New York Times, The (Newspaper) - December 11, 1907, New York, New York River Liner Hits the Baltic Going Up the In a HEAVY Incoming Battle the Worst Southeaster In All incoming yesterday ed Heavy weather outride Coasting skippers and said had been the worst southeast gaje had IN A PANIC and Trampled On on and Man Jump Into iha but Are dense fog The steamboat Providence of the Fall solus up the East River In t after 5 o'clock crashed bow on Into the side of the of the Wall Ferry causing a paniq aboard the and leaving large hole In her port Fart of the cabin was also carried The numbering 000, fled to the 8torn seized life and way back to tlie 1 In the for life and children were knocked and trampled on by excited mon. experienced for the twenty Tuga were Bandy Hook towing dismasted into One of the fruit from the Weet Indies rolled heavily that her were under and her of. nearly The said that another trip like would him and cause him to con- tract St. The British steamer from battled with the storm all on when the water came over the side in volumes that the Cap- on the had his boots filled by each and the ship's waa out the in company with the cook and a copper of scalding hor pea What the cook said stopped the action of the sea for a The were flying at Sandy Hook all warning craft not to put to The Government Weather reau reported the resins as far aa Cape The powerful White Star liner which seldom falls to this port on Hibbard Mayor Over Fitzgerald by About LEAGUER Half-Completed Structure Over Susquehanna Carried Down by Flood 36 MEN IN RACING RIVER Water Rose a Foot an Hour After Steady Were to Suspend to Tht Niw York half com- not be in until row while the of the of the women One from due last will not arrive this but was by a dived into the river after While couple In the water a man fell but was were reports that two of the passengers were but these not bo verified last With 430 passengers on board the left her pier at the foot of ten North at 5, As Qhe rounded the Battery and started up the East River a heavy fog was settling tho Lower The fog overtook steamboat a and Capt. who was in the pilot saya he sounded his tog signals filt frequent i The ferryboat with Capt. John Baulsir at left her slip at the foot of Wall Street soon after 5 O'clock on her way to the foot of tague Street in In leaving the allp he blew a long and sounded o. fog and the ferryboat was about two lengths from New York shore when the Captain saw the white lights of the steamboat approaching on stopped and reversed and the Captain of the did same The boats came with a and amid the screeching of the alarm whistles of the boats could be heard the cries of the men and children pn the Gave until The force of gala was felt so verely at the Quarantine Station that a two-masted schooner her an- chors and nearly collision with The three deck on the ferryboat the steamer Just arrived from In of the of ft ance of Captains of ers are refusing to ship men who are afflicted with as It makes such a difference in. going against the YOUNG NEW YORKER iN Arrested In Brazil with He's Under Sentence of It was definitely yesterday that one more of the filibustering party arrested last by the officials and sentenced to shot is a New He is Samuel 22 of 150 East He left home Nov. 5, saying that he was going to Brazil on a mining He talked very little of the project to hia and did not mention any of the other members of the Young Parker was said to be steady and He bad a good place with William L. an insurance of 45 Cedar His older bridge which waa being built by the State across the north branch of the Briver in the part of Columbia County collapsed at 5 this and fell Into the raging carrying with it Of these twenty-five reached shore in safety by scrambling across the The eleven were Four bodies were token from the swollen bur seven have not yet been bridge was being constructed by Tho York Bridge Company of The contract of years for it was 1st couple The substructure and the flooring of the superstructure had been haJf way across the accident was due to high Several inches of enow fell over s. con- area of tlie watershed a. Trouble Thursday BAN voald laave morrow for to be going take of the troops order all of which was lying the ground when a steady rain set In The temperature ross and the I. rains with the result the North Branch rose at the rate of footman hour this afternoon at near where the bridge was being almost unprecedented flood water undermined the piers and them until they no longer withstand the Columbia Montour Railway Company had a right of way but had not yet laid any K. of this President of the Electric way received a message in this city stating that the noticed the bridge and at took steps strengthen ten minutes more Would have been sufficient tended and with CoL out the statement expected trouble when the and mills would be reopened with The mine Desert that they fully prepared to day the officials of the at The union -off to divulge their Sparks Sf noon from Carton kas been made to the recall of an Wm to ask for they Strongly for the Sato of Win In will remain 1 is no