Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — Page 6

jASPER COCNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. “ RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Elsie Teasel, aged 54 years, was found (lead in her room at the Vendome Hotel, Kansas City. She had taken morphine after telling the landlord’s wife that her husband had robbed her of all her property and then deserted her. A car loaded with men, women and children jumped the track at 7 a high bridge in Tacoma, Wash., turning completely over as it fell through I<M) feet of dir and striking on its top. Thirty-six persons were killed and nearly sixty hurt. Au agreement between the St. Louis Transit Company and its former employes has been signed by representatives Of the transit company and by the executive committee. Both sides claim the victory. The strike continued for fifty-six dajs. Alt the union miners in Alabama, about 10,000 in number, suspended work pending the setttlement of the wage dispute between them and the operators. The old wage contract expired and the miners demand a 40 per cent raise and other conclusions. Beatrice Goslin, white woman, and bride of three weeks, shot and instantly killed Sophia McGee, her Indian rival, who, it is claimed, tried to take away Alfred Goslin from his wife's home. The duel between the two women occurred near South McAlister, I. T. While celebrating at Muncie, Ind., two boys were fatally and one seriously injured. They are Joseph A. Walters.. 17, Charles Wilson, who will die, and Freddy Wise. They were firing a toy cannon when young Wilson dropped a lighted match into a box of powder. The equestrian statue of General the —Marquisde J,aFayette, the gift of the American school children, was presented to the French nation at Paris by Feril W. Peek and accepted by President Loubet. Archbishop Ireland made an eloquent speech at the unveiling. Judge Thomas B. Long, well known to the Indiana bur, a thirty-third degree Mason ami past grand master of the Indiana grand lodge, committed suicide at Terre Haute. He lay down on the floor of his library and fired a shot into his heud, dying instantly. Despondency is given as the cause. In a letter to Mayor Jones of Toledo • Gov. Nash of Ohio declared that he would not call a special session of the Legislature in regard to the State centennial. He does not regard the situation concerning the centennial as an "extraordinary occasion," within the meaning of the constitution. Fire in the crowded tenements, 127 to 131 Adams street, Hoboken. N. J., caused a loss of twelve lives. The building was a frame structure, throe stories high, and several families lived on each floor. When the flames started they burned rapidly and the firemen could do little either to extinguish the flames or to save life. Glenview, Ind., is without a negro, every son and daughter of Ham having deserted the town. Since the shooting of Marshal Lockhart by a negro named Greathouse a few days ago the colored population has been greatly excited and has been leaving town daily, (hie hundred left in one morning, and n few hours Infer the remainder, with their families, departed. Feeling ngjiinst negroes is high. Commissioner of Pensions Evans states that during the fiscal year just ended 105,507 certificates of pensions were issued, 15,000 more than were issued during the year 1899. Of these 40,(537 were original issues, 4,352 were restorations and 00,578 were increases of pensions. The commissioner says the adjudication of original claims is practically up to date where the evidence completing the claim has been tiled. The standing of the clubs iu the National League is as. follows: W. L. W L. Brooklyn ...37 21 Cincinnati ...20 31 Philadelphia 33 27 Boston ......2*l 31 Pittsburg ...34 28 St. L0ui5.,..25 31 Chicago ....31 20 New York... 20 37 Following is the standing iu the American League: W. L. W. L. (tbieugi) ....40 2(1 Minneapolis .31 35 Milwaukee ..30 27 Kansas City. 32 38 Indianapolis 33 28 Detroit 2(5 38 Cleveland ...34 20 Buffalo 24 42

BREVITIES.

