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-aphic Stories of Battles on
Land and Sea Are Gleaned
by the War Corres-.
pondents.
IRTILLERY IS USED
I WITH DEADLY EFFECT
Mtish Say German Regiments
Were Decimated in Fierce
Rushes at Mons Na
val Battles.
London, ' Sept. 1. The following
itoryof the fighting near Mons was
gold to an Express reporter by one
lot the British wounded: .
f "We had left the shelter of a little
jforest and opened out, supported by
the north country regiment. Our
(colonel warned us that the German
infantry was advancing.
I "We had hardly extended our-
"selves prone along the grass when
batches of and green were seen
on the sky line, and soon battalions
of the enemy were made out follow
ing each other at regular Intervals.
Our batteries let rip and gouged holes
in them. Then the c-der was given to
Jfix bayonets. Before the enemy ar-
rived, the artillery fire had Increased
until it was an Inferno. German avla-
Jrors were directing their guns. The
German cavalry got around behind
us and charged right up to the guns.
Very few of the Germans escaped,
however, for whole platoons rushed to
the rescue emptying their magazines
as they ran. A moment later the Ger
mans were on us from the front. We
let them come until their breast rose
above the neighboring hillock and
then decimated them. They fell back
in confusion and dropped to ' the
ground.
"Another line came, which we
trented tne same way. Scores of ma
chine Runs were turned on us, how
ever, and wo were ordered to prepare
to eharpp. On the word of command
we sprang from the grass, as one man
and with yell after yell, charged the
advancing Prussians. Ae we neared
their ranks we fired Indiscriminately
and only a few remained to crow
bayonets with us. The remainder
rushed oft and were shot In the back
as they went. They left more than
half their regiment on the field In
killed and wounded."
Germans Entrapped.
London, Sept. 1. A wounded sol
dier in the hospital at Boulogne told
the Kxpress correspondent of a trick
learned in the Boer war which work
ed very well with the Germans: The
story is: .
"The Germans, before sending
their infantry against our lines, open
ed a hot artillery fire. Our artillery
replied at first warmly and then gun
after pun of the British artillery went
silent.
" 'What's up now,' I asked a com
rade. There were a few minutes more
of artillery firing from the Germans
and then their Infantry came on and
"lld formation. We received them
with rifle fire. Still they came on and
still we mowed them down. They
were getting closer and we could
Tlainly see the dense mass's moving.
Then suddenly the whole of our ar
tillery opened fire.
"Vou see they had not been
silenced at all, and It was a trick 'to
draw tho Germans on. They went
oown In whole fields, for our guns
got them In open ground and of
course they soon had enough. It was
impossible for those behind to come
past the dead."
The Naval Battle.
London, Sept. 1. The Harwich
correspondent of the Telegraph. giv.
In Interviews with wounded sailors,
Peaks of the plucky way In the bat
" in which the English gunners
handled shells. Many shells, It is un-
uerstood, did not burst.
More than five shells hit the
holler of the Cuxhaven," he quotes
one sailor as saying, "and If one had
burst It would have been all up with
t5e ship."
"What did you do with them?" was
asked.
' 'Oh, just shied them overboard.
There was no room for such rubbish
aboard our yacht,' was the reply.
'"The Germans also showed consid
erable grit. It is declared. As one of
the cruisers was going down with
decks aflame and mast shot away, tho
only man left In the forecastle hoist
ed the flag and went down with the
ship.
"Proof that some of the Germans
were shot by their own officers." the
correspondent says. "Is given by a
wounded German landed at Bhotley
who has seven revolver wound's In
lONGJFUGEES
Many Pay High for Passage
on Italian Steamer Ryn
dam Crowded.
New Tork, Sept 1. The Italian
steamer Princlpessa Mafalda, char
tered by John E. Jones, American
consul at Genoa at a cost of S 184,000
reached New York today with 288
wealthy Americana aboard. Some of
them paid $7,000 for a cabin; none
paid less than J 100 and the average
cost was $500. The presence of emp
ty cabins that would have accommo
dated 200 passengers was explained
by the statement that although there
were many Americans In Italy who
wanted to return home were unwill
ing to pay the fares demanded.
sfReachlng port at almost the same
hour as the Princlpessa Mafalda, was
the Holland-American liner Ryndam
with 1,286 passengers. The Ryndam
accommodations were , choked, with
refugees. Scores of them were prac
tically without funds and twenty-seven
were absolutely destitute.
An option on the Princlpessa Ma
falda was obtained In the name of the
United States government by Mr.
