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T_he Knife Was Used By
Austrian Sailors.
NEW YORK, July l1_The survivors
the steamship La Bourgogne, which
was sunk in collision near Sable Island
on the morning of July 4th, arrived here
on Friiay afternoon from Boston, and
were taken in charge, most of them, by
the Compagnie Tras-Atlantique oflcials.
There was an immense crowd at the
. caped, others to get information from
”"` he survivors ofthe friends or loved
g ones who were lost. The persons who
_ Maas  were waiting to see the survivors of La
Grand Central Station. Some of them
'53' g   came to welcome friends, who had es-
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Bourgogne gathered in little groups - ‘
French women with a child or two clinff-l
I-IBC mf 'FQI' ing to them, Italian laborers and a groulp "
'~ of French priestm from Manhattan Col.
S1  lege. The priests were to question the
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survivors as to the death of the priests'
aboard La Bourgogne. especially Father
n°ngu|a Sha'  Kessler, of St. Joseph’s Church. The
steerage passengers and crew did ‘hot get
a cordial welcome from the crowd, and
“ants hisses and iuiprecations were heard all
along the line from the platform to the
coaches.
The French Consul-General. Francis
Edmund Bruwaert, and the Vice-Consul
boarded La. Touraine at her pier yester-
day afternoon and upon the arrival of;
LaBourgogne`s crew, took depositions of
the members. The hearing was secret,
and Agent Fagnet, of the French line,
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said that he had not even been told,
whattestiinony has been taken. Tliei
Consul-General will submit his findings -t
 to the Fren ~h Admiraltv Coiir-‘
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BosT0\', July 9 -From the t=sti
mony ofthrce survivors of La Bourgo- 2
all  % gne. Otto Zeiver, from New York; Mr.
Archard,of "Baltimore, and Charles;
Liebra,Iowa it appears that the fourth en ,
am ginger of L9, Bourgogne, who was save-
ed, acted in the most brutal manner to-1
For 8 Preheat or fo, your- ward the passengers The thief; mein'
self come and We _,,111 do It agree in theistatement that after t e co -»
chea W h h d lislon, when every one was surround-,
P e me on an inv the boats, the forth engineer
a larffe took of Picture Sa;-d “Din the passcl-',261-§_
Moulding to choose from Le; them Save themselves, \\'e
Just arrived by S S Coda* save Om-selves li;-5;," He aSl0
1300 ferb Of PICWFS said that if he had a revolver he
Mouldini of all the latest would shoot the passengers.
designs Call in and see win' sEvi~1NTr.i`i\'i1}wEiii; DROW'NED»
samples % Mr. Liebra spoke in great praise of i
its the captain although that officer
J HDRNSBY, did not think thic h accident “fs
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\,C.Om_ Row y sengers that tnere was no danger. fhis.
09:10 im Pottorrice is thought to he one reason that none of
I8 3  the-Kira first class Passengers werel
save
,Q Oii the voyage Libera became acquain 3:
*~ \` ` r wr A f ted wiili Yourscuff, the wrestler. who
was a passenger. After ihe collision.
Liherii says he saw Yousouff strug21ing
iii a crowd of drowing_pJSSBDt-WTS' b_B“£;
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THE UFFIGERS' STURY
Reasons Why So Few Pas-
sengers Were Saved -The
Steamers Construction-
used knives to keep people out of their
bonu
p English well declined to give his name
" as he said it would be bad for him when
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the time of the accident. The shock
wakened him and he ran up to the spar
deck to his boat. There were twentytive
men appointed to each boat, but there
were only seven or eight at his, which
was the second ma'e’s No. 7. The second
mate was at his post and the boat was
1 immediately got ready. e There were
about fifty passengers in this boat, in-
cluding a let of women. As La Bour
gogne was sinking the boat caught and
upset, throwing everyone into the water
He came up in a minute. He was saved
two minutes after by a raft. There were
iotsiof women and children screaming for
help around, but he tumed his head
away, as he said he did not like to see
these-things.
Alyoung Frenchman from New Orleans
said he could not say anything in praise
of the crew of La Bourgogne. He did not
see any of the ofilcers after the accident,
except `the captin.who was gesticulating
onthe bridge.
