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tcmcI. Thfre w»» muffled roar. The giant veaiel pauaed «» il atayed by an unaeen hand, lurched, (prang forward and began ' " “

board.

Lowdon, (Py Cable).— The St. Peteraburg offlciala annonnee that at daybreak Wednesday the battlc»hip Petropavlovsk was destroyed at Port Arthur, with 700 men and officers, including Vice-Admiral Makarofl. The Russian advices declare the vessel was blown up by a mine that had drifted from its moorings, but dispatches from Wei Hat Wei induce the confident belief here that a naval engagement occured of! Port Arthur of a severe character and that later tt leg rams will show that the Russians suffered a severer loss than is yet admitted. A rumor has • reached Rome that Vice-Admiral MakarofTs stjuadron was attacked bv the whole Japanese fleet, concealed behind Miatoao islands. His retreat was cut off and be, was forced to fight against odds, ■with the result that alt his ships weff| damaged, while the Petropavlovsk was surrounded by torpedo boats, struck by five torpedoes and blown up. Another report is to the effect that Rear Admiral Molas is among those killed aboard the Petropavlofsk. RUSSIAN S7t}«Y OF .CATASTROPHE.

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PINNED DOWN BY LEAD •uO Esdi Inn g TvriMe Sufferkt «t Mw. DEIOISK OF ITS OUB MTBS. They Risk Thob Owa Uvm la Tryta* ta Save Thtfr Brother Fro* Bt Prises, Under n Feel el Waler, at A* Bette* el (be Jersey at, Rtserrsir—SlgBtli Fra* Deemed Naa Ore* Falaier es Hie Streagth Falla.

PctTuaarlovsk. St Petersburg, (By Cable). — AU Russia was stunned by dispatches from Port Arthur telling of the bloying up and sinking of‘the first class battleship Pethopavlorsk by a mine and the death of Vice-Admiral M*katoff and all but a score of the 7°° men and officers on his flagship. The whole population of St. Petersburg is awake, waiting for further particulars of the disaster; and excitement throughout the city, and parttcularly among the crowds of thousands who throng the streets, i fever beat. Despair prevail* everywhere. The streets are patrolled by largely in creased guards. At the palace the high officials o: the government are in constant con fcrence. The censors are planning 1 more rigid surveillance of war newt. The only circumstance in connection with the awful affair that affords s faction is the fact that the Grand Duke Cyril, the Czar's cousin and first officer of the fated vessel, was saved. He gustained injuries; the nature of which is not known. His aid lost-his-life. The rather formal dispatches received so far do not make clear whether the mine was a Russian or Japanese, hut it it thought it was ono of the former, which had drifted out of place. It b also uncertain as to whether there was fighting after the destruc tifin of the Petropavlovsk. but one dbpatch indicates that a severe engagement was on. The account of the disaster is dra

matic

The Russian fleet steamed out of the harbor of Port Arthur ot daylight. Vice-Admiral Makar off, the commander of the Russian Pacific fleet, had hoisted his flag on the formidable Petropavlovsk and led the big array offighting ships as then went to engage the enemy. Admiral Togo's vessels were far cut on the horizon, maneuvering to gain the best position tc meet their oncoming foe*. The great hulks of the Russians_ moved in dignified columns seaward, -manned for action. Makaroff, with the first officer of his ship. Grand Duke Cyril. Captain Jakoricff and, the other officers the vessel, were or the bridge laying their course and planning the expected battle. Every man was at his post and the great guns were being ranged for the fray. On the other vessels of the fleet the same methodical preparations were being made to do battle. From their bridges their officers eagerly watched the big vessel tn the morning mist ahead of tfcem from which signals were being displayed for their disposition in the line of battle. The sea fighters were well out of the harbor when suddenly the watch ers on the trailing boats saw an iro men sc column of water spout uj '‘amidships of the starboard side of the Petropavlovsk, reaching far above the fighting masts and descending in a deluge on the stripped decks of the

