The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1903, Page 2

Ship Shot Themselves Struggle in the Waves. ‘Cause wo took the Bolivar safe across the bay. Like the lucky, plucky men, sung by Rudyard Kipling in his famous Dallad of the Bolivar, were the six survivors of the Standard Oi! tank steamer Mexicano, wrecked off Cape Hatteras in Tuesday's hurricane, who back safe to port on the stenmer Vidar to-day. ¢ twenty-four souls on board the oll steamer only seven survived— men from all the world"—who drifted for the eternal sea.” teamen, from Finland; Leonidas Korpedes, ALL PHYSICAL WRECKS. ¢ween them and death. solute darkness added to their early terrors, GHOSE DEATH BY BULL TO DROWNING IN WREGK Survivors of the Steamer Mexicano, on Which Seventeen Lives Were ‘Lost, Tell How the Officers of the Sinking Geven men from all the world, back to docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road, drunk and raising cain; Seven men trom out o' hell—ain't the owners gay? ‘The ix men brought to pdrt by the Vidar, now at the American Sugar Refining docks in Williamsburg, are August Osterlund and Simon Baderea, firemen, Poohe and Juan Fontis, fremen, Portuguese, and Jose Clementine, Filipino from Manila. The seventh @urvivor, Domingo Verallobre, a Span- igh sailor, wee picked up by a phosphate steamer and carried to Norfolk, Va. Of the motley half a dozen who made port hore to-day all were physical Wrecks, The pounding seap had tossed them about the decks of the Mexi- @ano before she foundered until their bodies were bruised and bieoding. they went overboard they were tossed for ten hourg in a raging sea nothing but life buoys and the splintered planking of the wreck be- Suffering hungor, thirst and despeir, they were pounded and whirled by the mountainous breakers until they all but wont miad. The borrora of ab- Rather than hours in the turmoil of a Greek; Jose ecaman, 8 August Osterlund, who had the beat command of English, tald the awful wreck. He sald: : Bea ccoaght tae Macteate, Avese wonthbe' any gals that. bow. Ghe was 1 sted] scrow stenmer, nearly 2,09 tons, 270 test long and 8% beam. We were charter to the Standard Oil Company snd carried @ cargo of petroleum for Vera Crux. We lett Philadelphia Monday with twenty-four officers and men. Tuesday afternoon we ran into <he #torm forty miles off Hatteras. ‘WIND BIGHTY MILES AN HOUR. "We weathered it until nightfall, when the wind rope to eighty miles, fn the rain and darkness we lost our bearings. Hier Hy risking their lives, midnight the fi be fe hike ne selaceges He told “The boatswain refused to leave his bunk. “I'm # 1h hi fall ER z Jumped. “Before I hit the water I heard the crack of pI that I was being tossed like a feather on the Giving up and letting the waves take me under and end bruised and epent with the exertion of keeping 4 THIRST CAME WITH THE SUN, fe “Day came at last and there were only seven i sea. All about us tossed the wrecknge of the Mexicano. Off to the south " I could see a steamer, but it was going away and we could neither ball it nor expect we could be seen, I shouted encouragement to the men, who I could see that they were giving up, and I cursed the second mate when he took off his life-buoy and handed ‘Dégan to thirst as the sun grew hot. it to a sailor who had nothing but a broken spar shouted good-by to us and went down. the deck of the Vidar, and when I awoke and had BELIEVE MAN WAS BLOWN OFF BRIDGE eerie ‘Broor Salstrom, Swedieh Soulp- tor, Has Been Missing Since Fierce Storm of Wednesday] %: i sd aclast MAY Prove to be another death Ing to the grest storm of Wedaes- | Was Feported to Brooklyn Yolice to-day, Two friends of & Swedinh sculptor, b Brooklya ridge In the Willlam Julian and ; M9 Bast Thirty-ninth ry ald that thelr Unis country q so tow were tions 1 missing THHERAN, ‘we broke into the cargo and poured gallons of of! on the sea, effect on the water, which was bréaking over the deck. The about, but they stood to the oll pumps until the captain wind ehifted to the northwest, and blew with tre- Gea ewopt the ship from stem to