The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-20

! ing of the Board of Aldermen, it being
/ in reference to the awful calamity
which came to US last Wednesday-tne
loss Of the steamboat General Siocum
in which nea.ly a thousand of our
women and children oerishcd.
This misfortune has toucaed every
heart in the municipality and has
brought sympathy TO US from everv
part of the world. OF course. you have
already taken such steps IN the right
direction as becomes your office, ,''.t I
trust you will not regard 1t aniss TO
receive a suggestion or Two irons one
of the city fathers.
There is an impression here ..,at
the Federal officials charged with the
duty of inspecting steanooa.s Lave
been negl' cent and inefficient ami that
they a e gravely at fault in at having
done what they might nave dune TO
avoid what has happened.
Pray see that these INSPECTORS snail
be competent and Trustworthy. and. il
further legislation be nee ssicy 10 llo-
vide safeguards for the f,,tu e. cn;ti &c
Congress to provide them.
You will agree with me. I ans sure.
that a prompt and thorough invesliga-
tion of all the facts Is of Prime mi
portance, as well to fix responsibility
for the past as to nroviie guarantee
for the future. Sincerely voar<.
DANIEL T.. SlcHI LIZ.
A telegram was re.e'vs ] today
from the :.rlnln .irii 49, 81 Y al
Washington. Baron Soeck Won Stern
burg, inclosing the following cable
gram f ON the German Emperor:
Beng most profoundly affected by
the news of the indescribably horrible
/ catastrophe which has overtaken the
Lutheran cong. egation, 1 command
you to express to 1t my innermost
feelings of sorrow"
OF the money, jewelry and other
valuables taken from the dead i'm the
slocum disaster. aggregating near'y
100000, much has been claimed from
the Coroner by relatives. There is orc
package. however, for which NJ claim
has yet been established. Ic was found
on the body of a woman at first sup
posed to be that of Eva Kruge.'. but
has not yet been identified
The property consists of eight bank
books, showing deposits of nearly SIS
600 in eight of the hest ku).yn Sd iigs
institutions of New YORK; two or
three life insurance policies, amount
ing in all to about $4,000 or $4,000;
deeds to pl operty in New York and
elsewhere and a considerable amount
in bank notes.
The deeds insurance policies and
pc. son whom, it would seem, Is
quite different from Eva Kruger, but
the coroner is keeping the name Sc
cret for the present and is consider
ably puzzled because the woman has
not been identified by relatives.
Captain Van Shaick. who is lying
at the Lebanon Hospital with a brok-
en- foot and severe burns about the
head, has given out an inte. view re-
plying to the criticisms of his con-
duct, it having been alleged that he
ran the boat two miles past at least
eight places whe.e it could have been
beached after the fire was discovered
He is quoted as follows:
II was in my cabin wheH some one
yelled 'Fire!' through the tube" he
said. II ran out, saw the flames
sweeping over the boat, ran back.
waited five seconds and then rave the
order TO run ahead to North Brother
island and beach the boat sideways.
believing this was our only chance.
THE critics don't know the terri
tory. We were more than 1000 feet
above the buo-s on the Sunken Mead
ows and about 1000 feet from North
Brother Island and were going at fif-
teen miles an hour
"A short distance ahead ana 10 the
westward was large tug. I had no
choice but to keep on for the island
If ] had stopped and turned round
and gone back to the Sunken Mead
ows the chances were that the boat
would have been burned to the waters
edge and the passengers with 1t be-
fore We reached the meadows.
Even If it would not have been
burned. the boat. striking the Mead
ows. would have backed off again
and everybody on board would have
been drowned in deep water when
jumping or"
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