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VOL L NO. 87
Atlanta Georgian.
Morning Edition.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1906.
Morning Edition.
* FI VP CENTS.
300 DROWNED;
BLOOD'IS SHED
TO WIN BOATS
Brutal Passengers Stab Women and Children
and Turn on Each Other in Madness.
Captain Takes Blame and Kills Self.
THE RIVAL ORGANS
More than 300 persons lost their lives when the Italian vi
sel Sirio, which left Genoa, Italy, August 2, with 370 passengers,"
mostly emigrants, and a crew of 127, struck on the rocks-of Hor-
migas Island, two and a half miles off Cape Palos, on the east
coast of Spain, Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. The ship wns
bound for Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, and the passenger
list had been augmented by a s short stop nt Barcelona, Spain.
When the steamer foundered there were 645 passengers aboard.
In order to make up time and shorten the distnnce, the Sirio
ran too close to the rocky coast of Ilormigas Island. Captain
Gavino, taking full responsibility for the disaster, drew a re
volver, sent a bullet into his breast, tossed the weapon overboard
and drowned himself. This wns to have been his last voyage, as
he had reached the age limit fixed by the ship’s owners!
The panic-stricken passengers fought to get possession of
life buoys and life boats. Women and children were stnbbed to
death by brutal emigrants, and many men—emigrants, members
of the crew and officers—were slain by the maddened passen
gers. who sought to save themselves by attacking . the loaded
ship’s boats.
Mothers leaped overboard in a vain effort to save their chil
dren, and fourteen fishermen who had come to the rescue wcro
drowned by the overturning of one of the trawlers into which a
number of the survivors had been drawn. The Austrian consul at
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, gave his life preserver to a woman, who,
with her child, was about to drown. Mother, child and consul
were rescued. The stokers of the vessel were drowned in the
hole of the ship. A monk, while kneeling on the deck praying *
for those on board, wns swept to death as the Sirio sank.
CAPTAIN TAKES ALL BLAME
AND COMMITS SUICIDE
By Vrlrntp l.r .’I V.T*v
Cartagena, S,min. ' ur. D.--A roll call
of the survivors ct the Glrlo wreck
showed there were 385 missing,
believed, however, a few of these have
been picked up by vessels that con
tinued on for other ports. The death
list, however, will exceed J50.
The responsibility. for the wreck Is
charged to the dead captain. The ship
Intended to stop nt Cadi* before pro-1
ceedlng to Bra*ll nnd to shorten the
trip as much ns possible, he tried to
pass close to the rocky ledges sur
rounding the Hormlgns Islands.
Was Hla Last Trip.
It waa to have been Captain Oavlno'a
laat voyage. He waa 61 years old and
had been retired by the steamahlp
company because of his age." The cap
tain ' who wae to have taken charge of
the vessel was 111, nnd Captain Oavlno
consented to make one more trip In
command.
The coast presents a terrible picture.
It la, strewn with bodlea and frag
ments of the wreck. Broken flahtng
boats, bodies nnd wreckage are being
constantly washed ashore.
Officers Abandoned Ship.
According to all Information the loss
of life would have been greatly less
If the captain nnd officers had only re
mained calm. It seems that after the
suicide of the captain the offlcera
abandoned the ship in order to save
themselves without awaiting to fulfill
the duties of humanity.
. Many persons who were rescued died
. after they were brought ashore. Among
the saved are a number bearing seri
ous Injuries. Some had limbs frac-
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Crowds of Depositors
Turned Away by
Notice
PATRONS PUT IN
$4,000,000 IN CASH
Officers Refuse to Say
Whether or Not Insti
tution Has Failed.
Dy Frlvnte Leased Wire.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—The Milwaukee
Avenue State Dank, capitalized
$250,000, and which has more than
$4,000,000 In deposits, was closed to
day for examination, while a great
crowd of panic-stricken depositors
gathered around * the building and
fought for admission. Inside the bank
the confusion was almost as great
comparatively as the excitement out
side.
It developed that a warrant has been
Issued for. Cashier H. W. Herlng, on
the charge of .embezzlement.
No statement was given: *out to the
plain the closing of the bank except a
few words written on a placard and
hung upon the door. The placard read
The bank has been closed for ex
amination." v
Theodore Stannland, the vice presi
dent of the bank, was willing to an
swer questions, but said the offclals
of the bank had no formal statement
to make. When It was suggested that
this attitude would give the inference
that the bank had failed, he said:
wouldn't say that, but it
closed."
"What has the hank closed for?"
"For examination," skid Mr. Stans
land. "We are making an examination
of the bank books now."
