The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1904, Page 3

’ THREE HEROES SAVED BATTLESHIP MISSOURI One Man Jumped Overboard with a Bag of Powder and Was: Drowned, While}: Two Others Shut Off Flames from the Magazine-—-Only One-Survives. PENSACOLA, Fla, April 15.--That the battle-ship Missouri was | “ saved from total anihilation is now proven to have been due to the quick wit and sublime heroism of three enlisted men, two of whom met death in their efforts to save their comrades and the ship. These three heroes were J. E. Knight, an able seaman, who, with Gunner’s Mate Monson, closed the magazine in the face of great danger and so prevented the ship being blown up, and W. J. Bongard, an ordinary seaman, who snatched a bag of powder from near the exploded gun and jumped overboard with it. He was drowned. Knight also'is dead. the explosion happened. The flames surrounded him quickly and he realized that in half a minute they would reach the magazine. This would mean the total annihilation of the ship and his fellows. Ran Through Flames. There were no officers near to command him, The chances were his to take or run away from. Without hesitation he dashed through the flames to the door of the magazine, At any instant the flames might reach the magazine and he would be blown up with the ship. Gunner's Mate Monson was working with Knight in the handling room, where there were four charges of powder piled up against the open doors of the magazine. When the explosion occurred above Monson grabbed one of the charges and went inside with it. He then pulled the doors from the inside, while Knight pushed them shut. Monson thus helped to make him- self a prisoner. When the magazine doors had been shut and locked Knight staggered to the deck to report to the officers what he had done. The flames he had inhaled were burning him, and he was half mad with pain and excitement. After reporting he became frenzied. ¥ All Cheered the Hero. 3 When the officers and men realized from what a fate they had been raved by Knight he was cheered to the echo, and arms were thrown about him, some of the men actually kissing him. ‘When his frenay had been subdued Knight became unconscious. He was taken to' the hospital, and by careful treatment was revived several hours later. He managed to tell the details of what had happened in -the| handling room, but the flames he had inhaled had done so much damage end the shock had been so great that he could not live. He lapsed into unconsciousnéss again and died. While Knight was making his report on deck Monson was a prisoner in the magazine, not knowing whether the ship was on fire, sinking or what. Whatever might have happened there was no chance for him to escape from the prison in which he had helped lock himself. The magazine was flooded to prevent explosion, and when the doors Were opened he was found standing in water up to his chin and ‘Darely Allve, 5 . In addition to giving Knight and Monson credit for thetr heroic work, Rear-Admiral Barker also gives a hero's place to Bongard in his official report. ~ While Knight and Monson undoubtedly saved the ship, that she was threatened from more than one direction, Bongard’s brave action the @fforts of Knight and Monson in vain, : So great was the fear at the moment that the ship would be blown up by flames communicating wita the magazine that the order was given to beach her and she was headed for the shoals nine miles away. The bodies of the officers that have been lying in state at the Osceola it 1s quite plain and that but for might haye been * Club start on the north-bound train, leaving at noon to-day for their homes. A great escort from all the naval vessels in the harbor wii: accompany the bodies to the train. e ‘The Missouri will go at once to New York to be docked'as soon as the Court of Inquiry makes its findings. COURT NOT LIKELY TO BLAME ANY. ‘The Court reconvened on the battle-ship to-day. Admiral Coghlan, of the Caribbean Squadron, is President, and the members have been selected @s far as possible from vessels of other squadrons. It is not expected, however, by those who are familiar with the cir cumstand@s, that the Court will recommend any proceedings in the case, in- asmuch as those who are presumed to be at fault were the turret officers &nd were killed by the explosion. The bodies of the victims are being sent away as make the requests. It is expected that some of the sixteen bodies buried yesterday will be disinterred, HERO A BROOKLYNITE. WASHINGTON, April 15.