Jones In Italy. When the option ex
pired Mr.. Jones had not received
authority from the state department
at Washington to pledge payment for
the ship's passage by the government
and a party of Americans paid the
$184,000 demanded. The vessel's-owners
refitted the ship to suit the pas
sengers. What had been the steerage
was remodeled with cabins. The liner
sailed from Genoa August 22. Except
at Gibraltar no warships were sight
ed. When the vessel was two days
out two Italian boys were found. The
stowaways said ' they had left home
to escape service in the army.
The Ryndam's passengers told the
usual tale of hardships In Europe and
aboard ship, after sailing. Many slept
at night on the decks.
Mrs. Benjamin -Harrison, widow of
the former president was one of the
Ryndam's passengers.
Drpew lUilew m eattie iar.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1. The
American liner Merlon, flying the Brit
ish flag, arrived today from Liverpool
with 448 passengers. . .
Dr. Daniel Longaker. of Philadel
phia, confirmed the cable story that
Chauncey M. Depew rode In a cattle
car In France. Dr. Longaker .was a
passenger on the same train. Mr. De
pew sat on a keg part of the time ana
also sat in an open doorway wUh his
feet hanging out. In a pouring rain.
Officers of the ship saM it did not
appear to them that there was a great
rush from Europe as tbene was lots of
room for more pasensgers at the reg
ular fare.,
FOOD SHORT IN BELGIUM;
FAMINE PRICES PREVAIL
London, Sept. 1. A Belgian bus!
nets man Just arrived In London, says
food Is already scarce In Belgium.
"Only about one peroon In 100 can
afford eggs and milk, he said
"People who are rich enough to have
milk twice weekly are considered
very lucky. The Germans have direct
ed the suburb of St. Gillies to supply
the military 400 bottles of wine dally.
Brussels proper has to contribute
dally 70,000 pounds of bread while
the suburb of Auderghelm supplies
40,000 pounds of meat."
BUTTE AWAITS TROOPS
TO QUELL MINE RIOTS
Butte, M6nt., Sept. 1, The people of
Butte anxiously awaited, today, word
as to when Governor Stewart would
send state troops to put down miners'
riots here. Leaders of miners were
quoted as saying that If militia were
sent here they would revenge them
selves on business men and leave the
city In ashes.
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AUSTRIANS CRUSHED
WITH HEAVY LOSSES
Russians Inflict Great Defeat on Their
Foes in Galicia Say the Dispatches
From Italy and Russia.
GERMANS LEAVE BELGIUM
Rigid Censorship
Great Importance in Belgium and France'"
Lille Not Captured, France Asserts.
The absence of news con
cerning the progress of the
European war is today most
marked. Not since the early
days of August, when military
operations first took serious
form, has there been such a
dearth of intelligence, official
or otherwise. It is evident that
there is a concerted effort on
the part of both the English
and the French authorities to
keep the world at large in ab
solute ignorance of what is
transpiring in northern France.
No official statements have
been forwarded from London,
Paris or Berlin. The veil of
secrecy may be taken as an in
dication that events of import
ance are transpiring. A simi
lar silence was observed dur
ing the fighting around Mons,
Cambrai and Lecateau last
week. The latest official re
port on the situation north of
Paris was issued last night. It
said tne rrencn leit, owing
to the progress of the German
right wing, had been forced to
"make a new retirement."
Dieppe say a great battle has
ment the French embassy in
London today said: ,
"The Anglo-French army
corps have had to give ground
but nowhere have they been
broken through." .
The fighting today is thought
to be centered around La Fere,
a strongly fortified French po
sition on the river Oise,' seventy-five
miles northeast of Paris.
The news dispatches from
Dieppe says a great battle has
been fought at Croisilles and
probably is still in progress. No
details are given nor has this
report been received from any
other source. Croisilles is
southeast of Cailies in the de
partment of Pais de Cailies.
London, Sept. 1. A dispatch
to Reuters from Antwerp
gives the latest official com
munication issued there. It
says the situation throughout
the country is stationary. The
Germans have evacuated Aer
shot and railway communica
tion has been restored over the
greater part of the Campine
country.
"Malines was bombarded for
an hour, although , the town
was not occupied by Belgian
troops. This was a fresh
IN INCREASING
Today Believed to
crime against the civil popula
tion." A dispatch to the Post from
Antwerp : says the Germans
have evacuated Antwerp, pre
sumably as part of their scheme
for the withdrawal of unnec
essary troops who will be used
to replace those taken, for ser
vice for Russia. Part of the
forces in Limburg also have
been withdrawn.
London, Sept. 1 . The
Times' correspondent at Diep
pe, sends the following:
"A fierce battle has been
fought at Croiceles and probab
ly is still in progress. The
French claim a success toward
Guise but south of it and all
Saturday, there was heavy
fighting.
