The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-03

Breaking to Pieces on the Rocks Near
kinsale-The Passengers Saved.

Breaking to Pieces on the Rocks Near
Kinsale-The Passengers Saved.
QUEENSTOWN, July 2.-The steamer City
OF Chicago, which went ashore on Barrel
Rocks, near kinsale, last evening, re-
mains fast, and the prospect of saw
ing her are not good, for the
wind and sea are rising and
she is making water gradually.
Her stem from the hawse-holes down is
torn away. and the fore compartments are
full of water. Her stern is in deep water,
which allows her to respond to the move
ment of the sea, thus grinding her bottom.
Three tugs are lying near, but it is not yet
thought advisable to try TO haul her off.
When it was found last evening that there
was no probability of floating her,
and as the sea was comparatively
smooth, it was decided to take the passen-
gers off. They were transferred to boats
in perfect order and rowed to the foot of a
high cliff facing the point where the
wreck occurred. In the meantime the
steamers signals had drawn a
large number of neighboring peas
ants to the top of the cliff. who
assisted the coast guard in constructing
rope ladders, by means of which the pas
serious accident. AS they came to the top
the passengers were supplied with heavy
coats by the peasants to keep out the PEN
etrating fog whose mists were
the cause of the vessels stranding.
They We're then loaded into carts
and iaunting-cars taken to Kinsale, dis
tance of twelve miles, and thence for
warded to Queenstown. Among the pas
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American commission, who are going to
try to settle the differences in the Irish
party. Lighters were dispatched to the
stranded vessel, which took off the mails,
baggage and some of the cargo. The cargo
is being discharged as rapidly as possible.
LONDON, July All London is laugh
ing at Oscar Wilde's threa to become a
Frenchman because the examiner of plays
refused to allow his play "Salome" to be
presented in London. The Paris Gdulois
publishes gushing interview with Wilde
in which he said he was too much of an
artist to admire the practical qualities of
the English. He could not love them.
He had long been enamored of France
and the French. To him there were only
TWO uSudSeS-E TeuCu anu UTeeh. Ii Is
the general opinion that the examiner of
plays acted wisely in deciding not to allow
''Salome" to be put on the boards here.
The play is described as a realistic mixture
of Scripture and modern passion, only fit
for production at the Theatre Lib,e.
One character. John the Baptist,
repels with horror the feverish ad-
vances of the Parisienne Salome, who is
always asking him to kiss her on the
mouth. The plot moves on in this style
until after the dance before Herod, when,
at her mothers instigation, Saiome asks
for the head of John the Baptist. Then,
when her revenge is sated, Salome seizes
the head, represented by wax effigy on a
charger, and kisses it in frenzy of re-
vived passion. This, in addition to Her.
od's incestuous loves, and garnished with
passages from the New Testament, would
prove difficult fare for British audience.
Madame Bernhardt, who was to play the
part of Salome, always had a hankering
after Biblical subjects as containing i'm
mense dramatic possibilities. Doubts are
expressed both here and in Paris as to
whether the French censorship will pass
"Salome.''
Trial of Bulgarian Conspirators.
SOFIA. July "A trial by court-martial