The nearest ships lowered boats, hich pulled away for the distressed battleship. A score of such rescuers ere in the water in a few 'minutes. On the Petropavlosvk there must have hern scenes of the direst horror. Of the 700 men all j»ut a score were below decks or in' the turrets. When the explosion occurred the officers immediately divined the cause. A mine had been struck and'a great hole tom in the aide of the vessel below the water line. Into this the poured, listing the vessel rapidly. Orders were issued to flood the ompartments on the port side of the ship in order to bring it to an even keel, but these instructions could not ■be carried-out. Gradually over went the wg battleship. Into a few boats scrambled such of the men as were above deck. The first thought was for the Grand Duke Cyril and he was helped *“ * boat by his lieutenants. St. Petersburg, (By Cable).—Barely recovering from the shock of the ritastronhe to the battleship Peiropatvlovsk. the city and nation were again plunged more deeply plunged :nto grief when official tHegrams were given out announcing the sinking of the torpedo-boat destroyer Bezstra-

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horbor. _ No news was received from Port Arthur until _io o'clock in the morning, when a long cipher message was received and hurried to the naval officials and translated. The m< was from Rea# Admiral Prince tomsky, who tersely told of the new misfortune which had overcome the squadron. The message after confirming the loss of the Petropalovsk,

raid:

"The torpedo boat Vestrashni sent out with othera, on a nigh. — pidition, and was unable to return, owing to the stress of weather. She was sOrrounded by the enemy's torpedo boats and sank fighting Five

men saved.

"Afta/ the sinking of the Petropavlovsk 1 took over temporarily the

command of the fleet.

'While surrounded by the enemy s squadron, the battleship Pobieda ran into a mine, which struck her starboard side amidship. The Pobieda succeeded in making the harbor without aid No one on bo*rd was hurt." : The Pobieda is a baWlcship of 12,- ! *74 tons displaceraem and of 14.500 horsepower. She is 40114 feet long. ' s ytJ-j feet beam and draws 36 feet water and is heavily armored with steel. She was completed in foot: has a complement of 732 men. Her estimated speed is 18 knots. The steel armor of the battleship varies 1 thickness from fodr fd nine and a jli inches along Her'belt, he arraaicnt of the Pobieda consists of four . zn-inch gun*, eleven six-inch guns, sixteen thrce-inch guns, ten iJJ-incii guns and seventeen Mriggh guns.

She has *ix torpedo tubes.

The official bulletin conveying the information of Prince Onktomsky and telling of the destruction of the destroyer and the injuring of another battleship was altnos* a* severe a blow' as the news of the first disaster. The people of the city had been up all nigm anxiously awaiting ne,ws from Port Artbnr, and -despite thei blinding snowstorm that prevailed the, bulletin

J, (Special).—Pinned down by bis foot by two tons of lead in the darkness and silence of 7 a I'f 1 of water at the bottom of the big reservoir of the Jersey City Wi Supply Company, at this place, a diver has lain asnee a o'clock Monday afterAt intervals during the 24 hours of his imprisonment be signaled men at the air pumps shore of the reservoir, letting them know that be was still alive. The last signal was received at 1.30 o'clock P. M. The movements of the signal line grew fainter and faintei and linallv ceased. While it seems certain the man is dead, after suffering terrible agony for hours, the men at the air pump on the raft still pumped away, with the forlorn hope that they were still giving him the breath of life while he was unconscious. The efforts of skilled resenrers in eluding four divers and other experts, aided by scores of landsmen, to save this one man's life have been ceaseless for about 35 hours, and most unparalleled in the history of marine dangers. Every wrecker device known the most experienced diver, if it could be brought into use in this emergency, has been tried, without avail. And if it were possible to tear away the very walls of the reservoir without the loss of other lives in the, flood the wreckers would not tt**'*' stopped at the loss of pt^jenyr Thousands of • spectators watched Jor the end of this strange tragedy under water, a terrific pressure of two atmospheres which brought blood to the eyes and finger nails of the heroic rescuers who dropped overboard from the raft to try to save their bother

diver.

A special train was secured at the yards of the Luckawanna Railroad at Hoboken. Two expert divers were procured and brought to the reservoir

ip all speed.

