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OIL STEAMER WRECK
A Score of Men Were Seriously In-
jured.
ESSONS MISSING; HEAVY LOSS
Boilers of an OH Steamer Explode
"Breaking the Vessel in Two With
Fatal Results.
Sfcn Francisco.'i Spedai.-Wiiile the
stealer rrogeso was iymg, at tne
wjiajt cf .tile Fulton Iron ".Works ' at
Harbor View an explosion', occurred
As a result. eleven men are missing. A
score were more or less seriously in-.
jured and property valued at $200,000
vas destroyed. The missing: First As
sistant Engineer Sparks; Joseph Rex,
Charles : Glenn,, Howard Do we, James
Caratt, Dan Gallagher, ' Joseph ' Ma
guire, F. Nelson, C. C. McGuire, Jack
Strand, Jack Ashtori, First; Assistant
Engmcer Sparks, Joseph Rex, Chas.y
Glenn and Howard Da we of the crew
of the Progeso, were shipped only this
mornfng. Joseph ,Rex is a son of Mate
Rex, cf the ship W. P. Babcock; GHas:
Glenn is a brother of Second Officer
Glenn, of the transport Sheridan Jain3"
avat, was qn electrician and Galla
gher, -Maguirel Fl Nelson aiiil McGrfigor
veffe tshtp builderii., Jack- Strand "wase-
empldyed aa fireman; find Hary
Srr:al!, a boy, was workitig as a river
boater. His home .is atValiejo. Ash ton
was a firemarioa, the'. Pxogcso,, and
Dowe was a'seaolian; ''.v ; ':
The list of seriously injured in
jics : HenryJiConma agdr18,v rm
aniputated; Robert Gibson,"' ooth iegs
broken; A; KaneV f f actured - leg and
foj5t;';R. BucdU;".tr.acture.d;ett;wrist;.
" GcqiKe McNeemyix, severe birrns; V J.
Morgan, injured about arms and legs;
T, MzGil, severely burned ; "Willie Vanf
.Oiv.eti' head brujsed; Peter "Hanson
. fracture of rightvleg. -: ' : i
Thevdisstert occurred at 9:45 o'clock,
v. '.iile 40 Inechanlcs gt. Ihe iron .works
aji twenty, employes of the .ship were
on l oaf cL l Below the decks, the me
chanics'" wer& usy completing.,' the
vork ot changing ;the .vessel -froma-.
oa3hiirning- coaUcarrier,. tP.i an oil
Tjaming oil-carcler, whensu'ddenly one
of the' tanks blew up:j"Men Svere hiiret!l
ngafnst steel walls and a shet of Aflame
came sweeping into their taeies. On, the
upper deck ;f men. were, hurled; 1ntote(
air-or thrctwn into . tjhe water. Three
saHors '.'engaged; in: washing paint out
'. s:de the pilot housp disappeared. as ths:
cloud cf black smoke came up troin tne.
shin and we're seen no more. : , .
Following the explosiojd, the ship
sarged in the centre, showing that she
had broken in two. In the office-.df-the
iron works,- 20 feet a wayA every ? win-;
dow wa shattered and flying; glass cut
the. faces Vand .hands, of many of the;
officials and clerks. As they rushed out
into the open survivors, whd : w'ere
able to help themselves,; were leaping
from the, ship. A great 'crowd of me-:
ehanfes dame funning out.of .the works.;
A3 Boon as the panic had ' subsided
these men set to work; to rescue men
from the burning -vessel-A' stream of
burnins oil, running .from the tanks j
..V '
spreaa out until, tne snip jay, on vayes
of fire. The flames crept under ,th9
wharf and soortthe' timbers were biaz-'
ins;, adding to the difficulty of the
work of' fescue. As .the, ship was built,
-of steel the fire was ntarly all ,,beibw
the deck. There were' fourteen' ' o)l
tanks : containing., about four hundred
barrels of oil in all and despite the ef-
"forti of the Are .jdLepartment, this con
tinued to burn., fiercely for hours after
the explosion, evera minor explosions
lu? tc the flanies going from tank to
. lanl5,XJouTred- at, short intervals, but
. all th - . injury and loss of life was
'- ;&tu3sd,3s je ' first. - y
One peculiarity of the, explosion was
"hat several men who : were' ' 6n f rthe..,
other side of th e bulkhoa d i from where
M orcurred, weje uninjured. , ..whi!e!j
miners iartner -away jwere .Daaiynurc.
ftv.eral men in the yards were injured
by'.flying debris. - ' t-; -;: -:'--'
The' loss to the Fulton Company . by
the', Wrecking of the building . and the
"burning of the wharf wjll, exceed $20,'
000., ;It,is estimated : that the' Progesd
was w.brth,: about $175,000; The expro
si oh shook' ajl therbiiilding . at harbor
view and the shock was , felt a-,,, mile
-away; In many instances windows
ere broken1 several ' blocks r away.
