I I I I I The Leto-Bork Times, Friday, August 17, 1588. meeting the Geiser, probably because it bail been so much talked about, and a num. of young people in, the steurage of the vessel agreed to sit up and watch for the expected steamer. According to Miss Rigel, a party, of half a dozen young men and girls gathered together in the after part of the steerage, determined to remain awake until the Thingvalla and Gelser should pass. The long hours of the night tepre whiled away by the telling of stories and the unfolding of plane for the future, to be adopted when the shores of New World were reached.
Shortly after 3 4 clock the watchers became tired and diswith their vigil and retired to their respective berths. 1 at once fell asleep," said Miss Sigel, dad was awakened by being thrown from berth by the shock of the collision, Almost passenger, in the steerage had been thrown to the deck by the erash. and instantly a scene of the wildest confusion ensued The people seemed to bave been at once into borde of mad It was bad enough in the after part of the ship where I was, bat it was rorse forward. Men, women, and children came rushing aft shouting that the ship sinking. This turned the panic into pandemonium in the steerage.
People rushed sup the companionways shrieking Jike maniace, and, those who were behind endeavored to pull back those ahead so AR to precede them to the deck and get chance to go in the boats, which were even then being slung from the davits. As tho steerage passengers came on deck they were met by officers of the ship who assured them sitat there was DO immediate danger, but ad the water could be heard rushing Into the ship it was a long time before even comparative quiet conid be restored, will never forget the scene in the steerage an instant after the collision. The people did not act like Deman beings; they were savages, beasts, brutes, whose only thought was personal safety. The men acted worse than the women, and ruthlessly crowded in hiead of their wives and children in their niad Fish to the deck, The women, as a rile, collected their children around them mid praved for deliverance. All this timeit was in reality onis a few minuteseverybody in the steerage believed that (the abip was going down.
Those few minutes! Oh, God! they were awfnl! As RODE I could I went on deck, aud One of the officers who had bean kind to me sold me to go below, as there was no danger The vessel seemed to be sinking forward, and I went to the rail to be ready While by the rail I. saw a number of the to, overboard if she should sink. Geiser's passengers floating about on the wreckaize. It was still very dark and rainbut the vessel's lights threw pale paths of light over the sea, and I could every little while see people float past, clinging to pieces of wood and appealing to be saved. 'It seemed to be an awful time before the Thing valla's boats were lowered.
I am sure I waited for half an hour before one reached tho water from the davita The boats to be swung very high, and the men to be unable to get them swung over the water, By the time the Thingvalla's boat began picking up people from the water nearly all of her passengers were on deck watching the operations. EverytHing was then comparatively quiet, but injun were weeping hysterically." Jennie Biork of Gefle, Sweden, who bad lived in Chicago for some years, bat who had been visiting her native land, was also ope of the party who sat up to watch the I passing of the Geiser. After she retired Miss Biork was unable to sleep, and was awake when the colhsion occurred. There was nothing, she said, to precede the collis140 the nature of a warning. It was simply a crash, and.
then a panic, which WAS only quelled by the efforts of the officers as the steerage passengers rushed to the deck. Miss Biork is sure that no whistle was for a long time prior to the crash. She was thrown from her berth, and, without waiting for any clothing, rushed on deck. Hire could see the lights of another vessel, apparently only a few feet away, and could hear Heartrending shrieks coming across the winter. Miss Biork remained en deck until the lights of the Geiser settled down gradually nearer and nearer the waves and Were Gually ingulfed, showing that the whip had gone to the bottom of the sea.
Then, with a cry of horror, she turned to below and was met by a throng of shriekmpg prissengers ascending. The ship is sinking they cried. den's care, I am going down," said Biork, and she did go down the comover the heads of the mob as a Loy coasts down hill. Having reached the steerage, Miss Biork crawled into her berth. Whist are you doing there shrieked the ship is going down." All right," said the philosophic 1 Miss Biork, if she does I'd rather be drowned bet than in the midst of lot of And she staid in her berth until ordoor wits tully restored on the ship.
Charlotte Audren was one of the first of those in the steerage of the Thingvalla to reach the deck. It was raining hard, she said, bat there was no fog. aud the lights of the Getser could be seen until they were extinguided beneath the surface of the sea. The excitement on board was terrible, and Was made more frightful by the shrieks the Geiser and from people in the water, Miss Audren sank upon her knees of the deck and cried, Lord save us!" a supplication that was token up and re: coboed through the ship. All of the Thingvalla's people speak very highly of the manner in which they were treated by the officers of the Wieland after being transferred to that vessel.
They were with plenty of food, and those who hind left their clothing behind were given enough to make them comfortable during the remainder of the voyage. CAPT. MULLER'S STORY. Capt. came ashore from the WieAnd board the revenue He is sport, (hick-set maa, sturdy and weatherbeaten, but apparently much broken by the fearful experiences through which he had passed within the past few days.
He lost every rug of felothink and every bit of personal property be had aboard the Geiser, and when taken aboard the Thingvalla on the morning of the disaster absolutely destitute of everyshing. His of the oceurrence, while giving no explanation why the collision took place, was boost stirring reoltal. We loft the harbor of New- York on Satorday, passing the Hook at about nova. We had rood weather, and at neon Monday we were in stitude 17 north, longitude 63 west. nient it had began to.
rain slightly, bot the weather was not bad, and I left the bridge 111 p'elook, giving the ship in charge Second Officer Jorgensen, with orders mo it it got hazy or tuggy, or anything WBA tiro master. If nothing vecurred he was to call me at 12 o'olook and let know what distance had been made lay pa the in the chart room. I nise ordere to the chiet oilicer, Henry Brews, to call At 12 d'eleck I was called, and thing was all right. The weather was fine. 3 ofelock the oblof officer calied me.
He said has the weather was olear. I told him would sound at 4 o'clock, and then dozed on to again. just dropped asleep-it must have been at about 3:30 -when I heard the drat ofNuer call me loudly. He was excited, and Shouter: We are golag to be ram Jumped from the sofa and ran out on the nothing but my nightshirt. tin mediately the lights of big steamed On the starboard bOW.
could datingaish her hull. The engines of our were going at full speed astern, and the been thrown bard starboard, think. I had not more thas time to notice this anuch when with a tremendons crash tire bow of steamer struck us hard and nearly at right angles to our The blow took us just abatt the main rigging, ent quarter way through us, wad made such a tremendous bole that I saw once we could not stay afloat. I at once gave orders to bare the launebed, to 68nd up signal rockets, and can. The confusion which followed, however, 1s beyond me.
I cannot describe it. The bunts on the bridge were launched, the starboad one, No. The miah at the stern dropped the fall, and -the hoat ailed with water and a vamped. No. 2, on the port side, was also lounetied, and she drifted away too far from the toy be of any assistance.
The only other lannened No. The powder room so no signais could be used. The were working at the lifeboats amidship, The passengers began now to swarm up from below, and were completely pante-striaken. The confusion was awtul; men were struggling to get to the boats, and the women and children and screaming. sang out to the lifeboat to look out for the women and children Then I sang out below for every one to lite preservers There were between 700 of these on beard.
