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Feared Ship Foundered Carried Over Seven Hundre
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Consul Sends Report of Ship's;
Distress and Adds That it is
Feared She is Lost One Re
port Says That Chinese Pir
ates Might be Responsible.
List of the Passengers Board
ing Vessel at San Francis
co Japan Rushes Warship
Out But it Will Take Six
Hours to Reach the Scene.
Associated Press.
Tokio, May 1. Wireless calls for
assistance from the Paci5c Mail steam
er Siberia, heard on the Japanese
ccast today indicated that she was in
grave periol off the coast of Formosa.
The liner left Saa Francisco April
7 for Manila. She carries 71 saloon
passengers including Mrs. Francis Bur
ton Harrison, wife of the governor
general of the Philippines.
Were Pirates Responsible?
A dispatch from Formosa states Chi
nese pirates may have had something
to do with the disaster.
The exact nature of the accident
has not yet been- determined nor have
ary details been received up to a
late hour tonight.
Reported Sinking.
An early report said the liner was
'sinking-' while a later message con
vey ?d the information that she was
"asnore" six miles off the southeast
mainland fiom Formosa Island.
Tha Japanese government dispatch
ed the steamer Kanto Maru from For
mosa to the succor of the Siberia as
soon as the news of her trouble was
received.
Prominent Persons Aboard.
Auiong the pasceng3rs on the Sibe
ria besides Mrs. Harrison is Mrs. John
B. Rentiers, wife of the new British
tcasul at Menila.
The Siberia left Yokohama April 27
anl Nagasaki April 29 for Manila. She
had a list of 71 persons in the first
cabin, anl in the second and four
jundred in the steerage. She is in
conuaud of Captain Zeeder r.nd car
ries a. crew of about 200 men.
The teport current in Tokio that
Chines niivts rnav have been con
nected with the accidont to the liner
al.:o was heard at Tai Fe Fu, the cap
ital of Fornrosa whence it was con
veyed m a cablegram.
Great Anxiety Prevails.
The greatest anxiety prevails owing
to the fact that the wireless calls for
lieip from the Siberia have ceased.
A. Williamson, the American consul at
famsui, Formosa, telegraphs he fears
this means that the vessel has gone
down.
When th-3 first wireless calls for
help were heard the nearest ship was
; i: hours ay.
The Japanese navy department was
inclined tonight to discredit the re
ports regarding pirates and expressed
!'ae opinion that they were an out
come of the recent looting of a Brit
ish stPflmpr
Thp first wireless message regard-
'S the disaster was received aireci
'om the Siberia early today at the
Tapanese wireless station at Oseha
; ai, off the coast of Kiuishiu island.
H ronveved the information that the
-'earner had met with an accident
;i' d was in distress. This message
as mutilated and no further defi--'te
information could be gleaned
""rom it.
The plight of the Siberia was com
municated by wireless also to the
steamer Minnesota of the Great
Northern Steamship Company, which
' "- making her way to Nagasaki, as
II as to the British cruiser Mlno
t&'sor. The position of the Siberia is
t;V3d by wireless as longitude 121.10
psst, latitude 22.40 north. This, loca
tion if, about six miles to the east
of the Narrow cape which forms the
southern extremity of Formosa is-
Tokio, May 1. A dispatch from
T.;i-Pe-Fu reports that the steamer
"" ;,er-a is ashore in a perilous position
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off the southeast coast of' the Island
of Formosa.
,She carries SO saloon, passengers,
among them Mrs. Francis Burton
Harrison, wife of the governor general
of the Philippines.
Mrs. Harrison on Board.
Mrs. Harrison came to Japan from
Manila for a short visit. She embark
ed on the Siberia at Yokohama.
The Japanese navy department has
received and made public the follow
ing dispatch:
Many Distress Signals.
'"The governor general of Formosa
cables that a Japanese cruiser, on her
way to the Okinawa Islands off the
Island of Kiushiu, reports that the
Pacific Mail steamer Siberia met dis
aster thjs norning in longitude 121.10
east, latitude 22.40 north. She sent
reported signals of distress which
finally became indistinct. No details of
the disaster are known. The Kanto
Maru has been ordered to the scene."
