Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Page 2

CljeJlcmocrattcScirtiitfl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. , J. W. McEAYEN, - • - ruBUSHEB.

CRASH IN SIOUX CITY.

ONE FAILURE IS THE CAUSE OF MANY OTHERS. Exciting Time for an Illinois Central Train Crew—lndiana Miners and Operators Cannot Get Together—Stupendous Fa ilure of an Australian Institution. / It Is Nearly a Panic. The Sioux City (Iowa) Union Loan and Trust Company failed Tuesday and made an assignmeut to E E Hubbard, who makes an Incomplete statement showing liabilities aggregating 5745,571.58 and assets aggregating 81,168,000. This statement is entirely incomplete, the liabilities merely showing that there is due to banks $11,339.22 debenture bonds and interest $233,332 and, due depositors $107,883.33. In addition there is an immense amount of indirect liabilities as the indorser of paper negotiated through them. This may reach $1,500,000 or $2,000,000, and cannot yet be stated. The Hedges Trust Company also made a general assignmeut! A mortgag9 was filed by the Sioux City Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Company conveying to the trust company all Its property to secure 5750.000. Mortgages were filed by the Sioux City Stove Works to secure $300,000. E, R. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer of the Smith Company, also gave deeds to real estate to secure debts to the trust company and others aggregating SIOO,OOO. D. A. Williams, proprietor of the Hotel Garretson, Smith’s partuer, gave a mortgage on the hotel to the trust company to secure $730,000 and a chattel mortgage on tho hotel fixtures to A. S. Garretson to secure $30,000, which haO assigned to the trust company. It is understood that several other assignments will shortly be filed.

CAPTURED BY ZULUS. Dusky Warriors Take Possession of an Illinois Central Train. Two hundred Irate Zulus, on their way to the World’s Fair, took possession of a train while still 100 miles out of Chicago, and Conductor Brown, with his brakemen, had to barricade the door of the baggage-car to save their lives. At 4 o’clock in the morning word was received by Lieut Creighton at the Grand Crossing police station that the black men were fighting mad, and requesting that a strong force of officers he sent to meet the train at Sixty-first street With intrepid bravery the Lieutenant summoned his men, loaded them Into a patrol wagon, and, without stopping to reflect on the deadly effect of an assegai hurled by a half-naked savage, drove off to the depot On the arrival of the train the imprisoned trainmen were released, and it was found that one of the Zulus claimed to have been robbed of some petty trumpery. Hence the trouble. The savages were quieted by a promise that the guilty man on being found should have a spear Jabbed through his body. As soon as this promise had been translated to the black warriors the whole 200 crowded around the Lieutenant, and each offered his services as manipulator of the spear during the jabbing process. After this they quietly submitted to being installed on Midway Plaisance

SCALE NOT YET FIXED. Indiana Block Coal Miners and Operators Adjourn Until Friday. At the conference of the Indiana block coal operators and miners two propositions for the mining 9Cale for 'the year beginning May 1 were considered The miners asked for an Increase of 5 cents a ton, making the scale 80 cents. The operators had offered an Increase of 5 cents for the six months beginning Nov. 1, but modified it by agreeing to pay 80 cents for tlie six mouths beginning Sept 1, and returning to 75 cents for March and April next This was not acceptable, and the miners moved an adjournment without day, which was carried. The miners then asked a reconsideration, and It was agreed to adjourn until Friday. In the meantime the miners’ delegates will report to their respective districts, and a vote will be taken on the operators' proposition.

The Hawaiian Situation. Reports from Hawaii say that matters are approaching a dangerous condition. The royalists are declared to be growing "bolder because of the weakness of the provisional government, and a conflict is expected in the near future. Nearly a hundred of the provisional government’s soldiers were poisoned recently, and the royalists are charged with attempting to put them out of the way in order to execute a coup. Youthful Elopers Are Arrested. Alva Admire, 19 years old, and a young lady two years his junior, who gave her name as Ethel White, were arrested at Zanesville, Ohio, They were from Barnesville, and were on their way to Kentucky to be married. Miss White’s parents objected to the match. The young people took the matter into their own hands and decided to elope. Swallowed Creosote. Miss Carrie Granville, an actress who was in New York with the Lorenzo Brothers Specialty Company, died from the effects of the accidental swallowing of some creosote and laudanum which she was using to relieve a toothache.

