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SEATTLE, April 26.—As the steamer Alameda was berth
ing yesterday afternoon at Pier 2, the strong tides carried her
away from her dock to the adjoining Colman Dock. She
crashed into the little steamer Telegraph that was tied up and
struck the wharf with considerable force. The Telegraph had
a hole stove in her to such an extent that she soon sank. Her
crew and a few passengers were on board. Some of them were
injured from the impact, but all were gotten off before the ves
sel filled with water. The Alameda was returning from the oil
dock and was in charge of Port Captain John O’Brien. She
had expected to load freight and sail for Southwestern Alas
ka this morning. While the accident did not seriously damage
her, some repairs are necessary and she will not likely sail to
day.
PHILADELPHIA, April 26.—The operators and the min
ers empolyed in the anthracite coal fields have reached an
agreement to end the present strike on May 1st. This agree
ment comes as glad tidings, not only to the men and families
who have been without work during the past four weeks, bul
also to the workers in various industries that have been crip
pled because of the tie-up. Persistent efforts have been made
since April 10 to bring the strike to an end. At that time
George F. Baer, president of the Reading company, proposed
on behalf of the operators to arbitrate their differences, that is
to let the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, which settled the
strike of 1902, investigate present conditions and decide wheth
er any modification of the commission’s award is necessary at
this time.
In the discussion that followed the miners practically
threw this offer aside and the conference agreed finally to ap
point sub-committees to take up the demands of the miners
with power to make recommendations for adjustments. The
sub-committees were immediately appointed as follows: Oper
ators, TV. J. Richards, vice president and general manager of
the Reading Coal & Iron Company; S. D. TVarriner, vice presi
dent and general manager of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company;
Col. R. A. Phillips, general manager of the coal department of
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, and
Morris Williams, president of the Susquehanna Coal Company,
r. subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Miners,
John P. White, national president of the United Mine Workers
of America; John T. Dempsey, Thomas Kennedy and John Fa
liy, respectively presidents of Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9, of the
Miners’ Union.
This committee has been at work on and off for two
weeks trying to agree on an adjustment of the various differ
ences that would be mutually satisfactory. When they final
ly succeeded, the matter was referred to the higher authorities
and has been accepted. The agreement for a new scale con
tmplates an increase in wages of about 10 per cent, and an ad
templates an increase in wages of about 10 per cent, and an ad
mum to be paid miners and laborers, number of hours per day
for all classes, rights of weighmen and check docking bosses,
and various other matters.
The suspension was ordered on April first by the United
Mine Workers, at the expiration of the scale that has been ef
fective for three years. Among other things the miners de
manded an increase in wages of 20 per cent. Many of the op
erators favored giving 10 per cent but others opposed that, and
declined to make other concessions.
FAIRBANKS, April 22.—There is promise of a big clean
up this spring. The first returns were brought to town on Sat
urday evening, from two parties operating on a new pay streak
on Eva Creek. Wagner & Co. brought in twenty thousand
dollars in gold dust, as the result of five days’ sluicing. Hor
ner & Co. had over seventeen thousand, which they took out in
three days. As there was very little snow this winter water for
sluicing is likely to be scarce. Notwithstanding, it is expected
there will be a creditable showing when the season’s work is
ended.
NEW YORK, April 23.—Warren S. Stone, at the head of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, last night ordered
the engineers on all the railroads on the eastern lines to quit
work at the expiration of thirty-six hours. Negotiations had
been going on for some days past between railroad officials
and the labor organization to arrive at terms before a strike
was ordered for an advance in wages. They were not success
ful, and as a consequence Mr. Stone’s order was forthcoming.
However, a short time after he issued it, he was induced to call
a halt. An offer came from certain federal officials offering
their services as mediators, and it was decided to give them a
chance to secure some concession before the men should be or
dered out.
KENNECOTT, April 22.—Miss Dora Keen started this
morning with an expedition to cilmb to the summit of Mount
Blackburn. She is accompanied by six men and a team of sev
en dogs. They are well outfittetd for a period of seven weeks,
although it is expected to accomplish the feat in from three to
five weeks. Miss Keen has arranged to have relays of supplies
on the mountain. She and two men will push ahead, and they
will keep in communication with the other party by the means
of mirrors that will reflect the sunlight, and with horns am
whistles. American flags will indicate the cache where sup
plies are left for the return trip. The party will travel early
and late, resting during that part of the day when the sun is
strong an dthe snow is soft. John E. Barrett has secured the
men for the expedition and he will lead them. The party will
go up the Kennecott glacier for thirty-one miles, thence on the
southeast side of the mountain a snow climb of 10,000 feet will
follow. This will be on a different side of the mountain than
was attempted last year, which previous experience will prove
of much value in the present attempt. The weather is mild, it
being 24 above zero when the expedition started this morning.