Ships Hear HeJp Calls.
The Siberia. CaDtain Zeeder. be
longs to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Line and plies between San Francisco,
Honolulu, Yokohama and Hong Kong.
She left San Francisco on April 7 and
nn Anril 29 nut out from Naeaski for
Manila by way of Hong Kong. The
Siberia is of o,6oa tons burden and
was built at Newport News, Va. She
is supplied with wireless.
According to advices here the ves
sel is six miles from the. mainland. A
wirplesc station on the. Jananese coast
picked up distress signals sent from
the Siberia by wireles to the Ameri
can steamship Minnesota which was
on the way to Nagaski.
The Siberia also was in communica
tion with the British cruiser Mino
taur. Battleship Dispatched.
George W. Guthrie, the American
ambassador to Japan, as soon as he
heard the condition of the Siberia, re
quested the Japanese foreign office
to send a warship to her aid. He was
informed that the government, having
already learned of the accident, had
sent the Kanto Maru from Formosa.
The Kanto Moru got under way early
today.
Were Pirates Responsible.
Tokio, May 1. A dispatch received
here tonight from the capital of For
mosa conveyed the alarming intima
tion that Chinese pirates may have
had something to do with the report
ed disaster to the liner Siberia.
No details of the accident to the
steamer off the coast of Formosa had
been received here up to 10 o'clock
last night.
Ship May be Lost.
Washington, May 1. The state de
partment here was informed today
from Tansui, Formosa, of the Pacific
Mail line steamer Siberia's distress.
Consul Williamson sent this re
port: '
"Formosa government informed Si
beria signalled repeatedly for aid from
latitude 22.40, longitude 121.10. Ceased
thi3 morning. Vessels sent from Ka
renko . will take six hours to reach
scene near Kasho Island, six miles off
Taito. Fear Siberia foundered." -List
of Passengers:
San Francisco, May 1. The follow
ing passengers boarded the Siberia
here for the Orient:
For Manila: .
W. B. Beard.
George M. Egan. -
Miss Eleanor GiUisey.
Arthur Hallberg.
Miss Amelia P. Klein.
Howard Long.
Mrs. Jane G. Palmer.
Lieut. V. C. Reyes.
O. C." Whitaker.
Mrs. O. C. Whitaker.
For Hong Kong:
J. Donald Demarest.
Bruce D. Ellis.
Mrs. Bruce D. Ellis.
Danforth B. Ferguson.
J. St. C. Hunt.
John Hunt.
Miss Lulah Hunt.
Miss Grace C. Lawton.
Francis H. Love.
W. D. Whittemore.
Mrs. W. D. Whittemore.
Dr. Wong Him.
Miss Catherine A. Wong Him.
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For Honoululu:
. Mrs. P. L. Cherry.
Miss Adelisa Morton Murphy.
Miss Frances D. Murphy.
Mrs. L. B. Pierce.
Henry Russell. "
The following- passengers bearded
the Siberia af other points:
Yokonama:
J. W. Dorris.
Kobe:
Mrs. H. G. Guttridge.
Miss Harriet Guttridge.
O. H. Guttridge.
Mrs. D. H. Greenebaum.
Miss Katie Dukes.
Mrs. M. Bremmer.
Nagasaki:
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Richardson.
Yokohama:
Mrs. Francis B. Harrison.
Miss Amelia P. Klein is a Presby
terian missionary in China. She has
been on a tour of the United States.
Her home is in California.
Prominent Persons Aboard.
Washington, May 1. George M.
Egan, who is one of the Siberia's
passengers, has recently been rein
stated as Governor of Batanes, in the
Philippine Islands, and is on hi3
way to his post. Arthur Hallberg is
an aide in the coast and geodetic sur
vey. Another passenger reported to the
bureau here is Miss W. V. Bryant,
who it is understood, was enrouje to
the Philippines to "be- married, The
bureau is attempting to locate the
home addresses of these passen
gers. '
Addresses of Passengers.