An American was killed by n mob at Fea. War in China and famine in India have resulted in the closing of cotton looms in Lancaster alone. Owing to continuous rains in Chile wheat sowing is impossible and the next crop will be very scarce. Prices to-day are very high, but there is no stock on hand. In a fit of jealousy and because he could not marry the girl of his choice, C. A. Martin of Pendleton, Oregon, shot and killed Miss Leah Coleman and then fatally shot himself. One passenger was aerkmely and ten others slightly injured in a head-end collision between passenger trains on tiie Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern road near Remington, Ohio. At Washington, Kan., n loss of 000 was caused by a tire which destroyed the Washington Hardware Company’s building and stock. Fredenhall & Walker's store, Barley’s grocery and Algies’ grocery. At Pittsburg, fire almost totally destroyed the large soap and fertilizing pldnt of the Walker-Slrutman company. Ixiss 175,000. Gen. MacArthur announce the unconditional surrender of Gen. Aqnino, one of the leaders of the Philippine insurgents, together with sixty-four rifles and amm unit ion. The Cataract House, the leading hotel of Rioux Falla, H. I)., was cohipleU-ly burned. Fireworks in W. D. Rimka’s book store exploded and started the blase. Ixms to hotel and business bouses on the first floor, 1100,000.

EASTERN.

The Milaom rendering works, near Cheektowaga, N. Y., were burned. Ixtss $200,0*0. New York City experienced a storm that included cyclonic winds, lightning nnd a cloudburst. Much property was damaged. Charles Krickaka of Philadelphia inhaled smoke from another man's cigarette, broke a blood vessel by coughing and died. Four persons of a fishing party of eight were drowned in Boston harbor by the overturning of their cruft, a twenty-thyee-foot catboat. Vermont, Republicans nominated W. W. Stickney of Ludlow for Governor, and Maine Republicans put up Dr. John F. Hill of Augusta. At New London, Conn., Yale won the 'varsity boat race from Harvard after being signally vanquished in the fouroared freshmen events. Au unknown passenger, a woman whose words and acts showed her to have contemplated suicide when she boarded the steamer at Baltimore, jumped overboard from the Georgia’s deck in Chesapeake bay and was drowned. Allan 11. Ratterel. a stowaway aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, from Bremen, jumped from the steamer’s deck at Hoboken, N. J., and is supposed to have been drowned. He was 16 years of age and bis home was at Little Rock, Ark. Man-Afraid-of-Havvk, aged 21, a fullblooded Sioux Indian, connected with the Buffalo Bill show, died at the Danbury, Conn., hospital after a brief illness from inflammation of the stomach. Ft Is believed he was made sick by eating canned corn. John Q. Doolittle, third son of former Mayor Charles A. Doolittle of Utica, N. Y., was Instantly killed ou Yahntmdaha’s golf links during a terrific electrical storm. The bolt evidently struck Doolittle’s sticks nnd then passed to the back of his head, causing instant death. Joseph 8. Chamberlain and Waiter Reynolds were blown to pieces near the Dittmar Powder and Chemical Company’s plant at Maxim, N. J. The men had been Instructed to take a large quantity of condemned dynamite and distribute it over a cornfield near the works. Benjamin Hill Snell, 44 years old, formerly a cli£k in the pension office, was hanged at tee district jail iu Washington, I>. C., for the murder of 13-ye.u-old Lizzie Wieseuberger, who was employed at his home and with whom he was infatuated. Snell was tile largest man ever executed there. He was 0 feet G inches in height and. weighed 237 pounds. A large quantity of jewels, valued at about $5,000, recently stolen from the apurtmenls of Mr. nnd Mrs. Edwin Gould in London, have been recovered in New York, and the man in whose possession the jewels were found is under arrest. The prisoner denies that he stole the jewels, but says they were given to him by a woman who asked him to dispose of them for her..

WESTERN.

