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: ': . d Vt" .- A - 1 1 TBM 0AZBTTE-HBW8 BAB TBB MOST SXPENBIYB ABBOCIATMO PBBBM IBM VICB IS TBt CASOLWAB. ' , ; , Weather Forecast FAIR AXD COI.DFU. VOLUME XVIII. NO. 302 k ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY, 30, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS V mm KbS t 49 DIE AS LINER, HIT BY STEAMER IS SUNK AT SEA The Monroe Rammed By The Nantucket In A Dense Fog O f f Hog Island. 85 ARE SAVED BY t BOATS OF STEAMER Stricken Ship I Almost Instantly -Dense I Fog Prevents Ef feet- we Rescue Work. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 30 Forty seven persons lost their lives in the icy waters of the Atlan tic at 2 o'clock 'this morning1, when, the Old Dominion liner Monroe was : rammed . amid ships, practically cut in two and sunk within 10 minutes, 25 miles southeast of Hog island by the Merchants and Miners steamer Nantucket. 1 The 47 : lost comprised 23 passengers and 24 members of the crew, as yet unidentified, according to official wireless reports to the Old Dominion line here. Thirty passengers and 55 of the crew were saved., Captain Johnson of the sunk en Monroe and all his officers but one were among the saved. The lost officer was second en gineer (lately. : Eighty five survivors picked from the sea and huddled on the Nantucket which was pro ceeding slowly with a crumpl ed bow toward Norfolk today are the only ones who know all the story of how the two big ships, picking their way through a blanket of fog one bound north , and the other bound south crashed near the Winter Quarter , shoal light ship. Fragment of the wreck narrative that reached here by wireless told how the Nantruket, backed off. low ered boats and began sweeping the misty eea with her searchlights, then within ten minutes the Monroe, her passengers pitched out of bertha In night clothes, went down. In the swirling vortex f the sinking ship, men shouted and women screamed, through the mist The Mon roe went down so quickly that there was little time for launching boats and It Is believed that the only ones saved were those picked up at once by the Nantucket A dense fog that enveloped the sea and the panic that followed the col lision made rescue work hazardous. With water pouring Into the doomed liner Monroe, her frightened passen gers rushed to the decks and groped helplessly about In the dense fog. Many hurled themselves overboard. The Nantucket's boats had been low ered almost Immediately after the col lision and, guldod by the cries of the Monroe's passengers and the erew who had taken the desperate chanc of leaping Into the ley sen, thsy pressed the work of rescue. Hearth llglits (lint wt-re aimed through the wall of fog were of feeble help. Meanwhile the wireless began hlns ln out Its call for aid. The revenue cuiter Onondaga, cruising off the Virginia capes, heard sml under forced draft sped north ward. From her Norfolk berth the recking tug I. J. Merrill soon ws nndry wsy, Tho Old Dominion liner llemlllon, not fur from where the IKuiue Wini down, Mas headed for Goes Down the Nantucket and other ships turned their prows to the rescue,. . ; WHt of Dead. V The following' is a list of passen gers who perished on the Monroe: BOLTON, MRS. WL., Newark. N. CLAUSEN, W. C, Mllwa'ukeeTwis. CURDTS, Lientenant L. , 15,, United States army. ' 1 DAVIS, P, C, Brooklyn., EDWAItD, J. United States navy. GORMAN, Ed, Philadelphia, Pa. . GIBSON, Mrs. D. New York. HASKELL, J.. Cortlandt, N." Y; HAVILAND. Miss Macarla Theatri cal company: INGRAM, W. H., Sumter. S. C. JOLLEFF, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company. LEWIS, , Mr. Macarla Theatrical company. LYON8, E. P., New York. MARLOW, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company. OKAKAMATO, J. Japanese. POOLE; C. W. and wife,' Gray. Va. RAY. J. F. and wife, New York. SEVILLE, Miss, Macarla Theatrical company, ' !. SNYDER, Miss New York. , VERNON, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company. WAGNER, O., United States marine corps. WILLIAMSON, G., New Torn. MRS THOMAS R. HARRINGTON, died after rescue. . No Chance for Tliclr Uvea. The lost had not a chanco for their lives. In the heavy fog that lay like a blanket over the sea, the Monroe was picking her way northward. She had left Norfolk at 7:40 last night and at the time of the crash there were on deck only, those whose duty kept them at their station. The pas sengers were asleep In their state rooms, except for those kept awake by the siren, which blared its warning through the