Stole Doors and Windows. John Emerzdisposed of twenty doors and a number of windows at Sioux City, lowa, and later it was found that he stole them from the new Dakota County Courthouse at South Sioux City, taking them off the hinges and casings This Will Not Help Thornton. Judge Wallace, of the Conway County (Ark.) Circuit Court, has ordered the summoning of a special grand jury to investigate the recent lynching of Flannagan Thornton. Crash in Australia. The suspension is announced of the London Chartered Bank of Australia, with a paid-up capital of £1.000,000 and a reserve fund of £330,000. The London office is at 2 Old Broad street. East Cheapside. It has many branches in Victoria, New South "Wales and Queensland.

It Wag Loaded. Bowie Austin Barber, 9 years old. shot and instantly killed himself with a 22-call-ber, four-barrel pistol, confmonly called a pepper-box. at Ashland, Ky. He found it in a bureau drawer and did not know it was loaded. Got SI. OOO for Being Slandered. During the campaign last fall, W. M. Scott, of Frisco, a T., stated that Dr. J. M. Farris, candidate for the Legislature, was a thlet Farris was, however, elected. and afterward brought suit against Scott for 51,000 damages, and the jury has Just awarded him the full amount. Rids the Town of a Bad Desperado. Dick Taylor, a well-known horse thief and all-around desperado, was shot and killed while attempting to rob the grocery store of King A Lower in South Denver, iJjfiWo. Isaac Daffer is the man who claims rtfl have rid the neighborhood of one OX its worst characters.

OBJECT TO SMOKING COFFEE. Protest Against a Precaution to Prevent Importation of Cholera. A protest has been entered at the Treasury Department by agents of the consignees against the decision of Surgeon General Wyman to have coffee shipped from Genoa to the United States disinfected by smoking it with sulphur. The coffee In question consists of 1,000 bags and came originally from Aden, Africa. It is alleged that cholera Is suspected to have existed in Aden. On the other hand It 19 asserted that coffee smoked In the fumes of sulphur is unsalable and unfit for use. IMPRISONED BY FLAMES. Horror at the Silver Bow Shaft in Montana. Probably the most terrible mine horror In the history of Butte, Mont., occurred Friday, when nine men were Imprisoned in the burning Silver Bow mine, and in all likelihood have lost their lives. Their names are: Richard Andrews. Antonio Beara, Frank Gerard, Thomas Gray, James Nattio, Edward Pasooe, Evan Peuglis, S. Rovette and Richard Trembatb.

Shrinkage In Trade. R G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade says: Monetary doubts have overshadowed all other Influences at New York, but have not greatly affected trade at most other points. Wheat has fallen 2% cents, with sales of 40,09,000 bushels, corn 2% cents, oil 2]4 cents, and coffee 1% cents. Wbeat receipts have been 2,200,000 at Western ports in four days, and Atlantic exports not 600,000 bushels. Pork products are somewhat lower, though declining less than corn. In the cotton market liquidation has continued, and, with sales of 1,200,000 bale 3 here, the price has dropped five-sixteenths. The week’s receipts from plantations are fully up to last year’s, and Southern advices generally indicate some Increase this year In acreage. Reports from other cities show extenslvo embarrassment from severe storms and the backward spring, with some signs of shrinkage In trade from other causes. The tardy spring makes clothing quiet and the advance In shoes retards buying. The building trade Is activo and tho demand for lumber large, but sales of wool are moderate. Iron Is some»hat weaker,but the glass trade Is active. Money is active and close everywhere.