Several military prisoners at Fort Snelling. Minn., made a break for liberty and one escaped recapture. The State ticket nominated by the Republicans of Minnesota is headed by Samuel K. Vansant for Governor. Michigan Republicans at Grand Rapids nominated a full State ticket, with Aaron T. Bliss of Saginaw for Governor. Four cases of leprosy have developed at Boise, Idaho, among returned volunteer soldiers who served in the Philippines. John Moberly, aged 92, died at the home of his sou, David Moberly, six miles north of Maryville, Mo. He took .strychnine. James 11. Merrill, 54 years old. Mayor of Oshkosh, Wis., died suddenly at the Kimberley apartment house in New York, of apoplexy. Crow Indians will work on the new Burlington extension running through their reservation in Montana and Wyoming. First instance of Indian working. Janies Doran & Co., brokers in St. Paul, have been forced to the wall. Mr. Doran explained: “I went wrong on wheat a( 78 cents. 1 shall fail for about $300,000. At Grand Forks, N. D., heat, drouth and high winds were followed by frost, and while the wheat crop was damaged much it is a little worse off in places than previously. Billy Stiles, a Tombstone fugitive, was captured at Casa Grande, Arlz., by Charley Hood and Burt Glover, the former a line rider and the hitter deputy sheriff of Cochise County. The national Prohibition convention at Chieago nominated John G. Woolley of Illinois for President of the United States. Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island was named for the vice-presidency. Two hundred miners and smelters, employes of Keswick, Cal., and vicinity, drove twenty-one Japanese railroad workers out of town. The Japanese were employed to take the places of white men. During a severe storm near Bournevilli', Ohio, Richard Hinkle, farmer, was killed by lightning in the harvest field. The house of Robert Summers was struck nnd burned ami a barn was also destroyed by lightning. A masked robber started through a Pullman car on the Omaha-Billings train on the Burlington after leaving York, Neb., soon after midnight. He got two watches nnd S7O, but took alarm, pulled the air brake and left the train before completing his work. With 5,000 union masons nt their command Chicago contractors who have remained idle for five mouths have resumed work. The 1 mlustritil Union, a "nonunion" organization, is relied upon by the contractors to supply laborers, carpenters nnd men of the iron crafts. A destructive fire occurred nt Morenci, Ariz., completely wiping out the old concentrator nnd innmmo(,h smelting plant of the Detroit Copper Mining Company owned by Phelps. Dodge & Co. of New York. The loss Is estimated nt $1,000,O<H), partially covered by insurance. The Rev. 8. A. Templeton of an evangelist who claims to represent the Christian Catholic Church of that city, whs showered "with bud eggs while preaching an o|>cn-nir sermon in Corinth, N. Y. The crowd listened to him quietly until he begun to abuse leading citizens by mime. I In view of the ndversc findings of the Ohio Supreme Court regarding the avail-

ability of the centennial appropriation to meet current expenses the Toledo centennial board of directors met and decided to close up their offices, except one room, which will be retained thirty days to close up all business. A new species of animal, which ajppears to be a hybrid between a dog and wolf, infests the southern portion of Wayne County, Mo. The anitpals have large claws and climb trees as readily as a catamount. A daughter Of Jesse Osborne was crossing a pasture when one of the animals attacked her, mangling her so that death resulted. A. M. Baldwin of El Reno, Oklahoma, has tendered to Gov. Barnes a company of 100 Indians and cowboys for service to the Government in case more troops are required in China. Capt. B. V. Benson of Ardmore, in the Chickasaw nation, has tendered the Secretary of the Interior the services of seventy-eight men, many of whom are Indians, in case of war in China. Samuel Landis, president of head camp No. 1 of the Knights of the Soil, the farmers’ secret organization begun at Abilene, Kan., last April, says the order has suspended in Kansas. The farmers have been unwilling to leave their wheat fields to attend meetings, and the prime object of the order, which was to enable them to bold their wheat for higher prices, was futile when wheat prices went skyward. The W. U. Cargill Elevator Company of La Crosse, Wis., which runs an extensive line of elevators throughout the wheat region, announces that owing to the prospective wheat shortage all of its elevators north of the Litchfield line will not be opened this year. This affects seventy of this company’s elevators. It will retain nil persons employed by it at these elevators at an expense of nearly $50,000.

FOREIGN.

