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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
STEAMER CALCHAS
ARRIVED AS A PRIZE.

Vladivostok, Aug. s. II p. m.-The
British steamer Calchas, from Tacoma
for Japanese ports, which was arrested
oy the Vladivostok squadron, thirty
miles north of Toxic bay during the
recent cruise off the Pacific coast OF
Japan arrived here to-day in charge of
prize crew. She was a week over
oue having been detained by fogs.
The Calchas is the last vessel cap
tured by Admiral Jessen's cruisers.
The papers of the Calchas showed she
was carrying $40 tons of -four, nine
tons of cotton. 215 cogs and 1875 parts
OF machinery, all consigned to Yoko-
mama. The remaining 1.5OO tons of the
Caichas' cargo were consigned TO Hong
Kong.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
SULLY CANNOT SETTLE.
Withdraws Offers to Creditors and
Will Go Into Liquidation.


New York, Aug. S.-Daniel j. Sully
G. Co. to-day informed their credi-
tors that they would be unable to car
ry out the proposition made by the
firm to the creditors last month to
pay off 40 per cent. of the claims
in cash with 10 per cent. additional
in the form of 90-day notes. The in
ability to keep this agreement, it was
stated, was due to the fact that cer-
tain individual creditors would not
withdraw their claims. The firm,
therefore, will go into liquidation.
The announcement was made at a
meeting of creditors which had been
adjourned from last week to allow Sui
ly e. Co. an opportunity to furnish
proof of their ability to make good the
compromise offer.
After the announcement the creditors
took up the question of preferential
claims. At the time of the failure of
the firm, there was on deposit at the
Corn Exchange Bank a large amount
of money deposited as margins, and
this was subsequently turned over to
the Cotton Exchange creditors.
This action was contested by some
of the individual creditors on the
ground that this money should be in
cluded in the estate. They demanded
of the trustees a positive answer as
to whether they would make applica-
tion for the return of this money. An
attorney for the trustees said that
there was no disposition on the part
of the latter to stand in the way of
any creditor contesting those claims,
but that II was not the province of
the trustees to do so.
The meeting of the creditors was
then ad iOurned TO Oct. 5.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
ONE OF THE GREATEST DISASTERS
IN THE HISTORY OF RAILROADS
HAS OCCURRED in COLORADO
Accident Reported in Yesterdays Morning News Far More Dis
asfrous Than Was at First Expected
Loss of Life May Probably
Peshed the Raging Flood Into Which Locomotive and Cars Plunged
How the Search Bodies S Prosecuted

Pueblo, Col, Aug. S.-The wreck of
the Worlds Fair Flyer on the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railroad near
Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo
last evening, meager accounts of which
were published in the morning papers
to-day, proves to have been one Of
the greatest railroad disasters in the
history of the country.
Two crowded passenger cars and a
baggage car were engulfed in the tor
rent that tore out trestle spanning
Steele's Hollow. otherwise known as
Dry creek, and, so far as known to-
night, only three of the occupants of
these cars escaped death.
Fortunately, two sleeping cars and a
diner, completing the train, remained
on the track at the edge of the abyss,
and none of their occupants was killed
or injured.
How many perished probably will
never be definitely ascertained. The
treacherous sands are drifting over the
bodies.
Searching for the dead was begun
about midnight on an extensive scale
and still is in. progress tonight.
All corpses found were brought to
Pueblo and placed in four morgues
here. At O'Clock this evening seven
ty-six bodies had been recovered and
of these fifty had been identified.
During the day bodies were recov-
cred all the way along the Fountain
river from the scene of the wreck to
this city.
At o'clock this afternoon two bodies
were taken from the stream at First
street, Pueblo more than eight miles
from the point where the disaster oc-
CURED, and it is probable that some
may be recovered further down stream.
Probably 100 Dead.
Two carloads of human freight
plunged into the raging torrent. Two
sleeping cars and the dining car stop
ped at the brink of the hungry chasm,
filed with boiling. seething current
that quickly snuffed out probably 1oC
lives.
So quietly had the catastrophe been
enacted that the occupants of the
three cars remaining on the track did
not realize that an accident had occur
red until they alighted from the train.
Then they were utterly powerless to
render assistance to the victims who
had disappeared in the rushing waters.
On the lookout for danger, warned by
the squally clouds and heavy rains to
the north. Engineer Charles Hindman
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
PLUNGE INTO FLOOD
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
FORMED A FEW PLANS.
Decisions Reached After Conference
of Five Hours.

