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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX, No. 30.
49 PERISHED, 99 ARE
RESCUED, IN CRASH OF
LINERSJfJpiSE FOG
Old Dominion Vessel Monroe, Struck Amidships By
Merchants and Miners Steamer Nantucket, Sinks
in Ten Minutes—Panic-Stricken Passengers Rush
From Sleep to Death
With Water Pouring Into
Doomed Craft. Many Leap
From Decks Into Cold Sea.
Searchlights of Little Use in
Thick Mist. Rescuers Guided
By Cries in Darkness
Men and Women Scream In
Whirling Vortex of the Sink
ing Ship. Little Time For
Launching Lifeboats; Only
Ones Saved Were Picked Up
By the Nantucket.
Norfolk, Va. —Forty nine persons
went down to death today when
the Merchants and Miners liner
Nantucket sunk the Old Dominion
Liner Monroe. Wireless lists for
warded by Captain Johnson of the
Monroe, returning with the sur
vivors on the Nantucket show:
Lost—Passengers, 25; crew, 24.
Total, 49.
Saved —Passengers, 30; crew, 55.
Total, 85.
Norfolk, Va.—Forty-nine persona
lost their lives In the icy waters of
the Atlantic at 2 o'clock this morning
when the Old Dominion liner Monroe
was rammed amidships, practically
cut In two and sunk within 10 min
utes, 25 miles southeast of Hog Is
land, by the Merchants and Miners
steatr.e, f Nantucket.
25 Paaaengeres, 24 of Crew.
The forty-nine lost comprised 25
passengers and 24 members of the
crew, as yet unidentified .according to
official wireless reports to the Old
Dominion line here. Thirty passeng
ers and fifty-five of the crew
were saved. Captain Johnson of the
sunken Monroe and all his officers
1 but one were among the saved. The
'lost officer was Second Engineer
Gately.
85 Picked Up.
Eighty-five survivors picked from
the sea and huddled on the Nantucket,
which was proceeding slowly with a
crumpled bow toward Norfolk today
are the only ones who know all the
; story of how the two big ships, pick
ing their way through a blanket of
fog—one bound north and the other
bound south —crashed near the Win
ter Quarter Shoal Lightship.
Pitched Downwards.
Fragments of the wreck narrative
i that reached here by wireless told
I how the Nantucket, backed off, low
-1 ered boats and began sweeping the
misty sea with her searchlights, then,
within ten minutes, the Monroe, her
I passengers pitched out of berths in
night clothes, went down.
Scream Through Fog.
In the swirling vortex of the sink
ing ship men shouted and women
screamed through the mist. The Mon
roe went down so quickly that there
was little tirre for launching boats
and It is believed that the only ones
saved were those picked up at once
by the Nantucket.
Had No Chance.
The lost hadn't a chance for their
lives. In the heavy fog that lay like
a blanket over the sea, the Monroe
was picking her way northward. She
had left Norfolk at 7:40 last night and
at the time of the crash there were on
deck only those whose duty kept them
at their station. The passengers were
asleep In their statesrooms, except for
those kept awake by the siren, which
blared Its warning through the dense
mist.
Bound for Norfolk from Boston, the
Nantucket presented a similar condi
tion. On her decks there were only
those whose duty kept them on watch.
On her bridge was Captain Berry. On
the bridge of the Monroe was Captain
Johnson.
‘ 4 In Dense Fog.
Thus, with the dense fog shutting
them in; their passengers asleep In
their staterooms and most of their
crews below decks, the two steamers
had drawn together during the night,
until the crash.
The shock of the collision galvan
ized Into Instant activity the two
sleeping ships. From their sleep pas
sengers and crews jvere awakened and
rushed to the decks, groping their
way through a wall of fog that
brought panic and despair to men and
women. They could rot see where to
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T ‘E'CHP 7 r T 1 SATURDAY’S AND WEDNESDAY’S are the two Big Bargain Days of the week in Augusta. The Herald of Tueisd ay a:nd Pirdy y ad .
LUjO 1 JL C-/ LJ t tL 1 •'•■ "VERY SPECIAL" offerings of Augusta’s leading and most progressive merchants. From a dollar and cents motive it will PH
• vertisements in today’s Herald. It’s the advertising merchant always who CAN and DOES sell the cheapest. : ' ' ‘
TELLS OF TOE
PARTNERSHIP
Of SPEER’S kin
Testimony Regarding Employ
ment of Isaacs and Heyward
in South Georgia Bankruptcy
Proceedings Heard By Con
gressional Committee Today
Attorney Lambdin Says Cases
Appeared Unjustified and the
Judge’s Son-in-Law’s Firm
Always Took the Lead.