The panto great, no we ver, that they did mash attention to randed on deck without them. There roand lite baeys on the bridge where and took these and threw them dewa passengers I ship end of the vessel we noticeably get1n water. engineer, rushed down to the cabin for for the passengers, and I peter I on the and I antil I was swept sway by the water. I went down with the vessel, sucked in by the waters. It seemed to me shat I more a minute under water, whirled head ever heels, striking objects living and dead.
At length I felt that I was rising. I did not lose at all, and saddeniy shot up to the eurtace. I at ones but sod hold of an var, which 1 clung to -swimming to support myseif-avout 25 I could see the lights of the Thingvalla, and wAs surrounded in the Water by struggling human beings and floating boxes and barrels. At last I was hauled up on the keel of a boat, just I was About to rive up from exhaustion. The boats of stuff the Thingvalia were busy among the floating picking ap the drowning I was soon taken off the boat keel and taken to the ship, wtore everything that could be done was dune tor in comfort and that of the test of the survivors.
We had barels chance to recover ourselves when we were obliged to set to work at once to save the Thingvalia She was almost erased a ibe condition. Her forefoot was in and she was making water. rapidly through her forward bulkhead. the only thing between her and the Atlantic Occan. To get at that buikhead Was the only chanee.
of saving our Ives. 10 order 16 strengthen it and seep it from giving way the cargo had to be taken up and sh*tted as was rapialy as that possible. could At be this tuade work use of, everybody passenengaged yers or ore w. We cos down to it Anally and sueceded in it so that the leakage conki be taken care of by the pumps. Capt.
Miller paused oceasionally in his darrasire, and sals voice bled now and then as some terrible picture of the accident crossed his mind. When asked how he explained the colliston, occurring as it did en a might comparatively clear, he put his bauds before him deprecatingly and said: How can I tell! I can no more explain the cause of the accident than cou tell now about something that is happening in the river. That will all be bronghs out as the 1o- vestigation, for I suppose this is something which will have to go before the course The only man who was on deck at the thine and who can tell anything about the reasons why 16 eurred is the third officer, Jorgen Petersen. He was on watch when the socident took place. have told bim to remember eversthing that he saw and to be ready to testify the whole truth only when the investigation takes place." the same forenoon," continued the CaDtain, the Thingvails sighted the Wieland aud timediately hoisted signals of distress.
At about 11 she came alongside. The con: dition of the Thingvalla was so eritical that it Was thought best to transter her own passerKers and the surviving passengers and crew of the Geiser to the Wieland and take tuem to New- York. This was accordingly done, 455 passengers of tue Thingvalla and 14 passengers and 17 of the crew from the sunken steamer being transferred. I want to say rignt here bow well We were treated on board the Wieland. They were as attentive as they could be and wade us very comfortable.
The Thingvalla cannot make at present more than two knots an hour with that big hele in Der side, and if any bad weather should turn up she will have to turn stern to it and avoid the sea. When we left she had drifted about tire miles from the scene of the accident, and Wa8 about thirty-five miles south of sable island. That 16 about 150 mile from Halifax, which port she will try to make. Capt. Laud said that he would tee every means to get the vessel into port, although the bolts would be kept in readiness tor use at any moment." WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE! The reluctance of Third Officer Petersen to state the name of the offleer he was about to relieve when the crash of the collision came, aroused the suspicions of great many who beard his story as to 'the reasons for his reticence.
If Mr. Petersen's motive was to shield a fellow officer from probabie blame, his method Was cortataly Twulty, for it was an easy matter by looking up the disciplinary and routine rules in vogue of all transatlantic steamers to ascertain that the third officer invariably relieves the Brat, aud the fourth the second. Thus, the second and fourth officers have their wateh below while the firet and third have theirs on deck. As a result the third reluctance to speak freely in regard to the watch on deck at the time of the disaster, inquiries were at once set on foot which quickly revealed the fact that First Officer Brown, who was lost, was or should bave been on the bridge when Mr. Peterson made his appearance.
There was a rumor adoas tu the Stevens House last night, which 1t was impossible to trace to its origin, that the frat officer was below when Mr. Petersen came on deck instead of being his proper place on the bridge, and it was generally considered thas the third officer's roticut on was due to this fact. If it should be proved to be true that the officer of the deck was below. and that the ship plunging through the ocean and the night without controlling arm on the bridge, the disaster would bu' easily sccounted for. Ofticer Peterson 1s the ouly man who can solve this question, and he was not disposed to do so last night.
Both he and the Captain disappeared early in the evening And could not be found during the night. THE LOST. The official statement of the number of passengers lost 18 72, ani of the officers and crew 33. The passenger list, however, contains only 68 bates. This discrepancy at persons de accounted for by the fact that they were probably ehildren and not mentioned in the list Following is the list of the OFFICERS: Brown, Henry, Arst mate, 32 years old.
third engineer. Foss, Arat engineer. Larsen, second engineer. Gregersen, chief steward. Twenty-eight of the crew, whose names could not be learned, were lust They were all Danes, and lived in Copenhagen.
PASSENGERS. Second Cabin. Clausen, LA Evenfeldt, Bertha. Hammer, Capt. George.
Meiborg, J. C. Milison. R. Seehus, Kre.
Ellen. Loebbora, Hilda. Steerage. Andersen, Amanda, New- York. Andersen, Anders, New- York.
Andersen, Johann. Andersen, Louisa. Andersen, Majus. Berg, Elizabeth, and child. Bergstrom, Hilda.
Bockland, C. Carison, a Christensen, Cauline, and two children. Ole. Fredericksem, and two children, Gabrielson, Boren, Brooklyn. Gulliksen, Kittle.
Guscarson, and child. Hausen, Jans. Hansen, Karen. Hansen, Made Hansen, Peter. Injebrijtsen, Andrew, and family, two adults and one child.
Jensen, A. J. Jansen, Mrs. John, and infant. Jehm, J.
E. Jansen, J. Carl, New- York. Josephson, Marla, and calid. Jun)ettom, Walllam.
Kjeidoes, Jisa Kostrop, and chlid, Brooklyn. Knudsen, Christian. Knudsen, Christiana 0. H. Two children of Mrs.
Hilda Land. Lind, A. J. G. Lund, Astrid.
Ida. Merstad, Peter Hansen. Nimb, Nicelina. Olander, 0. W.
Oisea. Albert. Olson, Hella. Petersen, Miss A. N.
Peterson, and family-two adulta and one child. Randby, H. soderhoim. Andrew. Sorensen, Frederick C.
Swensen. Kirsten, and an unknown adult. Stromberg, T. E. Thomson, Anna Turnerberg, Carl, and wife.
Weckaer, THE SAVED. Following is the diet of the passengers on the Geiser who were su red, with the places to which they were bound: CABIN. Mrs. Hilda Lind, 28 years old, of, this city, to Caisham, Sweden. STEERAGE.
