The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1900, Page 1

PRICE ON CENT. “JUNE 30, 1900, OREGON OOOMED: HULL STOVE IN. ete Steamers Sent to Help Her, bl ew Tl GREAT STEAMSHIP KAISER WILHELM. Total Loss. WASHINGTON, June 30 __ YOUNG OARSMEN officiab report of Capt. Wile indetes tht IN FINE SHAPE. the crack battle-shp Oregon is doomed.’ She is fast on Pinnacle Rock, fifty miles = fea on the from Chefoo, with a rock through her side udson Bring Together : | Crack Crews of the and several holes in her bottom. | East and West This Balanced on this reef, the huge vessel,| Afternoon. weighing over 10,000 tons, must either break he: back from the straining or, if a storm comes, slip into deep water and sink. The Zafiro and Iris have been sent to aid| her, but many naval officials have little hope| eepsie. she can be saved, ‘This in regatia day on the na. The following is Capt. Wilde’s desprtch relative to the som at Poughkeepsie, The pro- grounding of the Oregon: gramme te: “anchored yesterday dense fog in seventeen fathoms,| 4 o'clock —'Vareity ftour-oared | three miles south of How-Ke Light, Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. Sent shell race between Pennsylvania, | out two boats and sounded, least water 51-2 fathoms, |Cormell and Cotembia crews. Got under way and struck pinnacle rock.| 5 @’el%ek—Freshmen etaht-oared Perfectly smooth, |"*ee betwee Peowsyivanta, Cor. |nell, Calambia and Wisconsin we. a'elock—'Vareity [race between Pennsytv: |nell, Cotambia, Wiseonsia | Georactown crews. Weather prediction—Fair. fT —PAULIP | All Depends on the Water| for a Grand Contest in| Each of the Races—| | Good Crowd at Pough- | g with conges Weather clear. Much water in forward compartment “Shall charter steamer if possibie a} Chefoo and lighten) ship. Rock through side of ship above double Bottom about "s frame 19. Small holes also through bottom of ship “WILDE.” A despatch from Hongkong says: “Princeton arrived. Brooklyn leaves for Nagasaki. The Zafiro at Chefoo has been sent to assist Oregon, reported by Rogers on a rock south How-Ke Light. Iris going to her assistance REMEY.” CHINA’S ACT OF WAR CAUSES CABINET COUNCIL (Special to The Bveniag World) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June ®.- Forty young athletes, trained to the minute, perfect human mechanisms, muscles of steel an pliant as those of @ thoroughbred racer, promise to * | make to-day's ‘varsity race one of the most interesting and exciting on record (Rpecial » The Brening Wort) , ing Ohina’s act of war in giving the} Seldom has there been so much un- WASHNGTON, June 30.—A Cabi- | envoys twenty-four hours in which| certainty attending « contest of ‘s- ‘gmt council of war was held to-day. | |t0 leave Peking, this being followed hmodhoed ot anita that ha ont the “secretary Hay, although ill, was| by the attack on the relief force by present, an¢ he summoned the tl troops. Becretaries to the conference, Presi There ts no doubt that thie consti- eee ee atea dent MeKiniey was in communica-| tog an act of war, and the question| © me ae hy 1 ant ae , Hom-with the council by telephone.) y., debated whether Minister Wu,|™*" a ellen This extraordinary Cabinet meet- the Chinese representative, should be Admiral, inte a ae STE PHILIP =: ‘ . re aie Rectedion tn tanedry Set | Peetherson'’s tot & &ae Mane ae Gumsbocceate Clothes Adve fan Into the street, amd he was severely and Kilied Bim. borne before the diese gould be ox ‘Thomas Veatherson, 9 clerk in the (Continued om Sisth Page) LE REAR ADMIRAL JOHN Ww. #4 the Young of which 7? inverestes ee eee ee a ee NORTH GERNAN LLOYD DOCKS DESTROVEDL i TEE a SAALE, MAIN AND BREMEN ABLAZE; At A) = " STEAMERS ABLAZE, Arts" 0m ree frieght lighters were also et nai woe i Hero of the eo Sea at! Santiago Expires Suddenly. bran hrietian Assacta Helen Gould te ‘| WRATHER-COOLER —— PRICK ONE re It is believed that fifty sailors on board the. iships partly descroyed in the Hoboken fire this et ‘ternoon were either drowned or burned to death, a \ A slight blaze in @ bale of cotton at) leaping, as if to dey , a 7. ie ‘our them Y pi eretaale thie afternoon on pr Ne. & i tewes “> 5 * The vessels blew their great e y became a och ina wild alarm, haste | Ma yt the buge * ning the tugs orage fireboats that hy at started for the mpeg On perceiving the flame and front | ALL ABLAZE, At the plore were the big steamships | Hawsers were cut off or cnt from the a Kaiser Withetm dee Grosse, Bremen, | "iver Wilhelm and the other passeme iil Maine and several freight shipa of the “** Vessels, and wilting tugs q line | eked them out into the stream, d So rapid was the spread of the famce| "°C *bIaze, and it seemed that the great leviathan, the Matser) "°° '9Med to destruction. tm = Jhe'm, wae towed to midstream un- seathed only by the quickest aetion. * for ite full length of | a quarter of a mile along the water wind that swept up the river, re Drought to bear, the fire: 4 boats x The Main, the Saale and the Bremen, | rker, W. le Stromg, Sethe however, could not be snatched from said ty Jotning fm the their point of danger and both big ’ nok fire. onenee © * atstance of ! ° m thelr davites f whieh had puile@ i} parts of the river and harbor ¢ Rip into midstream rescued twentye 4 four the steamers ‘seamen, whe nat Gutclity cat The crews of the tugs The Thingvalia line piers ant several 7 enveloped in wet - arce storehouses in the t were | jerdangered. buy neiok wind blew th her sailors were seen at the pote red tha t the Rear. | amen toward the river away from sur. | heles of t orging plteously tor « buttress he it scne went om SEVERAL PERSONS HURT. how to in scan ee oo TP SOE rows of the Vessels as well as the| mall army of wngrhoremen at once liurned thelr attention to the ships, toward