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The Herald, 1907-02-22, Page 6OS I LOCUM— ELISIO Nthe th rllary of tihe Larclrrtroxt clisastdn vrit� tp: crzwcteci by the baud 0 of 47 Sal -V444.-.4: .3rni urea aaatd women, wino went ,tp+•,hear :death with smiles on tltoir, n4 anti ' bymns of praise upon thou saes, • When the two Terrible Struggle With Death in ley Waters --Sal- vationists Sang Hymns. Providence, R..1., despatch The steam. ]v opposite the smel estaek. 'F tried. to er Lerchmant, of the Joy Line, which. , set.fa re to the engineer mate, but the f collision lead lrrokeu off eemmimica left here at 8,30 last night - for few :tion vcitl[ the pilaf house. York, sank in the Sound three miles off 1 'After cutting into our vessel the 1 Watch Hill, R. 1., at 10.30 o'clock. last schooner• fell away and disappeared to ` night, a few minutes after she had been leer urd, I sent the quartermaster in collision with the two -masted schonn- below, and in a few minute he re- er Barry l(nowlton, bound for Eastport, or i]v,th Theat t officer uuhe steamer was filling Me., from Perth Amboy, N. J. The sui�:uu+ned to their st:ttinus, sand wl erew n Knowlton was beached on the Rhode J .• I e(avv that the Lar•chmont was settling land shore and all of her crew• escaped. 1. c•,derel all hands to prepare' to leave The Larehmont is believed to have ear- t.lre lap. When, I saw that everyone ried about 150 passengers and had a n ,u Making ready to escape as fast as crew of 30 men. Of these 200 souls the 7ossible, 1 went to my boat, Which was only survivors known so far number 10. hanging on the davits, and took into They landed at 131oek island after ex- it six of the crew and four passengers. perienees suck as the Sound. has seldom "When the steamer had settled al. known. most to the water's edge we cleared Most of them managed to reach the away, after we had made sure that island in two of the Larchmont's there were no passengers on hoard boats about daylight, and the others who had not been taken care of. After were picked up off a life raft b ya fish- our bort stropped into the water we ing schooner. Among these survivors remained in the immediate vicinity is the captain, George W. McKay, and until the steamer sank, and then we six of his crew. His boat was the first pulled away. The boat was a heavy to make the island, reaching there short- one, and we found it impossible to row ly after 6 o'clock this morning. So to• the windward. so we turned to the great were the sufferings of those in leeward and stirted for Block Island. , this boat that one man, a sailor, delib- The c'o1d was terrible. We struts', erately cut his throat, unable to endure Teri for hours and hours_, and the pain itwas thrown our frost-bitten hands and feet any longer. His bogy overboard. Bodies are being washed was almost unbearable. One of our ashore at many points along the Sound. mon' committee! ajseiei, became crazed, and Over thirty have come ashore on Block ting 13suicide in the boat the boat hiq throat. No one in boat Island. had strength enough to prevent him- .' There is nothing so far beyond these from doing so., • bodies constantly coming ashore to in- At 11 o'clock at night there were 17 dieate what 'has been the fate of the survivors of the wreck, all at Block 150 or more passengers yet unaccount- Island. There were air bodies on the ed for. It is the belief of the captain • island. that a large number got in the boats, but apparently he did not wait to see whether they did or not. Every boat had officers and crew as- signed to then in ease of accident. but even properly manned it seems doubtful whether or not they could have reached shore owing to the gale that was blow- ing, and evert worse, the intense cold. Stories of the Survivors. From the stories of the survivors it would seem that it was the cold more than anything else which made their experiences so harrowing, and which gives rise to doubts that many more have been saved. With the thermome- • ter within a degree of zero, so cold. in fact, that it made the water "smoke," as the sailors describe it, it was almost • impossible to work the oars and keep from freering. All of the bodies wash- ed ashore have been