Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-12
From All Quarters. COLLISION 0F STEAMERS. Both Vessels Sunk by the
 Severe Shock.
 ANXIETY AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY. Collision on a New York
 Elevated Road. AYoURe GIRLS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE Program for the Week in
 Congress.
\ YOUNG GIRLS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
STEAMSHIPS COLLIDE.

STEAMSHIPS COLLIDE,
 one Vessel Immediately Sent to tn.
 Bottom-Twelve Men Drowned-
 The other Ship Sunk After Beins
 Towed a Distance.
 LONDON, Jan. 1.-The steamer Brit tannia collided early this morning with ths
 steamer Bear from Grangemouth in tht
 Firth of Forth, Scotland. The Bear sanl
 immediately and of the fourteen men or
 board twelve went down with her. The
 two others were rescued by boat from
 the Britannia.
 + After the collision the Britannia, which
 was badly damaged, transferred her forty.
 five passengers to the steamer Thames and
 was taken in tow by that vessel, the two
 steamers proceeding slowly towards Leith. Before they had gone far, however, the hawser connecting the vessels snapped and the damaged vessel gave terrific plunge and sank.
 Fortunately her crew had put on life belts after the collision and all, except the chief engineer, were picked up by boats from the Thames. The chief engineer went down with the vessel and was not seen again.
 1 BALTIMORE, Md, Jan 11.-A Delaware City dispatch states that the steamer AL senborne, freight boat plying between Baltimore and New York, was cut down and sunk to-day by field ice in Delaware bay just after emerging from the canal No lives were lost.
 SUNDAY AT THE AGENCY. l Settlers Still Filled With Mingled Anxiety and Fear - Services at the Mission-Red Cloud in Attendance Escape of Several Indian Girls - A Sanctuary Converted Into a HOspi- tai.
 PINE RIDGE, s. D., Jan. 11.-Another night of mingled anxiety and fear has passed and the Indians have not come in. They have not even reached the mission, as was announced by scouts. The Indians have started, and that is all No man here can tell when the final entry will be made. The Associated Press correspondent to- the Jesuit missionary, who induced the Indians to promise to come in just before the battle of Wounded Knee. "I have so
 
 in," said he, "only to be mistaken, that shall believe them no more until I shall see them" The missionary resides at the mission, nearly five miles north of this place. The failure of the Indians to put in an appearance is source of disappoint ment to General Miles, who had expected them this morning. Last night Captain Ofaey, commanding the second battalion of the Seventh cavalry, which is stationed at Craven Creek, about eight miles from the agency, was recalled to help repel night attack, should one occur. Captain Of1ey said that while he had been in camp periodj of eight days he had not seen an Indian in the neighborhood. His battalion has gone into camp with the first battalion of the Seventh cavalry, thus completing a semi-circle on the hill overlooking the friendly camp and commanding the agency. Last night seven of the girl inmates and scholars escaped from the Indian school. Among them are Mary Sitting Bear, Lizzie Sitting Bear, Jennie Thunder Bull and Emily Cloud, relative of Red Cloud. They were induced to leave by their rela- tives and friends, who have for some time hung about the grounds. Superintendent Wheeler has secured the promise of Amer can Horse to aid him in securing the return of the runaways.
 Yesterday and to-day were observed ! with but little attention to religious du- ! ties. At this place there are two churches, the Presbyterian and the Church of the Holy Cross P. E.) In the government | by the Catholics. In the Aforementioned church there was no divine ser | vice, the windows were barred, and to the west was stationed a | line of breastworks and adjacent were sev- l eral tents of infantry soldiers. In the l Episcopal church fifteen wounded women and children lay, ,some at the point of death and all in pain-the result of the fight at Wounded Knee. The pews had been torn | loose hay for the unfortunates. The sane tuary was given up to the moaning little l ones, while in the choir three hostiles groaned in misery. On the lectern were l rolls of bandages and pieces of lint and cloth. In the school Father lube said mass and delivered short sermon One half of the worshippers were Indians, among them Red Cloud. The old chief took part in the services, while he held an English prayer book, which, of course, he was unable to read.
 l Rev. Father Craft, who was stabbed at ! Wounded Knee, is recovering rapidly from his injuries. On his breast he wears the medal of the order of the Sons of the Rev ! olution, which he received from the com mandery of New York, of which he is a member.
 WAsH1NaroN, Jan. 11.-General scho- field this evening received dispatch from General Miles at Pine Ridge saying that the entire body of hostile Indians, number ing 5000, have arrived within five miles of the agency and are expected to reach there tomorrow. The dispatch also says that Captain Pierce has arrived and has | {olz pho
 NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-General Obierne
 received . letter to-day from Father
 Crafts, the Catholic priest who was wound
 ed in the fight with Big Foot's band of
 Sioux. Father Crafts said he had disap-
 pointed all the laws of medicine and all the
 prophets, and is steadily improving. He
 was stabbed in the back while trying to
 stop the fight, the knife penetrating the
 right lung. He said that the Indians fired
 first and that the troops were not to blame
 for the wholesale klling,a as everything was
 done at close quarters.
 OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 11.-One of tht
 Indians implicated in the murder o1
 Freighter Coles several weeks ago in Oka l nongon county was taken from jail Thurs day night and lynched. Catholic priests
 have warned the settlers that the Okanogo1
 Indians are very angry and likely to go or
 the warpath. The governor of Washing | ton has been asked for 0UU stand or arm ! and ammunition.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 11.-A Tribune spec
 ial from Bismarck says: Governor Burk
 has dispatches this evening from Adjutan !. General Devoy, Major Mckee and Captain 2 Yorkey, who are at Bottineau, stating tha l. the situation on the border is less serious 2 No outbreak has occurred, though tn : Indians are dancing and firing their gun day and night The settlers have fis' ! frem their homes by scores- The gov : srnor shipped e50 stand of arms to be dit < tributed at Bottineau. Colonel Bentl . stated that every militta company in tn .- state is ready to move at moments nc s tice and there are many offers of voluntee }. companies. It is believed here that tn Indians who are making the trouble al 2 the Manitoba Sioux who formerly belonge ' to and were closely associated with th tribes of which Sitting Bull was the heat E Terrible Mine Accident. III ELK GARDEN, Va., Jan. IA terrib q ! ,k k1,a ,~,Ix