possibility of LEAN CHRISTMAS IN WAU ST. Nevertheless the Little Collection Promises among the brokerage houses in the financial season is to the but ths water rose the alarm half a minute before the they hurried the f eaid talked that although the to hia family of in- end of the that he that he Jn hundred or knew that he was going on an unlawful boy was and It then that the on the ferryboat believed the boat was the noise made by tlie of the steamboat crushing its into the .to score of men the Stationary ladders to the roofs of cabins hurricane on to the stays of the Others toade way to tho pilot honee and the Captain lower Some ran to tho engine From the neighboring slips and from till directions came big and arid It was With much difficulty that they got close to the Baltic and for fog had thickened until harbor lights were practical iy A tug came alongside the He was or and could be induced to go a thing of thla kind said Mrl Mrs. the boy's haa not yet been told of his and Chinks that he probably in made to the Baltic and took hundred or more who were Handed at Pier 19, North In the meantime more than two hundred women and children who had managed to climb the ladders to the decks of the tvere taken from the steamboat by a. timore and Ohio R. R. which landed at the Atlantic Avenue ferry yards 3n It was immediately after the ladders were raised to the decks of the steamboat that the woman Jumped She made an attempt to ge oh one of the but was pushed aside by a man who seemed to know She called him a coward and then ran to the edge 'the where a blk had been cut by the ant Jumped Into the A negro who hear jumped over the rail and a minute later was heard for A dozen of the passengers went to the negro's throwing him the end of a and loVering a ladder over the of the crippled boat as they held lanterns Co light the work of negro bobbed up holding woman Tinder the Both were dragged up the had fastened a line about Ithe woman's A man who said he a physician on Brooklyn Cannon Gives Place He Desired on Ways and Means to to The New York J. ren Keifer will represent on the Ways and Means Committee Of the succeeding the dent's will succeed Keifer on the Appropriation Thus Speaker Cannon glides quietly out of an embarrassing situation which developed the ambition of the President's in-law to become a member of the Ways and Means An intimation was made to the Ohio delegation that tho Speaker was inclined to compliment the so rapidly that the bridge went r Dec. Loss of and great damage to property is reported from central and eastern points la State by floods caused by the heavy of the last few and are rising and small streams throughout the coal overflowed their flooding causing and other President by giving but the the to Mr. suggestion stirred cared for the woman hired cab to take her home when the boat later sent to the Atlantic ue ferry The woman refused to her name or She that excitement had driven her mad for the and that she did not know she was doing when she Jumped rto It was while she was being rescued that man fell He was trying to climb one of the ladders to the deck nof the A dozen life ers were thrown to him when he went Seizing one of he to keep afloat until a line waa to him and he was hauled on The collision occurred at lit It waa almost 8 o'clock when Capt. of the ferryboat to Capt. the steamboat that the hull had not Capt. said that ho would be able to her afloat towed to the Then with several boats pulling the Baltic and half a dozen for the the ships were separated and towed the Baltic going to where ehe landed the of her The Providence towed back to her at the foot of Warren The passengers on the dence declared that they knew nothing about the collision they saw the aboard the Sound The Providence waa held at her pier until about 9 o'clock while a careful inspection was made of her officers of the Fall River Line re- that ehe was and sho made a ported that ene was left on her for Fall Capt. Chase of the Providence to the effect that he did not 0ea the ferryboat until he hit tho Providence was going under re- andi was when thb it her fog He tried to veer but It was too he of toe Baltic said he wan uot m way to in the the to ferryboat forward part of the together the hood of the and there a. fa two slda ire wide at the oase of the igle twenty feet from her guard V Frank b. who had been a passenger the off a revolt the Ohio men which has been giving Uncle Joe considerable v it occurred to the Speaker that Gen. Keifer Is an of the and the President's that In recognition of previous services Gen. Keifer have the This left a place open for the President's law on the Appropriation It Is not as desirable as the Ways and Means but It is a tial advancement for Mr. Long THE MINNESOTA Big Battleship Is Forced to Outside of Virginia to York Dec. battleship one of the largest of fleet of sixteen which will start next Monday for lay off Capo Henry all of She IB the last of the sixteen battleships to arrive near the There was a thick fog Off the coast all and the wireless station at Cape Henry deceived word late this afternoon that the Minnesota would