of Five Hours.
New York, Aug. S.-The National
Democratic Executive Committee was
in session five hours to-day and upon
adjournment gave out the following
statement:
Committee of the National Democratic
Committee all the members were pres
ent except Col. James M Guffey of
Pennsylvania, who is i'll; also Chair
man Taggart, Vice Chairman Nicoll.
Treasurer Peabody and Secretary
Woodson.
The location of national headquar-
ters was fixed at No. l West Thirty
fourth street, consisting of the second
and third floors and the basement of
the Century building.
1T was determined not to open
branch headquarters in the West or to
name additional committees for the
present.
plans of organization were taken up
and thoroughly mapped out.
Chairman Cowherd of the Congress
sional Committee was in conference
with the Executive Committee during
the afternoon"
This epitome of five hours work, au-
, thorized by Chairman Sheehan. does
not go into any details of the meeting
and members Of the committee also
were very reticent, although the state
ment was made that the session was
harmonious and the conclusions were
reached without dscord. Chairman
Taggart denied that the decision not
to establish branch headquarters in
the West at present was due to any
differences about location, or because
he had suggested Indianapolis in pref
erence to Chicago.
Every member of the committee said
that the existing differences between
z. H. McCarren and Charles F. Muir
rny in Greater New York were not
taken up.
There was a general interchange of
views concerning conditions in states
which the Democrats deem essential
to Democratic success. The general
conditions in New York, New Jersey
West Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin
were discussed, and men from these
states gave the committee such infor-
nation as they had.
Senator German was not at tht
meeting, remaining in his room at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel but there wers
frequent communications between the
Executive Committee and the Mary
land senator After adjournment
Chairman Sheehan had quite a lengthy
conference with Mr.. German.
At the solicitation of Mr.. Taggart
to-day's meeting was presided over by
Chairman Sheehan of the Executive
Committee. Mr.. Taggart said after
the meeting that he was ex officio
chairman of the committee, and in his
absence Mr.. Nicoll would be ex ofticio
chairman.
There has been some doubt as to
Mr. Taggart's connection with the
Executive Committee, but the meeting
to-day seemed to recognize the chair
man, the vice chairman and the secre-
tary as members.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
FREIGHTED WITH
HAY DEFINES RIGHTS
OF NEUTRAL NATIONS.
Secretary's Ideas Upon the Contra
band of War.


Washington, Aug. S.-"The recogni-
tion in principle of the treatment of
coal and other fuel and raw cotton as
absolutely contraband of war might ul-
timately lead to a total inhibition of
sale by neutrals to people of belliger-
ent states, of all articles which could
be finally converted to military uses.
Such an extension of the principle by
treating coal and other fuel and raw
cotton as absolutely contraband of
war, simply because they are shipped
by neutral to a non -blockaded port
of belligerent, would not appear to
be in accord with the reasonable and
lawful rights of a neutral commerce"
This is a summary of the declaration
by Secretary Hay on the rights of neu-
trail nations during war. 1t was en-
bodied in a circular to American am
basSadorS to Europe, which was issued
from the State Department June 10
last, but for some reason was with
held from the public, although certain
shippers who inquired at the depart
ment after their right were supplied
with copies. The circular is based on a
declaration by the Russian government
that COAL naphtha. alcohol and other
fuel have been declared contraband.
Secretary Hay directs attention to
the West African conference in 1854,
when Russia took occasion to dissent
vigorously from the inclusion of coal
amongst articles contraband of war,
and declared that she would categor-
ically refuse her consent to any ar
ticles in any treaty, convention or in
strument whatever, which would i'm
ply it's recognition as SUCH
Due note is made of the fact that
raw cotton could be made up into
clothing for the military uses of a bel
ligerent, but the secretary adds that
a military use for the supply of an
army or garrison might possibly be
made of foodstuffs of every descrip-
ton which might be shipped from
neutral ports to the non-blockaded
ports of a belligerent. THE principle
| under consideration might, therefore, "
| he says, "be extended so as to apply
to every article of human use, which
| might be declared contraband of war
| simply because it might ultimately be-
come in any degree useful to belli-
gerent for military purposes"
The Secretary speaks of coal and
other fuel and cotton as being em-
ployed for great many innocent pur-
| poses, and that many nations are de-
pendent on them for the conduct of
inoffensive industries, adding:
And no sufficient presumption of an
| intended warlike use seems to be af-
forded by the mere fact of their des-
| tination to a belligerent port" :"
He declares that the recognition in
principle of the treatment of coal and
other fuel and raw cotton as absolute
| ly contraband of war might ultimate
| ly lead to total inhibition of the sale
| by neutrals to the people of
| belligerent states, of all articles
which could be finally convert
ed to military uses. the Secretary con-
| tends, would not appear to be in ac-
| cord with reasonable and lawful rights
of commerce.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09