dense mist. Bound for Norfolk from Boston, the Nantucket presented a similar condition. On her decks there were only those whose duty kept them on watch. On her bridge was Captain Berry. On tho bridge of the Monroe, was Captain Johnson. Thus, with the denso fog shutting them In, their passengers asleep In their state rooms and most of tholr crews below decks, the two steamers had drawn together during the night until the crash. The shock of the collision galvan ized Into Instant activity the two sleeping ships. From their sleep pas gongers and crews were awakened and rushed to the decks, groping their way through a wall of fog that brpught panlo and despair to men and women. They could not see where to grope their way to boats that wars useless. The Monroe was sinking like a shot. . rtlnks.ln Ten Minutes. Ten minutes from the time when the Merchants and Miners boat and the Old Dominion liner collided, the Monroe had disappeared beneath he waves. There had not been time to launch lifeboats. Not time enough to even bring a semblaxe of order out of disorder, although the captain and his officers. In that brief space be tween the crunch of stool and the last plunge of the Monroe had kept cool heads and had started their weU or dered routine for lowering boats. On board the Nantucket no time was lost In the work of rescue. The Merchants and Miners boat staggered like a living thing from the taping hole In her bow. Unoertain ts to the fate of his own ship, Captain Kerry ordered out his lifeboats. Man ned by men undaunted, In the swlrtln mist that shut them from the vlmr of their ship as ioun as they had. touchclj the water, these little craft began a task that seemed almost hopeless, that of picking up, generally one at a time, the Monroe's people. ; Rescue Work. The Nantucket's searchlight plaved in every direction, and by this means many of those saved were located; others shouted to attract the attention of the rescue boats. . ' The shock ten minutes from eleap to struggle in the cold sea and the exposure proved a grave trial to many of those saved. Wireless message re port a number In serious condition. -. And so. the rescue' work" went on until the playing searchlight cauld pick up no more forms in the water and the shouts of the crews In the Nantucket's small boats brought no answering shouts from the sea. Then the gaping prow was turned south for Norfolk. Convoyed by the Old Dominion liner Hamilton at 7 o'clock this morning the Nantucket Is proceeding: slowly for this port. The Onondaga is ex pected to reach them at about 8 o'clock, and it is hoped that the ships will reach port this afternoon. The Monroe is the. first steamer lost by the -Old Dominion line since the half a century It has been in operation. The steamer was valued at approxi mately 1600,000 and her cargo us much more, making the total loss, ex clusive of lives, about $1,000,000. Monroe's Passenger list. Mrs, T. J. Woods, the only Norfolk person on the passenger list of the Monroe left on the Ill-fated steamer last night for New York to be with her dying husband. Mrs. woods is among the rescued. She is ignorant of the fact that her husband had died in New York last night. Mrs. Woods is a sister of Miss Anna G. Concannon. of U07 Moran avenue, Norfolk. The passenger : list of , the Monroe follows, but has not fceen, checked against the list of survivors en rescue Vessels. Balton," Mrs: W;'t'.":"'N'ewark J., Brown, E. G.. New York, N. Y Budwtg, H.,- New York, Caluseh, W. C, Milwaukee, Wis., Curdts, Lieu-tenant L. B., United States army, Davis, F. C, Brooklyn, N. Y., Davids, C. H., New York, N, Y., Edwards, J. United States navy,- Flanagan, R., B.-ooklyn, N. Y., Gorman Ed, Phila delphia, Pa., Gibson Mrs. D., New York. Haskell, J., Cortlandt, New York, Hamburger, E.( New ; York, Haviland, Miss, Macarla Theatrical company, Harrington, T. R. and wife Brldgtport, Conn., Ingram, W. II., Sumter, 8. C, Jelleff, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company, Lewis, Mr. Maca rla Theatrical company, Lyons, E. P. New York, McNair. A. F. Buffalo, N. Y., 'Montgomery, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company, Marlow, Mr. Ma carla Theatrical company, Moore, Mr., Macarla Theatrical company, Maun, Mr Macarla Theatrical company, Mc- Combs, Miss Macarla Theatrical com pany, Nylan, C. New York, N. Y., Newby, E. J., United States navy, Okakamato, J., Japanese, O'Connell, James, Washington, D. C Poole, C. W., and wife. Gray, Va., Ray, J. F. and wife New York, N. Y., Rollins, Charles and