8. B. Dole has l>een formally installed us Governor of Hawaii. Col. Carter’s relief force on the way to Kumassi was defeated with heavy loss. . Fear is expressed in London that Kumassi has been taken by the Ashantis. America’s silk exhibit at Paris is to be awarded the geld medal over ull competitors. Niue Filipino leaders have been released at Manila on taking the oath of allegiance. Dr. Louis Klopsch says 2,000,000 will die as a result of the plague and famine In India. . Prince of JVales opened London’s new electric underground railway from Mansion House to Shepherd’s Bush. John McKinley, who said he was President McKinley’s brother, was fined in London for disturbing the peace. Tlie Straits of Magellan are about to be connected by wireless telegraphy with the rest of the Chilian republic. Terrible rain and wind storms swept over many provinces of Spain, and it is believed thousands of lives were lost. Lady Randolph Churchill’s wedding to Cornwallis West has been postponed indefinitely, as the young man has been ordered to rejoin his regiment in South Africa.

IN GENERAL

Gov. Roosevelt is greatly incensed because photographers have been taking snap shots of his children. It is reported at Shanghai that thd United States battleship Oregon is ashore on the isfand of Hoo Kie, in the MiaoTao group, thirty-five miles north of Chefoo, Mrs. George A. Simpson, wife of the chief engineer of the public works department, and daughter of Col. Ross of I‘ictou, Ont., committed suicide at Winnipeg, Man. She was 50 years of age. Bradstreet’s says: "Distributive trade is dull, seasonably so in most instances, and prices of manufactured products are generally weak, but exceptions to the former are found where crop conditions are exceptionally promising aud in the case of prices where the readjusting movement has been overdone on the down side. The upward rush of wheat prices culminated and the reactions and irregularity since, mainly due to heavy realizing, would point to the movement having been temporarily, at least, overdone. Advices from the Northwest are of little more than half a crop of wheat. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,184,144 bushels, against 4,(545,180 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,000,(554 bushels, against 2,514,593 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cuttle, common to prime, $3 00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25: sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 led, 80c to 82c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2, (51c to U2c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; new potatoes, 50c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. St. Louis— Cattle, $3.25 to $5.(50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sh<ep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2,24 cto 20c; rye, No. 2. 5Uc to (SOc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3 00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2(5c to 27c; rye. No. 2,03 cto Gsc. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, Btlc to 88c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 00c to 02c. Toledo—Wheat, No- 2 mixed, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2, (50c to 01c; clover seed, prime, $5.25 to $5.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 3,41 cto 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 2“c to 29c; rye, No. 1,03 c to Gs«s bnrley, No. 2,48 cto 50c; pork, mess, $12.00 to $12.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3 00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to SOJW. / New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c te 32c; butter, creamery, 10c to 20c; eggs, westera, 13c to 15c.

HORROR IN HOBOKEN

Awful Loss of Life and Destruction of Property by Fire. BIG STEAMERS BURN. Ocean Liners Bremen, Saale and Main Are Left Charred Hulks. <1 . . . Huge Docks of the North German lAoyd Company Destroyed Flames Communicate to Steamers Moved Alongo the Piers—Death List Placed at Nearly 30) and the Monetary Loss at $15,000,000 Victims Entombed in the Blazing Hulls. With t loss of probably 300 lives and the destruction of property valued at nearly $15,000,000, the entire pier system of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company at Hoboken, N. J., was burned Saturday by a fire originating among bales of cotton. The magnificent ocean liners Main, Saale and Bremen were destroyed by , the flames and the peerless Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was scorched and only was snatched from the blazing piers aud shifted into midstream by the liveliest kind of work. Starting where cottou bales and oil barrels were stored on a pier of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, the flames sweptovcf five acres of piers, destroyed the five large Campbell warehouses near by and attacked the ocean steamers lying at the piers. Three Lloyd steamers, the new Bremen, the Saale, survivor of many misfortunes, and the freighter Main, were burned down to the water line. The great steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, pride of the Lloyd line and the second largest steamer afloat, was seriously burned, while the Phoenicia of the Hamburg-American line was damaged and a score of lighters and harbor vessels were destroyed. How Lives Were Lost. Fully fifteen hundred people were working on the piers and the vessels when the fire began. There were the ’longshoremen removing and loading cargoes, the sailors on the vessels, and even a number of passengers on one ship which had just arrived. Cut off from shore by walls of fire, driven off the piers into the water, cooped up in cabins from Which the sky could be seen through narrow portholes but no rescue could be had, hundreds of persons met fearful deaths. Nobody will ever know how great the number is.