Drawing on the Treasury Reserve. When tho Treasury Department closed its doors Friday afternoon the gold reserve of $100,000,090 had been invaded to tho extent of $2,500,009 to $3,000,000. When the day opened there was In the Treasury $165,000 of free gold. This amount was increased by gold offers from the West aggregating about $1,250,000. The large shipment of gold from Now York, amounting to more than 85,000,000, cut this down to surti an extent that when the* Cabinet met Secretury Carlisle found that the orders for gold up to that time (about 1 o’clock) had wiped out the freo gold and Invaded the gold reserve to tho extent of $2,557,000. Twenty-live Negroes Poisoned. Nows has been received here of a wholesale poisoning of negroes who attended a negro wedding on the Duke Plantation, about twenty miles south of Holly Springs, Miss. Twenty-five negroes are lying at tho point of death and tho attending | hyslcians have but little hojiss of savin? one of them. The poisoning was purely accidental. It was caused by eating boiled custard that had stood for somo hours In a new tin can. Boiler Explosion Kills Two Men. A boiler in a saw mill at Rossville, Ohio, exploded and killed Edward McClurg and Harry Rex. Pieces of the holler weighing 500 pounds were thrown 700 feet and smaller pieces nearly half a mile. Rex’s body was hurled 800 feet and was headless when it fell. McClurg’s corpse was found fifty feet from the boiler. The mill was made a total wreck. The cause of tho explosion is not known. The Czar's Gentle Reminder. The Russian Czar is said to have found an exquisitely painted egg on Ills table. It contained a small silver dagger, two Ivory death’s heads, and a slip of paper bearing the words: “Christ has. risen; wo also shall rise placed on the table by one of the Czar’s household, as nobody else had access to the room In which It was found.

Offers a Reward for Thornton’* Lynchers. Governor Flshback returned to Little Rock from Virginia and Immediately upon entering his office offered u reward of S2OO for the arrest and conviction of the persons who lynched Flanagan Thornton at Morrillton. The Governor says lie intends to make Arkansas a law-abiding State if it bankrupts the treasury. Little Rock's Sensation. The City Electric and Capital Street Railway, of Little Rock, has been placed in the hands of a reeolver. This is considered a severe blow to the Thomsonilouston Electric Company, of Chicago, which is a heavy creditor. More than 5i,900,000 is involved. Bismarck's Illness Slight. Prince Bismarck la suffering from an lndispesition, or slight illness, which does not, however, cause the slightest anxiety, but is regarded as trifling and transient. Sloop Foundered and Four Lives Lost. The sloop Ellda, silk laden, was faunderod off Cape Flattery in aheavygale. It is leported that four lives were lost. Yale Is In Luck. Hr. A. J. White, of New York, of the class of ’4O, has presented a new dormitory building to Yale College to cost $500,(00. In a Receiver’s Hands. The Pennsylvania Steel Company has gone into the hands of a receiver.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. fATTLE—Common to Prime, ...$ 3.25 @6.23 Hogs—Shipping Grades a. 50 @ s.oo Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 72 @ .72)4 Cobh—No. 2 *0 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 27 @ .28 Bye—No. 2. 49 @ .61 Butteb—Choice Creamery 29)4@ .30)4 Eggs—Fresh. 14 @ .15 Potatoes—New, per bu 60 @ .70 INDIANAPCLIB. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 7.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 64 @ .65 Cobn—No. 2 White 42 @ .42)4 Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.50 Red 04 @ .66 Cobs—No. 2 ■ .36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 so @ .30)4 Rye—No. 2 54 & .56 CINCINNATI. CATTLS 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs. 3.09 & 7.25 sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 07 @ .67)4 Cobs—No. 2 <2'4@ .43)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed BlVj@ .32)2 Rye—No. 2... 58 @ .oo DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.03 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.25 Sheep 3.00 @ o.uo Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ .70 Cobs’—No. 2 Yellow 4U)*@ .41)4 Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .37 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 68 & .68)4 Corn—No.2Yellow.. .41)4@ .42)4 Oats—No. 2 White 31)2@ .32*4 Rye 54 @ .50 BUFFALO. Cattle —Common to Prime .... 3.50 @5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @ 7.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 77 @ .78 No. 2 Red 73 @ .74 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 65 @ .60)4 Corn—No. 3 39 @ .40 CkVTS—No. 2 White. ~ .34)4@ .35)4 I. YE —No. 1 55 @ .56 BABLEY—No. 2 ”4 @ .66 POBK—Mess. 17-50 @17.50 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 8.00 Sheep 8.00 @ c.oo Wheat-No. 2 Red. 77 @ .78 Cobs —No. 2 .so @ .51 Oats—Mixed Western. -37 @ .39 Butter—Best 27 @ .35 Pobx—New Mess 18.00 @18.50

GREAT NAVAL REVIEW

PROUDEST EVENT IN UNCLE SAM’S MARITIME HISTORY. Nations of the Earth Lend Their Monarelis of the-Sea to Do Us Honor —Hampton Roads the Ilistorio Rendezvous— Great Day for. Gotham.