wife, Lawrencevilie, Va., Seville, Miss, Macarla Theatrical com pany, Snyder, W., New York, N. Y., TUlett, Mr. Macarla Theatrical com pany, Vernon, Mr. Macarla Theatrical company, Van Winkle, R., Nutley, N. J., Woods, Mrs. T. J., Norfolk, Va, Wegner, O., United States marine corps, Williamson, G., New York, N. Y., Williamson, J.. New York, N. Y.. Williamson, G., New York, N. Y. Steerage. Gilbert, J., New York, Italian; New York, N. Y., Russian, New York, N. Y Smith, Zack C, New York, N. Y. Bolen, M., New York, N. Y., Roper, C. New York, N. Y., Scott. Louise, New York, N. J., Wilson, I., New York, N. Y. Makes list of Rescued. Captain E. E. Johnson, command ing tho Monroe, was among those picked up from the water by one of the Nantucket's crew. Captain John son aboard the Nantucket now being convoyed In, began as quickly as pos sible to make up a list of the Mon roe's rescued, and this Is being sent In by wireless to Norfolk. Great difficulty was had In getting Information of the disaster. The wire less report of the accident first sent out brought many calls from all quar ters for Information, and so confusing was the condition that It was with the greatest difficulty that the wireless operator from the Nantucket was able to give official reports. The Monroe was ' commanded by Captain Johnson, was of 4,704 gross and 1,1(4 net tonnage; 145. t feet long, 46.1 beam and carried a crew of 14 men. She was built In 180J at Newport Newa The Nantucket, commanded by Captain Berry, la of 1,6 I gross and 1,747 net tonnage, 174 feet long, 4 feet beam, and carries a orew of 40 men. She was built In 118 at Wil mington, Pel. Theatrical Company. New York, Jan. 10. The Macarla Theatrical company, six of whose member perished in the Monroe dis aster, opened the season recently at Newport News, Va. The dramatist was Charles M. Jelleff of Baltimore who was among those who met death. The Miss Haviland was leading lady of thi production end a Sow York girt The ' Ho Mid me that he bell. ved in Uod Inula, has been promoted to the su Continued: on Fog, Muc). J and Christ and immortality." 1 perlntcndcm v. effective February J. RAiincmii of TREATIES VOTED Foreign Relations Committe' Recommends General Arb tration Agreements " With Nations. GftEAT BRITTAIN AND JAPAN ARE INCLUDE!) There Are Twenty-Five in All Which Have Been Pending ',. Since" Last Summer. Two Oppose, Washington, -Jan. 80. The. senate foreign relations committee today vot ed to recommend Immediate rattflca tlonof general arbitration treaties with Great Britain, Japan and: other na tions! twenty-five treaties in 'all. These have been pending for re-ratification since last summer.' The vote In favor of the treaties was lit to 2, with four senators . ab sent, Senators O'Gorman, . democrat and William Alden Smith, republican, voting in the negative. ' , Affirmative votes Were cast by Sena tors Bacon, Stone, Shively, Hitchcock, Williams, Swanson, '- Pomerene nnd Smith, of Aristona, democrats; Lodge, Root and McCumber, republicans. The committee took tip- thi treaties' immediately after the conference w;th President Wilson last Monday night. The treaty with GreatSHritaln was held up. last summer because, of fear that Its ratiticatlon woum force aroi- tration over the section of th-j Panama canal act exempting Amitltan .coast wise vessels front tolls. ; .' President Wilson's at!Stri"e on this that this provision is-a violation of the Hay-Pauncefota treaty anJ con gress intends either. to repeal . the clause or suspend its operation pend ing negotiations. The California alien Ian 1 question was involved in the Japanese irmly, but the administration view that this controversy practically Is at an end settled the minds of the majority ef the committee insofar as the Kenerul arbitration treaty . was con jurned. TRUST LEGISLATION START Information on General Sub jects Will Be Sought From Witnesses. Washington, Jan. 30. Hearings on proposed trust legislation, embracing President Wilson's recommendations for trust reform, were Inaugurated to day by the house committee on Inter state and foreign commerce. Chair man Adamson said Information would be sought from witnesses on general subjects. Including the proposed rail ways securities bill and other phases of the trust question over which his comml-.tee will have jurisdiction. Commissioner Davles of the bureau of corporations; Representative Clay ton, chairman of the judiciary com mittee; which will soon hold hearings on the trust' bills coming undor Its jurisdiction, and Louis X. Brandeis of Boston had requested to be heard to