Ships, piers and warehouses were all burning within nine minutes from the start of the fire. Then when the engines and fire tugs came they were powerless to put a limit to the flames. Not till a pier of the Hamburg-American line was blown up by dynamite was the fire under control. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was saved by cutting the cables that bound her to the pier and towing her up stream. Then the Saale nnd the Bremen, one a mass of fierce flames which licked up masts and funnels, the other with fire bursting from every part of the superstructure, were towed down stream. The Saale carried many imprisoned men in her hull, and the Bremen was known to have seventeen men still alive at the pumps, but no power on earth could rescue them. The Main could not be freed nnd burned at the pier. Water and fire combined to make one of the most fearful scenes of destruction of human life that New York has ever witnessed. The black column of smoke rolled straight to the east, where It was visible still in a single muss seventy miles away. Tens of thousands of people lined the banks of the river to witness the awful spectacle. The hospitals in New York. Hoboken and Jersey City were crowded with the injured, and men were being brought in by scores. An Awful Spectacle. Those who gathered along the shores of the Hudson river* to witness the great conflagration saw a spectacle that they can never forget and one that always will have a conspicuous place in the history of New York. River aud bay were enveloped in a pall of black smoke, through which angry flames, bursting as from volcanoes, on the Jersey shore and In the water itself, leaped like red spheres Into the sky. The surface of the water was covered with flouting and blazing masses of freight, thrown iu haste from th* doomed vessels—all unnoticed in the mad race to rescue more precious human life being sacrificed in the great ships. The greatest loss of life appears to have been on the Saale. She carried 450 people and was to have sailed for Boston during the afternoon. When tbe police boat captain went a lion rd of her with bis rescue party he saw bodies lying all about the deck. The steamship Bremen carried a crew of 300 men. the Main 250. The burning or smoldering remains of canal boats, lighters and barges were scattered all the way down the river nnd bay to Staten Island and Governor's Island. Each of these craft added something to tbe list of the dead. Caused by Exploaioi. The fire originated on pier 3 of the North German Lloyd series. It was canned by the explosion of u Iwnzine tank, so the fire fighters declared, which Ignited a large quantity of cotton awaiting shipment. The fire was first discovered by a watchman on the pier at 4 o'clock. He saw a small streak of flume shoot from a bale of cotton and immediately gave the alarm. Many of those who perished, it is said, might have been saved but for the heartlessness of some tug captains, who were more eager to get in a claim for salvage by hauling out tbe Knlser Wilhelm than to lend a hsbd in snving life. Chief Engineer H. Bahrends of the HamburgAmerican liner Kaiser Friedrich says he could have rescued most of the men cooped In th«< Saale bnt for the anxiety of a tag captain to save a lot of hose. Gen. James A. DuMont, supervising inspector of steam vessels, said that his department would take action against officers of tugboats who declined to save drowning men.