Alfred Anderson, 84 years old, of this eity, to Grinstad, Norway, Jens Anderson, 24 years old, of Palladelphie, Christiania. Norway. Jeban Aiquist, 35 years old, of Iron Mountain, to Orland, Finland. Caristoffer Elearen, 33 years old, from Chicaro, IL, to Bergen, Norway. Fred L.
Hausen, 40 years old, from Port DE, to Copeabagen. Peter Johansen, 40 years old, of St. Paul, to 8 weden. Johan G. Johmsen, 29 years eld, of Iron Stockholm, Sweden.
Jonann Larson, 40 years old, from this elty, to Risor, Norway. Anders Gastav Peterson, 87 years, from St. Paul, to sweden. Paul Paulson, 34 years old, from Iroa wood, te Copenhagen. Laurita Romerdehl, 42 years old, of Lansing, to Copenhagen, John Ten 33 years old, of Hudson, to Tondhjem, Norway.
Anders 28 years old, of Mian, to Christiania, Norway. The offers and crow who were saved, with the Cari places of their nativity, were Mailer, Captafo, 33 years old, of near Denmark. Peter Jultus Jorgensen, drst officer, 34 years old, of Nakakow. Jerken Peterson, third offcer. 27 years old, of De.
Peter Dirks, physietan, 26 years old, TonSled wig. Louis Dernouville de la Cour, officers' boy, 16 years old, of Randers, Elans Bertelsen, assistant engineer, 21 years old, of Hoistebro, Denmark. Niels Peter Mathew Gabrielsen, assistant engineer, 22 years old, of Stageiso, Denmark. Franz Oscar Petersen, 45 years old, of Stockboim, Sweden. Fritz Hoim, lampman, 29 years old, of Copenhaget, Andera Denmark.
Gregorsen, sallor, 48 Jears old, of Sakekow, Denmark. Waldemar Musliorp, young 16 years old. of Jettehoi Samsa, Denmark. A Wilhelm Andersen, bend freman, 30 years old, of Copenhagen, Denmark. Frederick Peter Frederiksen, freman, 25 gears old.
of Copenhagen. Hans Ohristian Due Johansen, Aretnan, 25 yours old, of Taarnby, Denmark. Nells Peter Juittis Neilsen, fireman. 25 years old, of Kieteminde, Denmark. John Albert fireman, 22 years old, of Stockholm, sweden.
freinan. 20 years old, of this city. who was working His way to Copenharen. Among the passengers of the Thingvalia were a number who reside in this country and who were returning home. These American restdents are Miss Mr.
Klas Krock, Mra. Fenny Krek, Mr. Martin Nelson, Mra. Kjerstein Miss Anna Nelson, Mr. John R.
Daniap, MrA, feidora Dunlap and child, Miss Helene Mrs. Borehenius, Mr. Clas Kamph. Miss Bigne Morgensen, Mr. Louis Fensen, Miss Anna A.
Trelde, Miss Eleonora Petersen, and Mr. Lauritz Heiseth. STORIES OF SURVIVORS. One of the saddest incidents of the disaster was related to a TiMES reporter last might by Mr. Olaf Lad of 417 East One Kundred and Nineteenth-street.
He is the brother-in-law of Mrs. Huda Lind, one of the rescued passengers. who lost her two children-Ida, aged 3 Fears, and Charlie, aged 3 months. With her two chidren she occupied a starboard cabin amidshiva. They were all sound asleep when the crash came, little Ida in an upper berth and the mother and her babe just below.
Mrs. Lind was awakened by the noise inade by the panie-stricken passengers crowding past esch other in the passage. Putting her head outside the cabin she asked what the matter was One of the stewards told her to fly for the deck, that the chip was sinking. Sha asked the steward to carry one of her children to the deck, but he made no reply sad passed on. Several otter 186 were in the passage, and to them she also appenied for help, bus they paid no attention to her, all hurrying past to the companion way, up which they disappeared.
Mrs. Lind lifted the flabe from the berth, where it still lay fast asleep, and, taking Ida's band, started for the deck. A man brushed by them, knocking the little girl down, but did not AtOp to pick her up, although the mother begged him to do 60. She knelt down, and, taking the child about the waist started to carry her to the deck. At the companion way a steward peared, and almost frantio woman asked him to carry the little girl up stairs.
He did not heed her, but scrambled up stairs. Mrs. Lind finally reached the deck, where she found An excited erowd, some elimbing over the rail and others stamping the deck in frenzy. Women were screaming for help. She had been on deck but a few moments when the water swept over it, and she remembers no more until she was picked up and taken on board the Thingvalla.
Bbe thought at first that the children were also saved, but soon afterward learned they were lost. Mes. Lind is a comely Swede of 28. She has been in this country but four rears. Her band is John 0.
Lind, and they live at 107 East Eighty-ninth-street. She was on the way to Carishamn, 8weden, to visit her mother, whoin she had not Seen sInce she left hotne. 8he 18 broken down with grief, and says that her children might have been saved had the stewards and other men beets willing to assist her. Her husband, too, is almost prostrated, and when seen last night the couple did nothing but moan and cry. I.
Dane, a steerage passenger on the Thingvalla, said that he was on wateh on deck on the night of the collision. He did not belopg to the crew and be did not explain how be came to be on watch. It was very foggy at the time, and was raining quite bard, so that it was almost impossible to see any way ahead. He bad been talking with the steward, and the first officer was on the bridge, Suddenly he heard the whistle of the Thingvalla blow a lend blast and the bells ring furiously. Then he heard other whistles, and the steamer altered her course to port and began to back water.
She was going at pretty good rate of speed, and could not be stopped easily. Petersen instinetively felt that there was danger ahead, and the next moment he saw the lights of the Gelser and its dark form looming up lying sideways to the Thingvalla. In an instant the Thingvalla crashed into the Geiser, but the shock was not very severe, and then there arose mingled cries and wails from the fated vessel. Within a minute or less after the Geiger was struck Petersen heard the Captain of the Thingvalla order to lower the boats, and he helped in the work. Andrew Nelson, a steerage passenger on the Thingvalla, said that be had just gone down stairs when he beard the crash, and immediately ran up again on deck where everything was already in confusion.
He helped in manning the boats sad in ploking up those whom they found floating in the water. Among them were two women, one of wham died from exhaustion as soon as she was brought on board the Thingvalia Nelson says that the husband of that weman lives in New- York, but he did net know her name. Anders Wilae of Minneapolis, Das6enger on the Geiser, says that be went down with the vessel. He was assisting in getting off at the site. They could pot get the boat over, but when the Geiser went down the boat was cleared, and when be came up out of the water, he came up under the lifeboat.
He swam around until he was saved by the Thingvalla. N. P. M. Gabrielsen, an assistant engineer of the Geiger, is among the saved.
He was 006 that went down with the vessel and was afterward picked up. He had leg broken by a falling spar. He was taken last evening 10 St. Mary's Hospital in Jersey vity. CARING FOR THE RESCUED.