OF 2,340 ABOARD TITANIC, 1,595
WERE LOST AND 745 WERE SAVED
The following tabulation of the passengers and crew on board
the Titanic, with those saved and lost, has been compiled from
the figures in the statement issued by the committee of passen
gers at New York:
Approximate number of passengers aboard:
First class, 330.
Second class, 320.
Third class, 750.
Officers and crew, 040.
Total, 2,340.
Number of passengers saved by Carpathis:
First class, 210.
Second class, 125.
Third class, 200.
Total passengers saved, 535.
Members of crew saved:
Officers, 4
Seamen, 30.
Stewards, 06.
Firemen, 71.
Total number of crew saved, 210,
Total number perished, 1,505.
First and second cabin passengers, 650.
First and second cabin passengers saved, 335.
Total cabin passengers lost, 315.
On Sunday, April 14, 1912, at
about 11:40 p. m., on a cold, star
light night, in a smooth sea and with
ao moon, the great White Star liner
Titanic struck an iceberg which had
been reported to the bridge by the
lookout, but not early enough to
avoid collision. Steps were taken to
ascertain the damage and save pas
sengers and ship. Orders were given
to put on life belts and the boats
were lowered.
The ship sank off the Great Banks
of Newfoundland at about 2:20 a. m.
Monday, and the usual distress sig
nals were sent out by wireless and
rockets at intervals from the ship,
fortunately the wireless message
.vas received by the Cunarder Carpa
thia at about midnight and she ar
rived on the scene of the disaster at
about 4 a. m. Monday.
The Titanic struck amidships and,
ripped from stem to engine room by
:he great mass of ice, her side
was laid wide open. She quickly
listed to starboard and a shower of
ice fell on the forecastle deck. Short
ly before she sank she broke in two
ibaft the engine room, and as she
Jisappeared beneath the water the
expulsion of air caused two explo
sions, which were heard plainly by
che survivors adrift. A moment more
and the Titanic had gone to her doom
with the fated hundreds grouped on
.he after deck. Many of the men
with life preservers were seen to go
iown, despite the preservers, and
lead bodies floated on the surface as
;he last boats moved away.
The bulkhead system, though
probably working, prevailed only to
lelay the ship’s sinking. The posi
tion of the ship’s wound on the star
board quarter admitted icy water,
which caused the boilers to explode,
and these explosions broke the ship
in two. The crash against the ice
oerg, which had been sighted at only
a quarter of a mile, came almost si
multaneously with the click of the
levers operated from the bridge that
stopped the engines and closed the
air-tight doors.
Capt. Smith was on the bridge a
moment later. He summoned all on
board to put on life preservers and
ordered the lifeboats lowered. The
first boat had more male passengers,
as they were the first to reach the
deck. When the rush of frightened
men and women and crying children
to the decks began, the “women
first” rule was enforced. Officers
drew revolvers, but in most cases
there was no use for them. Captain
Smith was last seen on the bridge
just before the ship sank out of
sight, leaping only after the decks
had been washed away
Practically every woman and child
with the exception of those women
who refused to leave their husbands
were saved. Among those lost was
Mrs. Isidor Straus. The band play
sd until the vessel sank beneatn the
waters. The survivors on the life
boats saw the lights of the stricken
vessel glimmer to the last, heard her
band playing, and saw' the doomed
hundreds on her decks and heard
their groans and cries when the ves
sel sank. Most of the men rescued
were taken from rafts.
A passenger on the rescuing steam
ship gives the following account of
the rescue of the Titanic survivors:
“The Carpathia had changed her
course. Lifeboats w'ere sighted and
began to arrive—and soon, one by
one, they drew up to our side. There
w'ere sixteen in all, and the transfer
ring of the passengers was most pit
iable. The adults were assisted in
climbing the rope ladders by ropes
adjusted to their waists. The little
children and babies were hoisted to
the deck in bags. Some of the boats
were crowded, a few were not half
full. Some people were in full even
ing dress. Others were in their night
clothes and were wrapped in' blank
sts. These, with immigrants in all
manner of attire, were hurried into
the saloon for a hot breakfast.