-James Spriers, Jr., general manager of
the Fulton Iron Workp," is positive that
the explosion was due to the ; oil and
to- thursting of the boiler. His
theory is that gas' was generated in one
pi-the oil tanks. "It was certainly the
: explosion Of a tank' he.said. "If it had
teen a boiler explosion a -.'cloud of
--earn would have arisen but there was
Jo. steam. Instead it was black smoe
fom the oil. There was only a small
jpressurp t? cinn iro 4 r
COLUMBUS,
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
What Our Congress, is Doing Daj
" by Day.
HOUSE.
Second Day--The - House was in ses-
'SJon an hour and.forty minutes. 'One
nour or that time was consumed in the
reading of the President's message.
The reading Tvas listened to with at
tention by members without regard to
party, but without demonstration, ex
cept at the conclusion of the reading,
when the -Republicans applauded ; gen
erously. ; : "
Mr. Cannon, chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, gave notice
that the bill todefray the expenses of
the Coar Strike Commission would be
called up' tomorrow. The deaths of the
late Representative De Graff enreid and
Sheppard, of T2xas, :which occurred
during the recess, were " announced
ahd after- adopting the customary re
solutions of regret, the House adjourn
ed as a further mark, of respect to their
memories : "
Third Day. -The House passed the
bill ,,to, appropriate $50,000 to." defray'
the expejasbs of the Anthracite Coal
Strike 'Commission and then s X-oiti-ned'-.nntir
Friday , when the Lon
dovL docjk 'charges bill will be: consid
ered: There were two ' hours, of ;dis
ciisstonToa4he commHssiori bill, during
.whichthfce President's course in creat
ing the commission was highly com,
mende, except by Mr. Penton, a Mis
souri Democrat, who cbntended that
the commission was created without
authority of law or constitution There
was some criticism of the; feature of
the bill allowing dquble salaries to
jnetnbers of- the cbmraission now in
lgoVernment' employ and because the
bill; left the amount of the compensa
tion of .the members to the President
Bu all( amendments were voted down
'and the bill was passed without di
vision. , : . ' '
FouftlDayThe. Hoyse had.the con
sideration of a number of anti-trdst
bills under way'' The bills with .amende
ments wererefered; ; j
' 'Ftfth f Day 'The House devoted the
day to the consideration of bills on-
the private calendar. The most im
portant "bill- passed was one. to "adju
dicate in the Court of Claims the
claims of certain importers of steel
blooms who, between 1879 and 1882,
paid customs "duties - equivalent tpv45
.per cent, ad valorem, when it is ctaim
ed thebbrrect rate-should have, been
SO per cent., The sum involved-is about
A riUl, was;, passed authorizing- "the
.following persons to .accept ' presents
a ndT decorations from fprfefgn govern
ments: Captain B. H, . McCalla, S.
N.;' Doctors Eugene Wasdin and H. B.
Geddings, U. S. N., H: S.;-Henry E. At-
ford; W. A Taylor, - H. W. Wiley, M..
'A: Cafleton and John I., Shultz, of the
Department of Agriculture; ,c John A,
Ckerman, of- the' Mississippi river com
mittee ; Casper S. Crowninshield, Unit
ed?5tates commercial agent; Miss Anna
Tolmah Smith and Lieutenant C. .F. H.
Phipps. ; ." ' 7: 5
T . SENATE. .V .''-.
Second Day Interest in the session
of the Senate washeightened by the
-fact that the President message to
Congress would be read and also that
;f fieAeral Russell A. 'Alger, of Michigan;
dent McKinley. would, be sworn in to
11 -the vacancy; caused by, the death Qt
cenaior MCiYijiirtu. ucbiv ouu v.ii.
were hidden behehth a mass of flowers,
and he took his seat, he was sur
rounded by a number jof his colleagues
who extended hearty' congratulations:
In the gallery were' a number of Gen
eral Alger's personal friends and mem
bers of -his family- '. -;
One hour .and fifteen minutes were
consumed in reading the message.