"On the left I know cannon
ading was still going on at
noon Saturday and at 5 o'clock
&unaay , a iortin cation was
taken by the Germans at. Am
iens." London, Sept. 1. (11:30 a
in.) A French minister today
declares there are no Germans
at Lille, Roubaix or Tourco
The group of towns re
ferred to are all within 20
miles of the Belgian frontier,
Dispatches last week said
they had been occupied by the
Germans.
London, Sept. 1. The An
glo-French army corps have
had to give ground but no
where have they been broken
through, is the statement giv
en out at the French embassr
in London today. This an
nouncement is a summary of
that part of the official com
munication of the French war
office referring to the German
attack on the French left
wing, made public in . Paris
last night.
London, Sept. 1. The cor
respondent of the Express tele
graphing , from The Hague
says:
"There is the greatest alarm
in Berlin because of the ad
vance of the Russians. The
news that the emperor has left
headquarters and advanced to
the Russian front indicates to
those in the capital that the,
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situation is serious. It is said
the Russians are preparing to
avenge Louvain by treating
Berlin as the Germans treated
that city. Many who can get
away are going to Denmark,
Norway and Switzerland. '
London, Sept. 1. Today is
the anniversary of Sedan and
it is fully expected the German
army in France will make
supreme effort to celebrate the
day in some strikingly effect
ive manner. Fighting has been
resumed all along the front, ac
cording to the official French
account, which admits the Ger
man right wing continues its
advance. No other details
have yet come through and it
is unknown whether the Brit
ish have been re-engaged.
According to the Paris
Temps the French by their su
perior communicative lines are
constantly able to bring up re
inforcements so as to prolong
the struggle indefinitely and
wear the enemy down if they
do not beat him.
From the eastern theater of
war accounts are conflicting.
From St. Petersburg numerous
victories are claimed. On the
other hand Berlin, which is
beginning to issue more news
of the war, claims victories
of the Austrians over the Rus
sians. Austrians Defeated.
London, Sept. 1. A dispatch to the
Reutcr Telegraph company from
tcuinjo says that the Austrians on
Sunday rc-attacked Mount Lovclien
and Uudua. The Montenegrin posi
tions were being seriously damaged
when the English and French fleet
put In a timely appearance, silenced
the batteries and forced the Austrian
ships to beat a hasty retreat.
The Montenegrins Immediately 1e
gan a counter attack on the Austrians
and repulsed them. They killed 50
men and took many prisoners and
two pieces of artillery.
Bomb Do Little Damage.
London, Sept. 1. A dispatch to the
Reuter Telegraph company from
Parts says when the bomb fell yes
terday In the Porte Ste. Marie quarter
from a German aeroplane the people
In the vicinity believing It to be due
to an explosion of gas rushed from all
sides. A fire brigade arrived prompt
ly, as did the mayor, the commissary
of police and representatives of the
French -aviation service. As a matter
of fact Parisians show no disposition
to be unduly .disturbed by these bomb
Incident which ere generally re
garded as a rather harmless effort on
the part of German aviators to create
s panic.
Three Spies Arrested.
I Paris, Sept. 1. Three German spies
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FIRE ON
IMPERILS MANY
ATTEMP TO DITCH
TROOP TRAIN FAILS
Canadian Authorities Seek
Wreckers Who Operated
East of Montreal.
Valcartler, Que., Sept. 1. An un
successful attempt to wreck a troop
train on the Canadian northern rail
road ninety miles east of Montreal
was made early Sunday ' morning,
according to announcement made here
today by Lieutenant Creelman, com
mander of the 21st battery of Mon
treal.
Running more than 40 miles an
hour, the train brushed aside an Iron
rail that had been placed across the
tracks. No damage was done.
The field hospitals have had much
to do since the arrival of the artillery
as many of the troopers, unused to
horses have been Injured by the ani
mals kicking or stepping on them.
FOB hNJNVESTIGnTlDM
Asheville Physicians Receive
Copies of Special Report
on Trachoma.
Physicians of Asheville and Bun
combe county and others interested
yesterday afternoon received from the
North Carolina State board of Health
at Raleigh, copies of the government
report on the investigation of tracho
ma, a rare disease .a North Carolina,
thirty-five cases being found. The re
port which is of great interest follows:
"Tho United States Public Health
service sent an expert, Dr. A. D. Fos
ter, Into North and South Carolina
last fall to Investigate the extent and
source of tracoma, a disease of ths
eyes. This expert worked all winter
and well Into spring visiting some
seventy-one white schools and thirteen
colored schools in North Carolina. He
examined over 12,000 pupils. Only
thirty-three cases of the disease were
found In North Carolina and one case
In South Carolina.
