
ing against race disturbance was not
issued because of any attempted dis
orders, but simply owing to the sug
gestion of the of outbreaks.
EMPEROR WILLIAM’S - '
HEALTH IS GOOD.
Berlin, April 3. —The North German
Gazette, a government organ, denies
the rumors printed in London and cir
culated in the United States that the
health of Emperor William is such
that It gives occasion for concern. The
paper adds that the Emperor's condi
tion of health remains excellent, and
that the voyage he is now on gives
every prospect of full success in recu
perating his strength.
Flood* PaMinz Away,
Indianapolis, Ind., April 3.—The flood
situation throughout Indiana has im
pioved considerably during the past
twenty-four hours. Dispatches from
all towns menaced by the high waters
during the past two weeks indicate
that there is no danger of further
damage.
AIM AT THE PLAN
OF SECURITIES CO.
HARRIMAN DOESN’T LIKE IT.
HE AND IIIS ALLIES WANT BACK
THE STOCK FIT IN.
Finn of Making' Some Ollier Resti
tution Dorn No! Please the Inter
est* Inlniiiiienl lo Hill nail Morgan.
M ini l In Shown hy the Petition
Filet! In the United Staten Circuit
Court ut St. Paul—AllegntionN
Mn.le hy Hnrrininu nnil Plerer.
St. Paul, Minn., April 3.—None of the
attorneys for the defendants in the
suit of E. H. Harrirnan and Winslow
Pierce and the Oregon Short Line
Railway Company against the North
ern Securities Company, notice of
which was served yesterday, would
make to-day an extended statement
with reference thereto. It was ad
mitted, however, that the suit was a
step in the struggle for control of the
Northern Pacific Railway Company,
which is being waged between E. H.
Harrirnan and allied interests and
James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and oth
ers.
That some step was anticipated the
attorneys seen admitted, but e*ch
stated that the filing of the petition on
Saturday came as a surprise, and he
would be unable to state what course
would be pursued until the principals
had been consulted. The citation in the
suit is directed to the Northern Secu
rities Company, the Northern Pacific
Railway Company, the Great Northern
Railway, James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan
and others, and gives notice that on
April 12 Harrirnan, Pierce and the Ore
gon Short Line Railway Company will
apply to the judges of the United
States Circuit Court for leave to file a
petition of intervention in the suit of
the United States against the same
defendants with reference to the exe
cution of the final decree of the court
which was filed April 9, 1903.
Their Standing in Court.
The petition itself declares that the
"petitioners, Harrirnan and Pierce, are
now and ever since Nov. 18, 1901, have
been the registered owners and hold
ers of $82,491,871 per value of the capi
tal stock of the defendant North
ern Securities Company, as trustee for
the Oregon Short Line Railroad Com
pany.”
The Oregon Short Line Railroad
Company, it is stated, on July 17, 1902,
pledged this stock with the Equitable
Trust Company of New York as trus
tee for an issue of bonds of like
amount, but under the terms of the
pledge "the stock so pledged and
standing in the name of your petition
ers, Harrirnan and Pierce is available
to your petitioners for the purpose of
tender, return and restoration of the
status quo.”
The petitioners allege that oVer 98Vi
per cent, of the outstanding capital
stock of the Northern Securities Com
pany was issued in exchange for shares
of the capital stock of the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern Rail
road companies, respectively, and less
than one half per cent, of such stock
was issued for other property; that
about $178,284,000 per value of the stock
of the Northern Securities Company
was issued in exchange for $153,749,428
par value of the stock of the North
ern Pacific Railway Company and
about $212,G00,000 par value of said se
curities company stock was issued in
exchange for $118,124,250 par value of
the stock of the Great Northern Rail
way Company.
Part of Original Issue.
The $82,491,871 par value of stock of
the Northern Securities Company now
standing in the names of Harrirnan and
Pierce, it is alleged, was part of the
original issue of the stock of the North
ern Securities Company, and was is
sued directly to them by the Northern
Securities Company on or about Nov.
18 1901, in exchange for $37,023,000 par
value of the common stock and $41,-
085,000 par value of the preferred stock
of the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, and at the time of such exchange
there was also paid to them by or on
behalf of said securities company the
sum of $8,915,629 in cash. The original
certificates issued to them, it is stated,
are still registered in their names and
are now actually in the custody of the
trust company as pledges and availa
ble for tender, return and restoration.