With an electric lighting apparatus one of these divers descended and found that the great ball of lead had flipped into place suddenly and that the diver's foot had been caught between the ball and the edge of the aperture leading int»> the pipe. Thw second diver went down at once and sn effort was made by the two to dislodge the ball. Their puny strength as nothing, and after hours of

REWSfflSMIT

Two Chicago negroes caused the ar- _ .•it of several Chinamen for violation of the Civil Rights Law by refusing to serve them m a restaurant. Six men were injured by a collapse of a building at Eighth avenue and Thirty-fifth street. New York. Four of the injured were passersby. Two St. Louis physicians are using a new drug in the treatment of consumption with promising results. Four persons were injured by a gasoline explosion in an automobile

factory in Detroit.

The* first .trip through the new subway of Key York City was made Six men tycre injured by the collaose of • Building in New York. W. H. Kenworthy, an American Express Company messenger, and Harry Drake, a baggagemaster on the Big Four Railroad, have confessed to the Cincinnati police that for a year they have been robbing trunks and

express packages.

A settlement was reached in sheet and tin-plate wage dispute and c. strike avoided that would have

volved thousands of men.

"Monk" Eastman, the leader of a notorious gang of thugs of the East Side, New York, was convicted of as-

sault in the first degree.

SMIM* FOR HERO FOND A Mew EafewMl Bj Mr. Aatrew Cxraegfc. VEIT IEHEMUS BENEFACTION. ts Fargo** Is ta Placa Those FoOowtof Peat*la! Vacation Who Hare Boca Ujw- *< la Iterate Effort Is Save Ha*aa Life te Better Ptcaakary Cooditte* Thaa They Were

1 undervalue

Sr. George W. Webster, of the 111ipois State Board of Health, gave whisky-drinking as one of the causes

ri^-phe

Pittsburg, Pa., (Special).— learned here that Andrew Carnegie has created a fund of $5,000,000 for the benefit of “the dependents of thoi losing their lives in heroic effort t save their fellow-men, or for the heroes themselves if injured only." Provision is also made for medals be given in commemoration of heroic

acts.

The endowment is to be known as "the Hero Fund,” and consists of $5,000,000 of first collateral 5 per cent, bond of the United State* Steel Corporation. The trust is placed in the hands of a commission composed of the following gentlemen; W. L. Abott. Edwin H Anderson, W. W. Blackburn, Edward M. Bigelow, Joseph Buffington. Wm. N. Frew, Rev. J. Holland, John B. Jackson, j Thomas Lynch, Charles G. Mellor, T. • Miller, Thomas Morrison, Frederick C. Perkins, Robert Pitcairtv H-

UTE VASBWnH AFFAIRS.

The progress made in the irrigation work of the Government is reviewed in the publication issued by the Geological Survey, which point* out the necessity of grest caution and conservatism in the extension of reclama-

tion work.

In the report it is stated that of the irrigation projects favorably reported in 1903, which included those on the Truckee river in Nevada, o» the Salt river in Arizona, on the Slilk liver in Montana, on Sweetwater river in Wyoming and on Gunnison river in Colorado, the Nevada and Arizona ptojrcts have been found feasible and construction on the engineering work along the Truckee and Salt rivers haw progressed to a reasonable extent. The Montana project, however, has presented unexpected engineering diffictiltirs. as well as complications regarding waler nght*, so that progress 0 slow. It ha*“een found necessary to modify the first plant in order to achieve early results The Wyoming pioject as firit outlined has been found impracticable. A better reservoir site than that on the Sweetwater river, however, ha* been found on the North Platte, so that a large scheme of development may be worked out there ir the future' Great engineering difficulties are encountered in the accomplishment of the Colorado pro1 jeet. The amount of arid land thereby 1 1'claimable is less, loo, than was

! anticipated.

Botes ter the Arm,.

General Crozicr, chief of the ordnance department of the army, has ordered the manufacture at Waterdiet arsenal of 11 5-inch barbette car-

iunng the day. The posting of the bulletin in the afternoon caused acute anguish among the waiting people, and many groaned and sobbed as

thev read of the new disaster. ;fbe Rusisan word in the text of

the official dispatch describing the accident to the Pobieda means either "mine" or “torpedo," but the qualifying verb indicates something mowing toward the ship This dispatch puts an end to the idea prevailing here that there had been an engagement following the disaster to the Petro-

javlovefc.