From the nrinted copies' '''which had
been placed on the desk. of . -each Sen
ator, tfeeywere enabled to. tpuaw, every
tvnrk an it was uttered. Almost the eh-
tirA-ReDublican representation were in
their seats, while hot more than half of
tP' seats of -the Democratic side. were
decupied. The.; closest attention waa
nnidf tn. the massage as it was uemg
reaaandffequeritly, t Senators ;wbud
confer regarding some i particular-: po1
t -Which ;had . attracted , ; tneir
a'f'H hnlir notice. .V - . : ' ' 1
i Avhiimhei ot bill3 and resolutions
were - introduced following a brif exe-,
v Rnssion. The resignation-of. .Rev.
Mr. Milbur'n, the blind chaplain of .the
Senate, who has servea in mis capatr-fV,-fnr
so ions, was: received with -gen-
rpret He had become, a familiar
figure in that .body and had made it a
nractice to become personally, acquain
cjftTiatnr. -'No action wras
L taken on the resignation, v . ; y :r i v
r . '.- - . .
TPII WU11 -
, rrUArA DAv.-r-The Senate oegan tn
i rir nf disnosins.of the business
VfAr0 it although the session Tasted
hmirand a half. -When an ad
rz-JT-, xrr c takeh at 1 : 30 o'clock
L,4. . f rRbect to the memory ...o
o cPtitatives De Graffenreld .. .and
"; $h;eppardof Texas, the Din to ameaa
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iN. C, THUKSDAY, DECEMBER 11,1902:
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the immigration laws was under consideration.-
fourth tDay The day's session was
devoid of interest. A few bills were
introduced and a brief executive ses
sion held.
Fifth Day The Senate was in open
session but ten minutes, then went into
executive session, after which it ad
journed. . i ' ; : , r ;-
Kellj- Released on Bond. .
V Louis, SpeciatChas. P. Kellv.
former member of the. House, of Dele
gates, arrivea.. here Wednesday after
noon in; charge of: -detectives from
Philadelphia,; where he - was arrested
last week, as a-fugitive from justice.
More than-500 curious people awaited
Ivelly-s arrival at. the union station,
and' as he stepped from the train,
accompanied by Mrs. Kelly v and "Be
tective McGrath, the police were
forced to clear a path through the
crowd;: The-priGoner was- then taken
before Judge Douglas" and gave bond
tnXtfie s'uiii of $30,000. Kelly and his
wife then left the court room and
wtnt to their home. .
j 5 Zones Established.
Manila;' By Cjable. Preparatory to
an aggressive" campaign . against ' - the
Ladrones in the Rizal, -province of
Luzon, Governor Taf t has established
zones, of concentration. The land will
be! tilled, tidurihg the day time and, the
people will i retire within - tne j zones at
night. A, strong f orce of constabulary
will be used against the bandits. . -
; , Suicide of Col.; Lamb.
tondonBy. Cable. -While the Cur
ard Line. steamer Etruria was ascend
ing the Mersey, Saturday morning,
Colonel Lamb, a member of the Eng
lish rifle team, returned. from the' in
teraivlonal competition in Canada,
committed sulqide, ending his .life with
a rifle bullet -.
Trestle Washed. Away.
,Savannah, ,;Ga., Special.The long
trestle on the Atlantic & Birmingham
Railroad, over the Satilla fiver, was
washed away and destroyed Thursday
night by the flood. The Satilla is high
er; than has even before been recorded..
Orders were issued 'today annulling, all
Atlantic & Birmingham trains: , over
the division affected until repairs can
be made. Many country roads in Ware
county . are impassable' from water and
fallen trees. - i i V
: Raise in Wages. !
-Scfanton;Pa., Special. The i Pela
ware Lackawanna & Western' Rail
road purposes a -substantial increase
inf rates of pay to employes in .the
various departments The officials are
"nciw at work on .a general plan of
readjustment and equalization .to be
come effective at an ?eariy date, prob
ably from December 1. All branches
of; the .service and practically all the
employes Vill-W affected by the com
pany's voluntary action. '
y( To Consider Farm flatters. ,
Dallas, Texas, Special. At a meet
ing, of business meti here to consider
remedies for the boll weevil evil, it was
determined, to call a State convention
in! Dallas' on December 14, to which
members of the Legislature, State offl-.
cials, representatives of commercial
' bodies and farming interests are to be
irivited. The Legislature is to be call
ed upon for an appropriation to be us
ed for extermination of the weevil.