At the time of such exchange it was
agreed that the $41,085,000 par value of
the preferred stock should be converted
into common stock of the Northern Pa
cific Railway Company; and there
upon, alter the exchange of preferred
stock for stock of the Northern Se
curities Company, preferred stock was
converted by the Northern Securities
Company into common stock of the
Northern Pacific Railway Company of
the same par value and certificates for
such new common stock substituted in
lieu of the certificates for preferred
stock and the Northern Securities Com
pany now holds all the common stock
so originally received from the peti
tioners and the common stock into
which said preferred stock was so con
verted.
It is then stated that on March 14
last the Supreme Court of the United
States affirmed the decree entered by
the Clrouit Court April 9, 190$, with
liberty to the Circuit Court to proceed
to execute the decree as circumstances
might require.
110 Not Like tile Plan.
It is next set forth that the indi
vidual defendants to the suit and the
Northern Securities Company, without
waiting the next order of the court
in execution of the decrea. decided to
and by vote of the directors of the
Northern Securities Company on
March 22. 1904, passed a resolution
which after reciting that the Securities
Company holds 1,337,594 shares of
Northern Pacific stock and 1,181,242
shares of Great Northern stock, and
that the Northern Securities Company
has outstanding 3,854,000 shares if its
own capital stock, provides for the re
tirement of 99 per cent of the Securi
ties Company stock and reduction of
its capitalization to $3,954,000, this re
duction of capitalization to be effected
by assigning to each shareholder who
surrenders a share of securities stock
$39,27 of the stock of the Northern
Pacific Railway Company and $30,17 of
the preferred stock of the Great
Northern Railway Company.
It is stated that this resolution was
passed by the Northern Securities
directors, notwithstanding that the
petitioners, who had been informed of
their purpose, had notified the direct
ors that petitioners had submitted the
matter to counsel and had been “ad
vised that there were serious doubts
as to the legality of the proposed
plan,” and had requested an adjourn
ment of the Securities Company’s di
rectors’ meeting for a few days in
order that petitioners and their counsel
might consider the matter further.
Oiler to Restore.
It is stated that a meeting of North
ern Securities stockholders to act on
the recommendation of rhe 'SecunUcs
Company directors, has been called to
meet at Hoboken, N. J., April 21, 1904.
Petitioners then tender themselves
“able and willing and hereby otter to
restore to the said Northern Securi
ties Company, all the original certifi
cates of stock of the Securities Com
pany so received by Harrirnan and
Pierce, and to repay the money paid
them by or on behalf of the Northern
Securities Company in such sum as the
court shall fix in restoration of the
status quo in exchange for and upon
the return of the common stock of the
Northern Pacific Railway Company, so
exchanged, and the common stock of
said railway company representing the
preferred stock converted,” anti aver
that the “plan of distribution adopted
by the board of directors of the North
ern Securities Company, if consum
mated, would vest a majority of the
stock of both the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific Railway Com
panies in the same individual stock
holders of the Great Northern Com
pany, who originally co-operated in
the promotion and organization of
the Northern Securities Company and
who are still co-operating and acting
in concert and common, and would
continue the common management and
direction of said two competing rail
way companies, and render the decree
of the court ineffectual and defeat or
evade its true intent and purpose.”
The petitioners, therefore, pray leave
to intervene, and that the Northern
Securities Company be required to
transfer to them stock of the Northern
Pacific Company of the same
kind and amount, whether common
or preferred, that the Northern Securi
ties Company received from the peti
tioners Instead of proportionate
amounts in both the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern companies, and
that meanwhile the Northern Securi
ties Company he enjoined from pro
ceeding in their proposed plan of dis
tribution.
NEIDERMIER TRIES TO
SAVE CONVICTED MEN.
Snys He Committed the Murder
With Which They Were Charged.
Chicago, April 3.—Almost within the
coils of the hangman’s rope, Peter
Neidermier, one of the car barn ban
dit*, to-day made what he declared
was a true confession to save two
other men from the gallows and one
from long imprisonment In the peni
tentiary.
“I killed Patrick Barrett in his sa
loon at 4216 Wallace street last May,"
said Neidermier. "John Lynch and
James Sammons, who are under sen
tence of death for the crime, and also
Hugh Reilly, who has been sentenced
to the penitentiary, are innocent. They
had nothing to do with the raid.
"I shot and killed Barrett. I make
this statement solely to save innocent
men. 1 have no hope for life and I
do not want innocent persons to suf
fer for W'hat I have done.”
On the strength of Neidermier’s
statement, the attorneys for the con
victed men will to-morrow apply for a
writ of habeas corpus.
CANDLER tTIIThOWH E
WAS CUT BY TIBETANS.
