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T_he Knife Was Used By Austrian Sailors.

NEW YORK, July l1_The survivors the steamship La Bourgogne, which

was sunk in collision near Sable Island on the morning of July 4th, arrived here on Friiay afternoon from Boston, and were taken in charge, most of them, by the Compagnie Tras-Atlantique oflcials.

There was an immense crowd at the

. caped, others to get information from

”"` he survivors ofthe friends or loved

g ones who were lost. The persons who

_ Maas were waiting to see the survivors of La

Grand Central Station. Some of them

'53' g came to welcome friends, who had es-

Bourgogne gathered in little groups - ‘ French women with a child or two clinff-l

I-IBC mf 'FQI' ing to them, Italian laborers and a groulp " '~ of French priestm from Manhattan Col. S1 lege. The priests were to question the

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survivors as to the death of the priests' aboard La Bourgogne. especially Father

n°ngu|a Sha' Kessler, of St. Joseph’s Church. The

steerage passengers and crew did ‘hot get a cordial welcome from the crowd, and

“ants hisses and iuiprecations were heard all

along the line from the platform to the coaches.

The French Consul-General. Francis

Edmund Bruwaert, and the Vice-Consul boarded La. Touraine at her pier yester- day afternoon and upon the arrival of;

LaBourgogne`s crew, took depositions of the members. The hearing was secret,

and Agent Fagnet, of the French line,

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said that he had not even been told, whattestiinony has been taken. Tliei

Consul-General will submit his findings -t

to the Fren ~h Admiraltv Coiir-‘

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BosT0\', July 9 -From the t=sti

mony ofthrce survivors of La Bourgo- 2

all % gne. Otto Zeiver, from New York; Mr.

Archard,of "Baltimore, and Charles;

Liebra,Iowa it appears that the fourth en ,

am ginger of L9, Bourgogne, who was save-

ed, acted in the most brutal manner to-1

For 8 Preheat or fo, your- ward the passengers The thief; mein' self come and We _,,111 do It agree in theistatement that after t e co -» chea W h h d lislon, when every one was surround-,

P e me on an inv the boats, the forth engineer

a larffe took of Picture Sa;-d “Din the passcl-',261-§_ Moulding to choose from Le; them Save themselves, \\'e

Just arrived by S S Coda* save Om-selves li;-5;," He aSl0 1300 ferb Of PICWFS said that if he had a revolver he Mouldini of all the latest would shoot the passengers. designs Call in and see win' sEvi~1NTr.i`i\'i1}wEiii; DROW'NED» samples % Mr. Liebra spoke in great praise of i

its the captain although that officer

J HDRNSBY, did not think thic h accident “fs

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\,C.Om_ Row y sengers that tnere was no danger. fhis.

09:10 im Pottorrice is thought to he one reason that none of

I8 3 the-Kira first class Passengers werel

save

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was a passenger. After ihe collision.

Liherii says he saw Yousouff strug21ing

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eight persons gave their name as wit-

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Reasons Why So Few Pas- sengers Were Saved -The Steamers Construction-

used knives to keep people out of their bonu

p English well declined to give his name " as he said it would be bad for him when

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the time of the accident. The shock wakened him and he ran up to the spar deck to his boat. There were twentytive men appointed to each boat, but there were only seven or eight at his, which was the second ma'e’s No. 7. The second mate was at his post and the boat was 1 immediately got ready. e There were about fifty passengers in this boat, in- cluding a let of women. As La Bour gogne was sinking the boat caught and upset, throwing everyone into the water He came up in a minute. He was saved two minutes after by a raft. There were iotsiof women and children screaming for help around, but he tumed his head away, as he said he did not like to see these-things. Alyoung Frenchman from New Orleans said he could not say anything in praise of the crew of La Bourgogne. He did not see any of the ofilcers after the accident, except `the captin.who was gesticulating onthe bridge.

Messrs. Zeicer and Karamer, second-

class passengersstates that Victor Gen~ drot and another sailor of La Bourgogne deserve great praise for their bravery in saving some passengers. They called on volunteers to go from Cromartyshire and were the means of saving many others who whuld other wise have p ris- hed. They were the only sailors who did anything' to help the passengers: Reasons WHY saLooN PAssi~:NGEiis wear:

CAUGHT. NEW YORK, July 9.-The Journal

publishes an interview with M. Faguet, the agent of the line of steamers to which the ill-fated La Bourgogne be- longed.

ln reply to the question, why was not

a single saloon passenger saved, he said that ihe wreckage |blocked the sa~ loongangway on|the starboard side-ihe side toward which the steamship was careening-and that the passengers rushed to the port side. Then he added that the port lilehoats, owing to the position of ihe ship, could not be launched.

\\'hen the fact that a- large number of

he crew had been saved was pointed out to him and an explanation asked,M.

Fagiiet gave a proverbial shrug of the houlders and was silent. Mr. Faguet did not in this instance

state the saloon companionway of the French liner run from the promenade deck to a platform some four feet above the s:i‘con deck, and that from that platform two small flights of steps, at right angle with the upper stairway, took the passengers to the saloon ves- tibule. He did not explain that on reaching the vestibule the saloon voyag- er had tc make another right angle turn to enter the dining room. _

When pressed for an answer on this

point he produced a plan of La Bour- gogne. This plan shows the two cor- ridors, on eitrier side of the steamship, with shorter ones at right angles lead- ing to ihe stwercoms.

These corridors extend aft to the door

le-iding to the second cabins, and there are no bulkhead doors to prevent the water from sweeping the full length of it.