day. Chairman Adamson explained that the draft of the trade commission bill was only tentative and that the com mittee probably would change Its present form materially ' before It finally passed Judgment Hundreds of letters from railroad representatives, business men, manu facturers and others Interested ex pressing a desire to be. heard by the committee have been received and a long list of witnesses has been pre pared. BODY OF SEN. CULLOM SENT TO SPRINGFIELD Washington, Jan. SO. After funeral service at his home here the body of former Henatur Shelby M. Cdllum was sen$ to Kprlnglleld, III., yesterday. Dr. Charles Wood, a Payne clergy man and a 'close friend of the former senator. Mid how Mr. I'ulliim had changed his belief as to eternity after writing his memoirs. The former senator concluded that work with an expression of doubt that he had found anything In the scriptures to warrant belief In a hereafter. ' "In the last few months his fcellna nhsnged completely," said Dr. Wood, HEARING IBUTIES F,i CHARGED .cross Attorney Testifies Judge Speer Appointed a Recever Without Usual "Procedure. TELLS OF HEYWARD, ISAACS PARTNERSHIP And Of Bankruptchy Cases in South Georgia Which Appeared to Be ' ' "Unjustified." Savannah, Ga., Jan. 30. W. W. Lambdln, a well known attorney of Waycross, Ga., was the first witness called today before the congressional committee investiagtine the charges of official misconduct against Federal Judge Emory Speer. The witness was asked by Chairman Webb of the con gressional committee, to give an ac count of the bankruptcy proceedings against the Beach Manufacturing company of Eaxley, Ga. Mr. Lambdin was an attorney in this case. The witness testified that early In 1913, Max Isaacs resigned as referee in bankruptcy at Brunswick, Ga., and shortly, afterward the partnership of Isaacs and Heyward was announced Mr. Lambdin called attention to the fact that Heyward was a son-in-law of Judge Speer. . In rapid succession, the witness continued, "three large concerns were thrown into bankruptcy, namely the Beach Manufacturing company, the L. Carter company and the Gray Lumber company. While local counsel were associated in these cases, Isaac and Heyward always took the lead they had the favor of Judge Speer. VThese bankruptcy cases, which op peared to be unjustified, threw a great shock Into the commercial world of south Georgia and business general ly became apprehensive." The witness declared that Judge Speer appointed a receiver for the Beach company without going tnrough tho usual procedure, RT. SOITSDISS0LVED Missouri Atty- General May Proceed With Action to Recover Millions. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. Injunc- lions against John T. Barker, attorney general of Missouri, preventing him from proceeding with suits to recover i $24,000,000 excess freight and pas-1 scnger charges- made by railroads; while the Missouri rate cases were In J litigation, were dissolved today in an ! opinion by federal Judge Smith Mc- Pherson. The original Injunction brought by; railroads to prevent enforcement ofj Missouri's two cent passenger- and1 maximum freight rate laws also was. dismissed, In accordance with the re- j cent deaision of the VnUed States Su- preme court upholding the laws. In ; addition the court held the $10,300 bond put up by each railroad In 1905 . when tho state .rate laws were enjoin- ed haa no reference to those persons who have paid excess rates or passen- j ger fares and they can recover what-1 ever Is due them. APPLICATION MADE TO FORECLOSE ON WABASH St. Louis, Mo., Jan. SO. Applica tion for dissolution of the receivership of the Wabash railroad and or a de cree ot foreclosure was made here yesterday to Federal Judge Adams, representing the bond holders, the j Equitable Trust company, of New York, trustee, and the receivers. Judge Adams took the application under advisement. The foreclosure. If ordered, would be under a mortgage of $41,921,000 given to secure Issues of refunding and equipment bonds. The attorneys said all parties In terested were satisfied with the re ceiver's management. They explained that the tentative decree took Into consideration the reorganisation of tho Wabash and the securities tlmt would have to be issued after the property Is sold to SHllsfy the mort gage. King Promoted. I Washington. Jan. . Edward P. King, assistant division superintend, ent of the mllvvnv mull urvi,.. ., n. GOMPERS DRUNK, DUNCAN TO Bill Passed Prescribing Wor ship of Confucius and Heaven by President. Peking, Chlnai, Jan. 30. A bill pre