It is considered remarkable here that the Japanese did not take advantage of these terrible accidents

to attack Port Arthur.

The JCovoe Vremya reproduces a lecture delivered by Armiral MaRa- : off in 1894 on the subject of the Victoria and Camperdown catastrophe. in which he pointed out the inherent weakness of battleships and their liability to turn turtle even vhen their water-tiglu compartments are closed, because their armor and guns make them top-heaw.

work, at short intervals, with rests between. they conveyed the knowledge to the imprisoned man of the hopelessness or his condition and went to

the surface.

At intervals the two divers 'descended and tried to help the poor fellow. Finally they became exhausted and ' two other divers volunteered to engage in the hopeless and perilous tgak. They reported it was impossible to resist the suction of the water within 15 Icet of the mouth of the pipe, encumbered at they were by their armor

and tools.

They described the doomed diver _j lyi ig on - his back on the bottom, with iiis left foot securely pinned beneath the ball of lead, whose whole weight rests upon it. They said that the man must have dislodged the 1>all by his first efforts and been drawn underneath it by the suction at the same time. They reported that they thought that the doomed man’s leg might hive been broken and that his suffering wa* probably greater than can be ima-

gined.

TWENTY-FOUR BEN AND FIVE OFFICERS KILLED. Hotel Suits ReHleskip Kesri lie Mag He Bret Targe! Practice Ski is EifMei—Bg Van* larelj Etcapee lestnetha.

Pensacola. Fla., (Special). — The newest battleship of the navy, the Missouri, had a narrow escape from being blown to pieces by the explosion of a magazine and also being beacheo. has just come to light. Gapt William S. Cowle* prevented the latter when the vessel was within 250 yards of the beach by orders that the ship's course be r& Chief Gunner's Mate Mon son ..red the >hip and the lives of over Soo men by jumping into the open magazine and cloning the door bound It is stated, though not by offlsets of the Missouri, that when the officers heard the explosion in the turret and saw the fire lapping through (he top they realined the hn magazine would scat explode and headed the ship tor the beach, httending to bench her if possible before the explosion. Captain Cow tel quickly stopped the plan »nd pm the atop fcM’ * When the first

open and standing against it were -j,,rge* of powder. Without a jnt's hesitation Gunner's Mate Monson shored these aside, and jumping into the magazine pulled the closed after him. The magazine was totally flooded with water, and- when the men opened the door found Monson barely alire, ic water having reached his neck. The damage to the battleship 1* nuch greater than was stated at firstla addition to the large amount ot ammunition rained by the 1 bring flooded, which will at thousand# of dollars, the aft— _ is badly injured, the tpp being burned away and all bra., work melted intide. The bout is a charred bum. and the mechanism of the gnns la completely rained. The estimated damage earned by

BALTIMORE WILL LOSE

te Fay Oety is the ZB Users. Baltimore, (Special).—The total loss by the great fire on February 7 and 8 beteewn $45,000,000 and $50,000,The number of losers is 258. The insurance comjAnies will pay trifle over $30,000,000 to the losers, of which amount over $25,oooa>oo has been paid already. These are the figures that will stand out most prominently in the report of Chairman Paul Turner, of the General Insurance Committee, called to Baltimore to deal with the recent calamity. His report is rapidly nearing completion and will be supplemented by an exhautive report on "fireprooF’ buildings. It will admit the claims made by builders to be justified by the experiences of such structures over which the flames passed in Baltimore.

Philadelphia, Pa, (Special).—E sition Hall, the main building of the group at Thirty-third and South streets, that served to house the National Export Exposition in 1859, and h which the republican national convention met one year later, collapsed, • ing .several workmen tn its nuns. ..ire* of the injured men were so badly hurt that they were taken to thq Philadelphia hospital for treatment, while a dozen otheri, although brtrised

ONttsTabarcaMsCaap. New York. (Special). - Mr». Andrew Carnegie ha* offered to equal the highest donation to the Speedwell

Standard Oil Company announced another reduction of half per cent, on all grades of refined petro-

leum.

The Circuit Court, in Richmond. Ky., threw out as ipvalid all the various wills of the late Gen. Caaaius M.

Clay.

