The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1915, Page 8

Te THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, GIRL SURVIVOR WHO SAW PARENTS DROWN AS LUSITANIA SANK. GOA9O1044190010410000400% JUNE panned behind her. She ewung across our boy and we struck her. “Our fifty-foot wooden boweprit pierced her like a needle. The yacht keeled over until she took water on the lower decks and then the bow- sprit broke and we righted. I see some of the Bunker Hill people say we struck her twice, The second shock was undoubtedly caused by the breaking of the bowsprit. “Right after the collision we heard the ery of ‘Man overboard!’ and Seo- ond Officer Angier and a seaman low- ered a boat and picked up the poor fellow, Brown, who was frightfully the collision between C. K. G. Billings’s steam yacht Vanadis and the Motro- politan Line passenger steamer Bunker Hill off Eaton's Neck in Long Istand Sound in a fog early last night. Two Passengers lost their lives and several others were injured on the passenger boat. Mr. and Mra. Billings and Mrs. Dillings’s father, Andrew Mclsish, were on the yacht, but no one aboard that boat was injured. Capt. William T. Holmes of the Bunker Hill has made @ report to the officials of the line as to the ac- cident and aaye that at the time of the collision he was going very slowly quarters forward two minutes before the collision. Their room was de- molished, The story of the collision from the standpoint of those on the vanadis wae told by Frederick Martin, the wireless operator, Capt. Harrington declining to talk because he will figure An & responsible witness In the offie- clal investigation, Martin aald: "It was so thick that the lookout could not see twenty feet beyond the bow. We were sounding our whistles | ¢ continually, All at onse we heard the boom of a big Bound stemnshp| |) JG whatie, It was mponsble to toll Just! « + BUNKER HILL SAW VANDI TOOLATE TOAD RAS Captain of Sound Liner Tells How Billings Yacht Rammed |ana was sounding his warning siren.| where she was because the signal injured. He told ws before he died k He speaks in terms of praise of the|echoed nm the fog. Al lat once she that he was talking to his boss, Mr. 4 His Vessel. quick work of Capt, Thomas Farring Woodward, when the bowsprit pene- trated their room and struck him. He was not more than a foot away from Mr, Woodward, who escaped tn- Jury.” Capt. Holmes reported to his com- pany that after leaving Plor 18 for Boston at five o'clock about an hour later when off City Isiand be ran into the fog and slowed down. He was barely making headway wheo o heard the warning siren of the + on the port side. The siren had been sounding , he reported. Suddenly he the yacht come out of the fog close to the side of his ship. He gave the order to reverse the engine, but before it could be carried out the bowsprit of the Vanadis stabbed the aide of the ship. ‘The bowsprit of the yacht broke off short after a hole about fifty feet long had been torn in the side of the passenger ship, then it veered away, but bumped back twice and each time left a jagged rent. Reports of cowardice on the part of the passenger steamer's crew were denied by the captain. He said « few negro walters ran to the boats and shouted, but the reet of the crew were calm. Boats were swung on the davits and passengers clambered in- to them, but none were lowered away. A quick inspection showed that th Bunker Hill was not taking wates| and the passengers were told there was no danger and left the boats. ton of the Vanadis, in attempting to ald the passengers of the Bunker Hill, one of whom jumped overboard and was picked up by ore of the yacht’s boats, ‘The sharp bowsprit and prow of the yacht tore through the passenger steamer, laying the port side above the water line open for a hundred feet. George H. Kendricks of No. 141 Milk Btreet, Boston, President of the Massachusstta Packing and Belting Company, was crushed to death in his cabin. John J. Brown, 4 Boston traveling salesman, was i'her for | knocked or fell from the deck of the Bunker Hill and was picked up by a boat from the Vanadis, but he later died. Beventy-fve of the 160 passengers of the Bunker Hill were at dinner when the collision occurred, and they were showered with debris as part of the side wall and ceiling of the dining room fell in, Mrs, Martha Waugh of No. 1228 Arch Street, Phila deiphia, euffered a compound frac ture of the left leg, and among oth- ers injured were Hohn C, Bell of the Hotel Belmont, Mra. Mary Wightman of No, 67 Chancery Lane, London. Mre. Waugh is in the Hotel Bel- mont and Bell and Mrs. Wightman were sent to the Hudson Street Hos- pital when the passengers were re- turaed here late last night. {NJURED RECOVERING. ‘ 7, F ition to Place Blame + & for Collision That Killed Be 1 EEE RESR EE LETS SEER EES TEERMCETTED CESS TOTO E EET TT Ts NOSES Capt. Holmes then started back to Others lajated by the falling debete New York and arrived about 11 P. M. were Monron Wronker of No. 408 As tho Vanadis backed away from Audubon Avenue, the Bronx; Bennett ed the Bunker Hill the bow was littered an OR M32 VIRGIN »| with beds and washstands from the >| staterooms she had cut into. The, upper part of the bow was smashed, but it was intact below the water