—The following announcement was made to- day at the Navy Department: “The W. J. Bogard named ‘in the despatch of April 13, whose , name could not be found on the records,:had been identified as William Joseph Bongard, residence Brooklyn, N. Y., next of kin James Bongard, brother, No. 205 Prospect’ avenue, Brodklyn, The man's body has not been re- covered. WOMEN STUDENTS 'INVALID, CRAZED VISIT COURT-HOUSE BY PAIN, A SUICIDE Forty-five Fair Members of|John Pursell Threw Himself League for Political Educa-| from First-Story Window at tion Anxious to Learn How) ‘His Home and Was Found Justice Is Dispensed Here. Dead on the Sidewalk. Forty-five stagents of the League for sPolitical Education, with its President,| Miss Adele M. Fields, descended. in a body to-day upon the Tweed Court House and the Supreme Court to study the machinery of justice in operation. How much they have to learn may be ®athered from the question asked of an Evening World reporter by the advan Suard of three pretty girls: ee John Pursell. of No. 596 Park avenue, Brooklyn, craged by pain an- insomnia following a severe attack of inflamma- tory rheumatism, threw himself trom the window of the first story of his house to-day and was found dead on the sidewalk, Purso}l had been {ll for some time, but lately. his sickness proved so tor turesome that the man’s nervous ‘Can you 1 " e tem gave wa. He did not sleep Court, meets find ‘who fs the usages | wink lat night. suffering the nfost {n- “Bach of the twenty-two dors vis-| tense pain all the time. ible from this perch in the upper ro- tunda-is the door toa Supreme Court, ‘with a Justien in each,” was the reply. next arrivals asked where w. ———— SYMO.18 BILL PASSED. WASHINGTON, April 15.1—The Joint se. an Fitageraid. He and aj Tesolution authorizing Major aT. w. : a cane, Symons of the Co eers a halt hour 1p Justice Fitager- mh iting. En ieee nienenere he. f with the, notin fi a" Pedr) vee ail over on hy f debate fast as their relatives) | Hall, one of the richest women in West) a ee Pita PLAN OF TURRET 095-* 2:2. G2- le Tee THE-WORDD! FRIDAY FYENING, APIO 15, 1008. TWELVE-INCH GUN AMMUNITION HOIST AND MAGAZINE, OF THE MISSOURI, SHOWING THE H SESE SSSHSESHLSOSS IO HOOSECSHOTIEODS 1 OVO TD OF CHEROHS PehODP SLO ROO 1M BIGHT. AMMUNITION ae howe MAGAZING Ce ee a eS He was at work in the handling room when | *®¢¢¢4¢t00e+00060000O9OtOSOOo Pe OPOHO44 49006 9 99OIHO5-64 ATTEMPTED 10 DIE AT GIRL'S DOOR | |His Love ‘Rejected, Albert J. | Retzel Shoots Himself in the Hallway of Tenement Where Young Woman Lives. Despondent because the e had given him up for anot the po Nee si Albert J. Retzel, twenty-three years old, an electrician, of No, 18> Third avenue, shot himself in the left breast in the hallway on the fourth floor of No. 387 East Tenth street. He fell near the door of the apart- ment, Where lives Miss Lizzie Schieben- bush. The shot was heard by tenants, who found the man unconscious. Po4| Meeman Woodrich, of the Fifth Street Station, was notified and had the man removed to Bellevue Hospital, » prisoner, charged with attempted sul- clde. It is sald that he ts in a serfous condition. : Miss Schiebenbush told the police, they say, that Retze) had paid her a great deal of attention, but she did not j love him and told him so. Last night | she went out with a young man and | Retzel was so informed by the girl's mother when he called. Retael watted in tho hallway until Miss Schieben- bush returned and ther pleaded with her to receive his love. ‘Bhe says he tried to fallow her into | the apartment, but she shut the door, [closing him out. A moment later sh heard a t, and opening the door saw Retzel’s unconscious form Just outside. Retzel formerly was & soidler in the Philippines. He loved Miss Schieben- bush before he enlisted. Having been |told at the, outbreak of the war that unless he went to work he never could win her hand, Retzel went to the wars, But on his return he refused to do any |manual labor toward his own support, and the young woman refused again |to give him her hand. Retzel has two | married sisters living at No. 188 Third avenue. he loved KEEL Pere 429949 9444HHO1OO2O | BOY OF 4 KILLED | WOMEN ARRESTED: BY BROTHER OF 8 MAN'S $80 MISSING Detectives Raid House on Com- plaint of Waldorf-Astoria Guest,, Who Says He Was! Robbed There. Julius