At the sight of the first burst of flames •cores of tugs hastened to the piers, drawn by the hope of salvage. The first thing to which they addressed themselves was to extricate the beautiful steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse from her dangerous position. She was already afire on her starboard side forward. She was drawn into the stream and dropped with the ebb tide and put down her anchor. She was surrounded by fireboats and tugs. Ft was fully twenty-five minutes before the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was out of reach of the flames which were encompossing piers and steamers. Her commander maintained the utmost discipline, and as the vessel was being towed into the stream let down lifeboats and sent his officers and crew to the rescue of the unfortunate creatures who were struggling for their lives The Baaie and the Bremen were towed out five minutes after the larger steamer had been carried into the stream. It was impossible to tow tbe Main, and she was left to burn and sink at her pier. Scenes of indescribable horror followed. Frantic men were seen at the portholes of the Saale vainly beckoning toward tugs and small boats and lifting up their hands in their entreaties for help. Their escape from above was absolutely cut off. They could look out of the small portholes and for the last time see the blue sky and the shimmering green of the Hudson’s estuary. Scores of them died in this way. Some of them were clinging to strips of bagging and ropes which had been thrown to them by the deck hands of neighboring tugs. One man was pulled through a narrow porthole of the Saale, and only oue, for he was small of stature and very slender. The score of poor wretches who saw him escape from the porthole were last seen clutching the brass edge of the aperture and reviling their more fortunate fellow. Whisky Fed the Fire. In the middle of pier 3 was a large quantity of cotton bales and alongside this inflammable substance were'loo barrels of whisky. The fire had its origin in the cotton and wjut fed by whisky. The casks which contained the spirits exploded and their contents were scattered over the inflammable merchandise upon the pier. The fire swept over the pier

SCENE OF FIRE WHERE HUNDREDS LOST THEIR LIVES.

with greater rapidity than the devouring elements travel over the dry grass of the prairies. Ft caught the awnings and rigging of steamers aud spread with inconceivable rapidity to the highly polished woodwork of the cabins and the inflammable cargoes which were being stored iu the holds. Within uine minutes evpry steamer nnd every pier was ablaze. Six hundred ’longshoremen were nt work stowing the cargoes and fully 900 sailors, engineers and stewards were on board the vessels. Many of the men met miserable deaths. How many may never be known. FIGHT PITIFULLY FOR LIFE, Terrible Scenes Enacted on the Burning Vessels. Men on the Main trampled each other and were burned alive as they sought vainly to flee. William Kootz, a 10-year-old boy, a steward on the Bremen, jumped from the vessel and swam to the pier. Fully 100 men were seen to jump over the sides of the Saale aa she was being pulled out into the stream. Despairing cries of those back Of the portholes could be heard . They seemed to be struggling for what little air and respite tbe boles gave those already there. Down near the water line of the Saale a swarthy faced sailor could be seen dipping a long towel into the water and bathing with it his blistered face. He was calmly awaiting death. Robert Fowler, a plumber who had been working between decks on board tbe Bremen, crawled on his hands and knees along the deck kmong a crowd of frenzied sailors and leaped overboard.

A woman rushed to the deck of the Bremen and held her baby out imploringly toward the men on a tugboat near by. They could not approach, however, and the woman dropped the infant into the water. She hesitated to follow, but a moment later her dress caught fire and she threw herself into the river.. Several men were stuck fast in the portholes of the Saule while the ship was gradually sinking. It was a terrible Hight. Some of the men, most all of whom were foreigners, called in their own tongue to “Help us for God’s sake.’’ Their struggles were something frantic. Nothing could be done for them. The upper part of the vessel was a living furnace. A tug crew tried to get the prisouers through the portholes, but the boles were too small. The poor fellows strieked in despair as they saw the tug drawing away. From the blaxiug stern of the Bremen a fireman leaped as if to save himself from lielng roasted by taking the less p’ninful method of dying by drowning. He fell into a burning lighter which was drifting down stream. One woman was seen on the Bremen holding a baby In her arms trying to keep the flnmes away from the child. She held tiie end of a small hose in her band. It was Evidently attached to one of the ship's fire apparatus, and she was moving a stream of water all around the child's bead. Rhe could not be rescued and perished with the child.

PROPERTY LOSS IS ENORMOUS.

