Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-15
OUR WRECKED WAR SHIPS, Full Particulars Of The Sa-
 moan Disaster. THE SUEVIA SINKS A PILOT BOAT. Still No News Of The Dan-
 marks Passengers,
SENATOR HOAR ON PROHIBITION.
A Big Strike Threatened On
 The Baltimore And Ohio.
THE SAMOAN DISASTER.

l THE SAMOAN DISASTER. Full Particulars Received From Apia ! -The Awful Destruction - Admiral Kimberly the Last to Leave the Flag ship Trenton The Condition of the | NIpsIc -Masaafa's HospiIality- only 1 Forty Bodies Recovered.
 Copyrighted 1889, by New York Associated Pressl APIA, Samoa, March 30, 1889, via SAN l FRANCISCO, Cal, April 13.-After the storm ! of March 16 had subsided and after the of~ ! fcers and crews of the wrecked vessels had | come ashore the evidence of the awful de- | struction was presented on every side. The | German survivors remained in the part of ! the town where the property of the German Trading company is located, but the Ameri ! cans were to be seen everywhere. The officers had lost their uniforms and were dressed as I common sailors. Admiral Kimberly was the I last to leave the Amdrican flagship Trenton. He went at once to some rooms which had been provided for him in the house of an American resident.
 The Associated Press correspondent found the admiral 8 few hours later sitting alone on the porch of a small house facing the harbor. "Is it not awful?' he remarked to the cores spondent. "In all my experience on the sea have never seen a storm to equal this one. can hardly realize yet the full extent of damage which has been done. My chief anxiety now is to get these 800 or 900 sailors back to America. It would be of no use for them to remain here. I shall either telegraph to Washington for a steamer to be sent from San Francisco to take the men back or I will charter steamer in Auckland. They must get back soon in some way" He continued: ''The fires of the Trenton were out at 10 o'clock in the morning and our 1udder and propellers were carried away at the same time. No one can realize the force with which the ruddsr was struck The pilot wheel whirled around with terrible ve- locity, every spoke in it was broken and one of the men at the wheel had leg broken. The great volumes of water poured in upon the berth deck through the hawser pipes, the fire room was soon flooded and the fires were put out. The hawser pipes should never have been placed whers they were. It was piece of faulty construction which the government officials had been asked to remedy several times. If they had been located on the deck above the water would not have come in. I consider this as indirectly the cause of the loss of the Trenton.
 After our steam gave out we used the storm and sent the men into the rig- ging and used them as sails. The ship was handled skilfully. It would have been i'm. possible for us to steam out of the harbor as the Calliope did as our engines were not pow erful enough. We had on every pound of steam that we could carry and with three anchors out we were not able te hold up against the storm. We fought against it as long as we could do so, but were finally driven back upon the shore"
 The admiral spoke feelipgly of the death of Captain Schoonmaker and the other officers and men who perished. The confusion which was present everywhere in Apia dur ing the first few days after the storm disap- peared at the end of the week. The quarters of the shipwrecked men had been made more comfortable, and the daily routine duty was properly attended to. Consul Blacklock's orders prohibiting the sale of liquors to sail ors had good effect, and very few drunken men were to be seen.
 The town is still under marine guard in charge of Captain Huntingdon and Mataafa's police have also assisted in maintaining or der. The men from the Trenton and Van dalia have separate barracks and have erect ed temporary tents for shelter. The Nipsic's men are still living aboard their vessel and the German survivors are quartered in 8 warehouse belonging to 6 German firm.
 Working parties are kept busy all the time on the Trenton and Vandalia and articles of every description are washed ashore from the vessels and piled together in large yard. Divers have been at work and many articles were saved in that way. The safes from both
 
 were recovered.
 The divers also have been making an ex- animation of the Nipsic and have discovered that her keel had been carried away. It has not yet been ascertsined whether the Nipsic will be able to leave the harbor or not. Ad- miral Kimberly Is most anxious to get her away and send her to Auckland or San Fran cisco for repairs if he is satisfied she can stand the trip. She is not likely to leave, however, until the arrival of some other men-of-war. The Monongahela and Mohican are expected te arrive here soon. King Ma few days ago. A light rain had fallen the night before, and the water had leaked into many of the tents occupied by sailors, Mataafa pointed out to Admiral Kimberly the danger of sickness breaking ont among the men on account of this exposure and on behalf of his own peo- pie he offered to vacate the Samoan houses in Apia and allow the American sailors to have the use of them. Admiral Kimberly thanked Matsafa warmly, but stated to him that it would be almost impossible to control the men if they were scattered around among the native houses. He promised to consider the offer, however, if the situation became more pressing.
 Although 146 men lost their lives during the storm, there have not been more than forty bodies recovered. For the first dsy or two bodies of Americans were buried in a
 
 and the bodies of the Germans were buried in the French Catholic cemetery, but it soon became impossible to identify the bodies and owing to warm climate it was necessary to bury them where they were found. Rough cof- fins were made, but number of bodies were buried in the native mats. Some of them were terribly mutilated by beating for hours against the coral reefs. Paymaster Arms body was recovered two days after the storm. It was positively identified by the clothing and the ring which he wore. The body was in terrible condition, and was buried in the mats where it was washed ashore.
 Some of the natives found @ body four miles up the coast, and from the description which they gave, it was believed to be that of Captain Sehoonmaker, but the identi6ca- tion was not positive. The bodies of Lieu- tenant Sutton and Pay Clerk Roach have not been recovered.
 The Associated Press correspondent had an interview with Mataafa and the principal chiefs prior to the great storm, in regard to the proposed conference in Germany. King Mstaafa discussed the matter freely but an swered all inquiries with great deliberation. While he did not seem to believe that the conference would have any beneficial results so far as the native Samoans were concerned he expressed a strong desire that the Ameri- can and British representatives might be able to effect solution of the present difficulty and restore the former Samoan government ano Insure peace ana pIospoIiSy " 'no isIano. Mataafa declared that he had nothing to hope for from Germany, that all the wars among the natives in Samoa and bloodshed which had occurred during the last few months were due to German interference and that German representatives had made so many misstatements to him that he could no longer place any confidence in their promises or their professed desire for peace.
 Suicide of 2 Prominent Physician. NEW YORK, April 14.-Dr. J. R. Gyles, aged sixty-fve, for forty years physician in this city, committed suicide this morning at his home, No. 417 West Twenty third street, by taking strychnine. His wife was in the room while he was mixing the poison and he asked her to drink some of it, not saying