By the addition of the persons from the Thingvalla and Geiser the number of persons On board the Wieland was increased from 684 to number tar beyond her to capacity care for with anything like ordinary comfort. provisions had been laid in for only the number she carried whea she left Hamburg. Fortunate ly, the supply of staple provisions was large enough to meet, with ecomomy, all the necessities of the situation. The Wieland force of stewards, however, was not large enough to attend to the wants of 80 many people, and nocordinely the chief steward and six vi his assistants from the Thingvalia were taken aboard the Wieland to help out. No attempt was made to transfer provisions to the Wieland, because the chief steward thought he could make out to feed the castaways with what eteres be had.
The transfer of persons was accomplished by boats from both the Thingvalla and the Wieland in about two hours, and as 800n a8 it was finlabed the vessels steamed away, the Thinevalia northwestward for Halifax and the Wieland west had by south for New- York. The Thingvails already began te strengthen her bulkhead by bracing it from within with timbers and by building a protection bulkhead outside. The wind was blowing mildly from the west at the time, and with a continuance of such weather as she had then there WAS every prospect of her reaching Halifax by -to-night or tomorrow morning. On board the Wieland all was confusion. After all the women for whom room could be found had been assigned to the vacant berths in the cabin and steerage, there remained several of them and all the men to be provided tor.
These were huddled anywhere and every where that space could be found. Many of them spent the on two the remaining promenade nights or their memorable trip deck, wrapped in such from erings could be gathered together the individual property of allrugs, shawls, would overcoats, blankets thing that serve to keep of the chill of the night air. Noue of the rescued had brought with them anything bus the clothes they had upon their baoks at the time, and the need of fresh clothing grew disagreeably presslug with every hour until the vessel reached her dook. Then the rescued ones hoped and expected to go immediately ashore, some of them for with all no idea what was to becometof them then, their personal effects were either on the way to Halifax in the hold of the Thingvalla, or at the bottom of the Atlantic in the hold of the unfertunate Geiser; and homes they had none. It Bat they were not to go ashore last night.
was only attempted by the agents of the line to care for the passengers of the Geiser, and they were removed to comfortable quarters in the Steves House. The 462 who were taken from the Thingvalia were compelled to pass another night not, on board the Wielaud. The temperature was debilitating, and disagreeable in the extreme. The deck was wet wish dew and with the salt spray shat had settled there auring the trip. Comfort was out of the question, but the passengers were as patient and unprotesting if their repose was in their own beds at beine.
They dieposed themselves at length in ranks, with their beads pilwood lowed or on any and all serviceable projections of iron or rope or anything that could be put to use. Some of them gathered in groups in remote parts of the vessel and sung the hours away until exhaustion drove them to sleep ta the tanks of their fellowa. THE VESSELS. The Geiser made her maiden trip to this port in February, 1888. She was built of iron in Burnnester Wetn'e shipyard at Copenhagen, and costin the net ehborhood of 8300,000 Her net register was 1,900 toms.
Her dimensions were: Length, 812 feet; breadth of beam, 40 feet, and depth of hold, 80 feet. Her compound engines provided of with indicated winches horse power. She was $,000 steam and about 20 other of the most modern appliances. Her bull WaS constructed of the beat insa and. was at vided Into five water-tight compartments.
The accommodations in the cabin were Minited, bat between degra theze for fully 700 There were three hospitals aboard, with banks for forty patients On deck she eight largo The main deck was broad and particalarly fisted for promenading, being guarded by high railings. The: officers' quarters were oh the lower deck minidatips, and the forecastio Was forward on the main deck. The steame? was barkentino rigged and said to be easily able to make 12 spots an hour. She carried a ere of 50 men and was commanded by Capt. Carl W.
She left this port on Aug. 11 for Cepenhagen, carrying 107 passengers, The Thingvails is a sister ship to the Gelser, and is run by the Thingvalla Line, which plies between New- York and Christiania, Copenhagen, and Stettin. The Taingvalla- registers 1,746 tons, and was built in Copenhagen in 1874. Her dimensions are: 299 feet; breadth of beam, 37 feet, and depth of hold, 27 feet. She has two compound direct anting eylinder engines.
She has three decks, and is built of iron. She 18 commanded by Capt. B. Lamb, and left Stettin July 46 and Copenhagen Aug 1 for NewYork. The Geiser carried as cargo for Christiania 751 tubs of lard, 225 barrels of beef, 1,429 sacka of four, and 76 tube of butter.
For Copenhagen she had 650 tierces of lard, 195 barreis of beef, 177 tubs of butter. 47 hogsheads of tobacco. and 42,066 bushels of corn. For Stettin she carried 300 tierces of lard, 300 half barrels of lard, 50 tierces of grease, 500 boxes of timothy seod, and 81 barrels of bungs. THE FINANCIAL LOSS.
The personal loss of the passengers on board the Getser was in many cases very severe, all of them losing everything that they had with them. When the personal loss is added to the total loss of vessel and cargo, the accident at once appears to be one of the most costly oues. The vessel and machinery Were worth at least £45,000, or about the cargo was worth about £25.000, or about the personal baggage and effects of the officers, crew, and passengers, lost and survivina, 136 adults and 21 chidren, may. be estimated to have been about $40,000. This is purely an estimate, and in reality there was probably a higher average per capita than this would make.
The total loss thus figured would ameunt to $880,000. In the case of the passengers and crew who were saved this was in many cases loss of every dollar's worth of worldly goods. THE NEWS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Aug. Chicago office of the Thingvalla Line sold about 50 tickets for the Geiser to people from all portions of the west.
They were people who were making trip back to their old homes to visit friends and renew old associations. Late in the evening, when the news of the disaeter had become dieseminated, the office of the company wAS hesieged by anxious frienda of some of those who sailed by the Gelser, but as the telegram received from the Now- York office was very meagre as to detaila, no consolation was given them. RAVE TROUBLES IN LOUISIANA. E. P.
SMITH, A CIVIL ENGINEER, KILLED BY NEGROES. NEW-ORLEANS, Aug. dispatch just received from New-Iberia says: Information by courier has just been received of the killing of Mr. E. F.
Smith, civil engineer, at Freetown, negro village 10 miles northwest New-Iberia. Rumors have been coming in for several days that the negroes were collecting at Freeiewn and arming for the purpose of avenging their supposed wrongs in Abberille and 8t. Martineville. The exiles of these latter places have taken refuge in Freetown and have excited the negro element there. It seems that collision took place there -day between the whites and blacks, resulting in the death of Mr.
Smith. Rumors are to the effect that another white man has been wounded. The reports and meagre details have caused great alarm here. Mr. Smith's brother at Chicago' has been apprised of the alfair, His body was brought into New-Iberia to-night under escort of a squad of armed men.
Iberia 18 parish in which the blacks largely outnumber the whites, and at the last election chose several of their color 88 town officers. They have since been called upon to citizens' committee, and they compiled with the demand under protest, and white men were appointed by Gov. Nicholls. In the adjoining parish of Vermillion the regulators have been riding about nighta whipping vagrants. On Saturday might the regulatore visited a Douse where negro Was living with white woman, and were fired on and wounded by the A masa meeting of whites and blacks then appointed a committee of 12 of both colors to look after the whipping of bad characters, but the only v10- tim was a white man.
