The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1907, Page 1

4 Circulation Books Open to Al’ 2 NEW YORK, es Hetoically Against Heavy Sea and Picked Up by Vessel—Many Men and One Woman Fell’ Beside Them and Rolled Into the Sea. DEATH LIST NEAR 200; __. _ TEN SURVIVORS OF CREW Fought Like Mad for Places in Few ferent Story from That of Captain— Rocky Shore Retards the: Work of | epic @ Bodies (Special from Staff’ Correspondont.) he'two women survivors of the Larch- mont disaster, Mrs. Harris Feldman, of No, 432 East Ninety-ninth street, | ence such as that which bef i Mrs Hanis Feldman and Husband Clung | to Improvised- ‘Craft and Fought 1 Bitter Cold for Twelve Hours Until fi “Men and Women on Steamer Larchmont a Lifeboats, and Survivors Tell Dif-| BLOCK ISLAND, R. 1, Feb. 13.—Few women have had an experi | WEN CAVE aa DIED ON RAFT “AS WOMAN FOUGHT ICE AND SEA ote OS a (WEDNESDAY, mone FEBRUARY REV. LA HUNT FAIL TAL ‘WOMEN POLITICIANS. _TRANPLED DOWN BY Suffragettes Descend on British fiouse iFE ILL; ER MOUNTED POLICE i of Commonsand Many Are Injured in the Melee ¢. the Doors _ of the Euilding. “LONDON, Feb. 13.—Following a conference of the Women’s Spe- | determined attack on-the House of Commons with the object of forcing their way into the building. The police had been forewarned of the attempt, and a large force in uniform, in plain clothes and mounted was on duty about the building. The doors of the House were shut in the faces of the women_ind the police attempted to drive them back. _In so doing the mounted men galloped among the women, who ~___ New York, and Miss Gallup.“ Mrs Felina” was attoat¢ wreckage for, twelve hours in a temperature that registered below zero. : he saw men and one. woman die and fall into the se The names of 128 persons who were on board the steamer L mont when she sank-are known. =O these nineteen-are-known-to-have a piece att 7 FAILS TODETEAT | BASSETT DNDRCE survived. “Of the + i far omy eleven have ing there were many others ty-threé bodies recovered "identified. In addition to the Known mis aboard, and the death list may re 200. fate to-day by fishing. schooners. Two of these were of women, KENTUCKY ‘LEAVES WITH SURVIVORS. The Joy bine steamer-Kentucky-left- Block Island-this afternoon for Providers: Bades of Titi tve of the-barehiiont dead and the Hi th prevails between Block Island and Providence, is about four hours. Fhe-bodiesawiti be taken to'a morgue in Providence and the sur- _yivors will be su ig-trom-frast_hi Some will have to sacrifice hands or fir gers, and two or three, itis feared, will haye to lose their legs inorder toStop the spread of blood | poison. It is not likely that many more bodies will be recovered at Block ——=Jejand, Maw experienced with the ways-of the sea in that section say that! many. corpses have been swept out into the -Atlantic. Some of these -may be found later along the Massachusetts shore. A fleet of fi fishing schooners and fugs is patrolling the sea from Biock Island for miles out Searching -for-bodies. Mrs. Feldman Is in a bad way, but able to tell with some diene ai “__clearness of _her_frightful experience, Her hands, feet-and ears are frozen, but the surgeons say that she “will recover eventually, “My husband was once a sal Mrs. Fate sailor ot the Black Sea, man:on Block Island to-day, “and it is to his coolness that owe my life. When the crash of the coll'sion aroused us we took time to partially dress before leaving our stateroom. FOUGHT WAY TO DECK_T. H_ MOB. “mob of men and women. Some were hurled down-the stairways-and lay ‘on the floor senseless. They went down to death with the ship. “When we gained the fey deck we could not get to a boat, The men fought. lke Innatics for a chance to reach a lifeboat oru raft. We saw the poats drift away and realized that wo were deserted. My husband kept hia nerve and heli me closely that 1 might not be pushed overboard by the crazy peopin who were running around, shouting and tearing at their pair," é “hen the ‘boat wont down. J.uckly for us we happened to be atandings ‘on the after deck. As the ship sank the air pressure forced this eck ~jyose- and we wore. Alloat ¢ on a good sized raft. ‘phere were sixteen of us on the frail shelte:. One other woman bs Sat sides \#yself was in the party, As s00n as we were clear from the swirl caused by the sinking of the bont, great wave’ began to break over tho) raft, within fire minvtes the other woman. was \swept overtonrd.. Shao Was benumbed by the coli ind did not utte> a sound as she Alsappeared, SWUNG ARMS TO WARD OFF COLD, "My husband told mo that if we expected to keop alive in that freez- ‘ing atmosphere we wobld haye to keep the blood In circulation, He in- atructed me to move: my. arms, and legs continuallyy in order to keep the blood ‘elredlating inthe: over ua Eleven bodies were fo und | nineteen survivors. The running time, in the face of a heavy gale that | = —p wm “We had to fight our way to the deck through a cursing, screaming | Rrooklya— 1 minister “Was | Co-respondent and Hus- band Is Given Decree. 40 to 1 Shot Beats Out] Enfin in the Second Race. (Spectat to The Hrening World} | —-WARHINGTON,. Feb, —-1—Charleo {Chester Bassett waa to-day. granted an, from ils wite, Fannio daurhter of the late | [ Rbsolate divorce pastor of | | place) 2, Skinner 3. NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. FIRST. RACE=Elvira— Mm. and 2 to 5) 1, | placey=2, Geneva 3. SECOND RACE—Family Talk (10 Esfin-(even=tor> to t-and.4 to 4} 4, yorepre- e. and + Hunt was specis [seated by Counsel” in thee: made an Independent fight to defeat | Ar Basaett in-his-action: The pastor, ax a matter of fact, was) made a defendant, in‘the case. M Hunt is now jn Omaha. "SA counter Against hor husband 4 was c Jed to-day, is Bassett, who is a Government! topagrapher,..began._divorlop action against ‘hjs wife Jast summer, naming 48 co-respondent the Rev. E. Lawrence | Tunt, now pastor of the Ni! ELSeDyLAniny, Chursh, Brookty ssneriy peopled “the fine Weetminster_Prishyterian Church | * [at Washington, and during this period. | it_ie alleged. he formed the acquaint. | ance of: Mrs,- Bassett. for the custody of four of her five! children. Tho father of the last child, the husband alleges, {8 the Rey. Hunt The clergyman declares that he was) THe YounKast- ht wa HOT Charles F. Hastings, of this ci swore or the stand at the trial that Mr-Hunt-had sald he would see Mra. Basestt through her troubles “If It] took me through hell." Mro Huw clared in a letter to « friend | tflal was pending that In tho event of] a divorce he would make Mrv. Bassett | his wife, It was charged by te hus- band that the clergyman and Mrs. had visited Atlantic City, Philad tnd this city together, Bassett in his sult for ¢ legGt) hat Rev, dur, Mune wife at various Umea\ at “their re: {a Ws adsent Irom th Mra, tassett dia In { uhe Moutlyadaile Wie dented. TWO KILLED; 2 20 HURT IN BOILER EXPLOSION, LOB ANGELES,- Feb. 13.—Aa-the-re- sult of @ boller explosion In a restaurant in Second street, near Spring atroet, here to-day, the brick bullding In whieh the reotaurént was-aituated. collapsed. Bid ead and nearly : if they ware cb The-weather—was fine and tho trask Anti bit had | start, Hunt} Misa Sago ence in Washihstun while he (Bassett) |p & ol . Wawhington, hero of in atlantic Cite if THIRD RACE—Goldway (9 to 2 Heart of Hyacinth band -8°to 5}; | (out forvplace) 2, Kara 3. the cours: afternoon to fill the gratid stand (to overflowing. ‘The card to-day WAS CHE GT tie PooTeAt OF ANS” season, but the crowds did not care and show: {hon the-eld-piugs-as ered _thalr mone: Syi bys, st The news that the passed he tower house in Arkansas was }muoh “discussed. The general opinion Fawrthect ttre Ort presont week, or as seon as the Goy- ernor signs the bill, cMesTisezand @ half furlongs Valket igs Lh We Mtl ntre ‘a MM. rushed to the front at the made all the running.and won by a length from Gremne, S. for the place. ; fue rat ‘who beat rae