scribing the worship of Heaven and of Confucius by the president of the Chinese republic has been passed by the administrative council whflch took the place of the Chinese parlia ment recently, dissolved1 by President Yuan' Shi-Kai. The measure was sub mitted to the council by Yuan Shl-Kal himself. It Is understood that the president's idea is to set an example to the Chinese nation which he thinks needs the moral building influence of re ligion. .The president will worship at the temple of Confucius and at the temple of Heaven annually, In the same way as the , Manchu emperors did but without wearing the diadem. Question of introduction of a state re ligion has created controversy in China, Christian missionaries of all sects opposing such a step. For sev eral months a Confucian revival move ment has been In evidence and a league was formed by representatives in China, not only of Christianity but of Mohammedanism, Taoism and Buddhism to oppose the adoption of a state religion. As was contemplated when Yuan Shi-Kal dissolved' parliament, the ad ministrative council adopts all the measures proposed by Yuan Shi Kal, who exercises practically entire con trol., , , Occasions Surprise. Washington, Jan. 29. As the Chi nese provisional constitution which Yuan Shi Kai haa sworn to uphold provides that "citizens shall have free flow tf,tllglon'7offlc1a1g-?tre.,''W'rc' somewhat surprised at the-actloa ef the administrative council. : Religious freedom in . China, how ever, is guaranteed by treaties with at least a dozen world powers. Loses Bravado New York, Jan. 30. Angelo Syl- vestro, reputed leader of a black hand gang that terrorized the East side, lost all his bravado today and persuaded the court to postpone his sentence until he could see the dis trict attorney. It was reported today Sylvestro wanted to confess. The po locle believe that Sylvestro can give evidence that will enable them to catch other members of the gang re sponsible for nearly a hundred bomb explosions. ' mi There is no excuse for not knowing all about the Pana ma Canal when you get a book like this for 50c and six coupons. aCOUPONs Save it for, a Copy of- . ... - THE DAPMA.CANAT I JLFr.1 HitVin 41 lv Frederic Gazette-News, Colonel CoetKols says: Accurate and Dependable" 3a. HOW TO GET THIS BOOK On account of the education value and patriotic appeal of this book, The Gaiette-News has arranged with Mr. Haskln to distribute a limited edition among Its readors for the mere cost of production and handling. It Is bound In a heavy cloth. 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"LIAR, SLANDERER," lb REPLY OF GOMPERS Mr. Duncan Says Intoxication ; Took Place During Federa , ' tion Convention Held at ) .' , ! Seattle, '; Wash, -q Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 30. That! Samuel Gompers, president of the' American Federation of Labor was "gloriously drunk" at tlie Seattle con ventlon of the Federation was tho charge made by Duncan McDonald of Illinois at the convention of the United Mine Workers of America - today. During the prolonged cheers, "liar," ' "slandered" were hurled at McDonald by Gompers, who sat on the platform. "I am glad Mr. Gompers is here so I can say what I want to," said Mc Donald, in beginning his reply to tha speech made yesterday by Mr. 'Join, pers. "I said there were booze flffhl ers in charge of the American Federa tion of Labor, and I'll prove it. At the Seattle convention I had a room, with my wife at a hotel next to tho room reserved by the resolutions com mittee. The first Saturday nieht w could not sleep for the noise made 'y a bunch of drunks in the next room. "I appealed to the clerk of the hotel and the noise grew louder.' Then I went down to the hotel office ond the night manager called Jim Duncan on the telephone and told him thev would halve to get out of the room that they were disturbing all on the floar. .. "The noise grew fierce and I finally 'ftno'cRed 'W ifre'tfodr'tW tKfMKJrtm and was asked to come in and have . a drink. When the door was opened, there sat Sam Gompers at 'he head of the table gloriously drunk with . a bottle of booze in his hand." .. f The statement threw the conven tion into an uproar, and it was bom time before order was restored. Not Poor Man. Washington, Jan. 30. Instead ot dying a poor, man as his friends be lieved him to have been, the late Sen. ator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois et, an estate valued at more than $100, 000, it was learned here today. 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