Savannah, Ga.—W. W. Lambdin, a
well-known attorney of Waycross, Ga.
was the first witness called today be
fore the congressional committee in
vestigating charges of official mis
conduct against Federal Judge Emory
Speer. The witness was asked by
Chairman Webb of the congressional
committee to give an account of the
bankruptcy proceedings against the
Beach Manufacturing Company of
Baxley, Ga. Mr. Lambdin was an at
torney in this case.
Isaacs Resigned.
The witness testified that early In
1913, Max Isaacs resigned as referee
in bankruptcy at Brunswick, Ga., and
shortly afterward the partnership of
Isaacs and Heyward was announced.
Mr. Lambdin called attention to the
fact that Heyward was a son-in-law of
Judge Speer.
"In rapid succession,” the witness
continued, "three large concerns were
thrown into bankruptcy, namely, the
Beach Manufacturing Company, the
L. Carter Company and the Gray
Lumber Company. While local coun
sel were associated in these cases,
Isaacs and Heyward always took the
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FIRST TIME 111
UNE'SJSTORT
Prior to Today’s Catastrophe,
Old Dominion Had Never Lost
Life of Passenger at Sea.
Washington.—Thorough investiga
tion of the collision was ordered to
day by the department of commerce.
The First Time.
Washington.—" This Is the first time
In the history of the Old Dominion
Line that the life of a passenger hns
been lost at sea,” said If. H. Walker,
president and general manager of tho
company today. "The line was organ
ized In 1867. Seven steamers have
been In operation for several years.
The Monroe was the staunchest of tho
lot. She went Into service In 1903.
There was life-saving equipment
aboard for nearly double the number
of persons she carried on this trip.”
Mr. talker said Captain Johnson of
the lost steamer had been ordered to
Start for New York as soon as he
landed.
FORMAL REQUEST MADE
TO MORGAN FOR WILL
Richmond, Va, —The house of dele
gates this afternoon passed the sen
ate bill requesting the governor to
make formal request of J. P. Morgan,
of New York, to return to the records
of Fairfax County, the will of Mrs.
Martha Washington, stolen from Fair
fax courthouse In the war and no4v
by purchase in Mr. Morgan's private
museum.
Provision Is made In the measure
for legal action should Mr. Morgan
refuse.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 30. 1914.
U. S. Ambassador To Russia
Henry M. Rindell
j© , v .g
gWTOfr ,- AST? a&ja|
Henry M. Pindell, of Peoria, II!.,
whose nomination for the post of
United States ambassador to Russia,
has been confirmed by the senate.
The confirmation was held up for
RECOMMEND TO
RATIFY PACTS
ON ARBITRATION
Treaties With Great Britain,
Japan and 23 Other Nations,
Pendinq Since Last Summer,
Voted on By Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
Action Comes After Conference
With Pres’t Wilson. Panama
Canal Tolls and California
Alien Land Questions In
volved in the Treaties.
Washington, D. C.—The senate for
eign relations committee today voted
to recommend immediate ratification
of general arbitration treaties with
Great Britain, Japan and other nations
—twenty-five treaties In all. These
have been’ pending for re-ratlflcatlon
since last summer.
The vote In favor of the treaties was
11 to 2, with four senators absent.
Senators O'Gorman, Democrat and
William Alden Smith, Republican, vot
ing In the negative.
Affirmative votes were cast by Sena
tors Bacon, Stone, Shively, Hitchcock,
Williams, Swanson, I’omerene and
Smith of Arizona, Democrats; Lodge,
Root and MoCuinbor, Republicans.
The committee took up the treaties
immediately after the conference with
President Wilson last Monday night.
The treaty with Great Britain was
held up last summer because of fear
that Its ratification would force arbi
tration over the section of the Panama
Canal act exempting American coast
wise vessels from tolls.
President Wilson’s attitude on this
question Is generally accredited to be
that this provision Is a violation of the
Hay-Pauncefote. treaty and congress
Intends either to repeal the clause or
suspend Its operation pending negotia
tions.
The California alien land question
was Involved In the Japanese treaty
but the administration view that this
controversy practically Is at an end
settled the minds of tho majority of
the committee In so far os tho general
arbitration treaty was concerned.
some time, owing to alleged corns
spondenfie (since repudiated) report
ed by a former clerk of Senator 3.
Hamilton Lewis and the Illinois nom
inee.