wel Family Talks J Li} Ei ited Me 1 100, 4 10 2 5 ry 13 12 1 oh 1 i running to stretch, followed by Pamlly” Talk and Skinner. Tn the stretch Family” ‘Talk othe front-and—won-by-aneok cufln, Who beat Skinner a length. nA ACE ONS mile. the H ab ?y $ rs wa ar Tanction, 3 Garonals = Consldera he running, fol- lowed by, clnth and Gold- Ways They held “this, order to the atretch, where oleae: went te ae front and start bby tao y from Hea: yacinth, who Seat @ length, even Gremse (3 to 5 for, Feb, 13—The races}. Galn startet at-che-regular time the Mardi Gras paraton being - The Yotday crowds etiif linger In| eae And evough. of then come out to} Inercirecting at tot In the sult for divorce Baagett askea | SPrings could not. lust longer than the Pi} tinemith, of No. 16 Second averse. back _- Thomse Weinthal, Awe. Q' struggled fiercely. “Many Of the latterwere thrown down into-the-mud qpet “were~badhy—hurty-- ~Phe-demonstraturs. howeser, were kent out of the House proper, al- enougte the-fght-with-the polico-outside-continved-for a long time. Several yomen journalists, who_w were rou handled by mistake, fainted. Over wenty of the s g dt taken =to-ths noar=] station, onfusicn following first onslaught of the wonien slx Suftragists wuccerded-in-obtiinine Tethe public tobby-and-attemmptedt to rush through the corridor leading into the House, \but they were selzed by policemen and ejected i ‘To-day’s rush by the “Suiragettes” was a repetition of thelr attempt, made several times in the recent past, fo reach the floor of the House of. Commons to pease x potion for women’s eS SAYS. HIGGINS i ONE MAN KILLED, THREE HURT BY HELD OFFICE SCAFFOLDS FALL, =—-HONOR ONLY. He Lost - Thousands Yearly Serving People. Public. Library. at _42d Street, - ITHACA 'N. Schurman, of fA acattolding inthe north west-—comer, ofthe unfinished New York Public L4- {brary.— at Fifth —arestie—end—Yorty= second: -streot,oroke-fsom—the ctiling this afternoon, precipitating: Tiree] —— smiths anda palnter to the coment foor| MARY years: Atty feét below. One man was tn} PSHE stantly killed, and of the three seriously injured oné may dle, : ‘The dead man was Thomas oO Keefe a nell, to-day spoke of former-Qet.Himsing-as_tollows: Gov. Higxing for! He wae a mai” of great bantroms—peutties—amt—ot perfect integrity of cliaracter. Now that he is gone I recall @ convernation | | Phad with him during the cartier yearn of his cureer in Albany. He was | speaking of the indiscriminate and un- | Justifiuble attacks Mie news- papers of that time habit] -makdng on th: i | Wodigénunt, of No. 130 Third avenue, 4s believed to have austained a broxen) of No. 24 Eighth’ street. “Brooklyn, | suat broken I {ce 8 and internil Injuties, and | Thomas Heuston, the painter, whose ad- dress could not be ascertained, is sufter- that men representatives to conduct the Frank | Ment of the State seq th enrich themselves, 1d, ‘look at my ng from sprained ankles and Internal Infurten he men employed by the Dobson “Contracting. Company Unning the ceiling of what is to be| the reading-room when the seaftold on own which were suspended broke | partly. from: f desir, away eras on with the four. u low citizens and: partly Policeman John D. Barry.’ of the aot Nonor se Blt tramMe squad, who called ‘ambulances | eee . from Balevue and Y papers: continue in pitals, arrested tack all who serve CParies Walters, avenue, Brooklyn, hO Ralph | ¢ | very rime of politician, there will | be no honor left In the publ \A Ans fo far AS making mo | \* CONNECTING LINE COMES TO TERMS. | Tam here at a loss of » s annually to my an fl afford to lose and honorable sion, athe e Hee Miealidocautedetianterma wecrthe city, dnd the franchine rill be ran | stUDENTS ESCAPE FIRE at the next meeting of the Board o Estimate. It te a subsidiary” corpora HAM cose INE IN FRATERNITY HALL. and the Long Island Ratlroads, —————— ee has been geeking «franchise tracks and yards’ in Brooklyn and + Feb, ucens and & bridge across the East} hause~at fire this in the house, River to the Bronx for through freight, By an agreement reached thie after noon, the railroads will pay the city « gum ‘running Inte the millions for th hise,-and annual renta, upon the track lieane in Brook- jueena and the Bronx, University. ca) Twenty men W escaped. Btudents alded the firemen in fighting! the flames, which were controlled after = loan of BdOUt $20,000. 