London, April 4. —Mr. Candler, the
correspondent of the Daily Mail, who
was wounded during the fighting be
tween the Britisn and the Tibetans at
Guru, Tibet, March 31, and whose left
hand has been amputated, thus de
scribes the attack upon him:
“1 was w'atching the Tibetans be
ing disarmed when I was attacked by
a swordsman. This was before a shot
had been fired. The onslaught was too
sudden for me to draw my revolver. I
caught the Tibetan around the knees
and threw him. but I wus myself drag
ged down, and in trying to rise was
cut down by several swordsmen. These
were eventually shot."
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TOWN OF LYONS
FIRE SWEPT
BUSINESS PORTION BURNED.
THIRTEEN BUILDINGS AND OTHER
PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Lightning Struck the S. A. L. Depot
mill Started the Fire Which Wiped
Out Part of the llosines* Section
of the Town—The Loea Only
Partly Covered by lasnrnaee—The
S. A. L. to Kebnlld Its Depot nt
Once,
Lyons, Ga„ April 3.—Lyons was
again fire swept this morning between
2 and 3 o’clock. Lightning struck the
depot, setting it on fire and a brisk
northwest wind soon swept the flames
across the street to the postolflce,
which was about the center of a thick
ly built portion of the town. All the
buildings were of wood and in a short
time two blocks were reduced to
ashes.
From the postoffiee the flames steadi
ly ate their way against the wind
through six stores adjoining each other.
A vacant lot and hard work checked
the fire in this direction. From the
postoffiee, east, the wind drove the fire
with a rush until it was checked by
the two-story brick store of Dr. Aaron.
There was very little insurance, as
the houses were so close together the
rate charged was higher than most of
the owners felt able to pay.
The loosers are:
Seaboard Air Line, depot full of
freight and three box cars, also load
ed with merchandise.
M. M. Coleman, two stores.
T. A. Scarboro, drug store and dwell
ing.
R. A. Costin, store.
T. J. Parker, part stock of goods.
Brown, stock of goods.
R. S. O’Neal, barber shop and
dwelling.
J. B. Aaron, postmaster, household
goods and postoffiee furniture.
H. C. Odum, store.
Hotel, with furniture.
Mrs. M. P. Broughton, store and
dwelling.
The Lyons Progress, printing presses
and all fixtures.
Exum, part stock of goods.
Mrs. L. M. Brown, dwelling.
ding.
Harry Brown, a son of J. P. Brown,
was seriously hurt. A mule vvhich he
was driving to a wagon to haul goods
from the fire, became unmanageble,
threw him down, and drew the wagon
over him.
Supt. Walter Hale of the Fifth Di
vision, S. A. L., at Savannah, was no
tified of the fire early yesterday morn
ing and promptly took measures to
replace the depot and to arrange for
the handling of goods consigned to
that point until the new station shall
be ready to receive them. Orders for
the lumber necessary tp build the sta
tion were placed at once, and it is ex
pected that work on the station will
be begun Wednesday. Meantime sev
eral cars have been sent to Lyons and
will be stationed there to serve as
warehouses. The only trouble that
the railroad wil be caused will be a lit
tle inconvenience. It was protected
against the losses that have occurred.
DISREGARDED SIGNALS
OF THE CLEMATIS.
Vessels I’nssed tlie Distressed Sa
vannah-Hound Ship.
New York, April 3.—The German Le
vant Line steamer Tenedos, which ar
rived this morning from the Black sea
and the Mediterranean, fell In with
the disabled Belgian steamer Clematis
on March 16 in latitude 35, iopgituds 4L
and towed her into Fayal.
The Clematis was bound from Ant
werp for Savannah in ballast and had
been drifting about for twenty-five
days when the Tenedos was sighted.
The shaft was broken and the stern
tube shattered. The after compart
ment was full of w’ater.
Several steamers had pasesd the dis
abled craft, on the decks of which
fires were lighted to attract attention,
and although all passed within a few
miles, no attention was paid to the
signals. The crew of the Tenedos
worked twenty hours in the ship’s
boats in rough seas to pass tow lines
on board the Clematis and several
lines were broken before they finally
were secured. After towing the Clem
atis 626 miles, they arrived safely at
Fayal.
Cur and Cmarlna Drive.
St. Petersburg, April 3.—The Em
peror and Empress drove about the
city for nearly an hour this afternoon,
Mrs. Goa Id Improves.
New York, April 3.—Mrs. Georg* J.
Gould, who was operated on for ap
pendicitis. continues to imivg