frozen stiff. Wo- men and little children were in these ;boats. The sea froze as it fell on them, the sailors and men pulling at the oars ' in many cases had to fall back be numbed, and it,.was only by.; the in- domitable will. of a few • of the men that the two boats ever reached Block I Island to tell the story of this tragedy of the Sound. The Block Island shore is about seven utiles from the scene of • the collision. The mainland was only three miles away, but it was impossible • to pull the boats in that direction be- cause of the north-west wind that was blowing.. Those who have reached the island say that all that could be done •was to run before the wind and try to keep the boats headed toward the is- land. That some of the boats, with crews benumbed and le: pless, may have drift- ed out to srtt .,; cine of the possibili- ties. Two diff a :"rsinns of the cause of the craSsiou ,;Hieb resulted in the sinking cf the -tearner and also of the schooner are given by the masters of the two verges. Capt. aleh.ay, of the Larchmont. Kays that it nae due to the schooner suddenly luffing, and that she appeared to be unmanageable. Those on the schooner sax that the Survivors on a Raft. A seiroorier picked up those on the life fait. They had had a more ter- rible eipericnee than those in the two boats. On the raft were seven persons alit e enc the body of another. Three of the eervivors were women. They luta ening to the raft., with the icy water 1t ,ui.hig ever there and. freezing their bodice- \\hen pic•ke d up they were fest :::ire, and have not been able to te:t their experientae. Three more were said to have rea.i'hed the island late this afternen oa another beat. Bodies Washed Ashore. Soon after the few survivors reached the island suint of the Larchnront's freight Uegan to drift ashore; and there were 31anny bodied, showing the extent of the disaster. After the two vessels emote together it appears • the Larehanont drifted to port and away from the schooner. She had her '.. her. bow tit'.. gall 'ti., CkittV irtits et e mY,eve .iqY i that the steamer was not as badly hurt as their versea was, they say, and• bent their efforts towards making laud. They finally beached her about a mile from the fife -staving station, where she lies in about 21) feet of water. Of the crew, corei, ting of the skipper and fire wren, not 0 Iran was lost. All of them were taken care of by the life- savers. This afternoon the captain told the following stores "\1 e left teeth Amboy on Thursday with a car•gu of coal, and got• tied up l.y iLe ice at City Island. 41'e did not leave there until Mantle.), morning. \4'e carne eiong at hued speed through the Sound. Last night after we got out of the Estee 1 went below, leaving 1 he deck in charge of the mate. We had a look -out tura ard unci a man named Jelneson ::t the wheel. the night nes a bcaa:tifu1 .:nt•. 1he stars were out, and it Was eery elcar. We had every, sail set, and v;erc going a little east ft north. While .1 wae below 1 heard the mate say surf .thing about the lights laarchunont tried to ern5s the haws of Snot being right. 1 came on deck, and their ship, which had the right of way, bow several e ligat feet off our stare guar [RAN t: u the li 1, t t f a: steamer, andtea thatmer ' it was$ .the clearly an error r of steamerholding judgment; on the part of the mrn at� t nxs ntother course the Lercbmont s wheel. and was pointing then to the starboard of us. 1 told the mate to keep the boots eolliti for their '11 places on .. arri'ly prhy Slowly, to gaining in, fled '� (esup Let tat While t ' Vhrie''t In the fit the struggi r the sinners' upon the c1'e heat their savagcZy fo secnttn:;ly .; d their lives. a chance t; i would figlij prayed. The- spei passenger's, li tart' 1'n a, al; again fightine. deutons. Slowly th. minutes pares t still prayed et soon at then icy fingers tat laid upon' thanes, e few minutes and the water:Wait {tt;. their knees. There was a waveiiiil it s� the song of praise, Leet it waren, riled, Gradually, q ra "•v one, the numbers succumbed: g Of the antir.t 'tuaaty, there was only one of the Saadi: di: ketists saved—a wo- man, whose bot ` 'sated with ice, was dragged' front. , 'i; , surf off the