Star shbws where the ill-fated ves
sel Sirio struck and foundered.
ers were wounded by
Was Built In Glasgow.
The Sirio was an Iron vessel of 4,141
tons gross, 2,664 under deck and
2,275 net. She was 380 feet long, 42
feet 1 inch beam and 24 feet 9 inches
deep. She was built at Glasgow in
3, but had recently been re-rated.
Jhe was owned by the Navogaslone
General© Italians of Genoa, which owna
105 steamshlpa, the aaine company that
runa the Italian line of ateamera to
New York.
PANIC-STRICKEN EMIGRANTS
STAB WOMEN AND BABES
Bf Prlrat* Lnwd Wire.
Cartagena, Spain, Aug. 6.—With hun
dred. of frenzied man battling for pos-
""""lon of the boat*, (tabbing and klltr
lag men and women and trampling
rhlldren to death, the cailtkln dead by
hl« own hand when he saw hli ahlp
a a* loat, the Italian eteamihlp Sirio
went down off Hormlgaa Inland, near
Cape Palo*, and more than 160 peraona
Krished.
The ahlp carried 100 perzons and wa*
hound from Genoa and Barcelona for
Bueno* Ayres when »he (truck on a
reef close to Hormlgas Island.
Battl* For Life Boats.
Cor half an hour, an awful panic
relgnad on the doomed ship*. Fren
zied emigrants made a rush for the
small boats Into which the women and
children were being placed, and then
began a terrible battle.
The crazed emigrant* dragged the
women and children from the boats,
"tabbing the women and hurling them
aside and-killing officers and member*
n f the errw who opposed them. Then
the men with the knives fought each
other.
A fleet of trawlers went to the res
cue and the fishermen had to battls
*lth the panic-stricken emigrants.
Csptaln Kills Himself.
Through the swamping of their boata
fourteen fishermen were drowned.
When he saw his ship wa* lost and
that the emigrants had obtained pos
session of the wrecked vessel Captain
fhtvlno, declaring that It waa his fault,
<hew a revolver and aent a bujlet Into
his breast. Then he threw the wea
pon Into the «ca and leaped after It.
The steamship was rufinlnw at full
"Peed through a difficult passage when
"he struck on the roaf, about 21-2
miles ea»t of Cape Palos. The Instant
•he struck the ship began to settle.
8tab Women snd Babes.
A terrible scene of confusion fol
lowed. The captain and officers tried
to maintain order, and the women and
children were hurried to the boats.
The men forced back the officers and
crew, and arrangeinenta were made to
save the more helpless ones first. At
first the emigrants yielded. Then came
a grinding noise, th* ship's bottom
evidently slipping along the reef.
This sent a thrill of terror through the
emigrants, and a crowd rushed for one
of the boats, In which women and chil
dren had been placed, preparatory to
lowering the boat.
With, knives In their hands they be
gan hauling the women and children
out of the boat, stabbing- and slashing.
Members of the crew who opposed
them were cut down.
Forces Rescues With Qun.
A fleet of trawlers which was close
at hand, hurried to the acene to rescue
the survivors. The crew of one Irawl-
er started to mutlne, declaring that
their vessel would be sunk, but the
captain drew a revolver, and leveling It
at his meiv shouted:
"As long ds It Is possible to take off
another passenger we will not movs.”
When the deck of the trawler became
so crowded that there, waa danger of
capsizing, the captain at th* point of
bis revolver, forced the frightened peo
ple down Into the hold. A large num
ber were taken on board th* Vlrenta
Llcano, and one old fisherman In a
boat saved twelve persons.
Flthsrmen Are Drowned.
As the fisherman In small boats were
trying to take off aa many as possi
ble, the frightened emigrants tsted to
rush their boat*. They were driven
back, but * further settling of the ship
IS IIIIUUII1U)
BUGGY FOUND IN
RIYERJT FERRY
Scores Engaged In Dredg
ing in Stream Sunday
Bodv Not Found.
Bp^cial to The Georgia n.
Glenwood, Go., Aug. 6.—Although
score* of men have been searching In
Oconee river, near here, since early
Sunday mpmlng, for the body of^ohn
Pickling, a prominent saw mill man,
who Is supposed to have been drowned
Saturday evening, it has not yet been
recovered, and some are of the opin
ion that he may have met foul play
before reaching the strenm.
Flckllng was In Glenwood Saturday
and left here In the evening In a bug-
y to go across the river to spend Sun-
lay with relatives. He is said to have
been under the influence of whisky
when he left. By the time he could
reach the ferry. Ferryman Williams
would have gone to his home for the
night.
Buggy Found In River.