Harry T. Hill, the veteran theatrical manager, died at his home, in

Saratoga, N. Y.

The United States torpedo-boat flo-

tilla arrived at Cavite.

Thousands of men employed in the cigar factories and breweries of Manila united in a demonstration against proposed measures of the government

to securq internal revenue.

The San Francisco Merchants' Exchange has received a cablegram stating that the steamer Colon has been wrecked at Punta Remedios.

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died at The car barn and paint shop of the International Traction Company a( Cold Springs, near Buffalo, were destroyed by fire. '* Former Police Chief Devery has made demand on Commissioner McAdoo for $354)00 as damage^ for breach of contract. The fioor mills at Minneapolis will close down for an indffinite penoJ because of railroad discrimination. Charles A. Beecher, a friend and adviser of Abraham Lincoln, died audenly at Marysville, O. A fire m the hold of the steamer Havana caused a damage of $204)00.

The House of Common* sanctioned by resolution th* employment of Indian troops in the political mission to Tibet. It was announced that Colonel Younghusband had reached Gyangste, Tibet, which was hii goal. An imposing funeral service was ..ild over the body of Queen Isabella m Paris, after which the body was taken to Madrid. The police is Barcelona have arrested an acomplice to Joaquin Miguel Artaq, who attempted to assassinate Premier Maura. Coloael Marchand, the hero of the . ashoda affair, bitterly resents his treatment by the French War Office. Bebel. the Socialist leader, criticised the Reichstag the German governent for permitting the sale of a steamship by the Hamburg-American Company to a Russian company. Chancellor von Buelow replied that the sale did not affect Germany’s neutrality, snd that Japan had an equal right .to buy ships from Germany. Emperor William went on .board the American steam yacht North Star, at Syracuse, Sicily, and had a chat with Mr. and Mr*. Cornelius Vander-

bilt.

An infernal machine concealed in Tn anarchist's trunk in a hotel in etersburg exploded, blowing bin > bits and causing a fire in the bo— The British torpedo-boat destroyer Teazer, which ran ashore during the naval maneuvers at Portsmouth, has been towed off. The Mad Mullah, whom the British have been trying 19. catch, has —>ed into Italian territory. The matter of a Zionist settlra Uganda, East Africa, has been arranged satisfactorily. The Berlin canals and waterways _.ll* just presented to the Prussian Diet propose the expenditure of $100,000*00 on new waterways, including * cknal from Berlin to Stettin, for large vessels.

Kirk Porter, James H. Reed, W. L. j riages, .model of 1903, and ; Scaife, Willaim Scott, W. H. Steven-I nape* for 2-5-inch life-saving gun* F- « W"„o, c-P. The commission held its first meet- ; i n i ve , of new model also havr been ing here and made known its pro- j ordered manufactured. General Creject It is learned that the scheme was ! rier hat ordered the purchase of 5.00a cuncei.cJ by M, tamriUl,- j -f l“ Ihl ly after the Harwich mipe disaster. M ber scabbards for officer*. when he summoned to New York | will be made of steel, nickel-plated, inCharles L. Taylor, chairman, and F | “^.51 ' n OT,le,

Wilmot, manager, of the Andrew |

Nearly $4.0004)00 of Japanese gold has just arrived at San Francisco. Whetf Lake Superior gets that $a,-

ed States Steel common than for three months. "I’m bullish," says John W. Galea. That doesn't quite carry the weight such a remark once had. Export business of the United States Steel Company is falling — The “big fellows” are

South Hadley Falls, Mass. (Special) The three children of Daria Capestand, a wood chopper, died of poisoning. sad Mrs. Capestand is 01 with the same malady. Parts of the bodies of two of the children and the meat from which it is suspected the poison

to obtain better results in gallery practice an clonpated bullet, weighing 107

grains, has been 1 '

the round ball.

1 adopted in place oA

Carnegie relief fund, to discuss with them plans for the relief of the sufferer* from this catastrophe. On this occasion Mr. Carnegie announced to Messrs. Taylor and Wilmot hit intention to endow a fund for heroes, outlined his plans and asked • that they consider the project and write him regarding it, making such suggestion* and giving such ideas at might occur*to them. This they did, and on March ra. just before his departure for Europe, Mr. Carnegie forwarded a letter to Mr. Taylor announcing the plan, and stating that the certifieates of the bonds had been

placed in his hands.