4 3 \ JUROR TO WA’ | EL NN Evelyn Thaw-to- Be-Again a Witness T. cial and. Political Union to-day hundreds of women suftragists made a| | fluttering heart. vith the last of +1 to-morrow's moming Twas resumest this “account of the iiness-of the F FOR “Were Working ori New) Told President Schurman'- of-the trial-was a complete surprise to Thaw’s lawyers. A-minute-be- ~{fore- they had: been-expecting-another-adjournment,. and. the -District-Ate yen 12—preatgent|tomey had told them nothing of Juror Bolton's report to the. Justice. moment_ago Iwas told that Mrs. Bolton was ill of double: pneumonia. said*therefore to be at a disadvantage.” mental explosion which you said on pin-the-castofthis-def going into details regarding the phy Evans, as an expert, had made of Thaw in the Tombs last fall, to describe the results of his investigation unless he were allowed to explain his tests as he went along. | like it.” THA Jerome. Pa Into_a Deliae= Trap i in’ : Over the Testimony of Dr. Evans— Thaw for a Time in Fear that the *_ Absence-of Juror Bolton Would Cause a Mistrial and Has to Be Cheered | by His Counsel—Expert Is Rebuked, ° Morrow, and the Final Fight Will —Be Made for ~the Admission “of habit? “Itwas also declared by the expert that Thaw showed Strang It_was stated that to-morrow's session “would be largely occupied Evelyn Thaw’s testimony and the introduction-of Harry Thaw’s will. se it was agreed to allow Juror Bolton to ‘Spend to-night at the bedside of his sick wife. A court officer was desig- nated by Justice Fitzgerald to accompany him. Bolton will return for Ry consent of both sid It was with a jolt of as frien for the defense that the trial afternoon. ¢gnere had” been.-no Thorning ~session-or f2-of-the cleventh juror, Joseph B. Bolton, Despite a report that Mrs. Bolton was threatened with a-serious illness the case was abruptly taken up at 2 oclock where it had been left the — Previous day. = a —JurorBalton-was-in-his-place-in the tine when the-jurors-marched He looked like a man with a load of worry-on to their seats in the box. his_mind. As soon as Justce Fitzgeratd entered Thaw was brought in. “Who is the next witness on the stand?” inquired Mr. Jeromie. “De, Brinton D. Evans,” said Clerk Penny. An usher called Dr, Evans in from the ante-rocm. The resumption “THIS is Sudden,” said” Clifford” We Hartridge audiblys-“Onlyog We did not expect: to: go-on. However,-we-are_ready_and cannot be. SEEKS BEGINNING OF “BRAIN STORM? = As soon as ‘Dr. Evans had returned to the witness chair Delphin M. Delmas asked the alienist this question: 3 “Doctor, in your opinion, when did there begin the brain storm or Sey had -undoubtedly-occurred== BY rant! : He insisted that the witness should begin by ical and mental examination which Mr. Jerome objected. Dr, Evans undertook to say it would be very unjust to force him Justice Fitzgerald halted the pets and cautioned him against such remarks, “ “1 don’t want to have to tell you this again,” cautioned His Homer Being thus admonished, Dr. Evans proceeded to describe Thaw's * v >| bodily characteristics, COULDN'F TELL WHAT BUMP MEANT. “The good,” he said, “and the nutrition was also good. There was one r in the groin, showing where an abscess had heen lanced. “Fhe was-normal, ppt for a deep dex pression in the back of the head, over which was_a pronounced _pro- tuberance.” Se “What did this signify?” “1 am_ unable to say, because | never saw another instance exactly, condition of the skin “How about the reflexes?” “The reflexes of ‘the nnees, were islightly irregular-and out of the «Continued oa Third Page.}