Sunday morning early a buggy was
found In the river at the ferry about 10
feet from the shore. Word waa sent
out and a search was instituted. It
was learned that Flckllng was missing,
never having arrived at the home of
his relatives with whom he had plan
ned to spend Sunday. A large crowd
gathered to aid in the search.
Horse Found.
During the day the horse was found
about a mile away grazing In the
swamps, with the harness partly tom
off, and it looked mi If it hod been In
the water and torn loose from the ve
hicle.
The river has been dragged for
some distance and as yet no trace of
the man Is found.
Flckllng was about 40 years of age
and leaves a wife and several children.
He was a resident of this county.
It is thought that when the man
reached the ferry, and finding no one
there, he drove his horse in the river
and was drowned.
GRINDING AWAY THE 8AMB OLD TUNES.
TEAR UP RAILS
OF Bit
BOY DIES IN AGONY
BECAUSE Of FALL
A TREE TOP
Little Paul Jones Succumbs
to Blood A Poisoning.
Burial at Fairburn.
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Little Paul D. Jones, the 10-year-old
son of Rev. K. W. Jones, of Atlanta
Heights, fell from a tree lost week and
broke both bones in his arm. one of
the fractures causing an ugly wound.
vu taken to the Wesley Memorial
Hospital for treatment, and got along
all right until Saturday morning when
blood poisoning set In.
Nothing could be done to relievo him
Sunday morning his* arm was ampu
tated, but the Infection had gotten too
deep a hold, and the little fellow dUd
in terrible agony Sunday afternoon.
The remains were carried to Fair-
bum, Ga., for funeral services nnd In
terment Monday at 12:40 o'clock. *
LOVELORN GIRL
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
By Private Leased Wire.
Cumberland. Md., Aug. 6.—Florence
Shipley attempted suicide here by
•wallowing poison. She said shA want
ed to die because John Demoss, who
had been paying her attention, had
forsaken her for another.
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Continued on Page Two.
OPPORTUNITY
Is that Invisible something
which at one lime or an
other comes knocking at the
door of success for every
man. ft comes generally .dur
ing office hours, and If you
are ouL so much the worse
for you. It seldom lingers.
If your ear Is untrained, or
If you happen to bo Indulging
In day dreams, you may not
hear, for opportunity Is not a
persistent visitor. It must be
met at least half way. And
then ft needs the most Judi
cious entertaining.
We are dally sending out
these little forerunners of
opportunity. You may not
recognize them, but If you
take a look every day at the
want columnb of The Geor
gian you will come to know
them. They are modeat little
messengers, but to the busi
ness man or woman of keen
perception they mean some
thing.
Thev Do the Work
OVATION fOO WILCOX
AT FITZGERALD, GA
Special to The Georgina.
Fitzgerald, tin.; Aug. €.—Iteprenentntln
Itfin. Wilcox, ot Irwin county, who Intro
•lured nnd lind panned through the leftlnln
tun* the Idll rrrntlng the now county of
lieu Hill, of which Fitzgerald-In the county
neat, wm Ihr recipient of nn ovation
UIh urrivnl here Saturday morning. II
arrow panted by Ueprezentntlvc Will in un
of Ijiwrenee, tue * **
which
here t ....
ntntlnn to inert Mr. I.
Wilcox stepped fmtn the train b«
r«l iff» hr sniuf of his fidmlrers and carried
on the sloetldors «*f men through the streets
while toe tmnd played nnd the crowd yelled.
The Idll ••renting the new county carries
a nrortston which will keep whisky from
bring sold In the county nnd will make
Fitzgerald n dry town. It placed the Ilijuor
re, the two arriving on tie* train
1 supposed to carry 'Clark Howell
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TO OUST TAGGART
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New Petition, Aimed
Chairman, Is Being
Circulated.
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By Private i-.ni.fi wire.
Indianapolis, Aug. (.—A brand-new
petition that Tom Taggart resign a*
Democratic national chairman la being
circulated. It will be shown to the
chairman as a matter of form, but It
I. Intended more particularly for Wil
liam J. Bryan.
sets forth that the slate has
proved Taggart’s ownership nnd par
ticipation In th* profit* of the gam
bling Joint recently cloeed at hie
French Lick Springs hotel, and that
Taggart Is utterly unlit to represent
the Democratic party as Its chairman.
MAN AND FIANCEE
DROWNED IN RIVER
By Private Leeied Wire.
■Chicago, Aug. I.—Rutherford Callo
way and hla fiancee, Mlaa Mlchaetla,
were drowned In the Calumet river last
night while canoeing. Their craft was
caught In a swirling current and
whirled around rapidly. The young
man was unable to control the canoe.