! Savannah's Steamer Line,
ISavannah. GaSpecial. The. Norjth
German Lloyd Steamship Company has
, established a direct line between this
ity and Bremen, The first ship of' the,,
line, from .4 Coblenz. will arrive here1 1 o
morrow. She will be followed' by lot h-
jeri and larger ships. Genera, cargoes.
wll be carried ; each wayi the bulkpf
putward freights'' being; cotton. Later
the passenger traflic wiil be developed
and the company' expects to bring
many immigrants for the Southern
States. The agents in this city v ill -.bo.
'W. W. TFilliamson & Co.,
New Trial For Powers. " " '. -
KjKranktort; Ky. Special.-The Ap
pellate . Court - awarded a new trial to
Caleb j-Fowers, 'who was convicted in
the Gobel murder conspiracy and sen
tenced, to life imprisonment The opinr
ion by Judge O'Rear, granting Powers
&l new trial is based mainly, upon the
rlfusal of.; Judge CJantrill to vacate j;he
bench on affidavits' filed by the de-.
fence, charging the court with being
. prejudiced against ' the defendant. The
three Democratic Judges " dissented. ,
DEATH OF MR. REED
Ex-Speaker Thos. B. Reed Suddenly
f- Passed Away ; "
DEATH FROM BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
fir. Reed Was One of the Best Known
of Modern Politicians and a Noted
Parliamentarian.
.Washington, D. C, Special. Hon.
Thonias B. Reed, ex-Speaker of the
national house of representatives and a
well known Maine - statesman, died
hero at his hotel Saturday night of
Birght's disease. . v '
The. remains left here Sunday after
noon for Portland, Maine, his .former
home, where the interment will take
place on Tuesday afternoon. They
were placed aboard a special train
leaving" Washington at 4:50 o'clock,
scheduled - to arrive at Portland tomor
row. . Accompanying the body were
Mrs. Reed, the widow; Miss Catherine
Reed, the" former Speaker's daughter;
Hon. Amos L. Allen, Mr. Reed's suc
cessor, in the House of ' 'Represehta
lives; Mr Asher C. Hindis, Mr. Reed's
parliamentary cjerk, and Mr. August
G Payne, a life-long friend. At Mrs.
Reed's request 'there were no cere
monies of any kind here, and at Port
land, they will be- of a simple charac-
THOMAS B. BEKO,
ter. During the entire day there was a
stream of sympathetfc callers 'at the
Arlington . Hotel, where the V body- of
Mr. ; Reed lay "awaiting remoyaL j Thejr
included President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
who also sent a handsome floral offer
ing; members , of the cabinet, the Sen
ate and House of Representatives and
of the diplomatic, corps. The body was
enclosed in a " casket with I. heavy, ,
oxydized. extension handles, and on the-
top was a silver plate on which had
been engraved the f ollowingsimple in
scription; . ; . : " . '. ' i . ' .
A.
. Thomas Brackett Reed,'
October 18, 1839,
December nilr, 1902. ;
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.V .
Those at the railroad station r ""when
the train departed were" Senator and
Mrst Lodge; Justice McKenna. of .the
Supreme Court; General .Draper, of
Massachusetts, and Representatives
Hitt and Littlefield. , ;; v ; ,
- The arangements for the bbsequies.
at Portland have been left in the hands
j 0f Hon. Joseph W. Symond$ aUd. John
C. Small an old neighbor of Mr. Reed.
As far as tentatively arrangea nere,
the funeral will take place some time
Tuesday afternoon, from . he First
Pari?h Unitarian, church,-ot which the
Rev.. -'John Carroll Perkins is; pasfor.
The interment Will be at ye;rgreen
' r.
, Killed Mother and Himself,
; Evergreen Ala. Special. At Castle- ,
berry, 11 jniles from here, J A Stupbi
shot and killed his ; mother and. then
billed himself. Whether the first kill-
'ing. .was accidental or the result, of
temporary derangement is not known
The family is promihent. , ' :
"Wreck a : Hatteras.
- Hatteras, N.' V C , Special.-rfThe 6b;
-server of the Weather Bureau Reports
r that a - four-masted schooner, V esley '
M Oler, went ashore at Katte?as Inlet
life-saving station, .early Friday morn
ing ''during-. tbestorm. She was pound
ing in the surf about a mile off shore
until afternoon, - when the four masts
went to pieces; The life-saving crew
could do nothing . to save the crew.
No bodies have been washed ashore.
NO. 35.
BURNED UP $500..
A Sad Case Reported From Greens
- ,boro. x
Monday's Charlotte Observer con
tains the following sad story from ita
Greensboro correspondent : .