line. | Boats were lowered and one of them picked up Brown. The Vanadis put into Glen Cove for the night. The Bunker Hill was towed to a dry dock at Hoboken this morning. It is said that the damage will be re- HM. Fisher of Montolair, N. J.; Frank ,|J. MeKay of No. 174 Neponait Ave- nue, Dorchester, Mass., and Francis| { | D. Pitta, wireless operator on the Bunker Hill. ‘The Vanadis is lying halt off shore at Glen Cove to-day. steel bow is coved in twenty fee 7} back from the bowaprit, but the dam- age is all above the water line. Two of the stewards of the yacht left their LONtY ¥ t hip, will I sf to-' loomed up, right ahead of us. We/fifty feet ahead of her stern. Had, {ster ship, will leave Boston to-night were headed for a point probably|she swung away we would have Hill until she ls again in service, tS eo ce BIG PLAY. Staged in a sumptuous manner, Grace Cunard wrote the scenario. Emerson Hough wrote the book. Francis Ford produced the photo-film. _ Ford and Cunard also produced the most pleasing revious serials—‘‘Lucille Love.’’ hat’s proof of the bigness of ‘‘The Broken Coin.” 4 If you want to enjoy the extreme limit of thrills, unexpected plot » development, fine acting, magnificent and realistic stage settings, see the first and every succeeding episode of this master photoplay. It strikes a new and bigger note in film production. __ Every element of photoplay enjoyment is provided for in ‘“The Broken Coin.” * In this clever story the missing half of a coin would solve a mystery involving nesofa throne. How art American. throne of all No film of the Unive ture City. x Sn 14, paired in a week, The Old Colony, a “4, orlds Greatest why it is a marvellous film production. 1915. SWEARS YOUTH LURED | GONDORF IS ON TRIAL, HER INTO HOME AND | WITH LEMUEL QUIGG THEN ATTACKED HER} AS HIS CHIEF COUNSEL Magistrate Forces Maurice Hoo-| Chief Opponent of the Boxing per to Make Defense Against | Law Appears for Alleged Woman’s Charges. Wire-Tapper. Fred Gondorf, who is on trial for swindling William J, O'Reilly, a To- ronto contractor, out of $17,600 by means of the old wireless wiretapping game, Prior to his appearance in court there had not been the slightest idea that Mr. Quigg was in the case. K. Henry Rosenberg had been the counsel in sight up to the opening of the trial before Judge Malone to- day. Mr. Quigg, who questioned the talesmen, soon showed that be has devoted considerable study to the case. It was apparent from the trend of his questions that Gondort will not take the stand in his own de- fense. O'Reilly, who was sent to the House of Detention last week beoause the District Attorney did not like his at- Lemuel Ely Quigg, the eminent re-|titude before the Grand Jury, was on hand to press his complaint. The prosecution is in the handa of As- sistant District Attorney O'Malley. There are five other indictments pending against Gondorf, all older than the one on which he is bel tried. His brother, Charles, “King o! Clementine Collins, twenty-eight years old, appeared in the Weat Sife| former, who is trying to stop boxing Court to-day against Maurice Hoop-|in this State because John L, Sullivan er, a Ind of twenty or so, who, #he|and Jake Kilrain bloodied each other declared, lured her to his father’s|all up ina fight in 1869, created sur. house, No, 617 West Ena Avenue,| prise and comment in the Criminal) early Sunday morning. She declared he attacked her until her screams alarmed him, when he threw her out of the house and ran away over the roofs. The youth, looking very sheepish and remorseful, did not go on the witness stand. His lawyer expected, Court Building to-day by appearing the Wiremen,” is serving a five-year an chief counsel for the defense of term in Sing Sing for swindling. he sald, to pay a fine for him on the charge of disorderly conduct which Magistrate Krotel allowed to be taken | against the prisoner, but Mr. Krotel said the prisoner must make a de- fense, and held him for examination | later to-day. Young Hooper went to) a cell looking much astonished, Misa Collins testified that she and her friend, Miss Winslow, met Hooper at Broadway and Ninety-sixth Street and after an exchange of smiles they wandered into the restaurant Under den Linden, at Nincty-seventh Street. “We had a few drinks,” said Misa Collins. “We had too many drinks. My friend went away, and Mr. Hooper said he would take me to another res- taurant. Instead he took me to his father’s house. We were alone, He attacked me, and I screamed. That frightened him, and ne threw me into the street, where @ policeman found me. Polloeman Dugan testified that he climbed into the house by way of| an open window, went through the rooms and found no one. The door} to the roof was open, and after) searching four roofs he found young! Hooper behind @ chimney, pretending to be asleep. He took the youth to the street, where Miss Collins, weep- ing, identified him -————_—_ al May Joim Allies in War. F , June 14.—News of a Demo- cratic victory in the Portuguese eleo- tions Sunday was Interpreted here to- as forecasting Portugal's formal entrance into the war on the side of| the allles, Democratic leaders are sal to have made the war Issue ono of their principal campaign cries. 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