FIRST HEARING
ON ANTI-TRUST
Information on Proposed Leg
islation to Be Sought From
Many. Long List of Witnesses
Washington—Hearings on proposed
trust legislation, embracing President
Wilson's recommendations for trust
reform, were Inaugurated today by
the house committee In interstate and
foreign commerce. Chairman Adam
son said Information would be sought
from witnesses on general subjects,
Including the proposed railway secur
ities hill and other phases of the
trust question over which his com
mittee will havo Jurisdiction.
Commissioner Davies of the bureau
of corporations, Representative Clay
ton, chairman of the Judiciary com
mittee, which will soon hold hearings
on tho trust bills coming under Its
Jurisdiction and Louts D.. Brandies,
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Villa Begins His Plans
On Big Scale for Attack
Juarez, Mex.—Rebel movements to
ward Torreon began on a large scale
today. - The hulk of the main army
had encamped at Escalon, more than
half way southward from Chihuahua.
Rebels were reported drawing in
from the eastward to attack Sattllo
and cut off the Federal communica
tion from Monterey.
The Federal garrison Is variously
estimated at from 6,000 to 10,000
while the rebels’ strength exceeds
that number.
E. P. LYONB NOT LOST.
Norfolk, Va.—E. P. Lyons, reported
lost on the Monroe In the collision
with the steamer Nantueket this
morning, Is alive and well. He left
Savannah, Ga., for New York and
was for six years a theatrical mana
ger In Richmond, Va.
$50,000 STOLEN FROM MAIL.
Rostov-on-Don, Russia. —Fifty thou
sand dollars was stolen here today
during a transfer of malls. The of
ficial In charge of the mall was ar
rested.
'‘GLORIOUSLY
DRUM," SI OE
Si GOMPERS
Pres't of American Federation
of Labor Listens to Charges
of McDonald Amid Confusion
and Uproar at Convention
“I Said There Were Booze
Fighters in Charge of the
Federation and I’ll Prove It,”
He Declares. Words “Liar”
and ' Slanderer” Hurled Back
Indianapolis.—That Samuel (tem
pers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, was "gloriously
drunk" at the Seattle convention ol
the federation was the charge made
by Duncan McDonald, of Illinois, at
the convention of the i'nlted Mine
Workers of America today. During
the prolonged cheers, '‘liar,'’ “slan
derer,” were hurled at MelVmald by
Gompers, who sat on the platform.
“Bunch of Drunks."
“I am glad Mr. Gompers is here
so I can say what I want to," said
McDonald In beginning his reply to
the speech made yesterday by Mr.
Gompers. "I said there were booze
fighters in charge of the American
Federation of Labor and I’ll prove it.
At the Seattle convention I hud a
room with my wife at a hotel next to
the room reserved by the resolutions
committee. The first Saturday night
we could not sleep for the noise made
by a bunch of drunks in the next
room.
"I appenled to the clerk of the hotel
and the noise grew louder. Then I
wen tdown to the hotel office and the
night manager called Jim Duncan on
the telephone and told him they
would have to get out of the room —
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Speaker Clark Tells of
His Presidential Talk
In Last Night’s Speech He Said
Nothing About Candidacy.
Washington, D. C.—Speaker Clark
declared today that nothing in Ills
Baltimore speech last night could be
considered as Indicating that he had
figured on being a presidential candi
date In 1916 or any time In tho future.
“The only thing I said about the
prsldency,” said the speaker, “was in
reply to tho flowery introduction of
tho toastmaster. I said that If all that
tho toastmaster said was true I ought
to be president today and would bn ft
the proposed plrmary had been in force
In 1912. I praised President Wilson's
handling of tho Mexican situation.”
Directs Sale of Wabash;
$34,000,000 Lowest Bid
Bt. Louis, Mo,—'Tho sale of tho Wa
bash Railroad at foreclosure was au
thorized today by Federal Judge
Adams.
Judge Adams directed that no bids
for the property lower than thirty
four million dollars be accepted and
that tho sale be made without ap
praisement.
The decree of foreclosure was hand
ed down on motion of tho Equitable
Trust Company of New York, which,
ns trustee, holds $41,900,000 In bonds
of the Wabash.
Braggart Bomb Planter
Weakens; Asks For Time
Nsw York.—Angelo Hylveatro, reput
ed leader of a black hand gang that
terrorized tho East Hide, lost all his
bravado end persuaded tho court to
postpone his sentence until he could
see the district attorney. It was re
ported today Hylveslro wanted to con
fess. The police believe that Hylves
tro can give evidence that will en
able them to catch other members of
the gang responsible for nearly a hun
dred bomb explosions.