not attempt to come in until to-morrow she will take her position with the other The southwest storm of this morning kicked up a nasty but the vessels were little The weather inter- with the day's and coaling the and the Rhode Island The Kentucky arrived at the this afternoon and saluted tho flagship Admiral the transport arrived also with stores and ammunition for the commanding the ship Rhode was summoned to York by Illness of his who IB sola to be serious She Is suffering from The officers aboard the Rhode art afraid it will be for dock to gaek relief and that a new mauder for the vessel will have tft be a- a short distance from Over an abandoned mine of the Delaware Brook Colliery began to in rushed into the workings ita Operations in another of the mine were and 800 Wen and boys were hurried oat the settling of the ground occurred along the line of the Delaware Hudson and New Jersey Central and 200 Jmen were put to work the course of the stream In order to protect the and prevent the flooding of the The water reported high in the mines at and at the town was by the breaking of a small The River Is overflowed at and much damage bos been wrought in the valley from to Trains on the Erie and Delaware Hudson Railroads north of Carbondale were abandoned for the day because of At May field the river haa broken its banks and is cutting through the low danger of flooding that the Glenwood Mine operations and the men were ordered out of the In Soranton two new bridges were badly The false work was washed permitting the structures to A bridge was washed away at with a locomotive on and a small dam at Chinchilla Fishing Creek in Columbia County over- flowed Its and fifteen bridges be- longing to the Pennsylvania Lumber Com- pany at Jamieson City were washed together with several hundred thousand feet of The of the Union Tanning Company are the town of Benton is in danger of being washed Dec. continued fall of rain throughout the Valley for the past two days has caused the water in the River to rise nearly a foot an hour since noon The situation to-night Is alarming on the west bank of the The street car traffic between here and Nanticoke was practically out off for some hours due to the of creeks outside of this Silk mills and other in the k part of the town were to expected be rren a leaner year te the matter of bonuses to employes than which Yell far times of 1004 For all the committee on the Consolidated which has In charge the matter of collecting annual gratuity for employes has been receiving more liberal thaa were generally Since tho Exchange moved into its new At the cor- rer of Broad have The committee In Charge of the mas fund allowed the news to get out yesterday that point to a burger than iasi when was the em- ployes of the Dec. In the closest and hardest fought election contest which bad known for many Republican to-day Postmaster deorge A. defeating Mayor John F. who was a fbr The revised returns Show following vote cast for the John voted to license the sale of liquor by a large somewhat smaller than in previous due to a hard campaign on the part of the clergy and in an endeavor to keep the saloons out of the Two features contributed notably to the return of Mayor after six years of one beLag the heavy vote given the league candidate by and the other the thorough investigation made by a finance commission Into the affairs at the City evidence been brought forth alleging irregularities in the department and in the of which it was that the city had lost dreds of of Independence vote proved sufficient to the power from one of the leading parties to the it did come anywhere near the expected those who their estimates oh the vote in the recent State when the League polled a vote larger than the Democratic NeW Zealand Loses Library Many Valuable 10. Parliament the library Of which contained a large and valuable of were destroyed by fire ATTACK PORTUGAL'S Speakers f alk Him of House of disposition to at- tack the King was the most noticeable feature of the speeches made at numerous well-Attended political meetings held here in connection with the political Rumors current that the new ties win have constituent to re- model the House of A SECOND TUNNEL Switzerland Determines to Duplicate the Great Railroad Dec. Estate Council has approved a plan for the immediate construction of a second Simplon the administration of the Federal The first Simplon tunnel was opened May 19, 1906. It lie twelve and a miles the Swiss terminus being at in the Rhone and tlie ian terminus at Its cost is mated at ermen Compromise Plan Until Week's THE VOTE STANDS 35 Now Ordinance Permits Possibly One-Act but is Alderman York is to have at least one blue The Board of in yesterday by 85 to 84. If BO TO USH HIS Starts for New York new So great was the the who walk from to this started to-day AvoWed of hts former hia declared the old I'll whip in and I'm taking enough money to pay ay Weaton will lecture In Buffalo Saturday aAd will bo In Naw York next Patten is the action of the latter in trying to tie up all the money the aged pedestrian had earned in hU long walk across the The old man finished his walk practically and Patten's action added much i-o here yesterday as the proceeds of a benefit given him at Theatre Sunday 1 who was formerly Secretary of the State is extremely popular among the younger and It was from this source that he drew much of his strength and contributed to the defeat df The campaign strenuous Fitzgerald delivering several in part of the and closing his labors at a late last and i hardly leas voters day in tt the The contest for two on the School aroused much inter- being SHOT FOR K Son of A Connecticut Man Not Dec. 10.