Weyh, While Playing with a Loaded Revolver, Sends a Bullet. Through His Little | Brother Johnny’s Heart. Acting upon the complaint of George Branson, a guest at the Waldorf- Detectives Matineau and Ray. of the West Forty-seventh streets ton, to-day raided a house in W Forty-fifti street. Brunson reported t,| that he had been robbed of $90 by a ting | Woman. awe- All the Inmates were gathered in a of No. R Astoria, Fight-year-old Julius Weyh, 1i06 Fulton street, Ea shot the Infant through th arraigned in the Childri Brooklyn, to-day, the boy Brunson ~ ie There are six children in the Werh Wa hehe AM teed ; sieht a z accused he family, Joseph, eighteen years old, th e did not migs the K until he haa oldest of the family, Who, on July] 7, ihe mouse: Mise Nelson, who is 4 last, bought the pistol with which his thirty-two years old, declared that she four-year-old brother was killed. ~After| was ongaged in housework at that place celebrating the day with it he locked it) and denied all complicity in the robbery. in his tool chest. Before the rald Brunson told his Yesterday afternoon, while his \troubles to @ policeman, who, however, Was unable to effect anh entrance Into mother was busy in her millinery store below, little Julius found the key. aid that he had met a woman, the name of Emma Nelson, i the money, | the place. When the detectives arrived found | tn There were still two balls in the re-|f" Closet. “A mun’ who. sald tis name volver, No report of the shot was, Wax Walter Harris and his address heard, but when thirteen-year-old | Montclair, N. J., also was found on the premises, At the police station he made the discovery of the reason of the raid, Searching his own pockets, he, too, de- clared that he had suffered a monetary Jons, the amount of which he declined to ve. Pearl Weyh came home from school and wert up ‘to the living room she found little Johnny lying on the bed dead A physician was summoned and it was found that the child pad been shot through the heart. Jullus had hidden himself In’ the back yard, after replac- ing the revolver ip “his ‘brother's toot chest and locking ft. It was not until late last night that any account of the shooting could be drawn. from the frightened boy. i : Jullus said to an Evening World re= rter to-day: “1 found the key to my brother's tool chest and T went up to the room to open it. I found a pistol there and showed it to” my little Drother, ‘hen we played Indians £ pulled the trigger and It went off. “After that 1 ge ne Miss Nelson was charged with larceny and minor charges were brought against the other inmate: so seared that 1 ran doriy sister coming downstairs. $$ FALL BROKE EVERY BONE IN HIS BODY; Conroy Tumbled Six Stories in New Building and Died While Being Carried from Ambu- lance to Hospital. A man supposed to be William Con- roy, fifty-five years old, address un- known, fell to-day from the sixth floor to the cellar at the new Featherstone Bullding, at Thirtieth street and Lex- ington avenue, reeviving injuries from which he died as he was being carried into Bellevue Hospital from an embu- lance, Conroy lost his footing while ing at the edge of the elevator and his body shot downward to the cellar, striking a number of beams in its descent, Workmen found him un- conscious and apparently dying. | While one ran to notify the police, another summoned Father Donohoe, of Bt. Stephen's Church, vat Twenty-elghth Street. and Lexington avenue, who ad- ministered the last rites of the church, An examination by the surgeons | showed that, practically every bone in Conroy's body een broken, in- cluding a fracture at the base of the skull. Internal hemorrhages caused bis death, $45,000 TO CHARITY. ‘Institutions Share in $600,000 Ea- tate Left by Woman. (Special to The Evening Wérid.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April 15.— Under the will of Miss Martha Jane tand- chester County, which was filed with Surrogate Silkman to-day, table institutions and a bequests amounting to $46,000, while two nephews and two nieces inherit the re- mainder of the estate, which Js eati- mated to be worth $600,000, in addition to a large collection of diamonds, stat- war: a the bequests to charity: the Midnight Mission of | ung Men's Christlan A Manhattan Sheltering Arm: (Protestant Episcopal Church Misslo ary Society for Seamen of New York, Bethlehem Day Nursery of the Chyrch of the Incarnation, and $5,000 each to the New York Association for Improv- Ing the Condition of the Poor, Church | of the Incarnation, New York: Eptsco- 1 ist Church “of Pa ot ‘his action, and the. money to pay up and I grew so awful frightened that I'went info the cellar and hid tayselt.