Messrs. Zeicer and Karamer, second-
class passengersstates that Victor Gen~
drot and another sailor of La Bourgogne
deserve great praise for their bravery in
saving some passengers. They called
on volunteers to go from Cromartyshire
and were the means of saving many
others who whuld other wise have p ris-
hed. They were the only sailors who
did anything' to help the passengers:
Reasons WHY saLooN PAssi~:NGEiis wear:
CAUGHT.
NEW YORK, July 9.-The Journal
publishes an interview with M. Faguet,
the agent of the line of steamers to
which the ill-fated La Bourgogne be-
longed.
ln reply to the question, why was not
a single saloon passenger saved, he
said that ihe wreckage |blocked the sa~
loongangway on|the starboard side-ihe
side toward which the steamship was
careening-and that the passengers
rushed to the port side. Then he added
that the port lilehoats, owing to
the position of ihe ship, could not be
launched.
\\'hen the fact that a- large number of
he crew had been saved was pointed
out to him and an explanation asked,M.
Fagiiet gave a proverbial shrug of the
houlders and was silent.
Mr. Faguet did not in this instance
state the saloon companionway of the
French liner run from the promenade
deck to a platform some four feet above
the s:i‘con deck, and that from that
platform two small flights of steps, at
right angle with the upper stairway,
took the passengers to the saloon ves-
tibule. He did not explain that on
reaching the vestibule the saloon voyag-
er had tc make another right angle
turn to enter the dining room. _
When pressed for an answer on this
point he produced a plan of La Bour-
gogne. This plan shows the two cor-
ridors, on eitrier side of the steamship,
with shorter ones at right angles lead-
ing to ihe stwercoms.
These corridors extend aft to the door
le-iding to the second cabins, and there
are no bulkhead doors to prevent the
water from sweeping the full length of
it.
It is believed that the water did gain
ingress to this corridor after La_ Bour-
gogne was struck and that the passen-
gers were fairly swept off their feet. If
there were bulkhead doors in the c'ri'i-
dors the evidence so far indicates that
they were not closed. The bulkheatls
below that deck, even if closed, could
not have saved the saloon voyagers, for
the steamship was heeling far to star-
board-far enough evidently to allow
the water to gain the saloon deck. ,
Those of the salo”n passengers who
did gain the vestibule from the corridors
had to swing abruptly to the right and
and left, to decend the steps leading to
the platform mentioned -half way up
the stairway. These two small flights
,were narrow, and once having gained
the platform the assen er must maize
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another abrubt turn to the right or left,
to ascend the remaining light of steps
and gain the bal1,from which doors-to
One of the crew, a steward,who spoke
he got back. He said lie was in bed at
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modem built ocean racers. La Bour-
saloon vestibule into two parts, for the
was built a ainst the after bulkhead
ing;from the platform. Doors at the
forward end of these 'spaces led to the
saloon, and doors at the after ends led to
the corridors, from which the saloon
voyagers must- have rushed to reach
the promenade deck from the rooms.
La Bourgogne had no longitudinal
bulkhead--not even in her engine-room.
She was a single screw vessel, and the
engines wefe in the centereover the
» keel. Even her rausverse bulkheads,
those built athwartship did not run up
the promenade deck. They stopped at
the saloon deck.
It is not certain that the bulkhtad
doors below the saloon deck on the
liner were closed on that fateful morn-
ing. when the Croinartyshire struck her.
The rapidity with which the vessel
filled wouldlindicate that they were not,_
and ihe falling of the funnel proves that
the vessel was damaged at her most
vulnerable point the engine rooms.
The modein twin screw liners
have londgitudinal bulkheads run-
ning through the boiler, and
enginerooins, and bulkhead doors
ii. the transverse bulkhead beteen
the boiler and engine rooms. The longi-
tudinal bulkhead is between the two
sete of enginesand directly over the
kneel. That is why the Paris iloated
when a hole was smashed through the
bottom of her starboard engin room,
and that compartment was filled with
water.
M.Fauget was sure that on La Bour-
head doors was rigidly enforced. He
did not know why La Bourgogne was
go far north of the regular eastbound
lane to the English channel, and would~
en’l1 or coulden’t explain why the
French line steamships never take the
recognized east and west bound lanes,
but-steam far north of them on both the
eastward and westward trips.