An Imposing Spectacle. Q HEN your Uncle SamV) |S Uel sets alxmt todo a \), Hi »thing it is usually done I ih tho most appropri- \ f way, and the great np naval review witnessed -yz in New York harbor ■A was no exception to jk\ this rule. The imposl ing demonstration sig5=3T, nalized the opening of / X 1 tho Columbian Exposi- \ \ li I tioE at Chicago, and j V 7 its international char- \, i actei lent added at—J. traction to a display of l" 5 " navpl glory unpreeedented in the history of the world.

Representative vessels from the mighty navies of the most powerful nations of the earth joined with the superb vYarships of our own country in a display grand and impressive almost beyond conception or description. For two weeks prior to the event in New York harbor, tho monster ships had been arriving at the rendezvous in Hampton lioads, off Fort Monroe, at the very spot where, thirty-one years ago, the Monitor and Merrimac engaged in the most decisive naval battle in the civil war, and proved to the world tha,t the dnys of wooden battleships was over. First to arrive was our own flagship, the Philadelphia, Hear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commander-in-chief, Capt. A. 8. Barker commanding. Several other vessels of the United States navy accompanied her, and as one after another the foreigners were sighted the monster guns pealed forth their thunderous salutes. For several days the scene was one of animation and excitement. The roadstead was gay with flags of the various nations represented, and saucy little dispatch boats

darted about with untiring energy. From the impudent little launch and agile torpedo boat to the ponderous protected cruiser, every species of vessel used in modern warfare was represented, and when finally all were assembled the list was as follows: American Fleet. Philadelphia, flagship, Rear-Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commander-ln-chief, Captain Albert 8. Barker, commanding. Baltimore, Captain G. AV. Sumner, commanding. San Francisco, Captain J. C. Watson, commanding. Charleston, Captain H. F. Picking, commanding. Chicago, flagship, Rear-Admiral John G. Walker, commanding division. Captain John F. McGlensey, commanding. Miantonomah, Captain Montgomery Sicard, commanding. Vesuvius, Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder, commanding. Kearsarge, Commander A. S. Crowninshield, commanding,

REAR ADMIRAL GHERARDI.

Concord, Commander Edwin White, commanding. Atlanta, Captain F. J. Higginson, commanding. Newark, flagship. Rear Admiral A. E. K. Benham. Captain Silas Casey, commanding. Bennington, Commander R. B. Bradford, commanding. Yorktown, Commander Frank W llaes, commanding. Bancroft, Lieutenant Commander A. Walker, commanding. Cushing, Lieutenant F. F. Fletcher, commanding. Constellation, Commander C. F. Goodrich, commandinj.

Yantic, Commander Samuel Belden, commanding. Foreign Crafty Argentine—Nueve de Jullo.. .Protected cruiser Rrazll—Aquldabau .1.. .Battleship Tlraudentez Gun . vessel Itepubllca. Protected crusler England—Blake Armored cruiser Australis Armored cruiser Maglcienne Protected cruiser Tartar Par. pro. cruder Partridge Par. Pro. cruiser France— Jean Bart Protected cruiser Arethuse Unprotected cruiser Hußsaro Unprotected cruiser Germany—Katserln Augusta, . .iDnpro. cruiser