stern. Lifebosts ang ik were swept away. Then the ventilatots went and the ped the engines, Kegealbciee Sead himiself to the forecastle, and told us He told Ws to put on our life preservers and be ‘We're all on an equal footing now,’ he said. if we liked we could come to not half enough life preservers and what we hed up what timber we could put oup bands on. ship,” he paid, ‘Tw@ of the stokera remained below, taking We would weather the blow, The rest of us went to the the officers. Capt, King was very quiet. The offlcers whis- s, themselves. ‘We couldn't see an arm's length shead. The ithe wind and the rage of the water were awful. We could think ‘ing but keeping on our feet and we knew just what wen ahead of The end came pretty soun. A tremendous wave lifted us until the eck was almost perpendicular. Then we knew whe waa cerning turtle, an had chosen death to drowning. For a long time I knew nothing pounded me on the chest and I grabbed it. It wes a broken timber the Mexicano and I clung to it I could hear shouts about me, and Tcannot tell you how long it seemed until morning. Somehow T hoped for the light, for in the darkness I had to fight hard to keep from “Bive hours after daybreak, and they were the longest five hours of fy life, a sbip bore down on us. We shouted and they put out a boat. “Rescue was none too soon, for in another hour we would -have ‘deen dead or mad. Clementine had elready lost his senees, and when he was taken aboard he tried to jump back into the sea, I fainted when I geached did not wake until Quarantine was reached. All of us are well again, and we raid God that Capt. Gorrensen and the Vidar came across our The six refugees brought the pieces of Wreckage, to which they had clung, aboerd the Vidar as souvenirs, and they clung to them to-day with | Superstitions devotion. Capt. Sorrenson accompanied the men to Bilis Iel- 4 Gnd and will report their predicament to the Dnglish Consul. Re eer lic. lencieesnara | abo tne was taicen i with Cover and was put in Bellevue Hospital. #{e was con- gerbes ‘Wednesday and they decided remove him to @ room at No. 463 Fecias attest, Brooklyn, Saistrom was strong enough to walk and the friends thougn’ the bridge would do him good. At the firat tower he became tired. The two men gaid they would walk on slowly, and when he was rested he might over- prides, when the Se ite A ert Fm tt aa io ut ce Catena LTE wn into the Users that he was Bearoh of Hea the aed fu aM ba tn HOW THEY RUN PERBIA, Ministers have bred appginted to pon ‘week ‘ell oa "Ria APO Sl. Ws Capt. King gave orderg We pitched and ‘Let wotng down; I'm going ante hed eracaped ond knew The house {s a breakers, ‘Then some- stories high. The for. all through the Bri Mrs. Brestm out, anta on the second lowed ‘them before end it all, I was cold from drowning. men about me in the first on the scene longest ladder react to float on. Then he ‘Wentones and the the ground. food I fell askeep and BOY UNDER Edwerd Primont, ing” on the back walk across ot pte ¢ jonah where (hey i SAULT GTR MARIE, Bich, Gnd Police Are Notified, wl wae “had one ae: Pending the outcome of the financhal dif- the | ere feulties in whieh the Consolidated Lake Satins nat as: with 494 trace Es uni President Shields Ons rallwe: vary @ive any trace o} Frank B. Appointed to pr pag Bs Persia, Sept. 18.—Five FIREMEN SAVE [KANG OF SERVIA WHOLE FAMILY; REPORTED SLAIN Scaling Ladder Fastened to Roof of Burning’ Tenement After Escape by Stairway Had Been Cut Off by Flames, ‘Tro firemen with scaling ladders ree- oued Frank Wentones, his wife and his four-year-old daughter from the root of 8 buming tenément-house at No. Delancey street to-day. The other ten-|be 9 canard started in the Paris Bourse, fore the read to safety was blocked. t of Ieane Breitman, on the ground ‘Mire. Breitman, in lighting her Btove, set fire to & curtain, alarm was given tt had eaten jts way leaving the doors open. The ton. fire. When Wenton went to descend they fowmd thelr way pages al co Mo CEs We L1G) Hook ang Ladder Company No. fogr. Firemen John MoGowon and H, C."Dalley mounted