Fisher and Fireman Mayfield. There
were four men in the midst of the
wreck who escaped.
what the Dawn showed.
When dawn came the wonder grew
that four had been permitted to emerge
from the raging torrent with breath
still in their bodies. The end of the
Pullman car Wyuta, extended four feet
over the brink, while broken timbers
and twisted rails hung still further
over. The arroyo had been widened
to more than a hundred feet at the
point where the bridge had been. The
water tore a zigzag course across the
prairie to a depth of thirty feet in
several places. There was little left
of the baggage car, a few rods, a
truck or so, dimily seen in the muddy
water, and a half buried iron safe.
The great locomotive, the boiler free
of the trucks, the cab and tank gone,
lies where it fell.
A quarter of a mile to the east
where this gorge of death debouched
into the Fountain, lay the chair car
windows gone, three-fourths filled with
mud and sand. A hundred feet farther
on was the smoker. bottom up agains
a sand bar
Bodies Were Found.
A hundred and fifty feet farther or
in the bed of the Fountain was the
coal tender of the engine, and from
that point on for four or five miles,
vestiges of the coaches. the engine and
tender stuck up from the bed of the
stream or lay along the shore or on
the islands. Red plush seats of the
smoker were strewn all along the
stream. Brass rails from the coaches
were found in the sand half a mile
from the bridge and pieces of the bag
gage car stuck out of the water in
several places.
Bits of clothing, coats, skirts and
women's hats, were found in the
brush along the shore. and the search
ers scanned the foliage for bodies.
Masses of earth had caved in from the
high sides of the river at many places.
and searchers passed these with fear
that bodies were buried under them
which they were helpless to reach.
Five hundred men scanned every
inch of the river and its surround
ings few minutes after daylight.
They waded in the stream and carried
out mud-begrimed bodies which were
found at widely separated points, some
of them miles from the scene of the
accident.
Among the missing is Miss Alice
Wood of Jacksonville, Fla.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
RUSSIANS ON SEA
BEAT JAPANESE
THREE VESSELS DAMAGED
nv MINES, SHOT OR SHELL OF THE
RUSSIANS.

yiceroy AIexieR Reports the En-
gngement TO the Emperor, Em-
bodying the Account Received
from Admiral without Command
ing the Squadron at Port Arthur.
How the Russians Steamed Forth
and Met the Japanese.
st. Petersburg, Aug. S.-Emperor
Nicholas has received the following
from Viceroy Alexieff, dated at Muk-
den, Aug. q;
"Telegrams received to-day from
Port Arthur and from the commander
of the squadron (Rear Admiral Wit
motif state that the cruisers Bayan,
Askold, Pallada and Novik and some
gunboats steamed out of the harbor
on July &c for the purpose of bonn
harding the enemy's positions. They
were attacked by the Japanese bat
tleship Chin Yen, the protected cruis-
ers Chiyoda, Itsukushima and Matsu-
shima and two second class cruisers,
with thirty torpedo boats.
"An eight-inch shell from the Bay
an burst in the stern of the Itsuku-
shima, placing that ship out of action.
Thereupon all the Japanese ships
steered for the open sea and at the
same time the Chiyoda was damaged
by a Russian mine. AS the Chiyoda
was sinking by the head she steered
toward Talein bay.
"A shot from battery % also dam
aged a JapaneSe gunbOat which was
sighted.
"On July 27, in view of the jap anese
having taken the general Offer. sive
against our land positions, the Bayan.
Capt. Reitzenstein; the battleship Ret
vizan, the Pallada, Askold and Novik,
the coast defense ships Gremiaschi and
Otvashni, the gunboat Giliak and
twelve torpedo boats, under the COM
mand of Rear Admiral Lenchiniky,
were ordered to support our right flank
at the demand of Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel.
Our ships, preceded by mine dredges,
steamed toward Lungatan, from where
they bombarded the japanese positions
until o'clock in the afternoon.
"On their return, which they effected
with the same precautions, a mine ex-
ploded underneath one of the dredges
Rear Admiral Without estimated
that the enemy's naval forces which
were off Port Arthur July 80 consist
ed of five battleships, four armored
cruisers, ten other cruisers, and forty
eight torpedo craft.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
GETTING READY
FOR MANASSAS
DEPARTMENT is PREPARING
FOR THE ARMY MANEUvERs OF
NEXT MONTH.