Before help could reach them the canoe
was overturned and both occupants dis
appeared.
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UPPER HOUSE
BOYKIN BILL
Senate Committee
Floors the Wheatley
Substitute.
COMMITTEE ARRE8TED»
8TRIKE A FAILURE.
Ay Private Leased Wire.
8t. Petersburg, Aug. 6.—The central
committeo of the Social Democrat*,
one of the organizations conducting
the present strike, was arrested today.
Following the imprisonment of thin
committee It wan announced that no
far an St. Petersburg Is concerned the
strike Is a failure.
The strikers are now looking to
Warsaw nnd Moscow for ass|r«tanco In
their efforts to tie up the empire.
NOT SO SWEEPING
IN REQUIREMENTS
75,000 RU88 WORKMEN
ARE NOW ON 8TRIKE.
fly Private Leased Wire.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 6.—Noon.—
With 75,000 workmen on strike in St.
Petersburg nnd disquieting reports
from many polntH In the province*, the
situation In Russia today Is more criti
cal than at any time since the dis
solution of the dnuma.
So far the strike In this city has been
extremely orderly, but the government
has taken every precaution to make It
Every public building Is under
heavy guard, each railway station un
der protection of the troops, the river
H patrolled by armed boats and to all
Intents and purposes the town Is under
military rule.
Strike Leader* Arreeted.
Up to this writing about 250 arrests
of strike leaders have been made*
mostly of men who Insisted upon
Wheatley’s Measure Per
mits Legitimate Ex
changes to Remain.
At the meeting of the senate com
mittee on agriculture Monday after
noon, tho Wheatley substitute to tbe
Boykin anti-bucket shop bill was rec
ommended.
This substitute Is In a large meas
ure similar to the Anderson substitute
offered In the house, and. which wns
killed. It draws a distinction betw
bucket ahopa and legitimate cotton ex
changes.
The substitute will be reported to
the eenete during thla week, and the
opinion prevalli that It will paaa In the
upper house.
NEGROES EXPLOIT
JOHNSON LYNCHING
gpeefsl to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 1—The
fact that B. I. Hutchins and K. W.
Parden, the two negro lawytre who
carried the case of Ed Johnson, the
negro who was lynched here after hav
ing been convicted of criminal aaaault,
to the United Btatea supreme court,
are touring the North on the lecture
platform exploiting tbe now famous
case has created a great deal of com
ment In thla city and all over the
South.
Parden and Hutchins began their
lecture tour In Cincinnati about two
months ago and they have been lec
turing to the negroes and many whites
In the North.
These negroes are also selling a
book, on the side which claims to give
a true history of the case and some
thing of the condition of the negro
race In the South.
Continued on Page Two.
NEGRO SHOT DOWN
BY TWO OFFICERS
Slayer of Social Circle Po
liceman Meets Death in
Pistol Battle.
orglmi
Special to Tb
Social Circle, Ga.,
Thomas, a desperate n«
who ehot Policeman .
twelve years ngo, was j
here today at 12:35 p ft
Mark Riley and Bailiff
while defying arras
Th*
the first bullet,
Ilreman Riley's 1
were fired, all
negro died In al
Tho negroes
trouble Is feare<
There were fo
scene, and the
not hold An inqi
The negro wa
dver and sal<
him.
?. 6—Clay
0 character,
lemon here
t and killed
y Policeman
l>. Bunion,
negro fired
birh
nt through Po-
>at. Four or five nhots
'•king effect, and the
>ut fivp minutes,
ire alarmed, but no
r eye-witnensen to the
’ •toner will probably
carrying a large re-
no one could arrest
PURE FOOD BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE
Seventy Thousand
Workmen Are
on Strike.
LEADERS ARRESTED;
PEASANTS KILLED
Military Revolt Is Being
Planned to Aid Rank
and File.
fly Private Leaded Wire.
SL Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 6.—It Is
reported that strikers are tearing up
the tracks of the Cynov railway.
50,000 MEN STRIKE IN
THE MINING REGION.
fly Private Loaned Wire.
London, Aug. 6.—A dispatch to a
newspaper from Lugansk, province of
Ekaterlnoaky, says a general strike has
been declared there and twelve hundred
miners have stopped work. At least
f.0,000 men are out now In the Donet*
basin mining region.
POLICE ARE ARRESTING
ALL TRADE8 UNION8.
fly Private Leaned Wire. V
Moscow, Aug. 6.—The police are ar
resting members of all the central com
mittees of tho trades unions here as
fast as they can be located. There waa
a strike on the Kazan railway this
morning and trains stopped running for
tho greater part of the day.