"Of the thirty-three cases found in
North Carolina, eighteen were found
among 207 pupils examined at the
Indian school at Cherokee, Swain
county. The heaviest Infection among
the white was in Caldwell county while
lighter Infections were found In Cher
okee and Mitchell counties. Only one
negro was found to have trachoma.
That case was one of the pupils at tht
State School for the Blind, at Raleigh.
This case came from Wilson.
Truchoina Is a disease of the eyes
and eyelids. It is usually contracted
by i8ing the same towel, soap or wash
basin used by a person having tracho
ma. The disease Is rather prevalent
among certain foreigner who come to
this country. Recently it has been
found to be quite prevalent in the
mountainous parts of Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia,
Hence the Investigation in North and
South Carolina.
"Dr. Foster's conclusions regarding
trachoma are:
"First. That It exists to some extent
In several Isolated mountainous sec
lions of North Carolina.
"Two. That only In the Cherokee
Indian school had measures been
taken to determine the presence of
the disease and control Its spread.
Three. That foreign Immigration
played little or no part in Introducing
trachoma here.
"Four. That the negro la practically
free from the disease.
"Five. That present cases should
be treated to prevent further spread of
the disease."
SAYS GERMANS SHARED
HISTORIC STRUCTURE
London, Aug. 81. (3:65 p. m.) An
Oxford undergraduate has arrived In
London after a trip through Louvain.
He says the Hotel Devllle, the beauti
ful fifteenth century structure has not
been damaged by the Germans. In
fact they took precautions to preserve
it and officers said It was their Inten
tion to save the building. The cathe
dral, however, he said, was not allowed
to go scot free as all the windows were
knocked in.
BOAT
Captain Races Burning Ex
cursion Steamer to Shore
Barely in Time to Save
Lives of Hundreds. .
PASSENGERS SHAKEN "
AS SHIP HITS PIER
None Fatally Injured, Howev.
er, as Result of Thrilling
Experience on Lake
Property Lost.
Chicago, Sept. 1. The lives of 300
passengers on the excursion boat City
of Chicago, which caught fire about
three miles oft this coast at an early
hour this morning, were saved by
Captain Bjork. His wireless falling,
Captain Bjork ordered the engines
full speed ahead and a short time
later the big steamer with a capacity
of 2,600 passengers sunk with her
bow Into the government pier, wedg
ed fast. Through the ordeal the offi
cers and crew stuck to their posts,
though the stokers and enginemen
were choking from smoke from the
flames bursting through the upper
works. To avoid panic, the passengers,
nearly all women and children, who
were asleep In their cabins, were not
notified to come on deck until the
pier was in sight through the mist.
The flames were subdued after a hard
fight by fire tugs aided by a steam
pump from the excursion boat. The
steamer lowered a little owing to the
water she had accumulated In her
hold, but her prow remained wedged
In the pier.
Most bf the passengers were thrown
from their feet when the boat struck
the pier and some of them fell Into
the water,, but so far as la known,
none of them was seriously hurt.
The passengers were huddled on
the breakwater and later were tak
en ashore on tugs and In other excur
sion boats. One nian who was taken
from the water said the passengers
had not been awakened until a few
minutes before the boat sank. He had
been asleep in his berth he said, and
woke up only when the smoke be
came almost overpowering.
The City of Chicago belonged to
the Graham and Morton Transporta
tion company and had been in use
since 1890 as an excursion boat. She
left Benton harbor late last night for
Chicago.
The fire, which It Is believed, start
ed In the galley, was discovered when
about three miles off the Illinois
shore. Captain Bjork directed that the
ship be rushed for the shore. It struck
the pier so hard that much of the
piling was torn down and the plaster
was knocked from a dwelling on the
structure.
The passengers, nil of whom had
been ordered aft by Captain Bjork,
were fiwed about, many of them be
ing thrown Into the water.
Cnptaln Carlnnd of the life savin
station took charpre of the rescue
work. ITe and Captain Bjork said the
passengers acted with remarkable
coolness. Women and children were
given the first opportunity to reach,
tho pier. Stationing himself at the
side of the boat. Captain Bjork
shouted that not a man was to leave
the boat until the women and child
ren were safe. Most of the passengers,,
rushed to the upper deck when thejf
learned of the fire and most of them
were clad only In their night gar
ments when they left the boat. No ef
fort was made to save personal ef
fects. The City of Chicago was a side
wheeler 250 feet long with a gross
tonnage of 1,439.
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