It is believed that the water did gain

ingress to this corridor after La_ Bour- gogne was struck and that the passen- gers were fairly swept off their feet. If there were bulkhead doors in the c'ri'i- dors the evidence so far indicates that they were not closed. The bulkheatls below that deck, even if closed, could not have saved the saloon voyagers, for the steamship was heeling far to star- board-far enough evidently to allow the water to gain the saloon deck. , Those of the salo”n passengers who

did gain the vestibule from the corridors had to swing abruptly to the right and and left, to decend the steps leading to the platform mentioned -half way up the stairway. These two small flights ,were narrow, and once having gained the platform the assen er must maize

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another abrubt turn to the right or left, to ascend the remaining light of steps and gain the bal1,from which doors-to

One of the crew, a steward,who spoke

he got back. He said lie was in bed at

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modem built ocean racers. La Bour-

saloon vestibule into two parts, for the

was built a ainst the after bulkhead

ing;from the platform. Doors at the forward end of these 'spaces led to the saloon, and doors at the after ends led to the corridors, from which the saloon voyagers must- have rushed to reach the promenade deck from the rooms.

La Bourgogne had no longitudinal

bulkhead--not even in her engine-room. She was a single screw vessel, and the engines wefe in the centereover the » keel. Even her rausverse bulkheads, those built athwartship did not run up the promenade deck. They stopped at the saloon deck.

It is not certain that the bulkhtad

doors below the saloon deck on the liner were closed on that fateful morn- ing. when the Croinartyshire struck her.

The rapidity with which the vessel filled wouldlindicate that they were not,_ and ihe falling of the funnel proves that the vessel was damaged at her most vulnerable point the engine rooms. The modein twin screw liners have londgitudinal bulkheads run- ning through the boiler, and enginerooins, and bulkhead doors ii. the transverse bulkhead beteen the boiler and engine rooms. The longi- tudinal bulkhead is between the two sete of enginesand directly over the kneel. That is why the Paris iloated when a hole was smashed through the bottom of her starboard engin room, and that compartment was filled with

water.

M.Fauget was sure that on La Bour-

head doors was rigidly enforced. He did not know why La Bourgogne was go far north of the regular eastbound lane to the English channel, and would~ en’l1 or coulden’t explain why the French line steamships never take the recognized east and west bound lanes, but-steam far north of them on both the eastward and westward trips.

La Bourgngne was at least 160 miles

north of the course of the east-bound vessels. She was fully 120 miles north of the .western course of ihe White Star iner Majestic, from Liverpool, when that vessel passed south of Sable Island The Majestic steamed 180 miles south of Sable Island, and La Bourgogne was only 60 miles south. This proves that La Bourgogne was 80 miles further north then even the most northern west- bound route in mid-summer.

CHICAGO MARKETS.

Cisiicaoo. July 12. __- [Special ]

The following are the closing rates:

July wheat, 75; corn 31%; oats, 22i

pork, 9.97.

Sept wheat, 67% ; corn,3;‘} ; oats.19§;

pork, 10.12.

Dec. wheat,6'¢'& ; coru,3i‘§; cab, -;

pork -_-

Atcheson, 353;; New York Central

gogne’s saloon stairway divided the

platform half way down the stairway

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wall of thc saloon.Thirty|pei'sons would

have crowded the narrow vestibule at the bottoms of the two short flights lead-

restler had expressed him fore the objective point of these panic °“

§ self as ill pleased with the treatment he stricken and fear hunted a se h

H90* J“l‘ 1 _l P°°“ l” = had received in America. 1 were fleeting from death). B ggersw 0 ,

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f ` them aside, trying to reacha boat. He right and left again-led out on the ' e

i `failed, however, and _ went down. In lproomenade deck. It was this deck from ' Ln l privileged to Apnea' ,ts 8,81, conversation with Liebra before thei which the boats were swuhg,a.nd there-

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Russia Thinks War About Over and Wants Spain To A Keep Phllllplnes Under States Protectorate. r

New Ycnir, July 12-(Special) -An

explosion killed fifteen persons te-day at Hafiin and Rand’s powder mills near

Dover, N J. A number of soldiers and others were wounded. V ,

General Shatter telegraphs that atlag 'nf truce was flying over Santpgo Mon- day considering a proposition of surren-

dowh to the bay. ~ The line was rather

z°s=»° bw# drill #oaths 1?.. ent-_. f1,1;==» but Stagg; e=P°eF92£9.,.h;=_z,e,i__¢. tfcefor the opening~apd't:f0§;"6l_°b£k¢`¥"§ff&?lI'mn`§2[ 'By ¢°_°{j§,`§`_"" ‘ ’

There is a great deal of suffering

among the people who left Santiago.

Shafter’s force now ,numbers about

29,000.

San'rrAGo,July12- [Special] -Fight-

ing was continued during Monday and at 4 p m it was believed Santiago would be captured in 24 hours.

As the Americans advanced in several

Spanish trenches the troops found dnm-, my wooden guns and no Spanish soldiers

There was a weak fire from the Span-

ish troops and the American officers received further evidence of distress in Santiago.

Sr Pi-zrnasisuuo, July 12._(Speci-

al )_The Russian papers regard the war as practically over and discusses the Philippines Island problem. If theyare. divided the best part will fall to Great Britain, Germany and Japan, therefore it is the advantage of Russia that the islands remain in possession of a single power, whether Spain or

the United States. Russia prefers them li*

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` Uprising in Cor ea..

arrested ona charge of complicity. Others, including a former minister of war, have fled.

Royal makes the food pure, i - wholesome and delicious.

Yoicoriaiira, July 11.-Another plot '

at Seoul, ihe capital of Corea, :against

the government has been disclosed. '

Several prominent: oiiicials have been T *

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Croquet Sets, 90

Base Bats.

Base Batts.

tennis Balls.

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Is Peaceful But Re- 2;, jects Terms.

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