Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-23
TELEGRAPHIc BREVlTIES.

| NEW LONDON, Conn. March 20
| Carrying upward of five hundred pas
| sengers and travelling at full speed,
the steamer Plymouth of the Fall Riv-
er line. was early this morning in col
| lision with the steamer Taunton of the
| same line, off this port Seventy feet
OF the upper works of the Plymouth
| were carried away. six persons being
| killed instantly. The dead.
JONAH HAN THOMPSON, of Penn
sylvania passenger.
WARTHMAN MCCARTHY, pany-
man.
- COLEMAN.
THREE COLORED WATERS.
A dozen persons were probably ia.
tally injured.
The Taunton struck the Plymouth
Just aft of the pilot house. and went
half way through her. dense fog
prevailed. Divers are searching for
other possible victims.
For distance of thirty-ive feet the
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Water rushed in and filled many of
the berths. Some of the victims We're
both crushed and drowned. There
was great confusion simultaneously
with the collision, but the officers re-
mained cool, mustered the crew at
their stations and prepared to launch
the boats.
Tests showed that the vessel did
not make water fast enough to cause
alarm, so the Plymouth steamed at
full speed into New London harbor.
Tugs went to the assistance of the
Taunton.
The City of Taunton was saved from
annihilation by her bulkhead-but for
that she would have gone down in the
water in five minutes, with all on
board. As it is only the Plymouth re-
ports fatalities.
Captain Lowe of the United States
marine corps. and Lieutenant Harlee,
with 75 marines. occupied the second
cabins on the side where the crash
occurred Miraculously none were
killed or injured, but they lost all
their knapsacks and equipments.
The disaster would have been much
more shocking but for the quickness
with which the crew of the Plymouth
after the collision closed the bulk
heads and prevented the water from
gaining, but for this the boat would
have never made the harbor and
wharf unassisted. 1t is thought this
afternoon the death list will reach
| fully one dozen.
CHICAGO. III. March 20.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will visit Chicago
Thursday. April .. He will arrive at
Q O'Clock in the morning and remain
until midnight, this being his first
stop in tour of the west which VIII
extend to the Pacific coast and cover
| more than two months duration.
The party will leave Washington
| on the morning of April /, and proceed
directly via the Pennsylvania railroad
to Chicago. From here the president
will go to Madison, Wis, where, on
the morning of April 3, lie viii ad-
dress the legislature in the statehouse.
Thence he will go to Waukesha, and
| after brief stop there will proceed
F! to Milwaukee. where he Will be en-
| tertained that night at a banquet by
the Merchants and Manufacturers
association. The next morning, after
a two hours stop at La Crosse, the
president will leave for st. Paul and
| Minneapolis. and will spend several
| davs visiting points in the northwest
| ern states.
When the president enters Yellow
stone park on Apri! s, the special
train will be sidetracked at CinnaDar
and the president. Secretary Root ana
John Burrows will go into the park un'
der an escort of cavalry, accompanied
by several experienced guides and a
cook. AS the law prohibits the carry
ing of firearms in the park, the presi'
dents sojourn will be a camping expe'
dition pure and simple. and he Will be
as much secluded from the outside
world during his ten days or. two
weeks' stay as'was President Arthur
when he entered the park twenty
wears ago under the escort OF General
Phil Sheridan.
On Friday. April "a. tho president
will leave Cinnabar, and after pass
ing through Montana and Nebraska
will reach Shenandoah, Iowa, early or
the morning of the 2Sth. During the
day he will make brief stop at car
linda. Van Vert, Osceola. Des Moines
Oskaloosa and Ottumwa. Passing th'
night on the train the president VII
arrive at Keokuk, Iowa. on the morn
ing nj the 29th. and on that day VII
visit Quincy. Ill. and Hannibal, Louis
lana and Clarksville. Mo. He VIII ar