La Bourgngne was at least 160 miles
north of the course of the east-bound
vessels. She was fully 120 miles north
of the .western course of ihe White Star
iner Majestic, from Liverpool, when
that vessel passed south of Sable Island
The Majestic steamed 180 miles south
of Sable Island, and La Bourgogne was
only 60 miles south. This proves that
La Bourgogne was 80 miles further
north then even the most northern west-
bound route in mid-summer.
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Cisiicaoo. July 12. __- [Special ]
The following are the closing rates:
July wheat, 75; corn 31%; oats, 22i
pork, 9.97.
Sept wheat, 67% ; corn,3;‘} ; oats.19§;
pork, 10.12.
Dec. wheat,6'¢'& ; coru,3i‘§; cab, -;
pork -_-
Atcheson, 353;; New York Central
gogne’s saloon stairway divided the
platform half way down the stairway
g’ or
wall of thc saloon.Thirty|pei'sons would
have crowded the narrow vestibule at
the bottoms of the two short flights lead-
restler had expressed him fore the objective point of these panic °“
§ self as ill pleased with the treatment he stricken and fear hunted a se h
H90* J“l‘ 1 _l P°°“ l” = had received in America. 1 were fleeting from death). B ggersw 0 ,
Pnvv Council have <rrin'ed i \ion_ p MURDERED wirn hNi\'ss S1-BAKER BANK QUICK” N
- tnuGuetie < ompfmv psrw we \ to i V L; %`HfEl8d~d0f 164 Wes* 3691 Sllfef- _ This stairway was one of the features °”
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9085* S°P'°me Um" m I” I “` Or 1* * lon board La Bourgogne, each tell of
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f ` them aside, trying to reacha boat. He right and left again-led out on the ' e
  i `failed, however, and _ went down. In lproomenade deck. It was this deck from ' Ln l
privileged to Apnea' ,ts 8,81, conversation with Liebra before thei which the boats were swuhg,a.nd there-
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Russia Thinks War About
Over and Wants Spain To
A Keep Phllllplnes Under
States Protectorate. r
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New Ycnir, July 12-(Special) -An
explosion killed fifteen persons te-day
at Hafiin and Rand’s powder mills near
Dover, N J. A number of soldiers and
others were wounded. V ,
General Shatter telegraphs that atlag
'nf truce was flying over Santpgo Mon-
day considering a proposition of surren-
dowh to the bay. ~ The line was rather
z°s=»° bw# drill #oaths 1?..  ent-_. f1,1;==» but Stagg; e=P°eF92£9.,.h;=_z,e,i__¢.
tfcefor the opening~apd't:f0§;"6l_°b£k¢`¥"§ff&?lI'mn`§2[ 'By ¢°_°{j§,`§`_"" ‘ ’
There is a great deal of suffering
among the people who left Santiago.
Shafter’s force now ,numbers about
29,000.
San'rrAGo,July12- [Special] -Fight-
ing was continued during Monday and
at 4 p m it was believed Santiago would
be captured in 24 hours.
As the Americans advanced in several
Spanish trenches the troops found dnm-,
my wooden guns and no Spanish
soldiers
There was a weak fire from the Span-
ish troops and the American officers
received further evidence of distress
in Santiago.
Sr Pi-zrnasisuuo, July 12._(Speci-
al )_The Russian papers regard the
war as practically over and discusses
the Philippines Island problem. If
theyare. divided the best part will fall
to Great Britain, Germany and Japan,
therefore it is the advantage of Russia
that the islands remain in possession
of a single power, whether Spain or
the United States. Russia prefers them li*
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118i; Burlington. 1065; cotton.
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` Uprising in Cor ea..
arrested ona charge of complicity.
Others, including a former minister of
war, have fled.
Royal makes the food pure, i
- wholesome and delicious.
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Yoicoriaiira, July 11.-Another plot  '
at Seoul, ihe capital of Corea, :against
the government has been disclosed. '
Several prominent: oiiicials have been   T *
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"6 Sand'Shovels 5: Buckets.
'  m Wheel barrows, Carts. l
»»-'ish-~ waggons at nioyies
Croquet Sets, 90
Base Bats.
Base Batts.
tennis Balls.
‘sde| piu3g
Tennis Racqets.
Hammocks. _
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Is Peaceful But Re- 2;,
  jects Terms. 
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