light- house at Block `Si•'aed. She .wore the little blue skirt ,; t l the red ribbon of the army. L :le collar of her coat was the rax • f her calling—the cross. VS {,u fought with women •he 'Salvationists took et... and began their itealy rose the hymn, iet, as the moments any soul, letsom fly, ;Mv waters roll, Oast still is high, tight of the night lgers, stopping, saw i together, kneeling n• the .Almighty to niailo others fought ,ste, the little band, tit r: themselves, that s ,tyke, that they had tiemselves;. if they trtt: others; knelt and ovar the shipwrecked �'11•f r; was l ut •. momen- rr or two thy were Via'. their lives like n er se e . e ni the' Salvationists ang. The water was At the touch of its sa the hand of death SUR[,' MISSING. SAVINGS BANE O"FICIAL MYSTERI- OUSLY 1 lSf PEARS. Treasurer Alsa of Baptist State Con- , ventft7t- A Bien'4_Held in High Estee3t :Not ICnovf to be Inter- ested`; n Speculation NFeb. 18.— Nego- tiablehe value of abs understood to be ..P New 13}bola, Conn, 1 'Securities to 't tit f�1p,000 are missing from the vaulils of the Savings Bank of New Britain, 'Of which institu- tion Treasurer William Fe Walker mys- tcgeousl ' drop • out of i igbt in New rrt,'on Sund gt. •4 ,�ra',�;... been Tr e fat• :s 'etietrt ;ist Pant* • cmiy yen- esti' en` i1'bouttl senuriti estn there i to suspeet rmegular�n� {..ifr these acodunts, the . • esident,n7 tev. H. M. Thonep on, has outlined au investigation. Mr. s't'alker• ties not under bonds in that soviet ' The alleged. wrongdoingof Mr. Wal. ker iia created a tremendous sensation. He was field in the highest esteem, was a church officer, and a -Citizen who lived quietly and; utodestly. He was not I known to ibe interested>in stock invest - menus of: any kind. or, any outside en tea-prises..i. For aboititt twenty-seven ' rears be had been at bank officer and' ways under:bonels of $20.000. The bank.liad •deposits of upwards of $8.000.000, loath a surplus estimated at more than la;wlf a million, and its board ,of directors rept hied € arie of the larg- est business eta n'rlts• in the State. l • Sank in Ten Minutes, Knowlton straight on her course. 1 just There was hardly time to give the turned to look at the steanter again, passengers -warning after the steels of when 1 saw lien veer sharply to port ;the collision and in ten minutes she and chit direetty across any path. 1 'sank, many, it is believed, going down knee a. ecIlisiun was certain. Both with her. boats were. travelling fast. The Larehmont was a compara.ively She hit us old stearner. She had no watertight en the bon. .ill the Lbefore lights g were lit. Some of us before the colli- eountedfents, ite is said, which ac- sign tried to shout, and one of the eounpteai for her settling so fast. Among rrevv blew :t hc;rn, but it slid no good. the passengers were 47 Salvation Army She began blowing her whistles just 'members belonging to the Swedish corps, before she hit n::. 1 did not dare to seven being from Providence. They were under orders to report at the heat- tack. Adtcr tine blow the i,ar•chmont .qua.rters in New York. Forty-five morn- lurched bauly, and then veered off and hers of this corps, in all, left for New seemed to continue on her way. We York, but the others took the boat from ban five feet of water in our hold, and Fah. River. 1 decided to get ashore as soon me 1 The Captain's Story. could. 1t' a lsunehed a small boat fin - This and reached tlae shore, losing all This is the captain's story, as he oar belongings." told' it ;,his afternoon:• "We left Providence at 7 o'clock, a Frazee to Death on Raft, brisk wind from the northwest was The schooner Laura E. this afternoon blowing ,arid we were off Watch Hill picked up a raft on which were, hud- at about 11 o'clock. I had gone below tiled together, the dead bodies of seven to look over the passengers and freight, persons, men and women, from the leaving a. good pilot and quartermaster wrecked steamer. They were frozen in the pilot -house. I returned to pilot- >rtiff and were covered with ice. house, passing through on my way to Seven others were rescued in a pre- ; my room. Everything was all right in carious condition. the pilot -house as 1 stepped into my - In all a total of 45. bodies have been room and prepared to retire for the recovered from the water by the life - night. savers and such volunteers among the Suddenly 1 heard the pilot blowing islanders as have risked their lives in danger eignale. and 1 hurried into the battling with the surf cluing the day. pilot house. There was a schooner on in the attempt to retrieve the bodies of the port side, and her crew seemed the shipwrecked victims from the ice - warning she lofted up, and before we lead an opportunity to do a thing elle SANG Id.'Y'B NS. was heading for us. The quarterrnas- --- ter and pilaf put the wheel hard a -poria, Salvationists. SangWhile the ShipWas , but the seliooner was sailing along be. fore a fresh breeze and in a moment alae synched into our port side, direct- . . BRIIS POuI p C and a charge may be laid against the farmer, The lad's father a*as killed in Findlay=s mills hero l t t summer, and he was SITUATION DISCREDITABLE, DAN- GEROUS- AND DEMORALIZING, Says Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, and Refers to Lords as Ferocious Watch- dogs—Lord Lansdowne Deplores the Effort of Commons- to. Degrade Upper House to Mere Debating Society. London, Feb. 18.—`\'hen the House of Guiuutons convened the entrauue of Sir kienry C'a,upbell-Bannerman was greeted with Ministerial cheers, The Speaker, the Might lion. Jaynes Lowther, read the speech :from the throne, and the debate on the address in reply was begun. Re - (Alfas in the reading to the ,Kingston incident and to the Rouse of Lords situ- ation were cheered, Mr. Balfour dur- ing the debate expressed surprise at the absence from the King's speech of any reference to the Colonial Conference. Turning to the relations between the two houses, Mr. Balfour said that what he called "filling up the cup" against the House of Lords would, he felt as- sured, fill to overflowing the cup of un- popularity of the Government and lead the country to desire a change, not in the House of Lords, but in the House of Commons. He agreed that in the long run the people should decide what should be the laws under which they were to live. Sir H. Campbell -Bannerman, in reply, said the chief natter for discussion was the question of the differences between the two Houses. Ile said the House of Lords were watchdogs, who after a per- iod of prolonged somnolence were full of bitter ferocity. The question must be settled. The present situation, he declared, was discreditable, dangerous and demoralizing. Turning to lreland, the Premier point- ed out that they could not immediately enter upon a larger policy, but they lutist first remove the most objection- able features in such a way a' to be consistent with the adoption of that policy. John E. Redmond said he regarded the Government as being abssoiutaly pledged to deal with the lri�h questa:rt at this session of i'arfiame-:it and on lines representing complete serf-goverrr- nent. • In the House of Lords_,. Lord Castle - town, Liberal, moved the address in re- ply to the King's speech, and praised the assistance rendered by the American navy at Kingston. Be also declared that it was necesuary to change the .machinery of the House of Lords, which at present gave the House a preponder- ance of Tories. Regarding Ireland, Lord Castietown declared that what was proposed was evolution rather than de - Alter a hundred years of awa,,.e,clofiti; of riY%, tEo roads the •Irisin system from chaos. Ireland's appeal for financial justice had failed, but separation; was unthinkable and im- possible. Lord Lansdowne. forayer Foreign Sec- retary, said the Opposition was left in entire ignorance as to the direction in which a solution for the present rela- tions between the House of Lords and the House of Commons was to be sought. Did the Government want to make the upper House stronger and more efficient or degrade it to a mere debating society? It was deeply rooted in the public mind that whatever the dangers which might he apprehended from an unreformed House of Lords. they were nothing to be compared with those arising from an unrestrained House of Commons. r?�a reason LIFE TERM Condemned to Suiten. St. Peterzbur RTWO W0112EIf. eh fax Stolypin Plot— s Commuted. Feb. 18.