Late Ex-Senator Cullom
Left Estate of SIOO,OOO
Washington, D. C. Instead of dying
a poor man as his friends believed him
to have been, the late Henator Hhelby
M. Cullom, of Illlhols, left an estate
valued at more than SIOO,OOO, It was
learned here today. The estate out
side of personal and household effects
comprises stocks worth more than
SIOO,OOO.
DAILY AND SU NDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR.
DEVELOPMENT SHOULD
FOLLOW SALE C.&W.C.
90 POUND RAILS
WILL BE Li
INTO AUGUSTA
Counsel For Coast Line Says
This Will Be Done and C. &
W, C. Brought Up to Standard
of the A. C. L.
Columbia, S. C.—The senate rail
road committee last night reported
favorably a bill authorising the Ah
lantle Coast Line Hallway Company
to acquire the Charleston A Western
Carolina Hallway Company. The
committee set a hearing on the mat
ter for yesterday afternoon but, find
ing no objection to the bill, reported
it favorably without the hearing. Th«
effect of the bill, if passed, will he
that the Charleston & Wetsern Car
olina will be operated as a part of
the Coast Lino system. The measurs
gives the Coast Lino all right to ac
quire the other road, and paves the
way for the consummation of the pro
posed deal between the two tines.
Counsel for the Coast Lino said
yesterday that the bill would moan
the Improvement of the Charleston A
Western Carolina and that ninety
pound rails would be used into Augus
ta and other respects tho Charleston
A Western Carolina would be brought
up to the Coast Line standard.
CAN PROCEED IN
24 MILLION SUIT
Att’y Oen'l of Missouri Can
Now Oo Ahead in Litigation
to Recover Excess Passenger
and Freight Charges.
Kansas ..City, Mo. —Injunctions
against John T. Raker, attorney gen
eral of Missouri, preventing him from
proceeding with suits to recover $24,-
060,000 excess freight and passenger
charges made by railroads while the
Missouri rate cases were In litigation,
were dissolved today In an opinion
by Federal Judge Smith McPherson.
The original Injunction brought by
railroads to prevent enforcement of
Missouri's two-eent passenger and
minimum freight rate laws also was
dismissed In accordance with the re
cent decllon of the United States su
preme court upholding the laws. In
addition the court held that SIO,OOO
bonds up up by each railroad In 1905
when tho state rate laws were en
joined has no reference to those per
sons who have paid excess rates or
passenger fares and they can recover
whatever Is duo them.
THIS GREAT STORY
BEGINS ON MONDAY
So Declares General Man
ager A. W. Anderson Re
garding Reported Pur
chase By the Atlantic
Coast Line
WOULDN'T LESSEN THE
IMPORTANCE OF
AUGUSIA
Mr. Anderson Sees No Reason
Why Any Changes Should Be
Made to Lessen Importance
of This City Which Has
Road's Shops and General
Offices.
Mr. A. W. Anderson, genera) mana
ger of the Charleston A Western Car
olina Railroad, was seen today re
garding the report from Columbia
that a hill had been Introduced In the
South Carolina legislature permitting
the Atluntlc Coast Line to purchase
the C. A W. C. Road. Mr. Anderson
was asked how this would affect him
and other officers of his road located
at Augusta and how It would affect
the C. A W. C. Road as a property.
He replied that ho did not know how
It would affect him or other local of
ficials. and further stated that he did
not think that It need he a matter of
public concern Just what would be
come of the officers, outside, of
course, of personal relations that
might exist between the patrons of
tho C. A W. C. Road and Its officials;
that the Interesting question was how
It would affect the road itself and Its
•patrons.
Mr. Anderson expressed It as his
opinion that It could mean nothing
but good for the future development
of the rond, which meant of course
the best Interest of Its patrons and
the public generally throughout the
section served by hls company. Mr.
Anderson further stated that the
question of securing money sufficient
to develop the property along well
needed lines has been always a «e*
rlotin one for his company; in fact,
that under the present conditions It
was hardly possible to borrow money,
and that therefore he could only feel
that should the property be acquired
by the Coast Line, that the oppor
tunity might, and no doubt would, be
given to make such Improvements
and developments as would prove to
tho public’s heat Interest.
Not to Lessen Augusta’s Importinca.
Mr. Anderson was asked the fur
ther question ns to whether the fu
ture plans of the company would In
crease tho Importance of Angusta as
the principal operating point of the
road. His reply was that he could
not say what the plan of operation
would be , nssumlng as he did that
that would be a matter of future de
velopment, but thnt he saw no reason
to feel that any changes would take
place lessening Augusta's Importance
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Seven Keys
TO
Baldpate
By
EARL] DERR BIGGERS
Copyright, 1913, by th« Bobb# Merrill
Company