Scaadlcr Unprotected cruiser Holland—Van Spcyk Protected cruiser Italy—Etna Par. Pro. cruiser Giovanni Bauean Protected cruiser Dogall Armored cruiser Russia—Omitrl Donskoi Armored cruiser General Admiral Par. Pro. cruiser Ranta Protected cruiser Spain—Reina Regente Protected cruiser Infanta Isabel Unprotected cruiser The fleet of Xerxes must have awed the Greeks as did this tremendous at ray of “armed neutrality” the modern world. The Armada was great in its day, and so were the fleets that gathered to besiege Sebastopol. But the advances in naval construction have been almost miraculous in their prodigiousness, and so it is that the war vessels gathered in Hampton Roads could in a day destroy

a coast nation as extensive as the line from Key West to New York. The new vessels of our now renowned navy have been described so often that further mention is superfluous. Of a type different than those of any other nation, they combine fighting ability with swiftness, and challenge the admiration of the world. But, superb as they are, they were in company which divided honors fairly. England sent the famous Blake, now the equal and lately‘the superior of any floating battery in the world, Argentine’s Nueve de Julio, just from the yards on the Clyde, gave to the world the inlormation that this South American confederation was ready to do battle upon equal grounds with any other power. The Jean Bart, with her gigantic guns, iron-sided hull and wicked-looking ram, looked equal to the task of encountering the whole fleet. Italy, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and even little Holland, all sent champions fit indeed to appear in this congress of invincible mouarchs of the sea. Under way from Hampton Roads to New York, the American vessels acted as escorts to the visitors, the Spanish fleet having the place of honor, commanded by the Duke of Veragua, Admiral of Spain. Vice Admiral Sir J. D. Hopkins with the Blake led the British squadron; Vice Admiral Kornakoff the Russian, with Grand Duke Alexis second in command; Rear Admiral Maguaghi was in command of the Italian fleet, and Capt. Amavel, ex-Minister of Marine of Portugal, was in command of the corvette Alfonso de -Albuquerque. Admiral Gherardi of the American fleet is a man fitted by education and temperament for the delicate duties intrusted to him. He was born in Jackson, La., November 10, 1832. He entered the navy from Massachusetts as midshipman in 1846, and served on the Ohio, of the Pacific squadron, till 1850, entering the Annapolis Academy in 1852. He became lieutenant in 1855, and at the beginning of the civil war was on the Lancaster, of the Pacific squadron. In 1862 he was made Lieutenant Commander, and took part in the engagement of Fort Macon in that year. In 1863-64 he commanded the gunboat Chocorpa and the steamer Port Royal, of the AVest Gulf blockade squadron. In the.latter vessel he taok

part in the battle of Mobile Bay and distinguished himself for coolness ana courage. In 1866 he was made Commander, in 1874 Captain, and in 1884 Commodore. In 1886 he was appointed Commandant of thq Brooklyn Navy Yard, and in 1887 he became Bear Admiral. Up the coast the formidable procession swept in close order and at a speed of only sevon and a half knots to avoid collisions, and in the evening came to anchor in Sandy Hook to await the

THE RENDEZVOUS IN HAMPTON ROADS.

morning of review. Early on that eventful morning every available space for eight-seeing was crowded with spectators; crafts of all descriptions, resplendent with bunting of nearly every civilized nation in the world and lively with the music of scores of bands, steamed out to take positions advantageous for view. Slowly up the Narrows steamed the mightiest fleet ever afloat; they were joined by the Columbus caravels, the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta, and the assembled thousands roared a mighty cheer as these representatives of the great discoverer’s frail craft swept on in company with the others. At last, opposite Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth, came the supreme moment. The coast defense guns belched forth a sheet of flame, and from out the smoke boomed America’s salute to the nations of the world. Hardly had the flrßt cheer rolled up from the multitude nefore the fleet gave answer with a roar and crash that seemed to split the very heavens. Columbia had received the proudest homage in her history. The rest of the exercises were simple. The fleet came to anchor. President Cleveland, hisi Cabinet, and other dignitaries boarded the flagship Philadelphia, and slowly down the. line tho party steamed in review. Flags and bunting were displayed in profusion. As the President of the great republic passed the warships the yards were manned, the bands played national airs, and the multitude ashore and afloat howled itself hoarse. The Presidential review terminated the parade, and many of the foreign vessels departed at once for their respective stations. Quite a number of the commanding officers, however, proceeded to Chicago to witness the opening of the Exposition. Upon their return from Chicago the foreign officers are to be entertained lavishly by the citizens of New York.

CAFT. ASA WALKER. FLEET CAPT. BRIDGEMAN.