FllVe hundred dollars in ' greenbacks
and the household and kitchen f uri
ture destroyed, describes the work of
a madman at his home here Saturday,
night. The name of the party ; is Joo
Mitchell and the agency responsible
for the deed is 'corn 'whiskey to the
amount of two drinks, about two
thirds of ; a pint Joe is a hard work-,
ing man, being employed by the Pied
mont Table Company. For several
years he ; has labored hard and had
managed ,to c accumulate . out of his
earnings about $500,-which he .kept in
the tray of his" trunk, and which he
had counted and rec6unted from the
first, as thepile grew larger thinking
of happier days when tnls money
would buy him a lot and, build a little
house thereon for he and his wife,
where they would live free from rents
and visitations from landlords. , But
these happy dreams are of the past,
for Joe, in a moment of 'delirium, de
stroyed the money.: : - ;
Saturday night about 12 o'clock Mr.
W. G. Brown, who lives next-door to
Mitchell, was awakened by a noise as
if some one , was tearing a . house
down. Standing" it as i I6ng as he could'
and becoming alarmed for the la- '
mates of his neighbor's house as well
as foY - his own family,, .he hastened up
street to get Officer Lovelace who, in
company with Mr. Brown, went to the
scene of action They. found furniture
broken into, splinters, carpets torn up.
cooking and other utensails scattered
in every direction, pictures; trunks and
bedding thrown .into the. fire' and the
madman, with dxe'ih harid, continuing ;
nis worK or nesirucuon. i;ne.nouse uau -Caught
fire and with difllculty was ex
tinguished. A trunk- that . had . been
broken up and In which was the money
had already been ' burned when help
arrived. ;-'- .'.
After . arresting the man attention
was turned towards his wife who had
fortunately escaped to a corner in one
of the rear roroms. She was i scared al-.
most to death.; The jnaja was. taken to
the guard house about .,! p clock where
he remained, until trial this afternoon
before Mayor Cox, at his office. ' '
Mitchell says he cannot account for
the; deed, that he doesn't.1 know a thing
that occurred. He, was very repentant
and says if he had -hurt his "Wife that
he would have cut his own throat. The
whiskey; was evidently- drugged, for
those examinl fig -it say it' had an un
usual smell and undoubtedly was the
meanest IJquor evermanuf actured. It
Is- thought that th (liquor, affected
Mitchell's brain 'producing temporary
insanity forin a ;twlnkling;ot an eye
he became vunmanageable from no ap
parent cause whateyerif or fust before
he. was in the best of humor and had
been 'playing with a brother of his
-wife. Owing - to the ;.vood t character
heretofore' of ;the inah an4 believing;
that he was not .rpsppnsible for him
self on this; night and also through
sympathy foe his; loss and his -wife
MayorCox; let 'the prisoner off 'with tEa
cests.- 'i , . . :
I For Greater Ashevllle,
r Asheille, Special.j-In accordance
with instruction of the board of al
dermen City Attorney -Bourne has
presented to 'that! body a lbill to the
State Legislature the object of which
is to change the boundaries of Ashe- .
ville sovas to make of this city a
Greater Asheville. The suburban towns
to be incorporated in the greater city .
are Rampth, Kenilwprth, Victoria and
Montford, thus making the corporate
limits, of Ashevilie some five miles
fromlnorth' to souths and three .east tc
West .The ordinance, 'was discussed
brfefi and-the- board decided to leave ,
the .matter open for further y discus
sion. The bill when, brought up in the
Lisiatrfre. wrtl 'bevbitterly fought by
Vne 'pecrple' residing-- in ..Victoria and
Rambuflu.'im.dMt i&.aid that every re-
ourcfilbeehausted in. order tode-.
Seat th&ma&ur'$n Victoria esoecially. .
wherenxjt. dnW Mt. Van'derbilt, but
other .wealthy -'gcfMuem en own a: large .
' amount of " valuable property, the in
creased taxes accuiring to Asheville
would be enormous. In the boundaries
of -th e propose'd 'limits is situated the
handsome Kenil worth Inn.
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". ' ; Death of Dr. Norman. '
Rev. W. C. Norman, D. D., one of the
most prominent and "powerful preach-
rs cf-the North Carolina Conference,
m. is. cnurcn, souxn, died at Wilming
ton Saturday night while attending
th,e annual conference. Drl Norman has
served most of, the, leading charges in
the State. He wa3 interred Tuesday;
at Lexington.. ,
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