Upon O5,OOO Acres the Troops win
Operate-Three Grent Camps win
BE Estnblished-HOw Water win
he SuDpIied-GOvernme Has
$I,O00,OOO to Spend Upon the Man
euvers-Other Plans Thus Far
Made for the Event.
Washington. Aug. S.-An army of
workmen, directed from Washington, is
now engaged in preparing the ground
for the army maneuvers that are to
take place between Sept. and 10 OH
the battlefelds of Virginia. Where the
Union and Confederate warriors strug-
gled at Bull Run and Haymarket in
the sos, camps are now being laid out
for the young soldiers of to-day.
When the maneuvers are in full blast
it is estimated that $4,000 men will be
engaged. OF this number, 5000 will be
regular soldiers and the remainder
state troops Three great camps will
be established.
The water supply for the troops Is
one of the chief concerns of the camp
builders. Camp No. l, which is to be
located near Lewis Crossing, Prince
William county, will be supplied with
artesian wells, no less than twenty
five being necessary for the purposes
of camp life. Camp No. 2, near Thor
oughfare, will derive it's water supply
from two big reservoirs. which will be
fed by fine spring at Thoroughfare
Gap.
Question of Transportation.
The matter of conveying the soldiers
and their outfits, the tents and pro-
visions and the thousand and one ar
tices that will be needed upon the ma
neuvering grounds, is another great
| problem to be confronted. The South
ern Railway Company has this matter
in charge, and is busy laying tracks
and constructing stations for the use
OF the soldiers and their friends.
All told, the government has $1,000
, 90 ready to spend upon the maneuvers
If such a sum is needed, but it is not
| probable that it will cost as much as
| that. The maneuvering area is Co.
900 acres, which. under the agreement
made with the farmers Of Virginih, is
to he leased at 20 cents an acre. In
addition to that expense the United
States VIII probably be called upon to
pay few bills :ar damages to crops,
buildings and stock. The amount OF
Damages to be paid the farmers will
be determined after the maneuvers are
over by a board of adjudication. This
board will consist of three members,
who are to be appointed respectively
by Gen. Corbin, by the Governor Of
Virginia and by the farmers.
$25,OGa for HALLWAY Tracks.
The Southern Railway Company Is
spending $4,000 in laying tracks about
the camps.
On Sept. 10, which will probably be
the gala day of the maneuvers. there
viii be a parade and review of the
entire force by President Roosevelt
and Gen. Corbin, commanding the De-
partment of the East. Then there will
be sham battles almost every day of
the six between state troops. or state
troops and regulars, upon some por-
tion of the great quadrangle. which
stretches its length and breadth over
100 square miles Of territory.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
10000 SICK OR WOUNDED
ARE AT PORT ARTHUR,

London, Aug. 9.-According to the
correspondent of the Morning Post at
Shanghai it is reported there that
there are 10000 sick or wounded per-
sons at Port Arthur, and that the Rus
slams are negotiating with the Japa-
nese to send the hospital ship Mongo-
liza away full of sick.
1t is reported, the correspondent
says, that Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel has
committed suicide and panic prevails at
Port Arthur.
Marquis Oyama has proceeded north
and expects to attack Lao Yang, Aug.
20.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
HELD A CONFERENCE
AT CZAR'S PALACE,