—The trial off Miles. Klimova. 'and Terentieva, wo- men�implicated 'tit ctihe plot to blow op M. , tolypin w h''.1eoen.._ at his coun- try home Aug ,5bh, tool - pla,ee in the Fortress of St. „Peter and St. Paul yes- terday. Thee inn. who declined the asahitanee of e to death, gni Kilmova's Fath of 'the Empire. a. letter askif guidenl dough commuted to mother d •C<ifll to be preset •t Meal, were •non'd�errtned tdie request of Mlle. clto is as Councilor rorrr,`Ryazan, and seat i1einency fax his mis- •°; the sentences were �l.labor for life. The al.ibnowa was allowed tihe trial• FOURilf1 h1J,D AT FUNERAL. Train Wrecks C,„rXiage at Level Crossing and Oetalpants l illedi. Long Island •yCity, Feb. 18.—A train on the Long;Island Ra:ilreaul' ran into n, funeral cw, tet the Penmsylvania bridge crossing *ellliss ille, this a.fter- t ri was smashed into Three c,aethe ooeupant s ed. Tile fourth :per- di'ed. soon wafter bain'g rd; the oroeshig, but it t,t lowered - noon. The ce kindling woad were instantly son in the co picked up. ` There are;` is said they ^t ANOT1 Organizer of L Chat Paris, Feb R,L"NCH AQEL. of French Patriots gss Deputy. ,----Henri des Houx, or- ganizer of tth . League orf French: Pat- riots, has t'1i Jleng4rl. Deputy Pugliesi Conti, who fot`ight a duel J•it]v 13, 1006, with the t uit"er-'Seer•eta y of 'State, M. Sarraut, on aecolin+t of words exchanged during a 'quarrel last night following the latter's attempt to obtain. the re- lease of some' eor�sti+luents who were ar- resirecl yee'tarda r fat the Church of the holy Ajrostlest, ,, the charge of "helped- ril ' in liming shouted t c service, Going Down. lir 15berty or. 131oek l�slanrd, 11. 7.. despatch: One of asarrilege!" _- --0-* a' - BOY SAE DRUNK. • IN THIS STATE HE FELL FROM SLEIGH AND FROZE. ` arrible Story Told by Owen Sound Lad, Who is Lying at Death's' Door in the Hospital—His Father Was Killed Last Summer. Owen Sound despatch: John Camp- bell, a led of 13 years, lies at the Gen- eral and Marine Hospital here to -night in a. pree:arions condition, which, if it does not terminate fatally, as a. result of 'terrible exposure, will almost cer- tainly east ]rim both feet. The story, as told to the police here to -day, is heart-rending. '1'lre little fellow li•ad been working for a farmer in the Township of Syd- eneham, near Garry Owen post -office, about eight miles from this place, and ]tad conte home at the latter. pant of last week to spend a few days with his monger. X et'terday afternoon the farmer call- ed for hint, and together, about 6 o'clock, they started home. The boy alleges that the man, was drunk at that time, and also carried a supply- of in- toxicants with him. When a short die- tanee from town the boy says that his companion forced him to drink some of the liquor and he became very sick, and fell from the sleigh. He wandered over to a farmyard and lay drown be- side a learn, afraid, in his condition, to ask for shelter. There he lay all night, exposed to a temperattute of 20 degrees below zero. At dayligh:t'he got up and started hack the seven or eight males they had trav- eled the night before, for hone. A farmer pinked. hint up and brought him too town and to his home. Dr. Murray had the lad hurried to the hospital, where it was found that his teen had been frozen solid to above the ankles. His condition from the exposure is criti- cal. • The police have the matter in hand, t sting his • widowed 1 nwther to rn.aintain the family -tiy wo k.n„ for the farmer. • NO TRUTH. IN THE STORY. Reported Loss of a Party of Freighters • Near .Manitoba Bounda_y. 'fort Arthur, Feb. 18. ---There in lie trail in the story sent out front here that a party of freighters •had been last • in the country between Jac•kfish rind the • Transcontinental right of ways. lir, Taylor, who has the contract for hauling suppiiea, arrived lrer•e and pronounces the story a. pure anytlt. Two men who were caught in a, storm sustained frost bites to the faee and feet, and two horses, who had beeten;r exhausted from want of food and the force of the storm, succumbed. The balance of the party, twenty-one men,. were sate in camp at the upper; end of Lang Lake, where they had arrived bo - fore the storm cane on. CUT FRO , a FRAMES VALUABLE PORTRAITS STOLEN •• FROM LONDON GALLERY. He Also Carried Off Eight Valuable Snuffboxes — Thief Evidently a Novice, as He Left Behind Him More Valuable Works. London, Feb. 13.