SHE WAS NOT AFRAID. his telegram. NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS. ATLANTA, Aug. latest illus-, tration of a woman's devotion to her loved one comes to light this morning in the form of telegram from Jacksonville to Chief Connolly.
The telegram Was 38 follows: "Stop Mra. Horner 02 her way from Cincinnati to Jackson ville." The message was signed by the woman's husband. Bergt. White was detailed to work up the osse. When the yellow fever seare broke out in Jacksonville, Mr.
ho*rner was at work there, his wife being in Cincinnati. Bhe wrote to him after reading the newspaper accounte of the fever begging him to cote back to Cincinnati His business such that he could not leave, and he so informed his wife. As the pumber of cases gradually Increased her anxiety for her busband's safety became so great that she decided upon going to him. Mr. Horner Immediately telegraphed to the Chief of Police 1D Atlanta to stop her.
He telegraphed to her to stop in Atlanta where he would meet her, and in a later telegratn be requested the Chief to hold her until he could get here, as be feared she bad not received his dispatoh. Sergt. White succeeded in locating Mrs. ho*rner at 45 East Mitchell-street, where she was awaiting her husband, having received CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. deadlock in the Twentieth District Republican Congressional Convention was broken to-day by the nomination of M.
L. 8myser of Wooster on the one hundred and 1fty-third ballot. Strabe was renominated by DES MOINES, Aug. 16. the Eleventh District at Cherokee to-day.
ST. JOSEPH, Aug. Republoans of the Fourth District nominated Major H. W. K.
Hartwig for Congress yesterday. CHICAGO, Aug. Republicans of the Thirteenth Illinets District nominated A. Connelly for Congress to-day. This is William M.
Springer's district INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. Portland yesterday the Republicans of the Eleventh District nominated George W. steele of Marion for Congress. The nomination was by tion. MOORESTOWN, N.
Aug. Second Distriot Prohibition Cenvention here to-day nominated Minot C. Morgan of Princeton tor Congress. A COMMISSION FIRM FAILS CHICAGO, Aug. commission firm of Bryan Landell suspended to-day.
They have been in existence two years, and since they were caught 1n the June wheat corner Jear ago have struggled to keep their heads above water. The disastrous outcome of aD Atlanta agency fereed the suspension. Calvin Gossett Was their manager in Atlanta. Gossett, Mr. Bryan says, was caught abert on cotton, and this hurt Bryan and Landell's standing so that it was cided to suspend.
Mr. Bryan says he has lest $30,000 in the last two gears. NEBRASKA PROHIBITION ISTS. OMAHA, Aug. Prohibition State Convention consumed the morning a session to day in an effort to raise $5,000 for campaign purposes.
At the afternoon session a platform was adopted, which is reaffirmation of the oDe adopted at the National in Indianapolis. George E. Bigelow, of Lancaster County, was nominated for Governor and John Dale of Omaba for Lieutenant-Governor, with full list of nominees the other State offices. W. G.
Allinger was recommended to the Electors for United States Senator in accordance with a declaration in the platform favoring the election of Senators by direct vote of the people. FALL OF A CHUROH. MILWAUKE, Aug. special to the Evening Wisconsin from Coleman, says the new Catholie church collapsed to-day, killing one man and crushing seven others so that several may die. LOSSES BY FIRE.
Fire yesterday at Enosburg Falls, destroyed Mitchell Bolace's meat market, Russell's tailor shop, insured and the residence of A. J. Smith. Loss, The soap destroyed factory of David Rupp at York, lose of insurance, fire $7,000. yesterday.
causing by Houser Son's flour mill, the largest in Altoona, was burned to the cround last evened Loss, $25.000: fully insured, The fire reanit. from spontaneous combustion. T. B. lumber mill at Grand Forks, $50,000 and was was insured for yesterday.
$28,000. was. valued Dakota, burned CHICAGO'S LOST LETTERS EVIDENOR AGAINST THE TWO THIN 88. OBERKAMPP'S STORIES NOT BELIEVED BY THE POLICE--TESTIMONY TO HELP CONVICT THEM. CHICAGO, Aug.
investigatiens have convinced the officers more strongly than ever that Oberkampf and Mack, the men arreated for robbing mail are guilty, and that strong cases will be presented against them when they are brought to trial nest Tuesday. The conviction is growing, too, that the men operated only in Chicago, and that they have no allies in other eltien Oberkampf, to sure, still sticks to his story that he was merely an employe of a man named Edwards, but he has permitted so many miner creep into the accounts he has given different times that none of the officials DOW attach much weight to it. Especially is this true of the postal authorities, by whom little. reliance 18 placed in the story, and who thing Oberkampt has concocted it for the purpose of mitigating his own responsibility and offense in the eyes of the publie. The officials believe that the two men now 10 their custedy are the only ones that were concerned in the robbery.
Inspector Kidder, who has charge of the case, says: "I do not take any stock whatever in these statements. These men have been lying all through, and I place no importance whatever in their stories. take no stock whatever in the theory of widespread, gang. If there had been anything of that kind they would have operated more quickly and have done something much more important thaa anything these men have done. I don't even believe these men had any key to the mall boxes.
When you come to look at this thing there closely 18 a comparatives small affair when the length of time it has been spread over is taken inso nocount. What gives the affair an important feature la that so many drafts and cheeks were taken. There is about $100,000 of them, but they were of Very little use to the parties who took them. They could not realize a cent in the world on them." Col. Kidder figures it out that the robbers did not secure more than six or seven letters a day on the average, but so long were they engaged in the business that altogether they stole be2.000 and 3.000.
They may have easily taken letters from the boxes by the use of carde with mucilage on one end, or they may have pulled out the topmost letters from overerowded boxes. On one point, however, the ottloers are agreed, and that 18 that the mail boxes, especially of the size ordinarily meed, offer very litile protection to mail matter placed in them. There is strong probability that reeult of Obetkampre arrest will be an attempt to have some change made in the street box system. Very large boxes, few of which hare been introduced here, bare served better protection, and the Inspector 10- tices that, after they were put 18 the business districts, was not able to capture as many letters as he had before their introduction. This tact is taken to bear out the theory that the thieves were not provided with keys, but had to resort to other devises to secure the letters.
It seems strange that either the Post Office detectives or the police had not captured the two men long ago, for one of the rules of the Poet Office Department provides that local police forces shall be Kept informed of the hours of collection from boxes and of persons authorized to collect, and instructed to arrest any persons who they be found tampering with the boxes. The great number of deeds, mortgages, ance policies, and similar documents recovered from the trunks in which the booty had been packed is full of interest for the business munity, end people who want their deeds and Insurance policies bare been flocking to the Inspector's room in the Government building to look over the Representatives of big groeery houses and insurance companies were to-day looking through the trunks and the paekages arranged upon the tables, and many a letter was found whose loss had caused complaint against the local officers and had caused investigating committees to be sent from Washington. The proceeds of tWO years' work on the part of the thieves have to a large extent been recovered. The stamps are all torn from the envelopes, and the thieves must have obtained a very good income from this source alone. The Jesters and packages are being sorted over as rapidly as possible and arranged in lots belonging to different Arms.