-C. H. tele of after running a bit into a wall handed his gun to his 12-year-old tions to shoot If he with The father pulled the rabbit out of the it made a for whereupon the excited son pulled shooting father Sn the rabbit not FOR WHITE Mrs. is Now Fattening 14 on a Persimmon to York A fat Georgia is be a part of the Christmas cheer at the White It was caught some days and is fed ott by Mrs. Helen Post Mistress of Tho 19 a big and tins simmon diet Is adding fat at great Mrs. Longstreet IB the widow of Con- Gen. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR QUAIL Procter Speeds to Reach Ing Ground on f me. v was made to force into early returns pointed to the election of Republican candidates Cor the EL genis and D. D. DAMAGES FOR A Another Jury a Death Worth Only Damages amounting to were con- by the Jury in the preme Court presided over by Justice yesterday in the of Arthur a against the New York Rapid Transit WORCESTER IS TO BE Republicans Elect Mayor and Eight of the Eleven A 10.-On the heaviest vote eyer polled at an election In the swept the electing the of eleven including the Alderman at and will have twenty-one atM nine Democrats members of the city The James John T. oh they lam the soap of accompanied by Mr. caused engine and car to be made up on the and ried to They missed been delayed from Cincinnati The sudden change in temperature to and reports of abundance of Quail Induced to pay the big ex- SANTA SHIFTS Transfers Cases from State to Federal to Evade Special fo Tht Now York hadn't been absent from the m Alderman Reginald a more liberal Sunday last would have won't have more than one mo blue Sunday unless all signs Not In years has the ber been so The Laws which was referred the liberalizing will hold a public hearing City Hall Friday morning at U when all sides will be heard the of the Sunday The theatrical and opera house who had been opening on will hold another the Hotel Astor to-morrow afternoon week they passed a tlon not to try to open last morrow they will probably pass similar resolution relating next several lawyers for these mitted last night that their were prised by the failure of w relieve the situation said they did not know how to get the law aa laid down in the Soon after the was of Alderman Republican moved that the ordinance be to the and which to give a public report at next Tuesday's meeting It was on this dilatory move the fight was With few exceptions tlie battle ab- solved Itself into a fight between Tammany Democrats on the one the allied Republicans and M. on the And Sullivan epoke four He and his men to get a The atmosphere was thick with Board President McGowan to away to a M. p. L. in. In time to yote witli tKe 2.040, votes no license for the first time In sixteen The majority for license last year was This year f or no it is 062. J. O. The boy was run over by one I was Mayor of the cars of the defendant on nomination papers Southwest of tills on the low many houses were In instances the water almost reaching the first floors of or FATHER HORRIGAN Benedictine Priest expires at Home of Mother In N. to Nsw York pointed at the BOOMS 6BAY. Committee SSKS Him for the Committee to-day Indorsing the men N. The Rev. ther Michael Antoninus a ber of the Benedictine died last at the home of his Mrs. Catherine 28 Central He had been at the head of the Order Jn and a stroke of paralysis there about a month He had a premonition that at- tack would oome soon and that he would not so as he was able to he Kast to spend his last days with his Father Horrigan was born in Ireland fifty and came to this country with his when he was 1O He In John's chlal and then went .to Benedict's in He was educated for the priesthood at the Benedictine College of Stu in and took up Ills priestly work in the The body lie in state in St An- in and the mass of requiem will be there on Thursday 1906. and lost his and claimed that the accident was due to the part of the A jury in Justice part of the Supreme Couri was a fair for John a wealthy of this a country home at to John a for the death of 12 years who wan killed by a runaway horse owned by Murphy in 1000. Young was visiting his at Nsok at the time of hit runaway horse owned by Murphy on hie him FORTUNE FOR Portland Millionaire to Make Son's Child Hia Social to Tht York in a Dr. Beau- 1BO in A. total of vote Of B received 087 John P. 7d7; Jam regular 628, and Alderman John J. 448. license vota no. 982. aged minus a which he lost under 4 street will be a some Several days ago the burg polios a letter from W. W. a