ST. Petersburg, Aug. 8, 5:35 p. m.-An
important conference on the military
s''ua tion was held at the Peterhof pal
ace To-day. The Ministers OF War and
,ldrlhe' the Grand Duke Alexis. the
nlsh admiral, Gen. Cote. one of Gen.
Nuropatkin's aides de camp. who had
Just arrived from the front with per-
sonal % dispatches for the Emperor, and
others were present
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09

gave the necessary Endorsement of the
proposed boycott.
All the packing plants began opera
tions here to-day with slightly increas-
ed forces Of workmen. nearly 200 addi-
tional employees having been secured
over Sunday. Nearly all the men who
left the yards Saturday night to spend
Sunday at their homes returned to
work this morning.
The live stock receipts. consisting Of
10000 cattle, 26,0O0 hogs and 10000
sheep, were nearly all bought UP by
the packers to-day. This fact, the
packers claim, is positive evidence that
they now have the situation well in
hand.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
BURNING CHOSEN AS
HER HORRIBLE END.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. s-A special
from Olive Branch, Miss, says:
Demented by the recent death Of her
husband. Mrs. w. H. Mccargo to-day
committed suicide by burning. After
saturating her clothing with kerosene
and setting fire to the oil she rushed
into the street and fought all who at
tempted to extinguish the flames. Nc
Cargo was a hotel proprietor here and
died suddenly two weeks ago.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
UNION TRANSFERS ARE
THE STRIKERS WEAPON.
They VIII WELD IL to cOerce the
Packers.


Packers.
Chicago, Aug. S.-The union team
sters are to be the principal weapon
which the labor leaders propose to use
to win the stock yards strike. Orders
we're issued to-day to drivers of Ice
wagons to deliver no more ice to butch
ers who buy of the big packers, or TO
any Of the branch houses OF the pack
ing plants where the men are now on
strike. A list OF more than 200 retail
dealers. who have been buying meat
from the so-called trust packers and
hauling Il away with their own wag-
ons has been compiled, and according
10 the claims OF the strike leaders the
ice supply will be cut off from every
one Of these places tomorrow morn
ing.
Arrangements have been made 70
have pickets stationed at all the retail
markets which have been placed under
the ban Of the unions. 10 see that the
boycott n enforced to the limit. The
International Brotherhood of Team
sters In session at Cincinnati to-day
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09
TO LEASE RAILROAD
HowIand Has Gone TO North CnroIi-
ma with nm Oner.

Raleigh N. c.. Aug. s.-R. s. How
land OF Asheville, the owner Of the
Providence (R. ID Journal, Is in na-
leigh to offer to lease the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad. over which
there has been so much controversy.
He was accompanied by ex-Attorney
General Theo r. Davidson and r. p.
Foster, a railroad man Of Aaheville.
GOV. Aycock takes up the matter ~
the morning and no figures VIII be OBJ
aainable tai after the conferences
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-09

was running cautiously about fifteen
miles an hour. as he approached the
ninety-six feet in length. The condi-
tion of the bridge was not known un-
til the locomotive, one of the monster
passenger type, had nearly crossed.
Fireman Frank Mayfield, with a torch
that the engineer and the fireman had
been burning to ascertain the condi-
tion of the track, was in the gangway
When Engineer Hindman felt the tre-
NOR in the great machine and caught
a glimmer on the water he shouted his
last words:
Bridge Gave Way.
Put out that torch" evidently
thinking that in the accident he felt
certain was coming the flames would
serve to spread fire.
But before Maytield could obey, while
the words were still on the lips of the
doomed man, and his hand seeking
the mechanism controlling the air. the
bridge gave way as though it had been
a stack of kindling wood. and the To-
comotive dropped with the kissing OF
steam thirty feet to the bottom of the
arroyo, cross-wise to the track.
The baggage car, smoking car and
chair car followed the locomotive into
the stream and were swept away All
the occupants of these cars, except
three men, perished, and had not the
roof of the chair car burst asunder
none would have escaped. The fire.
man. as the locomotive went over, was
thrown out and managing to grasp a
piece of wreckage from the bridge,
floated with that to a curve made by
the caving bank and crept out of the
water. He ran toward, Eden, meeting
on the way Operator F. M. Jones and
his wife, who already had started up
the track.
Everybody Is Killed"
Notify Pueblo" came the voice of
the running man, "the trains gone
down and everybody is killed"
Even as he spoke, relates the opera
tor, there were cries coming from the
distance. Two men ran to where the
bridge had been, to search, but in vain,
for victims of the disaster When they
reached the spot all cries for help had
ceased.
Relief trains with physicians, wreck
and pile driving outfits and scores of
workmen were hurried from the city.
The first train from the wreck came in
shortly after midnight with ]. VI. Kill
lin of Pueblo, H. S. Gilbert, Tony