The chamber of commerce has consented to take charge of the banquet and reception, and prominent citizens will' vie with each other to impress upon the braided gentlemen from Europe. Asia and South America the fact that American hospitality knows no-bounds. It js the opinion of naval officers that the New York review surpassed in magnificence axd grandeur the great English display inaugurated for Emperor William «f Germany in 11 Mi. Never in

the history of the ■world have so many nations consented to participate in an international parade—a fact which plainly indicates that all of the great powers aro anxious to show their respect for the United States by honoring the memory of the man who discovered the western hemisphere. How the World Wags. Fire in the office of the Fargo Express Company at Albuquerque,'N. M., warped the safe and partly consumed

SIOO,OOO in gold and the same sum in greenbacks. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland has been taken to prison. It is known that 150 persons perished in the Zante earthquake. | Gotham waiters have agreed to strike for an advance in wages. During a blizzard at Pipestone, Minn., John Horton v.as killed by a Burlington train. Mexican bandits captured a mule train carrying $30,000 in silver in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Sheriff Tressel. of Mansfield, Ohio, is short $5.( 00 in his accounts. The money was lost in gambling. L. O. Desforges, member of the New Orleans City Council, shot and killed his broiher-in-law, Peter McGuinn. Thf. New York Hotel property at New Y'ork has been sold at auction to Mrs. Elmer J. Jay lor $1,300,( 00. Do. W. H. Rogers and two children were ser ously poisoned at Madison, Ind., 1 y eating canned tongue. - The Rev. S. D. Roberts, who disappeared at Lincoln, Neb., was found in a haystack in a demented condition. At Fayetteville, Ark., Wood’s Opera House burned. Loss, $12,000. The building had not been thrown open to the public. It is said Minister Stevens has decided to leave Honolulu. He is dissatisfied with the course of Special Commissioner Blount The tobacco factory of Morwood & Co., at South Boston, Va., was blown down, causing a loss of $40,000. One man was killea. Bebt Michael, of Bridgewater, S. D., on returning to his home from pursuit of Charles West, who had taken his team, found that James Devlin had

ADMIRAL RENHAM. CAPT. PHILLIPS

taken his wife and a mule and left with them. A large number of Catholic dignitaries will attend the centennial celebration at New Orleans of the founding of the Jesuit Cathedral. A syndicate has been formed to gain control of the natural gas interests of Indiana. It has purchased 40,000 acres of natural gas lands.

CAPTAIN M SICARD. COM. CHADWICK.

FOURTEEN MEN PERISH.

LOST OFF MILWAUKEE IN THE FEARFUL STORM. Working Upon the Waterworks Crib, Their Companions Unable to Reach, Them lr.om Shore, They Take Reluge> In to Die. uTT. !■ * Tale of a Fearfnl Sight. In the fearful gale whxh swept over Lake Michigan Wednesday night fourteen men who .were at work on the cribon the outer end of the intake tunnel at Milwaukee, S,OCQ feet from the shore,, met their death. One of them escaped, in a manner almost miraculous and live© to tell thq, tale of terror and suffering. The dead are: Jack Mcßride, engineer. Michael Dwyer, fireman. George Gregg, miner. Charles Johnson, miner, Chicago. Bus Lerkowitz. miner. William Preussner, miner, Ghicago, John Piseau, miner. Jack McConnell, miner. Eben Allen (colored) cook. Jim Murphy, miner. Tom Healey, miner. Jim (last name unknown), miner. Joe McCarty, miner. File Spenner, miner. The dreadful 6torm raging throughout the night had lashed the lake into a. seething mass of foam. Immense waveswere rolled toward the shore by a furious east wind and carried away the house built on top of the crib at the mouth of the tunnel about three-quar-ters of a mile from the pumping works at the foot of North street. The house on the crib contained two stationary engines and the tools used by the men. It was built of heavy timbers fastened with iron bands, yet it was swept into the roaring waters like an eggshell and washed ashoie. For &• mile or two the shore of ihe lake was 6trewn with timbers, boards, tools and artie’es of clothing worn by the men in the ill-fated crib. Atdaybreak the men at the pumping station noticed that the house on the crib had disappeared, and the tug Welcome took a lifeboat with a. crew of five in tow and headed for the tunnel. The progress of Ihe Welcome waswatched by thousands of people. When Capt. Petersen succeeded in reachingthe crib he was met by.u horrible sight. One man, James Miller, was still aliveand clinging to a post. About him. were the bodies .of two or three of hiscomrades. Miller was safely brought ashore, and told a story of peril and suffering which* has rarely been equaled on the lakes. Fifteen men were on the crib. The lake had been very rough, the men on land had not been able to get out to them, the provisions gave out, and the doomed men ate tneir last meal thinking that certainly before nightfall theboat would be able to reach them. In the evening the storm increased' and the merf became alarmed. They had confidence in the strength of their house, however, and contined theirwork. It was not until about 8 o’clock that the men fully appreciated their position. Work Was stopped aud the men, one and all, determined to seek safety in ihe air shaft. The big east-iron cqver was raised and the fifteen ruen descended into the tub, clinging as best, they could to the ladder. There out in the lake in the midst of the furious gale they listened to theslorm outside and h: ard the waves beat, against their refuge and literally tear their shelter apart. But they knew they were safe. The water could not get into vhe shaft, and under the circumstances they could live there for many hours. The steady click of the automatic, pump forcing air and life into their subteranean prison cheered thsm to further efforts to save their lives.