millionaire of in which he asked them body will .be interred in a plot aside for priests of his Taft Dec. with Taft and members party on the i or party on r. at to locate his He told the police that ten yearn Ago hie only WT W. eloped a young woman had been ed. Hepburn he bad learned that his soa had WS wife aad been inju Dec. as special for the Topeka Santa Fe to-day transferred seventeen cases in which the Santa JPe is a- from the State to the Federal thus anticipating the sage of a by the State Legislature an- nulling the charter of any foreign ration that BO transfers a Eight of the cases transferred by were in the Key County Court at and nine in the Noble County Court at- It is understood the ta Fe will as transfer all its oases in the result of 4A active no- license campaign carried on by of denominations and by temperance people the city declared against the sale of liquor in the election voted for for eleven city has voted for license for eleven last by Thomas F. was elected TWO REPUBLICAN Victories in Elections in Portsmouth arid N. H. N. Dec. Two city elections were held in New Hampshire Mayor Wallace ly that accident and he haa wanted to care for i found Hepburn and Arthur at 306 Oakland Since her her three Sears ago Hepburn has been urin a department The elder Is expected here to take of and to the police that her of the father is m defeated Samuel W. to 8P9. The entire oil is V. Clark was re- sleeted Mayor of over Albert K. Fish by The City Government Is HUGHES SENTIMENT Club Indorses Him for Dec. ft meeting of the Rome Club louit a was unanimously adopted SUICIDE FOR COLD Husband of Two Months Dives Down Dumbwaiter Shaft After a After quarreling with his wife because fche did not keep his supper warm till his return home at 8 o'clock last Jacob Victor of 377 Hamburg committed suicide diving down the dumbwaiter shaft from the fifth floor of his The Victors had been married only two and it was their first cording to Mrs. was by her young husband's act. FOUND JAPANESE Posing as a Duck the Stranger Sketched Fort Special to New York Dec. treasurer of who owns a house on Phoebus Fort this morning caught a Japanese sketching the fort from the river He had noticed a acting strangely for several The Japanese carried a double-barreled shotgun and said ha was hunting but aa this region is not frequented by quail Daly decided to watch Daly reported the facts to the ties at the The matter haa created considerable It Is thought that man Is here to procure the of. Fort Monroe as well to observe the ships of the Atlantic Fleet battle about with an was the only physical counter actually within the City The Doull ordinance offers no relief to and the ordinary ten cent entertainment number at least In Greater and their owners form a large ful of The lawyers for of these interests will meet decide upon a plan of battle of their The board was due to meet about Long before that the dors were filled with of labor press representatives from the German and curiosity The board called to order at with ident McGowan in the The gallery j was The committee joining the filled with union X A number of communications Christian societies and individuals but their reading was Quiet came Uttle Tim Sullivan's got up with his tlie Blue fio ordained by the of Aldermen ol the of Section chall not be lawful to the first 3ay of the commonly to 1ft any concert or other room the of New of negro negro or other or without of or any part parts or any or matSc or or any atco or ot or that herein be deemed to prohibit At any such place of or vocal mental and entertainments be given ill a manner not to disturb the pesos amount to a of and of the pennon willfully against tha of twa and ing in except as or of any as for Teakettle FuU of Gold Pieces on a for thousand -In twenty-dollar were dug up yesterday b7 T. wnile he digging 4 J. Dady and of Brooklyn On to-day to pay their the f Of Hughes AMORY WINS LIBEL Supremo Court Him H. H. previous trials resulted in a jury before Supreme Court Justice awarded day to Col. Armory against Herbert former President Metropolitan Street as damages for who formerly Secretary of the Third Avenue Railway held that he been libeled by a published article to him aa a and that had been in regard to Street Railway Com- a or concert dp room or who Bhall or lit out for the of any or except as or that too tame be used for any ehall to a penalty penalty the Corporation Counsel eald in the bf the New to sue and and on the recovery of a for the herein for against or lessee ing to or causing or or letting part tlie building purpose of any or performance thiis tho license which ahall have obtained by or of Itself vacated and Section 2.- ThU ordinance shall take Mr. Doull he had worked carefully aver the preparation of this that lie had conferred with who of with Counsel who had said it and with a. Supreme Court Who had that It would stand fire of the He explained that he had not tried frame up an ordinance that would try give a wide-open He didn't He didn't believe 'the board cd it. false in regard to Metropolitan franklin on behalf of for a stay of would f appeal the