Washington, May 1. Addresses of
some of the passengers on the Si
beria who were sent out to Manila by
the insular bureau of the war depart
ment, are given here as follows:
Miss S. W. Bryant, sister of one of
the teachers on the islands, Columbia,
Missouri; Howard Long, Angola, In
diana; Vincente C. Reyes, Philippine
Islands, constabulary; W. B. Beard,
teacher, Waxachie, Texas; George M.
Eagan, governor of Batanes, Newark,
New York; Captain O. C. Whittaker,
Philippine constabulary, Mrs. Whit
taker and infant, Franklin, Pa.
The navy department today report
ed the cruiser .Galveston, commanded
by R. H. Leigh, leaving Manila for
Shanghai. The Galveston should be
about 250 miles from the Siberia's re
ported position. She is equipped with
wireless.
Ship to the Scene.
Toiko, May 1. The British cruiser
Minotader, proceeding under all steam
to the succor of the Siberia, was report
ed here late tonight to have reached
the scene of the accident.
The Siberia communicated her dis
tress to the Minotaeur by wireless.
E SITUATION
M T1PIC
Washington, May 1. Gravity of
the situation at Tampico growing out
of the fast accumulation of oil from
the flowing wells in the interior
which constitute a great menace to
the town itself, vast financial loss as
a result of the overflowing of the
tanks and finally the - interference
with neutral commerce by the consti
tutionalists as exhibited in the firing
upon the Ward line steamer Antilla
at port, prompted Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
the British ambassador, to confer to
day with Assistant Secretary Osborne
at the state department in a further
effort to create a neutral zone, in the
oil field vicinitj'.
nn WILL
PROTECT OIL FIELDS
Chihuahua, May 1. Gen. Carranza
is determined to use every effort to
protect the immense oil properties at
Tampico, owned by foreigners, princi
pally British, and he telegraphed the
British ambassador at Washington
to that effect today.
Agents of the constitutionalists in
Vvrashington today sent messages to
their military leaders at Tampico to
do all in their power to protect the
oil properties there and assurances
that extra precaution would be taken
to prevent damage to the properties
were conveyed to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice:
Briitsh ambassador.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Forecast for North Carolina:
Fair tonight and Friday, i,'?
Fresh northeast winds.
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By Associated Press.
New York, May 1. As May day js
the date that most of the contracts
between employers and union em
ployes in the East expire, much sig
nificance is attached to opinions ex
pressed by labor leaders that, never
before have labor conditions been bet
ter than' today. They based their
statements, they said, on the fact" that
there are no labor troubles of conse
quence in the East and that the large
army of unemployed a few weegs ago
has been reduced to a minimum by
the opening of much new work.
In New York city today was signal
ized by an unusual large number of
parades and demonstrations by so
cialists and their allied trade unions
as "international day." These parades
found thousands of garment workers
in line and each ended with park mass
meetings at which the speakers dis
cussed the eight-hour law and de
manded better working conditions for
factory employes.
By Associated Press.
New York, May 1. George W.
Young, a banker of this city, is anx
iously awaiting further news today
of the condition of his wife, Madame
Lillian :Nordica, the' prima donna
who is critically ill in Batavia, Java.
The first news of the singer's re
lapse came to Mr. Young, on Wed
nesday in a cable dispatch trom
R. Simmons, Madame Nordica's ac
companist. The cable said:
"Have pcotponed departure. Ma
dame Nordica's condition serious.
Physicians in consultation. Very anx
ious. Advise later."
Yesterday Mr. Young "received an
other cable message from Mr. Sim
mons that Madame Nordica was
sinking rapidly and that the ph3-i-cians
held out little hope.
WILL BRING BACK
BODIES OF DEAD MARINES.
Washington, May 1. Admiral Bad
ger reported to the navy depart
ment today that within two or three
days he would send the battleship
Montana to New York with bodies of
sailors and marines killed at Vera
Cruz. The vessel would sail, he said,
3s soon as it became certain that
her services were no longer needed
for refugees work. The bodies will be
shipped from New York to the
homes of relatives. '
Calls,
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LA690 CONDITION
WERE NEVER
BETTER THAN
NUDJUtlE IRDICA'S
HUSBAND ANXSOUS
"LUCILE LOVE, THE GIRL OF MYSTERY"
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By Associated Press.