—A daring was committed bt ed this morning at thehae- re- s'idence of Mr. Charles Wertheimer, the well-known. connoiseur in pictures and objects of art. The burglar entered the house through a window of the roam where Mr. tVertheimer kept his snuff • - boxes and miniatures. The robber practinally emptied the encs containing the snuffboxes, rend then went to the drawing•roorn, which faces Park lane, and cut out from 'their frames a por- trait of Nancy Parsons, by Garintsbor- ntgh, and a portrait of Hon. Mrs. Chas. Yorke, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. He also damaged a portrait of Mrs. Fraude- by Sir Joshua, in attempts to eat it out of its frame. From itis hav- ing left in the room from which he took tore snuff-boxes ten extiu,ordirrary bibervan of the 13t•h century Italian workman- • ship. w•o'rth • probably £20,000, it is in- ferred that the burglar was a novice. This supposition is strengthened by the feet the.t ,he made off with the pictures, which, great as is their value, are worth nothing to a burglar, who reas he left untouched at slmwease containing forty or fifty ininiadttres by Coswny, Engle - heart and Primers, the diamond frames of which would have realized £7,000 or £8,000. alis picture of Nancy Parsons vt*as for- merly the property of Lord Lansdowne, and was hung at Bowuwdl. His Loed- eaesp;;panted'writh it 'about ten a -cars ago, "t he i it wee acquired by Count Boni de- Castellane, from whose possession it passed about three years ago to Mr_ Wertheimer. It is a kitkat portrait and is a, singu- larly attractive and particulnaly_ eharau'- teristie work of the master. It is worth about £•10.000. while that of dais. Yorke is worth t8.000 or £7,000. The snuff- boxes. of which et least- eight have been stolen, were probably worth £25,000. THE LISTENER. SAYS MONITORS OF BELL COMPANY CAN HEAR CONVERSATIONS. Toronto despatch: There was evidence. before the Telephone tannmissiort yester- day to show that other officials of the Bell Company have the opportunity of overhearing eonversa.ions on the line be- sides the girls at the "Retelling boarder' One of the former operators, ;Liss Jessie Leckie, whose special duty it had been to overhear conversations, and who had finally refused to do such work, was, • on the stand for a while during the fore- noon. She stated that monitors, or em- ployees holding positions above the or- dinary operators could, if they desired, make certain connections that would en- able them to overhear any private con - remotion. Sometimes these monitors took what they heard down in writing. Mies. Leckie said she did not care to hear conversations over the wires aud some- times the talkers used bad language. Almost the entire day was taken up with hearing the evidence of the girl op- erators. With perfect self-possession, and an air of sineerity, they gave their testimony, tailing of innumerable events which had happened in the operating; room. A special despatch to the Globe from Ottawa says: J'he Minister of Labor,. Hon. Mr. Lemieux, stated to -night that the commission now conducting the tele- phone investigation in Toronto wilt probably you to Montreal to obtain ad.ditional information there with regal'., to the condtirt of the Bell Telephcets business: • TWO FROZEN IN STREETS, Sudden Drop in New York Causes Grest. Suffering. New York, Feb. 18. -The leave of bitter cold which swept down on the city last night sent the mercury down almost to the zero mark. There were manly tenement house• fires early to -day, and hundreds of pea°sons were forced to flee into the • streets attired only in their night garments. Many had narrow escapes. Two unidentified men were frozen to death in the streets during the night. Several other persons who had been overcome by the cold were removed .0 hospitals, Dr. Oharles Walsh, a dant- ist of Sangherties, fell in front of the Waldorf Astoria and' lay uncon- scious for more than an hour beferet. he was found. Hie condition is ser- ious.