“They had been in the open boats
for four or five hours in the most bit
ter air I ever experienced. There were
husbands without wives, wives with
out husbands, parents without chil
dren and children without parents.
But there were no demonstrations.
Mo sobs—scarcely a word was spok
sn. They seemed to be stunned.
“Immediately after breakfast di
vine service was held in the saloon.
£>ne woman died in the lifeboats, and
three others died soon after reaching
Bur deck, their bodies being buried
in the ^ea at 5 o’clock that after
noon.
“When her lifeboats pushed away
from the Titanic the steamer was
Brilliantly lightted, the band was
E>laying and the captain was standing
Bn the bridge giving directions. The
bow was well submerged and the keel
rose high above the water. Suddenly
the boat seemed to break in two. The
next moment everything disappeared.
“On our way back to New York we
steamed along the edge of a field of
ice which seemed limitless. As far
as the eye could see to the north
there was no blue water. At one time
1 counted thirteen icebergs.’’
ST. LOUIS, April 22.—Last night at sunset a terrific tor-1
nado swept over Southern Illinois and Northern Indiana. So
tar reported thirty-two were killed, hundreds were injured and
the damage to property was something appalling.
KANSAS CITY, April 22.—A tornado did considerable
damage to several small towns in this vicinity last night. Five
were killed and many houses were demolished at Yukon, Okla
homa; Bison and Waldron, Kansas. Many narrow escapes are
eported, while a number were more or less injured.
BIRMINGHAM, April 22.—A tornado passed over a sec
tion of Alabama near this city. The towns of Adamville and
Brookside were partially devastated. Many were injured and
fifteen were killed.
CHICAGO, April 23.—Later reports indicate that the re
cent tornado was one of the most destructive ever experienced
in this country. In the states of Illinois and Indiana ninety
were killed and 2,200 injured, while fifty were killed and many
injured in the southern states. Small towns were swept out of,
existence, fields were ruined and many farms and homes in
different sections were devastated.
The Cordova Fish Packers Associ
ation is pushing work with much en
ergy, in order to get started in the
9alting of salmon early in May. Yes
terday the services of Jack Shepard
were secured, as superintendent of
tne saltery. He has been engaged
In that business for nearly twenty
years', and for the past twelve years
has been at the Orca cannery. He
is thoroughly familiar with the work.
The company has now secured
scow No. 12 from the Katalla Com
jany and will take it to the loca
tion on Eyak Lake where the salting
will be done for the present. Sev
eral dorys will be built at once. It
is the intention to furnish fisher
men with gear and boats so that
they may gather in fish and sell to
the company. Arrangements have
also been made with Bill Byers to
furnish him the necessary parapher
nalia so that he may operate a small
saltery at Port Wells and have his
product handled by the new compa
ny of Cordova.
The Chitina Pharmacy carries a
complete line of drugs.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
I have leased my interest in the
Chitina Bakery and Coffee House to
Henry Gessner, who will collect ail
accounts and pay all obligations.
CARL SANGNETT.
NOTICE or- FORFEITURE
To Joseph F. Diggs, Mike Norton
and Dan Rice, their personal rep
resentatives and all persons claim
ing by, through or under them:
You and each of you are herebv
notified that the undersigned have
expended the sum of $300 in labor
and improvements upon the mining
claims known as The Jumbo, The
Chitina and The Lebanon, in the
Chitina Mining and Recording Dis
trict, and situated about two miles
west of Mile 109, Copper River &
Northwestern Railway, at the head
of Eagle Creek, Territory of Alaska,
and the amount was so expended
and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claims un
der the provisions of Sec. 2324, Re
vised Statutes of the United States,
and constitutes the annual assess
ment work for the year 1911, and if
within ninety days after last publi
cation of this notice you and each of
you fail to pay the undersigneu, as
co-owners, your proportion of the
expense for the year 1911, together
with the cost of this advertisement,
your and each of your interest in
said claims will become the proper
ty of the undersigned under Section
2324, Revised Statutes of the United
States.
JOHN AMBER,
OSSIAN ANDERSON,
Co-Owners,
Chitina, Alaska.
Date of first publication, March 9,
j.912.
Date of last publication, June 13,
1912.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby iven that the
partnership heretofore existing be
tween Dan McMillen and Swan Elm
green at Copper Mountain, is this
Jay dissolved and tnat Lucy Grimm
has taken the interest of Swan Elm
green. All debts of the former part
nership and Rll accounts due them
are assumed by the new partnership.
SWAN ELMGREEN.
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