Denver, Colo., May 1. Governor
Ammons today telegraphed Secretary
of War Garrteonv requesting addition
al federal troop!, on being informed
by Major W. A. Holbrook that he
would be unable to spare any men
from his present command for duty
in the northern Colorado coal fields,
where 200 militia under General
Chase still are on guard.
Eccles, W. V&., May 1. Federal res
cue crews entered mine No. 5 today to
clear away the litter in' the galleries
and aid i nthe recovery of the bodies
of 172 miners killed by the explosion
last Tuesday." As soon as they de-
F.nended the wnvt nf hnistinp- hnriipa tr
the surface began. Twent were at the'
bottom of the shaft, but it was expect
ed night vould come before they could
be brought up, as the cage can only
carry one body at a time andjthe round
trip is almost a"fifh of amile.
Eccles, W. Va., May 1. Rescue
crews had assembled thirteen bodies
at the foot of the shaft in Mine No.
5 of the New River Coal Company
when they resumed their work today
of exploration in the hope of locating
all of the 172 men who it now seems
certain lost their lives in the explo
sion last Thursday afternoon.
Pumps were kept going during the
night and by dawn the mine was com
paratively free of water.
Rockefeller Has Hopes.
New York, May 1. John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., it was said at his office
today, feeling that he has been forced
to bear the brunt of the criticism
growing out of the strike in Colorado,
hopes in the near future to devise
some plan by which he may relieve
the situation so far as the demon
strations against him are concerned.
Just what he purposes to do was
not made elear. ; .
Mr. Rockefeller epent the day at
his home in Pocantico Hills, trans
acting all his business over the tele
phone. "Mourners" Avere again s marching
up and down in front of the Stand
ard Oil building at Broadway. A
threat to keep a hearse on the scene
did not materialize during the fore
noon. Among the marchers were Sarah
Greenwood and Elizabeth Freeman,
English suffragettes. . Miss Freeman
was released this morning from the
Tombs prison against her will. With
Upton Sinclair and another woman
she had gone to a cell rather than
pay a fine of $3 for disorderly con
duct. Some one paid the fine and
she was released.
ITICAL CONDITION
STRIKE ZONE
Washington, May 1. A war de
partment bulletin issued today said
that conditions at Walsenburg, in. the
Colorado mining district, where Cap
tain Smith is in command of United
States army troops, were reported
"critical" but that the work of re
storing order in Trinidad and Canon
City districts was going forward.
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ediaton Await
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REFUGEES FROM
PUERTO. MEXICO
By Associated Press.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 1 Refugees
from Puerto Mexico who arrived last
night on the Leland steamer Dictator
and on the transport Hancock have
been transferred to the steamship
Monterey which will take them to New
Orleans.
All of the -Dictator's forty-three pas
sengers were from the oil fields and
districts about Minatitlan, state of
Vera Cruz.
The transports Sumner, McClellan,
Meade and Kilpatrick which brought
Funston and his fifth brigade to Vera
Cruz sailed at daybreak for Galveston
By Associated. Press.
Augusta, Ga., May 1. Between 100
and 150 people are expected to gath
er in Augusta on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week when
there will be held two important con
ferences on the question of cotton
trading. The conference called by the
Augusta cotton exchange and board
of trade, will be convened on Mon
day morning at 11 o'clock. There will
also be a session-in the afternoon.
On Monday night the delegates will
be entertained with a smoker. On
Tuesday there will be business ses
sions morning and afternoon and on
Wednesday the cotton conference
called by President W. C. Lawson,
of the Texas Cotton Association, will
be convened. Mr. Lawson is calling
the meeting for the purpose of form
ing a Southern association of cot
ton exchanges and the majority ot
delegates to the Augusta exchange
conference will also be delegates to
the conference called by Mr. Lawson.
Acceptance for the Augusta confer
ence have been received from every
important exchange in the country
and each exchange will send three
delegates. The - keynote of the con
ference is expected to be the im
provement of cotton trading condi
tion for the benefit of the legitimate
trader. On Wednesday afternoon the
delegates to both the Augusta confer
ence and the conference called by
Mr. Lawson will be the guests of the
Augusta cotton exchange at a barbe
cue. EFAULT PA1ENT
By Associated Press.