All requests to have matter delivered to the owners have been refused, but as soon as possible the inspecter will deliver everything to the senders. Apart from the evidence against the prisoners furnished by the recovered letters is some seatimony whied, while it will materially help to conviction, will show that a fairly accurate description of Oberkampt was furnished the Post Office authorities about month ago. Oberkam pt had been in the habit of selling postage stamps to Jenkinson Shelby, jewelers, furnishing them with small lots from time to time. Finally, some packages containing gold bows for spectacles were stolen from the top of mall box upon which they had been placed, and the theft WaS traced by the Arm 10 Oberkampf. Complaint was made at the Post Office, but the there decided that, a the parcels bad not been properly mailed, they could do nothing.
At the titne the jewelers furnished a description of the man now under arrest. Oberkampt visited the store again and Mack met him there to buy a watch, but the transaction did not take place. For some reason Jenkinson Shelby did not attempt to have the men arrested, and the visitors departed. The next day Oberkampf was arrested by the detectives who had been following his landlady's suit, and two days later Maek was taken into custody. The firm's evidence will go strongly against the men, it is said, but the exact nature of the testimony is Iceps a secret.
In regard to the report that the Charles Edwards mentioned by Oberkampf in his contession is identical with Chester Edwards Bradley, the Post Office officials said yesterday they did not think 10 could be possible. The description given coineides elosely with Chester Arthur Bradley who was appointed inspector 1n 1884 and removed in June, 1885. Reports were received afterward that he was engaged in the insurance business in Chicago. Bradley's character while be was in the Post Office here was reported to be irreproachable. HOT DAY.
Yesterday it was hot. Everybody thought at 3:30 P. M. that the record be broken, but turned away with disgust, upon observing that Hudnut's thermometer was taking it easy at Last June the mercury reached and passed this point several times, but then NewYorkers did not suffer as yesterday, when the humidity was at 10 d'elosk in the morning and took its own time to reach at 3:30. Sorgt.
Long of the Signal Service will get himself disliked if he stieks to his opinion that to-day and to-morrow will also be sourehers, and stickers," too, it the predicted raiss come. The thermometer on Ang. 16 last year averaged 73 ap to 3:30 P. M. Yesterday the average was at the same hour.
and at different hours daring the day, the thermometer registered as follows: 8 A. 76: 6 A. 750; 9. A.M., 12 2 P. at 8:80 P.M.
The folle wing cases of prostration by the heat were reperted by the police yesterday: John Kehoe, aged 16, of 202 East One Hundred and Ninth-street, at Madison-arente and One Hasared aud Twelfth-street. Taken to Harlem vital Susan Callaghan, 67 years old, of 35 Monroe street, at 740 Broad-street. Taken to the Cham bets. street HospitaL Edward Flynn, a homeless man, 45 yenrs old, at 14 East Sixty-tourth-street. Taken to Presbyterian Hospital.
Emma Bagket, 26 years old, of 173 East Housten. street, at 85 Taken to the ChamStreet Hospital Patrolman Thomas Brannigan of the Twenty. ninth Precinct, while returning from the funeral escort of Capt. McDonnell, was overcome by the heat at Lexington-avenue and Fortieth-street. He was takeu to Believue Hospital NO VERY STARTLING LIST.
section. LATEST FOREIGN SHIPPING. QUEEKSTOWN, Aug 16. -The Inman Line steamaid, ship City of to day Chester, for New. Capt.
Bond, from Liverpool, hence York The White star Line steamship Celtic, Caps. here midnight to night Irving, from Now- York Ang. 1 for Liverpool, BOSTON, Aug. Mail and Express yesterday contained what it called A startling Democrats who have forsaken Free Trade Cleveland." It Certainly 18 a startling list, to judge by its New-England representatives. The paper mentions five "important ehanges of front" in this section.
Edward M. Ellis of Gardner, has stated that he shall vete the Democratio ticket, although be thought the Mille bill bore hardly on his Indus try. R. P. Riley the only man of the five pained who has changed tront, and his defection had DO more to do with the tariff than that of any disappointed office seeker.
He is a salesman in a Boston clothing store. The next, Archibald Lian, a woolen manufacturer of Hartiand, 1s An outspoken advocate of free Wool and free and materials, and will vote for The Bradstreets of Gardiner, lumbermen, have said again and again that they never voted anything out the Republican ticket, a statement that was reiterated by them on Tuesday of the present week. Nothing is known of the political opinion of the one otaer gentleman named, This does not indicate extensive transfer of allegiance to the candidate in this TRYING TO SOLVE A MYSTERY. UNKNOWN WOMAN DIES FROM POI- SON IN A POLICE STATION. BOSTON, Aug.
The death of an unknown woman as a police station Sunday moraing is attracting much attention and keeping a lot of police officers busy hunting for a solution of the mystery in which her death and identity are involved. Saturday night an officer found woman in Franklin Park, at the Highlands, apparently under the influenos of liquor. She was almost speechless, and stupefied by Barceties or alcohol. She did manace to say that her name was Clarke, and to mumble something about Now- York and Philadelphia, but the otteer could not or did not realize the gravity of the woman's condition, and took no trouble to gain dennite information from her inconerent replies to his He called Assistance and she was carried to the police station, having. lapsed into unconsciousness on the way.
physician was called and, after nasty examination, pronounced it a case of rum. The Matron, nowever, could discover no traces of liquor and the at the station noticed the absence of alcoholio odors, the woman was evidently the physician was again called and again he said it was simply sicoboltem. She did mot regain consciousness and died Sunday morning. name on some article of clothing was Annie Clarke. Is was at first thenght to be one of those cases only too frequent in large cities and attracted little notice.
As day after day passed, however, without identification, and no could be found who could recognize her as woman of the street, the mystery aroused interest. More careful examination revealed unmis takable signs. of narcotic poisoning: bus -not until to-day was anything discovered that told whether a case of suicide or murder. In the meantime Prof. Wood of Harvard Colloge is subjecting the girl's stomach to analysis, but the result will not be known for several days.
To-day the man la charge of the Franklin Park refectory found an empty bottle marked "morphia" on the lawn near Where the girl was found on Sasurday night. It bore the apothecary's stamp of A G. Wilber. Washington-street druggist. This clue was easily traced 88 the druggist's books showed that on Aug.
11 a woman giving the MAIDe of A. Clark, 20 Franklin-street, bought an eight-ounce bottle of morphine. No further description could be given woman except that she was about 30 years old. This was presumptive evidence that it was a case of suicide, The clerk who sold the poison was taken to the morgue, but was unable to, identify the dead woman as the purchaser. Nearis every Boston distriot contains a Frank1in-street, and at this time the police have been able to learn that no such worked of lived at the Franklin-streets in the city proper or in the Charlestown, Brighton, and ter districte,) which cover the streete of that name given in the directory.