ISo the hours sped on. All through, that fearful nighi. ihe men hung to tho ladder and heard the waces which every second were smashing and pounding and tearing at the little house on top. Pieoe by piece and part by part the cribhouse was washed away, and at six o’clock the air pump, the mainstay of the Imprisoned men, was washed away. They did not hear it go, but its loss was plainly made known to them by theslow but steady rise ofthe water in the tube and the increasing foulness off ihe atmosphere. Slowly but surely the water climbed up on the men* and they knew that the time had come for action. A consultation was held and for over two hours the men hesitated. "Some were in favor of waiting in the shaft until the last moment, others thought a break for the top of the crib at .once their best chance. It was at best a choice of two evils and almost certain death in either case. It was decided to leave. Only fivesucceeded in reaching the outside. The nine men who were not strong enough to get out were drowned by the water coming into ihe shaft, and four out of the five wh6 got out were mangled or drowned by the tremendous floods which were lashed over the crib. The first known of the disaster was Thursday morning when those living on the shore missed the familiar building out in the lake. The shanty was gone and the beach was strewn with its broken remnants. The beach was filled with weeping women whose cries for io3t husbands and fathers arose even, above the sullen roar of the waves. The shore was lined with a largecrowd gazing helplessly across thewater. Finally some forms were seen on the deck of the crib. With, the aid of telesoopes it was made out that there were six men there who werewav.ng their arms to the people on shore. Every huge wave swept over them and it seemed as if they would bo washed away at any ihstanf. For hours the crowd watched the men, and not urnil 11:15 had the weather moderated! sufficiently to allow the lifeboat to go out.

As none of the bodies have been, washed ashore the supposition is that they are in the airshaft where the men> were drowned. Miller, the man rescued, went from Chicago not long ago. Hisfamily now lives in Milwaukee. Thursday evening at 0 o’clock therevenue cutter Andy Johnson, with the-life-saving crew and boat aboard, madetwo attempts to reach the crib, but theeea was so heavy that nothing could be • accomplished. Of the blame of this fearful loss of life little can be said. There is a feeling that the Chicago contractors wereat iault in leaving Buch a number of men in an unprotected position. Others lay the blame at the door of the life-saving crew, whom they accuse of dilatory and half-heated attempts to save the men. Capt. Peterson of the life-saving station was noticed of the disaster shortly after 5 o’clock, and had prompt action been taken then it is possible that the six men alive then could have been saved. A pier was within about J,OOO feet of the crib, and' a howitzer could easily have thrown a life-line to the men. As it was, Petersen did not arrive at the scene until 7 o’clock, and then drove there in a carriage with a member of the crew. He walke lup and down thebeach for a time and decided then that nothing conld be done and that he could not get his boat out. This, however,, was housed some five miles away from the scene of the disaster. It is not improbable that popular sentiment will< demand an investigation of hisoonduct.