New York, May 1 The stock ex
change . today officially announced
the default of semi-annual interest
payment on the four per cent gold
bonds of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad Company and the
general lien five per cent bonds ot
the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail-j
road Company.
The Frisco is in the hands of re
ceivers and the affairs of the Rock
Island system, are admittedly preca
rious. The prices of both of these is
sues for some time past have pointed
to suspension of interest payment
and the notice issued oy tne ex
change was chiefly in keeping with
legal requirements.
It is expected that the report of
the expert, recently engaged bys the
bondholders' committee of the Rock!
Island Company, will be submitted
shortly. On this report hinges the
future financing of the road. '
CONFERENCE ON
COTTON TRADING
10 ROADS
NIGHT
EDITION
Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c.
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Peace Negotiations Will Pro
ceed Regardless of Rebel At
titude But All Hands Are Hop
ing Carranza Will Agree to
an Armistice Covering Whole
Ground.
Huerta Has Agreed to Maintain
Peace During the Negotia
tions of the Peace Envoys-
Bryan Held Conferences Un
til Late in the Night.
By Associated Press. '
Washington May 1. After receiving
a message sajd to have come from th3
Huerta government from the Spanish -
ambassador Mr. Riano the South Amer.
ican envoys seeking to mediate in the
Mexican crisis entered upon their con
ference today with more apparent con
fidence than ever.
After their conference with Secre
tary Bryan last night when they were
informed that General Huerta had
consented to an armistice the Brazil
ian Argentine and Chilean diplomata
worked diligently on proposals for me
diation to be submitted to this govern
ment and the Huerta regime as tha
next step in the negotiations.
Representatives of the constitutional
ists here insisted that General Car
ranza's acceptance of the principle ol
the mediation would not be followed
by acceptance of the principle of the
mediation would not be followed by ac
ceptance of an armistice and insisted
that the internal dispute in Mexico
would not be included in the negotia
tions if cessation of hostilities is in
sisted upon in the meantime.
While the mediators continued theil
conferences President Wilson and the
cabinet were in session considering
mediation proposals. At the state de
partment Sir Cecil Spring-Rice the Bri
tish ambassador conferred with offi
cials in further endeavor to have cre
ated a neutral zone at Tampico in or
der to avert disaster to the extensive
oil fields there as a result of con
tinued fighting between the Mexican
federals and constitutionalists, it wag
stated on good authority tha tthis mat
ter had been taken up with mediators.
Another matter said to have beer
taken into consideration was the firing
on the Ward liner Antilla at Tampico
by the constitutionalists.
It was learned that the mediators
have submitted in confidence to all the
Latin American diplomats a resume
o f their work. '
Washington, May 1. The Spanist
ambassador, Mr. Riano, representative
of the Huerta government in the Unit
ed States visited the Argentine lega-"
tion at 11 o'clock today and held a con
ference with the Argentine minister,
Mr. Naon. The -ambassador is said to
have delivered a message to the media
tors from the Huerta authorities. No
statement was made as to its contents.
To what extent intermediation be- "
tween the United States and Huerta
would be affected by a refusal of the
Carranza element to suspend military
operations against Huerta pending med 1
iation was the chief question confront
ing the South American mediators
when they resumed their sessions to
day. -
The midnight conference between
the mediators and Secretary Bryan,
lasting for more than two hours had es
tablished definitely that the United
States and Huerta would suspend mil- .
itary operations, the only reservation
made by the United States being that
it would be free to repel any attacks,
but Carranza still held aloof from any
suspension of hostilities between him
and the Mexican federal forces. All ef
forts, therefore, were directed to have
the truce include the warring elements
in northern Mexico as well as those
of the United States and Huerta.
Carranza's Attitude.
The work of the mediators, it was
learned in authoritative quarters would
proceed steadily, no matter what the
final attitude of Carranza was on the
question of an armistice, although an
adverse decision by him would neces
sarily restrict the intermediation to
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