te the top of the ladder and Dailey fastened a scaling ladder to the edge of the root. Dewn thi ladder he carri over to McGowan, who took them to ‘The bullding wae completely gutted. Bdward Primont’s and Foot Out of, No. 201 West Fiftleth street, pad his ekcull fractured and left foot amputated | ti while stealing a ride on « sopthbound Broadway car to-day. He was “hitoh-| ol gecond street and Seventh avenue, when he jumped off, landing in front of @ fhorthbound Columbus avenue car. Before the motorman had time to ne ier condition. There were no erresta Operations Temporarily. Superior Company js now involved, oe mt he EN Hea [,, saan SURVIVORS OF THR WRECKED OIL TANK STEAMER MEXICANO, ON WHICH. SEVENTEEN LIVES WERE LOST, THE SHIP WHICH SAVED THEM AND HER CAPTA IN, Rumor in Patten and London that Peter, the New Ruler, Had Been Agsasginated, but Story Laoks Confirmation. © LONDON, 1%.—No confirmation has been tee! of the report which renaghed London to-day that King Peter of Servie had been aseissinated. In 1%] many quarters’ the report 1s believed to where Servian ponds fell one franc and twenty centimes. A despatch from Paris this afternoon gave an explanation of the Servian ryl- "a trouble and the possible basis of the inaor of at lou. The despatch that offfcial adyices trom Belarade Inddcate that King Peter's recent retire- ment of Col. Nichtich from the Impor- tat position of Departmental Chief in the Mintatry for War 1s the beginning of a movement looking to the separation at King Peter from the conspirators jwho took part in the rupee ot pot satel Bee aad fe King Alexander and Ques! pata 4 yd Nichtich, the leader of the eee ‘was Conapicuously honored and is now degraded as the result of widespread z by by the stairway be- Tear tenement tour | fire originated in the | When the eitman apartments. dignation at the favor shown King toward the participants in ne Aseaszinations. The Paris Temps’ Belgrade corre- spondent says the élections for mem- bere of the Skupehtina Monday promise to resvit in a majority fayor-| able to the geparation of the King trom the regicid There has been plenty of interior trouble in Servis since: King Peter took Bis throm. Qn one side he bad an ele ment that démanded the punishment of the army officers who assassinated the former King end Queen. On the other side he had the powerful influences that rg ht about the Q at these was after the alarm. The hes only to the third Wentones, Mrs. itd, turging them CAR WHEELS. all Fractured twelve years old, of ot the car at Fifty- the car the boy #was under the An ambulance was summoned and he It Hospital in a “ERIE NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. Gun rises. 6.48/Bun sete, 6.05/Moon Flees, 2.89 THD TIDES. eof OPS Pont oF NEW ¥ or NEW rorx. Got. 13.— has ined orders to ‘oper- of iS t' comprehensive branches, is the success- OM) woman to attain the position of a pro- Jut.| fessor at Golumbia, but she !s one of 1 !@epartment of physics, =jmatural phenomeyon. After teaching at ae svineat g He Coler Charles F, Murphy fairly to Tammany Hall to-day, | absence of two days. He was | He wouldn't ‘discuss the 1} had only taken a day off at yesterday and had made no Dan McMahon there and nobc | said the leader, "Oh, town in the evening.” “I have no (dea.” “But you are quoted as favoi Clean, and’'— “I can't help how they quo! have no candidate," leader smiling. COLUMBIA'S FIRST WOMAN PROFESSOR Miss Margaret Te gaa Ph. Dy Will Be at the Head of the De- partment of Physics This! Year. ' should be nominated?" “I have no candidate. That settie that." Mayor and € cording to some authorities." “I think Coler would make candidate. 1 don't gee why he before. He would be making sacrifice to run, however. would accept | don't know of who would object.’’ “But it 1s sald great pressure put upon Mr. Coler to prevail | to run. For the first timesin the history of Columbia University a woman holds the position of professor. Miss Margaret E. Maitby, Ph. D., one of the foremost scholars in the etudy of physics and Its haven't seen him, nor have Sheviin, Miss Maltby the first two women who are at the head of a Miss Whiting, of Wellesley, sharing the honors with 7| the newly appointed professor. ‘Miss Maltby was first graduated from Oberlin College, where she took a gem |’ eral course of study. She came to New es ee and later went to the Massa- chusetts Bchool of Technology, where she wes graduated. Coming to Now York again she decided to pursue her ream of becoming an artist, having talent in this direction, =~ ‘While studying here she was offered the position of instructor at Wel.esley, ‘and the offer was eo flattering that she accepted. This was the turning pont in her career, and she determined to devote her future to the study of the,} Commissioner Linde Names Frederick C. C. C. Martin. ck | Wellesley five years she went abroad) ears ‘and took her doctorate at Goettingen In |} Ph. D. added to her a Sas: remained in Goetiingen for researc! Frederick C. Pa. Kuntze, He was named Department hal, to take who d!:d recently. neer Kuntze !s one of t by the Bridge Commis by Com: the place e became private research 3s “President Kohkrauach, ol jah ‘Technische Rejphaans ian Bridge now bull reamed At" at Clarke uiniveraityin After returning.to.Am became ant Ingtructor tJ Rarnard ‘Col- Se, ‘and now hi ‘find of koow! . which: Is Bngineer Mart has placed I he in ‘the professor's ell men ted le nay mater fender interrupted , York, Shea oF any PENCOVD, PA.,M BRIDGE ENGINEER of consulting engineer to tho fed with the Amerora Trldge @ prospective MURPHY TALKS ABOUT MPGLELLAN AND COLER ‘Tammany Leader Now De Has No Candidate ; Has Made No. Slates, bey Would Make an Candidate for Comptroller. “flew in? after an “breeay." etters of | Grout and Swangtrom, and declared he his home slates. “I saw President Cram, of the Tam~ many General Committee, an nd Judge xly else," es, I went down- “Is McClellan going to be nominated?” an Evening World reporter asked. ring Mo- te me; I the “Then you have never said MoClellan ought to he ticket Is to be McClellan for er for Comptroller, ac: a strong wouldn't make as good a Comptroller as he did a greut I¢ Mr, Coler any one has been upon him “I don't know anything about that. I) he I seen of the AN nthal Kuntze to Take the Place of the Late @&ammany Hall hopes to make cam- i material out of the appointment to a six thousand dollar a yes of Pen- for the iniseioner of C. C. experts joners to jon the steel specifications for tiie ldlig and biddor In's plage aetree Brooklyn members of the City Commit- tee in several days." “Mr. McLaughlin?" “Say, I'd like to see my double, who Mr. McLaughlin. follow who was at the Republican State Convention." 4 “Mr. Uruee, of the Republican County ing his hand across the nea. and run- ning Tammany as of old." “Is that all Mr. Bruce has to say? Well, let him say it, I've nothing to Has No Candidate. “It is said that there is strong pres- spre brought against the nomination of McClellan, Is it tr ‘As 1 101d you, I have no candidate, I haven't any idsa whom the c.m- mittee will favor,” replied Mr, Mur- phy. “Unless I am entirely misled,” said a ‘Tammany ler to-day, ‘The’ Demo- cratic candidate for Mayor will be Bird 3. Color and George B.: MeClellan will be put up for President of Manhattan Borough. 1 visited Leader Murphy at his home my duty as one of the district leaders to give hiin my views whether he liked them or note district | Mr, candidate Coler was the strongest, many hundreds of votes all among my people. Was Not Displeased. “I gathered from Mr. Murphy's man- ner that he was not displeased und that he is still of receptive mind, OUR | he did not commit him: a doling nis best to jearn th timent of the whole organizatio BACK UP If Coffee Is the “Hidden Worker” in Your Case. Study your diet, and see if in a natural way you can butld back to good health, which means steady easy. feoling of being well. If you! drink coffee and are ill, you should make sure whether coffee is or is not! the cause of the trouble, The easy way !s to shift to Postum for a couple of weeks and then weigh results. 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