This deepens the mystery. have On the other hand, as partial indentifications not been wanting usual cases of this kind. The most definite came day, when the body was viewed by a Mra. Procter, keeper of a boarding house on Hanco*ck-street, who preased her belief that the remains were those of her kitchen girl, Maggie Haley, who has been missing since Saturday, and who had been in her employ four weeks. This wotan was about 80 years old, am age that fairly Woman." corresponded with that of the dead But her boiled down went to show that the dead woman's nose, forehead, and bands resembled those of her missing servant, and that was all.
It is more than probable that the time of the disappearance of the one and the death of the other were the only points of resemblance. An Inspector la hard at work on the case, newever, and thinks identity la only a question day at most. -if her identity la not establiabed here inquiries will be made about the Franklin streets of New- York and Philadelphia. HARMONY IN WAST VIRGINIA. COMPLETING THE STATE TICKET OF THE DEMOCRACY.
HUNTINGTON, West Adg. crowd in attendance upon the Democratic State Convention here to-day breaks the record, both for size and enthusiasm, for any similar event 10 West Virginia. Not less than 2,000 of the foremost members of the organisation in the State have crowded the maagre hotels and small-sized publie places of the town until it was almost impossible to breathe in the torrid atmosphere. Bat through 10 all the partisans of the Various candidates for places on the State ticket hustled about in wild bunt for votes, and the rank and yelled for Cleveland and tariff reform. As a matter of taot, this avalanche of Democrats did not descend upon the town without bringing some of the elements of discord with them, but the amount of friction was surprisingly small when compared, for instance, with.
the Wheeling conveation of four years ago. And if signs count tor anything in a Presidential year, the State is as sure to remaia in the Democratic column as is Texas, and that, too, by a majority considerably increased over 1884. From the time T. R. Riley, Chairman of the State Executive Committee, called the convention to order, at 10:30 n'elock, until the hour of adjournment in the evening, the convention hall was jammed to its fullest capacity, and the audi euse ouly needed a pretext to burst forth into round after round of cheers.
The nomination speeches were many and ofter. eloquent, and as each successive name was presented to the convention it was greeted with such lively welcome that bad a Visitor heard any one of the greetings ho would have esteemed the nominaof she recipient a toregone conclusion. AB was indicated last Jadge A. Brooks Fleming had a substantial lend for the head of the troket, and he an easy winner. There were two colored delegates in the convention from Hampshire County, the first of the race ever seen in a Democratio convention in Western Virginia, and probably the first in the entire South, their presence may be taken an indication of better feeling between the races.
The cob vention was 80 big as a to while be dimloult to manage times, and once in got beyond the trol of the Chair, but business was rushed along with reasonable dispatch and 10 the complete satisfaction of all. The platform compares the vote of last year and that of 16 years ago; also the wealth of the State, without and under Republican rule. The convention nominated A. Books Fleming of Marion County for Goveraor, and P. F.
Duffy for Auditor, and took a KING MILAN'8 VIEW OF 21. From the Pall Mall Gazette, King Milan of Servia has taken an interviewer into his confidence, and bemeans the hard fate which gave him wife who, when trampled upon, ventuted, to protest: -The King observed that he confessed he had been quite mistaken when he thought he knew the Queen's character. Her behavior to the German authorities would, he thought, prove to everybody duties that the Queen had a false conception of her as a sovereign, a wife, and a No doubt. He thought the worm would not turn, and he was mistaken. His wife Queen enough to condemn his treachery, wife enough to resent the notorious infidelities of her husband, and mother enough to protest against the bratality which tore ber only son trous arms.
He consoles himself with imagining that publie opinion universally views his onduct as entirely loyal and liberal. What a delusion DIPHTHERIA IN SPAIN. Madrid Dispatch to the London Standard, The Gazette publishes a circular from the Home Office, prescribing a series of measures to check the spread of diphtheria, which has been raging for some time, and causing three or four deaths daily in the Spanish capital. It was prevalent througheut the winter and Spring, chiefly among and the poorer classes. The death rate from this disease has been almost as high in Madrid as that from smallpox.
Vaccination, though not compuisory, has been largely practiced among all classes of society. Smallpox been prevalent in many parts of Spain for the last two years, but is now on the decline. SAVED FROM BEING KIDNAPPED. Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. There was tremendous excitement in and its neighborhood yesterday.
band of gypsies bad kidnapped" a uttie boy of 8, and had already placed several miles between them and the spot, when some bearing screams proceeding from the van in which the child had been concealed, ran to the horse's head, stopped the vehicle, and liberated the prisoner. The gypsies bolted." leaving all their property behind them; but the gendarmes, still wearing their legendary tricornes, have started in pursuit, and are scouring the country far and wide. The arrest of the culprits may be regarded as a moral certainty. MONUMENT AT QUATRE BRAS. From the Pall Mail Gasette, Funds bave been collected in the Duchy of Brunswick for the erection of a monument on the battlefield of Quatre Bras to the Daze Frederick William of Brunswick, who tell there.
The monument is to be unveiled on the 16th of June, 1890, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle. In Institute a lecture before the Anthropological a member identified the Losu Or Libyans of the types taken by Flinders Petrie with the blue eyed, fair-haired, and plexioned men who are seen working as briekmakers at the tomb of Rokumara There were other white Western people in Egypt, such the Shardina or Sardinians were mercenary soldiera, These Tahennu or fair people took as least once, sovereign control of Egypt, and founded the twenty-second dynasty to which Shishak, the invader of Palestine, belonged. Among the purely African types were negroes with red hair, presumably dyed of that color. VICTORY WAS ALMOST HERS EXPLOSION OF BOILER BRINGS EXCITING RACE ON LAKE GEORGE TWEEN THE STEAM YACHTS DANDY AND PAMPERO LATTER WINS. FORT WILLIAM HENRY, Lake George, Aug.
whistle on Lake Goetze from the Sagamore to Fort Wisham Henry shrieked, every bell tang and every throat shouted with varying shade of the two steam yachts, the Pampero and the Dandy out thele way through the waters la the talkedof race this afternoon Cottagers, campers, and motel along shores of the lake have been talking of the race for nearly a year, and the event brought to Fort William great throng of visitors to day. A more perfect day for the race conid not have manufactured had the owners the yachts controlled the making of the weather. The lake was as calic as sea of liquid class Bearcely a breath of wind ruffled the surface of the water, and the hour for stating, just as the sun sunk behind the a globe of fire, was just the time to present the lake and its surroundings in their most beattiful aspect. But for the accident befell the Dandy, just she was apparently about to win the race, the contest would been one of the prettiest ever witnessed The Pampero la an open steam yacht, modeled very after the Henrietta, in which Kerman L. Mauro took much pride, and owned by Moore of Brooklyn, Vise-Commodore of the Laze George Cluis Sho is 54 feet over all and 50 feet on the water line.