In a letter to the hero fund commission Mr. Carnegie odtfines the general scheme of the fund, which in his own words is “to place those following peaceful vocation* who have been injured in heroic effort tc save human life in somewhat better position pecuniarily than before until again able to work, in case of death the widow and children or others dependent to be provided for—the widow nntil she is remarried and the children until they have reached a self-sup-porting age. For exceptional children

exceptional grants may be made for, ,

exceptional education. Grant* of sums | Senator Dietrich has been exonerof money may -also be made to heroes , ated from all blame in connection witt or heroines as the commission thinks I postoffice patronage in Nebraska b> •dviscable, each case to be judged , a special committee of the Senate

on its merit*." | which made an investigation. It is provided that no grant is to I The House and Senate committees

be continued unless it be soberly and | agreed to the bill_allowing the con-

properly used, and recipients remain ‘ “* respectable, well-behaved members of

tbe community.

A medal shall be given to the hero or widow, or next to kin, which shall recite tbe heroic deed -it com mem orates The medal shall be given for the heroic act, even if the doer be uninjured, and also a sum of money, should the commistion deem such

gift desirable.

F. T. Rogers, president of the National Orgmazation *f Pewtoffic* Gerks. was heard by the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roadtin favor of the bill of Representative Wilson, of Illinois, providing for the classification of clerk* employed ir post offices of the first and* second

class.

Rctiriaat of Letter Carriers. Senator Frey introduced a bill providing for the retirement of letter carrier* who have reached the age of 65 years and who have served for 3; years. The bill give* the carriers retired pay at 80 per cent, of the sala ties they were receiving at the time of retirementHo** for Disabled Volaateers. The House Committee on Military Affairs authorized a favorable report on a bill appropriating $60,000 to purchase, a temporary home in the District of Columbia for disabled volun-

teer soldiers.

APPROPRIATION ASKED. Tea Thaasaad Dalan Is the 1

t That Is

Washington, (Special). — Secretary of the Navy Moody transmitted to the House a request for a $10,000 appropriation to provide for the proper care of the remains of the victims of explosion on the battleship

Missouri.

The bureau of navigation of the navy department announce* that the W. J. Bogard, named in the dispatch of Admiral Barker of tbe 13th inst-, as having been killed in the Missoun explosion, and whose name could not be found on the records, has been identified as William Joseph Bougard. of Brooklyn, N. Y„ whose next of kin James Bongard. a brother, who lives 250 Prospect avenue, Brooklyn. N. .. This man was blown overboard and his body has not been recovered. The bureau of navigation also anounces that the B. J. Mulligan, mentioned in the same dispatch a* having 1 killed, and whose name could not found on the record*, is John Joseph Mulligan, landsman, of Provi-. dence, R. I. Hi* next of kin is given as James Mulligan, of 206 Chestnut street. Providence, R. I- bis father.

, _.jra Barton. Mr*. McComas, the wife of the Maryland Senator, died at her Wash-

Tbe House of Representatives pasted the Philippine Bill President Roosevelt has decided to appoint James Holland judge of the recently created eastern district ol Pennsylvania The Comp authorized th- - of Clarksburg, W. Va, to reopen for

business.

The Senate Committee on Postof_;es and Post Roads will investigate the workings of the Postoffice' De-

partment.

Arthur L. Orrison, a juror in the Watson embezzlement trial, was «entenced to jail for contempt of court. The American Federation of Labor bat arranged its exhibit for the St.

Louis Exposition.

By a decisive vote the Senate pet itself on record against any investigation of the Postoffice Department

at this session of Congress.

Senator McComas introduced a but to extend tbe Coastwise Shipping Laws to tbe Panama Canal rone. Secretary Moody declared himself opposed to the proposed bill for tbe creation of a general staff in the Navy. A resolation was mtrodneed m the House to ask the Secretary of the Interior if the officials involved in the land fraud* were still in the public

service, and if so. why. ~ pnssee th

The House passed the bill appro-pria-.ng $34xxxooo for river and harbor