* is exclusively When y before Magis- RPAteE vas trembling Iilee | used by f. de .was committed to the care a leat. of the Children's Soctety examination. FUNDS FOR DOUBLE DIVORCE. Fiancee Willing to Furnish Cash to Make Sweetheart Happy. OMecials connected with a big corpor-} ation in’the financial district are laugh- ing to-day over a story told by the chlet couneel of the corporation, This attor- ney lives In a lirge apartment-house facing Centra} Park, and on returning home late the other evening was ac- costed by the colored man who runs the elevator. As he was about to step out of the elevator on his floor, the colored man inquired: “Say, boss, is you a lawyer?" ttorney repljed tifat he was. if yo! don’ mind, boss, = to speak with yo! "bout a divo'ce ‘The attorney said he did not practise in the divorce court, butethat he could probably direct the ool lawyer who would’ a viding, of course, cuse and evidence upon which to base for pending a4!) Alfred Reisenauer Ossip Gabrilowitsch Richard Burmeister Mme. Lillian Nordica Carrie Hirschman Birdice Blye Georg Kriiger Oliver Willard Pierce Paolo Gallico and other eminent virtuosi, who unqualifiedly indorse it. WAREROOMS 141-143 Fifth Ave., Near Twenty-first Street. l @ culists. t's Just llkee. this,” re. On Saturday Evenings we are "Yo! ace, Ah | kad to serve those for whom day visits would be inconvenient. We agree entirely with the Med- ical Profession that the Optician should not attempt to fit glasses. . ' the same. “Well, boss, plied the elevator man, got. a hunnerd dollahs—at least, ain't got it yet, but Ah kin get it s —an’' Ah want to: get a divo A see, Ah'm engaged to » young Indy, an she's just done inher'ted a thousan’ dollahs f'om her fathah. ‘She's willin’ toe, to give mea hunnerd dollahs to git my| Our Examining Roomsare there. divo'ce, an’ aftah Ah-get mine she's | fore incharge of Oculists;-i. ¢,, graduate goin’ to get one fom her husban, She's willin’ to pay two hunner fifty dollahs fo! both divo'ces. Do yo think that'll be enough?" . : | Physicians-who limit their practice to the treatment of the Eye. Arthur W. Brewster, M. D., 217 B'way. ee (S sears Brooklyn Eye’ and Ear Dispensary.) BOOKMAKERS INDICTED. Edw. M- Johnson, Biway, (10 years in private practice.) | Politicians Among — Thirty-aix| Marcum Kenyon, M.D. 223 Sil Named by Chicalro Grand Jn) CHICAGO, April 15.—A special Grand Jury to-day returned fue bills against thirty-six alleged ‘hand bookmakers. Among thos® mentioned tn the Indict- ments are several who have wielded much influence in Chicago politics. NO CHARGE except for CUT OFF THE ROBBER - JAMMES EXQUISIA VIOLET. | Perfect and Lasting x reah Violets Por sale COFFEE keeps you half ill quit 10 d: and use low much do you pay the cap- SISTER SAW CAR CRUSH BROTHER When Young Dubross Fell Under Wheels Girl Ran. and Called Mother, Who Was Present When Body Was Taken Out. WOMAN WAS NEARLY CRAZED BY SIGHT. Prostrated Herself Upon Body and Her Grief Was Heart- rending to Crowds That Gath- ered Around. Jacoh Dubross, sixteen, yrare old, lve Ing at No. 3 Attorney street, was killed in tof the Delincay “street police station to-day while trying to board a Westbound horse car of the Delancey street line. Tro street was crowded at the time, many passengers standing on the cor- ner of Delancey and Dubross ran adead to get on the front Hlatform of the car and. slipped fell between henls of the horses and Attorney streets. and before the front wheels nearly cutting bis body died Instantly 7" stopped the over him He getting: who had arriy trated herself 1 heartrending tc gathered to ald in John Devlin, th vas permitted. to prov the Ine with his passengers, policemen being sent with him to bring him back under arrest, Clothing ou Credit 3° Stores—Cash Prices Joniy—Why Pay More ?— Credit Is Free Here. —Only Per Week— | ie assortment for Me Women and Childre: time, pros grief being Is that had the boy: Everything Confidential, We Trust you. i FURNITURE, AFM ddne at Store only Three Stores. Open Even. Alno National Outfitting Co., 62 WEST 128th St,, N. Y. 166 WEST 23D ST., N, Y. 68 Newark Av. Jersey City. 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