Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — NEW YORK TO CHICAGO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK TO CHICAGO.

and Scarlett; cadet Stooks and clerks Alien and Savage. A change had recently been made in the commander attached to the Victoria, Charles Lottley having been detached and succeeded by Commander Fellicome, who was saved, as were also Captain Maurice A. Bourke and fifteen other officers. The first dispatches concerning the accident led to the belief that the disaster had occurred off the coast of Tripoli, North Africa. Later advices show that the s*ene of the calamity was near Tripoli, a seaporftown on the eastern Mediterranean, fifty miles northeast of Beyroot, Syria, and a comparatively short distance from the island of Cyprus. As soon as the officers of the Victoria saw that there was danger of the ship foundering, oiders were given to close the collision bulkheads in order to keep the water in the compartment, into which the Camperdown had shoved her ram. The sailors tried to obey the order, but the ship was making water, too fast to allow of closing the bulkheads, and, while the men were still trying to shut them, the vessel, with her immense guns and heavy tophammer, turned over and carried them down.

The news of the calamity has caused the most intense excitement at London, not only among those who had friends on board the ill-fated ship, but among all classes of th#pop\tlatlon. Tho admiralty office In Whitehall was besieged by relatives and friends of the officers and crew, reporters seeking further details of the disaster and throngs of people attracted by curiosity. So dense wa3 the throng in the vicinity that the admiralty officials were compelled to summon police to restrain the crowd. No information has been received at the admiralty since the receipt of Rear Admiral Markham’s first official telegram, which is above repeated. AIL official telegrams In regard to the loss of the ship will be sent at once to the Queen at Windsor Castle. As soon as Her Majesty received Admiral Markham’s dispatch, which was Immediately forwarded to her, she gave orders for the postponement of the state hall that was to have taken place at Buckingham Palace, Friday night. Mr. Gladstone was greatly shocked when he was informed, of the sinking of the Victoria and the great loss of life attending tho foundering of tho vessel. The Prime Minuter informed the House of Coinmons of the accident and paid a most to the worth of Vice AdmlnWfryon, who, he said, was one of tho ablest and most esteemed officers in the service of Her Majesty. Mr. Gladstone said that there were Oil officers, seamen and boys, and 107 marines on board the ship. It was fyared that of this total of 718 souls 430 had been lost. He was sure that tho deepest sympathy of the House would be felt for the brave men who had found an early death in the service of their country, and that it would be extended to their relatives and friends. The Victoria was a single turret ship, carrying two 100-ton guns mounted in a forward turret, coated with eighteen Iqches compound armor; one ten-inch twenth-nine ton gun firing aft, and a broadside auxiliary armament of twelve ■ six-inch five-ton guns. Of artlliary of smaller nature, she carried twenty-one quick firing and eight machine guns. Her maximum speed was 16.75 knots. She could stow 1,100 tons of coal In her bunkers. and her rad his of action at ten knots’ speed, with her full complement of coal, was estimated at 7.000 Knots. Her armored belt and bulkhead consisted of compound armor, from sixteen to eighteen inches in thickness. She was built at Klßwlck. A model of the Victoria is on exhibition at the World’s Fair. Sir George Tyron. the Vice-Admiral went down in hfs flagship, the Victoria, is one of the best known of British naval officers. Commander Chadwick, now in charge of the naval intelligence office at Wasningt&n, was well acquainted with him during his residence in Lodon as United Btatcs naval attache, and speaks in terms of high praise of the Admiral’s character and ability as a naval officer.

A Coaching Party To Make the Trip With Only Twenty-Four Hcrte*. A tally-ho coach left New York, Thursday, for Cfilcago under peculiar conditions. The matter at issue is a wager of *3,000. The ribbons were in the hands of Joe Pendergaast, once famous in the prize-ring, and as he gathered them up in workman-like fashion, the groom let go the horses’ heads, and with a crack of the whip and a defiant blast from the postborn the coach bowled away merrily on Its thousand-mile journey to Chicago. Horses are to be changed every twentyfive miles. Only twenty-four horses, that Is six changes, are permitted. As the horses are taken out of the shafts they will be shipped by train on to the sixth stopping place, or exactly 150 miles ahead. The entire party pledges itself to reach Chicago by coach, accidents or no accidents. Therefore, it is presumed by their numerous friends that if the coach should

be smashed up in an accident, they will have to carry the pieces on to Chicago. This present coaching trip is said to be the first that will reach Chicago twenty-four horses to cover the 1,000 miles.

THE FLAGSHIP VICTORIA.