The Dandy is owned by the Boyer Brothers of Brooklyn, sud 52 feet over all. The Boyers and Mr. Moore are personal friends, all have Summer residences at Lake George, and all take great interest in yachting on the lake. The race grew out of a little bantering about Lue speed of the Pampero The match originally made between this yaout and the Odell, belonging to the Boyers, but the Dandy was bait last Spring and substituted for the Odell, Mr. Moore making no objection.
There were no stakes of the rabe, but it was agreed that the loser should pay the expenses of bring ing a larice party of to Lake George wittese the contest. Last night the Now. York gueste arrived and registered af the Fort William Henry Hotel. There were some 60 in among them J. Ledger wood, Mt.
and Mrs. ward Stearne, Isaac L. Fisher. W. H.
Williams of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kaapf, Miss Carrie Hough, Mr.
and Mrs, Robert Mr. and Mrs. B. Wood, and Me. Powers To night they are enjoying a banquet at the potel whiol the Boyer Brothers will for well for their transportation tore and back and their hotel bills.
The beaatiful Datidy lies disabled at the dock, Chile a portion of her tubular botler la somewhere at the bottom of the lake The race was under the auspices of the Lake George Yacht Club, and the inciders god their guesta were taken down the lake to the starting point on the capacious steamer Horieon. The course was from a point oft the south end of Crown faland, east of the Sagamore, 10 miles straight up 1 the inke, the Anish being at a point between the Lake House and Fort William Henry Hotel Commodore lames Buchanan Henry of the Lake Goores Cint, aoted as starter W. and referee B. Simpson and Capt. H.
Tibbetta of the Regatta Committee, acted as keepers 0n the Hericon, Legrand Cramer of Troy was judge on the Dandy Frank C. Warren of New- York was judge on the Pampero. Charles Burbans and Robert Kemp were judges at the finish Capt. Clarke had charge of the Pampero wita, John F. Curiatie as chiet engineer.
Capt. helps managed the Dandy, w8h James Kane, her designer, as ebiet engineer: When the to stare was given the Pampero shot acrose the line at 6:35, and the Dandy Zollowed 10 seconds laters The lampero seemed fairly to jump out of the water, and in less than two minutes she had made a esp between herself and her rival, which she continually widened until she was fully 40 rods in advance It Began to louk like a over fo. the Pantpeto and the friends of Mr. Moore cheered themselves hoarer, while handkerchiefs furtered from the stemmer and boats whion followed the two rachita. This lasted for nearly ave miles, when it was noticed that the Dandy overhauling ber leader.
The engine had become heated and she was losing groun l. Off Hill View, about half the distance to be saved, the Dandy palled the Pampero and then the frieuds of the Bosers bad their innings, It was still a stern chase but the positions were reversed. The Dandy pushed rapidly abead, and those on board see Fam pero were kept busy throwing water on the overheated niachinery. The scene from the deok of the Hericon a pretty one. The shores of the islands were limed with spectatora, flaks Buttered from every voint of land, and loud cheers arose from every boat and canoe en the late.
The Dandy was sothe 50 or 60 rods in the lead and within about a mile and a hail of the finish when suddenly a bright highs was seen to shoot from her A putt of thick smoke tutagled with steam shot into the hir and the yacht came to a sudden stop. The spectators realized that her boiler had baret and for a toment there was bush of anxious expectancy. The men were seed moving tapidly about on the Dandy. A8 800d the smoke cleared away, and soon it was realized that nobody was deriously hart, a great shout went up from the friends of the Pampero. which now forged ahead and passed.
her disabled rival. She made no however, to make time for the rest of the distance, slow. ing down to allow her machinery cool. She the line at making 10 miles in 39 minutes 21 second The Dandy was towed into the dock Fort William One whole side of her tabuluer boiler had bees blown out, the pipes shooting off into the lake. Mr.
Kaine's tight hand somewhat by the steam, but no serione results followed the accident The race was given to the Pampero, no condihaving been made regaruing accidents, and to-might the Boyer Brothers are entertaine ing their own and Mr. Moore friends Thalf defeat will cost them, is da estimated, about $2,000. TAR ELEPHANTS AT LARON IN MONIOL Munich Dispalon to the London Daily Neit. It is astonishing that only three up persons and a child were gilled by the cident yesterday. About 20 persons were severely hart, while the number of alight injuries is very large Most of the harm done dne to the fright of the crowd, and not to the wildness of the elephanta It was evident that the eight elephants were anxious to get out of the way of the terrified people.
The animals were frightened, whichever way they turned, by' shrieks and gestieniations. Some people attacked them with sticks sad umbrellas. soldier who confronted them with drawn sword was quietly lifted by the trunk of one animal and placed: aside without being burt. The elephants proke open the great doors of the Mint and went up the broad staira They. also destroyed the doors of 106 Court Theatre.
When they had resebed the other end of the town, spreading confusion and terror wherever they they could nos And their way out of the courtyard of suburban theatre, and demolished. house in order to get away. The elephant put his foot through the door, but the floor broke through, and he fell with his forelegs Into the collar, The second followed aim, and, struggling through, carried off the toot on his back. Every bit of furniture of thie house, including the stores and the doors and rindews, are in fragments. As soon as tire were out of sight, and while the chase after them was being carried on by the the lines of people formed again, and the procession continued on its way, butt the slightest unexpected move ment created alarm.
A 2 o'clock everything was over. In the evening a grand illumination took place, but few poodle had the courage witness it owing to rumor that one of the elephants still concealed in the Englisebe Garten and mike bis ance at any moment Tie ladies Were killed One was trampled to death, and the osher died from fright. The poor child was trampled to death, not by the bus by the paale. stricken crowd. A who was found dead has not yet been Herr Hagenbeck, the dirous proprietor.
Sad warned the committee that the elephants: must be treated very carefully, and had partienlarly obieoted 10 the snorting dragon- The committee had overridden the objections of the police to the being allowed in the procession. if the Ludwig Strasse had not been one of the broad. est streets of any elty the disaster might have assumed different dimensions The tent containing the royal family protested from the elephanta by line of cavalry. ST. MIORABLS, RESTORED.
From the London Times. The restoration of St. Michael's Church, Coventry, practically completed receatly by the replacing of the top stone of the steeple, which is the tallest of the thres tall spires. The work was widertaken over three years ago, one of the earliest steps an appeal by the late vicar throngh the columns of the Times for no tional help do restoring the structure The ceremony yesterday performed by Mr. G.
Woodco*ck, a £10.000 to the fund, who, after fixing the stole, anciated Mr. Thomp son, the cantractor, in replacing the weatherco*ck, at an altitude of 403 feet short tellgious service was Rome threnca, and there were some brief congratulates speeches, and when the weatherco*ck swung round wish the wind the crowds who had assembled at the various polats to witness the ceremony lustily. There still romaine cote to ho done, and she statues nave to be replaced; and these and otherdetails, sued as the of the son folding will occupy the workmen some menthe yet. restoration cost between 280,000 £40,000..