Steamship and Dock Companies Great Pecuniary Sufferers. The property loss can simply be approximated. A conservative estimate made by a prominent fire underwriter* places the entire damage at not less than $10,000,000. The three docks of the North German Lloyd line are total losses, with all their contents. The pier of the Thingvalla line is totally wiped away, and an extention which had just been built on the Hamburg-American line’s expanse of piers was burned down to the spile tops. The warehouses of Palmer Campbell, which were across the street from the North German Lloyd line docks, suffered greatly and a number of houses along the street were scorched badly. The loss on the Steamship properties and to other companies is estimated approximately as follows:* The steamship Main of the North German Lloyd line cost $1,500,000 outside of the cargo, fittings and stores. The loss is placed at $1,300,000 for the vessel and about $400,000 for the fitting* and stores and cargo that was aboard of her. The steamship Bremen of the North German Lloyd cost $1,250,000 and her fittings and cargo were valued at $300,000. The cargo and stores were entirely consumed and the loss to the vessel proper will amount to at least $700,000. The Saale, the steamship which will have the most horrible story of death to unfold when the divers go down in her, cost the North German Lloyd Company $1,250,000 and the fittings and cargo were valued at $300,000. The damage to the vessel proper is placed at about SBOO,OOO. The damage done to the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is estimated at $25,000. The three docks of the North German Lloyd line, which were burnedto the water’s edge, nre estimated to have cost $300,000. The docks were well filled with merchandise just received from abroad aud valued at $350,000. The Thingvalla pier, which was entirely consumed, was valued at $50,000, counting the stores which were on it. The Hamburg-Ameri-can line dock, which had just been completed as an extension to their great pier and which was destroyed in order to prevent the spread of the flames, was dam-

aged to the extent of $15,000. The warehouses of Palmer Campbell, houses E, F, G and H, were burned. The damage to buildings alone amohnt to at least $50,000, and tbe contents $1,250,000. One lighter containing 5,000 bags of sugar was destroyed, the loss beiug $27,000. Eight barges and eleven canalboats were either burned or sunk with their cargoes. Total valuation $125,000. Minor losses on floating property burned at the fire proj»er or set on fire by burning driftwood will amount to about $20,000. Four of the North German Lloyd fleet suffered. The unlucky Saale was totally destroyed, the Bremen will probably be a total loss, the record-holding Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was badly damaged, the Main was sunk at her pier. The Bremen was one of the six twin-screw vessels built in 189 G nnd 1897. She had heretofore been singularly fortunate and had never met with serious mishap. Her maiden trip was made in June, 1897, from Bremen to New York City. She was a steel vessel, 550 feet long. Accidents have tnarke«L the career of the Saale since she wns built In Glasgow in 1880 for the North German Lloyd line. Shortly after her first trip she ran aground, but was rescued without injury. She again went aground off Flynn’s Knoll in 189(5, but got off uuhurt. The Saale on Aug. 4, 1892, during a fog, ran into and sunk the Norwegian bark Tordenskjold. No one was injured. On June 12, 1889, the Saale struck an iceberg, but escaped with little.damage. The Saale was a single screw steel boat, 438 feet long. Tbe Wilhelm der Grosse, which had just arrived at the North German Lloyd piers, was badly scorched at the bows by the fire, is the second largest ocean steamer afloat, being surpassed only by the Oceanic, recently launched. The ship is even more famous for speed than for size. In its maiden trip across the Atlantic in tbe fall of 1897 it broke three ocean records. It made the passage in five days twenty-two hours aud thirty-five minutes from Southampton, which was two hours better than the record fun of the St. Paul a short time before. At the same time the best single day’s run on record -had been made. The Kaiser Wilhelm is 025 feet long, 00 feet beam and 43 feet deep. These figures, however, do not mean so much to a landsman ns the statement pf the fact that tbe boat has four smokestacks, each twelve feet in diameter and 100 feet high. The accommodations provided are for 400 first-class passengers, 850 secoal class and 800 steerage, nnd the complement of officers and njgn is 450. The bunker capacity is 4,500 tons.

No Kndeavorera A boa yd. Alorft with other vessels, among which wan the Main, the Ranle had lieen chartered by the Christian Endeavor Society to carry 300 of its members to Ix>ndon. None of these were on board, however, as the vessel was not scheduled to sail until July 3. On board the Main were thousands of boxes of cartridges Intended for Gibraltar. When the flames reached these there ensued a rapid succession of explosions. and it la believed that many were killed by the f”’ng ballots.